also highway 29 at zinfandel lane, highway 29 is closed in both directions. your alternate is silverado trail. apparently there's an accident with injuries and the car caught on fire and now they're saying possibly the fence caught on fire. it's going to take a while to clear that one as well. live shot of the bay bridge toll plaza. just the cash paying lanes are backed up past the end of the parking lot. >>> there is a possible new way to restrict e-cigarettes in and around schools. also uper and lyft admitting they are making traffic congestion worse. here are your tech bites. >> in today's tech bites, juul is launching a bluetooth connected e-cigarette. >> it connects to an android app. adult users must go through a verification process and it locks so no one else can use it. >> amazon self driving robots are coming to a los angeles suburbs. they'll be roaming the streets of irvine. >> they look like a picnic cooler on wheels and are about the same size. for now amazon workers will accompany the robots. >>> uber and lyft are admitting what cities have been

a sig alert in the north bay saint helena, highway 29 closed in both directions at zinfandel lane dueo a major accident. they just reopened the northbound lanes. southbound is still being diverted. quite a bit of a backup northbound at 29. westbound 580 has been extra jammed and slow out of tracy with an accident on your way through livermore as well on the right-hand shoulder. 880 also a mess through oakland due to road work with an accident also in the northbound direction at high street. traffic is jammed in both directions becausing about a ten-minute delay. 580 a possible altern >>> tracking a high fire danger today. you can see mt. shasta there points north and east under a red flag warning until 9:00 this evening. let's take a look at the rest of the state. 90 in sacramento. so the sea breeze may head all the way to the capital city. 96 in chico, 105 in palm springs. partly cloudy skies in san diego and los angeles. 79 in tahoe today. 85 in yosemite with a chance of thunderstorms. the chance is over by friday. temperatures well below average, 71 and then 67 saturday, 75 sunday.

that's why they have a closure of highway 29 between zinfandel lane and pope street. that is up in st. helena. the rest of the north bay, an easy drive. how is that forecast? >> it is easy here in the weather department. clear skies looking over san jose as the sun starts to come up. in campbell, we'll have our temperatures starting out in the low 60s. normally we're reaching about828 degrees this time of year. cooler temperatures are ahead as we get to the end of the week. i'll talk more about that and the weekend forecast. that's coming up in six minutes. >>> we begin with what's on most americans minds, safety for themselves and their loved ones. this comes after the mass shooting in gilroy, el paso and dayton. >> most people and communities are feeling on edge. that can cause panic-filled moments. look at the pandemonium that happened in new york's times square last night. people just running after what they thought sounded like gunshots. listen to this witness. >> people were screaming and crying, climbing over each other. everyone thought there was a shooter com

southbound lanes of highway 29 are closed off between rutherford road and zinfandel lane. still unclear on what caused the crash, and when the lane will be reopened. you can join our morning team for all of these breaking stories. that is starting at 4:30 a.m. >>> school starts for san jose students and the district may have just found a way to get more qualified teachers into its classrooms. kpix 5 , maria medina with the incentive. >> reporter: it's hard to follow passion in the classroom while paying rent and mortgages. they said they will pay your tuition at san jose state to make it happen. it's an all too familiar site and demand. teachers across the bay area asking for more pay let the staff at new haven that went on strike for the first time in history just a couple of months ago. >> the cost of living has increased drastically over the last several years so the lack of teachers, the labor market is competitive. >> reporter: but now the school district is offering a program to help with its shortages of special education teachers. they will pay for school to get qua

chp shutdown the highway between rutherford and zinfandel lane. >>> people in one east bay city gathered to remember a woman hit and killed by a car while crossing the ste took into account for a candlelight vigil to remember a 26-year- old. the crash happened before 8:45 sunday night when a driver towan was speeding but neighbors say the street is like a racetrack with some drivers going well over the speed limit. >> livermore has a responsibility to make sure there is enough visibility for crossing here and they need to put a stop sign in or a stoplight in or put in new l.e.d. lights on the ground so you are not just focusing on the sides. >> the driver remained at the scene and cooperating with police and officers say it does not appear he was under the influence. he will likely not face criminal charges. >>> to the ghost ship warehouse fire trial. jurors are set to resume deliberations today. the jury got the case on wednesday. the 9 women and three men are deciding whether almena and max harris are guilty of 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter. one count for each perp that died in

chp shutdown the highway between rutherford and zinfandel lane. >>> a double shooting left a person dead. it happened near 24th and adeline. one of the victims died. police have not released information about the attacker. >>> to the ghost ship warehouse fire trial. jurors are set to resume deliberations. they are deciding whether almena and harris are guilty of 36 coup of involuntary manslaughter. that's one count for each person that died in the fire. henry lee is reporting from the courtroom everyday at the trial, he got his daily blog on ktvu.com. >>> happening today in ja pap, they are marking 74 years since the united states dropped a nuclear bomb on hiroshima. the prime minister attended at the peace memorial park. the u.s. attack on hiroshima august 6th, 1945, killed 140,000 people. the bomb dropped three days later in nagasaki. the prime minister said japan remains committed to leading international efforts aimed at getting rid of all nuclear weapons. >>> tony morrison has died. her most celebrated novel was beloved in 1987. a decade later adapted in to a film. she wrote 11 nove

car struck and killed a pedestrian around 9:30 last night with rutherford road being close near zinfandel lane. it's now crash. >>> two people in contra costa county are accused of enlisting children to help them steal from a toy shop. this is from pot of gold collectibles. a boy pulls out an expensive lego set and then a man walked up to the owner and pointed in the other direction, apparently a signal. the child and an adult woman then walked out with the unpaid toy. >> it was a distraction technique. they are showing him theft is easy and there's no accountability for it. >> the vintage lego set was worth about $200 and we've reached out to concord police and are waiting to hear back. >>> bay area residents have fewer options for redeeming recyclables. the largest recycling center has closed its doors. the move shutters over 280 locations and leaves 750 without jobs. trouble started brewing for the company three years ago when 200 recycling centers were close. >>> san jose officials are looking to add flashy advertisements by adding digital billboards. nearly a year ago, a policy allowed it

highway 29 at zinfandel lane now open in both directions. for mass transit computers, all a.c.e.ining running 10 to 15 minutes late due to speed restrictions for track maintenance. give yourself extra time. here is a live shot of interstate 80 in berkeley. a little clouded there for headlights moving westbound. no major delays on 80 at least heading towards the bay bridge toll plaza. >> thank you, frances. >>> i believe we're going back live where you can see president trump entering air force one. he's on his way today ton, ohio, first and then el paso, texas. we'll be right back. >> reporter: home buyers, do you know your debt to income ratio? i'm michael finney. this is a "7 on your side" quick tip. it may seem like a no-brainer to you. before 2008, if your breath could fog a mirror, you could get a loan. now lenders have specific rules and here they are. they want to know that no more than 28% of your gross income is going towards your mortgage payment. and no more than 43% of your gross income is going towards all your bills. so what you're looking at there is credit card bi

pedestrian was hit and killed by a car around 9:00 with the lanes on 29 closed between rutherford and zinfandel lane for about three hours. it's since reopened and it's not clear what caused the crash. >>> firefighters and napa county knocked down a 2-acre fire that started near downed power lines overnight and pg&e said an oak tree knocked down power lines that wouldn't valley and wooden valley crossroads, leaving 200 customers in the dark. the fire started there but officials have not said if the power lines started the fire. >>> developing this morning, the u.s. stock index futures are rebounding with the central bank stabilizing currency and at one point, key indices in china, hong kong and japan fell between 1% and 3% but have bounced back and australia is seeing major selloffs by sink to the lowest level against the dollar in more than a decade. it makes chinese products cheaper on the worldwide marker which can hurt u.s. manufacturers. overnight, china reversed course. in a series of tweets, president donald trump accused china of, quote, currency manipulation and at follows threats of more t

north bay, another traffic alert for highway 29 at zinfandel lane. that's the only issue here. bay bridge toll plaza, you know about the metering lights. >> indeed we do. >>> all new overnight, free at last. the end of a 15-year prison sen sentence for a woman who has been behind bars for years. >>> their phone lines were out for weeks, and the outage cast them $3,000. i'm chris chmura, nbc bay area responds next. >>> new this morning a tennessee woman serving a life sentence for murder is out of prison this morning and again free. you might remember her story. the 31-year-old was convicted of killing a man when she was 16. 43-year-old johnny allen hired her for sex and brown claims she shot him in self-defense because she thought he was reaching for a gun while they were in bed. prosecutors argued she was committing robbery. her story got national attention as well as celebrities who paid attention like rihanna. they advocated for her freedom. tennessee's governor allowed her release in january. >>> a former "empire" actor, jussie smollett, is asking a judge to toss the civil