Were a couple of spin outs it happened about a halfhour ago north of the summit. I am preaching to the choir. Everyone who comes over the summit at this hour, they are pros, they are veterans. But slow down, please. We need to hear the preacher. The storm also brought snow to the highest to the bay area peaks. We sent chopper 5 over the east bay hills. A decent amount of snow accumulating this afternoon. Some tricky flying. Chopper 5 had to stay just below the clouds to capture these images. He mentioned the hail in the snow. There is more snow falling. This was shot by one of the while parlor cameras. Take a look at at this video out of lake county. The storm dumped snow on highway 175. This is in the middletown area on copper mountain. The lowlevel snow was nothing compared to what they are seeing right now in the sierra. Slow going along interstate 80 and highway 50. Chains are required. In some spots, it was he do schls. Minutes. E mina few right now, lets check in with brian hackney. Thats pretty impressive stuff. The drama is not over. We are definitely in the final act. Rain and showers and if you thundershowers moving south and out of the area. The doppler shows theres still a few places where it is coming down good. One example is up 580 heading toward dublin and pleasanton just east of castro valley. Also close to marin almost sneaking onto highway 37. These are isolated cells in general. What a beautiful finish to the sunny day. You see the sun trying to out. Mill valley, about an inch and a half. San francisco, little bit more than an inch. San jose, about half an inch. We will add to that as the storm exits the south bay. We will look for a general tendency toward clearing here. In the mountains, they got winter storm warnings posted until 6 am tomorrow morning with another foot of snow on the way. More details when we cover the forecast in a few minutes. On capitol hill, a site seen only a few times in u. S. History. They were Supreme Court justice four inches up right beside over and impeachment trial. Natalie brand live with the latest. Natalie . Reporter veronica, california senator Dianne Feinstein was one of four senators who escorted the chief justice into the Senate Chamber this afternoon the following todays swearing in, senators will return next tuesday afternoon to decide the rules. Shaping what is trial look like. You will do impartial justice according to the constitution and laws, so help you god. Reporter chief justice of the United States john roberts swore in senators as jurors. Moments before, he also took an oath to preside is officer. Senators must decide on the 7 the seven house managers marched into the chamber. President trump, impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office. Reporter the charges are abuse of power and destruction of commerce because democrats alleged the president pressured ukraine to announce an investigation into a political rival using military aid as leverage. Its a complete hoax. The whole thing with ukraine. Reporter the independent Government AccountabilityOffice Issued a legal opinion thursd, that the administration violated the law by withholding military assistant. One person is speaking to the media, claiming the president knew about his efforts to pressure ukraine. President trump knew exactly what was going on. I dont him. I have never had a conversation that i remember with him. Reporter the white house questions his credibility. He faces charges in a separate campaignfinance case. The white house arguing he is not a reliable witness, but in a new tweet, california senator Kamala Harris the last night interview couldnt make it more clear that the senate must hear from firsthand witnesses. Thats a debate that will continue among senators as this next phase begins. Veronica . Natalie brand live for us on governor newson was in oakland this afternoon highlighting his new initiatives to help the homeless. The partnership with oakland includes deployment of emergency tents and trailers plus a boost in medical funding to help meet funding. Billions of dollars in state grants are available to tackle an array of issues. Right here in oakland, alameda, 38 million will be distributed in realtime to meet this crisis head on. Some 19 said . 7 million is available today immediately for the city of oakland to address first and last months rent, to start the process of converting hotels and motels into permanent housing. Newson says in the next few weeks, the state will ti andes along y in grants to california. This year. The governors Live Press Conference was on kpix 5. Coming up, kpix 5s da lin will have more. Like mangled metal on highway one in pacifica when a oneone hurt. Just after 3 am, a Dodge Charger got on the highway going north in the southbound lanes. It hit a mercedes suv. The driver of the charger was killed. His passenger and the other driver were taken to the hospital. No word yet on their conditions. Southbound lanes of highway 1 were tied up for several hours. The storm didnt delay any 49er practices today. The defense is a big part of the teams success. Fans have had this lovehate love relationship with richard sherman. Len ramirez joins us from reporter the nfl is one of those places where the villain you hate to go up against can be treated and practically overnight become the hero you are happy to richard sherman. Richard sherman is looked up to as one of the better leaders on this 49er squad, even though he comes to the team with a history. Eye out there every day and try to execute my job and play hard. The chips are going to paul. People are going to like you my people are going to hate you, et cetera. Reporter shermans relationship with 49er stances complicated. Reporter as a seattle seahawks, sherman helped knock the niners out of the 2014 championship game. His harsh words after the game made in person that niners fans love to hate. Some still hold a grudge, but his key interception last week against the vikings helped fill a win, and his play all season has won the hearts of many. Now he is one of us. He is a team player. He supports the team. He is a team leader. Reporter is everything forgiven . Yeah, for me it is. Reporter from former billing, to fan favorite, sherman says he doesnt give much thought. It is all the same to me. There are certain people in your corner that love you. Those are the only peoples opinions that matter to me. Reporter this sunday, there will be about 70,000 people in Richard Shermans corner when the San Francisco 49ers take on the Green Bay Packers here at sherman said he is looking forward to another dual with the green bay quarterback, aaron rodgers. Reporting live in santa clara, len ramirez. We love showing off your photos. These ladies are all smiles, and we hope they will be smiling after the game. Other fans are showing off their winning spirit. We want to see you in your best niners gear. We will be airing a special on the 49ers ahead of the nfc ch 4 from levi tomorrow at 730. A giant milestone for major league baseball. San francisco just hired the leagues first fulltime female coach. 29yearold tran41 will be an assistant on gabe kaplers staff. The former sacrament estate stop a player has a masters degree in sports management. She is been with the giants since 2014, starting as an intern. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slamming facebook. Coming up, what sparked her rent against the social network site. A milestone that has only been accomplished four times in history. A bay area tech company just reached it. Coming up, 49ers playoff coverage continues. The bay area roots of one star player. America isnt just sick of donald trump, americas getting sicker. There are one million more uninsured americans every year under trump. And hes repeatedly tried to repeal obamacare. Mike bloomberg will make sure everyone without Health Coverage can get it, and everyone who likes theirs, keep it. While capping fees to lower costs. As mayor, he helped expand coverage to seven hundred thousand more people. And championed womens reproductive health. As president , hell give access to everyone. Im Mike Bloomberg and i approve this message. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is slamming the bay area tech giant. She says facebook is helping to mislead the american people. Maria medina live in the newsroom with more details. Reporter House Speaker pelosi calls facebooks behaviors sample. She says the company doesnt care about presenting factual information and only cares about getting tax cuts without being held accountable. She accuses facebook of schmoozing the Trump Administration to get what it wants. The facebook Business Model is strictly to make money. They dont care about the impact on the children. They dont care about truth. They dont care about where this is all coming from. And they have said, even if they know it is not true, they will print it. I think they have been very abusive of the great opportunity that technology has given them. Reporter last month, facebooks Ceo Mark Zuckerberg and his wife sat down with gayle king. Zuckerberg responded to criticism over the companys policy do not fax check political advertising. What i believe is in the knockers the, it is important that people see for themselves what politicians are saying. They can make their own judgments. I dont think that a private company should be censoring politicians or news. Reporter facebook is based on the peninsula, but it has at least one office in speaker pelosis district in San Francisco. We have reached out to facebook about the story and are waiting for a response. We will bring you updates as we get them here on kpix 5 and on our 24 7 streaming service. A Financial Milestone for alphabet, the Parent Company of google. They closed the day with market cap of more than 1 trillion. This marks the first time in three American Companies are worth that much at the same time. The others are apple and microsoft. Strong corporate earnings and an easing of trade tensions are providing a boost to the stock market today the major indices rose to more record highs, without jumping 270 voice. The s p climbed by about 27. The number of deaths linked to vaping in the u. S. Has now reached 60. The mentalities are across 27 states according to the centers for disease uninvestigation. Nationwide, officials concerned, more than 2600 cases of lung injuries linked to the use of esa respect the cdc does say the rate of injuries appears to be going down from its peak last september. I want to give you an update on the slow ride to the sierranevada this evening. Interstate 80 has finally been reopened at colfax. You can see the traffic bear. It is very slow going. A long line of roads cars have been waiting several hours because of the heavy snow. They started moving in the past few minutes. If you are headed that way, you will need chains, not only on 80 but on highway 4, on 108, 88, on virtually all of the mountain passes this evening. Chp is saying, if you have not left yet, you might want to think about going when the weather clears tomorrow. Also, traffic is continuous stopped on highway 50 right in summit. They are doing avalanche control. People have been stopped for several hours. Cant go up; cant go down. They are stuck there. You. Is no estimated some students in the sierra foothills got to head home early today when heavy snow shut down their schools. Reporter ernie santos is in nevada county. Reporter the Road Conditions here in grass valley have been dangerous all day. The School District had to let out students early around 1 15 pm. We spoke to several people who had to scramble lastminute to pick up their kids from school. Rain quickly turned into snow in grass valley, forcing many people to hit the roads. We dont have a formal drive. We have chains. Reporter under dangerous driving conditions in order to pick up their students from school. It is snowing. It usually doesnt snow. Maybe one or two a year. Today is one of the days. Reporter grass valley unified School District and neighboring nevada city School District making the decision to let school out early. The mom is in sacramento. She called me. I came to get them. Reporter the roads filling up with snow fast. Spec we have a truck to pick them up. Reporter making for an unexpected snow day. I will go home and get my snowmobiles going. Lets go reporter Grass Valley Police have been staying busy responded to several accidents. As for school tomorrow, we are told parents should be notified in the morning. Reporting in grass valley, reni santos. I know people know the elevation of grass valley. Even heavy just made a number of, i believe him. I think i should decline. Grass valley its not that high. It is it . Is less than 400. 4000. 3200 . Let me draw the shades on this uncomfortable conversation. Lets head outside to the weather. Heres the good news. Most of this is now south of the bay area. As a result, we are going to be getting clearing skies, but not quite so fast. The kpix 5 high h is shong a f have some cells coming down pretty good at times. As you can see, just north of the five andy cordan door, pretty good shadows coming down. In general, the tennessee will be toward trying it out. You can see it off the peninsula of San Francisco. More showers moving in. Onagain offagain showers. When it rained, it came down pretty good. The numbers are going to fall. 48 d oakland, 49. The rest of the numbers will be in the 30s before you know it, before sunrise. Low pressure is going to begin to kick east. As it does, it will make national headlines. That low, the same low that rolled through, is going to create snow in new york by sunday night. New york had record highs in central park just a few days ago. They are going to go from record highs to having an inch of snow on the ground by saturday evening, sunday morning from the same low that gave us our own snow. Future cast shows whats happening now. Lightly scattered showers around the bay area. We will really want to show you a few sprinkles overnight. Ilbe n sunrise wi around, clearing iegooda for hi have another chance of showers moving into the bay area. We will be looking for readings in the 60s, pleasant weekend on the future cast shows we will in general begin to dry it out. Tap. Mostly to partly sunny skies we will keep it dry once we get for saturday and sunday. Into the weekend. For monday and tuesday, a speaking of the weekend, this shower or two. Part is important. Wednesday and thursday, we we have the 49ers taking on the begin to clear out. You will notice that i was not on camera for much of that. Green bay packers. Thats because i was looking at they are going to be playing sunday at 3 40 pm when we got partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the 60s. The elevation of grass valley. I got it for you. In the weather headlines, we spec 2400. You got it too. Are going to be looking for evening showers to continue bay le. Overnight. Morning fog friday with sun and clouds. The weekend is looking dry and area Biotech Company has seasonably mild. Unlocked a mystery in blood. A pretty good forecast. 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A better story for the evening commute. This morning, driving with a real challenge. Downpours and roadway flooding. When water hits the ground, everyone seems to forget how to drive. They cant locate the brake daey c esse