Right now it is breezy out there though so be mindful of this. As you do take to the roads this Early Morning now we do have a few light showers to talk about that have already descended into the bay area that includes on the peninsula right here and then just a couple of sprinkles right along the coastline that we zoom out just a little bit not instead of a little bit this is where youre seeing that line of showers really making its way in right is sitting offshore but very northern Sonoma County is right on the. Cusp of this line of shower activity you can see snow widespread for Northern California and this line of cloud cover is something thats going to stay with us for much of the morning once we do see the showers arriving in now what is the timing of all this. Lets plotted out free right here so we are going to see this rain coming through and really. Excuse me working its way into the bay area right around 08 00am its looking like a before 08 00am you could see some isolated showers here and there such as youre seeing on future cast but advancing again that line itself really does start to descend into much of the bay around 8 by 8. 45 are in the midst of some of the heaviest of rainfall. 09 00am right here and still looking at some really heavy rainfall pushing in across the bay and you can see that little area of red in there right Treasure Island moving into oakland at this time working their way a little bit later on now if we advance future cast just a little bit more 9. 45 Still Holding on the heaviest of showers and youre seeing some of those heavy showers really drifting further southward souther southern into the peninsula now south bay starting to pick up on some areas of heavy rain by 10 00am and 11 00am youre seeing the heaviest of rain pushing into the south bay noticed during this time north bay peninsula east bay hasnt let up seeing the rainfall some areas have seen intensity diminished, but still looking at heavy rain at times it stays with us through the noon hour and in fact an uptick of rainfall right around 12 30 in areas like San Francisco enrichment after that we will see showers clearing out becoming a lot more spotty for the rest of the day by 3. 30 intermittent times the sunshine and then also a shower here and there something just to keep your eye close on even though you might see some time to time in the afternoon doesnt mean work free of the showers just yet on into a one friday just around the corner a few spotty showers can be expected but certainly nothing like what were about to see this morning as conditions this morning will prove to be the most stirring for still on track to see that rain its just making its way in for our commuters that are arriving are starting to hit the roads a couple hours from now as opposed to you that are getting to the roads, nice and early temperatures are in the 40s and 50s right now its actually a pretty mild start oaklandalameda each at 50 degrees hayward conquered pittsburgh. 51 currently upper 40s for the way whole fairfield and berkeley each a 48 degrees temperatures a lot warmer than they were yesterday so were off to a frigid start yesterday today, its warmer but it certainly is when the year to so windy. The start we have that heavy rain arriving by 08 00am rain continues to the noon hour by the afternoon ahead spotty showers in between times of sunshine. Daytime highs in the low 50s profit. All right. Thank you john starting off with a major problem on highway one for those of you who normally travel into and out of pacifica we have highway one close in the southbound direction at manor drive. This is because of a fatal accident it happened early this morning at 3. 11 and it was caused by a wrong way driver this person was driving north. In the southbound lanes cause an accident. We know that one person did not survive its unclear who that person is that there was a person that was driving the vehicle that was heading in the wrong direction or the other vehicle that it hit so its still under investigation, a corner has been called out to the scene a special Traffic Alert remains in place so you can have to head over to stay true, 35 thats where the traffic is being diverted at this time. Once again southbound wanted manor drive all lanes closed with traffic diverted to 35 to investigating clear this fatal accident caused by a wrongway driver so far it does not say that the northbound side is closed. So if you have to head north it looks like northbound traffic is getting through at the moment, ill definitely stay on top of that for checking in on highway 17 for those of you traveling out near glenwood out in Santa Cruz Mountains an accident southbound near the glenn what cut off this is an over turn also from early this morning still wrapping up they may still have the left lane blocked and then we also have a stall northbound the opposite side so thats clearing out of your way, but you can see sensors picking up the sluggish traffic there on 17, heres the commute direction which is northbound a little busy but not terrible 23 minutes from santa cruz into los gatos so youre going to be dealing with a wet commute later on the rain is moving in right now its just windy when i was driving on the bay bridge this morning. My car was moving back and forth theyve activated the signs telling you theres a high wind advisory in place for the bay bridge. So you need to slow it down motorcyclists those of you driving trucks and vans and highprofile vehicles make sure you take it easy. One more bridge 92 your trip from hayward over to the peninsula looking good so far i dont see the trouble spots for just get out there early and be careful driving in the rain when it finally moves in will check more traffic and drive times coming up a little bit later. Has no plans to intentionally shut off the power for this storm, but they are warning that it could cause unexpected outages meantime state lawmakers are pushing for changes following the planned power shut off during the fire season. A new proposed law would require Utility Companies like picchu knee to pay customers for intentional power shut off. The measure would put a system in place to try and bring balance to the intentional blackouts that interrupted the lives of millions of californians last fire season. Its about giving utilities incentive to use planned blackouts as as a scalpel and not as a sledgehammer the governor and the pea you see are working closely. To develop certain metrics around the future blackouts or power shutoffs that were were seen and i think thats where. This issue needs to be addressed. When the bill now heads to the Senate Appropriations committee if passed the senate could consider it in the coming weeks so pg e and other utilities they oppose the bill saying that it could discourage them from using what they consider an important safety measure. Well personal property that was once inside of the house right along magnolia street in west oakland, its now out on the sidewalk. This is what moms for housing found yesterday morning when they went back to pick up their belongings. The group of women have been squatting at that home since november weve been covering the story for you. They were evicted wednesday morning after a judge ordered them to leave. Me of what is that we would have time to come get ice lied to us what lie to us and saying the attorneys for moms for housing squatters. Demanded get 10 00am today, rain or shine. So nothing was going to stop us from providing their belongings at 10 00am we recognize that there was an east bay mud. Renovation going on on the street thats what the mothers frozens squatters wanted and thats we gave them. Well we months as said when their workers arrived at 07 00am they saw no one moving out of that house and the work being done was a part of an ongoing water pipe replacement project. But the mom say this doesnt change how they feel about their belongings out on the street. Well moving on to the 40 niners now were just 3 days away from the nfc championship game at levis stadium against the green bay packers, and heres a look at the niners on that and the practice still yesterday in santa clara tight end George Kittle he was not out there with an ankle issue. But he is expected to be ready for sunday. Jimmy to rob lowe will be making his second playoff start he says that hes learned a lot from tom brady about what it takes to get ready for the big games. Things that took away from watching him go through and everything is just inconsistency that he had throughout the entire on whatever it was the first playoff game super bowl. Hes very consistent between all of it i think that just goes your coverage the week to prepare going into the game and youre gonna play like that and i think we showed that we can win a number of ways. Which has a lot to our players and i know jimmy doesnt care all we want to whether were running it thrown it, but weve got to do it on defense to protect the ball or whether. We got to air it out and get some points so a lot of guys say that it doesnt bother him, but promises to bother him there common and talk to him about it. He is so locked into whatever the plan is whatever were doing hes just trying to distribute the ball. All right well be watching guys kickoff for sundays game at levis stadium is at 00 30pm in the afternoon go niners and to get ready for championship sunday of course kron 4 has you covered on air online and also through our kron on app you can take that with you as youre on the go saturday night were previewing the game with the reading goals on playoff edition remember that starts at 9 and then well have a full recap and highlights and reaction sunday night at 9 oclock so make sure you tune in. On the kron 4 news the senate will be holding 2 sessions that will set up the impeachment impeachment trial. What were expecting moving forward. And a new weather system is now up and running how this will help improve weather forecasting after the break. Speaking of the weather a little peek outside at a dry san mateo bridge with john trimble says the rain is moving in making its way into the bay area right now so you will have a wet commute later on. Were already dealing with some major traffic problems including a fatal accident on tom steyer no child should have to worry about finding good food in school. So, when my wife kat and i learned California PublicSchool Children couldnt get Fresh Produce in the cafeteria, we took action. We partnered with local farmers, school kitchens, a nonprofit. That program now serves over 300 million healthy meals every year. The difference between words and actions matters. Thats a lesson washington dc could use, right now. Im tom steyer and i approve this message. Welcome back a new weather radar system is now up and running in the south bay, its in san jose, its the x band radar it sits right on top of the planet in sea Water Treatment plants. The National Weather service says that the radar will actually improve weather forecasting of extreme weather events. The project was funded by a 20 million grant from the state department of Water Resources and eventually there will be a network of 5 such radars all around the bay area our meteorologist here kron are definitely excited about that the more radars the better in fact one of the radars and the. Satellite saying about the storm thats approaching right now to the pretty quiet right now, but what were going to be seeing later this morning is definitely not as quiet of a situation. Rainfall pushing through for a lot of are commuters this morning. Ok, so it does eventually have a very slick impact on us as of right now as youve noted when youre driving into work it really is just the wind and it is having very windy on the bay bridge. Yes so do watch the winds right now fortunately we are dry right now so your drives into work if youre one of our earliest of risers hey youre actually looking a lot better than some of her later commuters are about to be you can see San Francisco skyline there in the distance a few low clouds hanging out over the city there some snowfall right at the Northern Tier the state and rain is settling in now from Mendocino County in northern portions of Sonoma County this line of showers though is still sitting well to our west and north across the bay area so weve got a little bit of a buffer zone between here and there as far as when the heaviest of rain settles in to our north thats the core of the system sitting right off of the Pacific Northwest and this powerful cold front is already starting to steer our direction one of the reason that winds theyve already picked up across the day 06 45am right here some light moderate and some heavier areas of rainfall up in the north bay by this time youre really starting to see those showers drifting into northern Sonoma County by this point marine county also looking at it a bit by the time we work our way towards 09 00am thats when your heaviest of rainfall moves and so this does has it does have its impact on commuters, mostly just our leader once though look at the deeper red inside this orange and yellow band right here that is the heaviest of rain that could result in some localized flooding, especially for smaller streams come 11 15am some snowfall begins to fall in the mountains above san jose and you are seeing the heaviest of rain by this point in the east bay and the south bay so a little bit more towards noon for some of our south bay areas then we work our way towards noon itself an uptick in rainfall right around the time youre leaving for lunch, so keep the umbrella on hand and definitely have a tight grip on it too because of those winds by the time we make our way towards the noon hour after that spotty between some sunshine into the afternoon tomorrow looks to be a lot drier than today is about to be and a lot calmer to to start your weekend. So if you have any travel plans. These next few days i put on hold for the day today and just plan on taking to the roads tomorrow, especially true if youre heading up into the Sierra Nevada as we talked about yesterday still remains true today winter storm warnings are in effect right now and will last until 06 00pm tonight for above 3,000 feet in the northern sierra all you have to do is cross into the foot hills and youre seeing those strong winds and some very heavy falling to around 3 feet of snowfall to very crest of the sierra so getting some helpful snowpack but not so helpful when youre going to be traveling on it and for the bay area. Some significant rainfall we could see about an inch of rain for some parts of the day thats a lot to be talking about for storm thats really concentrated just this morning temperatures in the low 50s for your highs today easily our coolest day of your forecast Oakland Hayward fremont conquered egypt 52 San Francisco, redwood city san jose in mountain view, egypt, 53 for your highs today temperatures tomorrow just a touch warmer, a lot drier, but a sprinkle cant be rolled out. Saturday does look to be dry as this sunday as well now monday, a few showers and rain looking likely again on tuesday of next week. All right be careful driving around the bay area this morning in the wet weather and also the windy conditions we are tracking a major problem right now in pacifica this accident happened in the 3 oclock hour. And it involves a wrongway driver someone was actually traveling north in the southbound direction of highway one at manor drive that resulted in an accident. And a fatality which is still under investigation. Crews have closed all lanes on southbound one at manor drive they are devoid of diverting you over to 35 that is your alternate or theres always 2. 80 it depends on your final destination and whats best for you, but you have to 8035 as an alternate if you plan on heading north all northbound lanes are open for now, but once again the southbound side as close a special Traffic Alert remains in place there is no estimated time of clearing so this is our biggest traffic problem right now a fatal accident shutting down all lanes of southbound one at manor drive now the bay bridge traffic looks pretty good youll notice that its windy when i was driving in when i got to the eastern span my car start really moving around so i had to hold on to that steering wheel, you notice at the signs have been activated warning folks at a high wind advisory is in place for the bay bridge. So you want to take it easy coming in right now its 8 minutes get out there early no major problems to downtown San Francisco. This is what i want to cross the golden gate traffic looks good here. No wind advisory for the golden gate youre doing fine 21 minutes nevado to the toll plaza and ill give you one more the Richmond Sandra fell, its looking good on west 5. 80 nice and light across the span into the north bay and yes, there is a high wind advisory for the Richmond Center fell and for the favorites of the on your best behavior and slow down out there well check some more freeways and drive times coming up. Well on to National News now its a landmark day for the trump administration, the senate will hold 2 sessions today for the initial ceremonial steps of the impeachment trial. This comes after House Speaker nancy pelosi signed the articles of impeachment against President TrumpJohn Lawrence has more. Act 2 of President Trumps impeachment begins today, they have a hoax going on over there, lets take care of it things begin when the house managers present articles of impeachment announcing them from the well of the senate we are now back to the same number of managers were there for the impeachment and trial of andrew johnson, there were 7 men. There were 13 for the clinton trial there are now 7 again during the second session of the day chief Justice John Roberts is escorted into the Senate Chamber and sworn in to do impartial justice according to the constitution and laws then the chief justice will swear in all of us senators. Will pledge to rise above the petty factionalism and do justice for our institutions. Our stage and for the notion that senator signed the impeachment trial oath book and then issue a summons to President Trump. Weve had. The lengthy and difficult preparations to do. But we have a Phenomenal Team speakers assembled so well be ready for Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell says the trial is expected to start on tuesday. Im confident this body can rise above short term and factional favor and serve the longterm best interest of our nation. We can do less. And we much. Im John Lawrence reporting. Well a little peek outside get ready for a soggy morning commute were doing fine right now, but the rain is moving in so thats one of our big stories that were following for you this morning, well check whether will check traffic will also check in on the and welcome back to the kron 00 04am morning news, its a time for 23, thanks for staying with us were checking in on those entertainment headlines. And one hollywood actresses heading to an Ivy League School david daniel has that and more in this mornings hollywood minute. 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Mandy moore has a new single and video save a little for yourself and for the first time 10 years a new album silver landings. Moores first studio disk in a decade, its stores march, 6 and shell hit the road to support a launching a 29 city tour march 20th in pittsburgh singing along in hollywood, im david daniels. In this monday morning thinking all right a live look outside checking in on the bay bridge. It is very windy on the span so be prepared for that we have a storm moving and so youre going to have a wet commute later on. Plus were already tracking a of major accident on highway one its in pacific. All all lanes closed southbound wanted manor drive due to a fatal accident kron 4 Sarah Stinson just arrived to the scene shes gathering more details from chp should have the latest coming up in a live report stay with us. Welcome back to the kron 4 morning news, if you are driving today, heading to work you are in store for a wet commute looking pretty good right now, but we have a storm on the way yes, the storm on our doorstep now and the winds ahead of it are year, but the rain itself is holding off for a minute ok morning early risers thank goodness, it hits hard enough getting out of bed need the but yes, our leader risers they slept and im going to get the so this is your look outside of the Golden Gate Bridge right here conditions definitely windy you can see our sutro tower cam swaying back and forth and just a little bit right now as those winds push across the bay area not a whole lot of activity across the bay just yet we have some light sprinkles along highway one as you approach Santa Cruz Well south of the Santa Cruz Mountains most of our rain falls concentrated up in mendocino and lake counties right now although some showers have drifted into a portions of Sonoma County that includes you in santa rosa, the showers are generally trending to the northeast right now so rainfall is working its way generally this direction instead of down south but the system is descending and its going to take a few hours were really to get in place you can see those showers right there pushing to the northeast widespread and heavy rain to snow in Northern California. Thats the same sort of energy thats going to be working its down a weight on our direction look at this orange yellow and deep red on the map right here pushing into the bay area come 08 00am this is some heavy rain at times will causes some issues resulting in the potential of small stream flooding and some ponding of water on roadways that could result in hydroplaning 2 so if youre taking to the roads later this morning you want to take a slower 10 30am the heavy rainfall pushes further south into the bay area widespread rain continues towards around the noon hour after which point we start to see conditions diminishing a few areas of sunshine between isolated showers holding