Today talking to people about that new chaperon policy. Hes going to be joining us live in just a little bit. Were also tracking other stories on this thursday, including a University President now on leave. What he said about propalestinian protesters on campus that had sonoma state leaders taking action. Also, a record day on wall street, the dow jones crosses the 40,000 point mark for the first time ever. Our scott budman tells us whats leading to this surge and what it means for your pocketbooks. And we all know phones and fitness trackers share data. Yes, but did you know that your car might be doing it as well . We show were going to show you how you can find out what information your car is collecting. But lets go ahead and begin with that chaperon policy at the Contra Costa County fair, because it has opened its doors just hours ago, but it does so under the dark cloud of fights that broke out last year, you might remember. So lets go ahead and bring in our Sergio Quintana live
Million. What about 2 million . Thats a bit high. Wow. Im a little shocked that its at that level. Thats right. Santa clara county association of realtors data found the median Single Family home price hit 2 million for the first time in april. Were talking the midpoint between the highest home sales price and the lowest. T data shows the top three median prices were in Los Altos Hills at 5. 8 million, monte sereno 4. 5, and saratoga at 4. 2. Only five cities in the south bay are under the median san jose at 1. 7 million, along with san martin, milpitas, morgan hill and gilroy. Scc president Michelle Perry says there are only about 700 homes for sale, and low inventory drives prices up. It has been a problem for many years and now its just out of control. The demand will not go away because the inventory is just too low. So, there needs to be significant amount of homes built in a short period of time, and we just dont see that happening. Real estate expert brad gill says its not just
Morning to you. Thanks for starting your morning with us. Im marcus washington, im laura garcia. Were going to start out with traffic this morning, because mike has been following some breaking news that certainly impacting the morning commute huge impact the nimitz as you travel through hayward really jammed up two separate crashes weve learned involving six vehicles total. But two of those vehicles reportedly on fire. Now the good news i got word there are no major injuries. Major impact to the traffic, though for a short period of time, we had all southbound lanes blocked. Just about whipple, just past there. So alvaradoniles, lets talk about that. If you enter the freeway south of alvaradoniles into union city and fremont, youre okay heading south. If youre north of there, things will jam up as you approach 92 with the build coming off the castro valley. Y hyperion is a big surface street transitioning onto union city boulevard, but you see that a lot of traffic is heading across t
Release of roughly 150 people taken hostage by hamas. We need to bring them home safe. The negotiations has to start. Someone has to do something to bring them home near life. Chioma is one of the organizers of fridays protest. Some of the families dont even know whether their their loved ones are hostages or killed because they just have no word. Its so hard to be away from home in these terrible days. We feel helpless. We want to hug our friends and families and its just physically impossible. I didnt think there was anything more important than to be here today to stand with the hostages from this absolutely barbaric act of terrorism in southern israel. Our hearts are just breaking and Police Presence strong outside city hall with mounting concern over possible retaliation. We are encouraging people to be cautious and add security measures. But we cannot cower in fear. We need more voices from our community and our allies. Today, more than ever, there are people who didnt come purel
Like they did something wrong. Theyre just living. Okay the scene in the east bay overnight as Highway Patrol officers try to wrangle dozens of the animals. Doesnt it seem like this happens at least every other week . Look at them. They seem fine. Good morning. On this wednesday, september 20th. Yes, of course, we have to talk about that smoke. So were going to start with lisa. Yes. You can really smell it out there yesterday in the morning hours. And it got worse throughout the day as our winds shifted from our usual westerly component to a north westerly component. Heres a look at live doppler seven, where you can see we do have fog along with the smoke. And well be looking at our air quality advisory through thursday. Thats as long as its going to take to get the trough to the east of us to move on out and get back to our normal pattern. So from 11 00 tonight through 11 00 thursday morning, we have a fire weather watch for the hills of the north bay interior mountains. All these hig