slowing towards tully where a lane is blocked.onsider highway 87 as an alternate. 12 miles an hour slow. i want to show what -- show you with the waze traffic app. north 101 slowr2l÷ 13 miles an hour there. we have a traffic spotter moving at less than 10 miles an hour close to the scene. it will tell you how alternate routes look here's highway 87 not seeing too much slowing it takes a while to populate. when you turn this app on it will tell you the drive times through the area and it will give you alternate routes. i want to take you back to the traffic maps here i want to go back to another accident for you, this is on northbound 13 past 580, a tree is down, earlier crash in the maze has been cleared. westbound 580 pretty slow through the altamont pass with an accident first not blocking any lanes, 24 files an hour -- miles an hour, heavy. metering lights on traffic backed up beyond the end of the parking lot. >>> :20. >>> coming up, the firstar is eliminated from "dancing with the stars." >> magical deal in los angeles. agree

tully. that has been causing the slowdown as it was in the middle lane for 15 minutes. then a new one right here at capital expressway. that will cause more problem because of the -- where the two lanes blocked and chp isn't there yet to help folks out for the roadways. expect bigger backup now for 101. second day in a row we had problems and we will see backup as it extends to this area. slowing because of the volume of traffic kicking in there. might see a shift of folks avoiding 85 and take that up. that will be back up and downtown. watch for that ripple effect. i will update you as the hours continue through the morning commute. right here we do still have this continuing. 580 at spring town. accident now center divide, distraction for these folks. still 22-minute drive out of the pass through livermore. and holding steady for pleasanton and dublin. that's good news there. as we move over to the bay bridge, no major issues. we have that tree down reported here and highway 13 northbound

this accident still brewing on northbound 101 at tully road.ood news, went from two accidents to one accident scene. a total of five cars reported on the northbound side as you're approaching tully road two of those cars reported as totaled meaning they can't even drive them away from the scene, they have to get a flat bed tow truck. and with all that report, well, just minor injuries. that's good news, but we're following up with the chp to make sure that is the case. just minor, we want to watch out for the welfare of our drivers, as well. and i told you with all of this, you're going to see slowing for 87 and we have seen this, it took ten minutes for that to kick in into the 30s now as you're coming up toward capital and downtown for those speeds to continue to drop there. we'll look at the rest of your commute as we come down out of the east bay. we do have a nice, easy drive, but still speeding through 30s and 40s for the 35-minute drive. the rain and wind will play a factor in the coming hours. highway 4, two accidents, one either side o

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we don't see anything major but i see southbound 101, a little slowing shows up between 680 and tully and capital expressway. that may be an indication of the effects of the rain but likely more folks hit the roadway. we do have reports of debris. a trash can rolling around on the road. but as christina is talking about with higher winds likely reports of debris. we'll let you know if it's going to affect the commute. sigalert cleared, some flares should have burned out. that's north of 92. no major problems into the city or out of san francisco. across that san mateo bridge wind advisory, there we go, camera shaking. the traffic will get blown around as well as the bay bridge. a look at the maps t bay bridge has a wind advisory, no problems on the approach through the east bay and over. we have oakland still, livermore, showing the slowdown. 16 minutes out of the altamont pass. >> let's get a check of the markets before it opens officially for that we turn to jackie deangelis. good morning. >> good morning, laura. the futures are lower after stocks gave up ground on monday, closing o

we should see slowing as the tully north on 101 and into downtown san jose. no sensor changes there. the lower bay shore, 101 cleared of all of the construction, now on and off ramps and the freeway moving into the city. >> thank you, mike. palo alto police are beefing up patrols to try to stop a serial tire slasher. stephanie chuang joins us live with an update on this vandalism. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. now, this is vandals hitting the streets in palo alto twice in 48 hours. did it happen earlier this week. at a recent one on monday hit along east meadow drive, the cars struck and another monday night about a mile from here that was the latest report. the early sunday morning when there were dozens of tires slashed. vandals striking 51 parked cars all in a six-block stretch, northeast of highway 82. palo alto police say the vehicles parked closest to the sidewalk suffered the most damage. every tire slashed on those. the damage, no estimates but easily in the tens of thousands of dollars. so far they do not have any suspect information. poli

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we will continue to monitor your forecast and we do have a potential hot spot, northbound 101 at tully. it came in around 3:13 this morning and it was actually worse about 30 minutes ago. chp has cleared most of the area and speeds are indicating 35-mile-per-hour, no problems here, your right out of oakland, westbound and eastbound, just 14 minutes from end to end and a live look shows you there are great conditions coming out of marin county. >>> thank you, and as we take a live look out side we still have to talk about megamillions tonight, that is what we will talk about when we come right back. . >>> in news around the bay, police are hoping this surveillance photograph will help track down a wanted bank robber. this person entered a bank, took off with cash and took off on foot and it is not known the amount of money he stole. >>> and a man accused of stealing firefighter equipment. investigators say he took item on tweak boulevard antioch gers. he he is accused offed of stealing firefighter equipment which dates all the way back to last july when a man was something climbing this

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northbound 101 slow between hellier and tully, and up to trimble as well. move along as you drive on the westbound bay bridge approach backed up for about a 10 to 15- minute wait. once you make it ton to the bridge it looks okay. and highway 4, slow in bay point, 80 recovering from some earlier problems between pinole and richmond, also want to look at hayward quickly. southbound 880 slows right near highway 238 san leandro through a ward, to union city. now let's go to steve. >> thank you. very good morning. last couple days flags were whipping in the wind, now just a gentle breeze, few locations higher elevations stronger but overall more of a calmer condition and already sunshine and it will be a sunny day. we don't have to worry about that. some cold lows, clear lake at 28 degrees. sonoma 30. stanford dipping down to 33. gilroy 34. and pleasanton and vallejo at 38 degrees. low 30s, mid-30s, take your pick. some 40s but san francisco seen 40 to 49 officially 45. san jose was 38 last hour, now they're 40. livermore 37. sunshine today, nice and mild and wa

. >> a little better news. 101 northbound at tully road in the last few minutes, both accidents reported clear. after a total of eight cars total for two accidents were involved in a couple of incidents. there's the slowing all the way off the 85 interchange and northbound 85, folks headed to monterey, as well. but 87 holding steady and we should see this sort out although we won't get a lot of relief because the build continues for the south bay. an accident clearing to the shoulder there, but it's been there for about 20 minutes, laura, causing slowing out of hayward. >> we'll check back with you, mike. and for the latest, check out nbc bay area on facebook. i'll have another local update in half an hour. see you then. whatcha lookin' for hon? ah, these new jeans i want. i've been looking everywhere. new blue jeans? oh, don't be crazy, i've got tons of blue jeans. frank! frank! get my jean bin, susie wants my jeans. no she doesn't. here we go. nice and loose. ohhh. those are loose, but i actually just ordered three pairs of this kind. ooooohhhh. oh. when it's on your mind, it's on ebay