The countdown to shutdown down to the wire. Sen. Chris van hollen, d maryland there is lots to get done and we can do itbehind the scenes senators working to come to an agreement on a spending bill to avoid a Government Shutdown ahead of the midnight deadline. Sen. Dan sullivan, r alaska the decision whether or not the governments going to be shut down is really in the hands of senator schumer and his colleaguespresident trump delaying a weekend trip to maralago for some last minute dealmaking. Friday afternoon inviting Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer to the white house for a private meeting. Sen. Chuck schumer, d minority leader we made some progress but we still have a good number of disagreements. The discussions will continue. Trump seemingly hopeful after the meeting tweeting it was an excellent preliminary meetingthe big Sticking Point for democrats immigration. They want protection for the so called dreamersbut the Republican Leadership says those talks should come later. D
Dublin grade we have crash that will be busy and blocking lanes westbound 580 over the dublin grade. It has been there since 4 am, and the traffic is backed up from the dublin interchange. The commute will be very slow. Heading out to that seen in a moment as soon as i get to some of the other commutes to help you get to work. Highway 4 is very slow with that earlier accident on highway 4. That was not as serious but the traffic from antioch out to the base point is slow. Bay point is slow. We will see a lot of slow traffic at this morning some slowing in richmond so that is the good news for that commute. There are big problems for the commute on interstate 580. Westbound 580 lanes are blocked on the dublin grade with a big rig crash. Leigh martinez is at the scene. Reporter we are at the Dublin Canyon road which is the alternative route. Here is a look at 580 westbound and backed up for about four miles. This Castro Valley area, we have a big distance between these two exits so you w
Accident and the alert we just saw from caltrans is in order to get the trucks out of the way and the vehicles out of the way and to clean up the debris they may not be able to get all of the lanes reopened. I want to get over to Sal Castaneda in the Traffic Center keeping an eye on the backup. Things are not looking much better, westbound 580 that is. These are the maps and look how long the backup is on the freeways and i want to explain about why this accident, even though it is just blocking one freeway is affecting every freeway. I got a call from someone who said even the highway through dublin getting into danville has been affected. People are also on highway 4 driving on highway 4 off of the Altamont Pass. We actually saw the traffic on the Altamont Pass disappear as people are using highway 4 to get to the bay area and it is very heavy on 680 coming through highway 24. People have been doing a lot to get out of the accident, Leigh Martinez was just moved off of the freeway wh
The highway because two lanes are open, lanes three and four are open but lanes one and two are closed which is why the traffic is dragging along. They hoped to have it cleared by noon but that is not happening because one of the semi trucks involved in the accident had a full load. They tried to drag it but that was not working. They literally have to take everything out of the truck, and we have another truck waiting to take on that freight but it is taking a long time. This crash happened several hours ago, at 4 am with these large semi trucks blocking three westbound lanes in the Castro Valley causing the three hour delay for many drivers. Chp has confirmed this was a fatal accident. The driver of the second semi truck was killed. At 4 20 am we had a three vehicle collision involving two big rigs, and an earlier car. The big rig clipped the front of the first big rig causing it to lose its steering. It came to rest in the three lane, and then the second big rig had come along and i
Officials are desperate to avoid violent clashes. Reporter they cited the incident that happened earlier this year. They want to make sure it doesnt happen again. It is a leisurely afternoon. If you look behind me you can see several dozen officers are staging on that side. Behind our Camera Position you can see they are doing the same thing underneath the trees. Hopefully you can see that. They are moving Police Officers into place. I am told the securities and perimeter put in place between 4 30 pm and 5 pm. In order to get into this area you will have to need one of these things. A ticket. Otherwise they wont let you in. That is between 4 30 pm and 5 pm this afternoon you need a ticket to get into this area. Otherwise you will be kept from the area. Thats take a look at our video. Heather talked about the trouble they are bracing for. Official started moving barriers into the campus early this morning. This is and anticipation of counterprotest. Uc berkeley Police Officers we cannot