Overwhelmed by snow the city is forced to Cancel School for another day as the clean up continues tonight. Good evening, im jessica dean. Im ukee washington. In closing effects public and arch diocesan schools. Hundreds of other delays and closings for tomorrow as well you can see those at the bottom of your screen. In the meantime crews working around the clock to clear roads but they still have days of work ahead. Eyewitness News Reporter diana rocco in center city right now where many streets are still untouched by plows tonight. Diana . Reporter ukee, still a lot to do tonight as these snow piles Start Building up big trucks are coming in and moving all of this snow out of here, but in lot of neighborhoods in the city tonight, day two of cleanup still looks a lot like day one and that has frustration mounting. Nearly two daze days since the blizzard of 2016 stopped dumping snow and the cleanup may be underway. Just not fast enough for many in south philly. Cant go to work. Cant do
An Infectious Disease conference coming up. Ebola is on the minds of everybody there. Reporter this week Infectious Disease experts from across the globe are discussing all kinds of infections from mrsa to aids, but the talks about ebola are drawing the largest crowds. It was standing room only on the conference for ebola with the representatives from the World Health Organization and the center for disease control, talking about ebola in west africa. Dr. Fowler spent the last few months in west africa at the front lines trying to contain the outbreak. We need more people on the ground, from u. S. And canada and western europe to provide men and care. Today they announced enhanced screenings for ebola at five u. S. Airports. Screenings of patients leaving west africa are already affective and restricting travel from west africa could have a detrimental affect. It keeps people from responding and preventing people from responding to help there. He urges these disease experts to remain o
Currently in San Francisco. 43 in santa rosa. We are expecting slightly warmer temperatures than we had yesterday. The countdown continues until another possible bart strike. Negotiations will continue throughout the weekend in hopes of reaching an agreement before saturday at midnight. That is when bart workers say they will walk off the job. And joining us live now with the latest is kron4 as mike pelton. At some point today we expect bart management to present the union with a new contract proposal. Ss the clocks last night and besides say that this is a positive development as they try to find Common Ground on things like wages. They get back and to explain their concerns and their proposals and line is good that the dock general manager is here as she kissed him and see it understand ourselves what the concerns are. Hopefully with the general matt manager being here we come together and make a better decision on the contract and the proposals. We hope to hear from both sides bart
Behind the controls. Nick smith is there tonight where federal officials are beginning their probe into the accident. Nick, whats happening now . Reporter well, ntsb investigator in charge just finished speaking. We have new information. This is what he had to say. My concern coming out here, as it is for every investigation to find out what happened. Gather the facts, and thats all well do is gather the facts and make the measurements, open every door, spread out with the expertise from the parties and look at every single part of what went on out here and make a determination what happened. His final report could take as long as six months. We learned the things theyll be looking for, video record those cabin. There nor video recorders on the trains facing outward down the track but there are cameras and digital recording inside the cabin. Allowing investigators to see who was in the cabin at the time of the accident. And theyll be working at the training and safety of workers, one t
Weather with rosemary orozco. Thick pockets of fog report over parts of the north bay, the east bay. Thats a also a chilly start with temperatures sinking into the upper 30s. For the afternoon just a subtle drop in temperatures for some of us. Ill have a look at what you can expect for your afternoon. The cool down in the extended forecast and where it may be tough to see outside at this hour coming up. And we begin with breaking news in the east bay. There has been a major injury crash on highway 24 in lafayette. For some time all eastbound lanes were shut down and allie rasmus is live for us at the scene as chp tries to clear up this mess. Reporter just in the last 20 minutes, the two right right lanes of eastbound 24 here in lafayette have opened to traffic. You can see cars going through. We are right in front of the Pleasant Hill road exit in lafayette. And behind me you can see two of the six cars involved in this crash. Now this happened around 5 30 this morning. I talked to one