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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 6AM January 23, 2017

Will resume this morning and anne makovec is live where trees are causing a mess but lets begin with roberta. The live hidef Doppler Radar picking up rain and abundance of snow in mount diablo and am i willton areas. Light green is the light rain showers. The yellow is moderate and we have that happening right there in the eastern portion of the bay area. Point richmond you know what i am talking about richmond is listening to the rainy drops on the roof tops outside kensington and you have the brought yellow sound making tracks towards arenda and plenty of rain showers the little gray area is snow off state highway 130 where we will have closed Roads Conditions due to the snow thatcontinues to fall in the Mount Hamilton area. Rain as you head over to East Palo Alto and into palo alto wet across the san mateo bridge and we have another Flash Flood Watch in effect with the bay area everywhere where you see the yellow highlighted area that is 9 counties and we have the Flash Flood Watch in effect. Today as you head to work or get the kids off to school or you head off to school you will encounter ponding and slippery sidewalks and saturated soil and a down tree at any point of the day today. And the possibility rock and mud slides. Towards the bay bridge the air temperatures are uniformed 40 to 48 degrees. Visibility is is a issue due to fog of a quarter of a mile. Temperatures across the bay area with a scattered shower into the the 50s at the sea shore and 50s around the peninsula and mid50s around morgan hills through the gilroy area same east of the bay to the north same story. The winds will blow twoaft about 15 Miles Per Hour. We have the potential of a thunderstorm with the forecast. More snow we will talk about when the sun will shine coming up at 18 after the hour but lets go over to busy roqui. I cant wait for the the sun to shine its 6 02 lets look at our roadways because we have a wet busy commute out there this morning. Starting with the Altamont Pass moving at 16 Miles Per Hour along way. Along the way inching to a 22miles an hour. Now 43 minutes if you headed out the door right now. It frees up through livermore but we have a closure due to the storms out here southbound 84 also known as isabel avenue this is closed between vineyard avenue and chp is diverting traffic off at vineyard avenue causing major slow downs. You cant see the sensors because its it doesnt have arrows but theres slow downs if this is part of your commute give yourself extra time of the to avoid the jam take eastbound cannon boulevard to southbound holmes street avoid the jam an vineyard eastbound concanyon and southbound holmes street. To another problem on 84 but in the peninsula highway 84 between grandview drive and skywood way under one way Traffic Control. Give yourself time through there or avoid it altogether. And expect 20 minute from the maze to downtown. Now to you guys. Thank you. Authorities are looking for a teenage here went missing after her car crashed into Alameda Creek along niles canyon road. Kpix5 jackie ward joins us live with more on the search and rescue efforts. Jackie. Reporter the search for the woman and her car are expected to resume around 10 this morning. Both of them have been in this water behind me since saturday morning. Saturday around 10 45 an 18 yearold from tracy collided with another car on niles canyon road forcing her car to plunge into the Rushing Water its called Alameda Creek but it look like a river. They are trying to figure out why the teen lost control. We dont know the exact reason that roadway is very slick and lined with trees that get puts things on the roadway. So we are not sure if its that or something else. Reporter water levels are so abnormally high here right now that a state Water Resource Agency actually has to lower the water levels to make it safe for divers to get back in. Right now conditions are just too dangerous for divers to be out there so at 10chp will close niles canyon road here in fremont to set up a command post and allow the search to continue. From Fremont Jackie ward kpix5. Thanks. Today in lafayette crews are clearing out a massive tree that fell right onto several cars. Kpix5 reporter anne makovec is live on the the repairs ahead and the party this tree nearly crushed. Reporter massive tree is right. You can see some of the branches here goes far back into the parking lot and here are some of the cars that are now buried in the eucalyptus branches and all of the leaves and back here at the end of the the parking lot, you can see the trunk of the tree and just how huge this thing was. So this is going to be a cleanup process thats going to last at least for today possibly tomorrow. It came down yesterday evening and this is just outside of the Italian Restaurant here in lafayette on lafayette circle. It hit 10 vehicles some partially crushed and others just trapped underneath all the branches. Crash boom. And it went over and fortunately it went into the parking lot and not into the restaurant. Reporter it was wouldnt ladies attending a friends 7 0th Birthday Party here at the restaurant. Yet luckily no one was injured and it didnt damage the restaurant. But also, this is the parking lot for the Lafayette Chamber of commerce and several other businesses. So, moving this away you know chopping this up and moving it away is going to be quite a process. And i mentioned that is eucalyptus tree that is nonnative tree he and it has caused problems here in california in the past. We will talk about that coming up in the next halfhour right now live in Lafayette Anne makovec. Tay with kpix5 for continuing coverage of the storm and the problems it is creating. Track hidef Doppler Radar on cbssf. Com. President donald trump begins the first full week in the white house meeting with congressional leaders and possibly signing more executive orders. The spotlight will be on press Secretary Sean Spicer as he delivers the first formal briefing. Craig boswell has the latest from washington. Reporter President Donald Trump capped the first weekend thank Law Enforcement officersincluding f b director james comey for service and swearing in senior white house staffers. We are going to do great things over the next 8 years. Reporter the president s first days got off to a rough start. On saturday, hundreds of thousands of people took part in demonstrations for equality across the nation. In a tweet sunday, President Trump took aim at those who participated writing watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we had an election. Why didnt these people vert celebs hurt cause bad lay hour later he backtracked saying peaceful protests are hallmark of the democracy. The tweets he came a day after White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer slammed the frees for what he called false press for what he called false reporting about the size of the crowd. This watts largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period. Reporter on sunday White House Senior Adviser Kellyanne Conway came to his defense. You said its falsehood and they are giving sean spieser gave alternative facts to that. Look alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods. Reporter the president enters the first full week of his presidency hoping to tackle key issues on the legislative agenda but with only 2 cabinet members in place so far. So many of your cabinet appointees mr. President are quite different than what you campaigned on and even what your speech was about. Reporter despite the slow Mitch Mcconnell says he is confident the cabinet will be confirmed. Craig boswell cbs news. Washington. The president s pick to run the cia representative mike pompeo will have a confirmation vote in the senate today lawmakers will also vote on secretary of state nominee rex tillerson. A federal judge in San Francisco is expected to sentence pg e after a jury convicted the the company of violating Pipeline Safety laws before a deadly blast in san bruno. The utility says it is prepared to pay the 3 Million Dollar maximum fine for the convictions but its asking the judge not to restruck tort Bonus Program for employees or require an ad campaign publicizing the convictions 8 people were killed and 38 homes about destroyed in the whereby were destroyed in the pipeline blast. Investigators released the any report on a deadly crash involving a car equipped with teslas auto pilot system. And why yahoo could face more trouble in connection with two massive data breaches. From the kpix Weather Center good morning just when you thought it was safe to leave home without the umbrella no we will talk about when the sun will shine. Okay and heres live look at Golden Gate Bridge pretty good across the span into San Francisco but how is that Novato Vallejo commute look and at Traffic Alert looking and oakland. Weve been with you from the beginning. Weve seen each other through good times and bad. Sickness and health. Were with you San Francisco, and you bring out the best in us. Care. Anything with a screen is a tv. Stream 130 live channels, plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. You can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. Only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. Download the xfinity tv app today. Forecast in just a few minutes. Oaklands city council is holding a meeting tonight to talk relocation payments, wh good monday morning your time check is 6 13 on this january 23rd. A little history for you here. This is the Alameda Creek and its a large perennial stream. Once 45 miles from lake northeast at Packard Ridge to the Eastern Shore of our bay by way of niles canyon and you can see it is roaring this morning. It is swollen as many of our creeks are. So, we have a Flash Flood Watch in effect and we will talk about how that effects you and how much more rain to come and its traffic and weather in less than 4 minutes. Oakland city council is holding a meeting to talk relocation payments when tenants are displaced over code violations. Council members will consider an ordinance backed by mayor shaft that would significantly increase the sum renters get when the building doesnt live up to codes. The measure follows the deadly ghost ship fire which killed 36 people in december. Under the the ordinance relocation fees for a one bedroom would increase from 3500 dollars to 6500. U. S. Authorities are investigating whether yahoos two massive data breaches should have been reported sooner to investors according to the wall street journal the security and Exchange Commission issued request for the documents last month thats around the time yahoo said it recently discovered a 2013 hack that exposed a private information of more than a billion users. Federal investigators have released the initial report on a deadly crash involving teslas auto pilot system this is joshua brown who was killed while his tesla model s was op operating in commuter assist mode theprobe was launched to determine if the auto pilot worked as inten and brown was not paying attention and he should have had time to hit the brakes before his car slammed into a tractor trailer. The feds say the auto pilot system was never designed to recognize every possible hazard on the road. Anyone flying united could run into some problems this morning. The airline is trying to get back on track as we look live atsfo after a computer glitch caused problems last night at the airport. The airline had to ground all of the flights in the u. S. Until they got their system back online. Officials with united say it was an i. T. Issue and the glitch has been fixed but there could be some flight delays today. If you are flying united you call ahead. If you are flying anything my friends are like roberta said my friends were in town flying back to l. A. Southwest and delta were delayed and didnt leave until 8. It was sfo. Oakland. Oh okay. I am pick up Airline Delays at sfo on some arriving flights. Up to about 1 hour but we will keep posted on that because the ceiling has been lowering and we have had areas of fog developing and it is raining again. Its raining. Again. We are so used to it. Its been how long. Excuse me somebody forgot to tell us we got to move to seattle. Right i know thats what it feels like right. We have a Traffic Alert. It feels like we are in the bay area because of the traffic. So lets look at the Vallejo Novato commute. This is closed again between 101 and atherton avenue. Chp is diverting it off. So we are seeing some delays in the area so take your time out there and give your sea of couple extra minutes. Moving over to the bay bridge toll plazzate metering lights are on downtown takes 23 minutes so thats a pretty slow commute and the roadways are very wet so keep both hands on the wheel and take it slow across the span into downtown San Francisco. All right we have got a Traffic Alert in oakland southbound 13 before broadway terrorist a pothole causing trouble 5 cars have been damaged from the potholes so chp and crews are out there trying to clean this up for you but otherwise its going take a while because its Traffic Alert 30 minutes or more so to avoid the pothole get on southbound 13 after broadway and get moraga or take 234 24a to 5 24 to 580 giving you a couple extra minutes but its best to avoid the area altogether because the potholes can be very damaging for your car and your morning commute. Moving over to the Altamont Pass coming off 205 inching at 12 Miles Per Hour, thats not much better frees up through livermore on slow traffic along the dublin interchange and south bay slow downs on 87 northbound between highway 85 and highway 101. Now to you. Yesterday i was working on a story with our photographer here at kpix joseph and we were work on the aurora de a. Laguna creek and he said betterra you messed berta you messed up on the el nino years i guess you had to be there but you are probably asking what happened to el nino last year compared to last year where its raining. Hidef Doppler Radar you see the light rain its rain and yellow and orange thats pretty moderate to heavy downpours and thats what we anticipate throughout the day today. The hit and miss scattered showers sam are a fay san rafael you have the rain highway 101 making treks towards San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge and east bay 680 out of walnut towards San Ramon Valley into dublin and pleasanton make the trek towards the sunol grade. You have hayward Castro Valley using the secondary roads like redwood road as well you know they have been sloppy pretty muddy and keep that in mind thats not any different today. This is the National Weather service has issued a flosh flood Flash Flood Watch for 9 highlighted counties this is the bay area. Thats because you will encounter ponding on the roadways and you will see some slippery sidewalks and you will have saturated toil and there soil and there could be a down tree at any point of the day with the winds kicking up to 15 and 20 during afternoon hours. Plus we have more rain in the afternoon and early evening hours and potential of an isolated thunderstorm that does contain brief and heavy downpours. In the 40s santa rosa has this visibility to half a mile due to areas of fog. This evening the rain and potential of a thunderstorm today a scattered shower and sunny days from tuesday afternoon through the weekend. This is the core of the center of the area of low pressure we have to deal with that. So the front has passed and we have scattered showers a lot of instability and this is how i am planning out your day afternoon most precipitation Santa Clara Valley lifting into the eastern portion of the bay hit and missscattered showers throughout evening commute. Tuesday morning the slow is spinning off the coast and High Pressure builds in and sunny and dry conditions through midweek. That area of low pressure right there couldnt bank off the ridge of High Pressure by thursday but we are talking about a quarter of an inch of rain across san jose area through the east bay. Almost a half ionch of rain in San Francisco through san rafael into pet rula petaluma and novato thats lot of rainch a half in a sicka on top of what we experienced. Winds up to 15 beginning to subside towards the evening commute. Like to display that because of the saturated soil and the potential of the drought stricken tree

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