All northbound lanes were blocked along with three of the southbound lanes. No word on the identity of the person killed in the crash. All lanes on the 101 reopened in both directions. We are hearing a caltrans crew is due to come out sometime between 7 30 and 9 00 to begin repair work on the Center Divide. We are on standby waiting for chp to arrive to give us more details on the accident as the investigation progresses and to also give us a sense on how traffic has moved this morning with the rain. A reminder for anybody no matter what direction youre going the rain is sporadic so if it is not raining now it could be in five minutes or it could have rained five minutes ago so there will be slick roads. The reminder for everybody is give yourself more time for your commute and take it slowly. Christien kafton, thank you. Im glad i left early this morning because we had slick streets. Yes, it does not take much. Even though the downpours have moved out have scattered rain and we could have enough instability to generate some shower activity impacting the commute. Look at this, this is the oakland camera looking to the east. This is davis and it is looking nice. Beautiful colors with the clot breaks. It is nice to see the storms come through to clean out the air. It is a very nice landscape to start your thursday morning. We have rain showers pinged us a visit. That is the main front from late last night into early this morning. Here is some of the coverage in the north bay there is scattered rain toward napa and closer to san rafael we have popup showers developing. The east bay neighborhoods from concord toward antioch we have more development but nothing extreme and near oakland we have clouds in place. Toward the peninsula and san jose not a lot happening but scattered showers closer to the Santa Cruz Mountains. The current numbers are in the 50s around 60 degrees. A mild start near San Francisco. Look at the rainfall totals for the hills in the coast over three inches of rainfall with santa rosa over one inch. San francisco. 20 and san jose just. 02. This morning mostly cloudy with scattered showers. We have to hold onto the chance of a shower this afternoon with highs in the 60s. We will talk more about your shower chances coming up in a few minutes. Right now lets check in with sal. Reporter traffic will be busier because of this wet weather. If you can get on the roads a few extra minutes early that will help. The bay bridge is backed up for 25 minutes on your delay so add to that time trying to get into San Francisco. When you make it to the bridge you can see it looks good headed around Treasure Island into San Francisco. San mateo bridge is moderately heavy traffic on the spam. You can see that traffic is slow on the dumbarton bridge. Yesterday was bad but today its a little better. On the peninsula the slowest traffic is in san mateo on the 101 so 280 could be a good friend to you. Lets get back to the desk. Straight to the developing story from san jose where firefighters are at the scene of a fire at a townhome. These are the live pictures from the scene. This was 6 00 at a townhome a few blocks away from blossom hill road. This picture shows there is damage done to the townhome. A number of firefighters on the scene but it appears the flames are out. At one point being engulfed the townhome. We do not know how the fire started. Tonight some big names in music will perform at a benefit concert at at t park. They are raising money for the victims of the north bay fires. Alex savidge is live in San Francisco with more. Reporter we have a great lineup. Tickets are Still Available for the show tonight. The band together bay area benefit concert kicks off tonight in San Francisco. Have a look here at mccovey cove. The stage is set up here at the ballpark for the concert which will raise money for those who lost everything in the north bay fires. This will feature performances from metallica as well as other local artists like geazy and Raphael Saadiq. A few hours ago oakland native Raphael Saadiq posted this video to instagram and said he is looking forward to playing at at t park tonight and giving napa a small token of love. Also taking the stage is Dave Matthews and tim reynolds. Dead and company and punk rock band rancid. 100 of ticket sales will be going to the Tipping PointEmergency Relief Fund which will be helping lowincome communities that were hit hardest by the fires. A short time ago we spoke with one man in town for the dream force and he is planning to be at the show. I am from chicago so you cant ever be living in a tunnel and think the world is just around you. We have to step outside and realize what is going on. If that is what i have to do to see this concert than you do what you have to do. Reporter some of the best seats for the show at the park have been donated to firefighters, First Responders and volunteers. Also, to the families who lost their homes in the devastating north bay fires. This is a beautiful shot across mccovey cove. Everything set up for this benefit concert tonight. If you cannot make it, you can stream the show on youtube or twitter and if you are streaming they have ways that have been set up so you can make an online donation while watching the show but we want to stress there are Tickets Available online at ticketmaster for the benefit concert. The show starts at 6 00 tonight. Another thing to point out, the show will go on rain or shine. Alex savidge thank you. We have information on how you can donate and live stream on ktvu. Com. Just search for the bay area band together. Police say that three teenagers were arrested after a police chase in oakland this week and now they could behind be behind shootings. The chase started tuesday when officers try to pull over a silver mercedes. It ended with the mercedes crashing into two cars. One of the suspects jumped out of the car and he was hit by a passing car. Some guns found in the mercedes are being tested by police to see if they are connected to other shootings. A 25,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the capture of two escaped inmates who ran away from the palo alto courthouse. Tramel mcclough and joh bivens escaped from a bailiff. They were facing charges of holding up a Verizon Store in sunnyvale in february. They escaped in a waiting Toyota Corolla that they later ditched. Two people have since been arrested. They are accused of helping them escape. Later today the woman who rented a uhaul van is due in court. Attorneys representing josi Garcia Zarate say they will not call him to the stand to testify. The defense will wrap up the case today with closing arguments. The defense is trying to show the shooting death of Katie Steinle was an accident. Lawyers called a firearms expert yesterday who served for the canadian mounted police. He said because she is zarate did not have training or a motive and there was only a single gunshot and ricochet the shooting was most likely unintentional. Under the law, an accident is a dissent to a criminal charge. If there is reasonable doubt that the crime was committed and it was accidental then he would be acquitted. The defense argues Police Interrogators coerced Garcia Zarate two things that were not true. Video shows he was much further away than the prosecutors say. Prosecutors argue his actions were malicious and intentional. It is 7 11. Another freespeech controversy. Coming up the upcoming appearance at stanford from a political conservative. Working out the numbers, the new details from the republican tax plan that should be released this morning. Good morning, traffic will be a little slower today because of the wet weather. Look at the east shore freeway. Not a lot of movement headed out to the bridge. We are tracking rain showers and look at the south bay. We have a rainbow and it looks like it is trying to be a double rainbow. We are also tracking rain. We will talk about your rain chance is coming up. The Senate Version of the tax reform plan is due to be rebuilt revealed today and it will include seven tax brackets instead of the four in the house bill. It would also eliminate the deduction for state and local taxes. Democrats say that suburban voters wont like this. We say to our republican friends on this tax bill as Clint Eastwood said, you want to pass this tax bill . You want to hurt the suburbs, make our day. We want to cut taxes and fixed the broken healthcare system. Political analysts think since there are no Republican Senate seats where the deduction is popular like california or new york republicans are not worried about a voter backlash for eliminating the deduction. I thought for a second about getting off the 580 and hitting the surface streets to avoid traffic backup but i stayed true to the interstate. That is good because most of the time when you get off the freeway you get stuck in traffic from people trying to get around and then you end up in a bigger traffic jam. Sometimes staying on the freeway is the best call. This is westbound bay bridge and it is backed up 25 minutes. It is not raining now and the roads are drying off helping the commute as it is looking more normal. Look at this slow traffic on 80. It is very slow with the speeds way down. It is backing up near hercules. This is a look at the san mateo bridge in case you want to go there. That is backed up from the 880 interchange out to the middle of the bridge and you can see traffic on the dumbarton bridge is very slow all the way across. Driving to the south bay you can see the freeways are slow. 7 16 lets get to mark tamayo. It looks like the rainbows are fading a little bit. We lucked out a few minutes ago to see that one rainbow. Mostly cloudy skies with scattered rain showers showing up on the radar. The main event last night into this morning produced the heavy rain bands but scattered rain in portions of the north bay. There is coverage near napa and marin county. Especially san rafael and there are rain showers in this area. As we move the maps the coverage in the east bay is starting to back off. There was more coverage near walnut creek 30 minutes ago but this has now shifted to the north near antioch and the oakland area. Piedmont looking at cloudy skies. As we backed down to san mateo we have scattered showers and in the Santa Cruz Mountains there is rain near Scotts Valley and highway 17. There is more coverage near 101 around gilroy. Lets check in on the current numbers. We have 60s in San Francisco and sfo. Concord 60 and santa rosa lower 50s. Some of the bigger amounts near the coastal hills like ben lohman in the Santa Cruz Mountains two inches. The coastal hills of Sonoma County received three inches. Here are some more numbers, santa rosa one inch, san rafael 3 4 inch, walnut creek. 43 inches and san jose not much significant rainfall just. 02 inches. We talked about the rainfall in the north bay near healdsburg and kernville, all of those areas picking up one inch. Here is a front moving across the bay area. Scattered showers for today with the bulk of the activity for this morning. Another round of showers moving in tomorrow so though showers will be scattered in nature friday morning and into the afternoon we will scale back. If youre headed to the at t park tonight for the band together bay area we are expecting cloudy skies with temperatures near 60. There is a small chance for a shower before this time frame. Here we are today with a mixture of sun and clouds. Even though we dont have a lot of green there is still a chance of a popup shower throughout the day on thursday and friday there are more scattered showers. Not widespread but we are holding onto the chance for friday and the weekend is starting off dry. Today temperatures will be in the 60s for highs and here is a look at your fiveday forecast with scattered showers for friday morning with a dry weekend starting saturday and then sunday we have another chance of showers in the north bay with increasing chances by sunday evening. Donna brazile the former chair of the Democratic National committee will speak at an event tonight in San Francisco. She will appear at the marine memorial theater to promote her new book about the 2016 election. An excerpt from the book got attention for indicating 2016 democratic primary was rigged for hillary clinton. She says the excerpt was taken out of contest. Coming up, the nations top cancer doctors tell us how many drinks we should have per week. Taking uber to new heights. When the Company Hopes to launch a flying taxi service. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Uber is teaming up with nasa to make flying cars a reality and more people are now attracted to tinder. Pam cook is back with more information but lets start with wall street. Disappointing earnings from the retailers taking down the market. Tech stocks are getting hit but keep in mind the Technology Sector is the best performing in the s p 500 and is up 37 . A little pullback is not unusual or unexpected. With the opening bell intel was the biggest loser it is part of the nasdaq and dow jones. Checking the numbers currently, the dow jones coming back quite a bit from the opening bell it has dropped 120 points. Now it is down 64 points the s p 500 is down one point and the nasdaq getting hit the most down about. 5 . Technology is a bit of a pullback. President trump wrapping up his visit to china. The final event was a state dinner where President Trump and the chinese president offered toasts to their growing friendship. In the meetings they talked about the north Korea Nuclear threat and president urge trump urged china to put pressure on the north korean government. They also talked about trade. The president says it is a trade imbalance but he does not blame china. Who can blame a country for taking advantage of another country for the benefit of its citizens. I give china great credit. He blamed past administrations for letting the trade deficit grow. 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It is 7 30 im Gasia Mikaelian good morning, im dave clark. Lets get a look at your weather. Eight hours ago we had that main front moving through which would be a challenge for the commute but we have scattered rain showers with a lot of breaks. Always nice to see the sun breaks. Good thursday morning, we are setting up with some sun and clouds throughout the day. The radar shows we have this main front last night headed to the sierra and it is raining in South Lake Tahoe with snow levels up around 8000 feet. There is some coverage in portions of the north bay toward san rafael extending toward the east bay as well. The coverage has been decreasing over the past hour but outside of oakland near piedmont there is some cloud coverage also near san mateo there is a little bit of shower activity. Near the Santa Cruz Mountains we have rain showers closer to Boulder Creek. Current numbers are in the 50s around 60 with a mild start especially for San Francisco and livermore. Some of the big totals for the coastal hills are in Sonoma County. There is santa rosa with over one inch of rain. Napa at point at. 80 inches and San Francisco. 02 inches and san jose not picking up much. For today we have mostly cloudy skies with scattered showers for the morning. We will hold on to the chance of a shower with that mixture this afternoon. Forecasted highs are in the 60s. We will talk about your weekend in a few minutes. L