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and we are already tracking a very busy start to your thursday morning commute so be prepared. be careful out there. a crash blocking all lanes right now in antioch. this is westbound 4 at a street. quite a bit of debris from that accident in the lanes, as well. and they are hoping to get some of those lanes reopened here any minute so we ll keep you posted. in the meantime, you will need to use an alternate route. if you want to use somersville or kent street, you can get around that area. over at the richmond parkway, we are seeing slowdowns in both directions. eastbound 80 at mcdonald avenue, this crash has been out there for a while. two lanes are closed but speeds are dipping just below the limit there. so not too bad. but please be careful. lots of ponding on the roadways. we ll have more in traffic coming up. back to you guys. people in areas scarred by the wine country wildfires are concerned the storm could cause more problems. among the major concerns, flo ....
department and fire department are still trying to figure out what may have caused this crash in the first place. it s very unusual because the vehicle was an automatic. it wasn t a stick. so we don t know exactly why the car started rolling down the hill in the first place. live in san francisco, andria borba, kpix5. now to that jailhouse interview, hawaii fugitive randall saito said he escaped to california when it became clear he was never going to win his freedom. kpix5 reporter maria medina is live in stockton with more on what he had to say. maria? reporter: yeah. you know, he actually was candid. he was articulate and intelligent. he said he had nothing to lose. his plan was to be out here for four weeks. he left in three days. i m not a sex offender. i m not a psychopath. reporter: in a jail jumpsuit at the san joaquin county jail randall saito talked freely about almost everything, his escape, his 72 hours of freedom and the murder he committed. the w ....
community to bear. reporter: oakland councilwoman rebecca kaplan sits on the air quality district board. she wants the district to look at health impacts before issuing a permit. she gave us this graphic. the crematorium is here. east oakland is highlighted in red. this shows that we have the highest pollution levels, the greatest cancer risk and risk of other diseases for this community right around this crematorium. reporter: aside from air pollution, four asian workers at the business across the street quit their job saying it s bad funshwa. in areas that are affluent and where there are more white residents this would never happen. reporter: the air quality district puts the blame on the city of oakland. that s because even though the city council voted down the crematorium, the planning department actually gave a land use permit to the company before that vote and a judge says this council cannot backtrack. by the way, the workers inside did not want to t ....
anyone down. speeds in the green through that section. slowdowns as you are making your way along westbound 580 heading into livermore from 205. it s about a 23-minute trip to 680. and then you re back in the green as you make your way towards castro valley. bay bridge toll plaza, a bit of a backup in the cash lanes. 10 minutes from the maze into san francisco. the storm has passed mostly but the damage is done. and this could just be the beginning of the problems this rainy season. joe vazquez shows us the new concerns in the north bay. reporter: here in fountain grove not far from the spot where the hilton hotel burned down five weeks ago, there are other problems exposed by last night s storm. crews stabilized a small street. the city is working to replace the drain pipes that got melted during the wildfires. those pipes run for 28 miles under the streets here in fountain grove. overnight the water went downhill where there s no longer storm drains in place and ....
something the constituents should be aware of so they can make an important decision as well. reporter: . she said she said she s gotten no response. voters were left in the dark. about a month after sending the letter she meant with fuentes. he told her bocanegra just needs to learn to keep his hands to himself. fuentes went further for his friend. so he had asked me to rescind the letter and that basically they would draft a statement that i would have to sign onto basically stating the allegations were not true. she didn t rescind the her, but she did reluctantly sign a statement drafted by fuentes office. the statement was not made public, but pinto had regrets signing it, especially now since she knows she was misled. honestly i was really disgusted, especially because as females we try to bring forward in his first campaign and, you know, maybe if at that time he could have addressed the allegations, maybe things would have been department of. and ....