Look at the commute here. Traffic is moving along nicely. If youre driving on the east shore freeway getting out to the mcarthur maze, taking 16 minutes. At 4 01 back to headlines. Happening today, a stride by hospitals in santa rosa sat to begin in two hours with almost 700 essential workers preparing to walk picket lines in the middle of a pandemic. Ktvu has more on the reasons why. This whole thing with the strike during the pandemic is horrible. This housekeeper stood with staff outside santa rosa Memorial Hospital bracing for a week long strike they cant avoid. Its mentally draining to be a housekeeper at the hospital right now. I am so scared for my coworkers waelz. Scared because of risks taken. Cleaning rooms without ppe. Also on strike, nursing assistants and respiratory therapists, dietary aids and medical technician, front line workers amid covid19. In my Department Six people have gone home sick. No, we havent been given what we needed. Again, the hospital doesnt really car
Like a cooler week so. Temperatures especially inland, well below average for this time of year. All right. Over to sal, 6 00. Things usually pick up at the bay bridge toll plaza. Want to speak about that or something else. I will speak about that. We will look at the approach from the east shore and look at the toll plaza itself. And also the east bay commute. So first start with interstate 80 the east shore freeway. You can see traffic is going to be moving along okay and its going to take about 17 minute to drive between the carquinez bridge and mcarthur maze. We dont have a big back upat the toll plaza but it may appear. You can see the traffic is moving well. Its 6 01. Now back to the headlines. All right california right now, has close to 400,000 coronavirus cases. More than 386,000 cases are reported and more than 7700 people died. More than 41,000 virus cases are reported in the bay area. 7100 people have died from the virus. California Hospital Health Officials Say 6900 patien
Across the board. We dont see that too often including the vermont, san jose, santa rosa, you can winter to, sima hayes will not clear. Theres just too much. Still westwind 31, gus to 46, it is going to keep the school this week. Temperatures below average especially inland. It is 7 00, anything new . We have a big backup at the bay bridge which is typical. Im looking at it and if you want to wait around, we have seen this pattern emerge. By the time in 00 rolls around, it will be much better and by the time 9 00 rolls around, it will be gone. So if you want to wait, that is cool. Lets talk about the other commute here and that will be the east bay. In general we dont see a lot of traffic right now. Any of these commutes, they look pretty good to start off with including the san matteo bridge. Lets go back to the headlines. Right now, california is coming very close to hitting 400,000 covid19 cases. More than 386,000 positive coronavirus cases have now been reported. More than a 7700 p
Numbers the death toll is on the rise massive shove support to honor ft. Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen. Will justice be served and well introduce to you the sanitation worker who dared to make his dream come true. A busy monday ahead. Early today starts right now good morning to you im cori coffin im Cynthia Erivo we begin with breaking news news hollywood lost a star. Wife of John Travolta lost her two year private battle with breast cancer. She kept that part private her husband of 28 years broke the news on instagram. He wrote in part it is with a very heavy heart i inform you my beautiful wife kelly has lost had her two year battle with breast cancer. She fought a courageous fight. Kellys love and life will always be remembered travolta said hell be taking some time off to be with the couples children. In september of 2019 travolta and preston celebrated their 20th he wedding anniversary. Kelly chose to keep her fight private and has been undergoing medical treatment for some time.
Heavy rain coming down across the golden gate into San Francisco. Right over the bay bridge, some moderate to heavy rainfall right now looking at walnut creek and danville getting that heavy rain this morning. And even across the peninsula. Redwood city, woodside, you can see the moderate to heavy rain all. Most of us getting the rain this morning with downforce. Isolated thunderstorms are definitely possible as a strong cold front pushes through and we are not done yet. More wet weather this afternoon with scattered light showers as we go through the day and afternoon. Looking at drier weather with partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies with some showers for the north bay. We will talk about timing it all out and our rain for today and possibly tomorrow coming up. We are dealing with the situation on 580 in oakland. It is a fatal crash that has all in shutdown. Eastbound 580 at lakeshore. You can see that chp is Holding Traffic and several vehicles are involved. We are hearing also of v