Now at 5, a traffic across San Francisco is streets are shut down for the president ial down as President Biden to complete his campaign stops. We got a map here. So it gives you a better idea where the hot spots are that in red . Definitely shut we understand that the motorcade is making its way through seacliff. And will eventually be on franklin at post in couple minutes and that is where we find our kron fours gayle ong. She joins us now live waiting for the president and his motorcade to what are you seeing right gayle . Yeah, vicki, like im in the thick of the traffic. This is franklin and coast here. And as you can see, traffic is being diverted as part of franklin st eet is shut down one of several road closures for the press visit here in San Francisco. President biden spent part of his day meeting with advisers from across the bay area on Science Technology and the future ai. But hes also here to fundraise. Before this, he made a stop in the sea. Cliff neighborhood of San Fra
The coast and bay and inland by noontime, plenty of sunshine and seeing a 66 by the coast. Little warmer there. And then we bump up to the 70s in the bay and inland and by late afternoon, 04 00pm, im seeing sunny and warm skies. 66 by the co 70s by the bay and 80 in ill have your extended forecast in a bit. But first, lets take a look at the roads and drainage. All right, thank you for that update. There. For everybody traveling this morning at the roads are off to a good start. The meteor lights are on at the bay bridge, but about 60 minutes, hopefully drive time. Stay pretty low. San mateo bridge, 12 minutes to 80 to 101 traveling across towards peninsula. Richmond center fell bridge about 7 minutes and the golden gate bridge. 37 to the tolls. 18 minutes on this thursday. Darya james, back to thank you. Rain. Our top story this morning. Bay area, gas prices. They skyrocketed just overnight. Yeah. Incredible to believe the biggest increase happening in the north bay where sandra fell
Lot of walking, and people make a lot of illegal left turns where we are. There are signs all over the place. No left turns. I dont know if people would honor it. I would be against it. I know its maybe a safety issue, but i think it creates a traffic problem. Cars get all backed up. Reporter prestons effort lines up with a local campaign urging citywide no turn on red policy. More than 50 intersections in the tenderloin already have the restrictions. These have been very successful with pilot and in the tenderloin in my district and it has been really successful in preventing drivers from having conflicts and collisions with pedestrians and cyclists. Reporter preston says there was an 80 reduction in close calls after the new rule wasput in place. He says its critical to prioritize Pedestrian Safety particularly for seniors, people with disabilities and children who navigate the citys notoriously busy streets. We have a vision zero plan. We are supposed to end traffic fatalities by 20
Welcome back to nbc bay area at 4 30. What the president was up to today . San francisco and when he plans to take off. We are tracking other stories on this wednesday. Including a parttime nanny accused of distributing child porn. Investigators in Contra Costa County are looking for other possible victims. Also, why were some charges dropped . A family of a home depot Security Guard killed by a shoplifter in pleasanton is going after the d. A. And watch out for explosions. The milestone reached in the work to rebuild in the south bay. An update on the retrofit project. Lets begin with the president s in the bay area today, here for a fundraiser before he takes off. The day began with the president s only official public event on science and technology at the fairmont in San Francisco. The main subject . Artificial intelligence. The president talked about the importance of developing the technology and creating guardrails for the uses. He addressed the looming budget impasse with the R
At cretors, we handcraft every batch of our delicious popcorn. Like our cretors cheese and caramel mix. Great on their own, even better together. Try cretors, handcrafted smallbatch popcorn. Fleet week is up in the air this year. Literally thanks to the looming threat of a Government Shutdown. A Government Shutdown which could also make fleet week not happen and that would keep the blue angels grounded. Of course, theresa joins us now live from San Francisco with the latest here. Good evening, theresa. Well, im here next to bar kundera one of places that a lot of people like to go and watch the fleet week as well as the blue angels. Now. Right now, its as you were mentioning, really questionable and theres some precedent about thats that was 10 years ago when it didnt happen because we were in a similar situation now. Right now, everyone is trying to be optimistic, optimistic for example, so far we have received this statement from the sf fleet week association. Quote, San Francisco fl