A big rig in all westbound lanes. In is going to be a huge problem for one of the bay areas biggest commute. They have just issued an alert which means it is going to be there for a while. They dont know when it is going to reopen. Westbound 80. You might want to just if this is your commute, just get off the freeway and use side streets and get on the freeway after the san pablo. After that, it looks good. If you are in berkeley, this isnt going to affect you. Traffic is move ago long okay as we look at some of these commutes, the east bay commute is off to a good start with nothing major going on, and if you are driving to the bay bridge toll plaza, it should be nice and light for you. But again, that problem is going to be a big deal for peoplen driving in from richmond because of that crash. We do have a crew on the way. At 4 02, lets go back to the desk. Thanks to Hurricane Dorian as it continues its path toward the carolinas. As a category three storm, dorian is expected to move
Plus, President Trumps decision on the kind of lightbulbs we use. The bizarre crash right into this house. How it happened. And meet the boy who gave up all the money he saved for a trip to disney world to help people evacuating from Hurricane Dorian. Good thursday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Hurricane dorian growing into a category 3 storm taking aim at the coast of the carolinas. Authorities say theyre bracing for up to 700,000 Power Outages with Hurricane Force wind gusts even though the center of dorian is far off the coast right now. Heres the projected forecast. The storm is about to turn northeast and could make landfall in North Carolina tonight as a category 2. All eyes are on the storm surge which could reach eight feet high in some areas battering the coast up to 15 inches of rain could fall. Abcs Megan Tevrizian is in South Carolina where the wins are picking up. Police are asking residents to shelter in place as we can see conditions are beginning to deter
Alyssa hearington out there talking to chp. You are on the scene. What can you tell us . Well, behind me is that big rig that was halling the chickens. Most of those animals did die. There are roughly 50 or so live chickens walking through the lanes of traffic on i westbound 80. They have called animal control and are awaiting for them to take care of these animals. Tell us what happened. We received the call of a vehicle fire. That traumatic are tractor. Swerved to the right, corrected. He hit part of overcrossing to the right and swerved over to the left. He lost his load of unknown amount of live chickens and. They had chickens run ago cross the freeway, and the driver hit another vehicle . The driver did strike another vehicle. There was no injuries involved with that. The driver of the Truck Tractor was transported for minor injuries. What should drivers snow where is this closure . In place. We put an issue very early. We issued an alert. Anybody is trying to get to the maze is g
74 to 86 by 4 00. Then 69 to 7 at 7 00. It strengthened overnight, category 3 major hurricane. 115mileperhour winds. Look at the rain totals possible. Eight to 12 inches of rain along the South Carolina coast to the North Carolina coast. A storm surge up to seven feet on top of that rain. Flooding will be a major issue the next 24 to 48 hours. A Traffic Alert westbound 80 at San Pablo Dam road. We have a full freeway closure because of an overturned big rig carrying live chickens. Traffic is absolutely jammed on westbound 80. You can see its a crawl for miles. It is causing at least 45minute delay through that westbound 80 stretch. You may want to consider the richmond parkway to san pablo avenue. Thats also going to slow you down. You may also want to consider 680 to highway 4 if youre coming out of solano county. You can see that is slow as well. Theres a crash 680 as well, northbound at mckee. Here is a live shot of an alternate route. Southbound 680 through walnut creek. It is slow
Haoeupb behind me is a very disturbing scene and sad, and you had hundreds of chickens being hauled in the back, and many are still alive and are suffering because they have been burned. Nceefighters have been out here about a couple hours ago wrangling chickens and so far they captured about 50 of them. Animal control has taken the chickens to the back of their truck and are trying to figure out what to do with the remaining chickens still alive. This big rig hauling these chickens was coming down westbound i80. A driver hit the san pablo overpass, and a lot of the chickens burned up. The driver of the big rig was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and expected to survive. We have got gases and liquids on the road and caltrans has to come and clean that up, and then a chunk of the overpass was knocked off, and engineers need to make sure that overpass is safe for people to continue to drive underneath it and you have the issue of the chickens, the three issues, and chp right no