Stranded drivers. Traffic stopped. And then the storm clouds kind of cleared. And right as the sun came out it cleared up mud started pouring down the mountain down the road and just kind of engulfed everything. Reporter Michael Natoli and his band were headed south from san jose. The band time shares was set to play the first l. A. Show tonight when they hit the wild weather. Up the mountain, the mud was just rolling down that mountain up there. Reporter via facetime they showed us the scene where they had been sitting for hours. They were like bulldozers trying to plow boulders out of the road. I didnt get too nervous until we saw the boulders that were flowing down the highway and getting stuck under and on top of cars. Reporter the mess meant a traffic nightmare for motorists. Completely shut down, completely. Stuck. Reporter so they are urging drivers to plan accordingly and avoid the area if possible. In castaic, california, serene branson, cbs news. Crews are work around the clock fix a giant sinkhole this morning in union city. A major intersection is closed. Kpix 5s kiet do live at the scene where repairs are under way. Reporter you know, they have been working through the night. They actually made this hole wider and deeper now. They just said in the new section of water main pipe in there they are getting ready to weld it in place. They have gotten to the point where they need steel girders to shore it up so thats the irony with this sinkhole here is that in order to find out what caused it and to fix it they actually have to make the hole bigger. The mouth of the hole is now 55 by 35, 10 feet deep. The Alameda CountyWater District is going to replace the water main that ruptured when the sinkhole caused asphalt to come loose and damage the pipe. Water service is temporarily restored. This all began wednesday afternoon when a small divot appeared in the middle of the intersection of alvarado boulevard and new haven street. The sinkhole grew quickly over the next couple of hours. Once its fixed, the Union Sanitary district will take over and get to the bottom of it, literally. You know, in order for us to be able to appropriately evaluate the sinkhole we actually have to dig down to the bottom of the sinkhole and thats the how we find out a cause. Reporter the sinkhole continues to be a big traffic headache for neighbors especially for Alvarado Middle School since its block the main entrance to the school. Parents are being told to park a couple of blocks away and walk their children in. Anne, back to you. What a hassle. So many people use that roadway every day. What is the estimate on when this is going to be wrapped up . Reporter best estimate we have heard now they will be done with the work by tuesday, in union city, kiet do, kpix 5. Speaking of the commute, lets check in with gianna find out how we are doing on a friday. Its busy out there. By the way union city boulevard might help you get around the mess near alvarado boulevard. Jumping to the roadways now, if you are taking the bay bridge this morning, or you plan to, heres what you have in store. You have delays pretty big ones also to the maze at this time. The metering lights were turned on early. It a brief stalled vehicle on the upper deck. They cleared that quickly but its slow. Southbound 280 ramp to southbound 101 an accident. We have delays northbound 101 not helping things is an accident at story. The good news its clearing. Your drive times for your south bay commute north 101, 280 680 to highway 237 its a 16minute ride. If you want to jump on 280 thats a better bet. Northbound guadalupe parkway not seeing any troubles. Not the case though for highway 4. You have slowandgo conditions off the antioch bridge. Stays sluggish again into pittsburg. Heres julie with your forecast. We are tracking some scattered showers out there, gianna, which may be messing up the morning commute just a little bit. Not heavy rain but scattered showers on hidef doppler. In fact, we do have one in the south bay right now heading into san jose, milpitas, fremont. You can see just about to cross 680880. And it looks like there might be some moderate showers emmett bedded in the cell so we could get a little bit of slick roadway there, shortlived but enough to, well, make slick surfaces out the door. Right now temperatures mild. 62 concord. 67 livermore. 62 san jose. And 58 in santa rosa. Partly to mostly cloudy skies right now. That will continue throughout the day. Well see sprinkles. So today a mixture of sun and clouds. Chance of rain this weekend, increasing chances for the north bay, best chance in the north bay and hidef doppler showing lingering showers. Well talk more about how long these showers will last today coming up in just a few minutes. Former lunch monitor at a Sunnyvale Charter School accused of assaulting a student will enter a plea today. 18yearold Jonathan Chow of cupertino arrested at the spark Charter School last month on suspicion of molesting an 8 yearold girl. Office of education officials temporarily shut the school down completely after discovering that he had no record of employees criminal background checks at the school. Gun control advocates are Gathering Signatures to put a measure on next years statewide ballot in california. The Lieutenant Governor made the announcement yesterday at an Office Building in San Francisco where a man shot and killed eight people in 1993. This proposal would make california the first state to require licensing and background checks for ammunition sales. It would ban magazines with more than 10 rounds and anybody who has them now would have to turn them in, sell them to a licensed dealer or move them out of state. The measure would also require anybody whose gun has been stolen to report it to law enforcement. Members of the nra are blasting the proposal. With these provisions well lead the nation. They are baloney measures. Theyre politician measures. Its more than frustrating. Its criminal. Nearly 366,000 valid signatures are needed for the measure to qualify for the 2016 ballot. People who get rides from uber and a lot of people do may be out of luck over the weekend as some drivers plan to strike. Lisa chan live at uber headquarters in San Francisco to explain what is going on. Reporter whatever you have planned for this weekend some uber drivers are hoping you dont call them. That is because a group of disgruntled drivers are going on strikes. Only employees can strike. Uber drivers are independent contractors. Earlier this year they had 160,000 drivers. Thousands of drivers will strike including in San Francisco. Now, this is the flyer that uber drivers are circulating. They are calling for a nationwide strike starting today through sunday. They want uberx fares raised by 60 , a tip option to be added, the minimum and cancellation rates to be raised to 7. They are asking drivers to stand together and keep their uber app off all weekend. Lisa chan, kpix 5. Its the end of an aviation era as u. S. Airways runs its final flight later this morning from San Francisco to philadelphia. The last part of the transition that began almost two years ago when u. S. Airways merged with American Airlines. U. S. Airways had been operating since 1939 when it was an air mail service known as all american avenue yankees. The final flight number is 1939. Mineta International Airport is going to have germanys Lufthansa Airline beginning service between san jose and frankfurt nonstop next april. That follows the recent additions of london and beijing to sjcs list of overseas destinations. 6 08. San Francisco Police shoot and kill a man at a busy intersection. Why the officers say they had to open fire. And leaders in the uc system taking action in the wake of the Sexual Harassment allegations against a famed berkeley professor. Scattered showers out there to start the day. But another round of showers is on the way. Details coming up. And traffic heating up literally. We are getting reports of a big problem in walnut creek. Details coming right up. ,, 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. Welcome back. Time now 6 12. A live look at the bay bridge. You can see fog above the bridge. We have scattered showers out there today. 6 12 your time. Two San FranciscoPolice Officers are recovering after a deadly struggle near twittered headquarters yesterday afternoon. A construction worker flagged down cops on market and 8th yesterday around noon to report a man throwing glass bottles in the street. One officer tried to arrest the man but police say the suspect fought back and went for the sergeants gun. The sergeant on the ground yelled to his partner, he is getting my gun. He is getting my gone. Hes got my gun, shoot him. When we heard the pop, pop, pop, i looked over and officers were coming from everywhere. The suspect name is not released. Both sergeants taken to the hospital and expected to be okay. Hundreds of kids are safe this morning following a major crackdown on sex trafficking. Joe vazquez tells us now the fbi has its sights set on a huge event in the bay area, the upcoming super bowl. Reporter fbi agents watch from a hotel room as a john in the room next door requests sex in exchange for money. [ inaudible ] reporter the feds rush in and make the bust. [ yelling ] reporter this is operation crosscountry. All last week the fbi and local police busted pimps and johns nationwide some of whom answered ads and the internet. A total of 149 underaged children were recovered. Authorities say they are victims of human trafficking. In the bay area, 6 underaged victims were recovered and 7 poisons were arrested as part of the takedown. Reporter including one man who is now in the Alameda County jail charged with human trafficking, pimping and pandering. This individuals who name is Rufus Mitchell whose name is Rufus Mitchell has several prior felony convictions involving trafficking of narcotics and clearly now he has turned his attention on trafficking children. Reporter nation wise the youngest girl nationwide the youngest girl arrested was 12. The youngest girl in the bay area who was recovered was 16 years old, from milpitas. She was recovered in oakland. The fbi will do another operation when the super bowl tourists arrive in february. Traffickers know that it will be a target rich environment. They willably their victims into the bay area because they know they will bring their victims into the bay area because they know they can make money. Reporter joe vazquez, kpix 5. They also arrested 52 johns in the bay area. Tim jahnigenjanet napolitano is making investigations into Sexual Harassment in the uc system s geoff marcy resigned under press. He was found to have groped women over 10 years but kept his job until this week. Good knew the on the Golden State Warriors front. The head coach steve kerr recovering from back surgery is going to make an appearance. Luke walton said kerr is expected to join the team for a threegame preseason trip down south at san diego l. A. And an mile. The first game is tomorrow night. Cocoa the world famous gorilla who learned sign language is at it again. Two kittens were adopted and their interactions were caught on camera. He holds them, picks them up delicately. And look at that. Awww. Signs to put on the head and the worker puts the kittens on the head. Doesnt mind. Koko was born at the San Francisco zoo. We go from perfectly cute to, um, a bit of a mess. You have had a busy friday. This major problem actually in from chp. Well go to the maps to show you the area of walnut creek. A Traffic Alert means a lane closure for 30 minutes or more both directions of 680. Multiple lanes blocked and multiple vehicles involved. A big rig possibly on fire there. There is a brush fire reported in that area. Again, this is a major problem in walnut creek. Southbound 680 right as you approach 24 and checking our sensors here we are seeing a big backup ensue and again this problem is reported on both the north and southbound side of 680. A big rig engulfed in flames right there reports of brush there off to the right side may be catching fire, as well. I hear from chp that reportedly debris from the big rig may have caused accidents with several other vehicles. So we have chopper 5 headed to the scene right now to give us more information in a live view of the area. So south 680 at highway 24 and northbound, please avoid the area until we get you more information. Westbound 4 in pittsburg, antioch, slow as you work your way coming away from 160 and again doesnt ease up until you pass the pittsburg area. A little better near the eastshore freeway. 580 has been a hot spot this morning, as well. 24 minutes now from the Altamont Pass to 680. Elsewhere at the bay bridge, 38 minutes now carquinez bridge to the maze westbound eastshore freeway commute. Busy on the roads. Also some slick surfaces out there because of the rain. Heres julie with more. We do have scattered showers on hidef doppler this morning. In fact, lets go ahead and take a closer look at where were seeing some of those showers affecting this mornings commute. This one is towards 880 680, passing over there right along 237. So going to see some slick surfaces there. Farther north trivalley right along 580 we see another cell. This is a light shower not heavy downpours and these will be brief. But still enough to make for slick roads thanks to wraparound moisture residual effects of this area of low pressure we were tracking yesterday. It will scoot out today. We have another area of low pressure moving in this weekend. The associated front is going to likely bring showers for the first half to the middle of the day on saturday. Best chance of showers going to be for the north bay. We can time it out for you on futurecast a little later. In the meantime, what to expect, mostly cloudy to start with, sprinkles. Mild with a mixture of sun and clouds today. And then showers, some drizzle, isolated showers and drizzle on saturday. Not a rainout. And again best chances in the north bay but well likely see some scattered showers tomorrow, as well. Sunrise today 7 19. Sunset 6 31 this evening. And as you take a look at your high temperatures you will notice that they are pretty mild today. Close to normal for this time of year. 66 in pacifica. 67 San Francisco. 82 in fairfield. 82 in livermore, as well. 70s around the bay today. So today seasonal, a mixture of sun and clouds. Scattered showers for the morning. Tomorrow next round of showers best chances for the north bay and again scattered drizzle not a lot of heavy rainfall. Sunday we dry out. See a bit more sunshine. And then High Pressure begins to build early next week. We will see temperatures rebounding back above average for this time of the year well into the 80s by tuesday and wednesday of next week. Back to you guys. Its 20 minutes after 6 00. The next republican president ial debate is in less than two weeks. But now the top two candidates are actually threatening to pull out. And im dennis odonnell. Coming up, i know its early but wake up the gorilla, wake up the cat, wake up your 90 yearold grandmother. We have a play you have to see to believe. It happened in stanford game last night. Wait until you see how it finished. Grandma, get up and whats cool about your school . Email your nomination to us at coolschools kpix. Com. We may come and feature your school on the show. Well be right back. ,, vo you can pass down a subaru forester. dad shes all yours. vo but you get to keep the memories. Love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Good morning. Some people think michigan is the hottest team in college football. You know what . It might be Jim Harbaughs old team the stanford cardinal. David shaw and the 15th ranked cardinal hosting ucla on the farm. Stanford running back Christian Mccaffrey goes wild. He is in the heisman conversation after last night. Heres the 28yard run. He rushes for a School Record 243 yards and 4 touchdowns. But mccaffrey may have been topped by the receiver Francis Owusu on the flea flicker. Kevin hogan to owusu and look at this catch arms behind the defender he was the bruins randall goforth, may be the catch of the year. Stanford wins 5635, 51 improving. Dodgers andre wasnt happy during the game. Game 5 with the mets. Tied at 2, this goes Daniel Murphy off zack grienke deep to get the mets a 32 lead and they win by that score. That held up. They advance to the first nlcs since 2006. They are going to face the chicago cubs. Pga tour kicked off at silverado in napa yesterday. Rory mcilroy number 3 player in the world beautiful spin shot. He would birdie. Shot a 4under 68. He is tied for 13th place. Brendan steele carded a 9 under 63 one off the course record. He leads Jonathan Vegas by one shot after the first round. So you got pro golf in the bay area, you also got the 49ers hosting Jim Harbaughs brother, the Baltimore Ravens this sunday on the big 5. Well see you afterwards for the 5th quarter. Have a great weekend, everybody. Play of the day, we are going to go back to the fun stanforducla game. What an incredible flea flicker pass with the catch. Francis owusu has the catch, the defender in his lap and has to straddle his arms around his back and somehow goes back down and catches the ball. Flag down doesnt matter. Stanford scores and a big winner too your play of the day. Time 6 26. California needs the rain, but this is a bit much. The latest on the devastating flash floods to our south. Im kiet do live in un