Dont know thats drizzle or rain because i cannot find it on the radar. It is below this so its low level stuff but it is there. Not the price we talked about it. Theres enhancements taking place along the line from bodega bay santa rosa north cloudy and cool breeze and light rain and drizzle sun i should say but cooler and winds are at times below average temperatures into the weekend. San jose i penciled in 7 00 because of a south breeze but 70, 55 is below average which is 70 for this time of year. 1934 and 1996, 41 for the low 1894. Low thats a low clouds every station says cottage mostly cloudy breeze already not is windy but blustery at times with gusting to 35, 40. 50s on the temperatures will be slow to recover. Cool pattern and enhancements taking plate thats taking place up north about bodega bay cloverdale north looking for precipitation. 50s, 60s, low 70s. Is traffic getting worse or the same . Getting busier, steve. Its getting to the peak of the commute. 80 has low traffic usually coming in from carquinez bridge to Macarthur Mesa 32 minutes between those spots. Not bad and as you drive to macarthur maze it looks good. Bay bridge is backed up 1520 minutes and traffic is going to be moderate. No major problems once you make it onto the span. 880 is filling in, you will notice slow traffic downtown oakland and 580 has good opportunities to get around the traffic from san leandro to white short curve. Highway 4, slow it is no different especially through pittsburgh, stop and go and the speeds look low and you can see westbound 11 miles an hour near the bart station. Give yourself time bart is free of delays after earlier minor ones big system reported on time. 7 03. Back to the desk. Investigations into car fires and Contra Costa County. Theres been at least five car fires since monday. The most recent happened overnight. Officials say its too early to determine if all fires are related. Investigators are suspicious. Allie rasmus is live with live at the scene in brentwood. Reporter you can see the damage behind us in the driveway of this home is the shell of an avalanche. The fire started in the truck and spread to part of the garage and the homeowner called in work crews who boarded up the garage so you cannot see the damage. The fire did not spread any further and the family got out safely thanks to the neighbor who happen to be awake at 3 30 this morning. I came outside and the car was on fire so i went back in the house and said call 911 and came outside. Frustrating theres no reason to put lives at risk. Reporter 10 minutes before the cook truck caught fire there was another vehicle bar on highway braidwood 1 mile away these car fires 1 mile apart, they happened within 10 minutes. Highland way, maybe her coming back from work around 3 30 this morning spotted the fire and called 911 and the family was out of town and no one hurt. Deeming suspicious we had two vehicle fires at the same time in close proximity to each other and i the time of night we deem this suspicious until proven otherwise. Reporter if you include the two fires in brentwood, theres been five vehicle fires and driveways of homes and Contra Costa County since monday morning from martinez lafayette, walnut creek and brenda it. The chief in brentwood says they are sharing the information and they have gathered the fires thats that they have gathered with the Fire Investigation but too to soon to tell if the fires are connected and they are looking into the possibility and gathering the information for the larger investigation back to you. Thank you 705 a it. Search for a new fbi director continues as the white house defends President Trumps decision to fire director james comey. Dog is live in washington. Temporary replacement doug luzader is in washington. Reporter shockwaves rippling through dc after the surprise move this week theres a Senate Intelligence hearing. It begins to get underway, should start in a few minutes. Among those testifying, the acting director of the epley f. B. I. Andrew mccabe initially it was supposed to be james comey before he was suddenly fired. He wasnt doing is thats a good job simply he was not doing a good job. President defending his decision to fire fbi director james comey and this morning reports that he may visit fbi headquarters tomorrow to voice his support for the bureau. Comey, spotted outside of his home sent a letter to colleagues and friends. I long believed a president can fire and fbi director for any reason or for no reason at all. Im not going to spend time on the decision or the way it was executed. I hope you wont either. Democrats are using the firing to renew their calls for a special prosecutor to take over the fbi investigation into alleged ties between the kremlin and trump campaign. Special prosecutor will have much greater latitude in who he can subpoena which questions, they asked, how to conduct and investigate and. The president met in the oval office with russias foreign minister took to twitter. Democrats complaining for months and months about director coming and now that hes been fired, they pretend to be aggrieved. Phony hypocrites. Holding firm against the appointment of a special prosecutor. I dont think that is a good idea i think the Intelligence Community the ones that should do this. Among questions, who will replace comey among some names surfacing yesterday, South Carolina congressman trey gowdy former New Hampshire senator ka that kelly ayotte and former commissioner ray kelly. But until we get a name, congress will not have or the senate will not have anyone to consider for the nomination and in the meantime, if Andrew Mccabe will be sitting there in that hearing this morning for the Senate IntelligenceCommittee Hearing. He will be joined by about every other Intelligence Leader and the u. S. Government. Defense intelligence agency, Central Intelligence agency, an essay, you name it, they will be there to talk about the worldwide threat then it will be the element in the room the fact comey was suddenly fired. Back to you. Time is 7 08. Nationwide protests planned for june 3 calling for an independent investigation into russias alleged interference in the u. S. President ial election. Protest organizers are calling for an urgent, impartial investigation into alleged ties between russia and the trop president ial campaign and russias alleged interference in last years election. Yesterday demonstrators marched around the country protesting the firing of fbi director james comey and sky fox and San Francisco flew over this rally outside of senator feinsteins office. Dozens of protesters demanded she take action. Senator feinstein was a washington where she called for a prosecutor to oversee the russias thats russian investigation. Protest in new york city outside of trump tower in manhattan and in chicago outside of the Trump International hotel and tower. Coalition of liberal groups including moveon. Org took part in the demonstrations where there were signs that read drive out trump pence regime. Safe return of a man. 71yearold robert ridge is a beard at 5 00 last night. He is and wife had gone to the mall and he disappeared while she shopped. That launched a search including dog teams focusing on san rafael hes familiar with the area. An suv found last night near san rafael city hall. There was a special concern for his safety because he suffered from dementia. Given that he has cognitive issues and we didnt know what happened. We wanted to make sure we located him as soon as possible. Reports he hitchhiked to his home where he was found at 5 30 this morning. Deputies will talk with him later to see if they can fill in what happened during the hours he was missing. 7 10 am. Warning issued by Oakland Police after a report of an attempted kidnapping this week. 10yearold boy says he was outside of his home on tuesday night 45th near broadway when a stranger grabbed him. Investigators say the child was able to break away and run home and so far, no descriptions of the suspects. Police and eastern Contra Costa County looking for help trying to find a hitandrun driver who injured a young boy. It happened in the city of oakley before 5 00 last night. Witnesses told police the boy was crossing the street in the crosswalk two cars had stopped for him but they say a white pick up truck passed around the stopped cars and hit the child in the leg. The driver of the truck drove away, running a red light. When is the saber pick up appear to be a ford ranger carrying a heavy load in the back. The child was taken to the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. Look at this photo if you recognize the truck, call oakley police. I sat down with the mayor of San Francisco yesterday in city hall and he gave me a first look at a new program in San Francisco expected to help dozens of families with children. More on that and other top righties hes working on. If you think your allergies are bad, its not your imagination. We tell you how bad pollen levels are this year and why the worst may not be over yet. Good morning, we can see the traffic will be okay on 80 westbound heading out to the macarthur maze. Mostly cloudy skies and a few breaks but cool, breezy light rain to the north. To take advantage of this offer on a volvo s90, visit your local dealer. Welcome back to. Hot ipo has gone cold with investors after disappointing earnings report. Signs of trouble for retailers pam cook with the money business. Not great news this morning picked Quarterly Earnings way below what analysts expected, sales down twice as much as forecasted one analyst is morning says macys needs to close 100 stores to save money. And ipo rang in the bell this morning, Kkr Real Estate finance trust went public on friday stocks have done well. Real estate investments are heating up. Checking in on the numbers, stock maybe down 30 on that disappointing reports. Broader market down as well. Earnings weigh heavily on all three of our indexes. Live look at the dow up 112 points, 20,008 31. Nasdaq below 6100, 6089, s p 500 slipping half percent this morning. Start hurting things this morning, snap. We checked the price of snap stock 21 down, five dollars per share, 18 per share at this point after reporting disappointing numbers as well after the closing bell yesterday. Maker behind instant messenger snapchat announced first Quarterly Earnings missing expectations but snapped firstquarter revenue 149 million, down 1 million from what analysts were expecting. Insurer aetna pulling out Affordable Healthcare Act exchanges by next year. Company announced it is pulling out of the delaware nebraska in 2018 and and that is last two states slated to provide coverage under obamacare. Aetnas exit is the latest in the series of insurers leaving Affordable Care exchanges citing financial reasons. One ensure offering to help people, Blue Cross Blue Shield teaming up with lyft to offer policyholders free rides to get to their doctors appointments. You dont need the lyft app can call the Doctors Office to arrange pick up. Program is available for Blue Cross Blue Shield members who get insurance through their employer and who live in areas without reliable public transportation. Retailer suffering abercrombie and fitch has started talks to sell after years of slumping sales. The Clothing Store targeting teenagers says it receives several expressions of interest from arrival to making a deal to retailers for teenagers have been especially hardhit in the past year. Fewer teenagers are going to the mall to shop. Earlier this year, company said it will allow leases at 60 u. S. Stores to expire after a close several locations around the country and analysts say American Eagle outfitters may be interested in purchasing abercrombie. Interesting. Its ongoing conversation, teenagers going to the mall, from my own experience with teenagers and their friends, a lot go to the mall to hang out. They try things on and they Purchase Online where they can save money ask i like to save pennies. You talk about macys. They started with the last chance department. Marked up 70, 80 jammed into one corner of the store. I like to dig through and find bargains but if i purchase address written 20 i cant it is good for macys bottom line. Not everyone likes to dig through. I know. Thank you 7 18 am sals watching highway 24 how do we look . You said something and i didnt hear you. I wanted to say hello. Checking in on the commute. Okay. Gasias sittting not knowing what to say 35 minutes between carquinez bridge and macarthur maze, descents commute for this time of morning. Decent commute, yesterday we had 50 minutes of those 15 minutes, 15 minutes better than yesterday at the bay bridge, its about 1015 minute maybe 20 minute delay at the toll plaza. Moderate on the commute. Looking at interstate 880, its filling up at highway 24, its slow in lafayette. By the time you make it to the tunnel, things have evened out driving into oakland. Highway 4 has become a normal commute. Very slow. Its become concentrated used to be longer but now it is shorter and slower if that makes sense. 680 slope from concord to walnut creek and looking at the san mateo, dumbarton bridge, the commutes are filling in. Silicon valley commute, checking that out next time in a few minutes 7 19. Steve with the weather. The weather today mostly cloudy and cool pattern light rain has mated in northern sonoma drizzle and points north. Looking for low cloud deck pushed in from the system coming in on the north coast and i will show you that. The pattern is cool and it will stay this way for one week, fort bragg, ukiah, cloverdale north looks to see that and light rain possible opportunity next monday night and tuesday. Low clouds, cool, breezy for many today. 50s, 60s, upper 60s because of a soft breeze and locations may get near 70 but snow water equivalents from the sierra snow index, as you know snow up there. It was rapid snowmelt for a while but now putting on the brakes because cool air has come in. These are slowing it down but a lot of liquid. Norman sierra is shy of 30 inches, central sierra 40 and southern, 31. Snowmelt slows down but its a long way to go. Sierra may get more snow monday and tuesday looks like it. For us, probably not much in the way of rain but we have a fresh breeze west, hayward says delta breeze which was cranked up yesterday has tailed off and low clouds made it up to travis. 50s on the temperatures, stuck all morning. A few 40s, kelseyville 48, 49 low 50s hillsboro and great and san rafael napa, 52. If it feels cool, it is. 36 truckee. 51 ukiah, cool pattern and you can see the enhancement. That is where it will be to the north. Jet Stream Energy coming there. Again, sonoma coast, looks to be the best opportunity with drizzle not surprising and cool air filters and not only tomorrow and maybe bumping up saturday and this system drops into said. Mostly cloudy, drizzle, breezy, 60s near 70. Clear like ukiah 64 if that. In may, that is a cool pattern. Upper 60s to very low 70s for some, san jose, 70 degrees there and santa clara, sunnyvale, cupertino, closer others. Not on the coast, 50s, 60s peninsula 60s menlo park 68. Cool friday some sun saturday cool sat pattern not much change sunday into monday. Wow. 7 22 am. If you dont have allergy problems now like sneezing and watery eyes, you probably know people who do Technology Experts say bay area pollen counts are 34 times above normal to blame the rain. God bless you. The rain can be blamed for making more trees and flowers and grasses grow and bloom and allergy problems may get worse the later blowing flowers and trees start to produce pollen. Doctors say officers are filled with people looking for relief but expect to wait even people with never suffering from allergies before, they feel the misery this year. Some penitent San Francisco may have to pay more for afterschool childcare. In minutes fees being considered by the school district. New video of a fight last month or two Davis Police Officers were hurt. Some say it tells a different story from the police accounts. Quin was crazy about curls. But it took a twist of fate to find a highend curler at such a head turning price. And thats the beauty of a store full of surprises. You never know what youre gonna find, but you know youre gonna love it. San Francisco Police released video shooting involving San FranciscoPolice Officers it happened in the Subway Sandwich shop Market Street they release the video yesterday during a town hall meeting. Police say the man in the camouflage is 26yearold transient Nicholas Flusche who ordered a sandwich refused to pay for it and he went behind the counter and attacked an employee with a knife. Three bystanders tried to intervene. The victim and witness began to flee from behind the counter and mr. Nicholas flusche followed the victim and witness with a knife in his hand. Police arrived and video from body camera shows the officer shooting the transient in the back as he goes after the store employee. The victim was wounded and survived the attack. In the meantime all charges have been dropped against a man who was shot and wounded by San Francisco police in january. The police investigated a noise complaint in the oceanview neighborhoods. There was a confrontation and police shot 43yearold son moore on the front steps