are, but it'll be all right for the morning. just slowly. increasing high clouds will turn cloudy later today. heavy cloud no rain at least not yet. probably lately tonight overnight into friday, south breeze, but the rain's on the way, but i think we have a ways to go. so you're okay for today but fifties and sixties. on those temps. seven o'clock in the morning. they bridge toll plaza somewhere else. where are we going? let's start with the toll plaza because it is busy, although it is better than it was yesterday, when we had that problem in san francisco today, it's a lot more of the usual. it's backed up all the way out to the mazo metering lights are on. there's been some slowing on westbound 92. but for the most part, that's a nice drive, and it's not too hard to get. to the same mateo or to the dumbarton bridge this morning. you can see traffic is moving along. okay here in the east bay. there's a little slowing. i don't want to make it sound too good. it's slowed from 2 38 heading south into union city and the some pick communities beginning to wake up so to speak on the guadalupe parkway and northbound one. oh 17! oh, one. let's go back. to the headlines. thank you well to more bay area tech companies, workday and splunk are cutting their workforces, the latest in a string of tech companies announcing layoffs ktvu andre senior live in studio here with what economists say about what's happening for these job cuts and also looking ahead a little talking about a lot of these layoffs in past few days, haven't we? we've been reporting on another tech company announcing cuts, according to forbes. tech companies have laid off a combined 150,000 workers in recent months. san francisco briefs splunk says it's cut could impact estimated 325 employees and workday based in pleasant and says it's cutting 3% of its workforce. economists say many tech companies ramped up hiring during the pandemic when they had record revenues. but now, with economic growth slowing worldwide, they are looking to cut costs. the need for the staffing is not as robust tests originally thought by this company, and so there, you know, paring down some of the over hiring a company spokesperson for splunk said in the statement. quote splunk regularly assesses how a resource is aligned to the evolving needs of our business. we have made the difficult decision to reduce our team by approximately 4% mostly in north america. end quote. it's not just tech workers who are being affected by these layoffs, though. people who serve in the cafeteria of these companies that provide lunches to the employees or it could be janitors. or it could be, you know. bus drivers who take folks from one area of the bay to the other. those are the workers who were already struggling during the pandemic because their low wage work but analysts say despite thousands of layoffs, there are still 6.5 million workers in the tech sector and hiring dave remains strong. alright andre. thank you time now 703 and on the heels of big layoffs, facebook's parent company, meta plan to spend $40 billion on a stock buyback to announce that yesterday during its quarterly earnings statement , the company also said its fourth quarter profit and revenues was down, but still better than expected. better recently announced it was laying off 11,000 employees or 13% of its word for us. ceo mark zuckerberg blamed the layoffs on aggressive hirings made during the pandemic. this morning, san francisco representative and former speaker of the house nancy pelosi is making an endorsement in the race for dianne feinstein senate seat on one condition. ktvu is learned. representative pelosi is supporting southern california representative adam schiff. if senator feinstein decides not to run again. representative pelosi named adam schiff to lead the first impeachment of then president donald trump in 2019. he's one of two candidates have officially announced they're running for the seat currently held by senator feinstein, who has yet to say whether she will seek re election in 2024 time now 704 after the two recent deadly mass shootings, california lawmakers want new gun legislation to expand the concealed carry gun laws. the proposed legislation would set strict and enhance limitations on who can get a concern. field carry permit and where they can carry it. lawmakers behind the bill praise california's laws as working but can be improved. california has 1/7 lowest firearms death rate in the country. and his 36% lower than the national average. that is not dumb luck. that is not accident. that is not happenstance. it's not even correlation. it is causation. we have lower firearm mortality rates because of our stronger gun safety laws, period. gun safety saves lives. more guns, more lives lost. the data is overwhelming. other gun control legislation being considered would make possession of a firearm without a serial number of felony also create an online database of california's armed and prohibited persons system set up stronger penalties for people who use guns when committing violent crimes and create a new guns and ammunition tax to finance protections against violence that gun advocates say the legislative proposals are not needed because of the counter. to shin all rights of millions of legal california gun owners. family friends and others gathered in tennessee to remember the life of tyree nichols. the 29 year old died on january 10th three days after being beaten by a group of memphis police officers. the five former officers are all facing charges, including second degree murder. so far, a total of seven officers as well as members of the fire department had been fired. the family of george floyd and vice president kamala harris were among those who attended the service. as vice president of the united states. we demand that congress passed the george floyd justice and policing act, joe biden will sign it. and we should not delay and we will not be denied. it is non negotiable. family members say they will always remember nichols as a fun loving, skateboarding debt who marched to the beat of his own drum. people in san francisco came together to mourn the death of tyree nichols. they knelt for a moment of silence at city hall. those in attendance, said the african american community in particular, can emphasize empathize with the nichols family pain. we know that feeling of sadness, overwhelming sadness and frustration. and the desire to want to see peace and justice. we also know the sad, honest reality. in this country. that if he were not a black man, this would not have happened to him. the group wealth and disparities in the black community organized the event at the steps of city hall calling for police reform our time now 707 new this morning, police in los angeles believed they may have stopped a possible mass shooting. the lapd says several high powered weapons received from inside an apartment in hollywood police responded to reports of strange behavior of a man who was also making threats. after he was arrested. they say they found two assault rifles, sniper rifle or shotgun, three pistols and more than 1000 rounds of ammunition in his apartment. the police are thanking the public for seeing something strange and then reporting it. another investigations underway in the east bay after a shooting that happened near the dumbarton bridge. chp says shots were fired from one card to the other on the eastbound highway 84 near thornton. a new in newark. one of our ktvu cruz was there at the scene and saw both side windows of a car shattered. one man has minor injuries. there's no word yet about a suspect or a vehicle involved at the time. okay what color car service in san francisco should be back to normal today. after car went off the tracks yesterday this video comes from citizen app. it happened at washington and hide on nob hill. san francisco police say the only people on board were two operators. they weren't hurt and no other vehicles were involved staying in the city plans to revitalize historic castro theater have been scrapped the landmark theaters now owned by another planet entertainment, leavitt producing company plan to install back and heating systems to that 100 year old building. restored decorative features and install motorized flooring that would allow for some flexible seating plans. however the san francisco historic preservation commission shut down those plans unanimously with a 6 to 0 vote and recommended landmark status for the theaters. interior which would limit changes. alright, gasia strange story. a tesla here in the bay area has a lot of damage after it crashed into a cow that was roaming around in pleasanton. police say they had several calls about a loose brown cow, causing traffic to lays on bernard avenue and stanley boulevard. you can see the cow it wasn't hurt in that collision. there were no injuries. anyone in the car, the car was lassoed and taken back home, according to the police in pleasant. time now is 7 10 and we are looking at a commute. that is a busy as you might expect it. let's go right out and take a look at some of the bridge crossings like the bay bridge. there is some slowing there, as you might imagine, also on the same mateo bridge in the dumbarton bridge, it's crowded. however it is not too slow and yesterday was just a much busier day. there's a little slowing at the richmond bridge toll plaza as well. i am kind of focusing in here on 6 80 out of pleasant in this might surprise you sat down 60 80 approaching for now. there's a crash there, and there's also some slow traffic beyond that, so if that little stretch of freeways in your future extra time is needed, some people are on vallas ito's road out of livermore and heading out that way might not be a bad idea. but there is the normal morning. slow down there. 7 10. let's get back to the desk. all right, thank you. game of hide and seek ended 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how's it look? i want to go back to pleasant and dave and gasia because 6 80 is a little bit slower than you might expect it heading south from the stoneridge area into pleasant or out of pleasant and towards the knoll. there was an earlier crash. they're they're making progress on it. but once you make that turn a lot of people coming on 5 80, then get on 6 80 heading south. it's going to be a little bit slow through. there is normally not that slow. some people are on vala cdo's road and then castro valley westbound 5 80, almost at the why there was a crash there as well and that's causing some slow traffic this morning. let's take a look at the bay bridge you can see traffic is backed up. it's not like yesterday when we had just really awful backup. today is more long the ordinary lines and we always like to throw in that same mateo bridge. same tale bridge in dumbarton bridge. are just like this. it's crowded, but it's moving along at a decent pace for this time of the morning and next time around, we're going to take a look at the south bay, which is now beginning to get a little bit more crowded silicon valley commute 7 18 let's talk about today's weather here, steve. thank you, sal. we'll get to it here still cold enough this morning to get some twenties and maybe some locations even have a little bit of fog. but i mean, i know there's a few high clouds. we were colder a couple mornings ago, but still middletown, middletown is dropped to 24, boulder creek, 28. sleepy hollow , walter creek, cordelia windsor rohnert park in alamo. all came in at one time at 29 degrees. did the second serious snow survey yesterday and everything is coming up snow. 101 101 100. i apologize, 100. yes sir. 100% up to 101 171% northern sierra central is tall. that's 203 statewide averages. 205 those snow water equivalent is what's important. nearly 34 inches of liquid. take it. we'll take it. that's a lot. it has to melt there, but hopefully not too much too soon. you can probably put three forecasters in a room and come up with a different forecast. but i'm going to be brutally honest with you. i would plan on rain. for the parade forecast. maybe it'll slow down a little bit, but everything i'm seeing is rains arriving around six o'clock, so just plan on that maybe maybe things will change by tomorrow. but i don't think so. cloudy skies are on the way increasing clouds throughout the day. but today's okay. most of this rain will be low overnight tonight into early tomorrow system will weaken as it comes onshore. it won't do much in this year except be a win producer, but we'll get rain out of it cool to cold this morning, some fog and high clouds turning cloudy we get a little bit of a south breeze, but temperatures cold thirties and forties on the temps here a lot of low thirties mid thirties we had more twenties the other day, but there's one of creeks 29, danville now has dropped to 29 degrees. but look at the forties, though i mean there's some fog popping up along the 80 corridor there around hercules and open your kensington, elsa bronte, el cerrito and berkeley that more in the forties now same for hayward. but still, there's some upper twenties and a few thirties inland here system will drag clouds clouds across us today. we'll get some rain early tomorrow morning looks okay forecast models have actually trended a little wetter. this will be a win producer for this year. but the system coming in late saturday and especially sunday, looks like maybe 1 to 2 ft of snow for the mountain and more rain for us, especially on saturday night into sunday morning, 50 sixties on attempts here will get a little bit of a break friday evening into saturday. but then saturday night here comes some more rain gasia. steve thank you . 7 21 in new study from stanford university shows one racial group is more likely to be audited than any other by the irs. coming up with researchers say this is happening and what's getting flagged during the