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Bundle up. 71 for Mountain View today. Likes a nice day. Temperatures a little bit above average. Hard pressed to find a cloud unless up at Crescent City or points north. 41 napa airport. 41 santa rosa. Low 40s. A few upper 30s woodside, boulder creek, and scots valley. Close for sebastopol and calistoga. Severe, clear, sunny for all. Warmer. Cold lows. Chilly. Warm up pretty quick. Upper 60s to a few low and mid 70s. He is back, he is with ready, and what kind of information . Come good and bad. Okay. The good news, steve and everyone, is that if you notice it just a little bit lighter than usual, its because its spring break for some schools, and that means the traffic is a little lighter as those students are not going to school. They are going somewhere else. Maybe they are in florida or whatever. All right. Lets take a look at what we have at the bay bridge toll plaza. You will see the traffic is backed up for a 15minute delay. No major problems driving into the city. Also looking at the commute here on interstate 880 in both directions. Traffic is moving well. Starts to get a little bit slow towards fremont, but its not all that bad. I want to show you a live picture of San Francisco. Southbound lake merced, as you come around the corner near clearfield drive, this is a couple of blocks away from Lowell High School and some of the other schools there. A car went off the road. All you can see is the tire tracks, but there is a car in the marshy area. A couple of Police Officers there. Apparently, they did not find anyone in the car. The Fire Department left. That car is still there and they need a tow truck to get it out. The tow truck we were showing is not big enough. They need more cable. Just a bigger truck. That Ford Super Duty onetonto truck is not going to do it. They are going to bring in another one. A developing story in berkeley where an Early Morning shooting left two people in critical condition. An update from police. Reporter gasia, good morning to you. We got an update from a Berkeley Police sergeant and he told us this was not random shooting that happened overnight in this residential neighborhood. What remains unclear though is why this man and woman were targeted. The streets are still blocked off with crime scene tape. Investigators are continuing to gather evidence here in this South Berkeley neighborhood as they try to identify the shooter who was involved here. Now, take a look at the scene. This was just about 1 00 this morning. Police got calls about gunfire from a number of people who live nearby. When officers got here, thats when they found those two victims. This is on tremont street near prince street. Its just about a block away from the ashby bart station. The man and woman were apparently sitting in a white car you see there in the video. They were both shot. Both have lifethreatening injuries this morning. Police cant say much about the victims, how old they are or where theyre from. This overnight shooting happened hours after there was another shooting in a different part of town on the northside of berkeley near san pablo avenue that left a man wounded. We talked with the sergeant this morning who says that neighbors in this area should not be concerned about their safety. It does not appear to have been a random incident. This is our seventh shooting for the year. Not counting yesterdays. No homicides this year. One last year. Berkeley is still a very safe place to live. Again, our thoughts go out to the family of the victims from both yesterday and todays shootings. Reporter and the sergeant also did tell us that it does not appear as though that shooting in the during the day yesterday along san pablo near delaware street has any connection to this shooting that happened overnight here near the ashby bart station. We are still waiting to find out if police have any more information on the shooter they are searching for. They are not put out any description thus far what the shooter may look like or what their getaway car may look like. We will look for more information through the morning. Gasia, i am told that tremont street near prince street close to the ashby smart station should remain shut down for several more hours through the morning as they continue this investigation. Thank you. All right. Time is 7 05. An uber driver was arrested after leading the chp on a chase where speeds hit 100 miles an hour. Now, the police tried to pull over the driver. 37yearold idrs zalmi9 p. M. Monday an east interstate 880. Instead of stopping, he stepped on the gas and took off. Eventually he headed south on interstate 880. Police put down spike strips near the high street exit. They had to use a taser on him. Uber says it suspended his uber account and that they are working closely with investigators. 7 06. The Political Landscape has changed in the wake of yesterdays primaries. Hillary clinton and donald trump have picked up more delegates. Marco rubio is out. Doug luzader reports from washington on whats next. Reporter these were the states in play yesterday, and for democrats good night for Hillary Clinton for picked up at least four states. The jury is still out in missouri. But she may wind up running the table on Bernie Sanders. For republicans, its a much more complicated picture. Donald trump picked up florida, north carolina, and illinois. He was blocked in ohio. Ohio Governor John Kasich breathing a big sigh of relief and for good reason. He delivered his win or take all home state. We will beat Hillary Clinton, and i will become the president of the United States. Reporter big talk, but this is kasichs first and only win so far. Still it makes it much more difficult for trump to win the nomination outright, making a contested convention this summer even more likely. Still trump appearing in florida last night to claim some big wins. Especially in that state. To win by that kind of a number is incredible. Reporter the casualty, florida senator marco rubio, despite pledges to keep running no matter what, has suspended his campaign after a trump trouncing in his home state. The fact that i have even come this far is evidence of how special america is. Reporter delegatewise, ted cruz is in second place and he is hoping for effectively a twoman race with trump. Hillary clinton went a long way to locking down the democratic nomination and made a competent private attacking republicans. Our commander in chief has to be able to defend our country. Not embarrass it. [cheers and applause]. Reporter but Bernie Sanders, who has been a persistent thorn in clintons side, says not to count him out. He is already looking ahead to arizona next week. We will win if the voter turnout is high. Lets make it high. Thank you all very much. [cheers and applause]. Reporter and Bernie Sanders in particular looking for high turnouts from young voters who continue to support him in big numbers, and that continues to be a weak spot for Hillary Clinton. In washington, doug luzader, fox news. A group of prominent conservative republicans reportedly plan to meet behind closed doors in washington tomorrow to talk about ways to stop donald trump. The group is said to be looking at a contested convention if trump is not able to win the delegates he needs to take the nomination outright. They may consider rallying around a third party candidate. Governor brown said monday if donald trump is elected president , california might have to build a wall to, quote, defend ourselves from the rest of this country. Sacramento bee reports brown followed that up by saying his remarks were a joke. He said we dont like walls. We like bridges. He said that california needs new workers to help drive economic growth. 7 09. In less than an hour president obama will announce his nominee for the u. S. Supreme court. He will do that at 8 00 our time. Reportedly, he may nominate judge s i srinivasan, paul watford, or america garland. Reports say he will nominate Merrick Garland. They will not hold confirmation hearings, the senate says, and says the next president should nominate someone. Brian flores has been looking into the backgrounds ever the three potential nominees. Brian will be back in the studio with us at 7 30 to tell us about the bay area connections of two of those possible judges. See him in a few. 7 10. Somber anniversary of the family of sierra lamar. Four years since she disappeared. In the next half hour, how the parents are remembering her and what they have to say about the criminal case. Plus, it happened again. There has been another shooting on interstate 80. The ninth one since november. Up next, what the police say happened. Good morning. We are looking at a commute in San Francisco that doesnt look too bad. Looks like there is a little bit of slowing on southbound 101. We will tell you more about the commute getting into the city coming up. Lots of sunshine here. Nice today. Temperatures warming up. Above average . Yes. We will show you how much. Welcome back to mornings on 2. 7 13. The chp investigating yet another shooting on interstate 80. It happened last night in pinole about 5 45. The chp says a woman was driving on interstate 80. Someone drove up next to her, pointed a gun at her, and then fired several rounds. No one was hurt. This is the latest in a string of freeway shootings along interstate 80 since november. There have been eight similar incidents between pinole and berkeley. Two were deadly. Richmond police said the shootings are between feuding gang members from richmond. Well, police havent said whether these shootings are linked to an attack against a party bus that is coming off the bay bridge last weekend. Investigators say two men drove up, opened fire as that bus was going from San Francisco to the east bay. Four people were hurt. The bus driver was able to pull into oakland and get some help from chp officers. Time is 7 14. A San Francisco nightclub where an apple analyst was recently stabbed to death is temporarily shut down. The cellar on sutter street voluntarily surrendered their liquor and entertainment permits. Joseph roz a was stabbed by a mob outside the door. He mobbed. Police arrested a 22yearold San Francisco man in connection with roz os death. Police say the temporary closure will make for a safer environment. 7 14. Police in vacaville want the publics help. They want to find whoever is causing thousands of dollars in damage to dozens of cars. Now, police say someone shot out the windows of at least 48 cars since friday night. They say there are probably two people involved. One person driving. The other using a bbgun as they go by. Most of the cases have happened on the south side of town. One victim says he taped his window together until he could get it repaired. It comes with a bill for 600. We go out and try to earning a living. We dont expect our stuff to get vandalized. Police say the best way to avoid becoming a victim put your car inside a garage until the vandals ever captured. Also people who have surveillance videos, check the video. It may be used as evidence. And police in nearby fairfield, they are looking for any connections between the vacaville vandalism and similar cases in their city. A county in the northside continues to be the healthiest in california. Marin county ranks number one for the seventh year in a row. The list comes from the Robert Wood Johnson foundation and the university of wisconsin. Factors that influence the list include length and quality of life as well as access to healthcare. There is another list out this morning of the happiest countries in the world, and denmark topped that list followed by switzerland, iceland, norway, finland and canada. The United States came in at number 13. Way down. Down at the bottom of the list, syria. The report is prepared by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network andert institute at columbia university. It looks at factors such as Life Expectancy and freedom from corruption in government and business. I am happy to say sal is back from his vacation. I am bringing that average up. I am happy. First day back from vacation. Of course, you are. True. I am back. I am feeling tan and rest the. Good morning. Lets take a look at what we have. My tie is not straight though. I havent wore one for a week. This is a look at the bay bridge. Slow traffic even in the carpool lane, which leads me to believe maybe there is something happening on the bridge. I am looking as i am speaking to you. I am looking at chps list on my computer screen just to see if there is anything that popped up on the bridge. I dont see anything. We will keep looking to see if there is something going on. This is a look at the san mateo bridge. This is just moderate traffic out to the highrise. It is busy though. I want to look at the nimitz freeway. Southbound 880 slows after 238. Hit and miss to fremont. And 580 is moderate. We dont have any problems on 680 between concord and danville, but there is slow traffic for most of that way. And 24 slow through lafayette. 7 17. Lets bring steve in here. We do have mostly clear skies. Cold for some this morning. A couple high clouds. We are panning right. Is this kevin pender again . He is on a roll. Very nice, kevin. Looking good. Lots of sunshine. Temperatures will be above average. Average about 6268. Most locations around 68 to 74 degrees today. Kerrie brown says you are super cheery this morning [ applause ] thank you. Happy to be a spark in the start of my day. Happy wednesday to the morning crew. Thank you. John says i need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle. You forgot to say please. This dovetails. What some of you are thinking. The rain, ill be back, but not until sunday. Sunday night, monday. [ applause ] until then, enjoy the sunshine. Thursday, friday warmer. Next rain sunday into monday. See how everything is dropping out of the northnorthwest and that is pushing everything even well into the Pacific Northwest and thats not much. Few high clouds if you are watching in Crescent City. Eureka, arcata, mount shasta. Low 40s for me. Livermores in there. Palo alto, napa a few low 50s. There you go. Walnut creek checked in with a 39. Its close for alamo. 42 lafayette. 41 danville. Black hawk 43. 47 pittsburg. 21 truckee. 34 up in reno with 55 in las vegas and 39 in ukiah and 37 at cobb. I think i just got that from jim. I think 37 cobb mountain. There are a few 30s even in the santa cruz mountains. Upper 30s. We will rebound with temperatures upper 60s. High pressures here through at least friday. Problem all saturday as well. Chilly lows but 60s and 70s as the warming continues. Yesterday was about where we should be this time of year. But this today and probably into friday well be above. Not record setting above. So 60s and 70s here. 72 in danville. San ramon, pleasanton 73. Berkeley 68. Downtown oakland at 70. 75 gilroy. Probably the leader of the pack on the high side. Santa clara 73. 66 half moon bay. 73 woodside. 73 in menlo park. And temperatures warming up. Thursday nice. Clouds saturday. Clouded up sunday rain that night into the north bay. These afternoons are wonderful. They are nice now. This is perfect weather. Just one guy talking. But today is my in the comfort zone. Good. Right there. 7275. Perfect. Thank you, steve. Time is 7 20. Immigration battle connected to the Santa Barbara shooting. In 15 minutes, the new revelation about a friend of the shooters. What started as an adventurous camping trip, the bay area couple after being trapped in snow up to their chest. I just picked us up 2 breakfast croissants for 4, when this bear attacked. With one swipe, it devoured one of the croissants. Then jack showed up, and took care of the beast, so i could escape. And thats what happened to your breakfast croissant. And yours . It survived. Enjoy freshly cracked egg with ham and bacon. Or sausage. Two tasty croissants at an even tastier 4 price. Its a deal youll devour. Police need your help who exposed himself to a 13year old girl. The suspect is described as a white man between 25 and 30 years old with a skinny build and black wavy hair to his neck. Police say the girl was walking her dog near melville avenue when the man exposed himself. If you have any information, you are asked to call police. Time is now 7 23. A san jose couple has quite the story about their plans for a short camping trip in the sierra, but they needed to be rescued. Eli nunez and Patricia Rodriguez had enough food and clothing for a week, even though they planned to be there for a couple of days. After they saw how much snow fell overnight, they decided to go home on sunday. But high winds, zero visibility and tons of snow made that impossible. Eli is an experienced camper, but for patricia, this was a new experience. I trusted him. After the second day when i seen the snow up to his chest when he was walking, i was like, um, call search and rescue. He was like not yet, not yet. Well, when they did decide to call 911 they told dispatchers their proximate location. A chp helicopter found them in five minutes. The snow was so deep, it took the helicopter three attempts just to land. Rescue crews say the couple did the right thing to call for help when they did. Today San Francisco supervisors will discuss ways to help businesses that lost money during the super bowl. Legislation by super bowl advisor peskin where create an impact fund for Small Businesses hurt by the shut down for businesses shut down during the super bowl. It would provide Housing Options for the homeless. Support behind dog owners fighting a proposal to reduce the areas within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area where dogs are allowed. They voted 101 in fave of a resolution opposing plans by the National Park service to reduce dog access in park areas. Those include ocean beach, baker beach and further funkston. People who oppose the restrictions say the changes would increase the pressure on city parks as more and more dog owners use those sites for recreation. 7 25. Controversy sure heats up in oakland city hall. The problem that had tempers flaring so much so Council Members moved their meeting. The city of san jose, how do they regulate medical marijuana dispensaries. People are invited to speak out at a Public Meeting at city hall tonight. Good morning. We are looking at a commute where traffic is getting busier on some of the key commutes, including the Richmond San Rafael bridge approach. You will see slow traffic up to that toll plaza. A little cold here this morning. 30s, 40s. We will end up with a lot of upper 60s and 70s. Looks like a warmer day, but will this continue into the weekend . We will take a look. Good morning. We are live by lake merced in San Francisco. This is where a car went into the water there. We have been watching the situation for you. Sal castaneda especially. He is going to be in in just a minute to talk about whats slowing down efforts to get the car out of the water and how that is impacting the area. Cars moving by at this point. The road flares set up. Keep that in mind if you make your way through San Francisco in the morning hours. I am gasia mikaelian. I am dave clark. Lets check your weather. Steve paulson, hows it look . Looks good. Temperatures will be warming up above average here. We are three days away officially from the start of spring. It may feel like it this afternoon. Little brisk this morning. No doubt about it. A few upper 30s, upper 40s. Upper 40s, 50s, wont take long to warm up. Kathy better known as the napa valley chick on twitter looking forward to a gorgeous day. Might drive the convertible to work today. Why not . It will be sunny. It will be nice. San francisco 68. 50. The forecast high low. Average 6249. 85 40 the record highlow. 40s to 50s. Low 40s. A few upper 30s. Woodside in there. Clears menlo park, palo alto, los altos. The weather in atherton is dark. Thank you, dan. Appreciate the update. High clouds in the north. Way to the north. Sunny for all. Warmer. Temperatures starting off cool. They will be above. The warming continues into tomorrow as well. Few 60s but a lot of low 70s. Sal, 7 30. You got busy all of a sudden . Steve, thank you very much. Lets take a look at what we have now. You will see that traffic is going to be busy. I do want to mention that we do have some things to talk about, including a problem on the or the Richmond Bridge approach here. You will see slow traffic, i would say. I wouldnt call it a problem. Its the slow traffic that you see every day as you come through this area. Traffic going to be just moderate. No major problems. Also looking at the san mateo bridge. The traffic is going to be okay heading out to the peninsula. Slow traffic nearby on 880. In San Francisco we have the big tow truck arriving to pull this car out of the water. Look at that tow truck, all right . That one is significantly bigger than the ford truck that we had there. The tow truck that tried to get this car out of the water. Early this morning the car was discovered near lake merced. It is down there. They have to fish it out. And they have one lane of southbound lake merced closed near clearfield. So if you are driving in the area towards San Francisco state and Lowell High School, you will be down to one lane. Again here comes a much bigger tow truck to get this car out of the water. 7 32. There it is. Back to the desk. Thank you. In 30 minutes from right now, president obama is expected to announce his nominee for the u. S. Supreme court. Ktvus brian flores here in the studio now to tell us about the connections, brian, of the potential nominees, what they have to the bay area and one name now being reported as the choice of the president. Reporter yeah, that news came down 15 minutes ago, dave. We will talk about that in a moment. Its reported there are three leading nominees on the list. Two have ties to the bay area. But with republicans vowing to block any hearing on a Supreme Court justice replacement, the question is, will the candidates or nominees be appealing enough for both parties . One nominee being considered is sri srinivasan. He currently serves as a u. S. Court of appeals judge. Born in india. Raise inside kansas. He was appointed by president obama in 2013. He has a bachelors law degree and mba from stanford. His father was a full bright scholar at uc berkeley. Paul watford is on the u. S. Court of appeals in San Francisco. He would be the third africanamerican to sit on the high court. He has degrees from uc berkeley and ucla law school. According to congressional sources who spoke to the Associated Press, it appears that federal Appeals Court Merrick Garland is likely to be the nominee. He is said to have a mod lit record as judge with a history of getting support from republicans. Garland was educated at harvard university. While the announcement is expected soon, will the republicans even hold confirmation hearings . Thats the question. Mitch mcconnell said he will block a hearing until the next president is elected. Again, we are expecting to hear officially the president s nomination in less than a half an hour from now. We will carry that life and get reaction. Thats my next report at 8 30. Thank you. 7 34. Today marks a painful anniversary for the family of sierra lamar. 15yearold sierra lamar disappeared on her way to school in morgan hills four years ago today. She left her them catch a bus. Police have not found a body. They arrested a man on murder charges based on dna evidence. Sierras father says the family is filled with sorrow, pain, and unanswered questions. Just really, really kills me, you know, that all the things shes she havent known the family hasnt seen her go through, Like High School graduation, college. Sierras family says they have pleaded with Garcia Torres to Say Something that would lead investigators to sierra. So far he has not said anything. His trial is set to begin next month. A San Francisco federal Appeals Court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by kidnapping victim jaycee dugard. She accused federal parole officers of failing to properly supervise Phillip Garrido in the years before she was abducted. In 1991, he and his wife abducted jaycee dugard. She was held for 18 years. She was sexually abused and gave birth to two daughters. The Appeals Court ruled she cannot sue over what parole officers did or did not do in the years before she was kidnapped because she wasnt gored os victim at the time. Time is 7 35. Tonight san jose residents, you have a chance to speak your minds about the future of medical marijuana dispensaries in the city. Ktvu fox 2s allie rasmus live in san jose to tell us whats at stake for the meeting tonight and why the issue is coming up now. Reporter some members of the city council back in december pointed out that the medical Marijuana Industry is changing and state laws may be changing along with it. Especially if california eventually decides to legal Recreational Marijuana use as other states have done in recent years. So the council pointed out it might be a good idea for the city to get out ahead of some of those changes in state laws. Some of the specific issues that are going to be discussed at a medical marijuana stakeholders meeting tonight include rules about how dispensaries grow and manufacture medical pot. Should dispensaries be allowed to grow it in one county and transport it to san jose . Also rules about dispensaries growing medical marijuana in greenhouses. How to regulate the transport and delivery of medical marijuana between the different cultivation and manufacturing sites through the state. San jose mayor sam liccardo spoke to ktvu about this yesterday. He said he doesnt believe the number of dispensaries will grow. Right now san jose has 16 medical marijuana dispensaries. That is a much more manageable number than the over 120 dispensaries we had a couple of years ago. We have got a set of regulations that we think are working based on neighbors that were concerned about redskins being closed to schools and sensitive areas where kids might congregate. Reporter changing the existing rules about where medical marijuana dispensaries can operate, that is not on the agenda tonight. The majority of the items they are taking up have to do with what are we going to do to regulate the industry in the future should some of these changes come down the pike. This Public Meeting, stakeholders meeting scheduled for 6 30 this afternoon, this evening here at San Jose City hall. Back to you. Allie rasmus in san jose. Thank you. Time is 7 37. The Oakland City Council gave approval to selling a prime piece of property near lake merit, but not before protesters forced Council Members to get up and leave the room. Now, the protesters, they dont like the citys plan to build a new tower on east 12th street that includes housing for low and highincome residents. Critics say the whole building should be affordable housing. Last time it came up noisy protests shut down the building. This time the city council was ready to move to a smaller room to finish their room. It wasnt going to be hijacked this evening. We were going to do the business of the city. To sequester themselves and to have Police Officers guarding where they are and not allow the public in is a violation of the law. The city says it piped out audio of that meeting out to the public and recorded it. So anyone can find out what was said. City leaders say the next step in the project working out a Sales Agreement that could be worth about 5 million. After that deal is reached the actual work on the tower project could start as soon as early next year. There is a new revelation seeing the lack of cooperation between federal agencies in the wake of the Santa Barbara mass shooting last year. Administrators in the immigration and Customs Enforcement agency appeared before a Senate Committee yesterday. They acknowledged that one day after the terrorist attack, heavily armed Homeland Security team tried to intercept Enrique Marquez and his russian born wife at citizen ship and immigration office. Marquez is a friend of the Santa Barbara attackers. A worker at the Citizenship Office wouldnt allow the Security Team to enter the building. He wanted to check with his boss first. Do we need to look at our protocols to make sure those misunderstands dont occur . There was never an actual attempt to prevent them from doing a what they needed to do. Marquez and his wife never showed up for the meeting. Critics say the clash between agencies is troubling since marquez is facing charges. Now to the battle between apple and the federal government. Apple filed a brief claiming the Founding Fathers of the u. S. Would be appalled by the governments actions. The apple argued the feds are violating the constitution by trying to broaden the authority of a 227yearold law. They say while the attack was tragic, government expediency should not trample Civil Liberties 7 40. Using technology to prevent attacks. What the military is doing. How officials hope an app prevents military base shootings. Bay area chef facing two lawsuits this morning. The claims by two former employees of Sexual Harassment and labor violations. Good morning. We are looking at a commute here that is still busy. Especially getting into the bay bridge toll plaza. But we do have some things that seem a little bit lighter than usual. We will decipher between the two coming up. All systems go for a nice day. Lots of sunshine and warmer temps. We will see how long this pattern is going to last. Ba da ba ba ba welcome back to mornings on 2. Time is 7 43. A chef who owns upscale restaurants in the bay area is being sued by two former employees for alleged Sexual Harassment and labor violations. The women say michael sherello and his management at coket a in San Francisco made crude comments and memophobic and ethic slurs and also inappropriately touched employees and mimicked sex acts with food. They are also claiming they werent paid for all the hours they worked or paid my overtime, and that time clocks and time sheets were manipulated. The chefs lawyers say he is upette. Trouble for chickfila and the battles and the effects of two big health scares. Wall street is getting surprising news about the companys stock. Pam cook is in the stock with more about the future of chipolte r. Reporter this morning the stock is down 4 . That is after chipoltes filing with the sec stateing that it expects a loss of, for the First Quarter, of a dollar a share. Analysts were expecting a gain of ten cents a share. A huge discrepancy. Chipoltes coming down from 500 a share. Sales at restaurants dropped 26 in february and 36 in january from the previous year. Thats after two outbreaks of e. Coli and separate norovirus outbreaks at its restaurants. Chipolte, based in denver, management says it has implemented many changes since the health scares, including dna testing of ingredients and precooking of some of the meat in central kitchens. The Company Warning investors its going to have to spend money for a federal investigation into its food practices and also marketing to try to get people back into the restaurant. Thats why its really taking a beating this morning. Really is. All right. Thank you. Time is 7 45 now. San francisco is exploring the idea of extending parking meeting hours at night. It was brought up yesterday as a way of raising revenue of course. They plan to study the impacts beyond 6 p. M. And it applies to the busier parts of the city. Also yesterday officials agreed to significantly lower towing fees. That is another revenue loss for the agency. 7 46. Sal is watching our commute. You are watching lake merced and all the other traffic things happening this morning . Thats right. I told you that there was a car that went into lake merced or at least into the marshy portion. We found it early this morning. They tried to get it out using the toe track in the back. Now there is the big tow truck there is the kid mark that the truck left. Firefighters and tow truck operators were on the scene. The Fire Department has left, but the police is there. So are the tow truck operators. So they have arranged for a huge tow truck now come in. This is the same kind of tow truck that toe tows big rigs. Traffic may be a little bit slow. If you are coming off sunset boulevard, it turns into lake merced there, you might see a little bit of a traffic jam. This is a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. It is backed up about for a 15minute delay before you make it to the span. Traffic in Contra Costa County has been slow on highway 4 and 680 as it normally is. A couple of issues on 80 westbound through hercules and richmond and slow traffic on the Richmond Bridge approach over to san rafael. 7 47. Lets go to steve. Thank you, sir. Well, its clear. There might be a few high big clouds. No big deal. Temperatures will be rebounding fast here and we will be in the above average category on the high side. Pretty close on the lows. We will be a little bit above on the highs. Bubba is up in petaluma [ applause ] thank you, bubba. Clear as a bell in petaluma. There is a very irritating bird chirping on the hut keeping me awake. David hood said not too early to say good morning at the benicia bridge. Almanac for san jose 74 46. The low for the anchorage is 6747. Record high 85. Most of the record highs on this day 2004. 30 at 1895. Its High Pressure pattern this week. 40s on these temps or 50s. There are a few 30s. Santa cruz mountains. Lowtomid 40s around san mateo, hillsboro and san carlos. San mateo up to pacifica as well. Up and over she goes. Mine, there is nothing significant in the Pacific Northwest. Sunny for all. It will be warmer. Chilly lows though. 70s for many. The warming continues today and will carry into tomorrow. 60s mere the bay area. Very low 70s. Some lowtomid 70s working inland. Temperatures east bay not a huge spread. Livermore 72. Little warmer Santa Clara Valley. Not much. Morgan hill to gilroy 7475. Santa cruz a beautiful 73. 60s on the coast. Upper 60s, low 70s for most on the peninsula. If you like warmer weather, you will enjoy tomorrow. Spring officially begins saturday night. Evening. 9 30 p. M. You got that, gasia . Wow. Already . Already. Okay. Most people think its the 21st. The 21st rarely happens. Its usually the 19th. Saturday night. I will be asleep. [ laughter ] hopefully not that early. But i know what you mean. Thank you. The governor of texas, greg abbott, he is going to get an upclose look at major flood damage in the southeastern part of texas already declared a disaster area. Rivers overflowed earlier this week. The National Guards out there rescuing people trapped by the high waters. Thousands have been forced out of their homes. River levels in some neighborhoods, they are starting to recede, but it may be weeks before people could go back home. Instagram users may notice a major change soon. Ahead, how its changing up when you see when you log in. Also, san jose Police Officers going beyond the call of duty. Up next, how they are hoping a nineyearold boy who was shot while sleeping in his bed. Theno one surface. Out there. No one speed. No one way of driving on each and every road. But there is one car that can conquer them all. The mercedesbenz cclass. Five driving modes let you customize the steering, shift points, and suspension to fit the mood youre in. And the road youre on. The 2016 cclass. Lease the c300 for 399 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Welcome back to mornings on 2. 7 52. Hundreds of thousands of people who live or work in the washington, d. C. Area, they are looking for a different way to get around today. The d. C. Metro system is closed until tomorrow morning while a safety inspection, the whole system, is taking place. People who usually ride the subway in from maryland or virginia, they are scrambling to find buses or carpools to get where they need to go. The shutdown comes after a subway tunnel fire on monday. D. C. Metro says it was a tough decision to shut down the whole system on a weekday, but they say safety is the priority. A plea this morning for the return of stolen items. They are described as priceless by the victim, though they are probably meaningless to whoever took them. Someone stole a moving van. His mother is asking whoever stole the items to return them. The rental truck was stolen in oaklands rock ridge outside outside a friends home. That friend was driving the van to portland which included a vintage jewelry collection and family photos. My grandmothers picture when she was 21 years old. Its been in my family since the second world war. Her son, 50yearold michael moore, is blind and disabled from diabetes. She estimates 50,000 worth of items were stolen. The truck was recovered last week but ransacked and abandoned in east oakland. Major changes may be coming to the santa clara jail. New recommendations will be presented today. Now, sheriff lori smith wants to beef up the training of personnel and also increase minimum education qualifications for prospective guards. Also, she wants to upgrade background checks by having applicants take two polygraph tests instead of one. A homeless map from San Francisco will be getting a huge reward for helping the Police Capture two escaped inmates. That man, matthew chapman, will get 100,000. The two prisoners broke out of a jail in Southern California and made their way to the bay area back in january. Chapman spotted them in a stolen van near a Whole Foods Market in the haightashbury neighborhood. He pointed them out to the police and both were arrested. Three other people who helped in the capture, they will be splitting 50,000. San jose Police Officers are really going above and beyond the call of duty in helping a young shooting victim now in a wheelchair and cant walk. Nineyearold alexis was sleeping in his apartment when his neighbor fired a gun last october. The bullet went through the floor and hit his legs. Because he loves soccer, police arranged a visit with a player from the san jose earthquakes. He faces a number of surgeries and suffers from ptsd. In a way, somebody took his innocence away, you know . And he is never going to get that back. Detectives have set up a crowd funding page for him. Its boasted at ktvu. Com under web links. Police have arrested the neighbor for that shooting. He is a convicted felon. Police say he should not have had a gun. Yeah. Time is 7 56. In minutes we are expecting president obama to announce his nominee for the u. S. Supreme court. We are live at the white house. We are in the rose garden. You see the podium where the president will be speaking. We are going to go there and hear and talk about some of the hurdles this candidate is already facing. Also, we continue to follow the developing story out of the east bay. Two people critically wounded while sitting inside a car. What Berkeley Police have to say about that Early Morning shooting. San Francisco Police are getting ready to shut down lake merced boulevard southbound as they want to get this tow truck in position. They have to shut down all of traffic do so. Thats going to create a traffic jam. We will tell you more about that coming up. Lots of sunshine today. Temperatures will be warming up. Above average for a couple of days. See if there is any rain in the extended outlook. Good morning. This berkeley neighborhood turned into a crime scene as Police Investigate an Early Morning shooting that left a man and woman critically wounded. We will tell you what investigators are saying about a possible motive. Live in the rose garden of the white house. Any moment now president obama expected to announce his nominee to replace u. S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. We will bring that live to you when it happens. Mornings on 2 continues now. This is ktvu mornings on 2. Good morning. It is wednesday. It is march 16th. I am dave clark. I am gasia mikaelian. Lets start with weather and traffic. Steve paulson is here to talk to us about some dry days ahead. Dry days. It came across. Shasta is 83 of capacity. I mean, thats fantastic. Last year i think it topped out at 59. Wow. So, i mean we still have, you know, rest of march and april and then snow runoff. Its well above historical avenue. Thats good news. If i see something on orville, i will let you know. Shasta 83. Get those party boats and what have you. Fire them up lots of sun today. Nice. Warmer. Mine, tomorrow will be the lowtomid 70s. Next rain late sunday and monday. Santa rosa starting off at 41 degrees. A little chill in the morning air. 74 at 34 00. Thats above average by about seven degrees. High pressure is here for a couple of days. It did, though, after the weekend system, san ramon at 39. Palo alto is close. A few locations had a few 30s. Santa cruz mountains. Gilroy almost there. Scots valley. Boulder creek 39 and 38. Everything points to sunshine and warmer temps today. They will be a little bit above average by the coast and five too six inland. Warming continues tomorrow. Enjoy. 60s and 70s. All right. Sal, 8 01. Lame . We are starting at lake merced in San Francisco. We have a tow truck trying to fish a car out that went in the lake early this morning. The tow truck is there. Lake merced boulevard is going to be shut down soon. Those are the skid marks of the car it left when it went into the lake. They had some trouble getting the tow truck, the original tow truck that showed up was not big enough. Now theyve gotten this tow truck. They are going to have to shut down lake merced southbound near clearfield to get that tow truck into position. Lets go to some of the other commutes here. The bay bridge toll plaza you will see the traffic is moving along okay. No major problems here. Also looking at the commute on 80 westbound. Got a lot of slow traffic here to the macarthur maze. No major problems on 680. Its still backed up from 242 all the way down into danville. We had a couple of issues there. 8 02. Back to the desk. Back to that story sal was telling us about. Crews getting ready to pull a car out of the marsh at lake merced. Witnesses reported seeing a car go off the road at lake merced boulevard near clearfield drive about 5 00 this morning. San francisco fire crews came out, found the car. No one was inside or in the area, but here we are three hours later. The car is still in the water. Crews had to call for a bigger tow truck to get the car out. Thats the bigger tow truck that arrived on the righthand side of your screen. Neighbors say they see drivers speeding in this area all the time. You can go any neighborhood here in the sunset. 60, 70, 80 Miles Per Hour the cars are going. They are going way too fast. I am surprised nobody died here. The southbound lane of lake merced boulevard is closed in the area while crews try to get that car out. Keep that in mind this morning. 8 03. New this morning president obama is just set to announce his nominee for the next Supreme Court justice. The president is about to make the announcement from the white house. Heres what we know so far. A number of unnamed sources already they expect the nominee to be Merrick Garland. 63 years old. He was confirmed to the washington, d. C. Circuit court of appeals in 1997. At that time garland had backing from majority of both parties, including seven current republican senators. Now, remember republicans have been saying almost since Antonin Scalias death they will block anyone the president tries to nominate in this hotly contested election year. It remains to be scene what republicans have to say in direct response to what we expect to be the nomination of Merrick Garland by president obama in just minutes this morning. What we know about mr. Garland, if he is that person, he is a longtime washington, d. C. Lawyer, a jurist. We see right now president obama walking out and i believe that is Merrick Garland by his side. The president about to make an announcement. Good morning. Everybody please have a seat. Of the many powers and responsibilities that the constitution vests in the presidency, few are more consequential than appoint ago Supreme Court justice, particularly one to succeed justice scalia, one of the more influential jurists of our time. The men and women who sit on the Supreme Court are the final arbiters of american law. They safeguard our rights. They ensure that our system is one of laws and not many. They are charged with the essential task of applying principles put to paper more than two centuries ago to some of the most challenging questions of our time. So this is not a responsibility that i take lightly. Its a decision that requires me to set aside shortterm expediency and narrow politics to maintain faith with our founders and perhaps, more importantly, with future generations. And thats why over the past several weeks i have done my best to set up a rigorous and comprehensive process. I have sought the advice of republican and democratic members of congress. We have reached out to every member of the Senate Judiciary committee, to constitutional scholars, to advocacy groups, bar associations representing an array of interests and opinions from all across the spectrum. And today after completing this exhaustive process i have made my decision. I have selected nominee who is widely recognized not only as one of americas sharpest legal minds, but someone who brings to his work a spirit of decency, modesty, integrity, even handedness, and excellence. These qualities and his long commitment to Public Service have earned him the respect and admiration of leaders from both sides of the aisle. He will ultimately bring that same character to bear on the Supreme Court. An institution in which he is uniquely prepared to serve immediately. Today i am nominating chief judge marek brian garland to join the Supreme Court. [ applause ] now, in Law Enforcement circles and in the Legal Community at large, judge garland needs no introduction. But i would like to take a minute to introduce merrick to the American People whom he already so ably serves. He was born and raised in my hometown of chicago. My home state of illinois. His mother volunteered in the community. His father ron a Small Business out of their home. Inheriting that work ethic, merrick became valedictorian of his public high school. He earned a scholarship to harvard, where he graduated psalm suma kum, laude. America graduated magna cum laude from harvard law. He clerked for two of president izeen huhs judicial appointees, first for judge henley friendly, and then for Supreme Court Justice William brennan. Following his clerk ships, merrick joined a highly regarded law firm that focused on litigation and pro bono representation of disadvantaged americans. Within four years, he earned a partnership. The dream of most lawyers. But in 1989, just months after that achievement, merrick made a highly unusual career decision. He walked away from a comfortable and lucrative law practice to return to Public Service. Merrick accepted a lowlevel job as a federal prosecutor in president georgia h. W. Bushs administration. Took a 50 pay cut. Trade inside his elegant Partners Office for a windowless closet that smelled of stale cigarette smoke. This was a time when crime here in washington had reached epidemic proportions and he wanted to help and he quickly made a name for himself going after corrupt politicians and violent criminals. His Sterling Record as a prosecutor led him to the Justice Department where he oversaw some of the most significant prosecutions in the 1990s, including overseeing every aspect of the federal response to the Oklahoma City bombing. In the aftermath of that act of terror, 168 people, many of them small children, were murdered. Merrick had one evening to say goodbye to his own young daughters before he boarded a plane to Oklahoma City and he would remain there for weeks. We are listening live here on ktvu mornings on 2. President obama in the white house rose garden nominating Merrick Garland to be his nominee to the u. S. Supreme court. That is Merrick Garland on the right of your picture here. We will continue to stay on this News Conference in the newsroom and bring you any results. But clearly the headline at this hour, president obama has made public his choice to replace former Supreme Court justis Antonin Scalia weeks after mr. Scalias death. At this point we are waiting to see and hear from republicans what their response might be to Merrick Garland. We keep in mind that when he was confirmed to the d. C. Circuit court in 1997, he was backed by a majority of both parties, including seven current republican senators. It was a week ago republican senator oren hatch said last friday the president could name Merrick Garland, who was a fine man, still waiting for response from republicans on this mornings breaking news. President obamas choice for a nominee to the Supreme Court. More on this of course through the morning. All right. Our time is 8 11. Back at home, still following developing news from berkeley. Two people were shot and critically wounded overnight. They were a man and woman sitting in a car when the shooting happened. Alex savidge is live at the scene with what police are telling you about a motive, alex . Reporter good morning to both of you. Berkeley police cant say exactly why this man and woman were targeted in this Early Morning shooting, but what they will say is that they have evidence to suggest that this was not a random shooting. Investigators are still here at this scene in this South Berkeley neighborhood. Crime scene tape still blocking off the area. You can see a tow truck has just arrived here. In all likelihood, to tow away the car at the center of the investigation. Thats the car the victims were sitting or standing next to when they were shot. Investigators again are working to try to identify the shooter in this case. That person remains at large. Now, heres a video of the scene from earlier this morning. Police got called about gunfire in this neighborhood from quite a few neighbors after 1 a. M. They responded to tremont street near prince street. And this is just about a block away from the ashby bart station. The man and woman who were shot while in or near that car both were taken to the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. And a sergeant talked with us this morning about the investigation. He told us its clear the victims were targeted for some reason. That evidence would come from Eyewitness News accounts. Any information may be from the victims themselves. But at this point it doesnt appear as though the shooting was random. Reporter and i also asked the sergeant if he had any information on these two victims. Told me that he cannot say where these victims are from, how old they are. But again both of them are at the hospitals here in the bay area. Both of them in the east bay, i should say. Both of them have lifethreatening injuries. We have, of course, will work to get more information through the day on their respective conditions. Investigators have not put out any sort of description on the shooter. If they have that information, they have not put it out yet to the public. We will wait and see whether they do that at some point later on today. Again the scene here in this neighborhood is blocked off with tape. It looks as though they are in all likelihood about to tow away and the car and maybe get the streets back open. Police say residents shouldnt be worried. I am sure it is unnerving skiing crime scene tape up in your neighborhood . Reporter right. A number of people were frankly walked through this neighborhood trying to get over to the bart station, which again is just about a block way from here, and having this area blocked off, block their path trying to get to the bart station and many people wondered what was going on. Some people did hear the gunfire. And certainly it was unnerving for them and put them on edge. But the police, you know, want to put it in some context here and thats why they are emphasizing that they dont think this was some sort of a random attack on this man and woman. They believe they were targeted for some reason and they are hoping that puts the public at ease. Alex, thank you. In berkeley, that was the second shooting in berkeley in the past 24 hours. There was one reported at about 11 30 yesterday morning at san pablo avenue and delaware street. Police say a 28yearold man was shot at least once and has lifethreatening injuries. The berkeley s. W. A. T. Team shut down the neighborhood to search for the gunman and people were asked to shelter in place. The shooter remains on the loose this morning. Time is 8 15. Marijuana is going to be a hot topic today in one south bay city. Ahead, what the San Jose City council expected to talk about with the community about the medical Marijuana Industry. And then there were three. Republican candidates, that is. Fewer candidates on the campaign trail this morning. Next who is out and what donald trump is now announcing. Good morning. We are looking at slow traffic in many areas still as you drive on 80. Its beginning to get a little bit better out to the bay bridge toll plaza. Except for a few little bands of high clouds, it will be sunny today. Temperatures will be warming up. Haze off in the distance. I will have an update on your forecast coming up next. 8 18. New this morning, donald trump says he will not take part in mondays fox news republican debate. Trump just told fox and friends he thinks there have been enough debates and wasnt aware there was another one scheduled. The Republican National Committee Says the debate in utah will go on. Voters go to the polls in utah and arizona next tuesday. Another new development from the campaign trail. The Associated Press now reporting the republican and democratic races in missouris primary are so close, the candidates can request a recount. Thats big. Now, doug luzader reports from washington, d. C. More fallout from yesterdays primaries. Reporter these were the states in play yesterday, and for democrats good night for Hillary Clinton who picked up at least four states. The jury is still out in missouri. She may wind up running the table on Bernie Sanders. For republicans, its a much more complicated picture. Donald trump did pick up florida, north carolina, and illinois, but he was blocked in ohio. Ohio Governor John Kasich breathing a big sigh of relief and for good reason. He delivered his winner take all home state and brushed back donald trump. We will beat Hillary Clinton and i will become the president of the United States. Reporter big talk, but this is kasichs first and only win so far. Still, it makes it much more difficult for trump to win the nomination outright, making a contested convention this summer more likely. Still trump appearing in florida last night could claim some big wins. Especially in that state. To win by that kind of a number is incredible. [ applause ] reporter the casualty . Florida senator marco rubio. Despite pledging to keep running no matter what, he suspended his campaign after a trump trounceing in his home state. The fact that i have even come this far is evidence of how special america truly is. Reporter delegatewise, ted cruz remains in second place and he is hoping now for effectively a twoman race with trump. Hillary clinton went a long way to locking down the democratic nomination and made a confident pivot attacking republicans. Our commander in chief has to be able to defend our country. Not embarrass it. [cheers and applause]. Reporter but Bernie Sanders, who has been a persistent thorn in clintons side, says not to count him out. He is already looking ahead head to arizona next week. We will win if the voter turnout is high. Lets make it high. Reporter belmont park in particular looking for high turnouts from young voters who continue to support him in big numbers, and that continues to be a weak spot for Hillary Clinton. On the 9, we will bring in ktvu political reporter ross polumbo. We will focus on president obamas nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. That is coming up on mornings on 2 the 9. A new Smartphone App is aimed at preventing possible attacks at u. S. Army bases. Its called i watch army. The app is meant to prevent shootings like the one you remember in chattanooga, tennessee, last july. Five Service Members were killed. It allows users to submit an anonymous tip to authorities. According to reuters, it will be used at 17 basees in the u. S. Before possibly being rolled out nationwide. 8 22. Lets start with traffic. Sal, its a tricky operation getting that car out of lake merced . Thats right. The car coming out of lake merced has become one of the trouble spots. The tow truck has indeed pulled up to the scene and is put in position. Now, there it is. Thats a live picture. But you will see its hooked up to the car, which is down below. Now you see why they needed a tow truck with so much cable. That cable is pretty long. The tow truck is pretty big. At first they called out a regular sized tow truck. Wouldnt do. Southbound lake merced boulevard is shut down. Its detoured somewhere else. Thats why traffic may be busy on sunset and on sloat trying to get around this problem if you living in the area. Dont be late. Going to s. I. , they dont accept excuses there young men and ladies. The commute westbound is backed up out to the macarthur maze. No major problems once you get onto the bridge. And if you are driving on 680 southbound, you will see that traffic is going to be busy from 242 to danville. Also slow traffic on westbound 580 and northbound 880 coming up into oakland. This is a look at the maps that i was just talking about there. Going out of order, but oakland is slow. 8 23. Back to steve and todays great looking weather. Absolutely, sal. Thank you, sir. We have a nice day on tap. A few high clouds mainly over the north bay. Sunny and warmer today. Temperatures in the upper 30s for a few. A lot of 40s this morning. Then some 50s. It wont take long to warm up. We are looking nice. Brian sumner, i believe this is north star. Good morning, steven. Good morning, brian, i believe, from north star. Nice day in the sierra nevada. The warmest day thursday, friday about the same, and clouds come in on saturday in advance of what looks to be rain maybe late sunday into monday. For Mountain View, 71 for a high today. Lots of sunshine. And temperatures well go down to san jose, also 72 46. Average is 67 47. Record high 85 not that long ago. 30 in 1895. High pressure is here for three days. 40s fon the temps to 50s. We bounced off the morning lows. Cant find anything here for a while. Not until about friday. Then we will show you where the weekend late sunday monday rain coming in. 70s for many. Chilly lows. Temperatures 60s and 70s. Sonoma 72. Walnut creek 73. San leandro 70. 75 gilroy. Warmest spot here. Santa cruz 73. Downtown san jose 72. 68 in the city. 73 redwood city. If you like today, ill like thursday friday. Clouds saturday. Clouds sunday. Thank you. Time 8 25. Illnesses linked to chipolte has hurt the bottom line. What they are telling investors about the future. Mornings on 2 will be right back. Todays the day oh look creepy gloves for my feet. See when i was a kid there was a handle. And a face. This is nice. And does it come in a california king . Getting roid rage. Hemorrhoid. These are the worst, right . Im gonna buy them. Boom. Ill take them. Impulse buy. Ommmmmmmmmmm. American express presents the blue cash everyday card with no annual fee. Its all happening. Cash back on purchases. Here we go backed by the service and security of american express. Taking a peek back at the opening bell this morning, the dow has gained at that point just a 16 point or so lead. The s p is up by the smallest of all fractions. However, the nasdaq is down by almost one half of one percent. Construction of new homes increased last month. Housing starts rose 5. 2 . That pushed it to the highest level in five months. Construction fell in january and february because of Winter Weather across the country, but there could be more bad news ahead. Building permits considered a sign of future Building Activity dropped more than 3 in february. Low energy costs dragged down february consumer prices, but core inflation, which does not include food or energy, inched slightly higher. Most of the increase came from the biggest jump in clothing costs in several years. Inflation up 1 over the past 12 months. Encryption has been a hot topic for the past few weeks, as you well know. Next, what google is revealing about its servers in hopes of keeping hackers at bay. How shoot city of san jose regulate medical marijuana dispensaries. People are invited to give their input at a meeting at city council tonight. Ktvu fox 2 live News Coverage doesnt stop at 6 30. It continues on tv 36. The bay areas only live newscast at 7. 8 31 this wednesday morning. Checking our traffic and weather. We can start by letting that umbrella rattle around in the trunk of the car. Throw it way. Until sunday night monday. Today you dont need it. Looks good today. A few high clouds. Not a big deal. Lots of sunshine. Temperatures on the cool side this morning. 30s 40s. A little haze in the air as well. A little haze there. And temperatures on their way up though. The average is about 6267. We will be above that today. San francisco 68. High pressure though looks like it will stick around to friday. Start to see a breakdown of that on saturday. Clouds roll in sunday. Until then, there were a few 30s this morning. I doubt san ramon still is. A couple in the santa cruz mountains. One on the peninsula woodside and a few in the east bay. Walnut creek and san ramon. High pressure says im here for a couple days. Sunny for all. Warmer conditions. 70s inland. The warmer continues now slightly above average for some. Sal, lake merced . I am going to talk about a couple of the major commutes here that are happening here at the toll plaza first. The bay bridge. You will see that that traffic has become a little bit lighter getting into San Francisco. We are also looking at a commute here that is going to be very slow in the east bay. Look at 880. Look at all the road sensors firing up red from san leandro and 580 is also pretty slow getting up to downtown oakland. 680 as you come down from concord to walnut creek is slow. Steve mentioned lake merced. They have closed southbound lake merced boulevard to get the tow truck into position. They will be pulling out this car that went into the water early this morning. San francisco Truck Company has ride just to make sure that everything stays under control really as a precaution. But they are going to be pulling a car out of the water at lake merced. You can kind of see that the area, kind of a steep area down there. People are watching. Again, southbound lake merced near clearfield is close. More traffic on slow and it will be backing traffic up on sunset as you approach this area. Back to the desk. Sal, thank you. At the top of this hour you heard president obama at the white house name his choice to replace Antonin Scalia on the u. S. Supreme court. He nominated u. S. Court of appeals judge Merrick Garland. Judge garland just finished speaking. He was emotional, saying there could be no higher Public Service than serving on the Supreme Court. Brian flores with what we know about judge garland and how he may appeal to both republicans and democrats. Reporter yeah. Thats the key, gasia, because Republican Senate leaders say they will block or delay the hearing process until the next president is elect the. With garland, president obama says this is a judge who has the respect and admiration on both sides of the aisle. Merrick garland has quite the resume. The 63yearold is the chief judge for the u. S. Court of appeals for the District Of Columbia circuit. This court has been influential for National Security issues. The president says he went through a process with both republicans and democrats and garland is the choice for this position. These qualities and his long commitment to Public Service have earned him the respect and admiration from leaders from both sides of the aisles. He will ultimately bring that same character to bear on the Supreme Court. An institution in which he is uniquely prepared to serve immediately. Reporter and while this is a high nomination for garland, the question is whether there will be a confirmation hearing or not. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says he will block any hearing until the next president is nominated. Garland was educated from harvard university. Grew up in chicago. If confirmed, this would be the third Supreme Court justice nominated by the president. We will talk more about it on the 9. Time is 8 35. Tonight san jose residents, can you speak out about the future of medical marijuana dispensaries in your city allie rasmus to explain why this hot button issue is coming up now. Reporter part of it has to do with the fact that there will likely be a referendum on the ballot in california later this year to legalize recreational american use. Some of the city Council Members thought it would be a good idea for the city to take a look how it regulates medical marijuana dispensaries with the idea of changing those regulations ahead of any changes in state law later this year. They want the public to give them input tonight. Rules about how dispensaries grow and manufacture medical pot and transport those goods from multiple locations within the city and possibly through the state. Rules about dispensaries growing marijuana in greenhouses in san jose. And also how to regulate the transport and delivery of marijuana between different cultivation and manufacturing sites. If marijuana is legalized in november, we have to be prepared. I think we are in a much better position than opposed to cities that are just outright banning it. We in a much better position to be prepared for recreational sales, just like we monitor alcohol, cigarette sales. Reporter san jose has 16 medical marijuana dispensaries in the state right now. They say that the number is not expected to grow. They point out the existing rules about where medical marijuana dispensaries are allowed to operate here in san jose in relation to schools and kidfriendly zones, that is not expected to change. That is not up for discussion at this meeting tonight. Now, coming up in the next hour of mornings on 2, we will talk about what councilman kollera had to say about growing medical marijuana in greenhouses might be a good idea. Allie rasmus. The chp investigating another shooting on interstate 80. It happened last night about 5 45 near appian way in pinole. A woman was driving on interstate 80. Someone drove up next to her, pointed a gun at her, and then fired several rounds. No one was hurt. Now, this is just the latest in the string of freeway shootings along interstate 80. There have been at least eight similar incidents between pinole and berkeley in november, and two were deadly. Police say its between feuding gang members from richland. Police havent said whether these shootings were linked to an take on a party bus last week. Investigators say two men drove up, opened fire as the bus was going from francisco so the east bay. Four people were hurt in that attack. The bus driver pulled into oakland and got help from chp officers. A well known chef is being sued by two former employees for Sexual Harassment and labor violations. The women say michael charello made crude comments and home phonic and homophobic slurs. They say they werent paid for the hours they worked or paid overtime and time clocks and time sheets were manipulated. Chars manipulated. A van was stolen last week. Now that mans mother is asking for whoever stole the items to return them. The rental truck was stolen in oaklands rock ridge neighborhood from outside of a friends home. That friend was going to drive the truck to portland and deliver the belongings which included irreplaceable items such as vintage jewelry and family photos. My grandmothers picture when she was 21 years old that has been in my family from second world war. All of our pictures in a battered suitcase. She estimates 50,000 worth of items were stolen. Time is 8 39. Police in richmond searching for the driver who lost control of a car yesterday afternoon and crashed right into a house. It happened afternoon 1 00 at sweet wood and morning side drives. Police were called to the area about a report of a suspicious vehicle and say two people in that car ran away from the crash. A perimeter was set up nearby Deanza High School was put on iowa. Police arrested the passenger, an 18yearold man from oakland, but the driver is still on the loose. A man who lives in the home with his wife for the past 40 years was pretty shaken up about what happened. You know, why it happen to us . Why . You know, we dont do any damage to anybody, try to help everybody. So i dont know. We were at the front door. Now, no one was hurt. Police found stolen electronics in that car. They are trying to figure out if those items were stolen from that neighborhood. The Oakland City Council approved selling a prime piece of property near lake merritt, but not before protesters forced the Council Members to get up and leave the room. Protesters dont like the citys plan to build a new tower on east 12th street that includes housing for low and high income residents. Critics say the entire building should be affordable housing. This time the city council was ready to move into a smaller room to finish its work. It wasnt going to be hijacked this evening. We were going to do the business that the voters of the city required and except for us to do. For them to sequester themselves and have Police Officers guarding where they are and not allow the public in is actually a violation of the law. The city says it did pipe out audio of the meeting out to the public and recorded it as well. So anyone could find out what was said. The city leaders say the next step in the project is to work out a Sales Agreement that could be worth 5 million. Actual work could start as early as next year. There is a new revelation showing the lack of cooperation between federal agencies after that Santa Barbara mass shooting last year. Administrators in the immigration and Customs Enforcement agency appeared yesterday before a Senate Committee. They admitted that a day after the terrorist attack a heavily armed Homeland Security team tried to intercept Enrique Marquez and his wife at citizen ship office. Marquez was a friend of the Santa Barbara shooters, but a worker at the Citizenship Office wouldnt allow the Security Team to go into that building. He wanted to check with his boss first. Do we need to look at our pro owe comes to make sure those misunderstands dont occur . That may well be something we need to do. There was never an intent to prevent them from doing what they needed do. Now, marquez and his wife, they never showed up for the meeting. But critics say that clash between agencies, its troubling considering that marquez is now facing charges that include conspiring to provide Material Support to terrorists. Returning now to that battle between apple and the federal government over hacking the iphone of one of the Santa Barbara shooters. Apple filed a brief claiming the governments actions would apaul the nations Founding Fathers. Apple argued the federal government is violating the constitution by trying to expand the authority of a 227yearold law. Apple says while the Santa Barbara attack was tragic, government expediency should not stomp all over Civil Liberties. Google says its making progress in protecting their Search Engine from hackers. 77 of data is encrypted. Google says its most secure service is gmail, which is completely encrypted if the sender and receiver use gmail. The maps are 83 protected. Figures exclude googles popular Youtube Video site. A short of bus drivers in marin county is creating frustration for users. Its causing an unusual number of delayed or canceled buses. Gold gate is trying to distribute updated bus schedules on social media and trying to hire more drivers. Federal government gave the green light for the second phase of barts silicone Valley Project to move forward. Its part of the first phase, bart is working on an ex ten from fremont to warm springs. Also a ten mile extension from warm springs to eastern san jose. That should open up next year. There is a woman we want to tell you about. May inspire you to live. Her name is norma. She is 90 years old. When she was diagnosed with carnes, she refused treatment and she hit the road. Thats right. She said she was going to make the most of the time she had. She made headlines a few weeks ago. Now the first pictures of her travels. She looks great. Norma went to the grand canyon. The top right photo was norma getting her first pedicure. Also traveled to south carolina. Learn more about norma and her story by visiting ktvu on instagram. Its ktvu 2. A lot of auto people chimeing in and saying you go. Good for her. 8 45. Next on mornings on 2, the latest warning come from chipolte this morning. Good morning. We are looking at slow traffic still in many areas. I want to show you that some of these commutes are still pretty slow. Look at 280 in downtown san jose. It is slow approaching highway 17. Lots of sunshine today. Maybe a few high clouds. Overall, temperatures going above average here. We will see for how long coming up. Lets go hey, oh lets go [ beep ] theyre piling in the backseat aah theyre generating steam heat pulsating to the back beat the blitzkrieg bop hey, oh, lets go shoot em in the back now what they want, i dont know theyre all revved up and ready to go welcome back to mornings on 2. 8 48. More trouble for chipolte battling the effect of two big health scares. Now the companys stock is disappointing investors. Pam cook back in the studio with more on the future of chipolte. Reporter yeah, the stock dropped 20 a share or 4 shortly after the opening bell. It has come back a bit now. Still down 11 a share. Wall street is reacting to chipoltes filing with the sec stateing that it expects a loss for the First Quarter of 1 a share. Analysts were expecting a gain of ten cents a share. Thats a huge discrepancy. Part of the reason sales at its restaurants dropped 26 in february. 36 in january from the previous year. And that is after the two outbreaks we have been reporting. E. Coli and then also separate norovirus outbreaks. Chipolte is based in denver. Management says it has implemented many changes since the health scares, including dna testing of its ingredients and then precooking some of the meat in its central kitchens. The company now warning investors it will have to spend money on a federal investigation into food practices which will make things hopefully safer. Also spending money on marketing to get people back into the restaurants. But its very interesting. You know, dave, we were talking about this in the newsroom. A lot of people like the restaurant because their premise was fresh, you know, healthier fast food really. Yeah. So they have a lot of restaurants. Thousands of restaurants. We will see how they get through this. Pam, thank you. Time is 8 50. Lets go back to sal. See whats happening with that car that went in the wattner lake merced. They are beginning to pull it out now. Lets go to the pictures, show you that this car was reported in the water early this morning. The Fire Department came and figured out there was no one from it at the time. They didnt find Anyone Around it. Now they are pulling the car out of the water with this super long tow truck. The Fire Department is there as a precaution. But this is a tricky operation as they try to slowly pull this car out of lake merced. Meanwhile, southbound lake merced boulevard is shut down. You can see the thick brush and some of the marshy area. Not sure what happened here. But again we dont know of anyone who was injured because the Fire Department did not find anyone when they arrived. Police are on the scene and this is going to be going on for a little bit. All right. Lets move along and take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. That is backed up all the way out to the macarthur maze. We have a lot of slow traffic in the east bay. Its getting a little bit better. If you look at the map and see where the red is, you see a lot of red on 880, 580, 680. Its not a light commute. No major problems. 8 51. Lets go to steve. Thank you, sal. All right. Lets head outside. Mostly sunny skies. I mean, its sunny. Some interesting photos. This is from stacey. Also from kim over vallejo. A mini rainbow over mount diablo this morning. Thats a sun dog. Itscada sun dog. Part of the family of halos. You have the sun interacting with ice crystals to create that effect. If you want, you can look it up. A little technical on some of that. Thats what its called. A sunday dog. There is also sun pillars, sun dogs. We have clear skies for most. 30s, 40s, 50s. A few 40s this morning. The breeze isnt that bad, but its around. So it might pick up a little bit in the Higher Elevations on the coast. 21 truckee. 40 ukiah. Made it into the 30s briefly. Parts of the santa cruz mountains, boulder creek, woodside on the peninsula did. Walnut creek, san ramon as well. That was about it. A few more yesterday. High pressure says, you know what . I think i will send everything way north. Way north. Sunny for everybody today. It will be warmer. Chilly lows. Give way to 60s and 70s for many. The warming continues here. We will go some lowtomid 70s. San rafael at 70. Vallejo 71. St. Helena, coast guard 70. 72 in los gatos. 74 to 75 Santa Clara Valley and Santa Cruz Capitola at 73. 60s on the coast. Upper 60s to low 70s from San Francisco to the peninsula. 74 in palo alto. Warmer on thursday. Pretty good friday. Clouded up saturday. Maybe some rain north bay sunday evening. 8 53. Paying to park at night. What may happen soon in San Francisco. And the reason why. A safe and controlled environment every wednesday night. There is drag racing on a quarter mile drag strip and drifting behind the main grandstand. About 200 drag racers and 40 drifters are expected. Sony raceway says last years sonomas raceway says last years event had a lot of participation. Transit officials brought up this idea yesterday as a way to raise new revenue. Right now they are only planning to study the impact of extending paid metering parking beyond 6 p. M. And it would on apply to the busier parts of San Francisco. The sfmta is facing a 13 million deficit next year. They agreed to significantly lower the towing fees out there, which has been another revenue loss for the agency. Great. Because thats what i need to do is set my alarm to feed the meter on the streets. It is an interesting proposal. Happy hump day. Good to be back and rested. The san jose sharks, the st. Marys gaels. Always a pleasure to do newscasts with you. Mornings on 2 the 9 is next. It looks like a clean sweep for Hillary Clinton and donald trump racks up a few more wins. We will talk about whats next after yesterdays primary. Henry lee discovered new information about two headlining events involving the Oakland Police department. He joins us live with the exclusive details. Actress sally field is starring in a new movie. More on her role and memories of making mrs. Doubtfire in the bay area with the late robin williams. Welcome to the 9 this wednesday morning. I went cheesy on the song. It is together forever. This is the first time we are together on the 9. Oh, my gosh. Sal, thanks for saying hi. Its just been a week. I know. Its a good thing you made it. Its a very good thing. I am having trouble getting into the groove. Off for a couple of days. Today is super bu