You can tell from this live picture as we give a quick sweep of the area, a lot of low lying fog. It rare it finds me but it did this morning. Friday january 13th, good morning. Lets go to steve. The cold and fog is affecting us. At least its not raining. Theres a lot of areas of fog. Some of it is very thick. 0 were getting a break until tuesday night. 42 of california now is free from the drought. Well talk it. Woel put a serious dent in that in central california. Theyre getting a lot of rain in california and a lot more on the way for the end of next week. Fog is for us. Otherwise its cold and plenty of 30s and the fog looks like its thick. Also watch out for ice now. 29 in kelsey. 32 in northwest napa. Some of the rural areas you can get ice formations. Colder air mass settling in. Stanford at 36. Graek look at the lull but most of it is energy in san diego and palm springs and las vegas. Theyre dealing with rain and were dealing with cold and mostly sunny skies. 50s on the temps. Sal, theres two kinds of people in this world those who drive through fog and those who dont, my friend. Those who dont might be staying home or taking transit. Were looking at the east shore freeway, interstate 80 were starting there. 80 westbound is appearing from a cloud of fog. 80 looks okay here in emoriville visibility wise. Fog may slow you down or slow down the traffic near you. 29 minutes drive to the maze. Bay bridge toll plaza backed up but a normal delay of 20 minutes or so. No major issues. I want to mention traffic is going to be affected by the closure of highway 37. Sorry, thats the wrong map. Highway 37 is still closed between 101 and agenter ton avenue. Theres detours in place atherton. 703, back to the desk 7 03. Two members of a band are hospitalized after they were struck by a train minutes before they were set to perform at an east bay nightclub. Alex live for us in oakland. Reporter good morning, this terrible accident happened right before tower of power was set to take the stage last night. They were walking from their hotel over to yoshis nightclub but as they crossed emory ed emory embark dear row, the men men were thrown into the air in opposite directions and suffered serious injuries. Both men suffered serious internal injuries but they did regain consciousness after arriving at high land hospital last night. This morning fans are stunned to hear about what happened. So i was pretty shocked. I didnt know it was the tower of power group. I used to be a big fan when i was younger. Their albums were in my collection. Really sad to hear. [ music ] tower of power of course an iconic rb band formed here in oakland in the late 1960s. Some biggest hits include a young man. Dajoined the group and won numerous awards for his rformers as a drummer. The base player was actually filling in for another musician last night. Both men regained consciousness after being hit but theyre still being treated for serious injuries at high lands hospital. Were working to get more information from police and a publicist for the band to try to get a better sense of their condition. This morning as soon as we have the information well pass it along to you. Time is now 7 05. The Marin County Health department is trying to come in contact with someone who may have died from bacterial meningitis. They are reaching out to people who went to a cycling gym in lucks burg landing. The Health DepartmentWont Disclose anything about the man or woman that died or their age. This were a member of this gym behind us. The gym is open this morning. We have seen people going in and out for the morning classes and had a chance to talk to a couple gym members off camera this morning and one man told us the clients did get an email saying that the gym had been deep cleaned and inspected by the Health Department and thats why theyre back open again. The person who died of meningitis died on tuesday and that bacterial meningitis is usually treated with antibiotics so Health Officials say the majority of people exposed through this exercise class at the gym. That exposure is believed to have happened last week. The person passed away on tuesday. Talking to a few people coming out of class this morning, one man says he got the email informing him about the person who died and as a precaution he called his Dominican Republic and he was put on antibiotics. We havent been able to talk to any managers or people who work at the soul cycle this morning but again, spoke to a lot of people coming in and out for classes and most of them say theyre not concerned. They got the email saying the place had been cleaned and inspected following the death of one of the members from bacterial meningitis. New information now about a mysterious white powder found last night on an Alaska Airlines plane in an jose that made some people on the plane feel sick. They think its nontoxic residue from the plane flying from seattle to san jose. One Flight Attendant had to be taken to the hospital. A hazmat team was called after white powder fell from an air vent. Theres no word of any passengers becoming ill. The bay area is drying out today after a wet and windy week t. Break between storms here is especially good news for people in the Russian River area dealing with flood waters the past week as we have been showing you here. The russian feet and now back below flood stage. This weeks flood created quite a mess. Homeowner and Business Owners can go to six different disposal sites around gurnville to drop off trash and storm debris. Storms still having an impact on a road in marin county. Highway 37 remains closed because of flooding. Several cars were towed abandoned in the water. This closure affects the west end of 37 in ne va doe. At this point theres no word on when it will reopen. Demanding answers in San Francisco after an officer involved shooting there. Coming up at 730 tm tim, really tense moments between the police and community at last nights town hall meeting. Shes gone but not forgotten, up next find out how Carrie Fishers Princess Leia could live on in the star wars franchise. The fog is with you in many areas as youre driving but here on highway four, this is a live look at concord, doesnt look too bad as you head to 680. Definitely a three dog night and three cat night and extra blankets. Theres a blanket of fog out there. At least its not raining. With the xfinity tv app, anything with a screen is a tv. Stream 130 live channels. Plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. You can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. Only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. Download the xfinity tv app today. Heres the opening bell and the start of the trading day on wall street. Tim cook back now with this moneys morning business. Good news from the banking stocks this morning. Theyre doing well. Wells fargo and San Francisco company, want to let you know what the latest numbers are now. Theyre all up across the board trading underway for about 45 minutes now and the dow jones up about a quarter of a now. 19,000, the nasdaq and snp 500 up half a percent each this morning. Amazon going on a hiring spree with plans to add more than 100,000 people to its work force. The jobs range from soft wear development to warehouse work. Theyre offered in a number of states including in california, florida, and texas. The move would increase the work force by 50 . The new hires are key to the companys promise of two day shipping for amazon prime members. Star wars fans, im one of them, were not the only one missing Princess Leia. Disney in talks with Carrie Fishers estate over her continued appearance. Hillary vaughn joins us now with more on what disney is doing about that. Good morning, thats right, theyre currently in discussions with Carrie Fishers state. Under California Law theyre required to receive permission from the estate of a celebrity actor or act tes who has passed away to use their likeness 70 years after their death. What we dont know is how theyre going to use Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia moving forward in the series. If they get permission, they could use it for anything from merchandise to future films. Theres a huge divide among star wars fans in terms of what they want to see from her moving forward. A lot of them would like to see her recreated. They did that in rogue one with another actor. Others want to see disney want to see her write an on screen passing and honor her that way. At this point they are negotiations with Carrie Fishers estate sto get the permission its interesting because shes an integral part of the the force awakens and made an appearance in rogue one. Also get ready to mark march 3rd on your calendar when nintendo releases the newest game console. The hand held device will be available for 300. The price is above Market Expectations which is disapointing to investors. The new console costs the same as the current, the wii u that didnt do so well. They hope the switch will appear to gamers shifted from consoles to smartphones. Nintendo says more than 50 game soft wear makers are developing 80 titles for the switch including legends of zelda. Now theyre making a come back. Lets see if people want to pay 300 for it. I think gamers do. Thank you, pam. Sal is right over there, everybody behaving in the commute . I would say so. Theres always a few stragglers out there. Right now we have a better commute than we have had than the beginning of the week. Bay bridge toll plaza is no longer the fog the fog is no lornger an issue. The fog is over there and emoriville and berkley but no longer a problem at the toll plaza or bridge. Take a look at interstate the fog is creeping through oakland. This is the coliseum area and we see slow traffic forming here on interstate 880 heading up into downtown oakland. Highway 37 is still shut down. Thats because of the water. Theyre trying to clear it. You will face a lot of slow traffic. Moving along to the east bay, 880 southbound between hayward and free mont. In the Silicon Valley, theres slow traffic but lighter than usual. We do have a lot of fog out there but also the excitement of the rain, wind, and snow. Full moon yesterday, 3 33 in the morning. I think 98 visible now. With clearing taking place we can get a look at the moon. If you dont have the fog. Some of that fog is very thick. Right down on the deck there. I believe kevin hes getting under the weather so he said hes getting sick. Sabrina says the moon is crazy this home. Crazy moon. Where is neil young when you need it . Never mind. Ill entertain myself. Craig in napa county, 34. The snowfall up, up, up in feet. 210 base. Are you kidding me . Thats incredible. Some of the pictures from heavenly and kirkwood, the snow is up to the top of the chair lifts. Thats deep here. As you might imagine that bodes well as long as we dont get this to melt too soon. 133 normal. Central california 156. 187 in southern sierras. January has been a very soggy month. Santa rosa almost a foot of rain. San francisco, 5. 5. Oakland almost five. Napa, 7. 75. I know your rain gauge had more. Little san jose at 3. 05 but some areas with 6 or 7. Thats what goes in the books. Rain in Southern California towards san diego and desert. Fog is the end result for us. Cold temperatures out there with us the next couple of mornings. 29 in kelseyville. 32 in napa. Theres ice forming here with so much water. Rural areas over the bridges and Higher Elevations in the 40s. 32 at sfo. A lot of fog in the mix. 37 in so cal. Campbell at 38. 25 in truckee. 35 in rio. The fog in the valley is probably a bigger issue than anything else. Theres cloud cover wrapping back around the low towards bakersfield, california but its producing rain to las vegas and san diego and phoenix as well. You can see some of that there. Southern california needs the rain too so well add to that dent on the Drought Monitor for sure. For us, its the fog and mostly sunny skies today and tomorrow. Fast moving system on sunday clipping us with clouds. Increasing clouds monday and rain returns wednesday into thursday with snow on the mountains. 50s on the temps and extended outlook has night fog and maybe black ice as well. We do get a break for the next 45 days. We are ready for it. All the things were doing outside last weekend do them this weekend. Just bundle up in the morning. It will be cold. A surprise parting gift for Vice President joe biden, a special honor he received from president obama. As ceo of exxonmobile. Rex tillerson put exxons interests before americas im not here to represent the us governments interest. Instead, tillerson sided with putin. With billions in russian oil deals. He opposed us sanctions on russia. For war crimes forced to pay hundreds of millions for toxic pollution. Putting profits ahead of our kids health. Tell your senators to reject rex tillerson. And protect american interests not corporate interests. Its movie awards season and that got us to thinking theres a lot of songs in movies. 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Also james comey is now facing an internal Justice Department investigation into his actions. Some democrats think the way james comey treated the investigation of emails is the reason Hillary Clinton did not win the election. Now the Justice Departments Inspector General will investigate. I understand entirely why democrats are bitter about all of this. But at the same time, the media leaves out the fact there are unpleasant aspects of this investigation for democrats as well. The Inspector General also investigating whether a top Justice Department official improperly fed information to Hillary Clintons campaign. President elect donald trump is tweeting again this morning about the investigation into the fbis handing of Hillary Clintons emails. He said what are Hillary Clintons people complaining about . And that she should have never been allowed to run because shes guilty as hell. Trump goes on to say she lost because she campaigned in the wrong states. President obamas surprised by joe biden with a special award at the white house gathering. Im pleased to award the highest honor, president ial medal of freedom. [ applause ]. He was moved to tears by the unexpected honor. President obama called the Vice President a line of American History who has become a close friend. The Vice President returned the compliment. I just hope that the as strict in history when attached to my name, i can say i was part of a journey of a remarkable man who did remarkable things for this country. [ applause ]. Joe biden is expected to focus on his cancer moon shot effort. A popular San Francisco restaurant closing its doors t. Repairs causing them to shut down for now. San jose Police Officers are set to receive an increase in pay. Weal tell you all about this new agreement and what it means to a Department Struggling to keep officers well. Right now we have slow traffic in some areas. Fog is an issue. Here on the san matt bridge, moderate traffic and not a lot of fog. Cold fog but no rain. We get a break here for a few days. Thats the good news. Keep zooming in. Sweeping the bay, trust me the city is somewhere under the fog. I come through the east bay and hit fog on my way into the office in oakland. Chances are you will hit it as well. Its been rain were dealing with this past week. The story is all about fog. And cold. And the cold. Its cold. And the fact its friday the 13th. Good morning, im gasia mikaelian. And im dave clark. Its cold, steve. Yes, and we have fog. A lot of fog dancing around here. Maybe drier air mass coming in tonight and tomorrow but theres so much moisture in the air, watch out for ice and some of the thick night morning fog. Otherwise, we get a break. Mostly sunny. You can see the fog dancing around. This is tough but ill try. Kevin, good morning, steve. Back in the old days there used to be a lot more fog. Now everything is filled in with decrement and construction. Back in the day the fog wouldnt leave seement. Decrement. Cement. It freezes instantly and it can freeze power lines and trees. Rain in Southern California, las vegas getting rain and into arizona, south of la theres a little bit in the central value as well. Mostly sun