Americans without Health Insurance. The pared down bill would eliminate the mandate to buy insurance. Occupies the gop wants to vote quickly without holding lengthy hearings. Senators have been giving impassioned speeches. Heres a sample from democrat cory booker. Lets send this bill in to committee. Lets do this process as this institution was designed to have it done. Lets open the doors of the capitol and invite america to come, the american medical association, the cancer association, hospital association. Lets invite the aarp. Lets have america come down here. Lets join together like our forefathers and formothers have done to expand liberty, to expand opportunity, to extend hope. We can do that. All of us collectively have that power. And we get more on this developing story from fox news joel waldman on capitol hill. Good evening. Good evening to you. It is about 1 02 a. M. Obviously on the east coast. 10 02 your time. And weve kind of reached the moment of truth here. There wer
Coast and 78 around the bay and then 90 inland at 4 00. Check out how comfortable this evening. 57 at the coast and 72 around the bay and 80 inland. Ill take a deeper look at that heat wave that is coming up with the weekend forecast, next. Heres alexis. We are looking good this morning. No major issues. One new crash on the peninsula. This is on 280. The lighter side of things and usually 280 is pretty light as it is. 280 before farmhill road. Multicrash reported. Sounds like the vehicles are off to the side but debris scattered around that area. Be on the lookout and use some caution. A quick check of the bay bridge toll plaza. Little stack up in the cash lanes but thats about it so far this morning. 25 minutes before those metering lights flip on. Well look at drive times coming up next. A stinging defeat for President Trump and the republican agenda after a long night in the senate. Final vote to repeal obamacare failed. Three senators broke ranks and voted no. Abc News Reporter am
Crews timely got their work done and made repairs by 5 30 this morning, but they made a key mistake so their work was torn down again, and look at this mess that were now dealing with out here. One eastbound lane of Pleasant Hill road is closed. Westbound traffic cant turn into this shopping center. Police say the phone and cable lines were installed too low, so when a delivery truck pulled in this morning around 7 30 it hit the lines and brought them down again. This road closure happened so close to the other one, some drivers figured it was the same issue, not knowing that they had made the repairs from yesterdays crash. Drivers tell us they were bummed to have to deal with detours here again today. This is a man through for a lot of people going around the hill instead of the freeway so it makes a big difference backing up traffic, yes. So if its a close and session, it would be worse. School hasnt started yet which makes a difference for a lot parents. A look at the scene from yes
As we get into the afternoon. Inland temperatures will reach near 90, 95 or so and areas over the north bay. Hotter spots will be 96 in antioch. 89 in san jose. Morgan hill, 96. It will be warmed this weekend if youre going to the gilroy garlic festival. Upper 60s in oakland. Upper 80s for redwood city. Mid 60s to mid 70s along the coast. Mid 70s in and around santa cruz. 69 in San Francisco. Only minor changes as we get into the weekend. We will heat up as we get into the second half of the weekend and early part of next week. We will look at the extended forecast coming up. Good morning. Right now traffic is off to a nice start we will start with the tracy commute. So far, so good on 580 and 205. If you get up early to beat the traffic this morning, you have succeeded when it comes to traffic on 580 and 205 and into the livermore valley. Also looking at interstate 880 north and southbound. This is a nice commute in both directions. The westbound bay bridge is very light. If you cars
55, San Francisco. 87, oakland. 53, livermore. The onshore breeze will begin to dwindle. Fairfield reported about 60 miles an hour. 8 for oakland. Here is a look at the fog. It is along the coastline that has not really moved too far inland. It could be inside the bay as we get closer to sunrise. Today, mostly sunny skies from the bay inland where we may have some fog at pacifica and half moon bay. The rest of the coast will clear out with partly cloudy skies for the afternoon. Your afternoon highs go like this. Midsixties for pacifica. Upper 60s in San Francisco. Upper 60s to around 80 for the bay. Our hotter spots today, 96 expected in antioch. Even hotter for the back end of the weekend. I will look at what you can expect in the extended forecast. Right now we do have traffic that is moving along nicely. If you are driving on most commutes, it is nice and early. Lets go to 580 westbound. You will see slow traffic as you drive through. The but no major issues on 580. 205 is lighter t