Number two. We will go to christian and talk about more. Tell us more. Reporter e. 2nd st. In benicia said and i photojournalist we arrived and saw the scene and stopped to bring you the live pictures so you can take a look. Benicia Police Issued an alert about the incident via twitter at around 7 30 this morning saying the refinery was experiencing a power outage bit and that led to flaring and smoke as valero vegan the fuel. Additionally there was no cause for concern and shortly before 8 00, 20 minutes later, pd issued an alert saying any businesses or structures downwind of valero should evacuate the area. We heard from people in the area there was heavy smoke and some were reported nausea or having trouble breathing. Benicia police have told us Benicia Unified School had issued a caution alert saying Robert Semple and Matthew Turner schools students should shelter in place where they are now and all the students in the district are expected to be safe if they are at school. They a
Sonoma county. And a little cool there for tomorrow. Back to sonoma, santa rosa, not much but looks to be increasing here. Marin county and right along the san mateo coast and in San Francisco. Look at the sign of thunderstorms coming up on 5. Thats a sign of things to come here. This sends a lot of instability. Cloudy, cooler, light rain in the mix, thunderstorm in the valley continuing throughout the day. The cooling continues. A lot of 60s here on the temps. Sal, 7 01. Any reports of rain . Not in the main part of the bay area. Bay bridge, east bay, San Francisco, yes, but, in Sonoma County and parts of marin county and to the north, as you said. Thats causing traffic to be slow. Steve, of course, spot on with his weather. At the bay bridge toll plaza, there is not a big delay. Car pool lanes are doing very well. No major problem on to the stand. 880 is slowing early. Slow. Usually, if its slow, its 7 02 which leads me to below there he is something going on here. A crash southbound
This sunday, happy may first. Happy may were finally there. Im annie yu. Im not feeling there quite yet. Not yet. Good to see you. Caityln roth of course is here us with and for a very important reason right off the top here. Boy, it is pouring outside. It really s i know, really battled the rain on my drive i in. Raindrops you can see the cameras northwest d. C. Down at the white hoution. Maybe president obama and michelle sleeping in after a late night and on this dreary morning first lady and president himself deserve that after a successful night which well talk about this morning. Storm tracker radar showing showers moving through. We have a lot of rain here and steady rain through the noon hor u yesterday gray skies and cool weather and we have that and the falling rain today. We can use a little rain out there and were certainly getting it this morning. Zooming in on the beltway in the district. You see mainly light rain gaithersburg to south. This is more widespread across the
This low giving us an unusual pattern, and probably going into saturday. Like brain and breezy at times, and it cooling will continue, 60s with a few low 70s. And if you are 101 north bound, you could encounter some like traffic issues. As a matter fact, since you mentioned there was rain, im going to manually drag my maps. Petaluma and santa rosa. I do not see a lot of slow traffic, but there does appear to be something going on in petaluma. Northbound 101, the over crossing an accident. At the southbound traffic is beginning to fill in, so steve is absolutely right. And if there is a little bit of rain, im looking at that little bit of slow traffic heading south. It is generally slow anyway, but the rain never helps the commute. We will keep an eye on that. Thank you in the control room for actually listening to what i am saying. Thank you. Traffic will be busy at the toll plaza of the bay bridge, and it is dry at the toll plaza. This is a 25 minute delay, a look at interstate 880, a