bay bridge toll plaza still jammed to the mcarthur maze.gh ride this morning bay bridge it all started with a accident on the upper deck past the incline early this morning they turned the metering lights on just after 6:00 a.m. so yeah, we are left with this. as you approach the pay gates. coming down the east shore freeway, brake lights ashby down towards the mcarthur maze. this is what it looks like westbound lanes of 80. hayward, southbound 880, accident quickly clear to the shoulder look at how that is slow northbound traffic, slow from whipple towards highway 92 and across the san mateo bridge. still pretty windy or breezy chp issued a wind advisory early this morning camera has been rocking back and forth all morning westbound 92 still holding steady as far as drive time goes heading out toward the peninsula. let's check our wild, windy forecast. >> wild, windy. >> i am blowing in the breeze. >> cool showers possible. lower 60s along the coast. 70s inland high temperatures for all three locations temperatures warm up a bit tomorrow b

nice-looking drive heading to the mcarthur maze and to the bay bridge toll plaza. when you get to the toll plaza, it's light. also this morning's commute in the south bay, looking very good. on or about 280 traffic looks good into the valley. it's 5:06, let's go to the steve. >>> big changes today. last week at this time, it was hot. 103, 104 remember? >> no. >> sure you do. it's a lot different today. three pieces of the system coming in. we have the offshore low, tropical clouds, muggy feel, hit-and-miss little showers and thundershowers on saturday. that got bumped out one part of the system came in. pretty good thunderstorm activity up over the sierra nevada right now. wind has cranked up, you can see what's going on. yesterday morning, had a pretty good line go through. right there. then we had sun, wind and cooler. right now it's cool and breezy. it'll be windy at times. 50s for everybody. san jose at 58. lake tahoe says forget it. we're not getting an observation. same for sacramento. we have a lot of 50s. temperatures will start to stay on the cool side. lo

let's go outside, want to show you that 80 westbound is getting more crowded as you drive to the mcarthur maze. no major problems when it comes to crashes or stalled vehicles. interstate 80 is the same thing. we certainly have more people out there. you can get a decent commute heading south and north. on the sunol grade. 680 traffic looks good. the express lane, no major problems. already getting loaded up as you drive out of pleasanton and head down to sunol and fremont. it's 6:18. let's go to steve. >> on this monday morning, wind and cool will be in the forecast for us. thunderstorms in the sierra, in fact they were really lighting the sky up there for us. the wind now, that sfo sustained gusts of 35. hold onto the steering wheel. oakland, west 16. fairfield, west southwest, 16. napa, southwest, 9. it's going to be a breezy blustery day. look at those, that is just erupting from northern california along the sierra, all the way down to central california. big thunderstorms, flood advisories out. parts of eldorado county, nevada county and placer county. the city will be very breezy an

mcarthur played the danno character on "hawaii five-0". the role now played by scott >>> schierholtz for the final out and the giants win 9-0, up two games to 0. >> at&t park and the entire city of san francisco explodes. the giants shut out the rangers in game two. we have team coverage of the big win, plus a look ahead to saturday's game in texas. >> we begin with gary radnich with the highlights from tonight's big win. texas had a meld down. >> 17 of the last 18 world series teams that won the first two games in a series claim the world championship. here we go. park rocking. scoreless in the 5. manicate and wilson hooking up. edgar renteria, the first tally, 1-0 san francisco. edgar renteria going to distance. bottom 7. juan uribe, and the giants go up 2-0. the two would be enough but the giants break it wide open, cain went 7 2/3 and they brought in lopez, cain was great. not allowed an earn runed in the post season. rangers walked in a couple of runs. edgar renteria, one more time. sanchez laughing it up. he will be the game 3 starte

almost back to mcarthur maze a good sized back up because of the toll lane closed early in the morninghen they turned the metering lights on for almost a half hour. pretty slow going up the incline no problems if you are headed into san francisco from the east bay just a lot of congestion. all right that is your traffic for your forecast here is lawrence. >>> still a lot of clouds in our skies, delays at sfo, 45 minutes right now, other clouds will start to part as we head in toward the afternoon rain around the bay area some of the wettest spots, a third of an inch of rain so yeah, looks like things going to settle down for today skies will begin to break up just a bit temperature should warm up as a result. 60s inside the bay and out toward the coastline cool side, 50s and 60s sea breeze in toward the afternoon. here it is area of low pressure that spun through hanging off the coastline here brought showers into the bay area, sagging off the coast headed south ward bringing rain to southern california as we head in toward the next several days, we will dry things out. temperatures no

westbound 80 traffic is busier approaching the mcarthur maze. also this morning's commute is okay westbound. bay bridge here at the toll plaza. 6:00, let's go back to the desk. fire crews are investigating a suspicious early morning fire at an east bay high school. the flames destroyed the cafeteria in richmond danza high school. claudine wrong hasp an update from firefighters. >> we're on the bam parking lot yards from where this fire started in california. school will be in session this morning, there's also an arson investigation underway. this all started just before 1:30 this morning when someone called 911, they saw flames coming from the back of danza high school. firefighters say when they got here, there was a lot of smoke and a lot of flames. they believe the fire was burning for several minutes before it was spotted. they were able to put the fire out with heavy damage to the kitchen area of this cafeteria. it's when they got into the building that they got suspicious. >> after we got done, we opened everything up, ventilation was com

report near the mcarthur maze cleared to the right-hand shoulder. westbound 580 just past 24, may even be on the connector ramp to eastbound 80 but you may see an ambulance there. could see minor slowing through the area. we have a live shot of the oakland maze for you this time. that might be it there actually. that's westbound 580 transitioning to eastbound 80. you see no lanes are blocked and traffic is light at this point. westbound 80 there heading towards the bay bridge. looking good. and at the bay bridge toll plaza itself, no delays but you may want to consider mass transit heading to the game tonight. also in the south bay it's looking great. no problems either on the peninsula or north bay. you can find out what's going on at abc7news.com. jenelle, kristen. >> thanks, theresa. like the orange and black. >> i know! >> giants fever. the judge in the federal appeals court in san francisco says it's time to allow cameras in. the issue he has with the u.s. supreme court next. >> and the miners trapped underground in chile learns the orders will

oakland police say a man was shot near fruitvale and mcarthur around 8:30 p.m. tonight. he is in the hospital. no word on the suspect or circumstances surrounding the shooting. >>> hundreds of union city high school students have to be tested for tuberculosis. this after someone at james logan high school tested positive for the disease. now it is not clear if the patient was a student but that person is no longer on campus. the 500 students will be tested next week. >>> and one westbound lane of the san mateo bridge will be closed at least through tomorrow afternoon. it is because cal-trans found a cracked beam under the roadway. the crack is about 10 inches long. cal-trans is making emergency repairs. >>> going to the dentist is never fun. going to the dmv is less fun. but these days it is even worse. lines are longer than usual. a lot longer even if you have an appointment. mike sugerman found out what's going on. >> reporter: say hello to tony yanez. >> hello. >> reporter: that's his name outside the san francisco department of motor vehicles. we will call him by wha

. >>> we visited a second location this afternoon located at foothills square on the mcarthur boulevard. but security asked our crew to leave. >> you have to leave, period. >> reporter: like durant square there's a bi in, go parlor at fool hills square. security would not allow our camera near the operation but critics tell us this is also a front for internet gambling. >>> illegal brief filed by lawyers is providing a glimpse when an appeal courts holds a hearing in october. supporters of prop eight wanted to deny same-sex couples marriage. prop eight supporters were scheduled to own brief to the court by tonight. >>> meantime a federal judge could rule tomorrow on whether to keep her injunction in place running the military's don't ask don't tell policy. the justice department wants the policy prohibiting gays from serving openly to continue to be in place. today federal judge virginia phillips told her courtroom that she is inclined to let the injunction in place. >>> caltrans says crews need to put anti corrosive paint. >>> an overturned tanker caused a mass i have traffic jam this

. >>> we visited a second location this afternoon located at foothills square on the mcarthur boulevard. but security asked our crew to leave. >> you have to leave, period. >> reporter: like durant square there's a bi in, go parlor at fool hills square. security would not allow our camera near the operation but critics tell us this is also a front for internet gambling. >>> illegal brief filed by lawyers is providing a glimpse when an appeal courts holds a hearing in october. supporters of prop eight wanted to deny same-sex couples marriage. prop eight supporters were scheduled to own brief to the court by tonight. >>> meantime a federal judge could rule tomorrow on whether to keep her injunction in place running the military's don't ask don't tell policy. the justice department wants the policy prohibiting gays from serving openly to continue to be in place. today federal judge virginia phillips told her courtroom that she is inclined to let the injunction in place. >>> caltrans says crews need to put anti corrosive paint. >>> an overturned tanker caused a mass i have traffic jam this

why shoppers may >>> james mcarthur, he was the actor who played dano on the five-0 series. the episodes always ended with steve mcgarret saying, book' em dano. >>> lafayette police has arrested a teacher who molested a tutor student. merrick is being held at the martinez jail. >>> it was looking a lot like christmas today at sun valley mall in concord. given the state of the economy, stores are pushing holiday sales now and retailers aren't depending on black friday the day after thanksgiving to get consumes to buy. the dow industrial finished down 12 points while the nasdaq was up 10. >>> and toyota allegedly forced owners to sign confidentiality contracts as part of the buy back. >>> verizon wireless made a lot of money from those so called mystery fees, now it's pay back time. today the federal communications commission announced a settlement with verizon that will refund money to customers and send an addition $10 to customers. the fees supposedly were for data usage. today's settlement covers 15 million people. >>> more than a half million halloween lanterns designed f

reaction we got this afternoon when we walked into an unnamed store front next to a bingo hall on mcarthur boulevard. we could see what appeared to be video machines, customers and some angry staff. >> reporter: is there a property manager we can talk to? >> no, shut it off. >> i am not totally surprised to hear this that you know we found some and we were told they are illegal. >> reporter: several speakers complained about these operations saying they are puttingly legitimate charity binfo halls out of business. >> we do a lot of things to try to get the kids off the street. without this money, if we don't have a way to bring the money in it's just gone. >> reporter: crystal says they are investigating the computer bingo halls. we are also told investigators are involved. fighting illegal gambling has not been a top majority. >> we're going to have to increase the money for monitoring. every year we get a report on where the money goes. >> reporter: there's a meeting this thursday with the owner of that foothills operation we tried to get into. after that meeting on thursday, they expect

reaction we got this afternoon when we walked into an unnamed store front next to a bingo hall on mcarthur boulevard. we could see what appeared to be video machines, customers and some angry staff. >> reporter: is there a property manager we can talk to? >> no, shut it off. >> i am not totally surprised to hear this that you know we found some and we were told they are illegal. >> reporter: several speakers complained about these operations saying they are puttingly legitimate charity binfo halls out of business. >> we do a lot of things to try to get the kids off the street. without this money, if we don't have a way to bring the money in it's just gone. >> reporter: crystal says they are investigating the computer bingo halls. we are also told investigators are involved. fighting illegal gambling has not been a top majority. >> we're going to have to increase the money for monitoring. every year we get a report on where the money goes. >> reporter: there's a meeting this thursday with the owner of that foothills operation we tried to get into. after that meeting on thursday, they expect

. >>> james mcarthur, he was the actor who played dano on the five-0 series. the episodes always ended with steve mcgarret saying, book' em dano. >>> lafayette police has arrested a teacher who molested a tutor student. merrick is being held at the martinez jail. >>> it was looking a lot like christmas today at sun valley mall in concord. given the state of the economy, stores are pushing holiday sales now and retailers aren't depending on black friday the day after thanksgiving to get consumes to buy. the dow industrial finished down 12 points while the nasdaq was up 10. >>> and toyota allegedly forced owners to sign confidentiality contracts as part of the buy back. >>> verizon wireless made a lot of money from those so called mystery fees, now it's pay back time. today the federal communications commission announced a settlement with verizon that will refund money to customers and send an addition $10 to customers. the fees supposedly were for data usage. today's settlement covers 15 million people. >>> more than a half million halloween lanterns designed f

. >> larry: do generals have to like -- talk about guts, truman fired mcarthur. >> that's right. in the book, one of the themes is the generals won't give the president options. he, at the meeting. i mean, think of this, the white house situation room, in the basement. i've been in that room. it's elegant. no windows. big black chairs. and they're sitting there. and the president said, you told me you were going to give me three options today. you're only giving me one. and the chairman of the joint chiefs says, yes, and the president turns to gates, the secretary of defense, and said, bob, this is unacceptable. and gates says, yes, mr. president, we owe you that option. they never give it to him. he has to figure it out himself. >> larry: "obama's wars" is the book. bob woodward is the guest. we'll be right back. >> larry: there's no slow news day anymore. >> leon panetta is quoted as saying this is a crazy kind of war. >> larry: it's a crazy kind of world. >> it's a crazy kind of world. exactly. >> we all know and you all know this when we were at the white house recently, obam

see taillights but they are moving fine into downtown oakland 15 minute drive time between 238 and mcarthur maze and looking good across the golden gate bridge. tow crews are heading somewhere but everything is moving fine across the span heading into san francisco mass transit is on time as well. remember kcbs, 7:40 a.m. and 106.9 fm. here is tracy with our mixed bag forecast. >>> yes, some locations a little warmer some cooler chance of showers, i am calling it a mixed bag. out the door, mostly cloudy and breezy, conditions temperatures ranging from lower 50s to lower 60s. here is a look what you can expect this afternoon breezy conditions a mix of sun and clouds across the bay area and check that out isolated shower. yeah, chance of an isolated shower well through the afternoon temperatures lower 60s along the coast lower to mid-60s around the bay and up to the mid-70s inland these temperatures are well below average for some of you, you will be slightly warmer than yesterday. low pressure system causing slaughters that we picked up yesterday. a few sprinkles across the bay area look at

up towards the mcarthur maze. avoid the roads all together.art, ace, muni, cal trans, everything is running on schedule. remember our radio partners kcbs, 106.9 fm. more on your traffic. >>> a soggy sunday, that low pressure area moving off the coastline. some clouds going to start to part as we head in through the afternoon looking good temperatures running into the 40s and 50s by the afternoon more sunshine those numbers should pop up, 60s inside the bay and out toward the coastline 50s and low 60s. partly cloudy skies. that area of low pressure spinning around and the core almost made its way into the bay area. bringing showers through yesterday and beginning to sag south where guess what, it will visit southern california. see some showers down that direction toward the middle of the week. we will be left with warm weather around the bay area highs should pop up to 70 degrees morgan hug. 68 milpitas, 65 and cool up the coastline, mainly 50s. east bay temperatures partly cloudy skies, 60s and 70s. get inside the bay a bit of a sea breeze te

that's also getting more filled in especially after 580 joins it at the hoffman split getting to the mcarthur maze. and this morning at the toll plaza looks like they've switched on the metering lights. backed up to about middle of the parking lot. once you get on to the bridge it looks good. i've been checking on a couple things. that accident in contra costa county at 160 is still there. it's not causing major delay on 160 and little bit of a rubber necker delay. 6:22 now. let's go to steve. >>> thank you, sir. mostly cloudy morning. only livermore now says clear. but i bet the low clouds make it there as well. concord was clear. now they're cloudy as well. temperatures go up when the clouds come in. around the bay we have low clouds. fog has lifted because there's a front coming in. weak front but still fog right there speaking of. mostly cloudy, cool and breezy day. not only low clouds but local drizzle. high and mid-level clouds could give the north bay little light rain. not a big deal on this guy right there. still going to cloud us up. don't look for much in the way of sun today. over

which he does by driving the north koreans back across the parallel but under mccar thur's prodding, mcarthur tells him the boys will be home by christmas. the chinese if they come into the water,-- war, they won't fight. i have seen them fight in world war two. he forgot that those were the nationalist bombings as o toesed to ma zhay tung a communist bombings. and he is convinced, mccar thur is convinced if they come into the war, he said it will be the greatest slaughter. they have no air power. and we will slaughter them. well, again, dead wrong and of course the war becomes a horrible stalemate. >> the lesson of this is that smart and wise and great leaders can make serious mistakes. >> oh, terrible errors. >> there is also the question you raise of whether we necessarily should have gotten into an arms race. the choice was with the united states. >> yes. >> and you suggested perhaps if the united states had went to russia, they could have had an understanding so that nuclear weapon was never have made their appearance. >> you know, charlie, who knows. i mean you know, it's easy for me to

very nice commute for you in both directions if you're heading to berkley on the right or mack -- mcarthur they are. national weather service sacramento issued a wind advisory for the sack men valley. wind -- sacramento valley. wind is picking up there. warming up today, lots of sunshine, breezy, windy at times, which means near danger us. warm to start the week, and cooler by the end of the week, but we're in a quiet pattern. warmer, and cooler, that could give -- as that wind turns offshore, northey, and that takes care of any fog. there's still a little around the santa cruz coastline and monterey bay, but it must be shallow. other than that, i can't find any. windy in the hills. not bad at the surface, 70s, 80s and 90s, and temperatures today heading up, they start on saturday, continue on sunday, we'll carry it into monday. 90, 91, oakland, 82, and 86 today for san hone. 66 mount tamp, up one from sunday morning. -- mount tam, up one from last her. 59 at pleasanton, low 60s popping up, 30s in the mountains, 70s down to southern california, there's the north wind at redding. now sunny

chp is just letting us know about a new injury crash in oakland west wound 580 approaching mcarthur westboundding to the scene. 880 might be an alternate looks okay past the coliseum but again, you know, you see your drive time slow and go closer to the downtown exit. all right. coming out of the south bay, we are still really jammed on 280 from downtown to cupertino. 35 minutes is your drive time there from 101 towards highway 85. and the bay bridge, this got better in the last half hour. it's only backed up just beyond the first overcrossing so only a good 10, 15 minutes to get on the bridge. that's your traffic. for your forecast, here's lawrence. >> all right. we're talking heat around the bay area today. high fire danger too especially in the north bay and the east bay hills with some strong gusty winds developing there. some of those gusts have been over 20 miles per hour this morning. looks like around the bay area the winds clearing out the skies and it is gorgeous all the way to the coastline. you have sunshine, no fog to speak of, getting hot though in spots. lots of 90s showing up

the coliseum just in these northbound lanes, drive time for you almost 25 minutes, 238 up toward mcarthuralmost no delay things look good heading into san francisco. lawrence is here very grey kind of sad looking outside. >> yesterday you said it was good you liked the rain but yeah, it is pretty grey. out towards the beach not your banner beach day that may change as early as tomorrow squeeze a little more sunshine, skies should part somewhat partly cloudy skies, temperatures popping up into the 60s a few 70s. more sunshine on the way 80s then some rain returns toward the weekend as 30,000 workersoff and shipped jobs to china. china. india. russia. poland. i know precisely why those jobs go. [ male announcer ] because fiorina shipped them there. to shanghai instead of san jose. bangalore instead of burbank. proudly stamping her products "made in china." 30,000 workers gone while fiorina took $100 million for herself. carly fiorina. outsourcing jobs. out for herself. [ barbara boxer ] i'm barbara boxer, and i approved this message.

. >>> in the meantime bay bridge toll plaza where this is a problem spot backed up well into the mcarthuret on to the bridge they turned on metering lights before 6:15 a.m. so long wait to get on to the bridge itself then pretty slow from the incline out to the tunnel that is your traffic tracy with a check of your forecast. >> forecast this morning, we do have sunshine out there, there you go. this is our camera from mount vacca location. and plenty of sunshine beautiful sunrise temperatures cooler than average, plenty of clouds low pressure system will keep us clouds, as well as keep us breezy conditions today's high, low 60s along the coast, up to 60s bay and mid-70s inland. saturday and sunday, change, warmer weather, plenty of sunshine ,,,,,,,, >>> welcome back to "the early show," everybody. nice crowd on hand on a bit of a blustery morning. we'll meet them in a second. first take a look at this unbelievable video from a sir krus in the ukraine. the lions in the act suddenly turn on the keeper. this is just absolutely chaos. hundreds of people were screaming in there. lion tamer is

and 54 of america's greatest poets, poet laureates mcarthur winners, et cetera, have collectively createdepic american poem. i think probably the first time in history that they have done that, certainly on that scale. 540 lines. it starts with robert pinsky who was ready to go. we had to schedule the poets. we gave them three days to write ten lines. i don't know if you have ever tried to get poets to do anything. [ laughter ] >> but herding cats doesn't even describe it. >> a question from dana on that one, i think. >> by the way, dana was invited but unfortunately there was a conflict. he was the head of the n.e.a. at the time. we were hoping to get his voice in there. anyway, the renga started with pinsky who happened to be in massachusetts on the atlantic coast. he begins the poem and then it moves all around. 540 lines later, robert haas is looking out over the pacific. so that, in and of itself is an american epic journey. that embraces the whole country. it's really quite extraordinary. and the playwrights came up with a really ingenious thing, too, which is that they invited -- i

and 54 of america's greatest poets, poet laureates mcarthur winners, et cetera, have collectively createdic american poem. i think probably the first time in history that they have done that, certainly on that scale. 540 lines. it starts with robert pinsky who was ready to go. we had to schedule the poets. we gave them three days to write ten lines. i don't know if you have ever tried to get poets to do anything. [ laughter ] >> but herding cats doesn't even describe it. >> a question from dana on that one, i think. >> by the way, dana was invited but unfortunately there was a conflict. he was the head of the n.e.a. at the time. we were hoping to get his voice in there. anyway, the renga started with pinsky who happened to be in massachusetts on the atlantic coast. he begins the poem and then it moves all around. 540 lines later, robert haas is looking out over the pacific. so that, in and of itself is an american epic journey. that embraces the whole country. it's really quite extraordinary. and the playwrights came up with a really ingenious thing, too, which is that they invited -- i s