Kpix 5. All right. 6 01. Lets check the traffic on a friday. On a friday, exactly, were doing well. Most areas are very light at this hour. Going to go over the exceptions for you. If you plan to take the 580 commute, there is an accident clearing westbound 205 on the ramp to west 580. So this is as you leave the tracy area bound for the altamont pass. A motorcycle accident is going to delay traffic on 205 from beyond Mountain House. You pass the accident and its the usual 580 commute going to have you slow from beyond isabel. So thats going to be a slow spot for you. Also an accident in the clearing stages southbound 880 approach mowry. One lane of traffic shut down there. The bay bridge toll plaza metering lights are on. Traffic is backed up from about the 880 overcrossing. Bart is on time. No problems reported for San Franciscos muni or the altamont commuter express. Kpix 5s roberta express. Heres kpix 5s roberta gonzales. Fog and condensation. Now look at our live weather camera looking towards the bay waters from San Francisco looking due east. The clouds have dissipated rapidly as High Pressure builds in. Our temperatures are 52 cool in santa rosa to 66 mild in livermore. Late today, numbers are going up. Were talking about 70s at the beaches except right around 60s in daly city, 70s bayside, 80s peninsula to 93 inland. Your weekend forecast is coming up at 6 18. New this morning Authorities Say most of the debris they found in recent weeks actually is not related to the missing malaysian jet. They sent experts to the mountainside to check debris that resembled things that might have been for that plane from that plane. A wing part. The team then determined the debris is not even plane material. Flight 370 disappeared in march of last year while flying to kuala lumpur from beijing. There were over 200 people on board. A historic morning in cuba. Live look at havana where a ceremony will begin in less than an hour to officially mark the u. S. Embassys reopening. It will be led by that man, thats john kerry. He just arrived. He is the first u. S. Secretary of state to visit cuba since the 1940s some 70 years ago. More on todays event from cbs news hannah daniels. Reporter in just a few hours, the American Flag will fly over the u. S. Embassy in havana for the first time in 54 years. Three u. S. Service members took part in a rehearsal ceremony at the embassy thursday as members of the community looked on. The change in diplomatic relations is something this 31 yearold cuban woman is looking forward to. [ speaking spanish ] reporter when it comes to politics, she says she doesnt care. Not when positive things can happen for cubans, young and old. Still others like american lois scheckter remain skeptical. Her familys farm in havana was seized by Fidel Castros regime during the communist revolution and her family fled the country. If we have relations with cuba, i dont think we should have them without the reparations. Reporter in a newspaper column published on his 89th birthday yesterday, fidel castro repeated claims that the u. S. Owes cuba millions of dollars in damages caused by a longstanding trade embargo. Now that both sides have taken steps to reestablish diplomatic ties, president obama has called on congress to lift the embargo. We dont have to be imprisoned by the past. When something isnt working, we can and will change. Reporter many republicans disagree and are calling on cuba to improve its human rights practices before a trade embargo is lifted. Hannah daniels for cbs news. Today marks 70 years since the United States celebrated v. J. Day to end world war ii. Thats when japan agreed to surrender on this day in 1945. Celebrations broke out across the United States. Some Iconic Images there. The next day the world was officially notified of the surrender. On september 2, general Douglas Macarthur accepted it on a u. S. Ship in tokyo bay. This winters el nino could be stronger than the last big event some 18 years ago. A sidebyside comparison shows how the 1997s el nino formed on the left. And on the right the red and white areas so a potentially more powerful el nino taking shape this year. It could bring a whole lot of rain muchneeded rain after four years of drought here in california. Over the next three months, this should turn into what i call a godzilla event. The average of all of those models shows that we will be in the strong category. El nino is a band of warmer water in the tropical pacific that changes weather patterns. Already the warm currents have disrupted marine life. With the hot, dry weekend ahead, firefighters have reason for concern about the jerusalem fire burning in lake and napa counties. Cal fire crews have been making significant progress on the fire but its burned just 24,000 acres. It is 50 contained. 50 buildings are still threatened and evacuations remain in effect. A Deputy Sheriff from Contra Costa County drowned yesterday while trying to rescue someone from lake tahoe. Police in South Lake Tahoe say he jumped in to deep water. The Sheriffs Office says Deputy Carlos francis died what he was sworn to do, putting himself in harms way to protect the lives of others. A team from the Sheriffs Office is headed to lake tahoe to help with the investigation. Time now 6 06. A sunnyvale woman is accused of beating her mother to death with a hammer. It happened at a Mobile Home Park on vienna drive. The suspect called police to the scene yesterday afternoon. Police found inside 50yearold linde smith unarmed and cooperative. Her mother was dead from blunt force trauma. There was a hammer the scene. The woman was arrested and charged with the 81yearold mothers murder. Detectives believe an argument led to the attack. Pg e has paid the state a 300 million fine stemming from the san bruno pipeline explosion to the general fund. Thats all part of a larger 1. 6 billion penalty leveled against the Company Earlier this year for the blast. Eight people were killed and dozens of homes destroyed in the pipeline explosion nearly five years ago. Senator Dianne Feinstein is going head to head with San Francisco mayor ed lee over airbnb. Feinstein is backing an antiairbnb measure. The two politicians offered the official arguments, for and again the proposition f called for limiting all shortterm rentals to 75 days a year regardless of whether the host is present among other provisions. She said, if the board passes this bill i urge mayor lee to veto it and ask the board to reexamine the amendments it rejected that could make Short Term Rentals workable. A lot of food could go to waste in california. But the problem has nothing do with the drought. Farmers having a tough time finding help for the harvest. Theres a shortage of farm workers. Jim bogart says good food is going to waste. Crops needs to be harvested at a specific time. If you dont have the workers to harvest the crops, they sit there and they rot in the fields. U. S. Food production is down 9. 5 this year, farm wages are up as growers try to get workers. Dozens of Santa Clara County families could be getting an unexpected payday after bee overcharged on property taxes for years in total more than 100,000. Kpix 5s Christian Hartnett talked with a woman who caught the expensive mistake. Reporter for erin, her home is the fruit of her labor. It was the top [ indiscernible ] reporter this picture is about 13 years old taken when erin and 31 other families were building their own homes. Part of a lowincome Housing Project in gilroy. Not only did we build a home, we built a community. Reporter but many including erin struggled it pay the bills. Recently things got tougher when her property taxes went up 300 a month. I started talking to my neighbors and finding out they were all in the same boat that i was in. I even had one neighbor said that, you know, i had to make the choice between paying my mortgage and buying groceries. Reporter four months of questions led erin to the Santa Clara County tax assessors office. Larry stone says the homes were never classified as low income when they were built in 2002. The families have never paid the correct amount in property taxes. That will now change. In a push to reimburse the community its under way. When government does something wrong, i think we have an obligation to correct it. Reporter for everyone, thats music to their ears. Because theres times where we didnt have the money to pay our mortgage. [ crying ] i had to charge it. So im going to get caught up on those visa cards big time. I cant wait. Reporter the county tax assessor only has the authority to refund up to four years. But he will be working with other county officials and push for a full refund for all 13 years. In gilroy, Christian Hartnett, kpix 5. Time now 6 10. A startup selling flame throwers . How much it will cost you to shoot fire. Plus, a behindthescenes look at the futuristic products being built in silicon valley. And behind the scenes here in the kpix 5 weather center, we have been working on your weekend forecast. Well show you exactly where it will top off in the triple digits. And an accident in fremont delaying traffic for that southbound direction of 880. Ill have details on this and information on the bay bridge information on the bay bridge with kcbs traffic,,,,,,, you can save over 500 bucks when you switch to progressive. Thats a fact. But this whole blondes have more fun thing. Standing by for fun. Good morning. Time check 6 14. Yes, it is friday taking a look out at san jose we still have low overcast skies there. It will become sunny and bright and we have a warming trend. We are going to talk about that in less than 4 minutes. We have a weekend, too, we have to talk about. Thank you, ro. Its 6 14. Brew some weapons of war and gruesome weapons of war are for sale to the public. The u. S. Military stopped using flame throwers after the vietnam war. Now a company is selling flame throwers. Another company is selling a 900 version that can eject flames for 25 feet. The flame throwers are marketed as a quote, unquote fun device. Both Companies Say their products have not caused injuries and safety is a priority. Ucdavis researchers are teaming up with californias Wine Industry to find ways to useless water while making wine. The Mondavi Institute is using stateoftheart technology to recycle water used to sanitize wine making equipment. Professors say too much water is being used for cleaning. Pretty much all the water is used for cleaning so if you can figure out efficient way to do cleaning in a winery you can reduce water use tremendously. Thats what were focusing on. Professor david block says it takes about 6 gallons of water to make one gallon of wine. But through recycling technology, that water can be used to cut use in half. The weekend is here. Were all excited about that. Whoo [ applause ] theres a friday theme going through. And taylor swift is in town. You have tickets. Im very excited. [ laughter ] all over my ipod levis stadium stadium 7 00 tonight we have the raiders playing, giants playing so its going to be a busy night on bay area roads and we have the giants. Thats right. Against the nationals. Thats right. Were going to get to the morning commute right now. At this hour expect delays for the altamont pass. Still got this motorcycle accident out there westbound 205 on the connector ramp to westbound 580. At least one lane of traffic remains shut down. Traffic has been slow from beyond Mountain House on 205. Stays heavy past the accident scene to about isabel avenue in the livermore area. So expect big time delays there. Its also going to be slow going because of the morning accident. Its in the clearing stages in fremont. Southbound 880 approaching mowry. Delays now into union city. Not quite backed up into hayward yet. Now, over at the bay bridge toll plaza, the metering lights are on still the 19minute drive time holding stilled did i between the carquinez bridge and the maze. , Still Holding steady. Its friday light. Only slow from about the 880over crossing at the bay bridge pay gates. Meantime if you plan to make the north bay commute westbound 580 a very brief delay at the Richmond San Rafael bridge. 101 southbound, its the usual 45minute drive time leaving santa rosa bound for the Golden Gate Bridge. Thats a look at urz kcbs traffic. Heres roberta. Its our live weather camera featuring the city of San Francisco the city by the bay where we have some low clouds and fog hanging very tight to the Golden Gate Bridge at this hour. Otherwise, temperaturewise we are very mild except in santa rosa in the 50s. Its in the 60s in san jose. Also oakland at 63 degrees. Today we are talking about temperatures topping off in the 70s at the beaches. 70s in San Francisco. Also mid70s across the bay in oakland. We have that raiders game happening tonight at 7 p. M. We have derek carr all 214 pounds of him from fresno state who is at the helm tonight. 80s around the peninsula, 82 degrees in san jose and mid80s to low 90s inland. Take a good look at the forecast because we are going to jump up substantially tomorrow. 101 in the hottest locations of our inland areas away from the bay. Both days mid80s bayside mid 60s daly city but mid70s in pacifica. Then well see a modest cooldown monday through thursday. Make it a great day. It is 6 18 now. Beachgoers of Southern California being warned about a surge of stingrays out in the ocean. Cell phone video captured about 200 swimming in Shallow Water at a beach in marina del ray. Experts say warmer temperatures there they are attracting more stingrays than last year. By the way, 100 people have been stung in just the past month. Some very cool stuff was on display thursday at the Mountain View civic center. Kpix 5s mark sayre shows us it was a rare chance for the public to check out what Tech Companies are working on. Reporter this Security Officer may have a funny name. You can just call it the night scope 5. Already in use at various companies around silicon valley, this fully autonomous officer will definitely not complain about the long shifts. It runs around by itself. There is no inside or controlling it from somewhere else. Reporter the night scope vice president. There are sensors on board to see, hear, feel and smell looking for abnormalities in behavior. Reporter then theres this. An electric skateboard from a Company Called boosted boards. Need to get from your place to a Public Transit stop . No problem. So we are trying to get people out of their cars trying to figure out ways of helping with the urban commute. Reporter elias got to try it. What did you think . It was pretty cool. It was, um, a bit hard to balance but it was easy to get into it. Reporter of course, in the views most Famous Company is google and its new parent Company Called alphabet. It had one of its prototype Driverless Cars on the display and anyone could sit inside. Its very comfortable and cozy and i feel like it would be scary. Reporter as for whats next . You might find the answer from students at Mountain View high school. This is the latest student built competition robot and who knows where the bright minds behind this project might be working in the future. In Mountain View, mark sayre, kpix 5. 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They are promoting the teams coffee blend at petes. Jeremy affeldt is going to be at the Chestnut Street store and javier lopez at the ferry building. They are going to be from noon to 1 00 p. M. Both locations in San Francisco. Good morning, everybody. Giants general manager bobby evans says the team has made an offer to the phillies for second baseman chase utley. Stay tuned. Bill walters has been to 850 grateful dead concerts. Last night it was dead night at the yard. Bottom 1 i had it at 1. The nationals buster posey base hit. Matt duffy trucking home. Giants up 21 off stephen strasburg. Giants starter Ryan Vogels