"today in the bay's" kristy smith is live in san jose. the slick roads could have been a factor in this. >> reporter: yes, that's right. at this point, we really don't know that answer, but i can tell you just from standing here that the roads are wet, and on our way down to our live location, we did just pass the crash scene, which is about three quarters of aa mile up the road from where we are standing t happened around three hours ago on the northbound highway 101 connector to 280 in san jose, happened just after 4:00 this morning. the chp responded to that crash, finding two cars with seven people injured. san jose fire worked to extricate multiple people from both cars and sadly, one person has died. six are in serious condition, transported to trauma centers. the northbound connector of 101 to 280 in san jose remains closed. as we were coming down, we did notice they had at least one of those vehicles up on a flatbed truck, and it did look to us like they were making some progress. that's the latest from here, reporting live in san

. >> live in sfriz, kristy smith, nbc bay area news. >> a lot of people will be calling the number. appreciate it >>> let's go to capitol hill, still developing at this hour still at it the second day more than ten hours today the house judiciary is arguing passionately over the two articles of impeachment against president trump. the committee is sharply split along partisan lines democrats abuse the president of two charges one is abuse of power by pressureding ukraine to investigate his political rival in exchange for military aid. the second obstructings congress by defying subpoenas and blocking witnesses from testifying. >> president of the united states shook down a foreign power to get involved in our election. that's wrong. >> this is a completely unprecedented, single-party impeachment char aid. and everybody at home can see that clearly. >> members expect to vote later tonight. with the full house expected to vote next week and a senate trial is expected in january. >>> well, more money up for grabs. former vice president joe bide isn't back in the bay area tonight hoping

nbc bay area's kristi smith has that part of the coverage live. christie? >> well, we are standing here at west portal, and the station is closed. there is an area right there where you would normally walk through. but they have orange cones set up. and people keep showing up here who don't know. they walk over, and they were told about flooding, then what they do is they cross the street and wait for a shuttle. this is what was posted to twitter earlier today with water flowing down the stairs. the person who posted it said it was the van ness station. sf mta tweet thursday is no south bay service between the west portal and church stations, but that the van ness station has been cleared from the flooding. i just spoke with one man waiting for the shuttle about his experience in the city during the downpour, just trying to get here. >> all the flooding on 19th avenue. i came from mercy high school and walked the side where mercy high school is. the outer lane was like a river. the cars drove through, and water splattered -- just awful. the drains obviously

reporting live in san francisco, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >>> thank you, kristy. in an hour, leaders will consider extending an ordinance. the ordinance has been in place for about a month. this follows the halloween party inside a home rented on airbnb. it was deadly. five people were shot and killed. >>> voters are getting a cashed fr card from the registrar of voters saying their political party has changed. many think it's a mistake, but it's not. we're live at the dmv where voters may have accidently had their party changed. >> reporter: yes, if you received one of these cards from the office of the regge star you may find that you need to reregister your party of choice. after the 2018 state-wide rollout of an automatic voter registration from the dmv some voters may have had their voter registration changed if they skipped the party preference question, defaulting them to no party preference. data issues may be to blame. >> pushing the registration to vote is really important. if they're going to do that they need to perfect the system and make sure that ev