live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> bumper to bumper, traffic backed up in san francisco as commuters are greeted by super bowl closures for the first time. >> good morning, i am kristen sze. >> i am reggie aqui. >> we will look at sky 7, super bowl city, downtown san francisco. this is the reason why. there will be for ten of thousands of football plans with several streets shut down that are usually packed anyway on a monday. amy hollyfield is if san francisco with reaction from the commuters. how are they doing?

>> grumpy. we met some commuter whose knew it was happening and landed ahead leaving home earlier than usual. and some were caught off guard. >> welcome to the new monday morning commute super bowl-style. drivers stuck in the traffic this morning were us terroristed -- frustrated and late. >> i am an hour behind. >> you southbound embarcadero is shut down at walk strength we drove through at 8:15. it took 15 minutes to make the town from embarcadero on to washington. >> it has been us terroristing -- frustrating. >> the super bowl is in santa clara but super bowl city is here if san francisco in herman plaza. the nfl said it will be a fun interactive experience for fans. commuters say this is not fun. >> i don't like it. wish we could have said "no."

i'm not a sports fans to begin with but it is creating chaos. >> parking officers are trying to keep traffic moving and answering a lot of questions. >> they are frustrated. a lot of people that work in the areas want to know, they are confused and are wondering what is go on. >> it will be like this for three weeks. a woman decideed to hit "escape," to avoid it. >> i am going on vacation on thursday. >> smart planning. >> you because of this? >> yes. >> really? >> yes. >> smartest woman in the bay area shutting down howard street starting tomorrow at moscone where the nfl expense is, that costs money. fan city is street -- is free. >> the commuters are avoiding gridlock to stay off the roads altogether. we were over the larkspur ferry

terminal where passengers squeezed on one ferry. both operated at capacity this morning. the bay ferry was as crowded. >> we maxed out on the capacity of the ferry. we often do we are already renting 90 percent capacity and tomorrow will be more of a challenge. >> bay ferry say they have added trips to the existing schedule. riders would real deal with walking around super bowl city when they get there than riding in a vehicle. >> now a look at sky 7 over a very busy battery street which is the brunt of this as the detoured cars would can not go southbound on embarcadero are detoured here and through the financial district, across market so it has been three or four miles per hour, slow going. >> you can see the traffic impact using the waze app with real time data and closed streets and red and white stripes and battery street where

people are detoured bumper-to-bumper traffic. also we want to talk about san francisco super bowl city closures. reggie? >> look at our website, right on front page, just click on the main story to get to a map to show you what is closed and how to get around it. it is on our abc7 news app which is free in the app store. all the cost of throwing this big party keeps going up for san francisco. the "san francisco chronicle" reports the city spent 500,000 extra to speed up work at transbay terminal before the closures. crews worked an the clock on the beale street side to get the work done by saturday. the latest report puts the city at almost $5 million. that is more than $1 million over the mayor's original estimate. >> today, the raiders meet the coliseum authority to discuss a lease extension to keep the team in oakland. our media partner reports that

the two sides have a private meeting today. the nfl blocked the move to los angeles this month. however, the team can move there if the chargeers decide not to relocate in january. oakland city lowers land to keep talking with the raiders about building a new stadium for the silver and black right here. >> san jose police say a missing campbell man was killed by someone he knows. investigators have evidence a co-worker killed 28-year-old kyle myrick. they have paid an arrest but they cannot fine the victim. matt keller has more on the family and trends who are out accepting today. >> huddle together in the parking lot during the cold morning a group with a mission: family and friends and co-workers are 28-year-old kyle myrick gathered before videoing out to look for him. >> he was seen friday at work, in san jose. police arrested his co-worker, 39-year-old steve hlebo, for

murder. investigators found evidence of a homicide at an empty building next to the motorcycle dealer. >> i understand they both worked in a back almost or a basement of the area and kyle was rob in the wrong place at the wrong time and this guy had a screw loose. >> kyle worked at the store for only a few days transferring from santa clara store. a co-worker showed up for the search and notice knows the s. >> what was steve like? >> steve hlebo was a mild temper ed man and friendly to me, kind of out of the character, i did not expect it. >> police are not releasing details but gave family members secondary locations to search. 100 people were in lexington reservoir yesterday in los gatos and today the seven is along the bay from palo alto. a section of the santa cruz mountains. also, around the reservoir.

>> it is harassment we will keep hoping. we hopefully will final him. >> his stepfather said if he do not find him today they will have another land tomorrow, to continue the search. the sheriff has resume add search for a missing fisherman not seen for 24 hours. the 25-year-old jumped off a boat and vanished on saturday evening. the pair were fishing in the democrat that. the sheriff and the coast guard are searching an area off the san joaquin river for the victim. >> a hearing for discrimination lawsuit against the napa valley wine train is getting underway if san francisco. members of a mostly african-american book club filed $1 million suit against the company in october. the william say they were kicked off the train for being too loud and they claim they were slanders when a manager said they were unruly and aggressive. lawyers for the wine strain want part of the suit dismissed say

the managers' observation was a statement of opinion not fact. >> the state of michigan is step up the investigation into the ongoing water crisis in flint. the attorney general has appoint two special investigators to determine whether any state laws were violated in the delivery of contaminated water to flint. extremely high levels of lead have been found in the water supply, forcing people to drink, bathe, and cook with bottled water. this morning, jimmy fall listen is helping flint and donating $10,000. and sean diddy are pledging a million bottles. osiers can strike when they want and wherever they want throughout the continentalling to the top officials. they are doing everything they can to stop paris terror attacks -style attacked and another is in the works planned by domestic isis cells already in europe. >> a deadly damaging wouldn't step storm has moved on after punishing the east coast with

massive snow and ice. our reporter joins us with the latest. >> to give you an idea of what millions of dealing with, look at this whom owner virginia set up a camera and recorded the snow falling on his patio that covered the camera lens. it will tick a lot more than a shovel to get neighborhoods in the storm's path back to normal. >> the worst of the storm is over and the task of digging out is only going, the weekend blizzard brought record-breaking snow fall. nearly 2' goal in washington, dc. more than 26" dumped on new york city in a day. and baltimore had its biggest storm ever, buried in 29.2' of snow. >> we are spending, we are recovering from a historic snow event. that means this requires patience and cooperation. >> the mayor said crews can not

push the snow to the side of the road. >> they need to literally lift the snow up, put it in a dumpster, a truck and carry it out of the neighborhood. >> airlines have to make up for 14,000 flights that were canceled over the weekend. more than a thousand more cancellations are expected today. >> i checked the airports around here, sfo is being impacted still with canceled incoming flights from washington, dc, new york, and newark and philadelphia, and very long delays for the departures to the east coast. >> thank you. new details this morning on the dam by two deadly wildfires in northern california last year, and the state incident estimates they top $1 billion in insured logs and the preliminary figure includes $700 million for victims of the fire in lake county. four people died in the september fire and 1,300 homes were destroyed. fires were battling the bout

fire in calaveras county when it broke out with claims there at $300 million. >> all eyes are on crumbling seawall in pacifica. the city is holding an emergency meeting to get a better assessment of storm storm-fueled damage and how to protect public and private property. here is a look at the erosion from this morning. storms damaged the pier and erodeed the cliff so several homes and apartments are threatened. the city manager declared a state of emergency hoping for state and federal help. all the santa cruz wharf is closed because of a water main break and the city is trying to get water flowing again to homes and businesses there, and here is how it looks before sunset last night. you can see, it is empty. the same big surf that may have caused the break is making it tough to fix. >> millions of chip are over weight or or bees and this could

make parents rethink what they are packing in school lunches. shake up at twitter. stay tuned.

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lives where you live. >> a big shakeup at twitter. top executives are leashing in a restructure plan. the heads of engineer, media, product left the san francisco-based company. there are reports that new board members are announced by this week. according to the "new york times" one of the board members will be a high-profile media personality. twitter c.e.o. tweeted this out last night saying ice all four will take well deserved time off and he is personally grateful to each them for everything they have contributed to twitter. he said that the c.o.o. will take on additional responsibility. >> a new report from the world health organization saying 41 million kids under the age of five are now obese or overweight worldwide. report said that behavioral and space by logical factors contribute focus on food can drink and calls on taxes on

sugar-sweetened drinks like some bay area cities do and urges schools to adopt good diet and physical activity. >> if you do not like the rain, meteorologist mike nicco has good news for you. >> that is right. 22 out of 25 days we have had measurable rain an the bay area but for the rest of the day, tuesday, wednesday and thursday, it will be dry. more on that coming up in the seven-day forecast. >> also coming up, a look at what some claim is the new iphone and the next big thing could be relatively small.

>> los gatos, antioch, petaluma and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. after years of getting bigger, it looks like apple's next iphone is shrinking and this photo is of the new phone that will be a "special edition enhanced," an iphone 6 inside the body of an iphone 5, with the smaller 4" screen but a better camera. yours is a 5. >> i prefer the smaller. >> i prefer this. it is perfect. >> everyone is happy today. >> and sort of like people who like it dry. >> good morning, guys, glad you could work that out. umbrella, you should not have that because you don't need it. whether it is big or small you will break it out friday and saturday and sunday the we had

.03" in stand rose and up to .2" here so i wonder if the rain buckets need to be recalibrated. you were the only areas that received the rain. live doppler hd is showing dry. we will talk about the closeup satellite, visible picture from 23,000 miles out in space. can you see on the ride side the white is not moving. that is snow. in the sierra. we have thick fog in tracy to bakersfield headed to the grapevine and across the north bay we have the thick are clouds. you can see from sky 7 h.d. as it fly back home we are seeing sunny pockets developing and temperatures are going to be seasonal and it will be brighter and warmer tomorrow through thursday and the potential for wet weather runs on friday, saturday, and sunday. today, temperature is about 58 in san rafael and vallejo and concord and antioch and

fairfield at 62 degrees, tonight, with less cloud cover initially the fog will form and we will have a light offshore breeze pilling the fog from the central valley to our neighborhoods so be careful. the longer we go through the commute the more likely it is to be foggy. napa is the cool spot at 42 and san francisco is the warm spot at 49. we have a wet pattern for friday, saturday, and sunday. our storm impact scale shows the impact of what we me it will be out of the storms all the way through the winter season: light is "1" to revere, "5" the storm friday, rains come, it will be light, light breezes, not much in the way of any time of tides or waves so well keep it right there. next, can you see at 4:00 on friday morning, through the afternoon hours, most of the rains across the north bay as the storm track will be to our north the next several days. by saturday evening you can see the storm track coming into the heart of the bay and overnight

through sunday morning we could have our heaviest amount of rain and by sunday afternoon, it is gone. check out this beautiful picture from ski heavenly over the welcome, they had a ton of snow, and they may get a continue of snow with the next storm and it could hit the sierra hadder than it hits us. here is my seven-day outlook, low-to-mid 60s, tomorrow, low-to-upper 60s, wednesday and thursday, and it will be cooler with the rain getting better as we head through the weekend. definitely getting a break, unfortunately, the commute because of other reasons -- super bowl -- it could be treacherous. >> we will keep repining folks. >> exciting tonight because the two best games in the n.b.a. face off here at oracle arena and with the warriors hosting the spurs. but the deem is, they are without hall of famer duncan was the veteran has knee soreness and he is not in the game.

tip-off is at 7:30. >> now, less than 15 hours since we learned which two teams are laying super bowl 50 but the official football is ready to roll and the ball has the panthers and broncos' name on it, and the date of big game and the location, santa clara, of course. the wilson footballs have been part of every single football with a 75 year relationship with the nfl. >> and make sure they are completely inflated. >> making the best of the bad weather, next, abc7 news at 11, enjoying what happened when an officer caught up with a high speed

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>> coming up at 4:00, super bowl city gridlock and we saw how the morning commute went. the real problems are expected to be this evening. we will be in the middle of that mess. >> the bay area billionaire, how his closet represents the opposite of silliness. awe will explain that at 5:00. >> i'm intrigued. >> the blizzard back east brought traffic to a halt. >> the streets were not completely empty. >> this is youtube star who sped through man had, towed by a

friend if a jeep. >> people stared. he then switched to skis. >> it is when the police caught up with him and the? s were cool, they let him go without aen watching. can you see it in the video. >> how can you pete -- beat that?

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