24 hours. By 7 00 well call it turning breezy but its saturday. The winds are going to gust. An hour by hour look at the winds coming up, but, first, a check of the roads with sue. Good morning. A little bit of mist. Its not affecting anything. Look at the taillights headed southbound past the north gate mall. Green is good. Were seeing green everywhere except for a little blip out of the Central Valley which is typical for our Early Morning commuters. Headsup if your drive takes you up the peninsula to the civic center this morning. A funeral procession for mayor ed lee between 6 00 a. M. And 7 00 a. M. With rolling delays, rolling road closures throughout that time. Well have more on that on abc 7 news. And speaking of the mayor, happening today honoring San Francisco mayor ed lee. People will be able to pay their respects at city hall where the mayors body will lie in state and the line of people is expected to be very long outside of city hall that leads to the rotunda. Doors will
Clearly. Its not just San Francisco that will miss ed lee. So many people across this country, throughout the bay area, were touched by his leadership, his kindness, and his amazing example. Ed lees family has set up a benefit in his name. Reverend norman fong was at city hall. He was pulled over for running a stop sign. A big loss for San Francisco. I hope the city can care about the homeless. Care about people who dont have a voice. There was enormous interest in being there. We have much more coverage online including every single speech from yesterdays service at abc7news. Com or the abc 7 news app. We are tracking the crippling impact that power outage at Hartsfieldjackson International Airport is having on the rest of the country including here in the bay area. For nearly 11 hours the power was out and that did include about a half dozen here at sfo. We checked flight aware. Com. I want to show you why this is having such a big impact. Here is what it looked like when the lights
Reporter charging drivers to use an express lane help traffic through this area which can be pretty bad. They havent gotten far enough to talk about how much it would cost you but people can use the express lane in the hopes of keeping people moving at 45 miles an hour. The possibility of carpool lanes. There are none on 101 or 280 north of redwood city. That has evolved into talk of express lanes. Now there are questions where would the money go. Would this cause congestion and push traffic on to neighborhood streets. In some sections of the freeway they would repurpose existing lanes. And another section they would use the shoulder to add a lane. So the idea may go before San Francisco supervisors in february. Would you use it . Would you pay to go a little faster. Amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. Happening today chp will hold a bell toll tribute ceremony for the officer who died in a crash in hayward on Christmas Eve leaving behind a wife and three children. The ceremony to honor Andrew
Quarter mile visibility. Some will extend down to the Richmond San Rafael bridge. This morning thinking less of that but still its with us through about 10 00. And then by the afternoon, early afternoon, upper 50s. Plenty of sunshine. Low to mid60s. So its a short day, of course, with some of the shortest days of the year. Make sure you get out and enjoy all that warm december sun. Sue . We are taking a look now and will check back in. Still Holiday Light, no metering lights. If your travels take you along the 80 freeway from hercules into San Francisco including getting through the toll plaza its stis. Its a pretty good drive all the way around. Youre seeing green on our road sensors. The key all weeklong. We do have some slow traffic as youre heading into danville. We had an accident blocking the left lane of traffic and chp is en route to get that car out of lanes. For now between alamo and danville southbound. Sue, thank you. New this morning a driver has been arrested after a cras
Francisco. That includes your wait at the toll plaza. Its a moderate drive. If you are paying cash you dont have any wait at all ironically, the fast trackers not so much. We continue to track breaking news out of the south bay, a fire at a cardboard factory in santa clara, this broke out on matthews street near della cruz boulevard. Take a look at the flames firefighters encountered when they first got to the scene around 1 00 a. M. The Santa Clara Fire Department tweeted out this video. Everyone got out okay. Firefighters say they will be tearing apart piles of cardboard to make sure nothing is smoldering inside and this is now a live look at the scene as you can see they are still actively working on this. Abc 7 News Reporter matt keller will have a live update for us at 6 30. A new year, same bad air. We are on a streak of spare the air days here in the bay area. Today marks the 18th just this season. Abc 7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield live for us on Treasure Island. Good morning,