Rescue wing are prepared to leave this morning for florida. They will help provide search and rescue support for those affected by Hurricane Irma. Now, many of these men and women have just returned from texas and hurricane harvey. They say despite the short turnaround, theyre ready to help. The consensus as far as emotion is concerned is however big or small the task at hand, we understand what is at stake, which is lives. Reporter now, last night, ten vehicles and 60,000 pounds of gear left menlo park with task force three search and rescue. About 80 members are deploying. Most are flying but some are driving 2 1 2 days to provide Hurricane Irma relief. Now, some say that this quick turnaround has never been done before, but despite that, they are ready to get into action and to help. Live at moffett field, tiffany wilson, abc7 news. Thank you. Mike nicco is keeping careful tabs on Hurricane Irma. Thank you very much. Hi, everybody. As expected, irma did weaken just a little bit as i
South. Not so much hayward and San Francisco but in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Mountain view 14. San jose 21. Gusts up to 37. Is the low. It will continue to send us cloud cover. Mostly cloudy today. Scattered showers later on into tuesday. 70s, 80s and 90s. Good morning steve. We dont have a lot going on which is good. We like to ease into a monday morning commute. Lets start with Solano County and go with 80 westbound as you drive through vacaville, fairfield, could you junction. It does look pretty good as you drive down. We dont have any major sloman just yet as you cross the cartoonist or the venetian bridges on interstate 80. Also looking at the east shore freeway to the maze about a 16 minute drive. That is as good as it gets. Pretty decent commute. When you get to the bay bridge toll plaza you will see traffic is light. Two Law Enforcement officers were killed in a crash as hurricane hermine moved into florida. Julie bridges and Sergeant Hoffman crashed headon. Investigators say
Area into tomorrow we will cover the entire bay area. We are running well above where we were 24 hours ago on almost 11 double digits. You can see all the cloud cover so look for cloudy to mostly cloudy days. Eventually pushing in tuesday and wednesday meaning we have the possibility of lightning and thunder storms. 70, 80, 90s. Very muggy today. You have a couple things going on. Sal, what we have going on. We are starting on the ultimate crash because of a motorcyclist crash. I want to let you know how very slow it is on 580 and 205. Much slower than normal. Whether it is you are driving or perhaps you are waiting for someone coming in from the valley to get to the worksite, they are going to be late. I would say legitimately so because of the slow traffic caused by the motorcycle wreck. Not on 680 we had a truck that was there in the lanes. That has been cleared, however southbound traffic is still slow leaving pleasanton northbound 680 should start recovery. San mateo bridge we had
Steve on the ultima pass. We are just off of that westbound 580. We have a motorcycle accident westbound 580 just before the north exit. This had been already a slow commute but now it is even slower involving a motorcyclist in a construction truck because it is construction going on on the ultima pass. Now 205 is backed up a lot more than it normally is in 580 is very slow. If you drive from tracy or you are driving in lets say from even further than that and use the tracy triangle you need an extra 20 minutes just to stay on schedule. Hearing this you may want to even leave the house a half hour earlier. Downstream livermore and dublin looks pretty good all the way into castro valley. 880 and oakland looking good in both directions. At the bay bridge we are getting a little bit of a crowd. Seconds ago as south was talking officials in florida announced irma has been downgraded from hurricane to a Tropical Storm moving towards the western florida peninsula. Made landfall yesterday as