This morning were watching for the flooding and the spinouts. Those were the issue. But the bigger issue now getting out of San Francisco is the issue getting onto the lower deck of the bay bridge. What im told now, theyre settled on folks traveling towards the eastbound deck of the bay bridge. Thats the lower deck out of San Francisco. Just like you saw josh and kris have to get off the freeway and then back on at sterling. Essex is not an option from the city streets. You have to travel farther into the city and jump into the backup, a couple lanes open and slowing. Another option is b. A. R. T. , no delays, 45 trains in service. We talked about josh and kris being out there. Youre still out there, guys. Whats the latest that you have . Reporter i can tell you were getting a tiny little break in the rain, but there will be no break in the traffic if youre trying to leave San Francisco and head over the bay bridge. As mike said, four of five lanes are now shut down, and we were routed off i80 at the Fourth Street offramp through city streets. This onramp that youre looking at. This is bryant and second. This is where some of the traffic is being routed back on. Already tempers starting to flare. Lots of folks honking and folks doing unsafe maneuvers to try to get ahead of their fellow commuters. Not advisable. The roads are still slick. Youre going to want to reroute. Take b. A. R. T. Which is on time. Take other routes out of the city. If you can telecommute, also a good idea. If you leave in a few hours, get your day started later, that will be key. That fuel spill will take some time to clean up, perhaps two to three hours delay on the bay bridge headed eastbound out of San Francisco. In San Francisco, kris sanchez, today in the bay. Rough one to get through there. New this morning, slippery roads and Poor Visibility may have played a part in an Early Morning crash where a suspected car thief lost control of the stolen vehicle and it launched into the air. It happened before 2 00 this morning in santa clara on the Great America offramp at northbound 880. The chp says the suv went off the road and into a field. The driver ran away. Officers are still searching that area. The video is simply amazing if you havent seen it before. This is drone images catching t the apartments on esplanade avenue, they were red tagged and worries that more damage could be coming. Pete suratos joining us live along the water. Are you seeing the waves start to kick up a little bit . Whats going on from your Vantage Point . Reporter good morning, sam. Its still about the same here. The pacifica pier, its normal. Not exactly what we would call a high tide. But of course folks are concerned. You talk about coastal erosion. The city definitely doing its part to make things easier. As the rain came down, you saw people preparing with sandbags. We spoke with a bar owner who has had his parking lot flooding. Theres been work done to avoid the standing water and help sea walls damaged during el nino last winter to deal with the high tides. Making things a lot easier for folks in the area. They take care to put a new wall up right by the street, and this is kept clean most of the time after the storm. We put in the newbridge jumper where the army corps of engineers came out and revamped everything. The video we showed you at the top of this, the homes on Esplanade Drive that were evacuated and red tagged. Now were taking a look at the waves under the pacifica pier, they look fairly normal this morning. The city told me yesterday theyll continue to monitor the coastal bluffs. We can expect for them to do the same as they monitor this on going storm. Live in pacifica, pete suratos for today in the bay. 6 05 right now. Weather conditions forced a local pilot to make an Emergency Landing at an unlikely location. The pilot landed his small plane at the old alameda air station last night. The station has been closed for nearly two decades. Alameda Fire Department posted these photos of the plane on twitter. Firefighters say the pilot did the right thing. He had a limited license which only allows him to fly when the sky is clear. Two people were on board the plane and neither were injured. Also, be sure to download our nbc bay area app. We can send you push notifications on any major traffic delays or problems associated with this storm. 6 06 on friday. Police in San Francisco are investigating a stabbing that happened not far in city hall that left a young man with lifethreatening injuries. This happened yesterday afternoon when investigators say some sort of argument turned violent. The police say the suspect was yelling in the plaza and got into an argument with another man who he then stabbed multiple times. Both of them are in the hospital. Police say the suspect was cut from his own knife. New details right now staying in San Francisco on a chaotic Police Shooting that happened earlier in the week. You may remember the story from tuesday, a San Mateo County task force was tracking a stolen vehicle. They approached the driver in glenn park. When the suspect tried to ram an officer and officers fired at him. 39yearold man who authorities now identify as Ansar Mohammad has been charged with attempted murder and vehicle theft. Right now hes still in the hospital. A man and woman are behind bars after a violent robbery. Barry hiezer in and robin keys are accused of robbing a 59yearold woman returning to her home after gambling at a nearby casino. The man was spotted on Surveillance Video earlier in the night following the woman at the casino. Hes now facing attempted murder charges. Right now an update from last nights bay area proud. We introduced you to a fatherson duo building Haunted Houses on their block for years. They invite anyone to come and see it for free. Now theyve gone pro. They built a Haunted House in the parking lot of the oak ridge mall. Early yesterday morning wednesday morning they say thieves broke in there, damaged one of the sets and stole sound equipment and air compressors. The team we have here is a family. And so were picking up the pieces, repairing things, trying to get replacement stuff in here so when you come through this evening, its as if it never happened. The show will go on. They say about 3,000 in gear was stolen. The Haunted House is open through halloween night. 6 08. Fraternity and Sorority Parties are being allowed again at uc berkeley following a weeshlong ban. The suspension was voluntary after claims of two women being sexually assaulted. The ban isnt the only thing theyre doing. At parties they say guests will be greeted at the door with consent talks. Theyll be people monitoring sobriety. Rain totals starting to add up. This is happening at the thick of your morning commute. Its been significant even overnight. Rob has been telling us, up to aful ha inch overnight . Half inch which is significant given that the entire file weve had a third of an inch. Rain across the board from the north bay to the south bay this morning. You can see the rain coming from south to north. Heavier showers crossing into marin county north of San Francisco and a bit of a break in the action from san mateo down into palo alto. You see the scattered showers from dublin and into san jose. Were seeing pockets of heavier rain moving up from the south. The story of the morning, widespread heavier showers transitioning to scattered showers heading into the afternoon. For a check of your morning commute, here is mike. We have wet roads. Green highlighted all overall our roadways. That means wet roadways. Look at the yellow behind me. That means there may be puddling and ponding as well. The big issue right now, getting out of San Francisco is a nightmare if youre using the lower deck of the bay bridge. That would be eastbound heading towards Treasure Island. Folks traveling there are forced back onto the freeway and forced back on at sterling. Its a slower drive but is still available. Another option is heading south on 101 and taking 92 across the san mateo bridge. Its very light and so is mass transit, b. A. R. T. A great option for you. Thanks a lot, mike. Keeping kids safe this halloween, the Way Police Officers are making sure sex offenders are nowhere near children while trickortreating. Your enter et Company Knows where youve been, what websites youve seen. What can they do with that data . Well take a look. When were in an nbc bay area microclimate weather alert, weve made it easy for you to get the latest information on your smart phone. Click on the bar that says weather alerts. That will take you right to what you need to know when you need it. Im terry mcsweeney. Thats how to stay informed with the nbc bay area app. A live look at the radar showing rain moving from south to north across the bay area with more downpours starting to approach san jose from the south in morgan hill, and were seeing heavier showers crossing the coastline north of San Francisco. Rob, looking at the wet roads and slowing getting into San Francisco. 21 minutes, another seven minutes from highway 4 down to the maze. Remember getting out of San Francisco, the big problem getting onto the lower deck of the bay bridge. Well talk about that crash. In the south bay moving well for the northbound route. Thank you very much, mike and rob. Streets will be crawling with kids on halloween night as we well know. Marin county is trying to do something to make sure the neighborhoods are as safe as possible. Marin county Probation Department is carrying out Operation Safe treat. Deputies will remind probationers to keep their lights and decorations off on halloween night. They say theyre also doing everything they can to ensure children do not approach the homes of sex offenders. This old saying, laura, what goes around comes around. The latest victims of hackers, vladimir putin. Turnabout seems fair play here. The United States is denying responsibility this morning. But president obama did indicate we would be taking action after it was determined that russia was trying to influence our election through hacks. A hacker this week published emails sent to the kremlin by putins advisers which show russia is indeed involved in the unrest in ukraine. Now, we knew that. Russian soldiers may not be wearing uniforms, but russia is definitely in ukraine. These emails are an embarrassment for the kremlin nonetheless. Back in america the federal Communications Commission voted along party lines 32 that now forbid major Internet Providers to sell information about your online behavior to advertisers without your permission, what websites you go to, what you plug into your maps, what apps you install on your phone. That is your business, not theirs. This applies to Internet Providers, Companies Like at t or comcast. Comcast owns this tv station, by the way. It doesnt apply to the website. Your Internet Provider cant sell the fact that you went to google maps, but google can use the address you typed into your maps, which after all they provide for free, to figure out where youre going and advertise to you. Stocks posted modest losses tuesday. Alphabet and amazon stock will move quite a bit. We got gdp numbers showing the best growth in two years. Expect Hillary Clinton to be talking about that today. On thursday, apple showed off the newest mac books. Look across the top of the keyboard, theres that special touch screen above the keyboard. You dont have buttons that will change as what youre working on changes, the send button on emails. The new laptops continue to go up, not down in price. Were talking earlier the new laptops. This is an old laptop. The new laptops the old one i think is a better way of doing it. I think this is an excellent design where you have the safety feature. Around kids it saves us all the time, every day. A lot of homework. 6 17 right now. Want to check the forecast with rob. Weve been talking about it, such an interesting storm moving from south to north on this one. Weve eliminated the rain shadow which has pre vented the south bay from getting rain from the storms. A half inch and climbing around san jose. You see the totals were seeing from the peninsula south. Crossing the halfinch mark in san jose which is more than double the seasonal total. San francisco almost. 75 inch. The problem with all this rain, its falling overnight into your morning commute and causing issues around san jose. Downpours across the south bay, heavy rain north of the golden gate and into marin county. A few more scattered showers near the trivalley. The wet weather system is crossing our coast to the south. The moisture is moving from south to north and by mid morning will move from west to east. As we head from now to about 6 00, notice the transition, by the time we bet to the evening commute, most of that rain now off to the east. Well see mild temperatures in the upper 60s, maybe even close to 70 outside, despite the fact we got a lot of clouds and a lot of rain. Next round comes in saturday night into sunday. This system will have more wind, a chance for thunderstorms and a lot of rain again especially in the north bay where some of the hilltops could see two to three inches of rain and surf up to 15 feet on the coast. There is a look at your sierra forecast sunday afternoon into sunday night, a foot of snow. So here you go. Halloween monday, another storm coming on in in to tuesday. The trickortreat forecast right now is going to be a close call on the timing. Increasing clouds as we go through the day and towards the evening, notice north of San Francisco, sunset at 6 12, could see showers north of the golden gate. The south bay will be staying dry. Very active pattern ahead. Basically a storm riding in every 36 hours. As the storm on sunday in the cooler air aloft, we could see thundershowers and a big impact on travel, if youre heading to the sierra this weekend, could see chain controls by sunday afternoon. Be prepared. The way you go up to the sierra may not be the same on the way back. The south bay, robbed talked about the wet roadways, thats the major concern. Its friday, so lighter all over the bay. Disruption and service out of San Francisco, still a big problem getting onto the lower deck out of San Francisco. Back on at sterling. We know chris over there, she says you can get on around second and bryant in the car pool lane. A lot of folks getting onto the bridge there. Options heading out of the city, take 101 south, at speed down to highway 92. 19 minutes. Well give you the live look, san mateo bridge, that would be eastbound coming from the peninsula with the headlights, no major issues. You can see the lights. A little mist and drizzle across the span. In the south bay, the effects of the rain. Lighter traffic. Look at the water kicking um opt the cars behind them. Awfully slick conditions there. Thank you, mike. 6 20. Coming up next, an International Scam has cost taxpayers millions. Dozen of suspects taken down, but still more on the loose. An exclusive look at the takedown. Theyre retheir nbc bay today sot outcue. Right h toda runs 38 good morning. Coming up on friday on today, republican Vice President candidate mike pence joins us live in studio 1a. Well talk about his rough landing at the airport in new york last night, his plane skidding off the runway and what the Trump Campaign is planning for the crucial final week of the president ial race. Also ahead, hoda has one more unforgettable pink power surprise up her sleeve. This time shes recruited country star luke bryan to help out. And luke will perform for us live as we get started on a friday morning right here on today. Important step forward. The time is long overdue. Pharmaceutical industry. Passes the ballot. It is time for the pharmaceutical industry to stop ripping off the people of this country. The entire nation is looking at california. Lets go forward together. Thank you all very much. Prlems onhe roads an we go back outside right now. That is a live look at palo alto. Things moving pretty well so far in that part of the innocence all things considered. The rain has caused quite a good deal of problems on highways in general. We are tracking a situation on the bay bridge that continues to be a problem for people trying to get to the east bay. Rob and mike will have your forecast and your commute times coming up momentarily. We continue with the days news on this friday morning, 6 24. An oakland man is on the run. Hes accused of getting people involved in a very sophisticated International Phone scam. Federal agents announced the arrests yesterday as nbc bay areas Investigative Unit helped first uncover, callers would pose as irs agents and threatened the person on the line if they didnt pay bogus taxes. There were 10,000 victims including many in the bay area. The amount of money lost is said to be in the hundreds of millions. A deputy general at the department of treasury sat down exclusively with nbc bay area to give insight. The number for the irs, the General Number given to taxpayers to call, they were spoofing that phone number. Several