Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital earlier tonight, good evening, everybody thanks for being here 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis the accident took place at the departments training yard. An investigation into what happened is now underway or kron fours terisa stasio has details. The fire chief was visibly shaken as she talked about losing this firefighter. She also talked about how the Department Needs to be strong right now during this very sad time we lost a young man named jason cortez who has a wife. And 2 little kids as a father. Retired from the San Francisco Fire Department. All of them are grieving. As is. This Fire Department family. A somber San Francisco fire chief Janine Nicholson reflecting on losing one of their own. In a horrible accident. It was around 10 00am wednesday at the Training Facility on 19th and fulsome fire Officials Say the court has got injured he was rushed to the sucker berg San Francisco General Hospital. A short distance away whe
Nestle maybe a little bit better but you need to get out there early because it has not recovered from those crashes so 13 minutes off to one oh one. We havent had any trouble spots so far into San Francisco very quiet on the bay bridge, but its stacked up from the bottom of the maze so be prepared for that the golden gate us trouble free no problems here north or south into or out of San Francisco, really the only big problem that im tracking is in the north bay and its impacting traffic trying to get to the east bay from the north bay to the east bay south 6 ad and industrial we have an overturned big rig thats been there for a couple of hours so your 2 left lanes blocked. Youre back up about 5 miles a lot of folks are trying to access the benicia bridge and theyre stuck in this back up so dont even bother take 80 west and use the kirk in a subset of the benicia i have more slow downs coming up in a bit back to you. Thank you very much robin at 8 oh one lets get to some breaking news
Gray skies, some cloudy skies to start across the bay and its going to stay that way for a bit longer today like yesterday was but you will notice gradually clearing later on as for 08 00am do expect some visibility impacts right in the midst your morning commute in some spots in the north bay and the east bay hills after them waving goodbye to the fog and cloud cover inland. Well its going to be pretty stubborn right along the coastline. Now we have seen moderate to even pour air quality filtering back in across the bay area. Thats why were starting this morning off to we are going to be seeing air quality impacts likely even as we do enjoy this cool down so keep that in mind if you do have respiratory conditions. 50s and 60s for your current temperatures with oakland at 62 alameda and hayward each in the low 60s as well few 50s towards the coast and up in the north bay avoiding the 40 so far although we do have a few low 50s checking in on the map this morning. So cool and cloudy sta
Heading into menlo park. So what want is not your friend this morning youre going to be stuck. We also have an overturned big rig leaving the north bay this is coming out of benicia this is southbound 6. 80 at industrial this big rick flipped over this happened at around 5. 55 this morning sort Traffic Alert remains in place your 2 left lanes are closed. This is right on that Little Bridge between industrial in 7. 80 and youre back up spills. Well beyond like herman so do not take 6. 80. Use 80 instead they will have to get around that back up our Police Activity cleared from the freeway but its still wrapping up in concord the northbound to 42 connector to west for was closed for a police investigation, the freeway is back open. We do have a reporter on the scene who give us an update on that Police Action in just a bit by want to give you the bay bridge quickly a minor wait, youre looking at 14 minutes for 80 west into San Francisco john. Well robin easier going as far as weather goe
Amendment. A warning from white House Speaker nancy pelosi today, the democrats could once again be talking about removing President Trump from office. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman Speaker Pelosi made that comment today during a news briefing make it clear she is planning to talk about the 25th amendment tomorrow that outlines president ial transfer of power procedures. Catherine heenan the host of inside bay area politics is here with this warning from the speaker. Good afternoon catherine yeah, i new on all of this and were one less than a month away from the election. Nancy pelosi have been talking to reporters about covid19 as she was beginning to wrap Weekly News Conference she suddenly said this. What are we talking about here. Tomorrow by the way. Tomorrow. Come here tomorrow, well be talking about the 25th amendment but not to take attention away from the subject we have now. You think its time to invoke the 25th amendment. Ill ta