It looks as though our warming trend really gets going again today with a little bit milder weather at the coast. We will detail the rest of the weekend in a few minutes. Katie. Lisa, thank you. And there appears to be no end in sight for traffic woes across the bay area. Bart and the union remain at odds. We have a report on how it is i am pocketing traffic. Reporter this is a line of cars wait to go get to the bay bridge about 8 00. It was a crawl all afternoon and through the evening. It takes me about 35 minutes. Literally two miles from here. How long it it take you . About 45 to an hour. To avoid the traffic backup, lots of people tried getting out of the city early. With no bart trains running, the afternoon commute turned into an evening odyssey. I could see the traffic from my office going over the bridge. Its more getting on to the bridge, which takes a long time. For casual carpoolers, it made for a long wait to get home. Usually its about 30 minutes to get home. Its usually not bad but it doesnt look like its going to be 30 minutes today. Plenty of drivers stopped by to pick up a few passengers going their way across the bay, but it wasnt easy for some to get to the designated pickup spot. I went to the old carpool section and one lead in a muni thing directed us over here. And this bus carried 25 ridetories the east bay. They described a day that beganner and stretched on until late. Ity to leave about 4 00 in the morning. Commuters are dreading the repeat of this come monday. Abc7 news. Hundreds of commuters waited in long lines at the transbay terminal in San Francisco to board buses home yesterday afternoon. Ac transit, sam transand even bart added buss to help with the extra load of passengers. It was a similar sight at the ferry terminal. Long lines during the morning and afternoon commutes. San Francisco Bay ferry said their ridership numbers more than doubled yesterday. Ferry service will also be increased this weekend. There seems to be a glimmer of hope when the unions said they had a proposal to end the bart strike immediately, but its a nonstarter as far as bart management is concern. Allen wong explains why. Reporter the unions are offering to call off the strike if bart grease to let an arbitrator decide the issue thats causing the stalemate. Bart rejected the offer. The issue is workplace rules. For years they have protected workers, but bart said they are outdated and need to be changed in order to save money so they can use it to pay for the salaries and benefits the workers want. For instance, maintenance workers who do inspections are not allows to use ipads and send information directly to the computers. Instead they are required by the contract to write handwritten notes. The unions say gutting the workplace rules would give bart too much power. But unless bart can gain that flexibility, they said there is no deal. We can fight long and we can fight hard. Whats motivating us to end the strike is the suffering that we hear. Its been a long day . Yeah. 6 30 this morning until now. Right now its about 8 00. I get home about 8 30. Bart wants the union to let their members vote on their offer, but the union said no. In oakland, allen wong, abc7 news. Keep it tuned to abc7 news for the latest developments on your commute without bart. You can also download our free abc7 news app and get push alerts to get updates as they happen. And plus we have other resources for you. It includes alternate transit option and realtime traffic apps. You can also download the waze traffic app. With traffic expected to be rough on mon, the news team will be on air at 4 00 a. M. To bring you the latest on the bart strike and the commute buff head out. Other news, a toddler is in critical but stable condition after being hit by a stray bullet from a shootout in oakland. He was playing outside his home on sunny side street around 2 00 yesterday afternoon when he was shot in the upper body. Police say the bullet came from two groups firing at each other two blocks away. Officers found a large number of shell casings left behind. Neighbors say they are tired of the senseless violence. There are so many Young Children dying, and for what . No one knows. Its just crazy. Police have not made any arrests. In the Santa Cruz Mountains a case of broken trust. A man who was supposed to protect the interests of children is instead accused of preying on them. Hes been a south counselor, an advocate and coach, but as ama daetz explains, theres another label from police, molester. Reporter brian crisswell of santa cruz is in jail accused of child molestation. The Santa Cruz CountySheriffs Department said he engaged in illegal conduct with two minors while volunteering for the countys causa program. Causa stands for courtappointed special advocate. It offers abuse for abused and negotiated children and make sure their needs are met. Before being sworn in they face an extensive background correct. The executive director said they dismissed him as soon as they learned about the investigation. He had been aculeate since 2008. Anyone who would do harm to child or take part in this type of criminal behavior has no business in being with your children, let alone volunteering at a Child Advocacy organization. The Police Believe there may be more kids out there because of his contact with kids. He helped wrestling teams at two local schools. He volunteered with the Harbor High School wrestling team during the 2012, 2013 school year. That same year he was hired at a middle school. District never received complaints of inappropriate behavior by crisswell. He is expected to be arraigned early next week. Ama daetz, abc7 news. New details. A worker at San FranciscoGeneral Hospital reporting seeing an unconscious woman in a scare well one week before the body of a missing patient was found in that same spot. The 57yearold lynn spawledder disappeared from her fifth floor room on december 21st. She was september 21st. She was found on october 8th, seven days after she vanished. A hospital orderly told the nurse that he had seen a woman apparently passed out in the stairwell. The nurse contact the the Sheriffs Department, which provides security for the hospital. However, its unclear how the Sheriffs Department responded and if they sent anyone to check the stairwell. An autopsy has been performed on spalding, but a cause of death may not be known for several weeks. A santa cruz man charged in the killingful his girlfriend while they vacationed in hawaii has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. Gerald galloway was sentenced tore 20 years for manslaughter and 20 years for kidnapping in the 2011 killing of cassman. She was a Santa Cruz Deputy attorney. Police found her body responding to a domestic dispute. He pleaed no contest to a reduced charge of manslaughter lift year. San Francisco Police are investigating the death after bicyclist hit by a muni bus. It happened just before 9 00 yesterday morning. The bus with a trunk 11th street to bryant street when it hit the man. The intersection was closed for hours while the police collected evidence. The muni driver is cooperating with investigate gators. We have a picture of a big rig swerve across traffic and flip over the Center Divider into oncoming traffic. It happened before 11 00 yesterday morning in redwood city. It was caught on video by a limo driver dashcam roach cord to go the highway patrol, seven cars were damaged but incredibly there were no serious injuries. Wow, when you watch that its almost impossible to believe. Scary, scary stuff. Weatherwise, scary . Well, its pretty chilly in the north bay. Temperatures dropping, 39 in novato right now. East bay hills camera, warmer temperatures as we look out to the valleys where numbers are in the upper 40s. So as much as 10 degrees warmer than you are in the north bay. There is fog. Its about 500 feet. It will burn back. But how warm will it get . Ill let you know when we return. I could go for warm. I was cold this morning. Also next, future careers in agriculture. Why students should think about Technology Rather than land. And a struggling Department Store is getting into the holiday spirit a little earlier this year. Im eric thomas. How is the bart strike affecting you . We are listening. Post your video message on to facebook, instagram or twitter using the hashtag look at them wh we co back in our day, that uverse wireless receiver. We couldnt just move the tv wherever we wanted. Yeah, our birthday entertainment was a mathemagician. Because if theres anything that improves magic, its math. The only thing he taught us was how to subtract kids from a party. Lets get some cake in you. I could go for some cake. [ male announcer ] switch and add a wireless receiver. Get uverse tv for 19 a month for 2 years with qualifying bundles. Rethink possible. Welcome back. Coming up at 5 13 on your saturday morning. This is emeryville. You can see it through the fog there. Its a pretty foggy morning. 50 degrees in emeryville. Lisa argen will let us know if things are going to warm up for your day. New this morning, president obama says the way business is done in washington must change n his weekly radio and internet address, the president said peoples frustration with politics is understandable. Referring to the fiscal crisis that shut down the government and almost because the u. S. Into default. Theres no reason why we cant govern responsibly without lurching from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis because that isnt governing. Its hurting the people that we were sent here to serve. Those here have an obligation to do our job the best we can. We come from different parties but we americans first. The president is pushing congress to act on a budget, a farm bill and immigration overhaul this year. A second employee has been arrested for setting off dry ice bombs at the los angeles airport. Police arrested a Grounds Services employee earlier this week and last night they arrested that mans supervisor. The devices did not cause any damage. Police say they were set as a prank. Drake bay oyster bar is fight to go keep their doors open. Owner has once again asked a federal Appeals Panel to reconsider a bid to harvestist centers. His permit was not renewed last year. They have rejected two bids since last september to allow drake bay to grow oysters in the federally protected waters. Some of us might have a hard time putting the words farming and hightech in the same sentence. But california farmers want students to know there is a lot more technology in farming than the students realize. Some experienced that. Lyanne melendez tells us some of the kids are now convinced its the field for them. When you picture agriculture, most of us picture land. Technology is helping kay take care of the land and the things that go on it. Heres a monitor that tracks what a cow is putting out miles away from the source. Just how much milk they give. Not sure if your crops are getting enough water . Theres an app for that too. I can turn on our irrigation system. And we are famous for being hands on and learn by doing. The California Agriculture Leadership Program wants these urban High School Students to know if they love technology, agriculture is the field for them. Its no longer in the notebook anymore. Its online breathing and living and we can add to it, accumulate it and touch it at any point in time. Reporter now, you cant be a farmer without a tractor, and students are quite often surprised to find out that tractors are sort of like smartphones but without the phone. They have a gps system and you can program them to run themselves. Sorry, i couldnt visit. Actually the steering is done through the gps. So we are making less passes over the ground, its more precise and we know exactly where weve been and how much we have done in day. This student was thrilled to know she could work in the field without leaving an office. You sit around and be on the computer and still get paid for it and you would still be doing farming. Reporter shes convinced she wants to be a vet. Specializing in sheep and goats. In california we grow more commodities than other states in the nation. Its a a great industry. An industry that wants geeks. Lyanne melendez, kgo news. Soon you can access the internet through the nearest lamp. Its called lifi and uses light rather than radio to connect to the web. The light bulb would flicker billions of times a second so the human eye couldnt see it. Then it would decode it into data. Its 150 times faster than wifi, but theres a drawback. Light cant go through walls so you would have to stay in one room while surfing the web. J. C. Penney is jumping into the shopping for ray. Most will open their stores at 8 00 a. M. The same time macys will announce they will be opening. They are following in the footsteps of other retailers like target, walmart and old navy that began opening on thanksgiving day to boost sales. I know people love to do that as a tradition, not not me. Eating and laying down. Sounds like a plan. All right. Good morning. We are looking at this weather that has been staying with us. Mild and sunny, cool nights. Very little change out there for the past week or so. And im here to give you the good news that its not going to change through the weekend, as well. We are looking at more mild conditions. Although we do have some fog at the golden gate bridge. It does extend southward down through monterey. And also up in santa rosa. But thats really what we have been seeing throughout the morning hours. Heres a look from mt. Tam. It is nice and quiet and chilly. Readings up in the north day have dropped into the 40s. Oakland is at 50. San carlos 50. Good morning, san jose. 51 for you and 48 Half Moon Bay and San Francisco sitting at 48 from our exploratorium camera. We are looking at clear skies but up in the north bay its cool, low 40s in 43 santa rosa. 47 out by the delta. 5123 livermore. Concord has dropped into the upper 40s. Heres the fog. Its at about 500 to 700 feet here at the golden gate bridge. Theres reduced visibility along the short line. That fog will burn back. We will see a sunny coast with mild to warm conditions throughout the day today. It will last through tomorrow. We are locking at changes by the middle of next week. So heres the plan for the rest of the day. The fog evaporates and we will see more upper 60s. We are talking near 70 point reyes. Mid70s to upper 70s around the bay. And the 80s pulling into the Santa Clara Valley and also our east bay hills. The setup has remained the same with High Pressure along the west coast, allowing for a very, very quiet pattern. Temperatures just about average. We have had those cool nights. In fact, numbers have been a little cooler than average. But high temperatures today, very little change with low 80s in san jose. 84 los gatos. Look for 80 in sunnyvale. 76 san mateo. The midand up are 60s, plenty of sunshine here from Half Moon Bay to pacifica. The waves will check up by the end of the weekend. Keep that in mind if you are head today the beaches. 70 today downtown with 72 in south San Francisco. 66, sunny skies for daly city up in the north bay. Look how mild with numbers from about 80 petaluma with mid60s stinsonni beach. A beach day if you want to head to the coach. 80 vallejo. 70s from berkeley to hayward. 80 fremont. You head inland and once again the numbers in the low 80s. Even a few mid80s from antioch and brentwood today. 83 in pleasanton. Accuweather sevenday forecast shows temperatures will stay in the mid60s coast to near 70 for tomorrow. Mid80s inland. A little cooling with more fog on monday. The on shore flow kicks up and allows for temperatures to cool back tuesday and wednesday. Then mid70s with partly cloudy skies. So cooler by the end of next week. Abc7 news has another great weather resource for you to follow. Live doppler 7hd on twitter for the latest conditions rain or shine. So i guess if we going to be stuck in any kind of pattern for now, its nice, and i think most of enjoying it. Great. Thank you, lisa. Coming up next, star wars and scientific reality. A new bay area Exhibit Opening today where so you can get cash back on all your purchases. So you can use your cash back. To follow your dream. So you. Can save the day. Chase freedom. So you can. Welcome back. Lapping today a treat tore star wars fans. Darth vader stands ready to greet visitors at a new exhibit that calls star wars meets imagination. It features 70 costumes, props and items used in the star wars film. It gets kids excited about science. It opens today and runs through february. Theres growing concern over the addictive nature of a Popular Video game called candy crush. More than 40 Million People play it every month, most women between the ages of 45 and 55. Game is free to download but layers can buy additional lives. People are spending big money to keep the game going. It might be bad for them but its a sweet deal for the games creators. They are said to be makes 636,000 each day or 231 million a year. Tesla founder is ready to start a new project and he has james bond to thank. He recently purchase the sub marvin car prop used in the 1970s bond film called a spy who loved me. He bought it in london. He said although he was disappointed to learn it actually didnt transform into a sub, but the billionaire is going to change that. He plans to convert it into a real car that can actually transform into a sub. And he plans to use a tesla electric power plant to make that happen. Its not often that someone comes out the losing end of a fight with a nine foot tiger shark and then laughs about it, but check this out. Oh broke my rod. Oh, my gosh, dude half is in his mouth and have is right here. Unreal. Dude. Thats paul standing with what is left of his 1,000 fishing rod. The expensive pole snapped like a twig 20 minutes into his exhaust i have effort to haul the big fish off the coast of florida. He was goodnatured about it, despite losing out what would have been his biggest catch of. On the bright s