Up over to the scene. The second video, well show you also, happened in that backup approaching 237, right here. Theres a motorcycle crash, driver in the lane, turns out a deadly crash. The reason its a wide shot, you dont need to see more detail. I want to show the traffic pattern and activity in the center area. We still have two lanes blocked. I want to show you a live look. Fremont camera to the north, things are jammed up past the truck scales, jammed from auto mall park to the scene of the deadly crash where the Investigation Continues. Let me show you on the map how things are playing out here. Looking at southbound 880 from auto mall parkway, past mission boulevard to the camera shot shy of 237. Thats where the Investigation Continues south of there. Great recovery because of the lanes cleared from the tractortrailer earlier on in the commute. Weve had a couple of scattered incidents but nothing other than than thats the big backup combined with compression we typically see. Big concern is some of the we want everybody else to be safe, watch for emergency crews there. Zoom out to the rest of the bay, smooth flow of traffic. Palo alto had a late crash off of 101 but all lanes cleared. Another incident in that area, serious as well. Sadly, its been a deadly morning, mike. Thank you. On the peninsula a bicyclist struck and killed by a car outside palo alto this morning. It happened right around 7 00 near the intersection of page mall road and christopher lane. California high pay patrol says a car traveling westbound when it collided with the bicyclist. No information released about the bicyclist. A fire at a possiblelar sunnyvale restaurant. Crews arrived to the restaurant it was smoking. Firefighters managed to put out the flames. It was centered in the roof but not before it managed to spread to a nearby business. No one is injured. The restaurant is closed due to smoke damage. The cause of the fire is under investigation. A process that feels like weve been watching in slow motion, old bay bridge span on its last legs and a big implosion set to owe baoff a blt to get rid of the bridge in seconds, rather than months. Stephanie chuang previewing the implosion. Just wrapped up. This was supposed to be happen temporarily interrupting traffic this weekend but now pushed back . Reporter it has. Originally november 7th on saturday. Now pushed back a week to the following saturday, the 14th. Caltrans says because explosives, the way they are packaged by the subcontractor, did not meet caltrans specifications. The first time this happened where you have implosion of a structure that caved into itself na a sensitive marine setting. That was a big concern for folks. Heres an animation. Detonating under 600 charges to implode the e3 pier, a fivestory building wa ing weig million pounds. A lot of layers of protection to protect the environment and wildlife, 20 to 30 pound charges off microseconds. Smaller shockwaves. Black mats to contain while bubble curtains protect the surrounding wildlife. Concrete debris set to down fall into a hollow structure under the bay floor. Protecting the requirement was top of mind planning why a november blast date is key. A blast continuation system that knocks down, that knocks down energy shockwave that has potential to threaten the environment. Were also doing in november where most of the marines activity, first life, theyre not there to be threatened. Reporter caltrans says while life watch are in place to protect seals, dolphins, and the fish you, clg tincluding longfi smelt. It suffered lower numbers in the drought. Environmentalists are giving the project the benefit of the doubt but keeping a close eye on impact studies to come in winter and next spring. For the impact when this does happen november 14th, possibly november 14th, it it might be pushed back if weather is not good, if its raining too hard. The chp will shut down the bay bridge, a hard stop between the toll plaza and treasure island. And that supposed to last 15, 30 minutes, thats the hope. And there will be plenty of officers there. Also the flight path closed the night before and boater kept 1500 feet away for safety. But it seems that caltrans is trying to say theres a lot of flexibility. November 14th is what were told now but that could change. Well have to stay tuned to give you the alert, of course, the traffic. Thanks, steph. It will be fluid. Last legs for a piece of bay area history. 11 05. First tuesday of november, election day. Polls open across the bay area. The big ticket races and propositions center heavily on San Francisco. Today, voters could shape the pace of housing growth in San Francisco and determine what kind of blueprint the city uses for Affordable Housing the housing package includes prop a, youve probably seen ads, 300 million housing bond which requires twothirds 30 pass. The new money would go to Affordable Housing. Prop i, temporarily halt market rate building and admission for 18 months, a hot spot in the name of preserving Affordable Housing and not displacing longtime residents. Prop f, regulate shortterm rentals to 75 days instead of 90, impacting air b in b. San mateo county making history with first allmailin election. To increase turnout and cut costs. Voters can drop them off in person or registered voters vote at the San Mateo Election Office or in redwood city. Santa clara is quiet. The only voters with issues that they had to decide are in los altos. Orchard School District and union School District, three counties have no elections scheduled today. And of course, complete election coverage, all bay area counties, head to nbcbayarea. Com. Well be tracking Election Results on our free app. Of course, on twitter and facebook. Election has been one of the big stories, so has the weather last couple of days. The rain clouds are clearing up. So is the mess from yesterdays rainstorm. Mudslides slammed livermore hillsides causing dangerous conditions for drivers. Today in the bays bob redell in livermore. Roads back open . Reporter for the commuters who use patterson to get into livermore, patterson path has reopened here at cross road after mud from a nearby hill poured on to the windy twolane road during the heavy rainstorm. The slide made the road impassable, stranded at least one driver, Alameda CountyWorks Department brought in heavy equipment to remove the mess. Rains harder than we can handle. Once the hail started in, lightning, we had to close the roads for safety reasons. Reporter this is what it looked like a few miles from here, in the hills southeast of livermore, where a mudslide closed that road as well. Still closed according to chp at this morning. You might recall, that area burned this summer and left the hillside bare and susceptible to erosion especially during heavy rains. Its not just a problem near livermore but the rest 0 the bay area as well. You can check out the map from the California Geological survey, the redder the area, the greater threat of a mudslide. Unfortunately, theres a lot of red on that map. Here in livermore, bob redell, nbc bay area news. Thank you very much. In a decision that many have been anticipating for weeks now, weve learned the struggling 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is going to the bench. 49ers inside with Comcast Sportsnet confirmed that the niners are going to start gabbert against the falcons sunday. This has been a steady decline in performance for kaepernick who, remember, led the 49eres to the super bowl only two years ago. Kaepernick managed to throw for only six touchdowns over the seasons first eight games. They have Colin Kaepernick and its pretty clear, they dont consider him a 14. 3 million quarterback, what hes scheduled to earn next season. It definitely does signal that the 49ers plan to move on from Colin Kaepernick next season. Kaepernick has no guaranteed money in his contract after this year. More changes could be coming later today at the envelope trade deadline. One quleer year to go until president ial election, a new poll shows ben carson and Hillary Clinton surging. Nbc Peter Alexander has the latest. Reporter dr. Ben carson signing books and shaking hands but leaving opponents shaking heads. Brandnew nbc news wall street journal poll shows cancer surging into the lead among gop primary voters 29 , highest number for any republican this season. Six points ahead of donald trump. Carson support strongest among evangelical and fee may voters. 77 of republicans could see themselves supporting him, just 60 for trump. I continue to do what im doing and that is to tell the truth and talk about the issues that are important to the people. Still, trump is lashing out at another wouldbe rival, senator marco rubio, whose debate performances volted him into third base nationally and critical early primary state of new hampshire. I think hes an overrated person. I dont think hes going to make it. Reporter trump dismissed rubio as potential running mate and criticizing rubios poor attendance record. Marco doesnt show up to vote, he doesnt do things that youre supposed to do. Reporter bush remains stagnant in single digits, in fifth, promising a political reset. I can fix it. Reporter a glimpse into all of the advice, pick up his game. Ditch the glasses, get rid of the purple striped tie. I like this tie. It only cost 20 bucks. Reporter meanwhile, the Republicans United front pushing to change upcoming debate format already fraying with donald trump insisting hell negotiate with network as loan and john kasich, carly fiorina, Chris Christie saying they wont sign on to a all right demanding changes. The president mocking them all last night. And then it turns out they cant handle a bunch of cnbc moderators. If you cant. Handle those guys, you know, i dont think that chinese and the russians are going to too worried about you. That was Peter Alexander. Easy for him to laugh about it, he doesnt have to run again. Up next, 11 00, the push to legalize recreational pot in california. The familiar face backing a new initiative. Plus, looking up to the sky. Google was to deliver your packages via drone. How soon this could become a reality, next. Im mightologist kari hall. A beauty of a day, feels like fall after yesterdays soaker. So we have more rain in the forecast coming up after seeing highs in the low 70s. Laura cu theres still a lot of mystery surrounding an apparent freeway shooting that welcome back, everyone. There is still a lot of mystery surrounding an apparent freeway shooting that critically injured a man in san pablo. Police in first got a call after 4 00 p. M. About a shootingen interstate 80. Officers found a man inside a bulletriddled car, stopped on the shoulder of the road. Traffic backed up, as police and the chp investigate it. Its hard to say what could have happened at this point. I mean, so many options that you dont know what could have been out there. Could there have been a break in traffic in a million witnesses . We dont know at this point. Investigators right now say they dont have a lot to go on. Theyre still not sure if this is road rage, a targeted shooting, or a random act of violence. A familiar figure throwing now not just his weight but his cash behind a new push to legalize Recreational Marijuana in the state of california. Napster cofounder shawn parker among key backers filing yesterday for next novembers election. Allow adults buy up to an ounce of marijuana at licensed outlets and dining a 15 tax. He helped found napster and became facebooks first president. Voters in ohio going to decide whether to legalize marijuana in that state. Its a ballot measure, getting well inform kno wellknown names trying to push the ballot through. Reporter if that measure issues three passes, ohio would become the fifth state to legalize marijuana for Recreational Use for those over 21, for medical purposes. That would also make the 29 acres of land behind me a potentially lucrative place to grow pot. Its land one ohio native hasek pressed interest in buying and today, hes doing what he can to convince voters to say yes. Im nick lachey, ohio is my home. Reporter the reality tv and boy band star is hoping to cash in with voters in a campaign that has him sing praises of legalized marijuana. Proud to be a part of a movement thats going to create jobs, reinvigorate our economy and improve the safety of our communities. Reporter lachey, with fash designer and nba great Oscar Robertson part of a small group backing responsible ohio, claims legalizing pot would create 30,000 jobs in state and spur 1 billion market. The catch, the constitutional amendment would give exclusive righted to all of the marijuana grown and sold at 1100 stores in the state to just ten groups, one is lacheys. Its a good deal for nick lachey and rich cronies who would have control over the monopoly but a bad deal for ohio. Reporter that concern sparked edition of another ballot measure, issue 2, prevent any constitutional amendment from creating a monopoly. If both pass, there could be a conflict. Most polling shows voters are split on the issue of legalization. I care very deeply about the people here. Reporter with wellfunded proponents like lacheys group to frame it as a business decision, wouldnt that could make them very, very rich. Rich folks are investing a lot of money to not only change the system, create lots of jobs, 30,000 jobs, and again rate 554 million a year. Reporter nick lachey declined our request for oncamera interview. The city of hudson, ohio, did confirm to nbc news this land behind me is zoned for agriculture use and responsible ohio, that group backing the ballot measure in which lachey is an investing has confirmed it is interested in buying this land and if that happens, and the measure passes, it would be one of those ten sites across the state of ohio with exclusive commercial rights for growing and then selling the pot. One other quick note, lachey, who is as we saw pushing the measure in ohio and did grow up here, cant vote in the election today because he revealed in a recent interview he is registered to vote in the state of california. For nbc news, erica hill, hudson, ohio. Thank you. Google wants to start using drones to deliver packages. The tech giant is in talks with the faa, to create an air Traffic Control system for drones. It would use internet and Cellular Technology to coordinate unmanned flights at low altitudes below 500 feet. Google hoping to start the delivery sometime in 2017. Video of a google drone dropping off a small actage in arizona went viral last month on twitter. I dont know about nick lachey, i dont want anything to do with nick lachey you dont. Love that guy, big fan. He was part of 98 degrees, the boy band. It is anything but 98 degrees outside right now. A cold front come through. We could have the google drone drop off boots. Yeah, you may need them. Stepping outside here, running back in, i need a sweater because it is much cooler. And its our first taste of fall as we get a live look at belvedere. Clear blue skies, cool weather. Speaking of cool, a live look at truckee after getting snow in the sierra. Beautiful. Lake tahoe also seeing that from our live Weather Underground camera. So a lot of the cameras showing at least a pretty good coating of snow. We had a good coating of rain. We had in san jose over an inch of rain. Now the daily rainfall record was. 3. During november we get an inch and a half. We almost got the rain that we should have throughout the whole month. And in San Francisco, we have. 4, did not set a new daily rainfall record. And just a drop in the bucket but its better than nothing. Livermore, you had a lot of rain there, almost an inch and a half. And the daily rainfall record yesterday was 3 4 of an inch. During the month you get two inches. Half of an inch of rain to go. And there is more rain in the forecast. If you didnt get much. A look now at San Francisco. And the temperatures that are much cooler than weve seen recently, in the mission district, 61 degrees, coal valley, 6 on presidio 63. Bigger picture, were in the 50s to around 61, 62 degrees. Winds will be gusty as we go through the day, making it feel a lot cooler, too. Coming in from the north and at times sustained winds at 25, 30 miles an hour. Could be higher gusts especially along the immediate coast. As we go hour by hour in oakland we stay in the mid60s throughout the afternoon and once again with breezy winds you want to a sweater. You may be putting on boots for the first time this season and dropping back into the 50s as we head into the 10 00 hour. A look at all of the microclimates. We have temperatures in the 60s, 65 degrees in saratoga, foster city as well as mission district. Heading into the north bay, we have a couple of spots hitting low 70s and trivalley but generally staying in the 60s, which is cooler than average for the beginning of november and we keep the cooler than normal weather heading through the rest of the week in san jose. Heres a look at the trend you see low 70s heading into thursday into the weekend. Before we start to watch that next weather system that could bring in some more rain. Ill detail that coming up later. For now, back to you, sam and laura. Freshened everything up. Next at 11 00, turf trouble. The mounting cancer concerns over the artificial athletic fields. Mounting worry for parents over aritficial turf made of re a mounting worry for parents over artificial turf made out of recycled tires. Is it safe for children with bo worried about a link to cancer mounting, scientists are weighing into it. Holding study sessions and conducting a third study on the material. The first study session done in berkeley. Concerned parents are eager foreanswers. A kid from her club, goalie, has leukemia, and a club that she used to play on two years ago, just died in august. There are more than 250 chemicals in crumb rubber, artificial turf, already been about three dozen studies and to date, they