Highway 13. It looks like theyre either in the process still or havent quite gotten to that point. The work is scheduled to end at 5 00 today. About a tenminute delay as you approach the highway 13 split. If youre continuing to the maze, everything looking okay here at the bay bridge toll plaza. Car pool lanes are open. No sign of the metering lights yet. Want to take you to pleasant hill. New this morning, a pickup truck crashed into a restaurant there. The driver may have been under the influence. You can see the truck went right through some glass windows at the sweet tomatoes restaurant on crescent drive. Police officers gave the driver a field sobriety test and arrested him on suspicion of drunk driving. There was no structural damage to the building and sweet tomatoes plans to open on time this morning. Now to the latest on night two of the democratic debates. Two of the candidates with bay area roots are getting attention this morning for their comments. Some of them are aid at
Metering lights on. Thats looking great. No issues the rest of the way into San Francisco. Well see if we can make it the entire morning without turning those on. Still friday light out of the central valley, although were a little slow westbound 580 tracy to dublin, coming in at 38 minutes. Southbound 680 dublin to mission boulevard in the green at 15. Northbound 85, highway 101 to cupertino wide open at 15 minut minutes. Two candidates with bay area roots are getting attention for their comments. Some, as you can imagine aimed at joe biden. Abc 7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield has more. Representative Eric Swalwell started it all. He was the first candidate to take a shot at frontrunner joe biden. Swalwell who represents the east bay in Congress Took issue with his age. Biden is 76 years old. Swalwell used bidens own words against him, quoting when biden appeared before the California Democratic convention when swalwell was only 6 years old. Biden said at the time it was time for leade
How a Bay Area Community is stepping up to combat racist attacks. We begin with campus clashes as they continue here in the bay area and across the country. We start another week, singing camp mintz of tents and protest signs. Now this is a scene at stanford made while up north protesters setting up barricades around cow polly. Humble protesters rally for an end to the war in gaza. They give a glimpse of life behind the barricades. Nicoletaking a live look at sonoma state protestors have pitched dozens of tents here at person lawn, also calling for an end to the violence in gaza. At 1st, some students set up their encampment on friday and then additional demonstrators joined in over the weekend. Take a listen to what 1 of the students said about their experience protesting. Nicolewell down south at u c l a. As you can see, it is not as compra Palestinian Protesters clashed with a pro israel group barriers breach between the 2 groups that dixon plaza a lot of pushing and shoving. Nobody
With juliette goodrich. Good evening. On a friday night a crowd of people at your business is a sign youre doing something right, staying relevant, let alone staying open. Its a constant challenge in these trying times where downtowns are struggling to bounce back from the pandemic. We have the story of two restaurants tonight, one celebrating a major milestone, the other a comeback, and how theyre each a snapshot of the recovery on both sides of the bay. In San Francisco its an uphill battle for a downtown that depends on filling office buildings. The Office Vacancy rate hit a record of nearly 37 the First Quarter this year according to Real Estate Firm cbre. The university of toronto study found San Francisco is just one of 14 downtowns nationwide in a downward trajectory. Data from cell phones found visits to downtown dropped more than 21 between march of last year and this past february. So it is quite an accomplishment that the oldest continuously run restaurant in the state right
This morning its drizzle and light rain. Then it turns over to scattered showers. 56 at 4 00. We know it rained on the golden gate bridge. Not one car coming through. The roads are slick so you may want to slow it down a little bit. If someone you know is coming in on i5, southbound, highway 205, a multicar accident. Traffic is backed up before highway 120 so expect delays there. A little bit closer to home lets check your commute out of tracy, the red sensors are showing about a 35minute drive from tracy up and over the altamont pass. Ace train number one is on time. They are trying to clear that out of lanes. We had a motorcycle down near the carquinez bridge. You are stacked up well into vallejo westbound 80. Well be back in a few with updates on this. New this morning, heavy Police Activity overnight in a san jose neighborhood. This is new video just in to our abc 7 newsroom. We believe all of this began around 6 00 last night on holly drive. S. W. A. T. Officers with San Jose Poli