Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20161208

Go through today, so well be tracking that. This is the issue for 280 northbound. We have two issues for northbound 280, the bigger one at geneva. Well show you the wet roadways. Slowing through hayward through southbound 880. Both those areas right on schedule. Much slower than youd expect north from daly city in towards San Francisco. In the backup an earlier crash caused more slowing. Slick roadways are an issue. A number of spinouts reported this morning, two over here in san mateo. We have the southbound side at poplar thats completely clear. Northbound we had the crash clear at kehoe. That blends with the morning traffic starting to build through san mateo. Burlingame, slick conditions. Rick boone is out there off the eastshore freeway. Rick, what do you have for those conditions . Reporter right now on 101 north, were here at sfo, decided to get off the highway for just a second. If youre taking a flight, get out here early. This may be a normal thing when you have to take a flight on an early morning, a lot of cars here. On highway 101 traffic is moving a little smoother this morning. We did notice as we were going further in towards the city past the airport as were coming to the airport, we noticed that there was a lot more rain coming down out here, and that is something to definitely watch out for as well as a lot of wind as well. Thats going to be an issue that you have to really have on the top of your brain because the more wind out there, the more likelihood you could possibly lose control of your vehicle. So thats something you have to be aware of. Were sitting in a little bit of zone here as folks try to exit out of the airport. One of the interesting things we saw today is that people seem to not realize that its rainy and wet outside. So theyre still going very, very fast. A little faster than they should be. And the other thing, i dont think they actually know that the conditions can change and you dont actually know what those Road Conditions are like. That was the other thing we noticed today, folks just seem to be doing the normal thing. I had a woman tweet me up on twitter and say people just dont understand how to drive during the weather. Something like that. Well get back on 101 going north in just a moment going into the city and well show you more of the traffic conditions. Im hoping we wont see anymore accidents. I guess you know what the answer to that will be. We certainly hope not. Live from sfo, a good resource during this storm and during this rainy season is our free nbc bay area app. You can get updated forecasts and access our live interactive radar and its free for iphone and android. The search for victims is over, but the task of figuring out what caused the deadly oakland warehouse fire is just beginning. A task force has the job of coming up with ways of building safety and complaint procedures. The final body count from the horrific fire is at 36, marking the citys deadliest fire. As oakland city leaders are trying to cope with the deadliest tragedy theyve seen in decades, theyre also moving forward with changes that could prevent another fire of this magnitude. Oakland officials revealed building inspectors have not been inside the now burned out warehouse in 30 years. As questions continue to swirl around the citys responsibility for inspecting buildings, mayor libby schaaf says she does not blame city officials. Some other revelations from the federal investigators, this is not arson, and still no definitive cause. Theyre looking at several different sources. They plan on creating a virtual 3d reconstruction of the building to help with the investigation. The San Francisco museum of modern art is providing the museum as a place for people to come who are mourning the victims of the warehouse fire. The museum is offering all visitors entrance for free tonight. The art museum says it welcomes anyone in need of a space to reflect, mourn and heal. Free admission will be from 6 00 to 9 00 tonight. There are safety concerns on the San Jose State University campus this morning after there have been several reports, three to be exact, of Sexual Battery at the university in just over a week. Today in the bays kris sanchez joining us live on the campus to explain what happened in each of these cases and show the Photos Police have of at least one suspect. Reporter at least one of the suspects and the suspect descriptions are similar, though we dont know if theres more than one person at work here. The most recent incident was reported here at duncan hall, the hall of science here on the edge of campus. If you look on a map that we made for you, you can see all three reported assaulted in the last two weeks, they were all against women, and two of them happened as those women were taking the stairs. Just yesterday at 1 10 in the afternoon, police say the suspect battered the woman and ran up the stairs to get away. This man is described as a man in his 20s with spike i cy hairh a navy blue backpack. On monday, a suspect was caught on camera. Campus police put out these photos of this aches man in his 20s who the woman says followed her into the Student Union and groped her. The notable description here is he was seen riding that skateboard, it was white with red stripes and he had a black backpack. Exactly two weeks ago today on november 30th, a woman reported to police that a man in his 20s sexually battered her in the stairway of sweeney hall. He is described as in his 20s. That victim reports he had a mustache and a black backpack. The suspect description sounds similar, but because the descriptions are quite vague, we cant say at this point whether the same suspect is responsible for all three of these sexual assaults. The students are already responding on twitter, reacting to the fact that this is a lot of alerts in the last two weeks theyve gotten about their safety on campus. At san jose state, kris sanchez, today in the bay. 6 07 on your thursday. An issue thats been debated for about a year now, but finally San Francisco police could be a few days away from a new use of force policy. According to the examiner, members of the San Francisco Police Commission hinted they may approve the new policy next wednesday. The reason for the holdup has been a battle with the Police Officers association which last month filed a grievance with the city. Last Night Commission members suggested the new policy can still be approved without the unions blessing. Good morning. The time is 6 07. As we get a view of the radar, were seeing more of this rain moving through and we will have a lot more rain where that came from. Some of the heaviest rain fell overnight. There may still be pockets of heavy rain as we go into the rest of the morning. But right now a lot of this rain taking a break with some of those lighter showers moving through as we speak. Here is what to expect as we go through the day. There will be once again pockets of heavy rain and isolated street flooding. Weve already seen that happening, especially on the peninsula. The winds may gust from the south up to about 15 to 30 miles an hour and very slick roads will be possible as you head out. If youre heading over to lake tahoe, we have freezing rain, also some snow mixing in. Well be tracking all of that in the microclimate forecast in about ten minutes, heading over to mike tracking several spinouts on the road. Slick roadways, a lot of rain on the roads. We had a number of spinouts report. Two earlier crashes in san mateo may have cleared. We may have another one north of the san mateo bridge coming up. Over here, i want to show the slowing through 84 through the Construction Zone and continuing towards 680. Thats unusual for the section. Over here moving smoothly. 21 minutes registering from vallecitos and your traditional slowdown towards 680. Normally at this time of day about 15 minutes, maybe a little less. We have a significant delay there. Well check on whats going on. Nothing reported by chp so far. Over here the rest of the east bay moves well. Slowing south 880 through 238. The bay bridge shows the soupy conditions out there. We have the traditional backup because metering lights are on. Very wet on the roadways. Back to you. Pretty soggy out there. Thank you, mike. Up next, a list of the nations best places to work is out. No surprise, the bay area a pretty good representation. Who made the cut next. Burglars ransack a home. Well take a look at the vance video to see if you can help. Good thursday morning. We are in a microclimate weather alert. The time is 6 12. Here is a look at some of the cameras where you live and what to expect. Temperatures only in the 40s and 50s and more rain in the forecast as we go through today. Ill talk more about that and show you the radar coming up in about five minutes. Despite the wet weather, were still under just half an hour for highway 4 to the bay bridge to the eastshore freeway. In the south bay, north 101 shows some slowing coming up towards 87. Mike, thank you very much. Campbell police right now are on the hunt for three burglars who were caught on camera ransacking a house, and the victim watched it while it was happening. Xi said shortly after leaving her house about 1 00 in the afternoon late last month, she received an alert on her phone that someone was inside. She was watching remotely as those guys were rifling through her drawers and closets and grabbing her belongings. She called police right away. Officers did not arrive in time to catch anybody. Investigators are asking for tips in finding those men. Glass door released a survey ranking the best places to work for 2017 and four Silicon Valley Companies Made the top ten. The number one spot went to bain, a boston based investment firm, number two, facebook, following closely behind google ranked at four. Number eight, linkedin, the final Silicon Valley company, san josebased adobe ranking number nine. Starbucks not a local company, but a very popular company after this. Now theyre not just using the app to order ahead. Thats right. Soon, scott mcgrew, youll be able to order that latte with a text. Its honestly the future of interacting with customers. Testing your local starbucks for a cup of coffee, texting American Airlines asking how much a flight is. All kinds of companies are doing this. Starbucks says its texting feature will be ready sometime next year. Starbucks also says it will add soups for lunch, eggs for breakfast and open more than 12,000 new locations over the next ten years. This time yesterday, we were telling you one single lawsuit stood between alaskas purchase of virgin American Airlines. Little did we know at the time. Lawyers were busy settling that suit. Now the Justice Department has okayed the deal and absolutely nothing stands in the way. The deal is going to go through. The dow rose nearly 300 points on wednesday. That means well start another record this morning. S p 500 hit a new record. Nasdaq came within. 2 of a new intraday record. Bloomberg calculates nearly 2 trillion has flowed into the stock market since donald trump was elected president. Nintendo next week launches a new game for iphone called super mario run. The first mario title for iphone. Last night jimmy fallon got to check it out. Get the special coin. Oh get it, get it watch out. Yea you know what im talking about. Thats what im talking about. So fun. That other standing there is the head of nintendo and truly one of the nicest executives in high tech. Hes got a fun job. You can download a demo for iphone today, right now. And the full game comes out next week. Kind of a teaser. Do you know how many hours of my childhood were spent and wasted playing that game. Do you know how many hours of my College Years were spend not cool. Thank you, scott. Its going to be an even busier Winter Holiday season at airports. 45. 2 Million People are expected to fly during the 21day winter season. Everybody going home to see grandma. Its a 3. 5 increase over last year. The Winter Holiday season starts next friday and it lasts through january 5th. The busiest travel day is expected to be thursday, december 22nd and friday december 23rd, right before christmas eve. Airlines are preparing by adding more seats through larger planes and probably stacking up on all those peanuts and pretzels. Now youve got our attention. The best part. Rick boone was at sfo, hes been watching the roads with all the rain coming down. It did look a little crowded out there. Thats right, pretty soggy out there. Well chelk on the Road Conditions. Its been tough overnight. Now were starting to see things backing off. We do still have some rain around the bay area, and the rain will pour off and on through out the day. You can tell by our camera on the golden gate bridge, theres water droplets on the lens. Still rain coming down. Its also very chilly. Only 50 degrees and heading up to 58 later today. Here is a look at dublin where the roads are wet and the drivers are also really starting to stack up out there on the roads and having to take it easy as you hit some of those puddles and splash the water up on other cars. Were still seeing the rain moving in mostly for San Francisco and farther to the south with some spotty light rain as we get a closer look at the peninsula. Still rain from redwood city over toward san mateo and over towards south San Francisco. In the south bay, not much rain and not much coverage where weve seen much lesser amounts of some rain overnight, and then you head towards richmond through valet hoe where the rain is coming down at this point. Only 44 in concord, 42 in livermore and 49 in morgan hill. Here is a look at the Road Conditions once again through dublin and the 24hour rainfall totals where the most amount of rain has fallen around san mateo, about an inch and threequarters. 1. 5 in pacifica, santa rosa had an inch of rain. Oakland, a little less shan. 5 inch. San jose hasnt even measured. 1 inch. Its really hirt or miss. That will be the case for the rest of the day. As we start to see more of this moisture setting um over parts of the peninsula and the south bay, there will be breezy winds and heavy downpours at times. Dont expect the heavy rain to last that long. We still see some rain on the hourbyhour outlook through tonight. That will also stay with us through the day tomorrow. There may be some more breaks and rainfall totals so far have been over. 50 in some spots. We may have a quarter inch in the south bay, a much higher amount farther to north. Winter weather advisory in effect. In San Francisco, highs reaching the mid 50s. Off and on rain through the weekend and the same for the inland areas. Make sure the umbrellas are ready to go. Lets head over to mike. Windshield wipers on, too. A remierpd as the sun starts to come around in a while. Over here were looking at wetted roadways all over the bay. Kari doing a great job showing various cameras. We have slowing northbound 101, farther north than we typically see. It creeps up towards the airport, just below the speed limit, typical for the conditions through the south bay. A very slow drive developing north of 380, reports of an earlier crash came in. It looks like this may indeed be where this is. This is one big slowdown toward daly city. Just north of there towards geneva, it looks like the second crash blocking two lanes may have cleared one lane. Those two areas for 280 are very slow getting towards San Francisco. 6 20 right now. Up next, were getting rain in the bay area. Snow falling in the sierra. Well have a live report from the sierra to show the Winter Weather conditions there next. Just talking about airports. A lot of people willing to catch flights. This was a different foot chase coming to an end on the airfield at sfo. How this bizarre incident unfolded. After all come join us this season, at the all new festival of holidays event. Including the new world of color season of light show. Now at the disneyland resort. That rain means snow in the sierra. Laura boxes were tracking rain hitting the bay area. The rain means snow in the sierra. Lets go skiing. Today in the bays brian hickey live at Donner Summit to show us what the conditions look like there. It looks good behind you, brian. Reporter good morning, guys. I was expecting a little more snow to be honest with you after a frogs stay day in the sacramento area yesterday. I thought wed get snow down a little lower. Were a little above the colfax area. Now here we are at Donner Summit. Its misting on me, very top, 7,220 feet. Not snowing but misting. Thats allowed caltrans to lift the chain controls which is why you see the parade of semis. Thats the good news for now. However, those squalls keep coming in and out. We know this can change on a dime. If youre heading to the sierra, make sure you have the fourwheel drive. If you dont want to put them on yourself, 30 to install the chains for you. This is just the beginning of blustery withins. They expect the snow levels to drop back down. For now they continue to climb. One thing i love about being up here at this hour of the morning. I dont know if youre Country Music fans. The brothers osborne, they dont have chains. They got turned around. I keep looking for the tour bus to come by. May can buy some for a pretty penny. Perhaps theres a new country song. I bet, the time i went up the mountain without any chains. Mother nature will get you know matter who you are. A burglary right now in san carlos to tell you about that has Police Reminding Residents to watch out for suspicious activity. The burglary happened on crestview drive about 10 00 yesterday morning. Burglar reportedly smashed the rear window to get into the house. Police say burglary rates have gone down almost 30 from lastiers number. Theyre urging the community to stay vigilant since most of the burglaries happen between the months of november and february. This is not what you usually see when youre flying in or out of sfo. A foot chase on the airfield. It started just before noon yesterday. Police got a call about a man at a terminal possibly on drugs. He started running from the scene when he saw sfpd. When officers followed him, he ended up jumping a fence and ended up on the airfield where they eventually arrested him. 6 25. Up next on today in the bay, Team Coverage of the wet commute as you get ready to head out the door this morning. That rain continues as we go through the day, still the rain streaming in across the bay area. Another look at what to expect for the rest of the afternoon coming up. Reporter im rick boone, live coming up on 280 here on 280 going north towards san jose. There are accidents on the road. Ill tell you about hot spots you need to look out for on 280 with the search for victims complete inside the oakland warehouse fire, what the city of oakland is doing, the steps theyre taking to make sure it doesnt happen again. Were getting ready for a wet and windy morning commute. On your left thats a live look at the golden gate bridge. And on your right, thats our good morning. Im sam brock. Good morning. Im sk. We have Team Coverage of the Rainy Weather so youre prepared when you have to go back to work. Kari hall tracking the rain. Mike inouye watching the impact on the commute. Rick boone driving in the rain as we speak showing those conditions live. Lets start the coverage with kari. This morning were tracking heavy downpours in some spots. Not everyone is seeing this as weve seen the heaviest rain moving through overnight. Still a lot of activity on the radar as the moisture streams in. We will dont have this rain off and on for the next several hours, going around getting a closer look at some of the rain as it continues to fall over the peninsula. At times weve seen the rain pouring down in buckets, coming down in sheets. Looking into the south bay, not as much coverage. But still enough to make the roads wet as you head out. For the east bay, not as much rain, and the north bay taking a little break from the rain that fell overnight. We still have in some spots over an inch in total rainfall and there will be more on top of that. Mike is now checking the wet roads through the south bay. Thats right. The activity really hitting the peninsula. That will affect folks heading down in towards san jose where we had a lot of rain over the last half hour. Showing the green on my maps which shows the rain on the radar system. Were seeing the northbound routes kick in to san jose now. Not really any focused spots right now as any major issues. We have a slower drive developing for all the roadways heading north for highway 17 and 880. Thats farther north than we typically see by this time on a lighter traffic day. I want to take you up the peninsula heading towards 280 and looking at a slower drive as well. Recovery up around 380. Its been a tough morning there. We have soupy conditions. In fact, rick is out there in those conditions. Rick, thank you for being out there showing folks what theyre dealing with today. What do you have . Reporter mike, when we were 280 going south, we saw a lot of vehicles that were more or less parked out here. Youve been talking about it for quite some time. Now the road is going a little smoother on 280 going north. Were heading towards san jose avenue. Its a little slowing, a little better than before. The rain as kari says is still coming down. The wind not so bad for my great camera guy this morning. Henry operating his vehicle without any problem. We have noticed that interesting here on 280, the drivers are pretty much going at the correct speed limit if not a little lighter. Dont see a lot of zigzagging or hot dogging out here. The water on the road seems to be a little more on this highway than 101, at least to me. Maybe thats why there was at one point about four accidents pretty much in a row, within about a mile or two of each other. We will continue on this point going towards the city here on 280. And hopefully this road will continue to be as smooth as you see it right now. This rain certainly this morning is nothing to play with, sam and laura. The bigger thing is do we say the 101 or 101 . I think ill get that right. Learning the freeways out there. Thanks so much, rick. Well check back with you in a little bit. Here is another great resource during the storm and the rainy season itself. Its our free nbc bay area app. You can get updated forecasts and also access our live interactive radar, even specific for your neighborhood. Its pretty cool. Free for iphone and android devices. Developments to tell you about now from oakland. A task force of fire Safety Experts is in that city this morning as investigators are still trying to figure out what started fridays deadly warehouse fire. In all, 36 people died in what is the nations deadliest fire in more than a decade. Today in the bays pete suratos live outside the Emergency Operations center for the fire to bring us up to speed on the investigation so far and also the steps oakland is now taking to make sure this does not happen again. Good morning, pete. Good morning, laura and sam. The city of oakland trying to move forward after this tragedy. Right now we have experts with the National Fire protection agency. Theyre going to be in town to help form this task force. The focus will be on building safety and citizen complaints when it comes to similar types of warehouses to pre vent this type of tragedy from happening in the future. You can see were at a different location from where weve been all week. Well show you some of the video as the barriers were being lifted. 36 victims lost their lives. There still are a lot of questions surrounding all this, whether the city could have prevented it, were there enough folks in there to help out with the situation that oakland mayor libby schaaf who says there will be no scapegoating following this tragedy. Developing ways to immediately clarify the responsibility of City Employees to properly report any observations of dangerous Living Condition conditions or illegal events. Public records indicate there were two open complaints against this warehouse and the lot next door. Officials were able to confirm blight but nothing else. Building inspectors had not been inside the burnt out warehouse in 30 years. Investigators will continue to be on the scene. But the cause of the fire has yet to be determined. Were live in oakland. Pete suratos for today in the bay. The atf telling us theyre still collecting evidence there. It could be a couple more weeks. Thank you very much, pete. With the search for victims complete, now goodbyes can officially begin. Standing in the rain last night hundreds of mourners gathering in san bruno. You see the candles, the pictures of the victims. Last night they were remembering 22yearold alex vega and his girlfriend of five years, 20yearold mikhachaelela grego both inseparable in life and now in death. The Alameda County Sheriffs Department say firefighters found the High School Sweethearts in the warehouse locked in each others arms. Gregorys father said he knew they would be found together. They were, you know, they were trying to make it out together or they were helping each other or helping somebody. I knew it. I just felt it. It gave me peace knowing. Family and friends continue to search for peace and to lean on each other in this time of grieving. Touching scene at warriors headquarters just a couple miles from the scene of the oakland warehouse fire. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their loved ones. We would also like to express our gratitude to the First Responders working on this unthinkable recovery effort. As players, were joining forces to make a donation to the relief effort. A sports team that is certainly part of this community. The players and the coaches for the warriors taping that message, pledging 75,000 to the on going relief efforts. That money comes in addition to the 50,000 the Warriors Organization donated earlier in the week. The raiders and the as have also made significant financial pledges. 6 37. To the president ial transition now, a trump associate is in russia this morning as more people are voicing concern over the makeup of the president elects cabinet. Today in the bays tracie potts joining us with the new information were learning about the transition. Were still waiting to hear who is going to be the next secretary of state. Good morning. Exactly. Good morning. Its not clear that decision has been made yet. President elect trump says it will probably be announced soon in the next week or so. Today hes got another interview. Everything fine . Reporter president elect trump meets with another candidate today for secretary of state, retired navy admiral james. Fairly close. I think next week will be the time that we announce it. Reporter theyre concerned his administration is stacked with former military leaders and millionaires like linda mcmahon. A certain point you dont want everybody coming from the same background. I dont think weve hit that yet. Reporter president obama and bush actually appointed more generals. The latest for trump, retired general jon kelley. Sources tell nbc hell be nominated to lead the department of homeland security. National security adviseadviser flynn, met with former obama counterpart susan rice witness. Meantime democrats are concerned trump may cut medicare and medicaid. Were going to mobilize, expose and defeat republicans deeply damaging scheme to end medicare. Mr. Trump, we are going to hold you accountable. Reporter Oklahoma Attorney general scott pruitt named the nominee for administrator of the epa, the i represent vooal protection agency. A little controversy there, hes suing the epa over climate change. Thank you very much, tracie. 6 39 right now. There will be a rare sighting of Hillary Clinton today. Shes expected to deliver a speech at a tribute for Senate Minority leader democrat harry reid. Thats in the afternoon in washington, d. C. Reid is ending his historic 30year run on capitol hill. Clinton has been keeping a pretty low profile. This is video of her last public appearance at a gala for the Childrens Defense Fund about a week after the election. 6 39 right now. A leading california lawmaker is crafting new registration to protect immigrants from president elects proposed plan to expand deportations. A new bill has been announced to prevent state and local Law Enforcement from following federal orders to notify i. C. E. About immigrants released from their custody. The bill would also create socalled safe zone prohibiting safe zones like Public Schools and hospitals. Delee yoan says hes worried about mass deportations. We are in a microclimate weather alert as we track heavy rain moving across the bay area. Many spots will see lighter rain during the next couple hours. Im watching the next cluster of bright white clouds just offshore that may bring in another round of heavy rain as we go through later, give it another hour or two. And once again, a little bit of a break now. Seeing light showers moving in through the inner bay and taking a break in the peninsula, but this is what else to expect, pockets of heavy rain today and there may be isolated street flooding, at least temporarily while the heavy rain comes down. Winds may gust at 15 to 30 miles an hour today and very slick roadways. Were seeing a lot of spinouts and freezing rain along with snow in the sierra. Heading over to mike, talking about the spinouts around the bay. They were a big issue from the peninsula. Those have all cleared, 101 and 280. You talked about the rain coming in about an hour, thats when kids are being brought to school. Be careful. That will be a factor. Lower visibility a tougher issue for crosswalks as well. As we look at the build for the south bay, a pretty typical pattern shaping up, as well as the east bay and the trivalley. Slowing south 680 through pleasanton, nothing dramatic. 880 approaching the dumbarton bridge, the left approach is okay. But very soupy conditions. Back to you. 6 41. Safety concerns in one east bay neighborhood after a string of robberies. The Reason Police think those cases are connected. New information at a deadly fire that broke out in a home. The cause of the fire coming up next. Kari wsi good thursday morning. The time is 6 44. Were tracking a storm system moving across the bay area with some light rain now, but that rain may get more intense as many more people get out there on the roadways through the 8 00 and 9 00 hours. Well talk about that coming up in just a few minutes. Were looking at a slower drive down the eastshore freeway. Now the rain adding a factor as well as more cars. That would lower the speeds so less thaps of a spinout. 39 minutes for the bayshore freeway from highway 85 to 85. Thank you very much, kari and mike. New this Morning Police in fairfield hope someone has seen a disabled woman missing for nearly 24 hours. Family members say 61yearold vicky volker was last seen yesterday morning leaving her home on Highland Circle wearing a black and gray plaid jacket along with shorts and sandals. Shes considered to be at risk because of mental and physical health conditions. If you see her, please call fairfield police. Rescuers continue to search through the rubble in an i understand neegs town devastated by an earthquake. The search started again this morning. It was stopped last night because of rain and blackouts. Officials say the death toll has risen to 102 and thousands are homeless or too afraid to even return home. The powerful quake hit the area of northern sumatra before dawn on wednesday. At this point the worst damage appears to be in the area of iceh province near the epicenter. 6 46 right now. Back at home, new details on a house fire that killed a 71yearold woman. Were now learning that fire was intentionally set. We first brought you the story on black friday. The home is near borel middle school. A Newspaper Delivery man saw the fire and reported it. The homeowner was found inside and pronounced dead. Investigators say they found evidence of arson but didnt say what the evidence was. No suspects have been identified. 6 46. The woman accused of killing a lesbian couple from oakland and their adopted son will be in court for a plea hearing. 61yearold dana rivers has been charged with murder and arson. Police responded to the victims home and found one of the victims suffering from stab wounds outside the home. Thats when officers san jose rivers walked out covered in blood. Police say she also set the garage on fire. Rivers made National Headlines back in 1999 after transitions from a man to a woman, that actually got her fired from a sacramento school. A break in the case of a shooting on highway 4 in pittsburg that left a woman dead. This is video of Pittsburg Police at an antioch home last night where officers arrested two of four men suspected in the deadly shooting. The 25yearold and 24yearold suspects were taken into custody by a s. W. A. T. Team. Two others remain at large in the shooting that killed a San Francisco woman. It was one of at least two dozen highway shootings in the area this year alone. A string of robberies across berkeley in the past week. Police think they could be related. The three robberies happened in virginia street along the same time around 7 00 and 11 00 p. M. Police say all the victims were approached by two men and robbed at gunpoint. The first robbery was a week ago. That was near arch street. The second a day later near walnut. Most recently on tuesday there was a robbery near spruce. Police say these could also be related to several other robberies dating back to last month. A programming note for you this morning. Switching gears here. The raiders are playing in kansas city tonight right here on nbc bay area. Our coverage starts at 5 00, kickoff at 5 25. 102 raiders. Big game there. Lets get to business and tech news. The markets once again woke up to records this morning. Lets check in with scott mcgrew. More records this morning. The dow is up 13 points. Thats enough to bring it to a new record. Any positive move is a new record. S p 500 up two points. Thats another record. Nasdaq holding its own this morning. Wednesday we told you about the anderson forecast. It says our hot economy is about to get a splash of gasoline thanks to a massive stimulus that mr. Trump has planned. But like everything, a hot economy can be both good and bad. Ive listed a couple reasons. Good are fairly obvious, right . Jobs and wealth and a strong dollar. A strong dollar is good because it means you can buy more with your money. The bad can be a little less obvious. Were talking about inflation, a Strong Economy brings inflation. 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Mike, you mentioned something very interesting earlier which is the 8 00, 9 00 hour of rain is right as kids are going to school this morning. Yes. You want to make sure youre getting ready for that, maybe getting up a few minutes earlier, a little more quicker because you do have to allow extra time to get to where youre going with the roads wet and things starting to stack up. Here is a look at our cameras right now. The temperature you have to deal with as that rain continues to fall. And the trivalley, only 43 degrees. We have low 50s pour the peninsula and the south bay. And you can tell by those cameras once again that theres already a lot of activity on the roadways. We have a lot of activity on the radar, too. As we continue to see the moisture streaming in, the heaviest rain did fall overnight, especially for the peninsula where we had some rainfall totals, over an inch of rain. Well take a look in just a second. Not as much as far as the coverage now, still tracking clouds and heavy downpours that will be here by the next hour or two. Looking at the south bay, still spotty light showers, but just enough to make the roads wet. You have to turn on the windshield wipers and youre hitting puddles on the road. A lot of rain still by 9 30. Especially moving into the peninsula and the south bay. The winds will be kicking up with some of the gusts, up to about 25, maybe even 30 miles an hour. Heavy downpours start to taper off later tonight. Stale rain in the forecast for tomorrow morning. The rainfall totals on top of what weve already had may still reach some high amounts for the santa cruz mountains. Another two inches of rain and up to an inch of rain around hayward. Napa over an inch of rain and San Francisco an additional half inch of rain. The rain will still be in the forecast for the next several days. Looking at San Francisco, highs in the mid 50s. Morning temperatures in the 40s. No major changes here. Expect this rain to stay with us as several storm systems move through. Now we head over to mike. It looks like the roads are calmer. The first couple hours of our show were very busy. A number of crashes blocking a number of lanes, spinouts reported along the peninsula, 101 and 280. Those have all cleared. Back to our typical commute this time of year, a lighter flow of traffic. Just now starting to build for the south bay. Northbound routes through san jose show the typical build pattern, 85, 87, 101 and now 280. Slowing down through out the northbound roads. Going to see a commute without any major delays. 80 south through pleasanton. Because the volume of traffic is building, you notice the slowing past the san mateo and the dumbarton bridges. A live look out there showing you oakland, soupy conditions north of there, you can see the roadway is packed heading towards the bay bridge. Not slow but a good volume heading toward the maze. San mateo bridge across the bay showing soupy conditions and a slower drive for the flat section and, of course, the bay bridge toll plaza looks good. The left lanes are actually clear. Back to you guys. Pretty soggy out there. It is 6 53. Coming up, well take a quick look at the stories were following this morning. That includes the latest on the deadly oakland warehouse fire, the steps the city of oakland is taking to prevent similar disasters from happening in the future. Happening now, some people in the south bay welcoming the rain. Others dont care about it, especially when theyre working outside. You can find that story on our twitter page. You can download our nbc bay area app for realtime weather updates. A new Public Health threat. The Surgeon General says more and more teens are vaping. That has the potential to create a new generation of kids addicted to nicotine. We have more on nbcbayarea. Com. Well be back here in just two minutes. 6 57. Welcome back on this wet thursday morning. Here are the top stories on nbc bay area. More on the rain this morning. First lets go to oakland. Investigators still dont have the definitive caution of fridays deadly oakland warehouse fire. They say it could be days or weeks before they do. But the area around the warehouse is starting to open up again to pedestrians and traffic. The search for victims over, the city of oakland is launching a new push to improve building safety and complaint procedures. Mayor libby schaaf is asking members of the National Fire Prevention Task force to assist in the pros s. Officials admit building inspectors hadnt been inside the ghost ship warehouse in three decades. Campus police at san jose state are valting three recent cases of Sexual Battery. Those three cases happened over eight days. The most every sent case happened in a stairwell at duncan hall. Is separate case on monday a woman was followed into the Student Union. Investigators are not sure if the three cases are connected but say the suspect descriptions have similarities. Lets get back to the weather right now. Were tracking a wet and windy morning commute. This is a live look from reporter rick boone out there on the roads. Thats through his windshield as we take in conditions there live. Thats along van ness avenue in San Francisco. Thats where rick and photographer are working right no. Watch out. Theyre merging over. Turn on your blinkers. You have to be careful out there. You have to check the windshield wipeers and pressure in your tires. A dangerous drive today and tomorrow. We will have more of this rain moving in. Here is a live look at the radar. Were seeing much of the rain over parts of the north bay from marin county down to San Francisco and also parts of the peninsula where the rain fell the heaviest overnight. Still a lot of water on the roadways while other spots are seeing light spotty showers. Well be tracking that throughout the morning. Kari, thank you very much. A quick check of traffic with mike. What are you see . We had a lot of earlier crashes. Those have calmed down. Rain is the big factor. The volume of Traffic Holding off to what we would expect this time of year, easier through the south bay. Be careful, visibility is impaired. A 6. 8 earthquake occurred about a hundred miles off the coast near ferndale in humboldt. Well see if theres any reports of damage in that area. In the meantime, thats whats happening on today in the bay. A live local news update at 7 25. Good morning. Massive good morning. Massive manhunt. The search intensifies for the gunman who shot two Police Officers, killing one of them near a College Campus in georgia. The community on lockdown. Were there live. Disturbing scenes, shocking video showing a High School Student in nevada armed with knives and lunging at classmates before being shot and critically wounded by a Campus Police officer. 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