280 at king street, our camera there. The traffic is light in the area, you can see the rain drops on our camera this morning. And just because of that rain, want to let you know about this, a commuter alert, the Manzanita Park and ride lot, today through the 14th, the lower half of the lot will be closed due to nightly high tide flooding. Thanks. Our effort to spotlight stories that build a better bay area often lead us to b. A. R. T. This morning were waiting to see if the agency will put new eyes and ears on its trains. B. A. R. T. Is considering having unarmed civilians ride the trains at night. Amy hollyfield has more on this. Good morning. If this passes, you will see about ten unarmed ambassadors roaming the trains looking for safety issues. They will be trained in crisis intervention. You will mostly see them between 2 00 p. M. And midnight. It will be a sixmonth long pilot program, then they would reevaluate it. The idea has been kicked around since about 2018. This has not been easy to get this going. Thats because one issue that really got stuck on was who to hire who be the ambassadors. The first proposal was for people from nonprofits, which also include people who have been and serve time in prison. That was controversial. Now the proposed plan has shifted to use civilian employees from the b. A. R. T. Police department. If this passes, you could see these ambassadors on the trains as early as nex month. Youll see them on the trains from about 2 00 p. M. To midnight mostly, thats when they have studied it and figured out thats when theyre most needed. They need those extra set of eyes to report problems and to help people feel safer. Reporting live from the Pleasant Hill b. A. R. T. Station, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. Thanks for that update. This morning the u. S. Appears to be back from the brink of war with iran. No new military strikes against the country appear to be coming. Serena marshall has more from washington. Reporter good morning. President trump telling the American People iran appears to be standing down and he wont be responding with military action, instead focusing on peace talks and tougher sanctions. Even so, Congress Moving to limit his war powers. The before and after of irans Ballistic Missile strikes targeting u. S. Troops in iraq. Newly released satellite images revealing the scale of damage. The 17 missiles launched at the two bases just one day ago causing chaos. Even as iran claimed victory and troop deaths on state tv there were no casualties for u. S. Or coalition forces. The president saying thats evidence iran was standing down. And instead of retaliation, talking tougher sanctions. The fact that we have this great military, we do not want to use it. American strength, both military and economic, is the best deterrent. Reporter on capitol hill his National SecurityTeam Briefing members of congress. It is a far cry from meeting a standard of imminent threat. Reporter and two conservative republican senators, rand paul and mike lee agree. It was probably the worst military briefing in the nine years ive served in the senate. Reporter that senate vote isnt expected until next week but later today the house will taking their vote, making it clear to the president if he wants to go to war, hell need congress to sign off. The south bay police are looking for more people involved in a rash of car breakins. 43 cars were burglarized in two hours on tuesday night. They were all parked along rockefeller road and sherwood drive. Officers were able to track down these two suspects in oakland. Police found them with stolen property. Investigators are trying to determine if the sunnyvale spree is connected to a dozen car breakins sunday night 11 miles away in san jose. A Real Estate Developer faces new hiring rules if it wants to build at the former Concord Naval weapons station. Last night the City Council Issued new guidelines for a massive 5 billion redevelopment project. That includes hiring 40 of labor from the area and setting an hourly wage. Lennar wants to build thousands of homes and shops and offices on that site. It has said hiring restrictions might force it to pull out of the project. A School Committee is meeting this evening to consider changing its name to Michelle Obama elementary. Woodrow Wilson Elementary School will hear input from the public this evening about naming the school after the former first lady. The school is under construction people expressed interest in a new name for the school when it reopens in august. Tonights meeting starts at 6 00 at grant elementary school. You may see a lot of facebook profiles blacked out today as part of a protest. Next, the big changes organizers are demanding the company makes. Helping veterans and animals. A baseball legend manages to build a better bay area in a special way. And a fond farewell to an abc7 news icon. Were celebrating our own vic lee as he is heading off to retirement. Cant say enough nice things about vic lee. Well miss him. A look at south San Francisco, especially heading down towards san bruno and the airport. Its raining right here. Some light to moderate rain in all of our bridges, looking pretty wet, if its the ba niche is benicia, carquinez, dumb duarto bridge, they will all be wet. The rain, a little bit of fog out there looking back towards south beach. Poor conditions for driving. Take an umbrella for mass transit and stay inside if youre on a ferry. Lets look at the 12hour planner. Planning for wet weather this morning. You will need the sunglasses this afternoon as we go from rain on the peninsula, 50 at 7 00, to mostly cloudy at 9 00, 51 to partly sunny at 1 00, and 56, mostly sunny and 53 at 5 00. East bay a chance of wet weather and fog at 50 this morning. The showers will be tapering by 9 00. Well be in the mid 50s with increasing sunshine by this afternoon. The south bay, we have a chance of wet weather through at least 9 00, and then it will be mostly sunny by 3 00 with 55 degrees dropping down to a chilly 47 at 7 00. In fact, some frost is possible tonight before another chance of rain tomorrow night. Heres jobina. Thank you, mike. Well start off with a look at that rain mike was referring to on all of our bridges this morning. Looking live right now at the richmondsan rafael bridge, you can see those cars splashing through the puddles as they make their way across this morning. Please take your time out there so we dont see major issues. Bay bridge toll plaza right now, those cash lanes stacking up here. Slick conditions, the rain is not coming down as hard here as it is on the richmondsan rafael bridge, its wet pretty much everywhere. Drive times here, tracy to dublin, 31 minutes for that drive time. Dublin to mission boulevard, 15 minutes. Highway 101 to cupertino, 15 minutes as well. A commuter alert for you all, the posey tube, full closures weekdays from 10 00 p. M. To 5 00 a. M. , its still closed right now. This work will continue through march of this year. Well be back with more news, weather and traffic after the break. Whats going on . Oh, darn let me help. Here we go. Lift and push and push there. Its up there. Oh, boy. Hey joshie. Wrinkles send the wrong message. Help prevent them before they start with new downy wrinkleguard. Hey bud. Hey, pop pop so you wont get caught with wrinkles again. Seaonly abreva cany to help sget rid of it in. As little as 2 1 2 days when used at the first sign. Abreva starts to work immediately to block the virus and protect healthy cells. Abreva acts on it. So you can too. To deal with the problem. Icians but they wouldnt. So we took it to the voters and forced big tobacco to pay its share of healthcare costs. 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From the live desk, people are protesting facebooks lax regulation of misinformation in person and online ahead of the 2020 president ial election. Facebook users have teamed up with media organizations and human Rights Groups for the protests. People will gather at facebooks headquarters at menlo park from 4 00 to 6 00 this evening. Users will black out their facebook profile and cover photos with a black box. Organizers say the tech giant must change its policies allowing politicians to make false statements in online campaigns. Kumasi . All right. Thanks. Part of building a better bay area is taking care of the men and women in our military who protect us here and around the world. Tony la russa and his Animal Rescue organization are doing that with an Innovative Program drawing national attention. Dan ashley has the details. Reporter Tony La Russa makes his living playing hard ball, when it comes to animals hes a softy. For 29 years when hes not with players, hes with pets. Arf, the Animal Rescue foundation that he cofounded with his wife 29 years ago. Between the volunteers, staff, donors, sponsors, their here because they believe what they are doing. Reporter we spoke about program pairing dogs with veterans. Saving lives at both end of the leash. The veteran pays nothing. We pay all the veterinarian costs for the life of the dog. Reporter its an expensive program but the executive director is quick to tell you, incredibly effective. What a difference it makes to these veterans, doesnt it . Its lifechanging. Families tell us you gave me back my husband, saved my marriage. Reporter this new 8,000 facility is under construction now, but at the same time the old building needs a little tlc. Time takes its toll. This giant trash can is filled with Ceiling Tiles and the roof is leaking. I would like to tell you this is the only one we have in the building, its not. Reporter you have several spots like this . Several spots like this. Reporter the leaky roof is not helping the television camera. Reporter or is it the reporter . On saturday, ra loobustebusbt mark mcguy and bruce bochy will meet fans and sign autographs. Raise the roof is happening at the concord hilton from 9 30 in9 the morning until 4 00 p. M. All proceeds will help to rebuild that roof. This is a bitter sweet one. A treasured member of our abc7 news family is calling it a career. Vic lee is retiring after 50 years of bringing you stories. [ applause ] we honored vick with a ceremony inside our San Francisco studios yesterday. He received a surprise from a crook that he covered. The that was dusty, known better as klepto the cat. Vic told kleptos story of swiping items at homes in burlingame. Vic praised his tv family. To everybody who in this village here at abc7 family, thank you so much for helping me. Aaron peskin presented vic with a proclamation honoring him. On twitter, facebook and instagram we have a badge for you to share vic good luck and to thank him for bringing you the news for 50 years. When hes here, im so excited when i see him coming around the corner. He adds so much. So much experience. He knows where everything is hidden in San Francisco. Everything. He also is so funny. Yes. For people lucky enough to have conversations with vic, he has a personality. Makes you feel good. Exactly. Im always like whats the big story today . He always has it. Some of our reporters were fighting over his roladex. I believe hes keeping it. And his desk. Hey now. Vic and i are friends. I can do that. Somebody was in his parking spot yesterday. I have one more day. Who took my spot. Well miss you, vic. Enjoy retirement. Heres a look at san jose. Its been fairly quiet. The rain is making it into your neighborhoods. Heres a look at some of the heavier rain falling on the embarcadero as we look from our roof cam down towards the Ferry Building and a slick bay bridge. Wet mornings on the way, a dry afternoon. Much colder tonight, frosty inland neighborhoods. Chances of light rain for a couple of days, weak storms. Theres nothing really strong to hang our hat on to say well get some more rain. Were going to help the sierra snow pack, which is now 80 of average. So this afternoon, about 55 to 58 degrees. Needing those sunglasses. Tonight the extra blanket, make sure the heater is turned on. All of us in the 30s except santa cruz, half moon bay, San Francisco. Lake port at 29. A 1 on the storm impact scale for light to moderate showers. The threat of thunderstorms over. A few brief gusts of wind with the heavier cells, the yellows and oranges at 5 30. Those could put down heavier winds. By 8 00, the steadiest of the rain is over. Transitioning to a few scattered showers. Heading up to 10 00, those are over. You look at the clouds starting to open at 1 00, theyre almost gone by the time the suns sets. That opens us to the cooler night tonight. Mid to upper 50s with a chance of rain friday night into saturday morning. Saturday afternoon and sunday will be dry. Sunday night into monday morning a slight chance of rain. A better chance tuesday and wednesday. Jobina . Good morning, everyone. We will check out those slick conditions that mike was referring to. We have a live look now in san jose, 280 here. You can see the road is wet with the lights reflecting there off the ground. Thankfully no major issues coming in from the chp. A live look at the san mateo bridge, we can see some great lakes lights. People moving towards the peninsula this morning. Definitely seeing some heavy traffic there. Drive times right now, santa rosa to petaluma, 14 minutes. Castro valley to the ma, 13 minutes. Uber is making some pretty big changes here in california. 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You need to be careful. Some slight ponding on the roadways especially if youre on the lesser traveled arteries early this morning. All right. Thank you. Justin bieber says hes battling lyme disease. The grammy winning singer announced the diagnosis and illness on instagram yesterday saying its been a rough couple of years for him. Lyme disease is transmitted by ticks. It can cause flulike systems, nurological problems and joint pain. Bieber said a lot of people had been commenting on how thin he looked. They didnt know about his diagnosis. He announced a ten episode show debuting in a few weeks highlighting his battle. In the south bay, the Silicon Valley auto show kicks off. And this year