About three miles off shore from the new zealand northbound. The Royal Caribbean confirm some of the tourist from the cruiseship ovation of the seas went to sydney last week. The new zealand Prime Minister says they are doing Everything Possible to rescue those still on the island. We know there were a number of tourists on or around the island at the time. Both New Zealanders and visitors from overseas. I know therell be a huge amount of concern and anxiety for those with loved ones on or around the island at the time. I can assure them, police are doing everything they can. The ministry of Foreign Affairs is also assisted with any response required for those in the field. The rescue mission is challenging, the island is unstable with risk of more eruptions. There is also dangerous ash and volcanic material on the service. Emergency crews cannot yet search the island for the missing, 23 people have been taken to sure, some suffering from severe burns. This is new zealands most active
Turns in Southern California moving into arizona, a lot of the next system splitting, 30s for a few, 40s for many, many low 50s on the temperatures, even 35 up in kelsey, 39 kenwood, 35 polk valley, lots of 40s to mid40s with the fog zero visibility for some, not for all, for some, about a quarter mile visibility or less except san jose now down five or 10, we will keep an eye on that. 50s on the temperatures with the fog the sunny. The phone in the traffic. The fog may make it tough, tough for me to driving, i was driving slower and 30 drive slower it takes you longer to get to work, lets go to the bay bridge and you can see it will be foggy here, also it will be foggy on the 880 driving south, very foggy oakland and also on the san mateo bridge, the commute has been a little slow getting to the south bay on the 680, we talk about the south bay and the 680 commute when we come back in a few. Lets go back to the desk. Police in new zealand say they do not expect to find anymore survivo
Continue to thick through areas heres a look at the storm that bay area rain, sierra snow and advisories. A bay area wind advisory for the afternoon. A Flash Flood Watch for our north bay communities and a winter storm warning for this year. Details on that come up in just a few moments. Time now is 5 01. Good morning, we have a problem on the bay bridge. We are going to look at it now. Lets go right to the bay bridge and you canee. It is slow across the span. The traffic is slowing down. Kevin, if you can hear me, if you pan to the right, if you go past the buildings here, i think you are going to be able to see the traffic extends into San Francisco. And this is a big problem, because it is going bbig commute coming into San Francisco. This morning, on the bay bridge, it had been so good. But see how the traffic continues going . So we are going to check that out for you and let you know, coming pack 5 02, lets go bac desk. Rosemary told you, by this afternoon, we expect rain in the
Known for his work at the National Park service. He was parked historian at vicksburg and became chief historian of the National Park service until his retirement. He published many books, primarily relating to the western theater of the war. He has a Campaign History of vicksburg, which is viewed as a classic. In 2015, legislation was introduced to award him a congressional gold medal for his contributions. His talk today is recovering the uss cairo from the yazoo. Mr. Bearss. applause thank you so much. Always a pleasure being where we are today at longwood university, to talk about the raising of the cairo. If you want to find out how to raise a vessel, you will not do it the way we do it. When i arrived at vicksburg in 1966, i injured on duty, and after i had been there for about a year, the superintendent called me in and said, ed, i want you to see if you can find the gunboat cairo. It was one of seven ironclads built by the United States. I said yes, i would be interested. And i
Here is a me for the evening drive we expect the rain and wind. The wind is expected to pick up at 40 miles an hour, gusting Even Stronger to about 50. We have a wind advisory in place for the entire bay area to date through early saturday. Rainfall amounts 2 to 2 1 2 inches for the urban areas, more in the hills with a Flash Flood Watch in the north bay. In the sierra we have more snow expected with a winter storm warning coming our way. We have details on the advisories and what we expect out of the system with your weekend coming up and just a bit. It is 4 31 am. How are the highways, sal . Off to good start and from Solano County the traffic looks good from fairfield to vallejo. No traffic get heading to the maccarthur maze and the art carquinez bridge, a little over 15 minuttoll plaza with an update just ahead the people in wine for good reason they are taking extra measures to from to try to cut down on a case of an overflow. The south bay is worried about the most vulnerable mem