San francisco. 02inch. We could add more to the rainfall mix for today. Theres the main frontal band that kept you up last night soaking portions of the bay area. Right now not a lot to show you but still a few scattered showers up in portions of the north bay around napa, outside of santa rosa as well but at least the persistent heavy rain really not a factor right now. Out towards San Francisco and oakland just clouds in place and san jose 60 degrees currently. Off to a mild start this morning. Temperatures lower 60s. This afternoon still a chance of a shower but you will notice our forecast model not a lot of coverage here throughout the day with a mixture of sun and clouds for your thursday afternoon and maybe a popup shower or two across portions of the area. We will continue to keep an eye on the radar and check in with sal right now. He has an update on the roadways and soaking as well. We have a problem that happened last night, chp has not yet confirmed that rain was a factor but slick conditions may have contributed to a deadly overnight crash involving a big rig in san rafael. The crash was reported just after 10 00 last night on highway 101 near north san Adrian PetersonNorth San Pedro road. A sigalert was issued half an hour later as all three lanes were blocked. Theres no word yet on the identity of the person that was killed in the crash. The sigalert was cancelled at about 3 30 as all of the lanes on 101 had reopened at that point but a caltrans crew will return to the area later this morning to repair the damage to the concrete wall of that center divide. Lets move along and take a look at the commute on the altamont pass, westbound 580, this traffic here is moderate, in fact, its light, i would say, this is about the only time i can say it is light for the commute getting into livermore and driving out to dublin and castro valley. This is a look at the bay bridge toll plaza where traffic is also light and the roads are wet. The rain is causing new problems with the victims of the north bay wildfires whose homes in the burn zone were damaged or destroyed. Ktvus Deborah Villalon reports one homeowner who lost almost everything in the fire is now helping neighbors that he didnt even know protect what they have left. This is whats left of my house. This is what is left of everything. Reporter a month ago agony as homeowners faced the unthinkable. My pore fish didnt make it out. Reporter now that same property is covered with plastic, anchored with rocks, a shallow trench around the perimeter holds a bottle to absorb toxin. We wanted to protect our property and make sure everything is okay. Reporter kevin is familiar with waddles from construction jobs. He and his family worked all day here getting ready for rain. The house belonged to his son nick. First house, 35. He spent every dime he had into this house. Hes been saving for eight years. Reporter the waddles are being produced down the street here in the hidden hills area east of santa rosa, a custom trailer usually parked at a lot in petaluma has hit the road now. The Company Owner lost his own house, not in the fire storm, but four days later, an ember that flared up. If they start to feel down, depressed, come up here and drag some waddles four a while, you will forget it. Reporter in three days 30,000 feet of waddle to be distributed throughout the fire zone protecting storm drains and watersheds. I just need about 100 feet, so thats fine. Reporter this homeowner is concerned about the creek alongside her property. Its been impossible to Stay Together because they had 10 pets and a fenced yard. Theres nowhere to live so we were all broken up in various spots and everything has got a few pets with them and we are making due. We have lived here for five years. We didnt meet many of our neighbors. Guess what . I have met most of them now and its great and this will make the Community Even stronger, which is really what its all about. Reporter doug allards waddle station will move to other locations to make access easier for more people, i way to give back, he says, grateful to First Responders who pushed his antique truck to safety and plucked a few pieces of art from his burning home. Even a ring belonging to his late mother and wine from his wine cellar. 300 bottles of wine they took out and put on the hill while the house was burning. Reporter the past month was a flash and an eternity all at once. Deborah villalon, ktvu fox 2 news. State treasurer john chung toured the Sacramento CommunityHealth Center which lost 56 exam rooms, a pharmacy, a lab and all of his medical equipment in the wildfires. He says he will help the clinic rebuild by getting money out of to them quickly. The Sprinkler System at the center saved the building so it could be repaired within a year. Well, tonight a benefit concert is being held at at t park to raise money for fire victims. Band together bay area kicks off at 6 00, it features several artists including rafael sadiq, dave matthews, j easy from oakland and also local metallica. The best seats have been donate to first donated to First Responders, volunteers and families impacted by the wildfire. Organizers say 100 of the ticket sales are going to the Tipping PointEmergency Relief Fund to help low income communities hit hardest by the fires. And starting at 5 50 you can live stream the show on youtube and twitter and donate to the cause, google is matching donations made through the youtube live stream and texts up to 1 million until january 1st. Time now 4 07. A 25,000 reward now being offered for information leading to the capture of two escaped inmates who ran away from the palo alto courthouse on monday. Tra mel mcclee and john bivens were able to unlock their restraints and escaped from a bailiff at the courthouse. They were facing charges of holding up a Verizon Store in sunnyvale in february. They got away in a waiting Toyota Corolla that they later ditched and replaced with a u haul van. Two people have now since been arrested suspected of helping them getting a get away. Later today marketta kirk, who is accused of renting that u haul van is due in court. Concord police are identifying two of the five suspects arrested in this weeks deadly shooting of a 17 yearold near his high school. 20yearold christian youre sadea usada is charged with murder and 18yearold brian certify maino cachewa sermano chacuaa set up a memorial in memory of the victim lawrence jansen. Investigators say he was shot and killed by a passenger in a black sedan that pulled up near the School Campus after classes let out on monday. Investigators are still trying to determine a motive. Time is now 4 88. Lawyers representing jose sera ster zerate, closing arguments scheduled for monday. Tara moriarty tells us a gun expert testifying in support of the defense claim that the shooting was an accident. Reporter alan who works at the Canadian Mounted Police for 35 years was the defensive firearms expert. He testified that jose garcia most liable unintentionally fired the gun used to kill kate steinle on a San Francisco pier in 2015. Under the law an accident is a complete defense to a criminal charge and so if there is reasonable doubt that a crime was committed, that this was accidental that he would be acquitted on all charges. Reporter the prosecuting attorney tried to keep the defense attorney from asking the question but to no avail. Boss says his opinion was based on a variety of factors including operator error. Unintentional discharges happen particularly when you have someone who is untrained, when you see a single shot and as is the case here, you have a Long Distance shot and it ricochets. Reporter another factor according to voss, the actions of the shooter after the shot. Garcia reminded the jury that zer raw tay tossed the gun in the bay and walked off onto the pier. A key part of the statement he said he was 5 feet away from steinle when the gun discharged and we know thats totally not true. He also admitted to walking by her when she was shot. We know thats not true. Reporter so the defense claiming that police got him to admit things that simply werent true. In San Francisco, tara moriarty, ktvu fox 2 news. San mateo county officials have a warning for people who hike and jog in San Bruno Mountain state park. There have been two separate reports of a man groping women who were running on a trail inside the park. Investigators released this sketch of the suspect, hes described as a white man, 58 tall, 180 pounds with blue eyes and blond hair, he has side burns and a well groomed beard. Take a look at the sketch. The first incident happened on sunday, october 22nd at about 4 30 in the afternoon. The other report is from monday of this week at about 5 30. In both cases the suspect approached the women from behind, grabbed them and then ran away. Investigators believe he was driving a light colored 2009 mazda 3 hatchback or similar vehicle. We are showing you a picture there. Anyone with information is asked to call the San Mateo County sheriffs office. Time is now 4 11. Marissa mayer, the former ceo of yahoo testified on capitol hill about how 3 billion yahoo accounts were hacked. Coming up, we will tell you who she is blaming. And on the east shore freeway off to a nice start here. As you can see traffic is looking good heading out to the mcarthur maze. A big burst of rainfall. Still a possibility of a few showers for today. We will break down the updated forecast for your thursday and more rain clouds showing up in the five day outlook. All of that coming up after the break. Welcome back to mornings on 2, its 4 14. President trump is meeting with china to discuss business, trade and north korea. Petty ann brown has the details. Reporter the u. S. And chinese president s meeting face to face. No more the subject than china and u. S. Relation. Reporter aside from immigration, china has long been one of President Trumps top issues, both as a private citizen and as an elected public official. During his visit he touted what he called the great chemistry with his chinese counterpart and refused to cast blame on china for the trade deficit. But he did warn that unfair trade practices must be addressed. The two countries signed some new business agreements worth more than 200 billion. The deals affect the manufacturing and sales of a variety of products, from jet engines to cell phones to auto parts. China is country number 3 on the president s tour of asia. Of course north korea has been on the agenda during each stop. The president has singled out russia and china as countries that need to do more to contain the Korean Nuclear threat. Mr. Trump gave specifics, most of them involving finances and cutting off business ties. Implement u. N. Security Council Sanctions and resolutions and to cease doing business with the north korean regime. But time is quickly running out. We must act fast and hopefully china will act faster and more effectively on this problem than anyone. Reporter the next stop is vietnam where President Trump is expected to meet with russian president Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of an economic summit. In new york, patti ann brown, fox news. 4 16. The Senate Version of the republicans tax reform plan due to be revealed today. One difference in the senate bill, it would eliminate, instead of just limit the deduction for state and local taxes. Now political experts say since there are no Republican Senate seats in areas where that deduction is popular, like here in california and in new york, republicans arent really worried about voter backlash for eliminating that deduction. The senate bill also reportedly will include seven tax brackets instead of the four that are in the house bill. Vice president mike pence joined Texas Governor greg abbott for a memorial for the victims of Sundays Church shooting. He hugged the families and told them america is praying for them. He also visited survivors who are still in the hospital and talked with First Responders including the two men who chased down the gunman as he sped away from the church. Pences presence offered comfort to people who say they are still trying to come to terms with what happened in their tiny texas town. Im just glad, you know, not to be one of those poor families. I mean, thats just you know, we saw it but they lived they are living it forever now. The Vice President told Community Leaders there are more than 100 fbi agents investigating the shooting and apple says it has offered to help unlock the cell phone owned by the gunman but says so far officials have not asked for any assistance. Time is now 4 17, sal is here, you got an update on our commute, what happened in san rafael and elsewhere. Thats right, dave. You do want to mention that highway 101 is open in san rafael after there was an overnight deadly crash there at night near san pedro road, the loans are open and traffic is moving well. Be careful out there. The road conditions, the driving conditions arent optimal and you could get into trouble if youre driving too fast. Start with gilroy, northbound 101 driving from gilroy to san jose moving along pretty well if you are driving up into the silicon valley, it continues to be a very nice commute all the way through, and no major issues but, again, its wet as you have been hearing and its going to be you should give yourself an extra 10 or 15 minutes at least this morning if youre on a schedule driving up to the bay bridge toll plaza, its also wet there as well. You can see traffic is moving along very nicely. And heres a picture of San Francisco airport. We may have delays later, going to be checking that for you, but any kind of weather usually delays flights in and outlater in the morning. Right now not a lot of activity here. I always like this shot, mark, 419. Where would i go on a trip today . Where would you like to go . Me too. Im thinking a vacation. Maybe hawaii. Maybe yes, i think they will be working on that for spring break, sounds like a good plan. Outside right now we still have to deal with some of the downpours out there, at least the rainfall from the night. Theres not a lot of coverage out there but we cannot guarantee a dry forecast for today but still plenty of breaks in the action. So there we go, the radar right now, and if you can see in portions of Sonoma County outside of santa rosa, there we have one little cell here approaching calistoga and saint helena, moving the maps around closer to San Francisco and oakland, this one cell approach in the approaching the east bay as well. So not completely dry. Looks like a little bit of a heavier cell with the rainfall picking up out toward walnut creek if we were to click on this one cell and a rainfall rate of nearly 1 2 an hour. So this will be a sudden jump in the rainfall as this approaches walnut creek over the next 15 to 20 minutes. The wider view out in the pacific and a big circulation and with this area of low pressure we are going to hold onto the chance of a shower for today and then looks like another round of showers move into the bay area tomorrow morning at about this time. Current numbers out there right now we have 50s to right around 60 degrees, it is pretty mild, so you dont need the thick coat or the sweater to stay warm because we are still on the warm side of it system and as a result snow levels are high up in the sierra as well, up above 7500, up above 8000 feet. The big rainfall totals for the coastal hills in Sonoma County and out toward bent loma as well, san rafael nearly 3 4 inch. One site in napa showing you 8 10inch but tapering off for san jose at. 01. Guerneville 1. 66 and healdsburg 1. 60. Heres the deal for today, cloud cover and the chance of a shower throughout the day. Im thinking the highest chance will be for this morning, 8 00, 58 to 63 degrees, by 4 00 temperatures in the 60s, so heres the deal, we just showed you a few scattered showers on the radar, we are going to hold onto that chance throughout the day but also we could have plenty of sunny breaks as well so one of those deal we are going to have sun, some passing clouds and the possibility of a popup shower. Heres what happens tomorrow morning. Another run of showers so this could be more of a factor for the friday morning commute as another cell moves in. There are a band of showers moving into the bay area tomorrow morning. Temperatures for today in the 60s for afternoon highs, approaching 70 degrees, pretty mild out there and here is a look ahead, your fiveday forecast, some scattered showers for your friday, mostly for the morning hours, the weekend will start out dry and then on sunday we will bring in the chance of some showers, especially up in the north bay by the afternoon hours and maybe more showers into monday but i guess the timing, its not at least those torrential downpours from last night, not really moving through this morning so thats kind of maybe giving them time to get everything ready up there in the fire zone, especially, thats our big concern. Yeah, and im thinking last night was probably the biggest event out of all of them. Okay. At least we are not talking about continuous stream rainfall rates. Thats whats good. Good. Thank you, mark. Thanks, mark. It is 4 22. A long awaited tribute to a former San Francisco supervisor, harvey mill. Coming up a look at the art installation unveiled in his honor. R. Without pg es assistance, without their training our collaboration with pg e is centered around public safety. We could not do our mission to keep our Community Safe. Anytime we are responding to a structure fire, one of the first calls you make is for pg e for gas and electric safety. Its my job to make sure that they have the training that they need to make the scene safe for themselves and for the public. Its handson training actually turning valves, turning systems off, looking at different wire systems all that training is crucial to keeping our Community Safe and our firefighters safe. Together, were building a better california. At t feuding with the Trump Administration in regards to the proposed mega merger with time warner. The Justice Department is demanding that at t, cell turner broadcasting or directv as a condition of the 85 billion deal. But the chairman of at t says he has no intention of selling turner broadcasting, which includes the Cable Network cnn. President trump has been critical of cnn and during the campaign the candidate donald trump said that his administration would never approve the deal because there was too much power in the hands of a few people. Time is now 4 26. Apple reportedly is working on a redesigned ipad that would remove the home button and add the new face i. D. System. Bloomberg says the new ipad may come out next year. By removing the home button, the screen will fill almost the entire front of the new ipad. Apple also got rid of the home button on the new iphone x. Uber is now working with nasa to develop a driverless flying service. Uber says the flying service will let passengers order a ride across the skies from their smartphones like they now order up a car. The company says keeping the low flying vehicles from running into each other or anything else is a major hurdle, of course, in creating the Uber Air Service but nasa says the deal makes uber one of several companies its work its working with to develop and manage driverless air Traffic Systems including drones used in agriculture and firefighting. Uber says it plans to begin testing the driverless air service over los angeles in three to 10 years. A driverless shuttle was involved in a crash less than two hours after it hit the streets. We have authorized vehicles like in in six places in the world. We have transported 275,000 passengers with these vehicles and it never happened before. Now, operators were testing this driverless shuttle yesterday when the driver of a semi truck backed up and hit the shuttle. No one was hurt but the driver of the semi truck was cited, had a ticket for illegal backing. Operators of the driverless shuttle say the vehicle did exactly what it was supposed to do. The sensors registered the truck and the shuttle stopped to avoid the accident. Its one of those moments when you say why did i wake up in the morning but truly the Technology Proven yet again it is safe because all people in the vehicle got out without any harm. Some of those passengers say they are not going to take another ride on that driverless shuttle until it can demonstrate it can do more than just stop. Its 4 28. A clash of ideologies at stanford. Up next, the upcoming appearance by political conservative thats prompting a debate about free speech. Plus, more trouble for actor kevin spacey, the latest allegations as his scenes are now cut from a movie thats due out next month. H. Harold hated everything. Ahh. But i recently bought jimmy dean stuffed hash browns. Theyre stuffed with delicious meat and cheeses. All of that crispy goodness has him seeing the day in a whole new light. 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