Live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. Now at 4 30 and streaming on cbsn bay area were looking life from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera and you can see those polka dots, those are raindrops on the camera lens. A little tricky getting into work this morning. Good morning. Im michelle griego. And im kenny choi. Good morning. We are on storm watch this morning. We are keeping an eye on the slick roads out there but first, lets start with mary lee and how long around the rain will last. It is really coming down this morning and as we head to the afternoon keep those umbrellas handy. We are looking at more scattered showers by this afternoon. You can see heavy downpours this morning on hidef doppler. Will take you to the north day and you can see heavy rain and checking rainfall rates in those redcoats heavy rain coming down. An inch and three quarters per hour there. Now let show you the moderate to heavy rain pushing across the golden gate into San Francisco. Getting moderate to heavy rainfall as well as down across the peninsula and burlingame. San mateo, Half Moon Bay and the costs of coast, getting that moderate to heavy rainfall and looking at the rain pushing across san leandro, hayward and light rain over san jose. Rain, dampers this morning, isolated thunderstorms possible, scattered light showers this afternoon with a few showers for tomorrow for the north day. Otherwise dry air with partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies for tomorrow. Daytime highs 55 in San Francisco, 56 in oakland, and we will timeout the rest of the wet weather on future cast coming up. I heard from chp moments ago about a Traffic Alert. They issued it for 580 west out as you work your way into oakland. Its right around lakeshore. A couple cars involved and we are getting a lot of details but it was first reported at 4 07 this morning and looks like it is a serious accident with injuries. We will get more details on that. Right now all lanes are shutdown westbound 580 at lakeshore. They are diverting traffic off to lakeshore eastbound 580 and orleans are blocked as well. No word as yet when the lanes will reopen but avoid 580 and you can use surface streets or 880, 880 is adjacent to 580 and is a good alternate. In the meantime westbound 580, we have a serious crash and orleans are blocked and of course we are dealing was flooding along 101. Im anne makovec from the live news desk and were going live to a fire at a recycling plant in dallas texas, it is a scrap Metal Recycling facility and you can see a lot of snow coming off that and the orange glow, the fire is really raging and has been for about two and half hours. The plant deals with salvage vehicles so that includes a poster he and other sort of nasty combustible materials. Apparently there is no water hydrant on the property so crews have been bringing in water tankers to try and continue to fight the fire. A live look to capitol hill and in just a few hours before house of representatives will vote on two articles of impeachment against the president. If mr. Trump is impeached it would be the third impeachment of a president in u. S. History. Our reporter with what to expect today. Reporter for today the house of representatives is expected to impeach the president of the United States for just the third time in the nations history. The president is completely unrepentant and defiantly declares his behavior perfect. Broker yesterday the House Rules Committee made the ground rules for the vote. Which comes almost 21 years to the day that the house vote to impeach president clinton. Article 1 is adopted. Reporter President Trump called the 2019 effort a partisan attempted to in a six page letter to speaker nancy pelosi. Other president s will have to live with the fear crept up he wrote that democrats are in a vicious crusade and accused him of the two charges he is facing. In a letter to her democratic colleagues, pelosi wrote, if we do not act we will be derelict in our duty. To impeach the president of the United States for that is a disgrace. The next step will be a trial in the senate and leaders are trying to shut down the democrats request to have new witnesses testify. Hundreds of proimpeachment rallies were held around the country yesterday. It is unclear if they will sway any gop lawmakers. A small number of democrats say they will vote against impeachment. Debora alberto, cbs news, capitol hill. Thousands of demonstrators turned out across the bay area yesterday calling for President Trumps impeachment. In San Francisco protesters marched on the Federal Building down Market Street before ending up at the local offices of senators feinstein and harris. Me while in oakland a huge crowd gathered at the grand lake theater to do the same. I just cant believe we are at this point and he is getting away with so many things, one after the next. I wanted to come here and speak my piece and show support for bringing integrity back to this country. On the other side the Republican Party telling kpix 5 that the president has not done anything criminal. Hundreds more rallies took place all across the u. S. Last night. Protesters took to the streets from philadelphia to minneapolis. One of the biggest rallies was in new yorks times square. Meantime the president is firing back with a scathing letter to House Speaker nancy pelosi declaring his innocence and accusing her of subverting american democracy. In the letter the president accused pelosi of inventing the charge of abuse of power and branding it completely disingenuous and meritless and baseless. Pelosi he wrote suffers from quote, trump arrangement syndrome. The president says he accepts no responsibility for the historic blood about to land on his presidency. I dont take any, zero to put it mildly. When asked by reporters she called the letter ridiculous and really sick. One of the democrats voting against impeachment is new jerseys jeff andrews who is expected to change parties after the vote. Colorados jerry golden says he will vote yes on abuse of power but no on obstruction of congress. We will have a live update on the Impeachment Vote from capitol hill in the next half hour. Police have revealed a video of a confrontation that led to an officer involved shooting in San Francisco. The video was shown last night at town hall meeting. Police say surveillance and body cam video from december 7 shows 24yearold jamaica hampton attacking two officers with a vodka bottle. At one point the officers used pepper spray and that failed to subdue him. Investigators say the officers opened fire after hampton turned towards them armed with the bottle. Some attending the meeting were not satisfied with the explanation. A subserve to accept and as a community to swallow that there was no other possible outcome. One officer was briefly hospitalized for laceration to his face and head. Hampton seen here in a Charity Video event remains hospitalized and in custody and faces charges that include assault with a Deadly Weapon and assault upon a peace officer. A missing woman is home this morning in concord. It is thanks to the help of smart cameras. On monday night please ask neighbors to help find the 70 yearold woman. She was suffering from dementia. Within one hour they received an outpouring of tips from residents. Police say they reviewed the video on their smart home cameras which helped officers pin down where the woman couldve gone. She was found nearly two and half miles away from home. Pg e will pay nearly 25 billion for the northbay fires that equipment sparked in 2017 and 2018. A federal bankruptcy judge approved a pair of settlements yesterday for fire victims and insurance companies. Separately they settled the state regulators for 1. 7 billion and under the terms of that deal the utility must spend that money on safety upgrades and cannot recoup the cash from the ratepayers. Pg e ceo bill johnson apologized for the companys role in the fires adding, quote, the Settlement Agreement underscores our commitment to learning from the past and doing what is right for the safety in the future. Provokes looking for a job, Diane King Hall shows us the automaker looking to hire thousands of employees in todays money watch report. Reporter wall street hit new records on tuesday. The dow rose 31 points and the nasdaq was up nine and the s p 500 gained a point. On the flip side shares of an ex to hit after the closing bell do to a weak earnings report. The delivery giant said profits slumped 40 to 560 million and cut its earnings target for the fourth time this year. Fedex officials blamed a shorter Holiday Shipping season and its decision to cut ties with amazon. The house of representatives passed a 1. 4 trillion spending deal to avoid a government shutdown. And now goes to the senate for approval and in the deal a provision to raise the legal age to purchase Tobacco Products including ecigarettes to 21. Funding for Gun Violence Research and a pay raise for federal civilian employees. Ford is adding 3000 jobs and the automaker says the jobs will pay on average about 61,000 a year. Ford is also investing nearly 1 2 billion dollars to build new vehicles including driverless cars. And that is your cbsmoneywatch. Com report. For more head to cbsmoneywatch. Com and at the new york stock exchange, i am Diane King Hall. Still ahead, and a massive effort to free a massive sea creature. A well rescue against all odds. Experts, fishermen and the coast guard spent days trying to find an entangled well and when it seemed the whale had slipped away they were in for a big surprise. A boat spotted the wheel last friday and a crew with the Marine Mammal center jumped into action and used buoys to slow the well down and keep it near the surface. Then they cut the line running across the wells back freeing that creature. Thats awesome. Well, theres so much. We have dramatic music but it is dramatic outside. Driving in it was pretty bad. Were tracking heavy rain so please be careful as we are looking at heavy downpours and it is coming down this morning. Give yourself some extra time as you head out the door for work in school and on the road. Take a look at hidef doppler. It is lit up. Lets show you first of all the areas getting the heavy rain. First in the northbay, rohnert park, petaluma, right lung 101 it is pouring right now. Rainfall rates more than 1 1 4 inch per hour. Now lets show you down across the golden gate and into San Francisco. Heavy rain pushing right over San Francisco right now and across the sunset district as well as across the bay bridge. You can see the heavy rain for the east bay, berkeley and as well as for open. Even martinez, across the east bay you are getting a pouring. It is you can see the drenching raid. From oakland, baraga, san leandro, getting light rain this morning and even for the south bay, you can see that light rain and because of that a live look and you can see this is our Salesforce Tower camera looking north. I want to show you our san jose camera and the raindrops on our live cam. Temps are running in the 40s and 50s. A milder start compared to the colder mornings that we have experienced over the last couple days. So mid 40s in concord, upper 40s in San Francisco, mid 40s in santa rosa, 50 in oakland and looking at 49 in livermore. San jose, you are coming in at 52 degrees. Many locations starting off the day with that rain. So grab an umbrella, that rain jacket as you head out the door. We are not done with the wet weather as we go through the afternoon. Will keep the chance for scattered showers in the afternoon for the coast right around 53. Midfifties for the bay, upper 50s in land. So the satellite and radar view, is because of this low pressure system moving into the bay area. Timing it out for you by noon you can see the light scattered showers, were not done yet. Here at 4 pm with that wet weather continuing for us, and looking ahead to tomorrow we are actually going to be drier. There is a chance to see some showers for the four north fathers day but looking at partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies for tomorrow. Rainfall amounts anywhere from a 10 to a quarter to as much as half an inch to three quarters of an inch of rain. As we look ahead to the weekend that will be our stronger storm. Heavy rain and also strong winds by the weekend. Data times for today we are looking at seasonal highs, upper 50s. Midfifties in concord and San Francisco in the mid50s as well as oakland. Topping out at 51 for cloverdale. There is the extended forecast. A rainy day today and a few showers for the north day. Otherwise partly cloudy skies and there we go with our stronger storm system for the weekend. But, its a slick roadway this morning. Unfortunately we have a lot of problems this morning on the freeway. We will start out with raking news out of oakland. We have a fatal crash on westbound 580 right at lakeshore. You can see in the lives shot chp is Holding Traffic on the eastbound side. Is still early and not a lot of cars are on the road but both directions right now are affected. 580 right at lakeshore. Several vehicles involved. Just looking at some information from chp, it looks up to possibly seven cars involved. On the maps as we zoom in we have delays in both direction. You want to avoid 580. It will take some time for it to clear. Im getting work that they could open a couple lanes on the westbound side and one lane on the eastbound side so in the meantime you surface streets. You can also use 880. Thats a good alternate. I know westbound traffic is being diverted off lakeshore at eastbound 580 with the lanes blocked there are one lane trying to be open and not a lot of cars so they are Holding Traffic until they open the lane. This is a fatal crash and will take some time to clear out. Elsewhere if you are traveling through marin this morning and plan on taking 101 we have reports of flooding and restrictions. On 101, this is through corte madera, it looks like a lot of standing water. So be careful as you work your way through their. That might be the case throughout the morning. Lets hop over and get a live look at the golden gate bridge. Traffic is doing ok but the rain is falling on the freeway in our lives shot. Sluggish out of 101 because of flooding but once you get onto the span you are ok coming into the city. We also have one of an accident on northbound 280 right at the onetoone split. It does not look like its blocking any lanes but there is activity there and slower spots as you work your way northbound. Looking at the bridges no delay at the bay bridge. Heres a live look at the san mateo bridge. Traffic is moving ok and i know there is a wind advisory for the bay bridge toll plaza. Be careful as you work your way across the span. 880 looks pretty good with no delays near the coliseum. This is a good alternate because of the crash on 580. Lucille ball is getting us into the Christmas Spirit and pixar releases a little more magic in his latest trailer. Michelle medina has her eye on entertainment. Reporter celebrate the holidays with the queen of comedy. Cbs will air the i love Lucy Christmas special december 20. The one hour show features two backtoback episodes in color of the hit Television Series which aired on the network 1951 to 1957. The christmas episodes originally aired in 1956. We no longer have time to leave out the signs. Workup a documentary is in the works about 16yearold climate activists assume bird. Tentatively titled greta, it will track the revolution from student to worldfamous activist. The teen was recently named time magazines youngest person of the year. The documentary will stream on who lou next year. Step into a fantasy world like no other were elves, unicorns and fairies live alongside Grocery Stores and garbage trucks. Disney released the final trailer for onward, and animation movie. The movie follows to elf brothers to embark on a quest to discover if magic truly exists. Octavia spencer and Julia Louis Dreyfus also blend their voices to the magical teacher it arrives in theaters on march 6. That your eye on entertainment, michelle medina, cbs news los angeles. U. S. App could they get another pac12 team . Last night taking a live look outside, downtown san jose where it is we start off with a Traffic Alert along 580. You will have two of one chp is Holding Traffic. This is eastbound 580 reddit grand lakeshore. Westbound lanes are also affected do to a crash that happened at 4 00 this morning. All lanes are blocked. They are working to open up a couple lanes on the westbound side and we will keep you updated on this but you want to use 880 as an alternate. Giant fans avert your eyes. Video youre about to see is pretty frightening. Quite the disturbing site for giants fans. The deal was official yesterday after 11 years in orange and black bumgarner hinted he preferred a fresh start in red because the giants new direction. First and foremost winning is whats the whole decision is based on. And being with the team that will, you know, in my mind is my brand of baseball and place the way i like to play. And im going to stay. 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