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the commute should be fine weather-wise, clear and cooler. dress for temperature up to about 11 degrees cooler than yesterday. we have purchase patch but look at san rafael south 101 we okay. tomorrows are in the mid-30s to mid-50s through 7:00 and 60 at noon and the clouds are increasing and keep us in the mid-to-upper 50s and dry at 7:00. beyond that, the rain is on the way. sue? >> yes, emeryville is getting busy and the east shore freeway headlights headed in the westbound direction, the at university avenue overcrossing and golden gate field at the top of the scene in the maze may for a 15-minute drive from golden gate field into the baby babe there are if metering lights yet. roadways are generally green and we will come back and talk about options if you early take the ace rain. guys? >> thank you, more now on the developing news, in wore when ace train service will be installed, and sky 7 was over scene after the rain derailed
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off niles canyon road, and it hit a tree on the tracks, at 7:30 p.m. the first rail california rolled and alameda creek and was partly submerged. 214 passengers were on board, and 14 were injured, nine went to the hospital. four with serious injuries. amy hollyfield is at the scene with the very latest. amy? >> yes matt, investigators is tellings that a mudslide is to blame for knocking a tree down on to the tracks that caused ace train to derail. there are a last lights on so you can see the train lie open its side in the embankment the crews were out here all night long tying to start getting the scene cleared. the ace train derailed at 7:30 last night here in sunol and it had 205 people on board and nine were hurt. one car landed in a creek and started to flood. the talk this morning is the miracle that everyone survived. we rescue crews say it was tough
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to get to the victims. >> to be able to traverse water, get to the people and get everyone out of the area and to get out of area you have to walk down the tracks so to get down the track in the night and the logistics of getting everyone to the fair groups so they can pete up with their plaintiffs ones...very difficult. >> of the nine people who were hurt, four have serious injuries but everyone is expected to survive. the focus today will be getting the train cars out of other and they have moved two of them and they have three to go and the one in the water is the toughest to get upright and moved out of here. they hope to get it done bit inof the day. >> thank you. shaken, scared, and cold. more now on the passengers on board the ace train who describe the moment their commute crashed john it is in pleasanton where
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many of the passengers last night were reunited with the families. >> good morning, reggie, i am sure they will think abut the crash this morning. some could be coming here to the pleasanton ace station to pick inthe car, with a step on the way stockton. if folks come out here to try and hop on board the ace train they will be greeted by the electronic board that said that there is no train service today. in fact, an ace spokesperson spoke to our sister station and said they are take it day-by-day. is no word often when service will resume. obviously, no one saw this coming especially the passengers who were waiting to get home, some who were even asleep before the big crash. passengers described hearing the trains clicking, silence, and a thud. [ inaudible ]
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we are all safe. we stuck together and helped each other out. >> out of the 200 passengers, christian bled a majority of them were able to get out of the train car uninjured. they were shuttled by a because to we meet with family and friends to get home. >> we first told you abut derailment with a punish alert from our news app which you can download to get updates on this story and other breaking news as it happens. >> now, to neighbors in santa cruz, who say though are not surprised to find there was an illegal drug ring going on right across the street from them. this morning, six uc santa cruz students are facing charge after search warren as were serve on three hecks. they eased several packages of ecstacy. officers said there were 5,000 tablets of the drug with a valve more than $100,000.
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>> students arrested are part of a sorority or a tenths on campus were >> organized drug cells out of three university students' home. that is surprising. >> i am not surprised. it is santa cruz. there is stuff everywhere. no matter where you live there are gangs and drugs and everything. >> the six students face conspiracy charges and possess of controlled substances for sale. >> police are trying to traffic accident down a group of thieves would broke into two gun stores over the weekend making off with several weapons including an assault rifle. here is video of a break-in at the old west gun room: burglars jumped a fence and broke a window on saturday night. though gave up when the alarm starting going off. >> to hours later petaluma police believe the same group targeted the independence armour using 1990s a through the front doors and took $12,000 worth of guns.
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>> an expert in police procedures say san francisco police made a mistake when they shot and killed alex nieto. >> this was about recklessness and deliberate indifference to this sanctity of life issues and their failure to deploy the proper tactics. >> the consultant made the comment during testimony yesterday in a federal lawsuit brought by his parents. a central question: did police use excessive force when they shot him numerous times last year? the officers did a very good job from the testimony they have given of assessing and reassessing was in front them. and stopping when they felt they reasonably could. >> his mother took the stand late yesterday can said she was extremely proud of her son who recently had received his southerns degree in criminology. all the justice department is asking a federal judge to reconsider his riling that the federal government does not have
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legal authority to force apple to help hack into a drug suspect's phone. the appeal is similar to the argument that government lawyers are using to try to break the encryption on the iphone data of san bernardino attacker farook. apple said both cases would set a press distant that threats everyone's safety and privacy. >> a few very lucky people in the western pacific can turn to the sky and see a total solar eclipse and the rest of us have an opportunity to witness it live right here. we explain how this will work. >> good morning, reggie, i am in the studio that is the hundred for the total solar eclipse what is involved in preparation for this? >> our team is broadcasting the
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eclipse since 1998 our 6th one. this one is a small area in the middle of pacific ocean. our crew left a week and a half ago and over 60 hours of travel and 7,000 miles later they broadcast the eclipse. >> why did you decide to dedicate a crew of 15 people to travel halfway an the world to bring us the eclipse? >> egg we do is for education and not only in our museum, but, well, the globe. we have been lucky to have the opportunity partnering with mass and the we science foundation and when the opportunity was prepared to us to do it another time with all the collective experience, there was no way to say no so we are excited to bring this locally and to the world. >> next year, there will be another eclipse right over the path of united states but if you are excited about tonight pay
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attention to the count down clock in the comp scene we are 12 1/2 hours away. we will send it back to you and the studio. >> sue and the traffic center, traffic is relatively light at this hour and here is the real problem with the road closure because of the ace train derailment last night. niles canyon is closed. the we around this is mission or 680 and ate train service is suspended this morning and bart is not a great alternate you have to get to dublin/pleasanton to figure out bart that would only take you to fremont where you pick up a v.t.a. bus and there is not a great alternate from the central valley for you. the 580 could be more busy. mike? >> yes, sue, we will start in san jose where 101 and 880
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dry. the first seven days we received nearly two third of the rain we are supposed to get this me in santa rosa. to more than three-quarters in san francisco. and oakland of it is a good start. more is on way. but this morning it is cool. 43 degrees right new. waking up at revideo, 49, ocean beach is 52, ferry building is june and the financial district is 50 and upper 30s in american can wherein and pleasanton and 41 in union city and safer telling. east bay hills is breezy in thelies and we will see increasing clouds today, upper 50s to mid-sick, rain is best tomorrow morning, and then on thursday, heavy rain is open way. we will take a look at three storms that have a "2" on our storm-impact scale coming up. matt? >> yes, mike, steph curry is stirring up controversy and why some are upset about helps to visit an oakland school. visit an oakland school. >> new t
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>> daly city, dublin, los gatos and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> concerns parents demand an investigation into a shooting that sent a bullet into an elementary school in san francisco. it happened yesterday morning. a visitacion valley elementary. two drivers were shoot at each other. and a viewer certain us a photo, a stray bullet hit a kindergarten classroom
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unconstruction. no one was inside at the time. >> worse mvp surveillance camera stick will promote water as an alternate to sugar drinks but some are unhappy with the visit to martin luther king are elementary because the event is responsorred and organizeed by britta walter filter. they never contacted the school and want to the school directly. officials from the campaign for commercial-free childhood see this visit as a form of planning. all the pentagon said 150 suspected terrorists are dead after a united states military drone attack in somalia. officials say it struck a training camp as they prepared to lunch a large-scale attack likely against african or unpersonnel. the camp located 120 miles north of mogadishu, and the united states has been much with it for weeks. >> today is the second anniversary of the disappearance of malaysian airline flight with
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families of passengers and crews making an appeal for the search to -- beyond june. the second possible piece of flight 370 was found on a mozambique sandbank. >> if you are on peps that and tired of hear the planes fly overhead today is the chance to tell someone to make it stop with a community meeting to talk about what can be done to get rid of some of noise that is road eling the homes overhead. this is in response to an increase number of complains from people living in redwood city about mights coming from the san carlos 500. the meeting starts at 9:00 at board of supervisors chambers in redwood city. >> construction of the new transbay transit center has a new milestone: we were in the south of market areas as they unveiled the first part of >> anyone on the exterior. there is a special pattern
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created by a mat science that can extend without repeating itself. >> they wanted there to be shelter for the public and provide light but, also, provide education on math and science, and san francisco be the heart of silicon valley and technology it could not be more fitting. that is a rendering of what it looks like, set to open next year. >> now it is time for traffic. sue? >> yes, we have this problem with the ace train derailment and we are watching the commute on 580 in the central valley. this is no from alternate. for the ace train. coming from stockton. you have to drive or take bart from dublin/pleasanton so we watching the 580 corridor and right now it is thigh minute drive from dublin and highway 4 is not bad in san rafael to san francisco not a bad drive, but, overall, friend is good. we do have slowing as we mentioned out of the central valley and road work, city, in
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the lanes in the oakland area, eastbound and westbound 580 the ramp to 980 is set to re-open atty time and we will check with c.h.p. >> mike? >> good morning, everyone, check out the next three hour on live doppler hd. ing in to worry about. i am not anticipating flight arrival delays into sfo. we go from sunshine to cloudy and dry. keep the umbrella near. several systems reach moderatefuls which is "2" on the storm-impact scale from "1" light to "5" severe but this is light with light rain and wind and up to half an inch of rain. that would be the we exception and across the north pay. at 5 o'clock this evening, the clouds increase as the light rain moves in the north by at 9:00. mostly that is where the steady rain is going to be along the coast with the rest us getting drizzle and pockets of rain. it will officer through the morning up to 9:00 and it pulls
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into the north by by noon and it is gone by action. my rainfall totals in the south by from the north you get nothing but the rest of us are possible .1" to .2" and santa rosa is possibly half an inch. here is my seven-day forecast thursday and friday back-to-back moderate storms a couple of light storm on saturday and sunday and another moderate storm for monday. set your clock forward an hour and change the batteries in the smoke detectors. >> live nfl games can come to your facebook. >> a bid war for the right to stream nfl games. facebook and amazon and verizon and others are interested. how bigger the stakes in,and cbs are paying $900 million come pinned for twoers of thursday night football on tv. >> sony has the smallest come pat contact program with 30 times zoom lens and spell
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>> if you are heading out the door seven things to know before you go, investigators say this morning that a put slight forced a tree on to the track causing an ace train to derail last night, in sunol. 200-plus people were on board and nine were hurt. four serious limit >> ace train canceled all service between stockton and san jose. service resume when the train and debris have been taken off the tracks. we do not know when that will happen. >> three, we are following your tuesday morning commute, of course, with the ace train commuters having to find an alternate way to get to work this morning. there is not really a great one unless they take 580 to the dublin/pleasanton bart station so we are polling your 580 commute extra carefully. >> a silver lining, number four, that it is dry if you have to
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head owe. look at when through monday a better than 60% chance of rain each day and some of them reach moderate level on our democratst. >> police are asking you to look at this video trying to crackdown a group of thieves who we broke into two gun stores over the welcome making off with several weapons including an assault try goal. >> there will be a solar eclipse tonight, san francisco's exploritorium has a viewing party or watch as it happens on a special abc7 news at 5:30 >> the warriors set a new n.b.a. record for the longest home winning streak in the regular season. last night the dubs pete the -- beat the magic for the 45th straight win at oracle arena. >> in november you could get to vote whether to overturn the plastic budget ban if grocery stores. dozens of students are launching a campaign to save the statewide
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batch on plastic bags but opponents say if it is passed, it will have a ripple effect that could cost thousands much jobs. students say the continuing use of plastic bags will result in oceans having more plastic than fish by the year 2050. >> the students are here standing to say we need to up hold the law that protected the environment. to up hold the law that saves taxpayers money. and that is with we will do. >> 150 students and counties in california have passed bag bans. >> we have new details of a pickup truck stolen from a bay area nonprofit. the monument crisis center posted this picture the ford truck and said it was fund yesterday morning near the willowshipping center in concord. the truck had minor damage but someone stole it last month from the headquarters. the organization used the truck to provided if to 50,000 people each year. stay tuned.
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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> off the track and into the water, a train packed with passengers derails interest an alameda county creek. nine people are hurt. >> good morning. i am reggie aqui. >> i am matt keller. the derailment is forcing ace train to cancel service today. sue is tracking the impact on traffic. sue? >> that is right, there is no great am not for ace train just to drive. we are monitoring the 580 commute. it looks like it is close to normal. with slow out of tracy. you are looking at 40 minutes from tracy to the dublin/pleasanton area.
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you have to get to dublin/pleasanton bart if that is the alternate route from ace train passengers. it is not a great alternate. it takes you to fremont. if you go to san jose you will have a bus there. mike? >> good news here. good morning, everyone, we will check out live doppler hd. it is clear and cool. up to 11 degree cooler. dress warmly. my car thermometer hit 36 on the way did work which is a cooler area. exploritorium is great from pier 15. 36 to 50 at 7:00. mid-to-upper 50s at noon and high clouds and sunshine, and increasing clouds, mid-50s to 60 and by 7:00, we are mostly cloudy but we will watch the rain moving into the north bay and hour by hour look at that coming up. reggie? >> we are looking at incredible images, a miracle that no one was killed from the crash scene. it was chaos last night. million rescuers breaking windows jumping to the chilly water to rescue passengers.
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our reporter has team coverage in sunol. amy? >> good morning, reggie. we now know a caused the train to derail. look behind my. you can see a car is lie open its side. in the creek. officials now say this was a mudslide. it was triggered by the trains sending a tree into the tracks last night at 7:30 in sunol. ace train bound for stockton crashed with 205 people on board. nine of the people were hurt. four those people have serious injuries. we asked official to react to weather being the cause. >> weather is a factor that comes into play and how we maintain our right-of-way and tracks. we do everything we can to keep our tracks safe. some things are out of our control but our crews are working to be able to ensure
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that safety is the highest priority. >> there will be no ace service and the focus is on moving the train out of way. they have cleared two cars out of here. they have three to go. and the one lie open its side will be the toughest to get out of the here. they are hoping to get it all cleared out of here bit help of the day. new video shows a firefighter trying to smash a window to get into a first rail car. inside, crews were trying to get passengers out of the car and to safety. we continue our team coverage with our reporter at the ace station in pleasanton and the crash that is have an impact on the commute. janet? >> yes, this is where people come to cash the train and go to work in the san jose area. the people have not heard the news they will see the
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electronic board that said no train service today and take a look, they will see the same pentagon if they try to validate their tickets this morning. we spoke to passengers shaken up by the derailment. someone was definitely watching out or them because the accident could have been so were worse. another passenger scened hearing clicking of the tracks near silence and then a big thud. passengers were then out of their seats, catapulted into the aisle, and many were able to safely get out of the train car. we got an update from spokesperson when service resumed. >> we will work with our passengers and we went to weapon safety at the top. we will take as long as we need to make sure the tracks are safe and it is okay to go through there but hopefully in the next day or couple days everything is cleared out and we will be back this -- in service. >> this is the time the commuters are trickling into the
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train station to cash the first train out and we saw a few drivers turn around their cars because they just saw the message. this are quite a few cars in the parking lot so folks could be coming back out to pick them up because they were not able to last nature with the commute cut short. >> as you can knowledge ma, it was quite the night for people waiting for passengers to get east train. many were at the pleasanton station at alameda county fairgrounds and family members say they lend of the crash after getting text messages and phone calls from people on the train. >> my husband was injured. i am not sure where he is. i am waiting for the police tell me where my husband is now. >> we got an update and she found out her husband was taken by ambulance to a fremont hospital. he has a lower back enjoy.
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>> if you are not familiar with ace train, it is a popular express train between stockton and san jose. people with liver in the central valley use it and work in the bay area. you can see there are stops this san jose, santa clara, fremont, pleasanton, livermore, tracy, and stockton. we first told you about the derailment with the push alater from abc news app and down load the free app and enable push alerts to get updates on the story and other breaking news as it happened. >> in san jose, police are investigating the officer-involved shooting of a stabbing suspect. officers were spending to reports of a stabbing at a home at third and martha streets at 6:00 last night. they found a man and a woman with stab wounds. police say the suspects with armed with a knife and shot by an officer the suspect died at scene. last check, the woman is in stable condition and the man was critical, but is expected to survive. this is san jose's first police shooting of the year.
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>> concord police are developing a shooting near the willowshipping center, at diamond manufactured and well low way with shots reported after 8:30. officers found an abandoned car near the shopping center and what appear to be signs of a car-to-car shooting. no one was slot and no suspects have been identified. $100,000 worth of illegal drugs are off the street. this was a bust involving uc santa cruz students. pass say the six students were part of a ring selling ecstacy. they were all members of a from tenths or sorority open campus. the santa cruz police department seized packages with 5,000 tablets of drug at three homes in santa cruz on friday night. the packages came from organization. the six students face charges of conspiracy and possession of a will asked substance. >> police in castro valley are whoing for this man this morning , run over a six year old boy in a dolen car. it happened yesterday morning. the boy was walking to school and stop to band over to look at worms and police say more list
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hit hill, love the red car, and republican away from the scene. the boy's last leg was pinned against a pole and he had to go to the hospital. c.h.p. said that the car that hit the bowl was one of several stolen from livermore ford dealership. morris was part of a crew of thieves it is believed that took the cars. >> tonight a school board in petaluma could be heated over...ipads. some parents say filters on the devies do not adequately block inpresent contest. the district contends it is doing their best but admits there is in way to much can everything. as a ultimate, school officials are now urging parents to step up their monitoring. the district was able to bring all 7,500 students with ipads. forced to remove lead and asbestos from cliff side markets begins today. the building is set to be torn do you because erosion put it in danger of falling off a clip.
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crews put up fencing yesterday with the demolition to stat on thursday and take about 4-5 days. >> on the bottom side of the scene there is a countdown clock, because of a rare solar eclipse. we have 12 hours remaining. scientists from san francisco's exploritorium or in the pacific, the western pacific ocean, one of the only places in world you can watch and record the total solar eclipse which will occur at 5:38 our time. the explore storm opens its doors at 4:00 today with the viewing party starting at 5:00. if you cannot make it to the exploritorium you can watch the total eclipse as it happens on a special abc news at 5:30 tonight and world news tonight will move to 6:30 so we can watch this all happen. >>ing, everyone, sue hall at 5:37, and with the ace rain derailment there are two things
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you need to know: first, ace train service and in real mass transit alternate you will have to pop in the car ask drive to get to bart at dublin/pleasanton. two, the niles canyon section of 84 is closed. between sunol and fremont because of the investigation. where the train derailed. can you not get through there. you will need to take 680 or mission boulevard. we have an accident in hayward southbound 880 and this involves four considers, to ins are blocked, and traffic is very slow. you by want to take 580 to 238 to get around this to get to san mateo bridge. guys? >> mike? >> yes, i have good news, look at this, february compared to just the first seven days of march and what stick out is san jose, nine times moran in the last seven days than all of february six times more for oakland and over two times as
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much in san francisco. activity planner, we still have dangerous surf at our peoples until 10:00 this morning and if you need to get out and clean up today is the good day the only completely dry day and tonight it will rain again if you are walking the dogs there is coming due and it is cooler at 11 degrees coalesce we can see the lack of clouds as the sun is bright being over 101 and 80 in san jose. today, we have upper 50s to my 60s and tomorrow we will have showers especially in the morning, mid-60s to 70 so warmer in the afternoon and a stronger storm hits on thursday, one of three potential "2" on the storm-impact scale. >> we are still in a drought so why is this happening? the todays try to explain why they are releasing hundreds of thousands of gallons of water from folsom lake. >> big day in the race for the white house and we could have a white house and we could have a more narrow fooled
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bus the drought. the borrow row officials say they need to keep folsom at 40% full in winter to guard against flooding. police western catchers to manufacture to higher ground because of flooding concerns. >> san francisco woman accused of a cancer fundraising scam is expected in court. the woman claims she had a rare blood disorder and used this to try and raise money for a care. she raised more than $17,000 online. she faces multiple charges including false impersonation and commercial burglary and receiving stolen property. >> the first lady will attend the funeral of nance reagan in simi valley on friday. former first lady will be laid to rest next to her late husband, president ron. the service is close to the public but we have learned that it will likely be tell surprised. mrs. reagan will lie in repose for public visitation tomorrow and thursday. she died at her home in los angeles on sunday. >> presidential candidate
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hillary clinton and donald trump, the favorites, as voters in michigan head to the polls for the presidential primaries. >> nasa was endorses trump. >> i have been to michigan and we will do well there. >> the sooner i could become your until flee the more i can begin to turn our tax to republicans. >> both front runners trying to pad their delegate lead to make the claims on nomination seem inevitable. democrats also will be voting in miss my for republicans, though, heading to the polls in mississippi and idaho and hawaii. >> here is how vase making up, donald trump maintains the lead in the republican delegate count. he has 384 degrees followed by ted cruz with 300, and marco rubio with 151. on the d side hillary clinton leads with 672 delegates, and bernie sanders has 477. >> now, record breaking, dub
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nation a new republican to sell brace, they hold the record for long of the regular season home winning streak. they pet -- beat the magic last night at the oracle arena the 45th consecutive home win breaking a 20 year old record held by michael major dan and the bulls. steph curry made the 300th three-pointer of the season to become the first player to hit 300 if a single season. >> now, sue has the ace train derailment and how it is affecting the commute. sue? >> we secretary more people to get on the roads because there is not a great mass transit alternate for ace train. we want the 580 corridor. it is fairly moderate. from tracy to dublin. at 42 minutes. if you drive from antic to concord it is under 20 minutes san rafael to san francisco, also, under 20 minutes. the overall map shows green pretty werery where and that is the central valley commute slowing up and over the altamont
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pass. we have an accident here in hayward and very slow on the nimitz. this is four cars middle lanes, sub880. expect delays. we are looking at 10 minute backup to reach the san mateo bridge side of things cornered the -- beyond the accident. >> mike? >> live doppler hd is showing the next six hours it is void of radar returns. at lunch, we have high clouds rolling in. lack how clear it is from mount tamalpais. you put the umbrellas away. for now. do not get too far away, we have rain every day. starting tomorrow. through the seven-day outlook. clouds increase but dry today and a wet pattern the rest of the week with the strongest storms thursday and friday and monday and back-to-back and possibly "2" on the storm-impact scale. this is coming in tonight through tomorrow morning and we will have light rain, light wind
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and .45" is the exexception with pest us .1". you can see the clouds thickening and light rain in the north by by 9:00 stay leg and along -- staying there and along the coast with drizzle for most. in the only the steady rain is breaking out from 7-9:00. it will retreat through noon. by action it is again. my seven-day forecast shows we have a "1" tomorrow which is light and thursday and friday is moderate and saturday and sunday is light and monday is moderate and set your clocks forward. wees there an hour of sleep. >> looking forward to it. >> we lose an hour of sleep every night. >> "dancing with the stars" the wait is over for the fans with "good morning america" revealing all celebrities for season 22. >> pittsburgh steeler antonio brown and his partner, sharna.
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for charity. >> now, traffic hotspots with the drive through hayward. we have an accident. it is new clears to the right shoulder. traffic is stack up to 238 and slow laboring oakland. hopefully that will dissipate. it has been cleared. we are monitoring the drive from the central valley with no ace train service today. it is busy with speeds slowing up and over the altamont pass. for 45 minute drive from tracy to dublin and sunol friday is starting to slow for 20-minute drive from pleasanton to sunol. well update the road closures and ace train alternate if a bit. mike? >> if you have to pound the payment because you cannot take mass transit, it is dry. but the surf is down and still dangerous in 10:00 this morning. 12-15 foot swells. they were up 15-19. to the south, look at the
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sunshine, 71 in small springs and lake tahoe is 49 and the snow pack, we are still only at 82% although some isolate areas received 5' of snow over the weekend. and here is my seven-day forecast with a winter mix tomorrow and moderate snow on friday, sunday, heavy snow on machine. >> scientists is found the real season so many baby sea lion are starving. they say the female see lions are not getting high quality food for the babies, finding the high quality food which is high in pat and calories is very hard right new pus of the drought. the young see lion are found weak on the beach. scientists say the problem is only expected to get worse. >> if you wake mayorup listen to this, a short break from certain containeds of personal care products can help your health. teen girls see a drop if chemical exposure with only a three day switch in cosmetics
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h.d. is over the site of the ace rain derailment near sunol and you can see part of the train still on its side this morning. two other cars are off the tracks off of files canyon road. >> it hit a tree push on the tracks fossilling a put slide around 7:30 last night. the first rail car rolled into alameda creek and partly submerged. 200 people were on board when it happens and several were hurt. >> i am matt keller, on tuesday, march 8, with team coverage of the crash this morning, starting with sue hall it will impact your ace commute because there are no trains running. there is not a great am not mass transit use, you have to drive to dublin/pleasanton for bart. we are machine forking 580. niles condition beyond road is closed. month estimat -- no estimated time of opening. the alternate is mission or

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