Was a day to secure that lawn furniture. Take your allergy meds and have that extra hair spray handy. Gusty winds ripped through our region and causing issues big time. We are seeing Power Outages around the bay area. In fact, here is a look at pg es outage map, at one point this morning the wind knocked out power and stopped b. A. R. T service for a time. A tree came down on power lines on highway 35. This was between highway 9 and alpine road. You can certainly hear the wind in this video. Our photojournalist captured this in the san jose foothills and it is not letting up just yet. Paul heggen is here with details we had blustery conditions until around noon. Since then, got into a little lull in terms of the strongest withstands t is definitely still breezy out there this evening. Sustained winds in the 1025 mileanhour range. Sustained winds recorded at the top of the hour. Gusts in excess of 25 mileanhour winds. The numbers were 40 miles an hour earlier today. A burst of wind ener
We are kicking off a beautiful weekend. There is a freeway closure in effect right now that could cause problems for folks getting around the east bay. We will get you up to speed. A judge takes action to increase oversight of a womans prison in the east bay in an unprecedented move for the federal prison system. A toast to the man known as the mayor and his honor. Willie brown gets ready to celebrate a milestone birthday. Good morning. Great to have you with us. Its saturday, march 16th. Im max darrow. We are heading into one of the first weekends so far this year without any rain in the forecast. This comes in time for st. Patricks day and the official start of springs next week. Its running up against a major freeway closure. Caltrans is finally starting a repaving project on interstate 680 in pleasanton pued back twice because of rain. This stretch of southbound 680 is closed from the 580 connector to koopman road. Wilson walker looks at the disruption when a lot of people will be
This is cbs news bay area with elizabeth cook. An emotional reunion. Just minutes ago, a bay area doctor returns home from a weeks long mission in gaza. A paving project may interfere with your st. Patricks day weekend. Breathing new life into the oakland coliseum. A new soccer deal just announced. Thank you for joining us. Im Ryan Yamamoto in for elizabeth cook. A bay area doctor arrived back home from his medical mission in gaza. We have been following his emotional journey from the very beginning. Anne makovec is here with his return and today is other news headlines. Dr. Mohammad subeh is a palestinian american who works as an american doctor on the peninsula. He journeyed to the gaza strip this february to offer much needed medical help and he just returned to his wife and kids in an emotionally embrace less than 30 minutes ago. You can see it here. Dr. Subeh was separated from them for five weeks, treating shrapnel in gunshot wounds as the war raged on and now he has made it home
Thank you for joining us this morning. Its friday, march 15th. Yeah, happy weekend. Here we go. I still stand behind what we have done and that we needed to make the statements that we needed to do in order to make our voices loud and clear. Dozens of protesters who shut down the bay bridge for hours celebrating a big victory in court. But they are not getting off completely scotfree. Were jammed full and we have no room. San francisco animal shelters pushed to the brink with many reaching capacity for the number of animals they can take. How you can help. Theres still a lot of beauty and theres still a lot of positivity here, even with everything thats happening. Change is happening. Businesses in oakland bouncing back as Restaurant Week takes over the city. How owners are coming up with special ideas to get the community out and about. Hard to give it up, you know. One on probably do it until they kick me out. [ laughter ] hes seen almost every home game from the best seat in the hou
Beijing may finally be winning its war on smog. Plenty more on those stories over the next couple of hours. Calendar today is trade numbers out of china for the month of december appeared rounding out has been a year of significant recovery when it comes to chinese exports in particular. 5643. After the declines over the past couple of years we do see two years of decline followed by that recovery. We are looking at december, a 10 year on year rise when it comes to exports coming in dollar terms. Thats a little moderation from novembers 12. 3 rise. Imports looking to pick up significantly. The brighter spots in that. Continuing to paint a picture of synchronized global recovery. Such a stronghad base to come off of in 2017 we might be struggling to hit doubledigit numbers in 2018 for exports. Certainly there is also the cloud of trade tensions between the u. S. And china lurking ever in the background. We are 30 minutes away from the opening china and hong kong. Sophie, we were thinkin