crime scene tape and flashing lights in fremont this morning as a deadly crash shuts down a busy intersection. good morning. 4:30. i'm scott mcgrew. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. investigators are looking for evidence near fremont boulevard and decoto road. >> officers have taken the drive sbeer custody. >> reporter: good morning. this is a horrible scene what we're talking about. we're actually maybe a half mile away from there. what happened is that a motorcyclist is dead and police have taken another person into custody. they think the driver may have

been drinking. this happened overnight here in fremont. the crash on decoto road and fremont overnight. and what they are telling us is that they believe that alcohol may have been a factor with the driver in the car. still trying to get information this morning because a spokesperson for the police department is on the way. so we're trying to clear up details and exactly how this collision happened. but i can tell you that getting around the accident scene is difficult but because police have blocked off a number of intersections getting to fremont and decoto road. again, one person has died, another person in custody and police are saying they believe alcohol is a factor. we just heard that the spokesperson for the fremont police department is at another location closer to the scene so after this we're going to move there and bring you the latest in about 30 minutes. christie smith, "today in the bay." >> thank you. busy intersection there. >> right. our own mike inouye, he has more on the crash this morning, how

it could affect the morning commute. you drove through. >> i tried to. it's not far from my commute off of the dumbarton bridge area where the locator is. we talked about 880. overall we're looking at an easy drive but this deadly crash, fremont boulevard at decoto. you notice our sensors off 84, that's the dumbarton bridge. we lose those over 880, then it continues on surface street, intersection there, and just a few blocks, about a half mile until you get to the closure. it's closed before you get there, folks familiar with the area which would be commuters over from the peninsula, there is a nursery there, that's where it continues to have folks, it's going to make some city street as problem. another issue, heading over to the area because you take that dumbarton express t bus over the bridge to the peninsula side, this will impede your progress around the area.

pa sayo padre will take you around that. also access from the freeway on fremont boulevard that's a problem if you come from south so plan on the reroute, probably a few blocks but that may last into the morning commute so we'll track that. we'll send it back to you. >> thank you. we're going to turn it over to our microclimate forecast with a live look outside over oakland. it's dry right now, but that is all expected to change in a matter of hours as a strong spring storm headed right our way. meteorologist christina loren tracking it all for us. good morning. >> hey, good morning to you, laura, welcome back scott. we're glad you're back. i can tell you the good news. this thing slowed down a tad. that means it's not going to slam into your morning commute except for the north bay. you want to keep that in mind. we're looking pretty good for today. i want to give you a preview of what we're expecting in the sierra as we head through the next 48 hours. over a foot of snow with more on its heels so a lot to good over

in your full forecast. it's going to get active and we need this water supply so that's great news. that's all coming up. right now back to you and the rest of the top stories of the day. >> look at this new video. a cab crashed into fire hydrant in san francisco, sending water, look at that, the cab hit the hydrant after it was hit by another car, about 1:00 this morning near the intersection of hyde and o'farrell. no one hurt. >> breaking news to tell you about, a sailor shot and killed aboard the uss mahonor. security forces killed the suspect. a spokesperson would not release the circumstances of the shooting but said the scene is secure. it's unclear if the civilian had permission to be aboard the ship or where he got the gun. the base was briefly put on lockdown. operations at the base have since returned to normal but enlisted sailors do not have to report to duty today.

>> families of those lost aboard malaysia airlines flight 370 marched to the malaysian embassy in beijing claiming malaysian authorities and airline officials lied to them. crews suspended the search today, bad weather keeping the planes grounded for at least 24 hours. china demanding malaysia turn over satellite data. several satellites spotted objects floating in that part of the ocean. there are only a few days left before the battery on the black box could run out. a high tech listening device on loan from the u.s. navy should arrive in australia tomorrow. today the australian prime minister invited the families of the missing to come to australia. >> this has been a desperately difficult time for thousands of people around the globe, particularly in china as well as malaysia. >> here is the head line from

the new straits times. a major newspaper there in kuala lumpur. reads "good night mh-370." you can find the latest on that search on our website nbcbayarea.com. >> an update to a developing story, much of the population of oso, washington still missing four days after a massive mud slide devoured a square mile of the small community. 14 people are dead, 176 are missing. entire families have not been heard from. in the meantime, three volunteers from the silly conchapter of the american red cross are heading there as more than a dozen firefighters as well as more than a dozen firefighters from southern california. crews say they have not found any survivors since saturday. >> i want to know where my husband is. you know. i just need to know. >> spirits were raised when an infant was pulled from the rubble hours after the slide.

when a chocolate lab named buddy was found. however, buddy's owner is missing. >> new details as well. police still looking for at least two people who escaped during a s.w.a.t. standoff overnight. a woman who lives on ames avenue in palo alto came home from running errands, found her home broken into. she stayed outside, she checked her surveillance camera and saw two suspects ransacking the house. she called police who called the s.w.a.t. team. to try to get the men out. crews were trying to get the men out for hours and hours, just before 11:30 last night the s.w.a.t. team went in but actually found that house empty. they searched the neighborhood, did not find the men. >> new this morning 4:37, homicide detectives in richmond investigating the city's third shooting in less than a week. police found a man shot.

he is still in critical condition. police chased the suspect to a nearby neighborhood but he got away. the victim was found at the intersection of 25th and main avenue. on friday 24-year-old clarence was shot and killed at south 35th and wall avenue. the day before police found tammy bake irshot to death at south fourth and florida avenue. neither of the homicides have been solved. >> several local leaders plan to testify about the state's rape kit backlog. nancy skinner and the district attorney nancy o'malley hope to make a case for a new bill which would give law enforcement a deadline for testing those rape kits. in 2011 they audited all property rooms for untested rape kits, found more than 1900 untested kits in alameda county alone. >> the navy says it will soon test 1,000 homes on treasure island for dangerous levels of radiation. the testing comes after concerns

over the discovery of radioactive items buried underground. radioactive fragment was found in catherine's yard. she happens to be president and founder of the treasure island health network and has been pushing the navy to clean up the island for years. but she says she is leery about the latest offer to do the test. >> will any of our citizens, any of our residents be allowed to follow them through their own homes? will we receive all of the data in a timely fashion? is the threshold for radioactive exposure actual think threshold it should be? >> the u.s. navy says there are no known health hazards on the island but it decided to do the testing to ease the concerns of people living on that island. >> let's talk more about your microclimate forecast, give you a live look at san francisco and the embarcadero. we can take you further south, dry roadways in san jose right now. but that is going to change as

you get ready to head out the door. let's check in with christina. >> good morning to you, scott, laura, everybody at home. we have rain on the way. i think a lot of people weren't counting on this rain. we're talking about potentially a week's worth of it. so yeah, make sure you have that umbrella ready to go. you want to keep it handy for the next few days at least. most of the shower activity is going to hold off. yesterday we were forecasting it killing about 8:00 a.m. we bumped it back an hour. the difference between 8 and 9:00 a.m., that means a lot for the morning drive. just ask mike inouye. this thing's come ing after rush hour. throughout the day we expect the showers to end up here in san jose by about 2:00 p.m. i can tell you we're going to get the rain shadow here in the south bay from the santa cruz mountains. here is the good news. watch this. set this into motion, into wednesday, boom, it comes back at 6:00 a.m. and so we're talking about an already saturated ground this time tomorrow with more rainfall on the way.

then we keep that system going all the way until thursday which is great news because as you know we have a major deficit to try to take a chip out of. as we head throughout the next few days. here's the good news. this is not including that atmospheric river. that comes into play as we head through the weekend. that is the weather game change they're could bring our totals up to 3, maybe 4 inches in the north bay for one storm system. this is really exciting though. we're happy to see this returning to the bay area. let's collect out your drive. we're okay as far as the showers go but they will move bin 9:00 a.m. >> the difference between 8 and 9 for the commute whether you're walking to school or just upset because you can't go out for recess. that's how my kids look at it. fremont and the freeway, 880 moves smoothly. approaching mission boulevard to the north of what christie smith continues to follow, the deadly crash of a car versus motorcycle closing down a fremont boulevard at deaccounto. this is the perimeter.

so christie was located at fremont and tomio. you can access the gym but not past that. they are doing the investigation. that will impact folks off of that dumbarton bridge, 84 turns to the surface street. use pasayo padre and around the scene. that's a major road. that will keep you clear. the rest of the bay am moves smoothly as you would expect. we'll send it back to you. >> thank you much. >> still ahead on "today in the bay," drop the number 2 pencil. the change taking place to the old-fashioned standardized tests. >> a makeover for google glass, the latest push to make that gadget more attractive to users.

a very good tuesday morning to you. 4:45. a bay area veteran will be honored by the white house. she will be recognized at the special ceremony. she and nine others are being called women veteran leader champions of change. her publishing company focused on stories of latino innovators, scientists and members of the milita military. she is a graduate of

uc-berkeley. >> in a few hours the u.s. supreme court will hear two cases challenging the country's affordable care act. at issue the part of the law forcing employers to offer health insurance that covers free birth control even if doing so violates the owner's religious beliefs. right now the new health law requires companies with more than 50 employees to provide the coverage. choychs and nonprofits are exempt. >> starting this morning schools across the state will give new standardized tests t hope is those tests will give us a better idea what our kids know. from now to june 6 more than 3 million students will begin a trial run of the new tests, in english and math, the new tests are taken on computer or tablet and are designed to demand more of students, the scores are not going to count this year. the hope is to fix any potential glitches in the process. >> the largest eye glass company

in the world is now partnering with google glass in hopes of making the gadget more stylish. let's turn to bertha coombs. good morning. >> good morning, scott. glad to see you back. futures point to a higher start after stocks closed lower for a second day on monday. the markets erased early gains but did close off the lows of the day. the nads dak at a five-week low as biotech stocks got slammed. they had been the biggest gainers this year. today data on home prices, new home sales and consumer confidence. the dow 16276 after falling 26 and the nasdaq got hit hard down 50 points to 4226 with those biotech stocks leading the way. five of bernie madoff's former employees have been convicted for helping their boss hide his multi-billion-dollar ponzi scheme for years. his right hand man was the government's key witness in the

trial. the five employees will be sentenced in july. they could receive up to 20 years in prison. google is adding style to its eye wear to develop versions of the web connected device. i guess that means you can follow a map while you are actually on your bike because i know that's what you like to do. >> absolutely. yes. yes. and google glass is not something i likely wear. bertha coombs, thank you much. >> you know, we did it, we had a reporter wear google. >> one time. last time. you don't need google glass at all, at least to look up the forecast. we're counting on christina loren. >> you know bertha, you said bikes but you got it wrong. it's his hog. scott's hog. good morning to you. i want to show you this, it's kind of cool. you can see here its vertical

coming in basically once the showers start. they are basically going to impact the north bay first. the futurecast picks it up as the radar live shows you. we stop the clock at 9:00 a.m. showers moving into the north bay. between 9 and noon the front falls apart. we're going to continue to get shower activity all the way through about 2:00 p.m. here in the south bay we're not going to see a lot of it until we meet back here tomorrow morning. but we're talking about impressive totals as we take through the next five days, showers on did way except for the second half of friday into the first part of saturday. then the atmospheric river comes back, saturday night into sunday. i can tell you even april fool's day tuesday next week we still have showers expected to be rolling through the bay area. so this is such great news. as you know we're getting into our final two months where we can take a chip out of the deficit to sock it to the drought. if everything works out right we're going to accumulate

additional 3 inches just through friday up in the north bay. maybe two to three inches along the east shore, also looking good here in the south bay, about a half inch to an inch with more rainfall on the way. i hate to put projections up on the wall for you just yet when it comes to this weekend because it really, really has to do, dictated by the atmospheric river. are we going to tap into it and for how long. if we tap in for six hours that's potential for maybe three inches. up that to 12 hours that could make for 7 to 8 inches of rainfall. so stick around. i'm going to show you how that looks. overall we're keeping our fingers crossed. back to you. >> we need it, don't we. authorities say they hope to reopen one of the largest shipping channels sometime today. right now crews are working tirelessly to try to clean up quarter size tar balls washed ashore in galveston bay. on saturday a barge and ship collided spilling nearly 170,000

gallons of oil in the channel. it happened during the peak of the shorebird migration season. they are setting off large booms to try to scare the birds from the beaches. officials in chicago say the driver of a commuter train that jumped the tracks may have fallen asleep at the controls. the union says she works a lot of overtime recently. early yesterday morning the train derailed at the o'hare international airport station, plowing into an elevator and up an escalator. 32 people on board the train were hurt, luckily none seriously. had the crash happened during the day authorities say there would have been deaths. >> several caltrain employees have to go through additional training after they left a passenger on a train at the end of the line. jessica method says she fell asleep on a late train, bound for deardawn station shext woke up at 12:30 in the morning on an empty train parked at the

maintenance yard. >> i felt very stuck, very, very stuck. and my options weren't looking very good. that was the first time i felt like panicked. >> method says she ran to the front of the train and radioed for help. three workers were able to get her out of the train. a caltrain spokesperson says it is standard protocol to make sure trains are clear before they are locked up. >> what a feeling. >> 4:52. >> still ahead on "today in the bay," decades old record broken bay girl skouxt details coming up. >> i might have helped break that record. the fremont -- the hayward side of the san mateo bridge moves. we're focusing on fremont coming up.

>> good morning to you bay area. we look at the bay bridge from our emeryville camera. we'll have lights for a while but rain is on the way. >> an oklahoma city girl now in the record books, katie francis now holds the record for the most girl scout cookies sold over the seven-week sales period. francis sold 18,107 boxes. the previous record was 18,000 set more than 30 years ago. so, what is her secret to racking up the sales? she asks everybody she meet

they'd like to buy cookies. her troop plans to donate its share of the money to raised to breast cancer research. always be closing. >> that's a lot of thin mints. the flyers may be the next opponents in the sweet 16. the coach says he has one other reason to keep a close tab on the flyers. >> his son is being recruited by dayton. he plays at a prep school in new hampshire will be in the stands, also being recruit bid pepperdine, utah state and the college of charleston. aubrey is expected to choose a school for now his focus is on his dad's team advancing. >> mike inouye focusing on a problem in fremont this morning. an early morning fatal motorcycle crash. >> that caused the closure of a big intersection. let's give the overview, then the problems related to the crash. the bay bridge moving with the

overnight construction crews which have cleared from the westbound direction. you don't see them on the incline, eastbound you have one lane blocked. as we look at the rest of the bay, the traffic moves smoothly but we focus on fremont, we have a problem off of the dumbarton bridge that turns to decoto road. you get stopped by a crash between a car and motorcycle. christie continues to gather information. we heard an original estimate they'd reopen about 6:00. paseo padre would be okay but it might be extended. avoid that intersection. back to you. >> still ahead, we'll have an update to that breaking news, a deadly crash overnight that killed a motorcyclist that mike and i were talking about, it shut down that busy road in fremont. we'll have an update coming up next. >> plus, a woman watches thieves ransack her palo alto home from her own smart phone live, now the search is on for the burglars.

breaking news. police have blocked off a major intersection in fremont after a deadly crash, now it's a crime scene. christie smith talked to investigators. she'll have an update. >> crews waiting for the sun to rise in the search for survivors of that massive mudslide in washington. how the bay area is lending a hand in that disaster. good morning. thank you for joining us. i'm scott mcgrew. >> and i'm laura garcia-cannon. we're going to get to those in a moment. first taking a live look at san francisco this morning where rain will arrive in a few hours. our first rain in more than three weeks. the rest of the bay area will see rain later today. let's check in with meteorologist christina loren. she's got the details. >> you know we're getting into this pattern that's going to continue with us all the way through this upcoming weekend. so make sure you've got the umbrella ready and the kids have their rain gear ready. good morning to you. i want to show you the front now