Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. These are the equivalent if not stronger than the tubbs fire of 2017 and kinkaid in 2019. Theyre shutting down after of california, thats crazy to me. Seemingly everyone in the bay area is preparing for the effects as critical fire conditions move in this morning. It means Power Outages could be widespread. Take a look, pg es Public Safety power shutoffs could kick in for the areas you see here in orange in just a matter of hours. Good morning, everybody, it is sunday, october 25. Im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. We have complete coverage of these Power Outages and what you need to know about them. Were tracking fire danger as well. Lets get right over to meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning, lisa. Good morning, liz. All is calm right now with the south wind, an onshore flow. Here is live doppler 7 with the cloud cover. By the afternoon this will be abruptly changing. Northeasterly winds, 25 to 30 mi
Still to come. Robin. All right, thank you lets check in on the traffic. Were taking a peek at the bridges around the bay area which is still pretty calm acquired for the most part. I will start off with 82, San Francisco there you go a live look at the toll plaza, the traffic leading up to the pay gates is doing just fine so no big problems so we definitely have more traffic now compared to the 4 oclock hour heading out of San Francisco, im just getting word of a stall 80 east before Treasure Island. Its a ups truck gets stuck in the right lane. So thats causing a little bit of a backup on the lower deck heading out of San Francisco, were off to 92 its busy indeed, but its not bad youre averaging 12 minutes over to the peninsula and the richmond sandra fell in pretty good shape here 5. 80 west leading up to the tolls nice and smooth a quick 7 minute trip to make it into sandra fell daria back to you thanks a lot rob. And our top story this morning, the Late Supreme Court Justice Ruth
As i mentioned order last days with temperatures this cool that well see in quite some time. Im talking the heat and increase fire danger to all still to come. Robin wright, thank you john were off to the bridges were checking in on the drive around the bay area this morning, some spots are crawling other spots are just wide open so. Lets start off with some good news and thats your drive to the richmond sandra fell west 5. 80 is looking really good early at 7 minutes to make your way into the north bay starting to see a minor back up at the bay bridge toll plaza right down the middle with stocking up just a tad 12 minutes and growing to make it in and heres a motorcycle crash in livermore 5 he was found in greenville we have injuries, lots of debris scattered across the lanes the left lane is closed. It was already a mess through the altamonte and tracy so now that we have this new problem youre backed up all the way into tracy on to 2 05. But thats good news for those of you getting
Pelosi at the beginning of a ceremony that was held inside in which she delivered the opening remarks in honor of the late justice. Very briefly just saying that, you know, she had dedicated her life to trying to change the lives of women in america, minorities, and anybody who is oppressed or discriminated against in any way in her many, many years of legal life as a lawyer and then a judge and then Supreme Court justice elevated to the court in 1993 by then president bill clinton. There you see the man who would like to be the next president of the united states, joe biden. We saw President Trump pay his respects when the casket was at the top of the Supreme Court steps where she had been a justice for 27 years. And now we say goodbye to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And she will be buried next to her husband of more than 50 years at Arlington National cemetery. This service will last until about 9 30 our time this morning. At that point the casket will be tack enaway and we will continue to
Recently jacob blake reporter have sparked protests across the nation. There are two systems of justice in the United States. Theres a white system, and theres a black system. The black system aint doing so well. But were going to stand up every black person in the United States is gonna stand up were tired, im tired, of looking at cameras, and seeing these young black and brown people suffer reporter there were also calls for people to show up and vote this november. We must march do the ballot box, or the mailbox, to demand the leadership we deserve reporter the rally ending with a march from the Lincoln Memorial to the mlk memorial. Obviously there were concerns of parked crowds during a pandemic. Everyone was temperature checked and event organizers asked people from highrivel areas to stay home. Reporter white house chief of staff stood by the president s assertion that his administration has done more more minority communities than any president in recent history. And here in the