And crashed into that overpass. You can see that truck burst into flames. Fortunately the driver only suffered minor injuries. Both lanes of the highway were closed. They are now back open. We know the roads can be treacherous during those winter months, and there is big concern about black ice on the highways. Abcs gio benitez has tips on how to avoid having a black ice accident. Reporter its a worstcase scenario. Vehicles losing control. This deputy nearly hit by an outofcontrol car in wisconsin. To find out how debilitating black ice can be the vehicle can spin out. Wow. Reporter we head to the frigid gm proving ground in milford, michigan. Here they use stateoftheart tiles to simulate icy Road Conditions like invisible black essentially a runway to put its vehicles through the worst winter has to offer. Josh is a chevrolet engineer, and he says some of those scary spinouts likely occur in older cars without antilock brakes or electronic stability control. For our first demonstratio
Means either you cant stand your relatives and you couldnt sleep all night, or youre going to work and youre one of the real ones. Hi, mike. That would be us, wouldnt it . Youre going to work under clear conditions. Look at live doppler 7. Bone dry. Look at sutro power, clean air over top of us once again. Dry conditions. It is significantly cooler this morning. Some of us may be scraping ice off our car. At noon, 52 to 54 under a mostly sunny sky. Partly cloudy, 54 to 56 at 4 00. Grab that coat, youll need it this evening as we drop into the mid to upper 40s by 7 00. Still tracking a chance of rain this weekend. Well talk about that coming up. First, heres sue. We have a Traffic Alert for you. The bay bridge, a car fire, at least a car smoking west of treasure island. Im watching the tow trucks push that off to the western side of the span. Look at this. Youre seeing all the brake lights starting from about the s curve towards the tunnel. So a few backups there, a few cars stacked up.
Have a very happy holiday and theyre hoping that their increased presence on the roads will actually push drivers to make the right choices now this is a statewide maximum enforcement period meaning all highways are going to be under this however here in san jose, california Highway Patrol is really focusing on highway 17. We will how we use and heavily traveled its the major thoroughfare connecting san jose and santa cruz highway 17 sees thousands of vehicles driving up and down each day. The unique in windy corridor sees plenty of collisions where well call them accidents become collisions because an accident it something is prevent him over collisions are 100 preventable base off decisions that where somebody makes behind the wheel. And the california Highway Patrol wants those decisions drivers make this Holiday Season to be smart was some. Starting Christmas Eve evening the chp will enter its christmas maximum enforcement period increasing the amount of officers out on the roads d
More than 50,000 worth of necklaces bracelets and rings kron fours dan thorn live in the city for us tonight joins us with more on how these criminals are pulling off this scam. Dan. What can police have identified one man who they believe is a part of a citywide racket of fake gold dealers who are targeting people and stealing their real Jewelry Police say these guys are using tricks to steal their valuables and they want people to be aware. Fake gold jewelry used to swindle people in San Francisco sfpd says this man and others are running a racket when they leave people with phone earrings and necklaces and make off with the real thing suspects coming to the victims and that really starts off in a very friendly manner, its a friendly interaction and before we know if the victims are missing jewelry or other valuable items by the time the interaction is a complete officer, adam lob singer says the crooks are targeting people in the citys richmond and terrible districts that use tricks
Weakened due to the heavy rain that weve had in the last week or so. Reporter the park service is investigating a very rare kind of incident here. A place where nearly 1 Million People come every single year to stand in awe of trees nearly 1000 years old. We consider this a totally isolated event and ayers e with the family. Reporter in marin county, wilson walker, kpix 5 news. A live look across the bay area where its cloudy and chilly. Some areas even seeing a dusting of snow and hail earlier today. The weather was perfect for ice skating on the embarcadero. Meteorologist darren peck says the rain isnt quite over just yet. This was an interesting christmas morning. You may have gotten woken up by thunder in the three at 4 00 hour. Let me show you what came down on the ground in marin, this is video of hail that was taken in san rafael and it wasnt just the hail and thunderstorms. Look at the snow on mt. Hamilton from earlier today, as well. Not a ton but still technically a White Chr