This morning John Swett Unified School district and four campuses are closed this morning. We want to first get a check of the forecast for you this morning. Definitely a fall start. Fall start, Cool Temperatures. As we look at this, when that refinery fire first broke out, it was visible on satellite imagery, thats a look at the arrow pointing towards that. Now as we wake up this morning, air quality is improving, we are seeing clouds still around the area but we have to watch out for that with light winds picking up from the northwest at about 7 Miles Per Hour in the area of crockett. And we are going to see some improvement today in the air quality as well as our temperatures coming down a few degrees. Well talk about some rain moving in, and mike seeing a lighting change in palo alto . Thats right because up until a few minutes ago, this section was well lit by crews, they have cleared, still a couple lights, thats moving north as far as the clearing goes up. So you may see a littl
5 am and he will focus on the tracy commute but i will also mention that interstate 80 is open right now. If you went to bed and did not know if it would be open for the morning commute, it is open. Lets start with 580. 580 at 205, slow traffic coming up on 205 from 11th and on 580 as you approach the Altamont Pass and then it looks all right to livermore and dublin. The problems on 680 from san ramon to pleasanton and into the snow grade. Looking at interstate 880 we have a good drive as well and getting out to the bay bridge toll plaza there is a small delay. Nothing major yet. Lets go back to the desk. An investigation is underway into what caused that massive fire at the Nustar Petroleum storage plant in crockett yesterday afternoon. The fire was contained but the effects are still being felt this morning. One example. All schools in the John Swett School district are closed for the day. Both directions of 80 are open to traffic in a shelter in place order was lifted last night. Sa
But there will be cooler conditions for the next few days. Anything you want to get to right away or just the usual . The usual and i want to remind people that interstate 80 is open and you may have gone to bed not knowing what will happen. It is open now. Lets go to the picture to show you the drive time between the carquinez bridge and the macarthur maze. It looks pretty decent. 20 minutes. Interstate 80 is open after yesterdays incident which closed for the evening commute. You can see traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza is backed up for a 1015 minute wait which is typical and you can see when we put the map up of the east making it, there is a little bit of slow traffic here and there. Highway 4 does have slow traffic and as you look at the izbicki mood we are off to a decent start. The latest on that massive fire at the Petroleum Storage facility in crockett yesterday. The fire is contained. Interstate 80 is open after it was shut down for hours. An Incident Management Team is l
Blowing some of the smoke and air quality across parts of the bay area, we are seeing improvements. So as the winds pick up we are seeing mostly a light westerly wind moving across the bay and across the parts of the delta at 5 mile per hour. So a light wind carrying the smoke to the east near antioch, where temperatures reach 70s. Oakland reaches 66 degrees. More cloud coverage and slightly cooler temperatures. You have a Traffic Alert, mike . I do. Its not for i80 that was closed yesterday during the fire. That opened last night, its been fine this morning. The Traffic Alert for highway 4, notice the green sensors, thats great. But not good ifyoure coming out of pittsburgh. Now three lanes are blocked as crews have arrived. Theres bailey. Well see more traffic through Pleasant Hill and walnut creek. But we should see the lanes clear up in the next few minutes. Well track that, the rest of the bay except the san mateo bridge is clear. Investigators plan to be on site today to learn wh
To the interview with jay blakesburg. The man who shot so many still photos of the grateful dead from 78 up until jerry garcia stephanie has a new book out. About 140 or 150 pictures. Color photos and a lot of quotes from a number of people throughout the years talking about jerry garcia. We will have enliven studio coming up. I got to see him we look the same right . First to the big news of the day. In the past hour we heard from Contra Costa County fire officials about the massive fire at a Petroleum Storage facility in crockett. That was the explosion as it happened. Officials say the fire is contained but they have yet to determine what started it. The fire sent an awful lot of the black smoke into the air in rodeo, hercules and crockett. Interstate 80 is now open after 80 was shut down in both directions for hours yesterday. At this point crews are on the scene investigating are working to prevent any further damage. Lets bring in sarah life in crockett with the remaining concern