Other spots in the United States, and its said to have cut down accidents 25 . It sounds familiar. A smartphone does what youre talking about. Yes. The traveler information you get on your cell phone is also another element of this project. Eventually we gonna have similar type of information that motorists are used to seeing on their cell phone. Reporter at a cost of 79 million. 7 the Million Dollars for what i can get on my cell phone . 79million . A lot of Times Technology catches up with bureaucracy. Was this money well spent . Absolutely. Reporter because, he says, theres so much more. Speed limits will be changed depending on traffic. Lights coordinated on surface streets that bear the brunt of frustrated freeway drivers. Lanes could be opened or closed. For this part of highway 80, i think its worth it. Its really busy. Thats a lot of money. They could fix the potholes on the roads for 79 million. [ laughter ] reporter now, they say its going to save hundreds of millions of doll
Discussions about it, um, i would just like them to see more parking. It doesnt seem like theres enough parking for the membership in the club and condos. Reporter those concerns will likely be highlighted at tonights planning and zoning meeting. A group called save the claremont has been handing out flyers asking people to fight it. I hope they dont do it. Reporter the claremont, owned by the fairmont, put us in touch with the group doing this development prong and i spoke to a man on the project, and i spoke to a man on the phone who says its early to comment. Its the beginning of the Legal Process they have to go through with the city. But he did say, quote, we believe the city will do an exhaustive study of the proposal and that will determine what impacts there are and identify appropriate mitigation measures. That meeting again started just a few moments ago at 6 00 downtown in oakland city hall. Reporting live in oakland, emily turner, kpix 5. New at 6 00 oakland is one of the h
This is a live look at louisville, kentucky where tens of thousands of people are gathering to remember muhammad ali. The plea session is getting under way the 19mile procession is getting under way now and thousands are lined up to see it. The final goodbye to the greatest will take his bodies to neighborhoods and places that played a key role in his life. Later this afternoon a public memorial will be held. Former president bill clinton and Billy Kristol will deliver crystal will eulogize him. Its friday light on the roads. We can see it on the roads that get congested at this time. They are slightly better. So heres a live look right now at the eastshore freeway. If you are coming through berkeley, everything is moving okay. You can see there the drive through berkeley approaching gilman street. Its actually about 20 minutes from the carquinez bridge to the maze. Lets go to the maps. Its experiencing a major delay ace train number one actually stopped right now just outside of pleas
Gianna. Two accidents on the 101 southbound northbound 101 at first street, north 101 near old oakland road two separate accidents close together. Maybe one and the same. Well get more information. But right now drive times okay through there. No delays between 280 680 to 237. 12 minutes. Well take a look at the bay bridge coming up. A high tense situation involving dozens of cops and a man with the gun. The fourhour standoff put new Police Tactics to the test. Joe vazquez found out it paid off. Put the gun down, man. Reporter cell phone video captures the beginning of the incident on jones near market. Police the man without a shirt has a gun and refuses Police Orders to put it down. Put it down he said he wanted to die. He made statements to the effect that he didnt want to go to prison. They decided to shoot him with a beanbag gun and then he lay down on his stomach. 221, he has his hands in his pockets and refuses to comply. Reporter the beanbag shots are nonlethal but they have li
Night. However, nothing has been ruled out. Reporter now, in case you were wondering, the Sprinkler System was installed. And heres some new information for you. Alameda county fire tells me for the first time firefighters deployed a drone to get an aerial view of the flames to help firefighters. Coming up on kpix 5 at 6 00 well show you the video from one of the three drones deployed during this firefight. Reporting live in emeryville, cate caugiran, kpix 5. Todays fire in emeryville is eerily similar to an incident in San Francisco two years ago in march of 2014, except in the San Francisco case the Sprinkler System had not been installed yet. Nearly 150 firefighters tackled that fivealarm inferno at a building under construction in the Mission Bay Neighborhood by at t park. It burned for several hours billowing black smoke seen throughout the city and around the bay area. Breaking news tonight from San Francisco. A tense Police Standoff shuts down some streets in the midmarket area.