Live at the toll plaza with the latest. Sergio . Reporter terry, as you mentioned, caltrans crews have been making some progress. They did clear all the lanes of their equipment and of a lot of the debris from that collision this morning but you can see way down there there are still four lanes on the bay bridge toll plaza that are still closed. In this video you can see the box truck careening across several lanes heading to toll booth 14. He struck five other vehicles that were in the lanes waiting to go through the toll plaza. After striking those vehicles continued and then struck a toll booth. Reporter inside that toll booth, 46yearold c. C. Han, a 10year caltrans toll worker. Several of her fellow collectors described her as the nicest person in the crew. They say their husband and 10yearold daughter are too upset to speak publicly. Governor jerry brown ordered flags lowered to half staff to honor her and he issued a short statement on behalf of he and his wife. Ann and i are deeply sad toend learn of the death of caltrans toll collector sisi han who died today after serving the public. Tow trucks towed await vehicles smashed in the collision and the box truck. The driver was ejected from the truck on impact but survived the crash. The driver suffered some fairly serious injuries and is over at the hospital right now. So of course one of the things that well be doing is investigating hart of the investigation is interviewing that driver. Reporter hes been identified as 32yearold daniel berk from foster city. When hes released from Highland Hospital in oakland, hell be booked on suspicion of dui and manslaughter charges. The truck he was driving was filled with Stage Lighting and sound equipment. According to berks social media pages he worked on several professional stage and live Event Productions in the bay area and is a member of a local stage workers union. In the distance there you can see that there is a gap along the toll plaza. Thats because its toll number 14, toll booth number 14 which was ripped out in that crash. Caltrans crews are going to have to spend at least the next day repairing and replacing that toll booth and some of the other damage. Reporting live at the toll booth plaza sergie quintana, nbc news. This is some video that we tweeted out earlier today. And you can find out whats going on while youre on the go by following us on twitt twitter nbcbayarea. Now to our other top story. It was about this time exactly a year ago that the fire at the ghost ship warehouse first broke out. Nobody could have predicted how deadly it would become, how much it would change hundreds of lives, and the city of oakland forever. Tonight people are still honoring the victims after an allday series of vigils. Nbc bay areas thom jensen is live at the warehouse with more on this very emotional night. Tom. Reporter terry, people are still coming by tonightish leaving artwork, sharing messages, lighting candles, but also in their private moments addressing this dire housing issue thats affecting so many people, not just struggling artists. So many different images, artwork, and expressions of love and loss for the 36 people who were tragically killed in the ghost ship fire. I didnt anticipate how hard it would be today. Ive had little panic attacks as the days gone on. Reporter bonnie houghs 35yearold nephew travis hough was at the warehouse the night of the fire. He wasnt a ghost ship tenant but like so many of his musician and artist friends travis could not afford oaklands high rents. So i think anything that we can do to keep the housing affordable for artists, for just anybody in this community would be incredibly helpful. Reporter the Steve Oakland says it has been working to honor that living legacy to the victims. I was taught that part of how you honor the dead is by what you do to build the lives of the living. Reporter oakland is currently working on a new system to share information on inspections and improvements that need to be made to living spaces. The city has also hired more inspectors in both the Fire Department and planning and citizening to help speed up permitting and ensure safeguards. Council member Rebecca Kaplan says the goal is to work with Property Owners to make improvements that wont force them to raise rents or even shutter buildings altogether. I also think its important to reinforce our commitment to making the changes that are needed to allow for safe legalization of alternative housing. Reporter and thats a message weve heard from everybody we talked with out here tonight. They did come to pay their respects to the 36 people who lost their lives but also to keep this discussion alive surrounding the need for more safe and Affordable Housing choices in oakland. Were live in oakland, thom jensen, nbc bay area news. Thom, thank you very much. Our coverage of the ghost ship fire extends beyond this newscast. We have posted our Investigative Unit exclusive detailing the fires impact on artists in the east bay. You can read it at nbcbayarea. Com. Now to our microclimate weather coverage. Conditions have been calm across the bay area today. But now were tracking a coastal flooding warning and a chance of rain. Rob mayeda has the details on that. Rob. Right now starting to see some showers in San Francisco and yes, the coastal Flood Warning due to the king tides and eventually some windy weather to wrap up the weekend. Lets start off with those showers. You can see some of that passing the Golden Gate Bridge. Generally light bouts of rain passing over the peninsula and a few more here into the north bay. And this is the nature of the showers well see tonight. Briefly enough to wet the ground but not much to show for it as we head toward tomorrow morning. That coastal Flood Warning isnt due to the storm. These are higher than average high tides. The king tooifrds the neides ov three mornings where high kooid will set up over seven feet. Peaking at ocean beach by mid to late morning and then the last component of the changes this weekend, windy weather. Could see some wind advisories as we head into the new week. The full details on your hour by hour forecast coming up in about 15 minutes. Terry . Rob, thanks a lot. Our nbc bay area app will help you stay on top of the changing conditions. It is free. You can get a detailed forecast for your neighborhood. 300 feet of shoreline collapsed, destroying a pier in oakland. Were getting our first real look at the damage in the daylight. Nbc bay areas sky ranger flew over the scene at the oakland estuary this morning. This all happened during construction for a development project. We spoke to the developer today, and he is saying that crews have been cleaning up and recovering the items that went into the water, including shipping containers. The collapse happened yesterday afternoon about 4 30. Four shipping containers filled with Building Materials went into the water. So far no Hazardous Materials have spilled into the bay. Well, the senate has passed the most Sweeping Change in our nations tax laws in more than 30 years. Not a done deal yet. It has to go to conference and the final version has to be approved by both houses of congress before going to the president s desk. But its still leading to concern across the country. The bill would reduce corporate and individual taxes by nearly 1. 5 trillion over the next decade. So last night at about 3 00 in the morning i got a call. Reporter President Trump today describing the moment overnight he found out his first big legislative win looks locked in. For years, not since ronald reagan, has anything even come close. They havent passed them. They couldnt pass them. They couldnt get the votes. Reporter but republicans got the votes to pass that massive tax plan that would cut individual taxes, cut the corporate rate, and do away with some popular tax breaks while adding a new one for child care. A nonpartisan analysis estimates it will add a trillion dollars to the deficit. Billed as a middleclass cut, theres still no guarantee all americans will see their taxes go down in whats the biggest overhaul in decades approved in minutes. Tax cuts and jobs act as amended is passed. Reporter only hours after senators got their first look at the final bill that left democrats furious with the process they slammed as rushed and opaque. This is the tax bill. See how thick it is . I want you to take a look at this, folks. This is your government at work. Reporter now, back in 2009 republicans leveled the very same criticisms at democrats during debate on the Affordable Care act. This massive piece of legislation is being written behind closed doors. Reporter that was then. But now but the argument that this was not an open process is ridiculous. Sure, there were changes as we moved along. But the core of the bill, everybody was familiar with. Reporter its not a done deal just yet. The senate still has to square its bill with the house version. More details now. A prominent leader in the Nonprofit Community is blasting republicans for the passage of the tax bill. The president and ceo of the National Council of nonprofits says the plan will reduce Charitable Giving by as much as 20 billion every year and put 264,000 nonprofit employees out of work. Tim delaney says the tax plan will boost the need for Nonprofit Services at the very same time that nonprofit budgets will be forced to shrink. A new twist to a controversial president ial tweet tonight. Now theres a report mr. Trump did not write it. It refers to former National Security adviser Michael Flynn pleading guilty to lying to the fbi. The president tweeted, i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the fbi. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide. Well, now the Washington Post is quoting two sources as saying the president s personal attorney authored the tweet, not the president. Critics are saying if the president knew flynn lied to the fbi and then asked then fbi director james comey to drop the investigation, it could be obstruction of justice. Tomorrow on meet the press california senator Dianne Feinstein will sit down and discuss the flynn controversy with chuck todd. You can watch that right here on nbc bay area. Still to come, facing the music. A famous conductor facing some serious accusations tonight as another Sexual Misconduct investigation emerges. Happening now, we have showers moving across the by area from San Francisco, san rafael into richmond. How much of this will stick around for your sunday forecast . The hour by hour outlook when we come right back. when it comes to holiday shopping, my wife loves style, my son is all about technology and my daughter . She just loves horses. Dont you just love onestop shopping . I do. Ring in the holidays with buick. Get up to 20 below msrp on most 2017 luxury suv models. Thats over 7,100 on this Buick Envision essence. Experience the new buick this Holiday Season. Experience the new buick allegations involve the longtime conductor of new york s metropolitan opera. New at 11 00, the latest Sexual Misconduct allegations involve a longtime conductor of new yorks metropolitan opera. The opera says it will open an investigation into james levine after an accuser says the famous conductor abused him when he was a teenager. The alleged abuse started three decades ago. The accuser says levine encouraged him to engage in sexual experimentation and that their relationship lasted several years. Levine served as music director of the met from 1976 until 2016. A shooting investigation in san jose has now turned into a homicide investigation. The man who was shot multiple times this morning has now died. The shooting happened about 4 00 this morning in roosevelt park. Police shut dun east santa clara street between north 25th and 27th during the investigation. Right now police say the shooter is still at large. But they have yet to release any details about that suspect. Flu season has arrived earlier and more widespread than it was at this time last year. It appears the risk might be greater this year even with the flu vaccine. Our medical correspondent dr. Jon torres shows us what this means for you. Reporter at mimon diaz Medical Center in brooklyn employees are arming themselves against the flu. The more people who get the vaccine, the fewer people who get sick, the milder the flu season is for everyone. Reporter across the country, 7,000 confirmed cases so far. Thats double the number this time last year. Widespread in four states massachusetts, georgia, louisiana, and oklahoma. In california gordon blowbaum is trying to avoid a repeat of the miserable aches and pains. I was down for three or four days. Is that why you get the shot . Yeah. I dont want to go through that again. Reporter if youre over 65, there are two vaccine options. Designed to boost immune response. Thats important because up to a month after older adults have recovered from the flu theyre still at an increased risk of having a heart attack or stroke. Public Health Experts are also warning this years virus could be a formidable foe. There are signs the vaccine against the main strain is only 10 effective. But that doesnt mean you shouldnt get vaccinated. There is very little down side to getting vaccinated. And if anything, thats going to be the only way to really protect yourself, especially because with the holidays the congregation of people and family gettogethers and things like that, thats how it so easily gets spread. Just last month Santa Clara County reported its first flu death of the season. But the victim did not receive the vaccine and had other Health Complications as well. Rob mayeda here now talking about some rain. A little bit. But heres the thing. This is the most rain well probably see for the next seven to ten days. And its not a lot but enough to wet the roads in a few spots tonight around San Francisco, san rafael, and richmond right now. Well take you outside, show you christmas in the park in san jose. Still mid 50s. Dry for now. But well probably see a few showers approaching the Santa Clara Valley closer to midnight and 1 00 a. M. The hour byhour outlook coming up in just ray few moments. Dublin still relatively dry, 51 degrees, but heres where its not so dry. The Richmond San Rafael bridge. Wet wood raze. Same across the Golden Gate Bridge where its 57 degrees, a little windy out there too. The shower chance wills begin to disappear rather quickly as we head toward tomorrow morning but in the meantime you see the showers around Half Moon Bay pacifica heading up to San Francisco. Light rain at times around richmond into the north bay and the wide angle view on this shows you for the most part this is a moisturestarved system. Were not going to see big rain totals out of it between now and about 3 00 a. M. , though, eventually those showers will pass through the south bay. As we wake up tomorrow morning 7 00 to 8 00 still partly cloudy skies, maybe a stray shower around the Santa Cruz Mountains but during the day not only do the showers shut dun but the skies clear out as those north winds really help to clear out our skies and dry us out to wrap up the weekend. So as skies clear tomorrow morning in the north bay its going to be chilly. Upper 30s to low 40s. Mostly 40s elsewhere and high temperatures tomorrow afternoon. Even with the sunshine going to stay pretty cool. Low 60s for most of the Santa Clara Valley, trivalley, upper 50s closer to oakland. Peninsula temperatures coastside in the upper 50s, low 60s from the peninsula and likely upper 50s closer to San Francisco aught around the outer sunset. And north bay temperatures low 60s for your sunday. So were looking at a chance of a few showers ending before sunrise, but watch these wind speeds as we go through the day sunday, first picking up out of the north and then turning more strongly northeast as we get into monday we may see wind advisories for the north and east bay hills as those wind speeds really pickup by 5 00 monday, 30 to 40mileperhour gusts in the hills. This is because high pressures building in, pretty strong ridge of high pressure, which shortterm is going to bring up the wind and act like a wall for incoming storms after this one chance of showers passes on through. You see it here in the sevenday forecast. Not much showing. Weve got breezy and dry conditions. Looks like monday will be the windiest day, especially midday. For places like San Francisco and those inland hilltops. But for early december this is a very drylooking sevenday and longrange models keep things dry almost 10 to 14 days. So thats not good news. Maybe about g. For outdoor plans but we could use some rain and snow. Weve still got january, february. Its only the First Quarter of the rainfall season i guess. All right, rob, thanks. 49ers new quarterback about to take the field tomorrow. Im excited. Mindi bach may be. I dont know. Shes got a preview. 49ers fans are in full force in chicago to see Jimmy Garoppolo make his first start with the team. And he didnt have to travel far. Garoppolo is back in chicago. We went to his hometown to find out why hes the player he is today. Thats next in sports. When you have doctors working as a team for your health, you get the care you need to help you thrive. Visit kp. Org to learn more. Kaiser permanente. Thrive. Hi, everyone. Im mindi bach here in the nbc sports studios. There are a lot of fans in chicago to see Jimmy Garoppolo make his first start with the 49ers. Thats in part because the quarterback grew up 30 miles from soldier field. Our 49ers insider matt mayocko is in chicago to cover the game and took a side trip to Arlington Heights to discover what made garoppolo the player he is today. He played linebacker for us as a sophomore, for varsity. Backup quarterback, linebacker. Very good, athletic. That was the first thing that stood out, is how athletic he was. We used him as an outside linebacker, just trying to take advantage of that. Was never like worried about pressure. He always just weve got a game tonight, im going to do my best, see how the outcome comes. He never put that pressure on himself. You could tell he understood the game. Even as a younger kid, junior, senior in high school he enjoyed the time and preparation it takes to be successful. You could tell he liked to study and enjoyed, you know, kind of figuring out what checks he needed to make. Jimmy from the very first time i met him was never intimidated by being the thought of possibly being a great player. He expected himself to be great. The potential failure in not succeeding never bothered him. So when you get a kid like that and an open book and they just apply the teaching and hes blessed with some skills and hes bought in. When he was a sophomore, ive only said this about two kids ive coached, i said i think youre going to make the nfl. Game 3 of 4 on the road for the sharks. Theyre in tampa bay. First period danny oregans shot is stopped but goodrow makes good on the rebound. The sharks take the lead early 10. But from then on it was all bad for san jose. Victor hedman with the breakaway chance. Saves it but on the ricochet Tyler Johnson buries it. Four unanswered goals for tampa bay all in the third period and they win this one. First loss for the sharks on that road trip. The 49ers kick off tomorrow at 10 00 a. M. The raiders at 1 25 as they host the giants. Well have all those highlights for you tomorrow. Well see you then. More news after the break. Attention this Holiday Season, as people decorate their homes. It s the upsidedohr yes indeed. A new trend is getting attention this Holiday Season as people decorate their homes. It is as you can see the upside down christmas tree. Robs shaking his head. Thats dangerous. Well, the ornament thing is kind of tricky. The trees have been offered by stores like home depot and target the past couple years. Its really taken off this year. Thats the difference. Even Shopping Centers and hotels are flipping their trees. The trend is heating up in london as well. Thats something were going to see at the mayeda household . No. Especially if the twin boys are running around. Those things will be on the floor in no time sxwlp the twins are 2 . Koryeah. But theyre pretty tall. The tree will have no chance. Thanks for joining us. Srm srnl cosaturday night liveg up next. Have a great night. when it comes to holiday shopping, my wife loves style, my son is all about technology and my daughter . 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