Look out in the distance there as some fog that is hanging out for some parts of the east bay and right along the coastline, just a couple of pockets of it really all in all across the bay. The vast majority of us are sitting across those Crystal Clear skies. But a little bit of fog right at the coast. And then a bit of cloud cover hanging out right above you in berkeley and oakland to start this morning. Its not going to last for long and really shouldnt interrupt your commute with Crystal Clear conditions to be expected on into the afternoon. Air quality also remains good for most areas just a couple of pockets in there where you might find some moderate conditions like right over the tri valley towards san leandro and up towards the northeastern corner of Solano County this morning as for wind speeds there nice and calm to start the day but as we make our way into the afternoon you will notice a general uptick in wind speed specially into overnight hours tonight. Gusts anywhere from
Contained. It broke out about 3 15 this afternoon off American Canyon road near highway 80. People who lived nearby were asked to evacuate, but that advisory has been lifted. Ktvus andre senior is in American Canyon tonight with an update on the efforts to put out the fire. Reporter were in the parking lot of American Canyon high school where the command center has been set up here. The smell of smoke is very potent in the area, but the good news is for firefighters the winds that caused this fire to explode to hundreds of acres earlier today have since died down. Any other sunday evening this would be consideredcture perfect sunset in American Canyon, but there was no time to admire the beauty because as the lights started to sl disappear, there was an earnest effort to stop the spread of a wildfire burning nearby. Its a worry out here all the time. Reporter wayne with his dog sonny watched the firefight totally aware he lives smack in the middle of a tinderbox amid the dry brush that
Days. 6 a. M. Wednesday through 6 a. M. Saturday. The Largest Health care worker strike in us history. Patients will feel an immediate impact, especially when they need lab work. Diagnostic imaging, pharmacy vision, care. And so on. Because most of the employees who are the bulk of those workers in those facilities would be on strike. August is a conflict resolution expert who was on the former kaiser union negotiating team. He says while doctors and nurses will be ready to go, hospital disruptions could possibly include clerical staff. Meal service and housekeeping, which affects infection control. Kaiser permanente, in a statement, said to mitigate the impact of a strike, they have plans to expand kaisers network of pharmacies to include some neighborhood locations will reschedule some nonemergency and elective procedures hours and are onboarding Critical Care professionals to work during a strike. Kaiser permanente has an obligation to do those things. They certainly want to provide
All south bound lanes at a street in hayward. We checked with reports and they say initially it was on fire. Crews were called to put out the flames. The driver of the big rig was injured. We understand he was taken to the hospital with relatively minor injuries. There were from what we understand, there was a vehicle abandoned on the side of the road. The big rig tried to avoid a collision with that vehicle and wound up hitting a large traffic sign so there are a lot of moving parts to all of this. If we come back to our live shot you can see we have a couple large tow trucks trying to hall the trailer off to the side trying to get the big rig off to the side. Ryan, if we can come over here, we will show the other issue going on. You might be able to see the sign is knocked down in this area as well. So obviously a lot of issues going on here. Ryan, one more thing, apparently this is the owner of the company. He just arrived here on scene and i just heard him tell chp he just arrived
Chp expects to have the scene cleared between 9 00 and 10 00 this morning which is far into the commute. Lets get a live look now. You can see crews have managed to upright the tractor trailer truck involved in the incident. The trailer still on its side and blocking one lane of traffic possibly two. We see that looks like three lanes of south bound traffic along 880 are still shut down at this time. Two lanes of the north bound traffic through hayward shut down at this time. So obviously a major impact on this morning commute. We have video of this accident. We can tell you about what happened this morning. It all happened around 3 00 this morning with reports of an abandoned vehicle south bound 880 near the a street exit in hayward. Cmp rushed to the scene but this accident had already occurreded and the big rig and three other vehicles were all involved. Unclear at this time which vehicles hit which and the sequence of events. We heard the driver of the big rig suffered injuries and