i saw the signs as i crossed the bay bridge and important tips to remember if you cross a bridge this morning. keep both hands firmly on the wheel. if you are hit by a gust you will not caught off guard and slip into another lane. reduce your speed. really in any different weather condition. be alert. look out for extra debris were those are a couple of things to remember. right new, as you can see behind me, traffic is moving smoothly. influence the bay bridge toll plaza. we will keep you updated through the morning as the conditions change. >> the storm could cause a lost trouble this weekend. if you take photos or videos of the weather where you live share them using #abc7now.

we could use them on air or on abc7news.com. it is the eastern part of country getting ready for major weather. we are talking about an enormous blizzard. here is how it started. new video from pine bluff, arkansas, snow is falling there. the storm is moving northeast. 2' of snow could fall in washington, dc. government offices in washington are going to shut down at 9:00 a.m. our time, noon their time. emergencies why been declared in the cap to and five states. >> in washington, dc, residents lined up at grocery stores to stock up ahead of the winter storm. you can she long lines at the trader joe's. it took people 45 minutes to pay. the top groceries: eggs and frozen pizza. >> this is amounting to a travel nightmare with thousands of flights canceled including out of sfo to charlotte and

washington, dc. most airlines will allow people scammed to fly to chair change flight. for free. >> they are all making temporary changes allow offing people that hold tickets to the northeast to change the tickets and travel plans without paying an additional fee. >> philadelphia will take the big it. i am redeye hoping to get in before the storm. >> 200,000 travelers could be impacted by the cancellations over the next few days. >> friends and family paid respects to the two uc santa cruz students swept to sea. a large wave swept shireen ahsan and suleiman nourzai off a rock at bonny doon beach on upon. janet o tells us of the plea the families are making. >> the pain and sorrow is fresh for the family and friends gathered at vision --

a show of solve late for 19-year-old shireen ahsan, and 24-year-old suleiman nourzai. they decided on monday to climb down bonny doon beach. as they stood on a rock a large swell swept them out to sea. a third friend survived and made it to shore. the coast guard cames off the search 22 hours later searching 46 square miles but they say without any sign of life their hands are tied. family members say all they want is closure. they have been search on foot and by air. >> at least if we can find the bodies and give them an honorable funeral it will mean a lot. >> prayers continued for the missing students and their grieving family. his brother said he was a role model to many. principleed and made everyone feel...welcome.

shireen ahsan is described as the light of the family. >> she was... [ inaudible ] >> wants to have fun. and get out this. >> two slaves lost two soon but their love for others will be remembered. in palo alto i am janet o. >> update on the missing surfer off the paren coast. teams now say there is no hope of finding him alive with a large wave hitting 40-year-old dan defoe on wednesday. surfers spotted him face down in the water and tried cpr and tried to pull him to shore but he was washed out by another wave. >> ten cars parked in vallejo towing yard are nothing but burned wreckage this morning. this is reason: the vehicles caught fire last night on the yard on broadway street near highway 37. crews had a hard time put the fire out because the cars were parked so close together. flames video through the tree and no one was hurt. firefighters are still trying to figure how the fire started.

>> look at the man in the surveillance video. the santa cruz county sheriff believes he could have is the at least a dozen cars on fire in southern california on wednesday near park avenue spotted in the area. the fire caused $100,000 in damage. no one was hurt. >> vallejo police need your help to identify two men suspected of theft. investigators say video surveillance over two days shows both person kissing -- casing the apartments. they later returned and stole maintenance equipment, including a generator, backpack, leaf blower and power tools. they drove three vehicles to the apartment and a newer black honda and a thunderbird and full-sized s.u.v. with serious tom wheels. >> more session into the greyhound bus crash in san jose that killed two passengers. ntsb say the crash was not caused by mechanical problem. they will use a 3-d laser i

imagine of the bus inside and out to re-create the crash. video recorders are being reviewed for what they capture during the moment of impact. two women died in the highway 101 wreck. ten others were injured. >> concern for an american student detained in north korea. he was arrested at an airport on scan 2 on a party tour society up by a company in china. north korean officials believe he commit add hostile act and plotting to undermine the government. the gun-year-old is a student at the university of virginia. >> down san francisco is one of the most congested areas of the city. starting tomorrow, traffic is about to get a lot worse. street closures for super bowl city begin at 7:00 a.m. and will be in affect for three weeks until february 12. i want to show you a chores look at the four main street closures including market street and davis to stewart street, stewart

from marquette and southbound embarcadero from washington and howard between third and 4th street. there is a partial closing between 4th and 5th. >> in other words, a maze. muni subway will resume at nine starting tomorrow. it has been closing each night at 9:30 for six months to install new communication sell -- systems. they run from 5:00 a.m. until 1:00 o'clock a.m. starting tomorrow. >> now a check with sue and traffic. >> so far, so good. it is it. be aware of that. we have high winds. well look at the mass transit. bart is off to a great start. larkspur ferry, two ferries canceled. the 8:40 a.m. and the 4:00 p.m. due to mechanical issues and the 7:30 this morning and the 5:30 this evening are the slower boats. factor that into plans.

muni is good but with road closures muni will be re-routed and the san francisco municipal traffic authority is saying allow 90 minutes extra if you come to downtown san francisco. that is a huge amount of time. we have wind on the san mateo bridge. but light traffic. 15 minutes from hayward to foster city. the overall traffic map is looking good. the green on the map represents areas of rain that could be affecting your drive. extra caution again. >> hundred pedestrians hit by cars in one east bay community. in just one year. the high together problem behind a major safety concern. >> the have been matchup is decided this weekend and the bay area is getting ready with big area is getting ready with big crowds they

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sea breeze market parking lot on university avenue near the berkeley marina. no one has been formally charged. >> look at this map behind me, it could look overwhelming at first but i will tell you what each of the dots mean. it marks a very serious problem. a spot where a vehicle hit a person in fremont in the last year. we are talking 86 of these incidents in all. now renewed effort to fix the problem. we explain how fremont is trying to make the streets safer. >> last year 86 periods were struck by vehicles resulting in four fatalities, fremont boulevard is where 78-year-old woman was killed by a bus in october. a 57-year-old man lost his life in november while crossing the same street. >> most high volume area and we are looking to see where we can install the new traffic signal. >> city council woman says overwhelming number of the

accidents have happened on 10 percent of fremont streets, another problem is navigation devices are guiding drivers through neighborhoods to avoid traffic jams. >> children are outside lay and there are pedestrians that are not so mindful to look for traffic and higher incident of accidents are occurring. >> a solution is at the civic center drive crosswalk in front of washington hospital that used to be pore dangerous. >> i have had several close calls myself and once i came leader and a woman was lying in the street and she got hit. >> i was ten and we almost got run offer by a car before this was built. >> city narrow the street from four lanes do two lanes and added flashing lights and large laboratoriers to calm traffic. other solution is awareness. the city said that drivers and pedestrians need to get off their devices and pay attention.

>> we will have to pay attention so many visitors the next couple of weeks because it is almost super bowl team and the big game at levi stadium and signs of the game are happening all around town. >> true, abc7 is at downtown san jose as workers transform it into a super bowl themed park with beer gardens and special light displays and family friendly activities and the s.a.p. center will host super bowl 50's official opening night. retail and restaurant owners have extra staff and any equipment for the big crowd. people want to be where they think a player could walk by. some players will get coffee and i am confident we are going to rock. >> very nice the downtown san jose has hotel rooms that are sold out for entire week lead up to the game. >> people are wondering, is it going to rain on super bowl sunday? >> we are too far out to know. >> medium-range models just now

touched sunday and they say rain on saturday but not sunday. as you mention it is a ways away and we will modify the forecast but right enjoy that is good. now at look at what is go on, coast a.m. flood advisory until 1:00 and high tides and run off and low lying areas, flooding, and around the bay shore, and we have the high surf a advisory until 5:00 tomorrow with the snakier waves and the rip current are a possibility. we have the wind from 4:00 this afternoon to 4:00 tomorrow morning. coming from the southwest, gusting up to 50 miles per hour. you add that together and you have an impressive storm until you look at live doppler hd and we talked about this. the rain wasn't go toking so intense or accumulate so much as tuesday. can you see light to dark green inland east bay. it is spilling across the san

mateo and dumbarton bridge to the son part of the peninsula to the south bay. and scattered light rain through the north bay. here is what is going to happen moving forward. we will have periods of rain today. it will be breezy. showers and thunderstorms in the fastest winds from 4:00 tonight until the next rain on friday. my seven-day outlook shows we are going from a "2" to a "1" on the storm impact scale so moderate to light and nothing next week. sue? >> wet roads right now. heads up for the commute. we have a high wind advisory with no traffic delays. the trip into the city is only live minutes. the patch shows the green is rain affecting the commute. we expect solo spinouts. in burlingame and broadway at 101 southbound a slow lane

spinout. the high winds are not good and we will come back next report and look at the wind advisories >> police arrested two men in connection withholdup several holdups, and they had handguns and assault life fowls and extra clips and ammunition and some were used to hold up toll takers. we will check with police on which toll pleas were robbed. >> san francisco police hope the surveillance video will help them catch a tool thief with a man stealing tools from a truck in an alley last month. the owner of the truck puts the values of the tomb around -- of the tools at around $900. >> a huge recall of infant car seats and the danger they could be putting your child in. >> and finalists of a top competition, a science fair on

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too familiar in san francisco, in the past year car brake ins have risen 34 percent in the city, and the problem is so bad it is drawing the attention of city hall. at a hearing, police told the supervisor as big target for thieves are tourists and residential cars. >> if the person is from the east coast and the car is broken into though write it off at a loss for a trip to san francisco and will not come back for prosecution. >> break-ins are up 150 percent since 2011. do not look anything valuable in plain sight. >> airbnb landlords are making millions by turn their property into illegal hotels according to a new study by people en this state published in the san jose mercury news. in san francisco, more than 300 full time hosts are making 22 percent of all of the airbnb revenue in the city, adding up to $4 4 million last year action full time host rests out space

more than 360 day as year and airbnb disagrees and said the study is flawed. >> a cow if new york city was caught on video literally running for its life, escaping a slaughter house yesterday afternoon and stampeded three the streets for half an hour. confused commuters flooded 9-1-1 with calls and made its way to a parking garage where it was cornered and core recalled and the written away call was returned to the slaughter house. >> on that note, mike? >> wow, good morning, everyone, we will talk about the activity planner, sailing is poor because of gusty breezes and the rough avenues and surf if you try to head out over into the ocean, it will be wet at times for running and it will be soggy and muddy on the trails if you are hiking. you can see the rain getting as far south as possible fresno bit afternoon. now, we are going do have heavy snow physical saturday at 4:00 on the western slope and

starting at 4:00 this afternoon through 4:00 tomorrow and if lake tahoe itself where we are at lake levels at 6-14" but try for get there 1-2' through the passes. it is quiet right now but we are going do have a high snow level dropping tonight and tomorrow weapon the moderate snow is rolling law and sunday and end month, traveling is looking good and maybe bluebird sky. >> blue bird, yes, absolutely, for sunday is looking good. we have high winds to worry about, three bay area bridges with high wind advisory, richmond-san rafael, and bay bridge and extra caution because of wet roads. 580 from the central valley is under 30 minutes and antioch to concord on highway 4, and san rafael, is a little bit of slow over the golden gate bridge and we will look at the zip are tuck getting ready to make its move with four lanes headed in the southbound direction, two in the northbound direction, and the shape on the road is slick.

extra caution. we will be back with a look at south bay drive in a bit. >> more than 71,000 child safety seats are being recall because the handles can break. the recall involved certain models with the highway administration say they have received 74 complain of the handles either crack or breaking, and one infant has been hurt. the recall covered the be safe 35 and be safe travel system all made between october of 2014 and july of 2015. >> lawmakers in washington, dc, want presbyterian for authorize a federal study into the possible health hazards of sport fields made from rubber from recycled tires. a report from the university of washington found an increase in cancer cases for student athletes who spend a lot of time on the rubber turf of the california is spending $3 million to study the health impact. >> a san francisco-based app can

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with three first place winners each receiving $150,000. big prize. they will be announced in march. >> a blizzard like they have not seen in years is hitting the east coast this morning. next at 5 o'clock a.m., the state of message people in five states are waking up to and how the storm is affecting flights right here from the bay area. >> a new report out said that expect bay area rent to keep go expect bay area rent to keep go up this year but there

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start to the weekend. i am reggie aqui. >> i am natasha zouves. we are tracking wet weather and high winds. we get to meteorologist mike nicco with the forecast. mike? >> it will be interesting to hold on to the umbrella, if it will be of service to you when the breezes kick up. we will take you over to danville and back to grass valley road in the east bay hills and to san ramon. right along san ramon valley boulevard we are seeing the moderate rain and around young city and miles road and as you get to the dumbarton bridge. the big picture shows this is our first cold front and it is light-to-moderate rain at best. here is a look at what is go on in downtown san francisco it is raining and light rain through 7:00 and afternoon and off showers tapering by 4:00 and the second round comes in this evening. sue? >> in south bay, san jose, 280, northbound,up the 880/17 overcrossing with headlights headed in the northbound direction to cupertino and everything is