yeah, thousands of students reported to class virtually but teachers. and their union and the district are all still trying to hash out what the plan is going to be for distance learning even though online instruction as daryn mentioned begins this morning. gayle ong takes a look at what s going on. on monday thousands of students with the oakland unified school district will report to class virtually in the zoom call usd spokesperson john sasaki had little to say about specific teaching plans, partly because the district is still in negotiations with labor partners the beginning of year so important for teachers to ponder students yet another stunts to get to know their backgrounds and the things they deal with outside of school. and they can t do that now because we are all this is sort of the teachers union and district have been negotiating logistics teachers are asking for a reduced schedule working 5 hours a day the oakland education association posted their proposa
melanie woodrow joins us with more on this. dion and dan, the documents were just filed with the california public utilities corporation today. they outlined how the two fires that happened in lafayette could be tied again to pg& power lines. the fires started blocks from where power had been turned off. flames threaten homes and destroy the lafayette tennis club when a grassfire roared through dry brush found by high wind. it sent smoke over highway 24. pg&e reported to the cpuc that there were two incidents regarding the energized power lines yesterday. one was at pleasant hill where pg&e reported a lashing wire and open wire as a potential ignition source. the other in lafayette attica minnow el diablo road. they found this downed power pole and transformer. you can see what it looked like in april of this year. trees were close to power lines. the exact scenario pg&e has been concerned about. the reason, it says, it is cutting power to millions of customers when high wi
the air quality that they have decided to shut down i 80 from highway 4 to 780 in vallejo. they are saying at this juncture they re looking at a six-hour closure which puts us into the midnight hour. that s not an exact science they ve got going. they re going to reassess as the evening progresses but you have to plan for the worst case scenario. he went through a list of different alternate routes you could go to, but the bottom line is there s going to be traffic no matter where you go. your best option is to avoid this at all costs but there s going to be traffic. it s an eerie scene in the foreground, that s interstate 80. it is rare we see a shutdown of this magnitude for several hours. there s interstate 80. you see zero cars on that except for fire crews. just about 50 or 100 yards away is this fire. if you watched throughout the afternoon, at some point there were raging flames, an inferno. right now it s much better. it s almost out but we ve seen that before and i
this will be a for the month as far as active weather. it looks quiet once we get to next week. patchy fog today than e daeasing clouds throughout th 60s and 70s on your temperatures. here s the man with the plan on the traffic. good morning. right now we do have traffic that is moving along well. i want to mention interstate 80 is back open after yesterday where it was closed. let s talk about 580 and 205. slow traffic as you drive out to the livermore and pleasanton area and no major issues out to hayward and castro valley as you are driving on 880. looks good to local and and we mention 80 is open including the bay bridge toll plaza. let s go back to the desk. the investigation continues into the cause of that huge explosion and fire yesterday in crockett at the new star petroleum storage plan. the fire is contained but the impact continues. all schools will be closed today in the john swett school district. as you just heard both directions of interstate both directio
view. it sounds like lanes are open but we ll double check when chp gets on scene. here s crockett, rodeo, i know you re going to talk about the fire that had it closed for hours yesterday. no closures today. let s get back to the breaking news, the aftermath of the inferno yesterday. investigators plan to be on site all day to learn what sparked the fire which burned close to seven hours. two storage tanks blew up sending huge plumes of tanks skyward for hours. it closed 80 in both directions for hours, all lanes are reopened this morning. but it strictered a shelter in place yesterday. but now the authorities have lifted the shelter in place. and at one point firefighters tweeted out schools would be open today. this morning nbc bay area is confirming all schools in the john sweat juunified school district will be closed. what s the latest, thom? reporter: i can tell you when we first arrived on the scene this morning, the heavy smell of burning oil was still in t