It is the future. Tonight the metropolitan Transportation Commission voted unanimously to make all electronic tolls a reality. The hope is to speed up the flow of traffic and to save money on operations at the seven staterun bridges in the bay area. Here they are. The richmond san jose bridge. Live coverage from ktvus Azenith Smith at the toll plaza tonight with a look at whats coming down the road. Azenith . The toll takers and the Government Agency tells me 200 of them will be affected when the cash signs will go away and the toll booths will be eliminated. Traffic at bay area toll bridges could soon be smoother as drivers, they will no longer have the option to start and pay cash. I never thought it was equitable. But i also drive a lot in traffic. Reporter wednesday the metropolitan Transportation Commission gave a green light on the 4 Million Contract for an allelectronic tolling system, which means drivers must pay with fast track only. Those with fast track, cameras will capture
74 to 86 by 4 00. Then 69 to 7 at 7 00. It strengthened overnight, category 3 major hurricane. 115mileperhour winds. Look at the rain totals possible. Eight to 12 inches of rain along the South Carolina coast to the North Carolina coast. A storm surge up to seven feet on top of that rain. Flooding will be a major issue the next 24 to 48 hours. A Traffic Alert westbound 80 at San Pablo Dam road. We have a full freeway closure because of an overturned big rig carrying live chickens. Traffic is absolutely jammed on westbound 80. You can see its a crawl for miles. It is causing at least 45minute delay through that westbound 80 stretch. You may want to consider the richmond parkway to san pablo avenue. Thats also going to slow you down. You may also want to consider 680 to highway 4 if youre coming out of solano county. You can see that is slow as well. Theres a crash 680 as well, northbound at mckee. Here is a live shot of an alternate route. Southbound 680 through walnut creek. It is slow
Ghost card officials have recovered 33 people, one person is still missing. The ntsb says divers are also using sonar equipment to document the area. That boat is sitting upside down in about 65 feet of water. Investigateers also say the conception did not have sprinklers, but it wasnt required to have them. Coast guard officialsayeyve ro. Weve learned at least 15 of the victims are from Northern California including a berkeley couple. Jobina fortson is live with the update. Reporter good morning, reggie and couple mass say. Daniel garcia and his partner you lay yeah were aboard the board on labor day weekend. Friends confirmed to us that they did not survive. Friends say garcia was the Software Engineer and developer behind fast l. E. D. The couple was loved so much by their neighbors, many were too distraught to appear on camera to talk to us. This tragedy is unspeakable, just horrible. I feel like ive lost a part of my family. Friends of the couple posted on social media that garcia
Thursday, september 5th. Im consumekumasi. Im reggie aqui. Meteorologist mike nicco is standing by. Theres a lone thunderstorm to the east of stockton. That will move north away from us. Weve got the marine layer in. Weve got mist coming out of that. Its kind of a humid morning out there as we deal with the increase in the marine layer. The fact that its going to bring us slightly cooler weather as we head into the afternoon hours. In fact, 60s, 70s and 80s will be a more dominant feature of our forecast than the 90s weve been seeing inland for the last couple days. Enjoy the break. Well have a couple more days of cooler weather. Ill show you warmer weather coming up in the accuweather 7day forecast. We have a Traffic Alert for westbound 80 at the San Pablo Dam road. All lanes blocked because of the overturned big rig carrying chickens. Traffic is being detoured at San Pablo Dam road, paerntly right at the offramp. You can get right back on. Its causing massive delays, at least half an
More than two dozen temporary foreign workers and allies gathered in Vancouver on Sunday to call for better working conditions, health care, stronger protections and a clear path to residency for the more than 32,000 temporary foreign workers in B.C.