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53 santa rosa. It wont take long to bounce off some of these. Hey west at 5. We will keep an eye on that. North, northeast for many. Sfo west at 3. Hayward east at 3. So the sea breeze hasnt kicked in yet. There is the fog but still one more day. I think tomorrow morning it will make it. I think relief is on the way after today. Sunshine hot. 90s bay side and it will be really hot inland with 100s. All right sal you had a busy day today. I hope today is the opposite. I hope so too steve. Were looking at a commute that is not quite as bad. Weve had slow traffic on our commute. Lets go outside and take a look at the slow down. The metering lights came on 15 minutes ago but there are no problems on the upper deck. Also looking at the san mateo bridge that has been okay. We had an earlier car fire. Didnt cause too much of a traffic jam and that is gone so traffic is moving well both directions of that bridge. Were looking at contra costa county. 680 does not look that bad. The traffic on h
A rescue 69 stories above the ground. This is al jazeera america. Live from new york city, im david shuster. We begin this hour with a historymaking break through in the world of space exploration. Today European Space agency successfully landed on a comet. The craft launched ten years ago is already sending back information, but it may be experiencing a technical problem. Were live from san francisco, jake, i guess the lander has been on the comet for several hours and there is a lag time in terms of knowing what its doing, but what has it been doing since it got there . The real challenge for scientists is figure out how securely is this thing attacked to the comet. With a theyve done is unbelievable. Theyve matched its sped and sent this lander in a remote animated web, dropped it to make decisions on its own, travel and make contact with the comet. We know that it has made contact. Its whole purpose is to basically scratch and sniff the surface of that comet for the next two and a
An Alarming Number of birds. Reporter there is solar mirror farm, lets give you an idea, this is just one, there are 300,000 of these cooking the sun right back into the sky and that, as you say, is cooking birds as they fly. Reporter it started out so well. A Company Called bright source plans to break groundoon new type of solar pow ground on a new type of solar plant. Two president talking it up. Bright future is seen. But there is a dark cloud hanging over bright source. Birds bursting into flames. Having their feather singe. 800 degrees, birds igniting in midair. 28,000 since the plant opened in march. There are 300,000 mirrors hitting water filled boilers that make steam. The birds are called steamers after the smoke produced after they ignite. They built this project in one of the most important places in the country. Reporter they spent 22 million to help save them but it didnt see this problem with birds. The company did not return our calls. There are sorts of Solar Energy Pl
And also public works crews to get over here. Of course, theyre very busy. Live in San Francisco, ryan takeo, kpix 5. Chief meteorologist paul deanno is tracking where the heaviest rain is right now. Paul. Welcome to the all or nothing winter. In december, we had all. Then we had 43 days of nothing. Now were back to all. And its all coming downright now during the evening commute. Look at all that rain heavy rainfall now basically from aligned oakland to san mateo and south. That includes you in hayward, palo alto, san jose. Trip on i80 will be a mess from when you hop over the bay bridge through emeryville, richmond, vallejo to vacaville. We have heavy rain. 101 not a joy either through marin county. Milpitas, san jose, los gatos, saratoga, sunnyvale, palo alto, san mateo, all getting heavy rainfall. And it will continue for at least the next hour. Rainfall in the north bay mountains specifically very veterannated doe. Lake sonoma in the Sonoma County mountains looking at 4 of rain. B