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. The margarita is valentines day special at iron drill that comes with a pair of nowless diamond earrings weighing nearly 4 carots. Dangling off the slice of lime . Okay. Do not accidentally throw out the line. One expensive stay tuned. How about a look outside for you the Ferry Building in San Francisco you can see the flags show it is windy. Well, i drove grandpa to speed dating this week, so i should probably get the last roll. Dad, but i practiced my bassoon. And i listened. I can do this. Everyone deserves ooey gooey pillsbury cinnamon rolls. Make the weekend pop guess what goes really well with eggs . Pillsbury grands biscuits. Make breakfast even better. Grands biscuits. Make breakfast pop. Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. It is 5 29. Hope you got through the storm okay with no damage. Just frayed nerves. A lot of umbrella use over the weekend. Leyla gulen is here and i am eric thomas and meteorologist mike nicco is here. We have live doppler hd showing Castro Valley and dublin and possibly to pleasanton and livermore, and more north of rohnert park crass to santa rosa and guerneville and all of those areas. Look how gusty the winds are up to 35 Miles Per Hour chose the bay water so bridges and ferry rides are interesting and the 12 hour day planner by noon the showers are mainly in the north bay and they will be again for the evening commute and so will the breezes in the upper 50s to 60s and by 7 00 we will see the clouds clear as dry air moves in, in the mid50s. Driving the conditions can be nerve wracking. Indeed do not wear white on the ferries. You do not want to spill the coffee. The bay bridge toll plaza shows the cars collecting in the right left hand lane and the sensors are moving line fine and wind advisory for Golden Gate Bridge and san jose 101 up to San Jose International airport Clear Conditions and the traffic is building. In the news even if it is not raining where you are people are dealing with the aftermath. In foster city rain, wind and weakened tree roots combine for disaster. Matt is in an apartment build building. This is the caution tape they put around here from the branch that came down at 10 15 last night, really, just here as a precaution to keep people out of the area so people do not walk under the branch but in the last five minutes the winds have died down and it has been breezy this morning. Check it out at 20 yards up closer to foster city boulevard, a tree appears to have snapped in half and 12 or someone obviously has to take care of that tree. Of course, there is the big branch dangling high in the air next to the apartment complex at 1015 and the Fire Department evacuated one apartment on the third floor of the apartments and the good news is even if it came down it would only fall on the grass and a man just came out and i asked to three here or see anything and he said the Fire Department came up and talked to him and he is in the third floor apartment and said a couple of neighbors were evacuated and no word whether they are allowed back in but they had to move the cars out and that is the biggest concern. They have this all blocked off right here and they have a lot of side streets open and it is easy to get around. Thanks, matt. Crews have cleared a branch that closed part of highway 9 which brought down power lines which fell on a car and pg e cut electricity to the lines and everyone got out of the vehicle safely. If San Francisco a mad dash to get people out of the way after strong winds knocked construction blocks off the roof of the hotel last night and this is video of the incident at Market Street and one person went to the hospital with minor injuries. As you might expect wind and rain can combine forces to income out power and in antioch the supermarket on east 18th lost power and workers escorted shoppers to the store when it went dark and colored display cases with tarps to keep Dairy Products and frozen foods cold. Wind and rain have knock out power across the bay area and the biggest outage is in the north bay where more than 1,100 pg e customers are without electricity. There are 450 homes and businesses in the dark on the peninsula and 320 in the east bay and 280 in south bay. Pg e says 150,000 of the customers have been affected by out averages since friday. Power has been restored to 98 percent of them. You can see some of the new snow that has fallen in the sierra in this video from heavenly mountain drivers face chain restrictions because of the snow. If you go to or from north lake tahoe chains are required on interstate highway between 880 and the donner lake interchange. Headed to or from South Lake Tahoe chains are required between chain bridges and meyers with another 14s of snow to be dumped in the mountains after 1015 on friday. We can help you track the storms any time with live doppler hd. You will find it on our free weather app on apple app and google play. The case involving a dismembered body found in a suitcase in San Francisco has taken an unexpect the turn. Mark andrus the person of interest has died. Andrus was released from San Francisco county jail on tuesday after the d. A. Decided there want enough evidence to move forward. The 54yearold went into shock after going to the hospital on saturday for a drugrelated problem and he died. Miss say he was caught on security video wheeling around a suitcase near 11th and mission with a medicineless tore so inside. Coroner is still working to identify the victim. An 18yearold driver will appear in court after killing a woman during a street race in san jose. Police believe two men were racing on Yerba Buena Island road and they collided two weeks ago on january 26. One the cars tore through a guardrail and hit 24yearold pabla with the arraignment for one suspect today and the other suspect, driver will return to court next month. Oakland police have released a suspect sketch in the Sexual Assault of a 10year old boy. This man lured the boy off of 98th avenue. Officers say the man was unkept with salt and pepper hair and loiters in the area. The boy was able to get away. Crimestoppers is offering 7,500 reward for information leading to his arrest. Suge knight will be back if court for a bail review hearing in the murder case. The 49yearold has pleaded not guilty to murder and e thatted murder and hitandrun hitandrun killing one man and badly injuring off after running them over. The attorneys call it an action. He could face life if prison. He struck out going to cooperstown but barry bonds headlines the latest class in the bay area hall of fame joining former manager baker in the class and others include golfer who grew up in san jose and olympic gold medalist, a skier from marin county and the late owner of the warriors of 20 years. Go fund my campaign to raise hundred for victims of a deadly fire in San Francisco is close to reaching his its gold donating so far 160,000 lat week and the goal and to raise 200,000 by the end of day. One man was killed and 40 people were left without a place to live. If you would like to donate go to abc7news. Com. We sometime have showers and mike is tracking them. We are watching our wet weather gear handy where the best radar returns are. They are pretty much moving a little southwest to nor and move across all of our neighborhoods with brief and moderate and heavy rain. Other areas could get west from time to time but this is we will have the best chance the next six or seven hours through the lunch hour. 52 in san ramon the cool spot in the east bay everyone else in the midtoupper 50s which is indicative of where all of us are until you get to calistoga at 51 and financial district is 58 and 57 in fairfield and Half Moon Bay and newark and redwood city at 59. 54 in cupertino. In walnut creek 680 is dry the more we drive the more friction and heat we have good news for the commute. We are in the lowtomid 60s with sunny and calm afternoon and at 87 it is getting dry near the shark tank and through the they day forecast, tomorrow temperatures are the same at today but with more sunshine and offshore breeze on wednesday and nearly 70 but in the lowtomid 70s on thursday. Does it last through valentines day . That is ahead. Highway 9 is down because of a downed tree that brought down wires and it will be hours before it is reopened. The bay bridge toll plaza shows not too much speed here because we have metering lights turning on. We can see the traffic is backing up from the maze. You have weight on your hands. We have good news in tracy with a crash that is cleared westbound 580s with an overturned big rig and all but juan lane was shut down and now all lanes are reopened and we can see the traffic dissipating building over the Altamont Pass and across 580 that is where you will find the delays and it is taking on time to the commute 35 minutes from tracy to dublin. 101 southbound is wet coming in from san rafael to San Francisco. People in the northeast are waking up to another major snowstorm. The extraordinary measure an east coast city is taking to clear away tops of snow. Recent Security Breaches at Major Companies may lead to a big change in your online account and you may need more than a user name and pass yesterday the stay tuned. Warnings of isis and how militant group could pose a greater danger to america than alqaeda. An arizona family is waiting to find out fate of a young woman being held captive by i the parents of Kayla Mueller hope their daughter is alive as Coalition Forces continue their assault against isis targets. Jordan is firing back against isis launching more than 50 airstrikes if retaliation for the brutal burning of a jordanian pilot. The chief of the air force in jordan claims isis lost 20 percent of their capability and 7,000 fighters. It has galvanized and unified the coalition. In an interview with abc, retired marine corps general if charge of the fight against isis said that jordans response has been critical against the group that is even more formidable than alqaeda. Do you believe isis pose as threat to the whom land . We should take it seriously. I has affected this section of the homeland in prescott, arizona. News cames three days ago that the aid worker is held hostage by isis and was killed in a major detain an attack. Her parents are in seclusion clinging to home their daughter is alive. The strain of not knowing where their daughter is and whether she is alive or not is something that is starting to wear on them. The United States says there is no evidence of kaylas death and the jordanians are dismissing this as propaganda but her parents taking no chances and have released a statement as a direct appeal to sis saying they are responsible for her wellbeing. Back to you eric. Just when you enjoyed the cheaper gasoline prices they are rising with a drop for a gallon of regular unleaded and ended for the time being, with prices reversing and are climbing at 13 cents across america. That is still 1. 10 cheaper from last area at this time. Drivers here if San Francisco still pay the most to fill up at 2. 59. The cheapest gasoline is in tucson arizona 1. 82. Security breaches at an them and j. P. Morgan chase could lead to tougher security. A top new york senator is likely to impose new security rules on the banking agencies calling for them to go along the current password checks including confirmation number being sent to a cell phone or using a fingerprint. This morning, the northeast is being pounded by another major snowstorm. Boston is in the bulls area and you are looking at the skyline of boston or what you can make out of it through the snow. More than 1 of snow is expected there the next few days and schools are closed until wednesday and slick roads have sent cars into snow bangs from newspaper numb to vermont from New Hampshire to vermont, the third storm to hit the region to three weeks and boston pent 18 million removing snow. The city is bringing in special machines to melt up to 350 tons of snow an air. We will see who will win that race, Mother Nature or the snow machines . I think we know. We got some snow. More on the way. We will find out final totals this afternoon and i will tweet them to you. Calistoga road to the east of santa rosa is where we are seeing the better radar runs between santa rosa and windsor along with 101 and spotty showers between petaluma and novato in the high country and same on lucas valley road headed to lucas valley around san quentin and scattered showers from sfo to the Santa Cruz Mountains. And headed to san ramon and livermore reporting light rain the last 45 minutes. In san rafael dry and notice the lack of fog. 101 will be wet for the better part of commute. You can see the lower lefthand side the flags unfurled and blowing to the east and it is still breezy. By the afternoon hours, it will be dry and calmer for the commute and clearing and cooler tonight with just almosted fog because dry air is going to rush in behind the system and we will have willing warmth through the weekend and regard highs for valentines day. Do you do a fancy dinner . Maybe a picnic. 7 00 this morning through 12 00 the best chance of radar return or wet weather in the north bay and by 3 00 it is gone with clearing after the sunset and it will be gorgeous and by tomorrow morning, we can see the lack of blood and cloud cover and just high clouds headed into the afternoon. Today, the clouds will keep us in the lowtomid 60s along the cost upper 50s to low 60s. Tonight, 10 or 15degrees cooler than yesterday and the heaters will be working and in the low 40s around palo alto and midtoupper 40s for the bayshore account coast. The low is pulling away and you can see the constant pressure where you know the winds are blowing fast. As it blows away, the showers and breezes will fade and we have High Pressure coming up from the south and that will bring us the offshore breeze and starting on wednesday. Tomorrow, fog and a few high clouds and temperatures are the same as today. Wednesday we are nearly 70 around the bay and all of us in the lowtomid 70s from thursday through sunday so that does include saturday on valentines day. Valentines day picnic, such a romantic, mike. Strawberries, chocolate. You know. Wipe is in for a treat. I hope so. Now, not so much in for a treat if you travel to the richmondsan rafael toll plaza the cars are clocking in the far rate and it is wet with rain falling in some parts of the bay area as mike has been telling us mixed with the wind it will be treacherous. The san mateo bridge crossing the water from hayward to foster city traffic is building and we are moving along and we her the metering lights were turned on at the bay bridge toll plaza and we have a high wind advisory and it is a mess in Santa Cruz Mountains at highway 35 and highway nine all shut down because of the gusty conditions brought down the trees, power lines with it, and dirt is cross the road and it will be a mess until 1 00 oclock to 3 00 this afternoon so expect the closings to remain. It is almost 5 50 a powerful member of Congress Says it is time the face rethink how measles vaccinations are given and the plan to make them easier to get. We all necessity our commutes of long but part of pay area where they are longer than anyone else. At 6 00, the reason you may notice extra Friendly Service if you plan on signing up for obama care. Stay new york senator schumer is urging the centers for Disease Control to make measles shot frees and widely available like the flu vaccine after the centers for Disease Control said 102 people in 14 states have contracted the illness. He is urging thes have centers to provide vaccination to schools and health clinics. Health officials recommend Young Children get two doses and adults get one booster. Measles was said to have opinion eradicated in the United States in 2000 but it is coming back because of lowered vaccination rates. New data finds the time for commuters to get to and from work is greater than bay area average. The metropolitan Transportation Commission finds as a region the average bay area commuter takes 28. 1 minute to get do work. For marin drivers that number is 28. 6 minutes. The longest commutes in the bay area were recorded in 2000 during the. Com dot. Com boom when it took 29. 4 minutes and a hockey ring will be installed at levi stadium with a trailer called nhl ice laboratory, arrives from toronto this afternoon and that will begin the count down to the first ever outdoor nhl game in northern california. The Los Angeles Kings will play on saturday february 21. It will be warm the next few days. Mike . We start with San Francisco, and we will work around the bay through the morning today at 61 for average today we are 63 near the lowtomid 70s on thursday and friday and saturday including valentines day and records are in the midtoupper 70s. And still have a chance of healthy snow 36 through the heart of the sierra into lake tahoe through 4 00 this afternoon. You can see it is snowing all way down to the grapevine but not kuwait into the grapevine and mainly north of yosemite we have the showers and snow and rain throughout the afternoon hours. In the Santa Cruz Mountains we have a full closing at highway 9, due to power lines that came down involving trees that were blown over during the winds and dirt is all over. It will be a mess until early this afternoon. As we swing up to the peninsula along 2ator and 101 it does not matter which one you take we are moving along at top speed and the san mateo bridge is under a high win advisory and the dumbarton bridge is moving along nicely from newark to east palo alto. A big step in the state capital that could change how we get around in hour home. Lawmakers want to reduce gasoline consumption by 50 percent by the year 2030. To do that they want to have more of a use of Public Transportation and swift to electric and hybrid vehicles and get half of the energy to wind and solar in five years. The proposal is if line with governor browns state Climate Change goals. Lawmakers will rent their proposals to the state senate tomorrow. Space spacex will attempt to add a rocket on a barge. They will try this afternoon expecting launch time to be at 3 307, pacific time. The music world is likely still celebrating. My gosh i have to try and Say Something without crying. Big night for sam smith taking whoever four grammys including song and record of the year. Beyonce and Pharrell Williams won three and beck shot the fellow performers when he won album of the year including kanye west who pretended to reenact when he interrupted taylor swifts acceptance speech a few years back. We have a complete of winners on our website at abc7news. Com. The worst of the weekend storm is gone but the cleanup remains with a home where neighbors got quite a scare. New connection Energy Drinks may have to a common childhood disorder. We are watching weather and traffic through the entire commercial break looking at the bay bridge toll live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. At 6 00, live doppler hd tracking scattered showers and meteorologist mike nicco will tell us where drivers may need their wipers for the morning commute. The person person in the bizarre San Francisco Death Investigation dies himself. Coming up what a friend is revealing about his final moments. Buster posey on the green. The surprising admission that the giants star catcher is making as he tees it up at pebble beach. And world series champion testing his skill on the link . You just said it. Thank you for joining us. Leyla gulen is here and meteorologist mike nicco is over there and more on the rain we still have a little bit out there. Storms give us the last best shot cross the north bay and live doppler 7 hd shows calistoga road and Montgomery County drive and 12 around santa rosa and as i widen it out, you can see they are moving south to southwest or west southeast to northnortheast so westeast this morning so any part of napa county could get wet. Here is the other thing you need to worry about emeryville is gusting to around 25 to 30 Miles Per Hour across the bay water so the 12 hour day manner, 52 to 60 with showers and breezy through afternoon in the north bay and coupler this afternoon and dry with pockets of sunshine and upper 50s to low 60s. You have a high profile vehicle you have an
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