Temperatures 60s to low 70s. Were already watching this overturn accident in san jose southbound 101 to the connector to southbound guadalupe parkway. Well reelly close to the airport there but i know its in the final clearing stages now so fortunately were not seeing any major delays around the bay area. Live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. So far its clear into San Francisco. Well have a full wrapup coming up. It is 4 31 now. Police say a woman was kidnapped in vallejo and is possibly being held for ransom right now. 30yearold Denise Huskins was taken early yesterday on kirkland avenue on mare island. Her car was found at another location. Fbi has now been called in for help. But people are not saying why they think there could be a ransom. Huskins is a physical therapist at Kaiser Hospital in vallejo. Well have more on this story coming up in a live report in our next halfhour. A kidnap suspect is behind bars this morning thanks to a quickthinking of a high school student. Turns out she wasnt the only target, too. The girl was walking alone on lone tree way in antioch yesterday morning to deer valley high says the man offered her a ride and she fled. After police put out the word another girl stepped forward. She says the same thing happened to her last month. 21yearold man is now in custody. This morning, San Francisco police are searching for an escaped prisoner. The man broke free at about 8 45 last night as sheriffs deputies were moving in the area of fifth and folsom streets. He is latino 54 with long hair. He ditched his jail issued orange jumpsuit and was wearing blue boxers underneath. The suspect had been arrested nine months earlier on a weapons charge. Young mother is dead after being crushed by 20 tons of gravel in martinez. A truck tipped over and dumped the gravel on the womans car on shell avenue yesterday. Christin ayers has the very latest now from the scene. Reporter a martinez womans body carried away from the scene of a deadly accident. Contractors told us construction crews were helping lindsey back out of her driveway when a dump truck tipped 20 pounds of gravel on her car crushing her. Sound like two cars went 80 miles an hour head on in the intersection. Reporter the images from chopper 5 show the damage. A neighbor and others tried to save her even using a backhoe to rip her car door off but it was too late. Thats when the cops were pulling up and took her pulse and determined she was dead. She really loved her daughters. Just a very caring sweet person. Reporter her 4yearold daughter was standing in the driveway and saw it. Family members confirmed lindsey was also 7 weeks pregnant with her second chiles. Her Brother Robert combs told me its an accident that could have been avoided had workers taken the right precautions. We learned crews had been working on these streets on a City Improvement contract subcontracted out to private Companies Including gregs trucking. The owner said the man who was driving the truck had been working for him for 25 years had an accident and was on the verge of retirement. He said it was a freak accident. The wrong moments, place and time. Reporter cal osha is now investigating while lindsey combs friends and families grieve. Christin ayers, kpix 5. We checked the state records and crockett trucking has the latest to haul nonhazardous cargo. Closing arguments this morning in the ellen pao case. She is suing Kleiner Perkins for 16 million. Her attorneys say she was the victim of a male dominated culture at the company and that senior managers retaliated against her when she complained. But Kleiner Perkins says pao twisted the facts and had a history of conflicts with colleagues. Today president obama will meet with afghans president at the white house to talk about the u. S. Potentially leaving about 10,000 troops in afghanistan into next year. Yesterday, the afghan president medical with secretary of state john kerry and others. They are trying to improve relations now that hamid karzai is out of office. One plan is for the u. S. To provide funding for the Afghan Security force. Ted cruz will start a fundraising tour now that he is the first major candidate to declare run for president. Craig boswell reports. Reporter texas senator ted cruz says conservative christians should rise up and restore the promise of america. That is why today, i am announcing that i am running for president of the united states. [ applause and cheers ] reporter he made the formal announcement at Liberty University an evangelical christian college. The 44yearold republican laid out his vision for the next administration calling for a flat tax, securing the borders and ending president obamas healthcare law. Imagine in 2017 a new president signing legislation repealing every word of obamacare [ applause and cheers ] reporter senator cruz gained National Attention in 2013 leading a 16day Government Shutdown as he urged congress to cut off money for the healthcare law. Cruz, a Tea Party Favorite and now the first major candidate in the race, not only criticized obama but took aim at likely gop challengers. Imagine repealing every word of common core. Reporter jeb bush is a defender of the education initiative. The former Florida Governor along with kentucky senator rand paul, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and several others are expected to join cruz in the coming months in a crowded field for the republican nomination. Craig boswell cbs news, washington. It is 4 37. Time for weather and i guess maybe a little sprinkle today . Were not done yet . I was so thrilled yesterday. We saw a half inch of rain in danville. A half inch, thats significant. Today, just a chance of a scattered light shower. Good morning, everybody. Heading out, you know, i wont even carry the umbrella. We have partly to mostly cloudy skies right now looking out towards the bay waters. Look at the waters there. Wow, very glassy, very calm. The winds will whip up later today 10 to 20 but right now calm in the 50s across the board, 50 degrees in santa rosa. Average High Temperature in San Francisco is 62 but instead today topping off with a pair of sixes. Oakland 7 degrees above average. Looking live anywhere from the peninsula to the southern portion of our bay area, under partly sunny conditions, even some clear skies in morgan hill and 71, east of the bay partly cloudy conditions temperatures soaring into the low 70s. The winds up to 20 late day out of the northwest. Its in the northern portion of the bay area where we will see more cloud cover. In fact right now it is cloudy in napa 68 in santa rosa, better chances of a couple of sprinkles across lake county today with cloverdale at 66. We have record warmth heading this way, liz. Well talk about that coming up. At least the roads are not as slick today. The accident count is already smaller than it was by this time yesterday morning. We have a lot of and more definitely than yesterday is roadwork. Caltrans crews very busy now approaching the dublin interchange. Westbound 580 hacienda to san ra home should be wrapped up by 5 00. A touch of slowing near vasco but still clear out of the altamont pass. More roadwork this morning eastbound 92 eastbound side of the san mateo bridge. There was a little bit of overnight roadwork and delay in the eastbound lanes up and over the highrise. You can see they may actually be Holding Traffic a bit. Let me see that shot. You can see where the lanes are blocked eastbound anyway so it doesnt appear to be causing a major backup at 4 39. Thats kcbs traffic. Back to you guys. A terrorizing experience for an elderly woman and her caregiver. A burglary suspect broke into her palo alto home. What followed yesterday was a twohour standoff on elsinor drive. As it unfolded, the woman, in her 90s, and her helper escaped the home without injury. After several attempts to talk the man out police and s. W. A. T. Teams went in. He was safely apprehended and we have concluded this in a safe manner no shots fired. The man was taken into custody inside the garage. Officials in santa cruz are considering banning pot farming in some parts of the county. Kpix 5s devin fehely reports. Reporter sun, sand, surf and lots and lots of pot. Thats the reputation of Santa Cruz County the liberal capital of california. Were trying to cut back on the number of grows because we have seen real impacts to our environments and neighborhoods. Reporter the county supervisor says the countys lax laws and generally laissez faire attitude about any type of marijuana has opened the door to a mix of pot heads, profiteers in parts of the criminal underworld who set up commercial grow operations in the county. He is proposing sweeping new regulations that would crackdown on the countys pot industry. We have had folks moving in from out of the area cutting down trees, diverting streams, using toxic chemicals and growing cannabis primarily for other areas of california. Reporter but this man whose wife depends on medical marijuana to manage the symptoms of multiple sclerosis says he believes the countys crackdown is miss guideed. To outlaw their commercial operations will damage the patient and if my wife cant get that then i have to turn into an illegal guy and, you know, that seems wrong. Reporter the county insists its goal is not to shut down dispensaries but critics warn the plan may leave those businesses without a legal and reliable supply of marijuana. Its a reaction to the illegal grow operations that i think is a little misguided. Reporter breese and his wife feel their right to marijuana might be on the verge of going up in smoke. The supervisor says he will vote for more regulation than a ban but says its increasingly difficult to reading shifting political sands and says he has no idea how his fellow supervisors will vote tomorrow. In Santa Cruz County, devin fehely, kpix 5. The Santa Cruz County board of supervisors will discuss the weed growing issue at todays meeting. 4 41. If you are just joining us this morning, we continue to follow some breaking news out of france. A german airliner carrying 148 people crashed in the french alps. The french president has said it doesnt look like there are any survivors from the crash and well be following this story all morning long. And a heads up for homeowners. The expensive upgrade you could soon have to make if you want to sell your house. San Francisco Police chief greg suhr was on the hot seat last night during a Heated Community meeting over an officerinvolved shooting. Kpix 5s andria borba has details. Reporter with the family of alice brown watching San Francisco police chief greg suhr released details into tuesday nights officer involved shooting at pine and van ness. The official narrative that brown tried to back over plainclothes officers in a stolen zipcar and took off hitting multiple cars and driving up on the sidewalk before officers fired the fatal shots but that story was challenged by people who said they were there. One of first cars she hit was bumper cars, i was terrified. What you said was not true, its not true reporter a crowd tired of officerinvolved shootings in the city were vocal in their officers to the police chief and the department. [ screaming ] [ inaudible ] quit your job, retire maam, maam, you had a question . Reporter alices family retained the office of bay area civil rights attorney john burruss to investigate her death. There is some suggestion that the officers had not properly identified themselves as officers and were plainclothes officers and thus them she was frightened. Reporter the town hall quickly devolved in protes before it was cut short by chief suhr. Andria borba San Francisco. In 2008 officers shot a schizophrenic woman after she threatened them with a knife. Teresa sheehan survived and then sued the city. Supreme Court Justices are deciding whether police should take special precautions if they know a suspect is mentally ill. A ruling is expected this year. A debate is heating up around whether homes on the market should have woodburning fireplaces. The bay area air Quality Management district has created a proposal that would force homeowners to retrofit their homes with gas fireplaces if they are selling to reduce the public exposure to smoke but it can cost 3,000 or more for the retrofit. The Real Estate Association is against the proposal. It is 4 46. A full check of weather. A half inch of rain. Im sensing a little bit of a cold. Right here, yeah. A cold front. [ laughter ] how are you feeling . Im okay. Are you hanging in there . Michelle im hanging in there. The throat is hanging in there. Six boxes of tissue. You need any tea, let me know. We have the cold in here. We have some very mild conditions out the door this morning. Good morning, everybody. Lets call on our hidef Doppler Radar because we had rain yesterday and a lot of rain in the northwestern part of the state of california this morning. Picking up light showers around sacramento. Thats about it. North bay you have a chance of a scattered showers today. Otherwise sun and clouds everywhere. Record highs by friday. That is the precipitation falling apart at the seams as it skims across the northern half of the state of california just barely to the south of our rain line just barely for the most part High Pressure continuing to build in as it does so well have temperatures slightly above average. 69 in sacramento. Our temperatures in the 60s and low 70s. Northwest breeze 10 to 20. The extended forecast there you have it. The record warmth by thursday and friday. Dry weather pattern through monday. Thats a look at your morning weather. Liz . Okay. Ill take it, thank you, roberta. Lets see. Out the door, i just saw the zipper crews go back. They are heading northbound now so they are out of camera view but they are getting another southbound lane open on the Golden Gate Bridge. No windshield wipers necessary. Heres our sensors along the peninsula. Heading through the Los Altos Hills southbound 280 el monte road an accident is blocking one lane according to chp. 101 is quiet into san jose. This overnight accident happened. But chp says everything is good to go now so no delay there. Bay bridge toll plaza same thing we havent seen much in the way of major delays. We hit a little overnight roadwork past Treasure Island but it shouldnt slow you down much and is scheduled to wrap up. A hiker died when a cliff gave way on the marin county coast over the weekend. The cliff she was standing on collapsed at arch rock near point reyes. Chopper 5 flew over whats left of the trail. You can see that gaping hole down there. Mark kelly on how friends are remembering a dedicated teacher. Reporter friends of nancy blum call her mary poppins, say she was awesome woman who cherishe children. The preschool closed grieving her unexpected death. It literally collapsed. Reporter saturday evening at point reyes nancy with her boyfriend at her side was hike the scenic bear valley trail. It was here a wellknown lookout called arch rock where the trail under their feet suddenly collapsed sending the two of them plummeting 70 feet down a sheer cliff. Nancy died before even getting to the hospital, says a parks spokesman. I have never seen something where the ground has just collapsed under somebodys feet. Reporter days earlier when cracks started appearing long the trail park Officials Say they put up these signs warning hikers that the cliffside was brittle. The area underneath where people was standing was probably eroded. Reporter those who knew nancy are upset saying warning signs were not enough. The trail should have been closed. Its closed now. But far too late for nancy blum and the preschool that will have to open up without her. In San Francisco, mark kelly, kpix 5. 4 50. You might be using it good morning. 4 52. Taking a tour around the bay area today, temperatures slightly above normal under a partly sunny sky along the peninsula. Highs upper 60s, low 70s. 71 degrees today in danville with sun cloud mix. It will be breezy and cloudy in the northern portion of the bay area in the 60s. A slight chance of rain in windsor in the mid60s. What a difference a morning makes. This is a live look at the Richmond San Rafael bridge approach all dry and no cars. Wheres all the traffic . Somewhere around the bay area. But if you dont want to get caught in any delay you can always ride mass transit because everything is on time. A check of kcbs traffic, its all coming up. Theyre coming, liz, theyre coming. A waitress in anaheim is recovering after four people ditched their tab and ran her over with their car. Some Surveillance Video shows the waitress chased down and confronted the customers in the parking lot where they ran over her. She was knocked unconscious. We made eye contact. And they left it all, they just drove at that point. I knew they werent going to stop so i tried to move out of the way. By then, it was too late. Her coworkers say it is a miracle she is okay. Yesterday deputies arrested the customers at a nearby motel. Check your freezer. Amies kitchen is recalling some of its frozen products containing spinach. The Petaluma Company is voluntarily recalling nearly 74,000 cases of its microwave dinners like veggie lasagna. They may contain listeria. So far no reports of any illnesses and we have a link to the full recall list on our website, kpix. Com. A popular weed killer could cause cancer. Reporter nick janes on the warning by the world health organization. Reporter on this ranch we use about 5. 5 gallons o