Around 2 30 this morning then the trees started falling knocking down power lines and creating a very dangerous situation on the roads. The wind was howling this morning in the south bay. Street signs were swinging and debris was flying. Piles of pine needles on lark avenue in los gatas created an Obstacle Course for cars. They used a flatbed tow truck to push a tree limb off the roadway. The wind knocked branches into power lines in the saratoga area. Pg e says 11,000 customers without power in the south bay at the peak of the wind storm between 2 30 and 5 00 a. M. Several stop lights at major intersections including winchester boulevard in san jose were out. Bowers Elementary School on barkley avenue in santa clara had to reroute traffic for dropoff this morning. Got a text from the school today to walk if you can because of this huge tree right here. Reporter this massive tree split in half knocking down a low voltage line right in front of the school. No damage anywhere else. There
Kristen sze. The traffic nightmare in the east bay is not going away any time soon. It began when one semi stalled, got hit by a car and clipped by a second driver of the secondses dead. Even now lanes are open. Abc 7 mornings traffic anchor alexis smith, any word on a full reopening night . No, they have not given us a solid timeline. Theyre working on it, thats gridlock on westbound 580 approaching eden canyon in the Castro Valley area. Getting close to seven hours now we have had total total total the roadway. Two lanes open as kristen mentioned, new as of 15 minutes ago. Looks like theyre making quite a bit of progress. Its a major project, having to offload the semis, get the cargo out of there. This is a long tedious process. Again, the two right lanes are open. Two left lanes are still closed. Theres a look at the work caltrans workers and chp doing doing. Obviously theyre not done yet. Zoom in on the traffic maps, 13 mile backup to state route 84 in livermore. Speeds, 2 miles a
Numbers on the firefight and the evacuations in place in Southern California and the democratics are getting ready to take off their convention. There will be protesters. You see that market for bernie. Per test start as early as today. We will tell you about the thousands of emails just released by leaks. I tweeted out a photo yesterday of the service at my car covering between 11 and 102 for my nephews birthday. I am like it is too hot. Someone tweeted go south. It was hot last night sleeping. That is what happens around the bay when we are warm and we dont have ac, it gets a little tough. Here is a beautiful view and a nice start to the day. It feels good out there right now if you are thinking about stepping out maybe for a run or walk the dog. We have a nice start. We do have fog. Fog along the coast so we are looking at a bit of a cooldown and not for everybody. The folks that wanted the most will not see ed. We will have a bit of a cooldown at the coast today and inland cities b