The difference is its much more stable. Its a combustible liquid instead of flammable and that doesnt cause some of the volatility issues that we would have with gasoline. Slippery . Yes it is. Is that big concern out here . Well, it certainly can burn. The temperatures are out today and it makes it more difficult to ignite. So its a very slim possibility if you have an ips dent like that. Well its not something they want people driving over. Thats why the cleanup, most of the spill was in the area where you see the work crews right now. What theyve been doing is putting down absorbent and trying to stop up as much of it as they can. That process will wrap up at some point fairly soon and theyre going to get all four lanes open. But at this point, this is still an area to avoid. In Laurel Brad Bell abc 7 news. All right. Thanks. And as you know this mornings accident really made trips around town a lot longer for many drivers who were stuck in that miles long backup. Our diane cho spok
Quickly throughout the rnoon, despite this mornings rain and sleet. We begin with Team Coverage from the storm center and meteorologist tom kieran and amelia segal. Around predawn rain and everything wet, but it quickly ramped up. Heaviest snows now into the afternoon. Well see visibility go down. Continue to avoid travel through the afternoon evening. Right now a couple batches of moderate snow now. The areas in white, were going to get it in waves. Some moderate snow for a time then it tapers off a bit to the south and west. Another wave of moderate to heavy snow in West Virginia into southwestern virginia into tennessee. That next wave coming in later this afternoon is what will give us an additional maybe three or four on what has already fallen on top of whats come down this morning. Right now the area in white, snowing fairly hard in montgomery and howard counties. Fairfax, southern Loudoun County much ofPrince William and in prince georges and anne arundel. Amelia is looking at
Trying to avoid or at least end the federal Government Shutdown. House took three votes to restore funding to specific areas veterans, d. C. Government and National Parks and museums. All three votes failed. Delia goncalves is live on capitol hill looking for signs of progress this morning. A new day, new hope, delia. Reporter we certainly hope so. A lot of those folks who were furloughed yesterday heading home probably sleeping in this morning, certainly hope there will be some kind of compromise very soon. A sign of that hope is that we are starting to see just a small handful of Congress Members who seem to be bending to the pressure, willing to compromise a bit but the blame game continues. President obama calling this the republican shutdown. Speaker boehner blaming democrats for slamming the door on negotiations. Case in point, last nights piecemeal bill, the house voted on that would have eased some of the pain immediately felt by folks by reopening National Parks, restoring fun
Actually drop another tenant degrees. Here is a live look outside from our conditions outside. Santa rosa currently is below. Low 40s for daly city. Satellite and radar shows really not too much but cool air has filtered in. We also saw smoke yesterday. We may see a another opportunity as roundup of the work week. O there will be here to stay for the next couple of days. It is not as surprised as we have a freeze watch in effect until thursday. San francisco has temperatures that will be in the 40s. The ballets will get down right frigid for the next couple of mornings. Heres a look at future cast 4. By noon most of us will be in the 40s and we may see a few 50s pop up for the afternoon. This will be for places like San Francisco and oakland. By 8 00 p. M. Tonight the temperatures will drop back down to the 30s and 40s pretty Cool Conditions for the next 24 hours a closer look picture highs, oakland will have a high of 50. 494 concord. Low 50s for san jose and sunnyvale. Vallejo will h
Upper 30 is along the bay shoreline and we have done even hit the morning lows. The temperatures may drop another 5 degrees. This cold snap is not going anywhere soon and tomorrow it may be even colder as we take a look at satellite and radar were waking up to Clear Conditions yesterdays we received snow and more active weather is coming friday and saturday. The possibility for rain and then snow with levels drop in a thousand feet. As we take a look at the headlines it will be as sunday and highs will range from upper 40s to low 50s. Even colder conditions for tomorrow. We will continue with a chilly morning and i will break down your 7 day around the bay coming up. We have Team Coverage of the chilly temperatures this morning. We are watching how cold it is out in walnut creek. Kron4 Jackie Sissel is live with more. At 6 02 a. M. It is 27 degrees. The temperatures dropped and when i first arrived it was 28 degrees. I have on a pair of gloves, a long john on shirt and a hoodie over my