Extra minutes. Right now the drive time 72 minutes from 205 over to 680. That might be even more so now. So Altamont Pass road getting busy as well as an alternate route. That portion of the freeways. Heres anne. Im anne makovec at the live news desk. Yeah, it has been a real rough morning in the east bay when it comes to the freeways after this fiery crash that happened late last night. This was 680 north and the north main exit and walnut creek. For some reason this vehicle left the freeway hitting a tree and burst into flames. This happened just before 11 00 and when they put the fire out, authorities found the remains of at least three people in the wreckage. They were on scene there for several hours this morning. Before they towed away that vehicle. Took it to the Coroners Office where the investigation into the cause of that crash continues. Well, ne, we looking at unhealthy air quality once again. A spare the air alert remains in effect today through friday. Now a little bit of
So please stay indoors if you can. Because we are looking at that air quality you can see those red and purple dots from unhealthy to hazardous air quality conditions. So looking at very unhealthy air to hazardous for redwood city and down through san jose and fremont and the trivalley as well as for concord. The east bay, walnut creek. Looking at very unhealthy air for oakland and hazardous air in the San Francisco area. Up through sausalito. You can see all of those purple dots. That is very unhealthy air to hazardous up through san rafael and petaluma and for santa rosa. We also have, because of the foggy conditions, the smoky conditions, low visibility. We have a dense fog advisory for the San Francisco area as well as the peninsula, coast and north coast. Visibilities down to a quarter mile or less. Lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic and the foggy conditions. Yeah, most of the foggy conditions affecting the bridges as well. Fog advisories for the Golden Gate Bridge as
It is also a foggy and hazy start to the day with patty drizzle as well as along the coast and the bay. Heading to the afternoon, near normal daytime highs in the upper 80s around 90 in concord and livermore. Low 80s and san jose. The upper 60s in san jose several disco and low 70s in oakland. We talk more about the heat advisories and excessive heat warnings for the Holiday Weekend, coming up. Speaking of the Holiday Weekend, we see later conditions on the freeways and for the most part. That is good news. There are a couple of hotspots. Westbound 37, you have brake lights and for the commute working out of the east bay into marin county. I vallejo. You have a slow ride westbound. No accidents. Just a bit busy. We are seeing slightly slower speeds westbound 580 into the past. It is actually pretty clear out of tracy picked the drive times are pretty much in the green for all of the major freeways. 21 minutes to a five through 680. Changes for mass transit. I will have that in the next
Francisco and mid 70s for oakland. So that smoke forecast still showing that smoke pushing across our region. Well talk more about the weekend forecast coming up. Gianna . Good morning, taking a look at the roadways right now, metering lights are on at the bay bridge toll plaza. So things are getting busy there. Also looking at another bridge here the Golden Gate Bridge, it is a foggy start to your commute out of marin county. So just a headsup if you are traveling from marin city to the Golden Gate Bridge. Limited visibility might be an issue this morning. Elsewhere the Altamont Pass also one of the busy spots westbound 580. Its a slow and go ride out of tracy getting on the 580 connector from 205. No accidents thats the good news but the drive time still right around 30 minutes to go from 205 over to 680. New crash reported on the nimitz freeway. Ill have that coming up in my next report. Len . Happening today, positive trends in slowing the spread of covid19 add up to good news for
Lightning complex fire still burning check out this map the shows exactly how much the fire has burned. Kron fours will tran reporting live at the Cal Fire Base Camp and Scotts Valley, he has the latest for us well. It has burned so far approximately 78,800 acres up about 1100 acres from yesterday and so thats all. Good news as far as cal fire because its still chewing up the area but they are slowly but surely getting the upper hand on this fire. Containment number also up its now 17 last night going into the overnight hours. It was around 13 . So they are making some progress and they expect to make even more progress in a mardi robin because the conditions are in their favorite is not a smoky this morning, not as windy humidity levels rising get all those things together and that basically means they can tell the pilot to once again take to the skies and thats what they did yesterday. Its one of the tools in their tool box but it is a major tool that they can use yesterday they drop