Sal is off. Alex is in. Speaking of a few extra days clearly. 15 wasnt enough. Thats for you sal, if youre watching. I was at the gym and i couldnt get on a machine. It was packed. Ill confess, i havent gotten there yet to the gym. But we will. I have to get to that resolution. The problem that i have found, during the holidays youre busy and it throws off your routine. The routine for the past month. It starts next week. Also new session of congress. Right. It started today. It will be a very interesting year. Yep. In politics. We saw it this morning where the House Republicans had a vote behind closed doors. Then we saw president elect donald trump questioning the move. My question is, what do you think the relationship is going to be like between trump and the House Republicans . That dynamic is going to be one to keep an eye on, i think. Yep. Certainly throughout his presidency. Obviously we know that a lot of republicans didnt have his back during the campaign. Its going to be interesting to see how much they accomplish. Also Kamala Harris being sworn in today. The 45th senator of california. We will talk more politics in a bit. Lets get you updated on the forecast right now and go over to steve paulson. Thank you, guys. It looks like a break in the rain for right now. Still on its way. Plenty coming in tonight and tomorrow and also the wind will crank up here. But overall, about a quarter of an inch to over an inch for some on the rainfall. Especially marin county and up in the santa cruz mountains. Snow level is inching up a little bit. It was down to 1800 yesterday. I expect it to go 2500 to 3,000 later on. Theres going to be a lot of rain in the next 24 to 48 hours and more so for the weekend. We will get a break on thursday and friday. Look what happens on saturday. And then especially into sunday. There will be some heavy duty rain totals. In fact, there may be a lot of rain over the next 10 to 15 days or so. Some of this is still snow. But not as much as yesterday when it was low snow levels for many up in Mendocino County and lake county and the bay area hills. We are seeing a little break. The rain is starting to fill back in now. Plenty to the event with. It will get enhanced over the next few images. Santa cruz mountains, you can get good rain out of there. These temperatures are 10 degrees warmer for some than yesterday. Low off of oregon funneling in. Look at the moisture off to the west of us. The whiter the tops, the colder the top. That is the source of the wind. I think heavy rain tonight and tomorrow morning. You can see where the moisture is coming up from the west southwest. Theres a lot going on across the pacific that will play into awe wet pattern and a tremendous amount of snow. Even though the snow level will go up. 15day outlooks of 200 inches of snow up towards the sierra snow lab. A lot of rain. Maybe too much rain. We will ease into this. I mean, its looking very wet here for the next week or two. Thank you, steve. Snow as steve just reported bringing snow to the sierra and parts of the bay area. Janine de la vega is live on Mount Hamilton where Road Conditions are tricky. Arent they . Reporter yes. There is a road closure on Mount Hamilton road. They dont want anyone coming up here. And so at least the public. Thats because it is icy. There is snow. Not too much of it. A lot of it is melting. I was able to make one snowball here. Behind me you can see it is dusting of snow here. But its really melted off all of the trees. The roofs of the houses here still have snow. Theres some on the cars. Last time though we checked in with you, in the last 30 minutes, we ran into a couple of snowboarders who brought their snowboards up here, thinking they can do that. Lets go to that video. Theyre not supposed to be doing this. But, you know, it was pretty comical watching them try to do Something Like this. They are from morgan hill. They were just in tahoe. And they missed the snow and wanted to attempt this. The workers up here at lake observatory discouraged them and told them they couldnt be here and they ended up leaving. The snow started falling on Mount Hamilton on sunday and continued on to monday. A heavy dusting of snow. It all stopped this morning. There was rain oer night. That has stopped. A lot of the snow right now is turning to slush. We did he can speak to the snowboarder on camera a little while ago. Here is what he had to say. It is amazing. It is cool. I never chased the snow up here. Ive heard of snow coming around with United States in a while. It is cool to see. I woke up at 6 00 in the morning to be out here. Im glad i made it. Reporter now, here is a photo that one of our viewers sent us showing what it looked like in the parking lot yesterday off of summit road at Castle Rock Park in los gatos. They got snow there. Check out the snow coming down in middleton yesterday in lake county. You can see farm animals, pigs Walking Around in the snow. We had a viewer from kell industryville send in footage from kelseyville send in footage from yesterday. We have seen caltrans equipment here. They have been up and down the road. There is a plow right here. Theyre maintaining the roads up here. But they want to make sure that the public stays away from here. We are wearing a lot of layers here, my photographer and i because its windy. At least the rain has stopped. Janine de la vega bundled up atop snowy mount hal i will ton this morning. Lets shift to politics now. President elect donald trump announced his candidate for trade representative. Arobert lightheiser is the nominee. In a statement trump says that he will, quote, fight for good trade deals that put the American Worker first. As Congress Goes back to work, republicans are eager to start dismantles president obamas policies. Democrats talk about making life difficult for donald trump. Both parties are bracing for what could be a very difficult year. Reporter you can judge how consequential this congress may become based on the high profile visitors this week alone. President obama will be here on capitol hill tomorrow to meet with democrats to try to salvage obamacare. Vice president elect mike pence will also be here to meet with republicans. The gleaming dome of congress has been redone. After a massive construction and restoration project. But inside, its all about deconstructing president obamas agenda. For newly elected refers, it is a republicans, it is game time. The number one target is obamacare. Thats the reason that president obama will head to the hill tomorrow, to try to figure out a way to save the health care law. For republicans the challenge may be unifying around a plan that saves the more popular aspects of the program but getting rid of the individual mandate to obtain or buy insurance. Republicans have had a lot of plans for a number of years now. But this time they have to pick one. And as a party unite behind it and pass it, that will take hard work. Reporter and democrats are going to mount aggressive plays as well. Planning on making it as difficult as possible for president elect trump to win confirmations for his cabinet picks. Specifically targeting eight of them for long drag out battles that could continue for weeks beyond the inauguration. Already raising the ire of trumps team. Theres a difference between opposing people on policy and allowing people to have the constitutional the president to have the right to choose his cabinet as long as theyre qualified. Each one of these people is unbelievably qualified to serve and bring change to the various departments in the government. Reporter the other real fault line on capitol hill includes the ethics. Republicans have voted to dismantle it. Democrats are howling. In washington, doug luzader, fox news. This morning, president elect donald trump criticized House Republicans for focusing on the ethics issue as the first order of business. He tweeted this, with all that congress has to work on, do they really have to make weakening of the independent ethics watch dog as unfair as it is. Maybe their number one act and priority. Focus on tax reform, health care, and so many other things of far greater importance. The time is 9 10. Happening in his role as the president of the senate, Vice President joe den is swearing in new u. S. Senators. This Group IncludesKamala Harris. I believe she may be there shaking hands as we speak. Your right hand. We listen here at Vice President joe biden. Kamala harris elected in november to take over the seat of barbara boxer. She will be the first new senator in 24 years. She is joining Dianne Feinstein in representing our state. With the republicans Controlling Congress and the white house, they should be able to get work done. But democrats are vowing o put up a fight. Throughout mornings on 2 we have been asking what you would you like to see out of congress in the new year . Is there something that you want to see changed or hoping that they can come together and get things done . One twitter user says making our government more transparent. Make our government work for the people instead of getting paid by the people. On facebook, karen says i would Like Congress to be honest and work for the betterment of the country instead of themselves and lobbyists. Russ tweeted this, more time in home districts. Local news, interviews and town halls. We will keep taking your responses throughout the day and share them with you at 9 30. We appreciate the use of tvuthe9. An Environmental Group is traveling to washington, d. C. To take part in protests on inauguration day. It is a 16city National Protest tour ahead of the inauguration. Theyre calling the tour arthtotrump. They are asking people to put their messages for the incoming president into a giant globe. The group is concerned about trumps environmental policies. Ental policies. In his first 100 days, he has promised to withdraw from the terrorist climate agreement. He has promised to fast tracked fossil fuel projects like keystone xl. And one of the biggest protests in washington, d. C. Could be the womens march which is scheduled for january 21st, that is the day after the inauguration. As many as 200,000 people are expected to take part. All right. Still to come on mornings on 2 the 9, a photojournalist in the right place at the right time in a life or death situation on a los angeles freeway. In response to a driver trapped inside of that burning vehicle. Plus, the rain is not the only issue on the Golden Gate Bridge. This morning, the problem with the movable barrier that could slow down drivers today. Woman college today. Career tomorrow at the peralta colleges. Sign up for classes today at one of our four colleges. Berkeley city college, college of alameda, Laney College and merritt college. Classes start january 23rd. We have so many ways for you to get ahead. Financial aid, thousands of classes to choose from, tutoring and so much more. College today. Career tomorrow. Sign up for classes right now at peralta dot edu. Like your future at the peralta colleges. At 9 14, were checking stocks for you. The dow up slightly gaining up 50 points. It was higher up earlier in the session. The day is young. Nasdaq and s p showing modest gains right now. Lets head down to the news room where dave clark is keeping an eye on big stories of the day. Here are some of the top stories this morning. Jury selection continues today in the murder trial of antolin garciatorres. This comes five years after morgan hill teenager sierra lamar disappeared. Her body has never been found. Prosecutors say the dna of garciatorres was found on her clothing in her bag that was found in a field. And that the dna of sierra was found in garciatorres car. His lawyer says he is not guilty of murder and says sierra lamar ran away from home. The Opening Statements are scheduled on january 18th. Well, normally every morning there are four southbound lanes on the Golden Gate Bridge and two northbound lanes. But this morning, there were only three lanes in each direction. Thats because of damage on part of a movable median on the Golden Gate Bridge. The zipper was broken. Bridge officials were waiting until today to fix it. The repairs should be finished by the evening commute. Grief counselors are at Evergreen Valley High School in san jose for the first day of school since a 14yearold freshman was killed Christmas Morning in a suspected drunk driving crash. Andrew nguyen was in a car with his family on capitol expressway when another car smashed head on into them after crossing into their lane. The other driver who police say was under the influence also died in the crash. Those are just some of your Morning Headlines from our news room. Mike, alex, gasia, ill send it back to you. Thank you, dave. Police in new york this morning, they are looking for three thieves who got away with 6 million in jewelry on new years eve. We want to show you Surveillance Video of the two men. They raided a jewelry wholesaler. The suspects climbed the fire stairs to get inside. They waited in a stairwell and struck right at midnight, possibly using the noise from the new years eve celebration as cover. Police believe this heist was an inside job because the safe was left open. The priceyest item was worth more than 200,000. You dont just leave a safe like that open. No. Not by accident. This is a video that we want everyone to see. We have Young Children. We should know the dangers. A 2yearold boy rescued his twin brother during a frightening incident that was caught on camera. Some people might find it disturbing. I think it carries an important message. That having been said, we will show it you to. The dressers toppled right over on to both of the little boys. This is happening in their bedroom in utah. One little boy is trapped underneath. Thank goodness his twin brother remains calm and uses his strength to push that dresser off of him. Watch, his twin brother gets up and is okay. Now, the boys parents were not in their room when this happened. They actually saw it on their Surveillance Video. And thats how they realized what had happened, how the dresser came down. They chose to share the video on social media because it highlights the important of taking the extra step of anchoring your furnish to the wall which a lost us do because were in earthquake country. Tvs and the furniture. Maybe they heard it i hear a pin drop in my house. I have parent ears. My wife, absolutely. She is there in a minute. Right. When she hears anything. You would think they would have heard. It is amazing to see him lifting that up. Thats right. He can hold that over his head forever. I saved your life. An important note. The parents said they had done everything else. The latches on the drawers and the cabinets and all of that stuff. The one thing they didnt do. So do it. This is talking about rescues here. A photojournalist came to the rescue of a driver trapped in his vehicle in a fiery freeway crash in Southern California and he captured it all on camera. [censor] this was the scene early sunday morning on the 110 in l. A. Photojournalist ashton watched it happen. He spends his night covering crashes and crimes. He rushed to the help of the driver once the car burst into flames. Rescuing the man proved to be no easy task. He literally had less than five seconds to live. And i managed to just just managed to get him out. That driver was taken to the hospital in critical condition. But he is now expected to be released in a few days. That is incredible. Coming up on mornings on 2 the 9, myth busters getting revamped and on the search for curious minds. We talk to the new host of myth busters search. With the xfinity tv app, anything with a screen is a tv. Stream 130 live channels. Plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. You can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. Only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. Download the xfinity tv app today. New this morning, this years bottle rock lineup has been announced. Headlines including the foo fighter, tom petty and the heart breaker as well as maroon 5. Macklemore and ryan lewis. The roots and modest mounts. Yeah. Quite a lineup there. The threeday festival is may 26th to the 28th in napa valley. Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning at 10 00 a. M. The lineup is incredible. The big names. I would go for tom petty alone. Tom petty is great. I remember being there for the first time and seeing the crowds grow year after year. There was debate whether this would be a big deal after the first time they had that. And here we are. It took off. It certainly did. Lets talk here about a show that we all know very well. Mythbusters a hit show filmed in the San Francisco bay area. The mission was to figure out if some of the biggest science rumors were real or fake. This saturday, the science channel is launching myth busters the search. They are finding more curious minds looking to uncover the truth. The myth is can you build a nonrocket power ejector street that doesnt shoot them up but out to the side. Joining us this morning is the host of the new show, kyle hill. Kyle, good morning to you. Good morning. Thanks so much for having me. No problem. I know youre a science buff. How fired up were you when you got word that you would host mythbusters the search. Honestly a dream come true. Mythbusters has been with me for over 50 of my life in terms of years. It actually did help sculpt my career path. When i was in high school determining what i wanted to do, going into college, mythbusters pushed me into engineering. From there, i realized that i too wanted to try to take complex