Suspension from the nfl. Complete bay area News Coverage starts right now, this is ktvu channel 2 news at 5 00 p. M. Crime scene tape along a busy street as investigators look into a crash that sent a bicyclist to the hospital. I am ken wayne. I am heather holmes. The crash shut down an intersection for several hours and tonight people are telling us this is indeed a problem spot for bicyclists. New at 5 00 p. M. Tonight ktvus Cristina Rendon is in berkeley where the crash happened. Reporter i just checked with police and they say the bicyclist is in critical condition. He is in his 60s. This intersection opened three hours ago and people have been very cautious driving through here however they say people say an accident between a bicycle and say a driver is something that was inevitable. Crash that happened in seconds turned this neighborhood into a crime scene for hours. Police say a bicyclist traveling southbound on spruce street collided with a car around 8 15 a. M. This morning.
Difficult and danger for them to week. All week, organizers said the race was on, hoping it would be. Even as the fire raged. More than 3,000 competitors waiting on the breach. With shouts, some cried. I had tears too. Then my husband came. Reporter this athlete trained for three months. I had a banana ready. I even made a Peanut Butter and jelly sandwich. I had towels to dry off after the swim. Reporter had the iron man happened, she would still be running right now. The last leg of a 15 hour race. Participants pay up to 3,000 to enter. Theres only a handful of iron man competitions so competitors plan ahead and travel far. At noon, 1 00 it was really bad. You couldnt see in front of you. It was pretty bad smoke. Reporter trivalley racers took a picture before they left. Not the end they wanted. If this is the race you wanted to qualify for, it takes it really difficult. Theres other races but theres in other parts of the world. Reporter competitors did not let smoke stop them. They t
[please stand by] highway 4 is a mess this morning. Weve had a couple of things go on there. A couple of crashes. The latest one is westbound 4 at bailey, which is closest to concord. Weve had a couple of incidents on highway 4. Were about to talk about one of them. In general, if this is your commute, you need to gisk yourself exra time to drive through highway 4. As we move down, southbound 238 will be closed all the way down to decoto road where we had an accident there. The bay bridge toll plaza is about a 25minute delay. San mateo bridge could be an alternate. Its moderately heavy. I dont know if i want to call that an alternate. Back to the desk. Thank you, sal. The chp is investigating a serious crash involving two cars in pittsburg. It started on highway 4 but ended on a road right next to the freeway. Ktvus Tara Moriarty joins us live from the scene with more. Pretty bizarre crash. Good morning, tara. Reporter well, good morning. The chp is chalking this up to an unsafe lane c
Also this mornings drive at the toll plaza itself looks good. There is a little bit of slowing in some of the cash lanes. But for the most part it is a very nice drive coming into San Francisco. I do want to mention there is road work on the southbound 880 between hegenberger and heading down a little bit toward the san leandro area. There is a little bit of slow traffic and a little road work but its not causing a major delay. Traffic northbound is looking pretty good. 4 31 lets go back to the desk. The chp investigating a deadly crash. It happened just after 11 00 last night on interstate 680. That is where Tara Moriarty from the crash scene and tara, you have more about the investigation. Reporter that is right. We are here on the onramp. If you take a look behind me. Its the onramp where the accident happened. What investigators are trying to figure out right now is what prompted a woman to pull over to the shoulder of that onramp and get out of her car. They dont know if she ran o
You can see obviously there are some drops there on the lens. We turn now to spencer christian, who is tracking the storm with live doppler 7 hd. We have raindrops falling over much of the bay area as you can see on live doppler 7 hd. The heaviest activity is still building offshore but we do have reports of light rain right through the central part of the bay area, right across the north bay there. Looks like a rather impressive area of downpours about to hit novato, between San Francisco and novato. Over the north bay counties, sonoma, napa, marin, rain spreading eastward. San leandro getting light rain. Down on to the peninsula to san mateo and points southward. Again, the heaviest Activity Still offshore. Heres the looping radar. You can see the movement of this mass of moisture. Its likely to complicate the Late Afternoon and evening commute, producing more wet spots and slowing down the movement of traffic. We will start our forecast animation at 5 00 this afternoon, at which poi