It is friday, may 23rd and early today starts right now. Good morning. Im richard lui. This is the weekend to celebrate and hold up those who gave their lives in military service for our country. Memorial day weekend, though, is also a busy time on the roads. Aaa predicting a Record Number of people, nearly 36 million, will be traveling this weekend. Many wonder how the weather could affect their travel plans. Nbc meteorologist bill karins is looking at that for us and good for some, and some others not. 95 of the people have no issues what so over traveling. But there are 5 . Let me point those out for your travel needs. Big map for the forecast, in the entire country. The airport hubs will be all right. Denver, kansas city, san antonio, chance of rain. Seattle, chance of showers. Airport delays may be possible there. As far as the worst travel goes today, once again, from the severe thunderstorms, with hail and damaging winds, were talking south carolina, and southern portions of nor
Area. It was a magnitude 3 around 4 a. M. You can see the shaking here on our kpix 5 seismograph. No injuries reported from that or from a minor earthquake that hit the peninsula at 8 24 last night, as well. Lets check the roads now with elizabeth. Its already pretty busy if you are heading to the bay bridge toll plaza. There was a minor fenderbender already cleared and it was on the span itself. So they switched on the metering lights, started cycling through them slowly and now youre stacked up already beyond the overcrossing and even once you get on the bridge its slow on that incline section so just a heads up if you are trying to get into San Francisco. Westbound 580 turns out that accident approaching the dublin interchange is now in the clearing stages. Our drive time though is heavier than usual for this time of the morning 34 minutes between the between the Altamont Pass and 680. There was also an earlier stall that slowed things down much earlier in the livermore area. And a
We have the usual commuter traffic out of tracy. There is a bit of a delay even at 5 a. M. So they cleared the overnight roadwork through the livermore valley. But westbound 580 very heavy right now from the 205 interchange really all the way out to vasco and by real heavy, i mean slow for this time of the morning and approaching airway. That stall is in the Center Divide. Chp is out there as well so hopefully they are working to clear it here but you can see all the slowdowns on our sensors. Those yellow ones mean speeds just below 40 miles per hour. Also seeing some delay in benicia because of this accident. A tow crew should get there any minute. Southbound 680 approaching marshview road. Slow from 80, though. That is your kcbs drive to work. Back to you guys. Thank you. Its 5 01. The nighttime video is hard to see but you can definitely hear the tense confrontation between an Oakland Police officer and an offduty firefighter. Put your hands up put your hands up turn around im a oak
Another full day of negotiations and even with a chance of a courtordered cooling off period, the pressure to hammer out a deal is still on. All along the process is more delayed than it should have been. At this point with a little bit of pressure we are hearing that the legislators are weighing in and urging the resolution. In a move to keep the trains running, even if a deal is not reached, Governor Brown called for a 60day cooling off period. A superior court judge will hold a hearing to decide if thats necessary. That prompted both sides to say they agree on at least one thing. We need a deal by sunday. We dont need the writers wondering what the heck is going to happen on october 11th. We are not nuts. You want to come back here in 55 or 50 days . There plenty of points of view. I get paid pretty good. I ride bart and understand they want more money. I thought they had a strike already. If there is no agreement, the unions say a Court Ordered cooling off period will not remove th
I love oakland. Come on. I have been here long enough to vote. Frustration and fatigue at the bargaining table from both sides of the bart contract dispute. Negotiations have been going on all day and there is still no deal. We are live in oakland tonight with the latest. Reporter i will tell you what. On most nights the negotiating team leave this building at 8 00 in the evening and sometimes they stay until about 10 00 or after. Right now they are still inside. Officially making this one of the longest negotiating days and we just saw food delivered. There is a chance they will be in there for a while longer. Another full day of negotiations and even with a chance of a courtordered cooling off period, the pressure to hammer out a deal is still on. All along the process is more delayed than it should have been. At this point with a little bit of pressure we are hearing that the legislators are weighing in and urging the resolution. In a move to keep the trains running, even if a deal