Today. Congressman Elijah Cummings was a fearless leader, a protector of democracy. Today cal osha investigators will continue looking into the cause of a massive tank fire in crockett. Contra costa county fire investigators will look into whether the buyer was connected to mondays earthquake. An airquality monitoring station has been deployed and is monitoring any Health Hazard that may remain from the fire. Later today Governor Newsom will be in oakland to unveil a new statewide earthquake warning system. This features an app called, my shake. It uses ground sensors to detect seismic activity. This comes on the 30th anniversary of the loma prieta earthquake. N francisco will be testing its wireless Emergency Alert system. That alert will be sent to all enabled devices in the city this afternoon between 5 15 pm and 5 45 pm. That is this afternoon. The test will let the city practice using that system while encouraging earthquake preparedness. People around the state will take part in
65 in the city. 57. The average is 69 and 53. So below and above and the high level clouds have pushed off. Whats left of that front is producing some rain in the Sierra Nevada so someone is getting in on that to the north and in the mountains. The breeze is not a huge factor yet but it will from the west and northwest later. 50s and 60s on the temperatures. I doubt we get much cooler than this. 52 in morgan hill. 50s in the santa cruz mountains. Upper 50s around cupertino and san jose. Look for morning drizzle to taper off and then partly to mostly sunny and breezy. 60s and 70s on your temperatures today. Sal is here. Super commute time now or Something Else . A little bit of everything. Good morning. Westbound 580 we start with the altimont super commute, the tracy super commute and you can see there is a crash on westbound 580 at grant line road. A couple of different items although i figure its the same thing. Traffic is going to be slow but if youre driving into livermore you can
There. One is the regular commute at the bay bridge is getting busy if you are coming up on 6 00. We can go to the bay bridge and you can see that traffic is going to be busy which is very typical. I want to tell you about it anyway. Then we have to go to the far east bay to the byron area because there is a grass fire. Camino pablo. There is one way Traffic Control in the area. If you take bascom road you will see it and its going to add to your delays getting out of the byron area. If you are driving out of the tracy area you will see that traffic here is going to be okay if you are driving through. I want to mention on the Golden Gate Bridge approach, southbound 101, there is a crash just outside the Robin Williams tunnel. Southbound onetoone traffic is slow and if you are coming to the Golden Gate Bridge need to add an extra 10 or 15 minutes at least. Lets go back to the desk. Today marks 30 years since one of the most devastating earthquakes hit the bay area or in this country for
Oakland and out to fairfield. 40s and 50s on the temps with a blustery day on the peninsula and mid50s for everybody. Woodside 51 and 57 over to fremont with mostly sunny skies and breezy to windy at times with a cooler pattern the next couple of days and we will see temperatures holding where they are today into friday and then by the weekend we will see warmer patterns. 60s and low 70s. Sal is here and what do you focus on first . The east bay commute. We went on the air at 4 00 a. M. And it was wet in some areas but now it has dried off in some spots. As steve said, the wet weather has moved out and it may be damp but it did kind of miss the morning commute and that is good for us. If you are driving on the east bay commute, 580 at the tracy triangle is very, very slow because of earlier crashes and we also had slow traffic on vasco road because of an earlier grass fire near Camino Diablo with the fire out now but it did damage with traffic on 280 and san jose slow. Its better than
Bullet. They say if those tanks had more ethanol in them this couldve been much worse. I was step out of the way so you can see we are. We are at the front gates of this facility and there are a lot of people out here assessing the scene. Right now they are in the cleanup process of this situation. Cal oshas is prohibiting use of the facility and nustar said last night all operations and shipments are stopped for now. We dont know when the facility will be up and running. An Assessment Team has been here for hours touring the facility but still no word on the cause. The contra costa Fire Protection district held another News Conference with an update from the scene. As we know, two tanks containing 252,000 gallons of ethanol in total were destroyed in the fire at Nustar Petroleum Storage Facility in crockett. The remainder of the ethanol is being held by berms around the tank sites but we are told the liquid is largely a mixer of water and foam at this point. The teams here plan to rem