tonight. the full forecast is coming up shortly. dan? spencer, thanks. viewer stephanie tweeted us this video showing us rain in oakland today. we want to see what the weather looks like where you live. just post videos and pictures on hoo line. a sideshow on the bay bridge happened last night. these dirt bike riders may have thought they got away, but the california highway patrol caught up with them in the end. jonathan bloom has a block at this flying command post and where the chp says it s better than giving chase on the ground, new at 6:00. reporter: it s not every day you see dirt bikes and atvs popping wheelies on the bay bridge. they are giving me so much anxiety. reporter: alex morandez short sh video. a motorcycle cop watched this from behind. there s no reason to pursue them. it s a danger for the public and to our officers we don t need to take when we have an eye in the sky. reporter: this airplane is the chp s newest counterterrori crime fightin
today brought most of the bay area cloudy, rainy, windy weather, but a change of what we ve seen recently. abc7 news was in martinez today where people had their umbrellas up at lunchtime. spencer christian is here with what s ahead in the forecast. people have sung songs about spring showers and there s going to be a lot of sing thing week. here s live doppler 7. you can see we ve got showers scattered across much of the bay area and some pockets of heavy downpours in the east bay, moving from berkeley eastward, at around walnut creek, danville getting little downpours, further east near bay point and brentwood. heavy downpours in that area. here s look at our storm impact scale. tonight s storm rates one, windy conditions along the coast. for the evening rush, exercise caution, because these scattered showers will produce slick roadways, especially as it gets dark. forecast animation starting at 7:00. we ll continue to see areas of showers and the areas of rainfall
crews working to put out the fire as drivers wait for traffic on get going. wayne is on the san rafael end of the bridge with the impact right now. wayne? good afternoon, ladies, this is a look at the richmond bridge, westbound direction. they are not affected by the backup, but look at them, they are anyway. the actual mess is on the other side. on the video, it happened at 8:02 the peak of the morning rush and the big-rig in the eastbound guardrail toledo a fire that turned the truck cab to the axle, the cargo was contaminated soil and it does not burn. no injuries and no other vehicles involved unless you count thousands of commuters who were stuck in the eastbound direction and the westbound direction, they are not happy about their options. here is one of them. i may work in marin today. backup three hours old. it is a backup both directions. c.h.p. is diverting traffic eastbound off the bridge in san quentin and sends cars back that were on the bridge exiting off th
so in order to have fire access this area, we posed down northbound 101 at lakeville and we are sending everybody off the highway. you said stewart drive, just on the east side of highway 101 just as you are getting into the heart of downtown the loma area is that correct? yes. the fire is spreading so quickly. we are sending up a couple of areas for the residence to go to at mckenzie and cortez in the safeway parking lot of some temporary places. can you tell us anything about the kind of structures that have been burned. is it the homes that have been lost? yes, this is a residential neighborhood. the only thing right now that are burning are houses. again, how many houses do you think have been lost? we are unsure on the damage to the houses, but i confirm at least four houses were on fire. and the fire is on scene as they have requested mutual aid to the three-alarm fire. the police department have gone in evacuating all the residence in a 300 block of stewart
as were issued this morning. the fire started yesterday afternoon. right near the top of loma mountain. it has burned through 1000 acres. at this point it is 5% contained. jeanine is live in the santa cruz mountains. reporter: we have driven all the way up this road. this is a very rural road. and from here, we stopped as soon as we saw flames and could get a cell phone signal. and you can see we apologize, it looks like we have lost her. it is important to know, that people are being told to essentially be ready to evacuate their homes, should the fire continue to push towards their homes. we are seeing pictures from one man s home he was loading up what he needs but he says, that he is going to stay as long as he can. he is concerned about looters. and, we can bring in this live picture. and, we are over orange active flame. that s on the left-hand side of the screen. and it appears that it is close to a number of structures. you see animals, horses, the it appe