Wipers and turn them off and it starts sprinkling again. Thats the kind of weather were seeing right now. Most of it is light. We are seeing somecounty. Wanted to zoom in to one other area, moderate rain fremont and yoom city and stops once you get to hayward. Were going to see this kind of activity going throughout the day. We indicates where the heavier rain is right now around san martin and gilroy. So the waves of rain coming through especially this morning will be a little bit more widespread and then becoming more hit or miss going into the afternoon. Mike, you have a crash in san jose. I do, kari. We are talking about the rain coming through out of south county. Our predictive traffic flow well talk about that in a second. We were showing the slowing north 280, you might have spotted that the last time we took the map. North 87 and 1k0 1, north 280 might affect traffic here as folks avoid 280 and continue up 101 and take back down 808 there were north 280 at tenth street. Coming out of morgan hill on 101 the predictor traffic flow through waze should be steady anour. R the crash on 280 might affect the southbound flow. The bay bridge toll plaza the only slow up with the toll plaza lights. Back to you. Thanks, mike. This morning on capitol hill, round goff the impeachment hearings begin as the House Judiciary Committee takes over. Theyll determine. F President Trump should face articles of impeachment. Tracie potts is live in washington where will you makers released a scathing new report. In about an hour that report will be in the hands of the Judiciary Committee as they open their hearing and their part of this inquiry. The report condemning President Trump for putting pressure on ukraine to do what he calls a favor and now the Judiciary Committee takes over with testimony focusing on whats the law here. Phase two of the impeachment inquiry begins this morning with a civics lesson, testimony from four constitutional scholars. Well hear from a number of legal scholars about the meaning of the terms bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors. Liberal law professors predominantly and one republican witness. Reporter President Trump and his attorneys chose not to participate, calling the process unfair. We want biden, we want the son hunter, where is hunter. We want the son. We want schiff. We want to interview these people. Reporter todays hearing the Intelligence Committee making the case for impeachment. It argues President Trump abused power and endangered National Security by withholding aid from ukraine to force an investigation of political rival joe biden. This report chronicles a scheme by the president of the United States to coerce an ally in to doing the president s political dirty work. The president did it, and its time to hold him accountable. Reporter the report includes new records of phone calls between trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and devin nunes, a top republican, overseeing impeachment hearings. Maybe they have the recordings of my phone calls with Rudy Giuliani. Theyre welcome to play them because everything i spoke with Rudy Giuliani about is nothing that i wouldnt care if the American People found out. Reporter todays hearing is expected to last five hours. We to happen. We just dont know when. That schedule is not out yet nor do we know importantly who those witnesses might be. Back to you. Tracie, thats certainly a big question, but i understand that the senators are already talking about how they might run an impeeachment trial. Right, because theyre expecting this may land in their laps in january, so theyre looking at whether the democrat and Republican Leadership can come up with a plan, whether they go to a majority cobbled together from both parties or turns out to be something simple like the house presents its side, Trump Lawyers present their side and then they rely on motions from individual senators to figure out what to do next. Tracie, we will be watching. I know youll be following it as well. Thank you so much for that report. You know what . Stanford law professor pam carlin will be at the center of todays testimony. Shes a nationally recognized expert on the constitution who has been teaching at stanford since 1998 and also a former u. S. Deputy stand attorney general who argued cases before the Supreme Court nine times. This morning shell lead the house and viewers through what is needed for impeachment. Our impeachment coverage continues all morning long, at 6 45, scott mcgrew will get you up to speed on where the inquiry stands, and what you can expect. Then at 7 00, youll be able to watch that hearing right here on nbc bay area. Happening today, big changes are rolling in to the millbrae b. A. R. T. Station. Groundbreaking day on construction that will be for a Housing Development to add 400 new apartments, about 100 of which are set to be affordable units that veterans get first dibbs on. Neighbors argued 600 Parking Spaces will be lost and a lot more traffic will be coming in but acknowledges many of the surface parking lots will be lost but they say some of them will only be inaccessible during the construction phase. The makers of tiktok are now facing a class action lawsuit. A palo alto student misty hong launched this suit last week according to a story reported by the daily beast. That suit acs mpany of secretly collecting her data and sending it to servers in china. The student claims she never created an account but loaded the app to her phone. But u. S. Already investigating how tiktok collects users data. Those concerns abo privacy invasion are not limited to apps these days. If you have a smart tv or maybe you want one for christmas, experts say beware. One may be watching you. The fbi says that hackers may have the ability to take over your smart tv to spy on you. In one worst case scenario, hackers could be able to turn on the mic and camera for your bedroom tv and secretly cybertalk you. Tnot enough to rry about, a recent Consumer Reports investigation found out millions of smart tvs have security flaws. A warning as you pack your lunch, trader joes recalling sushi products that may be contaminated with listeria. Some of the items include readytoeat meals of california rolls, classic california rolls with brown rice and avocado, spicy california rolls, and tempura shrimp crunch rolls. So far no reports of anyone getting sick. You can return the items to any trader joes for a refund. A familiar sound in San Francisco is going silent for the foreseeable future. [ siren ] if youre ever in the city on tuesdays at noon, youve probably heard the sound of the citys public Warning System when the sirens are tested, in a drill dating back more than 70 years, but after next tuesday, all 119 sirens will go off line as part of a twoyear upgrade project. The city in the interim will rely fully on its wireless and online alert system. So make sure you sign up for those. These days it may seem like every day theres a holiday Tree Lighting somewhere in the bay area, but here is one thats extra special for us because our very own Marcus Washington will emcee this event. Its really special because this is the very first Tree Lighting at San Franciscos chis center, the new home of the warriors. Festivities start tonight at 6 00. Its going to be so much fun. Dont meet me there, beat me there. I like to say that because you want people to show up. You do for sure. Hopefully the rain will show up, kari. Not invited. Well hold it off for the event and a nice one, cool. Bundle up. Well see some very cool, damp air across the bay area. Righ now were tracking some widespread light rain, and then as you get ready to head out the door, were going to still see the soggy conditions, as the storm system rolls across the bay area, bringing us waves of rain, but the good news is that a lot of the more widespread rain will be this morning, becomes a little bit more hit or miss as we go throughout the day so it wont be raining all day. Well keep the chance as we go into today as well as tonight and into early tomorrow were going to see some of the rain before sunrise. Well take a break tomorrow for the afternoon but another storm system, a bigger one arriving on friday. More on that in a few minutes. Mike, youre tracking the delay through san jose. We are, kari, using our friends at waze and their technology to show you the speeds are slowing. You see san jose as a reference off of 280, here is 680 and 101 the interchange there. Waze timed things out and with the help of one of our friends re realmelo, we thank them for that. The delay about 28 minutes. Lets get out to our other traffic system the vicinity surface streets show a good flow of traffic but it is north 280 were concerned with that effect on the north 101, so far holding steady. Another half hour until we expect a big build from waze talking about the future technology, future traffic coming out of morgan hill but that might change things in the south bay. The rest of the bay is very nice. Back to you. Thanks, mike. A question for you this morning, do your sometis. Yes. That includes coffee at one bay area airport. It was taking a lot of time great products. Next meet the new edition at sjc no, name tag necessary. Plus the end of an era over at google. 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Good wednesday morning. Right now at 6 14, showers moving through the bay area. As we take a live look outside in san jose, willow glen will see temperatures in the low 50s and notice the chance of showers, even in through the afternoon with some peeks of sunshine. As we take a look at storm ranger this morning, were seeing mostly some light rain, but this is going to be kind of a preview of a stronger storm set to move in on friday. Ill talk more about that coming up in about five minutes. And right now we continue to see the d,280, the crash around tenth, just past that exit there, backs things up coming off 101, also seeming ri effect. 101 across the Golden Gate Bridge is clear, the crash cleared near Robin William tunnel, talking about whats going on across the san mateo bridge as well. And good morning. Very happy wednesday to you. Elon musk in new york at his own slander trial after calling a man a pedo on twitter, a case musk will have a tough time winning as there is no evidence the man he attacked is a pedophile. Big news at alphabet. Well get to that in a second. Big trouble for the markets, biggest drop in two months after President Trump once again talked down the chinese trade deal, saying it may not come until after the election. Asked about the 500 point dip over the dow, mr. Trump said he wasnt watching the stock markets. Big news out of google and sergey brin and larry page the founders are stepping away from their leadership roles. Theyll still be Board Members and the companys largest arehd asked Sundar Pichai the ceo to take over completely, the whole kit and kaboodle. Up to now larry and sergey were in charge over all. Really the end of an era. The pair started the group at stanford called page rank. 20150 pichai was in charge of google, alphabet as the umbrella over the operation, things like selfdriving cars and as of yesterday pichai is in charge of the whole operation as ceo of google and alpha bet. The two founders wrote would be a young adult of 21 and it would be time to leave the roost. Theyre staying at home longer now. True. Especially in this area. The boys own a 757, their own widebodied jet over there at moffitt outfitted with hammocks of all things. If i had a 757 i dont think id show up for work all the time. Id be out traveling the world myself. Gle but there ication, how g would be a whole list of things id do. Time to retire. I agree. A lot of people like coffee. Going to sjc, well tell you automation, yes, its there. Check out this brand new robotic coffee bar at San Francisco international airport. It was just installed in this cafex, can make more than a thousand coffee variations and six drinks at a time, pretty fast. And the best part of this, it does a littl d where is the dance . Does it shimmy . Does it shuffle . Doing the robot. There it is. You know last time that i was at sjc and wanted a cup of coffee, the line was like so long and i looked at it and i was like, theyre moving fast but i dont have time. So if its moving faster and getting those coffees out. In and out. The little robots rode me around. They open up. Coffee is in the back. Thebox. Hot coffee this morning for sure. Its a little cool out there. Weve seen waves of rain coming used to it, so as we head er out the door this morning were going to start out with some waves of rain. Were tracking it on our own radar, and our robot, storm ranger and well see it Still Producing some rain for not only the morning, but throughout the day. We see the yellows and the reds the heavier rain moving over parts of the Central Valley and for us, weve seen a lot of green here, indicating some lighter rain, but then as we come in to san jose, were seeing a little bit more yellow coming over the Santa Cruz Mountains, but also falling on highway 101, as you come out of the south county, so expect it to be a very wet morning drive. Were also seeing some very heavy rain moving through antioch, and brentwood. Thats going to be pushing off towards the east and were starting to see a drying up for bay point as well as concord so expect some of the showers once again off and on. You may be driving, you see the rain coming down and it stops. You turn your windshield wipers off and it starts coming down again so this kind of activity all a part of the same storm system that came in over the weekend, but its now rising back to the north, so were seeing the rain rolling in from south to north, and then were going to see it becoming a little bit more hit or miss as we go throughout the day, aperinally t we have a break tomorrow and then another storm system comes in on friday. This one is going to be another really significant storm with high wind and heavy rain, also some high surf once again, and its going to take its time working its way through the bay area, so this will most likely impact the entire weekend, except for about sunday afternoon into the evening. We have a break and a little bit of dry weather but another one moving in by the middle of next week. Well stay busy with rounds of wet running in agreement we could see anywhere from one to four inches of rain, the highest amounts over the north bay, and the Santa Cruz Mountains. Well be watching that as some rain and snow falls in the sierra. Our models show that we could also see some more significant snow, another couple of feet for the higher elevations, so if youre going there for the weekend, expect some more hazardous travel, and heavy snow. Here were going to see the rounds of rain really only drying out for part of the day tomorrow, and then again on monday. Mike, you have some brea ou 87, past the tenth street exit, are traveling north 280 shy of the crews over there arrived, they clustered and now more of a backup. You so he that coming off of 68 101, we expect that build there but may be more focused as more folks try to avoid the backup there. They see on north 280 an waze is timing it out to about a 20 minute delay growing a bit as the volume continues to build off 101, and also coming out of fremont for south 680 around the curve through berryessa. Right by the clock 101 at 85 at the split, a new crash as well. Well double check but sensors throwing through the portion of san jose on schedule. The rest of the bay Contra Costa County looks great, wet roadways but a mild build toward the bay bridge toll plaza where the metering lights were turned on about their regular time and we have a little bit of lightening up as the traffic over here in the left cash lanes and even fastrak lanes looks better. We have your traditional pattern from thanksgiving to the end of the year, we typically see a lighter morning commute. Back t thanks, mike. Coming up next on today in the bay, Willie Nelson giving up one of the things hes known best for. Not his hair nor his guitar. The big change hes making in his life, next. 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