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Before you reach the dublin interchange. And you can see all the slow traffic now coming through the livermore valley. Its also very foggy. We cant even see traffic in our dub cam in that area. You can see the fog across the span of the golden gate bridge. They did the lane change. They have four southbound lanes open now in the commute direction. Bay bridge toll plaza metering lights turned on early at 5 46. We are stacked up to the 880 overcrossing. Muni experiencing major delays but should be...

Cloudy a smidgeon of sunshine toward the coast. Looking out over the bay not bad right now. The temperatures are in the 40s and the 50s. By the afternoon, plenty of sunshine. And the numbers about 86 degrees in livermore. 81 in san jose. 79 in redwood city. And about 63 degrees in pacifica. All right. Lets check the roads with elizabeth. Thank you, lawrence. And before the san mateo bridge toll plaza we have a stalled big rig so it is blocking one lane. I have been watching our sensors. Though h...

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