Reporter well, first of all, the traffic situation all lanes of interstate 80 just re opened within the last hour. So that is the good news for commuters out here in this area. Now, what we had this morning was a Chain Reaction situation. An Early Morning crash involving an ambulance shut down several lanes of traffic here in the eastbound lanes of interstate 80 at the cummings skyway. Then two other crashes happened as the traffic was slowing in this area because of the lane closures. The most serious of those crashes involved this big rig, which slammed into the back of a mazda sedan and the driver that have mazda was left dead at the scene. We understand he was a man. There is no other information on the victim in that case. Its unclear exactly why the driver of that big rig was unable to stop. But at the time the chp says that traffic was slowing in this area because there were still lanes closed from that earlier accident up ahead on the freeway. And the chp says when lanes are cl
Vallejo area. You might consider the benicia bridge instead. A couple of separate incidents, major injuries, and chp is describing the 2nd accident at a deadly one. They are bringing out more investigators. Back to the desk. All right. Thank you, sal. Now went to check in with steve on weather. I heard allie rasmus asking you when its going to rain. May first. It wont be warm. Friday and then maybe around the 29th. And first week of may is looking wet. The leading edge of the first system is coming in. It wont be a big gully washer. And you notice the breeze yesterday begin to pick up out of the west and southwest. And a lot of cloud cover. Temperatures are on the way down. Santa rosa cloudy to mostly cloudy and a lot of the cloud cover will filter in to the north. West, southwest at travis. 56 in monterey. Look for a little cooler pattern today. Not only today but the system will start to sweep in. A general area of rain as we head to tomorrow. 60s on the temps, back to pam and brian.
Sedans. One person was killed and all eastbound lanes of 80 at cummings are shut down for the second time overnight. Well continue to monitor this. My colleague alex savidge is headed to the scene. Back to you guys. One of the things i want to add about the crash is that its in the noncommute direction. Traditional noncommute direction. I know that people do commute that way but most are driving the other way. And from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze its still okay. Of course, well continue to watch that for you. And were looking at the bay bridge. Thats light and theres a line in one of the lanes. And again, the crash that alley mentioned and she mentioned that alex is going there. And well have complete coverage and see how it affects the commute direction. Lets go for the weather. Well head over to steve for the weather. A tough way to start for the commute. At least we dont have rain. Tomorrow we will. For the morning commute . I think so. Today the cloud cover is moving
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Ktvus Debora Villalon is in the city where stragglers are still making their way out tonight. Deborah . Reporter fortunately, that stampede subsided because there were at least 10,000 people here in the park at the time. Some said gunshots started with people running but police found no evidence shots were fired. Everybody just started running. Everybody, just like reporter one minute, all was melo. Than a few hundred people on one end of hippie hill started running to the opposite side, why . No one knew. A fight . A fire . A gun . Rumors rampant. It was like life threatening. We did know what was happening. Everybody just started jetting, gone. Two friends that got trampled. They both fell. Reporter fortunately no injuries among those caught up in the herd. People scared running like that, you know how many people are out there, theres a lot of people running. Reporter but the buzz kill was temporary and the smoke continued to rise. [ yelling ] reporter a celebration of marijuana in