Active attack to address the erosion concern. A huge sigh of relief yesterday when nearly 200,000 people down river from the dam were told it was safe to go home. Oh, my gosh, its overwhelming. , like, we were so happy that we could come back because we just moved here at the beginning of the year and were, like, made one house payment so far. We need to get our house, you know . Although the Evacuation Order was lifted, officials warn people in the area to be vigilant with more rain on the way. A highway in the north bay is getting some emergency repairs before the next round of storms. A stretch of highway 37 is closed in both directions. Kpix 5s maria medina is live in novato to tell us whats being done. Maria. Reporter good morning. Yeah, this is one of the lowest lying highways in the state. Im going to show you exactly why. You can see the water behind me and if i just take a few steps here, this is the shoulder already of highway 37 and you can see see crews already busy at work here. They have been arriving here the last few minutes that we have been here. So exactly whats closed here . A threemile stretch of the fourmile highway between 101 and atherton avenue. That area is prone to flooding from the novato creek when it rises and its either been partially or fully closed during the recent storms but, you know, while crews are work on the roads, that means traffic detours through novato neighborhoods where people who live there say it is now just a nightmare. Horrible the traffic, going down here 50 miles an hour all day long. Reporter so exactly what are they going to be doing . Crews will be regrading the pavement, replacing the drainage system with larger drain pipes and installing concrete barrier on the shoulder going eastbound. Now, they say while it wont prevent all flooding in the future, they do hope that it will minimize the flooding out here especially during the next storm. Live in novato, maria medina, kpix 5. Time now 6 02. Lets check to see how the other roads are looking in the bay area. Thank you. Lets start with the bay bridge. If you headed out this morning, you had a dark commute. But now we do have an update. The lights are back on. The maze to downtown 20 minutes. Across the span of the upper deck, the lights are back on according to caltrans. They did send an electrician out there to get it ready for you but the lower deck of the bridge still partially off. Visibility is low there. Moving to the san mateo bridge now traffic is starting to slow down into the peninsula between hayward and foster city. Eastbound though 92 looking good there and, of course, here we are in Scotts Valley highway 17 still down to only one lane in each direction between vine hill road and sugarloaf due to that massive mudslide last week still affecting the roads today so at 3 Miles Per Hour you are inching your way through this area. And you have about a four to fivemile backup so give yourself some extra time to get through here. If you want to take an alternate, i would suggest branciforte and vine hill road to get beyond some of the red haros but not completely through the slow traffic so again please give yourself plenty of time and expect delays throughout the day. Moving over to ace train thats canceled today after weather and floodrelated issues. But the good news, caltrans, bart and muni are on time. Roberta, ill send it to you. All right, roqui. Thank you. So far in santa rosa 36 inches of rain have fallen during our rain season. Typically you should about 23 inches. So we are well above average. We have more rain coming. You see a little green off the coast. Thats associated with the clouds that want to move onshore. But if you see anything, it will be virga. With the approaching area of low pressure we have a Flash Flood Watch in effect for the auxilliary spillway of the oroville dam. Theres not an emergency now. But obviously, the experts are keeping an eye on it. The Carquinez Strait and the delta also right around that tyler island area were watching the rising levee levels. Mostly cloudy skies looking out towards the bay bridge, so far no reports of any local airport delays. Were averaging about 3 degrees warmer at this hour than 24 hours ago. We are in the 40s and 50s. So we have some rain showers off the coast but the energy is riding into the northwestern corner of the state of california. Well have rainfall in the far Sonoma County late night overnight hours to the central bay tomorrow morning during the commute. Temperatures going up. We are in the 60s due to a south wind 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour during the day anywhere from redwood city through belmont into brisbane, san mateo, atherton, woodside, 60s approaching 70. Pleasanton today 67. Mid60s in benicia, vallejo, all the way back to antioch actually. It was 70 yesterday in napa, today 67 degrees mostly cloudy skies with the rain arriving in cloverdale at 63. Well tell you how much rain to expect coming up. U. S. Highway 50 is back open after mudslides closed it for days in part of the sierra. Its the main route between sacramento and south lake tahoe. The stretch between Pollock Pines and strawberry reopened late last night. High level advisers close to President Donald Trump were in constant communication with russians during the campaign and thats according to new reports from cnn and the New York Times. It comes on the heels of Michael Flynns resignation as National Security adviser. Last night white house officials were asked about the administrations previous statements that no one including general flynn had any contact with russians before the election. Theres nothing that would conclude me that anything different has changed with respect to that time period. The communications were intercepted during routine routine interception of intelligence. Had [ inaudible ] general flynns resignation is not the end of the story. It is merely the beginning. A Law Enforcement source telling cbs news that investigators are also working to determine whether sensitive u. S. Information including corporate trade secrets were shared by Trump Associates with russia a man who bought two rifles used in the 2015 San Bernardino terror attack is expected to plead guilty to federal terrorism charges this week. Enrique marquez, jr. , was a close friend of syed farook. He reached a plea agreement and was the only person charged in connection with the shooting farook and his wife died in a gun battle with police hours after the assault which killed 14 and wounded 22. A woman in davis is facing up to 6 years in prison for vandalizing a mosque. The arrest of Lauren Kirk Colo was arrested was announced yesterday. Davis police and the fbi say she is the woman seen in Surveillance Video smashing windows, wrapping door handles with bacon and destroying bikes. Muslims will continue to promote forgiveness and acceptance. We are not going to be divided. Thats the good thing that came out of this. Damage to the mosque cost about 7,000 to fix. The woman is charged with a hate crime. The tolls on bay area bridges might be going up. Kpix 5 reporter anne makovec is live at the bay bridge toll plaza with more. Reporter its up to voters if the tolls on each of the seven state bridges, all the bridges except the golden gate, should be raised between one and three dollars. Its going to be on the ballot next year. Bart is already making a grab for a big share of that cash. A third of it to go to new railcars among other projects. You might remember we just voted on new funds for bart measure rr last november. That means bart is getting 3. 5 billion in new property taxes. But that money is designated for maintenance of what bart already has. Basically the nuts and bolts. With this new measure bart wants to modernize the train control and Power Systems and buy 300 more cars. Now, some of the money would also go to other agencies. Theres a lot of things that need to be decided as far as who would get what. If you feel like the tolls that our bridges have been going up and up, the history of that, the last time voters approved a toll hike on the bridges was in 2004. But since then, transit agencies have made the decision to raise the tolls themselves by 1 each time twice. So they have been going up. And it could soon cost 9 to cross the bay by car. Live at the bay bridge toll plaza, anne makovec, kpix 5. Time now 6 10. Actor Harrison Ford has another close call involving his favorite pastime. And amazon is looking to corner the market on the a futuristic way of delivering home packages. It is up and running and it is tracking a series of storms heading this way. Well be taking a look at our live hidef Doppler Radar. And heres a live look at the litup toll plaza across the span of the bay bridge. We have a new crash blocking a lane at the toll plaza. More coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,, complete forecast in just a few minutes. The man accused of a crime spree good morning. Time check 6 14 on this wednesday. Its hump day, february 15. And we are waiting for the rain. You can see by our live weather camera out towards the bay bridge. We see clouds on the increase. We might see a glimpse of the sunrise at 6 59. We have the full report featuring how much rain you should expect and how its going to affect monday. Thats coming up at 6 18. The man accused of a crime spree in Santa Clara County is expected in court today. Cruz vargas was arrested in january. The 21yearold faces several charges. Police say his crime spree started at the bank of America Branch in Scotts Valley. Vargas allegedly robbed it then stole multiple cars including a police cruiser. He was on the run for nearly 30 hours. Authorities say that Harrison Ford had another close call with an airplane this time it was with a 737. Officials say that fords plane almost hit the 737 at the santa ana airport on monday. Air Traffic Controllers reportedly gave ford the all clear to land, but ended up flying over the American Airlines plane on the runway. This comes nearly two years after ford survived a plane crash in venice. Officials say that he crashed a vintage plane on a golf course shortly after takeoff. Online retailer amazon wants to trademark what it hopes will be a future way of delivering packages to customers homes. The patent suggests that amazon is considering dropping packages using magnets, parachutes or spring coils to release deliveries while in [chuckling] in midflight. Its unclear when amazon might start such a service. All right. For many in San Francisco valentines day it was the Perfect Occasions for a pillow fight. You can see them swinging out there. The feathers covered the plaza. Even children went. Even from their much lower vantage point. There were no teams, no rules. But organizers hoped participants would bring garbage bags [chuckling] to help clean up the mess. And this video the mess doesnt look too bad but it gets bad. Whoa, look at that guy. He was going crazy. One time i was out there and it was raining. Not a good thing. No. But a pillow fight . That would be fun . That would be fun here. Lets bring them in tomorrow morning. And make sure to bring the mask, too, right . It covers you from the feathers. Another year somebody went wild and hit our lamp, our light. Down went the lamp. Down went the light. That wasnt good. Joe vazquez was in the middle of all that. It gets vicious. It does. Then they ask everybody to clean up. They do because that he very important. Do they . They really do. Its an annual event so people are used to it now. Good. Pillow fights can get intense with your brother and sister growing up. Lets move to the bay bridge toll plaza. We have an update. If you are heading out on the bridge early this morning, those lights were completely out across the span but now they are on. So youre looking good and lit up but on the lower deck of the bay bridge, we do still have partial lights off so drive slowly because visibility is low on the lower deck here. Moving to the san mateo bridge traffic from hayward to foster city, traffic starting to slow down. I see a lot of red lights here so be prepared for a 20minute drive between 880 and 101 into san mateo. Across the way at the Altamont Pass moving at 20 Miles Per Hour up to 30 at north flynn road so traffic slow here and if you want to get through that or avoid that and use mass transit, ace train is canceled due to weather and flood related issues so make sure you plan accordingly. Ace train, bart and muni are on time. Scotts valley in the south bay highway 17 still only down to one lane in each direction between vine hill road and sugarloaf road due to the big mudslide from last week still affecting our roadways so youre moving at just 3 Miles Per Hour in Scotts Valley and thats going to be a fivemile backup so please give yourself plenty of time to get through there. Thank you. I fired up our live hidef Doppler Radar, become picking up a little of green over the ocean with light precipitation associated with the area of low pressure thats heading that way. No rain for us today but later on tonight in the far reaches of Sonoma County well see the rain developing overnight. Red zones are the levees we are watching. Bottom line is we have a Flash Flood Watch in effect for the auxilliary spillway auction of oroville dam. It is not an emergency this morning but it does require hourly monitoring. This is our live weather camera from moun vaca. Thats a beautiful sunrise. Enjoy it. Temperatures currently on this february 15 in the 40s and 50s. About 3 degrees warmer than 24 hours ago. Alameda 52. 50s in concord, brentwood and orinda. Thank you to my weather watchers for waking up early with us this morning. Satellite and radar this is the incoming system already providing rain around the northwestern quadrant of the state of california. Rain will be held off by High Pressure thats breaking down. We still have a shoreline flow so our temperatures are mild we still have a southerly flow so our temperatures are mild but the core is out here. The front comes through the area this time tomorrow morning. There it is. This is our futurecast. And this is very fastmoving from the north to the south. So it will cause some ponding on the roads for the morning commute with a scattered shower in the afternoon so thats coming from the north. But look what happens on friday. All the precipitation lifts from the south. It moves across the bay area. Heavier amounts of rain showers gusty winds by friday night easily up to about 2 inches of rain throughout most locations. Santa rosa over two inches same in ukiah. Bottom line is for the your bar core of the bay area some street flooding should be anticipated and a slow commute. Floodprone areas renewed flood threat and, of course, in our Santa Cruz Mountains and northern mountains increased mudslide risk and landslides. Today in the 60s and low 70s across the central valley. 52 springtime skiing in the high sierra and what we have going on there is some rain by thursday. Snow by the weekend. Theres your sunup and your sundown. Smack in between, todays temperatures very mild into the 60s but down from 71 in pleasanton to about 67 down from 70 to 67 degrees in san jose. Rain and then showers thursday. Rain gusty winds friday. A bit of a lull saturday then rain by sunday night into monday and then tuesday. Well be right back. , with the xfinity tv app, 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. Good morning, everybody. The giants had to endure five months of reliving a 9th inning collapse against the cubs in which they blew a threerun lead in game 4 of the division series. Well, its finally time to officially turn the page. The giants pitchers and catchers held their first workout yesterday in scottsdale. And the teams ceo larry baer told me with the exception of the new closer, Mark Melancon, the 2017 giants look like the 2016 version. The big sort of free agent acquisition off season was two off seasons ago where we had cueto and samardzija and span. Not a lot in the free agent market this year except Mark Melancon in the bullpen. Everybody else is back. You look around the infield and outfield and the staff is what got us to the playoffs last year and got us close against the cubs. Last night in new york, rumor the German Shepherd won best in show at the 141st westminster dog show. Rumor became the first German Shepherd since the Reagan Administration to win it he may have got the top dog award but mia the beagle got the most entertaining dog. During last nights obstacle course, mia may have put it up an awful time but it didnt seem like she cared enjoying every minute of her course. This mornings show has gone to the dogs. See you tonight. Lebron james. Willi [ music ] play of the day from the nba, cleveland at minnesota. Lebron james comes down with the basketball. Williams hits it the bounce pass. The Cleveland Cavs lebron james the fastest teammate to williams. They beat the timberwolves 116 116108. Signs of progress at the damaged oroville dam this morning but another storm is the clock is ticking. Why crews have shut down highway 37 in novato before the next storm rolls in. Approaching. Weather ad libs traffic ad libs signs of progress at the damaged oroville dam this morning but anothe