minus 60 degrees. the wind chill advisories are in place. >> there are more delays with the airlines as blizzards keep the airlines from getting up to speed impacting travelers in and around the bay area. our reporter, matt keller, joins us from san francisco international airport. matt, good morning. >> what a nightmare for travelers this week. today is another bad day for cancellations. the last hour we have seen double delays to 530 across the united states and the cancellations numbers are worse. 1,846 flights canceled in the united states today. at sfo 21 flights are canceled, oakland has four departures canceled. san jose, no cancellations but

it is early. passengers of jetblue suffered the most because they did not try to fly in and out of the northeast because of a new f.a.a. rule requiring more rest time so passengers are not leaving the bay area for several more days. [ inaudible ] >> there is no way i can be here four days. >> jetblue says they expect to be running at full capacity by this afternoon. some of the worst hit airports are in the midwest. half flights in and out of the cleveland and a third of the flights to and from chicago are canceled. a few dozennor delayed at the bay area airports. that number will increase through the morning. check with the airline before you leave home. happening now, charter buses are picking up 500 stranded passengers after three amtrak trains including one from the

bay area was stuck in illinois after hitting a 12' snow drift that paralyzed the engines starting at 1:00 o'clock our time yesterday. these are photos from people on board the california train headed from emeryville to chicago. amtrak says all passengers will be in chilling by noon which is 20 hours after they got stuck. >> pg&e crews are try to restore power to 2,000 people left in the dark. this is impacting customers in richmond. pg&e says the power went out at 3:00 this morning. the outage originally impacted 5,000 customers. there is in estimate when cruise will have the power back on. >> oakland police are investigating a shooting that occurred outside an east oak neighborhood market last night. a man was taken by ambulance from the royal market at 76th and mcarthur boulevard at 8:00 p.m. shot once. the condition, now, is unknown.

he was conscious and alert on the way to the hospital, shell casings at the store suggest the man was shot outside and ran inside. police have not released any suspect information. >> antioch police are crediting a target store employee for giving the tip they need to rescue a kidnapped girl the focus of amber alert on friday night. our reporter talks with the target worker being called a heroine. >> i did not get a good vibe. >> it is her job to prevent shoplifting and she says the man did not steal anything but she kept an cry on him anyway. >> i soon him grab the steering wheel and shake it like something was wrong. i thought, okay, something is wrong with this guy. >> roxanna took down his license plate and later her girlfriend read her the amber alert for an abducted seven-year-old girl. >> the car looked the same.

it could be the same person. my girlfriend said i should call. the driver matched the suspect's description, the 43-year-old antioch resident david douglas. >> when we knew would he was we learned additional information that gave us the wherewithal to go out and look for him at the antioch marina because that is where he liked to frequent. >> police arrested dougless at marina with the girl in the back seat of the car. he said that it was a cry for help to get out of a situation. police say roxanna's information was key to rescuing the girl. >> don't keep it to yourself. it was a good thing because i saved a little girl's life. >> the police thanked roxanna self tomorrows and they are calling her a true hero. police are discrediting a

woman on originally claims she helped locate the kidnapped girl and her suspected an deductor. she gave interviews to abc7 and other news agencies. detective say she played in role in the case and she is nut cooperating with the investigation. a founding member of the former black panther party will make a statement condemning the sight death of 13-year-old andy lopez at the sonoma county board of supervisors meeting. lopez was shot in october by sheriff deputy, erick gelhaus, walking through the neighborhood carrying a plastic rifle. erick gelhaus believed it was a real ak-47 and said he refused to drop it. activists have held several protests demanding justice and showing they are upset that erick gelhaus is on the job. >> richmond is experiencing a a significant drop in the murder rate. our media partner reports that the 16 homicides last year was the lowest number since 1980. the city mounted an organized

effort to halt street try lens using former gang members who work to keep peace by discouraging retaliation. there were five months without a single homicide. police credit the combination of enforcement, better community relations, and youth outreach programs. a former school aide in hayward goes to court facing eight felony child molestation counts. police say the 29-year-old is accused of having a two-year long sexual relationship with a student that began when the boy was 12. she was at hayward's all saints catholic school since 2005 and is jailed on $800,000 bond. police do not believe there are other victims. this morning, a school nurse in concord is credited with saving a child's life by performing cpr. radio transmission of four fighters tell the story of what happened after the child collapsed. >> unconscious. in the office. the nurse is starting cpr.

>> the child is breathing. awake. talking. >> drama unfolded at the elementary school yesterday which is not releasing any details. we have more video of the rest of the nation in the deep freeze another reason to love the bay area. >> we have been talking about that, we are lucky to avoid the polar vortex. mike? >> you have been joking around about that and there it was. the polar vortex, the big flavor of the day weather-wise shooting down cold air to parts of the country. i would not say most of the country especially out here easter west of the rockies we have not been touchedded but when something hits new england or new york or washington, dc,

everything deals with it. it is mild in the south by at 47 in san jose. 54 in los gatos. the cool astronaut is santa theresa at 39. we are in the 40's everywhere, even inland with 44 at lafayette, 43 in danville, 47 in redwood city and san carlos and 42 in novato. 50 in san francisco. 49 in alameda. because of the cloud cover, we are milder this morning. more humidity in the air. no fog has been forming yet. we will watch that. mid-30's to mid-40's is where we will end up. with the cloud cover, like yesterday, it will be thicker. it will open up. temperatures are in the mid-to-upper 50's at noon. mid-50 to 60 at 4:00. we are closer to average. it will be milder as we head to 7:00. upper 40's to 50 degrees. leyla gulen? >> good morning, everyone.

we have construction projects all over the bay area. we first look at one in san jose and we are headed into the east by as we check out 680 we have construction crews southbound 680 from sycamore valley road until 5:00 this morning. here is drive time track, 680, southbound, from walnut creek to dublin only taking you 14 minutes. despite the construction you are looking at a great drive. 101 santa rosa to san francisco, 51 minutes along northbound 17. we will look at the san mateo bridge where the drive is smooth sailing crossing the water to the peninsula it will only take 12 minutes from hayward to foster city. >> the mystery over the whereabouts of a 13-year-old oakland girl declared brain dead and how her family says she is being cared for and why they are blaming children's hospital

oakland for her deteriorating condition. >> the private shuttle operators who now ares forked to pay to stop at city bus stops in san francisco. the 49ersly the practice field fired up and ready for the packers and the head coach harbaugh says the win over green bay in freezing cold temperatures made him [ angelic music plays ] ♪ toaster strudel! best morning ever! [ hans ] warm, flaky, gooey. toaster strudel! [ female announcer ] try new pillsbury heat-n-go mini pancakes. ♪ [ male announcer ] don't wait for awesome...

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covering walnut creek, burlingame, campbell and all the bay area this is abc7 news. >> a hearing is scheduled for today in the case of 13-year-old jahi mcmath has been canceled since she has been moved out of children's hospital oakland. she was declared brain dead after complications from tonsil surgery. the family will not say where she is now but they were in los angeles last night. >> very sad. she smiled all the time.

>> he broke down on cnn describing his niece, the 13-year-old was taken away from children's hospital oakland in the back of an ambulance. this is cell phone video provided to us by her uncle saying the family is holding out hope that she will recover. >> we believe as long as her heart is pumping she is alive. as long as mitosis' heart is beating he is alive. >> the family and the attorney asked the nutrition be given to her by children's and they said because the hospital would provide neither she is in bad shape. >> he is being disingenuous. he is deceased. unfortunately, a body and this is in the court statements we filed on friday, her body is deteriorating. that is the natural course events when a person is deceased. >> in papers filed in federal court by children's hospital oakland, doctors say jahi mcmath's body was unable to regulate temperature and they could not correct or improve the

manifestation of the post-mortem deterioration. the hospital released jahi mcmath to the coroner who then released her to her mother's custody. the family attorney says jahi mcmath now is getting nutritional support and antibiotics to fight infection. >> we wanted to have her per have the ability to make a choice, whether her daughter would stay on or come off of a ventilator. a man charged in the killing of a beloved northern california priest. bull look says he didn't do it. the 44-year-old is accused of killing reverend freed on new year's day. the coroner says the reverend freed was beaten to death with a wooden stick and a pipe. he was laid to rest year. hundreds gathered to say goodbye bullock pleaded not guilty with bail set at $1.2 million. >> san francisco has seen an

increase in the number of private shuttle buses rating in the city and now it plans to make them pay not privilege. the mayor lee says google and other high-tech companies will pay the city a fee if they use muni bus stops to pick up or drop of 50 employees. the fee will cost larger companies $100,000 a year and generate $1.5 million for the city. the shuttle buses have been controversial and, intoed protests -- and sparked protest they keep 100,000 cars of 50 the street. the companies recognize they have to pay their fair share of maintaining treats. >> >> the 49ers preparing for the game against the panthers in charlotte on sunday and getting the pack ready, just in case, with the outside chance the title game could be played in two weeks at the stick if the 49ers beat the panthers and the saints beat the favored seahawks. the 49ers coach reflected on

the victory over the packers. >> in the playoff to beat the elements and the opposing team and were opposing crowd, nothing makes you feel like a man like that. >> he and the 49ers are look ing forward to travel to charlotte this weekend. if you are watching the game the 49ers take on the panthers sunday at 10:00 a.m. we see a lot of red and gold and sfo is jumping on it. this is a shift the international terminal at san francisco international airport in the 49ers red and gold. you have been showing us your pride as well, and here is 86-year-old mom who loves kaepernick. we would love to see your fan photos, as well, at ureport@kgo-tv.com. it is always a man thing in football, that is why you see players in green bay at five

below with no sleeves on to show "i-manly, i can take the elements." >> the 86-year-old woman, she could have done it, too, in that great picture. >> better this weekend. >> looks like rain and 59 degrees. in charlotte, north carolina, we will show you what is going on outside, charlotte is on the period with south carolina and south carolina doesn't have any protein so they wanted to pull fans from both sides of the border. the wind chill shows it is not the entire country, not most of the country, it is a third of the country under the wind chill but it goes from minnesota to miami right now. still dangerous cold. for the rest of the two thirds of the country, we are looking at quiet conditions until you get back here and visibility is running well although we have a

last cloud cover. we just don't have a lot in the way of fog. as we head to the afternoon hours, like yesterday, you may see the clouds give up a little by of their moisture the mid-to-upper level clouds so you see a few green dots in the north bay. it evaporates before it hits the ground. the evaporation will keep our temperatures from reaching records today in the upper 50 to low 60's along the coast into fran and the rest of us are in the low-to-mid 60's with temperatures before average. tonight, we will have mostly cloudy conditions and mild weather with a lost mid-30's to low 40's inland and lowe -- low-to-mid 40's around the coast. we are watching a series of weak weather systems trying to pound

the high pressure and it is working and were ago the door for a different air mass and it is coming in, in the upper levels, from the tropics and because of this we just need something for the moisture hitting the ground and squeeze it out with a cease of low pressures that will do that much of the timing is best for sprinkles today and the possibility with a chunk of energy coming through that could bring us a better chance of light rain on wednesday and anything measurable would be along the coast and in the north bay. a last public of energy on thursday bringing a chance sprinkles and it becomes warm and dry on friday with a last chance from another system on saturday. then temperatures are above average low-to-mid 60's on sunday and monday. hopefully we will get rain out of it but don't expect a lot. >> we have 29 bart trains running on time. ace train one, no delays there. muni also on time.

we do have construction around the bay area, and in accidents to report. 80 westbound from highway 4 to the hoffman split up to 580 we have lanes blocked off until 5:00, most of our projects around the bay area are going to be lasting until action and wrapping up in ten minutes from now. in the north byes santa rosa, 101 through rohnert park, petaluma, northbound direction, everything is moving along at top speed bringing it down to the south from novato, into lucas valley it is clear. across the richmond and san rafael bridge, not too bad going outside and here is san jose northbound 87 beyond the julian street off-ramp a couple of cars in the northbound direction and in delays at the tank. >> this morning in idaho a bus crash is under investigation after it slammed into a building

with a dozen passengers on board. the bus is left dangling over a packing garage. the photographs were taken by the fire department in boise. no one was hurt seriously. according to the bus drive the brakes everyone not working when he approached an intersection near the idaho power building. the driver was trying to avoid hitting other cars when the bus crashed. is losing weight a resolution for the new year? coming up, the best diets to help you shed the pounds. >> "good morning america" anchor robin roberts talks about her bay a

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a federal appeals court is putting a hague on utah same-sex marriage ban on the fast track. a federal judge declared the ban unconstitutional. 900 gay couples in utah since them have tied the knot but the

decision is apeopled. the supreme court yesterday said the weddings cannot continue during the appeals process. the order does not affect couples who are already married. robin roberts is talking about her girlfriend on air, on "good morning america" after coming out on facebook. she and amber have been together for 10 years. amber grew up in the bay area. robin mentioned amber in a post reflecting back on 2013. >> i have never been happier or healthier than i am right now and my year is full of gratitude and telling everyone all that i'm grateful for including my girlfriend, amber who loved me through a very difficult year. >> roberts, also shared a photo of her and amber to the right of roberts attending a wedding. you can see her on "good morning america" right here going at 7:00 a.m. all the folks will be

bundled up for sure dealing with the conditions out there. >> yes, one of the local new york reporters tweeting that central park's low beats 118-year-old record. >> amazing. that is why it is inbound. it is breaking records this have been around since they have been keeping records, up to 100 or 150 years. the exploritorium camera, the water is calm. our temperatures todaying be close to yesterday in most areas. santa rosa and concord could see a three degree jump. you can see mid-level clouds, not low level moisture that brings us the rain we need the you can see the green in the follow of sprinkles with rain around eureka and mid-to-upper 60's through sacramento and 48 in tahoe with no snow and 74 in los angeles and palm springs. >> we have construction on 580

eastbound direction and westbound is starting to led up just a little bit. eastbound 580 headed to greenville road we will have construction crews and that is going to last until 6:00 this morning. it should not hamper the commute. you are in tiptop condition as you make the drive from tracy to dublin. however, speeds are diminished at 51 miles per hour to 59 miles per hour continuing through the altamont pass. 80 westbound from albany to the maze is four minutes and 880 southbound from fremont to san jose is 15 minutes and 280 northbound from 101 to cupertino is 11 minutes. >> 4:56. a poll finds a majority of americans favor legalizing marijuana. a cnn poll of a through people finds 55 percent of americans surveyed say marijuana should be made legal. 44 percent disagree.

35 percent still believe smoking marijuana is morale wrong. that is a big drop from 70 percent in 1987. republicans and southerners are the only major groups who were oppose the legal use. >> it is not too late to get the flu shot as more and more are getting the flu across the united states and in california with wide-spread outbreaks. oregon and nevada are the hardest hit. california has regional outbreaks and santa clara county reported the first flu death last week and the victim tested positive for h1 h1n1 strain. you can stop the spread of influence -- flu by washing frequently. >> use mentioned, at 5:00, the real hero who helped find a kidnapped girl and describes the gut feeling that led to an

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