port chicago highway. a couple of connector ramps are closed, northbound 242 to eastbound highway 4, that ramp actually remains blocked. while they work to clear this accident. we're hearing it's a solo car crash but it may be an overturned, so again just a heads up if you're traveling in the area. one of our hot spots. live look outside, at the nimitz freeway, 880 in oakland, it should have been cleared up by now. a little earlier you could see warning signs about a number of lanes that were blocked overnight but that should have been cleared in the last 15 minutes. around san francisco, fleet week's last day and the howard street closures between 3rd and 4th. they are in effect until saturday actually, until saturday the 18th. and in the meantime use harrison as an alternate or just expect delays in the area. we have these howard street closures last month for another convention. it cause as mess every time. westbound 580 through the livermore valley looks ok. it's a holiday so maybe we'll see traffic sl

eastbound highway 4 at port chicago highway is blocking a lane and now we are seeing delays pulling away from 242. the driver get out of the vehicle and is walk around so maybe we do not have severe injuries. it looks like traffic is slowing and we have crews headed to the seen and it will cause more slowing and spectator slowing westbound. >>> you will remember charlie brown and the great pumpkin but today half moon bay hopes to have the greatest pumpkin of all as far as size. the great pumpkin weigh off attracts the biggest gorge from all over the country and gourd expert has a preview. >>> thank you, the stars of the show have just started to arrive and you can see a monster pumpkin behind me the contenders have two very big goals: they want to smash the record and they hope to beat the world record. last year's winner was over 1,900 pounds. that is more than a small car. the world record, however, tipped the scales at over 2,032. massive. they are competing for big money, first place takes home $6 a pound. if they break the world record it is working $30,000. this year, the drought c

off port chicago highway and county transportation reached a deal with mercedes benz to use the site.miles of paved roads makes it perfect. >>> in new mexico they hope a singing road on route 66 will get people to slow down. that's a similar road in lancaster, california, creating notes when you drive over them at the correct speed. they want to create a similar road in albuquerque, there's only a few other in the world. >>> a suspicious fire, and we get there and find the fire and the possible suspects are still around. >>> a new law takes affect in an east bay city and it involves squirrels. >>> increased fire danger, and increasing temperature. i'll have the specifics after the break. ( yawn ) bulldog: i just had a dream i was at mattress discounters with tempur-pedic and the largest selection of memory foam mattresses under one roof! icomfort by serta... posturepedic hybrid... ( yawn ) comforpedic by beautyrest... oooh! 48 months interest-free financing, free delivery, and queen size memory foam mattress sets as low as $697! that's more mattresses than you can shake a bone at! ♪ m

don't plain has been filed accusing him of a sexual a and that temperature his has taken place on port chicago highway and will take place between 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. many are he taking part in this including the chp, bart and salvation army. page page says this dark dark pg&e said they are corresponding with the emergency situation. >>> this is a good mart of getting up early and in time for watching the game tomorrow and some people may have to find a way to work from home. >> i had not thought about that. we were huddleed and the woman who was september to the dugout. >>> it is backed out to 20 to 25 manipulate drive time. there are no meaning problems and this is good when it comes to major crashes. there is nothing major, there have been a couple of fender benders. let's go to yens 880 in both doctors. it is stop and go and as the head out here is steve. >>> we have clear skies, some 40s and there is other locations in the 60s. we have an easterly component which is there and i am seeing it from daily city to other areas, fire danger is up there but the breeze is -- yesterday it was prett

and area no. 3 the western portion of bay point south and west of port chicago highway.y continue as late as 10:30 tonight in all 3 of these areas. >> mark thursday on the calendar because a partial solar eclipse expected to darkened the sky if the weather cooperates should have no problem viewing looking like a bite taken out of the sun. nearly half the sun diameter covered north of line extending from san francisco to the oklahoma panhandle. that eclipse willow occur in the mid to late afternoon hours on thursday almost everyone in the u.s. will be able to see some of it but as we bring in sprep sprepser here with the accu-weather forecast we caution everybody don't look directly at the sun. you need some sort of device to protect your eye. >> stand arrested did he vase when i was a kid was fred flintstone. >> when they brought it up with the stage coach. >> pin hole pro psychiatric tovrment i'm sure something more vansd than that now but that would work. protect your eye. >> able to see exactly what is happening up there in the sky. fascinating. >> shall we do weather

the drill will take place at an army facility on port chicago highway in concord. >> second day of october and the weather be cooking. >> hot. drew shows the almanac for san francisco for october and i will go to oakland and san jose, we will be 16 degrees warmer-than-average today, and we have been up to 103 and as cold as 43 and we supposed to get.5" of rain but that will not happen. in san jose we will hit 92 well above the average high of 79. we have even up up to 101. we are supposed to get .9" of a rain. full noon is on the 8th. off to a clear and calm start but around the mid-70's or 88 at noon. low 70's to low 80's from the coast inland by 7:00. moving failure, the heat peaks tomorrow. year was the first step. today, another step, and, then, tomorrow nearly 100, mid-80's do mid-90's, around the coast and bay and dropping significantly. but, still, in the 90's inland. >>> starting to build up southbound on 680 but the closer you get to highway 24 as you maybe the cub around from pleasanton hill, it does not look too bad. in the south that is when you will apply the breaks. at highwa

near the natural gas facilities near the ocean terminal on port chicago highway. several agencies are involved in had, including the contra costa sheriff's office, concord police, the chp, bart, and the salvation army. pge says this is an ongoing evident to coordinate with first responders in the event of a natural disaster or emergency situation. >>> it is 7:16. an ohio woman is suing a chicago area sperm bank because she knows not given a donation from a white donor. cnn reports jennifer cramblet claims she got pregnant from a donation from an african-american man and not the white man she and her partner had chosen. she and her partner are both white. while they love their bi-racial daughter they feel her daughter will not be accepted. >> we want her to grow up in a community where she feels accepted, like it's normal to be who she is, walk down the streets and not have anything, anything skew that view. >> the six vials we got wrong -- >> the sperm bank has not commented on the lawsuit. she says if she wins her lawsuit she will use the money to move to another

in the 1970s, william gaines who was a reporter for the "chicago tribune," and port investigative reporterhere is a task force called the tribune passwords that was involved in investigative work and a lot of their work to involve some undercover techniques until that became not a fashion for reasons we talked about. they got a call from a disgruntled janitor cleaning that while he was working at the hospital, he had been asked numerous times to go into the operating room, putting down his mop in his filthy clothes and we'll patients, unconscious patients from the operating room to their brooms. this is pretty horrific, right? and this is a really great ulceration or by undercover reporting can be important. so i like it especially. so they decided they needed to get him hired as a jihad under an example and reporter at the found out exactly what they were looking for it and they sent him so he would actually get the job. he worked for a week. while he was there, he notices that whole families are getting their tonsils out, like five members of one family, which did seem a bit odd. so he r

chicago, o'hare and jackson airport. new york's j.f.k. air portbegan screening passengers last weekend. >>> today, delaware county's ebola task force met for the very first time made up of hospital workers and ems leaders who want to make sure the county is ready to treat payments.h nbc 10 began speaking to wrkers to find out what they're prepeared to do. >> reporter: we learned that emergency responders are pairing by testing and tweaking safety protocols just in case the deadly virus shows up here. >> absolutely i'm prepared. >> chester city police officer says his team in is prepared in the event ebola strikes here. >> the officer, who's also a medic, heads the police officer's new emergency services unit. >> what it does is it gives us an ability to, in the field, hopefully identify an at least razor index of suspicion that this person may or may not have ebola. >> the unit is made up of 16 medically trained officers. and stackleback says proet calls are already in place. >> extra gloves, red bags, safety wipes. >> and the officer's patrol veh

ports of entry for travelers arriving from west africa. nbc news has learned those efforts would likely include cdc personnel at newark, jfk, chicago and washington dulles airports, asking passengers about their travel history and taking temperatures. first tonight and out of immediate concern, the latest american to arrive, the second ebola patient now taken to nebraska for treatment. tonight, our national correspondent, kate snow, is there to start us off. kate, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. ashoka mukpo was working with dr. nancy snyderman's team on the ground as a freelance cameraman in liberia. doctors said his symptoms do seem to be getting worse, with that said he's also in the early stages of what is a very dangerous disease. the plane touched down in nebraska at dawn, a more than 16-hour journey on a especially equipped jet. ashoka mukpo walked off the plane and got onto a gurney. wearing a white protective suit and mask that covered all but his eyes. paramedics in hazmat gear rode with him to the nearby nebraska medical center. how is he feeling? >> i think he's doing pretty good. i think he was thinking about somethin

ports of entry for travelers arriving from western africa. nbc news has learned those efforts would likely include cdc personnel at newark, jfk, chicago and washington dulles airports asking passengers about their travel history and taking temperatures. first tonight and out of immediate concern the latest american to arrive, the second ebola patient now taken to nebraska for treatment. tonight, our national correspondent kate snow is there to start us off. kate, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. ashuka mukpo was working with nancy snyderman. his symptoms seem to have gotten worse but seem to be in the early stages of this dangerous disease. the plane touched down in nebraska at dawn, a more than 16-hour journey on a especially equipped jet. ashoka mukpo got off on a gurney. paramedics and hazmat rode nearby to the nebraska medical center. how is he feeling? >> i think he's doing pretty good. i think he was thinking about something he might like to eat for lunch. >> reporter: real food? >> real food. >> reporter: his parents and girlfriend of four years were thrilled to see ashoka through a video chat, but they can't get close. >> hear

ports of entry. >> reporter: extra screenings will also take place at atlanta, new jersey, dulles airport outside d.c. and chicago o'hare. >> this latest report we've gotten from the deputy going into duncan's apartment? >> reporter: yes, that is report that the deputy was inside the apartment, when he was issuing an order to quarantine the apartment. we were in dallas right around that time. it was really interesting to see firsthand joie, that apartment was not taped up. saw someone walk up to the door of the apartment and knock on the door and a security guard got out of an unmarked car and told that person, don't go inside that apartment. what the sheriff's department said that deputy should not have been inside that apartment. a lot of questions were raised, about the security of that apartment. what they are saying he is being watched under an abundance of caution. >> let's talk about mr. duncan's passing and his remains. obviously there has been a big issue removing the materials from the apartment. now with his passing is there expert opinion how that should be handled? in the body is highly contagious at

big installation with port authority at newark airport and starting to trial and pile it in a number of cities. with cisco we installed the demonstration system in downtown chicagoz: i'm sure privacy is an issue. we'll bring you back to talk about that. efficiency and safety are certainly just as crucial. thank you so much. >> sure. liz: almost just as crucial. i'll probably get skewered for that one. smart cities. thank you so much. the company is called sensity. closing bell in 18 minutes. marissa mayer arrival at yahoo! brought this paparazzi-like entrance to the ceo and expectations that yahoo!'s second act. those of us who have followed it since the late 90s are calling it the 11th act. the internet giant reached a major crossroads. what is that? will investors stick around? should they turn the back at their own peril? maybe not. >>> we got the latest numbers, more than 10,000 of you have signed up for claman on call. we will deliver the latest headlines directly to the smartphone. today you would get yahoo! numbers after the bell. it's all free. i'm only in my 60's. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all m

chicago. good morning, peter. >> good morning, charlie. >> how serious is this ims accident on the cruise ship? >> it's serious to the extent no porthe ship to come in. belize says they won't allow it in and others are following suit. if they won't let it in, what will happen in when it returns to the united states, will we let it in? this may be the cruise to nowhere for a while. >> you have too many points of connection and too many ports of entry. remember, a passport only tells you where a person lives. it doesn't tell you where you've been. >> are you saying you can't track a passenger then from all the ware they came? >> you can track it a little bit. it doesn't always tell you where they started the trip. it just tells you they boarded the train. >> this is going to hurt the travel industry. how much? >> let's go back to hoof and mouth disease in the united kingdom over a decade ago. that hurt the british economy, $16 million. this is going to be worse. it's not about current bookings but future bookings. if you look at tourism. their bookings already for their safaris have flat flooined. if they're not going to go there, th

ports. more from randall pinkston. >> reporter: 3,742 patients in west africa have been documented to have died from the disease. >> the five airports are dulles near washington, d.c., kennedy in new york, o'hare in chicagohartsfield-jackson in atlanta and new york liberty in new jersey. border protection acts will homeland security. >> they will answer targeted questions about whether they have had contact with ebola patients. we will collect additional u.s.-based contact information. should cdc need to contact them. and finally, we will take their temperature with a non-contact thermometer which can be a key indicator of potential infection. >> the focus will be on travelers come from guinea, liberia and sierra leone. the customs and border protection agents will give each traveler a packet of information about ebola, observe them for symptoms of ebola. if the traveler has a fever, the c bp agent will refer them for evaluation. also today in a conference call with state and local officials, president obama said that the dallas patient was proof there was no time to waste. the president said as we saw in dallas, we don't have a lot of margin for error. if we don't follow protocols and procedures in plac

fact will have the biggest port on the east coast and will allow us to ask for it at our infrastructure is real and vibrant. >> governor deal? >> i did not grow up in chicago, i grew up in middle georgia. i lived on a farm and i was active in ffa growing up. i understand what farmers are faced with. i have family that have been farmers for generations. the important thing you should notice is the general assembly has worked with me. we have also created a low interest loan program for small farmers who can go as part of that process and get a loan where they might not be able to receive that money through a traditional banking restitution. we are very cognizant that agriculture is the number one industry in the state of georgia and one of the major exports through the port of savannah, and i want to keep it that way. >> dr. hunt, please. >> what we have is an overregulated industry. we need more fairness and freedom. there are certain plants that would be great for alternative energy and new fiber sources that are illegal here, legal and other states, because of the name of the plant being the hemp plant. it has no hallucinogenic or drugs or anything relat