The couple in the car speaking only with abc seven news. Then the vote in oakland set for today to add San Francisco bay to the beginning of Oakland Airports name. Now, San Mateo County is coming out in opposition of that name change, and mcdonalds knows just a small cent of the fries is going to make you want some. Their new billboard in citing customers through smell. I mean its very powerful. Yeah, that would absolutely will do it. It would work on me. It would work on me right now. Right now, i would leave this desk right at this moment just talking about it by. Im loving it. On this thursday, april 11th. Yes. We have a lot to get to. Were going to start with the Traffic Alert with amanda. Yeah. Drivers in the east bay. Youll want to avoid 238 altogether. And thats because a sig alert is still in place. This is in the hayward and san Lorenzo San Leandro area. This is all in the border there because of an overturned big rig. This is on the northbound 238 southbound 880 connector. Tr
Again. That way, with bad weather expected in the coming days, theyll be able to continue monitoring it. As of wednesday afternoon, george says teams havent been able to see the whale again, partly because of foggy weather along the coast. She tells us its important to get the netting off sooner rather than later, though, as it could eventually be fatal for the whale. It could be a slow case of a secondary injury that results from that entangled point. It could be the whales inability to feed. It could be its inability to get out of the way of other vessels. News of the whales entanglement has renewed discussion over the use of certain types of gill nets, and the effects they can have on animals. In a Statement Released tuesday, International Advocacy group oceana called on california lawmakers to pass legislation that would do more to prevent these types of incidents. There are very nonselective gear type that have high rates of bycatch and bycatch mortality, and as well as wildlife e
On air, abc 7 news and online at abc7news. Com. It is 4 30, if your alarm just went off time to see what the weather and traffic is like. Well show you just how calm it is in the east bay hills. It is kind of chilly this morning, also. Lets take a look at your accuweather 12hour planner and about 38 to 36 inland to the bay to the coast with sill some fog around the north bay. A few high clouds. A gorgeous sun rise and sunset today. If you take some pictures at abc 7 i would love to see it. 58 to 62 at noon. 62 to 66 at 4 00. Thats a little bit warmer than average. Heres frances. Mike, were going to tell you about a crash in the north bay in the sonoma area. It was an Early Morning fatal accident at east bonness road. Lanes may still be blocked but traffic is moving well. Cant find any delays or other accidents to tell you about, so drive times looking good. Albany to the maze. Southbound 880, fremont down to san jose delay free and 280, everything looks good through the south bay at th
Frances, what are you following this morning . Mike, we have a couple new accidents that just happened in the last few minutes. An overturn in san jose. Ill show that you in a bit as well. Theres one in the bay point area westbound 4 at bailey. A big rig involved blocking the number three lane and traffic has been slow making your way out of pittsburg and antioch. 24 miles an hour connecting on to 242. And then the overturn crash in san jose i think will cause a big slowdown northbound 101 so headsup there if youre planning to drive through the area. Consider highway 87. Normal slow and go traffic westbound 580 tracy to Castro Valley which is over an hour. 1 02, to be exact. If youre planning on traveling for holidays, a big headsup if youre flying American Airlines. Big concerns about a Pilot Shortage during crucial weeks, talking christmas and new years avenue. Matt keller live for us at san jose mineta airport. Good morning, matt. Reporter everything is running smoothly here at the
Towards novato and spilling in to petaluma. Quarter mile visibility there. A half mile in novato. So that is going to be around through the entire morning commute. A beautiful picture from mt. Tamalpais of the friendly skies, if you will. If you will. At noon, 58 to 62. 54 at 7 00. Lets find out if the roads are friendly this morning. Mike, they are pretty friendly. A look at the traffic maps and youll notice its all green out there. There was an Early Morning fatal accident in the sonoma area. Highway 116 at east bonness road. It doesnt look like lanes are blocked at this point but you could see slowing if youre driving in the area. Westbound 580 so you can see youre under 40 miles an hour out of tracy and then very slow as you make your way into the Altamont Pass so that stretch from tracy out to dublin is now 39 minutes, a little bit of slowing there. Southbound 680 and highway 85 in the south bay. Thank you, frances. Back to that story about American Airlines. If you are traveling