Reporter scientists believe a lacks of oxygen in the water may be to blame. The most recent fish kill happened yesterday following the return of rain that caused the lagoon to overflow which then ruptured the sandbar that blocks the marsh from the ocean. Fresh in saltwater layers and the mixing together in the lagoon leading to a great demand and locals say the dieoffs date back to 1995, two years after the state began a massive restoration of the preserve. Its really sad. Its sad to see something dead like that. Reporter while the neary behind the fish kills may sound simple more data must be collected before any action can be taken. Their goal to monitor and manage the ecosystem in a way that favors the steelhead and the other species in the marsh. The state hopes to identify a shortterm solution in the next six to 12 months but residents arent too confident about the time line. One of the most frustrating things in my life seriously, really is. Reporter an upstream battle many are t
Keep the plant hundreding in the case of a major outage, or earthquake. So if there is an earthquake, it would, the bifurcation valve would allow us to keep this plant in service. While work is being done, customers west of the hills in oakland and other cities will be getting their water from other plants. What we expect to do is to be able to turn on the tap, and water comes out. For us to be able to guarantee that, this is a necessity. Customers should notice no changes in pressure. The renovations are expected to be completed by next april. San Francisco Mayor ed lee has the long awaited short list of candidates for police chief. Commissioners whittled down a huge list of candidates to just three last night. Abc7 News Reporter vick slee live with the story. Vic . Reporter now that the mayor has a short list, hell vet the finalists himself, probably interview each one, then, come up with a new chief. The wisdom is that hell wait to make his choice. So, in the meantime, 64,000 questi
Of their tap because of a major upgrade to its facility in orinda. Laura anthony is live with the details. Reporter most concerns have been switched over to other plants. East bay mudd told me people have been complaining about the taste of the water but now, they say the calls have slowed to a trickle. East bay mudd customers may have noticed a slight change of taste or smell in their water. This is the reason. This is where water gets treated. A shut down and upgrade of the facility, the orinda plant that dates back to the great depression, serving 800,000 of the 1. 4 million customers. Were adding a vault that will allow us to split the plant flow in half and allow us to maintain without doing a full sht down. The project will include a new Power Substation that could keep the plant hundreding in the case of a major outage, or earthquake. So if there is an earthquake, it would, the bifurcation valve would allow us to keep this plant in service. While work is being done, customers we
Miles to our north. Out there right now, live doppler 7 showing the wave heights are tiny at this hour. 3 to 6 feet is what were seeing, nothing too high above average, but the wider view shows we are tracking a storm system that makes itself known in canada, swirling in the gulf of alaska now, bnging higher waves over 24 hours. Future wave heights, again, in the afternoon and evening, 1015 foot waves to the south, 15 and potentially higher than 20 foot waves to the north. The coast will be active tomorrow. Its for that reason, a High Surf Advisory is in effect. Waves over 20 feet, if you watch them, do not get in the water. The risk of rip current is very high. Another storm system on the horizon bringing wet weather in the bay area. Thats in the forecast in a few minutes. Drew, thanks a lot. Now to a story we broke tonight on twitter. Sources say the city of San Francisco is planning to sue the developer of the Millennium Tower as you know is tilting and sinking. Video posted by a co
That has helped with the cool down this morning. Currently in philadelphia 18 degrees. It feels like 8 degrees this morning. A cold morning. Youll have to bundle up. We will see these temperatures climbing during the day. Theyre still falling. Doilztown is 11 degrees. 8 degrees in south philadelphia. Northeast philadelphia are in the middle teens right now. Sunshine to start with well start the warming process by 10 10 00, 23 degrees. Notice the clouds that start to move in. That could lead to some snowshowers as early as this evening. Well go through this when im back in ten minutes. We have your friday morning commute. Thats right. A lot of folks starting to head out the door right now. Everybody is moving along nicely. No problems with the drive time there. 95 into center city has no problems there either. We are in the green and average speeds in the green. Once you get into center city we do have some small problems. We have an underground transformer fire that happened yesterday