So excited. Come on, a little bit more. After 40 days of dry weather, right in the middle of winter, we are finally looking firefighters in Contra Costa County are at rain this morning, not a lot unfortunately but we are ending investigating a house fire that the dry stretch and you can see the radar right behind me. Happened last night. We are dealing with a few scattered showers this morning. So rolling through your morning, we will have mostly cloudy skies and the showers a fire official says when crews are going to continue to march arrived there was across the bay area. Heavy smoke and fire throughout temperatures this morning in the mid40s to mid50s with all the home. Residents who escaped told First Responders an elderly woman was still inside, that woman did not survive. Two of that cloud cover. Other people were treated. This rain is not going to last. By lunchtime we turn dry and there is a new development breezy as we get in the second involving the firing of Oakland Police
70s going into the inland communities. I will be back with more and now, sal has your traffic. We have slow traffic on the Altamont Pass. On 205 and 580, we will look at the map so you can see the traffic will be slow. We have stop and go traffic before the Altamont Pass and better into livermore with no problems into oakland on 880 or at the bay bridge toll plaza, getting a backup and some of the cash lanes. At 4 31, back to the desk. Firefighters are looking to the cause of an overnight Apartment Fire on the peninsula with flames reported at about 2 30 this morning in a secondstory apartment on visitation avenue in brisbane. Firefighters had the fire out by 4 00 this morning on the red cross is helping those displaced. 4 31 and prosecutors are laying out their case in the trial of a man accused of killing a young woman at an oakland bart station. John lee cowell is accused of stabbing nia wilson to death and seriously injuring her sister. On the platform, two years ago, it happened a
About one mile visibility but a drop in novato and some patchy fog. Be careful if you are headed out with current temperatures showing a few spots in the 30s. Napa, they are dealing with fog and it is tough to warm up with 30s going on and 40s in berkeley and 50 in San Francisco. A quick look at the stormtracker with low clouds and we will see things get sunny and bright today with calm wind and looking pretty good. Looking at the forecast, 60 degrees at the coast and low 70s as we get inland. Talking about the extended forecast, we will talk about that in a bit. For now, over to sal. The commute has traffic moving along okay if you are driving on 80 westbound from crockett to hercules. No major problems on the benicia bridge heading to concord and the commute looks good toward the macarthur maze with a look at the Richmond Bridge having traffic off to a good start. 5 01 and back to the desk. Production is ramping up in San Francisco on the side of matrix 4 with crowds gathering over t
And if you are going out, a quick look shows low clouds clearing out into the day today because we are warming up with plenty of sunshine for everyone today. At the coast, 60 degrees and mid60s around the bay and low 70s into the inland communities. That is just the beginning of the warm up and i will talk about that in a bit. For now, we will see how the traffic is doing. We do have slow traffic at the bay bridge, not unusual. Its coming up on 6 00. 6 01 to be exact with slow traffic, as you might expect. Interstate 880, looking good into downtown oakland with some other commutes waking up. 680 out of pleasanton is slow heading south. 6 01 and back to the desk. The Oakland Unified School district officials will hold two meetings for parents and neighbors to update them on the temporary closure of Mcclymonds High School after a cancercausing chemical was detected under the school. Allie rasmus is live in oakland where district officials are waiting for test results. Reporter these two
Weathers not going to be changing. Its going to be nice outside. Unfortunately, no rain to speak of but we have some pretty big breaking news coming to us this morning from new york. Lets start there. Breaking news at the jury in new york has just convicted the disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in a Sexual Assault trial in new york. Well bring in Frank Mallicoat live in the newsroom to bring us all the news, frank. Good morning. Just coming down in the last half hour, weinsteins conviction solidified his dizzying fall from hollywood studios. The verdict followed weeks of harrowing and graphic testimony from a string of accusers who told their stories of abuse. The conviction was seen as a long overdue reckoning for weinstein after whispers of his behaviors turned into a number of accusations and destroyed his movie career and gave rise to the global metoo movement. He was found guilty on two counts but not three other counts that were more serious. The jury of seven men and five w