Few thunderstorms in the afternoon. The best chance for thunderstorms will be over the east bay valleys. Showers will eventually come to an end before midnight monday night. Rainfall totals from this event are expected to add up to about a halfinch with higher amounts across the hills, especially the Santa Cruz Mountains where there may be more than an inch. In addition to the rain, expect much cooler weather with gusty winds monday afternoon on the order of 2535 mph at times. Highs will only be in the 60s. Vicki for complete weather forecasts and all your bay area news. Be sure to download the kron 4 mobile app. Its free to download for apple and android devices. Vicki happening now. All southbound lanes of interstate highway 880 in milpitas are closed due to a deadly accident. It happened near the highway 237 connector around 6 tonight. The chp has issued a sigalert due to the incident. It is unknown when the lanes will reopen. Vicki new at eight. Police arrested three people near uc
Deflating the balloon. The army says the easiest way to get the remaining helium out of a blimp is to shoot it full of holes with a shotgun. When we first got on the scene, first order of business was making sure the site was secured, so we tied it down. Reporter the white balloon that ripped in two as it crashed contains technology that targets cruise missiles. Primarily the radar, thats the most important part, a couple radios, as well, then the rest of it was just Power Generation and power transformers. Reporter the army air and Missile Defense command says it was all still there after it broke loose from a mooring in maryland. Weather system going over us at the time. Yes, thats what pushed it up to pennsylvania. Reporter they dont know why it came loose, trailing a massive cable that shorted or knocked out power lines along the way, but the army says it will take weeks to remove. Why does it take so long . The thing is, its big. Its big and were in really rough terrain down there