Feet today. As they got closer to shore where the boat was located, they were only about 20 feet high. But enough to do damage. They werent paying attention and they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Reporter the rescued men were watching surfers but mavericks is no place for beginners, according to experts. On a stormy day like today respect mother nature. Trust your instincts. Safety first. Reporter at pillar point harbor, tara moriarty, ktvu fox 2 news. Our chief meteorologist bill martin is here and you know just how dangerous mavericks can be. You have been out there in fact watching the competition. I know the guy who rescued the two guys. He is a professional photographer who was on the jet ski that rescued the two guys and i knew the guy on the cliff taking those pictures. Both of them said he lost his jet ski. He wasnt even able to how do jet skis i think they jumped in and pulled these guys in and one of the jet skis got caught in the wash and went into the rocks. Bu
Seeing the traffic. Lets start with the bay bridge toll plaza. I can see the traffic is backed up. Even some of these lanes will be slow approaching the toll plaza. There have been no major issues. The other slow traffic spot is the altamont pass. It continues to be slow. If you look at the rest of the east bay, we do not have a lot of slow traffic yet. Traffic is moving well in the east bay including walnut creek, 680, 24 and highway 4, bay point. Its been a long wait but later today, bart roll out the first of its brandnew train cars. Alex savidge is live in walnut creek with more on todays big debut. Not in time for the morning commute, it doesnt sound like. Reporter unfortunately not but maybe if you ride bart on your trip home this afternoon, maybe you will be riding on one of these new cards. This is a milestone day for bart. Its a long time coming. Were a lot of delays trying to get these new train cars up and running. In a few hours, 10 of these new bart cars will begin carryin
Right near richmond with two left lanes blocked with at least four vehicles, including a semi and a box truck having traffic stacked up now past highway 4. So your drive time did increase to 55 minutes getting through this all the way into the bay bridge backup. Well update this and another accident in san mateo in a couple of minutes. Thank you. Developing news. Lawmakers in washington running out of time to prevent a Government Shutdown. Democrats in the senate say theyre going to filibuster a fourweek governmentwide funding bill that House Republicans passed last night. The democrats want to restore daca. Thats the d. R. E. A. M. Ers act. Republicans are arguing that democrats are holding the government hostage over demands to protect immigrants brought to the country illegally as children. If theres nothing in place by midnight eastern time, the government will start to shut down nonessential operations. The senate will start 8 00 a. M. Our time. Several bay area attractions could
Tam . Not today. East shore freeway is starting to get a little busier. Golden gate fields and university in berkeley and into emeryville and the macarthur maze. Everybody is moving at the limit. What do we have here . Emergency lights. Looks like a large vehicle trying to get through the toll plaza. Be careful. Thats on the right hand lanes. Traffic is flowing by nicely, except for the right hand lanes. Stay clear of that. B. A. R. T. Has 38 trains on time. Cal trains looking good. Ace train number 1 left stockton on time and rolling into vas coe. Developing news this morning, lawmakers in washington are running out of time to prevent a Government Shutdown. Democrats in the senate say they will filibuster a government wide funding bill that House Republicans passed last night. Democrats want to restore daca, the d. R. E. A. M. Ers act. Theyre arguing that republicans are holding the government hostage over demands to protect those brought illegally to the country. If there is no bill
Bill aimed at keeping the government working. The house also voting to stay in session while the senate tries to hash out a deal. Republicans and democrats are already starting to point angers to pin the blame on a shutdown on one another. The president this morning canceled his planned trip to florida. He was planning to celebrate the oneyear anniversary of his inauguration. The white house saying the chances of a shutdown are now somewhere between 50 and 60 . Chuck schumer had a few brief comments as he left the white house this afternoon. We had a long and detailed meeting. We discussed all of the major, outstanding issues. We made some progress but we still have a good number of disagreements. Discussions will continue. Reporter no resolution at this point. Lets take a look at who will and will not be affected by a potential government shutdown. First, 1. 3 activeduty military will be expected to work without pay. The military is currently funded through february 1. Nearly 2 millio