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Heres the live look now from the camera on our roof top here at the abc 7 studio along the embarcadero in San Francisco. Good evening everyone. Dan is in washington, d. C. On assignment more on that in a moment. But first are we done with the round of wenter weather. Spencer is tracking it for us on live doppler 7hd. We may done with precipitation but not the wirpt look cold. Heres live doppler 7hd and you can see very also precip taetion showing up right now. Much of what is falling is at monterey bay and hitting monterey itself. Still few spots of shower activity in the san cruz mountains but for the most part precipitation here has ended. However we have some unusual weather to the our north and east today from sacramento northward. Storm reports. Frontal cloud sighting and 2 tornado this afternoon. Both here and touched down at 1 30 this afternoon. No reports or damage. Sec one touched down to the south. Still here about an hour later at 2 30 this afternoon. No damage or injuries reported. So very unusual day of weather in and around the bay area. Right now the showers wipeding down. Back later to tell you how cold it will be overnight. All right spencer see you shortly. Its not clear if the weather or car accident or perhaps Something Else caused tonight power outage in san rafael. Right now as many as 11,000 customers still in the dark. Down from 20,000 earlier tonight. Driver says he saw a huge flash followed by spark come from downed power role he says was struck by a car. No time yet on when the power will be fully restored. Cadaver dog looking for bodies in a massive fire in kansas city, missouri tonight. The gas explosion injured at least 14 people. 2 of them critically we know of. Fire is now out but the exact cause is not known. One official says utility contractor may have sparked this inferno. There was a gas leak before the blast. Blue out parts of the city block in up scale shopping entertainment district. Apple has been targeted by hackers. Apple says employee visited developer web site that installed malwhich are at work. Exploits jv a software than the system. Apple says no evidence though that any data taken. Facebook had a similar Security Breach last friday. Of course cyberattack are a growing problem. New report out today says it amounts toen visible war. China leading the way targeting American Power grid planes and iconic american coast. More tonight from chief investigative correspondent bryan ross. Chinese People Liberation army more than two million personnel. But it is the within,000 or so in this nondescript building in shanghai that may pose the biggest threat to the u. S. Headquarters of the army secretive unit no. 6 1 3 9 8 where incorporating to the new report today by the sec englishr experts spend their day stealing secret from u. S. Companies and hacking into government sites. Thinks run by the chinese Liberation Army target ago broad group of western organization. Among the most trouble target american infrastructure site including Water Treatment plant. Transportation cell centers. Pipeline. And power grid. The only reason would you want to get in the control system for the power grid is to cause damage destruction and disruption. Reporter among the many corporate targets of the chinese hacker according to u. S. Officials lockheed marti martin. Country largely east defense contractor and the maker of the f 35 jet fighter. U. S. Officials say not surprisingly the chinese version of the plane has some distinct similarity. Costing according to u. S. Intelligence hundreds office billions of dollars and thousands of u. S. Jobs he have year. What it house today confirmed the severity although not the details of the chinese seener spying. We have repeatedly raised our concerns at the highest level about cybertheft with senior chinese officials. Reporter but China Remains in denial. According to abc gloria in beijing. Today in China Defense men industry depended any wrongdoing saying the military has never supported any form of hacking activity. But when a bbc news team tried to film the building outside shanghai military personnel confiscated the footage. Reporter of course the u. S. Believed to be doing its own cyberattack on eye run and nuclear program. U. S. Officials say its different than the economic spying being carried out by china. Now president obama has ordered u. S. Intelligence agencys to help American Company spot and detect the hacking coming from that building in shanghai. Abc news new york. 7 news anchor dan ashley in washington, d. C. Right now on special assignment. Hes the only bay area reporter who will interview president obama tomorrow. Dan was at the white house early tonight and has this look at what the president was dealing with today. Carolyn here in washington another major deadline is loo looming. 85 billion dollars in spending cuts will automatically kick in in 10 daytime unless congress can come up with a deal. Today president obama put the pressure on Congressional Republicans to stop from it happening. And he issued a dire warning. People will last their jobs. Unemployment rate might pick up again. Reporter president was joined by state local emergency workers whom he says would be hit hard by the harsh cut in federal spending. Their ability to help community respond to and recover from disasters will be degraded. Reporter congress wasnt here in washington to get that message. Lawmakers on recess this we can which means no negotiations under way. Over the weekend republicans said the cuts are going to happen. Congressman paul ryan said the blame lies squarely at the white house. We are here because the president back in the last session of congress refused to cut spending in any place and there have we have wound up with this sequester. Reporter last we can Senate Democrat contract proposed a plan to avoid the spending cut with new tax revenue by closing existing loop hole. But republicans declared it dead in the water. Republican party is not in any way going to trade spending cuts for tax increase. President got tax increase last year he got the higher revenue. President insist this if those automatic spending cuts take affect it would be because Congressional Republicans would not work with democrat contract to keep from it happening. He says it would have catastrophic effects on the economy. In washington, dan ashley abc 7 news. Dan will interview president obama at the white house tomorrow. His reports from there will 10 tonight and tomorrow writ here on 7 news. You can also follow him on twitter at dan ashley abc 7. Everyone knows drinking and driving not just dangerous. Also illegal. But what about driving after taking over the counter cost medication or prescription drug. That can be a bit of a gray area in california. 7 news capitol correspondent annette reports on effort to change that. Perhaps alcohol law are effective but actually not the drunk driving laws. Still hard for former chp lieutenant bob to talk about the death of his son justin. Who was always Highway Patrol man. 28yearold killed in 2010 when Rafael Garcia swerved into him during a traffic stop. He says garcia had marijuana in the system but the case ended in a hung jury. Jury was unable to come to conclusion whether he was unthe influence even after having overwhelming amount of evidence. The tragedy highlights how difficult it is to pros caught cases in california involving drivers under the influence of drugs. Unlike so bright test where point 08 alcohol level is considered legally impaired theres no definitive threshold for drugged driving. State senator than introduced a bill that makes it illegal behind the whether he will with any detectable amount of schedule 1 through 4 drug unless you have a predescription. Incorporating to the u. S. Department of justice that includes tylenol with codeine. Zanex and valium. Any level of being drugged is dangerous when driving. So that the level should be sear o. Zero tolerance. Reporter prescription though doesnt give drivers a pass. An officer can still pull over anyone who is driving appears impaired. Not even agrees with the proposal. Opponent say the measure is too tough on those would use medical marijuana legally and those who buy over the counter cold medicine. They claim ingredient in claritin and day quill could cause someone to test positive for drug and pot may lippinger in the body for week. Rather see impairment test. Problem is they can be driving but cannabis stay in the system for 30 day so may not be impaired. May no problem. Reporter 2012 office of Traffic Safety study found drug driving is more prevalent in california than drunk driving. In sacramento, abc 7 news. San Francisco Giants get an afternoon or. We are in the talking about because perfect. The team Big Development deal. The storm brings something rare to the Northern California skies and something require to the ground in the Santa Cruz Mountains as well. Also 8 robbers rush plane and make off with 50 Million Dollars in diamond just a matter of minutes. International man there is no massproduced human. So we created the extraordinarily comfortable sleep number experience. A collection of innovations designed around a bed with dualair technology that allows you to adjust to the support your body needs. Each of your bodies. Our sleep professionals will help you find your sleep number setting. Exclusively at a sleep number store. Sleep number. Comfort. Individualized. At the ultimate sleep number event, queen mattresses start at just 599. And save 50 on our limited edition bed. Ends sunday Huge New Development in San Francisco step closer to reality. Giants snagged a major tenant rate next to the ballpark. Carolyn has the story from pier 48. Reporter beer and baseball Perfect Match and the giants say so is the new partnership with anchor brewing. Beer company will become the giants first tenant for the 1. 6 billion Dollar MissionRock Development project. Next to the ballpark. Pier 48 was able to quadruple our capacity and sure anchor future on the global beer stage. Anchor plans production and distribution facilities a restaurant and museum on the 212,000 square foot space whale keeping the existing plant on portrero hill. First tenant for a development that includes the giants parking lot and is expected to create a new neighborhood with hundreds of homes offices and green space. Serve in many way as the front door to the mission rock project. People will see it come to games. Come to the neighborhood. Reporter whale excitement about the anchor steam project expected to bring 200 new jobs there is a labor dispute brewing among current concession workers at at t par park. The union distributed this flier during fan fest earlier this month. It says while the giants have won 2 world series and Team Earnings are up as well as attendance ticket prices and amenity, the workers havent had a raise in 4 years. The negotiations are being handled by an out of state company. But mayor ed lee is confident there will be a rest logs. Anything to say to the workers . With el go giants fears. Be successful. Keep on working and have the faith in the city that we always do right by our labor. Reporter we were sent a statement saying they are eager to again contract talk and will work in good faith to resolve any outstanding issues. In San Francisco at peer 48 Carolyn Tyler abc 7 news. Golden gate bridge officials are concerned many drivers are avoiding the inevitable switch to all electronic toll system. 30 percent of drivers are still paying with cash. Thats more than they would like to see at this point. Earlier this month the bridge began test its all electronic toll system which will replace toll tears in just a matter of weeks. E toll system will accept fast track or drivers prepay the toll f. All goes according to plan the new system will be fully operational come march. People north of chico saw something very unusual this afternoon. Tornado blew through the area around 1 30. Meteorologist say it was relatively light with winds about 70 miles an hour. There were few reports of damage and no injuries. More unusual weather in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Snow at the 2000 foot level. We expected a late dusting but 7 News Reporter david lou has more on whether actually hit the ground. 11 00 oclock snow came down so heavy that it blanketed everything. Caltrans has snowplow out in force. Whether started out a slush became a slippery coating of ice crystal at the temperature drop. Fortunately no spin out and no accidents. Snow can be a visual treat. Driving it can be dangerous. And it creates work for others. And for still others it is an seduce take time off from work and may be even gather the kid to take in a rare phenomenon in the bay area. Really nice we need the water. Really beautiful up here. Take the rest of the day off and enjoy the snow. I am i am. Im actually going to probably go pick up my kids and come up here. That will be fun for them. It will be a blast. Reporter we still are getting an occasional snow make here at the 2000 foot level but nothing like early today. So is the snow over. We have to ask our own spencer to find out what is in store. In the Santa Cruz Mountains david lou abc 7 news. The spencer is rate here we were talking about how unusual to see the big flake right by the sign for saratoga 8. Milder spots in the bay area but we have had a very fushl day of weather with the snow and heavy downpour of rain in some spots in the tornadoes out there in the sacramento valley. Its very strange. Right now its just cold. Live view from the mount tam camera under clear skies looking on to the bay and portions of San Francisco and span of the bay bridge. Sky are mainly clear to partly cloudy for most of the bay area but still some spots of plea precipitation to be picked up on live doppler 7 hd so lets go right there. See most of the bay area is dry at the moment. But down near monterey bay we still have some active weather. So lets get close and look weighs going on there near the town of monterey itself as a matter of fact and then out over the bay. We see some showers and some downpour. But painly we are clear and dray right now. Heres a lack at current temperature readings live view of the bay bridge from High Definition south beach camera downtown San Francisco. Chilly 39 degrees in santa cruz right now. 40 livermore 43 San Francisco. Now another view from our High Definition roof top camera at bay bridge from the north side of the span. Down to 37 degrees right now at santa ros rosa. Fairfield 38 in gilroy. Its really getting cold out there. Even colder overnight. Speaking of cold. How about this picture. Ill step back and give you a good view of the snow atop mount diablo today. Sent to us by robert d looks like something from colorado doesnt it. Well, no more of that will be falling for awhile. Heres a look at the forecast feature showers are ending tonight. We still might see some light snow above 2000 feet. If enough moisture in the air mostly its cold overnight app mostly sunny tomorrow. Heres our satellite radar app mission showing movement of the cold front that brought us all the wild whacky weather today. Moving through San Diego County right now. South of los angeles even but still trailing moisture behind the front and lots of cold air wrapping around the upper level low pulling air down from the yukon. Quite a chill in the bay area. Animation 11 00 oclock tonight and see clouds around but probably not much in the way of precipitation. Certainly we get natural Morning Hours tomorrow precipitation will disappears as will the klouchltd we have mainly clear skies but low pressure tonight are going to plummet. Down to about 30 degrees at santa rosa and fairfield 31 at nap a. 32 at concord and livermore. Sought Interior Valley of the north bay and the east bay will be very, very cold and it will be chilly around the bayshore line as well with low in the upper 30s. High tomorrow south bay mainly upper 50s to 60 at san jose. Upper 50s in the peninsula. 59 redd with city. Downtown San Francisco hay high of 58 mild up to 61 santa rosa and napa. Nearest bay upper 50s. 58 in oak land. Inland east bay will see upper 50s to about 60 at concord and heres accuweather 7 day forecast. Mainly sunny skies tomorrow and thursday. Partly cloudy frida friday. Getting a little bit milder. Slate chance of showers on saturday but this will not be a