cornell bernard is live from a park, one of the many spots painted red and gold. reporter: what a game. despite the frigid temperatures in green bay, the 49ers pulled it off. this was a watch party here in san francisco. the crowd has taken off, but earlier it was a victory party. [cheering] reporter: the crowd went wild the moment the 49ers kicked that field goal, winning the game over the packers, 23-20. the food truck park hosted this watch party. one of many gathering places across the bay area from the 49er faithful. main say they never had a doubt the team would win, and the super bowl? now on the way, according to a lot of people. >> never doubt. we're true niner fans.

it was a tough match. >> the last time i saw the niners win the super bowl i was 15 years sold so it's been 19 years since they won a super bowl. this is the year. >> i don't know if it's the year. we hope it's the year. we have our power with us right now and moving forward at a high velocity, and we are go to go. reporter: across town, fans were gathering at green's sports bar on polk street. we found a few green bay packers fans in the brown, but they quickly took off the moment the niners declared victory. the team will enough head to face the carolina panthers next weekend for a divisional playoff game. we're live in san francisco. abc7 news. go niners. funny to see everybody in their short sleeved shirts. colin rush is here with a look at how the niners got it done. >> i love wild card weekend.

especially when the niners win. aaron rodgers and his postgame press conference didn't mince any wards. we should have won this game, he said. fact is, the niners made the plays when they need in the closing minutes to pull it out. five degrees at kickoff. weather not much of factor. forth quart ex-kaepernick to davis. 28 yards. 20-17 san francisco. packers tie it at 20. san francisco drives into field goal range. phil dawson, 33 yards, won it. look tell replay. that's house. the ball goes between his arms. could have been, should have been blocked. game-winner. niners win 23-20, advance to play carolina next sunday. 10:00 a.m. kickoff on the west coast. a jubilant jim harbaugh. >> didn't think we could pull it out, did you? not our first time. not our first time. we got a lot of tough guys, and

they generate a lot of toughness. and clutch. >> i never had a doubt. >> no, jim harbaugh laughing. save that. >> yeah. good sound bite. >> we'll check in with you later. most 49er fans watched the big victory from the comfort of their home, though a few braved subzero conditions in green bay. one niner fan tried to thaw his beer in the parking lot. just about everyone dressed in layers. our photojournalist talked with some frigid 49er faithful outside the frozen tundra of lambeau field. >> i had no idea how cold it would be here. i left orange county, it was 75 degrees. i have no idea what negative temperatures feel like. always been a bucket spot for me, and to be here when the 49ers are playing, it's the best. playoff atmosphere, packers.

title town u.s.a. so couldn't be happier. it's worth the cold and conditions. >> the cold weather didn't freeze the enthusiasm of these fans after they sound their seats inside lambeau. leigh glaser shows us how cleveland -- how cold it got today. >> live doppler 7hd showing you that really snow was not a factor in the game today. of course, the ground there was just frozen, but you could see most of the snow, the moisture, moved into the eastern half of chicago there, heading towards the great lakes. at gametime, 3:40, five degrees. now it's sitting at minus one degree, check out the wind chill, during the game the players had to deal with wind chill factors minus nine to

minus 16. below zero. this is the secondary blast that will move in minneapolis, minus 14, minus 19 in fargo. couple in the wind chill, minus 17 in green bay, and minus-4 1 in fargo, all of that heads towards the south and the east tomorrow. very cold conditions. what about us here on the west coast? we'll take a look at the seven-day forecast coming up. >> the frigid weather has taken its toll on much of the nation in missouri, massive pileup shut down traffic for hours. several semis had to be removed. since the storm hit last week at least 15 people have been killed on the roads or frozen to death in north dakota, the high today was 12 below zero. that's the lowest high temperature since 1937. schools are closed monday as they are in minnesota and now chicago. at jfk in new york, a plane skidded off the slippery run away this morning. the delta flight made a safe landing but while taxiing it

slid into a snow bank. no passengers were hurt. >> travelers facing long lines at san francisco international. 66 flights were cancelled today. a mob of travelers waited inside terminal three to get rebooked on united. bay area travelers are feeling the ripple effects of cancellations another united's other hubs like chicago and cleveland. >> a lot more efficiently handled. all hands on deck. everybody work together. but wasn't going that way. >> the third line we have been in. we have been here two hours, standing in line, and this is -- one person here who can help with ticketing for the rest of the week. >> that kid looked happy. there were no cancellations in oakland or san jose. developing news in oakland. after a woman's car slid into an estuary, forcing a hazmat team to join the rescue. it happened near 880 and 66th

66th avenue around 3:00 this afternoon. sergio is live with what happened. reporter: the chp tells us that the woman who was driving, somehow lost control of the vehicle, slid off the 880 as she was driving, smashed into a guardrail, and then went into the water there. witnesses tell us it was just that woman, the driver, who was inside. this is video of the suv being pulled out. you can see the air bags deployed, helping to cushion the driver inside. the california highway patrol says she did not suffer serious injuries. the witnesses say she was taken away in an ambulance. according to one woman we talked to, a good samaritan is a hero in this crash. he pulled off the freeway, jumped in the water, and used some cinder blocks on the side of the pavement to break the rear window of the suv. >> he had to go to the back seat to go out the window, which that part was under the water. the minute she got out, though, the man grabbed her and the car

just went under. reporter: there is no word from the chp of rescue crews about who this person is. the woman we talked to says she thinks that man may have actually driven away before rescue crews got here. as soon as the vehicle was pulled out, all traffic was open here on the 880. reporting live in oakland, abc7 news. >> incredible. thank you. susan rask ski, a journalism professor at uc berkeley and a former congressional report it died at the age of 61. she died on december 29th from complications from breast cancer she won national award for her coverage the congressional budget crisis in 1990. her students call themselves raskyites but a she was a guiding-for-in their lives. >> this is the last day of business for campbell institution. where vice-president joe biden

stopped last year is closing its doors. their problem isn't a lack of business. it's rent, which has more than doubled. owners are looking for possible replacement locations in campbell. >> still ahead at 6:00, with marijuana sales now legal in california headquarters from californians why it should and should not be neil our state -- be legal in our state. good news for people struggling to pay for the new federal health care they just signed up for. going for a record. a look at how many kittens and puppies found new homes thanks

>> adults can now by marijuana legally in colorado and many californians would like to see it allowed in the golden state as well. the american civil liberties union discovered? a recent poll that 65% of californians favor legalizing, regulating and taxing marijuana sales. >> 30, 40 years into the war on drugs, particularly when it comes to marijuana, that was a failed initiative. that we spent billions of dollars putting people away. >> we have enough problems with people that are drunk, driving behind the wheel. and so you're going to have the same amount of people. how are they going to regulate that? >> 27% of californians surveyed strongly oppose legalizing marijuana. >> cover california has extended the deadline for insurance payments after becoming overwhelmed by a surge of people signing up for health coverage.

the insurance exchange will now accept payments by january 15th for policies that took effect at the beginning of the month. the extension gives insurance companies more time to handle paperwork, and it follows the troubled rollout of the federal healthcare law, or obamacare, across the country. up next at 6:00, a holiday rescue for this fenced-in fox. we'll show you his first steps of freedom. >> a little cooldown could be coming to the bay area. meteorologist leigh glaser is up next with the forecast. >> oil colin rush. phil dawson told me it's about sticking to your routine. when the niners needed him most, years of experience prevailed. why his winning kick was closer

>> a record number of puppies and kittens have been adopted out of the macy's pet window in san francisco. each year the aspca and macies

in union square team up to find homes for to pets. last year more than 325 animals found new homes. this year the number was 335. the number of adoptions may have been helped by the spca streaming video of all those cute little animals. a fox trapped in a fence in los gatos is back in the wild. here's a picture of the gray fox with its head wedged in a chain link fence. wildlife officials were puzzled because foxes can scale fences. personnel cut the fox out, examined it, and then set it free on friday. the fox was let go near the same fence so it would be on familiar ground. >> i was watching the game and felt sorry for the fans, wanted to put a coat on myself.

we had hard highs here in the bay area. live doppler 7hd showing you clear sky. a little high cloudiness will move in or direction by tomorrow afternoon so the clouds are coming and a cooldown is coming as well this week. here's a look at some record highs for today. 66. san rafael. 66 at sfo. and check out oakland. downtown, 72 today. setting a new record. the old record, 67, set back in 2012. beautiful shoot from our east bay hills cam. temperatures right now. san francisco, 60. los gatos, low 50s this hour. from the tam cam. winds starting to bob just a little bit. napa, 57. already 50 degrees in novato. fairfield, one of the coolest locations at 45 right now. our forecast highlights include a clear sky tonight, i although

we'll see a few more clouds drift by. tomorrow morning, frost likely, extreme north bay communities, as temperatures drop below freezing. get ready for a cooling trend, and looks like another dry week ahead. if we're able to squeeze any moisture out of the cold front, maybe extreme north bay. that's it. 20s in the north bay, 40s near the peninsula and the coast. high pressure -- sounds like a broken record but has been sitting near the coast, pushing the jet stream to the north. see how the cold front is starting to align right near the coast. high will push on towards the east. this cold front is not strong enough where we are to really make any kind of inroads in. we'll seal the clouds and cooler air mass settle over the bay area. the most energy right here is going to head to the north of us. so here's a look at the forecast model animation.

i'll take this to 6:00 tuesday. clouds with us. cooler air mass, temperatures drop off. as this front gets near it, it falls apart by tuesday night. most of the rain stays to the north in the pacific northwest. this next system will move in and could possibly wing -- wring out a drop or two, and our latest eight to ten-day outlook for january, calling for above normal temperatures and below precipitation. so we may not see much in the way of rainfall through the latter part of january. tomorrow, temperatures come down, 60s across the bay area. 55, san jose, napa, 65. 64, antioch. cooler air mass on tuesday and wednesday. the clouds thicken, only in the 50s on wednesday. maybe a drop or two overnight wednesday, thursday morning. the north bay. otherwise we'll look for more

sunshine next weekend. >> all right. thank you so much. >> colin rush is here with sports. a big one for the fibers. >> they were 4-0 against the packers the last couple years. they have their number. this is a game about opportunities. the packers had a few. the niners has a lot. the almosts not the factor we all expected. lambeau field, as we said, five degrees at kickoff. refs getting in the way of weather for hard buoy and company. packers, no firth down in the opening quarter. the niners only able to get two field goals in two red-zone drives. second quarter, kaepernick picked by william. turnover leads to points. only a matter of time for aaron rodgers, 14 plays, 70-yard, nelson, the lamb low beak. niners would strike back. vintage kap.

quick decision, takes off, runs, those long strides, tripped up after a gain of 42. frank gore, invisible in the first two red-zone opportunities. fourth quarter. rodgers going down. how does he get to out of senate and the explosion to cobb. a gain of 26. two plays later, the upback. packers lead 17-13, like in the first half, immediate response. kaepernick down the seam. davis, second camp of the day. 28achs, san francisco in front 20-17. after a green bay field glucide it, kap using his feet again. speed kills. i said yesterday this game could come down to the right leg of phil dawson. i like it when i'm right. 33 yards as time expires. charlotte, north carolina, here we come. 23-20, san francisco.

kaepernick, 98-yards rushing, 227 yards passing. the game-winning kick just got past the outstretched arms of williams. >> we have been down before and came back. we've been up and won. ultimately at the end of the game, you have to perform to win. >> the second half was closer than the first half, but there would be no better way to warm up than to get the w, and started feeling myself warm up a little bit. >> it's frustrating not play your best game. tough conditions. but defense holds them to 23 points. we should win that game. >> but they didn't. a reminder at 11:00, a special replyoff edition of vernon's view. his fought quarter touchdown catch was key today. play yaw futility continued for sherm lewis and he bengals. the early wild card game philip

rivers and the chargers outscoring cinci. dalton, bad, bad day. wright steps in front of player. 30 yards. 20-10 game. this is all on dalton again. graham's third pick of the game. later, san diego puts itself away. brown, second level and gone, 27-10 chargers. cinci's first home loss of the season, third playoff loss in as many years. san diego will play in denver next sunday. >> the warriors, on the verge of their longes e winning streak since 1975. john international the wizards. first quarter, david lee looking for thompson.

26 points for clay. wall answers. got it. time running out first half. seth curry to green, who leaves with an ankle injury. warriors occupy the second half with a 14-0 run. seth, little indecision. bogut will take that. a little hesitation. warriors open it up in the fourth. barnes, three. warriors cruise to their ninth straight victory, 112-96. they're 5-0 on the seven game road trip. stanford coach looking for win number 907 against oregon. chiney ogwumike unstoppable. she had 31. sixth 30-point game this season. thompson, career high 19. stanford rolls.

>> bears taking on oregon. the fight down low and missed. and one. winning in overtime, 101-98. this sports report brought you by orchard supply hardware and i like it when our local teams win. the sharks leading chicago in chicago, 1-0 right now. >> awesome.

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passengers on a flight from san francisco to new york city. why their flight was diverted and what was found onboard. with half of the country buried century snow and facing subzero temperatures it's not surprise disney's "frozen" was at the back of the box office. it came in first place for weeks ago. it's expected to surpass the lion king. frozen earned $20 million this weekend. the latest paranormal activity movie came in second. the hobbit, wall street, and american

right now the return of ron burgundy. justin bieber's big surprise for fans. and looking back at some of the our favorite moments of 2013. we're rolling out the red carpet now. >> we're in l.a. live. i'm rachel smith. we're celebrating the season here, but also celebrating a very busy year for us on the red carp carpet. check it out. >> my motto is expect everything and a bonus.