Second half of your weekend. This morning clouds and fog. 50s for everyone. By noontime we will see gray skies with 50s and 60s, and partly to mostly cloudy skies today but notice the absence of any consistent rainfall. As we look at the next seven days, yes, we are getting interest a 1 on our storm imp t imscale, monday and tuesday wet, and we will track it for you in a few minutes. A dozen rooms in a San Jose Health care facilities are closed after an explosion rattled the building leaving two people injured. Detectives are look into whether a lit cigarette ignited an oxygen tank at the kansas springs po springs post acute center. We heard, i think it was glass, shattering, and then the fire alarm where the alarm started beeping. There was a fire at Canyon Springs post acute facility, and jasmine wong was inside entertaining the residents. Police believe somebody was spoking a cigarette in a room with a oxygen tank nearby, andnr it caused an explosion and fire. Delores harris rushed
Good morning, everyone, im carolyn tyler. Thanks for joining us on this sunday, march 19th. Lets start with a quick look at the weather with our meteorologist, lisa argen. Hi there, carolyn. Lots of clouds behind you and from live doppler 7 we can see a few returns in the north bay. Weve seen a few areas of drizzle and light shower activity from points west around ft. Ross, highway 1 and if we go further to the north, you can see still it is a little bit wet up towards hopland and lakeport. Most of the activity is offshore and wont be reaching the ground. We will see a cloudy day today, but look at all the cloud cover offshore. This will be visiting us throughout the day and bring a slightly cooler afternoon. Right now its mild in oakland, 58. Its 49 in gilroy. From our sutro camera we have low clouds as well. 58 napa, 54 in livermore and a few peeks of sun in emeryville. With 50s and 60s by noon time, well have gray skies and the bulk of the wet weather holds off until the beginning o
Afternoon. Drivers want a permanent fix and soon. Its dangerous. They will fix it of a amajor accident. Reporter in san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. The big hurdle to the gas tax hike. Hours from a critical vote on road repairs, theres fierce opposition to a deal that also gives truckers a break. Governor brown making his final plea to secure a tax hike for road repairs. This is a fee, a fee for the privilege of driving on our roads. Jerry brown on the states of the step capital trying to win over holdouts to his multibillion dollars transportation proposal. Kpix 5s phil matier reports from a truck stop in vallejo explaining how the government hit a roadblock. Reporter thats right. Elizabeth, you know, the idea is to fix up our roads. As we found out the deal he cut to get the support of the Trucking Industry for the rise in the diesel taxes thats turning around to be quite a speed bump. Heres the story. It was a deal. It was a deal to get their support. Reporter state senator jerry hill
Colleagues senator ben allen from santa monica, we really advocated hard along with others to get more transit funding so the current version of the bill that were voting on almost tripled the guaranteed funding for Public Transportation compared to the original version. So im really happy about that. Reporter now, with the Senate Taking up this bill, we have to assume that they have the votes to pass it. Generally speaking, they wouldnt set it up to have a big pickup defeat. So we think it will pass. But you never know with one vote here or there, things could get dicey here. If they do vote, in the next hour, we will be right back here to tell you that story. Liz . Melissa, do you know the timeline on these votes tonight . Reporter well, you know, so after the senate votes, then it has to go to the assembly where they will make speeches and cast their votes. It could be very late. Although remember too, the legislature goes on spring break as of tonight. So i cant imagine they are go
Laura anthony is with Christian Spencer and well look at the forecast. Ama, as you pointed out, its wet and its going to get wetter in the season. We have a ring around San Francisco right now. We have south of San Francisco, moving on to the peninsula across the Santa Cruz Mountains over to san mateo, east bay, fremont and livermore and byron we have rain. Its a little misty around San Francisco but a steadier rain hasnt hit the city. Heres our forecast animation starting at 4 00 p. M. We see the rain become much more widespread and heavy downpours. Overnight, the entire area will be blanketed by rain. This storm for tonight and tomorrow ranks as a roads are wet as the storms move through the bay area. Laura anthony is live in san rafael where people are concerned about a different danger. Laura . Reporter here in marin county, it started raining light knee. As we heard from spencer, this is where there was a fatal tree failure last weekend in san rafael. A 77yearold man was killed wh