View. It sounds like lanes are open but well double check when chp gets on scene. Heres crockett, rodeo, i know youre going to talk about the fire that had it closed for hours yesterday. No closures today. Lets 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. Whats 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 the air. It has cleared ou
This morning John Swett Unified School district and four campuses are closed this morning. We want to first get a check of the forecast for you this morning. Definitely a fall start. Fall start, Cool Temperatures. As we look at this, when that refinery fire first broke out, it was visible on satellite imagery, thats a look at the arrow pointing towards that. Now as we wake up this morning, air quality is improving, we are seeing clouds still around the area but we have to watch out for that with light winds picking up from the northwest at about 7 Miles Per Hour in the area of crockett. And we are going to see some improvement today in the air quality as well as our temperatures coming down a few degrees. Well talk about some rain moving in, and mike seeing a lighting change in palo alto . Thats right because up until a few minutes ago, this section was well lit by crews, they have cleared, still a couple lights, thats moving north as far as the clearing goes up. So you may see a littl
5 am and he will focus on the tracy commute but i will also mention that interstate 80 is open right now. If you went to bed and did not know if it would be open for the morning commute, it is open. Lets start with 580. 580 at 205, slow traffic coming up on 205 from 11th and on 580 as you approach the Altamont Pass and then it looks all right to livermore and dublin. The problems on 680 from san ramon to pleasanton and into the snow grade. Looking at interstate 880 we have a good drive as well and getting out to the bay bridge toll plaza there is a small delay. Nothing major yet. Lets go back to the desk. An investigation is underway into what caused that massive fire at the Nustar Petroleum storage plant in crockett yesterday afternoon. The fire was contained but the effects are still being felt this morning. One example. All schools in the John Swett School district are closed for the day. Both directions of 80 are open to traffic in a shelter in place order was lifted last night. Sa
But there will be cooler conditions for the next few days. Anything you want to get to right away or just the usual . The usual and i want to remind people that interstate 80 is open and you may have gone to bed not knowing what will happen. It is open now. Lets go to the picture to show you the drive time between the carquinez bridge and the macarthur maze. It looks pretty decent. 20 minutes. Interstate 80 is open after yesterdays incident which closed for the evening commute. You can see traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza is backed up for a 1015 minute wait which is typical and you can see when we put the map up of the east making it, there is a little bit of slow traffic here and there. Highway 4 does have slow traffic and as you look at the izbicki mood we are off to a decent start. The latest on that massive fire at the Petroleum Storage facility in crockett yesterday. The fire is contained. Interstate 80 is open after it was shut down for hours. An Incident Management Team is l
Blowing some of the smoke and air quality across parts of the bay area, we are seeing improvements. So as the winds pick up we are seeing mostly a light westerly wind moving across the bay and across the parts of the delta at 5 mile per hour. So a light wind carrying the smoke to the east near antioch, where temperatures reach 70s. Oakland reaches 66 degrees. More cloud coverage and slightly cooler temperatures. You have a Traffic Alert, mike . I do. Its not for i80 that was closed yesterday during the fire. That opened last night, its been fine this morning. The Traffic Alert for highway 4, notice the green sensors, thats great. But not good ifyoure coming out of pittsburgh. Now three lanes are blocked as crews have arrived. Theres bailey. Well see more traffic through Pleasant Hill and walnut creek. But we should see the lanes clear up in the next few minutes. Well track that, the rest of the bay except the san mateo bridge is clear. Investigators plan to be on site today to learn wh