No rain. When the weather man brings an umbrella, you know. Its when the you overthink the forecast too much. Kaiser permanente the umbrella on standby. We had the rain showers overnight as you can see on live Storm Tracker 2. The its more on the way. Not just one front move into the bay area. There is a continuous band of moisture moving not from the south and west. This will be really targeting the central coast. But even in bay area right now, there you cant see some of the coverage especially up in parts of the north bay and in parts of the south bay as well. A little bit of action on the radar. Some wet roadways. S some more development to the west. The bigger deal will be later on tonight and the afternoon commute. Current in the upper 50s to lower 6 0s. 8 00 this morning, a sky craft trying to generate some showers out here. Well have a chance at 12 00. And by late in the afternoon, the evening hours, the rainfall will be increasing in intensity, 60 degrees. So farce right now, we have the clouds and scattered showers. Were going to show up that will take us into 5 00. And at 5 00. And at 10 00 tonight. And then count on a wet friday morning commute. And any major downpours right now in the wet roadways. Right now, not accepted. Friday would be the morning because Traffic Volume mark is a little lighter on fridays. That helps out a little bit. Thank you. If you are watching at home, were going to take you right to the bay bridge toll plaza. It is going to be a slow traffic here trying to get into and on to the bridge. Its about a 15 to 20minute delay. It doesnt look bad on that bridge into San Francisco. There have been no major problems on that bridge. Looking at the san mateo bridge. Not a bad commute from the hayward and then ultimate to san mateo. Ultimately, people are driverring on 101. 101 here on the peninsula. All the way to redwood city. We go to the south bay commute. For the most part, theres been a nice start. A couple of fender benders. Nothing causing major delays. Youre still okay for the commute. The chp investigating a homicide that happened on to a freeway onramp. It happened on interstate 80. More on this situation. And just about two minutes ago. And hilltop. And cars coming through. On the shoulder, they have a number of investigators doing this work. The hilltop is closed. This is eastbound 80. Behind that patrol car is blocking the view. There are a number of evidence blockers on the ground. One of the detectives told me there are shell casings up and down that onramp. The chp first got the call of the person lying on the shoulder of that off ramp. At first, investigators warrant sure if a pedestrian had been hit. When they arrived, they discovered the victim had been shot multiple times. All we know is it is a man. We have no information about his age or identity. There is no sidewalk so it doesnt appear he is walking. A short time ago, i did get a little bit of information from one of the detectives out here on the scene. Below the onramp, there is a designated park and ride hear. Area. That is also included as part of the crime scene here that they are investigating. The detective said it appears that the victim of this shooting was running away from something. And from that park and ride parking lot until the onramp on to hilltop. The hilltop avenue to interstate 80. It had been closed in both directions. It is now back open for this homicide investigation. One shoulder that onramp shot multiple times. They are going to have investigators out here for a few more hours. Three it is back open. Police in San Francisco, arrested a suspect in a purse snatching by tracking a victims stolen cell phone. And the woman calling to report the two men stole in her purse and jumped in a car and took off at 7 30. Officers tracked the person and located the car in south San Francisco. As officers approached the car. It drove off and crashed into another car. The two suspects ran off. Police were able to arrest one of them and evidence of that purse snatching was found in the suspects car. And two contra costa are on paid administrative leave. They were accused of drunk and digs disorderly conduct. And assaulting a Police Officer. The Walnut Creek Marriott Hotel report nag four drunk guests would not leave a room. Authorities identified them as 31yearold firefighter andrew zesmond and his girlfriend. And the 32yearold firefighter johnson and his wife. Now, johnsons photo comes from the Facebook Page of east county today while the photo is coming from instagram. The four were at a Hotel Charity ball hosted for a Firefighters Union for a bikes for tykes program. Police say when officers arrived, there was a scuffle between desmond and two officers. While we are aware of the incident that occurred, we placed the individuals whether or not are the subject of the investigation on administrative leave pending an investigation by this department. Department. Now, the Firefighters Union did release a statement. It says local 1230 till tim apologizes to the marriott hotel, the Walnut Creek Police department, the Fire District and to the public we serve for this unfortunate incident at the site of our charity event. The two Police Officers suffered minor injuries. The firefighters and their cam pan i dont knows were released on bail. Time is 6 07. A man has been arrested accused of stabbing another man with his own pocket knife in broad daylight in the very busy San Francisco streets. And the witnesses jumped in to stop the attack. And standing not a bus stop near 5th and market. A suspect walked up and asked to borrow his pocket knife. The suspect used that knife to stab the victim several times including one time in the neck. Two muny employees and a witness jumped in and intervened. One of the muny workers tackled the suspect and held him down until the police got there. The wounds of the victim are not. Strong aftershocks have being felt in central italy. The first quake measured magnitude 5. 5, the second is 6. 1. Both were centered near the town of visa which is about 80 miles northeast of roam. Now, we want to show you some daytime video showing some of the damage. You can see it is extensive to some of the homes and buildings there in the area. So far, reports of injuries are minimal, but police are blaming the quakes for causing a heart attack that killed a 73year old man. If forget quake comes two months after the 6. 2 earthquake hit near the same area killing 300 people. A man who was trying to set a staling sailing record from San Francisco to shanghai, china is missing this morning. The coast guard found the sailboat drifting in the pacific near hawaii but he was not on the boat. His apology black his life jacket was still on the boat. Hes 50 years old. Hes an experienced sailor. He left San Francisco october 18 october 18th trying to set a record by sailing to shanghai in 20 days. The Current Record is 21 days. On tuesday, his support team says they had lost contact with him and his boat had lost speed. Twitter reported mixed Third Quarter results and confirmed it will cut about 9 of its workforce. The San Franciscobased Company Reported revenue at 616 million up 8 . Twitter beat analyst expectations for revenue and werings per share. Bitter announced earnings at an unusual time before the market opens. Usually west coast posts results after the market closes. Rescheduled response to avoid overlapping with other tech announcements this morning. Were hearing from asian francisco filmmaker who is released from jail after being arrested on suspicion of homicide. I am just really thankful and blessed that i am able to get back with my kids. Coming up at 6 30, the preliminary investigation that sources say shows kevin epps acted in selfdefense. And also next, a new poll shows the race between Hillary Clinton and donald trump is tightening. Were going to have a live report from washington. For for and in weather, we have some rain showers across parts of the bay area this morning. Still tracking some activity in a live Storm Tracker 2 radar. There are still some more rainclouds offshore for later today, friday, and into the weekend. A lot to talk about in your forecast. If rs for for race for Hillary Clinton appears to be tightening. Hillary clinton is trying to bank as many votes as possible through early voting. Our reporter doug luzader live in washington d. C. What is the latest on the race for white house. Dave and pam, good morning. First of all, some of these polls are already all over the place. There is an Associative Press poll has banked a pretty sizable lead, a double digit lead over donald trump at this point. On the other hand, there are other polls including this fox poll that shows this is now within three points as we get closer and closer to the finish line. How close are donald trump and Hillary Clinton . Well, nationally, at at least, a new fox news poll puts the race at just three points factoring in libbertalian and green party candidates. That would seem to be encouraging news for trump. I do think were probably an early indicater here. I think were seeing narrowing in the race as republicans come home. There are more republicans to come home. In some sense, its natural. The question is whether it is enough and whether he can get juice out of independents to get where he needs to be. The same poll shows trumps numbers among independents do seem to be rising in recent weeks. He was in charlotte hoping to boost lackluster numbers among minority voters and talking about a new deal for black america. Whether you vote for me or not, i will be your greatest champion. And trump, no doubt concerned abamong other things about the rise of independent conservative in utah who could spoil trumps efforts to win the reliably republican safe. Clinton detail earlier early efforts to diffuse her scandal. She is trying to lock down votes now to the point that clinton is all but holding voters hands and walking them to the polls. You can go to any early voting site between 7 00 a. M. And 7 00 p. M. In fang, the county center on east kennedy boulevard is just a tenminute walk from here. Reporter the prevalence of early voting now really around the country has changed the way the campaign operates. Clinton has a lead in most polls now. She wants to laocoon that support as soon as she can. Doug luzader in washington. Thank you, doug. With less than two weeks before election day, interest in voting is really strong here in the bay area. In San Francisco, thousands of ballots have already been cast and being processed as they come in, so there will be numbers to announce as soon as the polls close election night. City location Officials Say early voting is a growing trend. The numbers of the ballots going out is the highest we have ever issued. We have the most voters ever in San Francisco who are registered to vote. We have the most voter who is have come at this point in the cycle of city hall to cast ballots. San francisco has one of the highest vote by mail percentages in california. 606 of San Francisco voters cast their ballots without going to the polls on election day. The San Francisco elections director says his office is already having a problem with ballots not fitting through the processing machine. That is because the fivepage ballot is too thick when it is all folded together. Now, hes asking voters in San Francisco to fold each page separately and then stack them together before putting the entire ballot into the envelope. Individual ballots wont have to be processed by hand and that will speed up election results. Her performance was canceled minutes before because what she was wearing. At the 7 everrers game seeing the national anthem. The organize in iization is testimonying me that i cant because i am wearing a wee matters jersey. The philadelphia 76ers sold her she could not sing because she was wearing that jersey that said we matter. Afterwards, she told a reporter that she was extremely angry and disappointeddable. The 76ers say why the performance was canceled. Now, they did issue this statement. Quote, the philadelphia 76s organization encourages meaningful action to drive social change. We use our games to bring people together to build trust and to strengthen our communities. As we move from symbolic gestures to action, we will continue to leverage our plattform to positively impact our community. Time is now 6 18. Sal is back. Were going to get you to where you need to go this morning. Sal, the commute, youre watching highway 24 and everything else. Thats right. We are looking at highway 24 and we are going to see that traffic is getting more crowded on westbound 24 heading out to the tunnel. There have been no major problems driving through as you drive into oakland. However, it is getting more clouded crowded and looking at the accident list here, we dont see a lot which is good on this stretch anyway. Lets move along and take a look at the commute here on the westbound bay bridge approach. You can see traffic here is slow for about a 15minute delay before you make it on to the span. And we are also looking at the south bay commute. I am lucky at what i see so far. You dont see a lot of the road senhor 14s sensors changing. A little bit of slow traffic, but you still have a Good Opportunity to get up into the west valley before it gets too crowded. 6 19. Todays weather. Some rainfall overnight and some scattered showers. Things will picking up later on today late in the afternoon into the evening hours. With that is going to enhance the rainfall especially out towards central california. Now, we had the rainfall overnight. Hoar is the current radar pattern. You can see some rain showers in parts of the north bay with mostly cloudy skies and rain in portions of the sanoma county and some more action to our south and west. We could put a distance locater 50 miles to our west. Well hold off to some rain showers for this morning but definitely picking up later on today. Current numbers very mild. Upper 50s to the lower 60s. So youll definitely feel it. Its pretty mild out there when you step outside the door there morning. All the way three inches. That will be right on through friday. Just for today, these amounts. Youll see theyll come up a little bit right on through 10 00 p. M. Tonight for your thursday. We are talking about a quarter of an inch of rain. The south bay. Santa rosa,. 32 and San Francisco a quarter of an inch as well. Rain returns today. Heavier too often and friday morning. The weekend, a cooler system. That cold front moves in. Rain likely for your friday morning and by the afternoon hours will scale back some of the activity. Chance for rain on friday. Especially up toward the sanola county and rain toward sunday morning as well. Here we go this morning. Some scattered rain showers out there and maybe some more breaks in the action by about 2 00. Look what happens this evening. Definitely increase in coverage and intensity for the thursday afternoon and evening commute. Friday morning starts out wet, and then were going to have some more scattered showers for the rest of the day on friday. And theyll be watching out for that. More development in parts of fort bay throughout the day on saturday. The forecast model will probably enhance on that rainfall throughout the day on saturday, especially up in the north bay as i mentioned. Temperatures this afternoon, ever 0s. Really not the big story out there. And thankfully, the winds are not extremely strong as well. We do not have a wind advisory. Here is a look ahead. So morning rain for your friday. Some showers for the afternoon hours. A chance of some rain on saturday especially for the evening hours. And in a place like santa rosa picking up some rain earlier in the day. Rain first thing sunday morning and then well get a break into monday. Its important we get those breaks. Were going to get some soaking rain definitely tonight and tomorrow morning for the commute. Good to know a lot of people want to plan that. And thank you, clark. And it is 6 22, and there has been a delay in the release of apples new airpods. And the reason iphones will have to wait a little longer for wireless epuds. Well tell you what the experts are doing today. The mae gave her Top Executive managed aa huge pay raiseet, and a lavish car allowance, run up a deficit, then cut jos for local teenagers, and cut afterschool program. No wonder tchronicle called Mae Torlakson flatout unprepared for the assembly. They endorse tim grayson. As mayor of concord, grayson balanced the budget every yer while doing more for kids. Tim grayson for assembly. Welcome back to mornings on 2. The a Police Officer was not hurt. That is despite crashing his patrol car into a pizza parlor. Here is some of the aftermath. It happened early yesterday morning. Police say the officer was responding to he ports of a driver evading police, but he lost control of his patrol car and clashed right into that restaurant. Fortunately, no one was inside. A landlord in East Palo Alto accused of vandalizing the cars of some of his tenants is rejecting a plea deal and made no comment before or after a court appearance. Prosecutors had offered a deal that included him pleading guilty to felony vandalism. He would pay restaurant fusion and serve one to two years in jail. There is Surveillance Video from the apartments that he owns that the victims say show him shooting out the windows of cars owned by some of the sten innocents. Prosecutors say he wanted to get tenants in rentcontrolled apartments to move out so he could raise the rent on those units. Its the motivation that we believe under lies this that real