Youre looking at pictures of the horrifying crash scene out there. All the northbound lanes of highway 101 near paul avenue in San Francisco are closed now. Lets go over to sal who is looking at the area and also at how to get around it because this is a big part of the commute. It is coming into San Francisco. Obviously. This is northbound 101. You see the overton crossing there, thats 3rd street crossing over the freeway. This happened just before 3rd street, paul avenue exit. Northbound 101 is shut down for this very serious crash. I will let you know that traffic is going to be affected obviously on the peninsula. Northbound 101 is slowing down and people are getting off the freeway. The best way for you to get into San Francisco if youre coming from the peninsula is to use 380 and then 280 to get around doing this. Thats what i would do or not get on the freeway and use city streets and somehow get on the freeway after the closure which again is northbound 101 approaching 3rd street. And its going to be there for a while. Leother commutes around the bay we see there is low traffic on the altamont pass. The Solano County commute is off to a decent start and really the rest of the bay area commute looks all right. As you can see here, traffic is moving well in the oakland area. In the east bay and at the bay bridge. We have a small delay and some of those lanes. 4 32 am. Lets go to steve with the forecast. A little cool down today. Temperatures jumped a little bit. More so by the coast than for others but today we have a weak system brushing us and thats producing rain to the north and we get high clouds out of it in the morning. Highs today back to below average. Temperatures again have been this way for most of the week although they will go above toward the weekend. Not too many 30s. Maybe one or two. More 40s and 50s this morning on the peninsula. More 40s and 50s on the peninsula. 49 in union city. A few high clouds in the morning. The breeze will pick up after the system goes through. It wont do much but a slight cooling trend with 60s and 70s. Today, House Democrats will hear from a former special envoy to ukraine as part of their impeachment inquiry. As doug luzader reports for washington, d. C. , the legal battle between democrats and the president is quickly escalating. Reporter this is really just the start. We are expecting to see a series of interviews in the days ahead as the democrats build their case against the president. Ask this gentleman a question. Reporter President Trump lashing out at democrats and reporters. Ive answered everything. Its a whole hoax and you know whos playing into the hoax . People like you and the fake news media. Reporter that followed House Speaker nancy pelosi trying to convey a calm, methodical approach. We will have investigations and questioning that are worthy of the constitution of the United States. Reporter but already some complications. A revelation in the New York Times that the democrats point person on impeachment congressman adam schiff had prior knowledge of the whistleblower complaint at the heart of all of this. Something he did not disclose. It shows that schiff is a fraud. Reporter but the president is besieged by one development after another. The white house is expected to be under subpoena for documents pertaining to ukraine and a phone call where President Trumps asked the president of ukraine to investigate former Vice President joe biden and his son. Any other updates . No comment . Reporter just yesterday the state Department Inspector general delivered to congress a mysterious package behind closed doors said to contain conspiracy theories about ukraines involvement in the 2016 election. All of this at the same time the democrats are trying to narrow down there impeachment case to convince the public that the president should be removed from office. And all of the side issues could be a growing concern. The democrats are worried that this will spiral on and on and they want to do something crisp and quick. That would certainly be in the political interest i think. Reporter democrats say this continuous battle over document production maybe another justification to impeach the president. In washington, doug luzader, fox news. Heres a look at some of the top stories this morning. The epa issued a notice of environmental violations to the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission. Accusing San Francisco of dumping 2 billion gallons of untreated wastewater into the ocean every year. The epa threatens to impose civil penalties. The San Francisco mayor london breed said they trump admismantling and politicizing the epa. 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They also had to receive donations from at least 130,000 individuals. Struck the Gilroy High SchoolVarsity Football Team has canceled the rest of its season after a Sexual Assault allegation made by one of the players against four teammates. The allegation prompted most of the team to quit. Police say the four teammates issued citations. Police say the alleged battery occurred in the School Locker room after football practice last week. A family from oakland is morning, heartbroken after a mother of two was hit and killed by a hitandrun driver. Our Crime Reporter henry lee has an important reminder from Oakland Police for people in the area. I thought i would have more time to get back to her. Reporter 17yearold Michelle Nguyen is devastated by the loss of her mother, killed by hitandrun driver just steps away from home. We live not even a block. Its on the same block. Reporter her mother, huong thi truong was walking her four yearold niece home from preschool when they were hit by a car at 22nd and foothill on tuesday. The driver never stopped. The girl, ellie nguyen, was taken to hospital. We could have forgiven you if you had stopped and checked if they were okay. But you didnt and you just kept going so i feel like i cant find it in myself to forgive you. Reporter she and her husband came to the u. S. From vietnam a couple months before michelle was born. She came over here to seek a better life for our family. For me, especially. And my little brother. We come to the United States at the same time on the same day in the same month in the same year. Reporter at the crash site a memorial of flowers and candles and plates of food. A sign of respect and a reminder that truong was left in debt that she was in life. One day after the tragedy, Oakland Police set up this radar trailer on busy foothill boulevard where drivers routinely go faster than the 25 Miles Per Hour speed limit. We encourage all of our Community Members to drive safely. Dont drive under the influence and please be aware of the surroundings. Reporter as the family wants their loss they hope the driver is caught. If we could just find out who did it, it would bring us just a little bit of, you know, a little bit of closing. Reporter the family is now trying to save enough money to bury her in her native vietnam. In oakland, henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. A warning for drivers in the bay area. Next, what were learning about a project that will close part of highway 101 in San Francisco for an entire month. Plus, riding the rails to get the pulse of the people. You will see what barts new general manager is finding out from everyday riders. Good morning. We do have mostly good conditions on the freeways in the bay area. Including highway 24, however, there is a pretty big closure of a major freeway in San Francisco. We will talk about that coming up. A pretty quiet pattern although it will be cooler today. A weak system brushing us. We look at those forecast highs today and we look at the weekend. Welcome back to mornings on 2. This morning the military is investigating the cause of a nighttime parachuting exercise that injure 22. This happened last night at camp shelby military base in hattiesburg, mississippi. The army said 89 paratroopers were on a plane for the exercise. The soldiers jumped out of the plane and were blown off course from their intended landing zone and into pine trees. 15 soldiers were treated at the scene. Seven others fethreatening. Federal investigators are in connecticut looking into the crash of a retired world war ii plane. Seven people were killed and several others injured on the ground. On board along with 10 passengers. 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Some of the others who became ill used both thc and nicotine vaping devices. Lab tests confirm a protester through blood at state senators following the debate over the new laws that would tighten medical exemptions for child vaccination. The Senate Chamber was closed for a few hours after when it happened on the final night of the legislative session on september 13. This has since, the area has been cleaned and sanitized. Rebecca de leo a Santa Cruz County faces charges of felony vandalism, misdemeanor battery of accounts related to disrupting official state business. Caltrans warning drivers about a closure of highway 101 in San Francisco planned for next july. The workers plan to spend the month replacing 800 feet of the bayshore freeway near the 280 junction north of the alameda boulevard exit. This area is known as the alameda the maze because of the spiraling ramps connecting highway 101 to 180. Section of the highway thats o bad shape. Caltrans plans to build a detour to divert traffic but caltrans says driver should avoid the area completely during that repair work next summer. Take a vacation. Get out of town. Talk to your employer. See if they can work with you to get work from home or do some alternate work hours. Thats the only way. There is no way to drive around here and not be stuck in traffic. Were talking about july of next year. Bart plans to run more trains during that month. Ferry operators also may add more service during that road closure. Barts new general manager is visiting various stations to get feedback directly from riders. Powers was tapped to leave the agency in july. We talked to riders yesterday. More than 400,000 people ride bart every weekday, many of whom have opinions about ways to improve service. We talked about improving air conditioning on older cars, new gait and safety. One of my past three priorities is to fully staff the Bartow Police department. 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The first system used a huge, u shaped barrier which did not work like it was planned. It was brought back to the bay area to be repaired in january. It was fixed and went back to the garbage patch in june. The group plans to keep operating it there until the end of next month. The sharks open the nhl season with several new players on the road against one of their fiercest rivals. The Golden Knights notched their first goal of the season less than four minutes into the first. Then got another goal two minutes later. The sharks Mark Sorensen managed to get a goal in the second. But that was all san jose could do. Vegas one, 41. The first home game is tomorrow night and its a rematch against the Golden Knights. Is back. The latest on a deadly wrong way crash in San Francisco. Thats right, dave and pam. This happened on northbound 101 this morning around 12 24 am and they are doing an investigation. Let me show you whats going on. Northbound 101 just before the paul exit. The vehicles involved in this violent crash. The Investigation Team for chp is there. They are on the right, you can see one of the taxicabs. One of the vehicles was a taxicab involved in this crash, completely destroyed on northbound 101. Northbound 101 is closed near paul avenue and coming up from candlestick, you cant get through. What you need to do is if you want to get into San Francisco using the freeway, used 280 instead. 280 will get you through. Southbound 101 is open. Lets talk about the rest of the commute. You can see 580 is slow through the tracy triangle area. There have been no major problems on the way to Castro Valley and getting up to the bay bridge, traffic is moving along okay. Its getting a little more crowded at the toll plaza. Lets bring steve in. A little cool down today. Temperatures kind of a very quiet pattern. There is no extreme one way or the other but we will cool it down today and start a warmup as we go into the weekend. No sign of any rain or strong offshore event. At least nothing yet. A cooler thursday in a warmer weekend on tap. It did today and then we go back up. It doesnt ok crazy hot but maybe mid 80s. If you systems moving to the north. We are on the tail end of it but its sweeping across and edits as it will usher in cool air. 60s and 70s today. 70s and 80s. Normal temperatures are coming down but we are still running a little below. The city yesterday did get to almost 70. 69 degrees. Still below normal and its been a week of that. Today, 64 and 53. Below again on both counts on the normal low and high. 40s and 50s. Not as ma