A look at your bus stop forecast coming up and what to wear. Melissa, whats happening on the the issue on the inner loop of the Woodrow Wilson bridge. Looks like things may have cleared out of the way. We did have a Police Response here perhaps moved out of the way at this point this morning. Well check on that and let you know in a couple of minutes. Looking at 95 in maryland no major problems. North bound or southbound, everything is moving along nicely. 66 head into and out of town looking nice. 270 north and south moving along nicely. Same thing as you head over to the east, into and out of town, no issues. At this hour on this morning 150 years ago, doctors were fighting to save the life of president abraham lincoln. At the same time a massive manhunt was underway for his assassin who was hiding out at a home in maryland. Right now, fords theatre is marking the anniversary with around the clock tribute. News4s Megan Mcgrath has details. Good morning. Reporter well good morning. Th
A good morning to you. This is al Jazeera America. Im here from new york. Good to have you with us. Well talk about the extreme weather conditions. They are having an impact on much of the country. A series of tornadoses touched down in the midwest. A blizzard causes problems. And Tropical Storm karen is moving in on the gulf coast. More wild weather is expected throughout the weekend. Now for more. At least six tornados touched down in the midwest friday as highpowered winds rolled through parts of nebraska, south dakota and iowa. It was two miles wide in nebraska. Causing damage, ripping up trees. What in the world. Come down. The next thing i know the yard looks like a bomb went off. More than a dozen people were injured during the twisters. Nebraskas governor issued an emergency declaration, making it eligible for federal assistance. In neighbouring iowa a milewide torn tornados cut through. Blizzards were in south dakota, wyonging making a foot of snow. Heavy wet snow is expected
Lets talk about traffic and see whats happening out there. What we do have is a project through the caldicott. We have meetering lights that will be in a test mode. That will happen around 10 30 this morning in both directions. Watch out for that. That could slow things down in the west and eastbound directions along highway 24. As we take a look at mass transit, everything is running on time. B. A. R. T. , uni, ace train, cal train. Heres a picture of this, the Golden Gate Bridge out of saw so he let tow. Thank you. Leyla. Its 5 01. Developing news where police are investigating the suspicious death of a 7monthold baby. Amy is live on the scene of a childs home where investigators are inspecting right now, amy. Eric, two other officers have arrived here at the scene. We are here at the house where investigators are looking for evidence, but theyre still waiting for homicide inspectors to arrive. This is the home of the baby on monterey here at acadia in San Francisco. The police were
Report. Abc 7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield joins us with more. Reporter these are the people that want to know about the progress, the b. A. R. T. Riders, they want to know will there be trains later this week or not . The union has scheduled a press conference to discuss whats going on. Both sides were at the bargaining table yesterday and they did report some movement. Late in the day the union said it made a third counterproposal that theyve given to b. A. R. T. Management and it seems to have b. A. R. T. Managements attention. Our current proposal is 3. 75, 3. 75 and 4 over a 3year contract. We appreciate the movement shown in that proposal. We are studying the numbers. Were doing the research and well be back at the bargaining table. The coolingoff period has one week left in it. If no agreement is reached, the unions have said they will walk off the job next friday the 11th. The unions have said they dont want to strike but they do want a fair contract, so that strike could happe
Aware of the seriousness of the situation at first. I couldnt go to sleep and i hear somebody banging on my door that their apartment is on fire. I didnt know what to do. First of all i dont want to open the door to a crazy person. It could be somebody trying to break in. I get my roommate and it hit me. It smelled like fire. So we had to get out. No one was injured and firefighters are investigating how it started. Happening today it president obama is expected to nominate Federal Reserve vice chair janet yellen as the new fed chairman. Yellen was a professor at uc berkeley in the 1980s and 90s 90s. If approved by the senate, yellen would become the first woman to be head of the fed. Kpix 5s cate caugiran will have more on yellens ties to the bay area coming up in our next half hour. And new this morning, a stanford professor won the nobel prize in chemistry. Michael levitt among three scientists awarded the prize this morning. Together, they laid the foundation for computer models us