Of the morning . You may want to through the morning hours, a good chance you could see morning showers or getting reggied if we can use that as a word. The better chance will shift to the north. You can see a few puddles as you approach the richmond side of the Richmond San Rafael bridge. It is mild this morning and humid. 54 to 57. The showers will become more scattered. The clouds will open for a little bit of sunshine so, yeah, umbrellas and sunglasses. Its one of those days. 60 to 64 at noon. Heading out this evening still a slight chance of a shower up in the north bay. 55 to 59 degrees. Weve got a couple more chances in the accuweather sevenday forecast. Heres frances. Hi, mike. Good morning, everyone. Quite a few accidents already this morning. Theres still one hot spot, though, in the east bay. This is in martinez. So were tracking this for you westbound 4 at mcewen and its an overturn crash. Here as san jose northbound 280 looking good right now. 17 still fine out of the sant
All northbound lanes were blocked along with three of the southbound lanes. No word on the identity of the person killed in the crash. All lanes on the 101 reopened in both directions. We are hearing a caltrans crew is due to come out sometime between 7 30 and 9 00 to begin repair work on the Center Divide. We are on standby waiting for chp to arrive to give us more details on the accident as the investigation progresses and to also give us a sense on how traffic has moved this morning with the rain. A reminder for anybody no matter what direction youre going the rain is sporadic so if it is not raining now it could be in five minutes or it could have rained five minutes ago so there will be slick roads. The reminder for everybody is give yourself more time for your commute and take it slowly. Christien kafton, thank you. Im glad i left early this morning because we had slick streets. Yes, it does not take much. Even though the downpours have moved out have scattered rain and we could
Damage, death, and destruction had been done. The community changed forever. Were certainly going to document this as well as possible. Reporter now the threat of fire will change the way people rebuild their lives. I can tell you that there are nine lives that were lost, their families have been forever changed. Reporter also today, the family of a mendocino couple who died is suing pg and e. Theyre claiming the utility did not trim back trees or maintain its equipment. One city has completely revamped its Emergency Alert system. Live in oakland, with how people can sign up. Reporter allen, its a fairly easy, and fast way, folks can either sign up using their smartphones or computers. Now the city of oakland admits this new alert system is not fireproof so to speak, but theyre saying it is still the fastest, and best way to reach out to folks in case of major fires or earthquakes. 26 years feel like a long time, but the north bay fires give oaklanders another reason to be in the know
The house. They have the best seats in the house that honors them and gives them a little bit of a reprieve and night away. Its so exciting. I didnt realize i was going to come here until a couple of days ago. My friend invited me. We got the ticket for free. Im grateful to be here now. Just really cool that all these artists get together and raised all this money for people in need. Were here on a thursday night. We all have to get up at 6 00 for work tomorrow. But we are here for home in county reporter again, 100 of the proceeds from tonights band together bay area concert going directly to help low income communities hit hardest by the fire. I dont know if you can hear behind us, but it sounds like rafael sadiq just took the stage. The music hasnt started yet. But if you cant come down, you can live stream it on youtube and twitter. Test, the you can donate online or on twitter. Thank you. On ktvu. Com we have posted a link where you can watch tonights concert live. Just click on t
Gear cleaning lots of debris. Its such a big job, we noticed many lots are now being covered with plastic tarps and straw barriers to keep toxic ash from washes out of lots into drains during the months of winter storms ahead. Rebuilding is another matter. Its going to be three to five years for most of the rebuild. Reporter full recovery predicts keith woods of the north Coast Builders exchange will perhaps take a decade. Every contractor i know in the area was busy before these devastating fires hit us. And this is going to put a real strain on capacity of local contractors. Reporter making matters more complicated, theres a serious shortage of labor to work for those contractors. We do not have anywhere near the capacity, the number of contractors to even come close to rebuilding the homes that weve lost up here in the tragedy. Reporter licensed contractors from other parts of the state can work here as well as from a few neighboring states where we have reciprocal agreements. But i