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Sign up for obamacare if you dont have insurance is just hours away. There were problems with one of the websites to enroll. Were monitoring that and well tell you about it. Mornings on 2 starts now. This is a bar in oakland dealing with the aftermath of a hitandrun accident that ended with a car inside the building. Good morning. Im tori campbell. Im dave clark. Lets talk about weather and traffic. Steve has a lot to talk about. Our weather is changing. I could do a halfhour show. I know you could. 30 seconds. We have a system moving in. Cloudy, mostly cloudy skies. No rain yet. This is a very strong front and associated low, cold core low. Rain develops, moderate to heavy at times. The wind will pick up. Lightning, possibly of thunderstorms. I think tomorrow there is a better opportunity along with low snow levels. Things will be very active the next 48 hours. Getting closer. Very, very light here. I think unless its up north, we should be fine in the morning but in the afternoon, everything falls off the table. 40s and 50s. And they havent budgeted all morning. The breeze is picking up. Eastsoutheast in advance of the system. I expect gusts 30, 40. Front still intensifying. And then the low is heading right over us in the next 24 hours. A lot to talk about. Cloudy skies in the morning. Rain on the way. Moderate to heavy. And then the possibility of some thunderstorms later on. Only upper 50s or very low 60s. Heres sal. I want to mention this Emergency Landing that our cameras caught as it happened just a few moments ago coming into san jose airport. A small smaller twoengine plane made an Emergency Landing. The pilot radioed to the control tower that it was experiencing problem. It made an exit behind a taxiway. It appears that the plane landed safely. Its turning onto the taxiway and the Fire Department is littling behind it. It seems to be taxiing okay. That plane, a smalltwoengine plane, made an Emergency Landing. Were trying to find out more but it does appear that everything ended up safely with the plane back on the ground. Lets go to the traffic now. Westbound bay bridge, its a 30, 40minute drive time into San Francisco when you take into account the waiting and the time on the actual bridge. The commute will be okay. A little windy on interstate 880. We spoke of the south bay and just a little while ago, 85 was okay. But now 85 is okay. 87 past highway 17. 101 is slow from at least the capitol expressway up to 880. But 280 looks good with slowing right near highway 17. I would take that into the valley this morning. 7 03. Back to the desk. Thank you, sal. Oakland police are investigating a hitandrun crash that destroyed a downtown bar. It happened shortly after 3 00 this morning at 17th and telegraph. Tara moriarty has been at the scene of the crash and tells us about the strong lead in the search for the hitandrun driver. Good morning, tara. Reporter good morning. Its hard to believe but there was a car sitting right in the middle of the bar that you see on the corner. Went right through the area that you see. Meantime, police are searching for the driver, they do have some clues to go on. There was some bloody handprints found all over the car. Police say the locks were not tampered with so they believe this car was possibly not stolen. There are several stores are Surveillance Video nearby. The owner of the bar will reopen today. Shes frustrated. This is the fourth time this window has been destroyed either by a car accident or protesters over the past seven years. Luckily, no one was inside the bar when the crash happened. It closed at midnight. Three hours later, a car filled with five people ran through a red light smashed into a car headed southbound on 17th. The driver of the victims car, not seriously hurt. The five suspects ran away from the crash, police are looking for the driver. Witnesses described two African American males and three africanamerican females as being inside the car. The bar owner says it will be 40,000 to replace the window here and clean up the mother bell destroyed. She said shes marble destroyed. She shade shes asked the city for help. She said she will be meeting with city leaders to push for traffic reconfigurations to make this intersection safer. Were also running the license plate on the suspects car at the dmv to see who it is registered to. Well let you know what we find out coming up. Tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. Serious damage in San Francisco where another hitand run crash left a coffee shop in shambles this morning. It happened around 2 30 at 21st and folsom. Police say a lexus crashed into a coffee shop and the driver jumped out and ran away. Police are looking for the suspect while building inspectors examined the damage. In over two hours, leland yee may enter a plea in federal court. He was arrested in wednesday, charged with accepting payment for political conconspiracirations and conspiracy conspiraciations and firearms charges. On friday, he was voted to be suspended. Hes withdrawn from the secretary of state race. Now, San Francisco mayor ed lee is joining the list of politicianing asking yee to resign. It seems more and more i have to agree and join the governor and senator feinstein and others that he should make that independent determination to resign. Its one that i think puts the Public Interest in mind first. Now due in Court Tomorrow, Raymond Shrimp Boy Chow. More details. The federal investigation that led to the corruption charges against leland yee started back in 2006 with the killing of San Francisco businessman allen lee young. At the time he was the head of the chinese freemasons and replaced by Raymond Shrimp Boy Chow. Many believe chow is responsible for leungs death. But officially, the death is still unsolved. Happening today, the deadline for signing obamacare. Janine de la vega has more. Reporter ive been logging onto covered california every halfhour. Ive been playing around with it and have been able to create an account and i havent run into any problems just yet. But theres bound to be a rush of people. I will continue to monitor it to make sure that it keeps on working because people are gonna try to get on it today to enroll. Earlier this morning, people in states such as louisiana and virginia were getting a message telling them that it says they have a lot of visitors on the healthcare. Com website. Its asking them to wait. But in the last couple of hours, the department of health and Human Services was able to bring the system back online, here in california, people without insurance need to go to covered californias website before midnight create an account, fill out the required information on the apply for benefits page. After clicking continue, they will be able to send a consent for verification page and they can hit save and exit. People must return by april 15th to complete their application and select a plan. Ive been without care for over a year, year and a half. I started getting sick when i worked at the hospital. Reporter one of the commercials for the covered california website you are seeing right there, the penalty for being uninshushed is 95 for adult or 1 of your household income, whichever is greater. You can call the staff but prepare to be patient. Wait times reportedly run between 40 minutes an an hour. There are numerous events happening in the bay area with staff onhand to help people get enrolled in covered california. At 8 30 a. M. , there will be staff at st. Thomas Episcopal Church on snut avenue. We plan to on Sunset Avenue. We plan to head out there to see how many people show up to get some help. Reporting live from sunnyvale, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. We are back on stormwatch on this monday morning, on this last day of march. Got a good soaking over the weekend. Steve paulson tells us another strong storm system is moving in before noon and will pick up this afternoon. Some bay area cities will get an inch and a half of rain and you can expect the stormy morning commute tomorrow. Steve is tracking this new storm and he will be back in just a few minutes. It does look like this winter it looks like winter after a spring storm in the sierra about five feet of fresh powder covered some areas from the recent storm and more is on the way. The new snow comes as officials get ready to take another snowpack measurement tomorrow. Last thursdays electronic readings shows the snowpack is at 25 of normal for this time of year. And with another wet weather system coming, you will want to download the ktvu weather app. It gives you the latest forecast and live stormtracker2 right on your smartphone or tablet. Stanford women have rolled into the elite 8 in the ncaa basketball tournament. The cardinal will have the Home Court Advantage tomorrow night when they play north carolina. Turnover by penn state. Open 3. [ cheers ] nothing but nets. Second, the cardinal beat penn state, 8257 at the maple pavilion. If they win tomorrow night, the stanford women go to the final four for the sixth time in seven years. They are doing great. Yes, they are. Silicon valley will be closely watching the Supreme Court. The case in question, smaurt phone apps and billions smartphone apps and billions of dollars. How a woman from fremont managed to survive a Home Invasion robbery and her warning to her neighbors. Good morning. Were looking at the Santa Clara Valley. One of the slow spots is 208 at 880. Something 280 at 880. Something surprising about this and others. You might want to stick with this one. I will explain coming up. A lot of cloud cover. Its certainly getting closer. There will be pretty good rain and thunderstorms and low snow levels. Lots to talk about. Welcome back. 7 14. New this morning, police in Pleasant Hill searching for the man who robbed two women last night after knocking on their door, pointing a gun at them and forcing his way inside. It happened last night just before 10 00 on santa lucia drive. Police say the man locked the two women in a bedroom and stole jewelry, electronics, a car and several other items. The suspect described as a white nan his mid30s, 6 feet tall with a dark beard and average build. The stolen car, a volkswagen passat, 2013. If you have information, call fremont police. A woman in fremont is warning women to be care until in the neighborhood. She was held at gunpoint in her home. When she came home from running errands on thursday, she heard the men in the house. One of them found her in the kitchen and forced her to lie face down on the floor. I didnt get up right away. I said are you in the house . Are you still in the house . I ask three times and i didnt hear any response. She says the men stole her i. D. , they stole her key, cash and jewelry, before they escaped. Police say the suspects could be responsible for another burglary that happened about a mile away the same day. The police is warning about a jury duty scam. Someone has been calling local residenting and telling them residents and telling them they owe money for not showing up and and they are told if they do not pay, they will be arrested. The Sheriffs Department says if you receive a call, do not provide personal information and report the call to the sheriffs office. In albuquerque, new mexico hundreds of people held a protest against the police that lasted for 12 hours. Killer killer around 9 00 local time, police began using tear gas to break up the crowd. Witnesses say they saw several people put into patrol cars but theres no word of anyone being arrested. One officer was injured. Another was spit hon and hit with a rock. Demonstrators began early yesterday morning in downtown albuquerque. Protesters say they are trying to make a statement against the Police Departments use of lethal force. Two weeks peag, a homeless man was shot and killed ago, a homeless man was shot and killed. A couple of weeks after that, another man was shot and killed. One man who came to the protest with an ak74 said the police need to be held accountable. They shoot first and then answer questions on unarmed civilians who dont show a threat. Its not clear when the investigation will end regarding this. San francisco condo prices, they are higher than evever. The average price for ever. The average price for a condo tops 830,000. Thats according to the business times. Thats 8 higher than the peak price just before 2008 economic crash. The San Francisco prices are being pushed higher because the supply of new condos is at an alltime low and buyers are making deals before Mortgage Rates go higher. Tesla says it will only use Raw Materials from north america at its new battery factory. Tesla says establishing a local supply chain for cobalt, graphite and other materials will minimize Environmental Impact by cutting how materials will be shipped. Some analysts say tesla will need to find new sources because the plan factory will use so much of some materials it could create shortages. 7 18. Want to check in with sal right now, see whats happening on the roads in Contra Costa County. Were looking at Contra Costa County and all of the counties were gonna start there and start with highway 24 westboundance you come up westbound as you come up through la fayette. It will be slow and the drive time is about ten minutes. Not too bad. A little bit more than it would be if it was completely wide open for you. When you get to oakland, you will see some more crowding. At the toll plaza, its about a 25, 30minute drive time into San Francisco. Most of that is gonna be waiting at the toll plaza and then you will get onto the bridge. Also the morning commute in san jose even though we showed you 280 at 880 was slow. 8585, 101 worse. I would use as we look at Contra Costa County, southbound 680 is slow from treat boulevard. We just showed you la fayette. Its not all that bad. Decent start for a monday in some counties. Lets go to steve. Thank you, sir. A very good morning. Things are kind of quiet. The breeze beginning to pick up. Its more of a southsoutheast in advance. Its gonna get much stronger here. First the cold front, the wider the tops, the colder the its. Intensifying taking place. This is a very impressive front. The cold core low is moving over us tuesday. So theres a lot to talk about here. First there will be the rain and the wind. About. 5 to 2inch. I think Santa Cruz Mountains will be in there. 30, 40mileanhour winds especially on the coast and some of the Higher Elevations and the snow level, not something we talk about, usually at the end of march or early april it will be taking a plunge around 3500 feet, 3,000 feet up in the sierra. Front beginning to pick up in intensity. Radar. Nothing yet. Everyone is saying cloudy to mostly cloudy. By 9 00 a. M. , we should see our first hints of rain. It will be close. 40s to 50s on the temperatures. With the southeast breeze kicking up the heels, east southeast that will only get stronger as we head towards the next couple of hours. It looks like a late morning, early afternoon. The as, if they play, i would be surprised they may get a break but theres intense possibility of thunderstorms coming in. Most of this will be through thursday night. Maybe early wednesday. Things will be calmer on thursday. Easily an 1 to 2, especially up in the normt bay, russian river. Winter warning starts at 2 00 today and goes through tomorrow. This will be a very good snow prow decemberer. Some of the snow producer. Bridgeport says all quiet now. That will change. First we get the front. You can see how that is intensifying and the low is tracking over the bay area. Plenty to talk about today and tomorrow. Cloud cover is on the increase. The breeze is picking up as well. Eastsoutheast for a while. 50s and low 60s on the temperatures. Everybody in the same ballpark. They will be cooler tomorrow. Thunderstorms, hail, possibility, maybe funnel clouds in the valley as well. As we head to early wednesday. Then a break. It wont be warm. Maybe one more system late thursday into friday and then the weekend looking sunny and warm. All right, steve. 7 22. Its hoping day for bay area baseball fans. The giants start their new season tonight in arizona. Meantime, the as start the new season at home but will they get to play. What may threaten tonights game. Also, the new concern at the scene of the landslide disaster in Washington State. Whats being found in the ground that is putting searchers at risk . So you made some bad decisions last night. Make a good one this morning. Try my. Warm and flaky croissant sandwiches made with fresh egg and melting cheese. Choose supreme or sausage. Right now theyre 2 for just 3. 50. Cmon cody, lets get some breakfast. You drive. I traded the car for the tattoo. Good morning. Welcome back. 7 24. The rescue crews at the landslide in Washington State. They are now dealing with contamination concerns as they look for survivors. Four more bodies were found yesterday, bringing the official death toll to 21. 30 people are still missing. The u. S. Army has set up a decontamination station where the rescue crews and dogs are being hosed off. Crews are worried about contamination in the soil. We had fields, sewer, the household products that we all have, those have been spilled. Crews want to make sure everything is cleaned off so they dont carry any contaminants back into town or home to their families. 7 25. A Senate Report concludes information obtained from al qaeda terror suspects using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques did not provide any key evidence in the hunt for osama bin laden. Some former Bush Administration and senior cia officials have cited the evidence leading to the pakistan compound as proof the interrogation techniques were effective. But some senators have described the practices as cruel and ineffective. Its not clear whether the report will be released to the public. Last september one of three base jumpers took this video as they jumped from the top of the freedom tower. You this face federal charges that include burglary and trespassing. A few weeks ago, a new jersey teenager managed to sneak up to the top of the tower before he was caught. Its believed both the skydivers and the 16yearold boy crawled through the same hole in the fence to get on the construction site. So that means between september to march, six months, no one patched up the hole. Right now, Port Authority police are in charge of security at the site but senator Charles Schumer is suggesting that the nypd take over. Cars go up in flames outside a bay area Walmart Store. You will see the dramatic video that just came in within the past hour and what we just learned from firefighters. Reporter were live in San Francisco where state senator leland yee will be back in federal court this morning. What is expected to happen this morning and the other politician urging yee to resign. Good morning. Bay bridge span. Were looking at a commute that looks good into San Francisco. Well tell you more about that straight ahead. Pretty impressive cold front on the way for this last day of march. Going out like a lion. All quiet now. But it will change and well have rainfall projections. Good morning. State senator leland yee is expected to head to court in just two hours. Ktvu is live in front of that courthouse this morning. Well tell you what we anticipate will happen this morning when the when le faces the judge when leland yee faces the judge. Its monday, march 31st. Im tori campbell. Im dave clark. Steve says if you are smart, take an umbrella. I would. Nothing yet. If there is, light. An extremely strong front for this time of year. Not only do we have the front but also the cold low. Rain, lightning, possibility of thunderstorms. Low snow levels as we head into tomorrow. Tomorrow looks good for thunderstorm activity. The front getting closer. So far, jim up in eureka said no rain yet but it looks like its close. Same up and down the coast. Off the coast is beginning to show itself. This is highbased. Its a sign of things to calm. This will be a rainy day once we get cranked up. The breeze continues to crank up from out of the east southeast. Its getting stronger and i expect 30 to 40mileanhour gusts here next couple of hours as the front starts to work its way in. Its right offshore. Its beginning to enhance. Rainfall projections look good today and tomorrow. Tomorrow will be more scattered. Today, general area. Some of that could be moderate to heavy at times. A lot of cloud cover beginning to increase. The wind is picking up as well. 50s and low 60s. Heres sal. All right, steve. Good morning. Were looking at a tough commute. 30, 35minute delay. 880 is still looking good. The camera is shaking a little bit. Its a little windy in add vance of the storm. Lets take a look at that 35 to 40minute drive time at the bay bridge. You can see traffic is busy except in the carpool lanes. If you are driving in walnut creek streak, traffic is slow walnut creek, traffic is slow there. Back to the desk. New this morning, dramatic video. Look at this car fire in martinez. Came into the newsroom in the past hour. This was first reported shortly after 6 00 it this morning in the parking lot of a Walmart Store on arnold drive a lot of flames. We just talked to firefighters. They say two cars were badly damaged. They think the fire was a result of an accident. Well tell you posted. Oakland police are investigating the citys latest homicide. The shooting happened overnight about 12 15 somewhere near interstate 580 and 14th avenue. Police say a 17yearold boy and a 22yearold man were shot. Both had to be taken to the hospital. The 17yearold later died from his injuries. Police say they dont know if the shooting happened on the street or on the offramp. If you have any information, Contact Oakland police. Happening today state senator leland yee begins what could be a Lengthy Court battle. Brian flores is in San Francisco with the latest politician asking yee to resign. Good morning, brian. Reporter good morning. That hearing is scheduled for roughly around 9 30 here at the federal courthouse in San Francisco. The state senator should arrive moments either at both entrances at the federal courthouse, we have crews on both sides trying to get comment from the state senator. In the meantime, as we go to video, yee faces seven counts charged with exchanging political flavors and firearms arms favors and firearms charges. Hes expected to plead not guilty. Well see what happens. Hes remained quiet as we have waited to get direct comment from him. Weve been at his home. On friday, he was voted to be suspended. Yee withdrew his name from the race to be californias secretary of state. Among the growing list of politicians asking yee to fully resign is mayor ed lee. It just seems more and more and i have to agree and join the governor and senator feinstein and others that he should make that independent determination to resign. Its one that i think puts the Public Interests in mind first. Reporter yee was arrested during predawn raids throughout the bay area last week. Among those and due in Court Tomorrow is raymond chow, the convicted felon at the center of the fbi investigation. Yee, in the meantime, however, remains free on 500,000 unsecured bond. If this does go to trial, yees lawyers could argue he was trapped by federal investigators. Theres a lot of audio and video according to the 137page affidavit that accuses yee of these charges. Its being reported that yees attorneys will talk about adding security for yee as well when and if this goes to trial. His hearing is scheduled for 9 30 this morning. Were live in San Francisco, brian flores, ktvu channel 2 news. Its a call to action from a young mom on a mission. Karina mendoza is trying to turn her personal pain into something positive following a troerbl tragedy in san jose horrible tragedy in san jose last summer. A pickup truck ran over and killed her son at vine and oak street as he was about to celebrate his 4th birthday. There is a growing memorial there. His mother is launching a new campaign called take 3 to see. Take time on your driving, you know, dont be in a hurry. This campaign is designed to urge drivers to put safety first every time they get behind the wheel. The young mom is pushing for safety improvements at some of the bay areas most dangerous intersections. Cleanup efforts continue in Southern California following a 5. 1 magnitude quake over the weekend. Dozens of homes in fullerton will red tagged after the large cracks were discovered in the foundation. About half of those people have been allowed to return home after building inspectors deemed the building safe. An Elementary School in brea is closed because of the quake. The city of palo alto is looking for volunteers for its Emergency Response team. The sert program trains on basic responder Skills Including medical operations, small Fire Suppression and light search and rescue. Training includes 24 hours of handson experience in april followed by a fivehour field day on april 26th. You must complete all classes to become certified. For more information, contact the city of palo alto. 7 37. Happening today the fight over pattons for apps. Its playing out in the u. S. Supreme court. Bay Area Companies join together to file their argument with the high court. Kyla campbell, live in washington, d. C. To explain whats happening at this hour. Kyla . Reporter dave, the Supreme Court justices are hearing oral arguments from those hightech companies right now. I did obtain this brief from goobl, facebook, netflix and others. They are calling this a plague thats impairing hightech innovation. These Companies Argue that specific intents of the idea are allowed to be patented, not the idea itself. The other side fears the Supreme Court could toss out an entire category of previously issued pattons pattons patents. This outcome could impact jobs in california. How Many American jobs could be at risk with this decision, that at 8 30. Kyla campbell, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you, kyla. Apple and samsung are facing off again in another legal showdown in a San Jose Courtroom. Apple calls it another case of samsung copying the technology. Apple says they infranged on five of the patents when they made the galaxy smart phones. Well, samsung is countersuing. They say apple stole two of its ideas. Jury selection starts today. Some employees of the Mozilla Foundation in Mountain View are calling for the ceo to resign. Some employees say prop 8 goes against mozillas core values as a company. They are the nonprofit behind the fireknocks browser. Oakland police are investigating a hitandrun crash that destroyed an oakland bar. Coming up, the strong lead they have in the search for the driver. Next honoring fallen firefighters in boston. A special connection to the bay area thats compelled an east bay firefighter to fly to the east coast this morning. Good morning. We are still looking at a decent commute but there are some noticeable spots where it is worse than it should be. Here in san jose, we also have bright spots. Well explain. Get ready for offandon rain for the next three days. Looks like it today, tomorrow and maybe into next wednesday. 7 42. Spring is here and that means baseball but it feels like winter here in the bay area. Pam cook is in the studio to talk about opening day for the as and the problems crews are trying to prevent. Pam . Steves been saying we are expecting a pretty big storm this afternoon. Unfortunately, thats just ahead of the as home opener tonight. Now, crews worked on the field and in the stadium over the weekend hoping to keep the field from flooding. Tonights game could be delayed or even canceled because of the rain moving in today. Right now, first pitch, set for 7 05. Tonight for the as game against the indians. Sonny will be the starting pitcher. The first 23,000 fans receive a towel. Theyve been working on the problems on saturday when the weekend rain caused flooding in the coaches room. Thats the area weve been reporting of the coliseum thats had problems in the past with flooding and even some backup of some sewage. Now, just so you know, no refund, if the game is cancelled but you will be able to use the ticket for the makeup game if thats scheduled. And the San Francisco giants open at home on april 8th next week. Tonight they open the season on the road in arizona. Fans in the bay area can still watch the game at at t park. A Free Viewing Party will be held at 6 30. A big screen will be set up for fans to enjoy the game. 7 44. More disappointment today about the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. A cluster of orange objects spotted by a search plane, it turned out to be fishing equipment. There are ten planes, ten ships, 1100 people from several countries now involved in in the search in the search. Australians said the best brains in the world are involved in the effort. If this mystery is solvable, well solve it. But i dont want to underestimate how difficult it is. Now, an american ping detector is in australia, that yellow device there, it can be used to help find the black box recorder. The searchers say before they can deploy it, they need a lead where to start. North korea and south korea fired artillery shells into the waters today and thats causing tensions to rise. North korea has conducted a series of rocket and ballistics in recent weeks. Its believed to be an act of protest against the annual joint military exercises happening right now between the u. S. And south korea. Now, both the u. S. And north korea say the exercises are routine. A new report by the United Nations says Climate Change is affecting all parts of the world. The report shows the gap between the latest science on Climate Change sand the actions taken by governments to cut greenhouse emissions remains large. Scientists say if issues like coastal flooding extreme storms and drought are not addressed, it could be extremely damaging in the long run. An east bay firefighter is headed to boston to honor the lives of two boston firefighters killed in the line of duty. Jason conner, an engineer, left sfo early this morning. He will hold a flag on behalf of prayer firefighters to honor the two boston men who died last week while fighting a nine alarm building fire. In 2007, boston firefighters came to the bay area to honor two contra costa firefighters who died in a fire in san pablo. Im gonna go out and represent us and pay it back and show the firefighters of boston and the family members of the firefighters killed in the line of duty, show them our support. 7 46. Calfire will train and hire hundreds of new firefighters all over the state. Its something they typically do in the middle of may but because of the dry conditions caused by the dry. They are getting ready for a busy fire season. Since the beginning of january, calfire has battled 875 fires compared to only 300 fires the year before. These new firefighters are being paid for by the state drought emergency fund. 7 47. Want to check in with sal and see how things are moving on the roads. How is the toll plaza . Looks good, tori and dave. But steve has been telling you, its gonna rain later. Even though the commute is dry this morning, you may not have a very good commute later. By looking good, i mean. Stalls or accidents. Its about a 30, 40minute delay which is normal. You will be used to that if you drive it every day unless you are in the carpool lane. But again, tonight, it will change and the commute later when it starts to rain is going to be a rough one. I think steve used another word for it, dicey perhaps. Well talk to him in a moment. 580 has improved. It was very slow from livermore to dublin. Now its sluggish. But 680, a lot of the people are on 680 heading down to fremont. You can see traffic on 880 southbound is getting busker is. Its still not stop and go, heading south. I want to look at the interchange. Thats cleared out. 280 gets the award for best freeway in the south bay. As a matter of fact the traffic on the other freeways is picking up a little bit. 85 is looking good. 101 is still slow. Lets go to steve. Okay. Theres one. There are others. Some i cant say. Okay. It will be tough. Cloud cover rapidly increasing here. Already rain on the north coast, dunlap, fort frag talking fort bragg talking about some. Well see rain off and on until wednesday. Well get the warm sector first. Nothing yet. But its getting very close. There already brief, heavy rain. March going out like a big lion. Like a big kitty cat. We had one system over the weekend. It rained so hard in el granada, it was like it was the end of the world. Well, wait until this one. Theres the possibility of thunderstorms and low snow levels. Sonoma county, mendocino county, parts of marin county over the next 48 hours. Wind is beginning to crank up. Snow level will be going way down like it has a rock tied to it as we head tuesday night into wednesday. This is a strong front. Not only that but the cold core low is going to move over the bay area. I mean temperatures are going to plunge. You will notice it big time tonight into tomorrow and also wednesday. Thunderstorms look likely to me, especially as we head towards tuesday. Theres been strikes reported off the coast from the system. Maybe today. But i think tomorrow is the better opportunity, better dynamics. Jet stream coming in. A lot of ingredients will come into play. You can see beginning to enhance. Probably not reaching the ground. If it is, tweet me, contact me, email or on facebook. I will get your information out there. 40s and 50s on the temperatures. They are not going very far. Already picking up out of the eastsoutheast from the Santa Clara Valley up the way up the coast. Very strong wind will be with us today until this front goes through which wont be until later. Noon and 6 00 p. M. Looks to be the window. I would be shocked if the as play tonight. Doesnt look good. Rainfall amount, most of this will be today and tomorrow. Some rain will make it into wednesday. Wednesday night thursday look good. 32 up in tahoe. Winter storm warning starts today. 2 00, goes through tomorrow. They may extend that. They being the National Weather service. The good folks in sacramento. There is gonna be feet in the Higher Elevations. It will be howling over the ridges. Front and this low diving in over us. If you know anything about weather, you know that looks good. Cloudy with rain. Some of that will be moderate to heavy. The wind picking up as we talked about. Temperatures upper 50s, very low 60s. Kind of just they are not going anywhere for about three days. These temperatures and then another system approaches on thursday. That one looks weaker. One forecast model is bullish than the other two. Well see what happens. Trend is your friend. The trend right now is rain but not on the weekend. Looks sunny and warmer. Nine minutes before 8 00. A home burglary interrupted in the east bay. If someone is in the house, too late to turn around and come back. A woman describes her terrifying deal. Swept out to sea. The religious ceremony ended in tragedy on the california coast. Noah starring Russell Crowe was number one at the weekend box office. Despite getting bad reviews. In second place, divergent, the muppets, most wanted, mr. Peabody and sherman and god is not dead wound out the top 5. Baptism ceremony on the beach along the Central Coast ended in tlagedy. Three people were swept to sea during the ceremony. Two were rescued but the other is thought to have drowned. Hes been identified as 43year old benita floor rose flores. Hes a very good worker, very good neighbor. Very nice. The pastor was in the process of baptizing another man when flores and the other were swept away. A helicopter in marin had to rescue a 7monthold puppy named mia after she fell down a 200foot cliff t happened north of rodeo beach near the shore. A chp helicopter allowed the dog to be saved. At first they thought she was dead but found her unharmed. The dog was reunited with the owner. Worries about Water Conservation still very high. Thats why a homeowner in la fayette is tackling the drought by trading in his lawn for a native garden. Hes survived four droughts. But johnson says this latest water crisis finally pushed him to get rid of his lawn. He invited kathy kramer of bringing back the native gardens tour to hold a workshop on his property. They require less maintenance than the lawn, less the water, no pesticide. It took the volunteers less than a day to get rid of johnsons lawn and replace it with mulch and native plants. Johnson is eligible for a rebate from east bay m. U. D. For making that conversion. Napa county may soon be spending 3. 2 million in flood efforts. The board of supervisors meets tomorrow night expected to give their final approval on the distribution of the money. The money would pay for the last phase of the napa river rutherford reach res toe race project and give 500,000 to two water recycled projects. The money is coming out of the sales tax measure approved by voters in 1998. Its cesar chavez day. Hundreds are marking the holiday at the Alameda County food bank. Today is the third annual day of service. 200 people are expected to help donate, sort and package food for families in need. One in six people in Alameda County rely on the food bank for assistance. And tonight, in honor of cesar chavez day there will be a celebration of oaklands remember them monument. Cesar chavez is among the 25 humanitarian leaders fee chewed on the monuments featured on the monument on 19th street in downtown oakland. Tonights ceremony celebrates new lighting added to the monument made possible by a donation from pg e. The lighting is at 7 00 tonight, weather permitting. Incredible structure. Yes. New information about a story weve been following for the past hour. Tense moments this morning at one of the bay areas busiest airports. Reporter were live in oakland, where police are searching for the driver of a car who slammed into a car and then ended up inside of a popular oakland bar. Well tell you what crews the suspects left behind. And right now, were looking at the san mateo bridge. And it looks pretty good heading out to the high rise but theres some slow traffic you have to slug through. Coming up well show you what it looks like at the bay bridge toll plaza. Getting some early reports of some light rain beginning to develop up in beautiful Sonoma County. So its a sign of things to come. Good rainfall rates and cold and low snow levels. Well have all of the deal tails coming up. Well, good morning. Welcome back to mornings on 2. These are live pictures. A temporary fix to a hitand run crash in oakland this morning. A car plowed right through this bar at 17th and telegraph after being rammed by another car. Now, ktvus Tara Moriarty has been out there since 4 30. Shes coming back. Shelltel us why the owner shelltel us why the owner of the shell tell us why the owner of the bar thinks this could have been prevented. Im dave clark. Im tori campbell. Quick look at weather and traffic. I left my umbrella in my car. Do i have time to run out and get it before it starts to rain . Send one of the interns out. [laughter] teasing. There are some breaks off the coast. Wont last very long. A little blue sky in the city. Its getting filled in fast. The front is here. Couple of reports of light rain starting up in Sonoma County. It will be a system the main window is between noon and 6 00. Thats when the front will start to barrel through. After that it will turn very cold and showery. Some of it very intense rain, especially tuesday into wednesday. I will get out of the way trying to do a little dance here. Nothing too heavy. Were starting to see the coverage increase rapidly. The front is on the way. Most of the morning commute. I think we get through okay. 40s, 50s on the temperatures. The breeze is no doubt about it beginning to crank up. I expect gusts to 30, 40 before everything is said and done. This is a rather dynamic system. Its behind it. Theres going to be thunderstorms. Hail. But the main front will give it moderate to brief heavy rain. Its starting to show itself and pick up. This is the best weve seen in a long time. This is the third in the series thats coming in. There might be another one on thursday. That does not look as strong. Today, tomorrow and early wednesday there will be a lot going on including much colder temperatures. Maybe thunderstorms. Main first. Well deal with the thunderstorms. 50s and low 60s. Heres sal. Traffic is moving along relatively well in some areas, not so well in others. San mateo bridge, crowded. Heading out to the high rise. A little bit of crowding also on the 2 but there are no on 92 but there are no reports of crash. The bay bridge is improving a little bit westbound. It is backed up for a 30, 40 minute delay. Its better than it was. Still a big crowd, obviously. San jose has improved quite a bit. 85 today is not bad. A lot of people over the last year or so said 85 has to be the worse. Well, today, you can take advantage of it not being that bad. Northbound 101 is slow near 880. 280 looks good. Back to the desk. New this morning, a small plane made an Emergency Landing at Mineta San Jose International airport. It came in a few minutes before 7 00. You can see it landing in the circle. The Fire Department says the plane was having engine problems. It was a small private plane that came from orange county. You can see some emergency vehicles coming toward it. It did land safely and no one on board was injured. Oakland police are investigating a hitandrun crash that destroyed a downtown bar. It happened shortly after 3 00 this morning at 17th and telegraph. Ktvus Tara Moriarty has been at the crash scene for the past few hours and tells us about the strong lead in the search for that hitandrun driver. Reporter her chapts say this is a merchants say this is a notorious dangerous intersection. Five hours ago, there was a car headed this direction on telegraph. It slammed into a car heading southbound on 17th. It ended up inside that corner bar you see there thats boarded up. Police are trying to piece together who is responsible. We know that they have some clues to go on. There were bloody handprints all over the car. Police say the locks were not tampered with. They believe the car is possibly not stolen. There are several stores, Surveillance Video nearby. The owner of the bar said she will reopen today but shes very frustrated because this is the fourth time that this huge window has been destroyed either by a car accident or protesters over the past seven years. Luckily, in one was inside the car when the crash happened. It closed at misdemeanor nid. Police say a car filled with five people ran through the red light and ended up inside the rawpt there. The driver of the victims car was not seriously hurt and then the five suspects ran away from the crash. Police are looking for the driver, witnesses describe two africanamerican males and three africanamerican fee nails as being inside the car. The bar owner says it will be about 40,000 to repair the damage. She says shes actually asked the city before to put up concrete barriers here on the corner because this is such a drugs intersection. Shes been unsuccessful. She said she will meet are city leaders late today and push for traffic reconfixrations to configurations to make the intersection safer. Were running the license plate to on the car to see who it is registered to. Well let you know when we find out. Tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. Serious damage in San Francisco where another hitand run crash left a coffee shop in shambles early this morning. It happened around 2 30 at 21st and folsom. Police say a lexus crashed into the coffee shop and the driver jumped out and ran away. Police are still looking for the suspect while building inspectors examine the damage. Later this morning, state senator leland yee may enter a plea in federal court. He was arrested on wednesday charged with accepting payment for Political Considerations can and conspiracy to traffic in firearms. Yesterday, no one answered the door at his sunset district home. On friday, his fellow senators voted to suspend him from office. Hes already withdrawn from the race to be californias secretary of state. Well, now, San Francisco mayor lee is joining those who say lee should resign. It just seems more and more and i have to agree and join the governor and senator feinstein and others he should make that independent determination to resign. Its one that i think puts the Public Interests in mind first. Due in Court Tomorrow, raymond chow. The former convict was at the center of the fbi investigation that led to last weeks arrest. Happening today the deadline to enroll for healthcare is tonight. With the clock ticking, californians without insurance are urged to get moving. Janine de la vega is in sunnyvale with more on how people can get the help they need to sign up. Good morning, janine. Reporter good morning, tori. Were here at st. Thomas Episcopal Church on Sunset Avenue in sunnyvale where an event will start to help people enroll in covered california. Ive been logging onto that state website throughout the morning. So far, i havent run into any problems with it. But earlier this morning, people in other states, such as louisiana and virginia, were getting a message on the healthcare. Website that said that it had a lot of visitors and asked them to wait but the department of health and Human Services was able to bring the system back online within an hour or so. Here in california, people without insurance need to go to covered californias website before midnight, create an online account and fill out all of the required information on the apply for benefits page. If you dont have time to select a health plan, hit save and exit after you get to the consent for verification page but people must return to their online account by april 15th to complete their application. We spoke with one gentleman who showed up here to the church this morning because he wanted to get help. Heres what he had to say last night, i i was on for an hour and a half and the system crashed me out for 20 times. I kept working it. I aim not 100 im not 100 sure im in. Reporter your reason for signing up that . Trying to get cheaper insurance than my own. Im selfemployed. Reporter theres one person who ran into problems with the website. The penalty for being uninsured is 895 per adult or 1 of your household whichever is greater. If you would rather call the staff, be patient. Wait times run 30 minutes to an hour. Reporting live in sunnyvale, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. And we are back on stormwatch this monday morning. It rained a lot over the weekend, as you know. Meteorologist Steve Paulson says you better take an umbrella today because theres another strong storm system moving into the bay area. The rain is expected to really start before noon and get stronger in the afternoon. Some bay area cities will get an 1. 50 of rain and tomorrows commute should be stormy. Steve is tracking all of this new storm for you. He will be back in a couple of minutes with all of the details. It looks like winter, though, after a spring storm in the sierra. About five feet of fresh powder covered some of the areas from this recent storm and more is on the way. The new snow comes as officials get ready to take another snowpack measurement tomorrow. According to the department of Water Resources last thursdays electronic reading shows the snowpack at 25 of normal for this time of the year. And with another wet weather system coming our way, you are gonna want to download our weather app. Its smart. It gives you the latest forecast and live stormtracker2 right on your smartphone or tablet. People are starting to question San Franciscos ability to extend give large fires. Earlier this month, the citys water supply system was crucial in helping to put out the massive fire at a Housing Development project in mission bay. But the chronicle is reporting a devastating earthquake could cause severe problems because of equipment, pumping and pipeline issues. The paper also reports that the city failed to properly spend millions of dollars in bond money on upgrading the existing water supply system. 8 10. Customers of the state eight major Utility Companies you will be getting climate credit payments on your bills. San Francisco Chronicle says the payments will appear as a line item on utility bills in april and in october. Pg e customers will get 29. 81. Edison customers in Southern California will get 40. Money comes from the states cap and trade system. It forces power plants and other polluters to cut down on the amount of emissions that are released. 8 10. Dramatic video out of martinez. A fire consumed in fire at a local walmart. What police told us one hour ago. Right here with a gun. Just like that. Held up at gunpoint. The way brazen burglars made their way into a house in fremont and how the owner ended up surprising them. Good morning. Right now were looking at a commute thats getting a little bit slower in some areas including the san mateo bridge. Westbound 92. I will tell you whats causing this slow traffic and what your alternates are. Rain starting up in rohnert park although there is blue sky. You can probably time how much longer it will last. Pretty strong front is on the way. Well have rain into wednesday. Yeah. Coming up. Pleasant hill police are looking for a man who say forced his way into a home and robbed two him on santa lucia drive. Police say the man was armed and locked the women inside a bedroom and store jewelry, electronics and a car. The suspect is scriked as white, mid30s, between 511 and 6 feet tall with an average build and a dark beard. The car stoleen is a 2013 volkswagen passat. Anyone with information is asked to call police. A woman in fremont warning her neighbors, be careful after she came home and found two men in herhouse and was held at gunpoint. She lives on san one avenue and she san one avenue and said when she came home on thursday, she heard one of the men in the house. One of them found her in the kitchen and forced her to lay face down on the floor. I know they are leaving. I didnt get up right away. I asked three times if they are still in the house. I didnt hear any response. They said the man stoeld her i. D. , keys stole her i. D. , keys, cash, and say police may be responsible for another burglary that happened a mile away on that same day. A Rosary Service will be held tonight for the College Student killed in a Controversial Police shooting in San Francisco. The funeral for 28yearold alehandro nieto will be held tomorrow. Police are he still investigating the are still investigating the shooting ten days ago at Bernal Heights park. Friends say they dont believe nieto was carrying a weapon. The shooting has prompted several demonstrations. Happening now north korea and south korea fired artillery shells into each others waters today. Tensions are rising in the region. North korea has conducted a series of rocket and Ballistic Missile launches in recent weeks. Its believed to be an act of protest against the joint military exercises going on right now between the u. S. And south korea. Now, both the u. S. And south korea say the military exercises are routine. 8 16. After 12 hours of protest between police in albuquerque, new mexico and hundreds of people is now over. Killer killer around 9 00, local time, police began using tear gas to break up the crowd. Witnesses say they saw several people put into patrol cars, no word on anyone being arrested. One officer was injured. Another was spit on and hit with a rock. Dreauss began early in the afternoon in downtown albuquerque. Protesters are trying to make a statement against the Police Departments use of lethal force. Two weeks ago a homeless man was shot and killed by police officers. They say he had two knives and was camping illegally. A couple of days after that, another man was shot and killed. One man who came to the protest with an ak74 said they need to be accountable. That rifle is similar to an ak 47. It refers to the year it was made. The u. S. Department of justice has investigating the use of force of the Albuquerque Police Department Since 2012. Its not clear when that investigation will end. An organization that runs the fire fox browser want their ceo to resign. The workers at the Mozilla Foundation say that brendan ike supported proposition 8, banning samesex marriage. They are saying that ikes support for prop 8 goes against mozillas core values. All right. Sal. Good morning, everything. Lets take a look at the commute now. Traffic is moving along pretty well on highway 24. Its improved. Last time we showed you slow traffic. Itsism proving on its improving on the way out to the tunnel and getting into oakland. About a 25, 30minute delay in San Francisco on the bay bridge. Today is cesar chavez day. Perhaps some people are honoring that. They are not at work. They will be doing something else. Thats helping us out on the commute. 85 in san jose looks way lighter than usual today. So does 280 101 is better. Traffic is improving in some areas. 8 19. Lets go to steve. Well, reports are starting to come in of some rain already falling. There is a little bit of blue sky. Theres a little bit. Need to get that run in, go now. Bill up in cobb mt. , he says a cold, heavy rain. Rick tee in anguin talking about rain and sonoma. Noma. Thats sonoma. Getting light rain. Rain beginning to move closer. If you look up, you see blue skies. They wont last much longer. The clouds are beginning to ramp out. What a way to go out for march, like a lion. And then the first of april and maybe all the way into wednesday. This is a rather dynamic very goodlooking system here. Easily 2 inches for some of the north bay locations. Brief gusts. The snow level will be coming down, down, down. It will be a very cold system. This is a strong front. Its still developing. Out ahead of that, were getting a strong southeast wind, rain develops, lightning, hail possibility. I think its better tomorrow. Thoirms, look likely there could be brief, heavy rain. The front will give us rain. Then weet gel a break. All of this has to swing in and thats the best weve seen in a long time. Weve had some good rainers but not really a double whammy. Well get that with the system. The rain will intensify. Thats jerry up there. Rain in willits. Rain up to fort bragg and then points north. Everything is starting to pick up. Over Sonoma County, napa county and marin county. Very light. Its starting to show. If its not raining yet, its a couple of hours away. We are gating close. 40s and 50s on the temperatures. The breeze beginning to pick up. Rather intense for some. Oakland, 16 miles per hour. Again, well see this san jose, 15 and its out of the southeast and its going to continue to be strong, gusty, blustery conditions here. Heres the front and then right there that comes in late tonight and sets up into wednesday morning. Rainfall for some will be good. Others will be good. Were looking for 2 inches of rain for some. The winter storm warning is out for the sierra. There will be feet measured in some of the peaks. We get the front come in and the low. That looks really good. Really good. Cloudy with rain. Theres a few sunbreaks. Not much longer. Morning clouds will give way to a rather windy, rainy day especially about noon to 6 00. 50s and 60s on the temperatures. We have this pattern into wednesday. Maybe another system late thursday, friday. The good news after this week, the weekend looks warmer. All right, steve. Get that umbrella out of your car, tc. I know. I have to do that. Its opening day for bay area baseball fans. Giants are about to start new season. So are the as. But will the as play. The new concern at the dead lie landslide at the deadly landslide search area. Why theres risk. A new Senate Report concludes that information obtained from al qaeda suspects using waterboarding and other techniques did not provide key evidence in the hunt for osama bin laden. Former Bush Administration and senior cia officials have cited the evidence leading to bin ladens pakistan compound as proof the interrogation techniques were effective. Some senators have described the techniques as cruel and ineffective. Its not clear yet whether the Senate Intelligence report will be released to the public. The number of People Killed in the landslide in Washington State now stands at 21. Now rescue crews are dealing with the threat of contamination. Four more bodies were found in the debris yesterday. About 30 people remain missing. The u. S. Army has set up a decontamination station where everyone from crews to search das are search dogs are being hosed down. Were worried about tetanus, contamination. The last thing we want to do is take any of these contaminants of here and take them to our families. Washingtons governor says crews will be in active rescue mode as long as there is the possibility of finding survivors. Samsung and apple they are headed back to a San Jose Court in a new legal battle. Jury selection will start this morning in apples Patent Infringement case against the South Korean Electronics giant. An. Claims samsung infringed on five patents. Samsung is saying apple is stifling competition. A patent protection case worth millions of dollars heads before the high court today. Were live in washington, d. C. With the possible impact to Silicon Valley. Reporter were live in San Francisco. In about an hour, leland yee expected back in federal court. Well tell you whats expected to happen and the San Francisco politician thats urging yee to step down. We had a stalled vehicle on the san mateo bridge. Now you are wonder what is it doing to traffic . Theyve cleared the stall, things are improving. There will be a bigger delay. Weve made it through the commute. Rain is starting in the north and its going to pick up in intensity. Evening commute, might want to leave early, it could be really tough. Is. Well, good morning. About 8 30. Theres David Stevenson from ktvu right there. Senator leland yee could be gearing up for a lock, league battle. Hes expected to appear in court in about an hour from now. Now, brian flores is also there live this morning. Brian will be back with us in just a minute telling us what to telling us what could happen in court. Im dave clark. A lot it to tell you about a lot to tell you about. Reports of a little bit of rain sonoma, glen ellen, oakmont, two reports, joe one, bruce another one. Kentwood. There you go. And petaluma. If you want to take the dogs out for a walk, go now. Go. If you are south, you are all right. But north things are beginning to pick up. The rain will start to increase in intensity here. This is a very strong front already up into mendocino county, lake county things are beginning to show as far as the radar picking up in intensity. Not everything. Very light rain in petaluma. You can see the line and over parts of the city there is a little bit of blue sky. I dont think it will last much longer. 40s and 50s on the temperatures. Southsoutheast. I expect gusts 30, 40 miles an hour. Maybe stronger in the Higher Elevations. Front first that comes in late morning, early afternoon maybe into the evening. There might be a little bit of a break but then the dynamic cold core possible thunderstorm low begins to inch closer. That will give us a wide variety of weather on tuesday into wednesday. Cloudy with rain. Could be some thunderstorms today. A few lightning strikes reported off the coast already. 50s and low 60s. Heres sal. All right, steve. Were looking at a commute that is not all that bad because its a state holiday today. It was certainly crowded. It wasnt like the king holiday where almost everybody has the day off. But cesar chavez, state employees have the day off. Traffic better for it as you come up to the macarthur maze. Still a delay of 20 minutes or drive time of 25 gets into San Francisco. I tell you where getting into San Francisco. I tell you where weve seen a lot of traffic thats lighter is the south bay. But first, the san mateo bridge. We had a stalled vehicle out there. The traffic is not doing well. You might want to think about using the dumbarton or bay bridge. The traffic is at a standstill. Lets take a look at san jose. 85 is a dream come true today compared to what it normally is. So is 280 and 101. Were seeing a little bit of an effect of the cesar chavez holiday. 8 32. Back to the desk. Want to show you this, new this morning, dramatic video a car fire in martinez. Got this about two hours ago into our newsroom. This is pretty fierce. This fire first reported about 6 00 this morning in the parking lot of the Walmart Store on arnold drive. Firefighters were busy. You can see how big the flames are. We did just check in with martinez police. They tell us two cars were badly damaged. They think the fire was the result of an accident and was not deliberately set. Well tell you posted on the details. Happening today state senator leland yee begins what could be a very long court battle. Ktvus brian flores is in San Francisco now to tell us about the latest San Francisco politician saying yee should resign. Good morning, brian. Reporter good morning. We understand that the state senator has left his sunset district home this morning. He should be here at the federal courthouse momentarily. Several news crews waiting to speak with senator yee before he heads into court this morning. Yee faces seven counts, charged with exchanging political favors and a conspiracy to traffic firearms. According to law experts he has an uphill battle ahead. Hes expected to plead not guilty today as his attorney mentioned days ago. Well see what happens days ago. The 65yearold senator has remained quiet. Weve been waiting to get direct comment from him at his home but he has not stepped out besides moments ago. On friday, yees fellow state senators voted to suspend yee from the senate he withdrew his name to be secretary of state. Mayor ed lee is also calling for him to resign. It seems more and more and i have to agree and join the governor and senator feinstein and others that he should make that independent determination to resign. Its one that i think puts the Public Interests in mind first. Reporter yee was arrested with 19 others during predawn raids. Mock those and due in court expected tomorrow is Raymond Shrimp Boy Chow, the convicted felon. Yee remains free on 500,000 unsecured bond. As we take it back out here live, if it does go to trial, legal experts say that yee could argue there was entrapped by undercover fbi investigators ms we understand there will be talk on providing security detail during these court hearings. That hearing begins at 9 30. Well be here for that and give you another live report for the news at noon. Were live here, brian flores, ktvu channel 2 news. The federal investigation that led to the corruption charges against senator leland yee started back in 2006 with the killing of San Francisco businessman allen leung. At the time, leung was head of the San Franciscobased ghee kung tong. He was replaced as leader by Raymond Shrimp Boy Chow an ex convict. Many people believe that chow is responsible for leung eight death but officially, the killing is still unsolved. In oakland, police are investigating the citys latest homicide. It happened overnight about 12 15 near interstate 580 and 14th avenue. Police say a 17yearold boy and a 22yearold man were shot. Both were rushed to the hospital but the 17yearold later died from his woundses. Police are not sure if the shooting hammed on the street or on the offramp. If you have any information call Oakland Police. 8 36. A Memorial Service began will begin today for the u. S. Marine killed in the a suspected drunk driving crash in fremont. Family members, friends and fellow marines are planning memorials all across the bay area for 23yearold andrew silva. They start with this mornings mass at st. Vincents church in san rafael. There is a growing street memorial at the site of last weeks deadly crash at fremont boulevard and decoto road. The young marine just returned home from a tour of duty in afghanistan when he was killed. 8 37. Governor jerry brown is coming here to the bay area today to deliver a keynote address at a meeting of environmental leaders. Governor brown is due to speak at 10 45 this morning at the Environmental Council of the states meeting in sausalito. The organization is made up of leaders of state environmental agencies. This govern, the group is this afternoon, the group is offering a tour of muir woods. Corns of Water Conservation are concerns of Water Conservation are still high. One lawmaker is tackling it headon by trading in his lawn for a native garden. Hes lived there 45 years. In that time, hes survived four droughts. He said its this latest crisis that ushed hill to get rid of his that pushed him to get rid of his lawn. So he invited a woman to hold a workshop on his property. Native plant gardens require maintenance and less the water than a lawn does and require no pesticide. It took the group of volunteers less than a day to get rid of the lawn and replace it with mulch and native plants. Johnson is eligible for a rebate from east bay m. U. D. For the conversion. Napa county could soon be spending 3. 2 million in flood effort. The board will meet to give their final approval on the distribution of funds. The money would pay for the last phase of the rutherford reach restoration project and give 500,000 to two recycled pipeline projects. The funding would come out of measure a, a halfcent sales tax measure that voters approved in 1998. A fight playing out in the u. S. Supreme court could impact California Jobs and customers who count on apps. Attorneys for bay Area Companies just wrapped up their arguments on who should have the right to patent applications. Ktvus Kyla Campbell is live in washington to explain what Silicon Valley leaders argued last hour. Reporter this is part of the 46page brief i obtained for attorneys for google, facebook and netflix among oh. They say too many people are getting pattons and its impairing operations patents and its impairing operations. The other side, including ibm, says pattons protect patents protect u. S. Companies. Both sides argue jobs are a risk. Nearly 3 million americans work for 100,000 software and Information Technology companies nationwide. We stopped by the Supreme Court this morning ahead of the arguments not much of a crowd compared to other controversial cases. Were working to talk with attorneys involved in this case and well have updates throughout the day starting at noon. Live in washington, Kyla Campbell, ktvu channel 2 news. 8 40. An interesting way to look at this. An iphone user was burned at both ends. Been there for a week and probably have to go in for my fourth operation tomorrow. The reason this man trying to save a couple of bucks on a new phone charger is having his fourth surgery. Reporter were live in oakland where a car crashes right through the middle of a popular bar. Well tell you how it got there and what clues police have to go on with their search for the driver. Good morning. We are still looking at traffic thats busy as you come out towards the macarthur maze. But there have been some improvement. Well tell well tell you what they are coming up. The rain has started for some in the north. It will take a while. The system has a lot going for it in the form of rain and maybe even thunderstorms. Welcome back. Lets bring you up to date on some of the top stories today is the deadline to sign up for Health Insurance under the Affordable Care act. People who start the process by midnight will have two weeks to finish it. You can enroll. Workshops are being held around the bay area. You can get information on where they are being held on ktvu. Com. Look under hot topics. State senator leland yee is due to you a peer in court appear in court. We understand hes on his way to the courthouse in San Francisco right now. He may enter a plea this morning to the corruption charges against him. Now, yee was arrested on wednesday charged with accepting payment for Political Considerations and conspiracy to traffic in firearms. Also new this morning, Oakland Police are investigating a hitandrun crash. This one destroyed a downtown bar. It happened shortly after 3 00 this morning at 17th and telegraph. Ktvus Tara Moriarty has been there since 4 30 this morning. You are back now. Whats going on out there. Whats the latest, tara. Reporter well, you know, its funny, dave, whenever our viewers our viewers tweeted this window has been broken before from an accident or protesters. That huge plate glass window has been destroyed. Police towed the suspects car away already. We know that investigators are processing the vehicle for evidence because there were bloody handprints all over the car. They are also running license plates. Police say locks were not tampered with. So they believe the car was not stolen. Luckily no one was inside the car when the crash happened. It closed at midnight. Around 3 00 a. M. , police say a car filled with five people heading westbound on telegraph avenue man through a red light smashed through a car and intersection headed southbound on 17th. The driver of the victims car was not seriously hurt. The car ended up inside of the car. The five suspects ran away from the scene of the crash. Witnesses described them as two africanamerican males and three africanamerican females. The bar owner says it will cost will billion 4,000 to repair the about 40,000 to repair. Shes asked the city to put up concrete barriers before because this is a dangerous intersection but she said shes been unsuccessful and will push for traffic reconfigurations to make the intersection safer. Many businesses have surveillance cameras. Were hoping to get footage. Tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. The bay area is getting ready for baseball but even with the new season, oakland is still facing some old problems. Ktvus pam cook is in the studio now with whats happening at the coliseum. Good morning. Well, tonight is the home opener for the as but some water could get in the way. Rain and sewage. First, the rain. As steve has been saying were expecting a pretty big storm. Coliseum crews worked on the stadium opening to keep everything from flooding. Tonights game could be delayed or canceled. First pitch set for 7 05 for the as game against the indians. Gray is the starting pitcher. Over the weekend, the rain caused flooding in the coaches room. Video was captured of the water backing up in the clubhouse, the coaches room, that area has had problems in the past with flooding and sewage. Tonight, im sure a lot of loyal as fans will brave the weather and head out there. The first 32,000 fans actually receive a gold rally towel. Hopefully, the rain will allow them to play. Tori and dave . All right. 8 48. Lets check in with sal. Whats happening on the roads . How is the east shore . East shore has approved. Cesar chavez day today. You can see how well the eastshore freeway is doing. Were looking at the bay bridge toll plaza, were gonna look at it. Traffic is improving. Its still about a 15, 20 minute delay. I want to thank alana mcconey. She showed us the last time she caught the theresary the oscar theres the Oscar Mayer Wiener mobile. There it is. Isnt that cool . Twitter is useful, folks. Lets go back to steve. Good one, sal. I like that. Thank you, sir. British racing green on the hills. Cant beat that. We get more on the way, rain. To the south, it will take a while. To the north, its picking u we have the associated low coming in or the trough. I promise i wont quiz you. 5 to 2 inches of rain. 30, 40mileanhour gusts. Snow level tomorrow really coming down. The low every forecast model tracks it right over us. Its been a long time since weve had that happen. A front a strong front followed by the low. That will give us a lot of variety. Wind, more likely tomorrow and then very low snow levels. This will be a very good snow producer for the sierra as well. Yes, we need it. Lets keep it going. Next week wont be that bad. Following the week of april looks wet again. The rain is beginning to intensify to the north. Not too bad yet. Been a cold steady rain. Pick ng up, lets up a little bit. Mendocino county,lake county. Parts of sonoma, not too many reports coming in from marinette but i marin yet. But i bet that picks up. 40s and 50s on the temperatures. Not traveling far. Some areas will not get out of the 50s today or tomorrow. Theres the front and then we have the rest coming in late tonight and tomorrow. Theres rain on the way. Off and on, maybe early wednesday morning. Some of the rainfall projections will approach an inch to 2 especially some of the wetter locations. I think things are very active. Today tomorrow into the winter today into tomorrow, the winter storm warning starts. Look at the low. That if it was going south or something it wouldnt be a big deal. But its going right over us. That will make for a lot going on here. 50s and low 60s. Again, temperatures next couple of days will be well below average. In fact, well take that into early wednesday and then theres another system thursday. It does not look that strong. Everything says sunshine and warmer temperatures by your weekend. Thank you, steve. Nine minutes before 9 00. Getting baked from a baked good favorite. New item on vancouver pizza menu thats striking some controversy. Welcome back. New this morning on this cesar chavez day, hundreds of people are gathering now in San Francisco for a fundraising breakfast. Want to show you new video. We just got it in. The cesar chavez breakfast this morning at the Mission Language and vocational school. Organizers say there is a lot of interest in cesar chavez, especially this year with a new movie out on his life. People truly coming to understand that hes not just a mexicanamerican, not just someone who was working towards workers rights and farm workers rights. He was someone who was a true american hero. Funds raised go towards the annual cesar chavez parade in the mission district. Its scheduled this week for april 12th. 8 54. An east bay firefighter is headed to boston to honor the lives of two boston firefighters killed in the line of duty. Jason conner, a Contra Costa County fire engineer left this morning and will hold a flag representing bay area firefighters to honor a firefighter who died fighting a ninealarm fire. In 2007, boston firefighters came here to honor two contra costa firefighters who died in 5 fire in san pablo. Im gonna go out there and represent us and pay it back and show the firefighters of boston and the family members of the firefighters killed in the line of duty our support. One of the boston firefighters will be laid to rest on wednesday. The other funeral is scheduled for thursday. A man from minnesota, his iphone charger landed him in the hospital for a week. Tim says he needed a new charger for his iphone. He went on ebay. Knockoff chargers on ebay can be found for a fraction of the cost. He said he was reaching for the charger when the charger exploded in his hands. So far hes had three surgeries. Hes been in the hospital for more than a week. One pizza parlor in canada is offering its customers a very special topping. It has added a pot pizza to the men ual. But not everyone can get it. Those ordering it must be at least 18 years old and have had medical marijuana legally prescribed by a doctor and pot pizza is not cheap. The special murn topping cost an extra the special marijuana topping cost an extra 10. Lets bring sal back. You are watching the toll plaza and everything else. Yeah. We talked about cesar chavez. I think the traffic is lighter because its a state holiday. Some state workers are not going. Still backed up for a 20minute drive time into San Francisco. We look at the commute here on 880. Thats cleared up. Is at a lot of the state workers work in Oakland Court and thats the crowd that usually is here. Its not there today. And this mornings commute on westbound 580 also looks better than normal. Lets go to steve. Thank you, sal. A lot of cloud cover increasing. Some rain to the north, especially Sonoma County up to well, lake county and mendocino county, but it will be here for everyone. Rain today, then thunderstorms likely tuesday into wednesday. One more system late thursday friday. It sounds like a bad boy. Its a big system. Later today. And its nice were getting a little bit of a break between the rain. Rain saturday. A long way to go. Were not 50 of normal. This is helping. Yeah, it is. Thank you. Thats our report for this morning. We thank you for making ktvu your choice for news. Be sure to watch the news at noon for more on leland yees court appearance. Hes scheduled to go before a judge in 30 minutes. Were always here for you at ktvu. Com as well pass twitter and facebook as well as twitter and facebook. Thank you for joining us. Hey, everybody, im beth troutman. Its a new week. How about brandnew videos right this minute. Its a joy ride so jarring you cant count the whoas. Whoa. Whoa. 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