Today. Congressman Elijah Cummings was a fearless leader, a protector of democracy. Today cal osha investigators will continue looking into the cause of a massive tank fire in crockett. Contra costa county fire investigators will look into whether the buyer was connected to mondays earthquake. An airquality monitoring station has been deployed and is monitoring any Health Hazard that may remain from the fire. Later today Governor Newsom will be in oakland to unveil a new statewide earthquake warning system. This features an app called, my shake. It uses ground sensors to detect seismic activity. This comes on the 30th anniversary of the loma prieta earthquake. N francisco will be testing its wireless Emergency Alert system. That alert will be sent to all enabled devices in the city this afternoon between 5 15 pm and 5 45 pm. That is this afternoon. The test will let the city practice using that system while encouraging earthquake preparedness. People around the state will take part in
65 in the city. 57. The average is 69 and 53. So below and above and the high level clouds have pushed off. Whats left of that front is producing some rain in the Sierra Nevada so someone is getting in on that to the north and in the mountains. The breeze is not a huge factor yet but it will from the west and northwest later. 50s and 60s on the temperatures. I doubt we get much cooler than this. 52 in morgan hill. 50s in the santa cruz mountains. Upper 50s around cupertino and san jose. Look for morning drizzle to taper off and then partly to mostly sunny and breezy. 60s and 70s on your temperatures today. Sal is here. Super commute time now or Something Else . A little bit of everything. Good morning. Westbound 580 we start with the altimont super commute, the tracy super commute and you can see there is a crash on westbound 580 at grant line road. A couple of different items although i figure its the same thing. Traffic is going to be slow but if youre driving into livermore you can
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Oakland and out to fairfield. 40s and 50s on the temps with a blustery day on the peninsula and mid50s for everybody. Woodside 51 and 57 over to fremont with mostly sunny skies and breezy to windy at times with a cooler pattern the next couple of days and we will see temperatures holding where they are today into friday and then by the weekend we will see warmer patterns. 60s and low 70s. Sal is here and what do you focus on first . The east bay commute. We went on the air at 4 00 a. M. And it was wet in some areas but now it has dried off in some spots. As steve said, the wet weather has moved out and it may be damp but it did kind of miss the morning commute and that is good for us. If you are driving on the east bay commute, 580 at the tracy triangle is very, very slow because of earlier crashes and we also had slow traffic on vasco road because of an earlier grass fire near Camino Diablo with the fire out now but it did damage with traffic on 280 and san jose slow. Its better than
Boom. Now at 11 00, breaking news, our first look at the explosion that led to a full on inferno at a Contra Costa County fuel facility. And another earthquake rattles the bay area. Tonight what the usgs is saying about the possibility of a bigger quake. And face off in ohio. Age and geatthe latest president ial primary debate. We begin with that breaking news out of Contra Costa County. An inferno is finally contained tonight after burning more than 8 hours. And just in, we are getting some incredible new video. We have to show you, this shows the moments it all started. Take a look. Ing you can see the flames shooting up into the air, and massive explosion, that tank sailing up into the sky. This is thousands of pounds of steel. Witnesses shot this video. The question tonight, how could this happen . And did last nights earthquake in Pleasant Hill have anything to do with it . Chopper 5 is live over the fuel facility right now. What a difference a couple of hours makes. Tonight a she