Well, good morning to you. Im reena ninan. And im phillip mena. Lets start with that Severe Weather rolling across the middle of the nation. At least two tornadoes were reported in the chicago area late yesterday. The areas they were spotted in are very rural. No initial reports of any damage from the tornadoes. Take a look at this. The scene at Wrigley Field in chicago. A strong thunderstorm bringing the tigers cubs game to a haul. The delay lasted more than two hours before the game could start again. Several suburban chicago areas were hit hard by the storms. Its believed a Lightning Strike ignited at least one house fire. At one point nearly 15,000 customers were without power. The radar, you can see the system swirling in the midwest. Lots of rain coming from those storms plus triple digit temperatures. Accuweathers Justin Povick tracking it all. Good morning, justin. Reporter phillip and reena thanks, good morning. Another steamy start, another steamy afternoon on the way for the
Map. We have Golden Gate Bridge, light traffic, southbound four lanes of traffic for wednesday morning commute into San Francisco. San jose, 101 at 888, looking good with headlights headed in the northbound direction and a problem, still, out there, in the sunol area southbound 680 beyond 84 an early accident is now clearing from the lanes. Sue is here for leyla. A bay area lawmaker is pushing to ease the commute for people who travel between the north and east bay with a third lane to be opened on the richmondsan rafael bridge now but caltran said they have years of work ahead. Amy hollyfield is near the bridge with more. The congestion from the bridge is backing up on to highway 101 in marin county, commuters say it is a nightmare. A lawmaker said the solution is simple the idea is to open up the shoulder and turn it into a third lane and do it as soon as possible. Assemblyman wants this process done by the end of next month. All they have to do he said is pain the new lane and commu
I will have an update and a new crash in hayward at 6 10. Developing news in San Francisco, bart officials are investigating an explosion that should down the montgomery street station for a short time last night before midnight on the third rail. A train was damaged. The police put out the flames. Crews shut down the situation. Service is back to normal. In time in the commute much the damaged train is inspected. Uber is taking swift action after a driver was accuses of Sexual Assaulting a passenger. Matt keller is at Police Headquarters in palo alto with the story. This is a creepy and disturbing story. The uber driver got his own ride in the back after pose car all the way to jail. This is 35yearold suspect, the redwood city man arrested in his home on sunday morning, taken to the santa clara jail for felony Sexual Battery and misdemeanor stalking. He took a couple to the home in Portola Valley at 11 00 on saturday night but the couple forgot a cell phone in the car, they called him
Someone around to the last. Heavy drive time, westbound 580 tracy to dublin is an hour and nine minutes. It started with a disabled vehicle early today. Antioch to conquer is 22 minutes. Southbound 101 san rafael to San Francisco in the ideal let at 18 minutes. Breaking news from italy a 6 6. 2 magnitude earthquake caused extensive damage in amatrice. Many are trapped. Jessica is tracking the story. I have boat look from the area, with live images, the death toll right now is standing at 38, but we expect it to go up. Also, i am with a seismologist with the u. S. Geological survey, said damage could be in the billions. A lot of this is riceless. This is brand if you video we have just gotten in, the last few minutes, a huge building completely destroyed. Italy has the old build, and infrastructure which makes the country beautiful but the ages of the building is making the destruction widespread. Here are survivors because we have seen a last these images, as well, this is video of a w
I am reggie aqui. I am kristen sze. Our other top story a homicide suspect is in custody after major police separation in the south by. Matt keller is at the Police Department with more on the developing story. The operation was a egypt effort . A egypt effort . It was. The press conference just ended with the homicide june 10 in East Palo Alto and the murder suspect was arrested this morning in san jose. We consider him to be armed and dangerous. And felt he was very much a threat to our community and any of the communities he was visit ing. Her is video from sky 7 over the Apartment Building on north 2nd street where the murder suspect, 23yearold mccoy was arrested. Police conducted the raid. Investigators say mccoy shot and scaled 3yearold christopher bucket related to a personal dispute that could have involved other criminal activity they were involved in but there are no specifics. Another man was arrested during the raid for violating his parole. Police are not releasing a photo