Heres sue. We have our first reports of an accident heading into San Francisco, first reported near candlestick now chp is updating that saying north 101 at third, partially blocking right lane you may see slow traffic heading into the city. Lets look at the waze app, 101 through petaluma into novato spotters are reporting fog visibility could be affected. Download this app to get around your commute, free on the Apple App Store and google play. 6 02. Breaking news near livermore two chp officers injured when their car flipped during a high speed chase this is Altamont Pass, the pursuit started 3 30 this morning near isabel avenue in livermore officers were chasing a speeding driver through a Construction Zone when they flipped. Officers were taken to the hospital to be checked out. Kira klapper will have more in a live report in a few minutes. Happening now we are waiting for the u. S. Supreme court to reveal within the next hour whether it will weigh in on samesex marriage. The court is expected to announce whether it will review the legality of prop 8. Californias ban on samesex marriage. The Court May Take up federal defense of marriage act which bars federal benefits to samesex couples flash flood the court does review prop 8, a ruling will come before june if the justices refuse to hear the case Lower Court Decision declaring the ban unconstitutional would stand allowing weddings to resume within days. Stay with the abc7 morning news if announcement comes during this newscast well buy it to you right way. Storm watch in the aftermath of Weekend Storms that hit Northern California one of the hardest hit areas in a lafayette neighborhood big sinkhole there we have a reporter on scene well tell you more. On Mountain View near mount diablo boulevard. Well check in with amy hollyfield. People who live in a vallejo Mobile Home Park are back home after being flooded out over the weekend. The mobile park was under water yesterday as a creek feeding the lake overflowed whitewater rapids flowing through the middle of that Mobile Home Park. This morning the water has receded things still muddy, nobody was injured. Pg e crews still out this morning trying to restore power to 2,000 bay area homes and businesses, biggest outage north bay 700 still in the dark, east bay more than 600 customers dont have power and nearly 600 in the south bay in santa cruz county, 250 customers without power at the peak of the storm around 10 yesterday morning, there were 125,000 customers without power system wide. Stay with abc7 news as the bay area continues to cleanup following series of storms. Well have updates on air and online at abc7news. Com. New morning, Delta Airlines may be getting ready to purchase a stake of virgin atlantic. Several reports say delta is in talks now to buy a 49 stake of the airline from singapore airlines. Singapore is confirming it is in discussions. It will not provide any further details. Sir Richard Branson owns 51 in virgin and a stake in jury anyone america based at sfo. The text message turns 20 today. Has it been that long . Yes. December 3rd, 1992 the first text message was sent in the u. K. By a 22yearold tech to a coworker during a christmas party. The message read Merry Christmas. Some saying Text Messages dying out with im still, happy 20th birthday. Traffic and weather together, next on the abc7 morning news. Live look outside we see traffic moving in san jose, no problems, no rain now. Meteorologist mike nicco will have the full forecast to tell us if there is more on the way. Well also check the traffic with sue hall. n welcome back. 6 08. Live doppler picking up dry air for the morning commute. A little fog around 101 especially from petaluma into novato watch out for that. With the clouds starting to thin more fog could develop in the north bay, 39 in santa rosa and napa, everybody else in the low to upper 40s to even 50 now in San Francisco. As we head throughout the morning it is going to feel much cooler than yesterday. 12 cooler to 20, 12 San Francisco, 20 redwood city, 23 napa, need a heavier coat not one that is waterproof. Temperatures in the 40s through 7 00, 50s by noon, near 60 at 4 00, you will need that jacket at 7 00 we are back into the low to mid 50s wet weather tomorrow, wednesday and then finally dry starting thursday. East shore freeway headed past golden gate fields, 580 merges you can see getting busy, a little crowded because of cars coming together other than that things pick up nicely as you make your way in towards the macarthur maze. You are getting crowds as it gets busier bay bridge toll no metering lights yet cash folks paying a little bit of a price because they have a delay to the west grand overcrossing, carpool and fastrak moving nicely accident north 101 San Francisco partially blocking right lane past candlestick towards third. You might find slowing there coming into San Francisco. 6 10. Samesex wedding takes place over the weekend at one of the countrys top military institutions. First, a tunnel collapses on top of cars, drivers caught inside and the reason rescue efforts are suspended. 28 days to go and counting before the country could go over the fiscal cliff. The d. C. Lawmaker coming up on 6 15. More than two inches around san jose, hayward, redwood city, more than three inches in livermore, oakland, San Francisco more than four concord, fairfield, napa, seven to 15 inches in the north bay, check out the napa river, definitely the worst of it is over as you look at the flood stage being well moved away from same thing at guerneville Russian River peaked right below. All the rivers are showing much more improvement this morning. 6 13. Still on storm watch this morning in the aftermath of the weekend storm that hit Northern California one of the hardest hit areas is in lafayette. A neighborhood massive section of Mountain View drive is gone. Amy hollyfield is live with why repairs could take a while. You only have to look behind you and you get it. Reporter yeah, check out that hole behind me, imagine what kind of a monday morning these people are going to have. They have to navigate around this hole also dealing with severed lines, you can see them down there in that big hole. And they have to wait for crews to come and cleanup these huge boulders, big chunks of pavement. It is going to take a while until this neighborhood gets back to normal, city Officials Say they are not going to clear this out quickly. The street gave way 8 30 yesterday morning when the road collapsed it snapped a water sewage line, Water Service line, sewage line and damaged a water main. Part of the problem is the debris in the creek clogged a culvert when the healthy rains heavy rains fell the water started gushing on to y road which gave way city officials now have a plea for residents. When you see things piling up, go to the city, let them know theres a problem, before it becomes critical. In this case, it was a little late. Reporter city leaders say they are leaved they were able to keep raw sewage from dumping into the creek, crews why able to build a sewage bypass before the collapse. Look at this big hole they have to deal with, city leaders say it is going to be like this for a while. They want a permanent fix. That probably wont be happening until the spring. Amy hollyfield, abc7 news. New morning, authorities in japan suspending rescue and recovery work while the roof of a collapsed highway tunnel is reenforced. At least nine people died as concrete slabs fell on to vehicles yesterday, the collapse happened halfway into the three mile long tunnel west of tokyo search teams are holding out hope of finding survivors investigators state tunnels roof was just inspected in september and that inspection found nothing wrong. The port of oakland continues to get extra business this morning as a result of the continuing port strike in los angeles and long beach. Clerical workers began their strike last tuesday in a contract battle, dock workers are honoring their lines and managed to shutdown most terminals at two Southern California ports, latest numbers just in, this strike is creating losses estimated at one billion dollars a day. The white house is waiting for the next move from Congressional Republicans on a solution to averting the socalled fiscal live. Overnight the president released this new video calling for tax relief for working families with less than a month to go, republicans and democrats remain far apart. Without a deal, nearly every american will pay more income tax between 2,000 and 20 400 for the average family. We are going over the cliff, clear they made a political calculation. The president and his team demanding congress allow bush era tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 of americans to expire. Republicans have drawn a line in the sand on raising tax rates signaling they are open to raising revenue by reforming the tax code and limiting deductions for the wealth any. Nancy pelosi weighed in on the fiscal cliff while stepping out for a night of glamour. The democrat from San Francisco stroll photographers last night at the Kennedy Center honors in washington, d. C. She told reporters it would be a wonderful Christmas Gift to the American People to have a tax cut come january. The annual gala event at the Kennedy Center honored entertainment greats. They received the nations highest ward for influencing culture through art. A little bit of talent in that room, i think. I know you wanted to be there. I would have loved it. 6 18 i am lets talk about dryness, for a while, going to be and today, tomorrow this time, rain up in the north bay, wednesday at this time, definitely rain around all of our neighborhoods once again. Good morning. Looking down from Mount Tamalpais you can see some of the fog in the foreground thats what is hugging 101 from novato towards petaluma in the background high clouds keeping fox keeping fog from forming in other areas. Look at live doppler, a sight for sore eyes, wet eyes or hands or any of that stuff, that we had to deal with over the last couple of days with that heavy rain. We have a little fog again look at visibility less than a quarter of a mile at novato where most dangerous right now. As far as our temperatures running 39 in santa rosa and napa, 42 livermore and los gatos, concord, everybody else in the mid to upper 40s San Francisco 50. Monterey bay inlandna temperatures mid to upper 40s. Today high clouds and sunshine, definitely a brighter day and a drier one than weve had in a long time, wet for tuesday and wednesday, once we get past that, we could have around 10 to 14 days without rain. Heres a look at what is happening, High Pressure coming our way so is the next cold front, High Pressure wins today, a little wakeness developing in that High Pressure as low in the extending warmth might come our way the warm front going to bring us the rain overnight through morning morning this north bay, warm flow will keep us moist with light scattered rains ahead of the initial system, most of the steady rain from 80 north through at least lunch tomorrow, then starts working into the heart of the bay during the evening hours and overnight a steadier rain you can see as we wake up wednesday morning all of us dealing with a steadier rain then it will turn slowly to showers by noon wednesday, especially into the afternoon and early evening hours. By thursday, it is gone. Rainfall amounts up in the north bay mountains up to two inches up to an inch and a half north bay up to half an inch for the peninsula and south bay up to 3 4 of an inch in the east bay probably on the lower end of most of these totals. Once we get past that, temperatures seasonal, low to mid 60s dry thursday through sunday. If you your drive takes you out of novato towards marinwood and san rafael, terra linda, live look at freitas parkway towards san hey road, everything at the limit out of out of Novato Petaluma i you might expect fog, take drive times from 580 highway 4 out of antioch and san mateo bridge just about 13 minutes over towards the peninsula. Straight ahead, what do Pope Benedict xvi, lady gaga and Justin Bieber all have in common . Saying i do at one of the countrys[[7 elite military institutions. The samesex wedding making. Beautiful picture from vollmer peak, emeryville in the foreground across the bay bridge, cloud cover at the coast, fog forming there like in napa valley area and into marin county on 101. Live doppler 7 hd is quiet this morning. The entire state is mainly quiet, a few radar returns along the coast in los angeles just mist from the morning fog that is hanging around there today upper 50s to near 60 at the coast rest of us in the low to mid 60s partly sunny and dry sky. Just about 6 25. This morning Pope Benedict xvi will join the twitter. The vatican is holding a News Conference this morning to launch his personal account. His twitter handle will be the pope will tweet in six languages he sent out his first last year from a vatican account which tweets news about the pontiff. Landmark church at west Point Military academy in new york state marked a milestone over the weekend, first ever samesex wedding. They exchanged vows saturday. Senior Army Chaplain officiated. Fulton is a west point graduate. They had a civil Commitment Ceremony in 1999 have now formally tied the knot. New york state legalized samesex last year. Moraga toon didnt add eagle scout award because hes gay will be honored by the last year the souths say he violate today ryan will be honored at the opening session of the assembly by openly gay speaker john perez. Raider nation we want to see your team pride email your umfb fan photos to urepor. We will show them on air during our special raiders day edition of abc7 news at 4 00, thursday. At 5, watch manning and broncos take on the raiders here on abc7. Which will give the raiders the edge they need to beat those broncos. Still ahead, just minutes from possibly learning the fate of samesex in california. Supreme court is expected to release key decision any moment well break down what could happen and whats next. Overnight on the run in the east bay, pursuit caught on camera. How officers finally took that driver into custody. California Highway Patrol car crashes and overturns during a high speed chase. The Police Officers to the hospital and their current conditions. Sue hall following monday morning commute in the traffic0. Relatively light compared to the last couple of days wall at weather we had right now looking at live shot of the bay bridge toll, metering lights on sluggish into San Francisco on upper deck, accident in San Francisco north 101 ill have an update when good morning. 6 30 on this monday morning. Thanks for joining us. Lets check in with meteorologist mike nicco. It is dry out there good morning. Check out live doppler 7 hd spinning on top mount st. Helena waiting for the next storm which will be tonight into tomorrow for now it is showing dry conditions. Around the bay today mainly cloudy this morning mid to upper 40s brighter by noon into the afternoon well top out in the mid 50s to around 60, cooler 7 00 grab a coat, low to mid 50s. 7 00 inland fog in the north bay valleys, cloudy elsewhere, partly sunny in the upper 50s by 4 00, you will need a jacket during the evening, 40s to low 50s. Coast calm, cool morning, 40s to near 50, top out in the mid 50s during a dry afternoon. Hayward towards clawiter and toll, san mateo bridge looking good, live shot tail lights towards the highrise up and over foster city san mateo 15 minute drive fairly typical for this time of the morning either direction between the east bay and peninsula and the peninsula and east bay still with roadwork eastbound 580 greenville to north flynn picked up 11 eastbound reverse commute westbound is slowing with a 30 minute drive from the Altamont Pass up and over into the livermore and dublin pleasanton area. 6 31. Happening now we are waiting for the u. S. Supreme court to reveal at any moment, whether it will weigh in on samesex. The court is expected to announce between 6 30 and 7 00 this morning our time whether it will review the legality of prop 8, californias ban. The Court May Take up federal defense of marriage act which bars federal benefits to samesex couples. If the Court Reviews prop 8, a ruling would come before june. If justices refuse to hear the caseler Court Decision declaring the ban unconstitutional to stan allowing marriages to resume within days. Stay with the abc7 morning news if announcement comes during this newscast well bring it to you right way. Breaking news, two chp officers recovering after their patrol car flipped on the Altamont Pass during an Early Morning pursuit. Kira klapper joins us live from the chp office in dublin. Reporter good morning ma