Shoulder. Moving northbound we can see the day bridge plaza, in official metering lights on but you will find delays for cashpaying folks. Otherwise your car pool and fast track lanes are moving nicely. New this morning, a justreleased report says San Francisco muni overtime costs are over budget, and abc7 News Reporter joins us live from the station with an employee who took an unbelievable amount in overtime. That is right. The San Francisco chronicle is reporting that mull multiple muni employees made mother than 100,000 in overtime. The average worker, working 40 hours a week works about 2,000 hour as year. Some clocked in 4,000 hours in a year. One mechanic made an extra 164,000 for clocking in 2,000 hours of overtime. The chief says the mechanic was paid for overnight work, on a new train control system when trains did not run. Ten supervisors made more than 100,000 in overtime pay alone for the 2011 and 1212 fiscal year. One worked street corners keeping an eye on buss and trains and helping out in emergencies, and this supervisor clocked the most hours with 2,262 hours of overtime, earning an extra 147,000 on top of salary. We have a call in for a response to the shocking numbers and we do expect to have that coming up on abc7 at 11 a. M. Reporting live for San Francisco. New this morning in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, San FranciscoPublic Schools are initiating active shooter drills. The officials are working on Safety Policies in the event of a shooter on School Grounds including preparing for digital floor plans for all San FranciscoPublic Schools, so police can download on computer. The mapping of the School Grounds is critical for first responders. In connecticut, the one month anniversary and parents of the Sandy Hook Elementary School have different opinions on what should be done with their school. 200 people attended a meeting at newtown, connecticut, high school and someant the school demolished and others want it renovated and the areas removed and another meeting is set for this week. Police in santa cruz are searching for a man who grab add 12yearold while walking home from school. Police released this sketch after the victim provided details of the description to investigators. She was not injured. The suspect was seen running up a flight of stairs and someone took this photo of him right there, Santa Cruz Police would like anyone with information on the case to call. Amen dough and Mendocino County will fight the government over marijuana permitting program. They want to know who applied for permits. The county says that is legally protected information in california. San Mateo City Council will hear from both sides whether a new 7 11 store should be allowed to stay home that opened on Christmas Day on north san mateo drive. Some fear this increases crime and protested before the store opened claiming it violates local zoning laws. It is zoned if housing although a store once occupied the site under a special exemption. Next up, atlanta, the San Francisco 49ers are ready to play the falcons on sunday with the winner going to the super bowl. The 49ers beat the packers on saturday night at candlestick with a recordsetting performance by the quaterback and they the falcons beat the seahawks. The championship title is on the line on sunday at the georgia dome. At the niners prepare to take on the falcons fans are sharing pray off pride. A viewer sent this picture of a happy couple tailgating. Wonder if she did this Face Painting . Do you like that . Pretty intimidating. Another intimidating fan, the owner says he had the niners gear on for a game day barbecue on saturday. Intimidating is better, i think. Look at that expression. That is game face. 6 36. Traffic is weather, together, next on abc7 morning news with a look outside from the rooftop camera. You can see the bay bridge. It is cold. We even have reports of black ice. That is coming up and mike will have the forecast. Check this out, General Motors takes the wraps off the first new corvette in nine years and the new car is making welcome back. We will check out the 24 hour temperature change. Yesterday was so cold. We set records in many areas yesterday. We have oakland at one degree cooler and Half Moon Bay is four degrees cooler. And los gatos is the same, and one degree cooler in San Francisco and ten degrees cooler in fairfield. And look at redwood city and los gatos at 29 degrees where it is coldest. In the afternoon, total sunshine and breezy and upper 40s to mid50s. Good news on the Mountain View area with a stalled bus now cleared from the lanes so you will find traffic moving nicely. North 680 the accident in the center divide, no problems getting by there. And we have road work still out there, northbound, alameda, ramp to sub880, closed for another 40 to 50 minutes until 7 00 this morning doing repaving projects. 87 through san jose moving nice lion the h. P. Pavilion working northbound on 87 toward 101. Kristen and eric . Thank you. Start your engines. New video shows the first new redesigned corvette in nine years. General motors unveiled the 2014 corvette yesterday in detroit at the north American International auto show, the most powerful corvette ever, the base model comes with a 450 horse power and 6. 2liter v8. The sports car exceeds the 26 Miles Per Hour current models and goes on sale this fall at 50,000 to start. Ladies, can we start our engines . I dont know if you want to drive one. It looks good, though. Robin roberts, a big announcement on Good Morning America today that you will love. We will bring it to you. But, first, royal due day. We know when to expect the Little Prince san rafael, south bay, pleasanton and all bay area, this is abc7 news. Welcome back. Although the temperatures are not as cold as yesterday, the winds are out there and it feels almost as cold with eightmileperhour wind at livermore and nine in novato and sixmileperhour wind in san jose. Temperatures around 32 inland at 7 00 to nearly 40 around the bay and to the coast. Upper 40s at noon and near 50 for the afternoon and back in the 30s and 40s by 7 00. Moving forward we will have warmer afternoons and mid50s tomorrow, midtoupper 50s on wednesday, and mid50s to low 60s by thursday. Kristen . New this morning, britains royal pal has announced this summer Prince William and kate will be welcoming their new arrival. The palace says the royal baby is due in july. The couple are advertising for a servant to attend the Royal Household duties including cooking and cleaning to be a personal assistant and chauffeur. New this morning, frances Ruling Socialist Party is refusing to back down on plans to legalize samesex marriage a day after hundreds of thousands of people turned out in protest. The large crowd demonstrated yesterday in paris angry over plans to girlfriend samesex marriage the right to marry and adopt children. This morning, though, french president said he will press on with the measures hoping to have legislation before parliament by the end of this month. In china a thick soup of pollution is covering the country and is called air apocalypse. This shows the scene in beijing. Air monitors call the pollution hazardous and say this is the worst it has ever been in china and some highways are closed and flights have been canceled at the airports. Redwood shores oracle has an emergency fix for Java Software because of fears of Identity Theft after a warning from Homeland Security who advised users to disable the software on computers to avoid hacking attacks. But some researches say security flaws still remain in the software. Apple is kitting down on orders for parts for iphone 5. The wall street journal has been told they have cut orders for screens and other parts. It is not clear why they are cutting down on parts but rumors suggest they could introduce a cheaper iphone some year but an executive dismissed the rumors last week. We have reports this morning of black ice on a key highway along the peninsula and mike is saying the temperatures will support that. Some areas it is cold this morning. Other areas, the winds have capped so this is a microclimate situation. It is good to remember, during this cold snap, any morning we will be dealing with freezing temperatures and black ice is possible. Here is a look from mount tamien , and it will be breezy this afternoon compared to yesterday afternoon. We will look at live doppler 7 hd and for radar runs, no clouds, the air is bone dry and that will lead us to another cold night tonight and colder than this morning, and 29 in redwood city and 30 at napa and 31 at santa rosa and southeast to frost at concord at 33 and everyone else is midtoupper 30s but San Francisco is 41 degrees of the everyone was freezing an the monterey bay but now santa cruz is 33 and monterey is 38. Moving forward, chilled sunshine and temperatures well below average again and do not forget the breeze especially the closer you are to water. It will be frosty inland tonight and tomorrow and the warmer afternoons will translate into remain warmer mornings starting on thursday and through the weekend. Total sunshine today, breezy. Especially brisk along the coast. It is 50 at Half Moon Bay, one of the coolest spots. And in antioch, and livermore, not making it out of the 40s today of the oakland and santa rosa is 53, the warmer spots and 51 in San Francisco and 52 in shows and 50 to 53 inland from the monterey bay. More 20s and 30s tonight, and calmer and colder during the overnight hours. Look the at areas of high pressure, dominating our weather, and the cold one overland right now, and the we warmer over the ocean that will push to the east, and push the colder air away and bring the warmer afternoons. You can see it will be near 60 thursday inland, or around the bay and inland for friday and saturday and it looks like a mild weekend. You need to wash the car, now is the good time to do it. The cold temperatures like that show reports of black ice on the peninsula. San mateo county on highway 92, at Half Moon Bay, extra caution in that area. Slick roads are in place. 580 to the Altamont Pass is busy headed into 680 and 32 minutes. The san mateo bridge from hayward to foster city, under 20 minutes so that is busy this morning. 680 from walnut creek toward the 580 junction you will find yourself at 15minute drive. Here is the busy freeway traveling from golden gate field 80 westbound beyond university to the macarthur maze very busy with a solid stream of traffic. Here is what you find at the bay bridge toll plaza, solid backup with the metering lights just turned on. Kristen and eric . 6 20. Bay area counties are ready to buy back guns and what else people are being asked to turn in. Check this out on Good Morning AmericaRobin Roberts returns if a special announcement that we will bring here we go, look at sevenday outlook it looks quiet. We have a lot of sunshine. Temperatures will get back to average on wednesday and possibly be warmerthanaverage temperatures for thursday, friday, saturday and sunday. Temperatures in the 40s to near 50 through the value valley. 29 at tahoe after the record cold 14 below zero yesterday. In this morning a member of the abc news family is counting down to her return back to normal tv. This morning on american Good Morning America you can hear the good news from Robin Roberts four months after a bone Marrow Transplant she is ready to return to the air. Doctors say the tests looked good following the battle. What all this means by doctors are waiting for this information to be able to tell me i can begin the process of returning to the anchor chair. Im coming home okay. All right. She says preparing for the return will take a few weeks but the great news is it is not months, weeks. You can hear more from robin on Good Morning America starting at 7 00 right here on abc7. Jodie foster is dominating social media after accepting the special award where she publicly referenced her Sexual Orientation for the first time. I did my coming out a thousand years ago back in the stone age in those. Very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted friends and family and coworkers and gradually proudly to everyone who knew her and everyone she met but now, i am told that every celebrity is expected to honor the details of the private life with a press conference, fragrance and a prime time reality show. She went on to talk about being a private person although she has lived her life in the public eye. Best picture brought another surprise at the golden globe awards. It goes to. Argo. The hostage thriller directed by ben affleck beat out lincoln and zero dark thirty and ben affleck got honors for argo and other winners included Les Miserables for best picture, musical or comedy. And jessica choose chastain for zero dark thirty and daniel daylewis for lincoln and you can watch oscars right here on sunday, february 24. Thank you for that french lesson. It took it for seven years and it is still not too great. Police jump in action after a man is trapped under a taxi. It is all caught on camera. A new twist on gun buy backs. What else a county is asking residents do bring in besides firearms. A little bit warmer outside today but not by much. We will tell you why and show you how people are coping in this cold. That is coming up next. Good morning, the abc7 traffic center, a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza and metering lights are on and the car pool lanes are getting by just fine and fast track lanes, as well. A new accident reported in the fremont area. We will have an update for you live from the kgo Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Good morning, monday at 6 29. Hope you had a great week end. Thanks for joining us. Now, looking at the bay, you can see it is pretty clear. It is cold. But the wind is actually helping us this morning if you can believe that. Thank you, wind. Good morning, i am kristen sze. I am eric thomas. Keeping it warmer than yesterday. It is a catch 22 it keeps the temperature up but the wind chill makes it feel cooler. It is not so frosty but only we feel the wind chill. Live doppler 7 hd shows how dry the air is. Not a cloud. Not a radar return to be found. In the 9 00, keep the pets in and keep the plants covered in the north bay and east bay and santa clara valley. If you went to bed under a frost advisory it has been dropped by the National Weather center. There are still some frosty spots hanging out from the low 50s, possibly high 40s. Breezy in the afternoon at 49 to 52 and the coast has the fastest breezes with no frost this morning and 36 to 40 and you will hang out mostly in the upper 40s in the afternoon. Now, traffic . Fremont southbound we have slowing on 680 and northbound there is an accident on the side of the road but i am seeing yellow sensors in the southbound direction so we will check back with chp and perhaps they have a direction wrong. It would not be the first time. The antioch commute headed westbound on highway four, at 20 minutes to 242 and very slow traffic from antioch typical if this time of the morning and we have a slow commute from the Central Valley under 25 Miles Per Hour moving from 205 to the Altamont Pass and it picks up slightly, not much better, by the time you read dublin pleasanton and 580 is a difficult commute this morning with 40minute drive in the westbound direction. And sluggish moving from hayward to foster city and the san mateo bridge and it looks like the eastbound direction is picking up with crowds there moving toward hayward. Thank you, at 6 31. As we have mentioned, the bay area is waking up to frigid temperatures from plants to pipes the cold is causing problems. Amy is live in the east bay. Amy . Good morning, we are in downtown livermore. We found a temperature gauge registering. Below freezing at 32 in downtown livermore with bursting pipes being a reality if this weather . A woman in walnut creek expenses it. The wipes ruptured in the cold and she said it flooded her atrium and her yard and she has not hard water. Her son has been trying to fix it. Companies that repair heaters say this cold snap has caused them to be very busy. We are receiving about from 6 to 12 a day. Six calls we can help in a couple of days but 12. That is impossible. Can you imagine not having heat and them saying we cannot get to you. It makes a hassle of a frosty car seem like something you can deal it. Easier to deal with than a house without heat or a house that has a pipe that burst. We feel a breeze and mike nicco is talking about how that is helping push the temperatures up higher, 30s, actually, an improvement from over the weekend when it was the 20 but the breeze feels very cold out here, so, no matter how you slice it whether it is winnie windy or the temperature is lower it is cold and not what we are used to in the bay area. Live in livermore for abc7 news. Thank you very were. If you see frost or frozen conditi