Far although weve had one cell making its way into the east bay and you can see that next batch that is just making its way into halfmoon bay headed toward pacifica. Numerous lightning strikes a real possibility through the Morning Hours and then i think things begin to settle down. Into the afternoon some partly cloudy skies and some 70s and 80s inland and 72 degrees in oakland and 69 in San Francisco. How might that wet weather be affecting the roads . Lets go to the expert liz. Thats not drizzle. All right. Thank you. Thank you lawrence. Weve actually seen a couple of accidents on the roads. Some serious ones including this one we do have some slightly better news new now for commuters. They reopened all lanes and that Traffic Alert has officially canceled. Once again all lanes are now back open northbound 101 in sunnyvale. Approaching lawrence expressway. It was a fatal accident involving a motorcycle. The delays are still there from month guy. If youre traveling westbound 237. Thats clear but again you can still see those delays northbound. And just a quick headsup. This fatal accident still here affecting both directions of bailey road between concord boulevard and west leyland. Thats your latest kcbs traffic. Back to you. B. A. R. T. Police started enforcing a ban on sleeping or lying down inside the stations and the effort will likely become a lot for visible in the coming weeks more visible in the coming weeks. Kpix 5s mark kelly in a very wet and soggy civic center station to explain why. Hey mark. Reporter hey frank, good morning. This new rule no sleeping, lying or sitting in a b. A. R. T. Station. It started first at powell street yesterday and then it is spreading to here at civic center. And then on to the montgomery b. A. R. T. Station. So heres heres what this new rule is about. B. A. R. T. Police deny it has to do with kicking homeless out of b. A. R. T. Stations. They say its just to ensure a safe evacuation in case of emergency. But kicking out homeless is exactly what it will do. So heres the rule. The chronicle is reporting that during the first offense, if youre caught sitting in a b. A. R. T. Station, officers will give a verbal warning. Then the second time they will check your id, issue a citation. But youre not going get a fine then. But the third time it could mean arrests, fine or jail. The powell street station posted a warning yesterday. That was the first trial run. Officers say they approached 17 people, one arrest was made. But that was just for outstanding warrants. As far as the other people, all of them complied and moved on but according to the chronicle they just moved from the powell b. A. R. T. Station up to the streets. Live at civic center b. A. R. T. , mark kelly, kpix 5. Moving up the line. Okay thanks. B. A. R. T. Will give city officials an update on their findings in the next three weeks. A man who got arrested in april for recklessly driving his motorcycle in oakland is facing more serious charges this morning. Back then, 23yearold Corey Mcdonah was taped doing wheelies at 120 Miles Per Hour on interstate 580. Now hes in the hospital and facing give charges. Dui charges and also expected to be charged with the death of his passenger, after he totaled his corvette last friday. One of the individuals was laying on the roadway in front of the corvette. He had been ejected and they were not wearing seat belts. That crash happened on interstate 580 in oakland friday morning. The Alameda County coroner tells kpix 525yearold Nicholas Obenchain was the passenger who was ejected from the corvette. He died last night. It is 5 04 now and new this morning, south Korean Police have identified the body of a businessman linked to the deadly ferry disaster. More than 300 people died and most of them were High Schoolers and teenagers when the ferry capsized back in april. And now dna and fingerprint tests have provided positive identification of a body found in a field. Authorities believe the dead man owned the ferry. He was wanted on charges related to the disaster. Unclear though how he died. Today, European Union officials are meeting to talk about further sanctions against russia after the downing of that Malaysia Airliner last week. Protestors marched on the Russian Embassy in malaysia today demanding justice for those killed in that crash. Meanwhile, the remains of many of the victims are aboard a train now to the netherlands. Thats where the identification process will happen. Yesterday, pro russian rebels turned over bodies and the flight data recorders. I can see that a black box is intact. Even though a little bit damaged. Russia still denies responsibility for the crash. And is challenging the United States to prove it was involved. Malaysian airlines is now rerouting its planes though away from the ukraine and has sent flights from kuala lumpur to london over wartorn syria instead. Now the latest developments in the conflict between israel and hamas. The cbs news ko im reports, World Leaders are working toward the cease fire today but theres no sign of an end to the violence. [ sirens ] reporter black smoke filled the sky over gaza today. Police say israeli air stakes damaged this mosque, military site and a football stadium. During two weeks of violence, more than two dozen israelis and at least 570 palestinians have died. Its a very sad its a tragic we have to all what we can do. Reporter International Leaders are pushing for an end to the fighting. U. N. Chief ban kimoon heads to israel today to speak with Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu and later to the west bank to talk with palestinian officials. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry is in cairo to work on a cease fire between israel and hamas. President obama has said israel has the right to defend itself but also voiced concern over the casualties. We dont want to see any more civilians getting killed. Reporter the u. S. Is sending 47 million in humanitarian aid for tens of thousands of palestinians who have fled their homes in gaza to escape the violence, ko im for cbs news. Confirmation hearings begin today for president obamas choice to head the Veterans Affairs department. Robert mcdonald will go before the senate committee. He is suspected to expected to receive a warm welcome. One senator who met with him last week says he is focused and ready for the job and another says he is the experience to improve the va. Will she or wont she . We still dont know the answer. But Hillary Clinton did dish out some advice for women who want to get into politics when she visited facebook and twitter on monday. The woman wants to be in the public arena, she needs to grow skin as thick as the hide of a rhinoceros and i have certainly as you can tell had to learn how to do that. And theres a lot of good you know moisturizers i can tell you about if youre interested. Clinton promoted the new memoir about 500 people tuned in at the start of the live stream on youtube for the twitter session. By the end, 60 were left. Happening today president barack obama returns to the bay area for more fundraising. The president will fly in tonight from seattle and tomorrow hell be in Los Altos Hills for a big luncheon. Tickets by the way start at 10,000 for that. After that he will fly south to los angeles. President s last bay area fundraisers were about two and a half months ago. Also happening today, San Franciscos supervisors decide whether to put a soda tax on the November Ballot. The proposal would tax most soft drinks at two cents per ounce. Money would go for sports and recreation programs. And nutrition education. The boards Budget Committee voted unanimously for the plan just last week. Medical marijuana advocates will have to seek another plan in their effort to overturn new regulations in san jose. They were hoping to put a couple measures on the November Ballot with looser restrictions. But a lot of the signatures they gathered turned out to be bogus. So they fell way short of the 33,000 valid signatures needed. The citys new regulations include restrictions on where pot dispensaries can be located. The most will have to move or close within a year. Its 5 09. Coming up a trippy new light show has become the newest attraction here in the bay area. After the break why this burning art might look a little familiar. And we are seeing our own light show right now. Some thunderstorms outside. How long will they stick around . Well talk about that coming up. And we worktop a rough start on the roads. Two separate fatal crashes one is cleared in sunnyvale but this one still out there in bay point. Ill have all the latest details coming but first we want to know what drives you crazy during your commute . Email crazy kpix. Com. Or tweet me at e we thinker kpix 5 and watch to at ewengerkpix and watch to see if your question gets answered on air. Well be right back. ,,,,, [ julie ] the wrinkle cream graveyard. If it doesnt work fast. Youre on to the next thing. Clinically proven neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair. It targets fine lines and wrinkles with the fastest retinol formula available. Youll see younger looking skin in just one week. One week . This ones a keeper. Rapid wrinkle repair. And for dark spots rapid tone repair. From neutrogena®. Vazquez wa well, theres the strange new light show right here in the bay area. Kpix 5s joe vasquez was in San Francisco to find out what the piece of art is all about. Reporter walk by, and wonder. What exactly is that new sculpture on the embarcadero . Its called soma and those two squiggly metal pieces, well those are neurons. So its supposed to represent the cells that are in your brain. Its supposed to be a representation on a very large scale of the very very tiny, tiny events that take place that create everything that humans experience. Reporter soma was first built five years ago by the artists in San Francisco called the flaming lotus girls famous for their fiery burning man statues. Its not flaming like most of your work. Explain that to me. At burning man it was flaming. Oh, yeah. Very much so. Part of the thing about doing public art for the masses is that you know you have to make a few changes from the original design so that people dont hurt themselves. It did break our heart a little bit to take off the fire pieces but its still a beautiful piece. Its supposed to make you and what does it do . Do i like it . Do i not like it . Like what about it do i like . Reporter they better like it. They better like it. Well, what do you think . What the heck . Theyve got so much room there. What the heck . Its attracting a lot of attention because everyone is like what is that . Good point. Well, well have to go down to check it out. Liz what do you think . Come on join the party. Its beautiful. You never know. Its too early right. Too early. Thats right. All right. Lets go out live and show you whats going on. Unfortunately a couple of accidents so far and they both happened at the same time. This fatal accident bay point, bailey road closed between concord boulevard and west leland. Thats a solo car accident but still both directions of bailey road closed and the commute that. Again i would avoid that. They dont have an estimated time when they can reopen that stretch of road for us. In the meantime better news in sunnyvale. This fatal accident is involving a motorcycle and again it happened a half hour before that one out in the east bay. Northbound 101 at lawrence expressway. All lanes are finally reopened and were actually seeing quite an improvement on 101 now coming from san jose. Theres actually no longer a delay. And you just missed it the lanes changed and they opened another southbound lane opened in the commute direction getting into San Francisco. So now you got four of them. Four southbound lanes open heading on to doyle drive. Northbound looks okay. As well if youre leaving San Francisco. Bay bridge toll plaza, clear. No longer seeing the delays in the cash lanes. It looks good all across the span. The nimitz also cleared the overnight roadwork. A lot of it northbound and southbound. But anyway everything is gone now. 15 minutes in both directions from 238 and the maze and b. A. R. T. Is also on time. Remember kcbs when you hit the road. 106. 9 fm and 7 40 a. M. Thats the latest from here in the kcbs traffic center. Lawrence another wild day in weather. Really is. Boy dont get this everyday in the bay area. Weve got some thunderstorms rolling in right now. You may have heard that rumble and seen the lightning outside and hidef Doppler Radar is tracking it right now. You can see its making its way in along the coastline. And were seeing some heavy downpours with these cells moving on through. A little subtropical moisture sliding into the bay area just enough to touch off some of thunderstorms right now. And some very heavy downpours. In for a closer look now and you can see the heavy rainfall into south San Francisco. Into San Francisco proper as well. And then sliding now into the north bay in toward richmond and got a pretty good cell now just making its way in through concord and this will continue through the Morning Hours. And then really begin to taper off. But dont be surprised you might see a little lightning out there early on today. Then by the afternoon, that will quiet down. It will become a mixture of clouds and sunshine and then more sunshine and less muggy conditions as we round out the week. But right now youre seeing lot of this moisture just being drawn up out of the south moving into the bay area. Thats that subtropical tap and touching off the storms this morning. Thunderstorms this morning. Around the state 80s and 90s in the Central Valley and watch out in the high country. You could see a few more thunderstorms in lake tahoe and a few showers in towards the month way bay this morning. Around the bay area though as we look to the afternoon a couple of passing clouds throughout the day today. But it looks like things settling down the rain will come through this morning. And then taper off. Temperatures today going to be mild. 70s and 80s in the south bay and 60s along the coastline. 70s a few 80s inland. And then inside the bay youll see 60s and some 70s. But boy, this is an interesting way to start out the day today. Some thunderstorms early on then i think things settle down. Wednesday and thursday, looks like things calm down and by the way guys one bolt of lightning . Five times hotter than the surface of the sun. At 55,000 degrees. You sound a little excited about that. Something you dont want to mess this. I am. This is really interesting. This is a correlation between you coming back and this weather . There is absolutely i didnt want to miss it. Here i am. You brought it. You brought it. All right. Lawrence thanks. It seems like it was just yesterday there was so much talk about the birth of prince of britains prince george. Little prince george, it was actually a year ago todays his big birthday. Heres cbs news lucy mcdonah with more on how the royal family is celebrating the princes birthday. Reporter hes the most famous baby in the world. And a step closer to toddler. Prince george turns 1 today and his royal parents are giving us a look at how hes grown. Theyve released the snapshots from inside the butterfly house at londons Natural History museum. Looking every bit the happy family. Sightings of the future king are correlatively rare relatively rare. He does get to have that ordinary existence which his parents are desperate. Understandably so, for him to have. Reporter the young george turned on the charm during a visit to australia in new zealand in april. These londoners are equally smitten. Very cute little baby and very cute family dog as well. So adorable and he wears really nice clothes. Hes cute. Hes lovely. We love him. Reporter georges parents are throwing a Birthday Party for the young prince here at the palace and word is that his great grandma the queen may attend. Like his mother, baby george is already a trend setter. Once he was spotted in these red dungarees, they started flying off the shelves. He even made the cover of vanity fair. And royal watchers say george wont be sharing the spotlight with his sibling just yet. They dont expect another baby announcement until early next year. Lucy mcdonald, for cbs news, london. I have to say, he is very cute. He looks a lot like dad. He does. Certainly got the royal side of the looks there anyway. He does and i cant believe its already been a year. But and good luck having that normal life george. Good luck. No kidding i know every milestone is going to be covered. Still ahead, only on kpix 5, a billion dollars stateof theart Health Care Facility that you paid for. So why hasnt it admitted any patients for months . That story is coming up in the next half hour. Hey good morning everybody, a Little League team is already made history. Now theyre looking for more. And the giants hold on to that first place lead in the west . All right vern and whats cool about your school . You can email your nominations to us at cool schools to the coolschools kpix. Com. 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