away with an update. >> the death toll keeps climbing overseas after toll ban gunmen attack a school. we have new developments right now and it is december 16 at can. thanks pore -- for joining us. >> we will find out more on the rain. mike? >> it is tapering. live doppler hd is coming in on the heart of the bay and you can see a few radar returns with the thickest in the diabolo rain headed to the central valley, so drizzle this morning, a little bit of fog and a break mid-afternoon to mid-afternoon before we get more rain and heavy rain in the afternoon. the day planner the next 12 hours 48 to 50, cooler this morning, upper 50's at noon and rain and breezes pick up and temperatures drop into the mid-50's at 4:00 and the commute is not so easy this evening. >> not easy this morning but if

time if 6:00 we should sigh better conditions. the bay bridge toll plaza shows traffic is sluggish and the metering lights everyone turned on and traffic is backed up from the maze. coming in from berkeley so secretary to put on the brakes into san francisco. the golden gate bridge is lighter. if your travels take new and out of marin, still damp conditions on the roads andout any rain falling it will be better in terms of pooling or ponding not occurring right now. the big story is through the santa cruz mountains. there is a big sig-alert on highway 17. matt has hive coverage on highway 17 at summit road. matt? this is a nightmare you think of if you travel offer the hill if the morning commute, four lanes are blocked, the traffic is blocked in both directions. at summit road, the southbound lanes are diverted off and many

people are being turned around northern back into santa clara county as they try to get to santa cruz and the good news is people would know the mountains can take old santa cruz highway if they necessity the -- they know the highway they can get through but the other direction they are cut off at glennwood area because a free is across all four lanes. i talked to a c.h.p. offic with no estimated time when it will be back open. he recommended people take 152 to 101 but it could take an extra headquarter to get to silicon valley or highway 9 but that is a two lane highway so that could be anza 45 minutes from santa cruz to silicon valley. those are the best option if you have to get over the hill into santa clara county.

thank you, from the summit to the east by, amy hollyfield picks up the coverage and what is beginning on, amy? >> we do not have anything as serious as what matt is dealing with but the warnings are just as intense with a small rock slide with a few small boulders landed in the small or slow lane at the caldecott tunnel and officials say it is something they could keep an eye on and be mindful of, with the hillsides wet. this is the rain that came down overnight while we were sleeping this morning, it was heavy. it was a good soaking when the ground was already soaked. it is still very wet out here and although we are going do get a break in the rain, be aware it

is wet and officials are worried about the fragile hillsides and what we can do. we are worried about the wet roads and encouraging you to be extra careful and keep in mind look at the good soaking that happened overnight and more is on the way. crews are on high alert and though ask you be, as well. all this wet weather is paying off for the lake tahoe ski resorts and last week the storms dropped up to 2' of snow and pick up a few morisms yesterday -- a few more ins yesterday. local merchants like what they see. >> this is what we love, what the althoughs call white gold where it keeps snowing and each day our guest visitors whether they are skiing or snowboarding they fill in the day before or night before and you go back in and it is a new mountain but

can see it is ideal. >> in is what interstate 80 looked like yesterday afternoon. keep the contains many. -- keep the changes handy. conclude out our weather app free on apple app and google play and we have more information at abc7news.com abc7news.com/apps. >> from pakistan, 126 people, mostly students, have been killed in a taliban attack on a school in the northwest area. the taliban stormed the military school and started shooting ran democratly. dozens have been injured. there are students from grade 1-10. commandos arrived and exchanged gunfire with the gunmen. several attackers had bombs and blew them receives up. nick is following the late-breaking developments with more at the bottom of the hour. australian authorities are

describing the gunman what took 17 people hostage as a sydney cafe as deeply disturbed individual who was not on a terror watch list. the prime minister and his wife laid flowers at a russia ripe -- at a shrine outside the cafe. the gunman had a long criminal history and was out of jail on charge of being accessory to the murder of his ex-wife. a s.w.a.t. team ended the siege of 16 hours. >> this is appalling and ugly. these are decent people gone about their ordinary lives, as innocent a scene as you can do, great britain a cup of coffee before the working day is fully started. >> two hostages were killed along with monis, one the player and the other the manager who tried to disarm the gunman. >> he was accused of killing his ex-wife. her godfather lives in hayward

and sat down with abc7 news and said the family was relieved that he was arrested and charged with murder but that was short-lived. >> we were so happy that fine eel justice was served and two weekend later they put him out on bail and if he was in jail the innocent victims would not have died. they should have locked him up and throw the key away. >> they visited the family in california for a month early last year, and they told her to be safe because monis was abusive. she was found murdered in april in sydney and when the godfather found out he play prayed for the hostages. >> in oakland there is an investigation over the overturning of discipline for police officers with a federal judge ordering the city to turn over documents to a court-appointed official investigating the reversal of discipline by arbitrators.

the oakland police department has been required to have a number of reforms to improve accountability. however, the judge says reversal of the police discipline called interest question whether the department is meeting the reforms. now a check on the weather forecast. we have had showers this morning but what about the rest the day. >> it is only going to get wetter headed home from work. >> we are going to get a breakthrough the morning hours into the early afternoon and then it will turn heavy. we can see a few light showers near the toll plaza for richmond civilian san rafael bridge and down 101 around the bayview district and around this area here. that is it. temperatures running in the upper 40's in los gatos and santa clara and los altos and low-to-mid 50's for the rest of the the south bay. 46 in calistoga and novato is coolest at 45 degrees. in alameda, 53.

san pablo is 51 and redwood city at 50. the walnut creek camera is not raining and 680 looking southbound is wet. today, we will have the only showers taper and we will have rain, heavy at times this afternoon ask breezy, and we could have more flooding and mudslides and power outages san rafael is quiet right now, and light showers on wednesday, a break on thursday, more wet wet -- wet weather on friday. we are moving along at highway 17 or not moving i should say. we have a full closure northbound and southbound highway 17 with a tree fell and took down power lines. cars are diverted off of the highway at this time and matt is out there with more information for us. at least 100 vehicles in bicycle directions having to be turned around if you travel from santa cruz through scots valley to get to silicon valley you will fine

you will not be able to use highway 9 which is the only alternate unless you can temperature commute from home. there is no estimated when it will re-open. northbound and southbound highway 17 shut get ready for the flu the new warning from a bay area doctor. >> a retailer nordstrom is in full damage control mode with a controversial posting of an employee made on social media and the response from the retailer. >> what did you google in 2014? the mountain view company reveals the top searches of the year. >> we have more weather and traffic all morning at we abc7 news and tail lights headed west news and tail lights headed west and the deck is dry at the most.

covering walnut creek, burlingame and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. check out the beautiful shot, you are familiar with this, blue canyon and the snow is coming down. in watches. no warnings. just a nice gradual snow to add to the snow pack and it is only

41 percent of where it should be, and everyone is gid --y and you should -- everyone is gid --y and you should be, too. >> we want did see the weather where you live, send us your weather photos and video at ureport@kgo-tv.com or post them on our facebook page or share them with us on twitter@abc7newsbayarea. ago ago ge flu season. we are told by a doctor the flu is expected to hit the bay area hard the next few weeks. christmas is next week so many will spend time inside with the family. people are traveling and will then go back-to-school and work exposing themselves to classmates and co-workers. the centers for disease control has warned patients that the flu shot is less effective this year because the flu strain has

mutated. it is hitting the hard land and illinois has widespread cases so severe some are preventing visitors under the age of 18 from seeing parents. texas and georgia and ohio and several other states report high flu activity. nordstrom is facing controversy this morning after a now former employee advocated the killing of police officers on his facebook pages working from portland, oregon in response to the death of unarmed black men he suggested "rather than slamming the police i prefer when an unharmed black man is killed you kill a decorated white officer at his home if front of his family." that post is taken down and he is fired. >> mountain view based google is

revealing the top searches of 2014 say the suicide of we robin williams was the most searched topic of 2014. the company says that the search on remains topped notable events such as the world cup and ebola outbreak and disappearance of night 3 accident and the ice bucket challenge. they all ranked at the most discussed subjects this year on facebook. google says the other top searches including addictive smartphone game flappy bird, and isis and the hit disney movie "frozen," and of course, ferguson. >> that is our year in a snapshot. >> what about storms? if we talk about the recent storms that would make it. >> the power outages are working

well and hopefully we not have that, this afternoon, so there is a possibility of power outages. good morning, everyone, 6:17. straight up, we will look at live doppler hd and a look at what is going on as far as our trend, the green and fading away and there is drizzle, with a little bit of fog and the ground is still very moist and wet and those are hazards to deal with during the morning and leyla gulen will have a wrap up of traffic and i will do it with weather half mile visibility in santa rosa. with light winds. and below 10 miles per hour but in san francisco, you can see the exploritorium across the street, the flag is a 10-12 miles per hour wind which is manageable. and san jose, 101, at 880 you can see the spray coming up from the shower an hour ago and that rolled through and morning showers just about over and

heavy rain this afternoon and this evening and it will be breezy and that is when we see the possibility of more damage. rain and showers tomorrow and friday and thursday is dry and the win december begins on sunday and so does an extended period of dry weather next week. here are a couple of suspects that rolled through year, including this one, a weaker version of a cold front with a trough right there and an area of converging area and it tries and creates showers and a stronger converge ensure and cool air behind this and this comes in tonight, we and this afternoon, we will have urban roading and mud and rock slides. river flooding is unlikely. on friday, the storm passes and, finally, we are out of it. now, timeframe: at 7:00, there are a few scattered light showers and those will taper to noon. well see thicker and darker clouds from noon until 2:00 when the wet weather rolls in and we have yellows and oranges and reds and moderate to half rain

all the way through the evening hours and another impulse comes through during overnight into tomorrow morning rush hour and by the end of the rush hour tomorrow we are starting to look at a little bit of a drying trend. for the better part of the afternoon on wednesday an isolated shower at best. rainfall amount, half an inch to 1.75" if lower elevations. the seven-day forecast shows a break on thursday, and light rain on friday, and it should not be so heavy tonight or cause any damage, saturday afternoon, sunday and monday, a dry and warming trend and low-to-mid 60's warmer than average next week. we have a couple big accidents and one i will not show you, a map shows walnut creek is slowing you down headed out of pleasant hill to walnut creek and we have a multiple vehicle crash leaving hercules, westbound 80, this is through

pinole with a couple of lanes taken away and backups from highway four that ease up and slow-and-go into richmond. northbound nimitz at highway 238, another crash involving a couple of vehicles and most of the traffic is in the southbound direction headed into hayward and another accident at great america parkway so i will have that but we have a sig-alert northbound and southbound highway 17 cars are being turned away and a tree fell down here and power lines are down. it is a mess. we cannot traverse highway 17 through the santa cruz money -- mountains until further notice. >> which video game fits your budgets and your kids' needs? we look at the options straight ahead. >> looking at the golden gate bridge with traffic moving fine but you can see the roads remain wet with weather and traffic

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the morning news continues with the top stories. >> a case of chicken pox keeping angelina off the red carpet for her highly anticipated if you film and who showed up if her place. >> rests force the berkeley city council to cancel a meeting a week ago and now what they are doing so they do not have to take that action again. >> we learned of good news through santa cruz, in santa clara county after a tree and power lines fell across all four lanes blocking all traffic this morning. we have the latest from c.h.p. in a report. more if news as we look at live doppler hd a drying trend over the neighbors right now and another batch of heavy written is on the way for the afternoon and evening and i will have a timetable for that and when dry air gets here on a more permanent basis. in the traffic center, 101

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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. when we get rain, what do they get in the sierra? snow. i know that was a tough one. that is a picture of blue canyon take your chains if you are headed to lake. more snow is on way. thank for joining us. i am kristen sze. >> i warmer risk -- i am eric thomas. i thought anyone could leak at the screen and figure this out. >> you get paid to look at the screen and figure it out. >> live doppler hd shows a break from the wet weather, a definite drying trend with scattered light showers anding if through the morning commute but mid-morning to mid-afternoon we are going to get a break and we are seeing sunshine trying to

come through the clouds. from the roof camera you can see the next 12 hours showers are fading at 7:00 and in the upper 40's to low 50's and mostly cloudy through noon and dry with upper 50's ben when the rain hits it will be heavy and breezy mid-afternoon through the evening and early overnight hours temperatures will fall from the mid-50's to the low 50's. the commute home will be wetter. the commute home will be wetter. >> december 16 is the day. the chains, 80 and 88 and into and if you are headed to the snow you want to pack the chains and the drive in the north bay has been quiet. the rain came in and it left and we are dealing with conditions that are drying out at golden gate bridge and you can see the travel is light and clear where most of accidents are in the

south bay a few solo spinouts and more office on that. >> now, breaking news as we have been telling you primarily, a major sig-alert on highway 17, creating a big mess for the morning commute happening near glenn wood drive matt keller is at the scene with an update. this is a nightmare in the morning whether they are headed to santa cruz or into santa clara county. this is southbound direction everyone is diverted at summit road. there is good news but, first, i will show you a picture we got from the scene at the glenned with drive cut off, the tree is in the southbound lane and the northbound lane had power lines and it was blocked off completely for an hour or two

and there is one lane black open. we have c.h.p. officer here if you can explain to us what is going on. >> pg&es with able to open up the number two lane of the northbound side so that would be the slow lane. the remark is able to pass through and alleviate the buildup. the southbound lane, however, is still it would be at least an hour until another lane southbound is open. we are turning around traffic on summit road for now. >> that is good news, you have one lane, the commute direction so northbound you have one lane but it is backed up and i am sure the traffic will be slow

headed up to glenwood drive with the detour for 152 so 101 but if they are opening up one lane is quick we to go over that on 17. we will keep you updated from the scene in the santa cruz mountains. we follow breaking news from pakistan, taliban gunmen have stormed the school in the northwest city of the country killing at least 126 people. most of the victims were children. our reporter is in the newsroom with the latest. this continues to be a vetoing story. officials are searching the school where a thousand students attended class. we know that 126 people, mostly concern, killed at a military-run school in northwest pakistan. this is video to the newsroom tough images with medics and bodies on stretchers and dozens of injured being carried away and many kill are those

attending a private school shot during the attack. the taliban gunmen dressed if uniforms scaled the school walls and starting shooting saying the sex suicide bombers had carried out the mission in revenge if killings of taliban members at the hands of pakistani authorities. malala yousafzai, the 17-year-old nobel peace prize winner and survivor of a taliban attack responded. if a statement she said and i quote, "i condemn the atrocious and cowardliables and stand united with the government and armed forces of pakistanis would efforts so far to address this horrific event are commendable." the operation is still going on. pakistani military say it has killed five attackers and unknown number remain inside. officials say the death toll will almost certainly rise. the prime minister of pakistan has declared three days of

mourning. we will have more at midday. it is 6:36 and the berkeley city council is moving the meeting to a larger venue to accommodate a larger than normal crowd and the city council postponed the meeting because the chairmanner only seats 120 people not enough to accommodate a lamb crowd. open tuesday you pay remember it was the night that the protests turned violent in berkeley with a demonstration planned before the meeting which be at long fellow middle school auditorium in berkeley with the session beginning at 7:00 p.m. coming up, we will continue our coverage from the east bay with the problems neighbors are waking up to this morning. >> a crime of opportunity and the bad santa who used san the bad santa who used san francisco stay tuned.

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last night in curb -- kirkwood. they are happy with the snow because it is higher than last year but only 41 percent of where it should be. more snow this afternoon and this evening where the next storm moving in. scattered showers to the south in los angeles and palm springs and san diego with low 60's. snow is possible if lake tahoe today, tomorrow, friday, and a less are extent on saturday. >> awe will talk about mass transit all running on time, with no delays on ace train, one, three and five and all running on track. in the south by we have an accident blocking the off ramp at great mall parkway northbound 880 so i delays into heavy conditions away from highway 17 and an update on highway 17 shut down at phelps wood -- glenwood drive because a

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covering novato, oakland, sunnyvale and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. good morning at 6:44. we will continue our storm watch coverage. amy hollyfield is in the east bay with what neighbors there are waive up -- waking up >> we get a break if the rain but do not let this fool you. check out the video of what happened overnight, this is what it looks like while you were

sleeping. it came down. it came down hard. it was a good storm, a good seasoning and that brings some issues, wet roads, also, soaked hillsides that are already full of rain on highway 24 officials are dealing with a rock slide. a few small boulders landed. you have to be careful. more rain is on way. still, everyone we talk to is focusing on the positive. >> it is great. great. hopfully it brings snow. hopefully it will fill up the reservoir. bad on the golf game. >> another look at what happened overnight. it came down good while you were sleeping and now you are getting a break. do not for get the umbrellas and rain gear. take it slow. the roads are wet. more rain is on the way.

it is 6:45. a crafty crook used the santa thon event as an opportunity to rob the bank. according to the chronicle a man walked into a bank after 1:00 o'clock dressed at st. knick and demanded cash and the teller happened over the money and the santa describe as a man in his 40's got away. no arrests have been paid. bill cosby's wife is speaking out if support of her husband amid accusations by more than a dozen women of sexual misconduct. >> in a statement she said that her husband has been unfairly victimized by the allegations against him and slammed the media if reporting the accusations against her husband saying it has portrayed a different image of him that contradicts the kind and generous pan she knows and says there has not been any vetting of the accusers. >> angelina had to miss the hollywood premiere of her new

film "unbroken," after she came down with chicken pox. but her husband, brad pitt arrived in her place and greeted the family of late american war hero on his wife's behalf. >> we want to say be we love you so much, angelina, and we wish you were here. >> "unbroken," is the story of the olympic runner from southern california would joined the air force in 1951 and survived as a prisoner of war did could years. his kids have been waiting 57 years for their dad's story to be made into a film. trading is underway open wall street and we will look at the dow in the slump the past few days and that continues down 32 points to 17148. new york senator schumer think we pay too much for airline tickets and believes with the oil prices dropping the we ticket prices should reflect

this pointing out the industry raises prices quickly when the oil prices spike they will make a profit $20 billion according to the analysts this year. google is exploring weighing to beef up fighting off amazon to beef up fighting off amazon and a solution could be a amazon's one click ordering feature. no doubt today is the day where folks can snap more weather photos, severe weather photos. we would love to see them and we want to see the weather where you live. san us your weather photo and video at ureport@kgo-tv.com or post them on our facebook page or share them with us twitter@abc7newsbayarea. this afternoon, we have the

possibility of downed trees and power lines and flooding, all in the offing. we are going to watch it for you right now we have a drying trend on live doppler hd. i hate to call it "drying," how about, not so wet. there are still scattered showers and some will move in. we are still damp with light drizzle out there and a light sure or two and fog around santa rosa at half mile. right now the winds are less than ten miles per hour and theying pick up this afternoon and enhancing the possibility of see damage from the next wave of showers. check out sutro tower, beautiful sun coming through the clouds and you request see the different levels as we look off to the west and san jose, 280 at 17 we have breaks in the cloud cover over your neighborhood and morning showers give way to heavy rain and prizey conditions and flooding this afternoon and evening. rain and showers tomorrow and friday and win december on sunday with the continued period

of dry weather. a respect california treasure is coming through keeping us unstable in the morning and the big code front will come through today and bring us moderate risk of urban flooding and hud and rock slides so river flooding remains slow. we have a break on thursday and the storm comes in and it will have moisture with it and maybe not so heavy as today and that is what i am hoping. you can see the showers along the coast coming ashore by 7:00 and notice how quickly they dissipate and by noon we are dry with increasing clouds thickening clouds and darkening clouds and the next chance rolls in, in the afternoon, through the evening rush, and continues through midnight and another pulse comes through from midnight to action and tomorrow morning we could see a little bit of a low, again, during the rush hour with a few scattered showers during lunch hour and another low developing in the evening and that should last all the way through thursday but thursday morning we wake up to a

lot of fog. lower will vacation at half an inch to 1.25" and 2.5" in higher will vases tomorrow evening. the seven-day forecast shows cooler tomorrow, with the showers and we will have mid-to-upper 50's and early sure on thursday and more likely dry el and fog and friday we are light rain through saturday morning and saturday afternoon, sunday and monday, dry and warmer and we are in the low-to-mid 60 the first actual day of winter on monday. now, we have pictures from the santa cruz mountains, and we havement keller on the 57 and this is highway 17, and the flares are looking at the southbound direction a bunch of cars are slowly making their way through and look at this, we have a car carrier trying to move its way by and traffic is diverted off of highway 17 because of a fall tree. sound side of highway 17 shut

down at this hour because of a downed tree at glenwood drive on the board ever santa cruz and santa clara. northbound lanes have re-opened and we have residual backup because of an early problem. the macarthur maze is backed up and we saw cars there starting to roll through but now they are at a stand sometime approaching treasure island and that is causing delays so give yourself extra time. >> we are back with seven things to know before you go. a picture heavenly resort in lake tahoe where they have gotten quite a bit of snow with more to come and this is our way of keep weather and traffic up of keep weather and traffic up so you do not miss a thing

whether you are just joining us or headed out the door here are seven things to know: sig-alert is in affect southbound highway 17 at glenn wood drive all lanes are shut down and traffic is diverted at the summit because of a downed tree that took power lines down with it. northbound lanes just re-opened. look at the delays: a look at live doppler hd watching a few showers develop over the ocean and they will

come our way but mostly pretty quiet and we will open up the weather window if you take the ferry, winds are less than ten miles per hour and we will see sunshine by the afternoon, we will have moderate to half rain at times and it will be breezy the look if flooding and possible damage mid-to-upper 50's. the wet weather is making for around-the-clock headache for bay area residents, trees coming down has night in marin and napa and creeks are close to overflowing and junction of highway 12 and 121 closed because of flooding. >> breaking news from pakistan 126 people, mostly students, children, have been killed in a taliban attack on a school. they stormed the military school and started shooting. several attackers had bombs and blew they willselves up. >> peaceful protest in oakland demonstrators young and old gathering around lake merritt

with soon democrats and cell --h cell phones to remember several killed by police remembering the names of michael brown and eric garner. >> there will be a new contract to try and improve emergency response time that restores funds the county withheld from san jose in february after the city failed to be on time for at least 90 percent of the 9-1-1 calls. >> the insurance company is giving obamacare customer as break on the january premium which are normally due at the end of december but they are offering grace periods that vary among the individual carriers. the aim is to give everyone the chance to get coverage. we continue right now online and twitter and facebook and all the mobile devices. we will have news and weather and traffic during "good morning america" and weather updates throughout the morning. drive safely. see you tomorrow.

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good morning, america. breaking right now, school terror. the taliban storms a school compound, opening fire on students, taking hostages. more than 120 killed. dozens more injured. hundreds trapped inside as security forces exchange fire with the terrorists. the very latest right now. happening now. massive manhunt. the urgent search for the military vet who allegedly went on a deadly shooting spree. schools shut down, s.w.a.t. teams on the move, as the search expands. and breaking her silence. bill cosby's wife camille speaks out about the sexual assault scandal. calling him a kind man. more like his tv character. why she says he's the victim. oh, my god, the water's coming in, it's getting higher. >> and dramatic rescue. a woman trapped in her car in a