The east bay. And the repairs will require at least five to six hours to complete is what theyre saying. And that means that this will likely go into the evening commute. Theyre only single tracking in San Francisco and have a limited amount of trains that can get through the transbay tube. Obviously this means that the Service Schedule will be affected. Its the same as this morning when this was first discovered. Only the yellow line into San Francisco and milbury. That one is running. Fremont to daly city goes to mac acthur arthur. Folks will have to transfer. The blue line will go to montgomery and turns back. Richmond to mulberry no service. Those folks need to get on a fremont train. Ac transit is offering aid. Get on and show your b. A. R. T. Certificate and get on for free. Same for muni. Theyre offering mutual aid. Singletracking in San Francisco. Major delays. It could possibly go into the evening commute. Thats the story from here. Reporting live in San Francisco. Christie smith nbc bay area news. What a mess. Thanks. Another black eye for the new bay bridge. Salt water may be seeping into the foundation. According to the chronicle, new cal trans tests indicate water from the bay may be seeping into the eastern spans new tower. Now, if this is true it would further jeopardize the integrity of hundreds of steel rods to anchor that structure. Last year cal trans dermed thetermined the rods were sitting in rein water for years from a bad sealing job. Salt water damage to be worse. New action this morning to stop the threat of a future b. A. R. T. Strike which last time around caused headaches and cost a lot of people a lot of money. The 2013 strikes upended commutes for some 400,000 riders. A san ramon Assembly Woman wants to prevent that situation from happening again. She is presenting a bill forcings b. A. R. T. Workers to honor nostrike clauses even after their contracts expire. That bill had been heard today by an assembly committee. Happening today, here comes hillary clinton. The decemberic president ial candidate back in the bay area to raise campaign cash. Clinton holding two fund raisers in San Francisco today. One will be at the home of Hedge Fund Billionaire tom steyer. The second will be at Susie Tompkins buell. Tomorrow clinton heads back to l. A. Then one more time to the bay area for an event at the home of offeeof ebay president john donahoe. You can visit our website for updates at nbcbayarea. Com. New details on the dead whale that washed up on the shores of pacifica this morning. Biologists performed a necropsy and determined the whale was likely hit by a ship. Stephanie chuang live at the beach. The whale, you could see the visible injuries on the whale there. Reporter absolutely. Good morning to you. Scientists had to cut into the whale to figure this out. She has four broken vertebrae as well as hemorrhaging around the area and at least one broken rib which experts say point to a likely ship strak. Ike. There are crowds gathered around the 40footlong humpback. You have now two beached whales in three weeks right here. Thats, of course, turned into a very big attraction. The story is banked in the blubber. Biologists from the Marine Mammal center began cutting into this adult female humpback whale around 7 30 this morning to figure out what killed her and how she ended up on this pacifica shore. Its our job as scientists to figure out what theyre trying to tell us. If we dig deep enough no pun intended well find the answer. Reporter the scientists will continue to dig. More data will help steer the rules in terms of how captains navigate the water. Captains already agreed to slow their speed coming into the bay area in the recent years. These experts say its coincidence that the two whales washed up so closely together. Park rangers set up a perimeter to keep spectators far from the scientists and their sharp tools. Some people found ways around that. Tonya moved from San Francisco to pacifica three weeks ago. She pulled her two boys out of school today to witness the necropsy. A priceless science lesson outside the classroom. Its unbelievable coming from urban life in the city to a situation where we have two whales beached a halfm incredible science lesson for the kids. Theyre hacking away with hike machetes and taking off the blubber. Reporter not something you see at school obviously. Crazy. Reporter now were told that the crews here may be leaving soon. The water, the tide is actually coming up very strongly, so theyre fighting that. Theyre trying to get as much information as possible especially from the sperm whale from three weeks ago. Were told its very rare. The last time one washed up was in 2008 and scientists found 500 pounds of fishing net inside. Another deadline theyre fighting is were told the park may be burying both whale carcasses sometime tomorrow. Live in pacifica fascinating science. Thank you. The famed serial stow away Marian Hartman is at it once again. She was arrested at chicagos Ohare Airport twice last month. She gained National Attention after repeatedly attempting to sneak onto planes including ones she did successfully. Hartman has now been arrested at sfo, lax, Sky Harbor International in phoenix, the Jacksonville Airport and twice at chicago ohare. Over the years Cinco De Mayo has proved somewhat troublesome for san jose. Noefrhundreds of Police Officers overnight patrolled the streets downtown and beyond. Celebration sinko de mayo it looks like all the patrolling worked. Hundreds of people were cruising the streets holding street shows across the city. The revelers played a bit of a cat and mouse game with officers early in the evening hours. Police say they dont want a problem with people gathering unless there are doughnuts and other maneuvers that make the parking lots unsafe. Were not anticipating anything but we have an obligation to ensure we have plenty officers on hand. So far no reports of violence or vandalism during this years festivityies festivities. That was the sound of a City Council Meeting last night. Singing, chanting shouting. Affordable housing activists shut down the open City Council Meeting with all of that last night. Theyre angry about a proposal to sell city land near lake merritt to a housing developer. The developer would create luxury condos. After several unsuccessful attempts to continue the Meeting Council members adjourned without a digs. Decision. In berkeley the housing crunch has officials considering a Large Housing Development downtown proposed 18 story, 305unit building on herald way. Opponents say the units would not be affordable. Construction would temporarily close the landmark theater and displace one of the museums there. When complete the building would limit the view from uc berkeley. Theyre damaging the view from the students who get to enjoy the view. We need more density in downtown berkeley. This is one way to get it. Supporters say the project would be a great option for retirees looking to downsize. The developer would have to make 10 of the units below market rate or pay a fee to the city. Up next at 11 00, a rather unique way a california chef is fighting the drought. He says it is a technique that could save millions of gallons of water. Amazons new drone Delivery System is getting a Second Chance to take flight. And we have a lovely day shaping up out there. If you do not suffer from pollen allergies. Our pollen levels are extremely high right now. But its not going to last much longer. We actually have a chance for some showers moving into the picture. Unsettled pattern starts tomorrow. Full details when nbc bay area news at 11 00 comes right back. Amazon. Well just into our newsroom the nfl has released its long awaited report on deflategate. Its not good news for the patriots. The investigator hired by the nfl says its likely members of the patriots staff intentionally deflated footballs and its quote, more probable than not that the teams quarterback, tom brady, was at least generally aware of it. The investigation launched after the afc championship in january. The patriots beat the colts and beat the Seattle Seahawks two weeks later to win the super bowl. Happy to say im not a patriots fan. A shaky morning here in the bay area. Quakes rocked the same area that was jolted a few days ago. Three quakes in 30 minutes. Concord was rocking just after 7 00 this morning. The quakes ranged in magnitude from 2. 6 to 3. 5. Nbc bay areas bob redell has more from Pleasant Hill. Reporter one man tells us this mornings quake felt like someone was giving him a hard shove in the back of his couch. In this neighborhood in Pleasant Hill a large tree limb came down overnight. There is disagreement in the neighborhood whether this was caused by the shaking or whether it was from the wind overnight. You can look at this map. It shows you where the shakers were focused this morning. It was in a neighborhood in concord by the police department. There were three of them. According to the usgs between 7 01 and 7 35 a 3. 2. A 3. 5 rounded out with a magnitude 2. 6. I felt it sitting there. I was like okay here it comes. You hold your breath and it goes away and youre thinkful. I thought it was going to be longer but it stopped pretty soon. Reporter are you a lifelong californian . I am. Barn and raised. Reporter did any of that come through your mind the prior ones. Every time. I think to myself because that one was so long. This one was easy. Reporter moments ago we did speak with a seismologist in menlo park at the United States geological survey. She downplayed the significance of this mornings swarm saying this is not a prelude to a bigger quake. We expect small quakes all the time. Concord, green valley we expect small earthquakes. This is normal activity and the fact that were seeing them sort of at the same location at the same depth is indicating to us that thats an area of the fault where its a little bit active. Reporter this mornings swarm here in concord and Pleasant Hill follows what happened on sunday when there was another swarm of a 3. 6, a 2. 7, followed by a string of much smaller quakes. Here in Pleasant Hill bob redell nbc bay area news. Thanks bob. Thats amd the chip company. Janet yellen said she thought there was maybe too much money in the stock market that pushed both the dow and nasdaq later. Rare statement out of yellen. Big news out of the faa this morning. A turnaround in its attitude towards drones. First the faa says it will allow tests involving drones that fly beyond the operators sight. Good news for amazon and google. Theyve been restricted to testing drones that stayed within the operates line of sight. That makes delivery drones pointless if the pilot can see your house as he makes the delivery he might as well walk to your door and hand you the package. The Second Development is a particular type of cropspraying drone got the okay from the faa. This is video from uc davis where theyve been flying the test drone. Its 200 pounds about the size of a motorcycle. It is the first drone with full approval for farmers. An Important Court case coming out of the deep south this morning involving a man accused of a series of robberies. Police were able to tie him to the robberies by obtaining cell phone records from metro pcs which showed he was in the area of every single robbery. But police did so without a warrant. The 11th Circuit Court said defendants should not expect the records after the a Cell Phone Company to be private because its not their property. Its a Major Development over the battle in privacy and technology. Though it doesnt affect california because we are not covered by the 11th circuit. It sets up a potential conflict between the various Appellate Courts which means the case could go before the streamupreme court. Well continue to track this. Encouraging kids to learn more about Technology Computers and history with a new book called the thrilling adventures of love lace and babbage. About two of the first computer programmers and father of the modern computer. Its partially a comic book. The author says they would have fit right in in silicon valley. A lot of government funding. It was tech it government project. I mean there were absolutely envisaging a future 100 years before it was even possible. So its a really wonderful story. She gave a talk at google earlier this week. Shell be signing books in santa cruz at the book shop kris tonight at 7 00. I have a question going back to the cell phone court decision. Does that mean that what i buy on my credit card statement is available by no. Just your cell phone records. In california the 9th Circuit Court has not ruled about this. For now we presume your cell phone records are private without a warrant. With a warrant they can get them for sure. Seems like it opened the door for all kinds of other documents that are not your property with you are your business. Yep. A gold apple watch will be setting you back about 10,000. An enterprising jeweler is offering a cheaper option. The Company Called watch plate offers to gold plate your apple watch for around 400. Kind of like your mom did with your baby booties, scott. You can send your smart watch to the company and within three days youll get it back all blinged out. No word on whether this would void your warranty. California figures out how to deal with the historic drought and water crisis everyone is looking to cut back on water use, or everyone is supposed to be. That includes one california chef who has found a way to save hundreds of gallons of water every day. He does it using air and electricity. Big sur chef john cox bought an air pressor for 200 on amazon a few weeks ago. Originally he got it for cleaning the kitchen. Now staff is using it to prewash plates before the plates go into the dishwasher. It costs a whole lot less than a dollar a day in electricity. The new method is saving the restaurant 800 gallons of water a day or nearly 300,000 gallons a year. We have no choice as an industry right now p. We have to save water. This is a pretty easy way to do it. If californias all 60,000 restaurants switched to compressed air to preclean the plates. They could save in total more than 17 billion gallons of water. Billion with a b. Amazing. Im astonished. Think about how long it takes you to rinse it. Right. You know . One plate. At home it actually makes more sense to use the dishwasher than the dink because the dishwasher uses less water. A lot of the dish washers they dont want you to preclean because it changes the setting. Thats my story too. Lets check in with christina. You know the farmers grow the food. The restaurants need the food from the farmers. Everything works together in this state. But yeah. I try to prewash once in a while like you, scott. 61 degrees in san jose. 57 degrees right now. Its mild its comfortable out there. At t park. Fans fudgenneling into the stadium. We have a giants game. Theyre going for the sweep against the padres at 12 45 today. We wish them luck. Catch the game on Comcast Sportsnet bay area. This is a live picture of sunol. Its nice and sunny out there. Basically everywhere from the coast all the way through your inland valley spots. Thats the story. But take a look at all this growth. We have had a decent rainy season and a lot of grass has sprouted as a result. Thats actually one of the predominant offenders when it comes to your pollen and today those levels will peak. We do have some changes to tell you about the next couple days. The high pollen levels today will drop off for thursday into friday. It will be a little bit easier for you. If you suffer from the allergies of the season. Saturday they greepcreep back up. In time for mothers day were looking at better conditions. The pollen levels will ease. The reason why were going to see a little dropoff is because weve got some showers on the way. Very comfortable conditions for this afternoon. Let me take you through your forecast today. 63 degrees on the peninsula today. 63 degrees for the east shore and 70 degrees out in the north bay at noon. Then youll round out the day at about 76 degrees. So really lovely conditions. Persist. 75 at the trivalley today. Out in San Francisco. 64 degrees with a building breeze. Thats whats going to bring up all that pollen, lift it into our atmosphere and create kind of a problem, especially the places that get the most wind. That will be the peninsula today and east bay hills. Keep that in mind. Getting into tomorrow weve got a few showers on the way. Expecting a lot of the activity over the evening hours and steady temperatures as we get into your mothers day weekend. So the best chance for showers for tomorrow is going to be in the east bay hills. We all could see a little bit of shower activity. I think we are going to get light widespread rain south of San Francisco. Temperatures staying steady. As we get into the weekend, looking good. Low 70s in the south bay, 60s in San Francisco. East bay valleys. Im going to talk about the thunderstorms in my next report. Back to you, scott and kris. Well be back in just a minute. Lubitz. How is that for a warriors celebration . Even before last nights big playoff game against memphis, steph curry officially received the hardware for most valuable player. He looks a little uncomf