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KGO ABC7 News 500AM July 13, 2024

Cleaning up after this east bay fuel Storage Facility goes up in flames. I80 has been reopened after a massive traffic backup. And easy access through airport security. Transportation officials now toying with the idea to allow people who take bart to sfo to do tsa precheck. Youre never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. Heres mike with a look at the day ahead. Good morning. Hi, guys. Good morning. Just want to let you know that advisory is in effect for the localized area around the fire report area. No spare the air for the rest of us. Petaluma has some fog. About an eighth of a mile. Thats the only place were really finding it. San rafael, southbound 101, its pretty clear. Temperatures in the 40s for the most part. A few 50s out there. Dress warmer. High clouds starting to move in. Theyll just get thicker as we head throughout the day. Thats going to keep us in the upper 50s to mid 60s across the board at noon. Near 60 at the coast. Near 67 to 71 for the rest of us. You will need the sunglasses from time to time. Here is frances. Starting off with a live shot in san jose. Traffic is light here at the 280 and highway 17 interchange. Headlights are on northbound the earlier road workas been cleared. You can see it wasnt going to impact traffic much. Lanes are open now. Traffic is light. Heres a live shot of interstate 80making its way for headlights through berkeley and emeryville. A ladder was reported in lanes near Cordelia Cordelia c e bay bridge toll plaza looking okay. A little slow out of tracy to dublin, 37 minutes. A long, scary day for a lot of residents in Contra Costa County is leading to so many questions about that huge explosion at an energy facility. One of those questions, was this explosion linked to a 4. 5 quake. Amy hollyfield is live in crockett with more. Reporter they say they are now going to be looking into whether that earthquake possibly played a role in starting this fire. It is all clear here now. The fire is out. There is even a nice breeze in the air here to help kind of flush any questions out of here for residents about the air quality. But it did create this fire created a dramatic scene here yesterday. Look at all the black smoke that filled the air. This started just before 2 00 yesterday afternoon at the Nustar Energy facility in crockett. Two large ethanol tanks were burning. The fire also spread to a nearby hillside. Officials issued a shelter in place order. They were concerned about the air quality. The shelter in place, the idea being youre in your home. You closed all doors and windows, you have shut off air conditioning, heating, any faps th fans that will protect you in your home from most of the particulate matter. Reporter officials have not said what started the fire but they will be looking into whether monday nights earthquake possibly played a role. No one was hurt in this fire. Officials announced the fire was contained just after 9 00 last night. It was around 9 30 they lifted that shelter in place order. Interstate 80 has been shut down all day. Its been reopened. You will have it for your morning commute today. The focus today here will be cleaning up and investigating why this happened. Reporting live in crockett, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. People driving past saw those flames. It left traffic backed up for miles for most of the day and into the evening commute. I just have been driving from oakland 3 1 2 hours. Usually it takes five minutes to get here. Ten minutes at worst. And it was 30 minutes. Im like oh, my god. Wow. Even if you were just going a short distance it didnt matter. Check out this view from sky7 up near where the fire was. Some drivers were dealing with the stop and go as far back as oakland. Officials had to fully close i80 for more than six hours. It reopened around 9 30, it still took plenty of time for things to clear up. Weve been sending out alerts about the fire in crockett through our abc 7 news app. Its one way to stay on top of breaking news. Happening today, a new bay area parent is being sentenced for her role in the sweeping College Admissions cheating scandal. Marjorie klapper was found guilty for paying to improve her sons test scores. Prosecutors are recommending four months of jail time. In todays first look, Actress Felicity Huffman is waking up in federal prison in dublin. She turned herself in yesterday to serve a 14day sentence after pleading guilty in the College Admissions scandal. Reporter in this mornings gma first look, behind bars. Can we hear from you . Reporter for the next 13 days, this is where Actress Felicity Huffman will serve her time in the varsity blues scandal. The federal Correctional Institute in dublin, california. In may the desperate housewives star blepleading guilty for pay 15,000 to have a procter correct her daughters s. A. T. Scores. Inmates have access to books, magazines and supplies for crafts. Last spring gma spoke to prison expert Jennifer Meyers about what huffman can expect. I like to say respect prison. If you walk in humility it will make your stay much easier. Reporter coming up,hor wtif like inside huffmans correctional facility and dan abrams weighs all right. Lets look at whats going on with your activity planner. Everything is good if you want to be out and about. Grab a heavy coat. 60s and 70s for highs this afternoon with increasing clouds. You will need the sunglasses from time to time. It will be a dimmer sun out there. That will hold our temperatures back. Lets talk about stepping out right now. We have berkeley, san leandro, mid to upper 40s there. Lladatrichmond at 53. T 50. 53 in orinda. 53 in San Francisco. 50 in san jose. 51 in pacifica. 52 i fairfield. Antioch, 53. Brentwood 54. Napa is 41. Lets look at the peninsula, stuck in the 50s through 9 00. We break to 60 at long at t look at the cloud cover mixing in with our sunshine. South bay, 50s through 9 00. Mid 60s at noon. If youre heading out for lunch. Well spike around 70 from 2 00 to 4 00, maybe even 72 degrees. Dropping down to 62 at 7 00. For the east bay valleys, were going to be the longest in the 70s, but its low to mid 70s from 1 00 to 5 00 after starting in the 40s this morning. Chance of rain coming tonight. Starting on the peninsula. A stalled big rig may be blocking a lane on eastbound 92 at El Camino Real. Flares are out. So far lots of green traffic on 92 in the eastbound and westbound direction. Also nearby, near sfo, eastbound 30 is closed from 101 to south airport boulevard. Most folks transfer on to 101 before you get there. That closure is in place until 6 00. Eastbound 380 is slow from 280. As we check out the san mateo bridge, youll notice traffic is flowing well. Thats righthand side heading westbound. Heres 680 in walut creek. Southbound traffic is moving towards highway 24. 24 looks good to the caldecott tunnel. In the north bay, an earlier crash on southbound 101 at petaluma boulevard north. Traffic is fine here with this live shot in san rafael for southbound traffic on the righthand side. So, would getting access to tsa precheck make you take b. A. R. T. To sfo . Its director is hoping it might. Jobina fortson joins us live from sfo with how this would work and what passengers think. Reporter good morning. Nearly 13,000 passeng see its o we dont have a lot of people coming through, b. A. R. T. Wants to increase ridership with people taking it to sfo. The proposal in the works would give clipper card users access to tsas priority security lines a handheld scanner would verify passengers used b. A. R. T. To get to the airport. It will also collect and store the clipper card serial number, were told the information collected will not be shared unless legally required. Data may be saved by b. A. R. T. For up to 4 1 2 years. But the paperwork they provided on this does not explain why. Passengers that often complain about the wait at security lines think this could speed things up. I think its a great idea. Public transportation is a good way for the community to keep people moving along and for the environment, too. It will eventually become the norm and youre okay after that. Reporter the proposal is still in the very early stages. There is some talk about other transit agenciesetngehind this as well. Now, i want to be clear, this would be for clipper card users. You can see one right here. Would have to use your clipper card and take b. A. R. T. To sfo for this to work out if it goes through. Reporting live at sfo, jobina fortson, abc7 news. Thank you. Coming up next, 7 things to know as you start your day. And Governor Newsom putting pressure on pg e after the massive safety power outage. And facebooks it is now 5 14. Heres 7 things to know this morning. Investigators are trying to determine if mondays earthquake might be linked to an explosion and fire at the Nustar Energy facility in crockett. A shelter in place order ha been lifted. Interstate 80 is back hope. Theres been more shaking in the east bay after that 4. 5 magnitude earthquake on monday. A large aftershock that hit around 7 00 last night was a magnitude 3. 4 quick. And check out this light to moderate rain im showing you as i dial down on live doppler 7 to the pacific northwest. The cold front will bring us a chance of rain tonight. Number four, the democratic debate. Senator Elizabeth Warren was called out last night for not st care policy and joe biden defended his son hunters work in ukraine. And number five, a new incentive is in the works to get you to take b. A. R. T. To sfo. The idea is to give clipper card users to tsas priority security lines. And number six, were starting to see some delays grow at the bay bridge toll plaza. Metering lights have not been turned on yet but things are backing up. And the sfmta board ofsfmtaf dreshg directors passed a plan to ban cars on Market Street. The project is expected to cost 6 604 million. Rudy giuliani tells abc news he will not comply with a congressional subpoena. He says if they enforce it, then well see what happens. Giuliani has refused to hand over documents regarding declared the democraticled impeachment inquiry illegitimate. Giuliani says if Congress Seeks to enforce a subpoena, then he will retain counsel. Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg is defending his meeting with leading conservative voices. Conservatives have long accused facebook of suppressing rightwing political views. Politico reports that zuckerberg met with Tucker Carlson and conservative radio host hugh hewitt behind closed doors. Zuckerberg says he meets with lots of people across a spectrum on lots of different issues. California Governor Newsom kept the pressure on pg e saying the utility may be too big to survive and called for more competition. He spoke yesterday at a climate conference. Dan noyes has more. Reporter Governor Newsom took aim at pg e after his keynote speak to a Climate Change forum in San Francisco. Why the hell do we still have overhead wires in fire prone areas. Thats about undergrounding. Hardening infrastructure. Looking at decentralizing the infrastructure and the grid and the micro grid. Reporter newsom pointed to San Diego Gas and lek trix that has replaced wooden poles with steel, installing lines under ground. There is a new vegetation risk index and satellite enabled fire alerts. The better we understand santa ana winds and how they impact the landsca d c mak where do we undergrounding moving forward. Reporter san diego already uses sensors and breakers that allow them to areas for power outages. Last we may cut power to 30,000 residents because of the fire danger. The blackout ended up being 395 people. Reporter professor Steve Weissman says san diego may be the Gold Standard but they face fewer challenges than pg e. They are dealing largely with coastline and desert. And pg e on the other hand has mountains, it has snow to deal with, it has severe heat to deal with. It has a Broad Service territory. Reporter pg e is defending its unprecedented blackout last week that affected 736,000 customers in 35 counties, now saying inspections found more than falling intod were ful to me obviously because of what we are having to do over the last year or so. Did the risk change . Yeah, it changed and it got bigger, are we now working towards it . We are. Reporter dan noyes, abc7 news. It is 5 19. Youre never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. Here is mike. You can tell its fall when you look at walnut creek and you will run into more cloudiness up in the north bay along 101 and around San Francisco. Otherwise its not nearly as cloudy this morning. It will be definitely more cloudy this afternoon. Partly sunny is what ill call it. A weak cold front brings us a chance of drizzle to rain tonight. Cooler tha tnoday 80 rur back to the cast. Hyou that in a second. 60 along the coast. 63 in San Francisco. 64 to 68 around the bay shoreline. Around 70 to 74 inland. Now, for tonight, we have 40s up in the north bay. You will clear out first, mid to upper 40s there. The rest of us are milder, low to mid 50s with clouds and drizzle. Here we are at 7 00. Watch the high clouds just dominate our forecast during the afternoon. Here comes the cold front. Chance of rain at 7 00, northern sonoma and also lake and mendocino counties. The system just doesnt have a lot of moisture and energy with it. 2 00 this morning, patchy drizzle, patchy light rain. Same thing through about 6 00. At 9 00, its over. The breezes kick in. The sunshine comes out and the temperatures will go lower than today. 60 to 72. Couple degrees warmer on friday. Breezy conditions. Breezy saturday. You can see the warmth for monday and tuesday. There are a couple accidents on 680. Both are off the shoulder. Heres a live shot of 68 0 in walnut creek. Well move past that accident at gregory and 242. Another southbound 680 crash off to the righthand side. The middle bar, that drive time, dublin to mission boulevard south still green at 15 minutes. The slowing always begins out of tracy early on in the morning. Westbound from tracy to dublin is yellow now at 44 minutes. And northbound5 is lo 85 is loo good. Highway 101 to cupertino, a 15minute ride. Over the san mateo bridge, you will find its ride, westbound traffic is on the righthand side. A stalled big rig at El Camino Real which may be blocking the right lane. We had a few accidents this morning, a lot of them have cleared quickly, no major delays. Lays is coming out with an unusual flavor of chips. And this yoga is anything but peaceful. How this class is channeling steady light rains will move in to the north bay during the evening hours. As far south as calistoga and santa rosa. Then it becomes patchy with pockets of drizzle during the overnight hours. When you wake up tomorrow morning, you may not have a lot of rain, but it will be just enough to make things slick. Be careful. Yoga is always a good outlet for stress relief. Breathing control, form. Just nice. Nice, calm. Calm tones. Wonderful. This is not that. Okay . Look at this. This is called rage yoga. This studio in kansas city, missouri, they just started doing it. Everybody gets a beer that you can drink during your session on the mat. One is describing it as yoga with an attitude. Theres louder music. Theres screaming and yelling. You can curse people out. Make hand technue is different. Instead of calming your mind, youre bringing everything out. I heard a random scream. The concept of rage yoga started in canada, so well see if this catches on a little bit more. No, look at what whats wrong with these people. Look at the beer. Please, do not sully the image of yoga with this mess. Call it something else. You could have a rage party and just scream at people. You know what that is . Thats nopia. No way. Rebrand it. Maybe this will get you into the fall mood. Forget pumpkin spice. Lays is selling Grilled Cheese and tomato soup flavored po tat chips. The recipe according to them is buttery cheesy goodness of classic Grilled Cheese and the slightly sweet and creamy nature of tomato soup. That flavor will be available on monday starting at about 3. 50 a bag. Well be the judge of this. We do have to judge it. My grandma used to make some really good Grilled Cheese sandwiches. We didnt do tomato soup. Its a delicious combo. Can it be put into a chip . Ill make the Grilled Cheese, you make the soup, well get the chips and have a whole moment. This morning Jennifer Aniston has more than 7 million new friends on instagram after posting her first photo. It crashed the site. What . The 50yearold star why do we have to give her age . Why do we have to tell someones age . Because shes fabulous. She made her instagram debut with her selfie yesterday, it shows aniston and her five costars from friends. The picture got such a huge response that the brandnew page temporarily crashed. Its now back up and running. Thats a cool photo. That is how you shut down the page. Were coming back with another full 90 minutes of news including the highlights from last nights democratic primary debate and the fire is out in your business is up and running, but is it going beyond fast . Comcast business gives you high speed internet. We also have Solutions Like powerful wifi that gives your entire business more coverage and automatic internet backup that can keep your business running. And it all starts with our gigspeed network. 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