The forecast high today in birmingham, alabama will be 54 degrees. That is shattering a record for cool. If youre from alabama, you say 54 . Yes. It is unseasonably cool. In unseasonably cool in the southeast. Atlanta will only be 57. San francisco maybe warmer than atlanta and birmingham. That is still below average which is 64. The record was 93 and nine teen 97. The wind is in place. Gusts at 21 at sfo. There is also a roaring delta breeze. Everything is in place for a big drop in temperatures. 50s, 60s. If you are looking for warmer weather, maybe early next week. Until then it will be cool and windy even with rain possible in Southern California on sunday. We do not have a lot. We do have slow traffic at the bay bridge this morning. We are going to start their at the bay bridge. It looks like traffic is going to be busy as you get to the san mateo bridge as well. Westbound bay bridge is not bad if you are driving into San Francisco for this time of the morning. 1520 minute delay.
Number two. We will go to christian and talk about more. Tell us more. Reporter e. 2nd st. In benicia said and i photojournalist we arrived and saw the scene and stopped to bring you the live pictures so you can take a look. Benicia Police Issued an alert about the incident via twitter at around 7 30 this morning saying the refinery was experiencing a power outage bit and that led to flaring and smoke as valero vegan the fuel. Additionally there was no cause for concern and shortly before 8 00, 20 minutes later, pd issued an alert saying any businesses or structures downwind of valero should evacuate the area. We heard from people in the area there was heavy smoke and some were reported nausea or having trouble breathing. Benicia police have told us Benicia Unified School had issued a caution alert saying Robert Semple and Matthew Turner schools students should shelter in place where they are now and all the students in the district are expected to be safe if they are at school. They a
Community and the victims family, neither is shy about their relief. At the very least, at least closure and the family can know that. We have this unsolved cases where theres still a sense of unease because of what happened like i said a place that people love and treasure in this community. So thats wow, wow, incredible. Reporter gallon will remain in jail because he is in jail under no bond. And the Sonoma County Sheriffs Office will be presenting this case to the District Attorney in the next couple of months and then move forward from there. Reporting live in forestville, emily turner, kpix 5. Other our top story tonight air quality officials still monitoring the valero refinery in benicia. Thick, black smoke triggered alerts for much of the day today. A mandatory evacuation at the Benicia Industrial Park is still in effect and for most of the day students at both the Matthew Turner and robert simple Elementary Schools were told to shelter in place. Kpix 5s da lin is live outside
Can call you back, pay you a new salary, while you also get your full Retirement Benefits. Reporter he says that most retirees dont get these sort of huge pension payments but 25 is too many. He would like to see a cap or tax on people who earn exorbitant public pensions. The university is is, you know, pushing this whole narrative about how terrible income equality, you think they would practice what they preach. Reporter we reached out to the office of the president. But there was no response. In 2015, uc did tone down its Retirement Benefits package but that only applies to people hired after july 1, 2016. These records werent easy to come by . No, public records requests are supposed to be responded to in 10 days and it took six months according to mark joffe to get this data from the uc system. They werent cooperating at all in turning this over. And maybe we understand a little bit about why. Thank you. We are Digging Deeper into the troubled relationship that ended in a horrific
50s. 49 livermore. As we make our way through the day we have a wind advisory in effect until account. Highest winds will come later on in the evening. We are talking 20 to 35 Miles Per Hour sustained winds with gusts over 45. Mostly along the coast, bay and Higher Elevations be mindful of that. Ted cruz breezy along breeze it is breezy along the coast. Heading up to the high country we are likely going to see rain today. Well talk more about that coming up in a bit. In the meantime over to you. He valero refinery in benicia. Ve was over the refinery yesterday. Where flaring sent black smoke over the surrounding neighborhood. Triggering evacuations. For several hours yesterday. People living in the zone shaded on this map were ordered to evacuate. And students and faculty at both the Matthew Turner and Robert Semple Elementary Schools were told to shelter in place. It all started just before 7 yesterday morning. When the refinery lost power for about 18 minutes. That resulted in flarin