Sandra fell just a few minutes ago we had a little bit of a backup. But now not so much so 9 minutes off to highway one o one which is a really good start to your drive. Lets see its a little frozen see if i can vary go were heading over to the bay bridge. Checking the drive into San Francisco. It has also picked up no delays here at the pay gates only 10 minutes to make it off to fremont street in ill give you one more which is also improving 92 the san mateo bridge crowded but not bad 13 minutes from hayward to send the tail back to you. Well the big story this morning Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg will be the first woman to lie in state in the Nations Capital with services for the late justice scheduled to begin tomorrow morning this while a battle is brewing between democrats and republicans about who will fill her Vacant Supreme Court seat alexandra le mon has the latest from washington d c. Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell is promising the senate will vote on President Trumps choi
County that wasnt there yesterday so we can be thankful that we are making progress albeit slow progress so far and as james mentioned still in the midst of a recordbreaking streak of spare the air alert days, 50s and 60s for your current temperatures with concord and pittsburgh each at 60 degrees. Oakland at 61 right now while San Francisco berkeley much of the north bay hanging out in the 50s to get things started. Robin. Thank you have some trouble spots and lots of heavy traffic to talk about crews are wrapping up a car fire on vasco road right now at one point we had all southbound lanes closed on southbound vasco at the south end of the last week Harris Reservoir but it looks like theyve just released traffic which is good news for people coming out of iran Discovery Bay brentwood trying to get south into livermore but still a lot of heavy traffic there are residual delays leading up to the scene we still have an overturned crash active in san leandro 80 south before to 38. Theyr
Cover overhead like we have you lose less heat during the evening hours so weve maintained a low 60s through the evening that makes some more mild but a cloudier start than yesterday. Later on today were keeping about everything the same lots of sunshine highs still in the 70s to 80s. Talk about toasty weekend been heightened fire danger still to come robin. All right, thank you lets check in on the traffic because folks have to get to work and for those of you heading into San Francisco this morning were doing find at the bay bridge toll plaza so no delays no problems. It is nice and smooth and youre averaging 8 minutes from the bottom of the maze over to fremont street, heres 92 which is always a little busier it starts to stack up first compared to the other bridges. So some minor crowding on the flat section but overall an easy trip here over to the peninsula and were checking in on traffic tracker looking at more freeways and they look really good highway for west at the limit 6.
Now its and one person has been arrested in the bay area during a black lives matter protests. This is the second time this week local demonstrators have come together voicing their opposition to it happened in kenosha wisconsin last weekend, a police officer, shooting jacob lake in the back 7 times in front of his children as he walked away blakes father says his son is now paralyzed. Good evening, everybody thanks for being here tonight at 10 oclock im grant lodes and Vicki Liviakis we want to turn to Ella Sogomonian shes following this breaking news for us in both the east and the south bay ella whats the latest thicken grant weve seen 2 separate large groups gather one in downtown oakland and the other in san jose tonight. And we just learned from Oakland Police said one person was arrested for pointing a laser at officers citing a penal code that makes it a crime for a person to point a laser scope or pointer at another person in a threatening manner and they say that that is a mi
Blaze. It just moves so quickly over the weekend that attract more than 200 people in Madera County National Guard helicopters were brought in to airlift them to safety and as i said before they are still working on rescuing more people. Good morning, everyone and thank you for waking up with us on the kron 4 morning news, its tuesday september 8th, im robin when said lets start this morning with a check of your forecast well check in with john and see how the day is shaping up another spare the air day fire crews are dealing with the rescues and the weather of course is going to impact the fires burning so lets check in with john to get a robin thats exactly right. We saw the massive growth of the creek fire and now here in the bay area were looking at heightened fire danger ourselves. As we work our way through this tuesday now last night we had a welcome sea breeze pushed back through our coastal areas this really resulted in a nice overnight cool down. For areas like San Francisco