Westbound 237. Problemfree all the way out into sunnyvale. We just checked our chp reports. There are no incidents out there at all. There was one earlier problem in woodside. Thats now cleared. Anyway, in oakland, everything is moving at the speed limit near Oakland Airport. Heads up if you to pick up or drop someone off. 580 in the east bay. Dublin interchange no brake lights yet through the Livermore Valley. That could be one of our first spots to slow down through the Altamont Pass and Livermore Valley. That right now is 14 minutes towards the dublin interchange. Eastshore also in the clear through berkeley. No problems yet all the way up and down the eastshore freeway. Heres a live look at the Richmond San Rafael bridge, which is so far moving at the speed limit towards marin county. That is your latest kcbs traffic report. Frank, michelle, back to you. All right, elizabeth. Thank you. We are following breaking news this morning in san jose, where police are investigating the citys first homicide of the new year. Officers were called to san antonio and 33rd streets on the citys east side about 1 30 this morning. They found a gunshot victim. The wounded man was rushed to a hospital and later declared dead. So far, there are no suspects. And a fire at the chinese consulate building in San Francisco appears to be arson. It began just before 9 30 last night. Crews managed to control the flames within minutes. We are going to have a live report from the scene in just a couple of minutes. New this morning, all 52 passengers once stuck on a ship in icy antarctica waters have been rescued. Susan mcginnis has the story of some happy and grateful passengers. Reporter shortly after a helicopter flew into assess the area around the icebound ship in antarctica, the rescue began. The helicopters to take us home. Thanks, everyone reporter images posted online show some of the 52 researchers and tourists making their way to safety. The Research Ship has been stuck in thick ice since Christmas Eve. Todays breakthrough comes after days of failed rescue attempts, bad weather and ice 15 feet deep keeping icebreakers from australia and china from getting close enough. Throughout the ordeal, passengers remained optimistic and used social media to reassure loved ones back home. Good things happening today. Having a wonderful time. You can see we have this wonderful snowy wonderland. Reporter earlier this week, the scientists and tourists stomped on the snow forming a helipad to aid rescue workers. The helicopter took passengers in groups to an australian ship waiting nearby. That vessel will soon bring the rescued passengers to land. Susan mcginnis, kpix 5. The researchers an tourists are expected to be reunited with their families in a week. The 22 crewmembers will stay on the icebound ship until the vessel can break free. New this morning, some shaking up in the north bay. There were two earthquakes in the geysers area overnight. The first magnitude 2. 5, at 12 23 this morning. Then a 3. 3 quake hit at 1 32. The usgs website reports a few people did feel the quakes but there have been no reports of damage or injuries. Big question right now about the driver arrested after a girl was killed in San Francisco on new years eve. Kiet do reports from the tenderloin. Reporter the memorial for 6 yearold sophia lu continues to grow here at the corner of ellis and polk streets. Thats the been a lot of back and forth theres been a lot of back and forth about whether the driver was working for the car service uber. It started with a Facebook Post by supervisor jane kim who said the driver was charged with vehicular manslaughter and the driver also selfidentified as an uber driver. Later supervisor kim backed off from that saying the driver was a nontaxi forpay driver. The crash happened at 8 p. M. On new years eve. The suv was making a right turn when it hit the mother and two children killing the 6yearold girl. The driver saying i had a green light. I had the right of way. He is saying that right after the incident. He got out of the car yelling, who saw it . I need a witness. I had a green light. I had a right of way. He was approaching the kids. The girl was screaming, kicking her foot in the air with tennis shoes on that grow when you run. The mother was just she was out. She was gone. Reporter months ago Cab Companies protested warning that a death like this could happen with loosely regulated car services. Now, at first uber said it was not their driver. Now they are asking San Francisco police to release more information about him so they can confirm that statement. If he was an uber driver, they say he will be removed from service. Kiet do, kpix 5. San Francisco Police have two suspects after a brief high speed chase in potrero hill. Officers spotting a car last night that looked a lot like one that was involved in a robbery. They tried to pull the car over but the driver took off. A few blocks away he crashed and was caught. His passenger jumped out and was also caught. Police say they recovered a gun that was thrown from the car during the chase. Back to our developing story now. Kpix 5s anne makovec is in San Francisco where a fire at the chinese consulate is being investigated as arson. Anne. Reporter and you can see the front entrance, the damage after last nights fire here at the chinese consulate building on laguna street. The u. S. State department is now involved in this investigation categorized as arson. Heres one of several pictures being circulated on social media this morning of the front door burning. The chinese consulate as office says someone in a minivan pulled up, poured two buckets of gasoline on the door and set it on fire around 9 30 last night. The Fire Department headed out in about 10 minutes and you can see the damage here. The consulate spokesman called the arson a Violent Crime targeted at the chinese consulate. He calls it a sabotage of a vile nature and a, quote, despicable attack. Now, you can see the door here, the damage to the front door. That has been removed. All parts of the investigation. There is also a Security Camera out here, also sure to be part of it. In the meantime, the chinese consulate is urging the u. S. Government to do a better job protecting its facilities and its personnel. Live in San Francisco, anne makovec, kpix 5. Police say that no one was injured. An uncle of jahi mcmath says the family is getting closer to moving the braindead teenager to a facility in new york. We do have Ground Transportation and a plane thats ready and as soon as our facility is ready to receive her, we will be moving jahi. In order for the girl to be moved out of Childrens Hospital oakland, breathing and feeding tubes have to be inserted, something the hospital wont do. The family and the hospital have been in a legal battle over whether to keep jahi mcmath on a respirator. We can make a better place for our babies. Yeah. And their babies. About 100 people rallied gathered at the Fruitvale Bart station in oakland to remember oscar grant yesterday. It was five years after his death. Grant was shot and killed by then bart Police OfficerJohannes Mehserle on the station platform. Grants mother girlfriend and daughter all attended the event. Also there, the man who made the movie Fruitvale Station which chronicled the incident. 5 08. A human skull on a paper plate surrounded by beads, thats what police found off grizzly peak boulevard in the oakland hills. Police say the skull was out in the open when it was found last night. It was near tildon Regional Park where people go for the view. Part of me is not surprised for how many different types of people i see up here all the time and its dark and sometimes people drink up here. So but part of me is kind of shocked. Never really thought that driving up here i would see a bunch of cop cars. We expect to get an update from the Oakland Police department a little bit later this morning. Happening today, a man suspected in San Rafael Bank Robbery and Police Pursuit is expected to enter a plea this morning. Christopher wooten faces five counts in connection with last months crime. Investigators are still trying to determine if he is connected to a series of robberies attributed to the cotton ball bandit. This morning, the bart board is expected to ratify the final contract agreement with its two biggest unions. They had to renegotiate the deal because of a family leave provision that was in an earlier version. Thats been removed with the unions getting concessions on other issues in return. It is 5 09. Senate chap hacked. How the data of more than 4. 5 Million People was leaked online. Also ahead can tell different parts of the porch is like coming aparted. Rotting from the inside out, brad pitts Charity Comes under fire for poorhousing construction. And its no small feat. The trail this 9yearold took to scale one of the tallest mountains in the world. And today could be the warmest day of the week. But we could see a little rain in the near future. Well tell you when coming up. We have a new crash blocking one lane westbound 205 right there by Mountain House parkway. So well have the latest details on that, but first we still want to know what drives you crazy during your commute. Ask a question or share a gripe by emailing crazy kpix. Com. Or tweet me at ewengerkpix, and watch to see if your question gets answered on air every friday morning. Well be right back. Shortcomings. Account information for more than 4and a half milln snapch a hack attack on a social sharing app was done apparently to show the sites shortcomings. Names and phone numbers appeared online yesterday briefly available for a download on a website. Hackers said they released all the information all in an effort to put pressure on snapchat to beef up its security. Also trending uncle phil, the fresh prince of bel air actor passed away. Fiesta bowl ucs stunning baylor in the game last night. Aaron rodgers is denying rumors he is gay. Gas prices were down in 2013 expected to go even lower this year. Follow us at twitter anytime at cbs San Francisco. Even lower in that sounds awesome, elizabeth. Dont hear that very often. Wont be burning through a lot of gas today, it is so quiet on the roads still hardly anything going on. We did find something out of tracy. But its not causing a delay at all. Its coming on 205. The accident is in the clearing stages now. We dont have sensors right in the area but a little farther west we do and through the Altamont Pass and the Livermore Valley everyone is on vacation this week no problems all the way towards the dublin interchange and mass transit is on a regular schedule. Bart more than 30 trains right now systemwide no delays. They were on a Holiday Schedule yesterday. Everything is back to normal. Bart, muni, caltrain and ace no delays. So taking you outside, heres a live look out towards the bay bridge toll plaza. Free and clear in the cash and fastrak lanes and eastshore freeway 19 minutes on westbound 80 from the carquinez bridge to the maze. But we checked all the approaches and so far, everything looks good including the nimitz as you can see there, 15 minutes is that drive time between 238 and the maze. So this includes the stretch toward Oakland Coliseum and Oakland Airport problemfree and once again that westbound 580 drive time still looks good. That is a check of your latest kcbs traffic. If you have any questions once you hit the roads, tune to kcbs radio 740am and 106. 9fm. Heres lawrence. We have a great day ahead with sunshine and mild temperatures. High pressure continues to sit overhead. Looks like we have mostly clear skies, with patchy fog on the north coast. Otherwise, more sunshine coming in and, well, another spare the air day as the air quality is suffering from the ridge of High Pressure thats been really semipermanent feature the better part of winter. More sunshine on the way for the weekend but we may get rain sometime next week. Enjoy the sunshine while we have it and the mild temperatures. A few more systems continuing to make their way up to the pacific northwest. But we continue to see some dry weather. The air quality though is suffering under that ridge of High Pressure just not seeing much mixing in the atmosphere. So a little unhealthy in spots. But i think that should begin to improve tomorrow. Temperatures around the state today, 69 degrees in Sacramento Valley. 70 in monterey. 54 degrees partly cloudy in lake tahoe. And 55 in yosemite. Around the bay today, you will see numbers in the 60s in the south bay as high as 67 in morgan hill. 66 in san jose. And 64 in hayward. East bay numbers moving well into the 60s. Wouldnt be surprised to see a couple of 70s pop up outside and maybe a couple of more records begin to fall as the strong ridge sits overhead now. Next couple of days well see changes, cloudy tomorrow, lots of sunshine for the weekend. But by next week the jet stream may drop far enough south that we could see a couple of scattered showers as we head in toward tuesday. Doesnt look like a lot but it could be wet and maybe more on the way toward the latter part of the week. A big game this weekend, it is going to be cold. We have been watching the forecast bouncing around a bit but about 8 degrees for the big 9ers game there. And by the way, sunrise time today 7 25. Sunset at 5 03. But cold, maybe a little snow for the game. Thats football weather. I know. It is. But im glad well be watching the game on our couch. From inside. Yes. From inside. Very nice. Frozen tundra. All right, lawrence, thanks. Marijuana is a hot new consumer item in colorado. People waited in line for hours to buy pot on the first day it was legal to do so for recreational purposes. Some of the outlets had to close early because of short supply. Supporters expect the legalized marijuana trade will create jobs, increase tax revenue and reduce crime. Sales have taken place in our country for decades and all that money goes into the underground market and cartels. That stops today. Marijuana buyers have to be 21 or older, cannot smoke in public. Colorado residents can buy up to an ounce at a time but nonresidents can only buy a quarter ounce and they cannot take it out of colorado. North of the border embattled toronto mayor rob ford is expected to file for re election today. He held this meet and greet event just yesterday. Ford made International Headlines recently after admitting to drug use and alcohol abuse and making vulgar remarks about a member of his staff. The mother of a former nfl linebacker is suing the Kansas City Chiefs over the death of her son. The suit claims the teen forced belcher to play while he suffered from complications with concussion. Belcher shot and killed himself outside the Team Facility and his girlfriend. Many new orleans residents lost their homes when Hurricane Katrina hit. Then brad pitts group built homes built with an environmentallyfriendly friendly product. It was supposed to last 40 years but many of the homes have rotting wood now just eight years later. We noticed the wood started turning like a dark gray and then also mushrooms started growing through the wood and you could tell like different parts of the porch was like coming apart. Pitts foundation is considering legal action against the company. The manufacturer says it will look into the complaints. It took him three weeks but a 9yearold can now say he climbed the tallest mountain in south america. Tyler armstrong is home this morning in Southern California after trekking argentinas highest mountain. He summited it on Christmas Eve 22,841 feet. The legal age to make the trek is 14 years old. So he needed a permit. Sometimes it was a little bit scary because there was ice and then water going down the ice. Tyler was joined by his father. He is the youngest person on ever to stand on that mountain. 5 20. Coming up, photo bomb fail. What happens when a football fan tries to get some on air time on live tv . Coming up. Nerd nation took the field as a one touchdown favorite in pasadena gives Michigan State stanford looking to repeat as champion. A rundown of bowl action coming up next in sports. ,,,,,,,,,, right side of the screen. A th a wouldbe photo bomber took a fall on a sidewalk. Watch the guy coming in from the right side of the screen. Oh, there you go. About the time he starts to mug for a live camera, his feet went out from under him. [ laughter ] there you go. The reporter didnt even know until an anchor point it out. But the guy popped right back up and walked away. [ laughter ] even better. [ laughter ] in order to win a second straight rose bowl stanford would have to puncture the number one ranked defense in the country. Little over 95,000 in pasadena for stanfordMichigan State. Legendary announcer vince scully the grand marshal for the game. Cook gets the heat from umanum. The pass goes to Kevin Anderson who takes to the hothouse. Stanford 1714 at the half. The door opened for a comeback. 17 unanswered points. Then they are down 2417. Fourth and one under two minutes to go. Instead of going to gaf