Im glad there is no rain out there. Maybe we are experiencing Holiday Light coming off the new years day holiday. This is the dry from the tracy area. If youre heading westbound on 580, a little bit of slowing as you make your way to the altamont pass. Through that, the rest of the drive into livermore looks good. The bay bridge toll plaza is moving nicely except for the cash lanes. If youre in the one of the fast track lanes, no problems or delays getting onto the span. The san mateo bridge looks good as well. Things are getting more crowded as the morning goes on as you make your way over to the peninsula. We are starting with breaking news in santa clara in the south bay. A lot of heavy smoke from a fire at a large commercial building. Its a cardboard manufacturing plant on matthews street. Christien kafton is live at the scene. At one point this fire was sending flames into the sky. Reporter yes. As you said, this was a massive fire at one point. Fire crews largely have this under
Sorry but it may be too little too late. Well tell you why. Dawned the dawgs home. Later a wild end the rose bowl. Georgia needing Double Overtime to punch their ticket to the National Championship game. The bug dogs are the underdogs going into next weeks champion schill because they have to face alabama. Well have all the highlights as good day at 9a starts now. 12 degrees outside at 9 00 oclock on this new years day after new years day. Right. Everybody shaking off cobwebs of new year. Hold on. Let me drink my tea. Utoh. 12 degrees outside. 42 inside today. Well huddle for warmth. Glad youre with us. A minute past the hour. Hope awed great new years. Welcome back everybody. Hopefully getting back not swing of things. Schools in d. C. Open tomorrow. It is january 2nd. Glad to be with ahead this morning new year in the Nations Capital what does the mayor have in store for 2018. We sat down with her 30 minutes ago. What she told us is coming you. Lets continue to talk about it. The wea
Francisco. That includes your wait at the toll plaza. Its a moderate drive. If you are paying cash you dont have any wait at all ironically, the fast trackers not so much. We continue to track breaking news out of the south bay, a fire at a cardboard factory in santa clara, this broke out on matthews street near della cruz boulevard. Take a look at the flames firefighters encountered when they first got to the scene around 1 00 a. M. The Santa Clara Fire Department tweeted out this video. Everyone got out okay. Firefighters say they will be tearing apart piles of cardboard to make sure nothing is smoldering inside and this is now a live look at the scene as you can see they are still actively working on this. Abc 7 News Reporter matt keller will have a live update for us at 6 30. A new year, same bad air. We are on a streak of spare the air days here in the bay area. Today marks the 18th just this season. Abc 7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield live for us on Treasure Island. Good morning,
Partly cloudy skies this morning. Low 40s and low 50s. 53, San Francisco. 48, mountain view. This afternoon will be mild. 67, livermore. 67, morgan hill. 62, San Francisco. We have rain coming our way. I will look at that in the extended forecast coming up. I will call this a mild commute for drivers out there. Things look pretty good. The only area to tell you about is near the sunol grade. First i want to start with the south bay. You can see a lot of green and no problems to tell you about. 880 north and southbound through hayward and fremont, this is typically a trouble spot but this morning that is not the case. 680 southbound at andretti road. A report of a fire hose and one of the slow lanes. Also in that area, a report of a hit and run crash. There were no injuries reported in that incident but that is tying things up a bit. The bay bridge toll plaza is a bit slow as you make your way onto the span. The metering lights are on. That may be why we are seeing the usual slowdown al
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