The bay bridge thats an easy at the minimum typical for this morning and no backup at the toll plaza right now. Back to you. 5 00 right now and were tracking Hurricane Irma this morning. The monstrous storm is ripping its way through the atlantic leaving behind a path of death and destruction. Right now the massive system is on its way to the Dominican Republic and cuba and eventually florida. But this hurricanes wrath is already being felt throughout the caribbean. Were showing the devastation in barbuda this morning, thats where nearly every building on the island is just damaged, many are destroyed. This storm continues to churn through the atlantic. And within days Hurricane Irma may have florida in its sight. This morning monitoring evacuations, theyre under way right now in the keys right there. Now, right now millions of people are scrambling to get to higher ground. And we have Team Coverage to get up to speed on this deadly hurricane. Meteorologist kari hall tracking that but
A look at radar, a lot of rain well to the north of us but still light showers here. Ill talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. Mike is now checking in on san jose. The speed jensers looking great, you like to see all the green. Typical patterns build in trivalley and hayward. San jose northbound 101 we see that typical slowing starting to kick in once again. But a crash northbound 880, im told its over on the should dwoernt see any slowing and i havent seen it. Over here we do have slowing and now were going to green to yellow. 26 minutes for the upper east shore freeway traveling west over towards the bay bridge toll plaza are where the metering lights are on and the toll plaza is full. Back to you. In our top story this morning the death toll is kroeg growing as Hurricane Irma moves closer to the florida coastline. Youre taking a live look at our satellite pictures this morning track track being the tax reforms current badge. The category five storm swept through the carib
Major highways are clogged with cars. You can see from the Helicopter Shot as evacuation orders are sending people inland and to the north in order to get out of irmas path. Local leaders say that people who chose to stay in the areas that are now under evacuation wont have any help later. We boarded up the house, and were hoping for the best. Thats all we can do right now. Its a mad house. I dont want to run out of gas on the road. If you stay, you think youre a tough guy, then youre on your own. We have Team Coverage this midday as the bay area already prepares to help as soon as irma hits. Lets start with meteorologist kerry hall. This storm track, is it still aim towards Floridas Atlantic coast. It is, and unfortunately we havent seen anymore shifts off towards the east, which would make it a lesser blow to florida that the point, but we are now seeing that major hurricane just to the north of hispaniola right now moving towards the turks and caicos and we have some more hurricane