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Blocked. Not sure how long. Sounds like it was a major one and several vehicles got flat tires before they put the closure in place. A soggy bay bridge. The metering lights on 5 30 this morning. Slow drive approaching the bridge. Once you make it on the bridge, looking okay. Well look at drive times in less than ten. Thanks, alexis. Searchers will be out at Alameda Creek where officers believe a young woman died when she lost control of her car and drove into the creek. She and her car are still out there near niles canyon and palomares road. Elissa harrington is live near the scene for us. Such a sad story. The driver, an 18yearold woman from tracy, has been missing since saturday morning. Divers and search teams have not opinion automobile been able to get into the water because its been too dangerous. This is what the Alameda Creek looks like now, more like a river, swollen ....
Bart is running shorter trains so they are packed with people. And thats affected trains systemwide so bart is ordering parts for these cars that normally takes about five months for the parts to come in so bart is trying to work with the manufacturer to make that a little bit shorter amount of time so they can get these cars back on track. It will cost up to 100,000. Lets check in with Gianna Franco in the kcbs Traffic Center for the latest on your friday morning commute. Gianna. Thanks, anne. Because of the bart closures you might see extra busy conditions on 4 this morning. Thats the case right now. Slowandgo conditions westbound 4 as you work your way hillcrest to highway 242. Drive times from 7 minutes now to 11 minutes with speeds down to 25 Miles Per Hour. Thats that area of highway 4. A lot of folks might use that ....
Showing. Most of the heavy activity has moved on out to the east. But we are dealing with light rain, finally now for the south bay. It took a while for this wet weather to arrive in the south bay. But now, light rain for much of the santa clara valley. There is light rain also in toward san mateo. A little heavier right on the san mateo bridge. Light showers extending from hayward on up to oakland, berkeley, richmond. And there are a few areas of light rain for the east bay inland valleys. Theres another batch of rain just offshore for tonight. You can see it here on the satellite view. This is what we are dealing with right now. There is another wave right there out in the pacific. So that is going to come through during the overnight hours for tonight. Rainfall amounts so far have been heaviest in the north bay. Up an over three quarter of an inch in some places. Some of the wettest spots in the hill up and over an inch. There is more to come. Ill talk about the weekend coming up. P ....
Reporter im cate caugiran live at concord bart station where a teenage boy caught on fire. Well tell you why police say it was an accident. Reporter folks in san jose sleeping a little easier this morning. An arson suspect is in jail. Im kiet do with a live report coming up. And fire danger remains high in the bay area with a red flag warning continuing this morning. The latest problem area near the San Mateo County coast. Fire started in san gregorio about 9 p. M. Last night. It is contained this morning. There were no injuries and no buildings burned. Investigators trying to find out who started the fire. Unbelievably dry conditions outside, record dry conditions and now, we have High Pressure overhead. We have seen some strong gusty winds with an offshore wind. And yeah, that is just a recipe for dangerous fire conditions. So red flag warnings are up again this morning un ....
Train echoes that means we are having waves of moderate to heavy rain roll over the same areas two or three or four times now and thats going to create flooding. Good news the winds are very light now so hopefully the trees can hold on. The rain is heaviest during the morning, then scattered showers for the afternoon. You are going to deal with the worst of it now through 9 00. Roads are slick, wet, a lot of accidents, east shore freeway, earlier accident in the westbound direction past Golden Gate Fields, just jammed bumpertobumper that accident has been cleared. Eastbound at gilman other direction that accident cleared. A bit of moderate slowing through that area of Richmond Berkeley and very slow commute on 80 westbound this morning. 24 west wilder accident still blocking two lanes San Francisco north 280 accide ....