Im cheryl jennings. An unusual sight along interstate as you saw with heavy traffic on the holiday. Lasted for hours because several lanes shut down from a big rig crash. The truck hit a Center Divide and overpass here berkeley. The driver was thrown from the truck and died. Abc 7 news anchor eric thomas has the full story. Reporter with the trailer jammed under the University Avenue overpass and the tractor stopped some 50 yards away traffic on westbound 80 was backed up all the way from berkeley to martinez on this black friday. Its crazy. I was just telling my grandmother i feel like im on my way to work on a weekday. Trying to get shopping in for black friday and not getting there any quick. Reporter the Highway Patrol says the accident happened before 9 00 this morning. A witness who lives in a tent city near the freeway saw and heard it. First thing we saw was a tire pop. Tire blew, sounded like a gunshot. The next thing we heard and saw was metal folding after he hit the pylon under the bridge. We believe at this time that the tract tore had a blowout, the front left wheel, which caused the big rig to cross over lanes, made contact with the Center Median and the trailer made contact with the overpass. The driver was not wearing a seat belt. That collision caused the t ejected. Watched the door fly open, body sucked out of the truck, flew about 30 feet and landed. Reporter the chp hopes this accident serves as another reminder of wearing a seat belt. People dont listen to us nothing we can do about it. Seat belts save lives. Reporter it took about three hours to clear the accident and open the westbound lanes. The drivers name has not been released. The truck belonged to a San Francisco trucking company. Damage to the overpass was minor, so cal transallowed traffic to continue on university and underneath. In berkeley, eric thomas, abc 7 news. This is a time lapse view of the traffic along interstate 80 as a result of the crash this morning. A thick layer of fog rolled in across the camera before 10 00 a. M. And it lingered for a while. And take a look at this picture from San Francisco, showing the bay bridge disappearing into the fog. Abc 7 news weather anchor Spencer Christian shows us what changes to expect. The fog has lifted but clouds settling in now and we will have rain coming our way. Live doppler 7, high clouds and our Storm Brewing in the gulf of alaska will be dropping down late tomorrow night. It ranks two on the storm impact scale. Moderate intensity. Producing for most areas moderate rainfall, heavy at times, half inch to an inch in most locations, 1 to 2 inches in the hills, strong gusty winds to 50 Miles Per Hour in the hills and mountains. Our forecast starting at 7 00 tomorrow morning, tomorrow like today high clouds and bright skies for most of the day, clouds will thicken a little bit in the Late Afternoon and early evening hours and late tomorrow night before midnight we will see rain hitting the mendocino coastline and in between 10 00 and midnight the rain becoming more intense and widespread across the north bay. By 6 00, 7 00 tomorrow morning, im sorry, sunday morning, 6 00, 7 00 on sunday morning, look for widespread moderate to heavy rainfall, strong gusty wind and what else that storm is going to deliver in just a few minutes. Cheryl. Spencer, thank you. A spear fisherman is in a hospital right now apparently he was the victim of a shark attack. Authority says the attack happened at Still Water Cove in pebble beach this afternoon. Witnesses says the victim suffered a significant bite to his right leg from a great white shark that came up on the man from behind. The witness did not think the wound was life threatening. Authorities are warning people to stay out of the water. See theres a signposted, that picture of sew lean nas. There have been seven known shark attack in the area since 1966. Only one was fatal an attack on a surfer in 1981 off spanish bay. Volunteers are working to reduce the number of suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge this Holiday Season. Volunteers with bridge watch angels said they had two interventions on thanksgiving day yesterday. Abc 7 News Reporter has the story. Reporter the suicide barrier wont be completed for years but for now one group is trying to prevent a number of people from jumping to their deaths over the holidays. Volunteers with bridge watch angels walk the span keeping an eye out for anyone who appears to be in trouble. I think its an opportunity to bring hope. Both of our lives have been affected by suicide, by dear dear friends that we loved and cared about and we understand i think what that sense of loneliness is. Reporter last year 39 people committed suicide on the bridge and while depression is a yearround issue experts say the hustle and bustle this time of year can add a layer of stress. The sort of anxiety and stress that comes about with having to deal with family. Thats normal. Thats where a lot of our calls come from during the holidays. Reporter volunteers with bridge watch angels are trained what to look for and communicate with those in trouble and work in teams and use special hand cues to summon help from Law Enforcement when necessary. The Group Reported two successful interventions on thanksgiving. Just a smile, just a touch, just a how are you, really shifts things i think for people. Gives them a sense of hope and they dont feel alone. Reporter bridge watch angels will be back on christmas eve, christmas day, new years eve and new years day. Their goal is for no one to be alone on their watch. In marin county, abc 7 news. A new report says modifications to the Golden Gate Bridge could pose problems during an intense storm. According to the marine independent journal a Canadian Firm discovered intense winds at a certain angle could damage the bridge. The discovery was made during wind testing on a miniaturized version of the span in advance of modifications for a suicide barrier and a seismic upgrade product. More wind testing is being planned. Weve all done it, left valuables in our cars but san ra fell police are warning people need to know breakins are on the rise. Yesterday police began adding patrols in the downtown area and at local malls and going to monitor these place during the holidays. Abc 7 News Reporter leeann mel len its rode with police and joins us live right now. Hi. Hi, sara. You know this is prime season for breakins and people here know this, so the San Rafael Police department wants to make sure people remember that. Now i was amazed to see how many people leave their stuff inside their cars. Im sure well find something. Reporter sergeant are all aguilar was sure he would find a few cars with packages and personal items inside. The owner of this car didnt even try to hide the gifts. Definitely has this one has macys, apple. Christmas gifts. Boots. Uggs. It wouldnt take too long, it would be somebody can use Something Like this a window punch, something that, you know, you just hit the window and it will shatter immediately. Reporter we saw this man putting two large bags in the back seat of his car and walk away. We tried to tell him that it wasnt safe. You just left your bags in there. Somebody could steal them. Just hide it. Reporter he had not hidden them at all. They were there for the taking. Unfortunately that is very common and that is not a very good strategy to protecting your shopping. The best thing to do is bring it with you. Its a different world. I mean even shopping is a different world now. You have to be cautious all the time. And thats what i try to do. I dont know how successful i am but ive been lucky so far. Reporter from now through the Holidays Police will have more patrols in places people shop. We spend extra patrol. We have extra officers in the area. Reporter we were able to confirm that when a woman interrupted our interview to report an unrelated incident. Within minutes several patrol cars responded. Police are reminding people there is always someone looking to ruin your holiday. In san rafael, abc 7 news. And happening right now in san jose, the start of the christmas in the park Tree Lighting ceremony. This is a live look at the event. They got a big tree right there. Features a lot of music and dance performances. This holiday tradition aims to be bigger and better than ever. Abc 7 News Reporter chris wynn explains. Reporter an experience san jose is proud to call its own. Nice opportunity for people to come together and enjoy the holiday spirit. Reporter a tradition for more than 35 years. Christmas in the park is open at Plaza Cesar Chavez downtown. Wait for this all year long. Reporter with more than 650,000 visitors last winter the attractions popularity continues to grow. The atmosphere, everything is beautiful in san jose. This seems like the heart of san jose. Reporter this year with the presenting sponsor for the first time organizers are promising new exhibits aimed at bringing more visitors to the park. People have grown up with this event. People think this event happens in every city and they dont understand how special it is sometimes, but they cherish it. Reporter earlier today, schools, businesses and Community Groups put the finishing touches on more than 500 Christmas Trees throughout the park. Each representing a different cause. Im looking at it at a different perspective being a parent now, not before. But theres a lot of cool stuff that i would love to share with my kids. Reporter the park will stay open through the first week of january. City leaders credited christmas in the park for playing a role in revitalizing the downtown corps. Theres Something Special about it. I have done this so long because this is a free event for all citizens and theres many people who this is their christmas. Reporter a community counting its blessings this Holiday Season. In san jose, chris nguyen. Still ahead the event that makes today green friday, not black friday. The alternative to spending today indoors at the mall or Online Shopping. Plus the turkey has been eaten and now time to talk trees. Among other things. Im in the east bay with that story coming up. If youre able to get where you live this thanksgiving weekend text the word. Happening now the old oak tree in danville is about to be lit up for the holidays. It is the 41st year for the east bay tradition. Abc 7 News Reporter dion lim joining us from the festivities with 10,000 of her closest friends and fantastic santa hat. Dion . Reporter well, thank you for the compliment, larry. Yes, each and every one of my close personal friends check it out they have a message for all of you. Say hi, everybody. Hi. Reporter we are in the town of danville for the 41st annual oak Tree Lighting. You can hear behind me a chorus singing Christmas Songs getting into the holiday spirit. Hector and romeo cominjoining u. I live here in san ramon. This is a great family event. So we enjoy it. And what does romeo have to say . He loves it. Loves it. He loves everybody. And joining me is the chamber of commerce with danville, tell me a little bit about why this is special. This is an event with 10,000 people. Its really about communities coming together and a kickoff for the Holiday Season so what better way to do it than here in dl downtown danville. This runs until 8 00. Thats correct. So later on, father christmas will come out as well as the snow angel, the snow angel will roll out her magic and light the tree and everyone will parade down dhiyab plo into downtown. We have setups for hot chocolate, apple cider, all of the merchants are open tonight. Theyre out in the streets. They have activities for the kids and families everywhere. I think that sounds like a good idea. As soon as im done with the live shot i will grab . Ill meet you there. Sounds good. In that case, one last message from everyone out here, what did you want to say to the crowd . Happy holidays it certainly feels like the spirit. If you want to check out the actual lighting of the old oak tree that is happening at 6 30. We will have it live at our Facebook Page and also at abc7news. Com where we have the live stream. Reporting live from downtown danville, im dion lim, abc 7 news. Thats a happy crowd. You can find a list of tree lighti Lighting Events where you live on abc7news. Com. Shopping may be the rage on black fly but some families in the east bay took a different approach opting for Greener Pastures if you will and a discount of a different kind. Abc 7 reporter Laura Anthony has our story. Reporter forget black friday. These kids and their parents wanted none of it. Opting for green friday by visiting an east bay regional park, in this case tilden. We decided to come out to tilden park instead of the madness of the malls. I wanted to be outside today. Its a Beautiful Day and i wanted to avoid the crowds. Even though its kind of a crowd here. Reporter as a gift to visitors the east Bay Regional Parks district waved parking fees along with those for fishing and pets. The parking fee at roberts recreational regional area on skyline is normally 5. Such a great park and we thought it would be packed, but we ended up getting a great parking and for free on top of it. Reporter some people told us they didnt realize the parking in the parks was free until they got to the kiosk. That was pretty cool. I had the 20 out ready to go even though its 5 bucks to park here. Reporter even without the lure of free parking some visitors told us they wouldnt be anywhere near a mall anyway. We have screaming kids. Impossible to go to the mall. I wish i were here but i have to get stuck in this beautiful setting. Reporter in oakland, Laura Anthony, abc 7 news. The city of oakland declared today the start of plaid friday weekend. To encourage people to shop at local businesses mayor shaft tweeted this picture of herself taking part. More than 200 shops an restaurants are offering special deals and discounts this weekend and from now through new years all Street Parking meters will be free on saturdays to encourage shoppers. Time limits still apply. Cant park in one spot and stay there all day long. The north bays newest transit option smart trains working with the Santa Rosa Metro chamber of commerce to show support pore businesses affected by the north bay wild fires. They will get a free train for every 25 they spend at businesses this weekend and next weekend. The smart train is a lot of fun to ride. The free ticket good through the end of the year. Historic trolley returns to downtown san jose for the holidays. These photos from our media partner the Bay Area News Group show valley transportation employees decorating the Polar Express trolley. Visitors can ride for free each friday, saturday and sunday through the end of december. That trolley will stop at the light rail stations between civic center and san jose. Spencer christian now with a look at the forecast. Okay. At the end of a calm and mild week get ready for stormy weather. A look at live doppler 7. Not stormy yet. High clouds around and mild this evening across most of the bay area and those high thin clouds will remain with us overnight. Heres the view from our abc 7 explore camera at pier 15 in San Francisco looking at the skyline under the high clouds. Its currently 63 degrees here at San Francisco and we have low to mid 60s also at oakland, mountain view, san jose and gilroy, 59 at half moon bay. And heres the view from our emoriville camera across the bay under partly cloudy skies, 60 at santa rosa and napa, low 60s at novato, fairfield, concord and livermore and the mid to upper 60s and one more live view from our tower camera looking down on to San Francisco. These are our forecast features, dry, mild tomorrow but late tomorrow night, rain will arrive in the north bay. A wet and windy storm. For sunday stormier in the hills and the rain will taper to showers monday morning. A look at xwroefr night conditions. Well see skies remain partly cloudy, thin high clouds for the most part, overnight lows will be generally pretty mild low to mid 50s in most locations and tomorrow well have another bright and mild day with high clouds filtering the sunshine. Highs will range from upper 60s at the coast to low 70s around the bay, mainly low to mid 70s inland. Go east and south. Ee highs in the upper 60s. Now lets talk about the approaching storm. It ranks two on the storm impact scale. A storm of moderate intensity arriving late saturday night continuing into monday morning most locations with will see about half an inch to an inch of rainfall, one to two inches in the hills. Wind will gust 15 to 25 Miles Per Hour. But in the Higher Elevations gusts could reach 50 Miles Per Hour. Rain moderate most of the time but heavy occasionally. Ill take you through the afternoon tomorrow. You will see thin high clouds with mainly bret skies but late tomorrow night the rain arrives in the north bay. By midnight steady wave of moderate rainfall. Then by 6 00 sunday morning it is going to