a south bay city on a mission. neighbors want to stop an oil company's plan to ship potentially dangerous cargo on a path through the bay area. we begin with developing news on the plan to allow oil trains to run through downsan jose. phillips 66 would build a terminal at the refindry that would send trains with up to 80 cars of crude oil to southern california and the bay area. san jose took another step to

propose the plan today. cornell bernard is live with details. reporter: we're talking millions of gallons of crude oil moving through the bay area week limit city of san jose opposes the idea and held a public forum to educate residents. trains move through san jose 24/7. some dear people, others move freight. but a proposal by phillips 66 could allow heavy crude oil to be transported by rail from canada to a refindfully san lewis obispo, right how to -- right through the bay area. >> really scary. the loud noise, pollution, the fear of itself crashed. >> a disaster waiting to happen. >> valerie love is with a group which held a public forum to educate residents before the dangers or so-called oil trains. >> talking about tar sands oil

heavy crudes from canada. so this is one of the most toxic, the most carbon intensive, the dirtiess fuels on the planet. >> there have been accidents. a train carrying crude oil derailed near quebec, canada in 2013, kills dozens. >> primary it's the safety. if these are not old -- if they're old cars, they may have leaks. >> in a statement phillips 66 says we have one of the most modern crude rail fleets in the industry which exceed regulatory standards. phillips says it must increase oil production in california and detouring trains around the bay area is not possible. a city councilman opposes the idea which he says won't help to keep gas prices low in the bay area. >> it's not benefiting us not lowering gas prices for californians or americans and yet we have to suffer the

consequences. >> folks send a petition urging the county planning commission to deny the oil train project. in san jose cornell bernard, abc7 news. >> the city of san jose is not alone in its opposition of the project. last year berkeley ski council passed a resolution to join anticipated lawsuits to stop the proposal from moving forward. martinez city leaders also spoke out against the plan. >> caltrans says man trespassing on the tracks was hit and killed bay train in palo alto today. it happened at 12:45 this afternoon. no one on the train was hurt. caltrain says the tracks were closed for several hours while the investigation was underway but have since re-opened. the mayor of san rafael will close a public park to prevent homeless people from gathering there. the mayor gary phillips will close boyd park for 30 days starting tomorrow. he says he wants to break the cycle of the homeless coming to the park to drink, do drugs and

litter. phillips wants to have some family friendly events there. some of the homeless said they'll be back as soon as the park re-opens. u.s. officials say they're working to help free a japanese hostage whose cell mate was reportedly executed by isis terrorists. a. reporter: protesters in tokyo criticized the japanese prime minister sunday for his handling of the crisis involving two japanese men taken hostage by isis. the extremist slam just state group in syria, after the terror group posted a picture of one of the hostage kenji goto, forced to hold a photo of what appears to be his beheaded cell mate, 42-year-old adventurer who was taken hostage last year. japanese prime minister shinzo aberdeen acknowledging on national television that the video is likely authentic saying he is speechless thinking of the pain his family

must be feeling now. the father of the slain hostage saying he is just overwhelmed with sadness in the newly released video goto is reading a plea for his life saying isis has abandoned a $200 million ransom demand. >> they are being fair. they no longer want money. so you don't need to worry about funding terrorists. >> instead isis is demanying a prisoner swap with a failed suicide bomber on death row in jordan. she was part of an attack on a jordanian hotel ten years ago that killed at least 60 people attending a wedding. jordan's king has refused to release her. but that has not stopped japan's deputy foreign minister from visiting his country's embassy in jordan sunday in an attempt to save gotos life. abc news washington. >> new at 5:00, the family of a san francisco software developer

say a body found in the bay is his. 26-year-old dan ha disappeared on halloween. the coroner says a body found near alcatraz in november has been positively identified as ha but a cause of death was not released. he was last seen leaving his apartment at fourth and brennan on october 31st. his family and friends launched a large scale search throughout the city. his family wants to thank the community for its support and says they are relieved to finally be able to put their son to rest. a warning from uc berkeley police of a spike in car thefts on campus. nine cars have been burglarized alone. police say in almost every case valuables were visible and the car's windows had been smashed police at individual people to avoid parking next to occupied vehicles. >> monday, some drivers in san jose will be facing a detour for the next nine months due to b.a.r.t. construction. the intersection will be

completely closed to vehicles and pedestrians. bus line 77 will be rerouted. crews will be constructing a trench for the b.a.r.t. extension to run below the intersection. the bta reached the halfway point of construction on one of the large nest the county's history. the project ex-ahead of schedule. new details on a massive power outage tuesday in the east bay. a pg&e spokesperson says the cause was equipment failure during testing at a substation in el cerrito. the power went out to some 38,000 customers in berkeley, el cerrito and albany and the outage briefly closed the berkeley b.a.r.t. station. some people were trapped inside elevators for up to an hour. >> angelina jolie makes a plea to world leaders. also ahead. under attack. terrifying images as driver in ukraine just misses driving right into the line of fire. what ukraine's president is

saying about the attack tonight. a new symbol of peace today at the vatican. the reason behind a big change involving a catholic tradition. i'm meteorologist drew tuma. mild plenty of sunshine over the weekend. as we enter the new work week we have a storm brewing that could bring us some showers. we'll detail the timing and the for over 60,000 california foster children nights can feel long and lonely. i miss my sister. i miss my old school. i miss my room. i don't want special treatment. i just wanna feel normal. to help, sleep train is collecting pajamas for foster children, big and small. bring your gift to any sleep train and help make a foster child's night a little cozier. not everyone can be a foster parent

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dramatic video released of a rocket attack in crane ukraine that killed at least 30 people. president obama is pointing a

finger at moscow for the attack on a port city yesterday. he says the u.s. will work with european partners to, quote ratchet up the pressure on russia. ukraine's president says intercepted radio and telephone conversations prove that russian backed separatist fired the rocket. >> angelina jolie urged world leaders to do more for people in iraq and syria as she made a surprise visit today to a refugee camp in northern iraq. jolie says the u.n. refugee agency received only half the funding it needed last year for programs in iraq and syria. jolie met mothers at the camp whose children have been kidnapped by isis. >> as a parent, i cannot imagine a greater horror and they're overwhelmed by the thought of what is happening to their children right now. with the knowledge they -- slave labor and sexual slavery. >> more than a million refugees are living in this region as a result of the syrian civil war

and isis overtaking large sections of iraq. >> balloons-not doves, were released in st. peters square in a gesture of peace. for years children set free a pair of dove us but last year the doves were attacked. advocates demanded the end to release of doves and appeales to pope francis who adopted the name of francis of assist si. the catholic church traditionally dedicates january to peace statements. several straits bracing for the first major winter storm. new york's mayor says it will likely be one of the largest snowstorms in the city's history. some of the other areas preparing for a big blizzard and a look at how much snow is expected. >> first we take a live look outside at conditions here in the bay area. beautiful sunset there, some weather changeness the forecast with cooler temperatures and possibly some rain. the accuweather forecast is

coming up after the break. now here's a look at what is ahead on abc world news deutsche at 5:30. >> coming up on world news tonight, the massive winter storm targeting more than 50 million people. we have the storm track. plus "deflategate." dueling science continues football physics and home fires. is i your home at r

new york city's mayor says a blizzard headed for the east coast could be one of the largest storms in the city's history. >> prepare for something worse than we have seen before. prepare to be safe. >> the storm is expected to drop as much as two to three feet of

snow? boston and new york. many areas are still digging out from snow this weekend. wind gusts could reach hurricane levels meaning complete whiteout conditions on the road in new york city, 600 snow plows are on stand by along with national guard troops. home owners are concerned. >> we're using two beliefs sixes and two both eights to protect the glass. want to have appreciation against the water coming over the wall but all the little stones and pebbles that often times come with it. >> emergency management officials from philadelphia to boston are advising everyone to stay off the roads beginning monday night when the storm reaches its peak. here at home people got outside to enjoy our unseasonably warm weather today. here's one popular spot, the beach. people are soaking in the sun at ocean beach. dogs enjoy the surf and sand too. some cities saw highs inching close to 80 degrees.

taking a live look to seen the cruz the high surf advisory expired this afternoon. we mentioned cooler temperatures heading our way. let's get the latest from abc7 news meteorologist drew tuma with live doppler 7hd. >> as those temperatures cool off over the next couple of days part of the reason they're cooling off is an approaching sim from the south that will likely bring us showers on tuesday. taking a look live outside this emeryville camera, a gorgeous sunset. yesterday, beautiful one. this evening, the sun goes down at 5:25 p.m. so the forecast does call for in foggy spots in the morning. i think it's going to be confined to the inland east bay. so still a little mile on monday. clouds will slowly arrive late in the day on monday evening, then the rain showers are possible come tuesday. so turn temperatures right now, bit of a sea breeze kicked in. 62, san francisco just dropped to 60 in oakland currently 62

in san jose fairfield, 56. so the fog forecast over the next 12 hours or so, we notice some limited fog moving into the inland east bay. watch how quickly it's going evaporate. not wide vetch patchy fog just confined to certain spots. as we look at the radar satellite picture a cold front bringing showers into canada. high pressure bringing us sunshine but around los angeles there are high clouds filter in because of an area of low pressure off the baja coast that is forming some moisture and will likely ride up the west coast over the next couple of days and going to scrape by the bay area. take a look. some light showers tuesday morning, and really just scattered in nature. the closer view will show you tuesday morning, 4:00, light showers entering the south bay around san jose. scatteredded in nature, into san francisco, parts of the north bay and east bay, and then by tuesday afternoon, it's really out of here.

so not a significant event but what is significant, we haven't seen measurable rainfall since christmas eve. so this is some welcome change we have in the forecast. you see anywhere generally less than a tenth of an inch of rain across the region one of the soaking spots, relatively speaking could by livermore and san jose, a bit more than a tenth of an inch on tuesday. we'll keep you updated on the system. overnight lows 30s in the north bay, 48-san francisco 44 oakland. dropping to 39 in san jose. highs for monday 71, half moon bay, 66, san francisco, 68 oakland. 71, san jose. 64 in antioch. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast, monday, high louds move in tuesday, showers are possible. wednesday, the clouds linger but the moisture unfortunately doesn't. as you get to thursday and friday, more sunshine on the way and all indications, saturday and sunday, we head back into the 70s. so we'll have an update on he rain at 6:00.

>> we need that rain. >> we need it. >> so it's good news. mike shumann has a preview of sports. >> a little super bowl action. seahawks have landed in arizona. we hear from the nfc representatives and duke coach mike krzyzewski accomplished something no other coach has done in division olivia.

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the nhl with the all-star game in ohio and as far as the games go it's one of the most entertaining in sports.

the only prior in the game to play defense. uses the stick to break up a two on one. team toews broke it up. 10-6, team toews. new york linedder, the sixth player to score four goals in an all-star game. burns was on the losing team but got his first career all-goal. team toews wins it 17-12. duke coach mike krzyzewski is considered one of the best in the business at any level. today he was trying to become the first coach in division 1 hit to win 1,000 games. st. john's the opponent. 999 wins, 308 losses. his players wanted it badly. okafor throws it down but they trailed by ten with eight minutes left. that's a ten on the difficulty school there. then the freshman okafor banks

it in. duke comes from behind to win 77-68. coach k the first coach in d-1 history to win 1,000 games. cooperate have to a class 'er guy. >> we played great in the last ten minutes, and i'm not sure i've ever been part of a game like that. it's kind of nuts to have one that is different. that's what makes the game so good and to win the 1,000th somebody -- you got to be a lucky guy. >> a little skill involved, too. locally, ucla hosting the lady bears. brittani boyd to the fall. gets her foot stuck under the scorer's table. the referee helps her out and then she is on a breakaway. might have been a setup. cal wins 72-57. >> australian open, andy muiry taking on dimitrov. slams his react.

-- his racket to the ground. not a happy camper. murray gets a little nut. a left court winner advances with a four-set victory. >> okay, today it becomes reel for the salt seahawks. they arrived in arizona for super bowl xlix, this is when it hits you we're in the super bowl. the seahawks are the first to arrive, new england comes in tomorrow. seattle has been out of the media loop as the patriots have to deal with "deflategate." there's pete girl getting off the -- pete carroll getting off the plane. most of the game plan was put in last week for both teams and for seattle this is a different field from last year when the won their first title. >> a little different from last year because we have been here before and had the experience of knowing -- as soon as we got off the plane what media day is like, and then media day tuesday, wednesday thursday so you crimed of get adjusted.

you know how to set your plan for the week and get ready for practice. we had phenomenal week this past week getting prepared, just like last year. so we're looking forward to that and just getting out there and practicing. >> no more exciting feeling than arriving to play in a super bowl. only thing harder than winning a super bowl is losing, and as russell mentioned they put in most of the game plan next week. now just have to deal with the media and surrounding distractions. lung comes in tomorrow. so i think they want to put off more deal with "deflategate." >> having fun heading to arizona for the super bowl, should be fun. mike, thank you. this south bay dog stunt could get his family some big bulldog: you don't need superpowers to help someone. sometimes, all it takes is a warm heart and a cold nose. that's why mattress discounters good deed dogs is raising money to train service dogs for people with disabilities. i would never imagine a life without an assistance dog ever again. i relied on people a lot. he helps me live a more independent life. bulldog: we need your help to do more.

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coming up at 6:00, some shoppers surprised by a measles warning at a costco store. >> the president's bold political move in alaska that has republican lawmakers fuming. join us for the news at 6:00. a dog in san jose that is afraid of shadows is getting national attention. this is lincoln going crazy over a shadow punt -- puppet of a dog barking. it's a finalist on a show tonight, meaning it could $10,000. watch america's funnyiest home videos right here at 7:00 tonight. that does it for us here at 5:00. abc7 news continues jacques, on twitter, facebook, and all of

your mobile device with the abc7 news news app. thank you for welcome to "world news tonight." bracing for impact. a massive winter storm. targeting more than 50 million people. the blizzard watch. snow measured in feet. flights already cancelled. tonight, we have the storm track. deflategate. the patriots deny charges of tampering. with a lesson in football physics. >> atmospheric conditions. >> tonight, dueling scientists weigh in. who's really full of hot air? missing, the georgia grandparents arranging a meeting on craigslist. then, vanishing. the family's desperate search. plus, the new clues. and, up in flames. home fires raging out of control. and some tougher to fight. which are more likely to burn? and how long do you have to get out alive?