Lanes of traffic as well. With me, i have johnson with the hercules fire district. What are you all doing to deal with all of these chickens. You said there were probably a thousand on this truck. Hundreds of them survived and were just roaming around. We had and had 100 chickens or so roaming around. Some deceased and some alive. We worked probably for an hour with chp and the fire crews surrounding the chickens and getting to the animal control vehicle. What did that entail . A lot of work. Just trying to get the freeway cleared up and trying to help out animal control. They had one officer here and said it was an oncall officer. Shes limited to what she can do. What do you know about the crash . What caused this to happen . From what chp was saying, the driver was going westbound here on 80. Locking to make a listen change and hit an embankment on the overpast. What should people know in terms of traffic . This scene is probably going to be here until probably at least 10 00 or 11 0
Ghost card officials have recovered 33 people, one person is still missing. The ntsb says divers are also using sonar equipment to document the area. That boat is sitting upside down in about 65 feet of water. Investigateers also say the conception did not have sprinklers, but it wasnt required to have them. Coast guard officialsayeyve ro. Weve learned at least 15 of the victims are from Northern California including a berkeley couple. Jobina fortson is live with the update. Reporter good morning, reggie and couple mass say. Daniel garcia and his partner you lay yeah were aboard the board on labor day weekend. Friends confirmed to us that they did not survive. Friends say garcia was the Software Engineer and developer behind fast l. E. D. The couple was loved so much by their neighbors, many were too distraught to appear on camera to talk to us. This tragedy is unspeakable, just horrible. I feel like ive lost a part of my family. Friends of the couple posted on social media that garcia
But again, member, now that the morning commute is getting a bit busier, we will see more people on the surface streets also. So bart might be a good choice to try to avoid that mess. The drive from the 27 its the go from highway 4 to the macarthur maze. We see delays at the bay bridge because of this also. So a lot of busy conditions on eastshore freeway. Lets go to jackie and check in with the latest on the trouble spot. This is the eastshore freeway as you work your way near San Pablo Dam road where the accident is. The chp officer i spoke to minutes ago said in his 16 years, hes never seen anything quite like this. This is what it looks like after a big rig crashes and catches fire. And the big rig was caring about 1000 chickens. A lot of them perished in the accident, but a lot of them are still alive. Right now, the main focus is chp and animal control working together to try to save the chickens that are alive. Thats what you are looking at. This happened about 3 30 this morning
What happened was this tractor trailer around 3. 35 collided with this overpass and the the cement wall and then collided with a white sedan its unclear if that tractor trailer collided with a white sedan before the crash. After the crash but chp is certain that this tractor trailer ran into the overpass cement wall and then caught fire, there is smoke and soot and flames that could be seen and again there are chickens aboard this tractor trailer. They believe estimate of 1000 chickens more on this tractor trailer now the driver of the bigger a half has been transported to the hospital with minor injuries. They say hes going to be ok. He got out out of the the big truck. You got out of there before really caught fire and hes ok but you didnt need a little bit of medical assistance and now chp in Contra Costa County. There are still here on scene and theyre making sure you know that the fire is completely i just saw them put some water on some of the tires tires the tires in the back. C
Looking live from the exclusive Salesforce Tower camera, we are looking at court tower right now on this thursday morning. It is thursday already. The week has been going by like that. September 5. It is 4 31. Lets check the forecast. We are talk about a little bit of a cool down. I dont have all of t a little bit. First we have to get to the alert. We start off with breaking traffic news if you are traveling on the eastshore freeway or you plan to. A heads up with the Traffic Alert along 80 at San Pablo Dam road. An overturned big rig. All lanes are completely blocked. It caught fire and there is a lot of activity. They are diverting traffic off the freeway. If you are heading out the door and hitting the roadways early, use the surface streets in the meantime, i will get you alternates. Again, the big rig overturned and happened just about an hour ago. It was carrying a lot of chickens. There is a lot going on in the area with all lanes completely shut down. We will keep you updated