Really excited and eager to get to work this morning because weve had three Traffic Alerts already and it is only 6 a. M. Take a look at the Traffic Alert in contra costa, so concord has been cancelled just a few minutes ago. Westbound 4 before port chicago highway a six car crash blocking ing a couple of lanes. It has been cleared. Driving at 14 miles an hour along westbound 4 and its all the way to harbor street. Give yourself plenty of time for these six mile per hour conditions here. Moving over now to another former Traffic Alert, northbound 101 in san jose at brockow road. This truck crash has been cleared off the road but residual backup beyond 680. Give yourself again another plenty of time to get through that commute as well. Altamont pass, slow at 13 miles an hour. Smooth moving san mateo bridge between hayward and foster city, looking good in both directions on 92. Bay bridge, 15 to 20 minutes, metering lights are on and if you are traveling on mass transit trying to avoid the roads, theyre all running on time. Thank you. Emergency repairs are underway in the east bay. Crews getting road down on Morgan Territory road. Were live in contra costa with the latest. Reporter you can see the roadway is still closed. It has been so for about a month. Now, residents got a brief reprieve yesterday to be able to get in and out of this area. But, nope, it closed at about 3 yesterday afternoon and some of these people have to walk more than a mile just to get to their cars. The roadway, though, was temporarily reopened for about six hours yesterday which was a real relief for hundreds of people who live up Morgan Territory road here near clayton. It was closed last month between oakville lane and williams road because of a mudslide that damaged the road way. The pavement has been patched up but it is a short term fix. The county cant start working to permanently repair the road until the landslides stops. Its moving a foot a day and residents are fed up. Residents feel like its they havent been working full force for us. So we need a consistent, open route. Reporter the only other way out of the community is to the south, a narrow onelane road. Governor brown is going to be in washington, d. C. Today asking for federal assistance for this and other storm damage all around the state. Committee in a public hearing. Russias al. Today f. B. I. Director james comey is testifying before the House Intelligence Committee on the alleged meddling of russia in the 2016 election. Comey will be asked about President Trumps unfounded claim recently that he was wiretapped by former president obama. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have distanced themselves from trump on this saying theres no evidence. The president is refusing to withdraw the claim. This morning President Trump tweeted out saying the democrats made up and pushed the russian story as an excuse for running a terrible campaign. Big advantage in Electoral College and lost. Get to the bottom of this before saying what should be done. I dont know the basis for President Trumps assertions. Thats a terrible accusation to make. Of course its not true. So lets just grow up. Todays hearing comes as an associate of President Trump has been told to preserve all records about his contacts with russia. Last august roger stone contacted the person responsible for the hacking on the dnc. This weekend stone attacked california representative Eric Swalwell who is part of the Intelligence Committee saying he is a punk coward, hides behind his congressional immunity and defames me in response swalwell said hiding, ill be on capitol hill tomorrow for the hearing. Show up and explain why you helped russia. See you there . Neil gorsuch to be in for several days of intense questioning. The president tapped the colorado appellate judge to replace the late scalia. Dian feinstein is label gorsuch as an extremist when it comes to Worker Protections and reproductive rights. She said gorsuch has consistently insided with employers and corporate interests. The womens caucus is weighing in. The group has sent a letter to gorsuch and accompanying video asking him not to let them down. We believe stripping the women of this country of their fundamental rights would be unprecedented. And would cause the nation to lose faith in our judicial system. Theyre expected to vote on Gorsuch Nomination next month. Highway Safety Experts are stressing why it is so dangerous to get behind the wheel when you are sleep deprived. Were live in emeriville with more. Reporter this is just like when theres a big push against drunk driving and distracted driving, driving when youre sleepy may be just as dangerous as both of those things. Well learn more about this campaign at a conference happening in san diego later today. The national Highway Transportation Safety Administration says 70 of all crashes and 16. 5 of all fatal crashes involve a drowsy driver. Rolling down the window, turning on the air conditioner, chewing gum or giving yourself a reward for getting home safely doesnt seem to work. A cup of coffee and a nap works better than a cup of coffee alone and any amount of sleep is better for prevention of drowsy driving. Reporter ultimately experts say the more sleep you get the better. Try to get eight hours a night. This is reportedly because the reason behind these deadly crashes, there are 8,000 of them that happen every year. So get that sleep if you can, especially on a monday morning. Im sure a lot of these drives are driving sleepy right now. Right now oakland cph driver looking for drivers driving recklessly along the bay bridge. 30 cars, offroad vehicles and motorcycles were doing a side show in the eastbound lanes last night. Officers used a chopper to try to find them but the suspects sped off. One woman was arrested. The Department Posted these photos on twitter. And this morning two suspected package thieves are behind bars. 27yearold marcos cruz and amanda masuo were arrested. They were found carrying two packages stolen from san jose last week. Time now 6 08. Creating a Cannabis Department. Why San Fransisco is considering growing its City Government. Revealing leaked reports. The trouble uber is having with its selfdriving cars. Welcome to the first day of spring. And with it, spring showers. Well track the storms and tell you how much rain to expect. And here is a live look at the nimetz freeway. Three Traffic Alerts this morning. ,,, hey, bud. You need some help . No, im good. Come on, moe. 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Yes, rain arrives today, each and every day this week. Well pinpoint which day will the the driest and which one will be the windiest and rainiest. Its traffic and weather together in four minutes. In your bay area headlines, the San FransiscoCity Government may add a Cannabis Department to handle licensing for people who want to sell marijuana. Theyre expected to start granting licenses for Recreational Marijuana sales in january 2018 much the proposed legislation will create a 7 Member Commission that will be responsible for who can and cant sell cannabis commercially. Members of the commission would be appointed by the mayor. Battle over a proposed apartment complex in bay point. A Development Company from los angeles was hoping to break ground already but the Contra Costa Planning Commission appealed the projects approval. The complex is at willows pass road in port chicago highway. Residents say that the project isnt environmentally friendly and an eyesore. Theres a petition to have the complex reduced by 25 . It could go before the board of supervisors next month. Mill Valley Network of pathways, a dispute is to be looked at tonight. Part of the Settlement Agreement filed against him in october, the lawsuit claims he failed to preserve and protect the network of lanes and paths. It will go to the city council for a vote. Time 6 14. Get a check of our traffic and weather. Oh, yeah. [ big sigh ]. [ laughter ]. It was amazing when i was on the road after 2 45 i was in a flow of traffic, is this spring break, is that way . People are excited to start spring, go to work early. Couple of hours early. Six car crashes at 5 in the morning. Lets talk about it. Okay. Lets go to contra costa, we have a problem in concord on westbound 4 before port chicago highway. This was a six car crash and a Traffic Alert, cleared off the roadway now. But that backup remains all the way beyond railroad avenue. Take a look at that, realtime traffic there. Looking to another problem in the south bay. 101 at brockow. It has been cleared. It is a former Traffic Alert here as well. The backup does remain, all the way down beyond 680, almost to telly road. Give yourself plenty of time to get to the south bay. San mateo bridge between hayward and foster city, traffic is slowing down a little bit. 20 minute drive between 880 and 101. Bay bridge toll plaza, 20 minutes drive between the maze and downtown San Fransisco. If you want to avoid the traffic, b. A. R. T. , h train, muni, and cal train is moving on time. Talking about the first day of spring and my day of allergies, here is roberta. Thank you. Good morning. The allergy, high count, mulberry, the oak, and the ash but those counts will lower because we are rain in the forecast. This is our radar, we see we have precipitation due east of the bay area right now. We are on the dry side but were looking at the rain filtering. Looking at the bay bridge, lit up, not seeing much out there right now. Official sunrise is at 7 12. But even then the sun will be masked with cloud cover. Temperatures right now 52 degrees in santa rosa to 56 in oakland. Back this through piedmont into alameda and berkeley. The winds are on the light side. Checking in are ron in contra costa, reporting low 50s and cloud cover. The barometric pressure is steady. Three things i want you to remember. Today is the second in a series of systems rolling through the bay area. We had the first one over the weekend that clouded us up. Today showers developing into tuesday and wednesday. And on the tail end of this system we have a lot of instability in the atmosphere so we have a chance of thunderstorms and then the heaviest precip on thursday, into friday and saturday morning. Todays system, lifting up from the south, thats why its still feeling balmy outside. All this precip going to the south and injecting to the east. Behind me here we have a series of storms stacked up ready to move in for a very wet week ahead. In and out of the rain. Not a complete washout every day. Lunch hour today, wet across the north bay. Sloppy evening commute. Overnight rain showers, slap and dash, hit and miss in the north bay. This time tomorrow morning moderate rain south. Tuesday evening, a break, and then wednesday we have a front come through the bay area, on the back side of it a break through thursday. Thursday is the driest day of all before heavy rain and gusty winds thursday and friday. Were expected from this first system into wednesday evening over an inch of rain to the north. Almost an inch in San Fransisco and thats a lot. There will be ponding on the roadways. Same around the pacifica area, over 3 4 of an inch of rain in pleasanton but wednesday evening. 7 12 official sunrise. By the time it sets temperatures are average. Balmy with the southeast wind that will blow up to 10 to 20. Pacifica, half moon bay, through the mid60s around the central bay. Mid60s at the peninsula. Topping off at 70 in pleasanton. 68 in san jose. Extended forecast, after the pollen forecast, it looks like its going down, counts, rocky, you should enjoy that, tomorrow on the very low side. In and out of the rain showers through wednesday, thursday dry day until more rain and thursday night through your friday tapering off on saturday morning. And that is your first day of spring forecast. New this morning, a spacex capsule has parachuted down to the pacific ocean. The launch was a month ago from the same pad used for nasas apollo moon shoot. This made its way back to the Southern California coast yesterday. Tech report, could be more trouble for ubers selfdriving cars. Recode published documents that were reportedly leaked from the company. It shows that the selfdriving cars couldnt go one mile w having to be taken over by the human driver. Ubers selfdriving Pilot Program was forced off the streets in september. They were recently given the okay to try again in San Fransisco after the company got the correct permits. The new feature on facebook may like like snapchat. Ireland got to try out the feature this year. The company is making it available for all users. It will appear in a layout above the news feed. We are warming up for the masters, a putt you have to see to believe. And another high seed bites the dust in the ncaa tournament. What is cool about your school . You can email your nomination to us at coolschools kpix. Com. We may come and feature your show on our thursday morning show. ,,,,,,,,,,,, play of the day from the second round of the womens nc. Good morning. Just crossing out more teams. You got your bracket, you got your pen . Time for you to cross out some more of yours, too, in your pool. The blue devils facing south carolina, second half, notice drives the lane, gets the bucket. Check it out. South carolina beat number two duke 8881. Are you kidding me . Next up, michigan versus louisville. Fourpoint lead michigan with two minutes to go. Vagner puts it away, michigan wins 7369. Thats an upset. Final round, golf, Arnold Palmer invitational, leashman hasnt won in five years, look at this, on 16 the eagle has landed. He has the lead. He won 1. 5 million and an invite to the masters. How do you like it . Phoenix international, final lap, newman holding a slight lead, busch on his tail. Newman able to get the checkered flag. So the ncaa tournament, sweet 16 is set and it tips off thursday right here on the big 5. Im dennis odonnell, see you tonight. The fight of the day, second round of the ncaa tournament, maryland taking on West Virginia with time running out in the half. She hits on the trail and a quick bucket for West Virginia. Oh, oh my goodness are you kidding me . Bang, destiny slokum with a heave from three quarters court, drilled it, nothing but net. The terps win the game eerng a spot in the sweet 16 and that is your play of the day. Swish. It is 6 25. Next, seeking answers. Why Oakland City Commission wants to know more about a pact made between the Police Department and i. C. E. And a brief reprieve for people who live in a cutoff community in contra costa. Coming up, what the governor is hoping is going to happen here today. ,,,,,,,,,,, im kenny choi. I hope we can put an end to this wild goose chase because what the president said was patently false. Now on kpix 5 news the stage is set for a dramatic day on capitol hill. Not backing down, why federal oversight of the San FransiscoPolice Department is being extended. Were worried today it could massively move so were fully staffed out here today. A mudslide that left an east bay near clayton cut off for a month is still not fixed and now the governor is stepping in to try to bring relief to the community. Good morning. It is monday, march 20th. Time now is 6 30. Right now Morgan Territory road is a long way from being repaired, but as we report, People Living in the area are getting some relief. Reporter well they did yesterday and actually it was a bit after tease because as you can see here behind me Morgan Territory road is once again closeded and people who live in this cutoff Community Near clayton have to walk more than a mile in many cases just to get to their cars. The roadway was temporarily reopened for about six hours yesterday which was a relief for hundreds of people who live up Morgan Territory road. It was closed last month between oak hill lane and