South bay due to triple digit heat. Dangerous heat friday into the weekend. And ill have detaiwthe bay bridge commute . Its already getting busy. If you are headed out the door and you plan on taking the bay bridge, check this out. Weve got a bit of a backup kind of earlier than usual this morning. Metering lights are on. An accident near the upper deck near Treasure Island. The lanes have been cleared now but look at that backup all that red on the sensors so its a slow ride working your way out of the east bay heading into the city. A back up all the way into the maze, westbound 580 and the eastshore freeway also slow. You have got brake lights as well as you work your way on the west grant exit over to the bay bridge. And the Altamont Pass, also heating up. More on that coming up in the next report. Len . Right now, crews in the east bay are trying to fix several water main breaks that have triggered flooding in parts of emeryville and berkeley. Hollis street is closed in both direc
Officials here. First of all, it is clear that we did not sustain and suffer the absolute catastrophic damage that we thought was likely based on the forecast we had last night but we have sustained a tremendous amount of damage and we have thousands and thousands of our fellow citizens whose lives are upside down because their businesses and or their homes have been damaged and we have lots of challenges around the state to say the least with a variety of things whether electrical power, Water Service or you name it and we have a lot of work to do but we are in better shape today than might have been the case and so we have a lot to be thankful for as well. As you know by now im sure hurricane laura made landfall as predicted last night or i should say this morning at 1 00 a. M. As a very strong category four hurricane with sustained winds of 150 miles per hour. This was most powerful storm to ever make landfall in louisiana and it is still a powerful storm that is in the state of lou
Mornings. Fog will not be helping at all. It is disappearing rapidly but look at what is coming up from Southern California and Central California. Numerous lightning strikes showing up there. Some of this will work its way up towards santa clara valley, Santa Cruz Mountains over the course of the day. It will get warm to hot fast. There is no fog that will help us out here. 50s to 60s. Santa rosa made it to 49. Now 50. 64 already in livermore. There will be two moments of this moisture coming up. One will be tonight, tomorrow. Another one will be on sunday into monday. There is enough we have to mention for us temperatures slam dunk way above average for many here for the next four to five days. Over to sal now. See if there is anything new. Usual whether i usually by this time he focuses on the bridges. What would you like start with in. The bridges we do have the bridge clearing up from an earlier crash. I can show it to you now. It would be little better. You can still s little cro
Treasure island camera. As we look towards San Francisco and were starting off our day in some spots with mainly clear skies. Although low clouds and fog in oakland at 59. So in the 50s and 60s but check out santa rosa right now. Down to 49 degrees. So as we take you through your afternoon were going to see that sunshine. 72 in San Francisco. 79 in oakland and upper 80s in san jose. And upper 90s for concord. Well talk about that excessive heat watch for our inland locations starting tomorrow. Details on that coming up in a few minutes. Im anne makovec at the live news desk. And we are monitoring the ongoing repairs going on in the east bay right now. After several water main breaks causing localized flooding and we have hundreds of tht warvicei this is in both emeryville and west berkeley. It looks like east bay m. U. D. May have overpressurized the system in an area where the pipes were just too old to handle it. So the cause is still under investigation in emeryville. This is in the
But we need a way to stay cool the next several days. From noon tomorrow through 9 00 p. M. Sunday, an excessive heat watch. And here is a quick look at what to expect today and what you will notice the lack of clouds first of all from t at these temperatures, already 80 to 90 away from the coast at noon and mid to upper 80s to near 100 at 4 00 and still 70s and mainly 80s at 7 00. And temperatures wont cool off overnight. Ill explain why coming up. And developing news in berkeley, roads are still closed because of several water main breaks. Possible overpressurizing may have called 11 lines to street. Streets are still closed because of the damage. East bay has crews at several locations and has been making road repairs all night. So here is just a few of the trouble spots. There is closure at edward street and dwight way because of road damage. And in emeryville, several blocks of hollis street are shut down. And today a Court Hearing could lead to uber and lyft temporarily shutting