Thank you very much. Great run. Thanks for the support. The future looks great. We have a long team. My son will get his first super bowl, i have seen five. He will get his first and they will get it next year. Here is a quick shot of davis driving away, he had the window down so fan could see him, and Mike Crabtree did the same at Team Headquarters in santa clara. They have another year at candlestick before they play in the santa clara new stadium. Players think next year is a big one, they will take what they have learned from this season, from this loss. It will make them better, and maybe a super bowl next year. Certainly they will get questions about that at the press conference this morning. Live in santa clara, for abc7 news. A just released study ranks traffic in the bay area among the worst in the nation, a report from texas a m shows washington, dc is at the top, los angeles is number two and San Francisco is oakland are tied for number two and new york city is number four. Coming up in the next half hour, Cornell Bernard will breakdown this new report including how were time you are spending in traffic. Also new this morning, private shuttles have another stop in San Francisco with an 80 stop on van ness at union street reserved for pickups between 6 00 a. M. And 10 00 a. M. , and the private stop is meant to prevent clashes between shuttles and muni buses during the busy morning commute hours. A woman and two children are expected to survive after being hit by a car in pittsburg last night. Miss is not said what led to the crash or if the driver was been arrested. You can see bicycles are down. One child was airlifted to the hospital. The victims name or conditions have not been releases. The fiveyearold boy rescued from alabama bunker is laughing and doing okay after a Daring Rescue by f. B. I. Agents. The suspect shot and killed a School Bus Driver and took fiveyearold ethan hostage. The file, tried the f. B. I. Tried to get the boys release but the talks were deteriorating and when they found out the suspect had a gun, they went into the bunker and the suspect was killed and they saved the boy. Happening now in florida a hearing is underway for george zimmerman, the man accused of killing unarmed teenager, Trayvon Martin, a year ago. You are looking at live pictures from the courtroom in sanford, florida. The hearing will decide whether George Zimmermans request for a delay in the trial should be granted. The trial is scheduled to get underway june 10. George zimmermans defense team wants it delayed until november. George zimmerman admitted shooting 17yearold Trayvon Martin but says he is not guilty under stand your ground law. Governor decemberry is airing ads in texas touting the business friendly regulations and low taxes and saying California Companies should check out texas. The Governor Brown is not worried saying if los angeles, everyone with half a brain is coming to california. A hearing date is now set for, giant slugger barry bonds who is appearing the obstruction of justice conviction. Oral arguments are held in front of a three judge panel of the court of appeals in San Francisco. The judges were appointed by three different democratic president s. Bonds was convicts of giving misleading testimony before a federal grand jury. When niners lost the super bowl, San Francisco police chief lost a bet to an old friend so that means he has to do this, the ray lewis squirrel dance, what lewis does before every ravens home game and made the bet with former oakland. Police chief and current baltimore chief of police. We made a friendly bet he had to kaepernick or i had to do the ray rue business, i will do my pose that i did the ray lewis dance and send it to tony and well close the books on last season. But the pictures will live forever. He says he will have to find a ravens hat to put on because he is not buying one. Well, the Baltimore Police chief better practice cammer kaepernicking for next season. What hispanics are saying about obamas immigration reform. Sir im gonna have to ask you to power down your little word game. I think your friends will understand. Oh no, its actually my geico app. See . I just uh paid my bill. Did you really . From the plane . Yeah, i can manage my policy, get roadside assistance, pretty much access geico 24 7. Sounds a little too good to be true sir. Ill believe that when pigs fly. Ok, did she seriously just say that . Geico. Just click away with our free mobile app. We are back on this tuesday starting off rather mild. Our coolest temperature is 41 in antioch. We have 50 in oakland and everyone else is the midtoupper 40s. Enjoy the mild temperatures. Remember the stubborn cloud cover yesterday . More so today with temperatures in the midtoupper 50s. Moving forward we have more sunshine but temperatures are the same tomorrow with light showers possible from the thursday commute and the chance lingers on friday but a small chance and just more about the cooler conditions on friday than the rain. Sue . Eastbound highway four, fortunately, the we verse commute, pittsburg, reports of an accident blocking the lane. Westbound is slowing from antioch moving toward the pittsburg area so we will follow that. From the Central Valley, sluggish from tracy and it picks up through livermore and 80 eastbound at redwood parkway the accident is out of the lane. This could just be a trickle of slowing. Walnut creek, a few brake lights and it is sluggish at the 24 junction. Kristen and eric . Former cal football coach could be out of a job but he will not have to worry about bouncing checks getting up to 5. 5 million in a Settlement Agreement with the university. He was fired this season after 39 record. Cal growed pay 1. 6 million this year, 1. 8 million next year, and 1. 59 million in 2015. He is the all time winningest coach with 8250 record with the team. A poll showing a slip for president obama when it comes to a group that helped him get elected. But, first, sevenday ordeal ends for a fiveyearold boy in alabama, the hightech equipment santa clara, San Francisco, east bay, and all the bay area this is abc7 news. 6 15. Lets look at cloud forecast. It is thick. Watch house stubborn it remains during the morning and the early afternoon. You can see the cold front coming through. It is quiet. From noon to 3 00 or 4 00. Behind it, we will see sunshine late if the day. Temperatures until then are in the 40s. 50s at noon and lowtomid 50s and midtoupper 50s at 4 00. This evening, a light jacket and mid40s to low 50s. Christian . This morning, the fiveyearold boy held hostage in alabama bunker for a week is free. The captor is dead. We are learning how the rescue mission went down. Now more on that Daring Rescue. Good morning, kristen. Exactly a week ago the boy was snatched and held captive and this morning we can report that the best possible news he is safe. We are told he is doing well. This morning, the little boy held captive for seven days is safe. Ethan, in this photograph here, celebrates his 6th birthday tomorrow surrounding by family. He was taken to a hospital for treatment and said to be physically unharmed. He is laughing. Joking. Playing. Eating. The things you would expect a normal five to sixyearold to do. The suspect, 65 years old, is dead after the f. B. I. Agents stormed the bunker. Abc learn that authorities inserted a high desk camera and monitored his movements and used an explosive and neutralized him after becoming increasingly concerned he could act out. He was observed holding a gun, at this point, f. B. I. Agents, fearing the child was in imminent danger, entered the bunker and rescued the child. The stand off began on tuesday when he boarded a school bus. He said i will kill you. He shot and killed the bus driver and snatched ethan. The boy was held in a 6 by 8 underground bunker. The swat team negotiate through a ventilation pipe. Law enforcement flew drones over the house looking for signs he was alive and ways to rescue him. Authorities say they handled the situation slowly in order to keep ethan safe. You have to be extremely careful because any sort of device you might use against him could obviously harm ethan because he is right there. Interest in the stand off extended beyond alabama, and even president obama praised authorities for saving the boy. Thank you. New this morning, president obama is enjoying a high Approval Rating with hispanics, a poll shows 70 percent of hispanics now approve of the president s job performance, down 5 percent from december but still ahead of what the president polls during the middle of his Reelection Campaign last summer. The poll comes as the president starts the push for immigration reform. We will see a change in the weather starting this morning. It is milder. Mike has the forecast. Absolutely. Lets get to it at 6 18, the bay bridge shows they are not practicing with the lights. It was beautiful to watch. We will see the clouds looking to the port of oakland. The clouds are showing up on live doppler 7 hd but no radar runs reinforcing the air is tie dry for rain. The clouds have kept temperatures up this morning and as they move in, the high clouds will keep our sunshine dim during the afternoon hours and that will hold temperatures close to average if not cooler than yesterday. 41 in antioch for the low end and 50 on the high end and antioch is the only one in the low 40s so address accordingly and midtoupper 40s around the monterey bay and inland. Today, sunny, and the cold front will come through quietly and open us up for cooler night tonight, and more sunshine tomorrow before the next cold front comes in on thursday and friday and bring as chance of wet weather and that passes, brighter and warmer weather for the weekend. Highs to the east, a huge looking system but the moisture is to the north and the entire system is pushing the High Pressure that has been keeping us dry and seasonal. This will move through quietly today but it does not have moisture and you can see the back side, this is the cooler air and the sunshine for tomorrow as we go back further on the jet stream, or upstream, if you will, we have a greater chance of showers on thursday but not very impressive. Here we are thursday morning, as we start the morning rush hour, and a chance of rain possible in the north pay with drizzle for the rest of us and you can see right through the heart of rush how, the north bay, the central bay, is the most likely to get wet as we end rush hour the storms are moving in the south bay and by noon for the most part they are out of here and headed to the south. As we look upstream there is a chance of a scatter shower on thursday afternoon and, again, friday. But a very small chance we are talking. 1. Temperatures in the midtoupper 50s and in the same range tomorrow, with more sunshine, and you can see the cooler weather for friday so if we get the scatter showers the snow level could be around 3,000 or 2,500. Saturday and sunday and monday increasing sunshine and the warmer weather. We go back to the pittsburg area eastbound c. H. P. Arriving on the scene, the reverse commute direction, and it is not blocking the lane of traffic right now. As you can see the westbound sluggish out of antioch and they are looking at under 20 minutes westbound to concord and eastbound 80 at redwood parkway a big rig and a car on the shoulder but emergency crews are blocking the right lane so there could be slowing eastbound. No bart delays with the capital corridor train 25minute delay and no caltrain delay. A new accident southbound 680 that could slow things there. Metering lights have been turned on and traffic is backed to the overpass and sluggish on the upper deck headed into the city. Thank you. It cannot happen here. Ahead, santa clara make as promise of the new 49ers stadium following the super bowl blackout new orleans. Nothing says valentines day like a box of chocolates. Which box . We have a brand new we were skipping stones and letting go over the river and down the road [ female announcer ] at Nature Valley, we know nature comes together in amazing ways. Thats why we bring together natural ingredients, like dark chocolate with toasted oats, or sweet golden honey. Perfect combinations of natures delicious ingredients, from Nature Valley. I was thinking that i hope this never ends [ female announcer ] Nature Valley granola bars, nature at its most delicious. We are back with a look at what will happen today, with cloud cover this morning, temperatures about 43 to 50 and by the afternoon, partly sunny and midtoupper 50s and this evening, breezy and decreasing clouds and 47 to 52. Now, across the state, live doppler 7 hd is quiet wherever you look, a few showers are possible around eureka, and sunny in tahoe at 48 and lowtomid 60s in los angeles and san diego. Safe travels. Here are kristen and eric. Thank you, mike. Valentines day is next week and sweet treats will no doubt be popular. And Michael Finney and our partners at Consumer Reports taste test box chocolates to find which is best. You want an unusual gift . Consumer reports say it could be a box of chocolates. There are exotic bobbons you can buy, which is one of 30 gift box chocolates Consumer Reports taste tested and rated excellent and cost 40 plus shipping. Woodhouse assortment was better, costing 90 plus shipping. This assortment has amazing flavors like cinnamon toast and pecan pie and the flavors explode in your mouth. Delicious chocolates can be expensive there are ways to save. Buying at the shop can save you the shipping cost. Signing for a newsletter or mailing list can help you find savings, too. We found good chocolates that are less expensive including ferrari collection that costs 11 sold at drugstores. They were flavorful with crispy interior coating and nuts that added interesting textures. Remember, freshly made chocolates have a short shelf life of ten to 14 days so the valentine may need some help finishing off the box. Hope you are taking note. I was. I know what chocolate she likes. Sydney, athens, london, should San Francisco be on the list . The new effort the mayor is launching to make the city by the way the host of the summer Olympic Games. Coming up first the super bowl blackout put a black eye on the superdome and officials for the new 49er stadium say it could not happen here. Bay area traffic as bad as los angeles. It is true. A Study Confirms that and showing how much we spend in live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. You got it all sorts out over there . After shuffling the papers we are ready to go at 6 30 on tuesday morning. I am eric thomas. I am kristen sze. And now to mike nicco, our meteorologist. Cloud cover and mild temperatures, good morning. No need to worry about wet weather this morning we are showing dry conditions. About 48 hours from now, we will have radar returns tracking rain for thursday and friday. Today, we will break it down region by region. The bay is cloudy and hazy through 7 00. Mostly cloudy at noon and midtoupper 40s and by 4 00, we will partly sunny and less sunshine that yesterday and mid50s to around 60. If you are inland, it is overcast through the Morning Hours and not so bright as noon, especially the eastbound valley at 47 to 52 and by 4 00 we are cooler than yesterday, midtoupper 50s and at coast we had a lost stubborn clouds we can do the same today, 43 to 489, temperatures from new to 7 00, and brighter by 4 00 at 52 to 56. Clearing skies tonight and cooler weather on the way for tomorrow, and i will show you that coming up in the forecast. Here is traffic. Sue . Good morning, mike, now, to vallejo eastbound 80 at redwood parkway, off to the showering the big rig and the car, that is the reverse commute. Eastbound 4, has an accident and it is stacked up. New accident reported southbound 101 at roland in novato partly blocking the offramp and southbound 680, we have an accident blocking a lane there. The san mateo bridge is sluggish moving to san mateo. Kristen and eric . New this morning if the commute to and from work seems to take over, there is a reason. Traffic in the bay area is ranked among the worst in the nation. Cornell bernard is live on his 80. In this case, time is money. That is right. We are learning how much that commute is costing all of us. You might be surprised. Behind me interstate 80 in emeryville is moving well this morning but that is bound to change. A new study from texas texas a m found that the commuters spent a total of 121 billion in wasted time and gas sitting in traffic. The bay area is in the top three for worse commutes. Washington, dc area is number one. That means drivers there wasted 67 hours last year costing each of them almost 1,400. 61 hours at 1,300 in los angeles, and 61 hours and 1,200, more than 1,200 wastes dollars for drivers here in the San Franciscooakland area. We are tied for second, with los angeles, for terrible traffic. Study shows we are adapting, building delays into our commute, about an hour for a trip that could take 20 minutes without traffic. We are spending way too much time in our cars. Hard to believe we got do that point. Soon we will have a smog cloud around us because los angeles is bad. Really bad. Sitting in the car for an hour and a half each way is a lot of time wasted. Maybe i will listen to a become but most of the time i am listening to the news. And some would like to see more car pool options, transportation bosses could be innocented to improve the freeways and keep much moving. So far, it is working this morning. We are live in emeryville if abc seven news. Cornell, thank you. Oakland police are looking into a devastating crash caught on camera, a story we brought you first here on abc7. Watch this, focus on the man standing on a corner of foothill boulevard yesterday morning when the driver of a stolen jeep, boom, smashes into another car at intersection where the man was standing. The driver of the jeep