On travel and immigration a day after making his first address to a joint session of congress. Don champion has more on the speech and reaction to the president s legislative agenda. The time for trivial fights is behind us. Reporter President Trump hit the reset button on his Young Administration tuesday night. In his address to congress, he stuck to the script and offered a road map for overhauling obamacare. We should ensure that americans with preexisting conditions have access to coverage. Reporter he also made a case for his proposed 54 billion surge in defense spending, partly to help veterans. Our veterans have delivered for this nation and now we must deliver for them. [ applause and cheers ] reporter mr. Trumps hour long address drew several rounds of applause. Were also taking strong measures to protect our nation from radical islamic terrorism. [ applause and cheers ] reporter on social media one of the most tweeted about moments happened when he honored the widow of Navy Seal Ryan owens. He died in yemen last month. Ryan died as he lived a warrior and hero. Reporter many republicans here in washington praised the president for showing discipline and striking a far more optimistic tone. Thought it was an excellent speech. I thought he hit a home run. Reporter women inside the chamber wore white hoping to send a message to the president. We will not go backwards on all the progress we have been able to make as women. Reporter former Kentucky GovernorSteve Bashear delivered the democratic rebuttal. I am worried about the future of this nation. Reporter he called threats to repeal obamacare a lifeor death situation. Don champion, cbs news, capitol hill. Earlier this morning, Vice President mike pence said President Trump was rewriting the speech on the afternoon of his appearance on capitol hill. Today marks the groundbreaking for a Major Construction project along San Franciscos busy van ness corridor. Kpix 5 reporter anne makovec is live along van ness this morning with the fine print on the Rapid Transit project. Anne. Reporter yeah. And the project itself is going quite rapidly. In fact, its already started here on van ness and bush. You can see they have already chopped down a lot of the trees in the median and put up barriers. There are only two lanes of traffic in each direction right now. Thats down from three. And this is a threeyear construction project. Van ness will eventually look like this with a busonly lane down the middle of the road. People will board there in the middle. New landscaping and lighting. The only left turns off van ness will be at broadway and lombard. Now, eventually, the city says this will be sort of a grabbed boulevard but in the meantime, it is a bit of a mess. Its frustrating but San Francisco in general is hard to get around in. Having to leave earlier take another route. Reporter it is the side streets that have taken the brunt of the traffic here. Traffic on franklin and goff have both been increased significantly a lot of people trying to get around this by taking three turns instead of one. This mornings groundbreaking ceremony is at 11 a. M. With the mayor down the street at the Veterans Memorial near city hall. Live in San Francisco, anne makevoc, kpix 5. What will be the traffic impact when its finished . Reporter things are going to run more smoothly here on van ness. You wont be waiting for buses in the righthand lane and you wont have to worry about people trying to get to the lefthand turn lane. Thats when they were trying to make left hand turns which they are not going to be able to do. Everybody is going to have to keep on going besides waiting for the stop lights of course. The city predicts its going to improve traffic flow here about 32 . Well take it 32 sounds good to me keep our fingers crossed that comes to fruition. [ laughter ] all right. Lets get a check on the commute now. Lets see how many people are stuck in traffic this morning. San francisco is the fourth most congested city. So we need the help. 6 05. Lets check the congested roads now start with the star of the morning back to the south bay. San jose northbound 101 at mckee is a threecar crash in the Center Divide causing major delays there. Look at that. They are at 12 Miles Per Hour. Give yourself extra time. Other hot spot the altamont pass. A lot of red on 580 westbound so 14 to 33 Miles Per Hour at north flynn road. Then moving to the concord commute and antiochto pittsburg highway 4 at just 37 Miles Per Hour then minor slowdowns on 242 to walnut creek. Bart is back on time. We had an earlier delay. They are on time. Art, ace train, mu ni and caltrain all on time. Ill send it to you. All right, roqui. Thank you. I have a beautiful view of the sun as it rise this is morning as seen from our mount vaca cam. Good morning. Clear skies. Look how beautiful it is. What you cant tell though is just how chilly it is outside. In fact, were ticking up a wind to 7 Miles Per Hour pick up a wind to 7 Miles Per Hour. That adds a wind chill. The wind at 7 makes it feel like 27 degrees. In san jose, it feels like 34 due to a southeast wind at 5 at 38. Satelliteradar coast is clear. Bay is clear. Inland not a cloud in the sky. No clouds until friday. Dry mild comfortable weather through friday with increasing clouds during the day. It will become cloudy and breezy by saturday. And, yes, maam, i didnt want to do it, got to go there, rain chances on sunday looking probable from the north bay all the way to the south bay although this thing falls apart as it travels to the south. Not a washout no flooding expected. But it wont be dry. Temperatures today with the abundance of sunshine going up in comparison to yesterday. In fact, were inching closer to where we should be for this time of the year after all it is winter on march 1. Temperatures in the 50s along the immediate seashore. 60s at the peninsula. Eft the fish population in need of some help. Well talk more about the rain on sunday coming up at 18 minutes after the hour. Problems at the oroville dam have left the fish population in need of help. This week water flow from the damage spillway was cut back to allow repairs. A number of fish were stranded when water along the sutter river receded. Biologists are now trying to rescue any fish that may have gotten trapped in small pools of water along the riverbanks. Newly released documents reveal dozens of Sexual Misconduct cases at university of california campuses and now the universitys policies are changing. Kpix 5s maria medina is live at ucberkeley with details. Reporter good morning. We are talking 124 cases from 2013 to last year. Those accused include professors and coaches and contractors and we are talking anything from Sexual Harassment to even sexual battery. Several news organizations requested those documents after a ucberkeley sex scandal revealed the university allowed many of the 19 employees accused of violating the Sexual Misconduct policy to keep their jobs. Now, that scandal exposed a double standard. University staffers were fired or forced to resign but tenured faculty usually faced lighter sanctions or stayed on the payroll. Now, last year, some of those alleged victims spoke out. So we call on others who have been impacted by this culture of intimidation, harassment, silence and fear of retaliation to come forward and speak out against a failing system. Reporter and of those 124 cases, the newly released documents show ucsf had 26 cases of Sexual Misconduct, ucla with 25 and ucberkeley with 19. About twothirds of those accused no longer work for uc but it is not clear if they were fired but the uc president has made changed especially after the scandals here at berkeley including having a Committee Review each allegation as they come forward. Live at ucberkeley, maria medina, kpix 5. Cal state students plan to propose a tuition hike. They will walk out in an effort to fight csus proposed 5 increase. At San Jose State University students will also hold a rally at the chavez monument. They say the universities are putting the burden of the schools financial expenses on the students. The board of trustees will vote on the hike march 22. Time now 6 10. Electric car drivers should soon have a much easier time finding a spot to recharge in one bay area city. And Severe Weather continues to pound parts of the central u. S. After a string of deadly tornadoes. Wow. Incredible video there. Morning, everyone. Here in our kpix 5 studios in San Francisco, 6 10. We have sunshine on tap today. But were tracking rain for the weekend. All right. We are ready for that sunshine. Heres a live look at the san mateo bridge. Traffic moving smoothly. A lot of cars heading to the peninsula but we have trouble in the south bay. Well tell you more coming up. ,,, everything we stock at Grocery Outlet has crazy low prices. Do you know how we do it . How . Bargainomics say, if california has a bumper crop and produces too many oranges. Or a winemaker in sonoma suddenly has 1000 bottles too many. Weve got namebrand, topquality groceries priced 4070 off every day. Bargainomics. Thats our Business Model. And our Business Model is. Delicious. Grocery outlet bargain market kind of like this look. Im calling it the name your price tool phase. Whatever. Forecast in just a few minutes. Powerful storms are now hitting the central us. After good morning. Welcome back to kpix 5 morning news at 6 14. Its march 1. Coming in like a lamb this morning. We have clear blue skies. Sunrise officially in 30 minutes from now. We have a warmer day slated but ill talk about the day thats going to hit 70 and well talk about rain chances. Thats all coming up in less than four minutes. Powerful storms are hitting the central u. S. After multiple states just faced deadly tornadoes. More than 20 tornadoes were spotted in the last 24 hours. Three deaths have been blamed on the forceful systems that struck illinois, missouri and arkansas. Those states will have a major cleanup on their hands from downed trees to damaged homes n missouri strong winds picked up cars and tossed them across an interstate. A special election in atherton today regarding the newtown center. Theres not enough funding to finish the towne Centre Project so City Council Members are trying to decide if the town should supplement private donations with nondedicated general funds. Residents will get a mailin ballot on june 6. Bay area transportation Officials Say they are worried that the Trump Administration may pull the plug on funding to electrify caltrain. They will be traveling to washington, dc this month to lobby for federal dollars. They say that they are pulling out all the stops to gain support even securing the backing of some Silicon Valley heavyweights from Companies Like google and facebook. They will be making their case to democrats and republicans to get the project funded. Electric car charging stations could soon be a requirement in San Francisco. The ordinance would apply to all new residential and commercial buildings. It would require 10 of the Parking Spaces to be electric charging stations. Mayor lee is backing the proposal. Fremont and oakland already have similar laws. Virtual reality is allowing to us explore ports of our planet that were previously off limits. I recently had the chance to look. We stepped inside this Virtual Reality truck that brings it to your door. A huge whale right in front of our eyes. The cofounders of exit reality think that the barriers for having these machines in your homes are quickly falling. It will allow students to learn in a whole new way. After they are exposed to it, i think its going to be a quick transition. The uses are astronomical and in all honesty, its amazing what we could teach more with this than what were doing now. And its not just exit reality that believes vr is the future. Recently Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg announced his company will invest 3 billion in it. Have you guys ever tried it . No. I want to know, is it like do you feel like you can reach out and touch the whale . Thats exactly how it feels. So when you saw that shot of the whale, its in 2d it doesnt translate. When you have the goggles on, its amazing. Looks like youre in the ocean. Then the games are cool, too. Absolutely. Like shooting aliens. Working up a sweat. [ laughter ] i start spitting tobacco. [ laughter ] theres some fighting games, too. [ laughter ] what do you play . Its cool. I would highly recommend it. Wild, wild west [ laughter ] oh, my goodness. Anyway. Whats our driving game . I dont know. Northbound 101 at mckee a threecar crash in the Center Divide so its very slow at 20 Miles Per Hour between mckee and story road. And if you are traveling along the altamont pass, you know its slow. 14 Miles Per Hour and up to 30 at north flynn road so give yourself plenty of time to get through there. Moderate speeds. Southbound 242 moderate speeds. A lot of brake lights across the span of the san mateo bridge between hayward and foster city. That will take you about 20 minutes. Thats 880 to 101. And if you are traveling into downtown San Francisco, heres a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. Those metering lights are on. So now the maze to downtown will take you about 20 minutes. Lets take a look at mass transit. Bart is on time. Ace, muni and caltrain are on time. Roberta, give us some sunshine. You have sunshine today. And if you like rain you will see that on sunday. Computer models are arguing but i have the very latest computer return thats coming up right now live weather camera looking out towards the beautiful skyline and bay bridge of San Francisco. You can see the sun is coming up in the foreground there. Currently we have temperatures that are in the 30s and 40s. Look at the beautiful sky. Temperatures right around 38 degrees. Redwood city to 41 in oakland. We are in the 30s away from the bay. 45 San Francisco. We have now dipped to 38 degrees in san jose. Thats the coolest temperature we have seen so far this morning in the south bay. Now, the winds have dialed back around the lip of the bay here under 5 minutes. Winds pick up out of the north northwest later this afternoon 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour. As the sun sets, george hughes, i get the point here. He says the total rain for february approaching 7 inches for february. 7 inches typically we should have about 4 1 2 inches so it gives you a good idea we had a very rainy and blustery month. Today, as we kickstart a brand new month bright sunshine warmer conditions dry weather through friday. Then big changes for your weekend didnt want to go there been in denial but i got put it in the forecast now with this latest run of computer models. Heres your satelliteradar clear skies up and down the entire coastline in california thats because we have a blocking ridge of High Pressure that diverts any kind of storminess to the north. Its going to break down by friday. The winds will rotate onshore out of the west so we cool down on saturday we begin to cloud up leading to the potential of rain showers on sunday. Until then this is futurecast. Notice absolutely not a cloud in the sky during the afternoon hours. Heres your thursday morning. Around this time again, clear skies blue skies then this is what happens a veil of clouds work in from the north bay across the central bay into the Santa Clara Valley on saturday cloudy cooler then the rain will develop on sunday. Up to an inch in the far reaches of the north bay. Half inch in the mountains. In gorgeous in monterey bay, nice in ukiah. Springlike conditions in tahoe today and thursday with snow on sunday. So if you are heading to the mountains, have your chains. Official sunrise is at 6 40. Sunset 6 03. Get out tonight with the clear skies take a look at the moon and venus just gorgeous. Outside number san jose and gilroy, tomorrow gilroy approaching near 70. Then we begin to cool down. Look at the temperatures over the weekend. Napa valley marathon on sunday, kpix 5 a sponsor, well be there at the finish line, as well. Enjoy your day. , good morning, everybody. The warriors were in the Nations Capital last night. But they didnt have quite a good night as donald trump apparently did. Kevin durant injured his knee when he was run into by teammate zaza pachulia. He left with a hyperextended knee. He did not return, an mountains. Ri today. He had a knee injury. He is having an mri today. Down one. Steph curry will take it in for a layup to tie the game at 108. So washington retakes the lead on free throws. Ten seconds left, curry from downtown, misses long. And the wizards win 112108. Curry is just 2 of 20 on threes in his last two games. Now, the team awaits the results of Kevin Durants mri. In response to that injury the warriors are reportedly set to sign matt barnes, who was waived last week by sacramento. Barnes played for golden states we believe team in 2007. Barnes posted on instagram last night he is coming back to where it all started. San francisco