Million, abc7 news. Alexis, how is this impacting travel this morning . Ill show you. Well zoom in on our traffic maps here. We definitely have some delays still approaching that with that right lane closed so heres our sig alert, westbound 580 just before harrison, thats where we do have that lane blocked. Im also getting reports of a new car fire, westbound 580 at grand, just a little bit behind that and we had a gracrash and labor lake shower. Youre down to about 11 miles an hour. Its about two miles long. At our worst point we were up to four miles so that is getting better. Northbound 880 looks good for an alternate as does northbound 13 to westbound 24. Heres a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. Not looking so good once you make to it this point. That is obviously congested and weve had those metering lights on for just about 30 minutes. Lets check in with mike nicco now. Weve got a soggy commute this morning. We definitely do, alexis. Let me show you with live doppler 7 where the downpours are. Pretty much from livermore southwest all the way to los altos hills. Thats where youre seeing the yellow, the orange and thats where were going to have more standing water. This entire line is marching to the east while the cells are marching to the northeast and theres more moving into the Santa Cruz Mountains so watch out as youre traveling through 17. It is going to be a bear. San mateo bridge, looking a little dryer because of all the cars on it. Had about 1 3 of an inch over the last six hours. 49 to 54, little bit cooler. Showers will become scattered by noon, 55 to 58, then mainly dry with upper 50s this afternoon. Mid 50s by 7 00. We are tracking that 2 on the abc7 storm impact scale this morning. Early this morning as you can see, heavy rain fell in orinda near highway 24. It flooded that road. Cars were still able to get through and now all that flooding has subsided. In the south bay, heavy rain caused some minor road flooding overnight. This is sunnyvale, all that rain also triggered some minor flooding at crossman avenue and caribbean drive. And you can track all this rain any time with live doppler 7 just download our abc7 news app. Make sure you enable push alerts. That way youll get breaking news updates and weather alerts where you live as they happen. Police are looking for the driver of this car and it ended up in Santa Rosa Creek after it crashed through a creek last night. Police say the car traveled about 200 feet in the creek before finally coming to a stop. Three people wered in and the driver took off before officers got there. Other passengers were taken to the hospital with minor ijuries. B. A. R. T. Is concerned about president trumps new proposed transportation budget. Specifically that it would eliminate federal funding for b. A. R. T. s expansion projects. Abc7 News Reporter matt keller is live for us in fremont. Matt . Good morning, natasha. Obviously, a challenge this morning for people heading to the fremont b. A. R. T. Station. You got to make sure you have your umbrellas because its wet outside. B. A. R. T. Is also facing a challenge this morning. They are dealing with president trumps Budget Proposal. Of course, congress has the final say in all of this, but theyre obviously concerned about it. And b. A. R. T. Has some big plans. President trump proposed federal budget includes 4. 2 billion in cuts to the department of transportation. Daily cal reports part of that would eliminate federal funding for the new starts program, which b. A. R. T. Hopes will help pay for increasing capacity and funding the extension to san joses new station. That would also include buying cars and upgrades and renovations. B. A. R. T. Passengers we spoke with are concerned about the cuts. That would be not good because theres a lot of people that takes b. A. R. T. And it will not help them at all. And in an opinion piece written for the mercury news, vta board chair say in order to realize the nufull nexts, final six miles is essential. That would allow b. A. R. T. To connect to a caltrain station. Heres the silver lining. Even if the budget cuts go through, b. A. R. T. Officials say it will not affect your ticket prices. Reporting live in fremont, matt keller, abc7 news. A man who lives in lafayette hills is talking about a strange experience with an armed kidnapper. Richard russell says a man dressed as a construction worker showed up at his front door yesterday with a blow torch in his hand. He told russell to kneel. Russell refused and then the two started to fight. The suspect eventually forced russell into his car. You can see some of the injuries he sustained and made him drive to a nearby bank to get cash. We got to the bank. He said, you know, youre going to go in the bank and youre not going to tell youre not going to tell them the call the police. Ics, oh no. I think it was his first rodeo. Well, russell did call the police when he was inside that bank. Police arrested the suspect at gunpoint. Hes been identified as 26yearold Manuel Bustos from pittsburg. Russell says he wasnt seriously hurt and knows that situation could have ended much worse. 6 06 now. Supreme Court Nominee neil gorsuch will face his third and final day of questioning in his nomination hearings today. Yesterday, he told senators that hes told the president that no man is above the law. He was grilled for fours yesterday. President trump said during his campaign that he would only appoint a prolife judge. Senators questioned judge gorsuch about his meeting with the president. In that interview, did he ever ask you to overrule roe v. Wade. No, senator. What would he have done if hed asked. Senator, i would have walked out the door. Its not what judges do. A Committee Vote is schedule on april 3 with the Senate Floor Vote expected later that same week. This sight all too familiar for a lot of us, packed streets in San Francisco. Now the city wants to do something about that traffic and its looking to uber and lyft for an answer. According to the examiner, supervisor aaron peskin introduced legislation that allows the city to look at trip data from the ride hail companies. He believes that data c light on how to relieve congestion. Peskin suggests that nearly 50,000 active uber and lyft drivers are clogging streets. San franciscos iconic cable cars are about to undergo a major renovation. Plus shocking video from a california high school. The moment a fight turns into a stabbing. Theres another problem that just popped up in the same area of the east bay right now. This is our live crew near 580. This is our live crew near 580. Were going hersheys miniatures. We pour em we pass em we pick em delicious fun for everyone. Hersheys miniatures are mine, yours, our chocolate. Hey, bud. You need some help . No, im good. Come on, moe. 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The southbound side of 880 just been 16th, we have had a longterm blocking collision in the right lane and weve got a major delay in the south bay. Check this out. If youre coming up from morgan hill, ninemile backup near Bailey Avenue. That one still blocking the right lane and that ones before there since just before 5 00 this morning. Lets check in with mike nicco. Please give me some good news. After the morning commute. So the commute homes going to be a lot like yesterday. Hi, everybody. Let me show you what happened at 12 15 last night. Did you hear it . A shower rolled through napa and ignited about three bolts of lightning and that meant there were rumbles of thunder in the valley right there. Heres the way it looks right now through the sunol grade and into the Santa Cruz Mountains. Wet early if youre walking the dog, cool today if youre exercising, temperatures going to hit about 59 to the coast, 61 to 63 for the rest of us. Look at that. Upper 50s to mid 60s tomorrow but only upper 50s to near 60 on friday and when you wake up tomorrow morning, its going to be dry but much cooler. Coming up next, the big change that could be coming to the emojis on your phone. Plus singer wyclef jean handcuffed and detained. The grammy winner now says hes the victim of racial profiling. It is 6 12 in the morning as we head to break. We leave you with abc7 news now so you can Humpty Dumpty ive recently had some unforeseen medical expenses. Can i get a Tax Deduction for the hospital bills . Turbotax agent in your case, yes Humpty Dumpty ooh arent you helpful. Its so difficult to find good help these days. No time for a bath . Johnsons headtotoe cleansing cloths. Theyre twice as big as regular wipes, so youre done in half the time. And youre off. Johnsons. For every little wonder. Or how high the pollen count, flonase allergy relief keeps your eyes and nose clear. 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He was taken to a hospital and is expected to be okay. The other student got arrest and had that fight triggered a twohour lockdown. No one else was hurt. Threetime grammy winning wyclef jean now calling for an investigation into racial profiling. He says he was unjust like detained. Take a look at the cell phone video of the recent incident. He was handcuffed by l. A. County sheriffs deputies. They thought he matched the description of a man suspected of pistol whipping pedestrians engineer. Jean gave his account of what happened. Coming from the recording studio. Im automatically rushed. When im rushed, guns are drawn, which is the part that you dont see. After the guns are drawn, im pulled over. The minute this happens, i say, you know, im going to sue the lapd because i dont know whats going on. Im in shock and awe. Well, his spokesperson says the musician was subject to police brutality, racial profiling and police bias. The l. A. County Sheriffs Department says that he was detained because he got out of his car when he was told not to and when they realized he was not the suspect, they did let him go. Game show creator chuck barris has died. Barris created and hosted the gong show from 1976 to 1980. He also created and produced the 60s and 70s game show classics the dating game and the newly wed game. B barris died of natural causes. He was 87. Some of of San Franciscos famous cable cars will soon be disappearing from city streets for a little while. The sfmta has just approved a contract to replace the gearboxes. The boxes are in bad shape right now. They havent been replaced since 1984. The work will happen in stages. The california street line will close later this year and then the powell and mason street lines next year, then the hyde street line. Total cost to revise the box is nearly 7 million. Going to take a look at that Weather Forecast today. It just keeps on raining, mike. Yeah, especially in the south bay and the Santa Cruz Mountains. Everybody else is already starting to see the transition over to some dryer weather but damage has been done if youve been listening to alexis this morning. Heres a look at one along the coast there in the santa cruz and also 9 through bolder creek where weve had four inches of rain. Sunnyvale, santa clara, 237 up toward milpitas, through that into fremont where 680 and 880 come a little bit closer together. Yeah, lot of moderate to heavy rain right there so look for more issues trying to get around. This was supposed to be san rafael and its supposed to show you that we had 4 10 of an of rain but thats walnut creek. The good news, a dry commute for everybody all day tomorrow and 50 50 weekend with dry and warm weather next week. Heres a look at whats going to happen. 7 00, that shower, the downpours we just showed are moving into the Central Valley. Another weaker line will develop around 9 00 and you can see by noon its pretty much moved into the Central Valley so well transition over to scattered showers and as we head into the evening kplut at 4 00, just some isolated showers then once sunsets, yeah, the chance of showers goes away but its going to be significantly cooler tomorrow. Here we are thursday evening. Im starting to get concerned about the north bay. Thursday night, starting at 11 00, through about 11 00 friday morning, waves of light to moderate rain up here for 12 hours which means we could have some flooding by the time we get to about 4 00 in the evening that moderate rain starts to move down into the rest of our neighborhoods for our evening festivities. It will be out of here by saturday. Thats the change from yesterday. A chance of showers sunday and monday and then let the dryer pattern. C develop next tuesday. This is westbound 580 just before you get to that 980 24 split near harrison and i have been watching them make some progress here. It looks like a few more of those damaged vehicles have been towed away from the scene. I believe the coroner is there as well so we have the right lane blocked. The two or three left lanes are open now. And we do have a bit of a backup. At our worst point, we were up to about four miles. Now id say were under two. So that is starting to get a little bit better. Also want to update you on the fremont crash that we had that was blocking the far left lane. Southbound 880, that is looking better as well. That has cleared. But weve got some heavy traffic on southbound 880. Basically from north of 92 all the way down into fremont. Quick check of emeryville as well. We are looking heavy on westbound 80. Im hearing that we have a new crash just to the west of powell and that is blocking the right lane right now. 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