With juliette goodrich. Good evening. Its hard to think about the people who deliver your mail every day putting their lives at risk just to do their jobs, but we have video of a mail carrier being robbed at gunpoint, happened in oakland. Its certainly highlighting the disturbing new reality for postal workers. Guess what . Its not just a bay area problem. Nationwide there are more than 600 postal carrier robberies in 2023. Thats up 30 from the previous year. In oakland neighbors are asked to look out for the latest robber who now has the keys to strike again. Reporter the postal carrier was robbed when she was delivering mail right down this street. I spoke with another postal carrier off camera and she says incidents like this one are distressingly common and make her scared to do her job. Its a gut wrenching sound, a United States Postal Service carrier screaming after she was robbed by a man while out delivering mail in oaklands adams point neighborhood near euclid and van buren av
Safety advocates say theyre fed up. That hit was,eaction when i saw here we go again. Weve had two pedestrians killed in redwood city in the last month, two cyclists killed. A little bit further south. They wrote a letter demanding san mateoucounty take action. The only way to solve these problems is much more investment and safe street infrastructure. They also filed a condition at e represents a rather dangerous hazard. And this group of two. E the driver responsible might live nearby for that reason. Weve been out here every day leafleting. The Highway Patrol has returneduto the scene, knocking on doors. Were hoping to find in or that someone else will. We want this guy to face the he did and for what he failed to do. The victim in this case has been released from the hospital and is road to recovery. Chp is handling the case, and theyuask that anyone them. Greg or julie. Hopefully this leads to some mateo county and thank youn well, new at five tonight. Seven people were hurt when
Right now, at 11 more lane closures. More headaches. If you plan on using 680 in the east bay this weekend, expect a lot of this big delays this video just into the newsroom of caltrans getting to work tonight , shutting down several lanes of the very busy freeway. Now, as of 9 p. M. This evening, three southbound lanes, one northbound lane are closed from san ramon to pleasanton. Part of that big repaving project and that project is a long way from being done. Nbc bay areas pete tirados joins us live from san ramon. And this is just the latest. I mean, this thing has been going on these intermittent closures on 680 for a year, at least. Yeah yeah, it feels like so many of these closures along 680. And were right near this onramp of 680 south along San Ramon Valley boulevard that once again, is now closed as that repaving project gets underway. And look, its the first of two closures that are set to take place this month the weekend commute through san ramon, along 680 south will take
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Pastor while authorities searched for answers. And if youre driving in San Francisco this weekend, you might come across some street closures. Its all because the popular bay to breakers race is back. Good morning everybody. Its saturday, may 18th. Im stephanie sierra. Lisa is here with your saturday forecast. Yeah. Good morning. I use my wipers. Theres mist and drizzle out there with some dense fog, especially along the shoreline and the fog or the low clouds have made their way into our inland valley so it is cloudy. Concord livermore, all over the bay area. And as we look at the current numbers right now, 56 in fremont, good morning to you. It is 53 San Francisco and up to the north bay. Some low 50s. So temperatures fairly uniform with that deck of low clouds extending, extending inland as it expanded last night, a couple degrees milder with that. And well look for temperatures to come up slowly today, with the drizzle and the clouds pushing back to the coast. So as we get into noo