Next one has zero chance. The storm track is way to the north. Mostly sunny and warmer into your weekend. Translates in to low to mid60s. Today upper 50s. I like it. You got it. Nice weekend. Get outside. Then come back all refreshed. Thats what we do. Good morning. Lets talk about the bay bridge toll plaza. We want to talk about the back ups there. You can see its backed up for about a ten to 15 minute delay. Not to bad. Its a little lighter but a little lighter than normal into San Francisco. We are look agent East Bay Drive in general and its turning of nicely. Its more congestion but we dont have a lot of it mere in front of the coliseum. I want to mention that the traffic is going to be okay on 580. A little bit of slowing on 238 as you come out of ca, stro valley. 880 southbound. Doesnt look bad. The lanes of 580 are open again. 580. This morning. These are live pictures. The big story has been all lanes of interstate 580 in dublin that have been open for the drive for about an hour now following a nasty big rig crash that happened last night. All westbound lanes were reopened at about five. This is a live picture of it going on right now. Chp had rushed to get the road open for the friday drive. Here is the reason why. A big rig hit at least one and possibly several cars on interstate 580. It happened at six. Part of the big rig caught fire and blocked all westbound lanes there. Were no reports of injuries. It sure did cause a huge january from these pictures as you can see. Lets go back to the desk. We have developing news in the south bay. Sheriffs deputies still searching for a bank robber who has been on the run since yesterday morning. They think he is he hiding somewhere in the the santa cruz mountains. We are in the area where he was last seen. What do you know now . Reporter he may have changed clothes. Thats what sheriffs deputies saying. As you said he may be still hiding here in the santa cruz mountains. The last thing that the sheriffs deputies from Santa Clara County said was that he was last seen in the area of locust drive. For people to secure their homes in that area. Now the Santa Clara County sheriff said that just after ten last night they received a 911 call from a woman who said a man broke into her home on locust drive and held a knife up to her. He eventually took off in the womans van and dumped it. Investigators believe the man is the bank robber that they have been searching for since yesterday morning. He was reportedly last seen wearing a green bea n, ie a tale san jose shark shirt and dark pants. In the picture his face is completely coved with a mask and that is the problem. Police have been working to identity who he is. They say that after he robbed a bank of america yesterday he sped off in a White Chrysler on highway 17 and crashed. A Police Officer fired shots but its not clear if he was hit. The thief has been on the run ever since. All that happened in front of me. I mean its hard to explain but is was shocked. Yes. Exactly how it went down. Reporter now as authorities search for the robber people in the area were told to stay inside. Nearby school was put on lockdown and highway 17 was closed for nine hours. It finally reopened at eight last night. With resupposed to get update from the Sheriffs Office late their morning. They are he think in the 8 00 hour. We will bring that to you once we have now information. In the meantime they are telling people if they see anything suspicious in this area to please call the police. Back to you. All right. Thank you. Keep checking back. Meantime criminal proceedings against a woman charged in the killing of a member of the explorers in the Alameda CountySheriffs Office have been suspended. Yesterday the judge hearing the case against the 23yearold laura rogers ordered the doctors look at if she is able to stand trial. She and her boyfriend are accused of lowering a luring a girl to a park where she was stabbed, beaten and then set on fire. Taylor is expected to give a plea. Rogers is due to go back to court in march. Both are being held without bail. The president hosted his first world leader later today at the white house. Theresa may will arrive, both of the countries are going through major transitions now. Doug jennings us live from washington with more on this. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Not really a surprise the way its timing out. We have long talked about that special relationship between the uk and the United States. In fact thats a phrase we will probably here today as trump hosts his first world leader. Trump salutes and walks up the stairs of air force one. His first time as command america chief. Is he getting used to the new ride. Beautiful. Great plane. Really beautiful. Reporter this tool of international diplomary will carry him into a world thats realigningm. That will be clear later today as he meets with theresa may who is shepherding or hundred country through exit negotiation was the eu. She spoke at a republican gathering in philadelphia ahead of todays visit. Because of that great victory you have won america can be stronger, greater and more confidents in the years ahead. Reporter while the United States and uk may get stronger ties to mexico are getting worse. The president of mexico canceled a United States visit next week buzz trump is moving forward on a border wall. People want protection and a wall does that. Reporter how will he pay for it . The white house floating the idea now of a border tax to force payments mexico. That may go over with a thud with many free market republicans in Congress Though say nothing of democrats. At trumps visit to philadelphia led it large protestsn. Washington later today the march for life. The anti abortion event draws thousands each year and the Vice President will become the highest Ranking Administration Official to ever attend. And as far as United States relationships with mexico this morning trumps twitter account mexico has taken advantage of the United States for long enough. Massive trade deficit and little help on the very weak border must change. Now. Doesnt an that the relationship will improve any time soon. Back to you. Thank you. A 20 import tax on products mexico could mean higher prices here in the United States. At 6 30 christian is going to talk more about the product that would be impacted the most and what is means for consumers here in the bay area. . Will the city of Miami Florida is complyinw the pres call to end sanctuary cities many he signed a memo undoing their status as an immigrant sanctuarry. Protesters protested. The president has threatened to with hold federal funding cities that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. The Sacramento Bee is reporting that Democratic State lawmakers in sacramento plan to introduce a package of bills that would make california a sanctuarry state. The legislation would restrict state and local Law Enforcement agencies from helping federal immigration authorities around the entire state. This week the mayors of San Francisco, oakland, san jose and berkeley vowed they will remain sanctuary cities despite the threat of lawsuits and possible loss of federal funding. An incident in San Francisco is creating fear and anger. Ice appearings searching for a convicted sex offender wanted for deportation went to a Family Resources center that includes a preschool in the Mission District by accident. The address for the fugitive was next door. When they went next door the man was not there. They left without making any arrests. More than 900,000 was raised for some of the victims the deadly oakland warehouse fire. Up next why some still have not seen any of that money. And a created embryoy thats half human, half piping. The reason behind the test in southern california. Well there we are. How about that . We have looks like a nice friday and beautiful weekend. We will talk about the temperatures and see when the next rain may show up as well. Welcome back aim group of hickories lucky to be alive an affeldt lance tracked them down a mountain in southern california. It happened ino mount baldy. Three hiker was own unstable snow. Eye rescue chopper from the Fire Department was able to find them and then take them to safety. One of them crawled through the snow until he found Cell Phone Service and called the police for help. While two were able to go home without being hurt the third was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. Is surveyors of the deadly warehouse fire in elk land say they are waiting for the financial help they were promised. That fire was eight weeks ago and killed 36 and displaced a dozen. The local nonprofit Gray Area Foundation said its raised almost 900,000 but had to wait to give out the money while it identified fraudulent claims. Its pretty complex work and there is no real guide book for it. Another good example is the one orlando fund. The Orlando Shootings and that took three to six months to issue. Gray area said that 136 people will get checks in the next the two weeks. One survivor we spoke to said that is a long time to wait for help. Another fundraiser is being held tonight in san leandro. The band known as the fun dude wills preform starting at 5 30 tonight. The band is donating their time and museum be sames to help the victims and their families. They are asking for a ten dollar donation. There say move to make california the first state in the country to offer a third ge nda, option on state documents. A bill by a state senator would allow the option other than male or female on documents like a drivers license or birth certificate. They say that the transgender people face discrimination when they use ids that dont reflect the gender they appear to be. Opposing groups say that the documents should reflect biological identities for medical purposes. Human cells mixed with pig. Now scientists conducted a test in which they grew human cells inside pig embroyos. This is an early step to the goal of growing livers and humor begans in animals to transplant into people. They say that the ability to do it in piping Social Security very faraway still. There are also some ethical concerns about creating a human, animal hybrid. Thats different. Sal is watching the drive on the friday morning. I know are you watching highway 24. Thats right. Good morning. Westbound 24. Traffic is moderately heavy as you drive over to the tunnel. Not to badt. Seems to be slightly better today than it was yesterday at this hour. No promises getting over through the tunnel and into oakland. When you get to the bay bridge if you are going that far lue see the traffic has been good so far. Little bit of slowing at the toll plaz. Ly tell you what looks good is the East Bay Drive. You look at the green. Not a lot of red on the maps. 580 things seem it be better than normal. That includes the dunbar ton and the san mateo bridge. Forecast looks good here and also if you are heading up to the sierra. Probably a parking lot getting township 50 and 80. Thats true. There are no restrictions. Zero. Are you good to go. Its cold though. Its four below in truck eye. Not as cold in south lake tahoe. Around two to six. Itll be sunshine and each day the temperatures will bump up. Overnight lows in the Single Digits to seens. At least itll be a great weather weekend. Mostly sunny. No rain. No rain for your weekend. 61s. Next rain. Next thursday. Maybe to the north on the first but it look like the second for us. These higher clouds are almost out of the picture. A few high clouds, maybe partly cloudy briefly up to the mountains. The trend is for mostly sunny. Some lower 30s. Mid30s. Temperatures colder this morning. We had a lot more cloud cover yesterday morning. 33 santa clara. Morgan hill is in there. 37socal. There are plenty of 30s. Cooper tino at 30 but a slight off shore breeze or a northerly breeze. Air flow comes out of the north and then one of these systems swings in but they dont have much to work with and High Pressure you can see the signature right there beginning to build in and itll big time. Storm track goes up and oaf for the rest of january. As it builds in itll be impressive com faired to what we have had lately. Low to mid60 hes possible. Next rain middle of next week walmart rehabilitative deal with that when we get back. 350s on the temperatures. Tomorrow after a cold morning. Patchy fog though some pretty dry air. We will start to see temperatures in the low to mid60s. You did that just for pam. I did. I heard you say you did it for claudine. Which is it . I did it for her but now you that are here i did it for you. Thank you. In orlando some of the best player in football are showing off amazing new skills. They took part in the first ever probowl skills challenge. Look at that catch. The nfc competed against the afc including precision passing the drone drop. Wow. Giants wide receiver won the drone drop. He caught a ball from a drone from the height of a 12 story building. The competition is tied going in to the final event. Elliot eliminated hilton. Property bowl game is on sunday. They look like they are having fun. Had to. Yeah. 6 19 is the time. Amtrak engineer involved in that deadly crash in philadelphia two years ago has filed a lawsuit. Coming up, the reason he is blaming amtrak for the accident and why his argument may not hold up in court. And a new bay area ferry is supposed to Start Service between berkeley and San Francisco but up next the trouble for the company that may delay the scheduled launch today. . Q. You popping your head . Thats right. Its hiphop friday. If you want to request a song on our team. This one is requested by general for lee. Thank you jennifer for that request. There is a special song you want to hear let you know. Ly play yourq. Our theme is hiphop friday. Use the hash tag ktvu. That will get you going with a smile. Thank you. Also new, there is a new development in the vw emission scandal. The associated president reports prosecutors now have evidence that the former ceo had knowledge about the cheating earlier than he first claimed. He stepped down in september 2015, just days after the scandal became public. At the time the vw executive said he was the not aware of any wrongdoing. Being was given the maximum sentence of three Million Dollars for the deadly san bruno explosion in 2010. It happened six and a half years ago in the crest moore district of san bru instructor o. The neighborhood still trying to recover. Eight people were killed. Many were seriously hurt. Dozens of homes were destroyed. Officials are happy with the sentence, especially the Court Appointed monitor who will oversee the companys natural gas operations for fiveyears. All we were working for all of these year Social Security being transparent and justice. The judge served justice today and the rest will come with the independent monitor over the next five years at least. That Court Appointed monitor will oversee all of pg es operations during five years of probation and other penalties include the maximum fine, three Million Dollars to be paid immediately and ten thousand hours of community service. Two thousand of those hours will be preformed by top pg e executives. A private ferry operator may face a delay in its plan to launch a new service between berkeley and San Francisco. The tideline was scheduled to start that new Service Today but the times report that the city of berkeley said that its not yet completed the application forms required to operate that ferry service. The rain and snow we have had is really doing a lot of good. Now half of the state no longer is dealing a drought. The United StatesDrought Monitor said that severe or extreme drought now activities in only 51 of the state. Look at these two maps. The one on the left shows drug levels this time last year. The one on the right shows the areas still dealing with some drought condition this is week. Very little. Officials say only about 3 of the state of california remains in extreme drought. Mainly around santa barbara. Though most of the state is better off than it was just a month ago the governor said that he is not ready to declare that the drought is over just yet. With the dry weekend this is your chance to get outside and there are plenty of events around the bay area to check out. Here is rosemary with the weekend watch. In to the final weekend of january. Here have is some of the events taking place. We will start in the east bay where its time for the oakland as fan fest. The as will host it at Jack London Square on saturday. Some of the highlights include players and coach question and answer, photographs and autographs and a kids game arean. San francisco lue find one of the oldest major dog events. The Kennel Club Dog show will host almost two thousand dogs. This is a bench show which means you can walk around and talk to breeders and see an maams between events. The dog show will be at the cow palace saturday and sunday. Interested in seeing the future of the world . The worlds fair nano will feature a two day festival filled with technology, art, music, food and more. You can find it at pier70. In the south bay. Celebrate the year of the rooste