Into places like San Francisco and possibly oakland. The thickest fog will stay up in the north bay. Heres my day planner i put together for you. Were frosty in some inland areas also. 34 to 41 at 7 00. Dress warmer. Well be around 50 to 52 with just limited sunshine at noon. Mainly gray at 4 00, 52 to 54. Some rain starts to move in the north bay. For today its a 1 on the storm impact scale, tomorrow its a 2. Well talk about that coming up. Hi, job. Were looking at westbound 80 in emeryville. Two car crash here. One raled over and lan on its tires. Two lanes are blocked. People are sweeping the debris out of the road. There is a tow truck trying to get this car out othe way for everyone. This will impact our commuters. The backup has started, ek extending moor than tmore than miles right now. This is right near the ikea. Ace 1 is at 16 minutes behind schedule. Also here, we have our drive times, antioch to hercules, 33 minutes. Highway 4 to the maze, 15 minutes. Building a better bay area means digging into issues surrounding homelessness. New this morning, were learning about something that samtrans is doing. It appears that buses are dropping Homeless People off in San Francisco with nowhere to go and theres video showing it happening. Amy hollyfield is live in San Francisco with this story. Good morning. Good morning. This is happening here at drum and washington. This is by the embarcadero towers. Take a look. Some security guards saw it happening, they decided to roll video of it. We have that video. They noticed samtrans buses would come to the end of the line and the driver would tell everyone they have to get out. The security guards say then they would see several Homeless People get off the bus and disappear into the darkness. This is a samtrans bus coming from the peninsula. Phil matier is breaking this exclusive story this morning. It sounds like his story will come as a surprise to many. I didnt realize it was happening. Clearly not a great thing. I can imagine other towns dont want it, San Francisco, what do we call it t a rshgit, a sanctu . They seem to embrace it. I dont know. Im glad i work here and dont live here. Phil matier asked San Francisco supervisor aaron peskin about the practice, he called it unconscionable saying it appears agencies are playing Musical Chairs with the homeless. This comes as San Francisco is spending millions trying to deal with the Homeless Population it has. The city just opened a 4 million Navigation Center for the homeless on the embarcadero, that is just a few blocks away from here. Reporting live in San Francisco, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. Thank you. Abc7 news and building a better bay area contributor phil matier was the first to break this story. He will join us live on set to take a deeper dive into all these details at 6 30 right here on abc7 mornings. You can always see phils column in the San Francisco chronicle on wednesdays and sundays. Theres a new solution chen it comes to relocating a milelong homeless camp along the joe rodota trail. This is part of building a better bay area. The Sonoma County board of supervisors voted to move the encampment near the los guilicos park. Its remote but not a fix. Los guilicos will be a waste of time and money. Nobody can go out there. People are trying to get a job. They cant be all the way out there. Countys goal is to have the trail cleared by the end of the month. The facility to house the homeless is expected to have 60 portable units. Happening today, governor Governor Newsom will be in the Central Valley to talk about his plan to deal with homelessness. Hell meet with people struggling to get off the street. Hell hear from those who work to house and assist the homeless. Its part of the governors weeklong tour across the state. He was in Southern California yesterday. Today he makes a stop in fresno. Hell tour a recovery facility that offers social Services Including mental health. Today the house will hold a historic vote to send articles of impeachment against President Trump over to the senate. The articles accuse President Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. The house is expected to name impeachment managers who will act as prosecutors. After the vote the houseman j managers will walk the articles across to the capitol. Senate leader Mitch Mcconnell says the trial will likely begin next tuesday. Supreme court chief Justice John Roberts is due to preside over the senators. No sitting president has ever been convicted. This is set to be the third trial of an american president joining Andrew Johnson and bill clinton. Richard nixon resigned before he could be impeached. Thanks. President trump held a keep America Great rally in milwaukee on the same night as the first democratic debate of the new year. Thousands of Trump Supporters packed the arena. The president fired up the crowd as he talked about the recent military action that took out the top Iranian Military general, blamed for killing hundreds of americans. Your voice, your vote. The iowa caucus is less than three weeks away. Last night six Democratic Candidates took the stage in iowa for their seventh debate. They weighed in on everything from Climate Change to health care. Senator Bernie Sanders addressed the comment that he said he never made. He denies that he ever told senator Elizabeth Warren in 2018 that a woman could not win the presidency. Anybody who knows me knows that its incomprehensible that i would think that a woman could not be president of the united states. I disagreed. The only people on this stage who have won every single election theyve been in are the women, amy and me. [ applause ] the incident getting the most attention happened after the break, when the senator extended his hand to warren and she appeared to rebuff it. Parents convicted of certain crimes in San Francisco could avoid jail time. For has its critics. Reporter San Franciscos new da knows what its like. His parents went to prison when he was a baby for being getaway drivers during an armored car robbery in new york state. And i saw so many other children over the decades who were separated from their parents due to incarceration. Its why bodine announced the creation of a Diversion Program for parents who are primary caregivers to their kids to help reduce the physical and emotional problems that come from a childs separation. Nonviolent offenders are eligible, but must go through a program that may include everything from Parenting Classes to drug treatment. If they do that for a period of between six months up to two years, they can earn a dismissal of the criminal charges. Jonathan madison thinks its a great idea. He ministers to inmates most weekends at the county jail. I think nothing could be better than actually get them treatment, get them time with their children. Thats how youre going to reduce the rate of recidivism. Critics say the new law is too broad and could risk Public Safety. Many people will no longer be going to jail that really puts the public at risk from repeat drunk drivers and other serious criminals, just because they have children. Other counties in calornia have the option of adopting the new law. In San Francisco, cornell bernard, abc7 news. Its 5 09 on this dry wednesday so far. Look at these systems. Up to 16 degrees cooler than this time yesterday. And there could be freezing fog, black ice possible at minimum youre scraping ice off your windshields if your car is outside in place ps like American Canyon, napa, lake berryessa, clear lake, santa rosa, petaluma, novato and san rafael. Thats a lot of neighborhoods that could have freezing fog on elevated surfaces. 32 in san ramon. Also 34 in redwood city. Getting close to frosty conditions there. Milder in alameda, San Francisco, daly city, 42 to 45. 38 at 7 00. 45 at 9 00. Low to mid 50s this afternoon with not much sunshine. East bay valleys, 34 at 7 00. Still 49 at 11 00. 55 at 3 00. Still dry at 7 00. The south bay will stay dry the longest, 38 this morning to 43 at 9 00. A little more sunshine, a little bit longer that will push you up to 56 at 3 00. The clouds will gather and drop you down to 48 at 7 00. Timeframe for that rain and what to expect coming up next. Jobina . Moving to emeryville now. We were following that twocar crash, one of which rolled of and landed on its tires. No injuries there. Thats been cleared up. It was westbound 80 near 580. Be prepared for some delays. Speeds are low at around 16 Miles Per Hour. Ace 1 still behind schedule. 17 minutes behind. 16 trains running for b. A. R. T. , no delays there. No delays for the ferries operating on the winter schedule. Live look at the golden gate bridge, things are moving smoothly. Things are light at the bay bridge toll plaza, im willing to bet thats because people were caught in that mess on westbound 80 in emeryville, that crash has now cleared. Coming up next, 7 things to know as you start your day. I thought, like, it was smoke or something. Turns out it was not smoke. A delta plane dumped fuel all over School Playgrounds dousing dozens of kids and adults. The investigation into how it happened. Meghan markle on the iclimate is the number 1ove priority. Sage. I would declare a state of emergency on day 1. Congress has never passed an important climate bill, ever. This is a problem that continues to get worse. Ive spent a decade fighting and beating oil companies. Stopping pipelines. Stopping fossil fuel plants, ensuring clean energy across the country. How are we going to pull this country together . We take on the biggest challenge in history, we save the world and do it together. Case in point, if you savget xfinity internetple. And mobile together, big savings on your wireless bill. Write this down, this is important. Amy, this is actually a life saving class. What a nice compliment, thank you save on fast internet and the best Wireless Network together. What can i say, i love what i do. Thats simple, easy, awesome. Get xfinity internet and mobile together and save hundreds on your wireless bill. Youll get unlimited talk and text and no activation or line fees. Switch today. If youre just joining us, good morning. Heres 7 things to know. The first is whats going to happen tonight and tomorrow. The strongest most potent storm weve had in nearly a month, a 2 on the storm impact scale will bring us moderate to heavy rain, standing water, gusty breezes up to 50 Miles Per Hour. The threat of thunderstorms, small hail and snow down to 3,500 feet. The chronicle reports that samtrans is dropping off Homeless People in San Francisco after picking them up at sfo. Chronicle insider and abc7 news contributor phil matier broke the story and will join us at 6 45. Number three, union citys fire station 30 will officially close its doors at 8 00 this morning. City leaders say not enough people are using the station. A group of homeless moms evicted from an oakland home for squatting are vowing to keep up their fight for affordable housing. Two women were arrested yesterday and released hours later. Number five, this handshake that didnt happen at the democratic debate in iowa. It appears that senator Elizabeth Warren rebuffed Bernie Sanders handshake after a contentious debate. Number six, so far things are moving relatively smoothly on the roads, not so much for mass transit. Anyone taking ace 1 this morning, expect a 16minute or longer delay. Number 7, it is official. Ken jennings is the greatest jeopardy player of all time. He won the tournament last night scoring a 1 million prize. You can hear from ken jennings at 7 00 on gma. Next week transportation officials in San Francisco will vote on safety improvements including protecting bike lanes along the embarcadero. This comes after a 69yearold woman crashed her escooter into a cement truck on monday in the embarcadero. Shes in the hospital with life threatening injuries. Police are investigating that crash. They say its not clear which party hit the other. This morning the Los Angeles Unified School district is waiting for the all clear from Health Officials before opening several schools. The faa is investigating an incident that left kids covered in jet fuel. A delta plane dumped fuel on several Elementary Schools yesterday as it returned to l. A. X. Because it was having engine trouble. This happened in los angeles county. The flight was headed to shanghai when a pilot reported a stalled engine compressor. Some of the kids were playing on a playground during the fuel dump. Medics treated more than 60 kids and adults for skin and lung irritation. The fuel was described as a mist. So what happened was that a plane was coming over and it was throwing gasoline. And it spread it on my friends and on me. Then it got in my eye, and im blurred. Thats terrible. The faa says procedures call for fuel dumping over unpopulated areas but experts say a pilot can stray from that rule if there are safety concerns. In todays gma first look, dramatic video out of nor carolina shows a storm ripping apart this school gym. Geo benitez has a closer look at what happened. Reporter in this mornings gma first look, lucky to be alive. It took me a second to process what was going on. And i looked. I was like, my goodness. This is not good. And i started yelling to my students, run. Run, run. Watch this terrifying moment from Union Intermediate School in clinton, north carolina. 21 children playing in the gym as a storm raged outside. Then overnight the teacher sharing her harrowing story with gma. I said to them get down and cover your heads and they did exactly that. My kids were absolutely amazing. The National Weather service saying it was a micro burst with winds up to 85 Miles Per Hour that moved through the area and caused that damage. Coming up at 7 00 a. M. , well hear much more from those lucky survivors. With your gma first look, im geo benitez, abc news, new york. That video is incredible. Glad theyre fine. To the latest on the royal exit. Meghan markle was spotted in canada for the First Time Since she and prince harry revealed their plans to step back from royal duties. Meghan is jumping into her new life in canada. The Downtown East side Womens Center in vancouver posted this picture on facebook saying look who we had tea with today. The dup chechess visited the ce to talk about issues affecting the community. Harry is expected to join his wife and son as soon as lease done finalizing a deal with the queen. She looks happy. She does look happy. Happy for her. Hi, mike. Hi. Lets talk about how stressed we will be tomorrow at this time. Right now everything is quiet in san rafael. Youre kind of the oasis around some of the fog out there. Temperatures about 35. Clouds on the increase. Showers will develop this evening. Moderate to heavy rain will be tonight through tomorrow morning. More weaker storms coming through the extended forecast. For your highs today, well go from napa at 51 to 57 in san jose and also in morgan hill. A little bit cooler in lake port and yucaipa. You will get a little bit of rain late this afternoon. Now for tonight, its not going to be nearly as cold as this morning. You may want that as a trade off for what youre dealing with tomorrow up in the north bay. 38 in lake port. Everybody else in the low to mid 40s. Heavy rain coming down late tonight through tomorrow morning. Most of us in the 40s. The great effort est instabilite over the ocean. As these storms ro s roam they come over the land around 101 to san mateo. Then south of there, a little less likely. 5 00 tonight, a chance of light rain in the north bay, some embedded showers. The heavy stuff up in Mendocino County at midnight. Heavy rain rolling in. At 4 30 we start the commute it wont be easy up in the north bay. By 7 00, its moving into the heart of the bay. By 12 00, were still looking at plenty of scattered showers as we head into the afternoon and evening hours with locally heavier rains and gusty winds there. So stormy day tomorrow with snow down to 3500 feet. 1s on the storm impact scale for saturday, monday and tuesday. Thank you. Good morning. Live look now in san jose. This is 87. Things are starting off nicely at 5 20 this morning. Moving over now to the richmondsan rafael bridge, were not seeing any slowdowns as people approach the toll plaza. Good news for the most part on our roads at the moment. Drive times here, we have a slowdown in tracy to dublin, that drive time, 41 minutes. Dublin to mission boulevard, 15 minutes. Also 15 minutes to get from highway 101 to cupertino. Ferries on the winter schedule, no delays there. B. A. R. T. Has 23 trains running now. Ace 1 h