Also in the next hour the light fantastic. A multicoloured show for the handover of the queens ferry crossing, the uks tallest bridge. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. A major dam outside houston, texas, has begun overspilling as storm harvey pushes the reservoir past capacity. Engineers have been periodically releasing water from the addicks dam to relieve pressure to limit the damage down to nearby homes. But now six neighbourhoods nearby are being told to leave their homes. Since the storm hit, 30 inches of rain has fallen were going live to our correspondent who is at la grange in texas. This is such a fast moving story. Were 100 miles west of this is such a fast moving story. Were100 miles west of houston here and were hearing that in houston, two of the reservoirs are overflowing, the reservoirs that they have been doing controlled releases of water from in order to manage the flooding. Now that situation is becoming impossible. Behind me, you can see people are beginning
Near mid70s first and ramon. Livermore looking for a high of 69 today. What about the rest of the bay area . There are a lot of low 70s. 68 in san mateo and upper 60s in downtown San Francisco. Low 70s for santa rosa and san rafael. We will all cool down a little bit compared to yesterday, but still very mild and comfortable for a lot of locations on this wednesday. Tracking dry conditions for quite a few days. We will talk more about that and we will look at the weekend forecast at swell. The time now is 4 03 and we will look at traffic. Looking at the commute into San Francisco, it is wide open at the toll plaza. No major trouble spots. There is roadwork on the 24 w. Connector two 580. It was blocked off, but the crews will be picking up cones shortly. If not, continue to 580 the crews will be picking up cones shortly. If not, continue to 582 harris st. And get off and then get back on. Overall, a great ride across the upper deck. On 92, this is a good ride on the bridge this morning
3 our beautiful weekend weather is spilling over to the work week. Ingrid, hopefully the trend will continue this week. Good morning. Here is a look at Current Conditions across the region. Your day planner shows temperatures warming by noon. Coming up, ill show you our 7day forecast for both the mountains and upstate. 3 3 3 3 3 happening today, a man charged in a major theft case involving the Largest Church in the mountains will go before a judge. Jeffrey silvers is accused of stealing more than 40thousanddollars Biltmore Baptist in arden then pawning it. Hes also accused of breaking into several of the churchs vehicles. Arrest warrants indicate he took tools worth nearly nine thousand dollars from someone else. 3 deputies in buncombe county are investigating a bizarre theft at home depot on fairview road. Deputies say James Mayfield junior stole a leaf blower and then returned it for store credit. They say he then did it again with a different leaf blower a few days later. He is now
Busy road. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. That mom is terrified about what could have happened. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson spoke to the mother and her son and joins us live in camden tonight. Shawnette . Reporter were standing near admiral wilson boulevard where an employee at a gas station behind me saw that sevenyearold walking along a very busy highway. Tonight his mom is thankful for that man but is upset with the school because she says her son was able to walk out. My son could have been kidnapped, he could have been just the worst hit by car. Reporter Anna Martinez still cant get over the phone call she says she received from her sons school just after 10 00 monday morning. They informed me that my son was film on admiral wilson boulevard. She dropped her sevenyearold son jerry at Camden Community Charter School in north camden a few minutes late that day. He was going to the office to get a late passing to oh class. He told the lady at the school he left some books h
Was film on admiral wilson boulevard. She dropped her sevenyearold son jerry at Camden Community Charter School in north camden a few minutes late that day. He was going to the office to get a late passing to oh class. He told the lady at the school he left some books home and she told him to go ahead and get them. To me it was a miscommunication she may have been talking to someone else but he still was able to leave the school. Reporter this second grader made it 2 miles away along Market Street and eventually on to a busy admiral wilson boulevard. He was 20 minutes away from his home when he walked by speedway gas station where an employee noticed him and called police. It was because a gas attendant decided to face that highway that day and saw my son running down and just grabbed him, and thats why hes still here. Reporter anna says School Officials didnt know her little boy was missing until Police Brought him back about an hour later. And she says the officer worker never checke