a commuter train derailment here in the east bay. i'm bob redell and take you back out here live high above niles canyon with the latest on what caused this ace train to come off its tracks. that story coming up. this morning, we've got team coverage on the team derailment. i'm stephanie chuafg live in castro valley with what we're learning about the passengers who got hurt. those details ahead. plus, a break in the rain before more wet weather heads our way and soon. beautiful sunrise to greet our day. the full timeline for your neighborhood right now on "today in the bay." like a postcard morning out there. good morning. thanks so much for joining us, i'm lorgarcia canon. >> i'm sam brock. for the first time in a long time, kari hall will start out the forecast without rain for today. but don't wait too long. >> don't wait too long because tomorrow morning we'll have a different story. but this morning you could see that beautiful sunrise. i'm already tracking the next

round of rain. you could see it moving off shore ander off to the north and to our west. as it moves into the north bay later tonight, it will continue to weaken. now our temperatures are chilly. we're in the 40s all across the bay area and looking at highs today right at about 60 degrees with sunshine and clouds starting to move in later today. we'll also see that rain in the north bay. i'll detail that and what to expect. lets get a look at the bay bridge toll plaza with mike. >> kari, it's backed up. look how beautiful that sunrise is. look over here at the beauty and not at the lights. the map will show you anywhere south of there and we see the build we typically expect for much of oak norland. crash over at the shoulder and slowing off of 238. the rest of oyour bay moves as expected except for right here. a closure for sunol and for the 680 freeway there and also slowing down through pleasanton and i'm watching these areas carefully because of the closure

and the incident that caused it. for that and the information we're getting overnight and this morning and hand it right back to you guys. >> let's get right to it. thank you, mike. a developing story we have been tracking all morning long. an ace train carrying more than 200 people jumped its tracks and plunged into a fast-moving creek below. many passenger husband to be rescued. >> here's the latest. nine people hurt. some of them seriously. 214 people onboard that train and we know the likely cause was a mudslide. the train had just left the fremont station and was headed to pleasanton when it all happened. >> live team coverage this morning of the developing story. we begin with bob redell live at the scene and we know this happened stormy weather and reportedly a tree on the tracks anding nothing has been confirmed. >> that is the initial belief on behalf of the union pacific which owns these railroad tracks. good morning to you, sam and laura. an alameda county sheriff sergeant told us a minor miracle that no one was killed when that

ace train car fell about 50 feet into alameda creek. what remains this morning and a creek that was swollen from recent rains. the sergeant describes a chaotic scene and passenger stuck inside that car screaming, cold from the water, hurt from the crash. nine people hurt, four seriously. now, this was the number ten ace train. the last train of the night for 214 commuters traveling from san jose to stockton and the central valley when it derailed around 7:30 about a mile west of sunol. the engine was pushing four rail cars. the engine and two cars stayed upright and on the rails. a fourth car derailed, but also stayed upright, teetering on the edge of that ledge right there. and then the fifth car, that's the one that tumbled into the water. >> preliminary investigation shows that it was a mudslide that may have caused the derailment. so, a lot of mud and also have to move away from the tracks that go up to the wheel of the

rail cars. so, that's going to take some time and also have to move some of the heavy equipment and the machinery that they use to be able to move or pull those rail cars out of the way . >> union pacific estimates going to be several hours to at least a day, maybe longer to remove that car from the water and to fix the tracks. they're waiting for the sun to come up to get an idea of how badly damaged those tracks are. they know there is some damage, but they can't tell yet because we don't have the light and they also have to remove all that mud and debris from that slide. it's not clear how fast this train was traveling. we do know that generally speaking the ace trains are supposed to go relatively slow through niles canyon because the terrain is so curvy and so steep. as far as the investigation goes, right now is union pacific's jurisdiction. they have not yet heard from the ntsb. the federal agency that they are taking over and they believe that they were going to. they already would have. reporting live here in niles canyon, bob redell, "today bay."

>> long day for investigators. thank you, bob. let's bring in stephanie chuang live at eden medical center in castro valley where we believe some of the injured were taken for treatment, steph. >> yeah, that's right, laura and sam. eden here is a level two trauma center in this area which means there are 24-hour immediate coverage by surgeons and other resources necessary when you have people who suffered more serious injuries. but the good news in all of this is none of the passengers who were hurt suffered life-threatening injuries. now, pretty amazie isishine isi consider what happened. look at the video we got from one of the passengers that shows how chaotic it got. the help of firefighters pulling people off the train and mudslides making it more difficult to rescue some of the passengers, especially one of those in the train cars that was partially under water in the creek. >> because i, everything was normal and thank god i didn't sleep or anything on the train so i was aware of everything.

but shifted the gravity all of a sudden and we were all just panicking. >> something you'll never think you'll experience in your life and just grateful it turned out for everybody and some people that are hurt, but, in general, it could been so much worse. i'm just grateful. >> now, we did hear that some passengers describe people climbing out of windows to escape, climbing over broken glass. those that were not hurt half a mile in the dark to get out of the area. now someone with washington hospital in fremont did get back to me this morning and said that two patients were taken there to the e.r., evaluated and it was determined minor injuries. hoping that we get some good updates this morning. live here in castro valley, stephanie chuang "today in the bay." here's a closer look at the ace daily route. the altamont commuter express train. the spot that is marked between fremont and pleasanton, that's where train derailed last night.

again, not going to be any ace train service today and possibly no service for several days. we're going to check back in with both bob and stephanie coming up at 6:30 this morning as we take a live look from our chopper, again. that is the scene. you can see two cars still need to be removed. one on the tracks and one in a creekbed. we've been posting up to the minute updates on our twitter page and we'll keep you in the loop on all the latest information. we've also been posting photos and videos from the crash site. go to nbcbayarea.com. 6:07. a suspect is dead after being shot by san jose police last night. happened at 6:15 near third and market street. officers say they were called to a reported stabbing when the shooting occurred. the suspect was pronounced dead at the scene. no officer os were injured. as of now, no word on what led up to officer os opening fire. we'll, of course, bring you more information as soon as we get it. this morning a young boy recovering from surgery after he was seriously hurt in a hit and

run. this man in castro valley that is responsible. they say daniel morris is one of several suspects who stole five cars from the livermore ford dealership early yesterday morning. they say that morris lost control of the stolen car and jumped the curb and pinned a 6-year-old boy into a power pole. the boy's 8-year-old brother was also injured and he's okay. the brothers and their grandmother was walking to school when all of this unfolded. morris ran from the scene. >> one to steal a car and do whatever you're going to do with it, but to hit somebody, especially a kid, he didn't do anything wrong. >> police say this surveillance video that shows morris stealing the car is a tool they're using to try to catch morris. authorities are expected to release more information surrounding that case later today. 6:08. the u.s. department of justice will be doing a lot of listening in san francisco today. the topic san francisco police and how to improve the department. communities across the city are invited to participate. the doja is looking for feed

back from fepeople on how to improve trust. intense scrutiny in recent years because of officer-involved shooting. today listen-in sessions will take place in gateway high school in the western edition. a pacifica apartment building that has been teetering on the edge of a cliff finally starts to come down today. it has been red tagged for the last six years. the cliff that that building is sitting on has been eroding for years and things, as you know, got much worse this el nino city. the city manager says that the property owner has not taken the necessary steps to demolish the 20-unit building so the city is stepping in to knock it down itself. >> we are concerned that building could actually end up on the beach below. and, if so, would cost a lot more to demolish and it would also potentially hurt someone who is on the beach and also the asbestos that i mention and the lead would be exed to the environment. >> as for the timeline, crews

are going to start to tear down had interior of that building today and then the full demolition is scheduled for thursday, weather permitting. >> a clear shot to start today because wae have soe have some n the skies. kari is keeping that. >> we are going to take a break and a cool weather to start. today highs in the low 60s all across the bay area and 50s along the immediate coast and the outer sunset at 57 degrees and 62 in oakland and also 62 degrees in pleasanton. after we have this break, we're getting ready for some more rain for not only tomorrow, but the rest of the week into the weekend. i'll detail that coming up in about ten minutes. but let's see what's happening in the tri-valley now with mike. >> all right, we're looking over here towards the altamont pass and the reason we're concerned about 580 westbound the derailment of west train. this area right over here coming out of tracy. so far on this map we haven't seen anything different for that

area. and the little extra slowing an earlier crash and now down here the bigger commute and an issue for local drivers. this area is closed off and that'ses canyon roadway. betwaen mission and 680, you cannot use that as a cut through either way to or from 680. seeing some slower right now. if that is where you use stick by and i'll give you more detail in the next report. give everybody a look at the traffic and south bay has a typical pattern here and slowing and recovery south 880 through hayward after the earlier crash and the bay bridge metering lights are on. we'll look at the san mateo bridge and westbound does show some build for 92. nothing dramatic. fed up with the noise, leaders in one bay area county are taking today to ease the frustration of people living near a peninsula airport. plus, what if you could rate your friend the way you could rate a restaurant on yelp.

show you how coming up on "business and tech." back to the scene as mike was just describing a second ago. backups and closures on niles canyon road. the train that derailed. see one of the cars lying horizont and precariously on a hill. another car sitting inside of a creek. nine people were injured and four of them seriously. we are staying on top of this story as the story continues to come to light, literally, with investigators about to come on scene. we'll have updates, next. san mateo county leaders alki

welcome back. it is 6:14. looking for the solution to the growing number of noise complaints about a small peninsula airport. the number of takeoffs and landings at san carlos airport has grown more than 10% over the past few years. residents in redwood city, atherton and east palo alto filing more noise complaints. today supervisors will hold a public forum to look for some possible solutions. a lot of ocomplaints about this. a controversial new iphone app is making some noise this morning. >> so, scott mcgrew tells us it's sort of like a ylep for people. >> which means you can rate your friends very well or very poorly and, thus, the controversy. a couple screen shots i made this morning as i downloaded it to my iphone. feel free to rate me however you wish. one person said it's like linked

in, but for your life because you can rate people based on things like datability. critics say it's right for abusive behavior. more trouble this morning for former high flier elizabeth holmes. "the wall street journal" says her company sent test results to patients who did not live up to lab testing standards. those patients needed to know the clotting ability of their blood but "journal" said the machines were not calibrated properly and, again, according to "the journal" she knew it. take a close look at this picture. this is the air india crew. they are probably asleep right now in san francisco. they landed at sfo after a 17-hour flight from dehli. what is remarkable about this picture, the entire crew from flight attendants to cockpit crew were women. inbrasion of international women's day. air india just one of the many companies celebrating that.

"the economist" magazine looked at women's work environment and said the best place for women tawork is iceland. paid leave for parents, level of education for women and the united states came in 18th. but, sam and laura, when you look at silicon valley specifically where a lot of companies do have paid leave and where most women have a college degree, actually more like denmark and that ain't bad at all. >> when you're in line with scandinavia, level of achievement is good. >> oh, yeah. millions of people are about to get a break from the sun solar eclipse is expected tomorrow. >> i see it right here. going afor a little while. that's when the moon passes between the sun and earth blocking the sun. the last total solar eclipse of the heart happened last year. >> that happened in had '80s, right? >> this year the sun could stay blacked out from anywhere from

90 seconds. but it's not going to visible over the bay area. if you're curious about this phenomen phenomenon. hold a special event tonight from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. not the real thing, but you can learn about the real thing. >> waiting for mike to go, turn around bright eyes. >> i need a hero. >> that's right. jump back to the '80s today. >> more than ever. >> certainly not jumping back to the '80s when it comes to temperatures. >> be in the 60s. we'll take a way back as we take a live look outside at the golden gate bridge. a clear start to the day. beautiful way to head into the start of your tuesday. now, as the seven-day forecast comes up at the bottom of the screen, we will have rain in the forecast for the next several days and now tracking that next system already. take its time before it gets here. still off shore and well to the north of us. as it moves into the north bayer on tonight, we will see that starting out with light rain and the futurecast shows what it

will look like when it moves in, as far as what the radar could look like. light showers moving in by 9:00 and then later for san francisco. but then this rain kind of fizz ldz out as it makes it into the peninsula and parts of the east bay. might not make it to san jose at all. this dry weather could continue for another day for parts of the bay area. but, still, a lot of subtropical moisture streaming in and one after another of those weather systems moving in. so, this one moving in on wednesday and will be weak and then on thursday and friday, we will have another weather system moving in that looks much stronger. so, this is the way it pans out over the next several days. wae wi we will have light rain shown by the green here by tomorrow morning. and then on thursday we see some yellows and some oranges there indicating some heavier rain. that moves in and continues into early friday before that system moves off to the east. there will be another system right behind that one moving in between saturday night and early sunday. so, there will be some breaks in

between, but we will still have these rounds of heavy rain and possibly somes over the next several days. it even continues into the start of next week. as far as how much rain we could see during this time period, it shows that we could have anywhere from 2.5 to 4 inches of rain for most of the bay area. all of these areas you're seeing shaded in red and then it could be even higher for the north bay. 4 plus inches. for the sierra over the next seven days, the snow doesn't get cranking until about late friday night and then between friday and tuesday, we could have another foot of snow. maybe a little bit higher as you head farther to the south. so, the weekend forecast. we're looking at some chilly temperatures and off and on rain and highs mostly staying in the upper 50s. maybe hitting 60 degrees in a few spots. but really not the best weekend to get outside. i think it's netflix and chill kind of weekend. let's check in with mike and see what's happening on the roadways. >> but it's still a weekend. over here we're in the work day.

slowing for north 101 in san jose. tow truck on the shoulder and southbound side. but no lanes are blocked. meanwhile look at the map and overall the south bay moves well and expected slowing for 101 and over here in the tri-valley, moving very well for 580 and southbound 680 an earlier crash cleared and this may be complicating things and will for the local commute and the closure. you'll take this and do not make the turn to 84 as you get towards that 7-eleven. you take mission all the way down to 680 and vice versa if you need to get back over there. over of 680 it is closed at main street. just a few blocks away. you can get to sunol glen school there. you can also take pleasanton or foothill road if those are your alternates. they are still accessible. lose access to highway 84 all the way over towards mission. that is the practical commute there. as the rest of the commute

builds, south 880 through hayward and looking much better after the earlier crash cleared and the north bay shows you not a major concern for southbound 101. there's a nice drive. a lot drier than yesterday. back to you. >> thank you very much, mike. been at least ten minutes since we mentioned the political races. let's mention the political races. a critical day for the white house as delegates in several states up for grabs. michigan critical for the democrats. mississippi a possible battleground for the republicans. i'm tracie potts and we have four states voting today. we'll bring you up to date on all that, next.

moving on to decision 2016. another critical day for the white house. people in four states will weigh in on who they want to be the next president. >> both races at play. democrats and republicans. "today in the bay" tracie potts joining us live from washington, d.c. on the republican side, it looks like donald trump might be looking a little vulnerable. good morning. >> good morning. well, he's still got that 19-point national lead in our survey monkey poll that just came out this morning, but on the other side, you've got hillary clinton and bernie sanders with a seven-point spread now. biggest one we've so far this year since we've been doing this weekly tracking poll. that means michigan today could be critical for sanders. today's michigan primary could bernie sanders last chance to

beat mill hillary clinton. he voted against saving the state's auto industry. >> what i did not vote for was a middle class bailout for the crooks on wall street. >> in a fox news town hall clinton reached out to sander supporters. >> i hope to win the nomination. if i'm so fortunate, i hope to work with him. >> reporter: republicans focus on today's mississippi primary. >> raise your right hand, everybody. do you swear that you're going to vote for donald trump tomorrow. raise that hand. >> reporter: ted cruz is going after trump supporters there. >> we are seeing folks who have been supporting donald trump who are realizing he is not who they thought he was. >> i can and i will. >> reporter: in florida, marco rubio is the underdog now facing attack ads from trump. >> all talk, no action. >> reporter: the latest poll shows rubio closing in, but

still eight points behind trump in rubio's home state. florida votes next tuesday. and so does ohio and like florida winner takes all and john kasich insists he will win home state right now. he is running about four percentage behind donald trump averaging the latest polls up there. >> donald trump, we heard the rolling stones behind him and not sympathy for the devil. you can't always get what you want. 6:27. yet another sexual assault near the cal campus marking the fourth attack in the last month alone. coming up, the new efforts police aring to make sure students and the surrounding community is safe. and good morning, i'm bob redell and take you back out here live to niles canyon with a first look at the sun up with a mudslide that caused this ace train to derail. that story coming up. ( soft, calm music ) hi, you've reached emma.

i'm out of the office right now but will get back to you just as soon as i possibly can. join princess cruises for exclusive discovery at sea experiences. princess cruises. come back new. and i'm laa garcia caon. good morning. thank you for joining us on this tuesday. i'm sam brock. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. let's check in with kari. >> the break today and then the rain back tomorrow, especially for the north bay. we are already tracking those showers, but take its time before it makes it to the bay area. look at the way we begin this morning in the 40s and mostly clear skies and low patchy fog in some spots. as we go into the day, we're looking at highs up to 59 degrees in the north bay and rain late tonight and cool else

where with a mix of sun and clouds in the area. i'll detail that and more ahead. let's see what's happening in foster city now with mike. >> much calm than it was yesterday, kari. we're getting a break and the traffic flow not so bad. let's show you how this shakes out. this is over on the peninsula side. right here on the map. no problem there. the flat section showing some slowing and 880 and castro valley and we expect the build there as well as the bay bridge toll plaza. we don't expect this. some slowing down here southbound 680. now, a crash still in the center divide and it's out of lanes, but a distraction. and we have the full closure right here for niles canyon roadway, that's highway 84 between 680 and mission boulevard. now, we'll talk about the reroute as affects the local drive, but more important than that is the reason why this is closed for that i'll hand it over to you guys. >> thank you very much. it is a developing story we have been following all morning long for nearly 12 hours. take a look at these live pictures now. the sun is up and this is what

happened an ace train carrying more than 200 people jumped its tracks last night and it plunged into a fast moving creek below. it all happened between fremont and pleasanton. many passenger husband to be rescued. nine people were hurt. you see people out there surveying the damage and even some of the track. >> crews, investigators. we have multiple reports this morning. steph chuang have an update on the injury and reaction from passengers and we begin today with "today in the bay" bob redell. one train in a creek and another on the ground behind you and it could take several days for crews to remove all that wreckage. >> well, certainly several hours, at least today possibly longer. good morning to you, sam and laura. union pacific which owns these train tracks believes that preliminarily it was a mudslide that derailed those two ace train cars. as you mentioned, you have the one in alameda creek and then the other one above, which is still upright, but off the rail teetering there on the ledge.

you want to take a look now that we have the sun up from chopper that shows that mudslide. you can see it is by the third car it looks like about a 30-foot long sliver of the hill that came down last night when the ace train was coming through around 7:. this was the number 10 ace train traveling from san jose to stockton. the last train carrying 214 commuters. as it wound its way through niles canyon we're at right now, it derailed about 7:30. a mile west of sunol as you're looking at chopper high above the scene. one car stayed upright while the other fell about 50 feet into the alameda creek, which is swollen from recent rain. that car flooded while first responders raced to save the people inside. everyone survived. but nine people were hurt. four seriously. >> to paint the picture when you're down there and you're close, you feel like the "the fugitive" when the movie

starts. that is the kind of scene it is. it is cold and dark and the people on the train may not be dressed to be out in 45 degree weather at the time in kind of misty fog. so, you've got to account for all these things. >> it's not clear how fast this train was traveling. we do know that generally speaking the ace trains are supposed to go relatively slow through niles canyon. if you're not familiar with niles canyon, it's very steep and very curvy. reporting live here in niles canyon, bob redell "today bay." >> thank you very much, bob. nine people were hurt and sent to several bay area hospitals for treatment. stephanie chuang picking up on those injured and live eden medical center. one patient is being treated there. do we know where the other patients are? >> yeah, good morning, sam and laura. we know that the other patients are at washington hospital in fremont, but two who suffered minor injuries. there is questions as to what

were the other passengers because i just heard back from eden medical. a spokesperson said one person came here and the only passenger that came here. 52 years old and in stable condition and should be going home today. great news in addition to the great news that none of the nine passengers who were hurt suffered life-threatening injuries and pretty incredible when you take a look at the cell phone video of how chaotic it got there in the train. people described hard stops and a very jarring deceleration. the rain added to the confusion last night as firefighters started to pull people off the train and the mudslides making it more difficult to rescue some of those trapped passengers. >> all of a sudden, just some hard stops and rapid deceleration and it was just jarring. and then it just stops and then we could see mud and rocks and trees up against the side of the train. >> one member was just under the mudslide and we were trying to dig her out while the train was

hanging. >> and people described how some passengers got othrown around inside the train, breaking glass when they hit the windows. the passengers who were not hurt were able to walk half a mile to get out of the area. once again, the other update we got from washington hospital in fremont and, again, we're looking at live chopper pictures, by the way. you see the wreckage there. two of those passengers who suffered minor injuries from that derailment were taken to washington hospital in fremont. and we are still trying to check on the other six passengers who suffered minor to moderate to serious injuries. of course, we'll keep you posted when we get those updates. live here in castro valley, stephanie c hhaung. back for the al it, aont commuter express. with eight stops in between. between fremont and pleasanton is where the train derailed last night.

again, no ace train service today and possibly no service for the next several days. we'll check back in with both bob and steph coming up at 6:57 this morning. they're both tweeting updates as well as we take this live look overhead at the train. also posted photos and video of the crash site to our home page. just head to nbcbayarea.com. an investigation under way a shooting near the concord mall. they found an abandoned car up on a curb near the intersection of diamond boulevard and willow way. they found evidence of a shooting and no victim and no suspect. anyone who might have heard or seen anything is asked to please call police. 6:37. a serial predator strikes again near uc berkeley. police are sending warnings across campus and beyond. they're passing out fliers alerting people that another woman was sexually assaulted near the uc campus. the fourth attack since last month. the latest one happened after midnight on saturday on etna

street near dwight. officers say a man grabbed a female cal student and dragged her off the sidewalk and sexually assaulted her. officers are rereleasing this video that they recorded last month. they think that person right there is their suspect. if you recognize him, call berkeley police. 6:38 right now on your tuesday morning. a driver losing control of his car and crashing right into oakland police headquarters. not a good day for that driver. this happened last night the tribune lost control and sideswiped another car right near washington. that car kept going and slammed into five other parked cars that included an empty police cruiser before crashing into the police headquarters. despite all of that mayhem, nobody was injured and no word yet as to why the driver lost control. not a good scene there. now to the homeless crisis in san francisco. pressure is building on mayor ed lee to take action. david compos wants to declare a shelter crisis. that will make it easier to turn city land into homeless

shelters. campos is working on legislation that would require the mayor to open six shelters in the next year. comes after hundreds of homeless set up tents. the city did clear that tept city last week. several home owners facing a daunting task a cleanup that could last for months after a pipe problem left their homes covered in raw sewage. now the problem began in a millbrae neighborhood during a storm on saturday night. raw sewage ooed into the bathtub. at least two other houses have the same issue. several families say their homes are no longer safe to live in. the millbrae public works say that the storm pushed rocks into the main line and ended up clogging the line. i would say bleach is not going to be enough to get that bathtub ready. let's check in on the forecast right now with kari. little break in the storms we have been having. >> wae will see that start to ramp up over the next couple

days with more rain activity. yes, today we will take a break and get some sunshine in here. 64 in palo alto and we'll have 61 in napa. there will be some rain moving in late evening and also for the east bay, we'll see a mix of sun and clouds and pittsburg up to 61 and 60 today in livermore. we'll talk about that next round of rain moving in as it starts tonight and continues over the next several days. that's coming up in about ten minutes, let's get an update on what is happening in the tri-valley now from mike. >> sunol camera and want to show, first of all, look how green it is. we don't get to see that, but a lot of rain. looking over towards 680 itself. moving steadily around the golf course and over towards fremont. the area we're watching on our map, as well. this may be affected for some folks if you drive the niles canyon roadway here. that is closed off between main street and mission boulevard. do not make that turn over at-eleven if that's where you cut over towards 680.

over from 680 over towards that area do not use that as a cut through either. they are still aungoptions but s getting congested and that stretch getting close at main street all the way over towards mission. still slowing on the east bay sound and same thing for the east bay sound over in hayward and slowing off the castro valley. the south bay moves well in the northbound direction and crash north 87 and causes more slowing and overall this commute pretty much you would expect, guys. back to you. now several sorority and fraternity members are in jail this morning. their involvement in the complex operation and some surprising reaction from fellow students. a simple trick from hackers, but apparently several bay area companies fell for it. i'll show you what it is coming up in "business and tech." meanwhile, we're back under 17 on the dow.

are. straight ahead on "today" today's privtle contest. michigan is the top prize and donald trump will join us live. plus, the woman behind the candidate. a look inside miliania trump's life before her marriage. and will arnett are all stopping by and throw a big, fat, "today" wedding. we'll let you pick the lucky couple as we get started right here on a tuesday morning on "today." six u-c santa cruz sororitynd f.

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bars this morning and police say they have thousands of ecstasy pills. the students three men and three women belong to the fraternity and alpha kalpa ecstasy was being shipped to those students and it's worth more than $100,000. some students we spoke to at the university say they are not surprised. >> we're in santa cruz. >> frats. you know, they go crazy. so, it's bound to happen eventually. >> santa cruz police found out about another large shipment of drugs headed to that same group. that shipment was intercepted by homeland security. plan now for delays and a couple b.a.r.t. lines over the weekend this spring. >> that is because of a half a mile of track that is being replaced torn up here. between the san leandro and bay fair station. trains to dublin and pleasanto

on, as well. a bus bridge set up during the closures. construction starts the weekend of march 26th and 27th running over six consecutive weekends. the work is expected to be done by about mid-june. 6:46. chp officers being praised for resing two kids stuck inside a burning car. >> take your kid! >> you see all the smoke. he was behind the car this morning monterey. that was yesterday morning and spotted flames and smoke. the driver pulled over but could not get her door open. so the officer rushed in and pulled two crying children from the back seetd. the driver and another woman n managed to escape through the passenger door. all treated for smoke inhalation and okay. still no word on the cause of that fire. >> could have been frightening. big companies have been duped falling for a basic trick in their e-mail. >> the e-mail claims and hr

department and big companies said, okay. >> it's a mess, laura. we've seen reports of three different companiesing for this, including fast company magazine. the crisis here is two-fold. one, all that data could be used for i.d. theft and bad guys could use it to make fake applications for tax returns. secondly, that data if it gets posted on the internet, we'll know how much everybody makes. apparently fell for it and the bay area company says an employee forwarded all the w2s for all current and past employees to the bad guys. hackers applying for your tax return has become a common crime and the best way to prevent it is to file your tax return early. they can't fake your tax return if you've already filed. it's already mid-march. it's not early any more, butte but do get it done and next year get it done early. taking a look at the markets

this morning. they're largely down. the nasdaq has fallen 102 points. this is tessera out of san jose. all women they're celebrating international women's day. this is celebrated all over the world, but particularly in europe where it got its start. in some countries a paid hol. in china a paid holiday for women only which is a pretty good idea when you think about it because if you showed up at work and none of the women were there, i guarantee you, a very difficult day getting anything done. in fact, this newscast would not get on air at all. no audio, no pictures. it would be a lousy newscast. >> producing a lot of things. >> from our perspective out here on the desk no laura and no kari, mike and i are in deep, trouble. >> we could take the last 15 off, if you want. >> thank you, scott. >> speaking of mike and kari, let's bring them in. >> even the boys. >> all right, we are watching

right now a brief dry period before another round of rain comes through. it is really going to crank up over the next few days and such a soggy weekend in parts of the bay area. we had the entire month worth of rain in a weekend. now as we take a live look at this beautiful shot towards clay tower and alcatraz, we start out this morning with clear skies, a beautiful day to get out there, but bundle up, it is cool to start and we will start to see some clouds rolling in as we watch the next weather system approaching that will give us a little bit of time before it rolls on in and also be weaken as it moves inland, as well. the seven-day forecast coming up at the bottom of the screen and you'll see that we have rain for the next several days. so, be prepared as we start to see that one moving a little bit closer. the models hold it off until 8:00 or 9:00 until the north and then we'll see this fizzling out as it approaches the rest of the bay area. it kind of skips around some parts and we will see the rain very scattered. we may not see much of anything

in the south bay around san jose and farther to the south. but we do still have a lot of subtropical moisture streaming in. allowing for these low pressure systems to line-up and move right into our area. we'll have this next one moving in tomorrow and then the ones after that on wednesday into friday. there will also be some wet weather as wae head into saturday and sunday. so, this is how it pans out as we look at your computer models and show light green by tomorrow morning and then we'll have a stronger storm system moving in late thursday into early friday. on friday, we could also have some gusty winds along with that heavy rain. kind of looks like the storm system we had over the weekend. and then on saturday night into early sunday, we will still have some rain pouring and that continues into the start of next week. even on tuesday it looks like we could still have some rain moving through. over the next several days and the wet weather pattern. it shows we have the potential of anywhere from 2.5 to 4 inches

of rain for all of these areas shaded in red where you see yellow, there may be four plus inches of rain. and this is a live look at heavenly this morning. and the name is very fitting. beautiful where we had two to three feet of snow over the weekend. sugar bowl sent out a tweet yesterday that they had five feet of snow over the weekend. this is the way it looks as we go into the next several days. we will have a break there, too. and then we won't see the snow really getting cranking until about late friday night. if you're heading in that direction, you'll want to check with cal trans to make sure that some of those roads are open. we will have at least another foot of snow between friday and tuesday of next week. here we're going to have some rain, some cool temperatures off and on showers and we talked about that. high temperatures staying right at about 59 to 60 degrees. i'll have more updates on that. let's get an update on what's happening as you cross the san mateo bridge with mike. >> things are moving well until the last three minutes and then

it started to slow down westbound 92. there's the plat section. you could see the high rise and clearer view and as far as we know we look at the maps and that clear report. chp has not said any problems there. along that flat section you could see on that camera there. some slowing off of hayward and north 238 a crash just off of 580. watch that. we're looking over towards the bay area toll plaza and no problems and no hiccups or coughs through the area. as we look at the rest of your map, the issue the tri-valley southbound 680 slows past the crash and center divide and a closure at niles canyon because of that train wreck that we talked about. the recovery that has to continue there at least all day today and not sure when they're going to continue because they have to clear that train. eastbound 580 getting out of ouria and we did hear about a crash a couple cars off the roadway and somebody died as a result of that crash. meanwhile, coming in out of the altamont pass not a lot of

traffic even though folks have no ace train this morning. you'll have to drive or telecommute. 6:52 right now. shake it off. a rare loss for the warriors on sunday quickly dispelled by another record. >> 45 in a row. >> yeah, no kidding. who remembers sunday anyway. a huge moment for the warriors last night. the team broke the record for consecutive home regular season wins beating orlando, 119-113. the 1995/'96 chicago bulls held that record of 44 straight. after the game, players kept their eye on the bigger things, like breaking the record for wins in a season. >> so, we'll go 41-0 at home, that gives us a great chance to get to 73. >> looks like the game comes in too easy and we're winning, steph is bailing us out an awful lot. >> as he usually does. the warriors are going to try to make it 46 in a row at home

tomorrow night when the jazz come into town. >> had let's see if they do it. 6:53. terrifying moments unfold for passengers aboard a commuter train that derailed in niles canyon. reaction from witnesses reliving the chaotic scene. and i'm bob redell. take you live to niles canyon of the scene of the derailment with the latest on what caused this train to come off its tracks. that story coming up. happening right now, other big stories we're following. santa cruz college students busted in a drug ring that investigators say involved massive amounts of ecstasy. shipping companies apparently unknowingly played a role in that. look for that in the main story of our home page. with four states going to the polls today, donald trump firing back on accusations that heoes a nazi salute during his rallies. link to that story and this morning's nbc interviewen oour twitter feed. we'll be back in two minutes. one final check of the day'sopso

welcome back. a final check of the day's top stories before we send you off to "today" show in just a few minutes. >> this is our top story alling long and let's get right to it with bob redell at the scene of a derailed train in fremont. >> commuter train here in niles canyon. good morning, sam and laura. alameda county sheriff office

tells us a minor miracle that no one was killed when that rail car tumbled down that ravine last night around 7:30 ending up in the alameda creek. we could see it swollen from the recent rain. chaos and passengers stuck inside screaming, cold from the water and hurt from the crash. nine people hurt and four seriously. with the sun up and you can see the broken windows that people used to escape. you can see a gash on the top of the rail car and the other car that was derailed that did not come down the hill, you could see it's teetering there on the ledge. union pacific believes a mudslide swept a tree on to the train tracks causing this derailment. the number 10 ace train. the last train of the night for 214 commuters traveling from silicon valley to the central valley when it derailed as i mentioned around 7:30. the engine and two of the cars stayed upright. as i mentioned, you had the fourth car derailed and the fifth one ended up in the water. not clear how fast this train was traveling, but we do know

the ace trains generally travel slowly in niles canyon because it's so steep and so curvy. reporting live here in niles canyon, bob redell "today in the bay." >> i'm stephanie chuang live in castro valley at eden medical center where we learned one passenger came for treatment. the 5-year-old woman is in stable condition and should be going home today. none of the nine passengers injured suffered life-threatening injuries. some say the rain and the mudslides made it more difficult to rescue some who were trapped. >> one member was just under the mudslide and we were trying to dig her out while the train was hanging. it was a pretty crazy experience. >> we also learned this morning two passengers went to washington hospital in fremont for minor injuries. still trying to determine where the other six went and their conditions this morning. live in castro valley stephanie chuang. >> we'll stay on top of that investigation.

>> rain returning tomorrow. >> the roads nearby where steph was. >> because of that train derailment now canyon is closed. more traffic on mission boulevard. >> that is what is happening "today in the bay." we're back in an hour. good morning. breaking overnight a commuter train derails near san francisco, plunging one car into a creek, passengers helped to rescue fellow ride sneers we were trying to dig her out while the train was hanging. >> at least nine people injured. image problem, donald trump facing mounting criticism for doing this at rallies. >> raise your rand, everybody. do you swear that you're going to vote for trump tomorrow? raise that hand. >> some say he's purposely evoking imagery of a dark time in history. we'll talk to trump live as voters get set to head to the polls in four more sta