alexis smith is tracking your drive right now. things are starting to quiet down. >> it looks much drier. you can see those flags whipping around. we have a high wind advisory for pretty much every bridge in the bay area. definitely still some soggy areas including here in the south bay, great america park ray ramp eastbound 257. some delays in that area. mass transit with a 20-minute delay for bart. not great overall but it is improving. >>> strong winds overnightpaialg under renovation in san francisco's sunset district. fire crews hooked ropes to the scaffolding and carefully brought it down. no one was hurt. >>> nearly 3,000 pg&e customers are still without power due to storm-related outages. the peninsula has 662 outages. the eastbound has more than 1,000 customers without power. in the north bay, 723. 419 customers, no power in the south bay. and 23 customers in san francisco. >>> weather continues to delay flights in and out of sfo this morning. this is a live look at the airport. inbound flights are being delayed at their

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alexis smith has a closer look at the bay area roadways that could have been. >> reporter: as long as cars have been on our streets, california highway planners have seen the need for a networ of roads to move cars faster and more efficiently around the bay area. >> this is a plan that you know, really started to germinate in the 1950s. and then flower in the 1960s. and began withering in the 170 metropolitanoveres long-term highway plans he been possible. scenic highway 1 was once planned to be a major freeway. swathes of concrete could have been laided from san rafael to point reyes. a freeway would have aleve congestion in the south way and another linked brentwood to liver more. >> around the east bay in particular a lot of plans were not built. >> reporter: one would have started at 680 and fremon. to connect at 238 and 580 in hayward. the plan was on the books nearly half a century but in 2004, the idea officially died. >> if it were ever to be built, highway 238 would be the eighth bay area bridge and it would have connected with 380 right here near sfo and continued along this

alexis smith has a closer look at the bay area roadways that could have been. >> reporter: as long as cars have been on our streets, california highway planners have seen the need for a networ of roads to move cars faster and more efficiently around the bay area. >> this is a plan that you know, really started to germinate in the 1950s. and then flower in the 1960s. and began withering in the 170s. >>tanceportation system that will oversees the long-term highway plans he says anything could have been possible. scenic highway 1 was once planned to be a major freeway. swathes of concrete could have been laided from san rafael to point reyes. a freeway would have aleve congestion in the south way and another linked brentwood to liver more. >> around the east bay in particular a lot of plans were not built. >> reporter: one would have started at 680 and fremon. to connect at 238 and 580 in hayward. the plan was on the books nearly half a century but in 2004, the idea officially died. >> if it were ever to be built, highway 238 would be the eighth bay area bridge and it would have connecte

alexis smith has our traffic update now. alexis, amazing that guy only broke his arm. >> yeah, so fortunate and so glad those were some relatively pretty minor injuries there. we have some lanes blocked in that situation. it is a sig alert. northbound 101 at railroad avenue. the two right lanes are blocked and that new estimate for everything to be back open is about 10:00 a.m. this morning. that was just a big mess to clean up. here you go, live look outside, walnut creek, southbound 680 crawling along. a ton of smoke and unhealthy air once again for your commute. jessica? >> w ♪ ♪ connecting people... ...uniting the world. ♪♪ >>> now your accuweather forecast with mike nicco. >> there's a small spot and a temporary spot of some clean air on the peninsula from about the san mateo bridge down to 237 in the south bay. but i think all of us are going to go red once again like we did yesterday. jessica asked a great question. there you go, starting saturday, that's when the air moderates as the winds change and eventual

and most stores nationwide. >>> good morning, i'm alexis smith from abc 7 mornings. meteorologist mike nicco has the forecast. hi, mike. >> hi, everybody. light rain showing up from vallejo to oakland all the way down to san jose. there's more on the way. this is future radar for the next six hours. steady drizzle to light rain. pockets of moderate rain at times and it will taper overnight and we'll have a clean weekend. as far as what's going on temperature wise, we'll be around 60 today. then with increasing sunshine and drier air this weekend through monday,er low to mid 60s and 2 on our scale next tuesday. >>> we have another accident approaching the bridge, this one near spencer with another overturned blocking three lanes of traffic. it's almost like daja vu. here's a look at what where your backup goes. it's not as bad but they'll have to do a bit of a break. >>> thank you, sue. we'll have another abc 7 news update in 30 minutes and always on our news app and abc7news.com. we'll be back in a few minutes. the news continues now with good still flat. here. try t

. >>> good morning, i'm alexis smith from abc 7 mornings. a driver on the peninsula was arrested this morning of suspected dui. now the chp is trying to figure out if that driver had tesla autopilot engaged. officers were following a model s going about 70 miles per hour on southbound 101 at whipple avenue. they noticed the driver was slumped over and appeared to be asleep at the wheel. the patrol car pulled in front of the tesla to slow it down. they gave the driver a field sobriety test and he was arrested. >>> switching to look at current issues on the roads, we've got definitely some trouble here in the berkeley area. westbound 80, we've got a five car collision. sounds like three out of five are off on the shoulder. two are still blocking. chp is on the scene. a quick check of drive times, southbound 101 out of santa rosa. in the green at 19 and meteorologist mike ♪ ♪ connecting people... ...uniting the world. ♪♪ >>> check out the dry commute. this is san mateo bridge looking westbound. yeah, it's going to be good. no umbrella n

. >> with sports, we bring in alexis smith. >> the cleveland browns don't have much to lose. they can try just about anything, right, mike? >> oh, yeah. they fired their offensive coordinator first. thin they fired their head coach. then they have one of the best rookie quarterbacks in the league in baker mayfield. so there's talent there if someone like condoleezza could come in and make it work. >> you never know. >> you never know. it's not going to happen, unfortunately. it. >> would be exciting. >> people would watch. >> absolutely. i agree. let's take a look and show you what's going on. this is must-see tv.. a look at walnut creek. south on 680 through the haze. our 12th consecutive day of unhealthy air. chances of rain and cleaner air begin wednesday. it will be cooler and cleaner all the way through the holiday weekend. here's a look at what's going on for our lows don't. we have a lot of mid to upper 30s in inland valleys. low to mid-40s in the bay. 49 in san francisco. here it is. 200 days since we have had a healthy rain. rainfall amounts that could top an inch. h

a rally for cindy hyde-smith ahead of tomorrow's special election. big deal, it's either going to be 53-47 or 52-48. this election is important for the u.s. senate confirmations. back to the president. >> president trump: climbing those walls would be a very painful experience right now. republicans are committed to halting this incursion and defending the sovereign borders of the united states. we are sending a simple message to the lawless caravans and to the illegal trespassers marching towards our border. it's very simple, turn back now, go back home, we will not let you in. we are not going to let you win. turn back now. illegal immigration is also deeply unfair to american workers, including african-american workers, people don't realize what happens. my administration will always put the citizens of our country first. the policies of open borders are a threat to every community. since i took office i.c.e. agents have arrested over 235,000 aliens with criminal records, can you believe that? 235,000. that's a lot. and by the way, they want to ge

holding a rally for cindy hyde-smith ahead of tomorrow's special election. big deal, it's either going to be 53-47 or 52-48. this election is important for the u.s. senate confirmations. back to the president.th >> president trump: climbing those walls would be a very painful experience right now. republicans are committed toli halting this incursion and defending the sovereign borders of the united states. we are sending a simple message to the lawless caravans and to the illegal trespassers marching towards our border. it's very simple, turn back now, go back home, we will not let you in. we are not going to let you win. turn back now. illegal immigration is also deeply unfair to american workers, including african-american workers, people don't realize what happens. my administration will always put the citizens of our country first. the policies of open borders arn a threat to every community. since i took office i.c.e. agents have arrested over 235,000 aliens with criminal records, can you believe that? 235,000. that's a lot. and by the way, they want t