the voboard could have voted to build a light rail or bus system with a dedicated lane. members decided to take no fur cher action until june 30th. that coincides with when a separate entity, takes over future expansion plans. happening today, passengers can take a ride on b.a.r.t.'s e b.a.r.t. extension. diesel powered tranes will carry passengers from the pittsburg bay point station to antioch. b.a.r.t. is offering free rides on the e bart extension from 1:00 to 8:00 tonight. regular service begins tomorrow morning. a quick update on weather and traffic. >> let's open up the weather window in the south bay where you can see 101 and 880 are dry for now. as you look at my accuweather the-hour planner, showers increasing as you head through

the morning commute. tapering at 4:00 and even a break in the clouds is possible. watch out for some rainbows with these showers. by 7:00, the chance really starts to taper. you might want to have an umbrella with you just in case. those temperatures starting in the low to mid 50s this morning. staying in the mid to upper 50s at the coast. low to mid 60s for the rest of us. even if you don't get wet today, it's going to be another chilly day. we have another semi fire. i don't believe that was started with a crash. northbound 880 before heg enberger. we had all lanes of the nimitz closed for about 20 minutes. just a ton of smoke. i'm not sure what that semi was hauling, but everyone did make it out of the semi okay. two lanes are open. two lanes are closed.

it's what's causing about a 30-minute delay at one point. they have not permitted big rigs permission to use 580. if you're in any other kind of vehicle, i do recommend that. this is one of two big issues this morning. we'll head back to the other one south of the carquinez bridge. some of you starting a long weekend this morning and the rest of you may be in traffic. >> number of people driving somewhere for memorial day is significantly up. matt keller live in san jose for us. hey there, matt. >> good morning, natasha and reggie. i have advice. get up, grab your keys, get in your car and start traveling. it's not going to get any better than this. we have light traffic on 101 in san jose. we realize you have to work today. there's going to be a lot of people on the road today. aaa says more people will travel this weekend than in 12 years.

delays can be up to three times more than normal. people in san francisco, here is your big tip of the morning. busiest time to travel is going to be this afternoon from 3:00 to 5:30. it will be busy at the airports as well. san jose's airport will be filled with holiday travels and people coming in for graduations this weekend. they expect a 17% increase in travelers compared to last year. the trains will be packed. amtrak is expecting 320,000 customers over the next week. live in san jose, matt keller, abc 7 news. let's get back to the breaking news i mentioned at 4:30. breaking news, harvey weinstein has just turned himself in to police in new york. the infamous hollywood producer reportedly being charged with rape. you see him here. he just walked into the nypd precinct. we will know definitely the charges against him once he appears in court this morning. we expect the charges to be that

he raped one woman and forced another to perform oral sex on him. this comes after a seven-month investigation by police. these are the first criminal charges against wean stein since dozens of women came forward. he's also under investigation in los angeles and london. we just saw him walk in. you see him here in a blue sweater. what happens now? after this he'll go to court and will be arraigned on those charges and we expect a high bail to be set. aer lingus passengers at sfo stranded for 24 hours just landed in dublin, ireland. they were delayed after a plane clipped a wing after landing wednesday. mny passengers were trying to make it in time for a historic vote. nbc reporter katy ute tis has the story. >> reporter: too wide of a turn caused the plane to clip its wing. the collision stranded passengers overnight wednesday

and late into thursday. >> aer lingus is just rubbish in terms of giving information. >> reporter: karen and martin are trying to get back to the uk. they say police officers were brought in for the frustrated crowds. a referendum could overturn the country's new total ban on abortion. >> we are very happy to go home for a vote because tomorrow is the day of the vote until 10:00 in the nighttime. >> one earlier, two later to fix it. i don't know how i feel about that. >> reporter: perhaps the drink to camp the nerves and reassurance there's no need to be worried. >> not at all. we have a marv air flight crew. >> reporter: the flight departed sfo at 8:55. san francisco residents will no longer have to dodge those officials announced scooter

companies in the comnyre required to remove all scooter from city sidewalks by june 4th. that's when a new one-year pilot program that goes into effect that requires companies to apply for permit. companies need to present plans to address illegal sidewalk riding and parking. they also have to disclose how data is being protected. >> i think it's a great idea. i'm new to it, you don't know the rules to the road. >> lime issued a statement saying they are excited to apply for a permit and will comply with the city's request. starting june 4th, any scooter found on the streets of san francisco up right or not will be subject to impounding and a $100 a day fine. happening today, the bottlerock napa valley music and culinary festival will get under way. big crowds are expected. 86 performances on multiple

stages are scheduled this year as well as after-showy vents. bruno mars, the killers and snoop dogg among the headliners. doors open at 11:30. how is the weather looking for that, mike? >> they'll be dodging drops today unfortunately. the coolest weather will be today also. 65 is our destination. for the most part in the low 60s the entire afternoon hours. the 65 will be a short time frame. tomorrow we'll see increasing sunshine and 72. sunday will be the warmest. watch out, you'll need the sunscreen, 83 degrees. here is a look at what's going on across the north bay. the most i've seen is about.05 inch. more showers rotating towards us. we've got showers from about 2:37 in san jose across the dumbarton bridge, heading across the dumbarton bridge. you can see drops on the lens as

we look westbound from san mateo bridge this morning. caution driving, caution mass transit, caution ferry ride for the wet weather we'll be dealing with today. here is a look at the south bay. we've got a chance of showers with our best chance peaking right around 2:00. notice our temperatures in the low 60s just about all day. east bay valleys, a chance of a scour just about any time with temperatures in the low to mid 60s. now, let's take a look at what's going to happen with this system. what we'll have are a chance of showers not only today, but this will also linger through the overnight hours. tomorrow we'll start to see clearing and get the summer warmth in the forecast for sunday and monday. you or off to a busy start also. >> we definitely have a lot going right now. i want to take a look at video once again. this is that semi that jackknifed and caught fire on eastbound 80 in the crockett area just before you get to the

car keen flas bridge. this crash happened around 2:00 this morning. we're hearing they possibly had to bring in a medical helicopter. i do believe we have injuries to that driver. also seeing backup shots. that was from a couple hours ago. things were getting better for a brief time. we just clarified with chp, they were able to open one lane from that semi crash. however, as soon as they did that, there was a second crash just past that semi fire and they have all lanes shut down once again. you can see that purple on our traffic maps. that means no traffic is getting through. you can see the backup approaching the scene. at about a 15, 20-minute delay and obviously no one getting through. you can use cummings sky way or highway 4 to the benicia bridge to get around this. it is more than just welcome back in one santa rosa neighborhood. this new home marks a big milestone. president trump ordered

thousands of national guard troops to the border. now he's being blasted for it from a surprising

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the storm reaches beyond our border in the bay area with thunderstorms possible acrs the sierra. heavy rain. a flood watch starts at 5:00 this morning through about 11:00 this evening. if you're heading up that way, debris and mud flows, minor street flooding possible. 5:00 this morning to 5:00 tomorrow morning. about one to three inches of snow is possible. down in so cal they don't have to worry about it though. 68 in san diego and l.a. anywhere fresno northward, you can run intervally rain and mountain snow. possibility of thunderstorms antsz even small hail. my accuweather seven-day forecast, this will lenger through tomorrow in tahoe. i promise you sunshine for the rest of the holiday and into next week. happening today, santa rosa will celebrate the completion of the first rebuilt home followig last october's north bay wildfires.

>> the mayor will present the certificate of occupancy prior to a ribbon cutting ceremony. >> i got hot water, cold water, it's great. >> reporter: dan never believed he'd be excited about a kitchen sink but he is. he's come home for the second time and can't wait to get organized. >> i'm happy. i'll be more happy when everything is up and put away. >> reporter: he's moving back to kerry lane in coffey park. his is the first home to be rebuilt since the destructive wildfires. everything is brand new, from door knobs to light switches to the back yard patio. >> little did i know when i left here october 9th it would take eight months to get back in. >> reporter: the wildfires left a path of destruction for miles. bradford one of the unlucky few able to reuse the original foundation of his house. it was not contaminated by the firestorm.

construction started last december, but there was lots of bureaucratic red tape to navigate. >> a big, prolonged process of getting funds in hand to pay the contractor. that's the most frustrating thing. they work hard. >> reporter: signs of new life are everywhere in coffey park and across santa rosa. 167 homes now under construction, 91 building permits have just been issued. >> it is good to see. it's good to see not only for us as the fire department and firefighters here tryingo protect these very homes, but all of us collectively to see it moving forward. >> this was the house dan bradford lost and this is his new one. >> i just hope it continues. i hope people see it and realize, hey, we can rebuild. >> reporter: in san francisco rosa, cornell barnard, abc 7 news. president trump deployed 1600 national guards troop to the border. the border patrol is calling it

a colossal waste of resources. the border patrol saw no benefit from last month's deployment. he said previous deployments helped alleviate the workload. the union previously endorsed the campaign and praised the president's border security efforts. mcdonald's shareholders decided not to take a step against banning plastic straws. the proposal received less than 8% of the vote at mcdonald's annual shareholder meeting yesterday. mcdonald's says it is working to find a more sustainable solution for plastic straws and adopted come postable straws in certain markets. if you see someone that looks like former president trump around town, it's probably him. he's been in san francisco. someone in the public defender's office snapped this photo outside the adobe building in soma yesterday. the office posted the peck tour. according to a specs person mr. obama jokingly said get back to

work. >> this is so funny. look at this photo. >> it's funny only one person posted this and we haven't seen a flood of social media. >> that's because the secret service guy is sitting in that big suv. i'm sure it was shut down after that. >> doing a good job. i wish we had more hospitable weather for the president. >> you saw him in that light cardigan sweater. >> hopefully waterproof, also. >> the storm is finally here. we've had a few showers roll across the peninsula. sfo looks pretty dry so far. we'll keep an eye on the delays that will develop. we have waves of light showers and cool conditions today, increasing sunshine and weekend warmth, but the heat doesn't last long. give you about two days. then we shut it down for average to cooler-than-average temperatures. you can see the rotation of the area of low pressure, the counter clock wise. that's where all the energy is, and it is squeezing what it can

out of the clouds. let's take a closer look, if you will, from about san francisco, oakland south ward. spotty showers with heaviest shower sitting on 92 between half moon bay and san mateo. this is rotating up to the north. 101 to 280, slick 580 and 880 from oakland, wet spots there, also. here we are at 7:00 all the way through noon. can see the lows sitting on top of us waves in light showers. during the evening hours they will taper a little bit. we could see a little sunshine late this afternoon into the evening hours. watch out for rainbows. overnight a cold front sweeps dunn. a few showers left at about midnight and one or two about 8:00 in the morning. mainly around the high country on either side of the santa clara valley. increasing sunshine and quite breezy tomorrow. temperatures starting to rebound

from the 50s and 60s today, a few 70s tomorrow. the 70s spread from inland to the baby sunday. then 90s monday inland, 80 around the bay. mid 60s at the coast. we'll keep it around for tuesday. the much cooler weather rolling in for wednesday or thursday. with the slick streets out there, let's find out if there's any other issues to deal with trafficwise. >> right now dealing with a couple of truck fires, mike. let's take a look at one of the problems. this one on 880 in oakland, the northbound side of the nimitz right before you get to hegenberger. this semi made it to the shoulder. that trailer was smoking and then became fully engulfed. it sounds like everyone made it out of the semi okay.okay.okay. our current situation we've got two out of four lanes lanes lanl obviously probably have to off-load the semi and get all that gear off there before they can totally clear the roadway.

not seeing a huge backup yet. semis not permitted for the moment because we have pretty light traffic volumes. on top of this, eastbound 80 before the carquinez bridge, we'll head there just before a:00. facebook facing new allegations about how it collected information about users and others. >> when i was a kid, we had clothing called hyper color, you put your hand on it and it changes color. a new type that's more high tech. here is tech bites. >> in today's tech bites, new accusations against facebook. >> they were just added to an ongoing lawsuit. allegations claim facebook gathered data for commercial reasons by reading user's texts and tracking calls and locations among other methods. facebook calls the claims baseless. a jury ordered samsung to pay apple more than half a billion in damages for illegally copying

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you're never morthan seven tes away from my accuweather forecast. you can see rainfall amounts are going to be less than .1 inch in most areas, up around santa cruz and north we could get up to .15 inch. johnson & johnson not giving up without a fight. the company plans to appeal a court decision that it added with, quote, malice, oppression or fraud when selling baby powder. a woman suit the company saying the company didn't warn her about cancer causing products baby powder. if you're not a fan of heights, i probably wouldn't direct you to the top of

seattle's space needle anyway. now they have a special designed glass that makes it more freaky. they let you lean back on the glass wall overlooking the city 520 feet in the air. this willventually be 24 of those benches, part of a $140 million renovation. it should al be done by july 4th. it's especially made that way to people can get selfies. >> definitely a sign of the times. you're never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. temperatures today, upper 50s at the coast, low to mid 60s around the bay, upper 60s as you head into the east bay and south bay. going the game tonight, 6:35 first pitch. because of the fireworks, i think they'll get them in. even though cloudy, the ceiling should be high enough that the fireworks should be able to explode. low to mid 50s with a few lingering light showers. if you're heading to our beaches, it just gets nicer as far as getting sunshine and

warmer weather. again, this is santa cruz which is going to be the warmest of our beaches this weekend with temperatures in the upper 60s to low 70s sunday and monday. peninsula and the north bay coast will be in the low to mid 60s with a little more cloud cover. let's get another check on that commute. it's been busy this morning. >> not the start we wanted to the holiday weekend, mike. we've got a couple major issues to talk about. want to head up to the crockett area now. eastbound 80 just before you get to the carquinez bridge, started about 1:20 this morning. we had full closure of that freeway for about two hours. we got one lane back open. as soon as that happens, we had another two-car crash past that truck fire scene. here is the latest. the secondary crash has cleared to the shoulder. one lane is open past the semi that caught fire. if you can't keep all that straight, don't worry, i'll keep giving you updates. bottom line, you can get through this area, however it might be better to use highway 4 instead.

everyone else looking okay. the bay bridge toll plaza still very light, not even seeing a stackup in the cash lanes right now. i'll have the latest coming up at 5:00. students in san francisco hope to use technology to change the lives of children around the world. seventh graders at apes to middle school are using 3d printers to build with prosthetic hands. it's typically -- students hope their work will some day help a child in the developing world. >> if i had a choice in the developing world, i'd definitely want to work on stuff like this, things that i know i'm helping people with. >> next year we're going to try to get certified with enabling the future so that we can get paerd with an actual kid who needs a hand. >> the team says the average cost of the hand is about $20 and they can be shipped almost

anywhere in the world. a packed meeting, a controversial vote. the b.a.r.t. board rejects a proposal. a story behind this bizarre photo of a gun stuck in the front bumper of a car. harvey weinstein just turned himself in to police. find out what charges he ee

i hope you're ready for this. are you ready for it? we're on the storm impact scale this morning. that's right. we are tracking showers. this is not what you want to see as a lot of us