Minutes. Were focusing this morning on what is happening with the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. And this morning, a lot of that focus is in houston. Lets take you there and just in the last 30 minutes, houstons police chief has said they have completed 2,000 rescue missions. Fema officials estimate at least 30,000 residents will have to stay in shelters temporarily because of the catastrophic flooding. And that flooding is expected to persist. Its going to recede slowly. Rain has been pounding up to 50 counties throughout texas since friday. Officials also say refineries have voluntarily shut down. Flash flood watches have been issued in austin and also in alexandria, louisiana. A Tropical Storm warning remains in effect in houston and victoria, and parts of texas are still expecting another 25 inches of rain. Meanwhile, President Trump is at the white house this morning after spending the weekend at camp david, monitoring the latest developments in texas in the aftermath of harvey. T
Temperatures are going to be about ten to 15 degrees cooler today inland where well still make the 90s. 50s, 79, 70 and 709 your 7 00 temperatures. Well talk more about that impending heat wave coming up. Sue. Weem take a look right now outside and san jose. This is 101, those taillights headed southbound 880 at the overcrossing. Pretty good conditions for this morning for your commute leaving san jose northbound up towards the peninsula. Well also take a look at our roadmaps out there, green suspect good, obviously, everybodys moving at the limit. Little slow out of tracy as you approach the Altamont Pass but so far so good, about a 35 minute drive time from tracy into livermore and the dublin pleasanton interchange. We do slal bit of road work through the and well check back in just a few. Thank you. We are tracking the developing news out of texas where the death toll from harvey hasries tone seven. The red cross says the biggest shelter is beyond capacity now. Its original capacity
Line at the metering lights. Back to san jose where we had that accident cleared to the shoulder northbound 101 to mckee, but the backup youre look at speeds bf 35 down ton 15 moufrz when you pass the 280 680 junction so expect delays there as well. Were going to come back with mass transit options in just a fuse minute. Now a live desk update. We want to begin here at the live desk with a update in texas the death toll in harvey hasries tone 7 and right now theres a zbrait celebrate search for a family swept away in houston flood waters. Two grandparents and the four children. This is from our colleagues, our abc station in houston. Those kids range in age from 16 ton 6 years old. And our colleagues there spoke to another Family Member this morning, an uncle of those kids who said the grandparents had alzheimers, that they were trying to evacuate when they were swept away. And the red cross says houstons biggest shelter is beyond capacity right now. Its original capacity was 5,000, bu
Under and look for them. As much as he wanted to recover him last night, we could not put more officers at risk. We knew it was going to be a recovery mission. To help shoulder the burden, everyday people are pitching in. These are National Guard members taking a break at a houston area mattress store. The owner stepped up to help out in a time of need. Laura anthony is in houston, helping shoulder some of the reporting duties. Laura is traveling with a convoy of rescue boats. Heres what she reported earlier this afternoon. Lets take a look in front of us. This is an intersection, a beautiful residential neighborhood. Lots of folks still have their cars here. They may be in those houses . Yeah. As a matter of fact, for every person weve gotten out today, weve had four tell us they didnt want to leave. Reporter we just went by a group of guys on the second floor of an apartment. You were telling them, some of these boats may not be here later. Yeah. Earlier there were a lot more boats a
Hi, everybody. Weve got halfmile visibility. You saw the update. Quartermile visibility in novato. Some of the fog we talked about is playing out. Theres a little bit of a mist hanging in the air, especially in those areas in and around San Francisco this morning. Lets take a look at your 12hour day planner. Soak this in. This is as comfortable as it is going to get the next seven days. 55 to 60 this morning. 59 to 62, noon to 4 00 around the coast. 72 to 77 for the bay. 81 to 90 inland. And mainly 70s and 80s at about 7 00. Well have that excessive heat coming up next. Heres sue. Were checking your wednesday morning drive. And for those of you up and out early this wednesday morning, its looking pretty good through walnut creek past maine, to the 24 junction. Just a few brake lights making the transition onto highway 24. Not a bad drive into oakland. Heres your drive out of tracy. Its slowing up and over the Altamont Pass. Once you reach livermore and past the pass, you are at the lim