accident driver who ran over a man and last him fighting for his life outside of city hall. abc7 news cover is on the scene. cornell? >> southbound van necessary is -- van fess is -- van ness is closed after a hit-and-run accident left a man in his 50's fighting for his life. he was crossing van ness in the crosswalk toward city hall and he was struck by a vehicle headed south on van ness. the man was treated by paramedics at the scene and transported to the hospital. the vehicle is described "dark colored sedan or s.u.v." the car last the seen and has not been found by police. the victim was pulling a recycling bin cross the street because of the bottles and cans and shattered glass in the

intersection now. the victim is in "critical" condition. the latest from san francisco for abc7 news. thank you. >> we warned you about getting the windshield blades changed. >> check your tires, if they are the least bit going bald you will want new ones on there. we have one patented stormed coming in that could double the amount of rain we have had so far this entire season. for now we have fog in napa at one and a quarter and leyla gulen says it could be spreading to other areas so they will look at that. as far as the exploritorium camera it is beautiful. we have partly cloudy conditions and increasing clouds headed through the day so mostly cloudy with a stray shower possible late in the afternoon but mostly

the daylight hours will be dry. we have temperatures in the low-to-mid 50's on the coast and mid-to-upper 50's for the rest of us. so far it is not causing problems because with reduced visibility you can get caught on the blind curves but this fog could affect your commute into vallejo and highway 29 is prone to reduced visibility and highway 37 is moving along just fine and as you continue in the westbound direction we have this accident blocking one lane at atherton avenue. highway four from antioch to hercules is 27 minutes along i-80 from 4 to the maze is 15 minutes and san jose northbound from highway 85 to the san jose airport under ten minutes. this is the san mateo bridge away from hayward to foster city it is nice and clear so you could be able to stay home and drink the extra coffee.

>> developing news from the east bay, hayward police say a woman shot and killed by police officers at an apartment complex last night has died from the wounds. the police shooting happened on foothill boulevard in hayward at 7:00. hair police were called to the summerwood apartments to country a welfare check on a 62-year-old woman who lived there. police say she pulled out a handgun and refused orders to put it down and an officer fired a shot hitting the remain would. she was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead. the officer would fired the shot has been with the -- for a year and amy hollyfield is at the complex with an update on the investigation next half hour. >> new information on last year's sniper attack that could have plunged silicon valley interest darkness. a former government regulator says it was domestic terrorism. katie? >> strong words from the

chairman of the federal energy regulatory commission at the time of the incident but not everyone grows. in an interview with the "wall street journal" said the attack on the substation in san jose in airplane was a terrorist attack and if it was copy across the country it could take down the friday and black out the country. the attack was "the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever occurred in the united states." this happened at 1:00 o'clock a.m. in april and someone slipped into an underground vault and cut telephone cables. the snipers opened fire on the substation shooting for 19 minutes and knocked out 17 transformers that power the silicon valley. they disappeared a minute before a police car arrived and no one has been arrested. it is believed to be a professional job and could be a rehearsal for something bigger. pg&e officials the not discuss

it for fear of copycats and a spokesman for the f.b.i. in san francisco tells the "wall street journal" the bureau does not believe this was a terror attack but continues to gather evidence. happening today after school counselor accused selling marijuana to a couple of elementary school students is expected in court. the 20-year-old was arrested last week at willow glen elementary school in san jose. diaz was a tutor with the "think together" program. a spokesman says that he passed two federal background checks before he was brought on. he faces charges of selling marijuana to a minor under the age of 14. >> san francisco police are looking out for a man who tried to run over an officer when officers chase add stolen car in the bayview yesterday afternoon and the driver was into a crash on third street and officers approached he drove the car at them. an officer opened fire and the man sped off. police found the stolen black

saab abandoned in portrero hill area and officers searched with their guns drawn in several buildings but did not find hill. >> the san jose fire department is taking financial hit because it is not getting the medical emergency fast enough. the supervisors voted to take $700,000 from the aged that the four department breached the contract for failing to arrive at 90 percent of medical emergencies within eight minutes of being called. the fire department can get the money back if it improves the response time for three months in a row and must submit a plan detailing how the calls are answered faster. >> an east bay water districts that depend on the state water is not getting any so forces are studying options. officials. in dublin met at district headquarters and say that public needs to be educated about using recycleable water for washing cars.

>> water hose and self serve bay where you have the highest from 100 to 150 gallons of fresh water to wash one vehicle but come to our car wash we use on average 4545 and 55789. >> dublin has purple fire high caltrans signifying recycled water is used. >> the water is not drinkable, by the way. >> now at look at the forecast. >> good morning, everyone, we will look at the temperatures: we are freezing cold up forth. including santa close, american canyon is 27 and mill valley is 35 and san rafael is 41 look with bodega bay. spread it out we have mid-to-upper 30's in san ramon, lafayette, newark, and san jose and 33 at cupertino. 42 in redwood city and san

carlos and 43 in san francisco and 43 in brentwood. beautiful picture from sutro tower. clouds today with microclimates this morning. we will get together around the low-to-mid 50's as the clouds gather at noon and mostly gray in the afternoon at 52 and 56 and the rain will roll in around 7:00 with temperatures around 50. the heavy of the rain is tonight law tomorrow morning and much different tomorrow when you try to head off to work. scattered evening showers friday opening up for rate on saturday and sunday. >> as we head over to the antioch bridge that has re-opened you will be able to traverse it. if you are headed to highway four it should not be a problem with a little bit of slowing making the westbound push from antioch to pittsburg and other than that it is locking clear.

in novato this accident is in the midst of a lot of fog with westbound 37 at atherton reported over the petaluma bridge trying to get an exact location but it is very foggy in the area so be careful with one lane blocked and we seeing eastbound slowing headed into black point. this is the tolls at the richmond and san rafael bridge quiet out there and we do not see any cars but a few headed there in the foreign direction as we look at 101 and you make the drive into san rafael and to san francisco with cars moving smoothly and no accidents. >> wall street is counting on a huge profit that apple could make off of a product it hasn't even officially announced. >> the new concern of a possible terror attack in sochi with two days to go before the start of the winter olympics. >> tee time with giants and the 49ers going head to head on

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covering novato, oakland, sunnyvale and all bay area this is abc7 news. >> good morning at 5:12. this is the eastern span of the bay bridge. it is light and moving well. that is before the big rain coming our way. we will talk to meteorologist,

mike nicco and leyla gulen all ahead. >> a top united states terrorism official says there are a number of specific threats aimed at the olympics in sochi as the final preparations are underway for friday. a muslim insurgent group has threatened to strike at the olympics which has launched other attacks in russia. >> we can't allow a group like this to control our lives to the point where we would give up a major and wonderful sporting event. >> russia has stationed more than 50,000 police and soldiers in the sochi area. officials say that all appropriate steps are being taken to keep americans safe. >> the wild weather we have had in the west is driving up our food prices. >> lentaronics retailer is closing hundreds of scores

although they had a big hit with the super bowl ads. >> winter weather impact at the grocery store, the california drought has forced california to reduce their herds so prices are driven higher already. the drought and the deep freeze that gripped california in december are blamed for wiping out a quart we of the citrus industry a loss of $400 billion. growers have had to scale back on hiring. day after the popular super bowl commercial poked fun, it has been there done that reputation, radio shack is saying it will close around 500 stores because of restructuring with no word on which stores or when. apple has yet to announce a watch but morgan stanley predicts it will scene rate a profit of $17 billion the first year. that is america's money. make it a great day. >> investment company says it

will move a thousand jobs out of san francisco in the next three to five years, with a spokesman saying that san francisco will continue to be the 42-year-old company headquarters but cited several factors in the decision to transfer jobs out of the city including the high cost of doing business and living in the bay area and recruiting talent in this highly competitive market. >> construction could begin soon on a proposed softball complex that residents in east san jose have been lobbying for. the city council voted unanimously yesterday to negotiate with the private developer to build the $10 million ball field next to the mall. the city spent years studying possible sites and narrowed 9 choice to the 14-acre property in the of grown neighborhood. the size of the project want up by two acres to accommodate four fields. a deal with the developer is expected in the summer. >> hollywood celebrities will be teeing off for charity at pebble

beach today before they pair up with the pro-s but yesterday the giants against the 49ers in a shootout. the 49s needed an extra player and here was a chip off the green and dwight clark known for the catch makes the putt and giants pitcher putting here as the giants and 49ers raise $100,000 for charity. the giants won the shootout. course, for the pro-am hopefully peyton manning will be able to win something. >> question say that. >> record-setting mvp year. >> the weather is not so much of a relief if the gulfers. >> year was the best day and today the second best. tomorrow will be the worst day, while we getting soaked this

weekend, they will be on the southern edge of that rain shield so we are looking at touch and go conditions in pebble beach all weekend. right now, napa at three-quarters of a mile visibility, but not spread past there. where else is the fog? >> american canyon in vallejo. >> thank you. as far as clouds, it is increasing and we will get the sunshine this morning and i will tweet it with an issue with our enter faith yesterday and it was gorgeous and we will try to get that posted. the eastern span of the bay bridge a thickening cloud kind of day and dry during the sunlight. when the sun sets we have rain through tomorrow morning and unsettled wet weather with a thunderstorm or two. today we are in the home fists

and mid-to-upper 50's in the rest of the neighborhood. there will be puddles and ponds on the road when you step outside tomorrow morning and milder than this morning. tonight, 5:00 or this afternoon, late afternoon, 5:00, stray shower is possible. by 8:00, through the midnight hour the rain moves over all of our neighbors and it keeps coming in the overnight through 7:00 and yellows in there mean moderate rain and that is offshore. by noon today it is scattered and by the afternoon hours it is mostly cloudy with breaks in the clouds. through friday morning into friday afternoon if we see the stray showers they are in the north bay and on friday evening scattered shows are back which is the big storm that could bring a couple of imof rain. before that we could get half an inch to quarter of an inch in the north bay and half an inch

to 1" in the east bay. this is friday evening, saturday, sunday, more rain, monday it moves to the south and tuesday it is gone. we will have several feet of snow in the sierra and we have been waiting for this. beyond that temperatures are in the low-to-mid 60's and dry. >> it is looking busy right now as we take you there, westbound 580 from tracy to dublin you can see the areas of red bumper to bumper and 28 minutes to get into dublin. we have been tracking this pedestrian hit in san francisco with fresh flares at van ness. right now cornell has been telling us about this, southbound van ness will. closed at grief if several hours. northbound van ness is open by

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>> good morning at 5:22. seven things to know: breaking news, the search is on for a hit-and-run accident driver who left a man in his 50's in critical condition while he was in a crosswalk. several streets are closed while police investigate. >> two, a hayward police officer is on paid leave this morning after shooting and killing an armed woman at an apartment complex. officers were asked to check on the woman's well-being at the apartment complex and she pulled a handgun and they fired. she died at the hospital. >> three, a former federal regulator says a snipe are attack on a pg&e substation in san jose last april was a significant act of domestic terrorism. if it was copied around the country power could be knocked out to much of the nation. >> four, president obama is praising the c.v.s. drugstore chain for the decision to stop selling tobacco products which announced they plan to phase out

cigarette and tobacco products by october 1 and estimate that it will lose $2 billion in sales each year. >> five, rough weather back east is making life miserable for airline passengers this morning. 2,100 conflicts have been canceled and the number is rising each hour and as man have been delayed with la guardia and boston and john f. kennedy most affected. >> six, all is quiet on live doppler 7 hd picking up dry air with a few clouds and this time tomorrow it will be bit and the two storms coming could be the storms we have been bitting -- waiting for. >> it has been busy across the bay area roads with self -- several accidents and behind me the bay bridge toll plaza is looking quiet but in san francisco we have a major closure and i will tell you all about that coming up. >> actor paul walker last his entire $25 million estate to his teen daughter but some are

saying, not so fast. in the will, walk are named his 15-year-old daughter as his only beneficiary and asks his mother be appointed guardian but the issue is that since the star's deadly car crash in november, meadow-staying with her birth mother in hawaii and right now is not clear whether the mother will give up custody. walker's will was prepared in 2001 the same year he started in the first film. >> getting around london has been impossible after two workers walked off the job overnight protesting proposed job cuts. millions who depend on the london underground had to find alternate ways to get around because of the 48-hour strike. londoners hit the road and crowded the bus sending thecy in ground lock protesting the plan to close ticket windows at the tube stations that with load to hundreds of layoffs. >> for the 64th straight year

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the north by valley. an increase in clouds that will be mostly gray by the time we get to the afternoon hours and very colorful sunrise with temperatures inland and around the bay in the mid-to-upper 50's and the coast is in the low-to-mid 50's. leyla gulen? >> cornell is on the scene in san francisco with a pedestrian seriously injured after being hit by a vehicle at the intersection of southbound van ness at brief street and southbound van ness is closed at brief street. it will be shut down for several hours and no word as to exact when it will re-open. we want to use a few alternates and we have west of van ness or polk to the east is the best option. we don't know when the lanes will reson so use the alternates and get an early start as traffic will build up.

>> from hair, -- from hayward where a 62-year-old woman died after being shot by police she threatened the officers with a gun. amy hollyfield has the details. police have not released the officer's name with the police department for a year. police are telling us that the 62-year-old woman had a gun and she did not drop it when officers told her to drop it. they say she advanced toward them in a threatening way. they felt afraid and an officer shot and killed the woman. her neighbors say it was a terrifying experience. >> about five shots. it scared me to death. i felt like i could smell them. my concern was getting the kids safe, getting on the grounds and staying away from the windows.

>> police have not released the woman's name but say she made several calls to 9-1-1 and they were here to check on the welfare at the apartments on foothit bill. police and the district attorney will be investigating the officer-involved shooting. thank you, more on breaking news we are following as leyla gulen mentioned, expect traffic issues around san francisco city hall this morning. a man in his 50 was hit by an s.u.v. near the civic center while in a crosswalk at van ness avenue which closed at grief while the investigation continues. the driver took off. police are looking for a dark sedan or s.u.v. >> year, an elderly man was hit can killed in san francisco while crossing busy sunset boulevard. he is identified as 76-year-old

man. we were there moments after the accident the three women inside the toyota that hit him suffered minor injuries but were otherwise unharmed. a meeting of transit officials yesterday focused on pedestrian safety on city streets. the group "walk san francisco" wants reduced speed limits and turn restrictions in the dangerous areas. >> you can have curb exceptions which make a pedestrian more visible at a crosswalk. >> the mta add three new traffic signals long the busy stretch of sunset and new there are calls for another one. >> new details about a police chase in vallejo that ended with a deadly wreck that started in the city and headed west on interstate 80. officers say the driver lost criminal and crashed near highway 780 and slammed into a tree and died at the seen after 10:00 last night when police chased the car. we don't know why he took off. the crash closed the highways

for a while but all lanes now are re-opened. >> vacant grocery store could be a vacant lot when the flames burned for two hours growing to two alarms, with the fire crews still on the scene checking for hotspots. there is no word on what started the fire. >> the story of the murder of a three-year-old napa girl is more stubbing. police now say that the girl was stored in a suitcase and freezer for several days. police found the body of kay low -- kayleigh slusher in the apartment. the mother and the mother's boyfriend were arrested on tuesday morning. they appeared in court on murder and assault charges and sara krueger and ryan walker could face the death penalty if it is determined she was sexually

assaulted. >> we have a child who died. i don't know...everything i know at this point in time tells me this was nothing that continue incorrectly but that doesn't mean that the system didn't fail. >> sara krueger and inwarmer -- and warner will return to court in two weeks. >> san jose police are searching for three men who pistol-whip victims in a string of robberies this is a suspect caught on surveillance video. the robberyies happened in october at 3:30 in the orange. they carjacked one victim and robbed others over the next few hours. >> california public policy center has launched a website today that displays the large of the salaries and pensions paid in the state. in alameda county, an administrator was paid $720,000 in 2012.

in santa clara county, 40 doctors in san jose each made $500,000 to more than $750,000. two fire captains in richmond collected $400,000 each, half in overtime. as for pension pay intermediates, five retire yeses of the piedmont police and fire pension system collected over $300,000 in 2012. more than 95 former government workers in the state took home $ 250,000 each in total payouts. twitter has quarterly earnings, the first since it went public. the social media company stock has performed strongly since it made the day but on the stock exchange in november. share subjected from the initial $26 to the price now of $66. the report give investors a look at how quickly twitter is adding users after the close of

trading. >> a hot of search having to do with mobile and now we will check with mike nicco and our rain totals will surge in a big way. >> we can double the amount we have received so far this rain year just with this storm and especially with our weekend storm. today, though, it is cold. woodi'd is 33 and palo alto is 34. redwood city is 37. it is milder in foster city at 42 and san mateo and belmont is 44. heading north we have 43 in san francisco and 40 at half moon bay and 46 in san carlos and upper 30's for mountain view and 36 in oakland. freezing in san ramon at 32. freezing at 27 in napa. 32 in novato. concord is chose at 35. it is chilly. the next 12 hours colorful sunrise with breaks in the clouds. i will try to post pictures on

twitter. mostly cloudy and becoming gray at 4:00 and the rain will arrive as we head to later part of the evening rush. heavy rain tonight through tomorrow with isolated showers through thursday morning and low-to-mid 50's again and most of friday is dry but for the north bay and all of us get scattered showers in the evening hours opening the understood gates to the heavy rain on saturday and sunday. >> it has been busy this morning with a problem in san francisco as we have been hearing because of the intersection being shut down at van ness and grief because of a pedestrian being hit and that will. closed until further notice. 42 bart trains are running on time and ace train number three is only a point late headed into san jose we have an accident reported 101 at oakland are we have one lane blocked with more information on that in a bit but right now as you can see, 101 is heavy leaving the 280/680 split.

the top speed along 101 continues in the northbound direction is looking clear and 85 is moving along fine. fog could affect your commute at american canyon and along highway 29 you could have reduced visibility with the crash cleared westbound 87 that was blocking one lane and now all lanes have re-opened. >> it is a slow messy commute on the east coast, unlike what we have. next the dangerous conditions millions people are facing from a major new storm. >> sleepless in seattle the major celebration hours away for the super bowl champion seahawks. >> would you rink -- drink this

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>> that is right. hope i don't look too cold this morning, another monster storm sweeping across the country. the cities around the country are paralyzed. it started in the midwest and now our turn in the northeast. >> it just won't end, another winter storm second one this week is blasting more than two dozen states dumping a mix of heavy snow and freezing rain on more than 160 million members. >> ice. slick roads. driving is dangerous and deadly. >> we have had people thinking they were in a four wheel drive vehicle they are invincible. >> a tractor trailer crash on the pennsylvania turnpike turned fatal. snow removal crews work around the clock. >> the storm was so bad in the midwest a jet was stuck in the snow after landing in kansas

city and an engine was half buried in the snow bank. passengers were bused to the terminal. >> it has been a lot of snow. >> number cities are declaring a snow emergency and canceled schools. ♪ school is canceled ♪ school is canceled ♪ because it's cold. >> in the midwest there is a salt shortage. >> if you can get salt you paying a lot more. >> year the price doubled. >> in the northeast they are running out of snow removal money. >> we are $66,000 over budget because of the storms. >> this is what new yorkers are dealing with this morning, freezing rain, snow, rick, especially with the 8" of this mess and now another blast of winter is headed this way for

the weekend. with passengers taken to the terminal by a bus. >> and the biggest parade in seattle will celebrate the seahawk super bowl championship with the parade at 11:00 this morning from the space needle through downtown to the field for a rally with bear days up and the loyal fans have already staked out the perfect spot with their university of washington chairs. what is going on? schools are not closing to let kids attend the parade but the district admits they expect lots of absences. >> it is nut going to be rain on their parade. what about us?

and the lunar celebration on saturday. >> bad timing. light rain all day. find something else to do beside being outside. it will rain. and rain. and rain. and keep raining. light and maybe moderate rain and it will be a nice soaking and filled reservoir type of rain. you can see the snow in new england and back to the great lakes, there are wind chills that are 10- to 20-below in the state of washington. here is what is happening back here, you can see the rain or cloud cover from the southwest and moving over to the high pressure and making the right hand turn toward us that is the type of pipeline we have been waiting for to bring us healthy amounts of rain. the storm is healthy but this weekend, wow. we will tack about behalf will happen: thickening clouds, dry in the day.

when the sun sets the rain will arrive and hang around through tomorrow morning and the wet weather on friday evening through sunday with scattered thunderstorm is possible especially cross the north bay and the ocean over the welcome. temperatures are mid-to-upper 50's and low-to-mid 50's at the coast with no big change. tonight we have low-to-upper 40's with the rain. tonight is dry but off the coast, that is the wet weather that comes in, in the evening, with all of us wet by midnight and the light-to-moderate rain in the over night law 7:00 tomorrow morning, and by noon the steady written is over, scattered showers are lingering and they will dry by thursday evening. friday morning, we could is light showers cross the north bay the better part of the day and by 7:00 the scattered showers will move in to the rest of the neighborhood is be prepared friday evening plans could be wet. rainfall with the initial system will be half an inch to 1.25" in the north bay and up to .75" in

the peninsula and south by. friday evening, saturday, sunday, monday, and, finally, dry on tuesday, the expire time we will get several feet of snow in the sierra. the written fall totals headed through the same timeframe we are in the yellow, orange, the reds are fur to six inches possible from the north by north and the rest of us are two or threeibls so it will be wet for the golf classic this weekend. you can see we stay cool with the storm this weekend and next woke we dry out and hit the 60's away from the coast. it is here. be prepared. >> be prepareed. this is san francisco the

intersection of brief and van ness to the symphony hall with all lanes re-opened in the southbound direction with will tail lights northbound, southbound lanes were closed for a time because of a pedestrian would was seriously injure after being hit by a vehicle. we have problems including the crash blocking a lane that cleared and done enough damage to cause bumper to bumper traffic and we have sheet metal reported southbound on 680 at sheridan road with traffic running smoothly. watch out for the sheet metal. c.h.p. may have to do a traffic break to clear the debris. the bay bridge toll plaza shows the commute from the maze to friend cash-paying lanes are loading up and the fast track lanes are moving smoothly and

metering lights are not town on. >> new details in the death of philip seymour hoffman love this morning. police have arrested four people in new york. three men and a woman are held on drug charges tied to the death. police found 350 bags of heroin if their apartment and are trying to determine if it is the same batch as the drugs found in hoffman's apartment. he was found dead from an apparent overdose on sunday. he withdraw $1,200 cash from a grocery store a.t.m. in the hours before his death. >> in the last two hours, c.v.s. announced they are taking cigarettes out of the stores and the c.e.o. reveals what led him to take this drastic action. >> you will soon be paying more to enjoy girl scout cookies.

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the nation's largest drugstore town is going to stop selling greets and other tobacco products by october 1 and will lunch an antismoking campaign in the spring. they say it will cost the chain $2 billion a year to make this move. >> big change is coming to girl scout cookies. this will not make concludecy fans too happy. the cookies cost you more in the bay area than anywhere else in the country. the san francisco business times reports that the northern

california chapter is reagans -- is racing the price a dollar a box. chapter officials say the costs are going unincluding baker fees and facility expenses. it marks the first time in five years that local girl scouts have raised the cost of cookies. they are also introducing a gluten free cookie this year that is chocolate shortbread. >> now we have to fork out a dollar more so good thing your daughter is for longer a girl scout. >> i will do it. someone in the evening has a daughter in girl scouts and she forgot the morning crew. hopefully she will remember us. carolyn johnson. >> i am kidding. >> the mom moistureture is coming in with clouds increasing cross the state today and

low-to-mid 60's in san diego and los angeles and 69 in palm springs and nearly 60 in the central valley and monterey is 54 but dry. the seven-day forecast for lake tahoe is light snow on thursday, friday evening snow, and heavy snow on saturday and it will mix with a bit of rain at lake level sunday and monday with plenty of snow falling on the slope and tuesday it will be dry. get there early before the heavy snow starts. >> san francisco police thought the investigation would last for several hours and they have wrapped everything up after a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle southbound van ness avenue at grove street and they had van ness shut down for a while but everything now is re-opened and traffic is slowing smoothly. 580 from tracy to dublin is 37 minutes and highway four westbound from antioch to concord is 20 minutes and from san rafael to san francisco is

16 minutes and a drive through san jose northbound side away from highway 17, southbound traffic is not there but northbound traffic is building accident free. >> people who attended the super bowl must been in a big hurry to get home, look at all the stuff they left at newark airport in new jersey. cell phones, laptops, keys, jewelry, and many coats with nine more bins to go through. the t.s.a. keeps it all in lost and found for 30 days and if it is not claimed the hard drives are destroyed, and clothes are sent to shelters. >> a 19-year-old store clerk in have a are is the champion take on two would be robbers. josh just sat down to eat a hotdog and two men burst into the store and tried to run off with the cash register. josh said he acted on instinct but didn't know what to do so he

wrestled with the machine and won back the cash register. the two would be thieves took off. >> a city is considering getting rid of their own police d. >> first, breaking news, a busy san francisco intersection is shut down this morning and we will tell you how long this shut down could last. >> how microsoft's new leader compared to apple's tim cook for the paycheck.

live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. breaking news, a major san francisco intersection has been closed to drivers this morning after a hit-and-run accident that sent a man to the hospital. >> act of terrorism? a top financial official is revealing why he thinks an

attack on a pg&e substation is part of a larger threat. snow and ice hitting the east coast and the driver to work is already turning dangerous. nothing like that here but dangerous driving is coming our way. very soon. wipers, check. tires, check. rain, check. >> you don't need a rain check for the rain. absolutely. 1.5 miles in novato and we still have a last fog found up-and-down 101 and everyone else and doing okay but we seeing an increase in clouds. day planner is partly cloudy around the bay and upper 30's to low 40's with a few lower 30's around redwood city and in the low-to-mid 50's with the sky becoming gray in the afternoon and gh