juliette goodrich on their message for one of the biggest corporations in america. >> reporter: liz, that big corporation is mcdonalds. and employees didn't go to work today. they hit the streets in protests in a nationwide fight for a $15 an hour minimum wage. the fight for $15 considered one of the biggest mobilizations of workers in the u.s. and this afternoon in the east bay, another organized protest moving through the streets of downtown berkeley ending up at this mcdonalds on shadack and university. >> very misleading for workers to work and try to live the american dream hen they are not even paid enough to survive. >> reporter: the nationwide strikes and protests comes two weeks after mcdonalds announced it was going to increase salaries for a fraction of its work force by one dollar. noesha mcgee works at mcdonalds to pay for her college education. >> my books are at least two of my paychecks. >> reporter: it was not just fast food workers protesting. they were joined by employees from wal-mart, child providers, even a nurse. >> how are you going to provide on only $8 an ho

i'm juliette goodrich. is off. >>> here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. >>> one round is down at the masters as per tradition legends arnold palmer jack nicklaus and gary player teed off at a tournament. all eyes were on tiger woods but the five-time winner finds himself nine shots back after one round. >> so i'm in. i'm nine back. we've got a long way to go. >> 21-year-old jordan speights is atop the leaderboard. he's eight under and holds a three-shot lead. the only place to see the last round of the masters is right here on cbs. our coverage begins at 3:00 p.m. eastern and you can watch the find round starting sunday at 2:00 eastern. >>> new york mets ace matt harvey makes his return to the mound 19 months after major elbow surgery, and he looks just as dominant as the last time we saw him. they beat washington, 6-3. >>> one of the most recognizable players in the nfl is calling it quits. steelers player troy palomalu helped pittsburgh win two super bowls. he knew it was t

juliette goodrich shows us what a start-up developed. >> reporter: testing for the breast and ovarian mutations used to cost thousands of dollars. color genomics offers 19 for just a little over $200. >> we wanted to do this in a responsible way. >> reporter: a woman with the brca1 mutation has a 55 to 65% chance of developing breast cancer by age 70. the test must be ordered by a physician, either the woman's own doctor, or one provided by the company. genetic counseling is included in the price. >> we don't offer any specific medical advice. we want women to get the genetic information back. >> reporter: color genonics has the best price. >> fill the saliva to the fill- to line. >> reporter: it is not covered by insurance. known genetic mutations only account for 10 to 15% of breast and ovarian cancers. it used to cost millions of dollars to sequence the entire human genome, now it is down to a few thousand dollars. juliette goodrich, kpix5. >> the founders of color genomics have worked at twitter and google. >>> a student hospitalized with meningitis yesterday morning. tonight, col

i'm juliette goodrich. michelle >>> good morning.. a live look at the golden gate bridge where it is mighty windy and mighty wet right now. and. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. april 7. >> good morning, i'm juliette goodrich. michelle griego is off this morning. definitely a windy rainy start to monday or tuesday, whatever it is. what is it? [ laughter ] >> wind is so strong it blew you back to monday! good morning, out the door you need the umbrella. you definitely need extra time. this is it. this is the most powerful system we have seen so far this year. it will spread up to two inches of rain in the wettest locations. it will also dump snow down to 4,000 feet. when you have yellow on the screen that's moderate rainfall. we currently in the 40s and 50s. we'll be in the 50s and 60s later today. the rain and allowing it will last still straight ahead. >> and roberta, because of the rain we are getting widespread reported of flooding and this newest accident affecting traffic on the sunol grade northbound 680 at north mission i

i'm juliette goodrich in for michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. 4:30 out of the gate, a little weather and traffic. we're all dolled up today. >> i rolled out of bed today. when i opened my eyes the first thing i saw through my blinds was the moon and i thought forecast is panning out. isn't it crazy when it's the first thing you think of? forecast is panning out. clear skies out there with the passage of that cold front. currently temperatures are cool. temperatures right now in the 40s to the northern portion of the golden gate bridge 46 degrees at the south in san jose, low 50s around the central bay, today slightly warmer. 50s, 60s 70s. the full forecast but first here's liza. >> for those of you just rolling out of bed there are no big traffic delays. west 92 looking okay. there is roadwork on the san mateo bridge just in the westbound direction all the way across the span until 5:00. it's not delaying traffic. >> by the way, sleep is not overrated. >> sleep is a beautiful thing. >> thank you. >>> topping our news now, sf

kpix 5's juliette goodrich has their message for one of the biggest corporations in america. >> make our wages supersized! >> reporter: the fight for $15, considered one of the biggest mobilization of workers in the u.s. in the east bay, another organized protest moving through the streets of downtown berkeley ending up at mcdonald's on shattuck. >> very misleading for workers to work and try to live the american dream when they are not getting paid enough to even survive. >> reporter: the nationwide strikes and protests come just two weeks after mcdonald's announced it was going to increase salaries for a fraction of its workforce by $1. this person is a cashier at mcdonald's and says she works to help pay for her college education. it wasn't just fast food workers protesting. they were joined by other employees from walmart, child care providers, even this nurse ariel edwards. >> the cost of living is high. people have families. people need to pay they bills. how you gonna do that on, like, $8? you can't. >> reporter: the fight for $15 will continue. in berkeley, juliette goodrich,

. >> good morning, i'm juliette goodrich. michelle griego is off this morning. definitely a windy rainy start to monday or tuesday, whatever it is. what is it? [ laughter ] >> wind is so strong it blew you back to monday! good morning, out the door you need the umbrella. you definitely need extra time. this is it. this is the most powerful system we have seen so far this year. it will spread up to two inches of rain in the wettest locations. it will also dump snow down to 4,000 feet. when you have yellow on the screen that's moderate rainfall. we currently in the 40s and 50s. we'll be in the 50s and 60s later today. the rain and allowing it will last still straight ahead. >> and roberta, because of the rain we are getting widespread reported of flooding and this newest accident affecting traffic on the sunol grade northbound 680 at north mission involved a jackknifed big rig. three lanes shut down. deep standing water in the city north 101 on the transition road to east 80. we'll have more "kcbs traffic" coming up. >> over the bay bridge the winds are huge. >> w

i'm juliette goodrich, in for michelle griego. >> happy friday. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. nearly 5:00 now and we begin with breaking news in the east bay. a car smashes into a utility pole during a police chase triggering a power outage in that area. anne makovec is live at the scene on tennyson road in hayward with more. >>> reporter: i'm just off 880 and you can see behind me the power is still out. we have pg&e crews on scene trying to restore that after a power pole was damaged. according to the chp, a car evaded a traffic stop on 880 and tennyson around 1 a.m. and the chase was on. officers followed the driver through city streets until he hit that power pole here at tennyson. then the driver got out and ran away. he is still on the loose this morning. he left a little girl and a woman who was a passenger in the car behind here at the crash site. they are okay. we are told they had some minor injuries but are going to be fine. as last word there were about 120 homes and businesses without power here in hayward because of the crash. anne makovec, k

juliette goodrich shows us what a startup in burlingame has developed. >>> reporter: testing for the brca1 and 2 breast and ovarian cancer gene mowtations used to -- mutations used to cost up to $4,000. color genomics offers testing for those two genes for 17 others for only $249. >> we have tried to do is really democratize access to this type of genetic information around breast and ovarian cancer risk and we wanted to do it in a response way. >> reporter: a woman with the brca1 mutation has a 55 to 65% chance of developing breast cancer by age 70. the test must be ordered by a physician either the woman's own doctor or one provided by the company. genetic counseling is included in the price. >> we don't provide any sort of specific medical advice. our focus is on enabling women to get this genetic information back. >> reporter: color genomics says it has achieved the lowest price through improved lab and software automation and direct marketing to the public. >> until the saliva reaches the "fill to" line. >> reporter: the test done on saliva collected at home is not covered by in

. >> i am juliette goodrich. michelle has the day off. a delicate and dangerous clean-up continues in san francisco today. a mummified body was found over the weekend inside a home on 4th avenue in the richmond district. the home was also filled with piles of trash and vermon. kpix 5's ryan takeo at the home to explain how this discovery was made. >> reporter: it took days for crews to even find the body. that's because there was so much trash inside this house. police believe it was of a 90-year-old woman who owned the house. neighbors haven't seen the woman for seven or eight years, but they see her daughter, 65-year-old carolyn reagan, often walking a dog. police say a tax consultant called them after the daughter tried to get tax advice and revealed there was a body in her house. once police arrived they also found tons and tons of trash inside. >> i felt really sorry for carolyn because she is a very nice person. >> reporter: sharon has known the daughter for about 20 years. she believes just like all the trash in there, the woman co

i'm juliette goodrich. michelle griego is off. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat.30 now. >>> a police officer in south carolina faces murder charges after a video shows him shooting a man in the back. now, a warning to some viewers, you may find the images disturbing. patrolman michael slager fired 8 shots at walter scott on saturday morning. officer slager is white, scott is black. slager claims scott tried to grab his stun gun after a traffic stop. after the shooting slager appears to drop his stun gun next to the body. north charleston's mayor says the video played a crucial role in the arrest. >> if you make a bad decision, don't care if you are behind the shield or just a citizen on the street, you have to live by that decision. >> if convicted, slager could spend life in prison. civil rights leaders are calling for calm while activists plan protests in south carolina today. the town of north charleston is about 50% black, the police force is 20% black. >>> an escaped santa clara county inmate is finally back in custody after a month on the run. 40-year-old jo

i'm juliette goodrich in for michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat.let's get to roberta now and find out how much, how long. >> jules nailed it saying it is dangerous outside right now. we have already picked up nearly three-quarters inconsistent around inches of rain in the area. this is a wide view of the area of low pressure. you picked up -- did you see that there? a couple of lightning bolts off the california coast. we'll keep that chance of a thunderstorm in the forecast today. we are seeing the rain begin to subside to the north of us the back side of the area of low pressure but smack in the middle of it is juicy and it has moderate to heavy downpours in throughout the 680 corridor dublin-pleasanton san ramon. we also have some moderate to heavy rainfall now from san jose all the way into willow glen to the south to morgan hill, peninsula, you are inundated with the rain around 280 and 101, as well. mostly cloudy skies. light rain falling in san francisco. winds at 20. 21-mile-per-hour winds right now in oakland at 50 degrees. numbers are in

it's thursday, april 9, i'm juliette goodrich, in for michelle griego. >> hi, everyone.mallicoat. nearly 6:00 now. so is pg&e simply to big to operate safely? is that question is expected to come up as the state puc plans to vote on a penalty for the deadly san bruno pipeline explosion. kpix 5's anne makovec is live at the puc headquarters with mortgage on the commission president's concerns. anne. >> reporter: we have an advance copy of the comments he is expected to make today here in san francisco questioning the structure and the culture of safety at pg&e. at the same time, handing out a record fine possibly up to $1.6 billion because of the san bruno explosion back in 2010. 4.5 years ago that pipeline explosion in san bruno which killed 8, injured 66 and destroyed dozens of homes. the ntsb cited repeated safety failures by pg&e as well as lax regulations by the puc itself in this blast. there are two possible fines on the table today. 1.4billion and 1.6 billion. >> we believe this historic penalty sends the right message that gross negligence, corruption and profits

. >> i am juliette goodrich. developing this noon, the disdisturbing discovery is the beginning of the problems crews face inside that home. kpix 5's ryan takeo. >> reporter: city crews were expected this morning. since they found mold in the house, mold experts are being called in to help clean up. >> i think had is aging gone mad. it's mooring really gone deadly. >> reporter: besides the mummified body he says workers also found toxic mold, 300 bottles of urine and always kinds of infestations. the smell was so bad firefighter had to wear oxygen masks to go inside this weekend. the supervisor says the clean- up could cost tens of thousands of dollars. but his maine focus is on the cleaning of toxic trash piled up to the ceiling. >> for my purposes protecting the neighbors around this home, the public health issues of spiders and rats and other issues to me are really important as the neighbors are worried. >> reporter: crews found the body saturday in the house. police think it's the 90-year-old homeowner. poli

i'm juliette goodrich. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. jurors reached the verdict after only a day and a half of deliberations and it left no doubt. reporter kris van cleave has a live report from boston on this guilty verdict. kris. >> reporter: jurors distributed for less than 12 hours finding the defendant dzhokhar tsarnaev guilty on all 30 counts relating to the boston marathon bombings and the violence that followed. a jury convicted dzhokhar tsarnaev for the bombing attack at the 2013 boston marathon that killed 3 and injured more than 260 as well as the violence that followed. jurors reached their verdict after the federal judge answered questions about two legal concepts that went to the heart of the case, conspiracy and aiding and abetting. johar then 19 helped his 26- year-old brother tamerlan detonate two bombs near the marathon finish line. the attack killed an 18-year- old, a 23-year-old and a 29- year-old. more than 260 others injured. four days later the brothers killed a cop and carjacked an suv leading to a shootout with

good afternoon, i'm juliette goodrich in for michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. let's check with roberta gonzales now. wet morning and we're not done yet. >> this is a springtime storm but it has winter characteristics. this is our live weather camera looking out towards coit tower where we have a combination of clouds and some sunshine, which is not a good thing because that forms a lot of instability. but look at just how much rain has fallen since midnight. over 1.5" in hayward and over .6" south in san jose. that's a lot rain in 12 hours. this is our hi-def doppler radar. when you see shades of white those are lightning bolts that we have detecting in the bay area. more is coming up. >>> commuters are not applauding the rain. kpix 5's ryan takeo with how one neighbor made the most out of this storm. >> reporter: here in pacifica they got an inch of much-needed rain but caused headaches all over the bay area. the slick roads proved dangerous. this big rig jackknifed on 680 in fremont and snarled the morning commute through the sunol grade. strong winds wind th

. >> good morning, i'm juliette goodrich, in for michelle griego.ve some breaking news now in the east bay. a driver being chased by police hit a utility pole knocking out power in the area. anne makovec is live at the scene on tennyson road in hayward. anne. >>> reporter: pg&e crews still out here trying to restore that power. they have been here for about three hours. but a couple of power poles were damaged in this crash. a car evaded a traffic stop on 880 and tennyson around 1 a.m. this morning and the chase was on in hayward. the officers followed the driver through city streets until he hit a power pole at tennyson and ruth. then the driver got out and fled. he is still on the loose this morning. he did leave a little girl and a woman passenger behind here at the crash site. we're told they went to the hospital with minor injuries. more than 120 homes and businesses are still without power because of this crash. live in hayward, anne makevoc, kpix 5. >>> supercell thunderstorms in the midwest produced destructive tornadoes killing at least one

i am juliette goodrich. >> mike frank mall co. today public heals public health workers will be found where a mummified body was found over the weekend. ryan takeo is outside that home. we understand the body had been there for years? >> reporter: yeah, that's right, frank. at least five years. neighbors haven't seen the homeowner for seven or eight years. this is fourth avenue near california treat. a tax consultant called them after 65-year-old kalin reagan tried to get tax advice and revealed there was a body inside her home. police think that it's the woman's 90-year-old mother. once police arrived they found tons of trash inside. a neighbor of 20 years believes that just like the trash inside, the woman could not let her mother go and was hoarding the body. >> i felt really sorry for carolyn because she is a very nice person. i saw her three days ago and i said, is your mother still with us? and she said yes. delusional. she was still with her. >> reporter: workers found toxic mold inside, 300 bottles of urine and infestation

in discovery bay juliette goodrich. >>> tonight nepal's military is getting ready to take food, medicine and supplies to areas devastated by the quake. the death toll rising to more than 4400 people. more than 8,000 other people are injured. tens of thousands are homeless. they are living out in the open without clean water or sanitation. from the air you can see the extent of the damage in nepal's historic capital. flattened temples damaged buildings and people in the streets as far as the eye can see. >> there have been a number of memorials across the bay area to remember the quake victims. this was in elcerrito tonight. people lit candles and waved signs. they asked everyone to remember and to help in any way they can. >> every penny we can collect here will be a great help back home. >> one major concern is getting supplies to kathmandu because the roads are a complete mess. rescue crews are also racing to the world's tallest mountain where elizabeth palmer shows us dozens of climbers are trapped. >> reporter: german climber's camera caught the moment the quake struck. then like an

good evening, i'm juliette goodrich. ann notarangelo is off tonight. >> i'm brian hackney. tonight, kpix 5's mark kelly with the recording that has some parents called for the board member to resign. >> i would say 95% of the students don't have air- conditioning so whether that means they are more acclimated and can they handle more heat i would say 95% of [ indiscernible ] >> school board member denise elskin says her words got twisted. >> it wasn't discriminatory. it was factual. >> reporter: denise was okay with putting air-conditioning at a one school but said $2 million would be better spent on education. she said trees would keep students cool another school. >> it was an option. >> reporter: he calls her words offensive. webb says his kids went through last fuentes and complained that the school needed more than trees. it needed air-conditioning. >> i used to volunteer and do a lot of work in the classrooms and it was warm. >> reporter: she says the backlash against her hurts because she is not affluent herself. her own kids went to las fuentes without air- conditio

i'm juliette goodrich in for ann notarangelo. >> i'm brian hackney. kpix 5's christian hartnett is live in hayward where the victim's family is gathered tonight. christian. >> reporter: brian, jamal al- labani is the first u.s. citizen killed in yemen during this recent conflict. family and friends gathering in hayward today are still in shock and believe more could have been done to save him. a prayer to remember the life of jamal al-labani, the pain of his death still strong. >>> every time they remember his name, they just cry. >> reporter: mohammed is jamal's cousin. he says jamal left for yemen about two months ago to see his 2.5-year-old daughter and wife, who is pregnant. he wanted to bring them back to the u.s. where he lived in oakland and owns this gas station in the city. but chaos caused by terrorist activities and civil unrest in yemen made it impossible to leave. >> he was pretty good. he was pretty worried for the past three weeks. >> reporter: jamal died tuesday when he and his 14-year-old nephew were hit by mortars in a rebel attack.

i'm juliette goodrich. michelle griego is off. >> i'm frank mallicoat. happy tuesday. nearly 4:30.esday, right? >> wednesday! >> yeah. >> wow! where'd the week go! [ laughter ] >> how about a little traffic and weather? and a little bit of a change from yesterday morning, huh? >> did you say it is wednesday? >> i did. >> it's "hump day"! >> that's right. good morning, everyone. we do still have a little bit of light rain in and around the bay area at this particular time. hi-def doppler radar picking up a couple of cells in the north bay just cleared out. 30s in santa rosa and napa. 50s in the santa clara valley. gradual clearing today in the 60s. the full seven-day forecast is straight ahead. >> and checking the roads, because of the light rain you might have slick surfaces this morning but no accidents according to chp just roadwork. eastbound 92 foster city to clawiter two lanes shut down until 6:00. so heads up

and good evening, i'm juliette goodrich in for ann notarangelo. >> and i'm brian hackney. in the better late than never department, a deep low pressure system spinning through the gulf of alaska will send rain through the buy area tomorrow morning. at the moment, the doppler is not picking up much. future cast shows rain developing before sunrise in the north bay. we will stop this at about 11:00 tomorrow morning. you can see widely scattered showersful later in the day, the showers do ease up. but, and it has been a while we have been able to say this, there is a bigger more potent system on tap tuesday. >>> and tonight, a bay area man has become the first american citizen to be killed in the latest violence in yemen. christian hartnett spoke with the oakland man's family and friends today. and they feel like the u.s. government let them down. >> reporter: jamal aleveny is the first american killed during the conflict. his family says the u.s. government should have done something to help him. family and friends gather in prayer to remember the life of jamal alebeny. moha

i'm juliette goodrich in for michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. nearly 5:00 on this wednesday. >>> a police officer in south carolina facing murder charges after witness video appears to show him shooting a man in the back. as susan mcginnis reports, death of another unarmed black man is adding to the outrage over police use of force and a warning, the images are disturbing. [ eight gunshots ] >> reporter: north charleston city patrolman michael slager awaits a court appearance today. the 33-year-old office was arrested denied bail and will be charged with murder. video appears to show him shooting 50-year-old walter scott eight times saturday morning as he fled. after the 8th shot scott falls. slager claims scott tried to grab his stun gun during a scuffle after a traffic stop. the video also appears to show slager dropping something on the ground next to scott. civil rights leaders are calling for calm while activists plan protests in southbound today. north charleston's mayor indicated the video played a crucial role in the arrest. >> if you ma

good evening, i'm juliette goodrich in for veronica de la cruz. >> i'm ken bastida.ea city now to equip its officers with body cams. they have been wearing them now for a week. new at 6:00 ann notarangelo shows us, it's already been an eye-opening experience. ann. >> reporter: ken, every livermore police officer is now wearing a body camera and they will be turned on during every encounter except for one. we have seen this perspective from officer body cameras and have come to know moments of horror. >> sorry, sorry. >> reporter: and moments an officer shows restraint. >> put it down, man. i don't want to shoot you. >> reporter: this month every livermore police officer like ryan sanchez started wearing a camera and recording what happens even a portion of this interview. >> i would press it twice. you're not even going to know that i pressed it. didn't even see my hands. >> right now it's recording our interactions. you don't see a light that went on or anything. >> reporter: after more than a year of study and testing throughout the city, the department says it's l

i'm juliette goodrich in for michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. weather and traffic. we're all dolled up today. >> i rolled out of bed today. when i opened my eyes the first thing i saw through my blinds was the moon and i thought forecast is panning out. isn't it crazy when it's the first thing you think of? forecast is panning out. clear skies out there with the passage of that cold front. currently temperatures are cool. temperatures right now in the 40s to the northern portion of the golden gate bridge 46 degrees at the south in san jose, low 50s around the central bay, today slightly warmer. 50s, 60s 70s. the full forecast but first here's liza. >> for those of you just rolling out of bed there are no big traffic delays. west 92 looking okay. there is roadwork on the san mateo bridge just in the westbound direction all the way across the span until 5:00. it's not delaying traffic. >> by the way,

i'm juliette goodrich.f the state puc is asking whether pg&e is just too big to operate safely. cpuc chief michael picker will raise that issue at a meeting today where regulators will vote on a $1.6 billion penalty for the deadly pipeline explosion in san bruno. picker is concerned pg&e makes so much money, the utility can just shrug off the fine. >>> and the drought could have played a part in more than 800 cases of west nile virus last year. the california department of public health says the lack of water has forced birds and mosquitos to move. santa clara county had the most cases in the bay area last year wi >>> good morning. liza battalones here. it's been a long commute for the bay bridge toll plaza. the metering lights are on and traffic is backed up from the foot of the maze. once you're on the bridge, traffic flows well getting into san francisco. it's been a rough morning in the silicon valley where the chp still is dealing with two separate accidents both of them on the guadalupe parkway in the

. >>> april 7, i'm juliette goodrich in for michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. 6:30. >>> let's begin the storm has been bringing fresh snow to the sierra. new snow will allow some resorts to stay over. >> roberta is excited. >> we are expecting up to a foot of snow above 7,000 feet in the greater lake tahoe area. and we do have a winter weather advisory in effect for there. we are expecting a little light snow at mount saint helena and mount hamilton and three to six inches of snow in the santa lucia mountain range locally. it's our hi-def doppler radar. did you see that in look carefully. watch over the open waters. we have picked you have four different lightning bolts off the coast of california this morning alone. this system is now beginning to push out east. 580/680 corridor, we have heavy rain around the sunol grade into the santa clara valley. this is the scene at sfo. cloud cover no delays as of yet. 40s and 50s. winds have been gusting up to 31 miles per hour. temperatures today 50s, 60s. we still have to talk about the chance of thunderstorms, that's

i'm juliette goodrich in for michelle this morning. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat.ome serious concerns for anyone flying or from san francisco airport at sfo. and here's kpix 5's mark sayre to explain why the airport is named the worst in the name for perimeter security. >>> reporter: the issue is if you can get through the perimeter of an airport you then have direct access to aircraft on the tarmac. that is the concern. now, the "associated press" is coming out with an investigation this weekend showing that sfo had the most perimeter breaches over a 10- year period. there were 39 in all. the breaches at sfo range from the mundane, driver inadvertently took a rental car through a gate through a secure area to the vague unspecified perimeter breach. and that phrase appears eight different times in the sfo data. but east bay congressman eric swalwell says airports nationwide need to invest in the latest technology like infrared and motion detection. >> -- until we have a system where security is notified of the breach immediately, we are vulnerable about people wand

everything is juliette goodrich good across the bay bridge. drive to work coming up. >>> good morning. it's friday, everyone! april 24th. good to have you with us. i'm frank mallicoat. >> i'm michelle griego. >>> well, it seems like everyone has a muni horror story to talk about from overcrowded trains to buses that never seem to arrive. but the transit agency making some big changes and kpix 5's ryan takeo is in san francisco to tell us about improvements riders can expect and it all starts this weekend. ryan, good morning. >>> reporter: good morning. the main goal is to address the overcrowding issue. muni faces record ridership so that's a good thing. but if you ride muni you know that the buses are crowded sometimes they just pass you by. so on the busiest routes like here on the n-judah line, that is where they will be throwing more buses on the routes and its aim is to avoid that overcrowding. muni says it will increase service for a third of riders so busy lines will see a boost in service at peak times. hopefully they won't be passed o

i'm juliette goodrich, michelle is off this morning. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat.n rafael. an accident on 580 blocking all lanes. you can see that big semi truck on fire. this is a live look at the scene near the richmond/san rafael bridge. let's go straight to gianna and "kcbs traffic" for the latest. >> reporter: they shut down both directions of the bridge as a result for this big rig accident and fire and as you can see there's lots of activity. so it happened westbound 580 actually where the big rig is on fire a san quentin, diverted at san quentin and main street. the backup is building in both directions westbound slow to the toll plaza. eastbound same thing. you're seeing some delays coming away from 101. so avoid the area. on the maps, you can see slow- and-go. use 37 or the bay bridge. back to you guys. >>> 6:31 now. some break noog in the east bay, as well. a baby abandoned in a car after a driver hits a utility pole during a high-speed chase. anne makovec is live at the scene at tennyson with more. >> reporter: the power is out because of this crash. so

i'm juliette goodrich. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. it is 6:30.are following some breaking news. a sacramento woman shot to death in a car in san jose. it happened on the 1300 block of south bascomb avenue last night at 10 p.m. san jose police officers believed the victim knew the suspect and that the crime was not random. the victim was pronounced dead at the scene. >>> a police officer in south carolina is facing murder charges after witness video appears to show him shooting a man in the back. as susan mcginnis reports, the death of another unarmed black man is adding to the outrage over police use of force and a warning, the images may be disturbing. [ eight gunshots ] >> reporter: north charleston city patrolman michael slager awaits a court appearance today. the 33-year-old officer was arrested, denied bail and will be charged with murder. dramatic witness video appeared to show slager shooting 50-year- old walter scott eight times saturday morning as he fled. after the 8th shot scott falls. slager claims scott tried to grab his stun gun dur

i'm juliette goodrich.osta water district will meet today to discuss the bay area regional desalinization project. the area's five largest water agencies are working together to come up with a system. it would create an additional water source to help the bay area during drought years like this one. >>> escaped santa clara county inmate johnell carter is finally back in custody after a month on the run. carter is a suspected child molester. in early march he overpowered a deputy during an appointment at a hosp >>> good morning. i'm gianna franco in the "kcbs traffic" center. we have a pile-up on 680 this morning northbound right, lots of vehicles and big rig involved. slow in both directions so expect delays there through walnut creek. elsewhere, 101 at 880 split in san francisco stalled vehicles in lane, slow at the bay bridge, metering lights on. westbound 92 sluggish, as well. here's roberta. >> grab an umbrella if you want to be on the safe side. according to our hi-def doppler radar, we still have some

i'm juliette goodrich. a strong storm rolls into the bay area this morning.good soaking plus dangerous winds. >>> state water leaders will discuss the details of the new water plan to cut water use by 25%. leaders are expected to figure out how to implement governor brown's executive order. >>> an end of life option act will be taken up today following the case of the bay area woman with brain cancer who went to oregon to use the state's death with dignity law. it would apply only to adults deemed mentally competent. >>> good morning. liza battalones here with your "kcbs traffic." the bay bridge toll plaza has been extremely slow and a problem now in the caldecott tunnel. westbound 24 an accident blocking lanes with westbound 24 backed up from 680 in walnut creek. meanwhile, in san jose, there is an accident in the clearing stages. 280 at burn where deep standing water is reported. >>> powerful storm in the bay area this morning. we are now on the back side of it. good morning, everyone. take a peek at this. we have a lot of rain falling around the central ba