Center median and the trailer made contact with the overpass. The driver was not wearing a seat belt. That collision caused the driver of the big rig to be ejected. Watched the door fly open, body sucked out of the truck, flew about 30 feet and landed. Reporter the chp hopes this accident serves as another reminder of wearing a seat belt. People dont listen to us nothing we can do about it. Seat belts save lives. Reporter it took about three hours to clear the accident and open the westbound lanes. The drivers name has not been released. The truck belonged to a San Francisco trucking company. Damage to the overpass was minor, so cal transallowed traffic to continue on university and underneath. In berkeley, eric thomas, abc 7 news. This is a time lapse view of the traffic along interstate 80 as a result of the crash this morning. A thick layer of fog rolled in across the camera before 10 00 a. M. And it lingered for a while. And take a look at this picture from San Francisco, showing t
Im cheryl jennings. An unusual sight along interstate as you saw with heavy traffic on the holiday. Lasted for hours because several lanes shut down from a big rig crash. The truck hit a Center Divide and overpass here berkeley. The driver was thrown from the truck and died. Abc 7 news anchor eric thomas has the full story. Reporter with the trailer jammed under the University Avenue overpass and the tractor stopped some 50 yards away traffic on westbound 80 was backed up all the way from berkeley to martinez on this black friday. Its crazy. I was just telling my grandmother i feel like im on my way to work on a weekday. Trying to get shopping in for black friday and not getting there any quick. Reporter the Highway Patrol says the accident happened before 9 00 this morning. A witness who lives in a tent city near the freeway saw and heard it. First thing we saw was a tire pop. Tire blew, sounded like a gunshot. The next thing we heard and saw was metal folding after he hit the pylon u
Lets check weather and traffic. Its refreshingly nippy this morning. Thats a nice way to put it. Next week. It could be brutally cold. Today wont be bad. Later. Fog popping up. Patchy fog. Not widespread. Patchy fog. Sonoma, we have some. And out towards brentwood and morgan hill. Maybe where you are as well. Once that lifts, hazy sunshine. That fog can be i think a bigger factor over the next few days. 30s, 40s and 50s. If youre stuck in the fog the visibility can be awful. Mild to warm conditions. Jetstream staying to the north for now. Everything up in the Pacific Northwest. We will have a huge change in the weather about five days away. Say hello to rick. Tropical storm rick. Only 40 Miles Per Hour winds. Yet only one of four tropical systems to form in the eastern pacific after november 18th. Some warm water down there. Cool morning. Lots of sun. Cold morning. Once the fog lifts, 60s and 70s. When you said hello to rick, i thought you were going to say say hello to my little frien
60s and 70s, 74 for santa rosa. All right, sal. 4 30. Busy week, my friend. Absolutely had a busy week. Today, nice and light. So thats good. We dont have a lot going on. And the traffic is going to be okay if you are driving around the bay area. This is a look at the east shore freeway. We have a nicelooking commute here. No major problems. The drive times are light and traffic continues to look good. If youre waking up this early, maybe for the first time, and you dont even know whats going to come up, some of us looks like the toll plaza here, its nice. You can go back to bed if you want. [laughter] im just kidding. If only you could. Right . This is a look at the san mateo bridge on westbound 92 as you head out to the highrise. Off to a decent start. Right now, all the freeways in the south bay are off to a good start. Lets go back to the desk. Now we want to turn to the latest developments in the paris terror attacks. The investigation ongoing. The French Military has destroyed 35
Inside a paris cafe at the time of the attack. Take a look at the top left of your screen. Thats where we have circled in red an image of one of the gunmen, black and white footage that captures the chaos during the shooting. And this sounds like something that might happen in my family. It was his mothers tears that convinced a California Lutheran University student who is studying abroad in paris to come home. He flew back yesterday after cutting short his time in paris as an Exchange Student by a month. He wanted to stay the entire time but when his family learned he was at the soccer match when the terror attacks occurred, they pleaded with him to come home. We didnt know something very big was occurring until i believe the third explosion ended upcoming off, and that was when everyone just started to disperse and running for their lives. So scary. You see the relief in mom clinging to her son. He plans to finish his Foreign Exchange program. He stopped at in n out burger before go