Kreutz abc 7 news. Liz, can you talk about the mood there . Are people excited about this race . Reporter yeah, i think enthusiasm it kind of varies. Theres a poll out that shows that only a third of San Franciscoen approve of the work shes doingment ev. In terms of the election overall, right now its a little quiet. There was a huge rush just a few minutes ago of people dropping off their ballots after work. People excited to be part of the process, make their voice heard. I think its safe to say were not going to see the turnout that were probably going to see next year in the 2020 election. Back to you guys. Thank you so much. The race for San Franciscos District Attorney is between four candidates. Susie loftus is running for a full term after being appointed to the position by the mayor. Also running, nancy tung, and chrks there you see her family. She says voters have been telling her theyre concerned with core issues ranging from serious crime in the city to quality of life in t
Commute. Giant generators were brought into the caldecott tunnel, a major traffic route in the east bay. Caltrans had to figure out how to keep the tunnel lights and fans on or face a traffic nightmare. The tunnels themselves have a very large fans that circulate to make sure that the exhaust from the cars are actually taken out of the tunnels. Caltrans first thought some of the four tunnels would need to be shut down but bringing in those generators may have fixed the problem. The lantos tunnel on highway one new pacifica is open. Caltrans brought in more generators there at double slide. Thousands of commuters use that tunnel on the san mateo coast every day. That is some good news. Sal, you have your hands full but great news about the caldecott and lantos tunnel. That is good news. The tunnels will stay open. We will keep reminding people of that even though the changeable signs out there say otherwise. That was before they change their mind apparently or got new resources. Westbou
For today and tomorrow the first day of school today for the San Jose Unified School district. Mid 90s for san jose for those high temps today. 106 in concord this afternoon. 105 for fairfield and concord. And 80 degrees in San Francisco. Ill let you know when temps will slowly cool back down coming up. Lets take a look at your trouble spots. It is causing lanes to be closed in the northbound direction of ou mig bets. Getting blown around a little bit. Lets keep out of there before we get a little motion sickness. We are headed out of the tracy triangle. Youre now a 34minute ride out of the tracy triangle towards the 580, 680 interchange. Youre still looking good. Those drive travel times are in the green. No problems to report on any of those trouble spots. Youve got plenty of company but no brake lights there. And we are starting to see back ups at the bay bridge this morning. Metering lights should be on in the next 15 minutes or so. No reports at the Richmond San Rafael bridge. We
They were damaged. Were told the closure will last till at least 7 00 this evening because its too dangerous to let more cars drive over that huge piece of collapsed concrete. If youre a regular on Center Stretch of the nimitz, this is a choke point during the afternoon commute hour and track normally grinds to a crawl after the otr look from sky 7. Plan extra time or use the mcarthur freeway as an alternate route. Well keep you the traffic gets during the afternoon drive. Friday afternoon, friday commute. You know its going to be difficult especially in the oakland area. Thats right. Good afternoon, thank you for joining us today. Im ama daetz. Im larry beil. Our other top story, the city of oakland will will get extra time to prove its case against the nfl and the raiders. They claim to move the team violated laws. The reprieve came with a sharp rebuke from the judge. Laura anthony is live at oakland city hall. Reporter hi. We should be clear, this is not about keeping the team in oa
So much. Gloria and gloria, thats so interesting because i think lot of us have had to, still deal with, that still have t living in both worlds. But dina, you were forced to embrace one identity and hollywood, right i feel like i was living in three worlds there was my world that i grew up in, also Spanish Speaking home, human parents, and the you go out to the world and i speaking english, and im in the bronx, south bronx and then going into this industry as an actress, then nobody recognizes you as eithe one. There was no place for me as a latina, and then as a blac woman, i didnt identify as black woman because for me, it was cultural because of course, i present black, im a black women, i am also cuban when you are here in the unite states and they ask you, put you into a box, and you don fit into the box, culturally i was different. It was not one that identified with, but to work, to survive, it was something that i had to learn. To then learn to be whatever black was. And then