Rid of these tollbooths. Why the heck does it take so long . John grubb, the council coo, says tollbooths at the plaza have been in place since the 1950s and dont fit with the way people drive now. He says caltrans and toll authorities should have removed the tollbooths as soon as they stopped being used. And the impact is can be really catastrophic and tragic where someone is dying, you know, crashing into tollbooths. Following mondays crash, he says they should remove them immediately. Caltrans says they are currently evaluating how to fix it. Were still waiting to come up with a game plan of how we can remove that damaged equipment and replace it. But the toll booths arent the only issue. According to grubb, the way the traffic is jammed leads to an increased risk of car pollution. Its now the largest source of pm 2. 5 emissions. These are really harmful chemicals that get into the lungs of people is from the morning backup, he says. The state needs to make changes to the bridge or
Flights. The potential impact on your wallet. Plus, were learning more about the suspect accused of attacking san jose mayor matt mahan, bodyguard. And tragedy striking in the east bay. Were live with the latest after a fatal car crash. From the bay station. Youre watching kron. At noon. Thanks so much for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im stephanie lin. We start in the east bay on that crash that left multiple people dead. Kron fours. Philippe djegal joins us live now from pleasanton with the latest. Kelli. Stephanie says stephanie, certainly an ugly scene. This was a horrific crash. You can tell from the foam right behind me here on foothill road. Thats because there was a fire as we walk over. You can see that this car was speeding likely down foothill road south of stone. Ridge drive and hit this pole. This poll is collapsed and broken up and you can see theyre cones here. The car then continued on. Obviously to this tree where it slammed right into the base of the tree.
Now at 11 00, an explosion in the middle of a peninsula neighborhood was so powerful one man thought an earthquake hit. It was loud enough, i was sitting in a port meeting and i said what the [ bleep ] was that . What a bomb robot found inside that car. Plus on campus clashes as pro Palestinian Protesters come face to face with cops in riot gear at multiple colleges across the country. And for the first time in more than 200 days the parents of abay area man taken hostage by hamas see his face in a propaganda video, how theyre reacting tonight and what comes next in their push to bring him home. From kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. Hello. Good evening. Im sara donchey. Tonight a lot going on, mass arrests, clashes with police in riot gear at multiple College Campuses across the country happening all at once and that includes right here in the state of california. Pro Palestinian Protesters have been camping out, demanding their colleges divest from i
Wonderfully the muggy again . I saw somebody and and they came up with it. They said its muggy. I was like, did you hear one usually notice, john, i know i said it like but yeah, it was definitely a guy. I got up to Golden Gate Park and i was like its 60 likes a little today. Not as muggy. Good news. There is actually going to be a brisk, northerly westerly wind replacing that southerly wind from yesterday. Its going to help us out a lot with that. Feels like condition. Your view outside right now is showing a lot of cloud cover sitting up above. We are going to see peaks of sunshine today, but definitely a mostly cloudy one. Again, winds have shifted direction. As i noted, it is going to be breezy towards the coast. Tomorrow, though thats going to be an especially windy one as a cold front passes across the region. Temperatures right now are in the 50s low to mid 50s currently oakland double in concord at 54 while san mateo at 51 degrees looking outside later today, we will be in the
Week. This is what you got outside at the east bay hills camera. Definitely overcast to start winds shifting direction out of the northwest now. So its a cooler breeze ahead of an advancing cold front that makes its way in tonight. And with that cold front winds will pick up today. So get ready for that. Temperatures are in the 50s alameda. Youre sitting at 55 oakland at 55 as well. Heyward. Youre at 57 right now. And some 40s up in the north bay later on today. Temps in the 60s very familiar at this point. Tomorrow weve got one more day. Those cloudier skies before we see a generally cooler and clear forecast into the weekend rain. All right, john, thank you for low already. Pretty busy across a lot of our bridges out there. And i ways. And its only 7 oclock. I dont see any accidents on a ridge is the drive times of all gonna 18 minutes here on the bay bridge right now, Richmond Center fell bridge around 18 minutes, which typically dont see this until around 8 oclock. Almost 30 minute