Near 50 with sun and clouds from noon to 4 00. Back to the low to mid 50s at 7 00. Watch out for a random shower this afternoon. Hi, jobina. Hi, mike. Happy friday, everyone. The roads are clear all over the bay area for you. You can see a couple cars moving across this morning and a live look at the bay bridge. Can you believe it . 6 01, looking great right now. Happy to see it. Also here, want to show you some drive times. Antioch to hercules, 26 minutes. Highway 4 to the maze, 13minutes. Highway 85 to the san jose airport, 7 minutes. San Francisco Water Department Crews are working to repair one of three water main breaks in the potrero hill neighborhood. Three homes were damaged from flooding when a 12inch main broke at the corner of 22nd and rhode island streets. The water is shut down in this area. There were also breaks found in a sixinch main at can sat akan california streets. Across town, a Water Line Leak also flooded streets in nob hill and jackson and mason streets. Offici
Checking the winds, tomorrow night will be just wild with the winds hitting 45 to 55 miles per hour. Tomorrow night will be more dice y so remember that. Solano counties. Temperatures today are going to pull back a little bit. Mid60s to 70 from Half Moon Bay to San Francisco. All those winds out there, please be careful if youre driving especially if youre in one of those taller vehicles like an suv or minivan. A live shot of the bay bridge. There was someone on the lower deck who got a flat tire and then got out in the lanes of traffic to try to change the tire. That is very dangerous. Hopefully traffic can slow down and get the car off the roadway. Traffic looking good, though, heading into San Francisco. No major problems, and here is a live look in san jose. Headlights move northbound 101 and thats 880 across your screen. Pg e shutting off power to parts of 30 counties up and down california tomorrow and thursday. Forcing you to get prepared right now. Unless the forecast changes,
By japanese military. Melissa kane is at that statue in st. Marys square. Reporter we are here at the comfort Women Memorial in San Francisco. When the statue was unveiled about a month ago this whole area was private land. Because of an unrelated transaction this whole area just became public land. That means that is a public statue and it is an expression of the citizens of San Francisco. That change the facts is what has the mayor of osaka threatening to sever sister city ties with San Francisco. You would say it is just a statue however i think that we can see from all of the stuff going on around statues in the country about the confederacy how important that user. Reporter judith is the president of the comfort women justice coalition. They deny the they flamed women for sex and world war ii claiming that they were not coerced or numbers were very small. This started in 2013. The then mayor of osaka said that it was right to have comfort women. That soldiers needed comfort women.
Off on tax reform until newly elected alabama senator doug jones is seated. Once that happens, the gop majority in the senate be tighter with a 5149 split. It would be wrong for Senate Republicans to jam through this tax bill without giving the newly elected senator from alabama the opportunity to cast his vote. Reporter republicans are scheduling votes for next week trying to meet the president s deadline by christmas. So even without doug jones in washington, dc, how much confidence is there that this bill will pass because there is still a couple of republicans senators who had some issues. Reporter youre right. A senator on the republican side came up with a question, they have met it negotiated, given them something. The wild card might be marco rubio. He wanted that 21 rate. He thought it should bump up to 20 or 21 for Corporate Taxes. But whats he getting in return . He wanted to help people on the lower income scale with that money. Instead its going to folks who make a Million
Reporter it made for a very unnerving morning at the courthouse near lake merritt. I was inside the building for the ghost ship preliminary hearing and heard all the commotion when the bomb squad was called in for the second time today. Streets were blocked off by Oakland Police after a man left a backpack outside the building at 10 30 a. M. The 26yearold man then went inside the courthouse and was confronted by deputies who asked why he left the backpack there. Authorities say he got into a struggle with the deputies and attacked them. He was detained and will be placed on a psychiatric hold. Now, as for his backpack, the Sheriffs Office did not want to take any chances. We were overhead in skyfox as the sheriffs bomb squad suited up to inspect the backpack with an xray. It turned out not to be an explosive device and the all clear was given at about 12 30. The man doesnt appear to be connected to two firebombing incidents at the courthouse. The first happened about 1 a. M. On decembe