Million, abc7 news. Alexis, how is this impacting travel this morning . Ill show you. Well zoom in on our traffic maps here. We definitely have some delays still approaching that with that right lane closed so heres our sig alert, westbound 580 just before harrison, thats where we do have that lane blocked. Im also getting reports of a new car fire, westbound 580 at grand, just a little bit behind that and we had a gracrash and labor lake shower. Youre down to about 11 miles an hour. Its about two miles long. At our worst point we were up to four miles so that is getting better. Northbound 880 looks good for an alternate as does northbound 13 to westbound 24. Heres a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. Not looking so good once you make to it this point. That is obviously congested and weve had those metering lights on for just about 30 minutes. Lets check in with mike nicco now. Weve got a soggy commute this morning. We definitely do, alexis. Let me show you with live doppler 7 where the downpours are. Pretty much from livermore southwest all the way to los altos hills. Thats where youre seeing the yellow, the orange and thats where were going to have more standing water. This entire line is marching to the east while the cells are marching to the northeast and theres more moving into the Santa Cruz Mountains so watch out as youre traveling through 17. It is going to be a bear. San mateo bridge, looking a little dryer because of all the cars on it. Had about 1 3 of an inch over the last six hours. 49 to 54, little bit cooler. Showers will become scattered by noon, 55 to 58, then mainly dry with upper 50s this afternoon. Mid 50s by 7 00. We are tracking that 2 on the abc7 storm impact scale this morning. Early this morning as you can see, heavy rain fell in orinda near highway 24. It flooded that road. Cars were still able to get through and now all that flooding has subsided. In the south bay, heavy rain caused some minor road flooding overnight. This is sunnyvale, all that rain also triggered some minor flooding at crossman avenue and caribbean drive. And you can track all this rain any time with live doppler 7 just download our abc7 news app. Make sure you enable push alerts. That way youll get breaking news updates and weather alerts where you live as they happen. Police are looking for the driver of this car and it ended up in Santa Rosa Creek after it crashed through a creek last night. Police say the car traveled about 200 feet in the creek before finally coming to a stop. Three people wered in and the driver took off before officers got there. Other passengers were taken to the hospital with minor ijuries. B. A. R. T. Is concerned about president trumps new proposed transportation budget. Specifically that it would eliminate federal funding for b. A. R. T. s expansion projects. Abc7 News Reporter matt keller is live for us in fremont. Matt . Good morning, natasha. Obviously, a challenge this morning for people heading to the fremont b. A. R. T. Station. You got to make sure you have your umbrellas because its wet outside. B. A. R. T. Is also facing a challenge this morning. They are dealing with president trumps Budget Proposal. Of course, congress has the final say in all of this, but theyre obviously concerned about it. And b. A. R. T. Has some big plans. President trump proposed federal budget includes 4. 2 billion in cuts to the department of transportation. Daily cal reports part of that would eliminate federal funding for the new starts program, which b. A. R. T. Hopes will help pay for increasing capacity and funding the extension to san joses new station. That would also include buying cars and upgrades and renovations. B. A. R. T. Passengers we spoke with are concerned about the cuts. That would be not good because theres a lot of people that takes b. A. R. T. And it will not help them at all. And in an opinion piece written for the mercury news, vta board chair say in order to realize the nufull nexts, final six miles is essential. That would allow b. A. R. T. To connect to a caltrain station. Heres the silver lining. Even if the budget cuts go through, b. A. R. T. Officials say it will not affect your ticket prices. Reporting live in fremont, matt keller, abc7 news. A man who lives in lafayette hills is talking about a strange experience with an armed kidnapper. Richard russell says a man dressed as a construction worker showed up at his front door yesterday with a blow torch in his hand. He told russell to kneel. Russell refused and then the two started to fight. The suspect eventually forced russell into his car. You can see some of the injuries he sustained and made him drive to a nearby bank to get cash. We got to the bank. He said, you know, youre going to go in the bank and youre not going to tell youre not going to tell them the call the police. Ics, oh no. I think it was his first rodeo. Well, russell did call the police when he was inside that bank. Police arrested the suspect at gunpoint. Hes been identified as 26yearold Manuel Bustos from pittsburg. Russell says he wasnt seriously hurt and knows that situation could have ended much worse. 6 06 now. Supreme Court Nominee neil gorsuch will face his third and final day of questioning in his nomination hearings today. Yesterday, he told senators that hes told the president that no man is above the law. He was grilled for fours yesterday. President trump said during his campaign that he would only appoint a prolife judge. Senators questioned judge gorsuch about his meeting with the president. In that interview, did he ever ask you to overrule roe v. Wade. No, senator. What would he have done if hed asked. Senator, i would have walked out the door. Its not what judges do. A Committee Vote is schedule on april 3 with the Senate Floor Vote expected later that same week. This sight all too familiar for a lot of us, packed streets in San Francisco. Now the city wants to do something about that traffic and its looking to uber and lyft for an answer. According to the examiner, supervisor aaron peskin introduced legislation that allows the city to look at trip data from the ride hail companies. He believes that data c light on how to relieve congestion. Peskin suggests that nearly 50,000 active uber and lyft drivers are clogging streets. San franciscos iconic cable cars are about to undergo a major renovation. Plus shocking video from a california high school. The moment a fight turns into a stabbing. Theres another problem that just popped up in the same area of the east bay right now. This is our live crew near 580. This is our live crew near 580. Were going hersheys miniatures. We pour em we pass em we pick em delicious fun for everyone. Hersheys miniatures are mine, yours, our chocolate. Hey, bud. You need some help . No, im good. Come on, moe. 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The southbound side of 880 just been 16th, we have had a longterm blocking collision in the right lane and weve got a major delay in the south bay. Check this out. If youre coming up from morgan hill, ninemile backup near Bailey Avenue. That one still blocking the right lane and that ones before there since just before 5 00 this morning. Lets check in with mike nicco. Please give me some good news. After the morning commute. So the commute homes going to be a lot like yesterday. Hi, everybody. Let me show you what happened at 12 15 last night. Did you hear it . A shower rolled through napa and ignited about three bolts of lightning and that meant there were rumbles of thunder in the valley right there. Heres the way it looks right now through the sunol grade and into the Santa Cruz Mountains. Wet early if youre walking the dog, cool today if youre exercising, temperatures going to hit about 59 to the coast, 61 to 63 for the rest of us. Look at that. Upper 50s to mid 60s tomorrow but only upper 50s to near 60 on friday and when you wake up tomorrow morning, its going to be dry but much cooler. Coming up next, the big change that could be coming to the emojis on your phone. Plus singer wyclef jean handcuffed and detained. The grammy winner now says hes the victim of racial profiling. It is 6 12 in the morning as we head to break. We leave you with abc7 news now so you can Humpty Dumpty ive recently had some unforeseen medical expenses. Can i get a Tax Deduction for the hospital bills . Turbotax agent in your case, yes Humpty Dumpty ooh arent you helpful. Its so difficult to find good help these days. No time for a bath . Johnsons headtotoe cleansing cloths. Theyre twice as big as regular wipes, so youre done in half the time. And youre off. Johnsons. For every little wonder. Or how high the pollen count, flonase allergy relief keeps your eyes and nose clear. 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He was taken to a hospital and is expected to be okay. The other student got arrest and had that fight triggered a twohour lockdown. No one else was hurt. Threetime grammy winning wyclef jean now calling for an investigation into racial profiling. He says he was unjust like detained. Take a look at the cell phone video of the recent incident. He was handcuffed by l. A. County sheriffs deputies. They thought he matched the description of a man suspected of pistol whipping pedestrians engineer. Jean gave his account of what happened. Coming from the recording studio. Im automatically rushed. When im rushed, guns are drawn, which is the part that you dont see. After the guns are drawn, im pulled over. The minute this happens, i say, you know, im going to sue the lapd because i dont know whats going on. Im in shock and awe. Well, his spokesperson says the musician was subject to police brutality, racial profiling and police bias. The l. A. County Sheriffs Department says that he was detained because he got out of his car when he was told not to and when they realized he was not the suspect, they did let him go. Game show creator chuck barris has died. Barris created and hosted the gong show from 1976 to 1980. He also created and produced the 60s and 70s game show classics the dating game and the newly wed game. B barris died of natural causes. He was 87. Some of of San Franciscos famous cable cars will soon be disappearing from city streets for a little while. The sfmta has just approved a contract to replace the gearboxes. The boxes are in bad shape right now. They havent been replaced since 1984. The work will happen in stages. The california street line will close later this year and then the powell and mason street lines next year, then the hyde street line. Total cost to revise the box is nearly 7 million. Going to take a look at that Weather Forecast today. It just keeps on raining, mike. Yeah, especially in the south bay and the Santa Cruz Mountains. Everybody else is already starting to see the transition over to some dryer weather but damage has been done if youve been listening to alexis this morning. Heres a look at one along the coast there in the santa cruz and also 9 through bolder creek where weve had four inches of rain. Sunnyvale, santa clara, 237 up toward milpitas, through that into fremont where 680 and 880 come a little bit closer together. Yeah, lot of moderate to heavy rain right there so look for more issues trying to get around. This was supposed to be san rafael and its supposed to show you that we had 4 10 of an of rain but thats walnut creek. The good news, a dry commute for everybody all day tomorrow and 50 50 weekend with dry and warm weather next week. Heres a look at whats going to happen. 7 00, that shower, the downpours we just showed are moving into the Central Valley. Another weaker line will develop around 9 00 and you can see by noon its pretty much moved into the Central Valley so well transition over to scattered showers and as we head into the evening kplut at 4 00, just some isolated showers then once sunsets, yeah, the chance of showers goes away but its going to be significantly cooler tomorrow. Here we are thursday evening. Im starting to get concerned about the north bay. Thursday night, starting at 11 00, through about 11 00 friday morning, waves of light to moderate rain up here for 12 hours which means we could have some flooding by the time we get to about 4 00 in the evening that moderate rain starts to move down into the rest of our neighborhoods for our evening festivities. It will be out of here by saturday. Thats the change from yesterday. A chance of showers sunday and monday and then let the dryer pattern. C develop next tuesday. This is westbound 580 just before you get to that 980 24 split near harrison and i have been watching them make some progress here. It looks like a few more of those damaged vehicles have been towed away from the scene. I believe the coroner is there as well so we have the right lane blocked. The two or three left lanes are open now. And we do have a bit of a backup. At our worst point, we were up to about four miles. Now id say were under two. So that is starting to get a little bit better. Also want to update you on the fremont crash that we had that was blocking the far left lane. Southbound 880, that is looking better as well. That has cleared. But weve got some heavy traffic on southbound 880. Basically from north of 92 all the way down into fremont. Quick check of emeryville as well. We are looking heavy on westbound 80. Im hearing that we have a new crash just to the west of powell and that is blocking the right lane right now. So this is likely going to be a little longer than normal as well. Well check drive times coming up next. 7 on your sides Michael Finney has something renters and landlords are both going to want to hear. A group of students score big. How theyre getting a specia lesson in History Today thanks to the hit musical hamilton. So jealous. So jealous. As you get your day shake up your routine with a completely new way to clean. New Colgate Total advanced health mouthwash. Shake to activate a powerful cleaning action that removes twenty four times more bacteria. Improve the health of your mouth with new Colgate Total advanced health mouthwash. Shake to clean. A live look at 80 right now. This is emeryville looking at berkeley. Wet roadways out there. Time to ask finney and this morning we have a question from San Francisco regarding evictions. He spoke to us at our ask finney event in daly city. 7 on your sides Michael Finney has his answer. Im a landlord and i wanted to know whats the length to give notice of eviction to a tenant . Hi, hugo. This can be a complicated situation for both the landlord and the tenant. But let me give you the basics. A landlord can typically give just 30 days notice if the tenant his lived there for less than a year. More than that, then the landlord has to give 60 days. Now, that is california state law. Some sticities have their own rs so before you do anything, its best to talk to an attorney. A mistake here can really cost you. Thanks for your question. If you have a question for Michael Finney, record it on your smartphone and send it to us using askfinney. All right. A new study finds that more and more Silicon Valley tech workers are moving to seattle. A study by zillow and linked in finds tech workers in seattle retain about 55 of their paycheck after paying their rent or mortgage compared to bay area tech workers who, guess how much they retain . About 35 after paying those bills. 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Next, tin crease that thousands of students could be paying next fall. In the east bay, a deadly threecar crash has slowed the commute. Were there live with the recovery from that huge backup. And a new report this morning showing close ties between trumps former Campaign Manager and a russian billionaire. I got new information on the billionaire himself and his links to vladimir putin. All of that coming up next for you. And were on storm watch. The storm is a 2, moderate right now. It will taper to a 1 as we head into the afternoon hours so the morning commute, thats when were going to have the downpours and standing water and the possibility of hydroplanes but guys, thanks for making our new french toast so authentic, youll swear it came from a fancy brunch place. Its 100 real. Just like my favorite sport pro wrestling. Um. Yeah, about pro wrestling. Its fake. What . Lies its. All. Lies why didnt you tell me . sorry jack, i thought you knew. 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It was at 4 30 this morning that a car stopped on the freeway, reportedly because of debris on the road and then the driver got out of the car. That driver was hit and killed by a minivan that was driving through here and all lanes were threat then closed. At 5 30, the chp open. We saw them hustling. We have some emergency crews, though, that lingered here for the last hour as they dealt with waiting for the coroner and wrapping up their investigation so that was taking place until just a couple of minutes ago but now you can see traffic is going through here normally. Reporting live in oakland, Amy Hollyfield, abc7 news. Thank you, amy. Now we go to alexis for a look at how this is impacting the commute. Is there any backup at all . Just a little bit, yeah. As amy just told us, all lanes are back open now and i can show you on the traffic maps too. This is where the crash was, westbound 580 before harrison and were really almost in the clear here, so less than a mile of delay and where she is, once you get up to that crash scene, it is totally clear. So things are really starting to improve. We do still have a crash on the southbound side of 880 just before 16th. That is still blocking one lane, the right lane, so youre slow from about 980 if youre doing the countercommute here this morning and coming from the maze and heading southbound on 880 you are going to see a bit of delay and were finally improving here in the south bay as well. Coming up through morgan hill, still have about nine miles of stop and go traffic but the crash near Bailey Avenue has cleared from the right lane so this is starting to unwind too. Lets check in with meteorologist mike nicco with a look at the rest of our forecast. Good morning, alexis. Lets take a look at some video out of orinda. Look at the downpour that rolled through there at 24 and camino pablo. Just sheets of rain and i can tell you i drove through there earlier today and was a bear. Live doppler 7, i have it zoomed down, camino pablo in orinda, underlined in red. Coming into the caldecott, thats where were seeing a downpour right now so there could be ponding on the roadways. Lets take a look at heavy rain, fremont boulevard, 680, 880, 237 stretching back to 85, Stevens Creek boulevard, and cupertino and that stretches into the Santa Cruz Mountains. In fact, this is the way it looks at 280 and 17. You can see the rain coming down. Were going to have downpours through 7 00. Scattered showers at noon. And then youll need the sunglasses for the afternoon and early evening hours. Going to be cool today. Temperatures until the early 50s at 4 00. More rain on the way and even heavier coming up. You can track the rain every time with live doppler 7. I have the street level view pulled up of my phone. Download the abc7 news app. It is free as youd expect. Make sure to enable push alerts and we will send you breaking updates as they happen. Small Business Administration is opening a new disaster loan office to help victims of last months devastating flooding in san jose. Its opening at 10 00 this morning at city hall. The sba office is offering low cost federal disaster loans to all san jose renters, homeowners, and Business Owners impacted by the flooding. Renters and homeowners can borrow up to 40,000 to replace lost personal property. Homeowners can get loans of up to 200,000 to repair or replace damaged real estate. Business owners can borrow up to 2 million. Flood victims can either apply at the city hall or online. A month after the flooding, construction crews are still working on repairs in the rock springs neighborhood. Thats one of the hardest hit. Theyre fixing floors, Electrical Service and plumbing so residents can move back in. At happy hollow conservation teams are ripping out dry wall. Still investigating and testing and trying to open up some of the buildings that were impacted. Get them divide out and really assess what needs to be rebuilt or redone or torn out completely. The meerkats are back in their habitat. The san mateo down d. A. s office is investigating deadly shooting at a workplace in redwood city. Authorities say a man showed up at his exwifes office, started threatening her and chasing her around the parking lot. Police say she called 911 to say her exhusband was chasing her with a gun and that he fired a shot at her. The woman was not t hit. Well, police got there a few minutes later, they ran after the man. Officers soak with him briefly but then he pointed his gun at them. There was an exchange of gunfire. One of our officers fired one round and we believe that he discharged a round at himself into his face. Police say it was the selfinflicted wound that killed the man. It is not clear right now if the officers shot also hit him. 6 35 now. And happening today, california state universitys board of trustees will vote on the first across the board tuition hike in six years. If approved, undergrad tuition would go up by about 270 this fall. Officials are expecting a 168 million shortfall when the final state budget is released in july. Officials say they need to hire more faculty and add more classes to accommodate growing enrollment. Currently, there are roughly 460,000 students in the csu system. Meanwhile, uc berkeley now working to notify people who may have come into contact with a student recovering from bacterial meningitis. The school issued an alert about the case yesterday. The student was diagnosed on monday. Meningitis symptoms include fever, vomiting, headache, rashes, and joint pain. Hi, and an update on a story ive been following. Paul manafort secretly worked for a russian billionaire with very close ties to russian president vladimir putin. According to the report, manafort worked for an aluminum magnate between the years 2006 and 2009 for 10 million a year. And that russian billionaire, his name is oleg deripaska. He is a close putin ally. Ive been digging into his background. Hes estimated to be worth 5 billion as one of the richest men in the country and someone putin turned to regularly. Here i have his website pulled up at the live desk. Manafort has confirmed to the a. P. He worked for this billionaire but said it is being unfairly portrayed. Now to the battle over health care. Lawmakers set to vote on the gop plan tomorrow. President trump is still facing resistance after spending the day and the night trying to persuade republicans to stick with the plan. Behind closed doors, the president used sweet talk and tough talk to sway the holdouts. Really is a crucial vote for the Republican Party and for the people of our country. To finally repeal and replace the disaster known as obamacare. Can you get the votes, mr. President . The math right now isnt adding up for the president. 22 republican no votes could kill the bill in the house. By our count this morning, at least that many republicans are still not committed to supporting it despite the president s personal pitch. Theres dispute about what should happen with the debris from oaklands deadly ghost ship fire. A superior court judge is giving lawyers until next week to come up with a plan on how to protect the charred material. The city trucked some of that debris to a soccer field. Water quality Officials Say its sitting too close to the sensitive wetlands. The rest of the debris went to an airport and the airport wants that material removed. Investigators trying to determine if there are more possible victims of a bay point man arrested on child molestation and pornography charges. Contra costa sheriffs deputies were tipped off that pablo ruiz was trieding child porn on the internet. Hes now being held on 1. 5 million bail. The Oakland City Council is now reversing course on a controversial change to the citys new medical marijuana laws. The council has withdrawn a proposal requiring owners of pot businesses to live in oakland. One Council Member wanted growers and sellers to live in the city for three years before they could get permits. He admits that pressure from the bottom growers themselves prompted a change of heart. Its been clearly defined to me that its unconstitutional, unconstitutional is not a Good Business practice. The city of oakland doesnt require the ownership of kaiser to live in oakland, the ownership of clorox to live in oakland. Now that the council has withdrawn the proposal, they have to formally vote on the change before it takes effect and that vote is scheduled to happen next week. Things are looking much better here in oakland. Westbound 580 fully back open just before you get to harrison near the 980 24 split as you can see, everybody moving along just fine at this point. The backup less than a mile so we do still have a few residual delays but that of course is left over from that fatal crash that happened about 4 30 this morning. The investigation has wrapped. I want to take you to the north bay. Youve been fairly quiet all morning but we do have a new crash. Vehicle went off the roadway partially down the embankment, blocking part of the left lane right now and weve got another pocket of rain pushing through the south bay. Heres a look at san jose. Check out all that road spray kicking up. Those wipers will be on high and you could be hydroplaning today. Westbound 580, tracy to dublin, 1 hour 4 minutes. Though delays there so far, san rafael to San Francisco, youre in the green at 16 minutes. Lets check in with mike nicco now. Good morning, alexis. Great observation about the traffic up in the north bay being kind of quiet and so has the weather and i think probably those go hand in hand. Its the south bay weve been talking about. Since when does the south bay get the bulk of the weather weather but you can see the oranges and yellows and reds roaming across the vousouth bay right now. 47 in los gatos, 50 to 52 degrees elsewhere in the south bay and pretty much 50 to 55 everywhere, a little bit cooler this morning. Look at 280 and 17 and it is definitely raining there. Wet roads for your commuter planner. Its going to be choppier on the water this afternoon but it will be dry and if youre out and about, youll need the umbrella through at least the lunch hour and then well see the showers taper. You can see a few pockets of green there during the afternoon hours. 59 at the coast. The rest of us 61 to 63 degrees. Much colder tonight. Upper 30s to upper 40s. Stronger storm on the way friday. A warning this morning for women considering breast implants. The rare cancer theyre now being linked to. Also a retail icon is in serious trouble. The lifeline sears says it needs to stay in business. National puppy day is tomorrow and to get ready for our annual adoption event, were inviting you to share your puppy photos with puppieson7. We have loved the photos weve gotten so far. Where are our dogs . We keep submitting our dogs. Well have to keep tweeting it out until it gets selected officially. Well be Live Streaming our todays storm is level 2. That means moderate rain, so gear up before you go out, and drive safely. Track todays storm any time on the abc7 news app. Download it now. For a lot of you, the worst of the rain is over. Although you can definitely see that in the south bay here, this is 101 and san jose, it still looks pretty slick so be careful. When you see weather where you live, we want to see it, so share your photos and videos on social media using abc7now and you might see it right here on the news. Well, president trumps proposed budget could have a big impact on b. A. R. T. Abc7 News Reporter matt keller live in fremont with a look at what potential funding cuts could mean for the transportation service. Reporter good morning, reggie and natasha. I have some advice for people who are heading to the b. A. R. T. Station this morning. Be prepared, have a blan, bring your umbrella, bring your rain jacket because its been raining on and off here in fremont and im sure its raining at a lot of other places across the bay area as well. Well, b. A. R. T. Has big plans as well. But the big concern, president trumps Budget Proposal could have a big impact on them with those cuts. B. A. R. T. Officials obviously concerned. President trump proposed federal budget includes 2. 4 billion in cuts to the department of transportation. Daily cal reports part of that would eliminate federal funding for the new starts program. B. A. R. T. Is looking for upwards of 1 billion from that program to up capacity and fund extension. If the funds are cut, it would not impact ticket prices because they come from a different budget. President trumps Budget Proposal is just that. Its a proposal. It will be up to congress to decide if the money is going to be cut from the budget because they will have to pass their budget and then send it to the president. Reporting live in fremont, matt keller, abc7 news. And here at the live desk, this story just coming in. A chicago man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting two women. Hes been held without bond right now. Police say on two separate occasions, he posed as an uber driver and picked up unsuspecting women outside bars and nightclubs on chicagos north side. He then drove to a excluded where he would attack his victims. Some tips to avoid this happening to you. Only take trips requested through a ride sharing app and dont accept a ride from just anyone who shows up. You want to make sure the car matches the vehicle description on that app. That is so scary. Thank you. A private school in San Francisco is saying, not on our block to uber and lyft. The urban school on page street posted this sign. It tells people no pickup between masonic and ash bury. Now, school Officials Say its not a city law. Its just a school rule, so it can only apply to students, teachers, and parents, but they want to keep pedestrians and bicyclists safe on the page street corridor. San jose police want to track down two jewelry thieves who grabbed a diamond, tripped, and then ran. Take a look at this. Surveillance video shows them at Valley Fair Mall in december. The man asked to see a diamond, grabbed it, it falls, then he appears to pick it back up and run out of the store. He and the woman still havent been seen. An email scam duped tech employees of a Software Company on the peninsula into giving out personal tax information. Someone posing as a ceo at coupa conned employees in the Human Resources department into revealing w2 payroll information, including Social Security numbers. The Software Firm says workers employed last year were affected. No customer information was compromised. Now your Morning Money report. You may start seeing apology ads from pg e this weekend. They are a punishment for the companys role in the san bruno pipeline explosion. A judge said the commercials must publicize convictions in the criminal case, also show how pg e plans to prevent a similar tragedy. The Company Estimates it will run commercials over the next three months. The company that owns sears says it doubts it will be able to keep the struggling Department Store chain in business unless it can borrow more money. The announcement comes just months after sears said it planned to close 150 stores. Sears says it has enough money to keep going for the rest of the year but no guarantee after that. We are down about 30 points. This comes after a big selloff yesterday. The dow jones closed down 238 yesterday. Thats the biggest loss since september. The market has ejoined a relatively uninterrupted rise since president trumps election. Some an lipss believe investors are starting to get nervous that his economic agenda is getting bogged down in politics. 6 49 now. And now to a startling new health alert. The fda is finding that breast implants are linked to a higher risk of a rare form of cancer. Heres abcs dr. Jennifer ashton to explain. Rare type of cancer called large cel liymphoma. Take a look at these numbers. The fda has tracked 359 cases of implant associated lymphoma. Most of these cases seem to be in the texture or gummy bear variety of these implants. An increased risk of a rare event is still a rare event. Coming up on Good Morning America at 7 00, dr. Ashton will break down the signs and symptoms. Were going to take a look at our rainy forecast now from mike nicco. Mike, you say that most of it at least for now is done for a lot of us . For a lot of us. Its the south bay thats having the biggest issue. But when the storm rolled through, Alhambra Valley parkway it was just enough with the leaves on there catching that heavy rain water to topple this tree. And looks like it closed the street for a while in martinez. All right, so lets talk about whats going on right now. Hopefully we wont see more of that but its possible. Friday, ive been watching sfo like a hawk this morning. Usually we get flight arrival delays this kind of weather. So far, nothing. 2 10 inch of rain. Heres a look from sutro tower. But you can definitely see its lightened up. Showers and thunder best over the next couple of hours. Heaviest rain and gusty winds friday and then trending dry tomorrow and saturday and a lot of next week. So here were looking at the sunol grade in over mount hamilton. This batch of weather is going to head towards the altamont pass. Look how heavy it is across 237, 680, 880, 101, heading into downtown san jose from santa clara, prune ridge avenue, steven creek boulevard over there in cupertino, lot of ponding on the roadways developing there as the cold front is now pushing through. It will bring us a cooler afternoon. Look what it does not wet weather. 9 00, you can see just a few isolated showers or scattered showers developing. Those will hang around by noon. Well transition over to isolated by 4 00 and then mainly dry during the evening commute. Once the sunsets, so does this storms impact on us. 11 00 thursday evening, watch as the north bay gets 12 hours of light to moderate rain. Aisle getting concerned with flooding up in the north bay because the rain continues into 4 00 friday so possibly 24 hours of moderate to heavy rain in the nrth bay while the rest of us will get a couple of hours friday evening. Saturday, dry. Sunday and monday, look light. Little bit of good news in the east bay. I want to take you back to that major problem we had since about 4 30 this morning. All lanes are back open now. The backup is gone at this point as well. So if you are leaving the oakland area heading towards the bay bridge, 580 actually the better choice at this point. Southbound 880 before 16th, we had a longterm blocking crash in the right lane. They just cleared that a couple moments ago so we still have a backup beyond 980. Northbound 880, typical delays and i have a few more details here on this problem in the north bay. Southbound 101 before marinwood sounds like a flipped work truck is blocking part of the left lane. Emergency crews are blocking that to upright that truck. So youre seeing a backup to highway 37. Quick check of the bay bridge toll plaza. Those metering lights on since 5 29 this morning. That is crawling as usual. That is crawling as usual. Were back livestreat the airport. E sport binge dvrd shows while painting your toes. On demand laughs during long bubble baths. Tv everywhere is awesome. The allnew Xfinity Stream app. Xfinity. The future of awesome. Whether youre just joining us or headed out the door, these are the seven things you need to know before you go. Number one, all lanes back open on 580. A driver stopped on the freeway because of debris on the road. He got hit and killed after getting out of the car. Number two, the residual delays from that crash have cleared up but we have a new problem in the north bay. Southbound 101, rollover crash just before you get to marinwood, the far left lane is blocked for cleanup there. As we zoom out just a bit, you can see youre jammed north of 37. Number three, we had a couple of thunderstorms overnight, one in napa and one near daly city. Look at live doppler 7 right now, and you can see the heaviest of the rain moving through the south bay and heading out into the Central Valley. Were going to transition from a moderate storm, 2 on our storm impact scale, to a light storm as the showers will become very scattered once we get to lunchtime. Number four, flood victims in san jose can apply for loans at a new disaster loan office at city hall starting today. They can get up to 40,000 at low interest for damage to personal property and up to 200,000 for homes. Number five, from the live desk, its day three of the confirmation hearings for president Trumps Supreme Court pick and we want to show you a live look at those proceedings. Judge neil gorsuch is on the hot seat again. A confirmation vote is expected in the next two weeks. Number six, today marks the sevenyear anniversary of the Affordable Care act. Governor brown is going to join former Vice President biden and House Democratic leader nancy pelosi at the u. S. Capitol for a special event. Thats going to start in just a few minutes at 7 00. Number seven, big changes coming to those emojis we love. A London Company working on three new gender inclusive emojis, neither male nor female. A designer calls this a celebration of unity and dwergs. Seems like it just makes sen. Abc7 news continues right now on twitter, facebook, all your mobile devices. Have a good day. 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. 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