We started the center to give you the quick general background. It is the center that gathers together a bunch of different faculties from across the campus and also different departments that work on religion and collect in one place. And produce a set of programs that are public that people can come to on all sorts of different topics and religions spanning from the very beginning of recorded history until the present time. Berkeley is a place that has always had a tremendous range of different kinds of scholars. And has never had a collection point for bringing energies together. The berkeley study of religion is that. We started it in 2012. That is the fourth or fifth year of real programming. It has been growing strong ever since. It is the first time there has been a real dedicated project on a religion all religion institution. We are proud of the kinds of things were putting together. That is what is exciting here. You are a professor of history. And focused on the protestant r
The mountains is going to remain warm overnight in the 70s and 80s, thats why those areas are most susceptible to heat illness there. People that live or work let me look at whats going on along with the east bay hills camera. Clearing out. Fog made a late push this morning, its gone. 62 at the coast, 67 by 3 00. Bay, 77, 86. Warm lunch at 87, hot this afternoon at 100. Air will be cleaner and fall back into the 60s, 70s, 80s by 8 00. We have another chance of triple digits tomorrow and the threat of thunderstorms in my accuweather forecast. Heres kristen with more news. This august heat is sending many people indoors to seek relief, and postponing the start of heatinduced projects. People and pets are trying to balance exercise with caution, matt. Reporter kristen, if youre headed to a park, make sure you find a spot with some shade. I have a park bench here. Theres some shade over there by the playground as well. Now the goal today though for everyone, should be to find a way to stay
72 in santa rosa. Upper 60s in san jose. We have rain in the forecast. Well talk about that in a matter of minutes. We are going to talk about the richmond commute, everybody. Keep in mind, the carlson boulevard to westbound 80 is shut down because of a big rig accident overnight. The onramp to the freeway shut down. The freeway is open. There are closures in the city. Highlights of hot spots coming up for the weekend. 4 31. New this morning, Alameda County sheriffs deputies opened fire as they chased down two people in a car that was allegedly stolen. Kpix 5s anne makovec is at the scene in hayward where the two suspects were arrested. Good morning, anne. Reporter good morning. You can see the block here behind me is shut down. This is ricardo as the Investigation Continues this morning in hayward. From what we understand, officers shot at a driver they believe was trying to run them down. Officers were chasing a vehicle first that they thought might be stolen. And the vehicle ended u
Days. Right now we are looking towards levis stadium where we have mostly cloudy skies and our air temperatures very mild still. I say mild, thats mild for this time of the year. No freezing temperatures. Here come the clouds. Partly to mostly cloudy skies today. Once the morning fog dissipates high temperatures still above average. 60 to 70 degrees. We have the bulk of the day on thursday dry with it just hanging as far as the rain is concerned to the north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Everybody gets wet and windy on friday. Scattered showers saturday. Heavier rainfall expected on sunday, tapering off on monday. Elizabeth . And no major accidents so far on bay area freeways. We do have the congestion spilling into the Livermore Valley beginning in tracy around Mountain House and now its inching closer to vasco road so the drive time will creep up. Also cruising into our camera is fog, that dense fog moving into parts of dublinpleasanton and there are dense fog advisories for santa rosa.
37 bart trains are on time. We have ace train on time. No delays with mass transit. Walnut creek is on time, too. We do have areas of heavy congestion. Partly due to an early accident cleared westbound 580 at north flynn road with 30 Miles Per Hour backup and you can see the delays headed through tracy and from tracy through castro valley, 42 minutes so beyond north flynn road you are on the way to make up for the lost time 101 northbound, from san jose airport, that is 11 minutes. From daly city into San Francisco, that is nine minutes. Developing news this morning, the death of actor and comedian Robin Williams. The world is still in shock by the sudden death of the oscar winner who at the age of 63 was found dead in an apparent suicide in his marin county home. Amy hollyfield is at his home in tiburon where there is a memorial. Amy . The sheriff will update us on the investigation into the delegate later this morning. He was found here inside his tiburon home at noon yesterday. This