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You are telling me this vision happened sometime shortly after 5 00. That is correct, a little bit after 5 00, we began receiving reports of a major collision that took place here at the toll plaza at the bay bridge, westerly direction. Came out on scene, as you can see behind us here, apparently a big box truck transporting a bunch of equipment had somehow come through, struck several vehicles that were at the toll plaza waiting to go through the toll. Damaged vehicles. Continued on in a northwesterly direction and struck a toll booth, toll boxes. Unfortunately the toll booth, the toll taker was killed on impact. The driver of the box truck as well as the passenger that box was both ejected on to the roadway, suffered significant injuries. And right now we are working to determine exactly what the cause of this collision was. All right. And so to have had this kind of impact he must have had quite a bit of speed. Any estimate how fast he was going. It seems like he wasnt going slow through the toll plaza. We dont know the exact speed, right now it would be a guess. But obviously as you can see the amount of damages there are. There was speed involved. Now there was that was a cause of the collision or other factors will be looked at. You said he struck a number of vehicles before hitting the toll plaza, anybody injured in the course of this incident as well. Several of the drivers in those vehicles suffered injuries, all with were not life threatening. Again, i know you said this is preliminary, any idea a cause, is it too early to tell . Way too early to tell. All of these things will be taken into account, speed issue, impairment involved, whether there was a medical condition involved. So we are going to look at all these things. Also if we can get an idea on impact to the toll plaza and the traffic impact through the course of the day. A number of hours until all the rains reopen . There is significant damage to the toll booth that was taken out as well as several lanes adjacent to that. And there are vehicles that are still stuck in there right now that need to be cleared some, there is going to be at least 4 5 hours before this is cleaned up. Any idea it does appear he struck one of the support beams for the entry, any idea if there is damage to the structure. Too early to say. Well have folks out here to take a look at this as well. Thank you so much for joining us. So there you heard it is going to be several hours where this is going to be an on going situation as chp tries to again, get an idea exactly what happened out here and try to get this cleared, 14 14th team 16 and 17 lanes, those are the four northern most lanes before you hit that fast track only lane before you hit that carpool lane. We lost christians audio. Well check back in with him in just a moment. There you can see from the toll plaza camera, people going through, frank, i can only imagine the toll takers who are still required to work at this time. Very very scary situation as christian told us, the toll plaza worker was killed on impact. We have other major injuries and vehicles involved. Well, its hard to tell, you would think he was at a high rate of speed and hit multiple he will cars, you wonder if the toll taker had any warning whatsoever or if he turned, tossed and then impact happened. But its going to have a profound effect. Holidays are here. Of course a lot of people going into San Francisco to shop and to enjoy the festive holidays before christmas. Four lanes shut down. Big backups. No word on when things are going to reopen. Keep that in mind if you are headed into the city this saturday morning. 7 05 on the clock. Lets head over to Rosemary Orozco for a check of the weather. It is not my imagine mission it feels chilly outside. Yes, and we have the clouds overhead. Those clouds are going to remain in place for saturday. As claude even and frank a lewded to, back in the east. Valley locations, here is a live look from ktvu as we look across the oakland, clouds ahead of a system that could bring us a few evening showers if you have plans to be outdoors for tonight. Ill detail that coming up. The next time coming around lets take a look into the afternoon. Checking in at 38 degrees. San francisco 49. 44 oakland. 40 degrees in livermore and san jose mid 40s as we give you view from San Francisco looking across the bay. And can you see the tower, sun rises about now. I dont think most are going to notice, in fact it may feel cooler out there without the sunshining on us this morning. A little bit of fog over portions of the north valley locations, north bay, sliding in a little bit closer visibility, santa rosa at the airport, napa reporting 10 miles so not a problem there, along highway 101 where it gets into the darker shade of xray. Visible issues through pet a room a pat a room a bridge. Finally goes away. Afternoon highs today, cooler than yesterday. Low to mid60s around the region. 64 San Francisco. Oakland. Mid60s in concord. Well take a look at the possibility of scattered showers moving in tonight and the rest of your weekend coming up. We are learning about a pier collapse along the oakland estuary yesterday afternoon at the brooklyn base development south of Jack London Square from sky fox. Oakland fire Officials Say a 200foot section of the pier just fell into the water along with four shipping containers. Nobody hurt. There are no signs of any Hazardous Materials that leaked into the water. Big containers, but, again they only contain building materials, wire, con did youity, pvc pipe. It will take on water and sink and stick into the mud. We dont have concern of them floating into the waterway at this time. The developer says it appears the pier may have collapsed under the weight of some of the Construction Material on top. The pier is set to be demolished to make way for a Housing Development and a park. Work on the project will continue over the next 18 months. Welled to marks one year since the ghost ship warehouse fire in oakland that killed 36 people. The deadliest fire in california in more than 100 years, families, friends, First Responders will honor those who died. Its going to end at 9 00 tonight. A chap plain with the Oakland Fire Department says the pain and sadness of the tragedy is still raw one year later. A lot of us involved in the Emergency Response aspect that continue to think about what transpired that night. And continue to be deeply affected by what happened in those days afterwards. Never seen so many people lost their life in one place. Tragedy. The fire started at an unpermitted party. The city says changes have been made, the city has added more building inspectors, Officials Say they are working to bring several other properties up to code. Ghost ship fire scheduled to appear in court monday, eric almeda and max harris on the right. Each man charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter, a judge will decide whether there is enough evidence against the two suspects. 2 investigates exclusive several weeks ago we sat down with almeda at santa rita jail where he is being held. He said the building was not up to Safety Standards, he said he should not bear the full responsibilities. Did not mince words about the Property Owner chung ing. Deceitful and greedy. Do you think they rented you an unsafe building. They definitely rented me something that they knew was unsafe. They definitely did. 2 investigates yet to receive a response to almedas claim against ings attorney. Special report on the ghost ship warehouse fire. We will examine the aftermath of that faithful night one year ago and see how families are honoring their loved ones. It begins at 6 30 on ktvu plus. President trump and other republicans are celebrating after the gop Senate Passed the bill overhauling the tax code. The yays are 51 and the nays are 49. The tax cuts and jobs act as amended a passed. Half of the Senate Chamber applauded, outer fell silent. Under intense pressure to pass a tax cut bill before the end of the year, Senate Republicans made a flurry of last minute changes keeping the alternative minimum tax to provide more revenue allowing property tax deduction. Keeping the medical expense deduction for the next two years, one republican holdout senator bob corker said he wouldnt support a bill that would ad an estimated 1 trillion to the national debt. Fiscal concerns and, you know,. Reunited in opposing the bill. Would be delighted to gut and destroy this legislation. Republicans are already preparing to move to the next step. We were supposed to come in next week tuesday through friday. We are going to come back on a monday because we believe the senate will get this done. Professors of ethics and law said both the house and senate bill version cut the Corporate Tax rate to 20 . The u. S. Is really behind in this. Many Corporate Tax rates have come in below 20s. United kingdom is below 20 . Talking about going lower. Keeping Corporate Tax cuts permanent. Hour back says that could hurt families down the road. If the expirations go through, experts suggest that families with incomes under 75,000 will be worse off. Social programs or other benefits or face higher taxes in the future. A deeper deficit wont have an Immediate Impact, there will need to be a day of reckoning. Highest amount of debt. Janet ktvu fox 2 news. Now its 7 12. Eye van ka trump was a key figure in the appointment of Michael Flynn to National Security visor. According to the new yorker a few days after the election, first daughter and senior visor praised flynn during a meeting being loyal to her father and asked him what job he wanted. The report says flynn was interested in becoming secretary of state or secretary of defense but settled on National Security visor because he hadnt been in the military long enough to head up the pentagon. A source close to eye van ka reportedly told the new yorker that she was merely trying to show appreciation for mr. Flynns support. And this morning President Trump reacting to former National Security visor pleading guilty. Lying to fbi about conversations he had with a russian diplomat. The president told reporters there has been absolutely no come league with russia collusion with russia. Michael flynn accepted a plea deal and he is cooperating with investigations. Annually unsealed Court Papers Show flynn was directed by a Senior Member of the Transition Team to reach out to Russian Diplomats. Official was President Trumps soninlaw jerod cushner. Have to make himself available and willing to testify against anyone related to those crimes. I dont think weve seen the end of this, but clearly a very significant milestone when the now former National Security visor of the United States pleading guilty to lying to federal authorities. White house is now distancing itself from mr. Flynn in a statement white house laurate cobb said nothing about the guilty plea or charge implicates anyone other than mr. Flynn. 7 14 on the clock, the Investigation Continues into a deadly officer involved shooting in San Francisco. Police say it started with a carjacking of a van driven by state lottery worker, more on what happened next and what we learned about the suspect coming up. Ok, everybody to the sofa. 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The driver and the passenger were both ejected on impact and they are suffering major injuries. And now as you can see live on your screen, there is a huge backup for anyone going from the east bay into San Francisco, there are at least four lanes that are still shut down and no estimated time on when those are going to reopen. Christian kafton is on the scene and he will have a live report coming up at 7 30. The San Francisco Police Department is investigating a deadly officer involved shooting, investigators say an officer shot and killed a man after he carjacked a man being driven by a state lottery worker. It happened late yesterday morning, officers arrested the suspects four alleged a accomplices a short time later in a second vehicle in the citys bay view district. Police killed the suspect in the lot terry van a few blocks away. Sky fox flew over the scene in the bay view, the suspect was killed at the Alice Griffith Public Housing complex after that carjacked lottery van was supposed to stop. The vehicle stopped at griffith and fitzgerald street. The suspect exited the vehicle. Officer involved shooting occurred. That suspect was transported by ambulance to San Francisco General Hospital where he was pronounced deceased. The medical examiner identified the perch killed killed is Olentangy Liberty neil. Oh, neil. I can tell you one thing he wasnt armed. Had he no business being shot like that. Man, he was a good kid. San Francisco Police have not said yet whether he was carrying a gun. They say that the officer involved in the shooting was wearing a camera and that will be part of the this investigation. City workers set to walk off the job next tuesday, two labor unions notified the. After school programs. Right now no estimate how long it could last. Police and Fire Services will not be affected. City and Union Members havent been able to reach an agreement on issues like pay and overtime last month the workers went on a half day strike over failed nexts. 7 20 on the clock. Director david moore corrected me and said slightly cold and he clarified to say its freezing out there right now. How cold is it. It feels like it. Do i need to remind you we are in chilly weather. Not me, its you would underestimate the chill factor. Its all relative. It is a cool one out there. It is going to feel cooler than where we have been. Temperatures ranging from the upper 30s to upper 40s. A few folks starting out in the 50s in and around San Francisco. Sfo 50 degrees. 47 in San Francisco. We have a 30s in areas inner east bay, walnut creek reporting. 38 into port bay. So, yes, you are going to need the jacket, getting out this morning, you may need the rain jacket as we get into the evening hours, we have a system bringing us the cloud cover that will drop a few scattered showers over the bay area. 24 hour temperature change, we are similar to yesterday, i will say it one more time we have a lot of cloud cover in place, we didnt have the cloud cover yesterday. Dealing with a little bit of patchy fog over the north bay, so be prepared if you are getting out on to the roadways. As we get into the evening hours you may have noticed the slipped by, we are expecting mostly cloudy skies for today, about 7 00, 8 00, 9 00 we have sat oared showers over the north bay beginning to slip into the central bay. Evening plans, we are looking to be 10 00 or 11 00 so so. Scattered showers over the east bay as well as the peninsula, San Francisco. As we get into the overnight hours, maybe about an hour we may have a few scattered showers over the south bay. Its as out of here and that was it. We are not looking at much of any accumulation, few 100ths areas. We would love to see some rain in here, its been awhile. Giving you look at afternoon highs expected today, upper 50s to lower 60s for most. Along the east bay shore, upper 50s, to the west we go San Francisco 58 for you there how about the south bay, 64 for santa cruz. A look at the extended forecast, so even well have a little bit of well, a lot more sunshine tomorrow. Temperatures on the cool side. Temperatures expected to be at the coolest before we see a slight rebound on monday, tuesday into wednesday. Not only back into the 60s but upper 60s in the forecast for inland cities. And no rain on that extended forecast. Might be awhile before we see. We can try, we would like to see it. Skiers dont like it at all. They are making snow. 7 22 your time. The perfect for several Tree Lighting ceremonies set for the weekend. 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But first lets get a quick look at the weather, Rosemary Orozco has changes, sprinkles, a little cold. First notable change all that cloud ohr overhead ahead of a system that will bring us a possibility of a few scattered showers, it doesnt look like much, but maybe enough to bring the umbrella along if you are outdoors. Here is a view of the east boy, here is another view, yes, we are waking up with partly sunny skies, a little bit of fog out there. Well check in on the visibility in just a moment. First lets start with the numbers. Upper 30s santa rosa. Good morning had 4. 40 degrees in liver moore and san jose 45. A few degrees where we started yesterday. We dont have all the sunshine out there this morning. When it comes to our visibility we are looking good. Early morning drive portions of north bay valley locations, the fog is back. Right, it looks like navaid dough, pat patalooma. Visibility down to quarter mile, take it easy out there, when it comes to the numbers temperatures are cooling off with a cloud cover in place, hayward expected to go in the upper east as long as most of the east bay shore upper 50s to low 60s at best for today. Into the 8 00 hour, temperatures will climb not by much. 10 00 hour before it starts to feel better. And well continue in the upper 50s for the second half of the way. A slew, pacifica 57 for you. Well go 61 in livermore and 59 for napa. Chance for rain moves in tonight. All that plus the back end of your weekend coming up. Thank you, rosemary. Time now 7 31. Following breaking news, chp investigating a horrific crash this morning. Weve just learned that the toll taker has been killed, we go to ktvu reporter christian kafton at the scene with an update, christian, terrible situation out there. Reporter yeah, terrible situation, as you said. Chp said this was in fact a fatal collision so you can get a sense of how much damage was done and why this proved to be such a deadly accident. Can you see that panel truck was left of that panel truck, there is a front. You are looking at the inside of the panel truck as it split open and ejected a lot of what appears to be sound equipment out on to the road. How hard this impact was, that is the toll booth, that is what remains of the toll booth as we said earlier, the toll booth operator killed in an accident. Show you what happened. Shortly after 5 00 this morning, it was dark at the time. Chp telling us they are getting reports of other drivers in the area who were in the toll booth plaza, the toll plaza that right around 5 00 a. M. The paneled truck was speeding through the toll plaza. Unknown just how fast the driver was going at the time. Reports that we are getting from the chp is that the vehicle was headed in a northwesterly direction, in other words crossing the various lanes, hitting vehicles and ultimately impacting the toll booth, that is where the fatality occurred. We have interview that we did earlier this morning who explains what happened. My understanding he was driving in a northwesterly direction. And then somehow came in contact with those vehicles who were already stopped, waiting to go through the toll booth and ended up colliding into the toll booth itself. That is where the toll booth operator was killed. Thats correct. Telling us once that impact happened, the driver and a passenger inside that panel also ejected out on to the road. We do see evidence of chp and emts working here trying to save those individuals who again were eject from the vehicle, we are hearing that they were taken to Highland Hospital with what are being categorized as major injuries unknown condition at this point. We are waiting for an update from chp, what this means practically for anybody who is going to be heading westbound over the bay bridge is that there will be delays. Can you anticipate that there will be lengthy delays, it is going to take chp they said at least 4 to 5 hours conservatively to try to reopen these lanes. And at least four lanes are closed down, that includes 14 where this incident where this incident occurred. 15, 16, 17. The fast track only lane. At this point we can also tell you that the bus only lane also that is restricting the toll plaza to about half of its regular capacity. So as traffic approves it it is going to have to slow down, relatively few booths that are in operation right now. , so if you are traveling westbound into San Francisco from oakland, you might want to look for an alternate route or try to use public transportation, possibly bart to get into the scene. Christian, just to clarify in the toll booth lane, the 14, 15, 16, 17 those lanes were all had personnel in them, had those cashiers in them. So, you know, it sounds like those are the most impacted folks. Thats right. Reporter thats right. If you have traveled through the toll plaza you know how the configuration, fast track only lanes, some have toll booth operators, this is clearly with a toll booth operator sort of on the north side of the toll plaza. Right before, again, you get to the fast track only lane. That is where this is right here. Currently we are seeing the bus only lane because its been closed off. But, that means that again, like i said, at least six lanes now that would have been able to carry cars, would have been able to carry traffic are now closed off as this Investigation Continues for chp. Christian, would imagine they are going to get some of that cleaned up. By monday morning there is so much damage to that area where the truck impacted, there might be lanes closed for maybe a week or at least a couple more days, would think, right . Reporter thats one of the questions that we had for the chp, how much damage has been done to the toll plaza. You can see certainly one booth missing. But it appear that the truck split and wound up against one of the supports that for that structure over the toll plaza. Unknown damage that truck caused. Get an engineer in to see whether it needs to be prepared. That fix we are looking at here certainly hours, possibly days before it is completely repaired. A lot of questions and work ahead. It is going to be a long day at the very least. Thank you so much christian, going out to those who know the victim in this terrible crash. Thank you, christian. It is 7 37. Other news. There are new details about the fate of the Mexican National who killed kate stainly, his a quittal are steinle, his a quittal is drawing strong criticism. Garcia. Rate is in a county zarate is in a county jail. He faces a sentence of 16 months, two years or three years. Im quite confident he wont go free this time when his jail sentence is up. Agents will take him into custody. We want justice. Outside the hall people upset with the verdict, clashed with a small group of people protesting. We cant foresee why he got off with a verdict of guilty. 12 strangers got together, agreed on was should Say Something we should respect that. Jim hammer is assistant district attorney, he expects the 50 people to be moved to local custody. Is he not getting away. The u. S. Department of justice has issued an arrest warrant for violation of supervised release in 2015. On fox and friends, the spokeswoman for the agency says the doj also looking at federal charges such as felony reentry. Important to reassure everyone who is concern bad this that we will prosecute this to the fullest extent of the law. This is a person never should have been on that pier and kate steinle would be alive. But, they cant charge him with murder and that was the big count here. Former San Francisco police chief says he and others in Law Enforcement are frustrated with the verdict. Attitude, you know, of accountability and Political Correctness interfering with the ability for people doing bad things. The heart of this case was a murder, was it a homicide, was it a manslaughter. 12 strangers got together and said no. The Probation Department will recommend to the judge what sentence Garcia Zarate should receive for being a felon in possession of a gun. Its up to the judge. The judge will hand down the maximum sentence of three years since the defendant did kill kate steinle. Amber lee, ktvu fox 2 news. Later today there will be a march in San Francisco to mark two years since mario woods was shot and killed by San Francisco police, he was a suspect in a stabbing and had a knife and refused to drop it. Police shot him more than 20 times. Shooting lead for calls to justice review. Family and friends plan to meet at king the dead least, 36 people trapped by flames inside a warehouse that had been turned into an Art Collective and known of course as the ghost ship warehouse. We look at weather oakland city officials in the weeks and months after that fire to correct some of the safety problems. What promises it failed to meet in the wake of the tragedy. In the weeks and months after the deadly ghost ship fire, news conferences,. This fire has been a devastating tragedy. Executive order and a call for an overhaul of oakland Fire Prevention bureau, promises to improve safety for non conforming, unpermitted living space in a city desperate for housing. We realize there were communication gaps. Are you talking more than you did enforce. A lot more. Claudia capio, talking about her departments relationship with the Fire Department now lead biannually sworn in fire chief dare ren white. If we look back a year ago versus today i could say with certainty that our community and First Responders are a lot safer than they were at this time of last year. Requesting information how well the city is delivering on promises including hiring a new fire chief after former oakland fire chief largely unseen after the ghost ship then retired. Check. Darren white was sworn Incredible Solutions october. Another promise, doubling oaklands inspection staff. Almost but not quite. Around the time the ghost ship oakland had eight fire code inspectors and eight inspectors, theyve have six for fire and three additional for building. But they still arent on the job yet. Identifying properties. They call priority properties, buildings with multiple hash ads in regards to unpermitted buildings with People Living join side. They are still trying to access the property. How confident are you that that is all those kind of buildings that are in oakland right now. I would be naive to tell you that we are not confident all all and we know there are other buildings and we have to be diligent and again, identify them and give people an opportunity to come in and correct it. Another major promise, implementing an interdepartmental database, a digital platform addressed the lack of communication between accidents, revealed by both the ghost ship and san pablo fires. The new 500,000 Data Base System is expected to be completed by december, city Officials Say it will go live early 2018 plus inspectors will be equipped with tablets. Very unrealistic things in that executive order and also some crucial things. Nona strauss is the lead organizer, says is hopeful but skeptical of the announcement. You have to followup an executive order with making your staff do t as far as i can tell it wasnt done. Unrealistic is probably not a fair word. We didnt know in a lot of ways what we would encounter. Weve had to adjust to a new reality. We had to adjust to things i havent seen other local agencies adjust to. Unprecedented multilayers dilemma addressed by the wheels known to turn slowly but they are turning. There was a really delicate balance. Candace wen, ktvu fox 2 news. There will be 2 investigates special report on the ghost ship warehouse fire. See how the families are honoring their loved ones. Join us tonight at 6 00 p. M. On ktvu plus. Time now is 7 45. A new report says eye van ka trump was instrumental of Michael Flynn getting named as the National Security visor. The report about eye van ka trumps alleged involvement and the response from one of her close friends. 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Ten now people watched the tree light Incredible Solutions San Franciscos union square. It makes you feel like a kid, its on, this tree at christmas time. Lets be honest, just the sight of the big tree gets us in the spirit. Even sky fox had to get a peak at the Christmas Tree that rolled into oaklands Jack London Square, the 55foot tree was beth taking before it got its 5000 sparkling lights. The same can be said about the rockefeller tree in new york city, called the most famous tree in country. 75 feet tall, weighs more than 12 tons and have more than 50,000 lights. Tis the season from capitol hill to our nations airports of the there was a lot of Holiday Cheer at the tech motor speedway when the lights went on there. It doesnt have to be a real tree, in crust i didnt know texas electricians created their own version. Los angeles the crowds celebrate ad leg lamp. The tampa zoo is celebrating with christmas in the wild. 2. 5million lights on display at the lincoln park zoo. If that doesnt in fire you, how about all the amazing homeowner whose arent afraid of a not so small electric bill. Its home endear valley, arizona, 100,000 lights and a lot of trees. This man in long beach, california doesnt count his lights, but he knows just one of histories has about 5000. And across the country, in florida, visitors dont just get a tree on the outside, go inside this house and the magic just keeps on going. Whats amazing a lot of these folks its december 2nd and they were busy. They got an early start. You wake up the day after thanksgiving, boom, boom, boom, boom. People got lights. Gotta put you in the spirit. I got my tree last night. Yesterday i received my first holiday card in the mail. I did, too. I get on it it. That is hard, you get a card. I know. Putting the pressure on. Mine is in a box, ive had them for months. The whole shabang. Do you write on them. I write in them, its printed but not personal every single time. Shes had them for a month. That is the claude even we know. Outside the doors at this hour is here, getting out for holiday shopping, there is a look, partly sunny skies, mostly cloudy. Cool for today. And by tonight scattered showers. Here is a look at Storm Tracker 2. Here is a look at a storm in washington, oregon. You can see green on the screen down to the north edge of california. It is going to be about the cloud cover. It reaches us later to night. It falls apart. Brings us a few scattered showers. The north bay may favor a little bit more than the rest of us. Into the afternoon notice a lot of clouds in place by 9 00 tonight. And Sonoma County by 10 00, 11 00. As we get into midnight over the overnight hours down to the south bay. If you are going to be out and about. Tomorrow morning wake up with partly cloudy skies. Perhaps a little breezy behind the system. And cooler weather behind the system as well. Here is a look at the temperatures outside our door this morning where its a cold start to our valley locations, 38 in the north bay of san a toes a. Santa rosa. Around the bay 40s, 50s, 50 fso, 49 San Francisco. So cool and cool into the afternoon. Upper 50s for vallejo. Along the peninsula for today upper 50s as well. Redwood city checking in, low 60s for you there. 62 for the afternoon. 62 in san jose. And 62 for gilroy. There is a look at your extended forecast. Dry tomorrow, more sunshine but cooler temps, widespread upper 50s along the coast, around the bay inland. As we get into monday, tuesday temperatures slowly rebound, slightly warmer on tuesday. And by wednesday looking good. Low 60s up the coast. Mid60s around the bay. Upper 06s expected inland the only thing missing is more rain, we like to see some rain, but we are looking nice. Air quality food to monitor it today. Well, holiday surprise for one happy couple. They found a wedding ring that disappeared in 1971. Their story coming up next. After a lackluster winter against the lakers, dubs got their a game together. Took it out on the page i can. This was a complete hammer job. 133112. 3 warriors with 3 plus points, curry finished with 23. The kevin durant got tossed in this one as he drives and scores, he got hacked and no call so katie had a few choice words of see you later. We finished with an amazing allyoop. Beautiful jordan bell with a dunk. They bettors by 21. Well this is an especially happy Holiday Season for one couple in portland, oregon. Dean and jan anderson has seen a lot during their 50 years of mainly, they never thought they would see deans wedding ring, its been missing since 1971. They had gone to a friends house for a backyard touch Football Game and it was gone. But then a contractor recently tore apart an old sidewalk and spotted glint of gold in the rubble. I was throwing loose dirt in my bucket, i caught it out of the corner of my eye i cleaned it off and i saw it was a wedding ring. The Contractors Company announced the discovery in a local lost and found blog. A portland newspaper reporter read that blog, did some research and tracked down the couple. Good idea to put that in gaving on the engraving on the inside. And they are still alive and they are still married an they got their ring back. Now he is not in trouble anymore for losing his ring. Since 1971. All right. 7 57, we want to turn to more serious news, we continue with breaking news story at the bay bridge toll plaza. Where an accident has killed an attendant on duty. When we come back, a live report from the scene, updated crash investigation and the massive backup on to the bridge if you are heading into the city this morning. Stay with us. when it comes to holiday shopping, my wife loves style, my son is all about technology and my daughter . She just loves horses. 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But good to have you with us, everyone. Im frank mallicoat. 8 00 on your saturday morning. It is saturday december 2. Lets go right now to that story, because the chp is investigating this crash. Yes, one toll taker has been killed. Ktvu reporter christine captain has been talking to chp officers at the scene and has an update now with more information. Reporter yes, the latest from chp is that this has impacted eight lanes here at the bay bridge toll plaza. Take a look here. You can see the aftermath of that accident. The panel truck split in two. The driver ejected. And the operator of the tollbooth was the one who was killed. As we opinion over to the right, you can see how far the tollbooth was thrown in the course of the accident. The tollbooth operator unfortunately killed in the incident. Lets take a look at video of what it looked like earlier this morning. The accident happened shortly after 5 00 a. M. Witnesses telling chp that the driver of that vehicle was heading west towards the toll plaza, at some point in time, started veering northwest, crossing several lanes of the toll plaza before striking several vehicles. Then hitting that tollbooth. Again killing the tollbooth operator. The driver of the truck and a passenger of that truck, also both thrown out of the front window. Those two transported to a hospital in oakland with what are being categorized as serious injuries. For anybody now approaching the bridge, hoping to go west, towards San Francisco, from oakland, this means it is going to be a very major delay, as you approach the area. We talked with the chp about that earlier this morning. I would say more than a couple of hours. Plan on at least five to six hours, where this team is going to be needing to investigating and then cleaned up. All approaches through the bay privilege come through this toll plaza so expect if you go westbound in the city, there will be significant delays. Reporter so coming back to our live look here, you can get a sense of just how big this delay is going to be, with eight lanes closed off, including the fast track only lane, on the north side of the approach to the bridge. You can imagine that it is is going to be a very lengthy process to make it through the toll plaza, and on to the bridge. Again, the estimate that were hering is that at least five or six hours before all lanes are reopened. And that could very well be an optimistic guess, because we have not so far seen anybody here to begin the process of removing the box truck or removing the debris in the road at this point in time. The tollbooth is still in the road at this time. At this point, this is being treated as a homicide investigation, because this crash did result in a fatality. Again, at this point, chp still not clear on exactly why this crash happened. Whether the driver fell asleep. Whether there was any indication of any kind of intoxication. All of that under investigation at this time. Frank and claudine . You know, as we are talking about how this happened, with the driver crossing several lanes, hitting vehicles, and maybe being out of control by the time he actually hit the tollbooth, does it look like he hit it from the side . It is kind of hard from our perspective to see where he might have entered, because it initially, it was trying to figure out if he hit it head on. Reporter yes, it is looking as if he impacted at somewhat of an angle. I couldnt give you how many degrees off he may have been, the driver may have been, but it does appear that that impact happened at somewhat of an angle. Again, the tollbooth was thrown down the road. So were not clear on exactly how all of this happened. Also not clear on whether any of this was captured on camera. As you might well guess, that would be something that chp would be looking at as well. But tollbooths, the toll plaza, is certainly one of the areas that they monitor traffic coming and going, so they may be reviewing video of this accident trying to put it all together and figure out exactly how this collision happened. And im kind of curious, at least at this hour, are they still honoring the fast track . Or do they have toll collectors in all of the lanes as so many have been shut down . Reporter it is unclear from where we are right now. It does appear that there are vehicles going through, certainly, on the Southern Side of the toll plaza, but we cant see, i cant see from my perspective. It looks as if some of the vehicles are simply going through some of the fast track lanes in the middle of the lane. But the fast track only lane on the far north side of the plaza, all those lanes are closed down. And the bus only lane, again, on the far north side of the toll plaza, also shut down. It will take some time. If not today, maybe days to come. And get that all cleaned up. Very tragic. Thanks so much for that report. We want to show you now a traffic map that shows kind of where this backup is. Five or six hours. This will change and get worse as those hours progress, as people get up and try to go into the city. You can see, it is red, as you might expect, on that approach to the bay bridge toll plaza. But as you can see it going up into emeryville and starting to turn orange. And 880 on grand, you can see the back jum starting there. Can you imagine this on a commuter day, on a monday or tuesday . It would be terrible. But each on a saturday, you know but even on a saturday, you know as we head around 10 00, the end of the morning show, people are going in to shop are or anything else, so if you have plans to go into the city from the east bay, keep that in mind and you might want to see if you can take an alternate route. There is a live picture of the toll plaza where it looks like a regular commuter day,. Yes. 8 00 in the morning. Yes, we will get back to that story in a moment. First lets get you outside and find out about the weekend weather. Rosemary is here and maybe a whisper of rain today. A few scattered showers. It looks like it will come during the evening hours. After sunset. Between now and then. Waking up with mostly cloudy skies. A little bit of patchy fog. Cool temperatures once again. Here is a live look into san jose. We can see just a little bit of the sun pulling through, but again, we are likely to be partly sunny to mostly cloudy for the entire day. Another view of the gray. Upper 30s to around 40 around the bay area. And santa rosa, 38 degrees. And 49 in San Francisco. And low 40s in oakland. And low 40s livermore and san jose. And good morning, at 46. Here is a look at the visibility out there. Morning after morning, we have dealt with just a little bit of fog. Especially in our valley locations. And thats where were seeing it once again this morning. Although not as dense and widespread as it has in recent days. We do have some right around american canyon, highway 37, as you meet highway 101, through petaluma, novato, the Richmond San Rafael bridge. It is a chilly start in the north bay valley locations. Here is what we can expect as we get into the afternoon. Notice we struggle in the 40s for most of the morning. By about 11 00, noontime, finally, into the low 50s for santa rosa. And then for the afternoon, upper 50s i have santa rosa going to 60 degrees. Perhaps about 2 00 or 3 00 in the afternoon and then cooling it back, as we get into 5 00 or so. When sun sets. Here is a look at the afternoon highs around the region. 57 pacifica. And San Francisco, low 60s. Concord, livermore, 62 expected for san jose. And again, as we mentioned, that possibility of scattered showers moving in by tonight. I will have a look at that and the extended forecast coming up. Thank you, rosemary. Today marking one year since the ghost ship warehouse fire in oakland that killed 36 people. In just a few hours, family, friends, city leaders, and First Responders will honor the people who died. A memorial starts at 10 30 this morning outside of that warehouse. It will end at 9 00 tonight. A chaplain with the Oakland Fire Department who comforted family members and First Responders after that fire says the pain and sadness of that tragedy is still very raw one year later. A lot of us who were involved in the Emergency Response aspect of that continue to think about what transpired that night. And are continuing to be deeply affected by what happened in those days afterwards. Never have seen so many people who have lost their life in one place. It is a tragedy. The fire started at an unpermitted party and exposed flaws in the Oakland Building inspection system. The city says changes have been made and has added more building inspectors and hired a new fire chief and Officials Say they are working to bring several other properties up to code. Two defendants in the ghost ship fire are scheduled to appear in court monday morning. Each man is charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter. A judge will decide whether there is enough evidence in the case against these two suspects. In a 2 exclusive, several weeks ago, we sat down at the sant rita jail, and the building was said to be not up to Safety Standards from the moment he started renting. Tune in for a 2 investigates special report on the ghost ship warehouse fire. We will examine the aftermath of the fateful night and see how families are honoring their loves ones. All tonight, at 6 30, on ktvu plus. President trump and other republicans are spwraeupting after the g. O. P. Controlled Senate Passed a bill overhauling the tax code. On this vote, the yeahs are 51 and the nays are 49. The tax cuts and jobs act as amended is passed. Half of the Senate Chamber applauded. The other half fell silent. Ktvu examines what happens now. Reporter under intense pressure to pass a tax cut bill before the end of the year, Senate Republicans made a flurry of lastminute changes. Keeping the alternative minimum tax to provide more revenue to offset the projected deficit. Allowing property Tax Deductions up to 10,000. Which matches the house bill. And keeping the medical expense deduction for the next two years. One republican holdout, senator bob corker, said he wouldnt support a bill that would add an estimated 1 trillion to the national debt. I have fiscal concerns. And im probably a dinosaur. Reporter democrats were united in opposing the bill. I would be delighted to gut and destroy this legislation. Reporter republicans are already preparing to move to the next step. With reconciliation talks between the senate and house. We were supposed come in next week tuesday through friday. We are going to come back in on monday. Because we believe the senate will get this done. Uc berkeley professor of economics and law, Allen Auerbach says both the senate and house bills cut the Corporate Tax rate to 20 , bringing the u. S. In line with many countries. The u. S. Is really behind in this. Many tax rates is in the low 20s. The the United Kingdom is below 20 and could go longer. And the individual tax cuts could expire by the end of the 10year budget period and it could hurt middle and low income families down the road. If those expirations go through, estimates by the joint committee on taxation suggest that families with incomes under 75,000 will be worse off. They are likely to lose social programs, or other benefits, or face higher tamps in the future. Auerbach says a deeper deficit wont have an Immediate Impact but warns there will need be to a day of reckoning. We are looking at the highest amount of debt relative to the size of the economy we have ever had. Ktvu, fox 2 news. 8 12. Ivanka trump reportedly a key figure of the appointment of Michael Flynn to National Security advisor. According to the new yorker. The a few days after the election, he praised flynn for being loyal to her father and what job do you want and the report is that flynn was interested to becoming secretary of defense or secretary of state and settled on National Security advisor because he hadnt been retired from the military long enough to head up the pentagon. The white house has not responded to the report but a source close to ivanka reportedly telling the new yorker, saying that she was merely trying to show appreciation for mr. Flynns support. Mr. Trump is reacting to his former National Security advisor, pleading guilty to lying to the fbi, after conversations with Russian Diplomats. As he left the white house today, the president telling reporters there has been absolutely no collusion with russia. Yesterday, Michael Flynn accepted a plea deal in special counsel Robert Muellers probe into russian meddling into the election and now cooperating with the investigation. Newly unsealed court parents show flynn was directed by a Court Papers Show flynn was directed bay Senior Member of the trump team to reach out to Russian Diplomats and the official may have been President Trumps soninlaw jared kushner. An Investigation Continues into a deadly officerinvolved shooting in San Francisco. Officials say it all started with the carjacking of a van driven by a state lottery worker. More on what happens next and what we have learned about the suspect. The San Francisco Police Department is investigating a deadly officerinvolved shooting. Investigators say an officer shot and killed a man after he allegedly carjacked a man being driven by a state lottery worker. Police say the carjacking happened yesterday morning. Officers arrived and found four alleged accomplices a short time later in a second vehicle in the bayview district. Police killed the suspect in the lottery van a few blocks away. Sky fox flew over the scene of a shooting at the corner of fitzgerald and tkpwreufr ith in griffith area, at the apartment complex. Ent complex. The vehicle stopped at griffith and fitzgerald streets. The suspect exited the vehicle. An officerinvolved shooting occurred. The suspect was transported by ambulance to San Francisco General Hospital where he was pronounced deceased. The medical examiner has now identified the person killed as 42yearold tieta oneal. San Francisco Police have not yet said whether oneal was carrying a gun. Well, the oakland estuary will light up tonight in a local holiday tradition. It will. It is an annual lighted yacht parade in the estuary. The Event Features boat owners who decorate their boats. All sorts of different lights. And colors. This is the 41st year of the event. Parade of boats. Traveling by the almeda yacht club. That looks pretty nice. Gorgeous. Bring your jacket. Is it going to rain on that lighted yacht parade . Will it rain on my parade . The parade is likely early enough where you may not see much. It could be a rogue shower or two. But into the evening hours, you will definitely have a better possibility of seeing some rain tonight. It starts in the north bay and will work its way across the central bay and into the south bay, by it looks like about midnight. For today, cloudy and school. But we are going to remain dry. And then scattered showers for this evening. And then no sign of any rain in the extended forecast unfortunately. Lets take a look outside our doors this morning. Where we are again, just starting out, with a lot of clouds in place, and a little bit of patchy fog, over the north bay, our valley locations, and it looks like it could be a little bit thick, as you get across the Richmond San Rafael bridge. And going along highway 101 toward petaluma. And tracking a little bit there. Outside of that visibility, it looks pretty good. And here is another view for you here. Cant really tell from this point of view. But good to moderate air quality in store for your saturday. Temperatures on the cool side, and here is a look at the storm that is bringing us not only the cloud cover, but eventually, it will bring us just a few scattered showers, over areas of washington and oregon. And even northern california, you can see picking up the brunt of this. As it slips into the bay area. It is pretty much falling apart. The north bay will have the best chance at seeing scattered showers. Or any accumulation. The rest of us perhaps just a few sprinkles. Here is a look at the future cast model into the afternoon. A lot of gray sky. And then into the evening hours, by 8 00, 9 00, it looks like, over the north bay, 9 00, 10 00, into the central bay, and then 11 00, 12 00, it will be the south bay. If you do have outdoor activities, tomorrow morning, we wake up with partly cloudy skies. And cool temperatures, but we are going to be dry for your sunday. And here is a look at the snow report, if youre planning on heading to the sierra. It will be breezy today. Ahead of the storm. 9 inches. Our extended forecast looks fairly dry. Temperatures right now to start the morning. Getting out. A chill in the air. 38 santa rosa. And napa. 40s for the inner east bay. Livermore. Around the bay. 43 in oakland. 49 in San Francisco. Afternoon highs for today, coming down from yesterday, and with all of that cloud cover in place, it is going to feel cooler definitely. Upper 50s San Francisco, oakland. 61 in livermore. 62 for the south bay at san jose. Here is a look at the extended forecast. Temperatures are cooler tomorrow. Under partly cloudy, mostly sunny skies. Slightly better on monday. It doesnt get into tuesday and wednesday. Definitely more comfortable for this time of the year. Low to mid to upper 60s in the forecast by midweek wednesday. No rain for a while though, huh . No rain. Wow. Cross our fingers and start doing a rain dance. Right. We were talking about during the commercial break, we had so many years of drought that we see a dry stretch and get nervous. It is true. January and february last year, we know what happened. Make sure that faucet stays on. Give us a break every now and again. Animals lining up two by two in our backyard. Absolutely. It could still happen. 82 16 78 8 8 21. The warriors won last night but kevin durant was still pretty irate. What happened that got him tossed from the game. Mild mannered kevin durant. When we come 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. Welcome back. Time now is 8 23. There are several new developments in the Sexual Harassment scandal involving members of congress. Politico is reporting republican congressman blake farrenhold of texas used 84,000 in taxpayer money to settle with a former aide who sued him for Sexual Harassment in 2014. The same report says 100,000 went to at least two young male staffers who accused former representative eric massa of Sexual Harassment. The new york democrat resigned back in 2010. Meantime, embattled michigan congressman john conyers remains in a hospital for a stressrelated illness, as he deals with calls to resign amid allegations of sexual misconduct. His health is not the best. We will make another announcement in the coming days as to whether the congressman will continue or whether he will step aside. The 88yearold conyers is the longestserving member of congress. He has been under pressure to resign after several women recently accused him of sexual misconduct. President trump took to twitter today, or took to twitter to express his support for secretary of state rex tillerson. The president and tillerson held meetings at the white house and afterward, the president tweeted that speculation over tillerson leaving his job was quote fake news. Tillerson also dismissed the report as laughable. Senior u. S. Officials have said tillerson would be leaving his position in the near future to be replaced by current c. I. A. Director mike pompeo. President trump is expected to make a major announcement next week in the middle east, and recognize jerusalem as israels capital and sign a waiveer to keep the u. S. Embassy in tel aviv for another six months. Now, there are plans to eventually move the embassy to jerusalem, a move that israel has actually wanted for years. But President Trump will try to ease any ill will from palestinians by only identifying west jerusalem as the capital of israel. The palestinians want to claim the western part of the city as their seat in government. The pac12 title. Last night, stanford. Down three. Late in the fourth quarter. Getting stuffed by the usc defense. On a fourth and goal. That really hurt. It spurred on usc. They will go 99 yards the over way. Southern cal comes up big. Ronald jones will carry from eight yards out. And the trojan touchdown there. Ball game. Usc wins it 3128 and they win the pac12 title. After a lackluster winter for the lakers, how about the dubs, beating orlando in a big way. Mr. Green with an easy pair right there. Interesting play here, watch durant go in, nice little play, but he gets fouled and comes up to the ref and says where is the foul . Come on . Well, he must have said something there, because they threw him out of the game. He is finished with 25. And the final plays, just gorgeous. Look at this. Alleyoop. And that is the rookie right there. Throwing it down. Jordan bell. 46 assists for the dubs as they beat orlando by 21. On to the ice where the San Jose Sharks star reached a major milestone. Joe pavelski. The game was tied at one with the goal. And then in the third period. The senator Chris Tierney flocked in the goahead goal. Sharks beat the pan thersz on panthers on the panthers on the road 21. Fox football coverage coming up. Tcu and oklahoma coming up at 9 30. We are headed to ktvu plus. We will continue to follow breaking news of the bay bridge toll plaza. Where a tollbooth operator was hit and killed by a truck. Crews are clearing the scene. We will have more coming up. 100,000 cameras ohio state at michigan is sponsored with limited commercial interruption by discover card. Announcer in a series that dates back to 1897, welcome to the greatest rivalry in American Sports today. Michigan. Ohio state. The game. [ cheers ]