15pound rock 20 feet in the air. Reporter but chp says it found no evidence of anyone throwing anything onto the highway. Meantime caltrans said it subjected contracts for emergency projects. The work will be for approximately five miles of 680 southbound and one mile of state route 24. Weve had four, five months of heavy rain, inclement weather that further deteriorates the roadway. Reporter due to the heavy rains, caltrans says maintenance crews have conducted sweeping operations approximately ten times since late december to clean up loose materials. In walnut creek, melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. To developing news now. A threeday ordeal is over tonight for evacuees living near the oroville dam. Butte county officials lifted the Evacuation Order for nearly 200,000 people in the oroville area south of chico. We learned a short time ago that fema approved governor browns request for federal assistance with the flooding threat. Officials say the damaged main spillway has been stable for
Live, where you live, this is abc 7 news. Now at 11 00, debris danger, so much junk from recent storms is still making its way into the bay tonight to create big hazards now the coast guard is getting ready to take action. Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. Abc 7 news has learned coast guard will issue warning to anyone on or near San Francisco bay telling them to be wear of debris theres a lot of it. We are live in berkeley. It is really incredible here. The tide is out here at berkeley marina. Everything left behind from tree limbs, plastic chairs, a lot of garbage garbage. Look at what it looked like a blob of a big mess. Its floating down after big storms and high water. From the Richmond Bridge looks like an endless chain of garbage, choking this boat launch on marel island and this looks more like an island surrounded by plant matter. Whats floating out . Very, very unusual stuff. A lot of hazards in the water. Logs, pieces of wood or something. One of the boats l
Live, where you live, this is abc 7 news. Now at 11 00, debris danger, so much junk from recent storms is still making its way into the bay tonight to create big hazards now the coast guard is getting ready to take action. Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. Abc 7 news has learned coast guard will issue warning to anyone on or near San Francisco bay telling them to be wear of debris theres a lot of it. We are live in berkeley. It is really incredible here. The tide is out here at berkeley marina. Everything left behind from tree limbs, plastic chairs, a lot of garbage garbage. Look at what it looked like a blob of a big mess. Its floating down after big storms and high water. From the Richmond Bridge looks like an endless chain of garbage, choking this boat launch on marel island and this looks more like an island surrounded by plant matter. Whats floating out . Very, very unusual stuff. A lot of hazards in the water. Logs, pieces of wood or something. One of the boats l
Investigation. Eddy street is blocked off here at van ness. Im going to continue to get more details and bring you the latest. Now we turn to the weather. Abc7 news meteorologist drew tuma in for mike nicco this morning. There is rain in the forecast. Luckily not today. One final dry day today. We have a live look at sfo just checked, we have no delays at our area airports. The weather cooperating this morning. Youll notice, though, a fair amount of cloud cover in the sky this afternoon compared to yesterday. But despite that, were going to be mild in the afternoon and mid to upper 60s. Thats weather. Lets get a check of traffic. Somebody got the pg e bill paid and we have the lights back on for the bay bridge this morning. It was totally dark this morning for about an hour and a half. It was actually an electrical issue that caltrans solved there. Quick check of drive times. Westbound 80, ab17 across the bay bridge and southbound 101, San Francisco to sfo you are in the green at 17 mi
Damaged along the same stretch of road. Good evening on that you for joining us. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. No one hurt but dozens of people said theyve had their windshields and sun roofs smashed while driving. The damage is clustered around highway 24 outside of chestnut creek. The chp thought someone was throwing objects down onto the freeway. They revealed the cause is something else. Reporter Melanie Woodrow shows you the answer came when they looked in a different direction. Reporter shattered windshields, broken glass, and a deafening sound. I immediately thought it was a gunshot. Reporter not once, not twice it was such a scary moment, and i can still hear the sound. It was just awful. Reporter but dozens of times since december. Today we had about 55 repo reported to chp. Reporter where interstate 680 meets 24 near an overpass. Luckily no one was seriously injured. Now chp says its not someone who is responsible, its something. All of the evidence weve gathered through o