Crossing more than 2 dozen countries while World Health Officials work to stop the spread. Were providing advice to countries on how to do screenings, testing and treatment. Reporter all but two of the cases in the u. S. Are linked to travel to wuhan, china, the center of the outbreak. And there are a lot of questions about coronavirus including symptoms and the best way to protect yourself. You can find answers by going to abc7news. Com. Time is 4 31 f. Youre just joining us, good morning. A quick update of weather and traffic. From the same person. Thank you. A live look showing you san jose right now, 280 camera and we are really seeing a clear situation. Thats good because i know a little bit about traffic. Guerneville, 40. Petaluma 41 as well. Moving over to novato, 43. Alameda, 52. These are our current temperatures this morning. Moving over now to a live look at the san mateo bridge. No fog like yesterday. And our commute planner for driving Clear Conditions all good across the
59 at noon. 56 around 4 00 p. M. Dropping to 46 degrees at 9 00 p. M. We have major issues in traffic. A sig alert in emeryville. This roll over crash. All lanes are blocked right now as you can see. This is westbound 80 just before powell. This is going to start two problems. Obviously a backup. Things are light at the bay bridge. Once people get through this it will be a rough spot there. If 80 is a part of your morning commute, i suggest you leave later this morning or consider another route. I also have two other crashes i want to talk about. A power pole is down past highway 84. In south san jose we have a threecar crash, at least one lane is blocked right now. New this morning fire heavily damages a home in pleasant hill. You can see the smoke and big flames. Firefighters rushed to the home around 2 45 this morning. Everyone inside the home safely evacuated. Firefighters got it under control in about 45 minutes. We dont know yet what caused the fire. The search will assume at 8 0
Richmond toward the bay bridge and allow i would say 15 minutes extra right now and that is just if things stay the same. Kari, that is a look at the east shore freeway and the south bay and the peninsula looking good now. Yesterday this was all covered with fog and now visibility is clear. So were seeing a better drive this morning with temperatures starting out in the mid to upper 40s. Well lead into a nice day and a lot of sunshine once again as you head out of the door. Make sure you have the sunglasses. Well talk about what is ahe ahead what is ahead for the rest of the day. We have good news for coronavirus evacuees at Travis Air Force base. Many of the 170 people will soon be going home. After two weeks in quarantine at travis and more isolation overseas. Now as por the latest numbers, more than 1800 people have died, more mainly in china due to the coronavirus. 73,000 people have been infected worldwide. And there is now at least 29 confirmed cases in the United States after 14
56 at 4 00 p. M. Dropping down to 65 degrees. In emeryville this is a live look showing you sky 7, that backup we are facing because of a crash involving a big rig and one other car, this is westbond 80 just before powell. That is the initial spot of the crash there. There are injuries involved there. Blocking at least two lanes. Traffic is getting by on one lane and the backup extends to richmond. Injuries have been reported. There is a second crash in the backup around gilman. Fire crews are there. It looks like a tow truck is on the way to that scene. Look at this backup. Such a mess this morning. Speeds are down to about 6 and then 2 miles an hour once you get close to the crash. The toll plaza is empty because of this. Fire heavily damaged a home in pleasant hill. You can see heavy smoke and flames. Firefighters rushed to the home around 2 45 this morning. The fire captain says everyone inside the home got out okay. Firefighters got the fire under control in about 45 minutes. We d
Partly cloudy. The pressures still high. Its been high for about six weeks. No fog, its just high clouds. 30s, 40s and 50s on the temps. We will have a cloudy to mostly cloudy day. It looks like temperatures will be staying above average again here. Sals here. I know there was a couple issues. Things are better. If you are driving westbound. Weve seen traffic do well through pinole and richmond there have been no major problems approaching the privilege. You can see at the bay bridge toll plaza were getting a crowd. The democrats running for president are back on the campaign trail today after some heated exchanges during their debate in las vegas last night. Carry lien Caroline Shively joins us. Very few of these candidates can unite. And that is one goal taking down this guy. Id like to talk about who were running against. A billionaire who calls women fat broads and horsefaced lesbians. And im not talking about donald trump. Im talking about Mike Bloomberg. Mike bloomberg joined his