And just shy of 30 in the central and southern. We still have a ways to go in the snow melt is coming way down. In San Francisco 59 and we have the record high and record low and we have to go back to 1895 when it was 89 degrees. Almost every reporting station including Ukiah Fairfield reporting cloudy. We have big fog bank and behind this is that decent westerly breeze with the cold ocean temperatures. 40s and 50s on the temperatures, kelseyville, calistoga, sevastopol, it is cool. Light rain possible from bodega bay, santa rosa and north. Bristling at the beach with enhancement taking place from this strong system which keeps us cool in the 50s and 60s. It is 6 01 am. Things are picking up. We have slow traffic into San Francisco. We take a look at the bay bridge which a lot of people obviously use, the metering lights on for almost an hour with a big backup where we had an earlier stalled vehicle at the toll plaza which made it slower. This is a 15 to 20 minute delay before making it onto the bridge. Once you get on the bridge it looks good into San Francisco. Looking at northbound 101, looking good approaching the i 80 split with no problems on the 280 extension. Looking at the dumbarton bridge , looking okay. When you get to the south bay we have an accident northbound 101 at x 80 on the shoulder at 680 on the shoulder. 280 looking good through downtown. 6 02 am. Contra costa authorities investigating whether the firebug struck again. There have been at least five suspicious car fires in the county since monday. The latest happening in brentwood overnight with two cars torched. We are at one of the scenes, and good morning and what do you know . Reporter we spoke with the battalion chief and they are not certain whether all of these car fires are connected but they consider the two in brentwood overnight suspicious and the battalion chief said this is not normal to have two car fires happening within a mile apart within 10 minutes. This one behind us is on the halbrook court in brentwood. You can see the fire spread to the garage. We spoke with the homeowner and luckily he and the family were able to get out safely thanks to the quick thinking of the neighbor. The neighbor was getting ready to go to work and saw the car on fire, ran over and knocked on the door to make sure that everyone in the house got out. The homeowner said this was very frightening because he is two young kids were asleep in the bedrooms right above the garage. 10 minutes prior to the fire being reported we have video of the scene at the other fire that happened in brentwood on highland way at 3 30 am. The owners of the car that caught on fire are out of town so no one was injured. The neighbors heard the commotion came outside and the neighbor also called 911 to report the fire. It was about 3 30 am and i heard the car alarm going off in a big boom. I woke up immediately and i saw the fire. Reporter investigators rat the scene both fires this morning and they told us they are considering these car fires suspicious because they happened within a mile from each other within 10 minutes from 3 20 am to 3 30 am. Over the course of the week there have been at least three other car fires in the western part of Contra Costa County from martinez, walnut creek and lafayette. We asked the battalion chief if they believe the car fires are all connected and they are looking into the possibility. They have handed over the information to the Contra Costa County fire investigator. We will speak with the investigators later this morning to see if they have connected the dots and considering this a trend in Contra Costa County this morning. Thank you. Governor jerry brown will release his revised state budget today kicking off a month of negotiations with the legislature. In january the governor proposed a budget that included over 3 billion in cuts due to the lower than expected tax revenue and the uncertainty about the future federal spending on healthcare. State lawmakers have the deadline of june 15 to past the new budget before forfeiting pay for every day the budget is not approved past the deadline. We are now hearing from the former fbi director james comey about being fired by President Trump, and this as questions continue about the timing of the termination. Our reporter is monitoring the latest. Reporter in the first phone call President Trump and the south korean new president have agreed to cooperate to resolve the north Korean Nuclear crisis and trump reportedly calling it a complicated problem but one that could be resolved. In the meantime the former fbi director james comey says he will not dwell on the President Trump decision to fire him. Very simply was not doing a good job. Reporter in the fbi farewell letter comey said he will be fine but will miss the fbi. The firing comes after the president felt comey was not doing enough to stop the leaks and about russia and that trump campaign. White house Officials Say he recently requested more resources about the probe into the 2016 u. S. Election. I think he basically lost the confidence of a lot of republicans endemic. Reporter the democrats won a special prosecutor and trump is the first president since nixon the fire beneficial leading into an investigation involving the white house. It is not take a Rocket Scientist to figure out why comey got fired. He was considering letting comey go since the day he was elected. Reporter the former National Security adviser michael flynn, ordering documents related to the senate u. S. Russian meddling investigation. Reporter fox news was told President Trump was not pleased with the white house in response to fire comey saying they were not on tv defending the president when the news first broke. A nationwide protest being planned for june 3 calling for an independent investigation into the allegations of russian interference into the u. S. President ial election. The protest organizers are calling for an urgent and impartial investigation into the possible ties between moscow and the trump campaign. Demonstrators taking to the streets across the u. S. To protest the firing of james comey, sky fox flying over the rally outside of senator Dianne Feinsteins office, and senator feinstein was in washington where she was calling for the special prosecutor to oversee the russian investigation. Lieutenant governor gavin newsom ramping up the campaign for Governor Holding meet and greet events with voters around the state. Last night he spoke with a friendly crowd of 80 people, mostly registered democrats, talking about issues of income inequality, homelessness. He talked about why people should vote for him. At the end of the day we are desperate for leadership, love or hate, i think ive shown that in the past with my issues and i want to continue on with the most difficult issue, social mobility. His next stop will be Santa Barbara in june and these town hall style meetings will continue next year. The Oakland Police will send out a warning after reported attempted kidnapping, the 10yearold boy said he was outside of his home on 45th street near broadway and a stranger came up and grabbed him. He was able to break free and run just before 9 00 tuesday night. This is not far from several schools including the Oakland Tech High School and the Elementary School but there has been no supervision description of the suspect. A journalist arrested while trying to ask a question of the Top White House official and the reporter explains what he was trying to do before being handcuffed. Lowering the voting age in california and supporters think it could make a difference. There is a by in the morning air was low clouds, cool pattern. Welcome back to mornings on 2, it is 6 13 am. The city of new orleans taking down the confederate statues, massive cranes removing the Jefferson Davis statue as people gathered to watch. Some celebrated and others protested. This is the second statue out of four scheduled to be removed. Yesterday louisiana judge denied the request of brought new orleans from moving the general beauregard statue, the first prominent confederate state general of the civil war. California lawmakers debating lowering the voting age from 18 to 17. This seven man evan low broke the bill that passed the committee yesterday and the voter turnout among californians between 1824 hit a record low in 20 2014 with the 15 drop since 2010. The assemblyman said lowering the voting age would help to develop a consistent habit of voting at an early age. When you are 17 you are captive in the classroom, High School Courses and civics. This can be relevant to them rather than being at 18 where they could be traveling, working or doing something else. Over 20 states around the country allowed 17yearolds to vote in the president ial primary if they turn 18 by the general election. The bill will now move to the Senate Appropriations committee. Nancy pelosi, the San Francisco congresswoman and House Minority leader in india meeting with the dalai lama in india. She told the crowd that she continues to work her human rights for all people including the people of tibet, accusing china using the economic power to oppress tibet and the tibetan people. It is the brutal tactics of the Chinese Government to release erase religion, culture and language on the tibetan people, challenging the conscience of the world. We will meet that challenge working together, we will meet that challenge. In the meantime china says the himalayan region has been part of china for over seven centuries despite the claims by the people of tibet that they are their own country. The West Virginia journalist is arrested by trying to ask the health and Human Services secretary question and he was arrested during the tom price visit. He wanted to ask the price about whether Domestic Violence is a preexisting condition under the healthcare proposal, and got no response so we tried again and again. I think that if you ask the ordinary person they would say that they want reporters to be aggressive and to ask tough questions, and to try to get the answers to the questions, and that was all i was trying to do, trying to get an answer to the question and do my job. Price said the Police Arrest virginia did what they felt was appropriate in West Virginia did what they felt was appropriate and arresting the journalist was not his decision. Looking okay, and i sit here all morning so i know the best time for certain freeways. 880 in oakland, driving from san leandro and getting up to downtown oakland, the best time to go is now before it gets really crowded. Maybe 7 30 am it begins to get crowded so you have a little bit of time before you get the big crowd into downtown oakland. The bay bridge already has a crowd with an earlier stall and the traffic is backed up for a 20 minute delay. Looking at 101 and San Francisco, looking okay driving up to the i80 split. Nice drive from the airport into this point of downtown San Francisco. In the south bay we have an early accident and northbound 101 near 680. So far so good in the south bay. A cloudy forecast but lets bring in steve. Thats right, even on the cool side with temperatures below average and staying there through next tuesday or wednesday. We only have subtle changes with almost every reporting station showing cloudy. Mostly cloudy, cool and breezy, windy for some. It just depends on the location, cooler inland. The weekend will be windy at times with below average temperatures persisting. 50s with the west wind at 12 and some locations with a southerly breeze, cloudy to mostly cloudy. At 5 am every reporting station in the bay area said cloudy and even ukiah and travis. We have some breaks but cool and 40s and 50s. San jose, i went 70 but reluctantly, averaging 7452 and close to average. 96 in 1934 for the record high and 41 in 1894. This big oil bank has pushed in by the system, the westwind, northwest and gusting up to 25 and yesterday was 3540. The wind will tell off with cloud cover. 48 for the water temperature in bodega bay but the San Francisco bully going up a little bit and in moderate but 50s up and down the california coast down to Santa Barbara was 60s toward la. That is cold water. 50s on the temperature in the low 60s, 50s and 52 at livermore and brentwood at 52. It is a very cool pattern with enhancement taking place as this system approaches, we get that cool air from that jet stream. A little farther north at bodega bay, possibility of rain with that cool low. That signature working its way down the west coast and continuing to send in bands for the next five days and the strong system looks to be next monday night or tuesday for us. The northwest coast could see inches of rain in this year could get snow as we head into early next week. 50s and 60s with a few very low 70s, way below average for most locations. It looks like this pastor and pattern is on hold for a while and cooler on friday. A slight chance of rain next week. Tuesday is the best bet and snow in the sierra. You set a decent amount of snow. 6 to 12 inches above lake level next tuesday. It will slow down the snowmelt with a lot of water up there. There warm up was not great for the melting and flooding that could happen. It is a very slow crawl now. Which is good. 6 20 am. The next, the california boy recovering after being involved in a crash, controversy over the driver who hit him, many people saying that that driver shouldve never been on our roads. A warning for the wine country, what the residents are being told to do and the effect on the grapes. Welcome back to mornings on 2, it is 6 23 am. Along the florida georgia border, that yous wildfire has burned over 220 square miles and only 12 contained. They were it could be burning all the way into november. Lightning started the fire, strong wind and drought spreading the flames with mandatory Evacuations Ordered for several towns. On april 6 we had a Lightning Strike and because of the dry weather that started the fire in the small small swamp. The smoke is enough to be seen from outer space but no injuries have been reported. Optimistic about the recovery of the young boy hit and severely injured last week and by an undocumented immigrant who may been impaired at the time. He suffered major injuries with two surgeries already. The family was driving home from disneyland when Constantino Acosta ran the stop sign and slammed into the pickup truck slammed his pickup truck into the family honda accord and was arrested a half hour later. He is in the u. S. Illegally and has been deported back to mexico 15 times in 15 years. This is where the system breaks down. Im trying to focus on my son coming home and making him happy and i hope that the Justice System can do its job. Acosta has been jailed for dui, hit andrun and driving without a license. Fellow federal Authorities Say they will deport him after he is convicted and serves his sentence. The latest medical advancements allowing young people with the aids fires to live almost as long as anybody else. New Research Shows young patients given aids drug have a nearnormal Life Expectancy in the current treatments include drugs with fewer side effects, and the patients also take fewer pills. The doctors say this is a tremendous medical achievement to make the aids virus manageable. The napa county officials are taking unusual steps to stop the threat to the Wine Industry and the Agricultural Office urging people and napa county to purchase plants only at the local nurseries because there are and signs of the glassy winged sharpshooter in the county, the adult insect choose through the plant and sucks out the water and kills the plant. Grapevines are a plant that is especially vulnerable to the insect. They have managed to fend off the invasion of the insect for 15 years but last april there was a mass of sharpshooter eggs found in the egg masses were found last year. I remember reporting on that a lot the last time this happened. It is 6 26 am. The warriors are sitting back patiently waiting for the western conference opponent and coming up, the freight offer for fans and Draymond Green has a message for the critics. The search for the missing man is over and we will tell you what the authorities had to say moments ago. The commute on the san mateo bridge not looking bad heading to the high rise and a 101. A cool pattern in place with low clouds. This is ktvu mornings on 2. Be very quiet, we are up in the clouds this morning. It is chilly, so stay in bed and watch mornings on 2 all morning. Good morning and thank you for joining us here on mornings on 2 on this thursday, may 11, i am dave clark. Good morning, i am pam cook, and it is 6 30 am. It is a good day to stay under the covers. Very chilly. Just stay in bed and be lazy. Low clouds, a cool pattern in place, no doubt about that and it will be here for a while. It will be here for at least six or seven days with if you breaks in the clouds, but the coast, bay and inland, if you 70s but mostly 50s and 60s. Outing Crockett Greg says there is low cloud cover there as well. 52 with the wind out of the southwest gusting at 13 m