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Chief meteorologist bill martin has the forecast along highway 17 tonight. Azenith . Reporter well you can see the mud slide behind me. Caltrans is using the heavy equipment to stabilize the hillside. Chp is hoping to open one northbound lane tomorrow morning. Commuters heading from santa cruz to san jose. Theyre advised to take alternate routes just in case. Caltrans crews are working to remove rocks and mud covering the northbound lanes of highway 17 near lion hill road. Its the largest hillside this winter. Thats about 100 dump truckloads somebody decided to dump over the hill all at once. Caltrans plans to bring in a specialized excavator tomorrow to safely access the slide and remove debris from the top down. We are dealing with the fact it is still raining, the slide, the terrain, the traffic. Reporter at 10 00 in the morning the mud slide shut down highway 17 in both directions. Half of the Mountain Side came crashing down filling up the northbound lanes and spilling into the so
My wife was driving through yesterday and she said everything looked like a like. There were firefighters helping people get through the roads. The longer we go through this, the more its going to affect you. This not my backyard thing is becoming very small amount. Walnut creek, Pleasant Hill and concord, you can see right up there, heading up towards pittsburg, thats where some of our downpours are right now and you can see that line stretches all the way back to about redwood city and thats one of the last downpours. In fact, look at that. Is that the moon . Yeah. Thats the moon. Heres a look at your 12 hour day planner. Downpours possible from 7 00 and scattered showers from noon until 4 00. Those slick roads causings issues already. Those water logged roads are causing issues, they are in terrible shape and 580 has had all kinds of pothole problems so weve got them again this morning. Westbound 580 just past north flynn road, the two right lanes closed for a major pothole repairs,
60s at noontime. A gorgeous day today. How long will this warmer weather pattern last . Lisa, well see you soon. Today is the 166th annual st. Patricks day parade in San Francisco. The oldest and biggest west of the Mississippi River. You can watch it live right here on abc 7. We have a preview. Hey, great day for a parade. Reporter its very quiet here right now. Thats the nice thing about the st. Patricks day parade, you can sleep in a little bit on a saturday and you can still make it. It doesnt start until 11 30. Heres a look at last years parade. They expect 5,000 participants from all over the country. There will be floats, dancing and marching bands all making their way down Market Street. Organizers say even visitors from ireland are impressed. A couple of years ago they came to visit us, and they were in the parade. The thing that most impressed him about the parade, that everybody was out there at the parade. You didnt have to be irish. There were people of all ethnic groups.
Officers pointing out there needs to be less polarization in the country between the races and the communities and law enforcement. It just goes to show you we still have a long way to go. Reporter in San Francisco, melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. The oakland as have suspended an employee who installed a hidden camera in the weight room. The strength and conditioning coach put in a camera to monitor players as they worked out and rehabbed injuries. He set it up last month ahead of a team road trip and it was discovered by a player a day later. The as have hired an independent law firm to look into the situation. Management was informed by the teams union representative. It is still ongoing to we are looking at it internally right now and i dont feel like im at liberty to say anything until we have the results and then i probably have more to say. And the man has apologized to the team and likely be allowed to continue working on problems. We are hearing from a firefighter who was among th