This aqueduct built in 1927 in oakland is still in use today. East bay m. U. D. Representatives say there are miles of pipelines like this that need an upgrade. Its more expensive to allow things to break completely than to replace them before they break down. Reporter add to that need the fact that customers are using less water thanks to the drought and conservation efforts. When ratepayers cut their use last year, east bay m. U. D. Lost 30 million in revenue out of nearly 1 billion budget. I realize the predicament the east bay m. U. D. Is in. Reporter the board of directors is scheduled to vote this afternoon on a 19 rate increase. If approved, customers will pay 9 more on their water bill starting tomorrow and another 9. 25 more a year from now. Ive done everything i can over the years. Im 70, to conserve water. Now unpunished for it. This is not meant to punish at all. We are simply trying to maintain our system. Reporter east bay m. U. D. Said the rate increase will pay for part
Is deeply saddened by this tragic event and we would like to express our deepest sympathies to the family and friends affected. Back here in the bay area, right now the Alameda County Sheriffs Office is what to pull a vehicle from a fremont creek and hopefully recover the body of a young woman was behind the wheel. Alex savage is live now with that carbon into the water. It is an unusual situation here for rest yours. Nails canyon road is shut down in both directions here as rescuers begin the process of pulling a scar from alameda creek, where it has been since this weekend. The Sheriffs Office says they just had to wait for these Rushing Waters to recede somewhat before they could even attempt this recovery. What they did was, the Water Department shut several floodgates upstream from where we are to lessen the flow of water. Just within the last hour, this was the scene as Alameda County sheriffs deputies and firefighters began the process of removing that carter. It is upside down
Mass evacuations yesterday evening explaining the spillway was in danger of collapsing. It was like 0 to 60. Reporter i asked the sheriff today. That had nearly 20,000 people leaving their homes and ari. When this incident occurred, we needed to act quickly. Reporter the sheriff said the facts on the ground changed weekly. The holes were discovered and he felt the need to call for the emergency evacuation and people need to continue to stay out of their homes. Getting this people home is important to me. I have to synchronize the situation. If its raining and theres more water coming, i cant in good conscious believe those people are safe. Reporter michael and his family were prepared but many others evacuated abruptly leaving valuables and pets behind. They would like a better explanation. I still dont have a clear idea of what their actual danger was. I dont know exactly why we cant go home. I wish they would communicate that better. Reporter in the meantime, they are trying to be as
Getting numerous reports of that. Clouds will continue to spill in over the low cloud deck with the lows all in the 50s and the Oakland Airport at 59 degrees here. Even to the south a few 40s in the Santa Cruz Mountains but san martin and guild award also at 49 with santa clara at 34. It is still a west breeze but look for a lot of cloud cover going back into a rainy pattern and nothing compared to january and february but things will start picking up by the weekend with 50s and 60s near the water. We got busy all of the sudden. We did get busy. We do have a lot of slow traffic and the slowest right now or at least one of the areas is highway 24 westbound driving up to the tunnel due to some earlier problems and they are gone it was a noninjury crashed near the tunnel all of the lanes are clear but the traffic is taking a while to unwind with close lanes and that is what caused all of this slow traffic here in lafayette and also in orinda. This is a look at the bay bridge with the traf
Reporter im at the corner of 29th and ream here. I see the police chief has arrived on scene. A young mother was shot dead allegedly by her restraints boyfriend who is still at large at this hour. Police are looking out for his mercedes and need your help. Reporter take a look at their Surveillance Video. It shows two cars at about a 45 tuesday morning. The car near the top of the screen is the suspects mercedes and the other is a jeep cherokee. Inside is a 29yearold mother and her two sons. She was on her way to drop off her kids at a daycare but an argument a rocks. The suspect, lawyer mcbride gets out of his mercedes. Within moments the suspect shoots a woman in the head as her sons watch and warmer from the back seat. Our officers arrived and found the car that was stopped near the intersection. When they looked inside the vehicle it appeared that there was a woman deceased from a single gunshot one. I opened my door to see what happened and i saw a lady in the car and she was chok