train heading for richmond hit a person on the tracks near the south hayward station. the south hayward station is closed until further notice. will now go to george rask and the traffic center and joininjoining us live now with more is kron 4's jackie sissel. jackie? >> this train is now being molts. this happens around 11:30 p.m.. the alameda county coroner was here and they just remote the body. they have now left the scene, no identification on the person that was struck and killed. bart's police officers are still out there on the scene and according

to jim allison the spokesperson for bart, he stated that they will wait until daybreak so that they can get back out here in check for more evidence obviously, the dark conditions was part of the reason so they want to get back out here to make sure they're not missing any evidence. the stretch of the track is about a 300 yd stretch. so, as i stated they're still out here at the track is closed, the train has left, but right now the service is still shut down. i am sure george will have more information on that. >> south hayward, union city, fremont you will have to find a another way to get to work. >> this is going to have an impact on commuters. >> yes, there are three

stations that are affected by this. when we had jim allison on the phone earlier, he stated that no buses were available. we normally do not like to talk about this but they would have used ac transit, they cannot. there are to bustlines that parallel the tracks. >> you can catch this of the bart will not provided. >> you can catch the 99 or the 801. a lot of fremont's passengers in the been san francisco. they cannot take a free my train to get there because they only go a richmond. they have to transfer a base fare. normally you what ride of the trade and transfer but he is suggesting that instead of getting on in hayward which is open, to just go straight to base their. >> yes, i was just wondering about this.

>> we did ask whether or not it would have a impact on the rest of the system and he stated no because is only the lines on this line. they're not supply any-- >> are uc sain this direction, u typically do not see this but it could impact the san mateo bridge. there is no indication when servers will be restored until after sunrise, overall 6:34 a.m.. >> in the meantime, we have the commute on a road. are there any other hot spots? >> let's go to the traffic maps. there is an accident in san jose: 101 and in response correction at mckee. this is this crash stays here, it will start to back up the ride. possibly,

into coyote valley. this is a potential hot spot. >> our team coverage continues now with kron4 mike pelton. he is live with the south a were bart station with more. >> people are not happy. there is a notes that is taped to the door. >> all stations north of the south a workstation are open, and totaled three are close. south hayward, union city and fremont. >> unfortunately, commuters may not be able to take a bus the bart officials stated that they will have to rely on ac transit. there are several buses that you can take, commuters are not happy having to do this. a

handful of them stated that they would now be about two hours late to work. >> they stated that you can add this to the all the of the problems they have faced with bart. >> thank you. stay with us for the continuing coverage of this developing story. if you to get the very latest online at kron4.com and on our facebook page. you can also get the latest with our kron4 app. >> we are dry for now and we have tropical clouds. the temperatures are very miles. by 3:00 p.m. just a chance for sprinkles. the way it really does are not arrive

until later on tonight. still, we're talking about the possibility of an inch. i will have a full detail what to expect coming up. >> the time is 6:05 a.m.. we will continue our team coverage of the bart station shut down. we're also courts have an update of the legal action involving lynn spalding the woman who was filed a ♪

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>> welcome back. we are tracking a hot spot with the delays on the richmond line. no service this morning south of hayward. there are three stations that are closed. there are no bust bridges always available but you can use ac transit periods san francisco passengers should find other means to get them to the station. >> the family of lynne spa

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investigating a deadly accident that happened last night. here are live pictures at the south hayward bart station. investigators are on the tracks. the station is closed but they do have some bus service between the area. george has been falling all angles. >> ac transit bus lines that parallel the tracks--the two lines are 99 and 801. this is to provide an alternative for people who would have gone to bart. those three stations are shut down. the hayward station is open so if it is more convenient for you to go there then you can. however, barred is recommending that she should go to the base fare station.

they also stated that this route, the dublin towards sfo should not be affected by this. it is hard to believe. >> the richmond fremont line is the one that is affected this morning and no when service will be restored. >> here is a look at the traffic around the bay. the bridges, the bay bridge metering lights have been activated. is a 14 to 16 minute drive time. highway 92, the san mateo bridge is easy in both directions. the southbound golden gate bridge, traffic is moving smoothly at the richmond san rafael bridge, we are problem free for westbound commute. let's take a quick

look at the traffic. the east shore freeway, 60 minutes from hercules to berkeley. we're already at 21 minutes for the ride to livermore to dublin. south bay freeway, we had an accident at mckee that has been cleared so it is not a hot spots. >> the more ran ride is looking good for 1 01 and we are still the delay free. >> right now, we're waking up to the cloud cover. the temperatures are warm with san francisco was 55 degrees. humidity is a factor right now we have a tropical clouds. take a look at this system that is making its way. the storm track will stay to the north. you won't see heavy rain for the north bay. i think you will see of to an inch out of the system.

fortunately, the bay area will not see that much. for the afternoon, mainly dry conditions. 69 degrees for antioch. 70's and the south. as we head into the evening, that is one of rain should rise. by 6:00 p.m. had your rain is expected for santa rosa and petaluma. >> scattered showers will continue overnight and a chance for sprinkles early thursday morning. most of the bay area will miss a quarter of an inch. past that, springlike conditions. the seven day are around the bay shows widespread seven days and unsettled weather for the week. >> happening today in the bay area. today marks the first day of lent, ash wednesday. a season of prayer and penance in the christian church, lent is the period leading up to easter.

it lasts 40 days, excluding sundays. many people give up something during lent, such as food, television or other activities. >> also today. the house of representatives is set to vote today-- for the *50th time -- on a modification to obamacare. this one would effectively push back the individual mandate by one year-- reducing the penalty for not buying insurance -- to zero. it's the first such vote since the law took effect on january 1st. and it's not likely to be taken up in the senate. >> a group post peace activists will hold a protest during israeli prime minister benjamin netanyah

u planned visit to silicon valley this morning. it was on a pro-business of remote governor jerry brown. he will also meet with high tech leaders. today's visit follows his meeting with president obama monday and visits to the jewish leaders in los angeles yesterday. >> that was a john travolta trying to introduce idina menzel's cent gain performance at the oscars on sunday night and now he is speaking out about how this has gone viral. he butchered of the singer's name, calling her " the wicked

leak talently talented adele dar the record, the pronunciation should have been closer. >> here in his statement, " i have been busy myself all day. then i thought, what would she say, let it go, let it go! she is incredibly talented and i am so happy frozen to come to oscar's son the night. >> a twitter account with the handle @adeladazeem went up immediately after the mistake and has more than 20,000 followers. on facebook, eighth travolta-

fier name generator, which butchers' any name type then, became popular. >> coming up on kron 4 news. here is a live look outside from the south hayward bart station tracks where a death investigation is happening. no service yet between south hayward and fremont. >> plus, buying guns on facebook? kron4 will look into reports that children and felons are looking to social media for black market sales of guns and ammunitio.

>> welcome back. our developing story this morning, no bart service and parts of the east bay right now. police are investigating a deadly

accident on the tracks there from last night. the south hayward bart station is closed and there is a shuttle service between union city and fremont. >> time for the tech report with gabe slate. >> youtube "moms demand action" >> moms and demand action recently released is a video and tended to be a parody of says books to the anniversary. this video tries to prove how facebook

makes is easy for guns to be bought and sold on line. they do no criminal background checks, and sometimes, without eating people showing aideed. >> the organization is run and an on-line petition that has gained over 90,000 signatures asking for facebook to have policies prohibiting gun sales. a similar line processes taking place at change.org >> these platforms are being used for the illicit transactions of firearms in some quarters of american society and that is a factor in >> that is what of the article is ultimately about how easy it is for just about anyone without id, perhaps a convicted felon, with some cash and a handshake and drive off with a gun. >> when richard began his investigation he found a

their hundreds of pages in groups on facebook that are geared towards the gun enthusiasts experience some of the names of these pages seem to imply something. like, guns for sale, sale of machine guns, and i love guns. >> some of these pages appear to have a ton of interaction and huge numbers of stores. >> within these pages i was finding chad logs that included ideas are minors, a junior high schoolers and such, that were looking to buy, sell or trade handguns. >> richard showed me a text message exchange from his phone that he had was someone he met one of these pages. >> the individuals said, no you do not need idea. it is $550 i am willing to meet you. >> there was a junior high school student and mexico was really adamant about wanting to trade his 30 gal.

water fish tank for a handgun. >> spend a few minutes on any of these pages and you will be surprised. a lot of the post like this 14 and a r-15 machine gun has a seller's phone number and e- mail included in the post. >> this is a tough issue, facebook is not an easy posistion. the law-abiding gun-that should be able to have their hobby pages and just like anyone else. >> and to the biggest question is. is it sarah to a have facebook make a policy mattress discounters' $197 mattress sale $197 mattress sale is ending soon. bulldog: mattress discounters' $197 mattress sale! television announcer: right now, you can get a serta mattress,

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>> welcome back. the opening bell wall street. there s&p 500 has now opened up a new all-time record. dow futures are flagged. adp came out with their monthly jocks with weak jobs onjobs report. >> we will see if this will change. >> the time is 6:30 a.m.. bart a delays in the east bay. here are live pictures with abc 7 news. this is the south hayward bart station or service has stopped. a person was hit and killed by a bart's train. police have been waiting so they can continue to look for evidence. bart did move the

train just before 6:00 a.m.. >> our team coverage continues with mike pelton. >> you concede that the gates are closed and a lot of commuters were caught off guard. all san francisco bound passengers are being redirected. all stations south of here are open. they stated that they are hoping to get all of these back open by 7:30 a.m.. you must rely on ac transit, there is no buses put in place. you have to go to the 99 or the 801 line. those buses are now filled with frustrated commuters. >> we have been expecting

that this will have an impact on the freeway but so far we have not seen it. it may also have a sex for the dumbarton and the san mateo bridge. a again, the richmond fremont line is confined to the east so passengers that normally bored here who are bound for san francisco or sfo would transfer at the base your station. even though the station and hayward is open, it is still recommended that you just take the bay fair station only. >> they do not expect that these problems to impact arrest of the line, especially the dublin and pleasanton the line. it is possible that there may be spillover effects. we just heard that bart post have

these three stations open by 7:30 a.m.. >> it is a cloudy start, temperatures are not too bad. most of us are in the '50s. it feels a little muggy outside. 54 degrees for fairfield. heading into the afternoon, you could expect cloudy conditions. the highs will may be in the '60s, 67 for oakland and it looks like we will see a few 70's for the south. we have r the horizon by 8:00 p.m.. heavy rain is expected and i will walk you through the seven day around the bay coming up. >> new this morning. a victory for many in oakland who are afraid that law enforcement will be able to watch their every mos. the city of oakland will implement a controversial surveillance system but not in places where it was

hoping for. kron4 will tran is live in oakland was more. >> what they will be doing, they want to start monitoring people of the port of oakland. but when they started this process and they wanted to monitor the city of oakland to rock the entire neighborhood. they went into the night and the mayor cast the final vote to say yes, we will partially implemented but only at the port of oakland. it will allow that when-- that will be able to put this on one screen, this is a 24-hour santa were that it was this information at one time. critics are stating that that is too much power and who would actually have access to this. they believe that this will be hard on communities of color were they are ready to believe there is racial profiling. >> the mayor stated that

this can be used for emergency response us also. of course, people were not buying this, they said no way, it might start out like that but it is just a spy tactic. so, if you think about it, this is a big victory for both sides. the mayor stated that they will monitor the situation and if it is not completely shut down by the city-that's at least it will not be in all the other places. >> the mayor stated that the oakland hills was not able to get firefighters and

place and that they need this, this was her argument, it was not about fighting crime it was about other things. but people did not want to believe it. >> they stated that they know she must watch the never does. >>wants to watch the neighborhoods. >> still ahead on kron 4 news. we're keeping an eye on bart this morning after the south a work station was closed. >> the other story that we're following is a ban on electronic cigarettes and california. will tell you where. >> here's a live look outside the golden gate bridge. brain is on the way. rain is all the way. on the way.

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line >> welcome back. there is no service between hayward and fremont stations south hayward, union city and fremont remain closed. if you are bound for san francisco board recommends such as go to the bay fair station or use other means. 99 and 801 is available. >> happening now: major restrictions for e- cigarettes in l-a. the los angeles city council voted unanimously last night to restrict electronic cigarettes just like regular cigarettes. that means you can no longer use them in parks, bars, restaurants, beaches and workplaces.

>> right now a team of international observers is headed to crimea. as top diplomats from the west and russia meet in paris to find an end to the crisis in the ukraine. talks had already been planned for envoys from the u-s, britain, france and russia in paris.to address the civil war in syria. but that changed after russia's military takeover of ukraine's crimea region. >> here is a live look from our helicopter partnership of abc 7 news. this is where bart service was stopped after a person was hit and killed. that accident happened at 11:30 p.m. and the tracks are still shut down. we will have an update to coming up.

>> welcome back. our developing story, no bart service and parts of the east. here is a live picture of the south hayward tracks. investigators are recovering evidence do to a person been struck last night. to to the south hayward bart station as is close. >> people are being forced

to fine art and that means of transportation and that is even bart's recommendation. they did not have any buses available so, the line that parallel the tracks are 99 and a 01 through south alameda county. these the buses are pretty loaded. that is your only alternate. the recommendations that you go to the bay for station if your destination in san francisco. >> even though the hayward station, remember they have to, it is still recommend that if you're born that way you can go to bay fair. >> the time for this to be reopened maybe 7:30 a.m.. >> here's a look at other traffic. we are backed up, a 16 to 18 minutes drive time.

it is incident free pripet the san mateo bridge ride is looking good and perhaps a little heavier than normal. there are no major delays. the golden gate bridge is perfectly normal measure ride leading westbound. >> here is a look at the traffic maps, but they sure drive time, my team minutes from hercules to berkeley. 21 minutes for 680 southbound. south bay freeway is still looking good with no major problems. the more ran up ride is here on 1 01 south ball where we are still clear. >> right now, it is cloudy. the temperatures are not too bad. san francisco was at 55 degrees. oakland has 56

degrees. we have a system that is making his way in. for the most part the storm as to the north and it should not arrive until later on. >> as for temperatures, oakland is a 67. what was the upper 60s along the delta and 65 for now. again, you should get home early because the range to arrive around your evening commute home. >> heavy rain is expected for santa rosa and palo month. this system will bring heavy rain to the south. >> scattered showers expected for the overnight hours. the seven day around the bay forecast highlights warmer weather on the way, sunshine and '70's for the weekend. the output from rollaway because the rain will return as we wrap up the work week. >> we are watching wall

street with our financial expert rob black. >> pretty quiet of the markets today. adp stated that it was my good for the jobs added in february. >> bad weather has given a lot of free passes but the jobs created, are ahead of friday's jobless reports from the labor department, it was overwhelming. >> it is not a good thing. this weather excuse, whether it's true or not, it on ultimately come has been to the three months of this pripet they are real misses because people do not want to go on a cold to find a job here is a problem. it is an all-time record high. it was a good day it was just a

hangover. >> it is led, 40 days, watching the mark is on for the you concern yourself with the unemployment rate? are the sets still watching that closely? >> desk. keep in mind, airlines will fly the most. if airlines are flying, transports are about the future of the economy. when the transports are high--and the transport numbers are strong. " we are saying from the airlines is strong. so, no, i do not think the s&p 500 should go higher because there are conflicting signs that we are a healthy economy

acreage >> would check back with rob at 916 a with winners and losers. >> the time is 6:49 a.m.. here's a look at some of the top stories on kron 4 dot com right now: no service yet for bart between south hayward and fremont after a deadly accident on the tracks. last night, a train hit a person near the south hayward station. expect limited service to san francisco this morning. >> plus, still getting a lot of clicks on this story this morning. a man using a sword from the "legend of zelda" to fight off his girlfriend's estranged husband. it's a replica sword the man pulled but it was no toy. he stabbed her ex in the chest and leg during the brawl. >> and. a company's new marketing campaign is forcing people to look twice. the creative minds behind huvr tech dot com made this video showing christopher llyod from the "back to the future" movies introducing the huvr board. which is then tried out by celebrities like pro skater

tony hawk. find out why the company did this stunt. >> it turns out that this was all a host. it is a cool video. could it be a remake dece has arrive. >> the time is 6:51 a.m..

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>> of developing story it this morning. bart's south hayward, union city, and fremont stations closed until further notice. around 11:30 p.m. last night, a train heading for richmond hit and killed a person on