Was it a hard place to get to . laughs it wasnt too bad. With the chase mobile app, jimmy chin can master depositing his hard earned checks in a snap. Easy to use Chase Technology for whatever youre trying to master. Good morning, bay area. Lets get up and get going. And good morning. It is thursda, january 5. Im reggie aqui. Im natasha zouves. We have Jessica Castro here, good morning. Alexis smith and mike nicco bringing us one dry day to enjoy. Were going to make the most of it. Im not sure how to read your body language and tone with that one, but im thinking its positive. I think friday for the most part is going to be dry also. So lets try to squeeze in too but then saturday, sunday, monday, youll complete plooe forget about those dry days. Highway 12, 116, all those areas affected. It is quiet this morning. Temperatures mid 30s to mid 40s, upper 40s with increasing sunshine today. More on the big storm next. And also off to a great start on the roads, especially considering how busy things were yesterday. Just one incident here. The morello onramp sounded like a tanker truck slid off the roadway, chp is saying, thats not true. But just a minor issue right now. Well take a look at some fairly light drive times coming up next. The red Tag Department building in pacifica teetering on a crumbling cliff above the ocean is finally coming down. The city council decided to demolish it last night. Amy hollyfield is live with what happens next. Reporter reggie, they say this building can collapse any minute now, you see its got a protective fence in front of it and you see all fence. Ocean view now blocked by this protective fence but now the city is ready to take it one step further. The cliff is eroding quickly, especially over the last several weeks. Officials are worried pieces of this Apartment Building will fall into the ocean and contaminate it with lead and asbestos. The Property Owner is not going to pay for the demolition. He has declared bankruptcy so the city of pacifica has decided to do it. This is not simple for the city to do and in fact, if the implications of having it fall to the beach werent so dire, in other words, the cost being so much higher, we would not be taking these action. Reporter this demolition will cost the city about 200,000. That will come out of the citys discretionary fund. The city Council Voted unanimous unanimously to do this. This will be the third Apartment Building here on esplanade to be demolished. The work could start as early as next week if the weather cooperates. Live in pacifica, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. In santa cruz county, crews are working overtime to get roads in shape. The roads are not in good condition. Crews are working to clear mud slides off of the road. Theyre also working with pg e pg e where trees have come down on to the power lines. A lot of residents are watching the san lorenzo river. You can see the drains feeding the river are almost full. There have been plenty of closures because of the flooding and gilroy, the creek overflow crowsing Christmas Hill park. North bay drivers were not slowing down a bit on todd road. Take a look on highway 1 near valley ford, another driver made a typical mistake and you know the general rule, if you cant see the yellow line, you have to turn around. The woman got trapped there and was eventually carried to safety by a milk truck delivery man. Boats cut loose from tuesday nights storm floundered on the roksz. Most of the boats came from sausalito. If youre thinking about heading up to the sierra, make other plans. Eastbound 80 is closed to certain big rigs. It was closed in both directions yesterday because of all the snow. Trucks blocked most of the freeway until crews were able to tow them out. There was so many accidents. And a semi was always involved. Boom, boom, boom. Were going to run our graders up there, clean out some spots in front of them, get them we can get our equipment moving again. Thats the big egs thing. If we keep our equipment moving, the roads are going to be fine. If you are Still Deciding to go, chains are required on i80 right now to the nevada state line. The approaching storm may force yosemite to close because of flooding. It caused extensive damage to roads and campgrounds in the late 90s. The damage was so bad it forced the park to close for go months while if repairs were made. Officials will decide in the next day or two whether to shut down the park. They are concerned that intense rain will bring the river well above the flood level. And you can track the approaching storm with the abc7 news app. We have live doppler 7 there any time. Make sure to enable push alerts to get weather advisories on your phone or tablet. This is breaking news coming in. An oil platform is on fire in the gulf of mexico right now, and the coast guard actually just rescued four people. Those people actually jumped into the cold gulf waters to escape from the fire. Its all happening 80 miles south of grand isle, which is off the coast of louisiana. Flames could reportedly be seen around 2 30 this morning. In the last few minutes, though, i have seen reports showing that they have a handle on it and its almost out. Ill be watching for any images that come in from that area. No word if anyone else was on the platform although it does seem at this point that everyone is safe. Back to you. Thank you. Coma police need your help finding a man who spat on a pregnant employee at a fast food restaurant. Detectives shared this image on the man on facebook frozen from the Surveillance Video inside of the restaurant. Witnesses say the trouble all started when the man complained about his order. Youre now looking at the car that he drove away in. Bay area Police Unions calling for the removal of a Student Painting depicting officers in a negative light. Our media partner obtained a picture of the painting. This is said to portray social injustice. It actually won a congressional art competition last year. The painting is now hanging at the u. S. Capitol but san jose, oakland, and San FranciscoPolice Unions are now calling on House Speaker paul ryan to remove it, saying the painting is disrespectful and that it could actually endanger thelize of officers. An escaped sex offender wanted in Washington State is in custody this morning after making it all the way to the bay area. Our media partner reports officers arrested 35yearold george blare at a homeless camp near the North Berkeley safeway on tuesday. They say that he escaped from a Community Custody program in spokane in october and had been on the run ever since. He failed to registe as a sex offender following a california conviction in the late 90s. Hes being held without bail. The white house wants to speed up plans for californias controversial delta tunnels project. The administration is ordering federal officials to finish a preliminary Environmental Review of the 15 billion plan this month. It is a big step toward construction of the two tunnels that are intended to carry water from the San Joaquin Delta to the bay area. Critics say diverting water would hurt fish and wildlife. Supporters say the tunnel would boost the water supply for 25 million californians. All right, what were dealing with, Cool Conditions and eventually gusty winds. Lets talk about the Cool Conditions first. Look at that, 41 in san ramon and black hawk, lafayette 42, just about everybody else, 44 to 46 degrees in our east bay inland neighborhoods chblt lets take a look at the rest of our neighborhoods. Good morning to you. 45, same thing in San Francisco, pacifica 43 but look how much cool erp. Heres my concern. Its 33 degrees in santa rosa. Got really thick fog which means a lot of moisture just hanging in the air ready to cling on to something and freeze if it gets down to 32. So alexis and i are going to keep an eye on the chances of black ice the next hour to hour and a half up around santa rosa. As far as temperatures, the sun will come out rather quickly this morning but will still be chilled. Same thing tomorrow with increasing clouds and then look it gets much warmer saturday as the rain rolls in. Now, our fastest winds are going to start saturday evening around 8 00, getting up to 40 Miles Per Hour sunday morning and theyll hang in the 40 mirp range through about 3 00 sunday afternoon so thats going to be when we have our greatest chance of wind damage and power outages. Good morning, mike. And were off to a quiet start right now so enjoy it while it lasts, certainly a lot better conditions than yesterday and this cometing weekend. San mateo bridge, 24 hours ago we were soaked. But today, everything moving along just fine. And drive times are looking good too. Westbound 580, starting to see some stop and go traffic. Southbound 680, 17, and northbound 85, youre also in the green at 17 minutes. We have some changes today, some Service Changes for San Francisco bay ferry. I will talk about those coming up next. Who can forget this video of a Police Officer punching a woman in the face . Coming up, what he did just hours before he was about to be fired. We have a lot of calls on the office and we are so busy right now. Big uptick in business for them with every downpour, how long you may have to wait to get a leaky roof fixed. And abc7 news now shows us and abc7 news now shows us the bay bridge anything with a screen is a tv. Stream 130 live channels. Plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. You can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. Only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. Download the xfinity tv app today. Heres your receipt. Have a nice day thank you. Start the car start the car start the car start the car the ikea winter sale. Wooooooo get up to 50 off select items. Now through january 10th. Ikea 5 13, welcome back and look at this incredible video, this rescue on a frozen lake in Washington State. Two teenagers are now recovering after they fell through the ice there, and you can see two firefighters trying to get one of the boys. They do eventually pull him to safety using a rope. The other teen managed to get out of the lake on his own. The 15yearolds were taken to the hospital for treatment. Crews believe the boys spent about 28 minutes in that freezing water. And arizona Police Officer caught on camera punching a woman in the face resigned just hours before the department was going to fire him. Cell phone video from november shows the altercation. You see it here in just a second. And there you go. The flag staff Police Department was going to fire the officer yesterday. He ended up calling in the morning and resigned before they got to it. The officer claims that he was defending himself, saying the woman kicked him first. She denies that claim. No charges have been filed yet as two investigations are now underway. The university of california plans to raise tuition for the first time in six years. Under the proposal, tuition would increase by 282 and the Student Services fee would increase by 5 54. The university estimated that Financial Aid would cover the increases for about twothirds increases for about twothirds of the universitys california residents. Campuses a campuses are scrambling to pay for more class officers. You might be thinking about the safety of ski area chair lifts. Reporter in this mornings gma first look, its the heart stopping video of a young boy dangling from a ski lift. Hang in there, bud. Reporter look closely. His backpack is holding him up. Workers at the Sun Dance Mountain ski resort immediately stopping the ride to get the boy down. We just couldnt believe what we saw. We looked at each other and it was initial shock to witness Something Like that. Reporter within minutes, success. Success. But it might have been we know your arms are hurting. Reporter another boy, 11 years oeltd, also got stuck the same way. The National Ski Areas association tells us riding a ski lift is even safer than riding an elevator and coming up at 7 00 a. M. , well show you the dos and donts of staying safe. 5 16 now and with a big storm headed to the bay area this weekend, roofers are urging residents to check the roofs of their home. Crews were at this home yesterday putting tarp on the roof. Contractors say leaks are not always found in the roof. When you have a lot of wind, that can create a lot of different types of leaks. Not all necessarily related to the roof. Could be window leaks, could be siding and stucco leaks, chimney leaks, things of that nature. Contractors are urging you not to delay when you see the first sign of a leak because once the big rain comes, it can be disastrous. And mike was saying yesterday that what were expecting this weekend is going to be the strongest storms hes seen in many years. Yeah, especially saturday night and into sunday. Thats what weve got to be the most prepared. You might wake up, might not have power, you may wake up because an area near you is flooding so thats how serious sunday mornings going to be. Whats serious this morning is the fog. The absolute inability to see at times from petaluma to santa rosa more than a quarter of a mile ahead of you, so please slow down there. Plus, could get some black ice developing on bridges andover passes. Templ temperatures getting close to freezing there. Dryer air and sunshine this afternoon. Let the umbrella have a break. Cold is tonight, some frost in our deepest valleys. Friday will be dry but heavy rain this weekend. Heres a look at todays temperature. 50 at Half Moon Bay to san jose at about 54, most of us right around 52 to 53. Well be around 29 in danville and alamo, otherwise low to mid 30s inland. Even frost around palo alto, redwood city. Storm impact scale for saturday, moderate, showers becoming downpours. The winds picking up in the latter parts of the evening hours and then sunday, the storm will hit us with its hardest punch. Its going to be strong with that morning heavy rain, flooding concerns and wind damage in the morning as we could get up to 3 inches in our neighborhoods to even 5 and 6 inches in the mountains. My accuweather seven day forecast. A little bit of a break monday, another potent storm tuesday that will taper into wednesday. Good morning. Were enjoying the calm weather for now. We do have that fog in the north bay so use caution there but overall its a pretty quiet start here to the thursday morning commute. We do have a tanker stuck in the mud. Thats not causing any big slowdowns. They may have to block a lane but emergency crews are on the scene and so far thats really a nonissue. Issue are San Francisco bay ferry this morning. Mechanical the vallejo 6 30 and 8 30 a. M. Trips will be replaced by bus service. Return fripz from San Francisco will be replaced by buses and the alleged oakland 7 25 and 7 40 trips all out canceled this morning. This is due to those mechanical issues. We will take a look at our drive times coming up. The makers of a pillow that you probably seen advertised over and over again on television is now being accused of lying to its customers. The Better Business bureau has downgraded the rating of my pillow from an a minus to an f. Youre looking at a you tube video. You probably recognize this. The bureau says a special two for one offer is really the regular price. My pillow says its disappointed in the rating downgrade and would make changes later in the year. A spokesperson says that he is very sorry and called Customer Service the most important thing. The annual Consumer Electronics show officially opens today in las vegas. A lot of buzz about some of the advances in technology that are about to be unveiled. Michael finney has a look. Reporter from appliances to automobiles, gadgets are learning to talk to each other and maybe even to you. Amazon echo. Reporter the echo proved to be a popular gift this past holiday. Amazon announced days before christmas that it had sold out. Whirlpool will showcase a host of products that be be controlled through your smartphone. You get these things for the pure novelty of it. Reporter Consumer Reports says after the fun wears off, functionality takes over. The interconnectivity to the internet will make it easier for your appliances to get software updates, even a diagnostic to identify needed repairs. People will just sort of expect this of their appliances. Reporter cars are already beginning to talk to each other too. The new vehicle to vehicle or v to i, vehicle to infrastructure technology, is already here. Audi has a system that does it right now. Thats cars talking to each other, in other words, to avoid collisions, for instance, and provide warnings to the drivers. Or talking to infrastructure like stoplights, for instance. The audi system allows you to see how much time is left before the light turns green. Reporter fleets of selfdriving cars are already being tested in Mountain View but Consumer Reports says, dont expect to see these in wide use outside of these test areas. He says more detailed mapping needs to be done. Its going to take a long time for the data about those roads to really become useful enough to these systems that you can expect to drive a selfdriving car. Michael says one drawback to all this connectivity is a loss of our privacy. He says Pay Attention to how the data is used after its