great start to the new year. jessica off today, alexis off, sue hall in, great to see you, and mike nicco bringing us changes to come but dry today. >> i wanted to show you some other places in the country that would be a little more jarring, getting up this morning, look at those temperatures. we are the 10%, i love the stat sue came up with, she goes are we really the only ones that aren't freezing? yeah, there's us and oregon and florida. that's it. you can see a few radar returns today, but that's going to evaporate before it reaches the ground. here is a look at my 12 hour planner, mild this morning, mid 40s to low 50s, temperatures near 60 at noon, low to mid 60s at 4:00 and mid to upper 50s at 7:00. dry all day today, but tonight is when our system comes in. it's getting busier if your commute takes you to the bay bridge. we have metering lights on at 5:35 this morning. your delays are starting to build a little bit from highway 4 hercules all the way into san

francisco. that includes your wait at the toll plaza. it's a moderate drive. if you are paying cash you don't have any wait at all ironically, the fast trackers not so much. we continue to track breaking news out of the south bay, a fire at a cardboard factory in santa clara, this broke out on matthews street near della cruz boulevard. take a look at the flames firefighters encountered when they first got to the scene around 1:00 a.m. the santa clara fire department tweeted out this video. everyone got out okay. firefighters say they will be tearing apart piles of cardboard to make sure nothing is smoldering inside and this is now a live look at the scene as you can see they are still actively working on this. abc 7 news reporter matt keller will have a live update for us at 6:30. a new year, same bad air. we are on a streak of spare the air days here in the bay area. >> today marks the 18th just this season. abc 7 news reporter amy hollyfield live for us on treasure island.

good morning, amy. >> reporter: good morning. yeah, the air today will be dangerous for those with health conditions and if you burn a fire in your fireplace, you are just going to make it worse for them. it is not cars that are the top -- produce the most pollution on spare the air days, it is fires, and spoke from one fireplace can pollute an entire neighborhood. so fires are not allowed today. those are asthma and heart conditions, those are the people who need to take it easy today. >> well, i advise them to stay indoors on days like this as much as possible. if they go outside, not to exercise, and if the pollution is really bad, to wear particulate masks. >> reporter: today is the 18th spare the air day of the season. 30 is the record. officials do worry that these repeated announcements will become just white noise to people and they will become

they want to emphasize this is an ongoing issue and we have to remain vigilant. reporting live from treasure island, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. happening today the two suspects in the deadly ghost ship fire are due back in court. derick almena and max harris are scheduled to be arraigned in oakland. last month a judge ruled the two men should go to trial for the deaths of 36 people. each of them faces 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter. prosecutors say almena and harris essentially operated as managers of the property. both men remain in jail despite numerous attempts to have their bail lowered. two people injured by gunfire on new year's eve in the paris are recovering this morning. in san leandro a 22-year-old woman was grazed by a bullet shortly after this toast at a house party. the host told us the victim didn't even know she had been hit. >> everything going fine and then we heard some gunshots like this. actually, she didn't care too

much and then she had gone to toilet and she see the injured -- she got bleeding. >> her injuries did not require a hospitalization. then in oakland just after midnight on sunday a man was hit in the arm by a bullet. every new year's eve police warn against firing guns at midnight. a 38-year-old woman is oakland's first homicide victim of 2018. police responded to a report of a shooting yesterday morning, they found the woman dead inside her home. the east bay times says a man was detained as he tried to leave the house. a new year means new lawyers and two could spell big changes at california schools. one allows tools to donate food to local food bangs and other charities. in the past schools were not allowed to do anything with it other than throw it out because of liability issues. another law requires schools to provide lunch even if students and their parents fall behind on paying. >> i understand that we are all strapped for resources in our

of the day we can't penalize people for not being able to afford to eat. >> some schools have served students a snack in lieu of lunch if their parents were behind on payments. we spoke to san francisco unified, they told us that the district has always provided lunch regardless of whether or not parents had fallen behind. the cannabis business is booming in the bay area. recreational pot legal in california as of yesterday. the line at kind people's in santa cruz averaged 30 to 50 people all day long, giving the owner an idea about what the future holds for his budding business. pun intended. customers can only buy one ounce of flower or eight grams of concentrate per day. >> i think we're going to see at least a twofold increase in the adult use market as consumers, you know, now have the ability to come into the store without going to a doctor. >> recreational marijuana is subject to a new state excise tax of 15%, combine that with city and sales taxes, customers are paying more than 30% in

taxes once they get to the register. state lawmakers will face a growing sexual misconduct scandal when they reconvene tomorrow. this year about bring debates over laws to increase protections for victims and people who report sexual misconduct. two assemblymen have resigned after women accused them of misconduct. also allegations against another assemblyman and state senator. all four have denied the accusations. federal officials taking an aggressive new approach to stop or at least slow down the opioid crisis. >> former miss america being picked to bleed the organization. and finally it's 2018 and finally we see a break in this monotonous weather that's brought us those 18 spai alerts including today. i am tracking some wet weather and you can see it's on the storm impact scale, it's only a 1, but don't

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forecast with mike nicco. >> play along with me here. it's so cold in arkansas, how cold is it, that the fountains are freezing. here is some cool video of a few fountains frozen solid there in texarkana, arkansas, this is on the border of texas and arkansas

down in the southwest corner. yeah, look at this. everybody in the deep freeze except for us and florida for the most part and arizona, you're pretty close in portland and seattle. that's the 90% that we are not and that's in that arctic air. we will get a chance of wet weather but it's not going to get cold with this system as it comes up with the south. we are in the 50s in belmont, half-moon bay, pacifica 58, 52 san bruno. 49 hayward san jose, 44 concord, livermore and antioch, san rafael at 48 degrees. let's talk about the coastal flood warning up until 1:00 today because of the king tides that are going to peak at nearly 7 feet. if you're going to be out on the bay other than that a light breeze and light chop. exercising just watch the air quality, spare the air once again. if you are out playing enjoy the temperatures that will be in the 60s. i will show you highs coming up. the weather will cool us down and bring us a chance of rain hour by hour tomorrow into

thursday. here is sue. what if we're traveling through the sunol grade. >> it will be slow through the sunol grade. caltrans has closed off the lower half of the parking lot in mill valley right at bay level. that's through thursday. so here is the slow traffic we are looking at across the sunol grade. traffic slows to 30 miles an hour if you're traveling southbound on 680 towards san jose. zooming in on a replica of the volume of speeds. we do have a slight ace train delay. ace train number 1 rolling into great america about ten minutes hide schedule. no other mass transit delays. former fox news anchor gretchen carlson is getting ready for a new role, she had lead the miss america board of directors now. this comes after a scandal over derogatory and sexist e-mails over former winners. this is the first time a former pageant winner has been named

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>> all news. >> all morning. the resignation of minnesota senator al franken becomes effective today. sending the state's lieutenant governor to the upper house of congress. franken resigned on december 7th in the face of more than a half dozen accusing him of sexual misconduct. he had been in the senate since 2009. when he beat his republican challenger by slighter more than 300 votes. minnesota lieutenant governor tina smith will be sworn in today. there is a youtube star named logan paul and you might hear about him today. he is apologizing after posting a video showing an apparent suicide victim. that video of course it's too graphic. this is a different video from paul's account. the controversial video was taken down, shot in a forest in japan nicknamed the suicide forest due to the high number of suicides that take place there. the video shows paul and several people showing the body of a man hanging from a tree. it led to this apology. paul posted a lengthy statement

starting off by saying that he's sorry. he goes on to say that he did not create the video to get views. paul says he did it to raise awareness for suicide and suicide prevention, but realizes now the video was a mistake. new this morning south korea is welcoming talks with north korea about its participation in the upcoming winter olympics. in a new year's speech kmg says he is willing to send a delegation to the games in south korea. the north korea leader declared hope for a peaceful resolution with our southern border. south korean officials are posing a meeting next week. this would be the first high level talks between the two countries since december of 2015. researchers at stanford are using google street view technology to predict how you will vote. "the new york times" reports researchers pulled information about what kinds of cars we drive from 50 million google emergencies. they cross referenced the information from census data and were able to determine how people in certain neighborhoods voted. they found people in republican

voting districts were more likely to drive extended cab pickup trucks. democratic districts had high sons durations of sedans. one mom is celebrating a rare occurrence, twins bo your honor in two different years. maria reowes was due on january 27th but december 31st joaquin was born near bakersfield. his twin sister was slightly breached and had to be delivered via c section and was born on new year's day. >> translator: i feel happy because i just had my two babies. >> here is a photo of the staff who helped deliver the dyl delano hospital. >> she is like can i just get some sleep. >> tired, but glad everyone is healthy. >> did i win the lottery? winning the kids. >> two beautiful kids.

>> that's great. it's a great story they will have forever. let's take a look what's going on. our big story hopefully we will close the book on is how dry it's been out there. here is a look from our roof camera as you look down at the embarcadero, you can see the flags aren't unfurled that much. a mostly cloudy day with stagnant air again, that's why it's another at least two storms coming in my accuweather seven-day forecast. temperatures today about 63 to 65. pretty nice out there each with the lack of sunshine. 69 at santa rosa 68 ukiah our warmest spots. tonight will be a mild night. low to mid 40s in the north bay valleys, the rest in the upper 40s even 50s around san francisco. this low coming up from the south, look at that, counterclockwise flow grabbing that moisture right now, it's all at about 15,000 feet so it's a little too high right now, but it will drop down during the overnight hours. 4:00 tomorrow morning start the

commute, dry, towards the end of the commute 9:00 scattered showers, those will continue even becoming scattered thunderstorms possible during the afternoon and evening hours and then overnight the best chance of that will be along the coast and into the north bay and then we will get another system for thursday night into friday. it is also a 1, light, on our storm impact scale. right now saturday, sunday, monday trending cooler and drier. how is the forecast for the commute trending? looking pretty good as far as i can tell. we date of loss the do have the metering lights on at the bay bridge toll plaza but traffic is inching along nicely. if you are paying cash you are blowing through. the fast trackers are the one that have to wait, also if you're carpooling it's moving nicely as well. we had a stall earlier on the eastbound treasure island on ramp, that's been cleared out. take look at our traffic maps. we have a stall reported in either lane three or four north 101 near highway 85 and right

now our sensors are green, i'm not seeing too much slow traffic in the vicinity there but heads up that that could be slowing your drive. off the altamonte pass about 35 minutes into tracy dublin on the west 580. highway 4 is looking good and a straight shot into the city from san rafael south on 101. "good morning america" coming up at 7:00 right here on abc 7. >> amy robach is live with a look at what's ahead. good morning, amy. >> it is cold up here, natasha and reggie. great to be with you both this morning. coming up next on gma, long lines at airports across the country overnight after a nationwide computer outage affected international travel. our david kerley has all the details this morning. then hollywood women joining forces for a new movement called time's up to tight sexual harassment in the workplace. two of the founders join us on how the group was formed and how they think it can make a real difference. then it's bachelor season, what many are now calling

january bachelor ari is here after last night's big premiere. that is all coming up next. >> we heard there are four different laurens on the bachelor this season. >> all i can tell you is i wasn't batching "the bachelor" last night, i was watching my dogs win. go, georgia. >> i fully support amy with this. thank you, amy. have a good one. >> and stay warm. on to some health news now. the opioid epidemic has the justice department implementing an aggressive new approach that cracks down on doctors. the strategy is to go after who over pride. opioids are easy toover dose on and patients need increasing doses to get the same high. the doj's fraud and detection unit is trying to stop doctors by combing through data like how often they prescribe the drugs, how far patients travel to see them and if any patients die after those prescriptions are filled. there is a new warning of

another scam impacting north bay fire victims. could chocolate go extinct? why local researchers say you may be saying good bye to the worldwide favorite. taking live look downtown san francisco and we continue to monitor what's happening with weather and traffic.

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for 9:00 wednesday morning. that's tomorrow's morning commute. you can see the best chance maybe the east bay hills and along the peninsula. now as we head throughout the day and into the evening commute, you can see the scattered showers, even the possibility of some thunderstorms dropping about a tenth to up to a quarter of an inch of rain and that's just our first storm. here is more coming up in my accuweather seven-day forecast. here is reggie and natasha. >> i have some potentially bad news. >> this could send you in a dark spiral in if you love chocolate there could be an issue. >> like a global shortage to tomorrow. the treat could reportedly vanish entirely from our planet as early as 2050. scientists are blaming climate change, disease and lack of water for a shortage in some of the biggest producing countries like africa's ivory coast. this revelation has led scientists from uc berkeley to scramble to come up with answers and solutions with the mars company to save the cacao plant from disappears. >> we are raising our game so

there can be pliers. we have perú, ecuador, bolivia, brazil. bali we have beans, fiji we have beans. >> it's time to stockpile right now. >> yeah. >> uc berkeley says it is working with mars to develop more resistant cocoa beans, but, you know -- >> i mean, can i not have a reese's peanut butter cup? a lawsuit may change how one east bay city will vote. >> if weaning yourself off of your phone is part of your new year's resolutions there are some tips that could set you up for success. plus how close we're getting to recreational cannabis delivered right to your doorstep. sue hall following your tuesday morning commute with a live look at the richmond san rafael bridge. traffic is flowing nicely here, you have about an eight minute drive from the east bay side of things over towards marin county.

live where you live. this is abc 7 mornings. breaking news. evacuations after a massive fire at a factory in santa clara. >> this is very close to san jose airport. we will take you live toe scene as firefighters continue to work at this hour. good morning on this tuesday, january 2nd. jessica and alexis have the day off but the rest of us ushering in 2018 as a lot of you get back to work today. >> the smoke plume on that was

going straight up and then it started to move off a little bit to the north. thankfully the smoke is not encompassing the ground but we do have a spare the air today because of the possibility of poor air quality. wood burning ban all 24 hours today. if you use your app you may see some out over the ocean but they will be at 15,000 feet and evaporating. my accuweather 12 hour planner calls for mostly cloudy conditions, mild this morning, 44 to 50, low to mid 60s from noon to 4:00, still a very comfortable evening, at 7:00 around 55 to 57 degrees. commute for the most part this morning comfortable. is it still that way? we do have trouble spots. metering lights were on about an hour ago at the bay bridge toll plaza as the cash folks -- cash paying folks are cruising right on by, the fast tracksers not so much. if your travels take you on the east shore freeway from meshing lease into the city including this bay bridge backup you are looking at a 35 minute drive. green is great.

we do have slow traffic coming out of the altamonte pass and also on the sunol grade. reports of a big rig fire by the coliseum, we will update that in a couple of minutes. santa clara firefighters remain at the scene of a big fire at a cardboard factory. >> firefighters are going through and tearing piles of cardboard apart to make sure nothing is smoldering inside. matt keller is live on the scene for us. good morning, matt. >> reporter: this is a tough fire, natasha, because those flames are burning inside these giant piles of cardboard here at the manufacturing plant. firefighters are actually using thermal imaging, a camera, and also firefighters on ladders to guide these streams of water to the hot spots. check out the video of what firefighters encountered when they arrived on the scene after they got the call around 1:30 this morning. this is the california paper board corporation by manufactures cardboard on matthews street. all of the employees are okay. it is burning in the stacks of cardboard in the storage area on the outside of the building.

overhead high voltage lines made it extra dangerous for the first firefighters on the scene. >> one of our biggest concerns was basically making sure those lines were shut down before we got too aggressive or put ourselves in a position to be underneath them because roughly four to five of the poles themselves were exposed to heavy fire when we showed up on scene. >> reporter: get this, firefighters say the fact that fire happened after the holidays is a good thing. that's because all the cardboard went out and the company is at about a third of the normal amount on site. that's still a lot of cardboard here. once they're done putting water on it firefighters will have to take those piles of cardboard apart to make sure nothing is smoldering inside. so that could take a long time today. reports live in santa clara, matt keller, abc 7 news. happening today the chp expected to announce the charges for the man accused of killing an officer on christmas eve in hayward. a suspected impaired driver hit and killed officer andrew camilleri while he was sitting in his patrol car on 880.

camilleri's partner also got hurt. the suspect's name has not been released. he is still in the hospital and will be booked once he's released. a newly refurbished streetcar derailed after colliding with a truck in san francisco. it happened at third and mission bay boulevard around 8:30 last night. muni says the truck made a turn in front of the streetcar, the truck ended up on its side. fortunately no one was hurt. develop news out of the east bay. two suspects on the run after police say they robbed a pleasant hill gas station. this happened last night between 6:40 and 7:10 at the mobile gas station on oak park boulevard. surveillance cameras captured these mamgs of the suspects. police say they both have handguns in their waist bands. they got away with cash, food and some cigarettes. truck driver making deliveries lost control on a busy san francisco street hitting two pedestrians and a car with a family inside. the stent shut down 21st avenue and geary boulevard for several hours yesterday evening. the family of five inside of the car have minor injuries, two pedestrians on the sidewalk were

hurt. a 79-year-old man underwent surgery for internal pleading, he is in critical condition. a 66-year-old man is recovering from a broken rib and a punctured lung. >> as soon as i looked back and saw that my kids were like okay, they weren't dead, like i -- i ran -- i got them out of the car and then i ran over to see the guy that got hit because he flung about 10 to 15 feet. >> police say the truck driver tried to make the turn on a red light. he has been detained. it is not clear fell face charges. police are searching for the driver who killed and woman crossing 98th avenue in east oakland. it happened at 5:00 a.m. yesterday morning. the car kept driving southbound on 98th leaving the scene of the accident. the pedestrian has not been identified. police closed the intersection for eight hours to conduct the investigation. some north bay fire victims are being victimized again and this time it's by fraud. some property owners in mendocino county say they have received fahd lent bills from a state sponsored fire debris removal program.

authorities say if you get one of those bills, don't pay it and notify the da's office right away. this is all a scam. no reports of this fraudulent activity yet in sonoma county. authorities say fire victims there should be on alert. in developing news with recreational cannabis now legal in california customers may not even have to go to a dispensary in the near future, they could just sit at home and have the weed delivered to their front door. the proper hx collective in oakland already delivers medical marijuana to customers and wants to expand it to users who are using recreational pot. proper rx was formed to serve patients who are marginal liesed with unequal access to medical marijuana. >> people don't have cars, some people are not mobile, some people aren't able, physically able, so having a delivery service that is able to come straight to their door is really beneficial. >> the company still needs to get all the proper permits in order to legally deliver recreational pot.

if proper rx gets the green light there will be a one ounce limit per customer per day. >> happening tonight concord city council members will implement district based elections. according to the east bay times an attorney sent letters to cities demanding they conform to the california voting rights act or face a lawsuit. the attorney claims at large voting systems are discriminatory and prohibit protected classes like latinos from influencing the outcome of an election. fremont and martinez received similar letters. martinez fan transitioning to district-based elections earlier this month. small businesses in san francisco hurt by the central subway's year long construction delay are getting some much needed help. abc 7 news was in chinatown yesterday where the first checks went out from a compensation fund set up under the late mayor ed lee. the san francisco examiner reports 15 businesses received more than $82,000. merchants along union square and fourth street will be compensated.

the central subway will run from chinatown through south of market and it is expected to open next year. poor air quality has been agency heavily on your mind, that's about to change as that new pattern for the new year unfolds tomorrow. let's take a look at what's going on outside right now. san jose, this is one of those areas along with our east bay valleys that could have poor air quality on this 18th winter spare the air alert. wood burning ban all 24 hours today. cloud cover keeping our temperatures anywhere from about 1 to 6 degrees warmer than yesterday morning. down in the south bay the mid to upper 40s. los gatos mid to upper 50s. milpitas a little warmer at 54 degrees. we've got 50 in alameda, san pablo 51, san francisco 53, half-moon bay 52, bodega our commute manner for the san

matteo bridge, you can see things are moving there not too badly. we will talk to sue here in just one second. as far as mass transit, cool to mild and in the coast and bay the flooding because of the king tides up until 1:00 this afternoon. highs today look at that, 63 to 66 for most of us, upper 60s in ukiah and santa cruz, lows tonight mild once again, low to mid 40s in the north bay, mid to upper 40s for the rest of us to 50 in san francisco. let me show you our chances of rain. let me tell you also when we come ba in about less than seven minutes i will have an hour by hour look at those. here is sue. we are going to check outside right now at san rafael. those taillights headed at the limit past the north san pedro and freight tas parkway exits. a few break lights central san rafael. a 22 minute drive from san rafael in san francisco.

low on the sunol grade. what happened on the sunol grade, we had debris in lanes southbound 680 that has made for a slow commute. we are seeing slow traffic southbound 880, we have a big rig that is on fire, it's off on the right hand shoulder, it's not blocking the traffic lanes, but looky loose are slowing past the coliseum. fire is en route there. guys? happening today, the parking lot at the hillsdale cal trains station in san matteo will be shut down so a heads up. this is part of a construction project to elevate the tracks and put a new station in by next year. they have temporary lots by east 28th avenue and east 31st avenue off south delaware street. carrie underwood is warning her fans that her face doesn't look like it used to. losing weight is always a top new year's resolution, the new strategy that means you can stop counting calories and start counting time. a live look at sfo. thanks for waking up with us.

all everybody stumbles,ail. but some of us do it well. there's a little klutz in all of us. that's why we made clorox splash-less bleach... ...splashless. shine on, klutzes. shine on. unfortunately mother nature hasn't given us much of an excuse to head up to the high country so far this season. we are only at 27% of average. we do have some snow on the way, not a lot, but if you've been waiting, we will get several inches starting tomorrow, but

for today 70s and 80s in so cal, 60s for the rest of us until you get up in the high country and that's where we have the 50s. let's take a look at what's going on as far as my seven-day forecast. light mix for thursday and friday and then light snow for saturday and sunday. i will have more on that wet weather for us coming up. new year, same bad air. we are on a streak of spare the air days in the bay area. >> today marks the 18th just this season. abc 7 news reporter amy hollyfield live for us on treasure island. good morning, amy. >> reporter: good morning, natasha. we have this stagnant air that's hanging around and that's what's creating this unhealthy air for us that we are breathing in every day. and guess what is the worst pollution offender? it's not cars, it's actually fires in people's fireplaces. so no fires are allowed today. those are asthma or heart issues are encouraged to stay inside and if they doing outside not to exercise. a fire in your fireplace can

really impact those who have health issues. >> wood burning is the number one source of fine particulate pollution in the wintertime and accounts for about 40% of the solution. on road vehicles are only about 13%. >> with those fires that we had up in the north bay then also down in southern california and then add on top of that this stagnant weather, 2017 will go down as one of the worst years for air quality. we haven't set a record for spare the air days, but it's not out of the question. we are on day 18. 30 is the record. reporting live from treasure island, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. happening today the man accused of making a prank call that led to an innocent man's death in kansas could make his first court appearance. police say 25-year-old tyler barriss called 911 describing a hostage situation at a home in wichita thursday night. police fatally shot a man who came out of that home. investigators say barriss was actually swatting, in other

words, reporting a hoax emergency that prompts a large police response. there are reports that the incident was fallout from a dispute over a video game. some more details emerging in that deadly plane crash in costa rica. we are now learning that berkeley based back roads organized the tour group on that plane. investigators say strong winds or mechanical problems likely caused this plane to go down on sunday in guanacaste ten americans and two crew members died, nine of the dead are members of two families. bruce and irene steinberg and their three sons, also killed mitchell and leslie weiss of tampa, florida and their son and daughter. >> you never want it to happen to somebody that you know and they were a good, good family. >> the tenth american was this woman, 33-year-old amanda geissler, a travel guide from wisconsin. the crash also took the lives of the pilot and co-pilot. angry, fired, frustrated was

the feeling of a lot of people traveling international alley yesterday when the passport system was out for two hours across the country. these are pictures from hartsfield jackson international, all those kiosk are empty. border protection agents had to use backup procedures to process the passports and that took them up to four hours. >> none of the passport machines worked. we all had to stand in line for hours. >> i'm angry, tired, frustrated. >> worst airport ever. terrible. tsa, a joke. >> now, this is video from lax. sfo was also affected. federal officials said the outage did not appear to be malicious in nature. commercial aviation actually reached a milestone in 2017. it was the safest year in the history of modern jet aircraft. in fact, there was apparently not a single death because of a jet crash anywhere in the world according to the flight safety foundation which tracks airline

incidents. the report excludes crashes of military, cargo and single engine aircraft. new details about a nasty fall that country single carrie underwood took. she's warning fans that she might look a little different. in a blog post published yesterday underwood says that fall in november outside her home required her to get 40 to 50 stitches to her face. she says that she is grateful that it wasn't much worse. after the incident underwood's publicist said that she had multiple injuries including a broken wrist and some cuts. losing weight on many new year's resolutions lists and there is a new diet strategy that allows you to eat whatever you want. there is a catch, though. you have to do all of your eating in a 12-hour window. this diet is called time restricted eating. one doctor says she's seen dramatic health improvements in her patients. >> time restricted feeding involves activating metabolic pathways that are silent in our bodies. if you shorten the time frame of eating you will still activate those pathways within your body

that will increase fat burning and increase the utilization of stored energy. >> all right. well, during one small study over a 12 week period the participants were limited to an eight hour window and on average they lost 5% of their body weight. more on this diet is coming up next on "good morning america." >> that's just -- usually called intermittent fasting. >> if you rebrand it -- >> then it sells. now to your morning money report. 2018 is expected to be a tough year for retailers with an onslaught of expected store closings. >> business insider reports more than 12,000 stores could shut down nationwide this year, that's up from roughly 9,000 last year according to commercial real estate brokers cushman and wakefield. 2017 was a record year for store closings and retail bankruptcies. some retailers have explanation plans and those include t.j. maxx and ross stores. so what do you plan to do with your tax returns? in a study that could surprise

some people, 43% of mill meals say they plan on paying down debt that they ended up with over the holidays. that is a higher rate than the general population. only 31% of those polled planned on using their refund for holiday debt. jackson hewitt did that study. if you received a gift card for christmas and don't want it, like natasha -- >> let's not get into this. >> -- she does not like gift cards. take a look at this, a study by wallet hub finds these gift cards have the highest resale value, netflix, best buy, walmart, apple and here is the surprise, applebee's. do you think people meant to buy an apple card and bought an a.m. be -- a.m. bees. just kidding. applebee's. gift card granny.com, raise.com and gift card bin.com. >> you don't like their chicken tenders basket. >> i'm sure it's delightful. i haven't been there in a while. >> this is -- you're going to

get a tweet from them in five seconds. >> mike nicco, how are you? >> doing great. ringing in the new year with a few clouds out there on this second day. those aren't thick enough to cause us anything other than limited sunshine and poor air quality today. my next accuweather highlights, sprinkles and mild conditions overnight and several weak storms ahead. the first one, i'm standing right in front of this, you can see that low pressure to our southwest and that counterclockwise flow that's hurling this moisture right now at about 15,000 feet. you can see radar returns off the coast, not reaching the ground, but it will moisten the atmosphere and allow the showers and thunderstorms that develop tonight and tomorrow to reach the ground. here we are at 4:00 tomorrow morning, starting off the commute pretty quiet. by the end of the commute you can see some showers starting to develop especially along the peninsula and points southward, possibly up across the higher elevations of marin county. during the day you can see the waves of showers, even some embedded thunderstorms.

now, the storm is a 1 on our storm impact scale which is light because overall we are not going to get a lot of rain, but you could get a burst of moderate to a burst of heavy rain, but it won't cause any flooding, won't cause any damage. 7:00 still some showers around. as we head into the overnight hours and thursday morning it mainly goes to the north bay before thursday night into friday we get more rain. so the evening commute wednesday will be wet with up to a tenth of an inch, residual moisture left over thursday morning, we could get about a tenth to a quarter of an inch. those two commutes are what i'm looking at for troubles. our next storm thursday night into friday will be a one on our storm impact scale. let's take a look at the san matteo bridge westbound getting a little busier over towards is san matteo and foster city as you take your way along the causeway. eastbound that's the direction that the head lights are heading we have reports of a ladder in lanes and the chp had to do a real quick traffic break to get that out of there.

so you may find some residual delays but that is in the eastbound direction. overall our traffic maps are looking good, we are improving over the altamonte pass and sunol grade where we had debris earlier. we do have a new accident north 101 near tully road and i am seeing some slow traffic in the northbound direction, left lane possibly even the left two lanes blocked here. so expect some delays until they get the tow truck on scene and get that out of there. we will update that when we come back. a mega merger could be brewing in silicon valley. according to analysts at citi group apple could buy netflix and that deal would be made possible because of president trump's tax cut which would allow apple to bring about $220 billion back into the u.s. from overseas without taking a major tax hit. apple has tried for years to get into tv and movies and analysts say this would be a net step in that process. 6:52. with the start of the new year you might want to go on a digital detox. some people have become so attached to their phones,

perhaps a good time to try putting it down. there are apps that can help you with that task including timed blackouts that lock you out of all apps except for texting and calling. here are tips to break the habit. turn off your notifications except for the abc 7 news app, don't do that. don't respond to work e-mails when you are at home, if your boss allows that. unfollow or unfriend toxic people and posts. okay. create rooms in your home that are tech free and maybe just try going for a walk without your phone. somewhere safe where you won't need your phone on the walk. >> it's much easier to give than it is to actually implement those, but okay. a new year's day tradition in southern california was interrupted by unexpected guests. for the past 18 years people in huntington day have welcomed the nw year with a dip in the pacific but this year only about 100 people took the plunge. want to know why? look at this. sting rays have invaded the area and now a lot of close-ups of feet. last friday 75 people were stung at the beach.

even though they swept the sand yesterday, five people still got stung including this surfer. >> i thought are you skidding? i've been surfing 35 years and have never been hit. it hurts, but it's not that bad. i don't think i got like a full hit. >> and people were encouraging others to shuffle their feet to avoid stepping on a sting ray question can cause a painful bloody foot. they saw the warning shines, saw the sting rays and still went in. why? >> i know. it's unknowable, reggie. knowing fun about a labor lasting 48 hours but it did come with a big reward for a san francisco couple. a cute bundle of joy was the first bay area baby born in 2018 just two minutes after midnight at uc. sf medical center. it was not so easy, samantha powell's contractions started on saturday. doctors and nurses put on new year's hats when it was time to welcome the baby.

>> there was everybody here, everyone came in at the end and was wearing hats and so excited and very fun and personable and just made it really great. >> his dad, martin dominguez is a cardiology fellow at ucsf and his mom is a psychiatrist at cpmc. >> i think that's going to be one smart baby. next the seven things you need to know before you go. first our instagram photo of the day. if you haven't yet follow us at abc 7 news bay area and you can see more great photos like this. see more great photos like this. one if you have a great

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it's 6:58 here are the seven things you need to know before you go. number one, breaking news in santa clara, firefighters have knocked down a big fire at a cardboard factory. here is what it looked like when it first broke out. crews are going to be putting out hot spots for several more hours. number two, it is almost here. when on storm watch which means today will be our last day of mild temperatures and poor air quality. even with a lack of sun my 12-hour day planner has temperatures in the low to mid 60s. number three, the two suspects in the ghost ship fire are due to appear in court today, derick almena and max harris each face 36 counts of

involuntary manslaughter. number four, the chp expected to announce the charges for the man accused of killing an officer on christmas eve in hayward. officer andrew camilleri died after a suspected impaired driver hit his patrol car. number five, a o two hour computer system outage caused backups and headaches for international travelers at the nations airports. federal officials say the outage was not deliberately caused. number six, we are following, look at that, the bay bridge toll plaza just cleared out almost within the last ten minutes. i will check and see if metering lights have been turned off. we do have an stent in san jose it's north 101 near tully. and number seven, go ahead and thank the person who makes you sweat. it is national personal trainer awareness day. it's when we show appreciation to the man or woman who is making our new year fitness resolution come true. >> fun fact, also national cream puff day. coincidence? i think not. >> cream puffs -- i get it. >> so when you're doing those

burden of proofees today think about those cream puffs, or not. good morning, america. dangerous deep freeze. a new coastal storm moving in as more than 200 million americans wake up in bitter cold. schools across the midwest and northeast closing and niagara falls freezing over as temperatures plunge and icy roads cause this massive pileup. travel nightmare. overnight a computer outage causes massive delays at airports all across the country leading to giant lines during one of the biggest days of holiday travel. time's up. the new movement bringing hundreds of women together to fight sexual harassment from reese witherspoon to jennifer lopez and shonda rhimes. how hollywood's heavyweights are helping every woman no matter their background or industry. two of the founders join us live only on "gma."