Work in san leandro. Well show you how that could impact the early portion of the morning drive coming up. A busy day yesterday. It was a crazy day on the roads. When it rains it pours unfortunately. Talk a little bit about that. One of them was the scald cat tunnel is fully open this morning after that explosion and fire yesterday. Forced evacuations from one of the eastbound bores. This is the view from a firefighters helmet cam. Two cars had crashed around 6 00 a. M. While that created a domino effect causing another accident where a ford taurus burst into flames. Firefighters were able to get everyone out of the tunnel safely. Then the explosions started. The car exploded. Big bang. I got out and walked all the way out. You dont know where the accident is inside the tunnel so youre going to have to approach it from both ends. Firefighters had just practiced responding to this kind of emergency in december and yesterday newly built vents sucked black smoke out of the tunnel which let crews work effectively. 33 years ago a different story. This is the aftermath of a Chain Reaction crash that led to a deadly inferno in the caldecott. Seven people were killed. It is election day in israel and the big question, will the Prime Minister netanyahu get reelected . Netanyahu and his top challenger have taken opposite positions on a very crucial issue. Netanyahu says if reelected he will not create a palestinian state. The stance puts him at odds with the Obama Administration which has called for a two state solution. The other promises to work to restore relations with the palestinians. That is something that we are going to continue to work with the National Community to achieve diplomatically. The state Department Says the u. S. Will work with whomever wins but its no secret president obama and netanyahu do not get along. Happening today a special election for a state senate seat in the east bay. Take a look at this map of the district. It covers a number of cities like walnut creek, concord and pleasanton. And right now there are four candidates in the race. They are all democrats and initially a republican named mckayla was hurdle but she drop running hurdle was running but she dropped out. One rule limits Outdoor Watering to two days a week and another requires hotels to offer guests the option not to have towels and bed sheets washed daily. Up until now conservation has been voluntary. It is 4 33 right now. Hey frank. Hi. Lets go. Hey i was up at tahoe this weekend and there was no snow. There was no snow at lake level. The resorts one just closed. Tahoe at echo summit out there. Its tough. Its tough but theres other things to do in tahoe as you got to see for yourself as well. I love running in tahoe. You can come back and run like the wind. Thats the perfect training for you but a little bit of light snow in the forecast for friday but this season, yeah pretty much done at this particular time. Good morning everybody. Rise and shine out the door, we do have cloud cover. We do have very calm conditions as you take a look the bay waters. Theres a pretty much nonexistent wind at this hour, temperatures boy is it mild out the door. Cloud cover from that very weak area of low pressure. That cold front sliced through the bay area leaving a couple of raindrops. We had trace amounts of rain in the north bay. Average high 62 degrees in San Francisco but instead 68. 73 in morgan hill today. East of the bay the temperatures all in the low 70s a good ten degrees above average in many neighborhoods. Up steam we go to 73 in cloud cover dale. Liz, its still coming up. All right well stay tuned for that. Thank you and out the door so yeah a pretty good start. Quieter start than what we saw yesterday. Hes a live look if youre heading across the bay bridge. Just the overnight road work and slight delays already forming in the left crash lanessing cash lanes. And road work this morning is westbound from the tunnel to the San Francisco anchorage and on the eastbound side as well. More road work eastbound 92 from clawiter to boston city boulevard this is is in youre crossing the Golden Gate Bridge should be wrapping up by 5 00. And overnight road work on northbound 880 in san leandro and marina. Thats kcbs traffic. Back to you guys. Thank you. Prosecutors will review dozens of criminal cases that were handled by the San FranciscoPolice Officers now accused of sending bigoted and homophobic text messages. They came to light during an unrelated Police Corruption case against Police Sergeant ian furminger. Authorities discovered pages of texts sent between furminger and four San FranciscoPolice Officers. They contain derogatory phrases based on races, nationalities and sexual orientation. Theres no doubt there was some joking. The fact that they think that is funny is awfully scary. If youre a black citizen on this streets of San Francisco. We have to review at least 141 cases and probably more. Every case where these officers testified in racial bias may be an issue. Mayor ed lee says if the texts came from the officers they should be fired. And at noon today officials from San Franciscos Public Defenders Office will discuss their roles in the investigation. 4 36 now. Investigators are looking into the death of four people in napa county. Two bodies discovered yesterday afternoon in a unit at the glen View Apartments at napa. Police say its unclear how the man and woman died. But theyre labeling the death now as suspicious. Earlier in the day, in a separate case, a man was shot no death at the to death al the Doll Vineyards. Napa county sheriffs investigators say the gunman drove off leading deputies on a chase up highway 29. He was found off wall road dead from an apparent suicide. Investigators are not releasing the two mens identities but Santa Rosa Press democrats reports robert doll the owner of Doll Vineyards allegedly fired the shot. The press democrat says the man killed at the vineyards was who was in a dispute apparently with mr. Dahl. Now accused of murder after what sounds a lot like a con fedex was caught on confession was caught on tape. We have the story. Reporter tonight the brother of Robert Dursts first wife thinks the walls are finally falling in on the 71 yearold. Jim mccormicks sister kathy disappeared in 1982 after she and durst fought and had never been found. Detectives were preparing to interview dursts friend susan berman when she was shot in her home days before christmas. I mean in my heart i said bobby is eliminating the witnesses and people who had the knowledge. Reporter saturday agents nabbed durst in the lobby of the new orleans hotel. He was staying under a false name carrying a gun and preparing to flee to cuba. His case and audio which some claim is a confession were recently featured in an hbo documentary on the eccentric millionaire. Killed them all. Of course. Reporter la prosecutors announced today durst is charged with capital murder and could face the death penalty. Dursts Attorney Says he has waived extradition and theyre ready to come to l. A. And get it on. Heireddy toened hes ready to have a trial. Dursts alleged victim susan berman once worked here at kpix 5. She was a writer and producer for an evening magazine. It is 4 38 now. A former San Francisco 49er ray mcdonald suing the woman who accused him of raping her. The 15 page civil suit filed yesterday at Santa Clara County says woman has defailed him and defamed him and derailed his career. The Woman Told Police she had been drinking and fell and hit her head by his pool, she says she didnt remember anything. She wiped out very significant events that were occurring including you know clearly consensual sexual acts. The Attorney Says theres video of the two having onconase july sex in a consensual sex in a hot tub. So far the District Attorney has not decided whether to press charge against mr. Mcdonald. Made the stunning announcement that hes retiring. Inside linebacker chris boar land is only 24 years old. But he told espn yesterday that hes concerned about the long term effects of concussions. He said quote from what ive researched from experienced and experienced i dont think its worth the risk. He said he had concussions diagnosed in eight grade and when he was a sophomore in high school. Up next on the st. Patricks day, 4 40. How much would you pay the live here in to live here . A landlord just raised her rent almost 7,000. What is cool about your school . Email your nomination to us at coolschools kpix. Com and we may come and feature your school on the show. Well, a woman says shes being forced to move out of her San Francisco apartment after her landlord raised the rent by 400 . Deb said she lived in the Bernal Heights apartment more than ten years and recently got this letter here saying as of may the 5th her rent would go from 2,100 a month all the way up to 8,900. The landlord is able to legally do it too because of a loophole in San Franciscos rent control laws. Recent renovations allowed the building to be classified as a Single Family dwelling. Wow. And in oakland meanwhile Christin Ayers spoke to some very unhappy tenants who claim the new land board is being runnable landlord is being unreasonable. They say theyre in mourning. Tenants who live in oakland wore black and released balloons to say farewell to the neighbors who can no longer afford the sky high rent. For me my increase was about 500 . Reporter but then he got a letter like this one notifying him his rent would jump to more than 3,000 a month. A reasonable increase is fine and no one chaining about that. But 100 thats not fair, thats not okay. Reporter he and his neighbors say the beck shire group the Boston Real Estate company that recently bought the building isnt playing fair. They raised rents by up to 110 after they told us they might do 40 , 40 . But also some very underhanded tactics and very questionable things they did. Reporter she said berkshire based its rents on new market rates. Its displacing people. Reporter its not just these tenants who are having the problem. The website trial yay reported that last year, oakland had the second highest rent increase nationwide. We should have the protection of rent control. Reporter the tenants want to change the law to allow rent control for buildings newer than 1982. In the meantime he is on the hook and uncertain about the future. Honestly right now i have no idea. Reporter in oakland, Christin Ayers, kpix 5. The Berkeley City Council will discuss ways to crack down on the homeless tonight and theyll consider outlawing the placement of personal objects and planters and in or near trees. The city may also prohibit bedding or tents on sidewalks between 7 00 a. M. And 10 00 p. M. In addition, cooking on sidewalks could be outlawed. Relief workers are finding widespread destruction in parts of vanuatu that were hit by a cyclone in the south pacific. In one island in particular 80 of buildings are partially or completely destroyed. Its worse than in the countrys capital. So far, 11 people are confirmed dead. And here in california a winters not even over yet but one wellknown ski resort already shut down. Sierra at tahoe closed yesterday until further notice and its because theres simply not snuff snow. The resort says conditions have deteriorated so much they can no longer deliver a product that meets its standards. It could reopen in spring if it gets enough snow. Yeah tough sledding up there. I was up at the hyatt up at for a Special Olympics and we skied at diamond peak. The conditions werent bad but a lot of bare ground up there. The only problem is in sierra tahoe has been just phenomenal when you call them on a daily basis to get ski conditions. Very honest and just like saying hey we could open back up again if conditions warrant it. But its just not getting cold enough at night now. They can usually make the snow until the past week things changed and the overnight low right now is 43 degrees in the 60s in the afternoon. You can dip down about 32 degrees in order to make the snow. Out the door right now i just notice tsz we have a little bit noticed we have a little breeze out of the west. Otherwise temperaturewise extremely mild. Its 59 degrees in san jose and 50 in santa rosa. On this st. Patricks day, cloudy skies out the door and partly cloudy later today. Its the lush of the sigh luck of the irish and spin showers certainly spring showers certainly possible by friday evening. Heres the cold front. Taking with it minimal amounts of precipitation. Even though it provided record rainfall in the pacific northwest. We do have the clouds today. They will decrease later this afternoon. Becoming partly cloudy. Or partly sunny. Whichever way you want to look at it. Got glasses half full or half empty. 73 at the state capital. Sun up this morning is at 7 18. It is set at 7 19. And by then our temperatures will be unseasonably mild. 68 San Francisco. 72 degrees san jose. About eight degrees above average. Low 70s east of the bay. 71 degrees in santa rosa. We should be about 64 degrees, heres the extended forecast. More sunshine on your wednesday, thursday then we increase the cloud cover on friday. That will lead to the potential of a north bay shower before we build High Pressure back in over the weekend for the first weekend of spring and provide mid 70s in the inland areas. Partly cloudy for this st. Patricks day and mild conditions. 6 to 75. Liz . Any luck of the irish with you today. I think were going to get pinched. We need our green. All right, thank you roberta. Lets go outside so you just missed the crews. They were just out there and traveling northbound now across the span. Trying to get a fourth southbound lane open in the commute direction. Not really needed yet obviously traffic is still pretty light out of sausalito. And heres our live look at already kind of crowded conditions coming out of tracy. Eastbound 580 approaching north greenville you have that overnight road work that you sometimes see. Caltrans sells us it is scheduled until 6 00 and then yeah the usual backups out of tracy beginning around mountain house. It does move from that past flynn. Still in the clear, and heres a live look along the peninsula. 65 Miles Per Hour just south of sfo but caltrans crews are pretty hard at work on this stretch too between millbrae and broadway. They have various lanes blocked. Fortunately not causing a huge delay. San mateo bridge, great in both directions, we still have green on the sensors celebrating daydy. No delay there. St. Patricks day. No delay there. Eastbound 92 though all the way up to clawiter, they have that overnight road work they often do. They have it this morning as well. Actually scheduled until 11 00. So we cant see anything in our camera right now but westbound 92 should be about 13, 14 minutes out of hayward. And a live look at the bay bridge. The toll plaza. The delays continue maybe a little bit in the cash lanes but its not too bad. At this time of the morning trying to get into San Francisco. And theyre just about done with the overnight road work too. Thats the latest kcbs traffic. Frank michelle. Back to you guys. All right thanks. People in san leandro dont want trains carrying crude oil rumbling through the town. Its the latest city to post the proposed phillips 66 oil train. City Council Unanimously passed a resolution urging the board of supervisors to deny the project a permit and if approved that facility would then bring that mile Long Crude Oil train through many bay area cities including san leandro. The ceo of starbucks wants to improve race relations. The company has held open forums for workers to talk about race in several u. S. Cities including oakland. Employees are encouraged to have conversations with customers. Ceo Howard Schultz hopes it promotes a new level of understanding. Sir elton john wants people to boycott dolce gabbana. They started a big fire storm over the weekend. They told an italian magazine that same sex couples shouldnt raise kids. Elton john tweeted out his outrage. He and his husband have two children conceived through ivf. Goo bama responded on instagram callable the singer calling the singer a fascist. Prince harry plans to leave the army this coming june. He has served for nearly a decade now. In 2011 he earned the rank of captain. Prince harry will spend the last two months stationed in australia and then he plans to volunteer helping Wounded Soldiers in the uk. Well be right back. Stay right there. Time check for you. It is 4 53 on this st. Patricks day. We have the luck of the irish with us today. Dry skies as far as being outdoors and celebrating the day. 72 degrees in san jose today. 60s beaches and 60s and 70s across the peninsula. Averaging a good nine degrees above normal in brentwood today its 72 degrees. Low 70s in benicia and concord. The winds will blow 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour late day in petaluma at 70 degrees. And with mostly cloudy skies, 72 in cloverdale. Clear lake at 70. And maybe you plan on celebrating st. Patricks day after work today. Thats right getting mass transit a whirl, everything is so far on time. B. A. R. T. System wide on time. Just like muni metro is all okay as