Outside the north bay and best chance of rain is noon in the north bay spread cross our neighborhoods by 4 00. It weakens considerably. It will be a light rain. Notice the temperatures are around 60 degrees. Frances, tell me of the accident you are following. An injury crash in walnut creek and emergency crews are en route. That can slow things down. This is northbound 680 near olympic boulevard. I put a sensor if the area to check so 60 at 68 Miles Per Hour, and friday traffic light southbound near main street heading for highway 24. That is looking good to the bay bridge toll plaza. Also fine in the san jose and early crash cleared on south 101. Guys . Frances, thank you. Good news if you drive 580 in the east bay the new express lane that goes through dublin and pleasanton and livermore opened early this morning. Here is what you need to know before you start using the lanes. Matt . Yes, open for business, a little bit early on this friday. The two eastbound express lanes are now open and you can see they will not have a big impact on the morning commute just heavy traffic heading when this morning and this afternoon, be ready with the new fast tram transponder. This video is of the lanes through the trivalley corridor as dublin, pleasanton and livermore and no cones blocking them. You need your fast track tag to use the express lane and you can designate if you drive by yourself or as a car pooler with two or threeplus people. Solo drivers pay up to 13 depending on congestion. C. H. P. Officers are watching to make sure this are no cheaters and can check your trance responder after being pulled over. It will show where they entered the corridor, where they exited, and what the transponder was set to the at time. A westbound 580 express lane is scheduled to open up for the monday morning commute, and if you are caught cheating, a car pool violation in Alameda County confidents you 500. Good do know. This morning, an honored Richmond Police officer, family man and cherished member of the community is laid to rest. A public moment memorial morning for gus vegas. The 15year veteran was shot and killed inside of his home last week. The father of his sixyearold grandson is charged in the murder. He is survived by his wife, ten children, and 20 grandchildren. A Memorial Fund for the family has stretched beyond the 20,000 goal. As of this morning as you can see there are 20,4925 donated to the campaign started by the Richmond Police. We have information on how to donate at abc7news. Com. The public memorial is set to start at 10 00 a. M. This morning at the richmond Memorial Auditorium on civic center lazy. If you plan to go get there early because the packing is limited. A memorial for the officer is follow by a private burial. In berkeley, Police Believe they have video they want you to see of the man they say has been sexually assaulted women near campus. Police confirm they are investigating three attacks, the first happened last thursday. Then on tuesday, two more happened in 20 minutes of each other. Now, the Surveillance Video shows a man Police Believe is the attacker in all of the cases and they say he is being chased in the video by one of the victims. All of victims are asian women would were walking home alone near peoples park. The suspect is described as being in his 20s, between 5 9 and 6 tall with dark curly hair or dreadlocks. Nyla parler mess are look Hayward Police are look for a missing 22yearold woman seen on saturday at a party at jackson street. Police have not said what she was wearing when she was last seen. She weighs 18 pounds. The radar tower in Santa Clara County is going to be saves. The Commission Voted to recommend the radar tower be laced on the inventory of historic resources. According to the mercury news it is in danger of being torn down. However, with the historical inventory the tower is protected inventory the tower is protected from being reyes now, a pile of wood and plastic of demolition marking the end of a sixyear fight to bring a building down and neighbors are wandering, what is next . Here are the details. It was a moment many people did not want to miss. I called my husband, i could see it from the balcony. Run down, take pictures. Neighbors came identity to see the demolition of the apartments. Look at that. How many times in director life will you have an opportunity to wake up in the morning and have the Pacific Ocean gist cbsing at your feet . All that is slept are piles of wood, plastic and appliance, a building that ever sentally lost its battle against neighbor. Been here since they had 3040 more of cliff there. Each year i have seen it go more and more. The building was red tagged six years ago because of the erosion of the cliffs along the avenue but official say they granted the demolition permit last week after a contractor cleared the building of asbestos, the work is being paid for by the prosecute owner. However, questions remain of what will happen next to the adjacent properties manage by a different owner would recently declared bankruptcy. It was red tagged in 2010 but the city has approval to take Emergency Action if necessary. This building is teetering and some are hopeful it is not another six years. I tell my friends we are clinging to the edge of the continent by our fingertips. Did you notice the heater kicking off last night . It is much colder outside this morning. Look at the midtoupper 40s increase orinda, and union fremont and fremont and nearly 50 the rest of the east bay shoreline neighborhood and 53 at richmond and we have 51 in San Francisco, 50 at pacifica and everyone else is in the 40s with pleasanton a cool 1309 at 41 and los gatos at 43 and napa is 42. Now, at look at sfo where we may have delays later today when rain starts to roll in, and it will be high unless it rains on top of you with mold matter, and air quality is if. Rainfall intensity before the evening commute and it will be light. Here is what is going to happen in the upper 50s to low 60s with the last push of wet weather, dry tomorrow, and a warm trend through the weekend and interest next week. I will show you how much warmer and hour by hour look at rain coming you. Now, mass transit. Frances . We are watching trains because of so many delays yesterday on ace train. Train one is on time, with no delays on bart, but heads up tonight at 10 00 p. M. , there will be 20minute delays from south hayward to fremont because of the maintenance, also, dock maintenance is going on for thebly and gold, tiburon, San Francisco ferries and bus bridge is in place. You may need extra time. Matt keller said eastbound 580 with the new car pool lanes is delay free, 73 Miles Per Hour, and what we are seeing is when slowing the usual slow and go at 20 Miles Per Hour into the Altamont Pass so the drive time from tracy to dublin is still not bad at 29 minutes. Thank you. Pollution regulators want to pay you to get rid of your woodburning fireplace. Next, the money for you and why you have to act. Fast. Makes no difference to me you will not walk away. Also, the tough talking sheriff, the line in the sign he sheriff, the line in the sign he is drawi four score and seven years ago, our [train horn blares]th to the continent. A new nation. Announcer president s day may be over, but the savings go on at sleep train. 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A lot people are tag about this, a louisiana sheriff is the latest social media star after in extremely blunt message to local gang members, captain higgi in whichs directed this to seven gang members of the gang who are at large. One if particular was singled out. You think men like these are afraid of an unedge educated 125pound punk like you that has never won a fair fight in your life and holds your gun side ways . I will meet you on solid ground any time any where, i will not wake away. He said that his men do dumbbell expresses with weights heavier than many of the suspects. If you look to replace your old wood burning fireplace, pollution regulators want to help. They are ready to offer home owners thousands of dollars to cover the cost of replacing old fireplaces with cleaner heating devices. The gold is to reduce wood smoke. 3 million is available this summer with details on how and when to apply for the program not announced yet. And el ninoinfluenced storm brought a last fresh snow to the sierra. This is the scene at donner lake with trucks stopped, traffic creeping along in the snowy and slick conditions. Further to the east the c. H. P. Sent us these photos showing a police s. U. V. In deep snow there. And this shows a closeup of how snow packed the roads are right if you. The abc news app is the perfect way to keep tabs on the storm in real time with live doppler hd on the phone and see the storm moving into where you live. That is free app by enabling push alerts. People are excited about more snow and rain in the bay area. All the snow fall is measured at 8 30 each morning and jumps 3 percent from wednesday into thursday with heavy snow. We will get more snow today. About 2 00 to 8 00 so it could look like the pictures we saw. Be careful. Rain here from the same storm and in the northern part of sonoma, sprinkles for the commute, and there could be a few sprinkles elsewhere but the real deal will come in this afternoon and san jose, one of the least likely areas to see the measurable rain, 280 and 17 is 46 degrees and partly cloudy sky and light showers and the cool of the afternoon temperatures today, dangerous surf, we have it right now and it will relax if you are headed to the beach to injury the warm weather it is fought this saturday or sunday and dry weather and warmer weather. Storm impact scale is 1, light , to 3 severe and back to 1 light rain less than quarter of an inch and breezy conditions this morning into the afternoon. The dice surf until 8 00. You can see we have light showers across the north bay where they stay from 7 00 to possibly 9 00 and there could be a few sprinkles elsewhere. Look at bigger green map at 9 00 in the north bay, yellows and oranges and it could be a pulse of moderate rain and notice that goes away at the storm moves into the heart of the bay in the afternoon hours and notice the shield itself starts to dissipate as it heads into the south bay during the evening hours. That is why if you head out this morning, you will not need the umbrella, quarter inch of rain in santa rosa and. 1 in San Francisco. My sevenday outlook shows tomorrow we have temperatures in the 30s and 40s to start and end up in the mid60s, close to average. 70 at the bay on sunday and lowtomid 70s on sunday. Spring is coming back. The remark is recovering from the early crash in walnut creek and this was on northbound 680 at olympic, cleared from the left lane. There was brief slow but now we are close to 70 Miles Per Hour. Slowing in the southbound direction, either, i will take you to a few camera shots and you can see and enjoy the friday lite traffic, san mateo bridge , westbound out of hayward into foster city across the span of 14 minutes and if you are head to the richmond and san rafael bridge not too many folks and to the toll plaza and up to the lake tahoe area right now no chains are required but you will reasonable need them later on this afternoon if you are heading there this weekend. Reggie . Thank you. A new app hopes to give muni rider as better prediction when the next train or bus is arriving if San Francisco. It is called swiftly launched yesterday. It will compete with munis next bus that uses g. P. S. Data on the buses and trains to predict when they will arrive. If you have cable you pay like this news the ftc voted to allow consumers to get cable tv using something other than a cable box. That means viewers could soon be able to get cable from apple tv boxes, google droid and roku when the Technology Catches up. A final vote is a few months away. Walmart workers raising the minimum wage from 9 to 10 hour including some managers which is one of the largest ever pay raises in a single day by a private company. If you are due to tax refund, a earning, the i. R. S. Said there is an alarming increase in tax scams. Here is americas money report. Good morning, topping americas money, tax scams are soaring, the i. R. S. Said email and texting scams have surged 400 percent so far this year. They are designed to get your personal information, remember the i. R. S. Does not send tax notices by email. Here is a sign of the times, smart watches are more popular than swiss watches. The hightech devices outsold the lowtech timepieces in the last converter and analysts say most of the credit goes to apple here is something a little surprising to most travelers, airline complains are up with more than 20,000 passenger complaints in 2015. That is up 30 percent from the previous year. The three Worst Airlines . Frontier and spirit and envoy. The most on time was hawaii, alaska, and tell can. Alaska, and tell can. Tonight on abc7 at eleven, authorities have failed to clean up the boats that break free and crash into home on the other side of the bay a fascinating look at what is happening just offshore at one of the most popular tourist defendantnatings in the destinations in the world tonight at 11 00. We were at San Franciscos pier 54 for a look at the floats for the Chinese New Year parade. 2016 is the year of the monkey and the festivities last for 15 days. The parade is scheduled for tomorrow starting at 5 15 p. M. 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Traffic is friday light at the bay bridge toll plaza and look out for heavy traffic in San Francisco tomorrow evening for the Chinese New Year parade. Elsewhere we are looking good around the bay area. Five, good news if you drive 580 in the east bay, the new eastbound lanes through dublin and pleasanton and livermore require the use of a new fast track toll rag so you can use for free. Abig yahoo news the company has formed an independent committee to explore strategic alternatives. Yahoo said it will determine if proposal are in the best interest of the company as they try to recover. Valentine the baby colt rescued from a fremont ravine is closer to fining a forever home. The owner came forward and signed custody of the comet to o of the cold to the city. Ethan couch is heading back to court, the affluenza teen. The judge will decide if he is tried as an adult. If the case is transferred, he is assigned a new judge who set the terms of the ability adult probation when he turns 19. 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