Theres a bus bridge between the North Concord and bay point stipulations because of an electrical problem. Christian is checking out those stations. Reporter yeah. As always your timing perfect. Take a look. The bus bridge just arrived. This is what we are talking about. This bus bridge you can see here. North concord. Bart station going between this and the pittsburgh bay point station. These passengers making their way from pittsburgh, bay point and getting onto the bart here at the North Concord bart station and taking this into the rest of the system. We are hoping to talk to some of those passengers and find out how the drive is working out for them. As you can imagine this is an added problem and will likely add to congestion on the system today. We have video of what things look like yesterday this is the second day that bart will rely on that bus bridge after a mystery power surge knocked out more than two dozen bart cars on wednesday. Thats expected to have a Ripple Effect throughout the morning. Passengers can expect packed trains. No word on exactly what caused the problem but it is similar to a problem that bart had recently. They have taken the substation off line in the concord area and that seems to have stopped the problem in west oakland. As of this morning the agency is warning passengers to be ready for packed trains. We will see if we can talk to some of the passengers. Can we talk to you . Do you have a moment . Just to find out how the bus bridge worked for you. How did it work for you . Not to cool. I guess its not that bad. At least i get to work. Reporter yeah. Not like your normal drive. Does it add more time . Yeah. Itll i may be a little late but at least i get there. Reporter thank you. Good luck. There you heard it. Inconvenienced and you can expect to see that throughout the morning, that passengers are going to have to deal with this. That passenger we just talked to said it did add some time and he may be a little latew. He will try to catch up with pension passengers throughout the morning and stay in contact with bart throughout the morning to find the progress of things, how they are going throughout the drive. The bottom line is with cars out of the sessions system you can expect packed trains. You are probably hearing the passengers a lot this morning. Thank you. Here is the other top stories. 500,000 to help fix problems caused by a huge sink hole. It opened up on Center Street on sunday. The town declared a state of local emergency to stream line the response to fix. The sink hole cut a gas line. So far theres no timeline for when itll be fixed. A proposal in san jose that would give the homeless a place to live is causing controversy. The city wants to turn a plot of empty land into temporary homes for the homeless. Each home would have six to eight bedrooms, a kitchen, bathroom and on site staff. Some are worried that it would bring down Property Values and increase crime in the area. The president S Supreme Court nominee will meet with democrats on capitol hill today but some republicans arent changing their no hearing, no vote, not even a meeting stance. Senate judiciary chairman said he is open to meeting garland. A Court Hearing is scheduled for this afternoon for the man accused of kidnapping and killing sierra lamar. He is charged with the teens murder. Prosecutors plan to seek the Death Penalty in this case. The da said that todays hearing involves a judicial matter the murder trial will start april 25th. Though the body has never been found investigators say they found her dna in inside of the suspects car the family gathered last night at a restaurant to mark the fourth anniversary of her disappearance. The Mexican Restaurant was one of her Favorite Places to eat. Family members say they were touched by the large turn out there. 15yearold sierra vanished four years ago while going to a bus stop on her way to school. Searchers ended last year but a group of volunteers will look for her this saturday. Santa clara sheriff lori smith is laying out a series of reforms, among them forming a special team to deal within mates with Mental Health issues, changing the use of force and increasing the minimum call indications to work at a corrections officer. We need to make sure we hire deputies that belong in law enforcement. We cant have bad people. This in the wake of a number of recent incidents including the beating death of an inmate. Police arrested a homeless man who they say groped several women. This is a booking foot of max davidson. He groped people inshipped a bookstore earlier this month. He is also accused of exposing himself to customers. By the time Police Arrived to the bookstore he was gone but officers arrested him down the block. Some San Francisco supervisors are reportedly using a secret messaging app that lets them keep their conversations private. According to a report they are using an app called telegram. It lets them engage in secret chats or make messages destroy themselves. They may be encouraged to use it as a way of get around the Public Records laws. Email and Text Messages are part of the Public Record but there is no rule about new forms of communications. Time is 4 30. You may note more green today. I dont know. Does this count . I think so. Sea foam green. We will take you live to ireland for a look at the Saint Patricks day festival well underway. Good morning. The East Bay Drive not looking to bad on the east shore freeway. Looks good down to oakland. Clear skies, temperatures 40s, 50s but itll be sunny and warmer today. Look for mid70s. Welcome backf. You didnt already know today is Saint Patricks day. Brian has green on his tie. I dont want to get pinched. Me neither. Gave is live from Dublin Ireland this morning where the official Saint Patricks day parade is being held. Gave tell me about the fun are you having right now. Reporter well, do you have this much green on . Thats the color of the day as you can imagine here on Saint Patricks day in beautiful dublin. We are along the parade route. This is the second largest Saint Patricks day parade in the world. New york city has the biggest of them all but dublin number two in the world. About a half Million People. This is whats happening now. The parade is almost we are approaching high noon. At noon is when it starts. Already almost half a Million People lining the streets. If you have been out to dublin you know the square. Thats where the parade starts and makes its way down toward Trinity College and ends appropriately enough at Saint Patricks cathedral. 14 marching bands will be part of this parade, ten from the United States a big United States group. California represented a marching band from a high school from orange county. It just shows you how Many Americans out here. More than 40 million americans claim some degree of Irish Heritage and i think a lot them are on the parade route right now. You can feel the energy building. The buzz is building and once this parade comes to an end this afternoon its about a two mile, two hourlong parade. When it ends everybody just goes in to the pubs and the Party Continues in to the weekend. We have comedy festivals, whiskey festivals, craft beer festivals happening all weekend long. I have been out here the entire week. I wanted to showing, we have time before the parade starts, some of the things i have been able to take in. In is my fifth trip. What makes ireland finish are the sweeping landscapes. This is video we took on the western coast of ireland. Dramatic, sweeping, raw, savage scenery out there. The site of one of Saint Patricks churches. You know just great story book, little towns and four and five star castles beautiful images. Thats what ireland is famous for. You rent the car and go find them. This is you saw brave heart. Thats where they shot brave heart. About 45 minutes outside of dublin. Tourist also be big. Star wars coming back next month to continue shooting episode eight and of course much of ireland is featured in the force awakens as well. Game of thrones, vikings, thats all shot to the north. Here we are. We will capture images throughout the course of the morning and feed them back to you as the floats come by. The theme of the parade is image if. Its a look at the future of ireland. The next 100 years through the eyesst children a very fantastic future, mardi gras style parade. Itll be a lot of fun and we will send images as the parade unfolds over the next few hours here in beautiful Dublin Ireland. You mentioned earlier this is a holiday that millions of people celebrate around the world, new york city has the largest parade. There are other cities that mark the occasion by maybe dying landmarks green. Im thinking the Chicago River. It turns green this time of year. What other cities do unique things like that to celebrate . Reporter yeah. Its they are call that initiative the global good evening. The fact is that you have about eight Million International visitors to ireland every year one and a half million of those are americans. The fact there is some degree of Irish Heritage a little bit of irish blood throughout the planet a lot of these cities will make landmarks, vegas sign gets lit, the white house is lit green, the Chicago River as you said. There are just a variety of different sort of landmark around the world that go green to celebrate that little bit of green in all of us, especially on Saint Patricks day. Im sure theres a shirt that says im irish today. Kiss me im irish. Gave, senior editor. Thank you very much. Thank you. We are getting an inside look at Major Construction project in San Francisco. The new transbay center. We got a top to bottom tour of whats being called the Grand Central station of the west a new bus bridge will carry bus photograph frequent the east bay to the center. The next level will be the train level. Its designed for caltrain and future high speed rail. Up top will be a five acre rooftop park with gardens and a theater and a two story restaurant. There is the restaurant a cafe, a childrens playground. 13 garden hes all over the world, jogging paths, an art installation where the water will announce your arrival. The 4. 5 billion transit hub is on schedule to be done by the end of next year. Brave souls are going to new heights in San Francisco to raise money for a good cause. About 100 people will go 230 feet down the side of the hyatt over the next two days. Its all to raise money for Outward Bound which runs outdoor leadership programs. Lucille did it. If she can do it. It cant be that hard a number of local stars will take part. Tomorrow claudine will do it live. That doubts surprise me. She is a fantastic athlete. I have to be on this next year i have to get on this. I think this year i will be sitting that one out. All right. Sal watching things. Would you do that . I know you would . You know maybe. I think i think i may watch you do it. Okay. Im a good people to watch. Enjoy a pint while are you at it we dont have a bad drive out truckee there right now. Its a good drive around the bay area. This is a look at the east shore freeway. You can see traffic is moving along well as you drive between the richmond area and into berkeley and emoryville and oakland. At the bay bridge toll plaza its not bad. It looks like its still light into San Francisco. We look at the rest of the east bay. 580 looks good from livermore to dublin and Castro Valley. This is the time when a lot of people get on the road early because the drive is doing very well. At 4 46 lets go to steve. We have clear skies here. Its still on the clear skied but not as cold as the past couple of mornings. We talked about shasta being at 83 of capacity. Thats without the snow medical. Lake orrville. Thats a big lake. It is a big lake. Its a big lake. Did i go to fast . The dam is 900 feet and its at 842 now. We have good news for at least Northern California on reservoirs for shasta and orrville. The bases are good for the snow report. We will take. Theres a little more snow on the way as we head toward sunday and tuesday. Sunny and warm today. Its all about sun and temperatures in the mid70s a lot of sun nice tomorrow. This looks to be more of a Northern California event. We will get some in the bay area but the heavy amounts will be north. High pressure kicked in a bigging way. 40s and 50s looks like they will bounce off the lows pretty fast. 48, 44, morgan hill to gilroy. Santa cruz at 51. 30s in the mountains. Probably holding in the low 40s today. 47, sacramento, everything is good today. Tomorrow and probably most of saturday as well. Theres the system thats turning out here. Itll eventually get here but take a couple of days, not until sunday and monday. Until then look for a lot of sun and warm temperatures. Itll be a sunny thursday. Cooler saturday. Dont cancel any plans. Sunshine today and warmer temperatures, cooler lows giving way to some warmer afternoon highs and this will be the warmest day by far. 78, clear lake, kemp field, vacaville 77, pleasanton. 75, downtown. Right there in lock step with walnut creek. 70s for many including upper 70s around gilroy, 75, 76 downtown. San jose. 60s, 70s on the coast and mid 70s on the peninsula. Maybe a few degrees cooler, clouded up sunday rain to the north and for everybody sunday night into monday. Perfect temperatures for outdoor activities, like tennis. You ready . Its about time. You are busy. You know what im think something after all that rain and now the sunny warm days the pollen will start kickn. You thought it was blooming earlier they are really taking off now. Ten thousand homes have been evacuated in texas as the Sabine Rivera long the texas, Louisiana State line continues to rise. Authorities warning the water could reach levels not seen since 1884. As runoff from last weeks heavy rain goes downstream. The Texas Governor has issued a disaster declaration. Fortunately Officials Say there have been no injuries or deaths. More storms are expected through the weekend. Here in Santa Cruz Police have released video of a woman suspected of stealing mail from a home. Police say that this Surveillance Video shows the woman ringing a doorbell and taking the mail when nobody answered needly. When the residents spoke on the intercom and asked what she wanted she claimed to be looking for a home on the air b and b website. Frank sinatra died unexpectedly on tour. He was also a singer actor he followed his father into museum kick worked as his director and conductor at age 19 he was kidnapped at gun point from a Lake Tahoe Hotel his family paid 240,000 for his release a friend of his sister was eventually convicted of that. Time now is 4 50. The president hoping to close out his second term with a winning ncaa brackett. Who he picked to win it all and his first round upset that may not make fans happy. A driver who police say hit and severely injured a 6year old boy in Castro Valley has been arrested. The 29yearold Daniel Morris was driving a stolen ford fusion when he jumped the curb and hit a 6yearold boy walking to school with his grandmother. The boys leg was pinned under the car and he is still in the hospital. The sheriffs office, the can chp and the United StatesMarshalls Service teamed up to search for morris. After more than a week authorities found him hiding in a motel in haywood. There was a lot of information, a lot of evidence with in the vehicle. Plus eyewitness statements that led us to a pretty good conclusion that the person we were looking for was Daniel Morris. Authorities say hours before the hit and run morris could be seen on Surveillance Video stealing the car from a auto dealership. They say it was one of five cars stolen off the lot that same night. Police in berkeley have arrested a man in connection with a shoot that injured a 28 yearold on tuesday. Investigators have not released the suspects name but say that he gave up at the Berkeley Police station yesterday afternoon. The shooting happened just before noon on tuesday near san pablo avenue and delaware. The victim is in critical condition. Investigators say they believe the shooting stemmed from an altercation. Berkeley police are searching for the gunman in a separate double shoot that injured a man and woman early yesterday morning. The cal Mens Basketball Team will take on hawaii in the tournament tomorrow. In the meantime the university is reviewing how a Sexual Harassment complaint against a fired assistant coach was handled he was fired after an investigation into a harassment complaint by a female reporter the reporter said she told the head coach of a problem last may. Martin said he wasnt aware of the alleged complaint until july when the reportere mailed him Text Messages sent to her by the assistant. He then reported to the university. The University Said that martin is not the only focus of the investigation and the actions of others associated the team are also being reviewed. As he does every year the president has filled out a brackett for the ncaa tournament and he has his home state of hawaii beating cal in the first round. I dont think so. Is he from there. No. We can give him a pass. He picked kansas to win it all. The president he has filled out a brackett on espn every year. He correctly picked the university of North Carolina to win in 2009 but hasnt correctly picked a winner since. The first round of the tournament kicks off this morning. Students at a San Francisco high school are trading in their gym shorts for wetsuits and they are heading out to the beach. Itll be a Beautiful Day for them. An instructor instructor take a dozen students to a pacifica beach on wednesdays for surfing lessons. They call it surf city project. Each student has a volunteer instructor they teach them about the weather, tides and rip currents and they get pe credit for attending and learning how to surf. For many its a chance they wouldnt get otherwise. Everything so chaotic. You hear the buss and the sirens and the ambulance. Its like where can i where can i go to get my own space and connect with nature . With this program we are trying to break down boundaries of who you see out surfig. They say it helps give them confidence. They said the goal is to make city surf part of the sell for all Public Schools many that would be great. Then you get pe credit. That beats jumping rope in a gym. Jumping rope. Look at that view. A few dozen bart cars out of service this morning. The lingering electrical problem that are forcing some riders to take the bus. A unique proposal to house the homeless is being met with some controversy. We are live in san jose to tell you about this plan that involves an empty piece of land. This is k tvu mornings on 2. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Its thursday march 17. Clearly Saint Patricks day. Dont adjust your time clock. You didnt over sleep. Its five. Im in for pam cook. Good morning. Im dave oclark. Lets check weather and traffic. About as nice as it can be. See . Sunny and warm. And yesterday was good. Its not seven. Its only five. Its only five. Trust me. Thank you. Our weather will be sunny and warm today. Mid70s for many. We start off clear. We talked about lake shafta yesterday being at least 83 of capacity. May be more than this. Orrville also up there. The elevation of the dam is 900 feet its at 842. It looks like the stock market. The s and p. All right. Im done. Get going. Temperatures above average. Sunny and warm. Tomorrow a lot of sun. Still nice. Next rain late sunday into monday a more Northern California event. Still no rain in arizona. Phoenix hasnt had any rain since january 31st. It has been hot for spring training. 90degree te