The last to see the rain to arrive will to be the south. A typical front here. Some of the heavier amounts to the north. Some of this pretty steady. Slick over 29. A couple reports coming in. Be careful if you have to drive that. Wind and rain developing for us. The timeline, some areas are getting rain. Some are not. Light and steady and then picks up throughout the day. The heavier rain comes in this evening and tonight. The heaviest rain should be around 10 00. Early into friday morning. The wind will be a huge factor once this develops. Here it comes. The only thing missing is cold air. Everything else is in place. Rain off and on and then picking up, especially late they are afternoon and tonight. 60s on a lot of the temps. Allie, do you have any reports of rain on your traffic . Any influence of that yet. No reports of rain. There is something that i want to talk about in the south bay that has to do with a flooded lane. Traffic hazard popping up on the chp cad. This is further north of 880. What i want to do is show you because theres a crash northbound 101 north. Thats the one that came in as a report of a left lane flooded. So dont believe that is because of rain. Maybe a water main or something that broke. Taking a look at the san mateo bridge leads up to the san mateo, 880 southbound to 92, it is slow. Stop and go. Typical for this time of morning. It is pretty crowded over there. Looking at the bay bridge toll plaza, things crowded there as well. Looking at about 20 minute delay to get on to the span. The time is 7 03. Lets go back to the desk. Thank you, allie. A hillsborough woman will be released from jail after her family and friends paid a Staggering Amount for her bail. Christien kafton is live out at the san mateo courthouse. This is record breaking for a bail amount. Reporter yeah. Certainly record breaking in san mateo. The bail was set at 35 million. The way that the bail works, it could mean that the family and friends of tiffany lee will put up twice that amount in all. He is accused of murdering his boyfriend keith green last year. His body was found in sonoma county. His phone was discovered in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Lee was worried that green would take custody of their two daughters. She was arrested at a mansion with a ferrari and rolls royce parked outside. Two men have been arrested in the case but are not on no bail status. Lee comes from a wealthy family from china a the way that the bail works, lee has put up 3. 5 million in cash because her family and friends put up property as collateral to make sure that she will make all of the court dates. The value comes close to 66 million in all. They will get the money back, providing that lee makes all of the court appearances. The d. A. Agreed to several conditions of the bail. If the bail is confirmed, lee will be under house arrest. Surrender passports for herself and her children. She is not allowed within 100 yards of any airport. Now, lees trial, again, set for september. Todays bail hearing will take place at 8 45 here in san mateo county. We are hoping to be in the courtroom later on for the proceedings. Lee could very well walk out of the courtroom today a free woman. Wow. Very interesting case. Thank you. We will check in with you in a little bit. 7 05 is the time. The murder trial of Garcia Torres continues today after a new tack i can used by his lawyers yesterday. He is on trial for kidnapping and killing sierra lamar three years ago. Defense attorneys had said that lamar is still alive and ran away from home. The defense now says she ran away because she was gay and afraid to tell her mother. Now, the earlier theory on why she ran away was she was upset that her family moved from fremont to morgan hill. Investigators have dismissed the theory that she ran away at all after interviewing friends and relatives. Her body has never been found. More mystery about the disappearance of a student. Alecia yellman was last seen last week ago. Surveillance video shows her truck going down a levee and getting stuck in an orchard. On monday, farm workers found the truck but it was empty. As search crews looked for her the past two days, her mother received Text Messages claiming her daughter was kidnapped. They were sent through an online source that used several ip addresses, making it very hard to trace. It makes me worried to go around by myself at night. She seemed to have a good head on her shoulders. The fbi has joined the investigation and forensic investigators found her cell phone and a single pair of footprints going away from the truck. This is a fee. A fee for the privilege of driving on our roads. We have to keep paying them or they wont work for us. Its just that simple. Now the bill would raise gas taxes and increase car registration fees to raise 5 billion a year to repair california roads. Republican critics say the state could use existing money but democrats say that would lead to cuts in education and social services. Environmentalists dont agree with the bill because of clean air standards for truck drivers. What is the Public Health cost of that . Are we balancing it with what were giving to the truckers. Supporters counter that saying some of the money goes towards reducing air pollution. San francisco raising medallion fees for taxis. The Municipal Transportation Agency voted to waive the fee for 700 people who held taxi medallions. But the taxi industry tells the examiner that is an empty gesture. The waiver only applies to a certain percentage of the cabbies. 1100 still face the fee. There say proposal before the board of supervisors to extend the waiver to everyone. But it would cost the city 1. 5 million in revenue. The time is 7 08. The man accused of killing his exgirlfriend in front of two of her children is in jail in martinez. Mcbride was arrested yesterday in sacramento. U. S. Marshals had been tracking him since Tuesday Morning after witnesses say he drove up to the car of his estranged girlfriend, franklin, argued with her and then shot and killed her. Her two young sons were in the back seat of her car and saw it all, but the children were not hurt. The napa District Attorney has identified the man killed tuesday afternoon in an officer involved shooting. The d. A. Says that man was steven ferry. His Linkedin Profile identifies him as the owner of a wine tours company. They say he drove his car at them while shooting at police officers. Napa police say they were called to ferrys home earlier in the day because of a dispute with a neighbor. People in the neighborhood say until that day, they had no problems with ferry. Oakland firefighters are cleaning up after a fire this morning on harrison avenue. It started about an hour ago. Firefighters say one person had to be rescued from a window. Two people were treated for smoke inhalation. Investigators think a candle may have started the fire. 15 people were evacuated from the building in total. But most will be able to return home today. Our time is now 7 10. A lawsuit against bart filed over filthy conditions at bart stations. Coming up at 7 30, why disability rights advocates says it violates their civil rights. Your drive on 101 in San Francisco just before the 80 split looks good. Coming up we will have a look at the contra costa commute. Rain has begun for some, not all. Towards marin county, sonoma, napa, especially mendocino and lake county. But it is on its way for everybody, including wind later this evening. Welcome back to mornings on 2. The time is 7 12. New this morning, the House Intelligence Committee chairman david nunes is temporarily stepping aside from the investigation into russias potential involvement in the 2016 president ial election. Now, there had been calls for him to recuse himself from the investigation because of his Close Association with Donald Trumps campaign. In a Statement Released this morning, the california congressman says several left wing activist groups have filed accusations against him with the office of congressional ethics. He says the charges are false and politically motivated and he wants to talk to the Ethics Committee as soon as possible to defend himself. Well, President Trump hosts the chinese leader at his palm beach resort today. It will be the first faceto face meeting of the leaders of the worlds two biggest economies. Back in washington a showdown in the senate about the Supreme Court is about to come to a head. Caroline has it all from the nations capitol. Reporter the two president s will likely butt heads on north korea Climate Change and syria. President trump says tuesdays gas attack of children in syria has changed his views of the conflict there. That attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me. Big impact. And i will tell you, its already happened. That my attitude toward syria and assad has changed very much. Reporter just before the president spoke, the white house announced a major shake up. Mr. Trump removed steve bannon from the principles committee. This is a National Evolution to ensure that the Security Council is organized in a way that best serves the president. Reporter meanwhile on capitol hill, democrats are waging their lastditch effort to block mr. Trumps nominee for the Supreme Court today. Elevating judge gorsuch to the Supreme Court bench would merely guarantee more of the same from the roberts court, a sharply divided already activist court. Reporter but republicans say they will change the rules to get gorsuch through with a simple majority, the nuclear option. It doesnt really matter who the president nominated. A democratic minority is determined to successfully launch an unprecedented filibuster regardless. Reporter also today the potential for an emergency meeting by House Republicans on obamacare before they head out for easter break. In washington, caroline shivley, fox news. Pepsi pulling the new ad featuring kendall jenner. We talked about this yesterday. She hands a pepsi max to a police officer. She drink its and the protesters immediately start cheering. People on social media were upset with the depiction, saying that they are trivializing the black lives matter movement. Pepsi has decide today pull the ad. Facebook has announced a new way to combat photos deemed as revenge porn. They ensure that people cant reshare images that were reported revenge porn. That means if someone tries to share a photo that facebook took down, that person will see a popup saying it violates facebooks policies. In some cases facebook will deactivate the account of the person who posted the image. I want to check in quick on the stock markets this morning. Up today. And even a little bit of uncertainty of what is going on in washington as we have been following. Wall street typically does not like uncertainty. They will be watching for what happens here. Here is a look at the dow jones. Up 23 points. The nasdaq also up 3 points. And the s p 500 up a little bit as well. Well keep watching. Yeah. The time is 7 17. Were also watching your commute. Allie rasmus what do you see out there. I want to start with the east shore freeway and highway 80. This has been an issue all morning long. Take a look. 39 minutes, almost 40 minutes to get from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze. That may be because of a series of crashes that have happened up and down westbound 80 throughout the morning. Lets show you the maps of the latest ones. The latest ones eastbound 80pinole offramp. The icon hasnt popped up on the screen. But the one with the flashing crash lights, hercules, paramedics and fire are on the scene there. Both of the incidents, ambulances have been called to the scene. Taking a look at the commute in contra costa county. It is slow but no major issues to report there. Crowded towards walnut creek as well. This is a look at highway 24, going through lafayette, heading towards the tunnel. Typically slow this time of morning. You see traffic is moving. Although it is kind of moving at a snails pace. No big issues to report but the usual slowdowns for this time of morning. Same for the bay bridge toll plaza. 20minute delay to get through the toll plaza. The time now is 7 18. Steve, what is going on in weather world out there . Well, allie, i think you know. Yes, i know what is coming tomorrow. There is rain that has already begun for many. Seriously some of the early rounds are coming in. It is going to get very windy tonight. You folks along the mendocino coast, i would not be surprised to see gusts up to 60 Miles Per Hour. Many napa valley chicks, but this is the napa valley chick. Quite a change from last weekend when it was warm and gorgeous. Was it warm last weekend . Yes, it was. Not this weekend. Not this weekend. Rain steady. Not too heavy. Light, steady, sprinkles. Santa rosa has a steady rain. Already picked up measurable amounts up into lake county. Starting to develop. Vallejo, rodeo, richland, el sobrante has rain. Mill val he other, San Francisco. Although some areas, daly city, not yet. Plenty off shore and a long way to go before this moves through. The bulk of it will be tonight. I think there will be intense rain tonight. Well, this evening and tonight. Rain ukiah to cloverdale. Theres Hidden Valley lake and clearlake. Wind and rain. Some areas may have more wind than rain. This could be a huge wind producer tonight. It sure looks like it. Rain and wind by tonight. We will get one more piece of energy coming in late friday and into saturday. Sunday and monday look okay. More rain next wednesday and thursday. Might even be as strong. Three quarters of an inch to an inch. Two to three maybe four feet of snow after everything is said and done. Timeline goes from light to steady. Some areas already have that. By noon, it starts to pick up. By 4 00, really getting into the window. 8 00 to 10 00 looks intense. Could be rapid rainfall rates here by this evening. If you need to get out, get home earlier, i might lean on that. Santa cruz mountains, three to the north bay and lesser amounts for others. Everyone in on the rain. The snow, the winter storm warning goes from 6 00 p. M. Tonight through 6 00 p. M. On saturday. Two to four feet of snow. Very wind e. You know there. 30 Miles Per Hour winds up in south lake tahoe. Either a wind advisory or a high wind warning. On the coast it is a high wind warning. In the flat lands, it is a wind advisory. If youre in the hills, it will be howling here pretty soon. I will promise that there will not be a quiz. What youre seeing is a baraclinic leaf. Rapid development of a system. As it wraps itself up, pressure forming off of the oregon coast which in turns ecalls a roaring south wind on its way for later tonight. Already beginning to develop. 50s on the temps, 60s. This will give intense rainfall as well. It might be a short duration. Thats what we can hope for. Not much yet for the valley but in the hills and the coast. The wind is picking up. You will see this come together tonight and tomorrow morning. We get a break friday afternoon and maybe even friday morning. Then the next one friday night and early saturday. Then a break the rest of the weekend. Watch what happens wednesday, thursday, more rain coming in. Even signs of more rain after that. 60s on the temps to near 70. And i dont think the temps are going to be warming up any time soon. In fact they will cool off rapidly. Highs on saturday, upper 50s. Okay sunday and monday. Giants home opener i think we will be okay. Okay. Thats good news. Yeah. We would hate to have rain on opening day. A lot of pressure. We will be asking you again on monday. Thank you, steve. You bet. The raiders ma i have to leave the coliseum sooner than they thought. The new accusations that may have the team on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Tight security again for this years Boston Marathon. The new tool that police plan to use four years after the deadly bombing in boston. Businessman 2 weve gone over the numbers several times, and. Businessman 1 yea, yea, yea. You know what im craving right now . Businessman 1 over speaker guacamole and bacon. 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Luckily no injuries reported yet. A tornado watch covers most of central and eastern South Carolina today. Many travelers were stuck overnight at atlantas airport. More than 500 flights were canceled yesterday much those storms hit, stranding hundreds of people. Theyre down on the floor sleeping. Some flights this morning have also been delayed. One traveler trying to get to her wedding. Its scheduled today in the dominican republic. There are so many flights already canceled this morning. So yes im very nervous about being able to make it there. Some day ill laugh about it. Not for a while but some day. Airport officials encourage any passenger, if youre flying to the southeast, double check your flight status before heading to the airport. It will take some time to get all of the delayed passengers where they need to go. The warriors clenched Home Court Advantage for the entire playoffs last night by beating the phoenix suns 120111. They are winni