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Warm side. Lots of energy and the first system will send in the high clouds. Look for the cloud cover to stream n. The temperatures in the 60s and 70s, and might be some med and maybe some mid to upper 70s. Were all right and i see, steve. Yeah. I am glad, you know. We need the rain. Kidding. Remember when we used to have to say that . No, never. I forgot about that. Right . Well. What, we have like a lack of rain around here or what . Yeah. Not this year. No. Good morning, everybody. The traffic is doing well if youre driving on the napa solano commute. Vacaville, napa and fairfield, the whole region looks good. Im looking to see if there is slow traffic. The commute is doing well. As you drive to the car keep ease bridge or the venician bridge. This is highway 24 and its off to a nice star her start here. And sure, we have people there but its light. At 4 32. Lets go to the desk. Thank you. Alameda officials identified a third victim from the deadly fire in oakland. The Coroners Office said 45 yearold shski wilson is one of the people who died. The name of the four people is not released because relatives were not notified. Edwardnderson and sasandra robinson were two Edward Anderson and Cassandra Robinson were two others who were killed in the fire. Heres more on what they remember from that morning. I am extremely proud of it. A very, very young crew. Reporter they were some of the oakland firefighters who risked their lives, saving people from the threestory building burning on san pablo avenue the morning of march 27th. We were all upstairs. It was 5 in the morning or so. I was ao sleep in my bunk. I was asleep in my bunch. Many were familiar with the building that housed nearly 100 people. As crews approachd . I could smell it from blocks away. You can see the embers in the air. As soon as we stepped off of the truck, there were people yelling that people were trapped and in the windows. The first thing we want to do when we get to a fire is see if there are any rescues. Reporter the scene was chaotic as people inside the building, which serves as transitional housing, was going up in flames. They tied sheets together like in a cartoon and they were trying to make like a rope to literally climb down on a sheet. Reporter this is what they trained for as they quickly leapt into action. We pulled the fire escape down, tied it off and up we went to the second and third floor. There was a lady. She reached out. I pulled her over the railing. Next, a gentleman that reached out and i pulled him. Reporter they rescued seven people from this burning building. All eyes were not spared as four people died in the fire. When youre a firefighter, you want to save everybody. Its upsetting when you cant do that. Its a tragedy. We do everything we can in our power to save as many people as we can. Reporter all together, they saved the lives of more than 20 people that day, but knowing that some people didnt make it out alive will stay with them forever. You do have a loss of life, but you look at how many people can see another day. Nothing special about us. Were nothing more than an usher, an usher to life. Reporter theyre a humble group of firefighters and wont accept a pat on the back saying it comes with the territory and that is just their job. This morning, a temporary shelter for the survivors of that fire is closing. About 70 people who lost their hopes in the fire moved into a temporary shelter at the Oakland Youth Center last week. All but 11 have since found other places to live. The city of oakland said that the shelter was just a temporary solution and that youth center needs the space back. Some residents said that they still have nowhere else to go. This is closing and the people are homeless. They sold us out. Were sold out. The black people of oakland business they trying to clean us out. City leaders said theyre working to find longerterm housing for the people who are still at the shelter this morning. More rising tensions in the sea of japan as the u. S. Confirms north korea has fired another Ballistic Missile this morning. Officials say the missile was fired from north koreas eastern coast. It travelled 37 miles into the east sea. This happened as south korean and u. S. Troops are conducting annual military drills. That the north views as invasion rehearsal. The United Nations Security Council is to meet in about the suspected chemical attack in syria that killed at least 72 people, including 11 children. Witnesses said the attack was carried out by jet aircraft operated by russian and syrian forces. The target was a rebelheld up to in northern syria. Experts say the symptoms indicate a gas attack. Doctors rushed to save lives as victims struggled to breathe. Today, the u. N. Scrapeco secretarygeneral condemned the attack as he attends a meeting in belgium focused on ending the conflict in syria. The horrific events yesterday demonstrate that, unfortunately war crimes are going on in syria, that International Law remains to be violated frequently. Today, Russias Defense Ministry said a syrian air strike on a rebel workshop producing chemical weapons was responsible for the deaths. San jose city leaders and Safety Advocates are joining forces to try and stop the rise of pedestrian deaths in city roads. The most recent happened monday night when a car hit and killed a 72 knowyearold man on monterey road in south san jose. It was the 10th pedestrian killed this year in that city and the 12th traffic death. 18 pedestrians were killed in san jose in all of last year. And most of this fatalities that occurred so far this year are behavioral related. So its very important that we address the behavior of drivers. Cyclists, and pedestrians. The goal of the vision zero programs to reduce the number of deadly accidents to zero. The safety ideas include improvements to busy roads like adding barriers to bike lanes to protect cyclists from traffic. Rules of installation insulation helped fuel a fire at a home. The crews used a ladder truck to spray water on the fire from above. No injuries were reported but the home sustained significant damage. Investigators believed the fire started in the attic of that home. The official cause is still under investigation. San Francisco City leaders are setting a controversial idea aimed at helping heroin users. The supervisor is looking at opening what show calls a safe injection site. The idea is to give addicts a safe place to inject drugs where counselors and Health Officers would be close by. The San Francisco mayor ed lee worried that such a center would enable more adiction in a city addiction in a city funded place but is now queening an open mine. If keeping an open mind. If i have Health Experts on site, then theyre not about free injections. Theyre about reducing harm on the longterm sustainable basis. That is what i am supportive of. If youre sick enough, youre going to do it in the middle of the sidewalk while everyone is walking by. Drug users said injection sites would make them feel more comfortable talking to counselors and take the shame away from publicly displaying their addictions. If the city approves it, a safe inject site could be open by the end of the year. Court records show noor salman is not fighting her extradition to florida and will be transferred there for her trial. She remains in custody in dublin. She pleaded not guilty to charges she helped her husband plan the pulse nighto club attack in orlando in june and shes accused of lying to investigators after the shooting. There is no word on when she will be transferred to florida. Firefighters will soon visit People Living in high risk areas ahead of the fire season. Starting may 15th, crews the will visit People Living in the Oakland Hills to make sure they cleared all weeds, tall grass, brush and tree limbs from within 30 feet of the home, that is creating a defensible space. People not compliance could face a fine. The San Francisco symphony hosted a pride concert last night. The gala replaces two concerts scheduled to happen in North Carolina this week. The orchestra cancelled the tour in december in response to North Carolinas controversial bathroom law. The violinist elliott love is if with the San Francisco symphony but played in the charlotte symphony before starting his lifechanging transition. Was looking forward to seeing my friends there, at the same time, its scary and uncomfortable to think what it would be like to be there and possibly not get in trouble. The program featured works by gay and lesbian composers. The money raised last night will go to a Nonprofit Organization that provides services for lgbt groups. Last week, North Carolina revised the original bathroom bill to allow transgender people to use the bathroom of their choice; however, the new law limits lgbt protections. And right now, its 4 41. A young mother of three shot and killed in richmond. If there is a wife or Family Member out there, you know him. You know where hes at. Turn him in that could have been your child. We have more on what happened and the emotional plea from Family Members for clues that could help police find the suspect. And there is now confusion over irs imposters. The feds hire collection agencies to go after back taxes. The information you need to know about possible phone calls you might be receiving coming up. Up. And good morning. We can see traffic is mostly doing well. We have a couple of trouble spots that were going to talk about. Highway 24, though s off to a nice start as you drive toward the tunnel. And a mostly cloudy start. The high clouds will move in. Theyll be on the move today. Its about today and tomorrow. And ow. And. Its 4 44. Welcome back. The retailer will close almost 400 Underperforming Stores in the u. S. There is no word if any of the stores to close are in the bay area. Payless said it has about 4400 Stores Worldwide and the company said it plans to expand the online sales and global growth. Efforts of uber and lyft drivers to unionize hit a roadblock. A seattle judge temporarily blocked the first law in the country that would have given drivers the right. The law was originally passed in 2015 but was then challenged guy two other lawsuits. By two other lawsuits. Seattle law classifies driver as employees when theyre independent contractors and not eligible to unionize. The irs is resuming the use of private debt collectors. This is amida wave of phone scams where agents tell people to pay up or face jail time. The irs stopped using private debt collectors in 2009 after the agency determined employeesing do better work, but Congress Passed a law in 2015 requiring the agency to restart the program. And this is good news for anyone who ever had a cracked phone or tablet screen. Scientists developed materials they say can repair themselves from cuts and scratches. After tearing the special material in half, it can automatically stitch itself back together in less than 24 hours. Selfrepairing materials are being used for the back covers of phones but what makes this different is that it can conduct electricity to be used for cell phone screens as well as the batteries. And one Company Hopes to change the way you think about that middle seat on the plane and created a design with a staggered middle chair pushed back by a few inches so everyone in the row can have arm rest space. Its three inches wider than the window or aisle option and has a bigger tv monitor. The Company Hopes to pass all faa safety tests and retrofit planes as soon as this fall. That might make it easier. And its tough when you walk down that aisle and all you see is the middle seat. The last ones to be filled. Hows traffic . If you see that last middle aisle, that means youre going somewhere, right . That is true. That means there is a seat for you. And good morning, everybody. Traffic is doing okay. The traffic is okay on the tracy commute and getting more crowded as you can see. And we push here in 205 and 580. Traffic is going to be busy on 205 and 580. After the altamont pass, its a nice drive to livermore. Youre kind of getting in front of the crowd, if you will, and driving to the south bay. I want to mention San Jose Police are working a deadly crash near the corner of moore park and cypress avenue. San jose police say they have closed moore park at cypress and more area to [ indiscernible ] lets move along and look at 880 in oakland. You can see traffic is not bad in front of the coliseum. And driving to the bay bridge, this is not a lot going on. At 4 47, lets bring steve in. Thank you, sal. We have a lot of cloud cover over us. And if we can get a south breeze. I think we will later today. The system inches closer. Warm or the lows, 50s, 60s by 9. Sixtys, 70s by noon and upper 70s. Out by eastern contra costa county. Those higher clouds jar on the way in advance of are on the way in advance of a system that are impressive. This could be a big time rain producer. That will start thursday into friday and late morning, early afternoon and neither piece of energy comes in late friday and into saturday. Much cooler, could be a major no producer for the central sierra and seems to be the focus more so for tahoe and truckee. And still some isolated three to fourinch amounts in the north bay and Santa Cruz Mountains look to be in the mix. Streaming in advance of the first system, aligning itself parallel to the south, north and south and lose a lot of energy. It will give us drizzle overnight and light rain. Were waiting for back here. And look, when i say digging, you can see how this is colder air, strong jet screen support. And even with the higher clouds. Fiftys on the temp. 55 and palo alto, 55 and stanford, cooler. Los altos, 49 and belmont, san carlos and hillsborough and pacific a. 49 in ukiah; and 52 in mont ray. The higher clouds will continue to stream over us and probably nothing in the way of precip unless youre on the north coast. We needed the cold air support and that will move in here eventually, which is going to send the snow levels way up, 65,700 feet, and way down by late friday into early saturday. The rainfall looks descent here. Not bad. Some of the areas will get an inch and a half to 2 1 2. Jeff santa rosa gets that much, you can double and triple that. And some of the areas. Again, well ease into this for tomorrow. It looks like a wind event and rain event. High clouds and mailer warm temps. They will continue to be with us into the afternoon hourings and well see the cloud cover moving in fast tomorrow. Everything changes rapidly into the weekend. A real rain boot umbrella rain kind of day. Turning much cooler. So the friday commute. Could be gone by then in the morns and picks up again in the afternoon. Okay. Thank you, steve. And right now, members of the British Royal family are attending a Memorial Ceremony this morning for the people who lost their lives in a terrorist attack in london last month. Youre looking at a live picture now from inside Westminster Abbey. Prince william, Kate Middleton and prince harry are in attendance at that memorial this morning, coming two weeks after the man plowed his car into a crowd of people and stabbed a police officer. The british Officials Say this was an act of terrorism. Four people died in the attack and again, a live picture this morning from the Memorial Ceremony inside Westminster Abbey in the u. K. 4 50 is the time now. Helping those affected by the flooding in february in san jose. The plan to help people who lost their cars get back on the road. Hitting the midmorning wall . With up to 24 grams of hearty protein jimmy dean bowls help you avoid it. Shine on. Welcome back to mornings on 2. The chp is cracking down. Wreckless and distracted driving is the number one killer of teenagers here in the u. S. Chp also said that it will be reminding drivers its illegal to holder on operate Electronic Devices while driving. The drivers under the age of 18 are not allowed to use even a handsfree device and its illegal for drivers to text behind the wheel. Another focused enforcement day is set for april 19th. And were getting an inside look into one of San Franciscos biggest Construction Projects in history. The central subway. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency posted those photos online of work crews underground. The project will extended the t third metro line from the caltransstation into chinatown. There will be four new subway stops along the 1. 75 miles of track. It a expected to open in 2019 with a price tag of 1. 6 billion. And transit officials in the north bay said the smart train will be regional by the summer, despite a significant land slide being repaired. The last few months, smart trap crews and contractors were restabilizing a hillside that gave way. The work is almost complete. When its finished, the initial segment will run from santa rosa to san rafaels downtown transit sister. Political advertisements advertisements are banned. They voted unanimously yesterday to ban ads that advertise political or public issues that can be considered insulting, demeaning or offensive. Previously muni said it didnt support the messages but couldnt remove them. The ban goes into affect today. And the mayor said there is help for hundreds of flood victims to get them back on the road. The mayor announced a Car Replacement Program for cars destroyed or badly damaged by the floods. The Silicon Valley Auto Dealers Association is teaming up with several charities, including goodwill and the Catholic Charities and the city of san jose. Theyll be looking for car deepers and distributing the new vehicles. The affected families will pay below a below marm pay a below market price or nothing at all. This is a call to our community andofto come out and help and support your neighbors who struggled through the floods and just in time for tax season. Yes, you can get a Tax Deduction with your contribution of a car or truck gently used to goodwill and goodwill will put it to good use to ensure that our residents can get to work, get to school, and get on with their lives. The city of san jose is one of the donors. Its giving 20 of the older vehicles from the fleet to the program. The 60th annual San Francisco International Film festival kicks off today. The longestruing Film Festival in the running Film Festival in america features. The movies will screen at venues across San Francisco including the castro theatre and draft house. The International Film festival runs through april 19th. If youre interested in attending, we have more information on the website, ktvu wantcom under the web link section. Its just before 5 00. 4 57. And coming up the next hour, protecting the writings of the lgbt community. The decision saying the gay rights fall under the u. S. Civil rights act. And Companies Bidding to build a wall are worried about security. Some say theyre getting threats for their workers. Good morning. We see that traffic is affected by a couple of things. We like at a lee picture of the bay bridge. Not to bad into france. And not too bad on our weather, although a lot of high clouds continue to stream in advance of the system which will be here tomorrow. Looks impressive for april. Ve for april. Perhap flap good morning, there was a Deadly Police shooting in napa. The Investigation Underway aft a shootout happened near an Elementary School while class was in session. And was in the right place at the right time to run up and help the people. Without the team, you know, it wouldnt have gotten done the way it did. That were called to the scene of a massive fire that killed four people. Were hearing from the firefighters about the tragic morning in oakland. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. I want to take you outside. Always a great shot. On the bay bridge. The traffic is moving along. Quite a few people moving early. Five 00 on the dot. Nice and clear. The rain is moving in. Welcome to mornings on 2. Its wednesday, april 5th. Im pam cook. Im mike mibach in for dave clark who has the day off. Yes. And get to it, steve. No chance of the storm