With the car overturned and smashed with First Responders trying to help. The accident shut down the highway here, highway 680 near Pleasant Hill, just north of treat boulevard, and traffic was backed up for miles. When we first arrived, we saw e so that is why just recently they just reopened the lanes and it looks like traffic is going smoothly. Back here live, fortunately looks like people headed to work wont be affected by this accident. We are still waiting to learn the name of the victim. Reporting live, im sharon katsuda, back to you. Well take that sharon. Sharon talked about all lanes cleared within the last four or five minutes. Were seeing Speed Sensors start to recover, at least theyre reading now, we had two lanes open for a period of time causing the backup to about monument. This is in Contra Costa County coming off of Pleasant Hill and concord traveling toward the walnut creek interchange. All lanes of 680 opened after the overnight deadly crash that happened three hour
Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. T uc berkeley, af in a reverse course for cal this conservative firebrand is invited to speak at uc berkeley after all, but theres a twist. The university faces claims of unconstitutional censorship. Good evening. Im ken bastida. Im veronica de la cruz. Legal action was threatened against the university. The ultimatum, honor the original terms of the speech tomorrow or theyre taking the case to federal court. Kpix5s Christin Ayers is at cal campus tonight. Reporter first officials here at calberkeley told students there would be no speech by ann coulter. Then this afternoon an about face. Today chancellor Nicholas Dirks changed his tune. Conservative pundit ann coulter can come to uc berkeleys campus but not april 27th and not at the original location. Dirks called the new location. An appropriate protectable venue that is available the afternoon of may 2nd. Reporter Campus Police captain alex yow said police could not be sure her
vicki another big story we are tracking for you tonight at five. Bill oreilly is out at fox news. Rupert murdoch announced today that hes terminating the networks most popular host. grant oreily had been in hot water after it was revealed that he and fox news have paid out some 13Million Dollars in settlements to women who filed settle Sexual Harassment suits. Catherine heenan is here with the latest details. catherine about the time bill oreilly was shaking the popes hand this morning. While on a visit to rome. His bosses were finalizing the announcement. Oreilly is out. Despite his denials of wrongdoing. And the fact his ratings are as high or higher than ever. Rupert murdoch was reportedly convinced to fire his 67yearold star at the urgingof his two sons. James and lachlan. This after the New York Times reported this month that five women were paid a total of13 Million Dollars to keep quiet about unpleasant encounters with oreilly. Fox news issued a statement to employees today. Tel
Way. We havent really gotten started yet in boston but its obviously started in worcester, you can see that. Snowing pretty hard right now and the Higher Elevations is where its the coldest and having the greatest road impact. When you get intensity of snow like, that it can at adhere to surfaces very quickly. Looks like the rainmix is going to set up somewhere along i95 and 12 initially. It could always slim to snow. The air above us is plenty cold to support snow but the low level wind is coming in from the ocean, which is very warm. East coastline of massachusetts is where the temperatures are a little mild. Either wet snow or rain but not as much overall impact. Notice southern Worcester County, northwest rhode island, been snowing at a pretty good clip for the last hour or two the deeper blues and purples are the heaviest snow. Providence up to government, i95 points south and east are above freezing. We have that mix around boston and providence. May flip to all snow even near th
Unshine expected. Definitely warmer than yesterday and some spots with 82 and 73 in oakland and upper 60s for downtown San Francisco and upper 70s in the south bay. We have some big changes as we go back to work tomorrow. I will high that light in 15 minutes. Thank you erica. Divers have recovererred 13 more bodies off the ferry that sank this week. The death toll is now 39. They retrieved three bodies late on saturday. These were the first bodies recovered from inside the for rhode island government officials announced that ten more bodies were found inside the ferry. Officials say that more than 250 people listed missing and most of them High School Students on a holiday trip. Now there are 174 known survivors. A transcript came out for the tales of confusion and the crew member was questioning whether or not the evacuation was a right move. This was after the ship was saning. They were ordered to there was confusion on board on a ship that was in the area that would be able to rescu