Im kristen sze. Im eric thomas. A sig alert could make a mess of the morning commute after a fatal accident on interstate 80 involving a suspected dui driver and the chb. Abc News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is live in richmond with the latest. Amy . Reporter eric, look at the car behind me. It flew off of the freeway, rolled down that embankment and landed right there. This is on the exit ramp for central here in the richmond el serrito border. The driver did die. The off ramp is closed. He was westbound on interstate 80 passing a construction site when a chp officer who was at that site saw him passing and noticed his front tire was so flat he was driving on the rim. The officer was going to pursue him to see if he needed help. To see if he was drunk. Just to see what was going on with this guy. But investigators say they dont even know if the officer had time to turn on his lights and siren. That this all happened so fast. They put out a Little Information over the radio. All of a sudde
Aware of the seriousness of the situation at first. I couldnt go to sleep and i hear somebody banging on my door that their apartment is on fire. I didnt know what to do. First of all i dont want to open the door to a crazy person. It could be somebody trying to break in. I get my roommate and it hit me. It smelled like fire. So we had to get out. No one was injured and firefighters are investigating how it started. Happening today it president obama is expected to nominate Federal Reserve vice chair janet yellen as the new fed chairman. Yellen was a professor at uc berkeley in the 1980s and 90s 90s. If approved by the senate, yellen would become the first woman to be head of the fed. Kpix 5s cate caugiran will have more on yellens ties to the bay area coming up in our next half hour. And new this morning, a stanford professor won the nobel prize in chemistry. Michael levitt among three scientists awarded the prize this morning. Together, they laid the foundation for computer models us
Republicans to stand up to their farright flank, release the economic hostages and reopen the federal government . With House Speaker john boehner maintaining that all he wants to do is have a conversation with the president , he got his wish today. When president obama rang him up. And we have just learned that Speaker Boehner will make a statement at 4 30 p. M. , which, of course, well bring you live. And president obama today called on the speaker, reiterating that hes willing to negotiate with republicans, just as soon as they reopen the government and stop threatening to default on the nations debt. Just because they dont like the Health Care Law. Thats the president s position. And at a press conference today, he stuck with it. I will sit down and work with anyone of any party, not only to talk about the budget. Ill talk about ways to improve the health care system. Im ready to head up to the hill and try. Ill even spring for dinner again. But im not going to do it until the more
There but again it is causing some traffic problems there. We will check in with her in just a moment. It is wednesday, october 9th, i am pam cook. Middle of the week. Yeah. Good morning, i am dave clark, lets check weather and traffic. Will it be cooler cooler yeah low spinning and producing widely scattered rain and snow showers there. Some of that drifting back. We have clouds around, partly cloudy and sunny here today, temperatures 60s coast and bay and 70s. Chilly to mild, partly sunny, i will mention that but again east or south, probably not there, 45 napa, 49 redwood city, 50s, but a Breeze Holding things up. Just kind of sandwiched between but that cloud cover continues to work its way back especially there and you can see there things are trying to get their acted together, some of that rain turning to snow, right now mainly rain, snow level 6500 feet, low clouds around, not all that showing up yet but most favoring the coast and around the bay, that low is moving down will g
Us now with a progress report, jana. Julie, i want to let you know that just in the past two minutes both sides have been walking out of the door. We have josie moody and antoinnet bryant. They say theyve wrapped up their talks today after an exchange of ideas which theyre going to go back and analyze before they come back tomorrow morning to continue these talks. The bottom line. What im hearing from both sides, theres been progress it has just been really, really slow. About 100 Union Members and supporters marched down oaklands grand avenue and their message was loud and clear. But negotiators on both sides appear to be making some concessions and exchanges proposals. Weve sat down with the districts and i think weve made minimal progress. I think there has been a change in the tone of negotiations well see how it goes. Reporter b. A. R. T. s lead negotiator returned from dinner and told us. I think we can get it done tonight if everybody wanted to. Reporter hoch says that progress