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Affected. And the spying scandal, the new outrage from another key ally and why Diane Feinstein is stepping into the middle of it all. Mornings on 2 starts now. Complete bay Area Coverage starts now. This is ktvu channel 2 news. Good morning, live pictures from the scene of a deadly accident in san jose. A pedestrian was hit and killed by an suv early this morning. Weve been on the story since 5 00 a. M. The new information we just learned from police in the last hour thats coming up in a live report. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im Tori Campbell. And good morning. Im dave clark. Good morning to you. Lets check weather and traffic now. Steve has so much to tell you. Plenty dave ask tory. Thank you. Snow isnt the Sierra Nevada and thats good we need it. Some of that wrap around, gives an isolate shower or two. And amounts like that in the santa cruz, and the main impact is the low in the Sierra Nevada. Partly cloudy, there are breaks, breezy and windy. Evening but still it will be blustery for a few. Especially the higher elevations. A cooler monday. Sierra snow, highs for us 50s and low 60s. 30s and 40s. Santa rosa 39. Low 50s for some. Cloud cover keeping temperatures up. Cloudy skies starting, and a few sprinkles earlier. A high of 62. May not feel that warm. I mean its going to be a cool breezy day. San francisco, some breaks in the clouds already. A high of 59 today. So temperatures 50s and 60s coast, bay or inland. Theyre not going to change too much. This low will be out of the picture by tonight, tomorrow, and well have to deal with cold mornings, but improving days. Cooler, breezy, light rain east and south. There are a few locations that stay calm. 60s, heres the fabulous tara. We want to mention that we have back up in the east bay in lafayette. Highway 24, westbound. An accident on 680 southbound. This is what youre looking at. The chp lights. This is a two car crash, definitely back up. Its kind of behind where the shot is. You cant see the extent of it. Give yourself extra time if you need to take 60 southbound through the walnut creek area. 880, you can see traffic on the left side of your screen southbound. We want to mention in the northbound lanes, just north of high street, we have a car versus a truck with a trailer and its blocking a lane of traffic. The tow truck is on the way. That guy is stuck in traffic too so its going to be a while. Last but not least, we have a look at the bay bridge. The metering lights are on here. Back up congestion. Give yourself 20 minutes to get into the city. A high wind advisory, hasnt been listed yet. Well keep you post the. 7 03. Back to the desk. Wed win with developing news from san jose. Police are we begin with developing news from san jose. Police are on the scene of a suspected drunk drive. Janine de la vega got new information about the suspect and the victim and she joins us now live from san jose. Good morning. Reporter good morning. We know that they are friends, the suspect and the victim in this accident. Police are talking to the suspect back at the Police Station interviewing her. She was behind the wheel of the suv that with see parked in that driveway. Were being told that the driver was drunk at the time. One of the questions that we wanted to find out from officers is did she know she hit her friend. Was she trying to help. Police were called to weeble way after a neighbor called to say that a woman was crying outside. When officers arrived, they found the suv and next to it a 26yearold woman seriously injured. She died at the scene. It appears the driver backed into the garage hitting it and her friend. Its unclear where the victim was standing at the time, but Police Believe prior to getting hit that she was a passenger in the car. Police have arrested the 27 yearold driver. When the officers did arrive here, they did suspect that she was driving under the influence immediately, so that led them to believe, again, that she was pretty intoxicated. There are some indication that there was some beer there. Whether it was in the vehicle or near the area. Reporter the driver was arrested for vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence. Its unknown if the victim or the suspect live at the condo where the accident happened. We havent seen anyone come in and out of that home yet. Now, this is the 21st vehicle versus pedestrian accident that has resulted in a fatality. And we were told by a Police Spokesman that thats the highest number its been in the past five years in san jose. Reporting live from san jose. Janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. Time now 7 05. Happening right thousand. Cleaning up a big overnight mess caused by strong winds in addition to knocking down trees and power lines, the wind caused havoc on the roads all over the bay area. Ktvus Christien Kafton joining us in the Altamont Pass. And you have seen big rigs knocked over. Reporter yeah, still a lot of work to get the roads cleared. Were on i580 east of Mountain House parkway. We saw one big rig on the road, two miles up the road to the west of where we are. This one still on its side right here. We have video of the husband and wife who did manage to get out of this. Well show that to you in just a few moments. We can tell you the winds have largely died down here but there are still occasional gusts that. Started around 9 30 near Mountain House parkway. 5 big rigs and one pickup truck overturned overnight. Again, we have the video of the driver and the wife of the big rig here that overturned. That couple was on their way from last to livermore. We are 20 los angeles to livermore. One person was hurt in the series of accidents and big rig drivers tell us this is the season when the high winds whip up. Give yourself a little bit of time, you starting getting into things like that, in a rush, tailgating, stop opt brakes and change lanes real quick and newscast all it takes, that gust of wind, 40, 50 miles per hour, all of a sudden comes off the pass and its all it takes. Reporter and the advice from professional driver to those of us who are sharing the road. Again, not just a problem for big rig drivers but of course for anyone hitting the road. You can see how lucky the drivers were able to get out of, apparently the cds or the windshield of the obeying rig drivers side or the windshield of the big rig here. We are continue to go check the california Highway Patrol cab web site to see if there are any updates about more wind related accidents this morning. Well bring you those update z as the morning continues. For now, live at the Altamont Pass, Christien Kafton ktvu channel 2 news. And high winds toppled a tree this antioch and it crashed through the roof of a house last night at 6th and elm street. A man was sitting on a bed when the tree came crashing down. That man was taken to a hospital for scratches on his arms and his back. It was also a child in that room, but the child was not hurt. 7 08. High winds knocked out power to 15,000 bay area homes and businesses last night. In San Francisco, scaffolding toppled down on power lines on hyde street and 5500 people lost power. In the east bay, customers lost power in ant yak. Danes antioch, danesville. And is they rushed to 49 separate outages. Most customers have power back on now and it should be fully restored by 10 this morning. While the bay area is dealing with wind, people in the sierra are waking up with snow, up to 8 inches of snow could fall in the sierra today. Coming up at 7 15. Well have a live report on the storm blanketing the sierra pass and how drivers should prepare. Police in vallejo searching for the gunman that shot 8 people, killing one and wounding 7 others. It happened saturday night on princeton avenue. A group of friend from San Francisco were driving in four separate cars when one of them got a flat tire. This Surveillance Video showed them pulling over onto a side vote. A white suv drove and you happen someone inside started shooting. Ive been working here at the Police Department for 40 years and i have never experienced a single incident where there have been 8 people shot. A 19yearold man died there at the scene. These candles were lit in his honor. Police say theres no word about a possible motive. This, by the way, was vallejos 20th homicide of the year. A group of represents in oaklands rock ridge neighborhood, they have raised more than 20,000 to hire private security guards. One of the residents started the campaign through a crowd funding web site called crowd tilt. This started in september after an Armed Robbery at a casual car pool pickup stop near claremont avenue in hudson. This is just a shortterm solution to the rising crime until the area. Its 7 10. The recent tragedy on the b. A. R. T. Tracks may lead to a new Emergency Alert system for b. A. R. T. Two workers had gone out to inspect the tracks near walnut creek nine days ago when they were struck and killed by a b. A. R. T. Train. Todays chronicle reports that deadly accident has b. A. R. T. Taking a second look at a high tech system now used on train systems in boston and baltimore. Under this system is, track workers are equipped with alarms that sound and brit vibrate when a train is 15 second is away. The results of a vote are expected late friday night or early saturday morning. B. A. R. T. s board of directors would then vote on the new deal with the Union Workers approve the tentative agreement. A board vote would likely come during the next scheduled meeting on november 21st. It is possible it could come earlier during a special board meeting. Both sides are expected to approve this deal. And the tentative agreement ended b. A. R. T. s latest four day strike which outraged many bay area commuters. Mump of the anger was focused on Union Workers demands for extra pay when they already make some of the highest average salaries in the state. Figures compiled shed light on the salaries. They show the raises workers receive reflect the wage bumps that other bay area Government Employees already got in the last few years and the b. A. R. T. Raises were slightly more than the pay increases private Sector Workers received. Time 7 11. Happening today, muni in San Francisco testing out a new program to increase service on the five fulton lines. It will mean a 20 to 30 increase in capacity, between the fulton street and the 6th 6th avenue stop and the temporary transbay terminal. It also means 9 of muni customers, youre going to need to walk an extra block to get picked up. 16 parking places have been eliminated. The city of san jose is cracking down on school car washes. The citys Environmental Services Department Says the popular fundraisers are often violating water discharge laws. Anything that is not storm water or rain water is a pollutant, and any school that wants to hold a car wash has to make sure the water doesnt run in the drain, that means holding it away from a drain, pumping the water to another location or water free car washing equipment. Which im sure would not be cheap. Police opened fire during a busy street in San Francisco. The new clues investigators are checking later today. The nsa spying scandal grows, a new ally the u. S. Spied on and how senator feinstein responds. We have a wind advisory for another bridge and an injury accident involving a motorcyclist to tell you about on the peninsula. A wide variety going on here. 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They want answers about the latest round of purported u. S. Spying activities. The guardian says the National Security agency monitored the calls of 35 world leaders, including the leaders of france and germany. The allegations are coming from the documents leaked by ed yard snowden. The german media report thes a surveillance of chancellor merkels phone and that it started in 2002, and they say president obama was made aware of it in 2010. The nsa is denying president obama knew anything. It is 7 16. California senator Diane Feinstein says she supports giving the nsa limited authority to continue gathering americans telephone records to prevent attackings attack attacks. The committee is drafting legislation to put restrictions on the nsa phone records program. The legislation would allow the nsa to continue gathering records listing the numbers, time and duration of all u. S. Telephone calls, but not their content. Time is now 7 17. San francisco is getting into the battle over sugary beverages, setting a task of 24 cents on every can of soda sold. The proceeds of the tax would pay for health, nutrition and activity programs for city youth supervisor weiner thinks the majority of voters would support the tax because it would benefit children. The change in weather here in the bay area is bringing snow to the sierra. Brian hickey is in kingsville where snow has been falling most of the morning. Reporter take a look behind me at individual king yale. We have 4 to 5 inches. Folks come up to the chain patrol, many unprepared for the Winter Driving conditions. We have seen big rig drivers, having to turn around and head back down the mountain because they didnt come up with chains. And a lot of drivers doing the same. Drivers can buy chains from the chain installers at a hefty brice. If you have plans to commissary between now and does come to the sierra between you and tuesday morning, bring those chains. 6 inches of snow here, light, fluffy powder, gives you an indication of how cold it is, even at kingdale where is conditions are fluffy and white. We first encountered this snow, even blow nyack, blue canyon, so the snow line definitely dropping down this morning. We did reports of snow around twane heart. And sierra resort certainly happy to see this. Cooling the ground down and getting ready for the next big storm which could open things up in the sierra. Back to you. Thank you brian. It looks like winter out there. And it felt like it went from summer to winter this weekend. Just like that. Very quickly. Time 7 19. Lets check with tara. Something just happened on the peninsula. What happened. We have an injury accident involving a motorcyclist. You can see that its 280 southbound, right near the westboro off ramp. The rider is in the center divider, two lanes are blocked. Well keep you posted. Meeting lights still on and a wind advisory still in effect. Tie downs for a big rig are in a roadway on two lanes on 80 westbound near the Treasure Island exit. Hopefully the crews will have that cleared shortly. Finally, 237 in milpitas, give yourself an an extra o 10 minutes or so. 7 20. Lets head to steve. Thank you and a good morning and foggy morning for some. Light rain continues, santa cruz mountains, and snow in the sierra. Some areas are clear. Breaks in the clouds, 3030s, 40s and is 50s. You can see the focus is in the Sierra Nevada where theyre getting good snow. We need rain, not going to get much here. Were going to get cool and breezy conditions today. Not as windy as yesterday afternoon. Partly cloudy to mostly cloudy. Areas of fog on the san mateo coast and san mateo bridge. Partly cloudy, breezy to windy. Not nearly the intensity that we on sunday. That was a cold front coming through. Thats scoured out some of the cloud deck. Sierra gets much needed snow. Very very cool. Up in the sierra, we have Winter Weather advisory until 4 00. And theres been a foot at norton, around a 5000 feet. Thats good. Well take all we can get on a long, dry stretch here. 40s for some. 30s for others. If it wasnt for the breeze or even partly cloudy skies, wed be much colder. We will be tonight and tomorrow. Lake county, napa county. Later today, some wrap around showers, i have seen these. Right along the 680 corridor. And it would not surprise me until that low. The moisture off the pacific is ramping up around santa cruz toward morgan hill, gilroy and monterey, salinas, 10th of an inch. And to the north things starting to calm down. This will drift further to the south. 40s or 30s on the temp. Theres our low as it moves out of the area, then things will calm down. Kind of an active pattern here. Light rain east and south possible, windy at times, higher el a vacation, not at the elevations. Not as bad at the coast. A cool day, doesnt matter if youre north bay, coast, inland, out another east bay. 60 berkeley. San jose 62. Cloudy light rain. Morgan hill, light rain down there. Santa cruz 62. 50s, 60s on the coast, in the city and peninsula looks good for halloween. I think well start off all right. Its going to get cold fast. We have calm conditions, better, cold morning, sunny, warm days through friday. Maybe another system moving in on sunday. Thank you