Drought surcharge and a rate hike could also hit customers this summer. Water wasters could face 100 fines per month. East bay muds goal is to have customers cut back 20 compared to their 2013 water use. Third of our water use is outdoors. The best way that we can achieve a 20 cutback in water use is through outdoor restrictions starting now. Reporter contra costa water customers could face a mandatory 25 cut when their board votes tomorrow. Back here live right on cue. We have the sprinklers going here. We assume this family is on spring break or on vacation because theres in car in the driveway. These are the first actions by Water Districts. Bay area Water Districts, in response to governor browns cutback for call for a cutback of 25 for the average Water District. We are live in alameda, im ryan takeo, kpix 5. Todays meeting is at 1 15 and the public is invited to comment on the proposals. A man who threatened to jump off a san jose freeway overpass brought traffic to a sneer stand
Lifeguards are telling us that conditions are just too dangerous. Even if you get up to your knees, you can still get pulled out, especially in those areas where you see the water is kind of flat between two big waves. That indicates a kind of canyon where the rip currents are sailing out to sea many times faster than a person can swim. People at ocean beach have drowned. Ankledeep only. Thank you, john. Lets talk more now about the High Surf Advisory and how long its going to be in effect. Chief meteorologist bill martin joins us. What kind of waves are we talking about here . The real story, were combining the two, record heat possible the next few days, a few degrees above some records in areas. Well talk about that. But we have combined with big surf. Big surf and warm weather take people to the beach. Thats when it becomes dangerous. The reason . San franciscos ocean beach, one of the more dangerous beaches in the world in terms of rip tides. Thats why were doing the story right n
Clear skies. Looks like its shaping up to be another Beautiful Day this weekend. Welcome to mornings on 2 its saturday, january 25th. Im claudette claudine wong. Im merck m mark mibach. I was Walking Around the newsroom asking people where do you live . What was it like in your neighborhood . Some valley locations are stuck in the fog, so some areas like yesterday afternoon, concord, 60. The beach weather we promised did come through but temperatures in the low 70s. In areas along the coast and mid to upper 70s over parts of monterey, a live look, isnt that a beautiful view . But yes the low clouds and fog back again. Inner valley locations its another tough one. Visibility down to about 2 miles in areas from santa rosa stretching through napa and its all across areas of the north bay, around the American Canyon and stretching through areas of the delta as well. 4 mileperhour visibility in concord. 3 livermore. This is a change. Livemore yesterday, you had pretty good visibility, not s
Rolled and next thing i knew we were pushing out the emergency exit and i was outside and there were people screaming and bleeding and we helped them out and theyre okay now. 7 train cars flew off the track. Some cars ending up on their sides. Others landing mostly upright. Rail traffic between new york and philadelphia is shutdown today as the investigation continues. Philadelphia mayor said theres no way that Train Service is going through philly in the next week. Right. This is you know its always horrific and tragic to see this but we all take that train at some point. Its home to everybody. We go to d. C. A lot of us take the train. Yeah we choose the train over the airlines because generally youre far more certain to get there on time. Its nice. This was the regional. This was the northeast regional. Still. Still. Its huge and packed. Same track. We all go through there and baltimore. By far the most heavily travelled rail. This is inevitably going to raise questions about spendi
In the world and the communicators is on location. This week, well look at some of the new technologies coming out from c. E. S. International and talk to policymakers as well. This is the communicators on cspan from las vegas. One of the larger exhibitors here at c. E. S. International in vegas is intel. And joining us now is Andrea Raines who is a tech evangelist. Is that your official title at intel . Yes. Great title. Thank you. What are you displaying this year thats new and then i want to talk about the contest youre having. Really a lot of things here at c. E. S. Were showing a lot of our wearable devices that came out in 2014. A lot were announced in partnership last year. Were also show casing a lot of the products that came out of the wearable challenge we also announced last year. The grand prize winner won 500,000 for their project. This was a wearable contest. A wearable contest. They had to usain intel product. Yes. Okay. What was the winner . What was the actual a flying