Breaking news in San Francisco, an intersection near city hall is shut down and there is a big Investigation Underway. Jessica castro tracking the story. A Murder Investigation is underway there. This is new video from the corner of eddie and van ness. Looks like any other crash, right, but police do think something is suspicious here. Police tell our news room one person inside one of those cars had head trauma and is dead. We dont know how the other people are doing, but you see both cars have extensive damage. In fact, one of those is up on the sidewalk, looks like it crashed into a small tree as well. Part of eddy street is shut down, so you do want to avoid the intersection. Typically take several hours. There is a odd issue happening on the bay bridge right now. You can kind of see it behind us right now. Lets get over to alexis smith. Its going to be kind of a creepy or eerie drive as you head into San Francisco. Most of the lights are off. Still really dont have a reason for th
Investigation. Eddy street is blocked off here at van ness. Im going to continue to get more details and bring you the latest. Now we turn to the weather. Abc7 news meteorologist drew tuma in for mike nicco this morning. There is rain in the forecast. Luckily not today. One final dry day today. We have a live look at sfo just checked, we have no delays at our area airports. The weather cooperating this morning. Youll notice, though, a fair amount of cloud cover in the sky this afternoon compared to yesterday. But despite that, were going to be mild in the afternoon and mid to upper 60s. Thats weather. Lets get a check of traffic. Somebody got the pg e bill paid and we have the lights back on for the bay bridge this morning. It was totally dark this morning for about an hour and a half. It was actually an electrical issue that caltrans solved there. Quick check of drive times. Westbound 80, ab17 across the bay bridge and southbound 101, San Francisco to sfo you are in the green at 17 mi
Averted, the sheriff of butte county warned residents they must remain on alert. Sot in addition to filling the holes in the emergency spillway, the department of Water Resources has increased the amount of water released from the primary spillway. Which has caused no additional damage that has reduced the level of the lake sot bill croyle acting director, dept of Water Resourcesand while authorities believe the risk has been reduced to acceptable levels, they say this Emergency Repair is just the beginning of whats to come. With the all clear the thousands of people who were evacuated are now making their way home. Kron fours alecia reid is live in yuba city where she met with people who were forced from their homes. Alecia, how relieved are everyone tonight . In Washington White House Spokesman Sean Spicer says President Trump is keeping a close eye on the Public Safety crisis in oroville. The situation is a textbook example of why we need to pursue a major infrastructure package in
Im steve aveson. And im pam moore. The federal government has just approved aid to support the rebuilding effort. Grant lodes is tracking the latest developments in oroville. He joins us now. Grant tonight fema actually approved two of governor browns requests for federal aid. One was aunrelateda to oroville. It was to help communities hurt by januarys destructive storms. But another was to help with the crisis at lake oroville. As crews work feverishly to shore up that emergency spillway. All day. Helicopter s. Working in tandem. Carrying bags of rocks and sand. To fill holes in the lakes emergency spillway. And that work appears to be going well, because the biggest news this afternoon came when the sheriff lifted a mandatory Evacuation Order for those 190thousand People Living downstream of lake oroville. He says the risks of a catastrophic collapse off the dams emergency spillway has been reduced significantly. And the water expert hopes the compromised emergency spillway will not
As two helicopters worked in tandem carrying bags of rocks to fill holes in the oroville dams emergency spillway authorities have lifted an Evacuation Order that forced nearly 200thousand people from their homes. Sot kory honea, butte county sheriffand while authorities believe the risk of a catastrophic collapse off the dams emergency spillway has been averted, the sheriff of butte county warned residents they must remain on alert. Sot in addition to filling the holes in the emergency spillway, the department of Water Resources has increased the amount of water released from the primary spillway. Which has caused no additional damage that has reduced the level of the lake sot bill croyle acting director, dept of Water Resourcesand while authorities believe the risk has been reduced to acceptable levels, they say this Emergency Repair is just the beginning of whats to come. As people return home. There are still serious fears about what could happen in the next few days. Fears because