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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 6AM July 21, 2017

Delays and will keep your friday morning commute pretty slow. Lets take it over to our maps where you can see the backup along northbound 101 stretching beyond the 280 680 interchange there. And right now, just from hellyer to san antonio, its around 34 minutes. Northbound 101 thats the crash speeds below 20 miles per hour. Bay bridge toll plaza, we have an earlier problem some tow trucks are on the scene. Looks like they just cleared that but its getting slow. Metering lights on, 15minute ride from the maze into San Francisco. Lets check in with roberta now for the forecast. I could not jump up and down enough and tell you how beautiful it is outside. In fact, im going to go ahead and show you. This is from our sutro camera. Wow. We have a deck of low clouds and fog right there. You cant see the can see the Salesforce Tower. The winds picking up, 16 fairfield, variable winds today 10 to 20. A little stratus next to the coast. Otherwise highs today pretty much in the 60s to the 90s. We are talking about mid90s at the delta today, low 80s redwood city. Full forecast at 18 after the hour. Right now lets go to kenny. Developing right now in berkeley, crews are on the scene of a large garage fire. The scene is near arch and spruce streets. It started around 5 a. M. At one point, neighbors in the area were being told to evacuate. They are now being allowed to return home. But the Fire Department is asking home owners to keep their windows closed because of smoke. This year is the 40th running of the San Francisco marathon but due to recent terror attacks, organizers are stepping up security. Reporter Katie Nielsen reports from the Golden Gate Bridge. Reporter 27,000 people are actually expected to take part in the marathon running across the Golden Gate Bridge as part of that event. In past years, runners took up two northbound lanes on the bridge with one lane as a buffer, then traffic still had one lane to head north. There have been several recent terror attacks where drivers plowed into large groups of people like this one at the london bridge. That has Golden Gate Bridge authorities taking note. I think it was time to take pause, revisit the safety factors and do this in a safer manner. Reporter this years organizers decided to close the bridge on sunday morning to all northbound traffic. That means from 6 a. M. To 9 a. M. On sunday, no one will be able to drive from San Francisco to marin unless they head across the Richmond San Rafael bridge and then cross over from the east bay. And golden gate transit buses will still run northbound. Its just to regular traffic that the bridge will be closed. Back to you. Katie, getting around this weekend could be difficult in the city because of muni closures. Whats going on and happening with that . Reporter right. So this is actually the first of five weekends they will close muni to test new trains on the tracks. Theres no Service Starting tonight at 9 30 between west portal and montgomery stations. Shuttles will be running between embarcadero and st. Francis circle and muni should are all the trains back on schedule monday morning. Dozens of fire crews from across the state are on the front lines of the massive Detwiler Fire burning near yosemite. The fire expands across that shaded area in Mariposa County. Kpix 5s anne makovec has the latest. Reporter at last count this fire destroyed 50 homes and 49 other smaller buildings. It is only 10 contained this morning. The latest destruction is near mariposa. The fire started on sunday and then blew up over the last few days. It has burned about 109 square miles. That area littered with dead trees killed by bark beetles and, of course, years of drought and that makes it prime fire fuel. This fire started about 2 miles east of lake mcclure. Flames jumped the merced river and several retardant lines and roads. It is still threatening about 1500 homes and other buildings. Nearly 5,000 people have been evacuated. Yosemite National Park snow still open. We came yesterday and we were at first disappointed because we had been looking forward to the great views and were afraid this smoke would take all the views. Reporter of course it is friday. With the weekend upon us, many other people planning to head to yosemite be changing their plans. Highway 140 is still closed. So getting into the park from the west gate is tough and then inside the park, the winds are shrouding some of the vistas in smoke. The governor has declared a state of emergency for Mariposa County because the fire has already damaged power, water and communication infrastructure. That declaration will mobilize the California National guard to help with disaster relief. A teenager is behind bars for allegedly starting the stagecoach fire. It led to evacuation orders for an auburn neighborhood. Police say the boy was smoking marijuana when the grass fire started. The boy reported the fire. He is cooperating with the arson investigators according to authorities. Cal fire was able to contain the fire which left a massive 12acre burn scar in the canyon. This morning, Pittsburg Police are on the hunt for a gunman. Larry kneel, jr. , is wanted in connection with to a deadly shooting. They say he knew the victim. The shooting was wednesday afternoon at baskinrobbins on century boulevard. A 43yearold Bethel Island resident was killed. He hasnt been identified yet. President trump is at the white house this morning after a shakeup in his legal team and news that investigators looking into alleged russian interference in the 2016 election are now looking into his finances. Cbs news has confirmed special Counsel Robert Mueller is looking into business dealings of former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort and prosecutors at the u. S. Attorneys office in manhattan who initiated the probe have already turned over what they know to investigators. Speaking for myself, i own nothing in russia. I have no loans in russia. I dont have any deals in russia. Reporter sources also tell cbs that investigators are also looking into whether there are any financial links between President Trump and associates as it relations to alleged russian interference in the 2016 election. The president in an interview with the New York Times has said it was a red line special Counsel Robert Mueller shouldnt cross. The point the president is making is that the investigation should stay within the confines of alleged russian interference in the 2016 election and nothing beyond that. Late last night cbs confirmed the shakeup in President Trumps legal team. Marc kasowitz is out as his personal attorney and his spokesman has resigned. The president added a new member to his team last week, ty cobb. That new team has been pushing back against special Counsel Robert Muellers investigation and is reportedly looking into the backgrounds of investigators in an effort to pinpoint conflict of interest to discredit the investigation. Meanwhile, donald trump, jr. , Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort have all been asked to testify next week for Senate Investigators looking into alleged russian interference in the 2016 election. They held a controversial meeting with a russian lawyer last year Natalia Veselnitskaya in june. Emails show they were promised damaging information on hillary clinton. The list of candidates is narrowing in the 2018 governor governors race. Just two weeks after entering the race, republican david hadley is out. In an email to supporters he said he concluded he could not win the race and that he had no intention to seek another office. The two remaining republican candidates in the field are businessman john cox and assemblyman travis allen. On the democratic side, the Lieutenant Governor is running. So is former state schools chief Delane Easton as well as former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and state treasurer john chiang. Contra costa county is on the hunt for a new district attorney. The county recently posted the job listing on its recruitment website. This of course comes after mark peterson, the former d. A. , pleaded no contest last month to felony counts stemming in his illegal tapping of Campaign Funds for personal use. The deadline to apply for the job is today. Next month the board of supervisors will review the candidates and narrow the field down for a public forum. A berkeley teacher arrested for her role in a confrontation between nationalists and counterprotests is due in court today. Yvonne felarca was arrested tuesday night on charges of assault, participating in a riot and inciting a riot. She is a member of the group by any means necessary. In the days following it the riot, there were calls to berkeleys Martin Luther king, jr. Middle school for her to be fired as a teacher. Time now 6 10. Lower crime, why some claim marijuana dispensaries make neighborhoods safer. Reporter a groundbreaking celebration in millbrae on caltrains electrification project. Well have the details coming up. And traffic looks okay along the Golden Gate Bridge right now. But just north of here, were tracking a new crash. Its causing delays. Well have the details coming up. Its been a seasonal week around the bay area, now ill pinpoint which day on the weekend will top off at 100 degrees. Its your full weather report. Traffic with jaclyn. The news with michelle and kenny. All that, you wont want to miss it after this. Called for a moratorium on new marijuana dispensaries until the current regulatory system sees some changes. It follows a hearing over a cap on dispenaries in the district that includes the Outer Mission the excelsior. Searces San Franciscos Plan Commission called for a moratorium on new Marijuana Dispensary until there are some changes t follows a hearing over a cap on dispensaries in the district that include the Outer Mission and the excelsior. A supervisor says her district already has three dispensaries and two just outside its bounds. Local residents and businesses have been complaining that security and parking would be taxed with any more. The neighborhoods reportedly face the saturation since adjacent San Mateo County has a full ban on dispensaries. A new study finds a reduction in crime in immediate neighborhoods around pot shops. It was conducted by researchers at ucirvine with funding from the National Institute on drug abuse. One dispensary owner points to strict security regulations as the reason for the drop in crime. He says his patients are cleared through bulletproof glass watched on one of 30 surveillance cameras and surrounded by 24hour armed guards. The study didnt examine the impact of the industrys cash only system. It would make everything much safer. Researchers also found neighborhoods without legal pot go to pot. Today marks the groundbreaking for caltrains electrification project and some major names in california politics are making their way to the celebration. Kpix 5s Jessica Flores is live in millbrae with the latest. Reporter good morning. California state lawmakers have been talking about making caltrain electric for more than two decades. And now their dream is one step closer to reality thanks in part to the Trump Administration. So at 10 a. M. Here, at the caltrain station in millbrae, those state lawmakers and local leaders will come together to break ground on the electrification project. That includes governor brown, House Minority leader nancy pelosi and San Francisco mayor ed lee. This follows a big push to get funding for the project. It cost 2 billion to convert caltrain from diesel equipment to High Performance electric trains. And 650 million comes from the Trump Administration. But it wasnt always clear the money would come through. The president s transportation secretary initially pumped the brakes on the project after getting pushback from California Republicans. After five months, though, the transportation secretary approved the money to modernize the system. Theres only so long you can put a bandaid on a situation before you have to fix the problem. But definitely, better for our passengers, better for the environment, better overall for the region. Reporter supporters of the project say electrification would increase ridership, ease Traffic Congestion and create 9600 jobs. Not to mention, it will be good for the environment, as well. Now, the project has a long way to go. Its not expected to be finished until 2021. Reporting live, Jessica Flores, kpix 5. Lets get another check on traffic with jaclyn. Were tracking a couple of new hot spots and i think we can say goodbye to friday light on some of our bay area roads. Im sorry. Oh. But hey, well start over at the Golden Gate Bridge. Things look very nice, pleasant. Traffic moving along just fine in both directions along this stretch. But bee were tracking some slow we were tracking some slowdowns in the opposite direction of the commute, crash northbound 101 near spencer. It was blocking one lane. They may have just cleared that lane because speeds are starting to recover. Northbound Golden Gate Bridge will be closed this sunday morning between 6 a. M. And 9 a. M. Thats for the San Francisco marathon. So if you need to get to the north bay, you wont be use the Golden Gate Bridge. You will have to use the bay bridge and the Richmond San Rafael bridge. Well take it to the bay bridge toll plaza, where it looks like a parking lot already from the maze into San Francisco, getting close to 20 minutes. Metering lights are on. Right on, jaclyn. Thanks so much. Live weather camera looking out from our kpix 5 studios corner of broadway and battery in San Francisco. Were looking over pier 9. You can see the flag on the fly. You also see a compressed deck of low clouds and fog out towards the port of oakland this morning and lots of sunshine. This is a terrific view from sutro tower towards the north bay. Wow. We have the clouds rolling over the Golden Gate Bridge this morning. The tiptop of the Golden Gate Bridge roughly 725 feet as far as the tower is concerned off the water. So gives you a good idea how compressed that deck of clouds really is this morning. 50 to 59 degrees stepping on out, what you need to know on this friday, its going to be warmer today than yesterday. And then tomorrow easily 100 degrees or maybe a little more towards the delta. Then seasonal next week. Satelliteradar suggests we have a swath of clouds lining the coast the san mateo coast hanging tight to daly city and colma. And anything west of mount davidson. Otherwise this ridge of High Pressure continues to expand and strengthen and get closer to the bay area. And end relative humidity, temperatures go up 97 degrees in fresno, 82 in tahoe, 90 yosemite, 64 monterey bay. But in this area here, where we have this smoke and the haze from the fire that continues to burn in the foothills of the yosemite area, its entrained in the upperlevel winds but as it turns more westerly later today, less smoke in the mountains. So now lets head to the beach. Santa cruz our pick city with sunshine 71 degrees the surface there the water is right around 64 degrees in the santa cruz basin. Official sunrise 6 04. Sets at 8 27. Boy, we got temperatures going upper deck today. 60s through 90s. San francisco 68. 97 in the delta and Discovery Bay, brentwood, also to the north above the lakeport area. Triple digits saturday and a little more seasonal by monday. Make it a great day and have a terrific weekend michelle . 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