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They are going to sweep the roadway, and then we should be ready to go. Spot tell us what happened. At approximately 145, we got a call that there was a crash and then a few moments later, it was struck by a truck that was carrying gravel, and we ended up with crashes in both lanes. Reporter this was enough to shut down both directions of 101. Im seeing trucks out here moving the gravel to the side. It seems like there was a lot. There was a lot of gravel. I can tell you think so i could not tell you how much. We had to close the road because we were fearful that people would spin out. Was anyone hurt . There was one driver with minor injuries. Reporter again, your thinking 25 to 30 minutes to get everything reopened or just one direction . We are hoping to get everything reopened and 30 minutes. We are doing our best. Reporter we are doing our best. If you look in the northbound lanes, there is a sweeper right there getting all of that gravel out of lanes of traffic. There are detours
It began in april when surface temperatures hit more than half of one degree in average. It spiked in june to moderate and from june to now it spiked nearly 2 degrees celsius above average well into the strong category. Live at lands end, what el nino does is increases the odds of a wet winter. Nothing is a guarantee. We do not know for sure whether its going to pour this winter but past history says an el nino this strong will lead to a wetterthanaverage winter. Frankly thats wonderful news. We dont want the flooding but we need the rainfall. But guys, all were going to hear is godzilla. Thats the only word anybody is going to hear. Heres what i want you to remember. Strong el nino, wonderful news, will seriously help with the drought if we get that rainfall. We have gotten better at reading the signs of el nino better than in 97. Reporter thats a very good point and we floss that el nino is the number one factor when it comes to winter precipitation, know that, the number one leading
With those extraordinary explosions in the chinese for city of tianjin. Hinese port city of tianjin among the injured are 12 firefighters. Two blasts happened in warehouse storing chemical goods, causing nearby buildings to collapse. Lets talk to paul james in beijing. You are headin ing to evening there. I assume that will make it harder for those carrying out search and rescue operations. As the evening this ends and the sun goes down, the rescue operations become the suning descends and the goes down, the rescue operations become more difficult. That said, we believe those in the warehouse at the time of the explosion have been accounted for. The initial death toll of 44 appears to be standing pat. Chinese authorities have not been offering additional numbers at this juncture. The difference being that the is not government, a, normally accustomed to getting out a lot of information in large disasters like this and, unfortunately, b, a lot of the people who were admitted to hospital
San jose. Also the low clouds rolling by after a system passed through the bay area yesterday to bring us rain. Today, well get clearing, highs in the low 70s inland and 60s for the inner bay and along the coast. Heading to mike, youre checking in on a crash in the north bay. We had a solo car spinout wrk looking at slicker roads because of some of the fog. A new crash just reported on 237. I dont have details on which direction, stand by, but no slowing showing up yet. We had a lot of slowing out of the Robin Williams tunnel, but this was cleared up. Southbound now all slowing has cleared. Heading to the golden gate with a live look like this, fog in your face, and this will be a problem. Mist, you might need to use the windshield wipers and possibly make the roads slicker. Be careful. Thanks so much. Good advice there. 6 01 right now. New this morning, at least six people rescued after a fire at an Apartment Building in San Francisco. It broke out about midnight on the second floor o