Is everywhere. Get this, 167,000 people placed a bet that they would be there would be a fighting incident. They won. Varney and company is about to begin. The big story of the morning was the shock of the morning. The economy contracting at a 2. 9 annual pace in the first week and month of the year. The fastest decline in five years, fastest pace in a non recession period, in 58 years. However, the stock market is up. Dow jones industrial average 61 points higher. Charles is here. Hes back, the white house is blaming the weather and less spending on health care. I you buying that excuse . Health care spending impacted personal consumption which was down dramatically, one of the biggest areas where there was an adjustment. If you obamacare heard this number and the darker cloud over what happens in the future. Rich the success of obamacare hurt the economy. Charles all the enrollees us seriously ill. This is expensive. Stuart if you have a contraction like that in the economy, you have
Seem like a highrisk pursuit. It was 3 00 in the morning so there want a lot of traffic. It was a straight shot on the bay bridge. Until the driver decided to take this curve on the offramp. That is when it turned deadly. Investigators say two people inside the car died instantly after hitting a wall, rolling several times and catching on fire. C. H. P. Officers were chasing the car over the bay bridge but slowed down when the car took the fifth street exit into San Francisco. The officer backed off and survived the turn and they took this at over 100 Miles Per Hour. This video was taken by a woman on the bay bridge at 3 00 this morning when the chase started. She said at first the car was probably going around 80 Miles Per Hour after the bay bridge toll plaza it started picking up speed. When they reach the Treasure Island tunnel they were going over 100 Miles Per Hour. At that point the patrol officers involved in the pursuit are evaluating whether it is a pro or con to continue the
Around for hours. As we take you over to the scene, westbound 80 at fifth street the offramp is shut down and you can use first street coming off of the bay bridge. As we take you into fremont we have another sigalert northbound 880, at mission boulevard, really, 680 is the best alternate to get around this with four lanes blocked that is causing quite the bottleneck. Avoid that area until further notice. Follow me on twitter and i will give you the details as they become visible. Right new we will talk to meteorologist mike nicco with the weather. It is fore and windy. A change. It looks less like summer this morning. We can see the lowest clouds and low of the visibility on live doppler 7 hd at Half Moon Bay. We have reports of drizzle along the coast and the peninsula because of the thick are cloud deck that is at the top of sutro tower. Get ready for less sunshine and a cooler breeze with temperatures only 75 to 84 inland and 59 to 65 along the coast into downtown San Francisco and
Over crossing and you can see from the hoffman split to the maze it willic you ten minutes. Good morning, everyone, on this hutch day, a look at your day planner no the bay. A lot cloud cover. Patchy drizzle for the morning commute. Clouds will open up between 9 00 and noon and breezes will pick up and hold us around 70, and grab a coat. Thicker clouds and frozey and 61 by 7 00. Clouds inland and 50. Sunshine by noon and 75 and the high clouds and low clouds develop throughout the afternoon and mild 78 and a breezy 70 by 7 00, so you will need a coat inland in the evening. Along the coast, drizzle this morning and mostly cloudy throughout the day and breezy with temperatures barely making it to sick. Over to kristen and eric . More on the breaking news we have covered all morning, San Francisco police say the c. H. P. Are investigating a police chase and fatal crash that trying eled a that trying eled that triggered a signature alater. They just reopened harrison street. You can use ha
In the fire. It started as a highspeed clays on northbound 880. Officers ran chase on northbound 880. Officers ran the plates and say it was stolen so they chased near 880 and the 80 split in oakland near 7th street. In fact, stolen vehicles you never know what youre going to find. Most of the time when someone is driving a stolen vehicle, there are other things going on. We find lots of warrants inside stolen vehicles and things like that as well. Reporter the chase went across the bay bridge from oakland and ended up right here in San Francisco. So far, officers have not been able to confirm exactly how fast the chase was going but from all accounts it was high speed. Anne makovec, kpix 5. Once again, that Traffic Alert remains in effect, thanks, anne. I think the bay bridge commute is going to get worse as the morning continues. You can already see the metering lights are turned on at the bay bridge. They were turned on early, 20 minutes ago in fact at 5 40. And so you are already s