Street stations in San Francisco. 40 of our trips each day either begin at embarcadero or montgomery. Reporter the biggest problem is getting the riders on and off the trains at rush hour without backing up the whole system. And thats why bart is laying tracks for this massive expansion with new underground platforms on both side of the trains complete with sliding glass doors. So that we would you would load on to this train from here and on that side as well . Either that or you could everyone loads this way and exits the other way. Its much more fast and smooth. Reporter they would also add more escalators. We want to make them high speed. Thats key, high speed escalators get people up and out quickly. Reporter in the meantime, you may see some things disappear, as well. Look at this. Theres not on a phone booth here. Lets just get them out. These seats, eight feet wide. Its precious space. We can do something much more narrow and fit a lot more people. Reporter how crowded does it
To send most of those to the north. Overlooking the san jose area, well, got some temperatures dropping off now to 49 degrees in san jose, 50 in San Francisco. 43 degrees in livermore. By the afternoon, we are seeing some sunshine and just gorgeous weather. Temperatures up in the 60s even some low 70s in parts of the east and also the south bays. Could get warmer over the weekend too. Well have more on that in a moment. Right now lets check the roads with elizabeth. And back out to oakland all lanes are finally back open on 880 before the 980 interchange northbound. Some of us saw this coming into work. There was a highspeed chase involving a wrongway driver. The driver ended up crashing northbound 880 by the 980 interchange. For a while one lane was blocked but again we just talked with chp and everything is now clear so no delays out of downtown into the macarthur maze. Heres a live look at the san mateo bridge. Westbound 92 at the speed limit out of the east bay heading over the hig
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They say two people initially were unable to escape the home and were badly burned. Let get you out the door with traffic and weather. Liz . Reporter we just took a call from a member of the kcbs phone force alerting us to a problem on highway 4 westbound so the accident, it was an accident, happened approaching lone tree. And you can see the delays as far back as hillcrest so this is going to be a slowerthan usual ride, 14 Miles Per Hour approaching lone tree. Heres a live look at the bay bridge. This is kind of friday light. We are not seeing any metering lights yet. Almost every other day this workweek we have seen the metering lights turned on before 6 00. So at 6 01 you can see everything is moving fine in the middle lanes, the fastrak lanes. The cash lanes are backed up to midparking lot. And heres a live look at the nimitz, 880 in oakland near the oakland coliseum. Everything is freeflowing between hayward and downtown oakland. Bart also a great idea systemwide no delay. In fact
In saratoga where lawmakers are hoping audrie potts death wasnt in vain. Anne. Reporter this law does have a long way to go in the state legislature. But the push was kicked off here today in the small city of saratoga where a teenaged tragedy took place. At a press conference this morning, the Santa Clara County d. A. Laid out the scenario. The young woman a group of young men, alcohol, Sexual Assault, social media, and then sometimes suicide. Reporter 15yearold audrie pott hanged herself in 2012 after pictures of her naked body were dissemnated to fellow superintendents at saratoga high. She had been to disseminated to fellow students at saratoga high. She was drunk and was sexually assaulted and pictures were then disseminated online. Audreys law would criminalize this activity. If it involves a minor it would be a felony. The boys in her case were charged with Sexual Battery but the proceedings are secret in juvenile court. Two of the boys got 30day sentences, the third 45 days. Ha