the shelter is getting far more chihauhaus than they can handle and on the other hand, chihauhaus areso virgin america is take the dogs to new york at no extra cost to the shelter to be adopted out of the manhattan spca. so the dogs have arrived in special carriers. we are going to talk to jill fletcher. how will they go through security? >> they will walk through on leashes. we'll have carrier bags to put them into after they got through security and they will just be comfortably sitting on people's laps during the flight in their carrier bags. >> now, they have two planes just for them or they are just in a special section in these two different planes? >> yeah. we are going to split them up amongst two different flights. they will be kind of in their own section. we have virgin america volunteers and volunteers from the sfacc who will be having them on their laps. the plane's not devoted just to them. but they will be with other guests. >> very good. thank you very much, jill fletcher. so they are going to take off on two flights this morning. they are expected to be adopted out of

dozens of chihauhaus getting new homes.e first class treatment they are getting coast to coast in a live report coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> good morning. it's tuesday, march 1. i'm frank mallicoat. >> i'm sydnie kohara. thanks so many for joining us. your time is 6:30. let's start with a quick check of weather and traffic. julie? >> good morning. high pressure in place this morning is holding off an approaching low pressure system. the big change is on the way tonight through wednesday. this storm system moves in bringing with it heavy rain and high winds. we'll time it out and have more details coming up. but first, details on that morning commute with elizabeth wenger. >> thank you, julie. back out to chopper 5. they are continuing their jaunt up the peninsula now. here's live look at 101 traffic through mountain view. taillights moving northbound. and want to show you a quick look at the bay bridge toll plaza where they just turned the metering lights on. so far d

. >> time for operation chihauhau. why three dozen pint-sized pooches are leaving the bay area for the big apple. that and much more coming up. ,, >>> welcome back. mostly clear skies for much. day, some of clouds, big changes on the way. mild in the 50s and 60s. 58 in berkeley. big changes. we'll time it out in a bit. upstairs to you guys. >> thank you. >>> 4:44 on your tuesday. today muni could settle 12 claims related to that july 2009 collision. they would total nearly $1 million. that's on top of the $6 million already spent on other claims and repairing the badly damaged trains. the crash resulted in dozens of injuries after a train rear- ended another one. ntsb has not released an official cause of that crash. >>> and starting today, people with clipper cards will have to load a minimum of $5 to the card instead of the $2. changes is in response to people who have figured out how to use the cards without paying full fares. muni riders who don't want to pay five bucks can still buy single ride our roundtrip ticke

and they went quickly. >> chihauhaus don't like cold. they landed safely at jfk this afternoon.ters here say, hey, we're far from empty. we have a lot more dogs still looking for some good home

if it's a chihauhau, that's the adoption offer from a bay area shelter. the silicon valley animal control authority seeing a growing number of the small dogs. the problem is so bad, they are calling it a crisis. typically they costing about $150 but you can take home for whatever price you can pay. >> they just shipped some out to the east coast. >> they did. a lot of people, big demand in apartments and things like that. >> gobble them up there in a heartbeat. but too many near california, apparently. >> 5:56 your time. in the next half hour, we have some new pictures of the tsunami damage here in california. and why it's now the worse than previously thought. >> and could a tsunami happen in the bay area? we'll check the research. >> pg&e has until 5:00 last night to come up with records for all of its high power transmission lines underground. well, they weren't able to do it. what does that mean? coming up next. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> fighting a nuclear power plant meltdown in japan. what workers are doing now after a setback. >>> plus a big announcemen

. >>> and the bay area has more than enough chihauhaus, while there is a shortage of those little dogsork city. snow morning, a dozen of them are flying -- so this morning, a dozen of them are flying to new homes in new york. this is the second such airlift to deal with the over population of those dogs in the bay area. >>> traffic and weather around the bay area in just a moment. stay with us. ,, ,,,,,,,,,, >>> good morning. just getting word of new bart delays out of san francisco. 20-minute delays right now from downtown san francisco out towards the east bay. there was an earlier stalled train. now, we're hearing that all trains heading into the city are all on time. all other mass transit is on schedule. highway 4 is a very slow drive through antioch, where we always see that slowing, but it remains really heavy through pittsburg. we had this earlier crash, likely now cleared from lanes but speeds are slow across the stretch. and we still have this traffic alert in effect until 8:30. the petaluma boulevard south off-ramp to southbound 101 is closed after an earlier big rig acciden