we have clarence johnson of ac transit on the phone with us. good morning. what are you doing?how are you gearing up to handle the fact that bart isn't running an across the bay? >> right now we are trying to assess what is needed in the meantime we -- o' we are running service from macarthur bart and 20th street bart for bart riders. they can take those buses and won't have to worry about paying us at this point. that's all we can do at this point. we obviously are diverting any service that normally would go to the west oakland bart station, diverted around that area in the meantime we are going to be trying to figure out what more is necessary. we have some extra capacity on our morning buses. hopefully, we'll be able to handle much of the load. we'll be -- >> we are talking extra 100,000 people or so if you are handling all the transbay bart passengers. do you have that capacity? do you have extra buses or drivers? can you start them earlier to handle this? your normal transbay service on ac transit doesn't begin until later. >> it will be a challenge that's what we are try

we talked to clarence johnson and haven't been able to get an official word on an exact schedule. this is not a usual day. this is not a forseen circumstance. this is something they are calling crisis mode. it has gotten better in the past little bit here, but we have a lull in buses. we're hoping certainly all the people in line are hoping that more buses are coming and that their commute will start moving very very soon. live here in oakland claudine wong. >> just an amazing patience out there. great job covering it and we have much more coverage on this. there are people who are trying to get not just from east to west but also west to east, and that's causing problems as well. we're going to check in with david stevenson next and see how people waiting in san fransisco are getting across to the east bay. we'll be right back in just a minute. >>> welcome back to a special tex of ktvu on 2. we've been focusing all morning on people trying to head west. there are plenty of folks trying to head east from san fransisco to oakland who are impacted by this transbay bart shut down. kt

clarence johnson live with us from ac transit. the fire you are looking at, it is alex. the fire is no longer the concern the concern is how low the impact has affected bart. bart is telling us that they are assessing the damage to the tracks. apparently, this could take days to ethics. you can still get a round from pittsburg they point to dublin or you can use the peninsula out toward the s f o. the barge service although is shut down to san francisco. we have several major events in san francisco happening in the city as well prepare. expect extra delays there. right now traffic along the minutes. the temperatures inside the bay toward the '70s. next couple of days we are going to see the heat cranky that. nine based will return to the bay area most likely. you could see some pop-up thunderstorms in lake tahoe. the temperatures are looking good bets 77 degrees. today you still going to see some power to fog are toward the beaches. it will be stubborn to break up there. temperatures not going to be too bad, right now average for this time of year. 76 in santa clara. 71

. >> it is clarence johnson from ac transit. you for joining us is bart doing anything to pick up the slack with this problem? >> yes, we are doing all we can. we are currently doing all we can from the bart station for bart riders and they can come to stations and board our buses for trips to san francisco. we do have typically extra capacity on our buses so we are hoping we can fill the gap that way and we -- >> excuse me what bart stations can people go to get these bus stations in. >> 19th street bart in oakland. >> okay, mcarthur, you will have shuttles from there in san francisco to the trans bay terminal? >> yes, actually the 19th and 20th street bart station would -- it would be more like the 20th street transit center there so folks who normally go to the 1st street transit center, there will be some people at 10th street. >> he says buses will run from the mcarthur station from 19th downtown oakland because of this problem. let's go to steve. >> nice job, sal. >>> all right, a decent sea breeze but it looks like the la

here's mike. >> trying to get to work, as you heard from clarence johnson, ac transit will honor the the b.a.r.t. passes and rerouted some of the buses for some of that transbay service. the macarthur or 19th street station to take you over to san francisco, get that -- the line as you saw is getting long over there. it's forcing a lot of folks to the roadways. you see the im. we saw it before 6:00, about 5:15. we have a backup into emeryville. off of 580 back to 24 and 880 overcrossing, we have that slowdown as well. a live look, show you 880 and traveling past the coliseum. you get closer to downtown, more crowded and the southbound side, going to pick up more volume as you use the san mateo bridge. this can potentially send double the traffic to the bay bridge or finding an alternate route. under the water on a sip cal day. >> mike, thank you a. start-up thinking about selling itself to microsoft for a billion. scott, that's with a "b." >> not bad for a company pointing out it has street fighter video game in is office and yammer, sort of a facebook for corporations to communicate