7 00. You are taking a live look in walnut creek, where the temperature is well well, its below 30 degrees this morning. Its been stuck there at 29 for a while. Coming up in two minutes, ktvus cara lui will have more on what people are doing to protect themselves from this really chilly weather. Its january 2nd, 2015. I think i want a bowl of soup for breakfast. Yeah. Steve is here. It will stay cold for a while. A lot of 20s. Take a look at some of the lows ive seen from mendocino county, lake county all the way down to santa cruz. Thats not on the whar of. 29,wood side. Oakley, 28 degrees. Dublin at stoneridge mall, 27. Newspaperrer 27 kelseyville, i think 24. A little bit of fog coming back sose theat gruz so thats great news. We are looking at 280 in san jose where traffic, you can see is flowing nicely in both directions. 880 near the oakland coliseum. Same story, more crowded here. Things did start to pick up around 5 30 this morning. More folks on the roadway, it was absolutely desolate on my way to work. That was at 4 00. This is a look at the bay bridge toll plaza, where weve seen no congestion as us make your way into San Francisco. Back to the desk. A freeze warning will last two more hours. Theres concern about the impact these bittercold temperatures on some of the most Vulnerable People in the bay area such as the homeless. A homeless shelter in vallejo that opens only during daytime normally is now open 24 hours because of these frigid temperatures. One of the coldest cities in the bay area right now is walnut creek. It did not crack 30 degrees all night. Ktvu tara ktvu reporter cara lui joins us live from downtown walnut creek. They are out there braving the chilly weather. Reporter its sure cold. The temperatures are not picking up fast enough. Weve been monitoring the bank sign. All morning long. 29 degrees. It has not moved. The current temperature here in downtown walnut creek, at least according to this big sign. But i can tell you traffic is sternly light out here right now, likely a combination as the cold weather as well as the holiday week. P weather for coats. Aur time is 7 05. A police chase early this morning in the east bay. It ended in a crash. The Alameda CountySheriffs Office says police pursued a white van about 3 00 this morning in hayward. The driver eventually crashed in oakland after hitting the Center Divider on highway 980 near 880. Two other people were in the van but no one was hurt. The Sheriffs Department isnt saying how the chase started or if the driver involved will face any charges. A very tense situation yesterday at an oakland b. A. R. T. Station ended peacefully last night. Police say a man who was reported to have a gun at the 12th street b. A. R. T. Station surrendered after a standoff with police. No one was hurt. The b. A. R. T. Trainnot stop at the 12th street station during that standoff. Earlier in the evening, police say the man was waving a gun at passing cars in downtown oakland. It turns out. It was a bb gun. A new law that takes effect today, allows undocumented immigrants to apply for drivers licenses. People still have to prove their identify tie and residency in california and they will have to pass the written test and the driving test. Four special Processing Centers have been set up in california to help with the applications. Ktvus janine de la vega is at the one Processing Center in Northern California. Its in san jose and nunn at 7 30, janine will show us all of the people who have been lined up outside in the cold for hours. Now. San franciscos Bicycle Coalition is starting the nut year with a push for safer streets and also a car for more data, more information on some of the trouble spots for bicyclists. Ktvus katie utehs joins us live from one of the busiest streets in the city. Have you seen many cyclists . Reporter it is cold. Its also the day following a holiday. Not that many cyclists, there have been maybe a dozen or so. You see them. Muni has put up signs, they are saying 87 so far. Ive only seen a dozen. But this is a heavily traveled area. Cyclists have their own lane which is one of the things that the San FranciscoBicycle Coalition pushes for and they are starting to this new year with a push for information to help make the streets even safer. More than 100 problem areas have been identified this past year. The data identifies potholes, poorly timed traffic slights, and other spots that may not catch the attention of drivers. They are taking that data to advocate for safer streets. We spoke with a man who bikes from the inner sunset. Its good for me. San francisco, if i know, where to ride is a great place to ride bikes. Bike rides have been a big improvement. For 2014, San FranciscoPolice Report three collisions three of which involve cyclists. Nonfatal collisions between vehicles and bicyclists decreased from 467 to 392. A Bicycle Coalition is also asking them to call out drivers for blocking the box or drub double parking. They want them to hashtag is parking dirty. All of this data and tracking will be used by the San FranciscoBicycle Coalition to help advocate for safer streets and perhaps some push from San Francisco city leaders to improve problem spots. Tori . All right. All right. Thank you. The new year means the minimum wage is now higher in several bay area cities. In sunnyvale, the minimum wage from 89 an hour to 10. 30. In san jose, its also 10. 30 an hour. Thats up 15 cents. In San Francisco, the minimum wage is up from 10. 74 to 11. 05. Another hike will take effect in may in is San Francisco raising the minimum wage to 12. 25 and hour. Richmond homicide rate has now dropped to its lowest level in 43 years. Police report there were 11 killings in richmond in 2014. Thats the have right now. As a matter of fact, i dont recall having ten or more inpatients at any given time with influenza as inpatients. One reason the flu season is so bad, this years flu vaccine didnt work as well against the most common strain of the flu virus. But despite that, Health Experts still recommend everyone six months and older get the flu shot and they say its not too late. 7 11. There is a warning for all pet owners concerning wild mushrooms. The muchneeded rain brought plenty of mushrooms to the bay area. While they are not all dangerous to humans. Many are extremely poisonous to pets. You might not even know your pet is sick since symptoms can take up to three days to develop. They become so weak, pulses get weak and they can bring about liver failure, kidney failure. If your pets eat mushroom, bring it in right away. 7 11. Rush is on. Fill up your gas tanks here in the bay area. Coming up at 7 30, why the cost of gas is going up across california despite a major drop nationwide. And its the longest closure in the history of the Golden Gate Bridge what you need to know if you are planning on traveling in and out of San Francisco next weekend. A look at the eastshore freeway shows traffic moving nicely. Well have more traffic just ahead. Frost advisory is out. Freeze warning. But we also have patchy fog which has come back into the picture. Well have the cool friday forecast highs. Female announcer when you see this truck, it means another neighbor is going to sleep better tonight. Because they went to sleep trains ticket to tempurpedic event. Choose from a huge selection of tempurpedic models including the new tempurchoice, with headtotoe customization. Plus, get 36 months interestfree financing, two free pillows and free sameday delivery. Are you next . Make sleep train your ticket to tempurpedic. Your ticket to a better nights sleep welcome back. One week from tomorrow, mark this down. Golden gate bridge will close for an entire weekend. First time this has ever happened. The 52hour closure started a mit night saturday, jan 10th. It will end at 4 00 p. M. Monday, jan 12th. The weekend closure is needed to install a new barrier. Its all designed to eliminate headon collisions. Buses will be allowed to go across the bridge and will run on their normal weekend schedule. The bridges sidewalk, it will stay open for pedestrians and bicyclists. Passengers on the tahoe queen ran aground minutes into the new year. Two hours later, a tugboat pulled the dock boat into the dock. They are looking whether low water levels were due to the factor. The same boat ran aground in august. Some uner and lyft drivers are angry that the companies raised prices on new years eve. They say the price surge scared off some potential customers. Some say they made less on new years eve than a typical saturday night. Uber had warned that they could pay more than 100. 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The atlantabased chain says hackers may have gained access to customers credit card information. Its still unclear how many people may be impacted. The restaurant says if the breach is confirmed, customers would not be responsible for any fraudulent charges to their accounts. Chickfila operates more than 1800 restaurants in 41 states, including here in california. 7 57. The new year means utility bills go up for pg e customers. Residential rates go up almost 6 . Businesses could also see a small rate hike. The rate hike will cover safety improvements like replacing old gas lines to prevent another disaster like the san bruno pipeline explosion. It will also pay for an expansion of the smart grid and they plan to higher more Customer Service workers. More protection for bicyclists in San Francisco. After the break, the specific safety improvements they are calling for. Plus, cold weather. Its cold around the bay area this morning. Looking at the problems facing residents as you wake up this morning. Well check the freeze warning thats still in effect for one more hour. 880 near the oakland coliseum. Traffic is looking good at this hour. We have an animal hazard we want to tell you about up in the north bay. Thats coming up in a couple of minutes. I dont want to say too many times its cold out. But its cold out of. A lot of 20s. Well see if theres any warmer lows or afternoon highs in the extended forecast. Welcome back. In case i didnt know, its real cold. Were live in san rav fell. Looking san rafael. Looking around, its freezing. The sunshine is beautiful. Even the glare off the water there. Coming up in a few minutes, cara lui has been braving the cold all morning for you. She will join you to tell you how a lot of people are bracing against this chilly, cold weather this morning. Thank you for joining us. Welcome to mornings on 2. Friday, january 2nd, im dave clark. Good morning. Im tori campbell. Quick look at the weather and a little bit of the traffic. But steve, it was interesting, you said other parts were were colder than a lot of other parts of the country. Chicago had us beat. Were not as cold as 90 except for San Francisco. A lot of 20ss, 30s. Kind of a haze now making for a beautiful sunrise this morning. But its a cold one. A lot of 20s. These were some of the coldest ive seen. Ben lomond, 25. Near santa cruz. Woodside, 29. Dublin 27. Same for san martin. If you thought it was cold, it is. Frost advisory is out. We also had a freeze warning. Its so cold out. For us, its this will probably continue for one more day. But there are hints of things changing. Some fog has come back to part, of the mendocino, and marin coast. Theres also some out towards discovery bay. Fairfield, 28. A lot of 30s here. But much, much cooler. 30s even on parts of the coast. They lose the breeze but that fog might be a sign of things to come over the next few days. The low responsible for our wild weather is into new mexico. Its sending out freezing rain. That will cause all sorts of issues. For us, sunny and chilly. Frost, fog. A lot of 50s. Each day will come up a couple degrees on these high temps. She has not had much to do today. We love having her, tara moriarty. You say that and i got jinxed. All of a sudden, this is blowing up with a lot of things. A lot of them are minor. But theres a lot going on. Novato, 101 southbound at roland boulevard, a car verses a deer. Its blocking the exit there. So crews are working to try to clear that. So that they can unclog the situation. Right now were gonna take a live look at 580 at the 101 split where you can see that haze fog steve has been talking about. Up in napa, we have a cow on the side of the roadway on napa road at highway 121. So crews also working to remove the cow. Lets take a look at the Golden Gate Bridge. You can see that traffic is flowing nicely into the city. And 280 at the 880 split. We do have a little built more fog as weve seen this morning that weve been talking about here if we can show it. There you go. The headlights northbound traffic on 280 as you make the drive toward santa clara. Lets head back to the desk. A freeze warning is set to expire in an hour before the santa cruz and east bay mountains along with the east bay valleys. Overnight temperatures stayed at or below freezing. Cara lui reports from one of the coldest cities in the bay area this morning. Walnut creek. Reporter well, the temperatures below freezing for many people as they woke up here in walnut creek this morning. It is expected to warm up quite a bit in the next hour. Now right now its quieter than normal since its the end of a holiday week. At the honda dealership take a look at the windows. Every one of them was frosted over, an indication of how low the temperatures dipped overnight. We talked to a few folks getting the Morning Coffee about their strategies to stay warm. One woman told me she planned to stay indoors as much as possible. Another plans to take advantage of the cold weather. Im headed up to tahoe for the day. Hopefully everyone else is in this cold weather. It should be a good day up there zplnk but there is a freeze warning in effect for the east bay valleys and mountains until 9 00 a. M. If you have to be outdoors, its a good idea to bundle up. A police chase about 3 00 a. M. In the east bay ended in a crash. The Alameda CountySheriffs Office says officers pursued a white van in hayward. The driver eventually crashed in oakland after hitting that Center Divider on highway 980 near 880. Two other people were in the van but no one was hurt. The Sheriffs Department still isnt saying how the chase started or if the driver is gonna face any charges. A very tense situation at an oakland b. A. R. T. Station ended peacefully last night. Police say a man who was reported to have a gun at the 12th street b. A. R. T. Station surrendered after a standoff with police and no one was hurt. The trains didnt stop at the 12th street station during that standoff. Now, earlier in the evening, police say the man was waving a gun at passing cars in downtown oakland. It turned out it was a bb gun. We have a follow upup to a deadly crash in oakland we reported yesterday. The chp found a toyota blocking the macarthur high street ramp eferl yil new years morning. A young woman was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver, 20yearold travis was booked into the santa rita jail on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence. Because hes under age, investigators with the department of alcoholic Beverage Control are partnering with chp to try to identify the person who gave him alcohol. This first fatality of the year in the bay area is just another underscoring of the fact that driving under the influence of alcohol and or drugs is extremely dangerous. The coroner will conduct an autopsy. 8 06. The homicide rate in richmond, it has dropped to the lowest level in 43 years. Police in richmond report there were 11 kills in the city in 2014. Thats the lowest number since 1971. In a city that was once called one of the most violent cities in the country. Police say there are several reasons for the drop in homicides, including more help from the community in fighting crime and also the recent crack down on violent gangs. The new year means the minimum wage is now higher in several bay area cities. In sunnyvale, the minimum wage went from 9 an hour to 10. 30. In san jose, its also 10. 30. And thats up 15 cents. In San Francisco, the minimum wage is up from 10. 74 to 11. 05. Another minimum wage hike will take effect in may in San Francisco, raising the minimum wage to 12. 25 an hour. 8 07. This is troubling. This years flu season turning out to be a nasty one. The cdc says flu cases nationwide have reached epidemic levels. The flu is now in 36 states. So far california has only one flu death. Its in southern california. The rise in cases is so dramatic, hospitals are having a hard time keeping up with patients. I have never seen the level of number of inpatients that we have now. As a matter of fact, i dont recall having ten or more inpatients at any giv