Im not sure what else would cause that. So we have the two left lanes down, two right lanes are open and then heavy traffic as usual on the westbound side of the road as well. Couple minor issues also approaching grant line road. Those are pushed off to the shoulder. So those are typical delays. Next traffic update coming up. Our top story this morning, the ntsb investigating this plane crash that had a south bay family on board. It left three people dead, two people in Critical Condition. The plane was on its way to san jose when it crashed into several homes shortly after taking off from riverside. Home Surveillance Video shows this crash. Youre going to see a big explosion in just a moment. Officials say the survivors are two women in their late 30s or early 40s. Its hard to belief they were able to get out of that crash alive. The pilots neighbor in san jose tells us he and his wife left for anaheim friday to attend their granddaughters cheerleading competition at disneyland. The neighbor says the pilot is in his 70s and is really experienced. Its horrible. You know, especially when you couple together that they were going to a cheer competition and this is supposedly a happy time and then just to have a tragic incident like this. Officials expected to hold a News Conference at 11 00 this morning. We will bring that to you live on our midday news and stream it for you on our abc7 news app. New this morning, at least one person was seriously burned in a fire in el cerrito. Firefighters responded to a fire on san pab lob avenue. The apartment is an assisted living facility. A man suffered second and thirddegree burns to the upper part of his body. The cause is under investigation. New details this morning on sherri papini. Thats the Shasta County mother who was kidnapped last her disappearance and eventual safe return captured nationwide attention. The person who offered a cash reward for her purn is giving a new interview to crime watch daily. The donor, still remaining anonymous, claims that papini is struggling to be around strangers. Hansons show is also investigating whether there was a cult connection to papinis kidnapping. Happening today, the white house is promising an optimistic vision from President Trump when he speaks tonight. Hes set to call for a budget that includes 54 billion in increases in defense spending and 54 billion in cuts to federal agencies. Those cuts said to target the Environmental Protection agency and foreign aid. President trump also expected to talk about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care act. A growing number of democrats are bringing young undocumented immigrants to see the president s address tonight. A half dozen house and Senate Democrats are hosting immigrants who came to the u. S. As children. Former Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear will be delivering the democratic response. New details on white houses stance against recreational marijuana. Attorney general Jeff Sessions says he believes violence surnds sales to the drug in the u. S. Sessions says he did not think america will be a better place with more people smoking pot. Last week, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the Justice Department is going to increase enforcement of federal laws against recreational marijuana. Right now we have a live look at the nations capital. Any moment now, attorney general Jeff Sessions will speak at the National Association of attorneys general in washington, d. C. It will be his first major speech after being sworn in earlier this month. During his talk this morning, hes likely to focus on his main goal of what he says a rise in crime in the u. S. By the relaxed policies of the obama administration, although i should note that data not necessarily supporting that claim. We expect him to clarify some of his goals today. Of course well be listening in. We will have updates throughout the day on our later newscast. New drone video from the state department of Water Resources that youre seeing here shows us the first unobstructed view of the oroville dams damaged emergency spillway. Engineers have shut off the water for seven days there so crews can clean out debris that is stopped ha hydroelectric plant from working. It will also give geologists a chance to check on the erosion problem there. A potential spillway failure earlier this month forced a Mass Evacuation near that dam. The oroville dam has helped put one question front and center. How are we going to pay to fix the states infrastructure problems. The state needs 200 million to fix skbaur transportation infrastructure. Democratic lawmakers are proposing to raise gas taxes. Governor brown says funding will need to come out of residents private capital. Republicans and taxpayer advocates say that this is not an excuse to raise taxes. The politicians need to suck it up and start prioritizing our tax dollars to pay for things like dam repair and dam construction, water storage, and highways. They need to do that without raising taxes. They say existing funds like truck weight fees can be use to the jouf set costs instead of being used to pay off bonds. San francisco officials could soon put the brakes on selfdriving delivery robots. The first ever rules being proposed. Plus of course you saw the mistake. Now we are learning about the moments leading up to the wrong movie being announced best picture at the oscars. How a tweet could be to blame. Heres a live look at 6 minutes after 6 00 on the bay bridge toll plaza. Definitely people lining up to definitely people lining up to get to were back. Were starting in the north bay where guerneville, and some areas of rohnert park, 32 degrees right now. Everybody else, petaluma, 36, santa rosa, sebastopol, 37, weve got 36 in napa, 38 in american canyon, novato all the way down to tiburon, low to mid 40s, all the way down the peninsula to san jose, alameda 44, 38 in newark, 33 in san ramon. Lets take a look at todays temperatures, about 58 to 61 so a little bit warmer. Were back to average tomorrow, 57 to 65, warmer than average for thursday, 59 to 69 degrees. Now pollen, its an issue. Yesterday its going to be an issue today. Tree pollen is way up there and tonights our last chance of frost inland. Mid 30s there. I want to take you back out to tracy, that is where our Biggest Issue is this morning and its on the eastbound side of 580 so it is the countercommute. If this were on the westbound side, this would be a huge headache. Weve got about a twomile delay on eastbound 580 just before you get to grant line road. Weve got a couple large boulders reported in the left lane and the two left lanes are down. We had five vehicles involved in a crash. So you are jammed there at just about a 10mileperhour average approaching and a quick check of some mass transit agencies as well. Normal service for ace 1, 3, and 5 on time, 47 trains in service for b. A. R. T. And weve got about a 20minute bridge delay here for capital corridor train 521. Robot delivery, which you see right there, is becoming more common in San Francisco and now a supervisor says says its time for laws to government govern these. Normal ye is going to call for rules. They are navigating in places where the public walks or travels and he says there need to be some dos and donts. One idea, requiring permits to allow those robots to operate. Coming up, how elon musk is trying to sweetd tennessee deal and keep his workers from unionizing. Also a dramatic explosion at a canadian restaurant. We are hearing from the man who was injured in that blast. And as we head to break, it is fat tuesday indeed and a look at mar dee gras just past 8 00 in the morning. 8 00 in the morning. You can tomorrows the day well play something 8 00 in the morning. You can besides video games. Every day is a gift. Especially for people with Heart Failure. But today theres entresto. A breakthrough medicine that can help make more tomorrows possible. Tomorrow, i want to see teddy bait his first hook. In the largest Heart Failure study ever, entresto was proven to help more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading Heart Failure medicine. Women who are pregnant must not take entresto. It can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren. If youve had angioedema while taking an ace or arb medicine, dont take entresto. The most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high potassium in your blood. Tomorrow, im gonna step out with my favorite girl. Ask your doctor about entresto. And help make the gift of tomorrow possible. vo have to happen . Idnt i didnt see it. vo what if we could go back . What if our car. Could stop itself . In iihs frontend crash prevention testing, nobody beats the Subaru Impreza. Not toyota. Not honda. Not ford. The allnew Subaru Impreza. More than a car, its a subaru. 6 14. You got to see this. This man in canada says he is off ecigarettes forever and you can see why. That battery exploding inside of his pants. The heat from the explosion was so intent that Terrance Johnson will require a skin graft. He has to treat third degree burns on his thighs. He believes loose change in his pocket reacted with the battery. Johnsons wife thought her husband had been attacked. There were flames everywhere, and i actually thought someone had thrown, like, a molotov cocktail at us or something. His burns to his hands too where he was trying to pat down the flames. You can see the battery fused to part of his jeans. He says that he has never been warned of the dangers of the ecigarette devices but owners of vap shops say they give a verbal and printed warning with every purchase. This just coming into our live desk right now. I want to show you brandnew video of mt. Etna in italy. Look at this. Its beautiful. That orange lava spewing into the air. It is the largest and most active volcano, came to life overnight. You can see fireballs exploding in the night sky. Its located near the east coast of sicily, italy. In the last few decades, there have been several eruptions. Some villages have been threatened in the nearby area but this time around seems like no one is in harms way, at least not yet. A remarkable sight to see this morning. Absolutely. Thanks, jessica. Tesla ceo elon musk is sweetening the deal now for fremont factory workers as he continues to try to persuade them not to unionize. According to an email, musk told workers that the united autoworkers unions true allegiance is with large Car Companies and ifs only interested in taking money from corkers in the form of dues. Musk also disputed allegations about employees long hours at the companys fremont factory. To win over his workers, musk told them he would throw a party once the model 3 reaches production. It would be complete with a roller coaster and fro yo. Mr. Musk, if youre watching, what is a wod car roller coaster . Sounds fun. And the award for biggest potential culprit behind an oscar oops goes to brian cullinan. If you dont recognize the name, his the pricewaterhousecoopers accountant who handed out the wrong envelope sunday night. The academys now investigating whether he may have been distracted by twitter. Apparently, he had been posting all night and tweeted a pic of best actress winner emma stone with her oscar statue just minutes before making that mistake. Meantime, Host Jimmy Kimmel is giving his account of what happened. He says the original plan was for him to end the show sitting next to matt damon. I was sitting there and we noticed some commotion going on, and matt says, i think i heard the stage manager say they got the winner wrong. The stage manager is on the stage. The stage manager is camera. Its very unusual. But were sitting there and you figure, the host will clear this up and i remember im the host. Its a good one. The academy is vowing to take action. At this point, we dont know what that really means. Pricewaterhousecoopers has been tabulating the oscar winners for 83 of the shows 89 years. Well, chp officers in truckee shared this photo on facebook of a man who left his car parked at sugar bowl nearly two weeks ago. Yikes. Thats when several inches of snow fell into the area. Officers say sean was so busy working he didnt have time to dig his car out so officers pitched in to help. Chp also thanked plow drivers and tow Truck Drivers for helping out. He might need another shovel. I was going to say, inches . That looked like feet. Smn didnt want to do the translation from inches to feet but that looked like about 6 to 10 feet of snow. That was amazing. Snow pack up there, 188 of average, skiing through july in some areas. For us, were going to end february, finally, on a dry note. Thank you. Hi, everybody. Heres a look at live doppler 7. Not a cloud until you go over the ocean. Lets jump into the east bay hills camera. Isnt that beautiful . The earning morning soft light of San Francisco all the way. You can see the sutro tower there. So mostly sunny today. Warming trend begins. Clear tonight, our last one with frost. And trending wet saturday, sunday, monday, and tuesday. Its a dicey situation right now. Its not set in stone, and as we get closer, we will fine tune it. Let me give you an idea what to expect right now with our storm impact scale. 1 for saturday and sunday, moderate showers, a little breezy but not damage from either of those. In fact, most of saturday, you can see here we start at noon, all the way up until about 11 00, pretty dry. Maybe a few stray showers out there. The darker green comes in while most of us are sleeping. Its in the south bay when we wake up at 8 00 sunday morning and then it clears on out. This is the first sign of the potential of the wetness. You can see a few showers, couple hundredths during the evening saturday and then sunday, possibly 3 4 to in san jose. Wheres the rain shadow down there . This model, not very good at showing us very fine particulars but gives us an idea of the trend that is going to happen this weekend as we get closer, our short range models will really fine tunal it. Warmer temperatures, near 70 thursday. A little cooler with more clouds friday, back to average saturday with that chance of showers beginning. Were still seeing mostly green on our traffic maps this morning so thats definitely a good thing. I do want to take you back to tracy, though, that is our Biggest Issue, the eastbound side of 580 before grant line road. Ive been reading some of the comments on waze so a lot of drivers who have gone by this issue, theyre saying it sounds like perhaps this fivecar crash a couple of those vehicles went into the hillside and that is what caused those couple of large rocks to go into the far left lane so we do have caltrans on the scene. We have our crew, Amy Hollyfield is almost there as well. So heapfully well get to the bottom of this as well. Youve got the normal backup on the westbound side of the road. Quick check of the bay bridge toll plaza. That is jammed per usual. Weve had those metering lights on for almost an hour and a quick look at drive times. Westbound 580, richmondsan rafael bridge just 7 minutes, 17 across san mateo bridge, and westbound 84 across dumbarton bridge in the green at 9 minutes. Good morning america coming up at 7 00 right here on abc7. And amy is live from new york city with look at whats ahead. Reporter good morning to you, natasha and reggie. Coming up next here on gma, President Trump just hours away from his first address to congress. This as he discusses his proposed budget with a huge spike in military spending and his plan to repeal and replace obamacare. Trumps new budget director joins us this morning with all of the latest. Then fitness guru and beloved host of the biggest loser bob harper revealing he suffered a major heart attack while exercising, resulting in a twoday coma. Dr. Besser is here live on what to look out for while in the gym and we have a packed house this morning. Corinne from the bachelor here and tim mcgraw and octavia spencer. Great job at the oscars, amy. That pink dress was incredible. Well done. Have a good one. Next, how a pinterest project could be leading to a nationwide glue shortage. Nationwide glue shortage. Its okay to cry, right . No more we dont want anymore [crying] ahhhhhhhhhh everyday price and no extra monthly fees, unlike cable. Speeds up to 45 megs, for 30 a month. If youve ever searched pinterest to make your kids slime, you could be contributing to a nationwide glue shortage. Parents across the country are reporting that glue has been wiped off store shelves as recipes for the gooey substance have spiked in popularity. The main ingredient in slime is the white glue we all used in elementary school. Some of us ate it. Oh. El her says theyre boosting production. Are you telling on yourself . We do dmot recommend that you yo do that. But are you telling on yourself . I remember my classmates. She remembers. Emily from daly city has a question about insurance. 7 on your sides Michael Finney has her answer. I have a life insurance. Ive called four times. They never answer to me. So i want to stop payment. Hi, emily. Thats how they get you. Many Insurance Companies only allow you to cancel by sending in a letter. Now, consumer groups think thats incredibly unfair, but it is still widely done so heres what i want you to do. Check your policy to see if thats the case. If it is, write a letter. Now, if they still wont cancel your policy, and youre having trouble, i want you to call my hotline here at the station and well help you navigate through all of this. Thanks for your question if you have a question for Michael Finney, record it on your smartphone or tablet and share it on social media using askfinney or go to our website abc7news. Com askfinney and you might see your question answered right here on abc7 mornings. Next at 6 30, how high can it go. Wall street setting another record, how the markets are starting out this morning live from the new york stock exchange. And the action San Jose City leaders are set to take today to set up aid to coyote creek flooding victims. And overall its been a quiet morning on the roads. We do have one significant issue, though, eastbound 580 in the tracy area before you get to grant line road. Grant line road. Multicar crash with and good morning to you on this fat tuesday, february 28. Im thinking about beignets and king cakes. Im thinking about mike nicco giving me the line. Laissez Les Bons Temps rouler. It gets better every time. Theres something silky about it. Theres something that has a force behind it too. I like it. I dont think mike has beignets, though. Thats what we really want. I have king cake at home. My wife made a king cake over the weekend. Barbara, thank you in advance. I feel like such a jerk now because i didnt bring any in. Yeah, yeah. Honey, guess what you have to do tonight . Sorry. Ill help. Hi, everybody. Lets talk about a great morning commute. Look at this. Live doppler 7, no fog, no clouds, just a little bit cooler. If thats the only thing you have to worry about, id say its pretty good. Heres a look at our day planner. Theres some frost inland. Some 32 to 31 degrees in our valleys so watch out for that. Weve got temperatures in the 50s at noon. Mud to upper 50s at 4 00 and back near 50 at 7 00. Lets find out about that commute. Heres alexis. The calm weather conditions certainly helping out with this. Weve had one significant issue here. Eastbound 580 just before you get to grant line road in tracy, normally wide open on that side this time of day but weve got a serious crash blocking the two left lanes, some boulders are in the road too, initially sounded like that was the cause of the crash but now its sounding more like possibly the vehicles hit the side of the hillside there and that went into the road but we do have a crew almost to the scene. Also southbound 680 just past sunol boulevard, a minor crash on the shoulder so some delays there as well. Well take a look at drive times coming up. We are expecting to get more information in just a few hours about this plane crash that ended up killing some members of a south bay family. The plane had just taken off from riverside when it crashed into some homes. Three people are dead. Two women survived. Abc7 News Reporter lonni rivera is live for us in san jose. Reporter natasha and reggie, that family was attending a cheerleading competition in southern california. The pilot and two others died. Two women survived and were hearing theyre in Critical Condition this morning. Heres a look at the scene from a cell phone video of the fiery crash. The plane took off from riverside heading back to san jose when it crashed into a neighborhood near the airport. The fire raged through homes as firefighters searched for victims. All five victims were from the aircraft itself. We have confirmed that we do have three deceased on scene. Our firefighters did make, again, aggressive rescue to rescue two of the victims that are at local hospitals. Reporter no residents were injured, but ntsb investigators will search the neighborhood today to make sure, but they believe everyone has been accounted for. Two homes that were hit directly were destroyed, so today, the red cross is helping those families with shelter and counseling. Meantime, friends here in the bay area are saying the pilot was in his 70s and was very experienced. Were live in san jose, lonni rivera, abc7 news. And we are expecting officials to hold a News Conference this morning at 11 00 in riverside. We will bring it to you live on our midday news and also stream it on our abc7 news app. If you download it, be sure to enable push alerts so we can send you the latest developments in this story. Were also tracking developing news in pittsburg, Police Investigating a tragic accident. It happened just after 7 00 last night near willow pass and loftus roads. Police say two cause crashed and a woman inside a nearby home recognized one of the cars in the accident. She was then hit by a third car as she tried to cross the street. The two drivers who collided with expected to be okay. The third driver who hit the woman is cooperating with the investigation. Jewish Centers Across the country are on high alert following a new wave of bomb threats. There are more than 20 just yesterday, including three right here in the bay area. San Francisco Police temporarily shut down market after someone called and threatened the Antidefamation League. Within a half hour, Jewish Centers in palo alto and san rafael also received threats. No actual devices were found at any of these locations. The Antidefamation League says there have been more than 90 antisemitic threats or incidents nationwide within the last two months and its now calling on the Trump Administration to take action. Today marks exactly one week since devastating flooding slammed san jose, leaving behind 73 million in damage. That is a number thats considered conservative and is expected to climb as more investigations are done and damage is uncovered. Abc7 news was in the rock springs neighborhood last night where city crews were giving notice that stranded cars will be towed but fees will be waived. City leaders said they need to clear the streets so they can keep cleaning up piles of debris. Today, the city council is expected to approve an emergency ordinance waiving city permit and inspection fees for cleanup and repair. Our initial estimate today is that approximately 50 million worth of private Property Damage was done and about 23 million of Public Sector damage was done. The initial estimates will help the city begin the process of applying for state and federal aid. Police in pleasanton will investigating a shooting on westbound 580 around 7 00 last night. Officers got a report of a shooting on the interstate between hacienda drive and hopyard road. The victim says it was an incident of road rage and a passenger in a silver toyota kroel fired at his car several times. No one was hurt and the suspects drove west toward oakland. The santa cruz kouns is going to discuss the ongoing battle between Homeland Security and the Police Department in the city. Leaders are meeting tonight to discuss current guidelines it faces as a sanctuary city. It also expects to get an update from the police chief when that Council Meets at 7 00 tonight. The chief says he was duped into targeting undocumented immigrants during a raid on gang members two weeks ago. Homeland security says police were told in advance it would detain any foreign nationals encountered in the raid. Ten suspected gang members got arrestsed. Another 11 were detained for immigration violations. Republicans in the statement capital are blasting a bill that would limit communication between local Law Enforcement officers and immigration agents. Supporters say the aim of the sanctuary state measure is to protect students and children covered by president obamas d. R. E. A. M. Ers program. Opponents say the measure would prevent i. C. E. Agents from going into california jails and prisons and deporting the thousands of undocumented felons inside. The bill will face the vote on senate and assembly floors. It will need twothirds support to pass. Oaklands fire chief, teresa deloaf re deloach reed is on leave for the second time this year. The department will not say this f this is performance related. Reed was on leave since late january to help care for a sick relative she came back to work last week, we but then left again on friday. In the wake of the deadly ghost ship fire, shes been heavily criticized for his departments lack of inspections. No word yet on when shes going to be back at work. The fallout from Sexual Harassment allegations at uber has now cost one of its top engineers his job. Amit singhal is the man seen on the right. He was forced to resign because he didnt disclose a Sexual Harassment investigation involving him at google. He denies the google allegations. His resignation comes a week after a former uber worker said uberer ignored her complaints that a manager had tried to pressure her into very extremhat this attack took place sunday morning on camepus. The come was not physically hurt and did not know her attacker. There isnt a good description of the suspect so police are looking for witnesses so they can release a sketch. Happening today, a federal judge will hear arguments on whether to stop the final bit of construction on the disputed Dakota Access pipeline. The oil pipeline has been the scene of huge protests and arrests since last spring. President obama sundayed the work but President Trump ordered construction to resume. Two native american tribes say the work will desecrate land they consider sacred and destroy their water supply. The pipeline is intended to carry oil from north dakota to illinois. Wondering which coat you should grab this morning or how to dress the kids, well start in the south bay where weve bottom 36 in saratoga and los gatos to 35 in alum rock, san jose is about 40, milpitas some of the warm spots at 41. Weve got 38 in newark, freezing cold frost in danville and 32 lafayette, 34 livermore 36, mild 43 in san pablo, san carlos 36, San Francisco 45 and about 38 right now in novato. Lets take a look at whats going to happen today. 57 at half moon bay, little breezy there. 58 to 61. Look at this. Sunshine on 101 and san rafael. Good, good, and good whether youre on the road, mass transit, or on the water. Yeah a little cool this morning but at least theres a light breeze. Its going to be cold agai tonight, our last night of frost, at least wide spread inland with mid 30s to mainly mid 40s. If youre traveling around the state today, it looks pretty quiet also. No more record setting rain in san diego. Taking a look at the roads this morning, overall weve been prirt quiet with one exception. Tracy, youve had the tough spot here today and its the eastbound side of the road that were concerned about so if this were westbound, this would be a huge backup. As it is, were at about two and a half or three miles for that eastbound side which is countercommute this time of day. Just before you get to grant line road, we had a multicar crash. Not sure which happened first, if we had the boulders first or if one or two vehicles hit the hillside buff weve got a new slide, a couple more rocks are involved now. So the two left lanes are blocked. The two right lanes are open and Amy Hollyfield should be there any minute so hopefully well get a better look at that and have a better grip for that situation. Things are looking better in San Francisco. Southbound 101 just before cesar sha vez, the backup not looking too bad and heres a quick check of southbound 680 through walnut creek, all things concerned, thats looking pretty good too. No blocking issues there. Next traffic jum update at 6 50. People in san rafael may notice extra emergency crews at the Railroad Crossing at smith ranch and silveira officials will conduct training to prepare for emergencies. The drill runs from 9 30 to 11 30 this morning. If you are considering buying a home in california, youre not going to like this next news. According to bank rate, california is the toughest state for firsttime home buyers. Buyers here face low affordable, tight inventory and high unemployment. Rounding out the top five worst states are hawaii, new york, louisiana, and mississippi. If you were wondering, buying is best in iowa. Take a look at this stunning rendering of what is supposed to be coming to San Francisco at a proposed skyscraper. Notice there is an open rooftop public space 36 floors up. These pictures of the glass highrise are the first weve seen of the building proposed by famed italian architect renzo piano. The skyscraper is one of nine New Buildings planned for the transbay district. That place is going to look completely different in a few years. Piano also built the California Academy of Science Building and golden gate park. The City Planning Department is going to get a look at pianos proposal on thursday. Get ready your pg e bill is about to go up again. Why the utilities says the increase will actually be a good thing. Also we have some new details emerging about the next iphone and there could be a huge change from the current model. Taking a live look outside from our exploratorium camera, we have a little bit of peach tingeing the skies there. Tingeing the skies there. Were keeping weath look at all that dinner for 4 and before you say but dennys, those 2 strips of bacon, 2 eggs and 2 fluffy pancakes are clearly breakfast. We say at 4 dollars does it really matter . Dennys 4 all day, everyday value slam. Part of the 2468 value menu. Were back at 6 44 and get ready to pay more for your electricity bill. Rates for pg e customers are going up and it starts tomorrow. Customers already saw an increase at the beginning of the year as part of the utilitys changes in its billing tiers, rates are going to go up 12 a month. Now, try and follow this one. Pg e says customers who use less electricity are likely to see their bills rise, while those who use more will likely see their bills fall. And they say thats because those who use more electricity subsidize those who use less. If you live in alameda county, water rates are also going up tomorrow for the 18th time in 19 years. Rates will go up 20 followed by a 5 increase next march. The increases are needed because it is facing a 60 million budget deficit and that repairs need to be made to much of its 900 miles of water mains the district says about 42 of the money will go toward paying down benefits. President trump will address congress. The theme of tonights address is going to be optimism. The president expected to lay out his vision for the nation, including health care and the military. Among people who will will sitting next to First Lady Melania Trump will be three family members of People Killed by undocumented workers. President trump also expected to talk about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care act. The government should not stand in your way in delivering needed reforms and services. And it wont. Its an unbelievably complex subject. Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated. There are reports there will be multiple protests right outside the capitol and you can watch President Trumps first address to the joint session of congress tonight right here on abc7. Were going to bring it to you live at 6 00 p. M. Here at the live desk, i want to update you on a story ive been watching throughout the morning. U. S. Attorney general Jeff Sessions just wrapped up his first major speech after being sworn in. It was at the winter meeting. This is from just moments ago. Some notable things that sessions said, people who are in the u. S. Unlawfully and commit crimes will be out of here. And thats echoing President Trumps views. He also talked about drugs in the u. S. , battling the heroin epidemic, and also said that, quote, his best view is that we should not be legalizing marijuana. As you probably know, california just legalized recreational pot use. Were going to have more on his speech in regular newscasts. The stock market has been hitting new records every day lately. The dow closed at an alltime high yesterday, its 12th consecutive record day. So why is the market on fire . Analysts say investors are extremely optimistic about President Trumps promises to grow the economy faster. The dow has skyroceted an incredible 2400 points since mr. Trump won the election in november. A version of apples new iphone 8 scheduled for release in september will have a curved screen. Thats according to the wall street journal. The cupertinobased company has been studying flexible organic light emitting screens similar to those used by samsung. In fact, samsung will be the initial supplier of the screens for apple this is sad watching this video because thats the last phone i have. The one that theyre making and i know youre ashame ofd me, arent you . Just a little. Time to move on. Happening now, a live look at new orleans, right now. People celebrating fat tuesday even though its not even 9 00. They get started early and stay up late. They are ready to go. This is the culmination of the carnival season. The party lasts until midnight and then lent begins so police will have to start clearing the streets, so until then, party on. Bay area native Mahershala Ali is revealing more about his big oscar win and his family. He won best supporting actor. Last night, he told jimmy kimmel a pretty funny story about how he broke the news to his grandma. Funny thing, i was in austin, texas, when i got the call that i was nominated. And theyre two hours ahead, my grandmother lives in the bay area so its 5 30 in the morning in the bay area and i said, grandma, i got nominated for an oscar. And she goes, shes in the hospital . And i said, no, grandma, i got nominated for an oscar. Whos oscar . You know, he is the first muslim to win an oscar and he is an east bay boy, born in oakland, raised in hayward, attended st. Marys college in moraga and we could not be prouder. Oh, and i just love his grandma. I want to meet her. She stounds like a trip. Lets go to mike for a look at your weather. Usually someone like that has somebody with an even bigger personality in their family and i bet its his grandma. Beautiful look from the exploratorium of the impending sun thats going to wash over you all day today. We start off on a positive note. Heres just a little bit of a pullback. We still have the flooding at lake port, the National Weather sefrsz pushed the Flood Warning back to thursday now as the lake just wont drop. Were at about 10. 1. Heres a look at sfo. Look few beautiful sunrise there. You can see the gap there. Everythings quiet. No delays. Brighter day today. And warmer. Not only today but through friday. Chilly tonight, milder mornings are ahead and an unsettled pattern saturday through tuesday which means, lets talk about the storm impact scale real quick. Saturday and sunday, some moderate showers and a little breezy, not expecting damage from either of those right now. Heres our wettest model and most of the day saturdays dry. We get to it about 11 00. The darkest green comes in during the overnight hours and when we wake up at 8 00 and then you can see by 7 00 sunday evening its gone already but theres another storm possible monday and tuesday. Heres a look at rainfall totals. I think this is way too heavy. Its got about 3 4 inch fo of us. Dont even see the rain shadow in the south bay because this medium range model just is not finely tuned enough as we get closer, well get a better idea of how much rain and exactly hourbyhour when its going to hit. Until then, lets talk about sunshine and temperatures nearing 70 by thursday. Alexis . Okay, weve got a handful of smaller incidents this morning and then weve had our one pretty significant issue eastbound 580 as you approach the tracy area. This is just before you get to grant line road. So, were not sure which one happened first. Weve got a rock slide and a fivecar crash and we just heard that we had a second rock slide in the same area so the two left lanes are blocked, two right lanes are open, im hearing that Amy Hollyfield is just arriving so hopefully were going to hear from her. Not sure if we can make that happen but we can get further insight in the next few minutes. Taking live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. Lineup there through the maze as usual. Metering lights on since about 5 30 this morning and westbound 80, highway 4 to the maze, 34 minutes, about 19 if youre continuing across the bay bridge and southbound 101, San Francisco to sfo, youre in the green at about 12 minutes. And in fact, alexis, ask and it shall be answered. We understand that Amy Hollyfield is live at that mess that you were just talking about. So, amy, what are you seeing . Reporter hi, reggie. Look at these huge rocks on the road. Can you even imagine watching those or feeling those come down on you. They did hit two cars. Look down the road there. You can see them loaded up on the tow trucks about to get hauled out of here. The cars were damaged and then did crash because of being hit by these rocks. This happened at about 5 15 this morning and no word on when theyre going to get this cleared out of here. The chp tells me he is still waiting for caltrans to come out here and get this cleaned up. Hes got two lanes closed right now. He thinks once those cars get towed out of here, hell be able to open one more. We are on eastbound 580. That is the only good news in this one. It is eastbound. So its not the commute direction, so its not the heaviest travel direction that it could be, and we didnt interior too slow of a backup getting here. It was slow but nothing that weve seen before, because of the potholes headed into the city during the morning commute so it wasnt awful. Scary situation, though. And they think theyre going to be here for a while. Reporting live in livermore, Amy Hollyfield, abc7 news. And were coming back in 90 seconds with the seven things you need to know before you go. Heres a live look outside heres a live look outside at whether youre just joining us or about to go out the door, here are the seven things you need to know. Officials in river side holding a News Conference about a plane crash involving a san jose family. Three people are dead. Two adult women are hurt. Number two, were learning more about the owner of that plane. It is registered to a san jose. A neighbor tells us he is an experienced pilot and he and his flew to anaheim to watch their granddaughters cheerleading skofrptition. President Trump Addresses Congress tonight. The white house is promises an optimistic vision. You can watch it live right here on abc7 news at 6 00. High pressure took kpletly control of our weather overnight. This is going to be our oldest morning so dress those kids for temperatures around 31 to 47 degrees but make sure they bring the hoodies home with them as well in under total sunshine. We have a look at this major problem, i should say, eastbound 580 just before you get to grant line road. These are the prokz that went into the roadway. We also had a multicar crash, actually just watched those tow trucks leave the scene so the vehicles are kbon but looks like we have those two left lanes blocked. Number six, i just got a new study into our live desk about the hardest working cities in america and listen to this. San francisco is at the top. The bay area for the bay area, irreconcilable differences, at number 7, followed by fremont at 52, san jose 61 and oakland youre at 85. Number one, though, for the whole study was anchorage, alaska. Really . Okay. And this is our number seven story. Look. Fat tuesday being celebrated in the number 67 hardest working city, which is surprising to me because new orleans is called the big easy. Right . So i expected them to be dead last. Today they definitely arent dead last. Most people in new orleans have the day off today for all the parties that last well until midnight and beyond. Speaking of fat tuesday, these are peepflavored oreos the bain of reggies existence and we are going to have him try it and tweet him out. This is no king cake. Wheres the baby . No more. We dont want anymore keep calm. The price you see is the price you pay, unlike cable. At t internet. Speeds up to 45megs for 30 a month. Hey, bud. You need some help . No, im good. Come on, moe. I have to go. vo we always trusted our Subaru Impreza would be there for him someday. Ok. Thats it. vo we just didnt think someday would come so fast. See ya later, moe. vo introducing the allnew Subaru Impreza. The longestlasting vehicle in its class. More than a car, its a subaru. 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