for the bay area this welcome to tuesday morning. we are tracking more rain headed towards the bay area this morning. storm ranger showing the storm off the coast. kind of a drizzly day on and off. good morning to you. thanks so much for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> i'm marcus washington. vianey, what are we talking about today? >> we have light showers on the map. i told you there are periods where it would stop and start up again. just a couple of showers pushing through. the heavie pockets might be possible later in the mid-afternoon. aside from that, light rain through san jose right now.saa downpours from this.

it will be another one of those muggy afternoons where the temperatures manage to climb into the upper 60s.he next let's check traffic with mike. we are looking at green all over. rain having traveled through or coming through cupertino, santa clara, san jose. no major problems. watch the slick roadways. oakland, that is the concentration for the slowing. we have that crew locking three lanes southbound at 23rd for that overhead sign work in that same area around 29. in the construction zone we have a crash reported. a lot of slowing. guy south of ring lanes now.t the bay brback to you. the ship trial starts in connection withnocent. back in 2016. 36 people died in that tragedy "today in the bay" joining us live with how we got to this

point. pete? >> reporter: good morning, marcus and laura.d a lf years lr the deadly ghost ship warehouse fire, the trial will begin in a few short hours. i want to touch on the timeline of events we were talking about two and a half years leading up to this moment. the ghost ship warehouse fire taking place in december 2016. the fire taking place in a fire resulting in the deaths of 36 people. derrick al men narcotics the warehouse tenant and the creative director max harris charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter when it comes to the ghost ship warehouse fire. authorities claiming almena rented it illegally. and harris hdg almena ane-year sentence and another judge rejected that almt full responsibility or remorse for the deadly fire.

two weeks ago, lawyers tried to get the case dismissed again arguing charges should be dismissed claiming exonerating evidence were lost under the watch of prosecutors. the judge denied the motion in that as well. the trial is expected to be lengthy. it could be 12 to 18 weeks. pete suratos for "today in the bay". >> thank you, pete. a berkeley engineer due in court. he is charged with a plot to.a co-workers. >> he docto chemical. >> these cou34-year-old david chu. before now he was known as a respected engineer at berkeley engineering and research incorporated. he is behind bars facing attempted murder charges, accused of poisoning a co-worker by putting a toxic metal in her food and water on a number of occasions for over a year. his lafayette neighbors say they

just can't belive it. >> it's unbelievable. so, yeah, like, it's lafayette. i would never expect that to happen ever here. >> we never see them. we just do a little wave. because our mailboxes are right here. and there's their house. other than that, we don't really see them. it was such a surprise to see the police there last week. >> reporter: the alleged rkey.o unattended in her water. surveillance video obtained by police reportedly shows chu adding a substance to the victim's water bottle on february 11th andar 4th. water samples taken from those days tested positive for a toxic amount of cadmium. it is a blueish white metal similar to zinc and mercury. two of the victims' relatives got sick after drinking water

belonging to the co-worker last year. blood samples from the victim and her two relatives also showed elevated levels of cadmium in their systems. cheryl hurd, "today in the bay". it is 4:35 right now. this afternoon an oakland priest accused of sexually abusing a child will face a judge. he is due in court for arraignment and bail hearing. he is accused of repeated sexual abuse while working at st. john the in san lorenzo. most recently he has been in corpus christi. he is the 46 priest in the oakland diocese to face cdible abuse 4:35. santa rosa leaders will discuss a master plan to rebuild the coffey park neighborhood. flames from the tubbs fire left behind mass destruction. a public meeting will be held at 4:00 this afternoon.

they will talk about zoning codes and other issues. more than 1,400 homes were destroyed. according to the press democrat, and as we reported yesterday morning, 70% of the burned properties are under construction or already being built. also, 700 rebuilt homes a36. a push to bring attention to the pay gap. a new study says california woman make 89 cents foratn of university women will decide outside roth ridge bart station. it comes one day after jennifer siegel new some started a close on the pay gap. big names like airbnb, apple and at&t. . calling all baseball fans.

san jose giants are holding fan fest today. it includes an autograph session with the players and scrimmage. gates open at 4:00 this afternoon at the stadium in san jose. the giants' home opener is next thursday. they take on the raw hide. 4:37. coming up next, boeing has a plan to fix its grounded and potentially troubled 737 max planes. how airlines responding. and whole foods amazon announcing a cut some prices. when the amount of savings i can expect as you head to the checkout. for 50 years, cracker barrel

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good morning. i'm frank holland from cnbc headquarters. wall street is set to open slightly lower following yesterday's big rally. stocks surged to the start of the second quarter. the dow up more than 300 points. investors are reacting to strong manufacturing data out of the u.s. and china. on today's watch list, reports are durable goods and auto sales. . boeing plans to submit a software fix for its grounded 737 max planes. that is later than it previously said. more than 300 jets have been grounded following two recent crashes in three months.

pilot versus the necessary training to override it when necessary. southwest airlines has 34 737 max jets is revising the schedule for april and m reduce delays andds o items at s tomorrow. they will primarily focus on meat and customers. they will focus on you all customers, not just amazon prime members. whole foods last major price cut was november 2017. it has been rolling out more perks to prime members, such as an extra 10% already discounted items and two-hour delivery. back to you, marcus and laura. i don't know if this will affect you, marcus, because it is not on champagne and caviar. >> so true, frank. but every savings counts. the cheese, when i buy that. >> absolutely. >> thanks, frank. . vianey is in for kari this morning. tracking rain that's on its way.

>> i am. and mark us is fancy. >> you know it. >> another round of showers. light to moderate yet again. it looks more impressive on radar. we are going to track this system. a heavier chance of more rain coming up. it could impay'some there is a e marcus. a few cards. very light right now. traffic tuesday will be shaping up. i'll give you the update for the crash and the construction

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and good tuesday morning to you. a live look out at san francisco. a beautiful 4:45 for you right now. today is the day the newly reconstructed oracle dam spillway will be put to the desk. been cove f here on tod. you may remember both the main and the emergency spillways were damaged in february of 2017. 180,000 people downstream were forced to evacuate ahead of that danger. . in the meantime, mother nature releasing some rain from your skies. >> yeah. they have to continue to release the water, especially with the incoming rain. considering the fact that it is not heavy right now, this would be the perfect week to test it out. everything turns out fantastic. a stronger storm is on the way for friday. i'll get to that timeline of

course for you. and i know you're probably wondering about the home opener, a lot of people are. details on that as well. it's going to be a rainy one. right now in san jose, 54 degrees. wind speeds are calm. we are seeing some areas of cloudcover. other areas, not so much. even though the temperatures aren't neceslyooks like my came out. that was a shot of san francisco ezier in san francisco. 3 13-mile-per-hour winds. doppler radar shows the weaker cold front currently sweeping through. you can see it down here. just off the coast you see a system off in the pacific. you can see where we are starting to see light showers. this is much more impressive on the radar. the rain that's actually currently falling. it is enough to wet the pavement. today we are expecting another round of the spotty chance of rain. like yesterday where there were periods of light rain. it was continuous. enough to wet the roads while

you were driving. then it would stop. that is what we are expecting for today. temperatures will climb into the 60s. 62 for gilroy. 64 for san jose. in the east bay, mid-60s. concord, 65. it will remain khroutdy along th let's take a look at the hour by north bay, sonoma, 61. hour outlook. spotty chance will remain through the afternoon. then it picks up and becomes more aligned around 2:00, 3:00 this afternoon. even then the rain will still be light. it will be more organized in terms of rain pushing down through palo alto and the south basement we will catch this line of showers pushing through. look how disorganized. spotty into wednesday. by wednesday afternoon, the rain tapers off. spotty chance again. thursday night into friday, that's what we're tracking our stronger storm system expecting

to make its way in. that's going to bring light to moderate rain into thursday. a quarter to mountains, heavie pockets in the north basement next seven days, here it is. the giants home opener, we are expecting it to rain. we are looking at the timing of this one. it is a 1:00 game. we will know more about the timing as we inch thursday night. we hope the timing aligns to when the game does start it will be light and proceed with the game and a great home opener. it's goinght today. no need to worry. mike, how are the roads? s..mostly dry. a big difference around the bay. san rafael bridge, flashing lights reminding us we are down

one lane in each direction. it continues across the span. no surprises. these folks are getting by just fine. the bay bridge will be back up starting in the cash lanes off the oakland side. no problems in brentwood, discovery bay, vasco road, 580 slow off the 205 merge. here's the green highlighted area here. slick roadways from hayward to san jose. the band of rain just traveled through. no traffic incidents to report. dry roads. just under the overcrossing at university, road crews which were taking a while to clear. it looks like they have. no problems for the travel times. back to you. >> thank you, mike. . you know, being pulled over is a regular part of police work. but it can be dangerous for not only the drivers but the cops as well. >> especially as other drivers

speed pass. vicky wynn insan be avoided. >> reporter: we looked into that question after seeing so many crasheke drivers plowing into police cars and motorcycles parked on the side of the road. our investigation found they are happening nearly every day in california. when a police officer tried to cross crosby jr. on this area, he wanted to find a safer spot away from traffic. the decision almost cost him his life. >> as soon as i looked up, the officer had his gunpointed at me. and he started yelling, telling me to keep my hands up. but i was trying to keep myself under control because i didn't want to get shot. >> reporter: so what are you supposed to do, stop on the side of the road hope police don't punish you because they think you're trying to get away. we asked these trafficto we will show you wwenvestigate .

>> if you want to get a hold of anyone from our 888-996-tips. or nbcbayarea.c nbcbayarea.com/investigations. 4:51. coming up on "today in the bay", nbc area responds. scammers are targeting you using your caller i.d. and our identity. i'm consumer investigator chris chmura. a warning, next. changing coming for deployments and home comings due to operational security reasons, the defense department will no longer announce when naval forces deploy or return from a tour of duty. it's all part of a new defense strategy which is calling for the military to be less predictable. while many military families say they don't like the new defense department policy, others say they understand the change. more news right after this break. 4:52. we have another robocall sy

for you. this one hits close to home here at nbc bay area. 4:54. robocalls for you. this one hits close to home. a warning that an i.d. thief is spoofing our phone number. >> a san francisco man alerted us that he got a phone call from nbc bay area. peter smith snapped a photo of the caller i.d. right here. it said kntv and ksds. but the phone call was not from us. he said the other person claimed to be from medicare and asked for his social security number to get him a new medicare number. that's a known scam. preying on the fact that new medicare cards are going out in the mail right now. the feds have warned us about this fraud. we have talkebout it right here. i can assure you that we did not and we will not call anyone and ask for personal information like this. these robocallers hid their identity and their real phone

number by spoofing ours tricking you into picking up. well, if you get this bogus call, please just ignore it. you can report it to the federal trade commission and us. our real number is 888-996-tips or anybody else bay area.com/responds. back to you. thanks, chris. okay. so if it's baseball season only just starting, the giants and the dodgers are already in the thick of things. >> friends may be friends through thick and thin, but we have a heated rivalry. last night sandoval hit a single to tie the game in the seventh inning. two batters later, a double scored two runs. the giants take the first game against l.a., 4-2. 4:56 in the morning. coming up next on "today in the bay", a check of the forecast. vianey in for kari. . rain is moving through. in fact, light showers in san

jose. 55 degrees right now. we are expecting spotty rain chances throughout the afternoon. temperatures in the 60s and 70s. how long is this rain going to last? i'll break down the details coming up. stay with us. san mateo bridge, how long will this clear drive last? at least a little while. a smooth drive here. and an update on the construction crew in oakland. . plus, what would it mean for calf yanns and all of americans if president trump shut down the border? the impact it could have on your next trip to the grocery store. you're watching "today in the bay". for 50 years, cracker barrel

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shut-down economics. the rippling effects on americans if president trump 5:00, shut down economics. the rippling effect on americans if president trump makes good on an ultimatum and closes the southern border from mexico. a live report from capitol hill moments away. . plus, countdown to the 20/20 census begins. including a citizenship question makes its way through the courts. coming up in a live report, census kickoff events here in the bay area. . more rain in the bay area today. we're tracking the impact on your morning commute. "today in the bay" continues right now. and good tuesday morning to you. thanks for joining us. i'm marcus washington. >> i'm laura garcia. keep that umbrella handy, right? >> yeah. it will be just enough to mess

up your hair and get your car a little dirty. the pavement is wet. still slowing down. it doesn't seem like it is pouring out there. it will be enough to create slick roadways. we have a line of light showers from santa cruz, san jose. the same line of showers will continue to be spotty on and off through the afternoon. as far as your daytime highs. another muggy day. mid-60s. i'll talk about the timeline in just a bit. a check of the roads with mike. boy, a muggy day. this is what vianey is talking about. the highlighting in the south bay, moving to the east bay and tri-valley. slick in many spots. it wasn't a major issue. justug to smear that window as vianey was talking b. contra costa county. marsh road,