In just a moment. But first take a look at these pictures. Viewers have been sending us clips of lightning strikes from around the area. The lightning lit up the sky over the Santa Cruz Mountains this afternoon in the midst of a thunderstorm. Striking the top of a chimney. These are pictures from central county fire which serves millbrae hillsborough. It looks like a fence was also damaged. Lightning made a large cypress tree look like candling near half moon bay. This was taken by peter finch on pearl avenue and posted on facebook. No one was hurt. Lightning stretched across the skyline along with rain. The weather has caused a delay for the giants game. Only one player made its too bad before the tarps were brought out. So far the game has not been called. We saw scattered showers and other parts of the bay area. This downpour around dinnertime in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Delays at sfo to the weather. A live picture of the airport. There have been ground stops during the evening and
Power to thousands of customers. 20 minutes ago there were 17,000 outages system ride from eureka to kern county. Bay area numbers have gone to more than 9000. The biggest outages in fremont with more than 3500. The peninsula more than 2400. San francisco more than 2300. There have been 1000 lightning strikes in the bay area. Maybes less than that. 800 to 1000 strikes. Most of them were just offshore. Looking at the live camera. We change the perspective. Heres golden gate bridge. The thunder lightning showers are in the north bay to point reyes. We see some distant flashes. Most of the heavy stuff is early is over. I dont think there is anywhere that you word you did not see clashes. It was interesting. The clouds were pretty high. The lightning was pretty high. I think everybody saw them. Even in the east they looking west you saw the flashes. There is that cluster of storms offshore. We saw some rainfall. 1 10 of an inch in some places. What is left of that. You see some scattered s
Dublin grade we have crash that will be busy and blocking lanes westbound 580 over the dublin grade. It has been there since 4 am, and the traffic is backed up from the dublin interchange. The commute will be very slow. Heading out to that seen in a moment as soon as i get to some of the other commutes to help you get to work. Highway 4 is very slow with that earlier accident on highway 4. That was not as serious but the traffic from antioch out to the base point is slow. Bay point is slow. We will see a lot of slow traffic at this morning some slowing in richmond so that is the good news for that commute. There are big problems for the commute on interstate 580. Westbound 580 lanes are blocked on the dublin grade with a big rig crash. Leigh martinez is at the scene. Reporter we are at the Dublin Canyon road which is the alternative route. Here is a look at 580 westbound and backed up for about four miles. This Castro Valley area, we have a big distance between these two exits so you w
Moving. Thats great. We had some drizzle, low clouds in place, the high and mid level clouds are gone. Its going to set the stage for a cool day, 60s on the temperatures, 50s for some. Lower 60s by the concord pavilion, 61 berkeley, west at Half Moon Bay, with a sea breeze breeze, 63 at monterey. L low has moved to the east and the south. We are starting to see our first indications of some cool fronts moving in. If you are in las vegas, you are going to get thunderstorms. 60s and 70s on the temperatures later today. Any idea on 580, when it mielt reopen. Its going to take a while. We have been on this since we started this morning. Interstate 580 in the Castro Valley is a mess, lee joins frus the scene right now with more. Reporter thank you guys. Caltrans said they will be out here for several hours, they are not giving us a time frame as to when they can get the road back open. We have two big rigs blocking the lanes of interstate 580 in Castro Valley. The number four lane is open,
Moss beach at 60. Atherton, 60 degrees. Pretty close. Look for a lot of cloud cover. By this evening, the system will sweep through and there will be a dramatic change tomorrow. 60s and 70s on the temps today. 7 01. And sal tells us. Yes. We have the crash on the way to the bay bridge, steve. Okay. If you drive to the bay bridge, dont take the 880 ramp. It is getting crowded. The crash has been there for at least half an hour. A little north than that. 880 to the connector ramp to westbound 80. You can see the traffic will be slow on 880. Today would be the day to use 980 to 580 to get inform the macarthur maze and get to the bay bridge toll plaza from there. The crash is right there northbound 880 right where it splits off to the bay bridge toll plaza. For a lot of people, it will be a slow traffic. If you drive in the carpool lane, you can get off in the carpool lane before that, if that makes any sense there for you. But i still wouldnt use that ramp. It is too crowded. Lets move al