System . Whats working and what needs more attention. If you see me today please come talk to me. I would love to hear your thoughts. Please follow me on twitter. Ill be tweeting, sending out updates of what im finding on b. A. R. T. Should be fun, exciting and an informative day. Reporting live from antioch, amy hollyfield. I have to go and catch that first train. Kumasi and reggie, back to you. Thanks, amy. Have fun out there. All this week we are dedicating our building a better bay Area Coverage to b. A. R. T. As amy just shared with us. You can find our stories on abc7news. Com. Here is an update on your weather and traffic and mike nicco. Record high temperatures, thats the big story later on today. Starting out right now weve got you can see those temperatures hanging out in the 40s and 50s just about everywhere. And as we head into the afternoon hours 70s except for the coast. The good news there is no fog out there this morning. Let me show you the visibility on live doppler 7
Within the past hour. I will step out of the way to show you the dramatic cloud cover looking out towards San Francisco over San Francisco bay. The main front, the brunt of the system moved out early this morning but still, some leftover showers producing some off and on showers over the past few hours. That was a factor this morning. The biggest rainfall totals on the coastal hills and the Santa Cruz Mountains in Sonoma County as well over 3 inches of rain over the past 24 hours. Santa rosa picking up over an inch in san rafael and San Francisco to tenth of an inch so a big range and rainfall totals as we expected but the bulk of the rainfall is really up in the north a. Quite a few reports over an inch for grimble, sebastian, atlas peak. We are watching rainfall rates with fire burn zones but i dont see any flash flood warnings from the National Weather service. Here is the rainfall loop. You can see the action heading out to the east. Its pretty warm out there so results from snow r
Nimitz freeway at hayward. An earlier supreme accident still backing up the traffic of the way up to 238 and slowing down the ride heading down to the nimitz freeway. Darya thanks a lot george. So first it was bart we got through that and now ac transits turn. Kron4s will tran is live in downtown oakland to tell us about this threat of a strike. Mark well if he doesnt step and we are looking at the right to strike if youre an ac transit bus driver. Because it does expire at midnight tonight. For we saw kron4 and ac transit is to so many writers as far as a. C. Transit without the bart each day 180,000 people ride ac transit and is so important to many of them because they can hop on board because bart does not work the overnight hours to lay solely rely on the buses to get around we have a chance to talk to one of the riders. Heres what he had to say of the importance of the buses being available. ill probably have to ride my bike a judge will look at the proposal. The governments requ
We are live to explain that. Amy . Would you like the ability to buy your way out of traffic . You can do that hire on 880 and transportation Officials Say the idea is going to be expanding. According to the San Francisco chronicle, transportation officials are moving forward with a plan to create a 550 mile network of express lanes. They have studies to do and figure how they will pay for it, how to get it the, how to collect the tolls but they do want to move forward with this. The idea is to get more use out of the car pool lanes which some complain are often empty or very lightly used. Here is how the express lane works. Car poolers use the lane if free. Those who are not car pooling, but want to use them, can pay a toll for the privilege of driving in that lane. They do limit the capacity, the idea to keep it an express lane. The plan is to have 90 miles of express lanes on interstates 80, 680, and 880, open by the end of 2015. Oakland authorities are investigating the discovery o
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