Commute. Thanks mike. We still have the wind and leyla gulen, if you have a third hand. Thank you is what i am talking about. You have company use all the hands. We have gusty conditions. It will be rough over the high speeds and rough traveling on the bridges. We have high wind advisories for all the bridges. Right now walnut creek shows roads could be damp and as mike has been telling us traffic is building southbound direction and it is dry in san jose and it look like 87 is quiet and accident free. No more channeling kanye west for me. Thank you very much. People across the bay area will be dealing with the tack of cleaning up after a powerful storm from toppled trees to downed lines. More could be to come this morning. Amy hollyfield is in walnut creek. Another one bites the dust. This is here in walnut creek. Look at this tree. Pieces of it are still here. Branches of everywhere and they tried to get a last it moved out of here after it fell. Such a large tree the wood chipper and the chainsaws were busy for a up cough couple of hours. The winds were so intense this came down. We do not experience the gusts anymore this morning. It is still breezy. The rain has stopped and the strong gutses of wind are not an issue this morning as of right new. However, we will continue to monitor the situation, the weather, and the trees here in the east bay pore you and keep you posted thousand the morning. Thanks amy the ferocious winds trigger problems in the bay area. In oakland a large tree fell across skyline boulevard and the road was reopened. In berkeley the owner of a toyota is without wheels after a giant branch toppled on to the car. Other downed trees damaged power lines knocking out electricity to several communities roughly 2,000 people are without power this morning. In vallejo winds knocked down a large tree at baxter street that fell into a pickup truck and took three power poles with it. 2400 customs lost pow we have. The material on a billboard came loose in San Francisco. The area was shut down at 17th until the material was secured. Marin county residents learn how much water has collected. The last report shows marin county reservoirs at 97 percent of capacity because of heavy rains in december. Reservoirs are normally about 81 percent full. Despite robust numbers the marin Water District is urging conservation. Can you track storms with live doppler hd on apple app and google play. A year twist in an already mysterious case involving the discovery of human body parts stuffed into a suitcase in San Francisco. The person of interest in this case has died. Our reporter is here with the details. 54yearold mark andrus dried on saturday of drugrelated causes. He admitted himself to the hospital. This is an unexpected turn of events since andrus had just been released from jail a few days earlier. This is video of him four daze best death leaving San Francisco jail with the public defender. Police arrested andrus on friday, january 30 on suspicion of murder, but later released him citing lack of evidence. Andrus was seen on Surveillance Video wheeling around a suitcase in the area where the body parts were found, with headless torso was discovered in a suitcase outside of good will store. His friend was also detained but released and says andrus was innocent and just saw him the day before the death when he stopped by his apartment. I went down and i said, what . What . How are you doing. Good to see you. He said he didnt do it. I dont know the problem. Andrus was released still still considered him a person of interest and they suspect that the body is that of his friend and former roommate. The mold examiner has not idd the body or determined the cause the death. The search continues this morning for a driver wanted in a hitandrun accident that killed a woman in the bay point. The 25yearold victim was in the crosswalk at canal and hit around 10 30 on saturday night. She died at scene. Police do not have a description of the vehicle which kept going after the collision. Anyone with information is asked to call the highway patrol. A stretch of highway one in the north bay is reopening this morning after an accident involving a gas tanker that overturned yesterday morning spilling 4,000 gallons of fuel most of gas went into a culvert and some may have reached the ocean. Hazmat crews respond day cleaning up the spill and the driver suffered minor injuries. A Police Officer has been suspended after his gun was stolen last year by a prostitute in free necessity. According to a Bay Area News Group report, sergeant fell asleep and woke up to fund his badge, handcuffs Service Pistol and two clips of ammunition all again. He remained on duty while the department conducted an investigation. Some say that he should have been immediately suspended when officials first learned of the stolen gun. The police got the gun back but only after the prostitutes pimp shot himself in the leg with it. More accusations this morning against bill cosby a former model and actress says the comic made sexual advances and lewd gestures toward her open southwest the cosby show. She said that cosby had her sit on a couch in his directioning room and handed her a drink and stood in front of her with his crotch in his face, the 15th woman to make accusations against the 77yearold. He canceled backtoback comedy shows in boston because of the impending snow storm. Bruce jenner is offering condolences to the family of a woman killed in a multivehicle crash that he was involved in and says he is cooperating with investigators. Officers want to necessity if the form olympian was talking or texting before the crash. Jenner denies it and the lawyers say jenner is willing to turn over his phone records to prove it. Time to check in with meteorologist mike nicco. Mike, the showers are passing and gone and. No, absolutely there are still showers through early afternoon and here is one with live doppler hd and just to the north of guerneville and redwood lane and river road all of those getting doused by nice showers, and near Pleasant Hill road and rohnert park to Petaluma Hill road and as we head further south on the novato boulevard, point reyes and petaluma road that is going to be headed to 101 and lakeville highway the next five or ten minutes. Winds are an obstacle for most of us especially highprofile vehicles and i drove the minivan this morning and getting blown all over the place. I need to get rid that. 60 to 66 inland and 60 to 66 around the bay. Partly sunny, breezes tapering and dry for the evening commute. Here is how it looks in walnut creek where 680 is wet in spots as are a lot of areas from the rain. Well use this to talk about spring warmth in the threeday forecast tomorrow, and lowtomid 60s, mostly sunny and offshore breeze mid60 to 70 and lowtomid 70s elsewhere on thursday. Leyla . You came in, in a van and that is a high profile vehicle and you can believe that it is going to be whipped around in the wind. We have which issued wind advisory over the san mateo bridge and the Altamont Pass with a major accident involving an overturned big rig because of the wind. Westbound 580 at Mountain House parkway one lane gets you by and nine Miles Per Hour is the top speed. It is slow going all along westbound 580 coming up to the Altamont Pass and it looks like 205 is building as you merge with 580 continuing through the pass and toward vasco you are going to be slowandgo but be very careful of the high winds keep both hands on the wheel. Relief at the pump could be over. The americas money report is next. Stay tuned. We live in a pick and choose world. Choose, choose, choose. 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The thunder and the steady heavy rain. Mike will tell us what is in the future. Coming up. Jury selection will begin in the trial of a man accused fatally shooting the form navy seal depicted in american er. More than 260 potential jurors will report to court in texas. Former marine is charged with capital murder in the deaths of chris kyle and his friend at a shooting range. The lawyers will argue he was in insane with posttraumatic disstress disorder. Chipolte apologized if offensive tweets after they were hacked over the weekend. The account posted tweets early yesterday mornings many of which included racial slurs and one tweet saided food was poisoned and all restaurants would close. The accounts profile image was replaced with a swastika and chipolte is investigating. Enjoy what is let of low gas prices because they are rising. Here is americas money report. Good morning everyone, topping americas money costing more to fill up. The National Average for gas is 2. 17, 12 cents more than a weekend ago. Why . Crude oil prices are rising and maintenance has begun on refineries but it is still more than a dollar less than you would pay a year ago. Sponge bob is the new Box Office King ending the threeweak reign of american snipe are, bringing in 56 million. And american sniper, is in second and still brought in 24 million. Now you can cruise around like a billionaire, the book value on this is 12,000 and it is being auction offed autographed by wash buffett with an Online Auction on wednesday. Guess what . So exiting, some of gulfs biggest names will join an leagues from other sports and entertainers for the at T National Pro am buster posey said he has never taken a formal golf lesson and does not have an established handicap and once shot 90 at augusta the home of the nationals. Our sports anchor will be at pebble beach for the 49er and giants shoot out and the celebrity shoot out starting bill murray on wednesday. Put your money on mike shumann . Always. Put the money on mike shumann. Good thing this was not held last weekend because, mike, it would have been rained out. Looking good for this weekend . Could not expect better weather. It has been a while since we had good weather with the drought. The temperatures in the lowtoupper 70 and the storm pulls away and it is headed to santa rosa and we see what it does around guerneville pulling a little bit away from guerneville and headed to healdsburg and, also storm is moving away from rohnert park and headed to yountville. Notice we do have showers across the Santa Cruz Mountains and it is not moving. That could be just the radar bouncing off the mountains. We will have to find out if it is really raining. Here is how it looks from walnut creek, you can see how smooth things are now the rain has moved out of this area. That will continue to happen as we head through the afternoon hour, dry and calm this afternoon. The worst of the weather for the commute is right now with the showers and the breezy conditions. Clearing and cooler. Probably limited because the air is extremely dry that rolls in behind the system and warmth will build to above average headed to the welcome. Today, lowtomid 60s so above average and upper 50s to low 60s along the coast. Tonight, the lack of cloud cover and patchy fog and temperatures in the midtoupper 40s around the bay shore until palo alto and redwood city always the coolest because of the cold air draining out of the higher Santa Cruz Mountains. We have upper 30s around santa rosa but otherwise lowtomid 40s so do not be surprised if the heater runs after not being on all weekend. The evening commute will see sunshine calmer conditions, and dry weather. Tuesday morning, everything is pretty much gone. As we head into tuesday afternoon, sure, we will have a few high clouds. Here is the low watch it spin away from us and as it does, it pulls the moisture, the showers, the breeze, they all fade and in the tropics, that is going do move in behind the system and that is why by wednesday we will have 50 shore winds and nearly 70 at the bay and the rest of us are in the 60s but all of us could be in the lowtomid 70 by thursday friday, valentines day, and saturday and also on sunday. As we look at the bay area a nice wide view, you can see green on the map with the exception of tracy and that is where we have an injury accident involving a big rig that flipped westbound 580 at Mountain House parkway resulted in a high wind. We have gusty conditions on the road ways and five Miles Per Hour is the top speed and backup from i5 so if you take i5 to 205 and grab that to get over to 580 and the Altamont Pass. The north bay, santa rosa you have the area shaded in green and that is an indication where rain could affect your commute. Moist conditions on the roads and we are still at top speed. Be careful. With the gusty conditions and the rain mix. Along 101 continuing into larkspur and mill valley you are at top speeds and at the Golden Gate Bridge it is nice and move along but c. H. P. Issued high wind advisory for all of our bay area bridges. Thank you. Tonight at look chinas wealthy elite are buying homes in the bay area in record numbers driving up prices. This is a real estate trade show in shanghai where buyers picked homes from video. Competition among the realtors in the bay area is stuff and one firm bought a mercedes to take chinese buyers to open houses. This plane to show them the splendors of where we live from high above the bay area. They feel that the government here is were more stable and it is a great place to invest and in china you do not have homeownership but extent year lease. Our reporter lens what else it takes to get the deals done and that is tonight at abc 7 at 11 oclock. Stay tuned. Whats happened to snacking . How did it become absentmindedly eating one after the next, after the next . So predictable and so unsatisfying . What about pulling up a chair, a stool, a beanbag, and actually tasting our food. We are a creamy cheese that Still Believes in the beauty of a knife, in the elegant swipe of a. Swipe. Of course, that doesnt mean you cant dunk us or scoop us up. Enjoy every single solitary bite. The laughing cow. Reinvent snacking. There are 16 freshpicked oranges squeezed into each bottle of tropicana pure premium. And absolutely no space for added sugar, water or preservatives. Tropicana. We put the good in morning. Here are seven things to know before you go today. Number one, a lot of wind equals a lot of troubles. Ask the owner of a toyota smash by a fallen tree branch. Trees have fallen several bay area communities, some have knocked out power. Pg e says more than 150,000 customers have been affected by outages since friday. Our storm is unwinding right now but not before it scatters some more showers with brief moderatetoheavy rain and some gusty winds for the morning commute. We will talk how much longer this will last and the spring warmth that is coming up in the sevenday forecast. Three, that is how many bridges are under a wind advisory and from emeryville to the eastern span of the bay bridge it is gusty and bouncy into San Francisco. Keep both hands on the wheel. We had a major accident in tracy cleared. Details are straight ahead. Four the person of interest in the case of a dismembered body found in San Francisco has died. Mark andrus last San Francisco county jail on tuesday after being released for lack of evidence and his death appeared to be from drugrelated cause in boston, it could be one for the record books. They have received 62 of snow and another 10 could fall today. Most nights in and out of Logan Airport have been canceled for today. Since evacuations are in affect along the eastern slope of the sierra despite crews making progress on a wind driven wildfire that was started on friday destroyed 0 homes and burned 7,000 acres and now is 75 percent contained. Samesex marriage couples in alabama are in for a fight if they hope to get married. The chief justice ordered judges that it to issue licenses to gay couples arguing that samesex marriage is against the state constitution. It is not clear yet whether the judges will oh bait order. George clooneys wife will travel to egypt to push for the release of a jail canadian journalist amal is an International Human rights lawyer will work on the case of mohammed bachme in jail in egypt for a year on charge of helping the Muslim Brotherhood a group that generals president has labeled terror organization, and clooney has requested a person of interest meeting with the egypt president and there will be more on Amal Clooneys trip to egypt coming up starting at 7 00. Boyhood, has been named best picture at the film award in britain. The filmmaker was name best director and spent 12 years on the project. Eddie redmayne won best acteddor for the Physicist Stephen Hawking and best of everything. And this is an indication of possible success at the oscars later this morning. The oscars are two months away and you can see them right here on sunday february 22. How much are you willing to pay for a drink . How about 30,000 . I have yet to see that drink. 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