Another american dies on mt. Everest trying to climb to the top. New this morning, the concerns being raised about the permit process at a popular mountain here in california. And first denver, now oakland. Decriminalizing psychedelic mushrooms. An important vote today. Today in the bay continues right now. And a good morning to you. Thanks so much for starting your morning here with us. Im marcus washington. Im laura garcia. Tuesday morning. Hope you had a great extended weekend. Today finally nice weather. Very nice weather. We have to get past a little bit of cloud cover early on this morning. Were not tracking any rain. In fact, we are going to finally see temperatures more normal for this time of year. A live look over walnut creek. We can expect to see clearing in the skies making way for plenty of issues is. Heres a look at what you can expect as you get ready to head out the door so you can plan accordingly. Plan for pleasant 70s and even a couple low 80s in the trivalley this
The wind activity. Whenever we get the north northeast winds, this offshore wind is coming off dry land and humidity levels will be dropping. So youll notice dry conditions out there. When its dry, windy and warm, its definitely keeping firefighters on high alert. As far as temperatures right now, 56 degrees in San Francisco, 55 in livermore, 46 in oakland and 47 in concord. Things are starting to move at the limit again along westbound 580 past 205. But approaching 580, we are still tracking major slowdowns. The metering lights are not on but traffic is starting to build toward the toll plaza. 10 minutes for fast trackers into San Francisco this morning. Thats a check of your traffic. Global markets continue to slide on the heels of historic losses to start the week in the u. S. Stocks in asia, europe and australia experienced a downturn overnight. Yesterday the dow fell over 1100 points after concern among investors the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates. Economists say they s
Cool and foggy. In the north bay, we have seen the showers moving through. Some of the kids are out of school today, so you get to sleep in. Some people. We are going to have the showers moving through. Here is the radar. A lot of green covering sonoma and marin county. As you get ready to head out, we are going to see that moving through. Here is a look at san jose and the temperature trend. We have a chance of showers here but mostly this afternoon. We will talk about what else to expect for the weekend coming up in a few minutes. Mike says theres a crash in san jose. One of the only crashes because traffic is so light we have the back up at the bay bridge. Well talk about that in a second. Over here, southbound 280, onramp at moore park is an issue. Theres moor park and park moore. Thats why it is confusing. 87 and 101, we typically see slowing. Not showing up this morning. The bay bridge toll plaza has the back up because the metering lights were turned on just before 5 30. We have
Elections in a moment, i am going to make my remarks extremely brief. With the adoption of plan bay area preferred scenario by the mtc and abag we are well posed to advocate for the priority projects in the bridge toll talks, which commence this week at the mtc. That is the met political Transportation Commission. Thank you, so much, commissioner david campos for representing us in those discussions tomorrow and we look forward to see the culmination through 2017, 18, when the voters will have the opportunity to approve much needed funds for transportation, i am hopeful that our local communities will also come together next year to develop a companion local transportation funding measure that can integrate closely with the regional measure in 2018. To fund our local contributions to Bart Caltrain and high speed rail, as well as to fund critical local investments in infrastructure repair and main nens, and safety, and paving and transit and neighborhood, Traffic Management city wide. B
There is one problem, it seems like it is a excluded place. They have the Fire Department that will get possibly injured. I looked and said wow, there is no snow under them. Thanks. Is there anyone else who would like to make Public Comments under the general managers report. At this time members of the public may address the commission within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission and do not appear on the agenda. With respect to items you have the opportunity to address the commission when the items is reached. I have 4 cards i will call them off. Jill, dee, sally and kelly. Come on up. Any order. Jill, dee, sally and kelly. Can you hear me . Yes. Thank you. Good morning commissioners. Good morning. The [inaudible] Areas Program will have us believe this plan you will address is all about saving endangered species. They made statements about 50 loss of bio diversity in the plant program, but i want to clarify something, enfact the plant itself required monitoring of only 8