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Fremont street. Engineers found a second crack. It took months for crews to come up to fix the problem on july 1st. The sales force park and lower levels of the Transit Centers were reopened including the passengers gondola. Passengers are able to go up and down to the fourth level as the whole thing is designed to connect city with city services. I am sergio quintana. Bay area news. Cal fire tweeting today it is 80 contained. Burned at least 20acres. The cause of a familiar one. A discarded cigarette. Th afternoon. Evacuation orders were lifted late yesterday. A first look at weather right now. You are looking at fremont. You can see the flag flying in the wind and sunshine everywhere you see. More in the studio with rob mayeda. Reporter more of the wind right now including in san jose. Winds out of the northwest a high of 81 but relatively mild. 76 degrees as we see and really is an unusual weather pattern. Rain and thunderstorms across Northern California and stronger storms into or
How they describe the describe the chaos that was shutdown. Its not bright but it is early. Glad to be with you. Im gasia mikaelian. Pam cook is enjoying the day off. You made it in. I did. Good morning, im dave clark. We had two fans in the bedroom and took a cool shower before bedtime and doing what we can to cope. Its going to be warmer today. Its 5 01. Hot, temperatures today for many, as they will jump up from yesterdays high, readings, which were warm to hot but the high kicks in and parking it over california. Warm to very hot inland. Excessive heat warning, heat advisory for those who are affected by it. 94 to 104. The forecasted highs are between 99105. Ukiah, vacaville will be in there. Ridge of High Pressure parks for two days and lit break down as the system will dig in to the Pacific Northwest but not until friday. Northerly breeze, oak land, concord, west, southwest at 9. 50s and 60s on the temperatures towards the santa clara valley. Low 60s already. Gilroy, san martin a
Thes no estimated time of reopening. We will send it over to mike. Its going to be a real tough morning. We are having problems, over a mile of backup northbound 101. This is a tragic situation with the loss of one persons life, obviously, but as far as the commute, its already a tough commute as well. This crash is just shy of highway 85, right where they are making the split, lanes are adding up there. We have only the slow lane that is open, and over here, thats the only option you have to exit the freeway. In addition to the backup early, chp does say, as bob said, it will take hours to clear that up, and there was a fire that all has to be investigated and cleared up, and folks from san martin and morgan hill, that will build into the commute, and we will see that as it ripples around the south bay or south county. So far we are tracking the deadly crash there and the backup for about a mile approaching the 101 and 85 split. If you a no surprises approaching the bay bridge. As you
Santa teresa boulevard might help you out, and monterey road is getting flooded with traffic. Bob redell has been out there this morning, and i see progress on the freeway. What do you have . Reporter we have two wreckers removing two of the cars, and the medical examiner is in the process of removing the person that died, one of the drivers, and chp said it wont be until 7 30 or 7 45 when all the lanes reopen, and we are on northbound 101 south of 85. A firefighter said he never has seen an accident like this where you have four cars that cash fire and become fully engulfed. One driver was not able to get out and did die in the crash. It happened around 3 30 this morning and its not clear what caused this crash, it was a Chain Reaction involving four sedans with a driver in each car. Two were taken to the hospital, and we know a person not involved in the accident did try and help and get one of the people out of their vehicle. The fourth driver walked away unhurt. He said it was his