The exclusive accuWeather Forecast. Here we go. Were looking at whats going to be a cloudy, cool start to your day. Were going to be on a day that looks like it could rain at any moment, but cloudy and cool. You will need that rain gear. I shall explain. 48 bridgefort, 50 around the park. Numbers close to normal. We have a couple little showers up above i287. Much of our day, however, is just going to be cloudy and cool with a temperature nearly 10 degrees cooler than normal. We do have rain tonight and the weekend to talk about. Weather then heather every seven minutes. What do you have starting off on this friday morning . Reporter a closure, 202, 206 going onto the northbound side from route 87 up to route 202, all lanes closed down because of an accident. 2 trains, 3 trains, no Service Street and no service between 148th street and new lots and that is because of track work. Long island railroad, new Jersey Transit, metro north, they are all running on or close to schedule. Constru
People are being injured, killed, and discriminated against on the streets every day. Reporter typically, a general strike is reserved for labor unions or it implies it has the support of the union. According to a facebook event, this picket is expected to start at 8 00 this morning and last until 8 00 tonight. Jackie ward, kpix 5. And jackie, the 1021 union is supporting this strike . Reporter we tried to get in touch with them and they said they were not sure but are planning on meeting this morning to figure out if they will support the strikers. Back to you. Jackie, thank you. Today marks day 8 of a Hunger Strike involving four San Francisco University Students hoping to call attention to an alleged attack by an administrator in the ethnic studies department. Two were cut from the recent budget, and the students have drunk only liquids and in the with doctors over the weekend. A man accused of murdering a defense attorney is due in court in a few hours. Angelo zamora was arrested n
Time we get to saturday night and things will start to improve. There will be more of a rain pattern today more than thunderstorms. 60s for most as rain begins to move in. So far so good. We are looking pretty good if you are driving around the bay area. Lets look at the east shore freeway, interstate 80. Not a bad commute so far. This is a good time for you to take advantage of a decent commute. At the toll plaza if you are going that far, a lot of people are driving to San Francisco and there are no major problems here. Traffic continues to look good. In san jose we are off to a good start. Northbound 101 and 280 and we look at the peninsula nearby. Traffic is moving along well on 101 and 280. Lets go back to the desk. A pedestrian in oakland was hit and killed by a car hours ago. The man called the chp before 1 30 am and said hed hit someone who was walking on eastbound interstate 580 near the keller avenue offramp police went to the scene. They found the victim on the ground. We do
3 a man accused of jay walking on a downtown street returns to court today to face a new judge in his controversial case. Charles harrell shot video of the arrest with his phone on february 6th and posted it on facebook. From there the case has gotten more and more bizarre. Local 12s Perry Schaible joins us live with more on whats expected 3 this is the second time the case against Charles Harrell will be heard by a Hamilton County judge. The first time ended with a mistrial after judge Heather Russell recused herself. Today, all the charges will be heard by judge richard bernat, who is known for being tough. Harrell is charged with obstruction of justice, resisting arrest, contempt of court and misdemeanor drug possession. All of those charges stem from the february incident, where harrell was allegedly jay walking while his cell phone was rolling. In court friday, harrell or someone with him, violated courthouse rules by taking a picture of officers and posting it on facebook. There
Up on the fives at 7 05. Happy wednesday im allison seymour. Im steve chenevey. Welcome to fox 5 news morning. Right now this is the scene up and down the east coast and it has been the last couple hours and tens of thousands of verizon workers picketing outside various verizon offices. Including several locations in the d. C. Reeping joan and will all them pact the verizon customer. Well, fox5 bob bone is in the picket line for more. Bob, good morning. Hey, allison, steve, good morning to you. Were outside verizon work office here. This is south floyd street in alexandria and you can see theres a dozen people here this morning walking in the picket line in front of this Company Offices here in alexandria. We also have a live picture mary field gallows road and another picket line as well. Theyre estimating as many as 40,000 Union Workers for verizon on strike this morning and contract talks since august have been going nowhere theres a chance of contract for these folks. And joining u