An early friday evening on lake merritt. Its cold and breezy, but its nothing to stop the locals. Ive lived in the area for about 13 years, and all the cool stuff that happens in east bay kind of happens around here, but i do see its always popping over here on the weekends. They look upon lake merritt with joy, and its probably going to be popping again this weekend. On saturday, lake merritt will be the home of an afternoon concert. Its called love lake merritt. We could see things changing and becoming better, but perception is hard to fight. Kimberly miller is the executive director of fairyland at lake merritt. She is one of several organizing the event where the focus is to bring as many people to the lake as possible. Weve had a tough year here in oakland, but were all about positive vibes and we want to bring art and culture, which is what oakland is known for down to the lake. From music to visual art to dance, to make sure to remind oaklanders what its all about. We see the w
The weekend closure is having on businesses, and we are less than 24 hours away from bay to breakers, making a return to San Francisco. Look at the last minute preparations underway before thousands of runners hit the city streets. And we are going to get to those stories in just a moment. But first, were following breaking news. This is on Yerba Buena Island. Crews are battling a fire there. You see the video right there. It started just after 3 00. Firefighters say crews are facing heavy smoke and steep terrain. Now. Two fire boats are also helping put water on the flames from the bay. There they go. This is new video from the firefighting efforts. Its not clear how this fire started as you can imagine, this is impacting traffic on the bay bridge for a period of time. All eastbound lanes. They were shut down in the last 30 minutes. Two lanes. They reopened. Now heres a live look at our traffic map. And you can see that big backup right there stretching for miles. At this point, its a
Moore. Lane closures. More headaches if you plan on using 680 in the east bay this weekend , expect a lot of this big delays this video just into the newsroom of caltrans getting to work tonight, shutting down several lanes of the very busy freeway. Now, as of 9 p. M. This evening, three southbound lanes, one northbound lane are closed from san ramon to pleasanton. Part of that big repaving project. And that project is a long way from being done. Nbc bay areas pete tirados joins us live from san ramon. And this is just the latest. I mean, this thing has been going on these intermittent closures on 680 for a year, at least. Yeah yeah, it feels like so many of these closures along 680. And were right near this onramp of 680 south along San Ramon Valley boulevard. That once again is now closed as that repaving project gets underway. And look, its the first of two closures that are set to take place this month. The weekend commute through san ramon along 680 south will take longer than usu
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