Traffic jams, flight delays, and Severe Weather. The Memorial Day Travel rush is off to anything but a smooth start tonight. Good evening, and thank you for being with us. Im Maurice Dubois in for norah. Nearly 44 million americans are heading out of town by road and by air, and they are having their patience tested for two reasons. First, there is a near recordbreaking number of travelers. The tsa says today could be the busiest day ever for passenger screenings. And then, there are the widespread storms thunder, heavy rain, and strong winds from the great plains in the midwest to as far south as georgia. All complicating the holiday getaway. We have Team Coverage of the weather and travel, and cbss Kris Van Cleave will start us off. Reporter major gridlock on an l. A. Freeway, halting the memorial day getaway, shut down for three hours during a police standoff. And those pulling into lax just found another traffic jam. Brake lights outside. Look at this line. Reporter and these long
The forecast . Cbs evening news starts now. Traffic jams, flight delays, and Severe Weather. The memorial they traveled rushes off to anything but a smooth start tonight. Good evening, and thank you for being with us. I am barista bought in for norah. Nearly 34 million americans are heading out of town by road and by air and they are having their patience tested for two reasons. Wrist, there is a near recordbreaking number of travelers. At the tsa says today could be the busiest day ever for passenger screenings. Than there are the widespread storms, thunder, heavy rain, and strong winds from the great plains in the midwest to as far south as georgia. All complicating the holiday getaway. We have Team Coverage of the weather and travel, and cbss Kris Van Cleave will start us off. Reporter major gridlock on an l. A. Freeway holding the memorial day getaway. Shut down for three hours during a police standoff, and those pulling into lax just found another traffic jam. Break likes outside.
Of the visible satellite show there are a few breaks san jose for some, but boy its pretty solid here for most of the north and theres just a lot out there. Maybe a little drizzle. So we are looking for when the fog rolls in. Boy has it ever last couple of days, thats for sure. Today is no exception. Itll peel back to the coast. It will be sunny, breezy inland, 60s and 70s on those temps. Well, youre about ready to jump into your cadillac cadillac and head out on the highways and byways. Heres the man to guide you through. Well, i thank you, steve. And right now we do see some commutes look pretty ordinary. Others do not. The bay bridge is one. Perhaps youre heading over to San Francisco and traffic is doing okay. Youre going to see a little bit of slow traffic there, this morning. But if you are driving on the san mateo bridge. Oh my, my, we do have a bunch of slow traffic. And this is due to an earlier stalled vehicle. Things are getting better, but its going to take a little while f
Reasons. Im leaning on the cooler side. So 60s and 70s. Speaking on the cooler side, here he is, mister sal castaneda, free trade coffee, steve with glacier water, a handpicked organic, shade grown and only sustainable coffee. Exactly. Thats exactly it. All right, lets go to highway four, there was a crash. Highway four, right. Let me put the indicator just to show you. Right at the connector ramp to 242. Theres a little bit of a backup there. As they clean up the remnants of a big rig crash. Its almost gone. Theyre still clearing up some debris, but theres only a little bit of a backup there right now. If youre going to the bay bridge toll plaza, it is light. So right now we have a good start for you to grab that cup of coffee and go 401. Lets go back to the desk. Okay, sal, well demonstrators in berkeley have taken over a building owned by uc berkeley thats not far from the campus. Yeah, uc berkeley Officials Say they believe these are not the same people who set up camp at sproul pl
Buckeye broadband supports cspan as a Public Service along with these other Television Providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. The chair of the National Transportation safety board and other officials involved with the investigation and cleanup of Baltimores Francis scott key bridge collapse were on capitol hill testifying in front of lawmakers. They outlined a timeline for reconstruction citing 2028 is the goal with a cost of 1. 7 billion. The hearing runs about three hours. We will call the committee to order. I have to ask unanimous commitment consent that the chairman be authorized to declare recess at any time. So ordered. Please email documents. At this point i will recognize myself for the purposes of an Opening Statement. We are here to discuss the initial federal response to the march 26 Early Morning incident involving the cargo vessel into the Francis Scott key bridge in baltimore, maryland which resulted in the subsequent collapse of the bridge. I want to acknow