lways worth remembering... that icing the cinnamon rolls is a privilege not a right. unleash the power of dough. give it a pop. live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> coming up on action a., thank you for joining us. i am gnash nab. i am reggie aqui. what is the weather and traffic doing? it is fought raining now but it will rain later. >> great way to put it, but, later is really later after 10:00 this evening and in the

not bay. enjoy the next three hours of rain-free commuting, here is a look at san jose. 280 and 17 you can see the fog developing off in the distance, we have less fog this morning than we had yesterday morning. the temperatures are in the upper 40s low 50's and we will hang out around the low 50's mild this evening. >> walnut creek southbound 680, flowing nicely by in the main on the way to the 24 interchange, and from highway 4 to 580, 22 minutes, and they had road work out there, various lanes ten walnut creek and the dublin/pleasanton interchange. you may find cons out there and they due to pick up at 5:00, sometimes they run a little bit late. a heads up for that. we will check an accident in the santa cruz mountains in the next report. >> we have break news in oakland, where a car sheared in half during a crash. look at tangle mess, it took place before midnight near

mcarthur boulevard and maybell, can you see the other half of the car is a politic away, and it is not clear what causes the crash the we will bring you more details. >> crews will resume searching for a missing surf at rodeo beach in marin, our reporter is near where he was washed out at sea with the newen watching out this morning. amy? they are tough conditions, both for subers and for search-and-rescue crews. here is a view from sky 7 from last night's search. they looked for the man but they had to call it off when it was too dangerous. this are waves at 8-10' and they had to pull the crews out of situation. they got the call at 5:30 last night, the subever was missing, and a couple of people saw him unconscious in the water and they tried to save him they had him at one point but the waves slammed interest them all and

they lost him. they have not released his name and estimating he is in his 40s. officials now have put out a wanting for everyone to be careful. saying that this el nino system is bringing a high surf and king tides and it is very dangerous and everyone needs to be extra careful. they will be back out here this morning again to look for the man. >> thank you. a new warning for anyone considering buying a hoverboard or put one in your house, consumer products safety commission is now calling for a complete suspension of any on-line sales. tiffany, amazon is already offering full refunds? >> yes, if you prepared a lover board through amazon, you can now republican it for a full refund. the consumer products safety commission praised amazon's decision and said that they hope other retailer will now follow suit. the care of the commission also is calling for a complete halt of any online hover board sales

saying it doesn't matter if it is a $500 or a $5,000 model, they just not safe enough to sale. they started investigating the hoverboards after a series of falls requiring trips for the message room. >> designed in a manner that makes them take off when people are not ready for it and that is a hidden hazard and can create dangerous falls. >> the government watch group is looking into 40 reported fires involving 13 models of hoverboards made by 12 different manufacturers including this fire right here that happened in santa rosa this week that killed the family's two dogs. a manufacturer telling abc7 that they are already testing a new version. in the newsroom for abc7 news. >> thank you. no more fake hammers on bart putting working ones on all the trains. this is daze after bart revealed many of the onboard security scam razz are decoys.

it came to light because bart was unable to provide video evidence of the deadly january shooting inside a train. images of the suspect came from the west oakland bart station. bart is defend the decoys say they were crime deterrent. >> a federal judge ruled a civil rights lawsuit filed by the parents of andy lopez can go to trial. the 13-year-old was shot and killed outside santa rosa by a sonoma, sheriff on october 13. the deputy thought the gun that lopez was carrying looked like an action 47 afault rifle and the jury trial is scheduled to begin on april 11. >> bay area law enforcement are determined that the kind of protests we saw this week on the bay bridge will not be repeated during super bowl week. according to the mercury news law enforcement plans to be vision length and high profile so you will see a lot of police cars. at visits said they would be shocked if super bowl weekend

went buy without aest program the agency has not received any concrete threats of protesting. >> ntsb investigators are looking into human and mechanical factors for determine the cause of the crash in tuesday on the fatal greyhound bus in san jose. only abc7 has pictures of the eight investigators getting their first look at the wreckage at a tow yard near the c.h.p. office in gilroy. they have recovered a camera from inside the bus and are checking to see if it reported any information. the bus crashed while traveling between northbound 101 and highway 825. maria ortiz of salinas and fely olivera of san francisco died in the crash. ten others were hurt. >> happening today, governor brown will deliver his state the stay address, the 77-year-old is expected to concentrate on issues dear to his heart. according the newspaper two are $15 billion twin tunnel plan to ship water from bay to southern california and the plan to build a bullet train. brown will address a joint

session of the state legislature at 10:00 this morning in sacramento. >> the new cross road bridge over the napa river opens at 10:00 a.m. according to the napa valley register. the original bridge was demolish ed after severe damage during the 4.1 earthquake in may. this is video of what it looks like the new bridge costs $7 million and was primarily funded by the federal highway administration. >> we all want to know, mike, are we going do have good weather today? should we get out and enjoy it? >> you should. that is a great idea. enjoy the dry weather while you can. 40 percent is this evening in the not bay and 100 percent of us getting wet friday and saturday and no chance on sunday, monday, tuesday and wednesday. no fog on the golden gate bridge with an east wind, coming from the east and blowing to the west at 10 miles per hour. it is faster than yesterday. quiet pattern today, inland, 61 to 65 as the coast we have a small craft advisory so watch out for big waves. 57 to 62 and around the bay, a few breaks in the cloud deck and 62 to 66.

probably our warmest day this week. this is how it looks from the east bay hills camera, could not use that yesterday pause of the cloud cover and fog. through friday, the temperatures are going to drop into the upper 50s to around 60 with the rain and mid-to-upper 50s on saturday and rain you iting to showers and sunday although we are dry, we still in the mid-to-upper 50s. now a look at friday and saturday's storm coming up and the look at the commute. sue? >> i looked behind you, my, at the bay bridge toll plaza and thought we would get an upclose look, no metering lights and no delays, and the upper deck, the remark is looking good into san francisco. slowing from the central valley and we 8 look at that, and overall it is go at 5:0. to the santa cruz mountains we have an accident northbound blocking one lane of traffic near the summit so be aware there, tow truck is headed to the scene. from tracy and over the altamont pass it is about 40 isn't months with speeds slowing to 27 miles

per hour offer the pass and picking up through livermore. we will check the mass transit next report. >> a poll taking in san francisco shows some support for commuter shuttle buses, finding that 62 percent favor letting employee only shuttles operate in the city but not without restricts. 72 percent those surveyed favor regulated where the shuttle buses request travel and pick up passengers. >> they want to get cars off the road and they want to clean or get emissions out of air and they see this as an important tool to do it provided you have the common science regulations. >> the poll was conducted by the bay area council and the board will consider an appeal to the commuter shuttle program. opponents say it was approved without an environmental impact report. >> heads up if you rise the tiburon forery you need to find a new way to get around for a few weeks in february. the fleet is suspending ferry service for two weeks in order

to do dock maintenance. the closure starts february 16. week day ferry service is replaced with a bus bridge. >> power lines down, roads are a mess. next, in new york, the weather chaos that folks across the east coast are now bracing for. >> also, fought all the super bowl action is on the field, why bowl action is on the field, why youtube viewership is

san rafael, south bay, pleasanton and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> a look from our exploritorium camera. it is beautiful outside. reggie, take it away. >> rain tonight. we will talk to meteorologist mike nicco in a few minutes about that. authorities in china sent 700 tents to resident of a remote province hit today by a big earthquake. the chinese news agency is reporting i as a 6.4 and the u.s. geological survey said a 5.9. officials are reporting 50 homes were damaged in the, which lasted between one and two minutes. >> happening right now millions of machines on the east coast are bracing for record-break snow fall this weekend and the mid atlantic is still trying to clear the roads out after light snow fall already created a traffic nightmare. our reporter is in new york city to tell us how the eastern seaboard is preparing.

ray? that take, the snow fall that will hit the washington, dc, area, yesterday, is not the major even. this morning, several east coast cities are trying to clear roadways after round one of snow fall left roads crippled and lot many motorists stranded. >> chaos on the roads. nottists slamming and crashing interest each other. a combination untreated roadways, and light snow which literally wreaked havoc across the mid-atlantic states. >> i a not used to driving in snow and it was rough and it took a while. >> less than 2" snow fall, christian medical enough in the capitol to even thai the lady of the tremendous world, president obama's return to the white house delayed after the staff was forced to change plans due to the weather. >> if west virginia, utility companies bracing themselves for ill pending power outages. >> what has us worried with the

storm is just the depth of the snow and the potential for wet snow. >> some 15 states this morning under winter storm muchs, from as far south as north carolina to as far north as boston. this as the i-95 corridor braces for historic blizzard aimed at the nation's capitol, new york and philadelphia. >> we don't want to overreact but we encourage people to get prepared. >> this morning, washington, dc, virginia, and maryland have tripled the amount of lieus and snow truck on the roadways. also this morning, we have learned washington, dc, baltimore, and the entire metropolitan area are under blizzard watches as 50ment machines brace for the major storm which is just less than 48 hours away. back to you. >> thank you, ray. it seems like this came out of nowhere, people were not expecting this kind of snow to be on way. >> not the first round.

>> year may have caught them by spries but 2" should not cripple them like that. this storm really is intensifying and we have been watching it but the intensification is magnified and that is what is catching everyone off board. i will show you what is going 50, a wide storm from little rock to memphis, from the mid-south to the mid atlantic and you can see the areas of pink so it is imminent you will have heavy snow that is in baltimore, washington, and toward new york. what do we expect? through saturday at 4:00, at least 2.5' in washington, dc, and 189"s in baltimore, so that is 1.5' and the heaviest snow moves into philadelphia and new york as we head to sunday. be careful if you fly there. at emwho, it is looking quiet on live doppler hd and our roof camera show how little fog we have to deal with, right now, and mostly cloudy and a dry day today, and wet and breezy friday through saturday and dry bright

and mild next week. here is our storm impact scale, "1" is light and "5" is severe and this is a "2" at .5" of rain and gusts from 35 to 45 miles per hour so not expecting much damage out of that. but, some of the heaviest of the rain is going to fall this time tomorrow. will it be a repeat of tuesday morning? i don't think so. this storm is not so strong. and it is going to be longer as it heads through saturday. >> we are prepared. getting you to work for friday morning. right now, looking at mass transit, bart, running 40 trains on time, and train one, ace train one out of the tracy is delayed 16 minutes so heads up if you come from the central valley, muni is on time this morning and no recovers of any delays. in the north bay at look at san rafael, if your drive take you from novato, highway 37, through marinwood, this is by forth gate mall beyond the civic center into the 580 split and everyone

is looking good and at the golden gate bridge four lanes in the southbound direction and to lanes in the northbound direction and no fog this morning with a first drive. if you are coming into the city at 518 it is looking good. we will update the santa cruz mountain accident next report. guys? >> it sounds optimistic but volvo said this will happen, they will make death proof cars by 2020. they make nine models where no members have died in the past four years. you can see video provided by volvo, a s.u.v. in front end crash test going 40 miles per hour, the examine said that cars will dough even better and here is how. cruise control will detect other vehicles and keep a safe distance, lane assists the help a car to stay in its own lane, collision avoidance warns of obstacles ahead and apply the brakes in northeast.

sensors will alert drivers of pedestrians or large animals wandering interest their path, breaking if needs. >> we are waiting for wall street and. we see another rough day? action in overseas markets say we commodity. >> here is america's money. >> good morning, overseas stocks were hammer setting up another rough day open wall street. >> dow fell almost 250 points and the suspect 500 hitting its lowest level in two years. >> the typical 401(k) has lost $8,300 in value this year blamed on dropping oil prices, not good for investors. >> after numerous hover board fires the government is investigating a number of companies that make them. one key officialents to success spend all online sales until there is better testing of the devices with details on "good morning america" and bad news for "star wars" fans the next movie in the series from owe parent company, episode eight,

is being pushed back. rather than memorial day weekend 2017 it will debut before christmas next year. that is america's money. >> more "star wars" news, it is not only making buckets of money in the meters but in merchandise. yahoo said they generated $700 million in sales, and disney said new toys and collectibles are being shipped to >> milpitas is holding a contest giving fans a chance at winning a pair of tickets to have been 50 at levi stadium. you must visit any local business in milpitas between now and january 31st and take a picture of yourself there and tweet on instagram using hash shop -- hash shop

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right now near mcarthur boulevard. it happened before midnight. no word on the condition of the driver. accrues -- the rescue crews will be back after a missing surfer who is described if his 40s watched out to sea while two others tried to help. officials have issued a warning to everyone to beware of the water conditions. >> after so company hoverboard fires the government is investigating a number of the companies that make them. this as federal authorities recommend suspending all online hover board sales until better testing. >> ntsb investigators are examining the greyhound bus that crashed if san jose on tuesday. a camera was recovered to check to see if it recorded any information. >> governor brown will give the state of the state address today and analysts expect the 77-year-old to concentrate on signature issues including the twin tunnel delta roth and the bullet rain and speak to the

legislature at 10:00 am this morning. >> we are starting off dry this morning and no real fog but we have .0 1" in pacific and half moon bay so every day we have had rain in the bay area this morning. tomorrow, friday, saturday, more rain. >> seven, our freeways and highways are looking good. and in great shape. at look at the bay bridge toll plaza where you can see a minor delay for those paying cash but, still, golden gate fields into san francisco, 12 minutes on 80, and 580, all looking good. >> have you watched to be a zookeeper, the caltran zoo needs help and you can count animals as part of the census. 2,000 animals from 250 species live the at zoo. for the fess time ever they encouraging visitors to count how many animals they see when they history. it will condition until the end of month and gifts can win prizes for being closest to the

actual population. >> an interesting fact, president obama has go kleined to speech at his daughter's upcoming graduation. >> he said he will be too elmore, and he will sit there and wear dark sunglasses is expecting to cry. she is a senior at the private school in washington, dc, and she is expected to start college in the fall. what is more shocking she is graduating while already. she was just a little girl. >> i am sure president obama is also very surprised how quickly time has flown. >> back with another full 90 minutes of news including the race to make room at the university of california for but students this fall. >> bart agrees to make serious safety improvements to trains across the bay area and how they impact your commute. >> a lack from the of radio of abc7 and we will take a quick break and during the break break and during the break weather and traffic w

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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. good morning, it is 5:28. welcome to thursday. >> almost a friday. almost. >> i am natasha zouves. >> good morning, mike. >> knowing it is going to be wet and breezy, maybe we should skip friday. >> i like today's commute. >> it would be nice to skip. >> live doppler hd is showing not fog right now. it is in the central valley and come our way. here is a look at the 12 hour day planner, 45 to 52 degrees at 7:00, and noon through 4:00 at 58 to 62 and clouds and mild but dry at 54 to 58 at 7:00. >> how are the streets? >> not bad. relatively light out there. so, looking at drive time, good morning, everyone, tracy to dublin is 35 minutes. and highway 4 antioch to concord

is under 20 minutes and san rafael to san francisco, as well, under 20 minutes, so light conditions out there. we do have an accident off to the right hand shoulder at 580 and i will update that in a couple of minutes. >> thank you. no more fake surveillance video cameras on bart. matt colder is in fremont with what prompted this major move. nothing is bet than the real thing and we spoke with people who bothered that the cameras in the bart trains were smoke. that is to change. they were decoys. bart was unable to bring video evidence of the january 9 fatal shooting inside a pittsburg bay point train. images of the suspect came from a camera at west oakland, instead. riders could not believe it, bart defended this as crime deterrence, but because of public pressure they said they are committed to putting a ask a

that work on every train car. >> finally. finally. i am glad. it does bother me because anything could happen. >> the new cameras will record video to be viewed later, not in real time. other details still need to be worked out including the cost, the funding and how long it will take to replace the cameras. developing news, the search for a subare missing at rodeo beach will resume at day break. last night you could see several emergency vehicles. victim was found face down and unconscious around 5:30. two other surfers performed cpr but all three were bashed by a huge wave. the injured surfer was washed back out to sea. >> police are working to identify a man whose body was found down a cliff south of pacifica. a hiker spotted the body at

affluenza the cove and it is fought clear if he fell down or was hiking. >> in an hour we will see how wall street racks to another day of red in the asian markets, china, japan and hong kong all in bear market territory, and the shanghai index lost 3.25 percent and the nikkei dropped 2.4 percent, and the index in hong kong down 1.8 percent. yesterday, united states markets staged a comeback if last hour of trading and the dow falling 249 points and it was down at 56 points early in the session. >> chaos and were motions running high last night at a police commission meeting in a controversial police shooting in san francisco. protesters demanded that the police chief be fired for the death of mario woods and they are demanding the officers involve in the shooting be charged with murder. police say he raise add knife

near them and they opened fire open december 2. the telephone video races video of the shooting. a few officers spoke but most of them walked out of the meeting in frustration. >> obviously, we cannot have a dialogue where people can discuss their feelings back-and-forth without being shot down. the police are walking out like that, it is a way of detaching from our community. >> usually in the day mario woods' mother accepted his high school diploma. showen whats a federal investigation into the death. >> in santa cruz a man is under arrest on vandalism charges involving smashed store front windows, with a 26-year-old broke windows at three businesses including a deli and studio, doing more than $5 the in damage -- $5,000 in damage. he was drunk. >> a 77-year-old faces d.u.i. charges after a crash seriously hurt two women in san that rose.

the victims were walking look the sidewalk near the villiage market and hit yesterday afternoon. an 8 pa-year-old woman is in critical condition and the second victim is a 91-year-old, and show is expected to recover. police say the driver told them her dog was on her lab and show was distacked. she was backed into jail on suspicious of driving under the influence. >> race against time for uc schools scrambling to make program for the hedge of the undergraduate boost in years according to the "los angeles times", with 6,500 additional constitutes added, forcing the school officials to find more house, hire additional faculty and to, expand support services. regents approved a plan to add 10,000 in-state undergraduates over the next three years. >> happening enjoy, tens of millions the least coast residents are ready for a massive winter storm headed their way. it could bring historic amounts of snow full to some regions. ice caused up to 160 crashes

across virginia yesterday and it caused problems on the washington, dc roads. the current trees is nothing compared to the grigg it blast that will hit tomorrow. >> that storm is going to be enormous, i am feeling for our relatives on the east coast. >> and back to the mid south. they are not getting so much play because they are not as populated from little rock, memphis, nashville, up to philadelphia that is where we winter storm warnings and even a blizzard want for baltimore, washington, and new york. now, here is the reason why: watch the snow amount. i updated this, 3' in charlottesville, washington, dc, 2' of snow in baltimore to 1 foot in philadelphia and 4" in new york. by 7:00 sunday morning. that will cripple the entire corridor. you just do not have enough people and manpower to keep up with that couldn't snow -- kind

snow. southbound 101 not of fog. look at the temperatures, very nice day to be outside, and mostly cloudy and 62 in san francisco, southbound bay and east bay at 66 and check out 87 in san jose, not wet now but we will watch that for ponding tomorrow when the rain rolls in during the commute and waves of rain through saturday. an hour-by-hour look is ahead. sue? >> hello. we have ace train one, a bit of a delay from tracy that ran into -- blocked by a freight train so it was stuck for a good solid 16 minutes. expect delays identity of tracy and we keep our eye on rest of the trains this morning. san jose, 101, the headlights in the northbound direction is the 880 overcrossing, and everyone is looking good. southbound, hardly anyone on the road at that juncture and our traffic map is green and tracy is typically slow if you are headed toward the altamont pass.

the speeds show 17 miles per hour and westbound 580 an accident but off to the right shored so i am not seeing slowing and it pick up into the dublin/pleasanton interchange. we will be back in a bit with the bay bridge toll plaza to see if the metering lights >> someone set ten car yesterday morning at a carport. the scorched out cars can be seen causing more than $100,000 in damage to the cars and the carport. no one was hurt. an hour later more cars were found on fire a block away. that was put out quickly and investigator thing the same person set both locations on fire. >> a bay area lawmakers is demanding more local control of tour buses after recent crashes. >> local governments hey want to

do pore whether it is san francisco or los angeles or any other part of the state cannot do it because of restriction in state law. >> an assemblyman would take away the restriction and let cities society up their own tour bus inspection program. right now the c.h.p. only inexpects 3 percent of tour buses because of a lack of resources. all the magic running to the bay bridge seen only here. anew details in the case of the anew details in the case of the texasalal

>> new details in the case of the affluenza teen, attorneys for ethan couch saw high will return to texas from mexico in weeks. his lawyers say paperwork was filed to end the dough port -- the deporting challenge so three can be represent in fort worth. couch and his mother crossed into mexico last month as texas priorities investigated whether he violated probation for 20 turn drunk driving crash that killed four. >> surveillance camera caught three people shop lifting at a store in san francisco, and police need your help to find them. the suspect walked into the store on december 28, and they picked up purrs and took off out the door. if you recognize any of the people, call san francisco police. >> these three men robbed the

apple store, and if you look the at surveillance video, you will find them make their way around the table and quickly grab several gones, and you can see them make a run for it. it happened on thursday and anyone with information should call the pleasanton police department. >> you may have noticed the bay lights dancing across the western span, and this is actually just a test. a preview of what is to come for super bowl 50, the official re-lighting happening at the end of the month. have you wondered who is behind the art? wonder no more. alan wang introduced us to the man hane the magic. >> i want to be the first to have the particles across the bridge. >> from the 28th floor of condo, almost eo is putting the final touches on the electronic canvas. >> i have all the partials fly around and i click the mouse i request gather them all together and bring them anywhere i want across the bridge. >> in the computer pallet he splashes the bridge with patterns of light that make up the largest pieces of public art in the world.

this electronic medium makes it lard for the 12-year-old son to resist. >> he trusts me with it. but...i would not mess with it too much. >> on january 30, the by lights will be officially flipped back on after being absent for nearly a area. the orange lights fell victim to the ocean air but $4 million in private donations helped replace the abstract patterns with 25,000 new more weather resistant l.e.d. lights. eight brain cannot help but pattern recognize and as humans we want to find meaning in things. >> this time it is expected to last longer, the lights will be differented to the state and maintained by caltrain. >> it really is magic. >> love seeing it. we love seeing this, later today well find out if warriors steph curry and draymond green will be starting together. >> the voting closed on monday

and on thursday green was 12,000 votes ahead of leonard for the third and final spot. steph curry topped all guards in when conference, of course, with voting results at 4:00 president and -- >> they are fresh off another lowout victory in trying. there as a scary moment, with dry -- draymond green taking a shot in the face, but he came back and is doing fine. the warriors hammered the bulls and now their record is 39-4. >> the warriors became the further team -- the 5th team to win consecutive games by 30 point. >> they are officially solid. >> it is fair to say all four of

us including sue, management should send us there. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. i am exciteed. >> now, it is a from place. i hope the new arena is as stellar as oracle arena. we will talk about we king tide, we have them today, tomorrow, and saturday, and saturday is the remain a most worked about any flooding around the bay and especially in mill valley because the winds more conducive and that is at 10:30 in the morning, and 10:41 in mill veal. here is a look at live doppler hd, it is quiet and is walnut creek where it is 48 degrees right now under mostly cloudy sky. we are looking south at 680. mostly cloudy and mild highs and storm on deck for friday and saturday and several dry days before our next storm. at 10:00 tonight rain is rolling law and you can see waves of showers, moderate, at times, most widespread during the morning commute and that is when we will have the 35 miles per

hour gifts and we will get a break in the afternoon before the next storm comes in as we head to saturday. and it will have scattered showers through the day. find something to do indoors for friday but, maybe not -- or saturday but maybe not on sunday. light to revere impact scale and it is moderate because 1" rain is possible at 35 to 45 miles per hour gusts and half an inch is rain is possible. my seven-day forecast when it is over, sunday, monday, tuesday, dry. sue? >> bay bridge metering lights have been turned on. bam. look at that. it goes from light to bumper-to-bumper crawling along and the back of line you are looking at 15 minutes delay and if you can car pool, each morning we see the car poolers whizzing right by and a beautiful shot of the eastern span of the bay bridge where you can see the brake lights around the s curve through the

cathedral section and traffic is looking good into san francisco. no delays. overall. look at that. mostly green. looking good, in good shape as far as the commute. a little bit of slow traffic out of antioch and usually it is what an hour into concord and right now it is 20 minutes. we will check back with ace train number one delay out of tracy and we will see how it is doing next report. >> we hearing from the family of a second victim identified in tuesday's deadly greyhound bus in san jose. 75-year-old maria or the advertise was a beloveed grandmother to 13 grand children. she was mexico before making her way back to salinas. she and another woman, fely olivera, of san francisco, died in the crash. ortiz' grandson wonder if driver fatigue played a role. >> he felt he could not do the drive he should not do the drive. >> year, ntsb investigators

recovered a camera, from inside the bus. they are checking to see if it recorded useful information. >> a main route to yosemite is back open this morning after a massive rock slide. >> we are trying to get it open as quickly as we can. it is labor intensive. it takes time. we do it as quick as we can. main concern is the public safety. >> it shut down part of state route 41 north of fresno. crews are, working on bring down the loose boulders and filling president holes created by the giant rocks. caltrain engineer said the rain caused the rock slide and the most serious in the area in decades. >> if you uber continue you can use the service at l.a.x. uber x pickups happen at the airport with a $4 fee tacked on to it, you have to go upstairs to departure to be pick the up and almost was a notable held out against uber x as taxi companies lebanon to block --

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>> benicia, san ramon, san mateo, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. the uproar over the lack of diversity in the oscar nominations is picking up steam this morning. first jada pinkett smith announced she is boycotting the

show and spy lee said he will not attend and rest rand al sharpton has joined the movement and george clooney said african months have a real point, for the second straight if a career all nominees are white. for the first time will semi, the husband of jada pinkett smith, is chiming in on the controversy. >> there is a regressive slide toward separatism, toward and religious disham any. and that is not the hollywood that i want to leave behind. >> in a state, there was a promise that the academy is taking dramatic stops to altar the makeup of our membership with more of the interview happening this morning on "good morning america" starting at 7:00 a.m. >> mammal workers are nursing a

baby seal back to health for the second time in three months after being spotted at a business park if hayward. they think it swam a few miles up from ward creek from the bay. officers called the mammal center if sausalito to get help for the little guy who is malnourished. the pup was taken to marin county and he get something to eat. it turns out the same seal was rescued in november and the center rescued a record number seal pups, with more than they times the normal year. though state that ocean warming is driving the seals to go deeper underwater so it is harder for the pups to feed. a lot of weather changes and we can see the impact on the wildlife. >> talking how they were feeding differently, because of the warm water and it has a good air effect and bad effect. the good affect walking the dog or riding the bicycle and light breezes stay on pavement if you

are running and off-road it is muddy. low-to-mid 70s and cloudy in southern california and low-to-mid 60s through the central valley and we have a winter storm headed to the sierra at 4:00 tomorrow, are you 4:00 on saturday evening so it is a long duration storm with up to 2' snow. be careful. >> now, closer to home right now, bart has 42 trains on time and ace train one from tracy was delayed at 18 members so it got off to a slow start and ace train 3 is on time and muni is looking good, buses have no delays through the city of san francisco. i went to remind you for the super bowl festists with the street closures, muni is expecting to add 90 minutes to the drive to downtown. back in a few to take a check on drive times. >> a teen with direction of residing in the white house is

the boys and girls club youth of year, ebony is a foster child and for seven years she has lived in eight homes and has again to six different schools. her stabilizing force if all of this is the counselors at the boys and girls club. >> they helped he with a last things including personal life, and they are my role models. they are show me a boater path. >> she when a $10,000 exploreship and will compete for a state award. seven other teens were honored as "youth of the year," finalists. >> buffalo bills are making nfl history hiring a special teams quality criminal coach, the first female full time coach in the league. ever. she worked under the bill coast. though tweeted this photo and the coach is excited and proud of her.

>> a homeless woman offered a free place to stay by pope francis after she gave birth is still thinking over the offer. the woman gave birth early this or when temperatures were just before freezing. a charity representative for the pope offered a place to stay free, for a year at a vatican owned residence for bothers in need. >> a 9th plan is claimed to have been found but you cannot see it. it is about continue times the mass of, and 2-4 times its radius. it is beyond neptune whose orbit is pulling on it. skeptics will believe the existence when they see it. >> pluto is the 9th planet. >> still stuck on that. >> okay, the internet cat film festival kickoff in san francisco today. >> what is the spent cat film festival? >> what it sound like,or line celebration of the hilarious

down right adorable video of cats that contains everything from six second videos and short dramas and dries and over 100 videos in all, and is taking place at the center for arts through sunday. >> dog person right here, at 6:00, a major health breakthrough and doctors can breakthrough and doctors can soon use your blood for

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mmmm, yoplait. live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. good morning, we are coming up on 6:00, hope you are doing well. >> i am reggie aqui. >> i am natasha zouves. >> today's commute is unevent. weather-wise and the next three hours, no rain, not much fog, right now. there is still fog in the

central valley that could head our way. the exploritorium looks beautiful, 12-hour day planner and we are warmer and a lot of upper 40s to low 50s from noon to 4:00, clouds and you could need the sunglasses, and it is warm, upper 50s to low 60, dry but at 10:00 it changes. sue? >> freeways are in good shape this thursday morning and here are the drive times for the bridges, 580, richmond-san rafael from the east bay to san rafael unten minutes, and san mateo bridge at 15 minutes, from side positive side, hayward side to the san mateo side, and dumbarton is under ten minutes, westbound, looking good and we will check to see if the metering lights are on and look at the golden gate bridge next report. >> we go to breaking news now in oakland where a car was sheared in after following a deadly crash. look at the mangled mess if the streets, the crash took place before midnight near mcarthur boulevard and