We have our usual Early Morning slowdown out of the Central Valley for just under an hour ride to get up and over the Altamont Pass. A look at our drive times from 4 to walnut creek looking good. Walnut creek to highway 13 in oakland about an eightminute drive. Theres that ride from tracy to dublin slowing and that earlier accident is out of lanes. It is recovering somewhat. Sue, thank you. A call from a group of Health Advocates to yank facebook app off the markets. They claim the messenger app made for kids is a threat to their wellbeing. Amy hollyfield live for us in menlo park. Amy . Reporter hi, good morning, reggie. 97 child advocates have signed a letter, a combination of individuals and nonprofits are asking facebook to pull the plug on this messenger kids. Thats what this app is being called, an advertising free facebook app targeted to 6 to 12yearold kids. Facebook says it took steps to be responsible with the app including giving parents tools to control their childrens soci
San francisco. Some slowing there. We had an earlier accident long gone but very slow. Ill update that in a couple of minutes. A call from a group of Health Advocates to yank an app off the market. Amy hollyfield is live for us in menlo park. Reporter the pressure is on. 97 signatures on this letter from child advocates from individuals and nonprofits sent here to facebook. Looks like were having trouble with amys signal. Well get back to her. A huge step in recovery after the devastating wildfires. Crews finished the fire debris removal process. Workers had to clear debris in the neighborhood. Altogether 58 of the wildfire cleanup completed in the north bay. Starting today its supposed to get easier to get permits to rebuild in Sonoma County where thousands of homes were destroyed. The resiliency permit plan goes into full motion today. Officials are helping handle permits and inspections. Part of a 23 million plan approved by the board of supervisors. Charges expected to be filed aga
Pete suratos is there with what we discovered overnight. Pete . Reporter good morning to you, laura and marcus. Were working to get more details from chp oakland as well as the Contra Costa Sheriffs Department which are handling this investigation, but at least from the scene on san pablo avenue i can tell you that the scene is clear, wont affect any traffic in the area. There are reports of a shooting in richmond with at least that driver crashing their car just off the off ramp off of 80 west. We will show you video from this scene. This is from roughly around 11 00 p. M. So the scene has cleared for quite some time, but information that were getting or our crews got from officers on the scene is that apparently the shooting happened just after 11 00 p. M. , its unclear if that shooting happened on the freeway but that convertible, that crash just off the off ramp off of 80 west and san pablo avenue. We do know that the victim was transported to a president who, do not know the exten
A northwest breezes for some in northeast for others. There will be more sunshine today. Even berkeley lab has a northwest breezes. 30s for many temperatures. 40s for some. Its noticeably cooler this morning. Oseguera is okay except for the fog in the valley. Otherwise, mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies. It looks drive through february 14 if everything marches in as advertised. All the models are showing this. 60s and near 74 the temperatures. We are beginning to ramp up a little bit. Good morning. If you are at home trying to figure out what the commute will be like on interstate 80, i do have some data for you. 80 westbound, the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze, 22 minutes. It is getting higher. It was 18 minutes a few minutes ago and will probably go up to 30 or 40 before the morning is over unless something happens. This is a look at the bay bridge. Its backed up for the typical 1015 minute delay before you make it onto the span. Interstate 880 north and southbound look goo
Investigators want to know and tell parents that there could be additional victims. And this is a very well known and regarded teacher. Reporter you are right, he does have an impressive resume, and the executive director at the school for performing arts said he was shocked when Walnut Creek Police officers showed up on friday looking for him. Tonight, parents are stunned to learn that that ballet instructor is accused of sexually assaulting a minorer. He has worked with Ballet Companies all over the bay area. Including diablo ballet in walnut creek and one in San Francisco. He has been teaching at the Westlake School for performing arts, tonight, he is behind bars, accused of sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 14. Scary. Yeah, its a very concerning thing. Reporter parents with kids enrolled in the school are stunned. She loved it. The teachers she had are great, its a really good program as far as we know. To hear Something Like this is shocking. Reporter he is accused of 16