and collided. the collision damaged 300 yards of the rail. so both trains going both directions had to share the remaining track. that eliminated two out of every three runs. by mid-morning, temporary repairs repaired the system to a more normal but modified k sc repairs are completed overnight tonight when the system is completely shut down. for now, about a half mile of the 6-mile long transbay tube corridor is having an impact on the commute. >> trains are going 200-miles- an-hour on a 200-foot long of track. you may notice a big difference, five to 10 minute delays. >> reporter: authorities continue to look for possible defects on the braking system. track controls and of course into possible human errors. >> as soon as we learned something like this has

happened the safety department begins to look at it. and then the engineering people, using their skills to figure out how we can fix it. >> reporter: coming up john fowler has been digging deep into his resources to find out what happened and how much of a close call it really was for worker down there. tom vacar, ktvu news. just how bad was it this morning taking b.a.r.t. into the city. we talked to one rider who said it took nearly an hour and a half longer to get to work. rob roth is in the city tonight and tells us what the evening commute is like so far for b.a.r.t. riders, rob. >> reporter: frank, we're at the montgomery b.a.r.t. station in downtown san francisco and we can tell you the afternoon commute is going much smoother. we showed some video, less than an hour ago. delays are in the three to five minute range as b.a.r.t. gets back on track after a morning most commuters will no

doubt like to forget. the definition of misery, trying to get from the east bay into san francisco this morning. groups that usually take a half hour or so -- >> like an hour. >> two hours i started in berkeley. >> reporter: the early morning crash left b.a.r.t. with only one track to use for much of the morning commute. for passengers trains were slow in coming and for those lucky enough to finally get on a san francisco bound train they were squeezed in tight. >> packed in like sardines here this morning. >> we pay a lot more than most transit system, a little frustrating. >> reporter: people knew they weren't going to get to work on time after packed train after pack trained moved through. >> we had to watch a train which looked like people packed until they were spilling out just sitting there. >> reporter: one woman told us a usually 40 minute ride took two hours this morning. >> they had us all get off at mcarthur then we waited for a

couple of trains to go by. then after that, we got stuck at west oakland on the b.a.r.t. train. so it was pretty crazy. >> reporter: but she like many others tried to find the bright side. >> it's friday and it's payday. so you can't beat that. >> reporter: and these are pictures of the afternoon commute on the montgomery station platform. again b.a.r.t. says expect delays of up to five minutes. that's because trains have to rerout around the area where the morning train collided. if you were at the toll plaza you may have thought there was a big surge of people taking their car to work instead of b.a.r.t. but we got the numbers. there's no doubt a b.a.r.t. delate, plus accidents and a stall on the bridge made for

slow going around san francisco -- b.a.r.t. delay, plus accidents and a stall on the bridge. but b.a.r.t. ridership was only down 9.5%. a very smooth commute right now into san francisco. commuters will also turning to the ferry system to try to beat the back up. two extra ferries will help with the extra people. some people said they were surprised with all the extra people joining them on their commute. >> i got up not anticipating anything. i just came a few minutes early, it's much more crowded

than it is normally. >> reporter: we're keeping an eye on the back up throughout this newscast for you. coming up at 5:30, we got on a b.a.r.t. train this morning to show you what it was like for ride and how long it took to get into san francisco. we will tell you about the vehicles involved and how witnesses tell us it was a very close call for two workers. and our chief meteorologist bill martin is here with places on a red alert. >> temperatures were on the increase today. some areas 10 degrees warmer today than yesterday. here's the red flag warning as it exists right now. it stays into effect until 7:00 tomorrow. it's just on the edge of the eastern side of the bay area, north eastern side if you will. so vallejo's impacted, fairfield is impacted. all the way obviously until the davis area.

if you're in napa here, you're impacted too. just because you don't have a warning in the area and you're just outside this area. you're just going to see a high increased fire danger with the stronger winds. this fire danger a red flag warning is basically being initiated by strong winds. current temperatures are indicated by the warm up, 92. fairfield 93, 93 in santa rosa. winds kick up tomorrow or tonight. it's getting hot outside today. and it's going to continue to heat up tomorrow. so when i come back we're going to talk about your bay area weekend. we'll talk more about the fire danger. the red flag warning but also how warm is it going to be at your house. this is the kind of weather where just a simple spark or someone throwing a cigarette butt out of their car can spark a fire. we spoke to a homeowner in benecia who is not taking any

chances. cara liu investigating. >> reporter: it's clear to see how dry the brush is out here throughout the county, you can even hear it crunch. >> i got this all the way down there and i got them over here. this is full. so i have to, when it's a little cooler then i will get the rest of it. >> reporter: we found angela asari working in the yard of her benetia home well aware of the increased fire danger today and tomorrow. >> it's important. i don't want to have a fire, lose everything i have. so it's important. >> reporter: benecia the firefighters patrolled this morning making sure their vehicles could get to high risk areas. >> we survey those areas to make sure we don't need to clear them or regain access. >> reporter: we took a short ride with firefighters to this hillside, they pointed out that only the homeowner at the bottom of the hill properly cleared brush away from the home. >> as you look up the hillside you can see that this isn't the case all the way up the hill. there's quite a few houses where the grass goes right up to the fence line. from there you have overhanging

trees, wooden fences and other items that are going to burn right at the end of their property. >> reporter: solano county and the sacramento valley have been under red flag warnings since this morning. calfire has increased staffing but firefighters say with the winds, high temperatures and low humidity, they need residents to do their part. >> oftentimes lawn mowers on a dry day like this trying to mow dry grass actually sparks a wildfire. if you haven't done your brush clearing or defensive area around your home, don't do it because it's too dangerous. >> reporter: cara liu. in solano county some residents were allowed back into their homes. the forest service says it

probably won't be contained until next wednesday. hundreds of firefighters are working in steep terrain with temperatures in the 90s. several families were forced to leave their homes but those mandatory evacuations have been lifted. and breaking news, in just the past hour tornadoes have been spotted on the ground. one twister is headed toward the oklahoma city suburb of moore. that's where a massive tornado hit 11 days ago leaving 24 people dead. observers say the tornado heading toward moore has more than two vortex. the storm is creating hail as big as 4-inches in diameter. we are tracking the situation there and we'll take you live to oklahoma for any significant developments. about two hours ago we learned that four firefighters were killed in a fire that destroyed a houston motel and restaurant this afternoon. flames were shooting from the roof of the building which is

right along one of the city's busiest freeways. we don't know yet what started the fire. three firefighters were killed there at the scene. the fourth died at the hospital. crews were fighting against swirling winds and temperatures in the 90s. but all stopped to pause and salute the flag draped remains of their fellow firefighters. today we're getting a new look at the boston marathon bombing suspects working out at a gym just 72 hours before the attacks. security cameras show brothers tamerlan and dzhokhar tsarnaev jumping rope at a mixed martial art gym before the bombings. tamerlan trained at the center several times a month. a friend of the brothers who also trained at the gym was shot and killed last week by fbi agents during questioning about a triple murder. authorities are questioning a man in texas and his wife about ricin laced letters sent to president obama and new york

major michael bloomberg. the poisoned letters were sent from louisiana about an hour and a half from where the couple lives. meanwhile the fbi says another man is under arrest in washington state for allegedly sending more tainted mail. at least four envelopes were postmarked from spokane including one addressed to the president. and three of them contain the poison ricin. not your ordinary traffic stop. new at 5:30 what a san francisco police officer says happened after he was pulled over last night in the city. >> san jose police plan to crack down on gang hot spots tonight and through the weekend. we'll tell you what they plan to do and why they plan to do it. ♪ ♪

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new at 5:00, san jose police are looking for a man who robbed a wells fargo bank this morning. the man walk into the branch at around 10:30. he threatened the teller and got away with an an

undisclosed amount of money. police are not saying if the suspect actually showed a weapon. police are fighting back tonight and through the weekend after a violent week that included four killings. police are adding dozens of officer targeting hot spots. robert handa is in san jose tonight and tells us more about this police strategy. robert-- >> reporter: well we are at the hottest of the san jose hot spots right now. audibon drive where a teenaged was gunned down. these days memorials for victims help mark san jose's hot spots of gang violence. alisa already knows she's in one. >> there's been a lot in this neighborhood and the one where i work this past week. >> we heard that's number two

in san jose as far as violence go. >> reporter: 19-year-old felipe band era s was gunned down yesterday. in response, police plan to spread out an additional 40 officers tonight and through the weekend all especially trained in dealing with gang related activities. >> that will be good. >> what do you think they need to do though when they come into the neighborhood? >> i think not just patrolling and driving around but actually getting out of their cars and approaching people. then letting them know that they actually are here and doing something about it. >> reporter: police say that's the plan. >> gang members are being contacted. parol agents are working in conjunction with our gang units and special cooperation units focuses on people we know have prior histories with violent acts. >> reporter: juan pinol liked the idea, he's tired of living in a hot spot. >> it bugs us a lot. everybody is scared. any of these bullets could you know ricochet or go and hit

someone's house. >> reporter: police haven't confirmed the recent homicides are gang related or when the crack down starts. but undercover officers have already started asking questions to neighbors about gang activity. live in san jose, robert handa, ktvu channel 2 news. san francisco mayor ed lee today unveiled his proposal for what would be the city's biggest budget ever. >> we will continue to invest in our neighborhoods, in our infrastructure, and most importantly in our people. >> mayor lee called his two year $7.3 million budget responsible and balanced. he said thanks to an improved economy and higher revenues the proposal will help close the city's budget gap. it includes more money for police officers and firefighters as well as child care, mental health and hiv

programs. avilos called the budget comprehensive but there's not enough for keeping neighborhoods clean. >> we're definitely seeing it for cops, the expansion of the masconi center, we're moving a lot of money for the super bowl. >> reporter: over the next few months city supervisors will hold meetings to hammer out a deal. and stocks ended lower. the dow was down more than 200 points. nasdaq was down 35. a popular restaurant will be closed indefinitely after being gutted by fire early this morning at chez spencer near fulsome street. the fire spread to two adjacent buildings. crews got everyone out safely and residents are being allowed back in. the cause is under investigation. a man remains in the

hospital with life threatening injuries after a fight and a stabbing in the mission district in san francisco. a second man was also injured but less seriously. it happened late today near valencia. both victims are in their early 20s they say they were attacked by four or five suspects as they walked out of a pizza parlor. the victim and attacker had some kind of argument inside the restaurant before that stabbing occurred outside. two south bay care givers have been arrested on grand theft and fraud charges. the santa clara district attorney accuses 62-year-old doung and margarita cerfotis of charging the state for home health care. but the patients they were supposedly caring for were actually in nursing homes at the time. the da says their cases are not related. each could face more than three years in prison. there should be cleaner air around your neighborhood starbucks. the coffee chain will start

banning smoking within 500 feet of their stores starting tomorrow. the goal is to expand the indoor ban on smoking to the outdoor seating areas. this goal will apply to the 7,000 cafes owned and operated by the starbucks organization, regardless of whether or not they have outdoor seating. it's been 12 years in the making and today oakland officially dedicate add massive sculpture honoring pioneers of social justice. remember them champions for humanity is a 25-foot tall bronze sculpture in henry j. kaiser park. if you don't know where that is. it is literally right next to the fox theater. the touring figures include rosa parks, martin luther king, helen keller and president

franklin roosevelt. today a local poet resited a poem she wrote for the occasion. >> we need more of this, more affirmations of our humanity. >> reporter: the sculpture also includes a section for people who are visually impaired that section is a 4-foot high granite tall with the faces of all champion quotes from each of them in braille. and we reported about tornadoes breaking out in oklahoma. our chief meteorologist bill martin has more. >> reporter: live storm tracker 2 is teed up and what we can do is look at the tornado watches that are in effect in that area. the red areas see that little tornado icon. that means that tor tornadoes have already touched down. that series of systems moving

through looks like it's going to cause more problems over the next few hours so we'll watch it for you. but just more severe weather as you move out into the plain states. back home here we have our red flag warning in fact, and you can see fairfield right now under that red flag warning, vallejo, a red flag warning that's solano county. i would say that just by proximity. if you have a red flag warning to the east or the north means that fire danger is going to come up as well. then things change around. current temperatures 93 in the antioch. it really warmed up today. you noticed five or 10 degrees warmer than yesterday. and it was hot. the valleys were hot. tomorrow add another 5 degrees to some of the hot spots. we're going to see mid-90s. might even see a couple of upper 90s. i'm looking at the arrows. that's a west wind at oakland. that's coming off the water. the arrows are going to start

turning like this. tonight we're going to start to notice the wind coming out of the north. that's the fire direction. winds tomorrow morning could gust up to 20 miles per hour in the solano county area. but we could see winds at 20 and 25. the high pressure ridge has set in. the inversion has capped everything. it started today. the fog is away from the coast. air quality is going to take a little hit the next couple of days i think wind will stir it up tomorrow. the big story is the stirred up weather warning. it does not take much to get fire in the bay area this time of year. we haven't had a lot of rain recently. hottest day on the weekend, then things start to cool down and fog comes back. we're going to take a look at your area tomorrow. and then we'll look at the forecast with the weekend in view.

she found herself behind bars in mexico. tonight we're learning about the key piece of evidence that vindicated an arizona woman who had been arrested after police found boxes of marijuana under her bus seat. all of this over a park? what happened or rather what sparked this fierce spark in the streets of istanbul. >> that b.a.r.t. accident this morning, ktvu channel 2 has learned how close to death workers came today. >> also whooping cough is on the way in parts of the bay area. the one thing health officials warn can make kids eight times more likely to get that disease. >> plus a dog at the center of a frog case. the trick the pup's owner was convicted of and how it could have caused a life. tonight on ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00. you kids should count yourselves lucky.

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in istanbul turkey turns violent. protesters threw rocks at police officers and the officers fired tear gas and water cannons back at the demonstrators. the group had been occupying the park since monday, trying to keep homes from being built there. some 100 people were hurt. surveillance video forces police to free an american mother from a mexican prison. maldonado was arrested in mexico after boxes of marijuana were found under her seat on a bus in nogales. her family has been fighting for her release saying the drugs were not hers. you see the release here after surveillance video saw her boarding the bus with only a purse, a water bottle.

the queen of england is making a visit to the military barracks today to honor the british soldier who was murdered. the queen visited the barracks where lee bigsby was murdered. two men murdered him right in front of shocked strangers. the queen is meeting with personnel who knew and worked with bigsbc. ever since the murder, flowers line the site where bigsby died. a patch work design representing the russian federation's different cultures. made with a combination of metal and poly carbonate. they look like the medals used

in the 2010 games. they're hoping that russia does better than those games, when russia had the worse performance ever. we're keeping a close eye on b.a.r.t. at this hour. an accident in the morning there in the transbay tube snarled the commute. we'll tell you just how tough it was for some people to get into san francisco. mom...

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allegations that the black officer was quote roughed up for no reason. ktvu's david stevenson tells us there are two very different sides about why that officer was pulled over. david-- >> reporter: frank that officer faces his 15th anniversary with the force tomorrow along with some serious questions about what happened last night. san francisco's naacp is alleging racism after a confrontation with a black police officer and three other officers in the bay view district. >> a veteran black officer was profiled by white officers. >> reporter: it began at 8:23 p.m. when officers pulled over a car near the intersection of third and nucome streets. the driver was 42-year-old officer lorenzo. >> no plates on the car, no

i.d. on the person and also for a tint issue. >> that's not the issue. he was asked immediately, are you on parol. that's profiling. armed but did not p, the identify himself. >> reporter: adamson was taken to the bay view station where he was identified and released. the head of the police officer's association did not return our request for comment but civil rights attorney said his client was quote roughed up for no reason. >> i assure you that san francisco police department will be conducting a thorough and comprehensive investigation on all aspects of this incident. >> reporter: and we've learned officer adamson had been on medical leave for a back injury for some time before this incident. his attorney tells us we may hear adamson's side of what

happened in the next few weeks. david stevenson, ktvu news. a federal appeals court has upheld a rifle sales report that will impact california. the obama administration requires south western border high power rifles. en customers there applies in california, arizona, new mexico and texas. part of an of effort to stop the flow of guns to mexican cartels. a group sued saying the government overstepped its authority, the court disagreed. and now back to the incident that caused a back up on b.a.r.t. and the transbay. and the effects are still being felt. the lanes on the left are being held toward the bridge. they are completely jammed up although this is an area that is normally backed up during the commute. as for b.a.r.t., trains are

being runs. however in one section of the tube they are being slowed down to 25 miles per hour. b.a.r.t. should experience some delays but nothing like this morning. b.a.r.t. plans to finish repairing the damaged rail overnight. we wanted to find out for ourselves just how bad the commute was this morning. so we sent tara moriarty and a photographer and had them ride to san francisco. and as you can see here there were problems almost right from the beginning. >> reporter: 6:14 a.m. we arrive at the lafayette platform. after four minutes we board. then we hit a patch right out of the caldecut tunnel and then we're stuck. there's not that many people here. we're getting ready to pull out. we wait for a half hour and it looks odd because b.a.r.t. runs a train from walnut creek on the eastbound track next to us. passengers get off and hop on to our train. >> we're still alive and well.

a little packed like sardines and on our way to the big city. but we're in oakland, we're here, we adjust. >> reporter: 7:02 we hit the mcarthur station which became a major bottleneck in the morning with some folks waiting around for an hour. >> now it's past 7:00 and we have just left the mcarthur station. after being the fourth train in line we finally get clearance to pass through the transbay tube. people sleep, play on laptops and cell phones. >> reporter: it took us about an hour and seven minutes to get from lafayette to san francisco and it is quite crowded here at the station. at 7:31, our trip takes 45 minutes longer than usual. tell me how long were you on? >> two hours i started in berkeley. >> frustrated? >> no. >> reporter: you're frustrated. >> frustrated, 45 minutes. >> reporter: where do you have to go? >> right here. i'm home now. >> it took me almost two hours.

>> reporter: where were you comed from? >> castro valley. >> reporter: it took jennifer cugan an extra hour and 15 minutes to get to san francisco. for those who left early in the morning 7:00 or later it took an hour to two extra to get into the city. tara moriarty, ktvu news. today'r.t. slow down reminded people of a back down last june 14th, a fire that melted the tracks and caused a low down in commute for days. investigators say they believe the fire was deliberately set. they still don't know who was responsible. ahead at 6:00, our john fowler spent the day investigating this latest accident. he is learning how close the call was this morning for workers at the transbay 2. you can check the commute at several transbay stops on

ktvu.com. and a man who is accused of selling a dog speaks out. >> i did not sell my dog. it was an experiment. and a kindergarten graduation gone awry. what started the fight and why the 5-year-olds were acting a lot more grown than some of their guests. ñáçwçñ q

a new warriors arena bill, the power to decide if the arena qualifies as a public trust. it gives the power to the legislature. the bill now goes on to the state senate. bay area hospitals today pushed for passage of a bill to reverse cuts to skilled nursing facilities. their facilities are threaten by cuts to medi-cal. hospitals fought them in court but last week an appeals court

upheld the 10 to 25% cut in payments. hospitals say if those cuts go through patients who have suffered strokes, brain injuries and other severe injuries may not get the care they need. >> people who need health care will suffer. and more jobs will be lost, unemployment rate goes up, again community gets sicker. >> the bill that would reverse the cuts passed the assembly yesterday, it is now at the senate. there are questions today about the medicate. a new report that oversees trust funds say it will not be exhausted until 2016. that's two years later than earlier predict. the government is still predicting the social security trust fund will run out in 2033. from kindergarten graduation to an all out brawl. that's what happened at a school graduation in cleveland.

two teenage girls in the audience got into a fight. once things calmed down eight people were arrested. police are investigating whether a spilled drink is what started that fight. like $1,000 tax hike. i assume most of you cannot afford that. the president's warning to college students and congress and the political backlash it caused. we're tracking a major tornado moving over oklahoma city. we'll talk about that, we'll talk about our red flag warning and your bay area weekend here in just a few minutes. that b.a.r.t. accident this morning, ktvu channel 2 has learned how close to death workers came today. also whooping cough is on the rise in part of the bay area. the one thing health officials warn can make kids eight times more likely to get that disease. plus, a dog at the center

of a case, the trick the pup's owner is convicted of and how it could have caused a life. ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00. mom...

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unless congress takes action millions of the college students are about to see a big increase in their federal student loan debt. emily smith reports from washington, where efforts are caught in a partisan gridlock. >> reporter: surrounded by college students in the rose garden, president obama said higher education is the key to building the middle class. >> you're going to need more than just a high school education to succeed in this economy. >> reporter: but he warned a college education may soon be out of reach for some americans unless congress acts interest rates on new federal student loans are set to double on july 1st. rising to 6.8%. the president said that would mean an additional thousand dollars of debt per year for the average student. >> that's like $1,000 tax hike. i assume most of you could not afford that. >> reporter: about 7 million

students taking out loans for next school year will be affected. the house passed the bill addressing the bill last week but the president says it doesn't go far enough. >> it fails to lock in rates for next year that's not smart. it eliminates income for families, that's not fair. >> reporter: he's calling out to members of congress. mcconnell says the republicans have arrived to a solution. he slammed the president. both sides agreed the increase would hurt students. but so far they found no common ground to keep higher education from coming at a higher cost.

in washington, emily smidth, ktvu news. syrian television reported that nicole lin mansfield and two others were kill when security members ambushed their cars. mansfield family says they were able to identify her from pictures of her body and her daughter defended her. >> there are people calling he her a cia agent and she was neither. she was just an american woman who was miss guided by people who had bad intentions, good intentions but were extreme about it. >> reporter: mansfield family said they were questioned by the fbi. they also said the 33-year-old woman had converted to islam when she married an arab immigrant several years ago. a large asteroid flew past the effort today. the space rock named 1998 qe2 was at its khroáezest point at

-- at its closest point at 2:00 this afternoon. mention of the not so close encounter got a few chuckles at the white house briefing today. >> it's my understanding that scientists have concluded that the asteroid poses no threat to planet earth. never really thought i would be standing up here saying that. but i guess i am. >> nasa says it has a program in the works to lasso an asteroid by 2029 and a rocket would bring it to earth so that scientists can study it. and there's a big wake weekend. 30,000 people are expected to attend the granite bay event for the first time in almost 50 years hydroplane raises have returned to fulsome lake for racing. teams are expected to compete

every day. >> i for sure wanted to come out and see it because i like to see sacramento get more activities like these. >> children can beat the heat in a designated fun area. and there's beer gardens and classic car exhibit. we have new information and new video coming into our newsroom from oklahoma city. there is a tornado emergency in effect for the downtown area there covering airport, several suburbs and of course oklahoma city itself. this means a tornado has been spotted on the ground. these are the first pictures we're getting of that storm. at this point we know 22,000 people are without power. >> the highway patrol says some drivers have been injured or stranded and that others are missing. now this is an area that is north of where that tornado last week killed 24 people and destroyed about 12,000 homes in the city of moore. we want to bring in now our chief meteorologist bill martin. a tornado emergency bill, this is really serious.

>> we saw it a few days ago with moore. they call this area tornado alley. there are multiple injuries expected. when you get a big tornado. this one has been reported to be a half mile at the base, maybe even bigger moving through oklahoma city. big deal. more pictures coming in to the ktvu newsroom. what we're seeing with this is the storm is moving to the southeast at 15 miles per hour. let's take a look. we have live storm tracker 2. as we take a look at the pictures we're getting. i want to show you where moore is. because the first thing people are talking about is, i can't believe moore is going to get hit again. moore is to the south. at least they're getting heavy rain, heavy hail. here's the rotation. here's the system that the meteorologists are tracking now. it has now moved south and east of oklahoma city. if i put a track on it we can see some of the areas that were, are going to be impacted

by this potential tornado in the next few minutes. you see at 8:03, midwest city that must be a location i'm not familiar with that will be impacted as this thing moving further down the line. you can see the track of itself. tornado alley gets its name for a reason. much different weather around here. and sorry about that move. i'm going to fix that for 10:00. of course that story we're following we'll keep you posted on what's happening there. we'll have a lot more at the 10:00 broadcast tonight on channel 2. red flag warning across solano county. it looks winds will get going pretty good in that area. 25 to 30 miles per hour. doesn't mean we won't see winds where you are. and with increased temperatures and lower humidity fire danger comes up. tomorrow is the warmest day of the week. temperatures warm today 10 degrees in some areas. tomorrow we warm another five.

so forecast highs in berkeley. low and mid-80s. you hop over the hill, you're in the upper 80s and low 90s. once you get east in the livermore valley. so the winds will be going in the east bay hills. it'll be breezy tonight. just because you don't have a red flag warning you're still going to see those winds. look at these numbers right, way up. so temperatures on the increase, fire danger as you know on the rise and that's the story. red flag warning in effect until tomorrow night. mainly for solano county but the rest of us are under that. so the moore the oklahoma thing that's a big deal. big city, put a tornado half mile wide, maybe a mile is some of the reports i'm seeing. we'll know more at 10:00. >> we'll come back at you in the 6:00 hour too, thanks bill. the money squeeze is on for one federal agency and a

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with a problem of batteries overheating. the federal agency that oversees the safety of tractor trailers and buses will soon lose a big chunk of their buses. that division regulates commercial carriers and working to reduce crashes, injuries and deaths involving large trucks and buses. one advocacy group says cutting the agency's budget could be dangerous. >> the possibility is that they'll be less resources to either pay federal officials and god forbid federal officials who do safety inspections and there might be an impact on state funding. >> reporter: the agency says it can make the budget cuts without furlough or hiring freezes but that it will have to delay investigations into how states are using bus safety funds. we're learning more tonight about the accident in the transbay tube that caused major commute delays in just two minutes the latest on the investigation and what sources tell us really happened. and dozens of cases of

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an overnight accident causes a day of delays for commuters across the bay area. now we're learning that accident could have been much worse. so what really happened in the transbay 2? good evening everyone i'm frank somerville. >> and i'm julie haener. while b.a.r.t. will only say the investigation is ongoing we're learning what happened could have cost those workers their lives. new at 6:00 tonight, john fowler with what sources are telling him, john. >> reporter: we're at the west oakland station, this accident happened on the b.a.r.t. tracks that lead from here west to the transbay tube. maintenance crews routinely work near the transbay tube in the early morning hours. this morning sources tell me there was terror in the tube. and cars that carry material on

the rail stopped near the entrance to the tube. while sources tell me two men were outside using a hand grinder on the rails. it may have been brake failure but on the downgrade into the transbay tube, even the manual override brake was ineffective. the locomotive did not stop on time. >> that collision moved the two cars down the track probably several hundred feet. >> reporter: b.a.r.t. won't say more but sources tell me the that two men at the pickup at first got in to back up and then ran for their lives as a car hit insulators. >> we're certainly investigating exactly what happened and why it happened and how we can learn from it. >> reporter: sources tell me it was a near tragedy. that quick reaction from workers likely saved their lives. we contacted rail authorities but have been unable