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In the east bay for the weekend. We have the detours you need to know about. Plus, theres still not ready for prime time because of how they have impacted our op comply with the dmvs request to cut their fleet in half following a number of traffic incidents in San Francisco this week from ktvu fox two news. This is mornings on two and we welcome you to ktvu. Mornings on two. It is saturday, august 19th. Im james torres. Like we said it saturday 11. Got to bring that energy there. We got strong. Okay well the weekend is here. Happy saturday everyone at 7 00. Lets check in with rosemary and get a look at our forecast. Little gray outside. And shes right over there now. And lets say good morning. Yes, good morning to all of you. Our pattern isnt going to change a whole lot. Were just going to be a little bit warmer. But first, i think we want to talk about preps for Southern California. Yeah, of course, we have historic hurricane hillary making its way up the coast. Communities in Southern California are preparing for heavy rain and flash floods with the hurricane on track to reach the area this weekend. People stocking up on sandbags, building temporary sand berms along the coast and getting boats to safety. The National Weather service advising people to hunker down and stay off the roads tomorrow, Emergency Managers in los angeles spoke on the ongoing preparations. Are our responsibility right now is heavily leaning into coordination, support. We will flex our mutual aid resources if needed. All of us share different, different roles and responsibilities and supporting and requesting mutual aid from our state and federal partners. Were in close contact with them right now. Cities of Cabo San Lucas and tijuana are already setting up shelters in high risk areas. Mexico has put 18,000 soldiers on alert in baja and on the pacific coast. Some Service Members were out patrolling the beaches yesterday to make sure swimmers stay out of the high surf. Mexican Officials Say they are tracking the storm closely, especially in areas at risk for flooding and landslides. All right. Now lets bring in rosemary as california and baja braces itself for this is this is the real deal. Yes. James, you said you actually know somebody in cabo right now. Yeah. So theyre all inclusive. Resorts shut down for now. Oh, my goodness. All right. So still a powerful category four at this time is expected to weaken over the course of today. You can see it moves from four to a three. Right now, hillary has winds at 130mph, moving northwest at 13mph. By tomorrow, it breaks down to a Tropical Storm. At least thats the forecast right now, hopefully making landfall as a Tropical Storm. Not even a category one right there near and the rosarito area and then moving on to Southern California , as expected, by sunday afternoon. So talking more about the preps that are going on. But you can see the winds expected 45mph. So hopefully going to be okay for those folks there. Meanwhile, for us here at home, little change. Were going to warm things up just a little bit. Ill have a look at the Current Conditions and what we can expect here for the weekend coming up. Rosemary thank you for that. Death valley park announced it will be closed all weekend as flash floods prompted by hurricane hillary threatened park infrastructure there. The park will be closed to visitors starting today until tuesday the 22nd. A National Weather Service Flood watch is in effect. So park officials urging people not to drive through the area. The Tropical Storm might a years might drop a years worth of rain to death valley in the span of just a couple of hours. Some other parks closing over the weekend due to hurricane hillary. Joshua tree, national park, Mojave National preserve is well, both will be fully closed and that starts today, through monday. Staff at joshua tree plan to spend the next 36 hours starting the closure ahead of time in order to avoid the brunt of that storm. Meantime remember, use our weather app. Its a good way to stay on top of hillarys threat. The app includes a breakdown of watches and warnings and also includes videos put together by our meteorologists who are now tracking that storm. Well, concerns about safety of Autonomous Vehicles has prompted the dmv to order crews to scale back on the number of cars it has out on the road in San Francisco. That decision comes after a fire truck collided with a cruise car in the city thursday night. Ktvu zac sos joins us live in the city with the very latest. Zach, good morning. Good morning. Yeah, it was following that crash and what the dmv is describing as a series of other concerning incidents that it decided to ask crews to reduce its fleet by 50 on the road. That reduction taking place while a further investigation continues. This latest crash, again involving a fire truck on the way to an emergency call in the tenderloin on thursday. The crews car entering an intersection on a green light as the fire truck approached with its lights on. Sirens blaring. It got slammed into a cruise. Passenger was taken to the hospital but is expected to be okay. But this happening just a week after the states Public Utilities Commission Voted to allow waymo and cruise to operate around the clock. Driverless Taxi Services in San Francisco that move, we all know, was harshly criticized by a number of local leaders who questioned whether the cars were ready for, quote, prime time. I spoke with a selfdriving car expert about the crash. Heres what he had to say. These vehicles are equipped with external microphones that are supposed to pick up the sound of sirens from emergency vehicles and trigger them to pull over and stop. So while the vehicle in general had the right of way because it was going into a green light intersection, it probably should have been able to pick up that that that fire truck approaching. And at least slow down before entering the intersection. Now, in a post yesterday, crews says their car was able to identify that fire truck as it approached but that its ability to avoid it was complicated by other factors at the scene that crash one of two involving cruise vehicles that night. Another incident happening in the mission. But in that crash, the cruise car apparently not at fault. The other driver ran a red light for now, this investigation continues, but crews promising to cooperate with the dmv to make any improvements to make their cars safer and more efficient. For now, im live in San Francisco, zac sos ktvu fox two news zac sos. Thank you. Happening today, once again, a stretch of interstate 80 in the east bay is closed for the entire weekend for a major repaving project. Caltrans has closed down the eastbound lanes of interstate 80 in Contra Costa County for the third and final time. And the closure closure, rather, stretches from highway four in hercules. The coming skyway and crockett caltrans shutting down those lanes at 9 00 last night. Theyre set to reopen at 5 00 monday morning. And of course, there are detours in place. You can take eastbound highway four to northbound i6 80 to get back and around on 80 if youre local and youre from vallejo crockett rodeo and you want to access those areas, what you can do is you can take interstate 80, eastbound and then take highway four, take the coming skyway exit, and then travel across the bridge going eastbound because cardenas bridge is open. Its just they approach to the bridge is closed. So there will be one last closure over labor day weekend. Caltrans crews say they will shut down the westbound lanes of that same stretch of 80 to wrap up the repaving project. Time now is 708. Bart plans to save millions of dollars a year by using shorter trains for service, according to the chronicle. The Transit Agency says it will retire its older legacy fleet trains next month. Ten car trains became more common during the pandemic to give riders more space for social distancing while commuting. But now near empty trains have brought safety concerns for some of the riders. Six car trains will now run on every line except the busiest route to antioch, which will complete with eight cars. The change will coincide with barts news service schedule, where trains will run on all lines seven days a week. Netflix now treating tv and movie buffs with one final sendoff as it wraps up its dvd subscription service. The company will send users up to ten extra dvds before winding down the 25 year old service. Netflix will mail out dvds until september 29th. Theyll accept returns until october 27th. Subscribers to the companys dvd can take advantage of the final offer. I didnt know they still sent out. I didnt either. Really. They probably got a plethora of sitting around after 25 years. I thought streaming was your only option. Nowadays i might as well unload them. Yeah. Okay. Time is what . 709 are . Yes 709. Lets check in with rosemary. Southern california is going to get slammed with a wall of water. And how about us here in the bay area with hurricane hillary . For us here at home, little change today, guys. Tomorrow we will see perhaps a little bit more cloud cover sunday and monday will be the best opportunity for us to see those batch of clouds move in our direction. And ill show you that coming up here in just a little bit. Lets focus on the Current Conditions out there right now up above the cloud cover, beautiful blue sky. We do have clouds along the coast inside the bay this morning. Do expect a midmorning to late morning burn off and we will be partly cloudy to mostly cloudy for the coast today. Mostly sunny for the rest of us. Just a little bit of patchy fog reported over areas of santa rosa right now along the coastline. Weve got some fog out there, but Half Moon Bay reporting visibility at eight. So getting onto the highways this morning, it doesnt look like we have that low lying fog. If you are going to be getting out. Heres a view of a Storm Tracker two where we have the clouds in place. A little bit of a southerly flow. You could see the moisture over the sierra if youre traveling to lake tahoe for the weekend, do be prepared for the thunderstorms because that is one area that is going to get that added moisture. The onshore breeze has backed off considerably from yesterday. And with that, we are expecting temperatures to warm over yesterdays highs. Meanwhile this morning, many of us are a little bit cooler. 60 degrees outside your door, San Francisco , 61 in livermore, 64 for you. San jose. Weve got afternoon highs a little bit above average for today. 87 expected for the north bay of santa rosa in the city of San Francisco. An enjoyable 69 for you there. 76 in oakland. If you go into the as game midnineties in