People are preparing for the historical moment to hear what he has to say in about a half hour. There are a lot of guesses so what he will say. People are excited to hear from him. Every member of congress was allowed to invite one guest so this is a special day for two people who are from the bay area. The first is an 89yearold homeless advocate who lives in morgan hill. And the other is the university of San Francisco chancellor. They were guests of representative zoe lofgren and House Minority leader nancy pelosi invited in to be able to witness up close this very incredible moment. So its certainly going to be a great story for both of them to tell after they can say, we heard pope francis as he made history on capitol hill. Big day for them and big day for everybody. Cbs news will have special coverage. In the meantime, weijia jang, live in washington, thank you. And here in california, people gathered in carmel yesterday to watch tv coverage of the pope declaring sainthood for father junipero serra. He founded californias Historic Missions of course in the 18th century and is buried at mission carmel. Catholics have been gathering at several bay area locations. We know that for what you might call pope watch parties. In fact one will take place this morning at san joses Presentation High School. Kpix 5s kiet do is there. Good morning. Reporter we are here to witness history as the largest allgirl Catholic School in the south bay, hundreds of children attending this morning. Hundreds of students will almost 500 students rsvps to watch the pope address congress. They will do so here inside the gym. We have a couple of large tv screens, a fancy sound system, so that all these kids can experience this historic moment together. Whats a high School Address without a selfie station . They have a life size cutout of the pope here so people can take selfies with him and make sure that they get a lot of likes on instagram. Thigh school also has face masks of the pope. Joining me now is religious studies Department Chair. This is the first pope tweeting on social media. Tell me, what he would think of all this that you guys have done now. Pope francis is very joyful. Figure. And i think our teenagers see the joy so i think he would enjoy the selfie station, the face masks, the bingo cards we have going for him. I think he would be excited to see so many young people gathered. How has he used social media to connection with young catholics . He went to where jesus was at. He saw people on twitter and on these things, so lets use them. You know, we are getting the gospel in 140 characters. Reporter you guys have upwards of 700 students here. The vast majority of the student body is going to be here waking up early. What is it about this particular event this pope thats getting him up this early. Reporter i think teenagers and all the faculty and i think the teenagers and faculty and staff like authenticity. So its a rallying call of us to gather and having breakfast isnt so bad either. Reporter eric, Department Chair here at Presentation High School. The pope scheduled to take the podium in congress in about an hour. Kiet do, kpix 5. One of the most talked about moments of the visit was when a 5yearold girl from Southern California ran up to him yesterday. Sophie cruz is afraid her parents will be deported so she squeezed through security barriers to deliver that handwritten message to pope francis. Sophies parents are mexican illegal immigrants. Sophie traveled to washington from los angeles with her father. In her letter, sophie asks pontiff to help all immigrant children. Pope francis, i want to tell you that my heart is sad and i would like to ask you to speak with the president and the congress in legalizing my parents because every day, i am scared that one day they will take them away from me. Her father says its a miracle that she met the pope. An Immigration Advocacy Group sponsored the trip. It is 6 05. Lets check in with gianna for a look at our morning commute. Its busy at the bay bridge. We have a couple of accidents on your approaches that are really making things tough this morning. Metering lights are on. Wreck at san pablo. The west grand approach at the bay bridge towards 80 a situation blocking one lane so lots of activity. You can see traffic is really backed up through there. Really slow out of the maze this morning. Indeed speeds on the westbound side of the good on the best bound side of the road. Mass transit is on time. Westbound 580 Altamont Pass is a struggle slowandgo out of tracy. Sluggish to the top of the at a. Eastbound roadwork is cautions a backup there, as well. Lets check the forecast with roberta. Good morning. Our live weather camera is looking out towards the bay waters and albeit dark at this hour, we do have some very gentle winds so therefore, the bay waters are like glass out there. Out kayaking last night near the estuary it was glass thats because the winds have been pretty much nonexistent. They will rotate from the west today about 5 to 10 Miles Per Hour. Thats it. Temperatures in the mid50s to the upper 50s even low 60s. It is 64 degrees in livermore. Going up to a high there today of 95 degrees. We see oakland 10 degrees above average today. Same in concord. 9 degrees above where we should be in San Francisco. 60s and 70s around the beaches today. 70s and 80s around the peninsula. Sunny and warm, 92 morgan hill. 98 for the outside number in gilroy. East of the bay now temperatures climbing to the mid90s. Good morning, livermore at 95 degrees. And from the 60s in Stinson Beach through the 70s in sausalito to the mid to high 80s, in novato, petaluma, and in napa, santa rosa at 90. Upstream low 90s with the sunshine. Well talk about when well have cooler temperatures. Thats coming up at 18 minutes after the hour. New this morning, firefighters put out a house fire overnight in alamo in contra costa county. The onealarm fire on crest avenue started shortly after 1 a. M. Firefighters were able to get it under control and put it out without any injuries. Some live power lines are still down. Its moving day for hundreds of people affected by the valley fire. The Evacuation Center that they opened since the blaze broke out 12 days ago is closing. Cate caugiran has the story from the newsroom. Reporter good morning. This morning evacuees from Anderson Springs will get to go home but those with no place to go wont be able to stay at the napa county fairgrounds. The number of dead in the valley fire has climbed to 4. Firefighters discovered the remains of 66yearold Robert Fletcher in the rubble of his home in cobb and theres still one man missing. Meanwhile evacuees at the napa county fairgrounds will be packing up this morning. The shelter is closing its doors today to help the victims lake countys office of Emergency Services will be hosting a Public Meeting tonight at Middletown High School football field. Its going to be at 6 p. M. State and local leaders will be there to answer questions including fema reps who have been touring the area over the past few days. Fema will not make you whole but may provide you temporary housing and crisis counseling. Reporter most lake county victims have insurance but for those who dont, fema can help. They will be issuing disaster loans but more importantly, they are providing support for the families hit hardest. And the average fema payout for disasters is generally about 5,000. But the agency says victims of the valley fire especially if they are uninsured may be able to get more. Live in the newsroom, cate caugiran, kpix 5. This morning, the valley fire is 82 contained. Time now 6 09. The unexplained disappearance of a bay area family takes another major turn. Why investigators are now looking into a potential homicide. And it appears drivers may have to foot the bill for millions of dollars in additional repairs to the bay bridge. Its gotten squarer. Over the years. Brighter. Bigger. Its gotten thinner. Even curvier. But whats next . For all binge watchers. Movie geeks. Sports freaks. X1 from xfinity will change the way you experience tv. Just by switching to progressive. So youll be bringing home the bacon in no time. Sorry. Get a free quote at progressive. Com. Good morning. Lets take a look at levis stadium at Mineta International airport. We lose two minutes of daylight today. Nonetheless, its going to be warmer. I have the full forecast in four minutes. An apparent suicide caused a fire in Monterey County last weekend that destroyed 12 homes and 8 other buildings. Their its sarah fire started tassajara fire started saturday afternoon and is 89 contained. A mans body was found just outside a car near the fires origin. He is not identified yet. But his cause of death has been ruled a suicide. What began as a family disappearance is a homicide and arson case. Yesterday the remains of a third person were found inside the burnedout cabin that belongs to a benicia couple and their young son. The remains are not identified. The three people havent been seen since the fire nearly two weeks ago. A neighbor thinks they were there the day the house went up in flames. I saw a white pickup going in and out. It looked to me like his truck. Its very difficult. We dont know who they are for sure. We have a lot of attention being drawn to this case. People want answers. So do we. A 16yearold son has been staying with his grandparents since his family disappeared. The frontrunner is continuing strategy of ridiculing the rest. Andrew spencer reports theres a new focus on south carolina. Reporter donald trump goes on offensive taking shots at pretty much everybody. Marco rubio as an example. He has no money, zero. Hillary, who has become very shrill. Reporter a candidate who offers few specifics he told a town hall meeting meeting in south carolina. Ill be putting a tax plan in next week. It will be very long on policy and will be a great plan with a major reduction in taxes for the middle class. Reporter this week several republican candidates have converged on the early primary state. Carly fiorinas three events there today wrap up her trip to south carolina. Jeb bush travels there too today after taking a break from the campaign trail wednesday to attend the popes mass in washington. Meanwhile, ben carson just cant get away from questions about muslims. Specifically his comment on sunday that no u. S. President should be one. Anybody and that includes any religion who lives according to American Values and principles and is willing to put our constitution above their religious ideology, is acceptable to me. Reporter but carson claims in the wake of his comments donations are coming in so fast, they are hard for his campaign to keep up with. Im Andrew Spencer reporting. Caltrans has new numbers on how much its going to cost to fix the troublesome rods at the base of the bay bridge tower. The estimate is between 15 and 25 million and a lot of that money will come from you from tolls. Engineers think that most of the 400 rods are riddled with tiny cracks from corrosion because of faulty construction. They were exposed to water after spaces around them were flooded. Still not prevening people from getting on the bay bridge this morning. Right . But i do think about it every morning now, brian. You this very much for that story. [ laughter ] yeah. It is a rough commute for some people especially this morning. We have a couple of accidents approaching the bay bridge. This is really slowing things down westbound 80. Thats clearing. But again still very sluggish. At the bridge its slowandgo. If you are looking at flashing lights there on the righthand side of our screen, that was from another trouble spot on the west grand approach. They managed to get to the parking lot but it caused a backup as well so very busy conditions. We are now seeing delays off the eastshore freeway. So you might want to use mass transit instead. I do know bart has 51 trains on time right now. So san mateo bridge and other trouble spots word of an accident before the toll plaza. Once you get past the mess things are moving nicely but it looks like its an injury accident westbound 92 right before the toll plaza. That will definitely slow you down. Again use bart. Thats a great choice this morning. 51 trains on time. Golden gate ferries caltrain ace all on time as well this morning. The rest of our roads our other trouble spots in the Altamont Pass slowandgo conditions out of tracy. Youre going to hit the brake lights on and off as you work your way into Livermore Valley slow again towards the dublin interchange. We have some roadwork on that eastbound side of 580 also slowing things down this morning. And lots of company westbound highway 4 out of antioch into pittsburg. Take a look at our live weather camera. Its beautiful. Official sunup at 6 59. We have high, thin clouds out there and most notably are the very calm bay waters at this hour. In fact, the waters were so calm last night i was out kayaking i got a photo to share with you but right now we are in the 50s and 60s out the door. This is from the estuary last night. Gorgeous calm conditions last night. We can expect that again today albeit warmer. Lots of sunshine. Cooler this weekend. And rain chances getting closer because of that right there. Meanwhile we have this huge dome of High Pressure. We are going to be experiencing dry air mass and some warmer conditions. Now, as the low hangs out there, its going to drop to the south and when that happens it will bring us cooler temperatures. Gradually cooler through the weekend and clouding up on monday with a slight chance of some rain far reaches north bay otherwise 96 in sacramento today. Its 40 on the south shore going up to 82 degrees there. We have our numbers going up 70s at the beaches today, 9 degrees above average in San Francisco. Across the bay in oakland 10 degrees above average. Mid90s trivalley upper 80s san jose but my outside number is 98. That will be in gilroy. Couple of degrees cooler by friday. Gradual meltdown by sunday and boy, today is the last weekday, daytime, baseball game for our oakland as bassett on the mound for the good guys full forecast and i hope to see you there. Im dennis odonnell. 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Football, so the jury might still be out on i jim tomsula as the head coach but Colin Kaepernick made it clear he is happy the harbaugh regime is in the past. I would say the biggest thing is im being asked to be myself this year. And i dont think anyone knows how to be myself better than me. Im not being asked to do things outside of my character. Did you feel like you were asked to do things outside your character . Outside of how i would normally handle situations, yes. Yeah. It wouldnt get too specific as to what he actually meant. But you may recall that during his press conferences at the beginning of last season, kaepernick was very short and began getting more expansive as the season rolled on. It may be his freedom to run the football now. Im dennis odonnell. See you tonight. Play of the day, the brewers and the cubs at chicagos historic wrigley field. Milwaukee the bases loaded. And then grand slam, it would have been but what a catch by the cubss Kyle Schwarber preventing extra runs. The bruise won 41. The brewers won 41. Le drought is taking a toll on the sequoias of california. Im kiet do live at Presentation High School. Check out this pope watch party. Coming up good morning. Its thursday, september 24. Im brian hackney. Im michelle griego. Time now is 6 28. History is about to be made nations capital. Heres a live look at washington, dc where a short time from now, pope francis will become the first pope to address a joint session of congress. And just moments ago, the pope arrived at the capital and met with House Speaker john boehner. More now from cb