The metering lights are active and we are starting to back up in the westbound direction. Highway 4 has a little bit of slowing. 580 as we mentioned a slow from to 05 into the alta month but the past is looking good. Now to our top story. The arrest of state senator leland yee. In a corruption scandal. Yee who made gun control a signature issue of his campaign is accused of connecting people with gun traffickers in exchange for campaign donations. Among other kron4s mike pelton is live, outside of the senators house with the latest in this case this morning. He returned home and he did not have anything to say. He just went inside. He was arraigned on charges, his name as one of the biggest to appear. He is one of 26 people were named in this complaint. They stated that he traded political favors in return for thousands of dollars for campaign donations. He also use this money to raise for his running for secretary of state. He dealt with day undercover fbi agent, he was released on bail and his attorney briefly spoke to us last night. My job was to get him released, i was able to accomplish that in the future will hold a lot of work, but that is it for today. This criminal complaint stated that many years, one against the senator is that back in 2012 he agreed to make a call with the department of health under consideration for a client that was on the cover for the fbi. He would receive a 10,000 Campaign Contribution and they said that he did make that call. Here is facing charges of conspiracy and to illegally import fire arms in addition of six counts of defrauding citizens. He is due back in court on monday. Continuting our Team Coverage now of the Corruption Case. Kron 4s will tran is live in front of the federal courhouse. He has more on two other people being charged in this case. One is chinatown gangster raymond shrimp boy chow. And the other is political consultant keith jackson. Lined these two are still in federal custody. Obviously, he was the key arrests but there are others including 24 other suspects. I will show you a picture of bremen. For the past 10 years, he has been crafting this image that he was a changed man, he was a federal prison for eight years on gun trafficking charges. Gun related charges. He was released in 2003 and they stated that he convinced many respected lawmakers including the mayor as well as the u. S. Ministe sinister feinstein thate was changed. There arrested him on multiple charges trying to launder money to undercover agents between march 2011 and december 2013. If youre talking about three months ago when it ended. Most of the suspects are linked to the chinatown brothers association. They stated that chow runs this. Keith jackson, he was the top education man in San Francisco, the president of the border education. He was arrested, accused of conspiracy to guns and trafficking, a scheme for murder for hire, he was a close associate of chow and yee. They accused him of trying to solicit money from undercover agents. Even though, he no longer was eligible, after he lost towards him for the Mayoral Election back in 2012. There were both tried to solicit money. Also, this goes into what people have claimed that for years that he is a paid to play politician and that if you give him money, he will do anything for you. Coming up 6 30 a. M. I will get reaction from city hall as well as sacramento. They had no idea what was going on and so does they found out, they dropped their jaws. Is said this is sadness, shot, and theyre angry. The fbi was all over Northern California yesterday. 28 search warrants were served. Heres a map of where those searches took place. In Sacramento State senators yees office was searched. Well continue to follow the developments online you can read the full criminal complaint against yee and the 2dozen others involved. Also profiles of state senator yee and raymond shrimp boy chow. And an anticrime video with chow telling kids not to get underworld. Its all on our website. Kron4dotcom. Still ahead on the kron four morning news. Nearly 100 people still missing this morning from that deadly landslide in washington state. Why rescue crews may have to give up on finding more bodies. Plus, well tell you why you might have to keep a close eye on your luggage the next time you fly out of lax. Heres a live look at the san mateo bridge. Traffic is running okay. Welcome back. Here is a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza, there is a wind advisory in effect and the metering lights have been activated. 14 minute drive time in to San Francisco. As many as 90 people are still missing this morning in oso, washington at the scene of that deadly landslide from nearly a week ago. Search crews just found another body in the debris overnight. That brings the number bodies found to 25 with 90 still missing. Authorities have acknowledged they might have to leave some victims buried in the debris because the search area, a square mile, is so large and the ground remains unstable. New this morning. A thai satellite has spotted what looks like 300 floating objects in the southern indian ocean. The objects are potentially linked to missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370. However, bad weather forced an Aerial Search of the area to be called off today. A us official says air teams have been beaten up by the severe weather. And visibility is almost zero. We have more local mills coming up. News coming up. At 6 20 a. M. 2 firefighters are dead this morning contract in the basement Apartment Building that went up in flames. At 6 25 a. M. How would you like to see this during your morning commute . We will show you where this spring its presence known. As 6 30 a. M. More on our big story, senator leland yee under arrest for his alleged involvement in a drug, weapons and murder for hire scheme. Welcome back. Continuing our coverage on our big story this morning. The alleged Corruption Case against state senator leland yee. He is accused of drug running, money laundering, and a murder for hire scheme. We want to show you where the fbi searched all over Northern California guest today. Here is a map of those searches. In sacramento, a chp officers stood guard outside of the office during the raid. Defense showed up on 7 00 a. M. They were there until about noon. Please nine packages, peace is a possible evidence were taken. Back in the bay area, and san mattel, a home was are rated near laurel would park. This was on 42nd ave. The feds walked away with marijuana plants, grow lights and other evidence. Several of those searches were in San Francisco. One in chinatown was among the more highprofile locations. The chee kung tong Masonic Organization was raided. Firefighters had to be called into a crack a safe. They had a big circular saw to break into the say that the organization. The feds tough with several pieces of potential evidence. Here at where two more raids were in San Francisco. Is unclear who owns this home on jules avenue near college. Inside that hong, evidence of a marijuana grower was also found. Then in the bay view area, yet another rate. This one was a business. They still inc. On davidson avenue just off a third. A coowner of the company says that he does not know why the search was conducted because they do not know leland yee or raymond chow. The weather is going to be unstable now until the next cold front is expected. So between now and then, every now that we may get a little bit of rain here or there. That is why we are telling you keep your umbrellas handy. Here is future cast 4. As she concedes, possible light rain at primarily along the coast then until we go and noon, it gets interesting because future cast before has the possibility of light rain that is falling. Or perhaps you are already on the road. As we enter the overnight the showers should state scattered. That is what were seeing on future cast 4. Later on we will talk about the extended forecast and a rain possible for early next week. I put my finger on any hot spot if there were any but there is not. Lets take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza where things started to back up just a little bit for the westbound ride. The me realize have been activated. The backup is already reaching the 880 over crossing, 16 minutes. Less than that if youre coming from the san mateo bridge where the westbound ride is 13 minutes from hayward to foster city. If your headed to marin, via the Richmond San Rafael, was filed 580 is still light was no delays. Lets up pitcher east bay traffic, starting first with your ride on the east shore freeway, we have added three minutes, 16 minutes for hercules to berkeley. The same for dublin for southbound 680 and the heaviest, 580 ride is out of tracy, south bay freeway is still looking good in your north they ride is problem free for 1 01 southbound. Drive time is 25 minutes down to the golden gate bridge. Happening today. From dangerous drive to beautiful trail. The old stretch of high way 1 through devils slide re opens today as a coastal trail. The devils slide trail becomes the newest leg of the California Coastal trail. A series of trails stretching along the length of the state. The new trail will be open hikers, bikers and horse back riders. The area features a parking lot, restroom facilities, and a number of benches allowing visitors to sit and enjoy the spectacular views. The end of spring training is here. Tonight at 7 15 the giants and as kick off the spring bay bridge series. The three game series will be the final warm up matches before opening day on sunday. The teams will play a pair of games today and tomorrow at at t park. Then close out the spring in oakland on saturday. The lawyer hired by gov. Chris christie to review a trafficblocking scandal that has engulfed christies administration will release his findings. Randy mastro has scheduled a News Conference thursday to deliver the results. The New York Times reported the review clears christie of involvement in the plot to block traffic in fort lee, a town at the base of the George Washington bridge, apparently to punish a local mayor who didnt endorse christie. The scandal has overshadowed the republican governor, a potential 2016 president ial candidate. Firefighters in boston said that they have never seen a fire travel so fast and escalate so quickly. Right now, they are mourning the loss of two of their colleagues after a fire whipped through a brown stone entrap them in the basement. More than a dozen other firefighters or injured in the blaze, which reached nine alarms in bostons back bay district. Contractors to work at lax are being blamed for stilling baggage and the case goes farther than just the airport. Police serve more than two dozen search warrants and made several arrests as part of their investigation. The warrants were handed out at 25 locations in the loss angeles area. Those data rest of our employees of contract in companies and not the airport itself. Maligned you will recall, this man, george reyes, was arrested last year after an investigation revealed that he was stealing items from passengers luggage is at sfo. The former baggage handler has been ordered to pay 30,000 back to the victims. He pleaded no contest to embezzlement and theft. If you just cannot get enough golf for miley cyrus, a new class at Skidmore College focuses on the former disney star and her influence on pop culture. According to class description, the sociaiology of miley cyrus would use the singer as a lens through which students can explore. The news about race, gender, and identity in the media. Some of the sections of the class are pretty interesting. Coming up on the kron4 newess. Time is running out for the cash strapped ukraine as they are emerging from nearly going into silvo war. Later in the newscast, how your boss may soon have to pay the cost of getting to work every day. Female announcer through sunday at sleep trains big gift event get a 200 best buy gift card with purchase of selected mattress sets. Or, get 24months interestfree financing. Sleep trains big gift event ends sunday. Your ticket to a better nights sleep warm and flaky croissant sandwiches made with fresh egg and melting cheese. So you made some bad decisions last night. Make a good one this morning. Try my. Choose supreme or sausage. Right now theyre 2 for just 3. 50. Cmon cody, lets get some breakfast. You drive. I traded the car for the tattoo. Welcome back. A North Carolina mayor is facing corruption charges has now resigned. If charlotte mayor patrick cannon was arrested yesterday and accused of accepting more than 48,000 in bribes from undercover fbi agents posing as businessmen wanted to do work for the city. It was a stunning fall for cannon, who had risen from the citys housing projects to become successful businessman and politician. President obama has met with pope france is at the vatican today. The two were scheduled to meet for 30 minutes but their private discussion lasted nearly an hour. The president presented the pope with a chest full fruit and vegetables. The cordial meeting drew attention to the differences between the church and the president on. Mother nature is not paying any attention to the calendar. A massive spring blizzard blasted canada yesterday. This is video of the white now conditions and nova scotia. A blizzard one is in affect for the area. The storm is expected to taper off overnight into thursday. A warning today from ukraines Prime Minister. The country is apparently on the brink of economic and financial collapse unless urgent steps are taken. The Prime Minister says if nothing is done soon, ukraines economy could drop 10 percent this year. Right now, International Bankers are promising to loan ukraine at least 14 billion dollars in aid. And in washington, lawmakers are set to pass a bill to help the country financially as well as impose sanctions against russia. Coming up on the kron4 new is. State senator leland yee under a cloud a federal corruption allegations. Will have complete coverage for you coming up. Plus, a man is sears we bargained over my fire in the east bay. Seriously burned an overnight fire in the east bay. Im taking off, but, uh, dont worry. Im gonna leave the tv on for you. And if anything happens, dont forget about the new xfinity my account app. You can troubleshoot technical issues here. If you make an appointment, you can check out the status here. You can pay the bill, too. But dont worry about that right now. Okay. How do i look . Thanks. [ male announcer ] troubleshoot, manage appointments, and bill pay from your phone. Introducing the xfinity my account app. Welcome back. We are keeping a close eye on wall street. We still are having a word that the gross gdp dow futures are of nine and will bring you the numbers drop the mg a look at the weather. We had read often gone. We just have a little bit of rain indicating. Lets talk about what we are seeing the potential light sprinkles. We will begin with a shot from the north, where we have light sprinkles, and the directional pinole is a little bit of wet weather. It is headed in that direction. San francisco has not much going on. Also, sfo has sprinkles in the direction of alameda and san leandro. Maybe that will make his way over. We are looking at the dublin and pleasanton missing light rain. Castro valley, light traffic as these systems work their way through. Also light rain in walnut creek. Of course, near concord on highway 4 towards pittsburg yours a light rain. That is what it is looking like right now as you are out and about. The morning sprinkles, this afternoon we will see mostly dry conditions and that will be the same store for tomorrow. The next actual bonafide does not arrive until saturday. More details to come. Over to the traffic map, george is keeping an eye on the traffic. We are not tracking any hot spots, the back up this year the bay bridge. 18 minutes for your drive time but if your headed to Public Transit, bart has no problems and cal train has no delays. The muni metro is reported no problems. And the latest now on the Corruption Case involving senator leland yee. He is waking up a free man this morning but under a cloud of federal charges. Mike pelton is in front of his home and get a reaction from neighbors. He arrived home late last night after he was in court rains. His name appears in a 137 criminal complaint. He is also running for secretary of state. He did not state any thing to us. He just went inside. Here is one of 26 people who are named in the complaint he handed over his passport to authorities. Fbi officials stated that he exchanged favors for Campaign Contributions. They stated that he facilitated a gun deal. This stated that he was actually doing business with an undercover fbi agent who helped lead to the raid. Some neighbors said that they are surprised and other stated not so much. It is just really surprising to hear this. It is scary to know that hes only two doors down. You never think of this. Senator is facing charges and he could face 125 years if convicted. His lawyer stated that you can expect him to enter a not guilty plea. He is due back in court on monday. Continuing our Team Coverage on this case, will tran is live in front of the federal courthouse with his reactions from other officials. We know that he will be back in court on monday. Their allegations, charges being followed everywhere. 24 hours ago, the power players of sacramento had no idea what was going on. When he was arrested, the reactions chains and jaws were dropping. The friends were shocked and enemies, people who did not like him are now saying, this goes against the claims of is that for years that there was something suspicious about him. They stated that back in 88, supposedly shoplifting a motion in hawaii, he denied that then and 90s, he was arrested for soliciting prostitutes. He also denied that. It has always been this cloud following him. Nothing, like this. If neely reactions from fellow democrats, some of them are stating that he just needs to step down. The scope, the breast of criminal activity that has be