And thats where we begin here tonight, with abcs John Schriffen leading us off. Reporter whiteout conditions in ohio. Power lines snapped like twigs in arkansas. And this pickup truck in southern illinois, struggling just to clear a path. The winter blast, now accounting for 15 deaths. Most of them on the nations roads, where black ice led to accident after accident. I lost count of the number of cars ive seen in the ditch. I saw a jackknifed tractor trailer a horse trailer turned over. Reporter today, the northeast was digging out. This man spent hours trying to rescue his car here in s what is it like deeming with this much snow . A lot of agony. A lot of back breaking. Reporter Mother Nature is wreaking havoc in the skies. Today alone, close to 700 flights were canceled. In the past 48 hours . Nearly 3,000. On new yorks long island, this Southwest Airlines plane skidded off the run way, getting stuck in the mud. 129 Passengers Evacuated safely. Tower southwest 4695. We just made you
News. Yeah yeah. We have Team Coverage on this story with leyland yee we will take you back out there in just a minute. Still talking weather and traffic, i ran this morning. I did too. Yes, its there, it is plenty upstream and there is no big trigger mechanism but it is still there and you can see some to the north, nothing too heavy there but there are some pockets, especially the east bay where there are one of the stronger sells, if you will, discovery bay, wrapping back around, san ramon over to clayton and the peninsular and hit and miss over the santa cruz coastline. The grease has picked up, loss altos over to sunnyville, it is not raining here but it is raping here. Cloudy light rain breezy at times, 50s and 60s again here is sal. Driving may be rough because of the wet roads and thats an unknown variable and the accident count goes down sometimes. At the plaza, the 8 minute drive time is Holding Steady and this is northbound on the right southbound on the left and heading dow
Critical game tonight. Good morning, we are covering the corruption test outside of his home in the sunset district. We are not expecting him to come out but certainly there could be some sort of statement made from his office sometime today and we do have Team Coverage outside of his home and we are outside his offices in San Francisco and we will get to that in just a moment, thank you for joining us, i am pam cook. Lets talk about your weather and traffic, steve, you dont think we will need an crumbled la . Well, we still had some yesterday but there is plenty of cloud cover with isolated light showers nine lake county and parts of sonoma, not much here in case this drags across which will not give us light rain and parts of the santa cruz coastline, that one is not too bad, santa cruz might have a little bit of rain. The breeze is picked up as well and we have some very light rain and things will calm down and look for a cloudy day with some light rain a little breeze at times and
Nobody was hurt by the big falling tree. Pg e restored power to the area overnight. And to pinpoint how cold its going to get in your neighborhood, just goto your cbssf. Com weather. We are following breaking news in the east bay. Crews are battling a fire in crockett. We are getting word that they are fighting it defensively now so this is the structure fire in a residential neighborhood pretty close to the waterfront and the carquinez bridge. So if you are on interstate 80 you may see smoke or flames. The exact location is at jackson and loring avenue. They are doing Traffic Control in the area. Less than a mile from the carquinez bridge. Initially, they had to shut down the Union Pacific Railroad Track in that area. They were able to reopen the tracks and again this is a live look at the carquinez bridge. Capitol corridor amtrak both should be on time. And we are sending a news crew to the scene so well bring you live pictures here very shortly. Stay tuned for that. In the meantime,
Will be the subject of my weather dissertation in a few minutes. The bart contract negotiations. No deal on those talks. Bart and Union Leaders have less than 48 hours to strike a deal before workers walk off the job. Contract talks resume this morning. Union members will hold a press conference in San Franciscos Mission district. Key sticking points in the negotiation, worker safety, pensions, and Health Care Costs. Yesterday bart workers stormed barts Board Meeting demanding the chief negotiator be replaced. They shut down for four days. Political leaders are going public with urgent efforts to bring about a settlement. Over 28 days of a contract extension there have been accusations of both sides of little progress in negotiations. The state labor secretary says hes disappointed. They havent reached an agreement yet. Thats my concern. Theres been mediation, theres been involvement of officials all over the state. Closer isnt good enough. They have to reach a deal. Governor brown sen