live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> it happened again, another pedestrian is hit on the streets of san francisco. >> good morning. >> this time the victim is a child and the driver did stop. bernard joins us in san francisco. cornell, is the little boy going to be okay? >> that child will be okay. that is the good news. in a separate case, a pedestrian is still fighting for his live

after being struck by a hit-and-run driver this morning. a city official says "enough is enough." >> the boy just got hit. okay? i can't say anymore. >> witnesses were upset after seeing a boy get struck in san francisco's tenderloin. the child is about seven was crossing when the driver of a mercedes s.u.v. hit the child would was taken to the hospital. his injuries are taught life threatening and the driver cooperated with police. >> the witness said the boy's face what bleeding. he works across the street and saw the child and a group of kids walking to school. >> a lot of kids. maybe five or six kids. >> hours earliary man if his 50's was struck by a car in the crosswalk at van ness and grove. the differ did -- driver did not

stop and the victim is hospitalized with life threatening injuries. >> san francisco is the most dangerous for pedestrians more dangerous than new york city and certainly the most dangerous in the state of california. >> 21 pedestrians lost their lives in san francisco just last year. she hopes new traffic projects can reduce fatality by targeting traffic hotspots. >> we have to invest the money. people are dying and getting injured on our street which has a tremendous cost on city whether we like it or not. >> bet we enforcement is part of the plan. today, we saw drivers being ticketed for not yielding to pedestrians right in front of city hall. >> we counted eight people getting failure to yield tickets in the course of 45 minutes. we heard from san francisco police that the hit-and-run victim remains in critical

condition. thank you, cornell. the driver on hit and kill a pedestrian in san francisco's sunset district yesterday is facing charges. a 71-year-old was arrested for vehicular manslaughter and failing to yield to a pedestrian and released hitting a 78 -year-old man. we were over it shortly after it happened. he was hit with such force he went through the windshield. she and two passengers suffered minor injuries. a hayward police officer is on paid leave after shooting and killing an armed woman as an apartment complex. the officers were called to the apartment homes last night to conduct a welfare check. she was waving a hand gun and making threatening gestures and shot after she refused to put down the gun. the officer has been on the force for just a year. >> the heaviest rain of the new year will hoof into the bay area and meteorologist mike nicco is on the roof to tell us how long

it will be with us and how were we will get. mike? >> very impressive storm coming our way. good morning,en from the roof of the broadcast center. we will show you why we need the rain. you probably heard it but it has gotten worse and we are only at 12 percent of where we should number santa rosa and everyone else is 20 or less until san jose and 21 percent and livermore is 30 percent. here is what going on, all is quiet and it is hard to believe when you look outside with the lack of clouds that in less than ten hours we will get some light-to-moderate rain. you can see the connection down all the way to hawaii so this is definitely got a boost of wet weather of the the radar runs are small but they are going to start building and head our way in the evening and overnight. here is what you should specific, our first storm brings light-to-moderate rain and the heaviest is midnight tonight, through about 10:00 tomorrow, and tomorrow's commute will be a mess and as we head toward the weekend, a better system comes

in. we may double, in fact, we will double the totals you saw so far for the rain season, we should double if not exceed those values with just these two storms. the floodgates are open. be prepared. winter is on the way. back to you. >> a harsh winter storm is pummeling the country again today. boston is one of the hard of the hit with snow falling at the rate more than 1" an hour and knocked out power to 500,000 customers in pennsylvania. the storm is affecting travel across the country. this is a look from our camera at san francisco international airport. there are about 2,700 flights canceled, and another 3 the -- 3,000 are delayed. new york and la guardia and boston are most affected. >> in san francisco, crews will fix traffic signals at not monroe. around 6:30 this morning a big rig exiting interstate 880 hit a

power pole and traffic lights knocking down the wires. this was the scene from sky 7. driver had minor injuries. a block of the creek and the 880 afternoon ramp are closed while crews fix the damage. >> there is a debate over the sniper attack on a pg&e substation in san jose. a former regulator calls it terrorism and the f.b.i. doesn't believe that is the case. katie marzullo got some insight from a former agent. >> this wasn't a haphazard attack or four guy drinking beer it looked to be planned. >> the foam -- former f.b.i. agent brings when the head of the energy subcommittee was working during an attack the

"most significant incident of domestic terrorism that has ever occurred involving the grid in the un." someone went into a vault and cut telephone cables, cutting service to most of gilroy and snipers opened fire on the substation shooting for 19 minutes. they knocked out 17 transformers that route power to the silicon valley. no one has been arrested. they worry that it was a rehearsal for a bigger plot and if copied across country it could take the united states grid and black out the country. agent smith says if it wasn't trim, in would be evidence. >> there would have to be some information from an informant, a terrorist group informant, domestic or international, that some group was responsible. >> officially the f.b.i. is saying it was not terrorism but the bureau and pg&e say they are still investigateing. c.v.s. pharmacy is rebounding after dipping following the big announcement

the stores would no longer sell cigarettes. amy hollyfield has reaction from the customers this morning. amy? >> customers are happy. the white house is happy. it appears this is a very good p.r. move and they are positioning itself to sell more than just medicine and cigaretting cards. >> c.v.s. decision to stop selling greets is called bold, huge and brave and is applauded. the cuss tops -- customers love the idea the it is their choice, their business and it is great. i am happy. >> small business owners are also applauding. this liquor store owner is thrilled with the news. stunned, too, a company would stop selling tobacco products because cigarette and beer are the biggest severals the. >> i am surprised. why? what happened? it is good for small business like gas stations and liquor stores. good for us. >> the first lady weighed in

tweeting, thanks, c.v.s. our families can live healther and signed it m.o. meaning it came directly from here. the only people not happy are smokes. >> really? okay...that is odd because i always go to c.v.s. for my cigarettes. >> the c.e.o. explains the decision. >> tobacco products have no place in a setting where health care is delivered. >> the move is expected to cost the company up to $2 billion a year. the company executives explain they have planned to offset the impact saying it will enable them to enter into more contracts with hospitals to provide medical care decide their stores on the welcomes and at night when dockets offices -- when doctors' offices are closed. tobacco is responsible for 485,000 deaths a year and health advocates hope other stores will

follow the lead and plan to pull all tobacco products by october 1. a hate crime investigation is underway after a mock was vandalized. again. vandals defaced the center last week with spray paint, strips of raw bacon were placed on the ground. muslims do not eat pork products. the mosque was previously targeted by vandals. >> encouraging news for people who have expensive power tools stolen, six victims have recovered their tools. police had a picture of what looked like a yard sale and this is what bliss found after serving a search warrant yesterday: the power tools were all stolen, more than 100 tools are still waiting to be reclaimed. check with the police if you have one of the victims. still to come the local chapter girl scouts is doing something it hasn't done in five years and it is going to affect cookie lovers. >> plus, former american idol star clay akin is putting a

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>> the autopsy on actor philip seymour hoffman is complete. the result is inconclusive as to the cause of death depending on

what the toxicology tests say. he is a recovering addict and died from a drug overdose. funeral services will be private according to his publicist with plans for a public memorial service to be held in new york later in the month. >> former american idol clay akin is officially trying his hand at politics. >> you only know the part that begins with the golden ticket that still seems up believable to me, to this day. what would quaff me to run? >> low is running for congress from north carolina. akin, a democrat, released this video on the web site and tells his life story including growing up with domestic violence. he finished second in senator two of "american idol." >> are you trying to lose weight? there is an app that is shaming some people into shedding pounds that measures bmi and weight fluctuation but if you use it, be prepared to be judged. it uses insults and ridicule to

motivate people would slip away from the weight loss goals. it also also encourages if you make progress. this will not help, girl scout cookies are going to confident you more this year. the girl scouts are raising the price by a dollar to $5 a box, the only group in the country to race the money that will go to keep 12 camps open, and to screen and train volunteers. of the 4.4 million boxes of cookies sold last year, nearly a third were thin mints. >> meteorologist, mike nicco, is here with the forecast and to tell us when the rain will move in. >> who was that mystery woman on the arm of george clooney on the red carpet of his new movie? the amazing story.

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covering walnut creek, burlingame, campbell, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> looking live at seattle, washington, where the seahawks super bowl victory parade was underway a few minutes ago. it is 29 degrees. we are seeing right now but that

did not keep the super sized crowd away. city officials are planning from 200 to 500,000 people. the parade will wind from the space needle through downtown to the hawks home surf at the field for a rally. royal fans briefing the freezing temperatures . >> that is pretty cold if the street is cold enough to ice skate on. >> the coach could not wait to celebrate. >> congratulations. again. next year. mike nicco is on the roof. >> next year we will have a good sewing of rain and a lot of snow in the sierra with a couple of feeds coming their way. good morning, again, from the roof. you can see it is dry but the clouds are increasing as we expected and mid-level moisture

over the we ocean is the radar punching into the clouds. i don't think it is falling to the ground and if it is it is evaporating before it reaches the ground. temperatures are still chilly, mid-to-upper 40's in the north bay and the rest of issue in the low-to-mid 50's with antioch being the warmest at 55 followed by mountain view at 54 and san francisco is 50 and same for san jose and concord and oakland at 51 and same if fremont. from mount tamalpais you can see the lower clouds and mid-level clouds gathering as we prime the pup, if you will, with thickening clouds all day today, the rain comes this tonight through tomorrow, and then the secondary storm will be even more powerful will roll in friday evening through saturday and sunday. if you have plans to be outside this welcome, it might be time to think of alternatives. today, three to six degrees cooler-than-average temperatures as most of us are in the low-to-mid 50's. low-to-mid 50's along coast and 54 in san francisco to a lot of

57's. it will be milder tomorrow, no freezing, no frost, temperatures from the upper 30's in the north bay and the rest us from the low-to-upper 40's in san francisco. here is what will happen: a few scout showers are possible headed to 5:00, and across the north bay coast the bulk of the wet weather will come in, around, say, 10:00 went light-to-moderate rain will develop. ahead of that we could have drizzle and may have a few showers but the steady rain is around 10:00 and you can see it is this at midnight with yellows through tomorrow's rush hour and that ought to be fun with ponding on the roadways and everyone is wet and as we head to 10:00 the steady rain becomes showers and that is what we will deal with in the afternoon. in fact, it will taper tremendously. friday or, any rain will be well to the north and by friday noon a scattered shower again across the north and by 7:00 you can see the rain starting to come in for the next system. half inch to an inch likely, our

higher elevation at three quarters to 1.5" and the next 178, this is friday, this is saturday, this is sunday, this is monday, it clears out then and rainfall amendments- amounts could be from 3 to 5" or 1 to 3" in the south bay. below average temperatures until monday and tuesday. then we will have clearing. temperatures will be in the 60's away from the coast. the two storms are the real deal, something we have not dealt with since december of 2012! have the windshield wipers working and if you have put off getting tires, it will be a sloshy commute. >> a personal trainer from texas won a date with george clooney for $10. she and her daughter victoria joined clooney for the premiere of "the monuments men," and he surprised her during an interview and sat down to chat.

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