Taxes. The county executive estimates almost 8 million could be generated over a 30year span. I thought it was a completely nutty idea. And it really needed to be stopped right now. Reporter Lenny Roberts with the committee for green foothills is leading the charge against the idea. 280 is a state scenic highway. And caltrans has named it the worlds most beautiful freeway which, um, it continues today. And billboards recover are not allowed. Reporter at least three supervisors are open to look at the idea but they were unavailable for comment today. And it did gain traction among at least one driver i spoke with who says billboards could be done in a way that wont spoil the natural beauty. I think its beautiful regardless if theyre there or not. I think the best thing to do is to take out things that are unnecessary and put billboards up. We need money. Reporter the supervisors are looking at proposals to put billboards on 92 and 101 so even if the idea for 280 is defeated, the other highways might not be so lucky. Len ramirez kpix 5. An equipment problem on bart is causing major disruptions starting at 10 a. M. Right now, Train Service is suspended between the North Concord martinez and the pittsburgbaypoint station. Andria borba reports from North Concord. What a headache. Reporter well, liz, take a look. You can see the bus bridge that has been set up. Its between the two stations at this point. The problems began this morning on the track between North Concord and pittsburgbaypoint. Bart engineers are describing it as a power surge. Its damaged the Propulsion Systems of 25 cars so far today. This problem is reminiscent of the problem a few weeks ago in the transbay tube according to bart. We had a situation where train cars were getting damaged while going over certain sections of tracks. Specifically, there were surges in both there were power surges that were damaging the circuit tree that protects the motor. This surge in voltage is damaging equipment as part of the propulsion and because we cant lose any more train cars to damage we took that section of track out of service. Reporter bart has set up as we said a bus bridge. 14 buses between North Concord and pittsburgbaypoint. Toget folks where they need to go. There will be problems tomorrow again on the morning commute because they have to take those cars out of service that were damaged today and today when they started the commute they were already 16 cars down. They say at this point they dont know if that section of track will be open in time for tomorrow mornings commute. Live in North Concord, andria borba, kpix 5. Caltrans will hit a key milestone tomorrow on the peninsula. Crews will open the new overpass to traffic at broadway and highway 101 in burlingame. The old bridge over 101 will be demolished over the next couple of weeks. Construction on the 45 million interchange project is expected to be complete next summer. Last august construction crews accidentally toppled power lines across 101 crippling traffic for hours. New at 6 00 a potential game changer for tens of thousands of renters in san jose. Kpix 5s devin fehely tells us the city is looking at revising its decades old rent control law. Trying to find a place thats affordable on this huge reporter its supporters say it would prevent supporters getting burned in a hot market. Good luck finding a one bedroom under 1,200 in the area especially a decent area and if you want to be somewhere close to work and you, uhm, work in sillicon valley. Reporter the San Jose City council is considering sweeping changes to its 37yearold rent control ordinance possibly tying rent increases to inflation which would likely keep them below the current maximum of 8 a year. Landlords say the policy is well intentioned but misguided. If you have a business that cant cover its costs, it wont stay in bills. And if it wont stay in business, whats going to happen to those units . Reporter roughly 44,000 out of the citys 122,000 rental units are covered by the rent control ordinance. It has managed to keep prices down. According to the city, a rent controlled property on craigslist is averaging just over 2,000. Compare that to roughly 2,400 far a regular rental. Supporters say the changes would provide at least a little protection for renters barely eeking out a living in sillicon valley. Once you start missing your rent, you get evict so people in this position are now potentially homeless. We want to prevent them from being homeless. Reporter it doesnt make sense to help tenants by hurting landlords. Apartment buildings are already going up for sale in the city of san jose. People are afraid of what happens next and that will probably continue. Reporter in san jose, devin fehely, kpix 5. There is a Community Meeting on rent control tonight. The city council is scheduled to formally consider the plan at its april 19 meeting. Google is going on quite the expansion spree. According to the sec filing, the tech titan plans to buy 8 buildings in sunnyvale. They are currently part of the net app campus and total nearly 600,000 square feet. Price tag 250 million. Mountain viewbased google has been leasing and buying Properties Across sillicon valley. This latest sale is expected to close next month. Doctors Medical Center in san pablo could soon turn into a hotel. According to a website a Boutique Hotel operator in davis is set to buy that property for 13. 5 million. The Medical Center has been vacant since it closed last april after years of financial trouble. The deal is expected to be finalized within the next few months. The Santa Rosa Park where a teenager was shot and killed by a sheriffs deputy is a step closer to being renamed and renovated in that boys honor. Today the Sonoma County board of supervisors approved an additional 1. 2 million for the project and chose andys unity park as its name. Andy lopez was killed by a sheriffs deputy in october of 2013 while carrying a toy gun. New at 6 00 frustration for commuters using golden gate transit. The agency has canceled a number of bus routes at the last minute because there arent enough drivers. Kpix 5s emily turner with how golden gate transit is trying to solve that problem. Reporter this person is riding the bus so he can go buy a car. The reason he is buying one is the very thing he is taking to get there. I was waiting for the bus and, like, i was looking at my phone to see, like, what time it comes and it never came. Reporter he says he cant rely on the Transportation System that doesnt run on schedule which is exactly what has happened too often on golden gate transit. Its become so bad the Company Issued an apology to riders and offered free rides today to those most affected, the commuters. It happens all too frequently. The time schedule is merely a suggestion because most of the time they are not on time. Reporter golden gate transit says its staffing is to blame. Too many people retired and left to fill the routes. Now its launched a hiring campaign and is working hard to replenish the ranks. In addition, we have decided to indefinitely cancel some trips in the morning and evening. In the morning and evening four trips each that have been indefinitely canceled. When we get Staffing Levels back up well hopefully add them back into the schedule. Reporter staffing will take some time hopefully offering release, though, for those looking to finds rides elsewhere. If the buses were more reliable, would not be interested in getting i would not be interested in getting a car but obviously im now on the way to get a car. They are not too trustful. That was emily turner reporting. Golden gate transit announced that beginning march 21, it will eliminate some trips to help improve overall reliability. For a list of those changes, go to our website, cbssf. Com. Muni wont be getting any money from the building boom in San Francisco. Mayor lee vetoed 2 per per square foot to builders. It would have helped pay for projects to ease congestion. The mayor didnt think it was a good idea to make developers pay. They are causing the impacts an they should pay their fair share. This is reopening negotiations we have already been doing. Its estimated the fee would have brought in tens of millions of dollars each year for muni. Former 49er facing rape charges is invited to speak to children about selfcontrol. Tonight a Bay Area School admitted it fumbled this one. He is accused of stealing cars and slamming into two young boys. The break that finally put a suspected hitandrun driver behind bars. Im Mike Sugerman at the Game Developers conference of San Francisco. Trying to grab this water bubble. Its really here weller its virtual. But this is unbelievable what im seeing. Stay tuned. Its not Virtual Reality. It is reality that were having another dry day on kpix 5 hi def doppler. Coming up, rain creeps into the weekend. Find out which part of which day is now looking wet. That just looks awesome on a wednesday night. You can see the shadow of the pyramid now spilling out over the bay. Ill have your forecast coming up. ,,, it took Joel Silverman years to become a master dog trainer. But only a few commands to master depositing checks at chase atms. Technology designed for you. So you can easily master the way you bank. Severely. Within the last hour, offics released a f Daniel Police make an arrest in a hitandrun in Castro Valley that injured two Young Brothers one severely. Officers. Released a new mugshot of daniel morris. The chp, Alameda County sheriffs deputies and the u. S. Marshals service arrested morris early this morning at a hotel in hayward. He is accused of driving a stolen car and running off the road last week striking two children. Police say they are investigating whether some of morris friends helped him escape. I cant get into specifics with regards to that. But that could be a future avenue that investigators will take as far as any other potential charges down the road. The boys family requested that the police not release specific details on the extent of the injuries. Morris is held at the santa rita jail in dublin. Fellow officers and complete strangers stood along a stretch of the 880 today to honor a fallen chp officers. The procession carrying the body of 35yearold officer Nathan Taylor went from reno to roseville. He died over the weekend when an outofcontrol vehicle hit him as he stood outside his patrol vehicle on i80 near truckee. Taylor served three years in chp san jose area office before being transferred to the gold run area back in 2013. Other bay area headlines. Two people are in Critical Condition after a shooting in berkeley early this morning. It happened near tremont and prince. So far no arrests have been made. Just yesterday, a man was shot in broad daylight about two miles away. Within the past hour, we have Learned Police arrested one suspect in connection with that shooting. They arent providing any other information at this time. Strange robbery in San Francisco. Police say last night a group of teenagers smacked a man in the back of the head with a tree branch on keith street at hunters point. Once he fell to the ground they stole his wallet and fled. San francisco rescuers called to a car that plowed down a steep hill near lake merced. Witnesses said the car went off the road at 5 a. M. This morning. No sign of the driver. Police are checking to see if the car was stolen. Tesla is getting ready to unveil its latest electric car the model 3. Fremont based automaker tweeted this teaser photo showing a silhouette next to its two other models. Starting at 35,000, the model 3 aims to build on success of teslas model s and appeal to more people. The big reveal happens march 31 in Southern California. An Old Technology being reinvented and reimagined for the world of gaming. Kpix 5s Mike Sugerman shows us just how advanced its become and the rush from videogame makers to cash in. Reporter videogames dont just belong to teenaged boys sitting in their parents basement anymore. The videogame business definitely rivals the movie industry now. Reporter consider what this person just said and then consider this. Videogames are doing twice the business of hollywood. Which is why 26,000 Game Developers are at Moscone Center this week learning the latest, greatest and coolest. And what is that . This year marks the commercial birth of Virtual Reality. When you take the headphones off and take the headset off and ask them what it was like, wow is what you hear more than anything else. Reporter count me among them. Is that real . [ laughter ] what did i hit . Nothing really. It was virtual. Its a true revolution. The same way, way went from 2d to 3d graphics, this is a key crossroads in the videogames. Reporter Virtual Reality has been around a long time but predictions are this could be the year it goes mainstream. Vr as its called could have its first billiondollar year this year. Its six months ago or one year ago already things have moved very steeply. Reporter one study says in 10 years the market could hit 80 billion. A lot of people see it on reports, you know, on tv and they think, well, thats interesting. Theres 3d and movies and similar to that. Theres nothing like trying Virtual Reality. Good shot oh, man reporter its true. On the new Sony Playstation 4 i was convinced i was bait as i was lowered into a virtual shark tank. Im getting a little nervous [ laughter ] reporter my fear was not virtual. Seeing that shark charge at me. You really do have to experience it to appreciate it. Lots of people might just do that this holiday weekend. Mike sugerman, kpix 5. Oh, mikey will do anything for us. Consoles for Virtual Reality games are about 400. A Welcome Change in colors at the capital. The lawn is no longer brown. Its lush and green thanks to recent rainfall. Capital park workers made a number of changes during the drought to meet governor browns 20 water reduction mandate. The grounds crews say they have reduced water use by nearly 40 since 2013. Wow. That and a little rain, lawns are green. Now whats happening in a couple of yards . People put rocks down and not the weed guard. Now you have a rock garden with 779 weeds coming up things like to grow with water. We have had a lot of water. So if you dont have the grass, you likely now have weeds put the we had guard down a little hint. Fairfax 77 today warm. Vallejo, alamo, calistoga, 76 degrees. Three fine communities there. Sunnyvale high 74. Point reyes only 59. Well see a taste of late spring early summer tomorrow. We are looking at the snowpack. We are not 16 like we were last year. And we are up 9 in a one week span. So the snowpack is doing good not great. The reservoirs are doing better but not great. We are working our way back. Mainly clear skies tonight. Well warm up more through st. Patricks day and some changes. Temperatures tonight will drop down to the 40s generally. Well see some 40s to low 50s. San francisco 52. Fremont 48. San jose your low 47 under clear skies. Sunrise earlier by about one minute 7 17 the official sunrise tomorrow morning. How warm . Lets take a peek. We are talking even out in the south bay. Concord 75. Livermore 77. You away from the water get an offshore northeast wind summertime will get into the 90s. This time of year we could see some 80s. San jose also santa clara also los gatos and morgan hill as well likely some low 80s. 78 for santa rosa and 78 warm degrees in redwood city. Changes coming. Well increase cloud cover on saturday. Second thing well do is increase rain chances. That rain chance will hit us sunday afternoon. Look at the extended forecast. Nice and toasty warm the next two days with sunshine. Saturday, cooler as the winds go onshore. Sunday morning were cloudier. By sunday evening, here comes some scattered showers. Monday some more showers. And tuesday and wednesday well see cooler conditions with highs in the 60s. So the warmest day is tomorrow. Luck of the irish, there will be a lot of people outside. Weather will be perfect. It will feel like may or early june tomorrow. Gorgeous. St. Patricks day and march madness begin. Oh, wow. Theres no work getting done none. Tomorrow. Im not talking about personally. No, no, no. Not us. Not us. Not us. Never. [ laughter ] thanks, paul. Two bald eagles welcoming a pair of chicks. The proud parents at Channel IslandsNational Park have been trying for three years. There they are. The parents are transplants. They were born at the San Francisco avian conservation center. Both also part of a program to repopulate the area that was decimated in the 60s. There are now 19 breeding pairs across the channel island. A credit card heist in plain sight. How thieves can get your identity in just three seconds. Plus, how Party Politics are stalling a bill that could protect children from Identity Theft. ,,,,,,,, shows crooks installing a ct card skimmer at a miami bea gas station in mere seconds. 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