We want to know if you are planning to line up for the new gadgets. Plus, he is one of the greatest cabaret acts in the country. We are live with sean ryan about the one night only show coming to San Francisco. Way back it my youth. You know it, sal, dont you . Stevie v. Spring love. On this first full week of spring. Mike gave me this quizzical look of, what is it . You are making me happy with the dance moves. I have no dance moves. No. Moving the shoulders a little bit there. 1988. 1988 . Yeah. This is freak style. I used to spin this when i was a d. J. , man. Babe, come on going way back. Happy monday. Yes, make your morning a good one. Monday. The first full week of spring. Taking a look behind us, you cant tell, it looks grey. Wet in some sports. We will talk about weather in a minute. We have to talk about the commute. Sal, it is still rough . Yes, a bus bridge will likely remain in place for the rest of the week. Dozens of train cars were knocked out of service last week and a section of traffic had to be shut down. Ktvu fox 2s alex savidge with new information on barts effort to get things back up and running. Reporter good morning to you guys. The good news is, in terms of the updates from bart, they feel like they are getting close to pinpointing whatever the problem is on this section of track in the east bay. They have been running test trains this morning to try to pinpoint where these power surges are happening that have damaged dozens of cars and taken them out of service. As a matter of fact, those test trains are carrying a few passengers. This is a train headed to sfo this morning. This is not one of those test trains that you are looking at here. But they are running test trains, carrying passengers. But still the situation this morning is that you have a majority of riders who are using those bus bridges to get where they need to go this morning. That was the scene here to get between pittsburg, bay point, and North Concord. So bart is not running a full schedule of trains along this section of track as engineers try to pinpoint the electrical problem that damaged at least 50 cars in the past week. Maintenance crews spent the weekend repairing dozens of cars. As a matter of fact, 36 more train cars were put into Service Today compared with last friday. That is easing the overcrowding on the whole system just a bit. Of course, the situation is not ideal for bart officials or for riders. We are still down in our car count, but seeing this positive trend for the better a good news. As long as we dont have significant incidents that takes out other cars, this is a good shape towards easing crowding this is a good sign towards easing crowding. Reporter bart brought in some outside experts, they said, this past weekend to try to figure out exactly whats causing these electrical surges along this section of track, and they say they are doing everything in their power to figure out what this problem is. But they still acknowledge, bart officials do, that it could take several months really to fix this problem permanently and get those damaged cars back in service. So again they are running these test trains, but the bus bridges will remain in place we understand for maybe the next week or so. Thats what bart officials want riders to plan for. Le a these passengers on test trains, are people volunteering to go on the trains . Are they being randomly selected in who gets to ride the test trains . Reporter if people want to, they just need to listen to the station agents. If people want to get on them, the acts who are helping folks out will just let them know to hop on one of those trains. Bart points out there is no safety risk at all. Alex, the situation has been going on for a number of days now. Have you been able to gauge whether or not people are a little bit crankier now than they were when the problem started . Is this wearing down on people . I didnt run into too many you know, people seem to be taking it in stride, i would say, all morning long. I didnt get too many running up that were overly angry, over frustrated about whats taking place. A lot of people say it took me an extra 20 minutes, 30 minutes this morning. But the bus bridge worked out okay for them. They got on their train and got off to work. The frustration level may build somewhat, but i think people understand bart is doing what it can. Thanks, alex. Its been an ordeal not only on the trains, but the ongoing problems have spilled over to the highways this morning. A lot of people opted to get into their cars either to get to the North Concord bart station or some people just said, heck, i am going to stay in the car the whole way. Here we are right now with a live picture along highway 4. So things have obviously cleared up. This is chip driving through. The traffic is actually going to be moving along a lot better, but you have to wait until this time. So i suggest is that . Thats cars by gary newman. I suggest waiting around watching the entire mornings on 2 the 9 and then going to work. There you go. I thought that was chips radio blasting for a second. As more and more selfdriving cars become the norm, some say Traffic Signals will be a thing of the past. Researchers at mit envision a Digital Traffic controller. One that allows cars to flow through intersections seamlessly instead of backing up at signals. The network would tell a car when there is a slot available to move forward. San Francisco May be tested for new technology designed to reduce traffic jams. Sidewalk labs is developing a Technology Platform that will help cities analyze traffic data in real time. The platform called flow will use traffic Data Collected lieu google through google maps. Its how to reduce crowding on roadways and increase transit accessibility. San francisco is competing to develop a smart city of the future. The others are austin, denver, pittsburg, columbus, kansas city, and portland. All right. 9 07. Lets check weather. Behind us its super grey, but according to you, steve, things are going to clear up a little bit towards the end of week . End the week. Traffic lights dont make sense. I am all in favor of that, guys. We do have a break at the end of the week. Gasia has been listening all morning long. Yes, by friday and saturday lots of sunshine. Today rain coming in already and there is some decent amounts yesterday. Now, mainly from the Higher Elevations and the north bay. I mean, forest knolls, west moran threequarters. Occidental, Russian River an inch of rain. Middletown had an inch of rain. Oakmont near highway 12 near kenwood twothirds. Mount diablo a halfinch of rain. There wasnt a lot besides that. Mount view, fremont, concord, san jose, redwood city, San Francisco. 10inch or less. Bone lohman. 91. Santa rosa threequarters. Kent peeled, knappa halfinch to a third of an inch. Rain is on the way. Its close here. We made it through most of the morning commute without it except up north. Also into lake county as well. Rain will move in later. Not a lot, but a little more than what we had San Francisco south on this next one. I think. 15 to a third of an inch. Another halfinch to maybe an inch would not surprise me marin county. After tuesday we are done because the High Pressure is going to build in right there. Systems getting very close. Most of this taking aim at the north. Possibility of some thundershowers. Look at that near fort bragg. Lightning detection picking up there. We are in the mcfor that. I would think mendocino county, lake county more so. Starting to inch north or southward, i should say, santa rosa, roanoke park, yountville, glen ellen on its way. A little line straight off of point reyes. That bears watching for possible shower activity. Rain will pick up later this afternoon right there. Thats all swinging in. So thats also going to keep us on the cooler side today, guys. By friday, saturday, maybe some 70s. With the recent storms some people are questioning whether we need to cut back on our water usage. Last year the governor cut water use by 25 because of the drought. State water officials will look at the snowpack and decide if its time to relax or drop restrictions. Until then the utility district says people should keep saving water. One year of average rain may not be enough to repair for years of drought. Because we dont know how long droughts will be, we have to keep these practices alive. While mean reservoirs in Northern California are full, others in central and Southern California remain low. In fact, data out last week shows that 74 of the state remains under a severe drought. Ktvu is your source for complete el nino coverage. Download our free ktvu weather app. Whenever you go find up to date weather conditions and live stormtracker radar. Search for ktvu right there in the app store. The faa is investigating an iphone fire onboard an Alaska Airlines flight from Washington State to hawaii. Anna says she was watching a movie on her iphone thursday night when flames started shooting out of it. A spokesperson for the Airlines Says the fire was put out by flight attendants. The incident left her shaken. She described what happened during a skype interview from hawaii. Flames coming off my phone. I flipped it off on the ground and it got under someone elses feet and the flames were getting higher. Alaska Airlines Says its crews are trained to deal with this type of situation. No one was hurt. Speaking of iphones, apple is expected to lease some new products today. Janine de la vega is going to have that in a live report coming up at 9 30. We want to know this morning though how often do you upgrade your apple products . I get so much grief when i take this out in the newsroom. People think its ancient. I am going to use it until it dies. I am going to squeeze every last second. Are you one of those who likes the newest thing in your pocket all the time . Are you like me and you use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without. Let us know. Use the hashtag ktvu the 9. Coming up on mornings on 2 the 9, good news for crab lovers. When the commercial season will open. And moved is now apoll microsoft is apologizing for an xbox party it threw. It sparked some controversy. The best things in life for free checking stocks for you. Not a lot of big movements. We see the dow is essentially flat. Nasdaq has gained fewer than 3 points. S p is down by less than 1 point. Markets arent doing much so far. We are following some of the top stories around the area. Thank you so much. Here are some of the top stories this morning. The city of san jose taking steps towards building manufactured housing for the homeless on a plot of land it owns. Its on evans lane. The San Jose Mercury news reports the county sent out notices of intent last week to award contracts. The buildings would house between 100 to 170 homeless people. Look similar to the facilities at the homeless center. It would have six to eight bedrooms with a communele kitchen. A Court Hearing is set for this week in the case against the man accused in the shooting death of kate steinle. Lawyers for Juan FranciscoSanchez Lopez are asking for the murder charge to be dismissed saying the shooting was an accident. Steinle was shot and killed in july while out on a walk with her family an San Franciscos pier 14. Lopezsanchez pleaded not guilty to seconddegree murder and other charges in her death. The case also ignited a National Debate over immigration. Lopezsanchez is from mexico and is in the country illegally. He had been deported five times and was released from jail, even though federal immigration authorities asked for him to remain in custody. An update on the sentencing of ray mound chow. It was expected to happen this week in San Francisco, but the federal Court Calendar is out and sentencing is not on it. A jury convicted him in january on 162 counts including racketeering and murder. The murder conviction carries a mandatory life sentence. Chows arrest in 2014 was farther of a fiveyear federal undercover operation, which resulted in charges against former state senator leland yee. And late they are week commercial crab season will finally return here to the bay area. State officials announced the commercial crab season starts on saturday after Health Reports that show crabs south of the mendocinosonoma county line show it no longer pose as risk to humans. Those are your Morning Headlines from the newsroom. Gasia, mike, sal, back to you. Thank you very much. Microsoft says it was wrong for hosting a party with scantily dressed female dancers during a Video Game Developers conference in San Francisco last week. Several people who attended thursdays event complained on social media that the hired dancers were offensive. Some also noted the irony that just hours earlier microsoft had sponsored a women in gaming [ inaudible ] to promote diversity in the industry. Today with would be the day to tweet happy birthday to tweet. Celebrating their tenth anniversary today. Cofounder and Ceo Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet on this day in 2006. That tweet said, just setting up my twitter. On this occasion, gentlemen, i looked it, up your first tweets. Mike mibach first. Your first tweet, mike, was now on twitter. Heading to petaluma. Sal, yours works and i love this, my first tweet. I was so excited. According to twitter, katy perry has the most followers. 84 million. Justin bieber is the most mentioned user on twitter with 943 million mentions. What was your first tweet . I tweeted back to the person who helped me get set up on twitter. Thank you . Thank you and have a good weekend. Good one. Nothing exciting. Coming up on mornings on 2 the 9, we are taking a look at the bay area roads and transit systems up and running and we are asking you how much you would pay for gas to improve our commute. Up next, that answer. The Gillette Mach 3 turbo still feels better after 10 shaves than a disposable on its first. Mach 3 blades have twice the coatings. For a closer shave with zero redness. Get an incredible experience shave after shave after shave. Gillette. The best a man can get. Welcome back to mornings on 2 the 9. We have seen this morning with bart even with regular maintenance, road and transit systems deteriorate with time. What it will take to get out of this hole. Reporter looking at back, the metropolitan Transportation Commission says we have already racked up 20 billion in backlogged deferred maintenance. That just to bring the systems up to a good state of repair without spending a penny for anything new. Of that 20 billion, about 15 billion of that is accounted for by bart, muni, ac transit, and caltrain. Reporter after that, another 28 billion for local, county, and state roads. Again without any new construction. So at the Farmers Market we asked, how much more people would be willing to pay to get the roads back in the condition that has made them the envy of the world. We are paying so much on summer blend gas and i do a lot of driving. No. I definitely would pay more. I mean, 10 cents a gallon. Reporter what if i said a dime . Done. Reporter 25 cents . I would want to see the money added to the gasoline cost would actually go to fix the roads. Whatever that is. Reporter back in the 1960s, the gas tax was seven cents a gallon. The state paid cash for our roads. Now paying interest on road bonds. Gas taxes eaten away by inflation has not been raise inside 20 years. Back to 100 on roads only, the price per gallon would be 53 cents more a gallon. With the gas prices the way they are today, i would be willing to pay another 50 cents a gallon. Like 50, 60 cents more to the gallon. Reporter otherwise, the wear and tier will increase the shortfall on roads and transit. We are short about 48 billion of just bringing the system up to a state of good repair. So thats a total of 48 billion just to bring us back to up to where we should be. People said that they would be willing to pay more, but like that one guy said, are you sure that money is going to go to fix the roads . Every penny . Thats a concern, that the legislature, which has ultimate power, will take that money and use it for something else. Most people do not trust the government enough to give them that kind of authority. Would that spend that much money . I doubt people want to spend 50 cents a gallon. But i think people would be willing to spend more if they thought for sure they would see real improvements. We are we are not just talking about the big highways and freeways. Also the street in front of your house. We are talking about a system which is largely 40, 50, 60 years old. After it gets that old you have to put more money into it to maintain it. Or what do you do . Tear it down and do Something Big like the bay bridge. Think of it like you have a 10yearold car and the transmission breaks, okay . You take it in there and 3,000 later you drive out in that same old car. It works, but you dont see anything for your money. A lot of people feel that way. They dont see anything for their money, or just paving these roads. Whats that going to do to improve capacity . Nothing. It just keeps the roads run. What is your sense of the general frustration of this topic . Tell me about what you are hearing on the streets compared to when we were richer, we werent concerned with paying our mortgage . One of the things you hear a lot is when you go to another state people come back and say i was just in arizona or i was just in florida. God, their roads are in great shape. Wow, this is just amazing and they look at california and say, well, you know, we are just we got a problem. The problem is we havent been putting enough money into it. Remember 20 years since the gas tax was raised. In the last two years, we have cut the gas tax. That mone