Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. A rainy wednesday morning thanks for joining us, i am eric thomas. It looks like a rain where they come in waves. Not everyone is getting it right new but we are here in San Francisco and looking down at the stream developing on the embarcadero and the richmondsan rafael bridge it is wet there as we look at the richmond side. Lighttomoderate rain from novato down toward oakland and alameda and that is headed to the northeast and it will go right up 80 but more showers, light to moderate are developing upstream and that will be the case through the usually afternoon. Even if you are not getting rain you will today. Perfect timing for a morning commute. At macarthur maze traveling to 5 yale on 80 it is wet be as well, i have a new report eastbound lower deck of the bay bridge we have a stalled vehicle at Treasure Island, so look at other areas of the bay area, it is dry more than the other areas as mike has been telling us and moving to the south right now. Thats, gives. The rain is bearing down on us in the bay area and it is backing the morning drive. Matt keller is on the peninsula with more on this. Matt . If you on the peninsula the none part, be prepared for the possibility of sure or rain, we were driving up 101 from san jose to san mateo and we saw intermittent showers loan the way and a now sprinkles but not much, it is north of us, a look at the Golden Gate Bridge and they have rain and people headed from marin to the city are dealing with showers and rain. Also, as they head to sfo check out the picture travelers are ready to hop on and board their flights this morning and most of the flights start at 6 00 so be prepared for the possibility of delays and just make sure you are checking with your airline to make sure director night is taking off on time and we dont have word of delays. We got those sprinkles on our windshield driving up from Moffett Field in Mountain View and here in san mateo not much going on right now and we are keeping an cry on it on the weather app and you can track that on your smartphone and get that on any of the apple itune stores or google play. You can download it and traffic the rain. Thanks, matt. Regents later today will vote on tuition hikes that could mean 25 percent hikes for students the next five years. Students obviously are not happy with the idea and they plan to protest. Knick is in the newsroom with more. Good morning, this topic is so heated at least one local young is planning to bus stuffs to the Mission Bay Campus to boost student presence if the regent meeting. Students are sounding off and this is the seen yesterday, the regents will vote today on there to pass a fee hike raising tuition by 5 percent each year for the next five years if state funding remains as expected. If annual funding falls below 4 percent, the current level, students could see a higher tuition increase but there are signs the regents are hearing student outrage. Janet napolitano said she would back off a proposed tuition hike if they increase funding by 100 million next year. Caught in the middle . Students would say tuition hikes in any form in any amount are a burden. Our voices will be heard and whether they will be held to account. We will get rid of you and raise hell. Governor brown expected to be at the meeting after a bill was vetoed that would have added 50 president saying tax revenues were not Strong Enough to support the spending. Because of existing Financial Aid plans available to students, the tuition hike if aprove would not affect most instate students with less than 150,000 of household income. We will follow the story and have updates throughout the day. Happening today, facebook shuttle drivers are set to vote on whether to unionize. Protesters rallied at headquarters in menlo park yesterday showing their support for the bus drivers who shuttle employees to and from the company each day working split shifts is a biggest complaint and they claim that drivers wait six hours define picking up and dropping off facebook employees without being paid and facebook contracts with loom transportation for buses who said they play an hourly wage among the highest in the industry with full medical, vacation, sick days. There could be a big solidarity demonstration when the month in grand jury makes the decision in the Michael Brown case. Organizers for the demonstration say they understand some people could be angered by whatever decision is made but they encourage protesters not to get violent. The mayor says protesters have nothing to fear from police. In suburban st. Louis there is a subject of sales among first time buyers. Brown, an unarmed black teen was shot to death by a white Police Officer and the grand jury is deciding whether to indict the officer. The weather is freezing cross the nation with record breaking cold is socking in millions of americans this morning. We are in washington, dc, covering the Winter Weather. Good morning, freezing temperatures in all 50 states and another blast of winter on the way. The snow has paralyzed parts of upstate new york 5 in 36 hours. A snow emergency in buffalo new york with residents dying out after the lake effect snow dumped 6 of snow and six people are killed and the whiteout conditions buried cars and San Franciscoed drivers and this morning, officials are still not sure everyone is off the road. You can see it is white everywhere cars are stuck, we are not going anywhere. 130 mile stretch of the new york state through way was shut down trapping a College Basketball teal on the bus. We have difficulty obtaining enough tough trucks to clean the roads of cars abandoned. Construction vehicles were brought to clear snow while people waited for help from the national guard. Millions are buried in snow. Horrible. Backbreaking. Snowplower doesnt do anything. In michigan the semi trucks crashed one flipped. Both drivers survived. People are worrying about the large piles when it melts there could be heavy flooding. This is bringing bone chilling cold. Yesterday was the countrys cold of the november morning since 1976. How cold was it this morning . About. 14 or 15. In atlanta the wind chill drop to the teens and kansas city hit a record low and forecasters say more records will be shattered. The National Weather service is predicted 23 o those areas getting them to 90 90100 of snow, a years worth of snow in fur four days. Buffalo bracing to two more days of snow. Thank you. Snow. Dont miss it. Dont want it. Can go without it the rest of my hive. He was in the studio with the picture of snow behind him. A perfect set up. Across lake erie and parallel to the water, the temperatures are in the 30s but the air temperatures with in the teens so there is a lot area of snow and why they got 5 a perfect setup. At home, we will go toward the san pablo day spilling across novato and 37 from san rafael to the American Canyon and you can see coming through eighth, hercules and down to richmond, we have lighttomoderate rain falling on 80 and as you come from the caldecott tunnel a is where lighttomoderate rain pulls out of oakland and emeryville headed to orinda and Pleasant Hill and walnut creek and concord. Walnut creek southbound is wet. Light rain. It could get heavy. We will all be wet by around 7 00 even rain headed to the Santa Cruz Mountains. Will it make it to shows . That is the key. No chance of showers through 4 00 with upper 50 and low 60s by 7 00, though, we will be dry. Showers on the Golden Gate Bridge but what do you think . Does it look less now . It has let up. Still looking at the water getting kicked up by the vehicles as they drive across the bridge so they are not out the bridge so they are not out of the woods yet. Side further to the there is a solo spin without in the dirt and c. H. P. Is there and they will bring in crews, message crews and hopefully no injuries were sustained. Highway 4 westbound antioch to concord, from san rafael to San Francisco is 18 minutes. A new hollywood hunk engaged and called the sexiest man alive. New allegations, sexual allegations, against bill cosby. Stay up on weather and traffic throughout the traffic throughout the female announcer are ending soon at sleep train we challenged the manufacturers to offer even lower prices. Now its posturepedic vs. Beautyrest with big savings of up to 400 off. Serta icomfort and tempurpedic go headtohead with three years interestfree financing. Plus, free same day delivery, setup, and removal of your old set. When brands compete, you save mattress price wars ends soon at sleep train. Your ticket to a better nights sleep this is abc7 from the San Francisco area and the east bay. It is 5 continue on wednesday. 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Dillon bench is close but petaluma and Santa Rosa Petaluma and santa rosa with wet. Sprinkles are headed to the south bay and you will get rain faded, out of that. On the richmond of the san rafael bridge the rain is coming down steady but not so heavy as before and you can see light rain fill falling in yes crack southbound to the San Ramon Valley so waves of showers and cooler today, a brief break tonight before a faster moving system bringing more intense rain tomorrow. It will be more rain but just fall shorter. A quick look at temperatures, the territory bay is on the upper 50s and the rest of the us in the lowtomid 60s. Still, fought bad. Upper 40s to mid50s which is companily clouds and possibly a patch or two of fog and clouds are the big rule. Cold front is just new getting here so we will have showers as we head through the midmorning to early afternoon. Here is thursday and friday system can had a lot more rain and each successively one should have more rain. Scattered showers at 7 00 and noon and by action it is starting to taper and in the evening and overnight we have clouds and 9 00 just headed into the northwest corner sonoma is the next system and a cold front lighttomoderate rain and by noon in San Francisco and across to oakland and by 5 00 or 6 00 i is exiting the south bay. The first system is semi 1 and up to three quarters in the north bay mount town and we will double that on thursday bringing more intensity of rain and the possibility of a thunderstorm we have clouds on friday. Wet on saturday. Dry and warmer on sunday, monday and tuesday. Leyla gulen . We start off in san jose where it looks like it is dry along 87 headed beyond the tank. Northbound traffic is your headlight and southbound traffic and tail lights all moving along without a problem the we have future heard of issues in san jose. I saw grab lights flashlights on the shoulder and southbound traffic is building over to highway 24. 10 minutes gets you from 4 to 24. We had this early accident on the eastern span, the lower deck at Treasure Island involving a taxicab blocking when lane with a brand new crash westbound eastern span here with two vehicles involved and left lane is blocked. Northbound highway 101 south sfo, a solo spinout into the dirt and we have spots of drizzle falling so be careful driving to the airport. Straight ahead seven things to know use start your day. And this yours sex of the man is a hunk with or without his shirt on. 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