Reporter at the scene you see they are trying to get the area cleaned up. Debris was spread out over six lanes of traffic. Theyre mopping it up. Theyre trying to get everything in order before they let cars go through. They closed ten chailanes total. Six that go through the main toll plaza and two fasttrack lanes only and two bus lanes. The driver of this rented box truck slammed into a line of cars at the bay bridge toll plaza after 5 00 a. M. Saturday, then hit the booth and killed the caltrans worker inside who was collecting money. Hit that very last car in line and then kind of caused a chain reaction. Reporter five other cars were badly damaged. Heres one being towed from the scene. Several people had to be rushed to the hospital including the driver of the truck, 32yearold daniel burke, from foster city. He was arrested on suspicion of dui and vehicular manslaughter. The toll booth worker has been identified as 46yearold ceci hawn. The truck was traveling at a high rate of speed. The box truck ripped apart on impact. You see debris sprawled across six lanes of traffic. And the toll booth landed upside down about 20 yards from where it should be. The crash caused a traffic nightmare for people trying to get to the city. The which closed six cash and fasttrack lanes, two hov lanes, and two bus lanes. Sky 7 shows traffic backed up all the way to albany. If youre willing to sit in traffic and brave it, the lanes to the left are open. I would recommend if you can to use either bart or possibly another bridge to get into the city, maybe the golden gate bridge. Reporter a lot of people probably want to know when lanes will be back open. The latest update i have is that they hope to have some lanes back open by 6 00. But that might be seem ambitious at this point because they have a lot to clean up. They need to make sure that the toll booth is structurally sound. They cant reopen all of the lanes. That is because this crash completely took out toll booth number 14. They need to completely replace that. And they need to fix each booth on either side, booth 13 and 15. They say even by monday mornings commute, that might not be finished. Traffic still expected to be bad for quite a while. Hoping to have some lanes open in a few hours. Reporting live, Elissa Harrington, abc7 news. Nice job out there. What a mess on the roads. Up to the sky, taking a live look at skyview 7 where you can see there on the ground still crews very active in cleaning up the debris that is still behind. As we zoom out, you see all of the cars really creeping through the remaining lanes that are open. You heard Elissa Harrington say at one point this morning ten lanes being closed. It does appear that we have at least three to four lanes open and more being diverted to the righthand side of the screen. You see people trying to get over into the fasttrack lanes and to the cash lanes. We want to get a live check now at traffic toll plaza from our map here. You see how things are backed up here. Look at the red there on 580. Thats traffic backed up all the way to albany trying to get in. Not so bad on 24. Took about 20 minutes. There are spotting areas of traffic trying to get from place to place. Folks, you have to allow extra time if youre trying to get westbound on 80 through the toll plaza. Yeah. Taking a live look on the ground, you see there a virtual parking lot. Taking a look at one of the live maps right now on my computer. From the bay bridge to albany, its an hour and seven minutes. That gives you an idea of how slow the backup is here. About six lanes on the left side of the screen facilistill down. The remains of the box truck fastened on to a tow truck and moving away. That doesnt mean theyll open the lanes any time soon, but thats the latest information. Certainly a story well keep following all evening long. In the meantime, look at this the crash also affected bus service for several hours today. This morning, the tweet, due to the bay bridge closure, bus service between San Francisco and emeryville is on hold. Please transfer to bart at richmond to travel to and from San Francisco. The Train Service also runs a number of connecting bows routes. Cap bus routes. Capital corridor said Service Resumed just before 1 00 this afternoon. Earlier, the abc7 news app let people know the fatal crash shut down multiple lanes. You can get traffic and cleanup udates as they become available. All you need to do is enable push alerts from the abc7 news app for the instant notifications. Switching gears. Today marks one year since 36 people were killed in the ghost ship fire in oakland. Abc7 news was at the ghost ship warehouse for a prayer vigil. It featured poet tree readings, a poetry readreadings, a childrens chorus and more to honor those who died. Council members said the city continues to improve. Sadly enough in our streets, it takes somebody losing their lives for all of us to get involved now theres a movement in oakland that we recognize that the inspectors will come to my house because tenants are calling, and were trying to make changes to public safety. Sky 7 was above the warehouse a short time ago. Right now theres an art installation honoring those who died. There will also be an objeservae at sundown and vigil lasting until 9 00 this evening. Nearly 40 lawsuits have been filed against pg e in connection to the north bay wildfires. The press democrat reports lawyers in santa rosa want all cases dealt with in a county superior court. A formal request was made to the judicial council. A hearing date is expected early next year. The Sonoma County wildfires in october killed 24 and destroyed more than 5,000 homes. After hours of debate, lastminute changes, and one republican holdout, the senate has passed its version of major tax reform. Democrats are not happy. Reporter Kim Hutcherson has more. The tax cuts and jobs act as amend sudded is passed. Reporter a vooictory for th white house and gop as they inch closer to a major legislative win for the first time in trumps presidency. The Senate Passed its version of tax reform 5149 early saturday morning. Republican majority leader senator Mitch Mcconnell is hoping to use this win as momentum for the 2018 elections. Senator chuck schumer, the Democratic Senate minority leader, says its a bill no one can be proud of. As you noticed, at the end, there was not a single democrat who thought this was a good idea. So were going to take this message to the American People also a year from now. We understand they have the votes to pass their bill, despite a process and a product that no one can be proud of, and everyone should be ashamed of. Reporter President Trump making a statement hours later, praising the bills passage as tremendous tax reform, and promising tremendous cuts. We passed the largest tax cuts in the history of our country, and many other things along with it. Tremendous tax reform. People are going to be very, very happy. Theyre going to get tremendous, tremendous tax cuts. Reporter a nonpartisan Congressional Analysis suggests that if the bill becomes law, more than 1 trillion would be added to the deficit over ten years. The bill will head to the house which passed its own tax reform bill last month. Republicans hope to reconcile the two so a final version can be sent to President Trump for his signature before christmas. Abc7 news. Abc7 was at union square where protesters were singing carols to rally against the tax cuts. They say just the richest americans are benefiting from the legislation, and they ask californians to reject the cuts. We have to say some being what just happened last night. You know, how is it possible that this country is giving away billions and billions of dollars to the people who already have billions and billions of dollars . They say they plan to carol through the week. Just ahead, a san jose state professor accused of sexual harassment. He was set to return to campus, but now wont be back after all. The turn of events ahead. Plus, immigrants rights supporters held a rally today at an east bay location where they say hundreds are being detained. Just exploded. Apples response after a mans phone explodes in his hand. And its caught on video. A live look from the east bay hills camera. A milky sky overhead. Tracking has crazy low prices. Do you know how we do it . How . Bargainomics say, if california has a bumper crop and produces too many oranges. Or a winemaker in sonoma suddenly has 1000 bottles too many. Weve got namebrand, topquality groceries priced 4070 off every day. Bargainomics. Thats our Business Model. And our Business Model is. Delicious. Grocery outlet bargain market a live look from sky 7 and sky map 7 over the trouble spots approaching the bay bridge toll plaza where there was this fatal accident early this morning. A toll taker was killed when a box truck slammed into one of the toll booths. This is traffic heading toward the bay bridge toll plaza on the left side of the screen. On interstate 80 westbound, the backup now exceeds seven miles, all the way back to albany. It will take you an hour to get through there. Think of alternate transportation. New developments over a san jose state professor accused of sexually harassing students. Hes resigned. A School Investigation found he harassed students in 2015 and is accuseded of making sexual comments to other students. The professor was set to teach again this semester after his suspension ended. The mercury news reports that aptekar will retain his faculty access to the library system. Protesters are demanding the release of undocumented immigrants at a detention facility in the east bay. Abc7 was at the west county jail, the west county jail. 20 people marched in protest today. Inside the facility, dozens of immigrants are being held. In september, 27 female inmates signed a letter complaining about conditions including being forced to use bags instead of toilets for most of the day. The chronicle reports one woman chose to be deported instead of being forced to stay. Protesters said its necessary to call attention to the detention and the conditions inside. We can liberate documented people, because it takes a Mass Movement to make this sanctuary state a reality. Thats why were here. Demonstrators called for a stop to the mexican wall and to block any muslim ban. A scary moment for a man using an iphone 6. A camera captured the phone exploding in his hand. We have the story now from brooklyn. Reporter the iphone 10 might be the hottest phone out there, but its got nothing on this iphone 6. Watch this surveillance video. Speaking exclusively to eyewitness news, abbott gates says he was texting a friend when it suddenly blew up in his hands. I received a message, i answered the message, i put the phone in the charge. As im holding the phone, it started smoke coming out of the left side of the phone. When i pulled the case back to see what it was, it literally exploded. Reporter he says all of a sudden the screen went black and then got so hot, he says it did this to his thumb. The phone was so hot it burned this mark into the floor. He had to pick it up using this. He said the phone was smoking for 20 more minutes. The phones open now. Did you open it no, thats all from itself. Reporter itself . The cracked screen, the phone, thats the battery. Reporter gates says all hes looking for is a replacement phone at no cost. Hes thankful it wasnt worse. My biggest concern was im happy it was a text message and not a call. If i had to my ear and that would have happened, it probably would have burned off my face. Unreal. Apple released this statement you see about yesterdays incident saying, apple takes Customer Care and their safety very seriously. We will analyze the device. In accuweather, a cloudy evening on hand the next couple of hours. Sprinkles will pass through in a few spots. Live doppler 7 showing you overhead now, its a pretty quiet picture. The showers isolated in nature are off shore, i want to widen out the picture. And live doppler 7 showing you we are tracking precipitation. Not only in the form of rain, but also high elevation snow. Really the past two hours or so. Live doppler 7 showing you the bulk of the precipitation will stay to the north of us. As the system kind of scrapes by us, it could touch off an isolated shower in the next 12 hours. The pan cam, a live look. A cloudy sky overhead. The majority of the region right now dealing with temperatures that are slightly below normal for this time of the year. Currently 56 in oakland now under cloudy skies. 60 in san jose. 53 in cloverdale. Right now, fairfield checking in at 57 degrees. Lets time out the chance of these sprinkles. Hour by hour we go on future weather. Later tonight, 8 00 at night on your saturday, perhaps the best chance likely north of santa rosa, around ukaia. Between 11 00 p. M. And 1 00 a. M. Early sunday morning. Future weather showing you there could be an isolated, light sprinkle moving through San Francisco, perhaps oakland, almedia a alameda, into the north bay. That ripples into the south sunday morning. Could have a sprinkle early on in the day. By 6 30 in the morning, the system is getting out of here. Its a blend of sunshine and clouds early on. We should see more in the way of sunshine later on your sunday. Sunday itself is a dry but unseasonably cool day. Overnight tonight, here are the lows. A blend of stars and clouds out there. An isolated sprinkle. The best chance in the north bay. 42 overnight in san rafael. About 45 in san jose. In San Francisco. Tomorrow, its starting off with cloud cover. More in the way of sunshine by the afternoon. Thats going to keep temperatures below normal. 59 the high in San Francisco. A cool 60 this oakland. 61 in san jose. Only 52 in lakeport. Starting sunday morning, our king tides return. This is the highest tide cycle we have every year. High tide tomorrow, 10 23 a. M. Again early monday morning at 11 08. We could have sea water in the lowlying areas along our tides. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. Sunnier in the p. M. Tomorrow. Monday, total sunshine. We had this pattern of chilly mornings with afternoon sunshine. Tuesday and wednesday. The bigger takeaway, we are dry and sunny. Thursday, friday, and saturday, really it looks like were going to stay without rainfall the next seven days in a lot of spots. Yeah. I think that will do. There you go. Thanks. Give you a dollar later. So cheap. I know. Talking sports now. I didnt lose money on the conference championship. There you go. Big day in College Football. Conference championships kicked off last night with usc defeating stanford. For the pac 12 title, we kick off with the sec hi, were alaska airlines. And our california game is stepping up. With our low fares, your san jose startup wont have to pony up for a quick flight to an la meetup. And you might even get an upgrade on your next trip to palm springs. Over 90 daily nonstops. From san diego on up. Alaska airlines. Thats how we fly. And now, step up to alaska premium class, with upgrades starting at just 15. We kick off with the sec title game. Secondranked auburn facing sixthranked georgia. Youd think the winner of the conference would be in the final four even though alabamas ranked number five, a spot ahead of georgia. I will say this if auburn wins, theyre in because they beat bama and georgia in the regular season. Off to atlanta with a lot on the line. Auburn gets the ball first. Right down to nate craig meyers. 70 tigers just like that. Early second quarter, auburn driving. Inside the red zone. Hit fumbles. Georgia recovers. Big break for the dogs. And they take advantage. Finishes with jake fromme. They are tied at seven. Georgia takes the lead on field goals. First play of the fourth quarter, auburns running back, johnson, hit, fumbles. Smith big box it off for georgia. Second auburn fumble of the day. Again georgia would take advantage. Finishing that drive, fromme to terry godwin. They went for two and got it. 272, bulldogs. And dswift special swift. Finds the seam, late in the fourth, georgia up 287. Looks like the dogs will win the sec title game. Heisman trophy race appears to be between two players. We saw what stanfords bryce love could do on one leg. Now its time for oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield to answer in the big 12 championship. Facing number 11 tcu with a win, taking it to the final four. Tcu first away fromscrimmage. Hits, fumbles. Kelley scoops it up, goes 18 yards for the score. The sooners take the 170 lead. Back come the hornfrogs. Kenny hill, the fade. Bringing it in with one hand, got his feet in. Thats worth another look. Wow. Tcu trails by three, 1714. Then mayfield with the second t. D. To andrews. Sooners up 2417 at the break. Oklahomas first play of the third quarter. Mayfield to michael jones, gone. Mayfield threw for four touchdowns. Named the mvp. Really weird, lahoma wins theyre going to the playoffs. Nltds well take our first timeout. Then my Florida State seminoles played louisiana, munroe, after hurricane irma. My alma mater, Florida State, needing just one more win to become bowl eligible which would be 36 straight years going to a bowl game. Longest streak in College Football. They lost their head coach, jim bow fisher. He resigned and bolted for texas a m. The interim coach named even though my phone was on. Florida state with 305 rushing yards, five touchdowns on the ground. Patrick, 155 yards, two scores. This two yarder made it 70 Florida State. James blackman threw 197 yards. One t. D. Including this to matthews. 14 yards on the touchdown. He uses one hand to bump it up. 140 assembly knowles half. Third quarter seminoles at the half. Third quarter, first of two t. D. Runs. Florida state bowl eligible with the win but without a head coach. The american athletic conference included two teams with one combined loss. Number 20 memphis taking on undefeated and 14th ranked university of central florida. The game had 15 touchdowns. All right. Second quarter, mckenzie mill hits smith. 50 yards for the score. Six catches, 161 yards. 2414 ucf. Tigers get the let back in the second. Ferguson threw for 471. Four t. D. S. Memphis goes up 2824. Third quarter, ucf pulls away. Milton