Conference from the white house rose garden at 8 00 a. M. Our time. Insiders expect him to pick hurt george Sri Srinivasan or judge garland both serving on the United States court of appeals in washington, dc. Garland is the chief judge, the president appointed Sri Srinivasan to the court in 2013. He has bay area ties, graduating from Stanford Law School in 1995 and right now the Supreme Court is evenly split ideologically after last months death of conservative judge scalia. Republicans vow to ignore any nomination saying the next president should pick scalias replacement. We will talk about the next president they are trying to figure out winners in missouri primary but two frontrunners extended their lead more over the challengers. Donald trump, the republican president ial can dot won in florida, North Carolina and illinois but not ohio. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton nearly swept the table beating Bernie Sanders in four primaries including the all important florida and ohio. Bernie sanders vowed he will stay in the race. Now, the biggest winner on super tuesday is Ohio Governor john kasich. His home state came through keeping his campaign alive. Cannot say the same about anne arundel he could not win the home state of florida and suspended his campaign. Now the delegate count is getting interesting, donald trump 621, ted cruz 396, kasich, way behind at 138. The republican candidate needs 1,237 to get the them nation. That is impossible for kasich to reach before the convention but it is looking less likely that anyone, including trump, will get there before the convention. On the democratic side, hick doubles Bernie Sanders, and the democratic candidate need as majority of 4,700 delegates. Donald trumps defeat in california could give ohio a role in the race for the presidency. Traditionally our june 7 primary comes african dates have secured enough delegates but as you mentioned the win in ohio for kasich could lead to a contested convention in july so the candidates will count on california votes. We will see the call consolidating around one candidate and that would be ted cruz because high was not fine fairly before. Analysts think it is unlikely that donald trump or Hillary Clinton will wrap up the nominations outright before hitting california. You can get election updates as they happen with abc news app by downloading for flow 67 able push alerts. Santa clara officials will sweep reforms to the county jails. Tiffany is in the newsroom. The sheriff is trying to reduce the risk of excessive force. That is a goal. The sheriff smith wants to improve medical care in all jails. She spent her money to install surveillance videos and submitted a complete jail reform plan. According to our media partner, smith has 13 goals for jail reform. That includes, beefing up training to help guards handle mentally ill inmates, improving inmate Education Programs and increasing back ground checks for guards. They were proposed in a report to the countys Public Safety and Justice Committee that meets today. The recommendations include appointment of a civilian board and Inspector General to provide permanent and independent oversight. Los angeles county is the only other major urban county in california with an Inspector General and Citizens Commission to supervise jails. Reaction is mixed. The Santa Clara County jails have been under scrutiny since mentally ill inmate michael mirery was beaten to death in august. Three guards have been charged with his murder. More concern for commuters on interstate 80 after a driver said that someone shot at her car. It happened during the evening commute. You can see sky 7 is over the scene at appian way. No one was hurt. There have been eight shootings along 80 since november. Police think they are gangrelated but innocent people have been injured. A deal for a controversial highrise project near oaklands lake merritt got the green light voting in favor of the deal. The shouting got so bad that members everyone forced to leave the chamber and continue the discussion in a conference room. Demonstrators say 9 project violated state law because it does not offer enough affordable housing. Renters in san jose can take heart this morning, official are considering a proposal that would tie annual rent increases of rentcontrolled apartments to inflation. According to the mercury news that is good news because the amount would be a third or less of the hikes allowed under the rent control law. The city council will take up the proposal next month. Apartment owners complain the plan leads to more housing short as and less machine. Controversial High School Mascot will be getting a makeover. On the Facebook Page the principal announced the School District unanimously agreed to change rebel give. The principal wants to keep the mascots name but change the look of the mascot to distance him from confederate roots. A couple will see what property the thieves left after stealing the moving truck. The police found the truck in the fairway park area and pacifica with precious few items inside. On monday we told you the trick was taken from San Franciscos outer sunset two weeks ago just full of the familys stuff. They just had driven here from san diego. Friends and family are helping with donated furniture and toys. A man accused of spraying racial slurs own a School Office will be in court and enter a plea. An employee of the School District found the graffiti painted on office doors. Police say that he admitted to painting the word white power, on a door along with comment about black people. He said he painted the worths because he hates christianity and africanamericans and believes the white race is superior. 4 37. Is it wednesday . Yes, wednesday. Dont take that away from me. Dont make it tuesday. Please. Yesterday wasnt too bad but today, it is warmer. Today, it is warmer. Good morning, everyone, richmond is 51. Pacifica is 50. Everyone else in the 40s. Santa clara is cool at 41. The activity planner today, dog walking is great although it is cool, kayaking, stay in the bay, rough over the ocean. Yes, one of my coworkers asked if it was warm enough to swim. You might want to do it tomorrow. If you want to lay around and get the vitamin around 71 to 75 for most of us and remainder tomorrow as we get to 78 in the south bay, and cooler on friday, a wind shift that will bring a chance of rain. An update on the storm on sunday and monday is next. Sue . Coming off the waldo grade to the Golden Gate Bridge and it is flowing nicely with no delays. Still waiting for the zipper truck to give you four lanes southbound and now it is three in both directions northbound and southbound on the Golden Gate Bridge, over ail, traffic looks terrific and yellow out of the Central Valley which is typical for 4 38 and the problem spot, eastbound 580 at san queen extend the last offramp before you get out of marin county or to the bridge, a car flipped over off the roadway and tow truck is on the scene and out there since 2 00 this morning and no slowing beyond the scene. Back with a look at the bay bridge commute coming up. We know the bay area is among the worst places in the nation as far as Traffic Congestion and next a new list making it official and the three worst spots. Opponents of the plan to limit where dogs can run off limit where dogs can run off leash gets new bite with limit where dogs can run off leash gets new bite with limit where dogs can run off leash gets new bite with novato, oakland, sunnyvale, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. It is 4 42. A plane on a medical flight carrying a patient mad a rough landing and the pilot had to land in a belly skid. The patient was headed to the ucla medical center. Nope was injured. Look at the screens, do you recognize this . Bad traffic. A new study is revealing how bad it is. And how much time we waste on the road. Cornell barnard has the eye opening results. A last us are going nowhere fast. Slowly inching along. In traffic. How do you describe it . Ex hasting exhausting. She car pools monday through friday to San Francisco. It takes two hours to get home. A study shows bay area commuters spend 75 hours sitting in traffic in 2015. The worst commutes is highway 101 in San Francisco. From hospital curve across the bay bridge. When we speed up the drive along the skyway it is still bad. Tuesday, wednesday, thursday, morning commute from 6 30 to 9 30 is considered the worst time on the road. We flew over the east shore freeway through emeryville approaching the maze and another rough commute in the bay area which made the list. And a big stretch of 280 through san jose. There is a reason it takes longer. Low Unemployment Rate and obviously low fuel costs put more people on the road. Public Transportation Options are plenty where we live, but they do not work for everyone. Some commuters say they have seen worse. It is worse in manila. Hang in there, commuters, and keep driving. Two new lawsuits accuse a beachier celebrity chef of Violations Including sexual problems, with people saying they had to be during inappropriate touching, saying he directed the managers not to hire women unless they wanted to have sex with them. Another lawsuit accuses the restaurant of not paying employees the wages, manipulating time clocks and requiring employees to pool tips. We have good news for dog lovers the San Francisco board of supervisors has sided with mans best friend in a dispute over recreational areas voting in favor of a resolution opposing plans by the National Park service to reduce areas where dogs are allowed off leash in the Golden Gate NationalRecreation Area including crissy fields that would lose half of their current off leash space. Officials say the space would provide for the needs of different users and be safer for everyone. I dont know about that, but people love to take their dogs out in nice weather and we will have that. In San Francisco you try to take away dog areas . Who does that. You saw the picture, a Beautiful Day when the picture was taken and another one like it today. Maybe you do not need the coat from that picture. The next six hours, nothing is showing up on live doppler 7 hd. San rafael right now has temperature as bout 48 degrees looking down 101 to the south under clear sky. Total sunshine is remain wither than average today and our warmest highs are tomorrow and thursday, and i should say today and thursday, rain runs on sunday evening and here is a look at our temperatures today, 65 at Half Moon Bay and San Francisco is 67, and san mateo and santa cruz at 69 and everyone else is around 70 to 74 degrees with the warmest in antic and santa rosa at 74. Fog in the Central Valley will pull into the bay and the offshore breeze is not that strong. You can see it keeps the fog away from the coast, 49 in Half Moon Bay and 50s around san mateo and oakland and richmond and San Francisco and the rest us in the midtoupper 40s. Our stormimpact scale we have had a 3 over the weekend, and sunday interest monday it will be a 1 at up to. 5 of rain and breezy. Watch it roll in on sunday night into the north bay and the rest of us through monday morning and steady rain with showers into the afternoon hours. The rain is . The south bay and half an inch is in the north bay. Today and tomorrow and friday it is warm and saturday held on but the beaches, it is cooler on monday with the rain. Sue . Good morning. The worst commutes in the bay area according to our Cornell Barnard is right here the east shore freeway. Already at 4 47 we are seeing significant amount of cars on the road. Not a bad drive from golden gate field into San Francisco at 12 minutes and we will look at the toll plaza, breezy through and if you have to be up it is nice to know the roads are cooperating with you. Overall traffic map is good, green means everyone is at the limit, and we do have road work eastbound and westbound Richmond San Rafael bridge, one lane is available to you, now, the other lane is shut down for road work until 5 00, and the Castro Valley 580 at 238 road work will be picked up at 5 00. And the drive from the Central Valley when we come back. Happening right now commuters are praising for a nightmare commute in washington, dc. That is because the most tremendous is completely shut down for massive safety inspection. Right now crew are conducting safety farooks on 600 electric cables after a fire on the tunnel monday. The shutdown will impact 700,000 people who count on the metro the second busiest rail system. Inspections beagain at 9 00 our time last night and will last through tomorrow morning and we are showing you footage from last time there was a fire. I wondering about that. Not happening now. A popular social media site will be more holy, look for the pope on instagram start this weekend. The have the condition said he will make his debut on the social media site open saturday. Francis on instagram. A new warning for pregnant women, the canned food that doctors say they need to avoid. She survived 18 years as a captive in a back yesterday shack and is dealing with a new set back this morning. Good morning, topping americas money, a quasi feeling for chicago pelt investors that could post the first quarterly loss off 26 , with customers slow to return after several foodrelated illness outbreaks. As of today the Obama Administration has all but removed restrictions on travel to cuba and opened the door to key ban athletes playing Major League Baseball without having to defect. Best of all for some americans they can now buy cuban cigars and rum and bring them back here. Disney said there will be another Indiana Jones movie and harrisonford will be back and spielberg will direct of the it has earned 2 billion at the box office with the new one in july office with the new one in july of 2019 a week after harrison again again again again again . Again again General Mills is removing artificial flavors and colors from our cereals. So you can love cereal. Again hmm. [cell phone beeps] hey [police whistle blows] [horns honking] woman hey [bicycle bell rings] turn here. There. Excuse me. Uh. Uh. [indistinct announcement on p. A. System] so, same time next week . Well, of course. Announcer put away a few bucks. Feel like a million bucks. For free tips to help you save, go to feed the pig Oakland International is paying it easier for travelers to get across the pond. There are now direct flights to london starting may 12th. Oakland international was picked to be the airlines only Northern California route to and from london. Norway air is called a merging powerhouse among low cost airliners. Is set back for j. C. Dugard, the federal government is not responsible for her kidnapping and 18 year captivity. She sued saying that federal officials did not protect her from her captor. He was on parole after going to prison for a rape in nevada and she said the parole should have been revoked before he captured her in 1991 and raped her at his home in antioch. The court said the government has in way of knowing he would make her a victim. The food and Drug Administration could update their recommendations on witch types of fish pregnant women should eat. This is after a new study finds eating fish the way the government recommends could be exposing protect women to unsafe levels of mercury. Scientists at the Environmental Working Group said the governments list of high mercury fish is not complete or is inaccurate specifically canned tuna because some studies show it is high in mercury. A f. D. A. Spokesman said the agency will update advise. A drugged called a miracle in the fight against rare cancers is now being investigated following patient deaths in australia. The drug was seen as a major breakthrough because it did not kill the healthy cells. Now a spokesman said that patient studyies have have been serious side effects and even debt. A new public to get young voters to the poles in a student voting act that registers students to vote when they enroll for classes. The legislation would apply tore any student in the uc or Community Program program unless that student opts out of the the student voting act is heard in its First Committee later this month. Or in early april. Today, if you have a lead foot, head to the raceway to drag. The wednesday drag is today and gives the general public a chance to drag race on the facilitys quarter mile drag strip. Add pit it you have always wanted to try. Have you . Well. This is some of the action that the drag strip from last year, everyone from high school students, to professionals are included and the raceway said this gives driver as place to do this in a way that is safe, legal and controlled. I want to see a drag queen on the drag strip and when they have a story. You are asking for a lot. How about nice weather . Driving in those he wills . Come on. That is the challenge. Good morning, everyone, a look from the exploritorium at pier 15 a gorgeous shot of downtown San Francisco temperatures from 49 degrees above average. We will get in the 70s away from the coast in San Francisco. Around the state, midtoupper 80s in los angeles and palm springs and lowtomid 70s through the Central Valley sunny and 65 if monday in monterey, and lake tahoe has before average temperatures but snow is on the way monday and tuesday. Sue . Watching the roads across the Golden Gate Bridge there are four lanes in the southbound direction and two in the northbound direction with traffic looking nice. No delays over the waldo grade. Slow coming from the Central Valley and that is typical. Speeds are about 28 Miles Per Hour and you pick up over the Altamont Pass looking at 30minute drive from tracy to dublin pleasanton. Early san rafael accident with an overturn on 580 with that update if a second. In San Francisco, improvements are going to be made to a portion of lombard street to make it safer. We told you of the proposal yesterday morning and now we can tell you the municipality Transportation Agency did approve a 12 million safety overhaul including building islands for pedestrians in the middle of the street and more sidewalks at intercessions. The changes mean lombard will has 46 packing spots. Contra costa county could have its own Energy Program in an effort to lower costs and provide more access to cheap energy. The supervisors have aproblems the study intended to maybe the way which allows the october compete with pg e as retailers of electricity. Cuss torches have to choose to opt out or they automatically enrolled. The study is expected to take ten months. Attention shoppers or swedish meatball lovers the bay area could get a third ikea store near i580 in dublin. The city has to sign off. The store would not open until 2018. The or Bay Area Stores are in emeryville and east palo alto. If you have been to either, they are crowded all the time. A all the time. I can take that jam right now. You are waiting. And waiting. For your bus and it never. Cans where commuters are left to fend for themselves. Trying to heal a community with a permanent memorial for a with a permanent memorial for a teenager whose d live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Good morning, at 5 00 a. M. , i am reggie aqui and look who is back. It feels so good, natasha zouves, wednesday, march 16. Meteorologist mike nicco has from both to welcome you home. A lot of sunshine. When you are napping. Guaranteed. First day is good. Tomorrow, watch