fertilizer bags. a lot of those bags are scattered all over the roadway two left lanes are blocked but they are going to need sweeper crews and shovels. it takes a while to upright a big rig. in the meantime use ace. you can see the delays approaching first street aren t bad. most the slowdowns approaching the accident scene but already we are seeing up to or close to 10-minute delays for your westbound 580 ride if you are coming out of tracy. watch out for that. big problems for the morning commute. that is your traffic. for your forecast, here s tracy. hey, thanks, elizabeth. did you enjoy the sunshine yesterday? i did. i was out before noon yesterday. it was great. it was really nice yesterday. so i mention that because today we ll have a lot in common with yesterday as well as the weekend. out the door, also a lot in common with yesterday. cloudy dense fog for the coast and drizzle, low clouds and fog around the bay. and areas of low clouds inland with temperatures
battle the oil. they ve used skims and booms and barriers to try to prevent it from spreading. they tried to push it all in together. officials have been burning the thicker areas of crude oil. they re even trying to build a dome to capture the leaking oil under water. they might consider calling in the troops. let s go to pentagon correspondent, barbara starr, about where that stand. barbara? well, ali, as you heard the president say a few moments ago, they are looking at using military troops and equipment to try and deal with this growing crisis. just a few minutes ago, the pentagon press secretary, geoff morell, told reporters where it all stands right now. take a listen. this is receiving top-level attention in the department. it is very clear, based upon the press conference you just saw at the white house a few moments ago, that the president is very concerned about this issue and has directed, you know, the full breadth of the federal government to be helpful. this departme
or immigration or the oil spill. he talked about that earlier. he is talking about an english teacher from iowa, mrs. wessling goes to washington. and the smart phone market might be getting smarter. hewlett-packard is buying palm. our gadget guru, she llry palmer, he tells us what this means for you and for the industry. fight against time in the gulf course where a new third leak has been discovered at the scene of that massive oil spill. a lot more oil is now spewing into the water. the ghost card has upped the estimate, get this, to 5,000 barrels, or 210,000 gallons a day, leaking into the gulf of mexico. that is five times worse than they told us it was yesterday. the president is getting involved. he s been briefed. he s offering military help. we re going to talk to pentagon correspondent barbara starr in just a ploemt. th right now that slick is about the size of jamaica. it s moving closer to the shore every minute. let s get the latest from chad myers. chad? w