James comey yesterday, President Trump said while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occassions that i am not under inves in a letter sent to james comey yesterday President Trump said the department. The Trump Administration maintains that the decision was based primarily on comeys handling of the Hilary Clinton email investigation. Bay area congressman jared who was minute the trump maintains the decision was based on comeys handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Bay area congressman Jared Huffman who was minutes away from conducting a town hall meeting in san rafael last night said this theres an obvious next step in the wake of the comey firing and that is that we have to have a special prosecutor. We know attorney general Jeff Sessions has been recused leaving the second in command of the department of justice to make this decision. Its time for him to make the decision. We have have a special prosecutor to begin looking into this. Following the firing of comey senator Kamala Harris agrees on twitter President Trump and secretary of state Rex Tillerson will host russias top diplomat at the white house today. They are expected to discuss the crisis in syria violence in eastern ukraine. Today at the state capital two teens will make a push to allow 17yearolds to vote in elections. In a few hours the pair will testify to the committee in support of the proposal. Evan low of campbell is behind the bill. It has to be approved by a statewide vote by next year. Right now, 11 states allow citizens as young as age 16 to preregister to vote. Time now 6 02. Lets get you ready for your morning commute. Ill take a vote on the san mateo bridge. Things are looking good for drivers heading out of hayward to foster city. Speeds are in the green. Its been crowded but still a nice smooth sailing ride. 17 minutes until you get to 101. Thins are quiet at the Golden Gate Bridge heading into the see city this morning. No major delays or accidents. Everyone on their best driving behavior. Bay bridge toll plaza traffic backed up to the foot of the maze and problems on the eastshore freeway slowing things down. So give yourself extra time at interstate 80 especially westbound. Thats a check of your traffic. Good morning, everybody. 603. Live weather camera towards the bay waters. 89 degrees in concord yesterday. Look at the vacaville area right now. Low clouds are trying to push into our inland areas. Temperatures 50s santa rosa to 57 in oakland. Winds have been problem matt thick morning. Will continue to blow 10 to 20 gusts to 30 during the afternoon. Right now we have wind speeds 18 in san ramon, 11 in throughout the livermore area. 10 pleasanton, 13 upstream we go towards antioch. 20 in napa. 26 in fairfield. Three things to remember. Warm weather from yesterday. That 89 degrees is out of here. Clouds this morning, and the clouds stick around through the weekend. Hey, michelle, 16degree cool cooldown today im sure thats going to have an impact on our fire season. Firefighters say rain will provide plenty of fuel when fire season next week. Anne makovec is live in los altos where crews are getting ready before the flames spark. Anne . Reporter you can see some of the very tall weeds here behind me. Im in north Santa Clara County. These weeds are very pliable and still green if you have driven around the bay area and seen the green hills. Its beautiful. Aits dangerousthe rain has caused grasses and weeds all around the area to grow taller and thicker than they have been in years. With the weather warming up, it is starting to dry out. You have been here 14 years. 13. 13 years. Have you seen the grass this tall ever . No, its very tall right now. Reporter he lives across the street from a lot of dried out vegetation and says its great to see crews out mowing down the dry grass on communication hills this week. Theres a ready for wildfire app. It has step by step checklists for creating Defensible Space and evacuation plans. You can get wildfire alerts specifically for your neighborhood, as well. You can go to the app store and search cal fire. Santa clara county firefighters are out preparing their equipment this week. He well talk about that in the next halfhour. Right now in the hills, anne makovec, kpix 5. We have new video of a fire in Pleasant Hill at goodwill on contra costa last night. It burned through part of the building from the back. It was controlled at 10 p. M. He cause is under investigatio n. In Contra Costa County, authorities are trying to figure out the cause of several car fires. Kpix 5s Jessica Flores reports from walnut creek. Reporter kenny, there were two car fires overnight back toback minutes apart. Were here in walnut creek on leroy lane and you can see the car that was burnedout behind me. Its completely black obviously unsalvageable. That car has burned down right in front of the home on the driveway just feet away from that occupied home. Firefighters worked to put out the flames and quickly called arson investigators to the scene. They took pictures of the vehicle and as they worked on the fire, another one started about a mile away in lafayette. The second fire broke out in lafayette engulfing a white suv. Both fires were sparked around midnight. Both fires ripped through cars parked in driveways of occupied homes. Firefighters put out the flames and no one was hurt. But now theres the question, are the two fires just a coincidence or are they the work of an arsonist . Thats what fire investigators are working to figure out today. And its not just walnut creek and lafayette. Several car fires have popped up in recent weeks. There was another car that burned monday in martinez. Now, Contra Costa CountyProtection District does tell us that they frequently do work on car fires. They are still trying to figure out if this was the work of an ar on cyst but they are taking it seriously trying to get to the bottom of whats causing all these car fires. Reporting live in walnut creek, im Jessica Flores, kpix 5. One week after the latest San FranciscoPolice Shooting the department is planning to hold a town hall meeting this morning. The department is expected to talk about the investigation into the deadly shooting of 26 yearold nicholas flousch. Officers were walking the beat down Market Street last wednesday when they found the man stabbing a subway employee. That man is recovering at home. San Francisco Mayor ed lee is vowing to solve 911 response failures. This comes after that massive power outage last month while the citys Emergency Call Center was short of dispatchers. In response to the outage the mayor issued an executive dreckive creating the 911 Response TimeImprovement Team to meet the National Standard of answering 90 of phone calls within 10 seconds. The team is also being tasked with crafting a longterm plan bee september 30. Time now 6 09. Work to reduce congestion. Why a plan to charge drivers on San Franciscos famous lombard street is being stalled. We are tracking a smooth ride for drivers making their way through oakland along 880 but we are seeing some yellow and red pop up on our screen here. Find out where we are tracking the biggest delays coming up. 16. 16 degrees cooler today in many of our inland locations. Ill show you exactly where and how long the cooldown will last. Plus, in our tech report, users asked and snapchat listened. The changes the app is now making. Thats next. ,,,, 8drw food. Water. Internet. We need it to live. But what we dont need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. I see you, fee, played by legendary actress anjelica huston. You got me, mark. We just want fast internet for one, simple rate. For all the streaming and the shopping and the newsing, but most of all. For the this. So now im not being perky, telling you that drivers that switch to progressive save an average of 548 whoo i mean, whoo. Longer be evicted without just cause. In a 9to2 vote, City Council Members approved an urgency ordinance that immediately puts into effect protections for renters. San jose tenants cannot be evicted without just cause. City Council Members approved an ordinance that immediately puts into effect protections for renters. The eviction policy says that landlords have to give at least 1 of 12 acceptable reasons such as nonpayment or Property Damage to evict. The number of homeless in sonoma is going down. County officials released the latest count from january. At the time there were about 2800 People Living on the streets or in shelters. Thats 2 lower than last year. Officials also say the number of Homeless Veterans and children also went down. A full report will be released in july. [ train bells and horn ] engineers on the Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit Authority or smart trains begin sounding their horns again this week. Petaluma him pleasantonment a quiet zone at some crossings but the Rail Authority complained the practice was putting safety at risk. Federal authorities agreed and ordered engineers to resume sounding the horn so tonight they will decide whether or not to implement the no quiet zone. This morning theres a new twist in the plan to charge drivers to access the crockett pardon of lombard street bart street. It would have approved partial funding to study the plans implementation. Its needed to find out how the proposed tolling system would operate. Many people complained that the popular tourist spot is disruptive to homeowners and causes traffic congestion. The funding issue could potentially be brought back to the forefront this month. Over people will still go if you charge a toll. You can have a lot of congestion just like the bay bridge toll plaza. It looks the same. Do you charge per hairpin turn . You have to stop at every corner. They knew it was, um, a tourist people knew going in. Popular. Traffic slow along that street. 5 Miles Per Hour. Thats the speed limit. I didnt know if you got pulled over or something. Going 5 Miles Per Hour. [ laughter ] a backup at the Richmond San Rafael bridge. If you make your way in a westbound direction, we do have some reports of looks like some metal debris scattered in some of the lanes if you are making so just a heads up heading that way. Big delays over at the bay bridge toll plaza. Eastshore freeway. Thats been a slow ride as you head towards the maze and then its slow, stop, go making your way on into San Francisco. We have been tracking a slow ride heading into the downtown area, also along 101 as you approach the lower deck of the bay bridge. It looks at this particular time we have the return of the onshore push. With the clouds, we have the cooler air mass and some extremely blustery conditions. We have high, thin cirrus clouds over the mount vaca area. Notice this right here. This is now the leading edge of the surge of the low clouds and fog trying to make its tracks inland at least a good 40, 45 miles an hour. Thats going to make a big dent. 50s santa rosa to 57 in oakland 50s for the most part but the winds are making it feel cooler than it actually is not so much around the peninsula. Calm to southwest winds at 8 at sfo. Concord through walnut creek into clayton pinole hercules 13 in antioch stronger gusts at the delta 15 napa through sonoma into glen ellen, 29 fairfield and in vacaville. These winds will be consistent today 10 to 20. An occasional gust to 30. Now, lets say good morning to our weather watcher john in santa rosa 49. Linda fairfield 54. Dave in napa, 50. And kim woods says its going to be a fantastic day today. Thanks, at 57 degrees. We do have the return of the onshore pushhhh. We have the low clouds and fog lining up chewing up against the immediate seashore right there right now. All due to the enhancement of this area of low pr ainst the ridge of high pressure. Meanwhile the low takes a nose drive south. It thickens up and 2 thickens up the deck of clouds. Its farther inland towards the sierra foothills. Thats a cause for gusty hills now. A little bit of light precipitation offshore trying to push onshore far reaches of the north bay overnight tonight if you see anything very minimal. Thats about it. Travel wise for this midweek forecast. 70s and 80s throughout the central valley. 60 monterey bay blustery, as well. 67 in the high sierra, upper 70s in ukiah. High pollen count. Im talking about a 16degree cooldown in our inland area. Additional cool thursday, friday and unseasonably cool through the weekend. Thats a look at your wednesday report. Michelle, what are you up to . Oh, im up to a lot, roberta. Including our tech report. Get ready to mark your calendar. Apple is gearing up for its worldwide developer Conference Starting june 5. Its at the Mcenery Convention center in san jose. New versions of apples ios and mac os are expected to be revealed. There are reports that the tech giant could introduce its siri powered Smart Speaker meaning competition for echo. They just released the new echo show the first touchscreen version of the device. Users will be able to make video calls and watch news clips. The device is expected to go on sale next month. The price tag, 230. Snapchat Just Announced users can now use an infinity feature to view photos as long as they want so they dont disappear as theyre viewed. Other features, a new magic eraser tool lets users photoshop items out of senate picks and a video looping feature and an emoji boozele tool. Im dennis odonnell. Coming up, can the as get another walkoff win . And can the giants just get a win . Highlights of as and giants coming up. Us at cool schools at kpix dotcom. We may come and feature your scho r thursday show. Hats cool ab out your school . Email your nomination to us at coolschools kpix. Com and we may feature your school on the show. Baseball braves and astros in , good morning, everybody. As late game heroics were becoming a boon for the pie maker at the bakery. But the bakery can take today off. Kevin durant hoping to get a slice of the walkoff pie. Bottom one, alonsos tworun shot gave oakland a 21 lead. He hit two home runs last night. He has five in the last four games but in the next inning its 22. L. A. s escobar took cotton deep for a threerun jack. Angels win 73 and snap the walkoff win streak at 3. Jeff samardzija in new york lost. Already 30. When renee rivera put one over Gorkys Hernandez scoring jose reyes from first. That made it 40. Plenty of support for jacke wheeler who allowed just one run two hits in six innings. Mets win 61. Giants have been outscored 5822 on their road trip. Leonard out of over time against the rockets. James harden going for the tie. But watch 39yearold ginobili block the ball and they get the win. San antonio wins 110107. What does that mean . If the spurs win game 6 that means the western conference final opener will be sunday in oakland. Game one. Stay tuned. Im dennis odonnell. See you tonight. Time for the play of the day. Major League Baseball braves and astros in interleague play. Playbyplay [ playbyplay ] a laser to first its unbelievable. Great move by Carlos Correa houston shortstop showing off his strongarm and diving stop. Five tool player. Astros 83, and correa gets the play of the day. Time now 6 26. Next how marin lawmakers are pushing back against working with i. C. E. This despite opposition from the county sheriff. The search is under way for a new fbi director this morning. State democrats are trying to keep the spotlight on the investigation into russias possible ties to last years president ial election. , up in flames part of the bay area seeing a string of car fires this week. A live report on the investigation now under way. Plus as we speak today, immigration officers are finding the gang members, the drug dealers and the criminal aliens and throwing them the hell out of our country. The bay area county pushing back against working with i. C. E. Despite the request from President Trumps administration. And a stunning shakeup President Trump fired the fbi director. Were these investigations getting too close to home for the president . Good morning, it is wednesday, may 10. Im kenny choi. Im michelle griego. Time now is 6 30. Jackie ward is following the developments in washington and joins us now with the latest. This is quite a stir in washington and many there are asking about the timing of President Trumps firing fbi director james comey. As we are right in the middle of the fbi investigating russia for possible ties to last years president ial election. But just this morning, President Trump tweeted, he believes this was the right move. James comey will be replaced by someone who will do a far better job bringing back the spirit and prestige of the fbi. End quote. Comey reportedly found out he had been fired as he watched tv reports from the Los Angeles Office where he was attending an fbi recruiting event. At first he thought it was a joke. In a Statement Released less than an hour ago, congressman anna eshoo esentative Mike Thompson also released this s this morning saying in part his dismissal is not the end of this cant let his firing reporter representative Mike Thompson also said california ts are c for the need of a special prosecutor to join the russia and thats why this morning, California Democrats are calling for the need of a special prosecutor to join the russia investigation. Thank you. Senate minority leader Charles Schumer has asked Democratic Senators to lead this morning to city did whether Mitch Mcconnell will talk about it. Heavy rains has spurred the growth of vegetation and we are going to try to get out to anne makovec, who is live for us in los altos this morning. Anne, are you there . Are you hearing . Reporter yes, i am. I was crawling into the weeds, kenny. You know, roberta warned me of lizards and poison ivy. I wanted to show you the tall weeds. They are healthy but they are turning more dry and brown and that is going to cause fire danger all around the bay area. Fire teams have been preparing for it. Santa clara firefighters are doing wildfire training this week learning how to set up a relatively new tool a portable 1800gallon water container. Crews pump water from far away and its used to resupply fire trucks. It doesnt take lock to dust it o we make sure were in top shape for when we go out and do the real thing. The rain we got this season has caused grasses and weeds to grow taller and thicker than they have been in years. But with the weather warming up as they mentioned the weather is really the vegetation is really starting to dry out. Cal fire introducing a new app this fire season. Its called the ready for wildfire app. Step by step checklists for creating Defensible Space and evacuation plans, wildfire ureters, specifically for your neighborhood. If you want that you can go to the app store. Firefighters are trying to encourage homeowners to prepare their own homes. Thousands of east bay m. U. D. Water customers could get hikes, the district proposing 9. 25 on july 1 and another 9 raise after that. Ebmud needs money to replace and repair equipment and the agency is taking in less revenue due to customer conservation. Right now, the morning rush is on. Drivers are hitting the roads and heading to work. Were monitoring what you can expect including your forecast and i was driving over the bay bridge this morning with two hands on the wheel because you can feel the winds. Its gusty because of the return of the onshore pushhhh, the marine layer. And youre going to notice the difference out the door this morning. 91 in pleasanton. All these temperatures coming down about 16 degrees because of that right there. Its the marine layer. Its pushing onshore. And look at the flag on the fly at pier 9. The low clouds and fog trailing in. Thats how far in its moving. Toss in winds at 18 in san ramon 17 in concord, 29 fairfield, 15 in napa. These winds will continue to blow today up to about 30 at times. Warm weather it is out of here clouds stacked up next to the coast. 50s beaches, up to 72 inland. Full forecast coming up but right now lets send it over to jaclyn. We are tracking a few new hot spots and this is for drivers making their way throughout the east bay along 880 and san mateo bridge. We are seeing those delays build in that westbound direction out of hayward to foster city. Over 25 minutes. 880 through oakland the section looks okay near 66. You can see traffic moving okay in both directions but a little south of that we are tracking a problems. An accident along southbound 880 near tennyson road with one lane blocked and thats really starting to slow things down expect a 20minute ride from 238 to decoto. A plan to help stop a rash of bay area freeway shootings is moving forward. The state is pledging the funds needed to install cameras on two major highways between richmond and antioch. There have been dozens of shootings along that stretch over the past few years along with gangrelated gunfire on 580, 880 and highway 4. Tomorrow the east Contra Costa CountyDistrict Attorneys Office fbi safe Streets Task Force and local Law Enforcement agencies are expected to meet. Together, they are expected to select the best location to install the cameras. The man accused of kidnapping and killing sierra lamar is found guilty even though her body has never been found. It took just 12 hours of deliberations for the jury to reach a verdict. Antolin garciatorres will be back in Court Next Week. Then the jury will decide if he should get life or death for his crime. In Contra Costa County, authorities are trying to determine the cause of several car fires. Kpix 5s Jessica Flores is live in walnut creek with the latest on the investigation. Jessica. Pretty scary situation overnight. Two car fires popping up just minutes apart backtoback. Now take a look in walnut creek. The fire engulfing that car just feet away from the home here. Firefighters worked to put out the flames and quickly called arson investigators to the scene. As they worked on this fire another one popped up a mile away in lafayette. The second fire started on pondre street engulfing a white suv both starting at midnight hitting cars parked in driveways. No injuries. Now the big question, are they related . Its not just walnut creek and lafayette. Several car fires have popped up in recent weeks. Another car burned monday in martinez. We did speak to Contra Costa County fire Protection District now they tell us that they frequently do work on car fires. Because of the two fires happening overnight, they are investigating this as an arson. They are not sure if it is an arson but, of course, they are taking this very seriously. A man accused of firing a San Jose Police officer this weekend is due in court today. 29yearold kevin riley allegedly pulled out a. 45 caliber pistol and started shooting at Police Officers sunday morning. One officer returned fire. The exchange of gunfire happened near a big 5 Sporting Goods store on tully road. No one was shot. Police recovered a stolen gun used in the shooting. There might be roadblocks to President Trumps travel ban but the department of Homeland Security says it wont stop them from tightening security. The Department Says it is already making changes to its screening and vetting processes for immigrants. Its not saying what the changes are. President trump is defending his travel ban. It would ban immigrants from six countries from entering the u. S. For 90 days. A federal judge put the order on hold. Many officials are refusing to work with federal immigration agents. Was night supervisors in marin voted to support sanctuary cities. They are sending a letter to state leaders to endorse bill 54 to prevent state and local Law Enforcement agency from working with i. C. E. A new warning being given to the governor about the dangers of the oroville damage and why they dont think the spillway is reliable despite repairs. Why tesla is asking for you to help improve its self driving car platform. , [ whistles ] internet speeds 20x faster. At t fiber sounds amazing. Wait a sec, im not done yet. Less than 12 of at t homes actually qualify. Huh. Hold on. Everyone else gets our other, slower internet speeds. But no one reads this stuff anyway. Except for the old guy with the binoculars. Huh. We got ourselves a reader. Dont be fooled by at t. Xfinity delivers the fastest speeds to the most homes. Gayle king joins us now from new york. Good morning. Thanks. Time for a look at whats coming up later on cbs this morning. Gayle king joins from us new york. Good morning. Reporter we are here, michelle, and ill bet you cant guess what our lead story is today. Hm. I know youve been talking about it too its good to see you. Ahead, whats coming up next after the firing of fbi director james comey. Were on capitol hill where some members of congress are calling the move knicks ownian. Well also talk with former Homeland Security security adviser and face the nation anchor. And well go to connecticut today to take you on botched the navys newest generation of submarines for an inside look. Those who have seen it say its way cool. See you at 7 00 in about 15 minutes. Thank you. And james comey was my first choice. That was my guess. Oh. See, you are a smart cookie. [ laughter ] see you later. See you later, gayle. Yelp is getting bad reviews on wall street and abercrombie is up for sale. Joining us now is kcbs radios financial reporter jason brooks. Reporter good morning. It is a rough day for yelp and its shareholders. The online reviewer turned in disappointing earnings and cut its guidance for the year ahead. It has weak advertising and big problems there. Yelps stock is down by more than 20 in the early going. Abercrombie fitch has been struggling after being hot with teens. Its getting worse as fewer people are shopping at malls instead turning to online shopping. So righters is reporting that abercrombie has hired an Investment Bank to field potential offers. A lot of speculation about ac ke idation in the retail spade for 2. 4 billion. The james comey news is not sitting well with wall street either. Thats sending stocks a little lower. Lets go to the big board and see how were doing so far in the early going. Dow down by more than 40 points the nasdaq and s p also going lower. Back to you. Thank you. Teslas excited to ramp up its work to create a self driving car by the end of the year so it wants your permission to take some quick videos while youre behind the wheel. Those videos will be used to help hone the autopilots visual recognition capabilities to keep the cars on the road. The electric automaker wants to ensure customers the short video clips are not linked to cars id number. The latest software was rolled out this week. Lets check traffic and weather. We have some major slowdowns right now for drivers on 880 southbound south of 92. The crash near tennyson is really slowing your ride down. Speeds drop into the red. Slow, stop, go your cruising speed approaching 92, 10 Miles Per Hour. Very crowded over there so give yourself some extra time. From 238 to 84, 24 minutes. Northbound 880, starting to see a few slowdowns as you make your way towards the maze from 238 but were still in the green for our drive times. This has been one of the easiest routes that we have seen this morning so far. Heading over to the bay bay, the usual crowds building and as you make your way towards the maze along the eastshore freeway, then from the maze into downtown San Francisco, its just about 30 minutes so give yourself some extra time. We are in the yellow for drivers on 880680 and 101. For our super commuters we have seen delays out of tracy heading into livermore 4 out of antioch and that eastshore freeway slow, stop, go. Thatsha ts a check of your traffic; over to you. Hi, everybody. For my oakland as they lost to the angels last night but they get a chance to make it up today. Game time 12 35. And go, as its going to be fun in the sun today. Looking towards the Marina District this morning, we do have thin overcast there. Isnt that glorious . Its really, boy, serene looking out towards the palace of fine arts theater established back in 1915. Barely a breeze there. But we are picking up breezy conditions along the seashore right now where currently we have a lot of condensation in the form of drizzle on our camera lens this morning. And that is from the very, very deep marine layer along the coast. It thins out as it pushes back on shore. I know the picture is blurry. I wanted to give you the idea of the drizzling. Santa rosa 50 degrees nasa with light drizzle, as well. The winds have been breezy this morning primarily east of the bay right now calm in hayward but 10 in the oakland area. 13 berkeley back through richmond. 18 in san ramon and good morning to you in concord. You have a wind at 17, gust at 25. 16 now in vallejo. 29 in fairfield and 15 in napa. Well continue to see the winds today 10 to 20 and occasional stronger gusts up to 30 Miles Per Hour. Good morning to our weather watcher. Boy, they have been getting up bright and early. John, thanks for checking in from santa rosa, linda from fairfield, dave in napa reporting 50 with clear skies earlier. But now filling in nicely with that overcast condition and tim woods in benicia. Make it a great day satelliteradar suggests we have the building area of low clouds and fog. This is the marine layer. Watch it hug tightly to the coast even saturating in towards the sacramento valley. Back to the san joaquin valley. Its being enhanced this morning by this disturbance to the north of us. As it gets off the ridge of high pressure, the lines are close together and we have a Pressure Gradient thus the winds today blowing sand on the great highway today. Toward the afternoon hours clouds still not clearing at all at the immediate seashore back through santa cruz. Look what happens this evening. Clouds penetrate the bay and surge up into the sierra foothills. Anything we receive will be generally less than a few 100ths of an inch. Blustery at the delta. Blustery all over the bay area today. Highs in the 70s and 80s today. High pollen count. Temperatures today coming down significantly. We were at 89 yesterday in concord. 68 degrees today going to feel the difference. It was 91 degrees in pleasanton. Today 70 to 72. 50s at the seashore. 50s around the bay. 60s around the peninsula. 67 degrees in santa rosa. 16 degrees cooler than what we experienced on tuesday. Cooling thursday and friday and cool weather continues through the weekend. In fact, its a benign weather pattern with very little change through tuesday. And that is your wednesday weather report. Make it a great day. In just a few hours, we should get an update on flood conditions in napa. Theres going to be a presentation and looking to why the city of napa did not flood in 2017. Experts will discuss how the environmentally designed Flood Control project works. The meeting starts at 9 00 at the state building in oakland. Elected officials in Northern California have sent a letter to Governor Brown suggesting the oroville dam cant offer people flood protection. Mayors from 7 different communities have signed off on the letter which argues People Living downstream from the spillway face a serious risk should another failure happen. The crisis this winter sparked more than 200,000 evacuations. Governor brown has reportedly not responded yet to calls for comment. The rainy winter we had means the more dangerous fire season this year. How local crews are preparing next. Plus, the new bill aimed at cracking down on the illegal use of parking placards and license plates intended for disabled drivers. ,,,,,,,,,,, giving people options based on their budget is pretty edgy. Kind of like this look. Im calling it the name your price tool phase. Whatever. Im anne makovec live in Los Altos Hills where the weeds along the roadside are growing taller than ever. Some are several feet tall by this point and they are starting to dry out. I guess i shouldnt say than ever. But taller than weve seen in years after our big drought and all because of the rain that we have got then season. The droughtbusting winter has brought these taller and thicker weeds and that means fire danger with the weather warming up. All starting to dry out. The once green and yellow mustard flowers are going brown on our hillsides. So the Santa Clara CountyFire Department is doing wildfire training this week dusting off some of their equipment like this portable 1800gallon water container. Crews pumped water into it from a source and then they can take it miles away. Its been used to resupply the trucks and the hoses. And Santa Clara County wildfire officials are holding a big event this morning trying to get homeowners to get themselves prepared to cut back vegetation and emergency evacuation plans. Live in Santa Clara County, Los Altos Hills, anne makovec, kpix 5. First the search is under way for a new fbi director to replace james comey, who was fired by President Trump. It was recommended by attorney general Jeff Sessions and his deputy who criticized comeys handling of the Hillary Clinton emails scandal. The man accused of kidnapping and killing sierra lamar is found guilty even though her body was never found. Antolin garciatorres will be back in Court Next Week for sentencing. One week after a San FranciscoPolice Shooting the department is planning to hold a town hall meeting this morning. The department is expected to talk about the investigation into the deadly shooting of a 26yearold that happened on Market Street. Right now in Contra Costa County, authorities are trying to determine the cause of several car fires. Overnight two cars were damaged in walnut creek. On monday, another car also caught fire in martinez. State senator jerry hill has unveiled a new bill aimed at cracking down on illegal use of disabled parking placards. In april a report from the state auditor found widespread abuse of the system including 35,000 placards in use after the holder had died. And all lanes clear along southbound 880 at tennyson due to the earlier crash but were still tracking those slowdowns. Your drive times in the red from 238 down to highway 84. 23minute ride. Over at the bay bridge toll plaza, we still see the crowds about 35 minutes from the maze into downtown San Francisco. Your drive times remain in the red for southbound 101. Westbound 580 and northbound101. I surely hope my son is watching this broadcast this morning because it is National Clean up your room day oh. Is it really . I like that. Yeah. Me too. I wish it was National Clean up your room day every day. Its going to be a great day to clean up your room because you will want to stay indoors its going to be cooler today so thats a good excuse, right . We have the bright sunshine inland right now. Temperaturewise 50s low 50s there. Mid50s right now near the lip of the bay. Three things for you to remember its going to be windy up to 30 Miles Per Hour at times. Sustained winds up to 20. Enjoy your day. So will you clean up your sons room . Every day. Make him do it. Disin