and we've just heard that from orr linda at the patrol plaza it's a parking lot. so traffic is just terrible let's check in with sal to see, you know, let us know if there's any relief out there, any good options. >> i don't think i can remember a worse commute. i actually can't. i cannot remember. we can go back to the 90s when there was a gunman on the bridge or something. i can't remember it being this bad. let's go out and take a look at news chopper 2 -- did we lose news chopper 2? i think we lost it. what we're going to do is try and come back to it it in the control room. i'm going to go here to 880 and i want to tell -- news chopper 2 we lost your signal. can you get it back up for us, please. thank you. try and do that. all right. northbound 880 we're just flying by the seat of our pants. one of our producers said it took him 55 minutes to go from fremont to this area in oakland, the coliseum. that's brutal. this is a look at the maps, the traffic is very slow. i want to zoom in here on the san mateo bridge, very very heavy people using that as an alterna