Im kristen sze. Im eric thomas. A sig alert could make a mess of the morning commute after a fatal accident on interstate 80 involving a suspected dui driver and the chb. Abc News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is live in richmond with the latest. Amy . Reporter eric, look at the car behind me. It flew off of the freeway, rolled down that embankment and landed right there. This is on the exit ramp for central here in the richmond el serrito border. The driver did die. The off ramp is closed. He was westbound on interstate 80 passing a construction site when a chp officer who was at that site saw him passing and noticed his front tire was so flat he was driving on the rim. The officer was going to pursue him to see if he needed help. To see if he was drunk. Just to see what was going on with this guy. But investigators say they dont even know if the officer had time to turn on his lights and siren. That this all happened so fast. They put out a Little Information over the radio. All of a sudde
Aware of the seriousness of the situation at first. I couldnt go to sleep and i hear somebody banging on my door that their apartment is on fire. I didnt know what to do. First of all i dont want to open the door to a crazy person. It could be somebody trying to break in. I get my roommate and it hit me. It smelled like fire. So we had to get out. No one was injured and firefighters are investigating how it started. Happening today it president obama is expected to nominate Federal Reserve vice chair janet yellen as the new fed chairman. Yellen was a professor at uc berkeley in the 1980s and 90s 90s. If approved by the senate, yellen would become the first woman to be head of the fed. Kpix 5s cate caugiran will have more on yellens ties to the bay area coming up in our next half hour. And new this morning, a stanford professor won the nobel prize in chemistry. Michael levitt among three scientists awarded the prize this morning. Together, they laid the foundation for computer models us
Has the body been identified . Okay again waiting still for confirmation from the Sheriffs Department. We have heard from david perry a friend of the spalding family. He says that lynnes daughter did get a phone call this morning from authorities, kind of a next of kin call confirming to her they do believe the body is her 57yearold mother. Spalding was a patient here, checked in with an infection last two. Month two days later she disappeared. That was 18 days ago. Hospital workers found a body in a rarely used exterior stairwell on the fourth floor. We understand lynne was on medication that made her disoriented. She was supposed to be checked on by the hospital every 15 minutes. Family and friends for the last two ask a half weeks have you been desperately searching. They created a Facebook Page to find lynne and posted fliers around town. She was here at hospital the whole time. Huge questions lingering at this hour. How is that possible . Thats what lynnes family and the public wa
It is on the El Cerrito Richmond border. Heres a live look at our sensors on westbound 580 through the altamont pass. Typical stuff. Usually in the next half hour well see slowdowns on our sensors but for now its a free and clear ride through the altamont pass, the Livermore Valley and dublin interchange. Also, a mass transit check, nothing of note, right now. No delays. Bart, muni, caltrain and ace all on time. That is the latest from here in the kcbs traffic center. Heres roberta with the forecast. This is the most active weather day this workweek. Ill explain. But right now, temperatures not as cold as yesterday at this hour except in napa at 42 degrees. Otherwise partly cloudy skies across the central bay into the low and mid50s. It is currently 51 degrees in fremont through union city. An area of low pressure is passing to the east of the bay area. We have a snowrain mix in the high sierra backing all the way through yosemite. Some of those clouds drifting into our area. And certa
Good afternoon, everyone. Im frank mallicoat. Im michelle griego. Yellen would be the first woman ever to head a Major Central Bank anywhere in the world. Right now, a live look at washington, d. C. Where the president is about to make it official. If confirmed by the senate, yellen would succeed ben bernanke. His term ends in january. Bottom line, its another Glass Ceiling broken. Womens groups are calling the appointment a victory. Kpix 5s cate caugiran shows us the cal professor is joining the ranks of other highprofile women rising in the ranks. Reporter dr. Janet yellen is making history. She is now the first woman ever to lead the worlds most powerful central bank. Its not just that shes this, you know, a woman in a high ranking position. Its the nature of the position being economics and math and these kinds of areas that women are traditionally underrepresented in. Reporter San Francisco examiner columnist melissa griffincaen says when picking a new fed chair its all about the