Some spots are okay other spots are tough this morning. It all depends on where you are heading, but lets start off with some good news. And that is we are trouble free here on the bay bridge into San Francisco, the traffic that were looking at is completely normal slow and go from west grand 13 minutes to make it and thats a decent average the opposite end for San Francisco, northbound one oh one in vermont. We have a stalled truck thats blocking one of those northbound lanes and thats why its so heavy from 2. 80 so north one is crawling from 2. 80 to vermont. The scene of the stall and then after that youre right back at the limit. If you dont want to deal with that slow traffic on north one oh one stick with north to 80 instead, especially if youre only heading to downtown San Francisco. Thats a great alternate can get around that back up one of our major problems is an overturned big rig its been blocking for hours in benicia and im showing you this because its impacting traffic th
Help, food aid. Yes, they are still talking. Investors like the idea of many more trillions poured into the economy, but it aint a done deal yet. The political world really cant stop talking about the debate. The president says he won. He, quote, held joe accountable, thats what the president says. Biden says the debate was a national disgrace. The Electoral Commission seems to agree. I they run the debates, and theyre looking at new rules. They agree, they seem to believe and blame the president for the interruptions and insults. Theyre even considering a kill button for the moderator to cut the mic of any offending candidates. The numbers are in. Far fewer people watched than i expected, just 73 million tuned in. Down from 84 million who watched the first debate in 2016. And if you look inside the numbers, the audience dropped away as the chaotic debate kept going. They tuned out. Stay with us for the next three hours, i promise it will be worth it. Varney company is about to begin.
Backing up beyond that 880 overpass and ki theres still a lot of brake lights southbound 880 working freeway due to road work around the oakland area. Use 580 as an alternate route. And that drive along 580 at least the portion through the Altamont Pass, still pretty as well. Westbound 580 a slow ride working your way outhe Altamont Pass, a new crash reported near dougherty. Thats coming up in the next report. Anne . Im anne makovec at the live news desk. And we are keeping our eye on a couple of large fires burning right now causing evacuations near lake oroville. This is new video from overnight from plumas county. Just tearing up the hillsides there. This flared up yesterday and these new evacuations ca last night an is called the bear fire and its part of the north complex fire and it is now moving in a in plumas and yuba and butte about 1 00 morning from the and fa heard from one. And we are going to have that coming up at 6 30. We know some homes wn. Also want to let you know abo
Dr. Anthony fauci the top disease expert and three other members of the task force testified before a House Committee on capitol hill. They were grilled on the claim made by trump in tulsa over the weekend and again Tuesday Morning that he asked for the testing to be slowed down because more infections were revealed that made the country look bad. Would you just kidding . I do not kid. Let me make it clear. To my knowledge, none of us have ever been told to slow down on testing. Reporter the other factors the search of coronavirus cases including here in california which had a single day record of more than 5000 new infections on monday. Hospitalizations have crept up to 5000. An increase in Community Spread is something i am quite concerned about. Reporter the bright spot is the fast results of operation warp speed. The head of the National Institute says he is cautiously optimistic that one will be available by late this year or early next year. Several are moving along at various pi
Avoided. We are told the tow truck driver spent several years helping others. Welcome to the 10 00 news tonight. I am Heather Holmes. The chp said the accident could have easily been avoided. It happened on the side of interstate 280 between farmville boulevard and edgewood road in the hills above redwood city. We have live coverage tonight. The law is designed to avoid this exact kind of accident. Reporter it really is, frank. Now we see this loss of life tonight. I checked in with the coroner, they released his name, hes identified as mark alarcon, he was 61years old. People with chp said he was well known, helping people on the peninsula. Remake the tow truck driver stopped on southbound 280 near farmville road to help a motorist on the side of the highway. The driver and the atlas towing truck was part of the state fsp, freeway services patrol, helping stranded motorists. Just after 3 30 on tuesday afternoon, he was hit by a lumber truck passing by. It was traveling southbound on 2