Truck. Officers say the driver was taken to the hospital to be checked out for a possible broken nose. The hope now is to have these lanes opened up by about noon. Of course, well keep you updated. Reporting live in palo alto, matt keller, abc7 news. We have also been in contact with officials on this. They say caltrans Structural Engineers will work on what happens next. Basically, they tell us that when they get to the scene, thats where matt is, theyre going to be using scissor lifts to look at a closer look at the dang here and look at this video that we have. The engineer will probably knock off some of the loose concrete to check out the extent of the damage, like if any rebar is broken. Best case scenario, the overpass is structurally sound. If theres major damage, though, they will need an emergency work order and get someone out there to replace the iron or steel girder holding up the bridge frame work. No word on how long that emergency process could take. Reggie, natasha, back to you. Were going to go to alexis now with a look at how its impacting your commute so far. Yeah, it actually has not been a major factor for the commute until just a few moments ago and its not terrible yet but this is the first time ive seen a backup since we started this morning, actually since that crash happened about 11 00 last night. So southbound 101 at embarcadero road, weve got less than a mile but it is starting to fill in with those two left lanes blocked and those two left lanes still open. So, just a quick look at all turnitins here. If you are coming in the southbound direction, north palo alto, i would definitely stick to El Camino Real. Well take a look at drive times up next. Lets check in with mike nicco. Good morning. Good morning, alexis. Hi, everybody. Well start with live doppler 7. Showing it is bone dry out there. But it will be active tomorrow, sunday, and monday. So, make sure you use our news app if you have some outdoor plans. Heres a look from the roof camera, colorful morning developing already. Temperatures a little bit milder from the mid 30s to upper 40s another 7 00. Well hang around 54 to 61 at noon, 54 to 60 at 4 00, not quite as warm as yesterday or as bright but a very nice evening, 51 to 53. More on the rain and the review snow heading to the sierra tomming up. It was a shaky start for b. A. R. T. This morning fortunately it is quickly bouncing back. Lets go to Amy Hollyfield at the hayward b. A. R. T. Station. Reporter rough start for b. A. R. T. This morning, reggie. They lost communication with their switches in their hayward yard so they couldnt get the trains out of the yard to kick off the morning so there was a delay and some panic as they tried to figure out what to do. They were worried this was going to ruin the morning commute. This would impact trains that go to richmond out of hayward, but they solved it and listen to what they had to do. They had to hand crank them to get them out of the yard. So, b. A. R. T. Going old school this morning. Officials say they dont know why this happened. But they did get it all resolved. Trains are now running on time for this friday morning. So, good news for all of you b. A. R. T. Commuters and gold star for the b. A. R. T. Employees that got these things out of the yard. Reporting live from hayward, Amy Hollyfield, abc7 news. Thats the way we like to see problems ed thank you, amy. Developing news now, President Trump is coming to the defense of embattled attorney general Jeff Sessions who is recusing himself from any probes related to the president and russia. Mr. Trump went on a tweet storm last night, calling sessions an honest man. He said the ag did nothing wrong and claims democrats are overplaying their hand. Many democrats are saying sessions recusal isnt enough and they are demanding he resign for lying to congress under oath. Weve got to get to the bottom of it and an independent prosecutor as well as a full and independent congressional investigation is the best way to do that. What i want is a full accounting and a bipartisan way of what contacts the Trump Campaign had or didnt have because it will serve to put this to bed once and for all. The Washington Post first reported wednesday that sessions met with the Russian Ambassador twice during last years election. Sessions didnt mention those meetings during his january confirmation hearings and said yesterday he doesnt believe he discussed political matters with the Russian Ambassador. Speaking of the Russian Ambassador, he had meetings, several members, i should say, of the Trump Campaign. Mr. Trumps own soninlaw, jared kushner, met with the russian official in trump tower in december along with former National Security adviser michael flynn. Remember, flynn stepped down shortly after he got confirmed. Kushner is now a Senior Adviser to the president. We have new details on the robbery of a young boy at a b. A. R. T. Station. His family is now suing the agency. A 12yearold boy was robbed at the station as he was going home. The robber came up from behind, put a gun to the boys back and then demanded that he walk to an area where he knew surveillance camera doz not point. The suspect took the boys backpack. According to our media partner the east bay times, the boys family claims the robber took advantage of gaps in the stations security. The suspect still has not been found. After snap went public, st. Francis high school made out with big bucks. The companys app allows users to post messages. The school bought 2 million shares of snapchat early on. Good move. They sold 2 3 of the shares for about 22. 5 million. Their remaining third is worth just over 16 million so that means the school has nearly 40 million in holdings. People walking along San Franciscos embarcadero are about to see some big changes at pier 29. Plus angry parents are demanding answers from a north bay school board. They say a hazing investigation is leaving their children under a cloud of suspicion. It is six minutes after 6 00 on this friday. Heres a live look at tahoe this morning. Morning. Keeping an okay, i want to take you back to palo alto where we have that big mess overnight. Doesnt look like too much happening right now on southbound 101 and embarcadero road but thats because were in the waiting mode here. Just waiting for that Structural Engineer to come and tell us if this overpass is safe or not after it was hit by that dump truck that had the bed raised about 11 00 p. M. Last night. Two left lanes are down, two right lanes open. Little bit of a backup but you can stick to El Camino Real or 280 is wide open at this point for some alternates. Westbound 580, we had a couple krarkz, sounds like those are off on the shoulder at this point and just a slight delay and a quick check of dloorive ts too. About 20 minutes across the bay bridge and southbound 101, San Francisco to sfo is in the green at ten minutes. Lets check in with mike nicco now and our last day of sunshine. Want to get away. Made me think about that when you said sfo. It is the weekend. Ill have your tahoe forecast coming up next. Lest folk where youre milder this morning. Everybody in the low to mid 40s until you get to los altos hills. Upper 30s in lafayette and danville, 36 in novato. Temperatures today will top out 58 along the coast into San Francisco. The winds not blowing offshore and the dimming of the sunshine is going to cool us. 60 to 64, pretty close to average. Colorful sunrise is not disappointing from tam cam. Tonights temperatures, milder because of the clouds so were getting warmer at night, cooler in the day. Mid 40s to low 50s and a quick look at chances of rain saturday, sunday, and monday. Guess what im going to do . Give you an hourbyhour look at that next. 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So, he did not propose he proposed to me at home but you got to love that they met on mass transit too. That is awesome. Quick check of our traffic this morning. Our main issue today has been on the peninsula and weve been tracking this since 11 00 last night. Southbound 101 sat embarcadero road, two left lanes down and that sig alert where we are waiting for a Structural Engineer to give us the okay on that overpass that was hit but a dump truck that accidentally had the lift still raised and a lot of witnesses saying that driver hit that at full speed so not a terrible delay there but it is a little less than a mile and youre down to about 21 Miles Per Hour approaching. Quick check of the bay bridge toll plaza. That is full as usual. Those metering lights on right around 5 29 this morning. Earlier stall on the bridge but that is long gone at this lets check in with mike nicco. Pretty sunrise shots today. I propose that you hashtag those, abc7now. Heres a look at san jose, 101 and 880. You can see the haze of the Early Morning sun in the distance. Clouds increase, highs decrease today. Theyre proportional, inversely. Chance of weekend rain and thunderstorms and first signs of spring warmth. The storm track is getting closer. What it does for today is brings us these clouds and pushes the warmest part of the air mass away from us so yesterdays above average temperatures, one and done. Saturday and sunday, light to moderate rain from a fast moving storm that will bring us the chance of a thunderstorm sunday and snow leveling down to 2500 feet. Wake up tomorrow morning, scattered, light showers and that will continue throughout the lunch hour with the best chance of anything steady being up across the north bay and you can see by 5 00, some yellows in there, some moderate, but look how quickly this moves from the nrth bay and out of the south bay. And about a fivehour time span, then the cooler air mass and yo can see the showers and snow saturday night into sunday morning, wake up with a dusting on diablo possibly, even up around some of the Higher Elevations and then scattered showers all throughout the day sunday. So we wake up tomorrow morning, most of us dry and then you can see by sunday, about 1 4 to 2 3 inch of rain. At the same time, this is going to be snowing heavily in the sierra. Were talking 10 inches of snow above 3,000 feet and then 1 to 3 feet above 5,000 feet so those passes are going to be packed with snow, especially sunday. We have moderate snow saturday, heavy snow sunday, light showers monday and then we have a drying trend tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. For us, our coldest days will be sunday and monday in the 50s, 60s return tuesday and then look at those 70s wednesday and thursday. Lets go back to the cold snow and bring in alexis for the toyota tahoe report. Good morning, mike. Actually, let me flip over to the right graphic here. Basically, mike telling you, you need to go today. Today is great as far as travel is concerned. Thats going to change. Starting tomorrow afternoon, thats changes. So no chain requirements. 80 is wide open. The only reason i have yellow there for 50 if youre heading to heavenly is because we have a traffic down to one lane each direction around bridal veil falls. That road is coming apart. Just lost a tiny bit with some of the sunshine we got. 80, 50, 88 again, 50 is the only place youll have a little slowdown and that is due to to damaged roadway. Sugar bowl, sierra and kirkwood with healthy totals. Today is the day to go. Maybe cut out of work early and have a great weekend. The northbound lanes of octavia street in San Francisco are about to change. Sfmta plans to block off a section for about a week starting march 31. As reported by our partners t hoodline, its part of a test to see if the area could be closed off permanently. This section already sees frequent closures for street festivals and other events. During the closure, sfmta plans to hold at least two Public Meetings and there are plans for several events. Well, its true the tax deadline ask almost here. What you can do if you have any trouble with the irs. Plus a traffic stop one state trooper wont soon forget. How this officer ended up how this officer ended up covered in this is so bizarre. Look at this. A nevada patrol highway a nevada highway patrolman, ibds, narrowly escaped injury when a beer truck lost its load. You see that . It sent a wave of suds just flying at him. The trooper had stopped a car for speeding. That car had all its windows down and as you can imagine, the interior got drenched. The incident happened in june. The nhp just released this dash cam video. A car had cut off the supply truck, causing that crash. The driver who was stopped was let go without a ticket. 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