Weve been getting wild weather all day. Torrential downpours, whipping wind, thunder and lightning just a mix of everything. Well have more on that in just a few minutes, but first lets get you up to the sierra. Take a look. This is video exactly why people have been warned just to stay away this weekend. Its an absolute mess. This is along highway 80 heading into the sierra. Trucks, big rigs just stopped right now. The road shut down for hours and truckers and drivers are just stuck. This is why the highway is closed. Blizzard conditions are creating an absolute whiteout and travel nightmare right now. Heres how its looking in downtown truckee. Look at all the snow in the past 24 hours. Everything buried. You need snow shoes just to walk around town. Thats where kelsi thorud is right now. I wont waste your time, take it away reporter yes, blizzard conditions is what were seeing right now. Its super gusty. Were in downtown truckee right now. This is probably the worst weve seen it sinc
Weve been getting wild weather all day. Torrential downpours, whipping wind, thunder and lightning just a mix of everything. Well have more on that in just a few minutes, but first lets get you up to the sierra. Take a look. This is video exactly why people have been warned just to stay away this weekend. Its an absolute mess. This is along highway 80 heading into the sierra. Trucks, big rigs just stopped right now. The road shut down for hours and truckers and drivers are just stuck. This is why the highway is closed. Blizzard conditions are creating an absolute whiteout and travel nightmare right now. Heres how its looking in downtown truckee. Look at all the snow in the past 24 hours. Everything buried. You need snow shoes just to walk around town. Thats where kelsi thorud is right now. I wont waste your time, take it away reporter yes, blizzard conditions is what were seeing right now. Its super gusty. Were in downtown truckee right now. This is probably the worst weve seen it sinc
Students deserve and our families expect, we must have fewer schools than we do now. By having fewer schools, we can concentrate our resources and enhance program, teacher support, and student services. Superintendent is expected to make recommendations this fall on which schools to close, to merge, or to what they call, colocate. The full changes are slated to be in full effect in the 2025 school year. Earlier this week, San Franciscos Teachers Union released a report blaming most of the Financial Issues on years of district mismanagement. The report says the district spends nearly twice the state average per student on administrative costs. The union said management should examine Office Spending before making painful cuts to school sites. Making the financial situation worse, the School District is giving up on a faulty payroll system after spending more than 30 million trying to fix it. And just yesterday, the district agreed to pay 4. 5 million to settle a sexual abuse lawsuit aga
Later to trucks. Drivers were eager to get moving again, but it took a while. In fact, a drone captured the backup in nevada as plenty of people tried to make their way into california. Our kelsi thorud and photojournalist jim flanagan were among the drivers on interstate 80 making their way back home to the bay area. They gave us a firsthand look at conditions over the summit. Look at how high the snow bank is. Its like as tall as the car. Its impressive. How you doing, jim . Doing good. Just kind of nice and steady. They are the road trip buddies. They filed some great reports for us. Chains are still required on interstate 80 and caltrans warns drivers take it slow since some stretches of the road are down to one lane to make room for the machines doing cleanup. No chains needed on highway 50, but that could change. The storm dumped six to 11 feet of snow across the sierra and the snowpack now stands at 104 of normal for this time of year. Its a huge change from just two months ago
And your next late night fast food delivery could come with surge pricing. And it has nothing to do with the car that drops it off. From kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. Hello, im sara donchey. Everyone in the bay area seems to have a union square memory and a lot of them go way, way back. Like seeing the Christmas Tree as a child, peeking in the store windows, especially during the holidays. And when the spca fills those windows with pets who need homes, it is an extra special memory. Its been in the backdrop of so many memories. Macys is at the center of all of it. And so when the Company Announced it will be closing its flagship west coast store, people seemed to pause for just a little longer than some of the other headlines weve heard about businesses packing up and leaving San Francisco. And while it may be the biggest blow yet to union square, one Business Owner in the area tells kelsi thorud he still thinks and believes that the future of the