behind new york. and transportation officials say the city is seeing more cars than ever due to uber and lyft. so chances of conflict are much higher between bicyclists, pedestrians, and cars, all competing on these narrow streets. keep in mind, most of the daytime population is concentrated in the downtown area. that s also where many of the fatalities occur. in 2014, the city launched vision zero to reduce fatalities. since then, city workers added more protective bike lanes. constructed street calms measures and updated traffic signals to give pedestrians more time and a head start in the crosswalk. but critics say without drastic measures they won t be able to cut pedestrian fatalities down to zero any time soon. walk sf is a nonprofit that advocates for pedestrian safety. what more can the city do? we need drivers to pay attention to the rules of the road and follow them and we need the sfpd s help in enforcing those rules. we also need to change speed limits in san fr
but again, member, now that the morning commute is getting a bit busier, we will see more people on the surface streets also. so bart might be a good choice to try to avoid that mess. the drive from the 27 it s the go from highway 4 to the macarthur maze. we see delays at the bay bridge because of this also. so a lot of busy conditions on eastshore freeway. let s go to jackie and check in with the latest on the trouble spot. this is the eastshore freeway as you work your way near san pablo dam road where the accident is. the chp officer i spoke to minutes ago said in his 16 years, he s never seen anything quite like this. this is what it looks like after a big rig crashes and catches fire. and the big rig was caring about 1000 chickens. a lot of them perished in the accident, but a lot of them are still alive. right now, the main focus is chp and animal control working together to try to save the chickens that are alive. that s what you are looking at. this happened about 3
chickens on the roadway and a nearby hillside. we will go live to the scene to hear what is happening now. reporter: good morning. officers are continuing to round up the chickens. you can see them behind me. they are actually climbing up the hillside where they found a group of 20 of them huddled together. some of the chickens that were still in the cages when this crash happened are also alive. we re talking about 1000 chickens total involved in this crash. a few hundred to provide. they were walking all around lanes of traffic in their working to get all of them secure with animal control. there is still a lot to do. all remain lanes remain closed. when do you think lanes will reopen? we are making efforts. we are trying to get some of the cages with larger chickens out of here. we are trying to get the chicken still alive out of your away from the scene so we can begin to pick up the debris. we have a structural engineer that will check out part of the they should be he
muni had more work to do to clean up and dry on fix the faulty system. there were backups of stations throughout the city and thousands of writers had to reroute their morning commute. i figured i would be okay. 12 the good news is that everything is expected to be normal for the evening commute. and san francisco, anne makovec, kpix 5. i m emily turner and in just minutes ago into the newsroom, we got new information on a tractor- trailer hit and one that happened this morning. it actually turned fatal. we know that according to pedestrian advocates, commercial bigger get a man and dropped him for several blocks in officers found the victim just after 5:30 this morning. at the intersection of marketing fifth street. the coroner confirmed the 54- year-old michael evan succumbed to his injuries and the hospital later this morning. the suspt ed the scene. police caught up with the driver just down the street from our studio on broadway. officers close off the stretch of bro
driving, one that officers say is being shown to people on websites like youtube. one of these handheld running water bottles works wonders. for turning to thin full self-griefg, full autonomous on the highway with autopilot. reporter: a water bottle strapped to the steering wheel of a tesla while the car is on autopilot more. chp says some drivers are doing this to trick the car s sensors into thinking they still have their hands on the steering wheel. the car is programmed to alert drivers if their hands are off the wheel too long in case they aren t paying attention. i need to put some resistance on it. otherwise, it complains at you. this is supposed to be a driver assist feature. it s not designed to let the vehicle do all the driving. this video s been watched more than 20,000 times and there are others like it on the internet. some use an orange instead of a water bottle wedged into the curve of the steering wheel. these tesla drivers in mountain view tell us