The higher country, in the Santa Cruz Mountains and you will findry said ill find the residual wetness, the directionest by 7 00 is over or down near dill provide in monterey. Low 60 at 4 00 and 53 at 7 00. Inland, we have fog to the north. Temperatures are in the 40s. Breezy this afternoon. Month clouds this evening. It will be 54. The drizzle will end by 7 00. Midtoupper 50s with sunshine and breezing conditions this afternoon. Watch out in the south bay and through the sunol grade. Leyla gulen . Good morning, everyone. At 6 01 we have had a couple spendouts because of the moist weather. That is affecting traffic along the peninsula. Eastbound highway 92 we have a spinout that is blocking the offramp. The highlighted portion is in the westbound direction. That is where most of the traffic is traveling and the eastbound side is looking clear. For slowandgo traffic there. As we head to 101 and 237, we have a stalled vehicle there blocking one lane and a look at the bay bridge toll plaza the metering lights are turned on and heavy backup away from the maze. We have breaking news with firefighters keeping an cry on an Early Morning house fire in fremont that broke out in a home along mission boulevard at 4 30. Officials say the home was empty at the time. It does appear suspicious. The flames are out. Crews are watching it to make sure that any hotspots do not reignite. They are trying to determine the cause of the blaze. San francisco General Hospital is again reviewing their procedures after an elderly woman was attacked and badly beaten in the emergency room. Officials say the 29yearold suspect was transferred from e. R. To the psyche e. R. And he attacked the elderly paint the she suffered bruises but was not hospitalized for the attack. Amy hollyfield will have a report in the next half hour. Violent clashes between protesters and the ukraine government continue. The death and injury toll jumped as the violence continues. Katie marzullo joins us with more on that story. The e. U. Foreign ministers have been summoned to brussels in an emergency meeting. This is at the scare in kiev and the ukraine Political Leadership is being blamed and the e. U. Will impose sanctions. 25 are dead and 240 injured. Protesters and police were kid in killed. The trade union is on fire in kiev. A large section of the protest camp was up in flames with riot police launching barricades. It is hard to watch for people with ties to the ukraine. A man said it is bad but not surprising. People are fighting hard and they started dying as a result. It is a horrible development for the country. The president of ukraine blaming opposition leaders saying he has made attempts to compromise. The opposition leader, a former World Champion doctor says the president will not listen. The president wants to strengthen ties with russia rather than the west. A former Contra Costa County sheriff deupty convicted of setting up phony drunk driving stings is scheduled to be sentenced this morning. A federal jury found the officer guilty of conspiracy and multiple counts of wire fraud. He was acquitted on extortion linked to an allegation that high accepted cocaine from a private investigator to set up drink driving busts. The prosecution says the targets were men in divorce or custody disputes. Firefighters will unveil a new policy for fighting fires in homes where Illegal Drugs are being made. This is after fires like this one at an illegal marijuana grow in pittsburg. Pot growers tamper with the wiring of a home to steal electricity. Chemicals used to make or illicit drugs add to the hazards. Crews can stand down until pg e can turn off the power. New details of a crash involving an oakland utility crash. The city will pay 2 million in connection with the accident. Six people were hurt when the van ran a red light two years ago sending an s. U. V. Into the front of a nail salon. One victim sued. Last night the City Council Approved a 2 million settlement. A lawsuit by a second victim is pending. Become will kill hundreds of squirrels and gophers. The Water Quality control board said they are digging dangerous holes in the park. It was converted from a landfill in the 1990s so when rain water gets in the holes it carried the toxins into the bay. Opponents say they should consider other options rather than extermination but the city says nothing has worked. They tried to create raptor peoples so they could hunt the squirrels and gophers but they could not attract enough. They tried owl boxes. What did not work. The city has been trying Different Things but now it has come to this. The city will do a test run of the plan on one of the parks 90 acres over the course of these weeks. The governors will gather in washington, dc this weekend for the annual meeting, and Governor Brown will not be among them. The Sacramento Bee reports that brown is skipping a meeting to deal with the drought. A Spokesman Says brown is focused on work that needs to be done in california and has attended the last two governors meetings to lobby the white house on several policy matters although the governor had pace time with president obama last week when the two appeared together in the Central Valley. The little bit of water we are getting will not help with the drought. It will cause issues with the morning commute. 280 at 17, a live camera shot and drizzle just moved there with the radar updated with the red d. O. T. Where our camera is. In alum rock you clearing out as the rain is headed to the south and you can see the rain and drizzle is continuing to head to the south and that is why we are dealing with clearing by 7 00. Temperatures in the east bay valleys, lowtomid 50s and it is that way everywhere but San Francisco and novato at midtoupper 40s. Good morning, everyone, we are experiencing a couple schedules involving solo spinouts so it is wet and slippery. Now the drive time traffic shows drizzle over the Altamont Pass which is causing delays westbound on 580 from tracy to dublin and that is going to be more than an hour, one hour and six minutes and 22 minutes slowing down westbound 4 antioch to concord and 101 southbound from san rafael to San Francisco minute by minute tacked on to the commute and 23 minutes headed into San Francisco. 09. Political tensions are rising at the Winter Olympics and the wanting now going out to the punk rock band arrested at the games. Get bacon in your burger. Booooorrk its beef and pork jacks new bacon insider has a juicy beef patty with bacon mixed right into it, plus bacon strips and bacon mayo on a new gourmet brioche bun. Get bacon in your burger. Moooii. Of the besis that millions of ra is that millions of people will qualify for Financial Assistance. Its important to remember that the lower your annual income, the greater Financial Assistance you will receive. Enroll today at coveredca. Com. Covering cupertino, wine country and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. We want the latest on the Winter Olympics but, first, we do have overnight results if you are waiting to watch the games tone, you may want to turn away. If you are not turning away we will go to Good Morning America and amy in sochi. A great day, amy. Dont turn away we have great news. Everyone in the bay area, hello. This is huge. He won the gold medal in the giant slalom and the americans took a big lead and never looked back after the first run giving team u. S. A. The first alpine gold. And now bode miller competing this morning but after the first run, the 36yearold said he may skip saturday, and later he made it official he is done. The knee is swollen. The six time medal winner called it quits in sochi and we wish him the best, a six time medal it. In nevada, dave wise won the top prize yesterday soaring through sleet and snow and the weather was worsening but he was victorious and after the gold medal win he took to twitter and said he would never forget this moment saying he is bringing home the gold for his 2yearold daughter, nellie. And the san jose edmonds is a few hours away from making the debut in womens figure skating the 12th of 30 to perform in a figureskating short just after 8 00 a. M. Pacific time. We can look at a selle she tweeted, all smiles as she faces the biggest stage in her young figure stating career. We can not wait to watch. We are 45 minutes away from Good Morning America and we understand you sated down with team u. S. A. s new golden couple. They are on midnight your time but this morning for me, we are talking about meryl davis and charlie white. We talked to the gold medal winning duo after the big win this week. They now have an olympic medal in every color. The bronze, silver and goal. I asked about their 17 year relationship. They were adorable. We are happy to have them. All next. Before you get away, what sport are you watching there . I am really into the hockey, so excited about womens hockey, at 9 00 here local time so we are all going to gather away the Television Sets and of course, because im a girl i love figure skating. That is behalf i watch the most. A lot of people feel the same. I am not alone. There is a reason the figure skating is at the end, sort of the anchor. Thank you, amy. You can watch abc7 news at eleven each night on our website or on the mobile app. Even if you are watching the olympics you want to know what is happening in the bay area at 11 use your ipad or matter phone to to or smartphone to watch it. The International OlympicCommittee Says it would be inappropriate for a controversial russian punk band to protest at the olympic site trying to perform in downtown sochi but remain removed by the militia. A Spokesman Says that venues are not the place to have demonstrations and the announcement is a day after two members of the band were detained this sochi and later released. The band has gained worldwide attention for protesting the policies of russian president putin. A bay area man is one of two skiers who died on the slopes in north lake tahoe. In both accidents, the skiers ran into trees. A man from brazil who was working at the resort was found dead on thursday at the resort the he was not wearing a him helmet. Another died friday skying skiing with his family, visiting from belmont. He was a Little League coast, and it is unusual to have two similar deaths backtoback. Maybe the olympics have influence, people are watching amazing skis and trying to attain that speed. We dont know the. The sheriff says if they were wearing helmets they would have a better chance of surviving. There is a fund to help lindsay from belmont. Now the weather forecast. What do you have are have, mike nicco . We have changes, the flag is unfurled, and the fog behind the system in the north bay is being tracked with three miles visibility in santa rosa. Everyone else is around nine or ten. There is no fog and drizzle and rate is probably over or not hitting the reporting stations. It is moving away from evergreen and to the southeast and the Higher Elevations in the Santa Clara Valley and same for los gatos and even santa theresa, the wet weather is sliding into the Higher Elevation and if you are traveling through the Santa Cruz Mountains you are probably getting wet. That is our best chance of wet weather the next hour or so. My timetable by 7 00 is Still Holding true. Look at cloud cover, the back edge as we look to the east. If we could, we would paint a nice blue cold front across there and that is where it is. That is the dividing line between the moisture and the dry air coming in. Sunny and breezy this afternoon, a few clouds and significantly cooler at five to tendegrees cooler and the warmest days are friday, saturday and sunday. The weak cold front is moving law and we did not get much in the way of measurable rain with quick sunshine developing behind the system by 8 00. Temperatures are a lot like yesterday with the breezes feeling cooler in the upper 50s along the coast and lowtomid 50s bay and inland and check out the temperatures tomorrow, midtoupper 30s santa rosa, napa, cloverdale, fairfield, palo alto, morgan hill, lowtomid 40s until you yet to San Francisco the warm spot at 47 degrees. Here is the sevenday forecast, calmer and as bright tomorrow with a couple of degrees warmer and low 60s along the coast friday, saturday, and sunday while we 30 with 70 around the bay and inland and tapering of temperatures back to normal levels on monday and tuesday. Next week we could open up the floodgates but the pattern could change for more significant rain. That is quite a ways away. There is residual moisture on the roads so we will talk to leyla gulen. It is drying out. But there are wet patches, still, causing solo vehicle spinouts. If you are leashing the car at home, we have 51 bart trains running on team. No delays. Everything is running on time. Now, across the bay area you can see the house fire has been put out but we still have Traffic Control in affect at mission boulevard. I will have live picture of the commute and the rest of bay in a little bit. Say it aint so, the only cup joe will be more expensive. At 6 30, what is perking up the price for coffee. 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With those odds, you are not doing to win. Just take out 175 million and buy tickets. The morning news continues at 6 30 with the top stories. Including the friend jumbo jet flight hurting severe turbulence. We are learning about the injuries this morning. Another incident at San FranciscoGeneral Hospital involving an attack against an elderly woman. Still tracking height rain and drizzle with live doppler 7 hd and warm weather for the weekend ahead in the sevenday forecast. I am leyla gulen in the traffic center, you can see the clouds are clearing over the bay bridge toll plaza and still busy with actions because of moist conditions on the roadways and all the details are coming up. [ male announcer ] spring is calling. Get 10 off all instock composite decking at lowes. Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Good morning, 6 29 on wednesday. A look at the east were span of the bay bridge with traffic not too bad on this time of morning with people going back to work taking a few days back over the long holiday weekend. Thanks for joining us. If of the cars might have had to use the wipers previously on way to work. We will check the trust now with mike. Still tracking scattered showers. Nice to see both of you. Live doppler 7 hd shows you what coming from the sunol grid to fremont, milpitas and newark. We have a last public of showers on fremont boulevard and warm pensions and 680 and 880, and, possibly, 84, also. Notice the Santa Clara Valley is clearing out and the Higher Elevations is where we are still seeing radar runs. By 7 00, maybe 7 30, i still think most of us will be dry with a quick clearing trend behind the cold front. Today, the day planner shows drizzle tapering by 7 00 and temperatures are in the 40s in the north bay and the rest of us in the 50s with quick sunshine and temperatures near 60 at noon and mid50s along the coast and lowtomid 50s at 4 00 and breezy from time to time as the cool and dry air returning in. This evening, dress if temperatures in the upper 40s to low 50s. Are there accidents out there . There are, mike. No matter if it is rain or drizzle, it is causing problems. We have a brand new crash to report approaching the maze westbound at harrison