Bay area fre live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. Breaking news tonight, this fiery big rig crash brought traffic to a standstill on a bay area freeway. Good evening. Im ken bastida. Im elizabeth cook. At this hour cars are moving at a crawl through the 580 680 interchange in dublin. A driver share this video on instagram after passing the smoky scene earlier this evening. Just after 6 00 when the big rig was headed west, it got caught in a College Reaction crash and burst into flames in a Chain Reaction crash and burst into flames. This is the scene about 90 minutes ago, the truck smoldering still as a single line of traffic snakes by. Another driver broadcast the fireball on facebook live. Amazingly no one was hurt, but right now just one lane of westbound 580 is open. So avoid the area if you can. Traffic also a nightmare tonight in the Santa Cruz Mountains, highway 17 shut down for hours during the man hunt for a bank robber. The highway finally back open and righ
Into moss and montara beaches including Half Moon Bay. 50s common around east palo alto, into los altos. We have 50s also very common from morgan hill through gilroy into santa clara. Meanwhile, east of the bay from the low 50s around danville and tassajara also blackhawk to 53 degrees brentwood, tracy, oakley, discovery bay. North bay numbers, a bit of a wind, 10 to 15. Stinson beach visibility unlimited in the low 50s. 53 degrees in sonoma. We have fullon sunshine in the far reaches of the north bay. We have rain back in the seven day forecast. Well pinpoint those dates coming up. I have good news for pleasanton. The Traffic Alert on westbound 580 before 680 has been canceled. So chp concluded right on time. This was a big rig accident out there blocking the four left lanes involving a fire and a couple other cars, as well. So traffic is now all lanes open and moving through all the lanes on westbound 580 before 680. But those residual backups still remain. Speeds at just 28 miles an
Kpix 5s anne makovec is live at Santa Clara County sheriffs headquarters with the very latest. Anne. Reporter the Sheriffs Department has saturated patrols in the santa cruz mountain. They have been hunting for the suspected bank robber for more than 24 hours now. He is considered armed and dangerous and he was last seen last night. It started when this man robbed a bank of america in Scotts Valley at around 10 a. M. Yesterday. 12 hours later and 15 miles away, this is where he was last reported seen. The guy was in between me and the cops so i wasnt about to wait around if they start shooting, i just put it in reverse and backed straight up. Reporter but there were no shots. Just another slippery getaway for the suspected bank robber. But lets back up. Officers say after he robbed the bank, the man hopped into a getaway car and took off on northbound 17 hitting several vehicles along the way. Scotts Valley Police officers chased him over the hill into Santa Clara County. One of them o
Its a disaster. Reporter trump has spent much of his 1st week in office signing executive orders. And will do so again later this afternoon. Its time that the American People had a president fighting hard for its citizens like other countries do for theres. Reporter also meeting with gop lawmakers is british Prime Minister theresa may. The 1st foreign leader to meet with trump when he hosts are at the white house tomorrow. Back to the developing news. There is an hours long backup on highway 17 following a bank robbery. A police chase and shots fired. The started as a bank robbery in Scotts Valley in santa cruz county. This is the suspect authorities are looking for. Not much to go on. The suspect has his face covered. The search is going on right now in the Redwood Estates area. That is near the reservoir on highway 17 in the santa cruz mountains. Jesse gary joins us live. Reporter i have learned highway 17 southbound, it goes up the hill and down into santa cruz, that will open possi
They were hoping for 6 pm but the has been pushed back. We dont know whether its going to open any time soon in either direction . They had said 6 pm for one direction. But now they are not giving any time at all next they were hoping for 6 pm for the southbound lanes. Right now we dont know when they will open those backup. When they do, it will be the southbound direction as the northbound lanes will still be under investigation. They will be looking at the crime scene. There is no good alternate route around highway 17 between san jose and santa cruz. Exactly. They were mentioning highway 9 and highway 35, they are both shut down because of the weather and mudslides. Anyone that needs to take highway 17, dont, because youre going to encounter this mess. Thank you. Today President Trump reached out to Congressional Republicans to support his agenda on immigration and building a wall on the border with mexico. The white house floated the idea of a 20 percent import tax to help pay for