Some sort of medical episode. Several people were injured including a pregnant woman. Drivers are told to expect delays on northbound highway 101 near the frontage road. We will have a crew on the scene and bringing the latest information as it becomes available. Now to the fire in the Oakland Hills. For information it continues to develop. That fire broke out this afternoon, at the height 50 homes were threatened. It took a couple of hours to gain control. It quickly reached for alarms in the area near interstate 580. Tom has been talking with homeowners affected by the fire. We begin with rob roth on an update with the containment. Reporter the good news is what you dont see. What you dont the are thick white plumes of smoke that we saw a couple of hours ago coming out of that hillside. You see that orange color. That is fire retardant that is a dropped. It is all clear. This place is filled with smoke like i a few hours ago. Firefighters are still working but they seem to have this
Airport 54. But 57 palo alto. Concord, brentwood, livermore. Closed for morgan hills, a little cooler towards so cal. Campbell 10 degrees warmer at 6 of 1 degrees. West at 18, west sfo at 17. West of the delta, even though it will be west, southwest almost to 30 in travis we will have a breezy blustery day. Kind of a quiet pattern which is is a good thing. After the low clouds burn off we will end up with temperatures near average to slightly below for some. 5 01. Still quiet or something on your screens there . Well, its a little bit more crowded, steve, as you might imagine here with especially the Altamont Pass commute and weve had a couple things happen there. Lets go out to the Altamont Pass, i will show you the traffic on 580 is slow as you drive through the area here at 205 as well. So that is a typical delay. When you get into livermore there is a crash westbound 580 atel charro, a little bit a slow traffic commute before you get to that crash. Once i get past it though and if
Donner summit. Caltrans closed the freeway at 2 00 this afternoon, they dont expect it to reopen before midnight. This video is from earlier in the day, as drivers were forced to turn around, and make alternate plans. Right now, eastbound traffic is being stopped at apple gate in placer county, westbound traffic is being stopped at the nevada state line. Thats about 70 miles of i80 that is completely shut down tonight. Here in the bay area, scattered showers had people pulling out their umbrellas again today. The heaviest rain now behind us, but only for a couple of days before it ramps up again this weekend. Bill martin has impressive rainfall numbers from this latest storm. First, we go to Debora Villalon tracking some of the spots out it there. Reporter heather, blame beautiful mount tan. Those passing rain storms get stick on its peak, and moran gets drenched. Likely again this weekend too. I dont think my girls have ever experienced a blackout. Reporter losing power . A new experi
Sugar bollocks squaw, they are all very happy. More is coming. More is coming walmart rehabilitative check in on the drive um there. Thank you for joining us. Thursday admonishing. January 5th. Im pam cook. Im dave clark. Very more rain and snow on the way. To the sierra. Take a look at how this looks so far for drivers. Its been slow going. From to and from the lake tahoe area you can see. Caltrans reopened both directs of interstate 80 though over donor summit just before 1 30 this morning. Still restriction on the big rigs there. It can be very windy up there as well. The road has been is shut down completely since 2 00 yesterday afternoon. The second closure of the day. We told you about the first one in the Early Morning hours right here on ktvu mornings on 2. Chains still required on 80 right now. But for four wheel drive. And now tires this is a map of the area. You can see about 70 miles of roadway to the nevada state line. Cal trans has shut down the entire freeway there. Look
Reopen tomorrow and thats if they can get the repairs done today. All morning we have seen a procession of workmen and women can coming into make the repairs. The county building has two wings. An east and a west wing. They handle everything from legal documents to records to birth certificates. Needed a birth certificate to go out of the country for traveling. Im hoping to get it online. That is is the idea. I im gliadine have the online service. It would have been nice to get it today. Reporter the outage is also impocketing the sheriffs headquarters but the is she have said that they have functioning emergency generator that can keep them going for days. Right now deputies are providing security for this building. We are look agent getting the building locked down and there are no county services today. Reporter officials with the county say that all Critical Services are being met at this hour. Thats including the da, the police and the court officials. If you see people going behi