Your option to avoid it is the longer way 680, take 780 back. You dont want to do that. Exercise extreme caution. Its been a busy and tragic morning. We are covering it as breaking news overnight. Those two separate crashes plaguing an east bay highway. More pictures to show you. First an ambulance slammed into the back of a construction truck on interstate 80. Hours later, a fourcar pileup leaving at least one person dead. Bob joining us live from the scene. About a minute ago all four lanes of eastbound 80 before were shut down. In the past few moments, chp opened up the number four lane. This is because of this accident involving a big rig and four other vehicles. This happened around 3 20 this morning. Chp is not sure if this was related to the backup of that ambulance accident you were mentioning. What happened was this involved a big rig and it ran over a small mazda car killing the driver inside that car. There were three other vehicles involved in this accident. The people in those vehicles were treated and released. Chp not sure if this is related to the video you are seeing right now of the accident that took place at 1 30. An ambulance with two people inside ran into the back of a construction vehicle just before the carquinez bridge. There is a lot of construction going on there slammed into the back of that. There were no patients inside but the two people in the ambulance, a nurse and driver were both taken to the hospital with major injuries, considered lifethreatening at the time. The fire captain does expect them to pull through. Given how severe this accident was, it took 45 minutes to remove them from that ambulance. They were on their way to houston davis to pick up a neo natal patient to bring him back to the city. Two accidents, one at the carquinez has been cleared. One going to wait for a coroner to remove the body stuck underneath the big rig to get all three lanes opened here. Three lanes shut down eastbound 80. Bob redell for today in the bay. Very tragic news. New this morning, Police Investigating how a car overturned and ended up in a south bay creek. This happened in Mountain View in the area of san antonio road and terminal boulevard. The car had been pulled out but there was no sign of a driver. Police are saying nothing about what might have happened or if anyone was injured. 5 03. Another Homicide Investigation under way in san jose. This is a third one in the matter of days. Officers say a father was stabbed to death by his own son. It happened at the Milton Mobile Home park at 9 00. The son was taken into custody. Well stay on top of this story throughout the morning. Kris sanchez will join us at 5 30. Frustrated by no leads in an old murder case, Police Released this video of a group of eight men on surveillance video. Investigators suspect they may have stabbed Michael Maynard to death. An arrest in a double shooting case out of berkeley. A license plate reader tracked the suspects car to a dennys parking lot in sacramento. They found Anthony Burton sleeping inside wanted for the march 16th shooting of two people. Both victims survived. Police have not given a motive for the shooting, but burton will be in court today. The trial begins monday for the man accused of killing sierra lamar, four years after the teenagers disappearance. Police arrested garcia shortly after lamar went missing while heading to school in 2012. Prosecutors say physical evidence proves torres kidnapped and killed lamar. Her body still has not been found. Those who spent years searching for lamar are looking for closure. We are eager for justice. We are eager for closure for the family. The murder trial will take place at the Santa Clara Hall of justice in san jose. The defense may try to move the case. New details on the socalled drifters accused of killing a hiker and canadian tourist. Their lawyers are trying to lock the media out of preliminary hearings. Attorneys claim the News Coverage is threatening to taint the jury pool. Judge will make a ruling may 9 when the hearings begin. All three suspects are accused of robbing and killing andre kerry and steve carter last year. It is 5 06. A concord dental assistant facing child molestation charges. Investigators say he molested a sedated 8yearold girl at the dental office where he worked. More victims have come forward. He remains in jail in martinez on 8 million bail. A San Jose High School track coach andy garcia will be in court accused of having sexual relationships with two students at mt. Pleasant high school. Garcia will be in court for a plea hearing. After the smoke clears, mostly good vibes at yesterdays 420 celebration in San Francisco, but one man who briefly triggered panic may not face charges. Close to 10,000 people turning out for yesterdays celebration of all things marijuana in Golden Gate Park. That momentary scare happened about 6 00 last night. Park workers say a man pulled out a gun briefly sending people running. We are told shots were never fired and police took the man and the gun into custody. Other concerns had to do mostly with lots of litter left behind. The city could come in here and do something, you know, get things cleaned up. Trash is everywhere i really dont like it. Workers are expected to finish cleanup this morning. Well bring you a live report in our next half hour. Sunny vibes and solarpowered plane will be arriving in Mountain View in the future. Its been traveling since march of last year but has been stranded in hawaii because of a fried battery. Its been fix and the swiss adventurer is expected to leave honolulu this morning. Journey to the bay area could take three days depending on the sun. That is something that is very important to that flight. Hopefully it will breakthrough the clouds. Theres been some clouds and fog this morning. Clouds this morning keeping our temperatures up. It doesnt feel as cool as it has roos eventually. Well have cooler air moving in with this cold front as our next weather system approaches. It brings clouds today, showers tomorrow. A look at the timeline for the rain. We start to see spotty rain late tonight right around midnight. We could have a couple of very brief light downpours. The heavier stuff arrives early tomorrow morning at 6 00. Its moving through santa rosa, approaching San Francisco and moving closer to the south bay. Well have a couple of rounds of that into the day tomorrow. A soggy start through the weekend. Ill talk more about this, how much rain and snow in the sierra all coming up. Lets head over to mike for an update on the carquinez bridge. I dont want it to appear im on the side of the road. You see the right lane opened there. This is a deadly crash. We are tracking the activity. Well get out to the map. Well show you what we are talking about. Getting out of hercules over the carquinez bridge. Traffic gets by one lane. Giants with a 12 45 game today that will mean midday traffic. The bay bridge toll plaza will be a busy scene midday. Maybe 20 minutes from now well see this probably fill in here as the meter lights get turned on. The next chapter in the scandal of the volkswagen diesel cars begins today in San Francisco. What might come out in federal court . We knew Silicon Valley paid well, but man does it pay well. Well look over the numbers in business. Mike live laura ots what happens today in the south bay. May change the the freeway opened one lane in crockett toward the carquinez bridge. You are seeing the aftermath of the deadly crash. The second of two crashes in the area well give you the update coming up. Well keep checking back with you. What happens today in the south bay may change the direction of the high speed rail project. Theyll adopt a new business man and consider the buildout plan. Instead of building the first leg south, the line might be stretched north initially to san jose. Rail leaders believe a northbound system would be more viable and can easily be built. A settlement is near between uber and passengers who rely on guide dogs. Advocates for the blind have accused uber driver discriminating against blind passengers and their fourlegged helpers. They filed suit in 2014. Uber denied those claims. The chronicle talked with an aattorney who said an agreement will be reached before the trial gets started. The scandal offer volkswagens diesel cars moving to a San Francisco courtroom today. Volkswagen expected to announce an agreement with the u. S. Government. The a. P. Is reporting the german car maker would pay over 1 billion. The money would be used to compensate owners, about 600,000 diesel cars. Volkswagen admits it cheated on an emission test. We have known it pays to work in Silicon Valley. New numbers show the highest paying companies in the country are here. Tech pays well. Thats why we push that education and costs a lot. Juniper Networks Tops the list of Tech Companies when it comes to median pay. These guys pay 17 00,000 in total compensation each year, median. Juniper makes networking equipment. Jun per number three total compensation list but the highest in the bay area we are all over the top 25, google, alphabet, vmware, amazon, guidewire in foster city just over 150,000. Visa, facebook, twitter and box tied at 150,000. Walmart ecommerce in san bruno. Alphabet will report profits today. Thats the Umbrella Company for google. We care more about the cars, the rest of the companies under the umbrella, the moon shot things. Lets check the rest of the news before the bell with landon dowdy. Markets look to build on wednesdays gains. Features pointing to a higher open. Dow and s p with a fourday winning streak. The Financial Sector leading the way. A ton of earnings coming our way including biogen, general motors, under armour and alphabet known as google. 18,096. Nasdaq up seven. What is a news update without a tesla update . Elon musk says the company has reservations for 400,000 of the new model 3. You can say you have a lot of reservations about these cars, that is a good thing. Is there a cutoff at some point . Production is going to be really difficult. That is an excellent question. Im going to speculate here. If there were a cutoff, it should have come a long time ago. Now theres Something Like eight years of production out. They should have cut this off. They could have the new technology for a new car by the time your first car arrives. Thank you. Check this out. A secret tunnel. Between mexico and the u. S. , eight football fields long complete with a rail system,2 ventilation, lights and an elevator. Smugglers use it to transport drugs to san diego. Two tons of cocaine, seven tons of marijuana seized. Authorities say the drugs have a total street value 22 million. Six people have been arrested. 5 17. Are longer showers and greener lawns part of the summer forecast . They are joining the call to help make that happen. Bay area reservoirs are now at or aboveaverage levels. So is the sierra snow pack. Water districts are arguing californias drought emergency can be styled back or lifted. Theyve gotten a lot of rainfall. They may have reservoirs that are filling. I can argue both cases. Ive yet to see a simple way of moving forward. The state waterboard will not make a final decision on summer wear rationing until next month. Wake up to the sweet sounds of this, the piano keys, the visuals, a view of earth from space in ultrahighdefinition resolution. This stunning video was shot from the International Space station. It shows clouds and ocean. Nasa launched a new Television Service that transmits in 4k resolution. That is very cool. Very soothing. The only thing is we are trying to wake people up and that could put you to sleep. Get your coffee, your forecast. Kari hall joining us right now. Temperatures are starting out nice and mild. We are getting ready for changes in the forecast. We had high heat to start out the week. Cooler temperatures on the way. You see this swirl of clouds . That will bring in clouds today and showers tomorrow. Now its 60 in San Francisco. 59 in the south bay. East bay at 7 00. Lets drop in and get a closer look. 55 in pleasanton and seminole. Castro valley 58. 56 in the north bay compared to 40s we had a couple of days ago and yesterday morning, a look at the highs today. 70s today. More sun for the south bay than youll see in the peninsula as well as San Francisco. Mostly cloudy skies there. Also a lot of clouds in the north bay. A chance of spotty showers late this evening. We are going to go from the 70s for inland temperatures to the 60s along the coast. The 60s shift inland tomorrow as that rain moves in. It will be cooler and start to rebound just a bit as we head into the weekend. Also as we have mild weather we have the risk of rip currents today. Make sure youre careful. We could have sneaker waves and large storm breaks. Well have snow in the sierra. Winter storm watch in effect for tomorrow and also high winds. Winter weather watch as we are looking at four to eight inches of snow above 6,000 feet. There may be higher at the peaks. The snowfall totals for this weekend give us about 45 inches. South lake tahoe could measure close to a foot of snow by this time next week. A lot of snow in the forecast. Scattered showers here. It clears out in time for saturday and sunday. Temperatures coming down, especially on sunday with snow showers firing up in the sierra. Well have cooler temperatures and breezy conditions here in the bay area. Mike, you have a car fire going on . It was over castro valley. A car fire on the shoulder with somebody in the car. Chp was like, its there, no big deal. That means no injuries. 580 we do see slowing at the altamont pass. Heading up to the carquinez bridge. The second of the two crashes weve been talking about. Deadly crash still blocks all but one lane. Your slow lane gets by heading towards the carquinez bridge. A slower drive on the approach. Your option to that slow drive, youve got a lot more movement eastbound highway. 780 back across. Just tough it out. A little slowing out of hercules. 808 with headlights here. We had construction there in the center of the roadway. We now have the northbound side with bridge clearing putting in the Center Divide getting ready to do more work over there. Thank you, mike. A new face coming to the 20 bill. The historymaking move that will make Harriet Tubman part of our u. S. Currency. Frontrunners after winning new york. Political pundits say it would be tough for Hillary Clinton to lose the primary now. It is full speed ahead for front runners after winning new york. It would be tough for Hillary Clinton to lose now. Bernie sanders team admitting its an uphill battle. Im going to be the nominee. Republican john kasich not giving up saying he is going all what it to the Gop Convention in cleveland. Trump is expected to win the bulk of next tuesdays primary. A milestone for the United States civil rights icon Harriet Tubman will be the new face of the 20 bill. Tracie potts live in washington with more on this landmark decision. Good morning. It was a big announcement from the Treasury Department. Jack lew saying this is exciting and starting to bring in the story of our countrys history. Harriet tubman who fought for fee freedom, she fought for the right for women to vote. She will be featured on the 20 bill. It was originally the 10 the Treasury Department was looking to change. That was a lot of backlash about alexander hamilton. Groups wanted him to stay. Now hamilton stays on the 10. On the back of the 10 will be a group of women suffrageates. Its not going to happen soon. Its going to take until 2020 just to get the design on these bills. They have a lot of technology they put in to prevent people from counterfeiting. After that well start to see them in production. Trying to nail down a date, no success on that. The Treasury Department isnt saying when you could see these bills in your hand. Thank you. Well wait for that. Thank you. Breaking news in the east bay. Im bob redell. Live to crockett where three lanes of eastbound 80 shut down because of a fatal accident. Im kris sanchez in san jose. Police Department Arrested a suspect in a deadly stabbing last night. Why it may be little comfort to the community. Breaking overnight two crashes in a matter of hours on interstate 80 one involving a Childrens Hospital ambulance. Breaking overnight two crashes in a mile. One involved a Childrens Hospital ambulance. We are live with the very latest. Good morning. Thank you for joining us on this thursday morning. Lets get a check of our weather this morning, fair weather maybe . More clouds this morning. Its now in the mid 50s. Even some of those 60s starting out the day. As we go in the rest of the day, temperatures will hold steady and slowly rising into the afternoon. Not a major swing. More clouds mixing in with the sun. Breezy winds. Also looking out for the chance of spotty light rain in north bay before the whole bay area gets covered with the rain into the day tomorrow. Ill talk about that rain and what it looks like for the weekend. The bay bridge is the biggest civil backup we have now. Metering lights on. Lets show you the map. Youll see there are no other major issues south of the bay bridge. There is your morning commute. This is atypical, the amount of slowing south of the carquinez bridge. As far as interstate 80, this is westbound. Spectators going by the crash there. That is unusual when the event started early. Bob redell is out there. A few minutes ago yo