democrats are getting ready to deliver their position during the president's state of the union address. >> abc7 news anchor kristen zee here with the details. >> reporter: this new view of the democratic lawmakers in their outfits, wearing black standing up with women who are victims of sexual assault, some of them bringing advocates as guests. congressmen are tweeting this picture men in black for their time in black movement similar to actors who recently wore black to the golden globes. f for. >> the reaction when the president first gets into the room will be massive cheers from

the republicans and the democrats will be sitting on their hand tonight. she'll be speaking at a women's alternative event in washington, d.c., the state of our union will be live streamed. if you want to know which other illumaries are not attending the president's speech, you can see a list here on abc7. we do want to know what you like to hear from the president so i created this twitter poll. the highest percentage wants to hear him talk about dreamers, followed by the russia investigation, and after that, the jobs and health care. the president's speech will focus on big issues and the pugh research center shows us how americans feel about it. on the economy, opinion is us proving, with 41% of americans reporting the economy as

excellent or good. tax changes 29%% say it's positive. 27% say it's negative. abc news will have coverage of the state of the union and the opinion. the stock market has been skyrocketing lately, but on unusually poor performance today, the market's suffering its worst loss since august. the dow lost 362 points, closing just above 26,000, the nasdaq and the s&p were also down. health care companies were the big culprits, they were slumping on news that amazon is starting a new health care partnership. first responders are combing through the wreckage after a car crashed into a house in new port beach this afternoon. three people were killed two others injuried.

the helicopter seats four people. rescuers are trying to determine among the victims who was in the helicopter and who was on the ground. a san jose woman who had a shotgun had threatened suicide to 911 dispatchers before a san jose police officer shot her yesterday. sky 7 was over the home on feller avenue yesterday afternoon. she was mourning the recent death of her elderly mother and the deaths of her son and a housemate from years earlier. she satold 911 dispatchers that she planned to shoot officer s f they came to her home. >> if a person threatens my officers to the dispatcher and then points a gun at my officer, we have little alternative.

apparently working at san francisco's hall of justice is a health hazard. that's according to the district attorney who's launching a new effort to replace the building. george gasgone wants to replace the building. the building is plagued by hazards including rodents and power outages and sewage floods. this video w . >> if there were to be a major earthquake during working hours here in san francisco, there could be as many as 100 casualties in that building. it's unconscionable for us to continue to do business there. >> the county is moving many of the building's occupants out. today san francisco

super -- the votes were made without public comment from either the italian-american communities. well the calendar tells us it's winter but it feels like spring to me. we have sunny skies across the bay area right now, just beautiful blue skies there. 6359 both oakland and 67 at napa. novato also 68. upper 60s in concord and livermore and moving along, into the late night and early morning hours, there will be a little bit of fog over in the central valley, spilling into the delta

and some low clouds over the bay. it will be a mostly clear night, going into the early morning hours, temperatures dropping into the upper 30s inland. you can see the super blue blood moon, a partial eclipse begins at 3:48, partial eclipse ends at 7:11 a.m. it's the second full moon of the month, the red comes from the lunar eclipse and it will be close to the earth so it's a super blue blood moon. in oakland county, there's some institutional grease on the wheels for some 2,000 burned homes. this is from the board of supervisors that should get them back in their homes faster. it all begins with paper, two. >> reporter: it's that part of the building process that precedes hammers and nails, applying for a permit and then

waiting. >> let's make it as painless as possible. >> reporter: the director of permits in sonoma county has already seen applications triple, homeowners and contractors waiting to rebuild. >> this is a much longer process than they think. they need to be patient. >> reporter: now some relieve from the county, they will spend $25 million to hire an outside firm to -- >> the maximum that we have got the contractor to agree to is five days for that first review, and if necessary, three days for rea check. >> reporter: because these are rebuilds, not everything here will need to be repermitted and that will make a serious financial district. a 30,000 square feet home might cost $5,000.

>> if people have to spend their insurance money on permit fees above and beyond what's really actionable, then that's garbage. >> contractors and builders like the idea. he's already maxed out, but if the new process saves time -- >> we think it's great. >> reporter: that would be one very large small step. in sonoma county, wayne freedman, abc7 news. this is not the first time the city or the county has had to streamline the permit process. a senator from san jose is calling for a formal audit of california's high-speed rail project. two republicans are seeking authorization for the audit after the projected cost for one segment rose by $3 billion. that segment run s through the central valley. the high-speed rail from los angeles to san francisco is now

estimated to cost more than $65 million. is facebook putting your kids at risk? >> i don't think it's fair to expect parents to shoulder all the responsibility. >> why some say facebook should shut down it's messenger app for kids under the age of 13. how bay area companies are leading the way when it comes to cyber security. plus two new self-driving car startups, that could soon be delivering your next meal or grocery. taking a look outside our san rafael camera, sunny skies, maybe people taking the day

abc7 news reporter amy holyfield has the details. >> we need to discourage kids from using the starter product. this is a starter product to get them hooked on social media, which will leede ad to more scr time. more screen time leads to obesity in children. >> facebook executives say it helps kids communicate with parents and stay in touch with far away relatives. there's steps to be responsible with the app. no advertising allowed. but a group of children's advocates want facebook to pull

the plug on the app and have sent a letter to facebook, pointing out aggressidepressiond bullying in the app. >> i don't think it's fair to expect parents to shoulder all the responsibilities. corporations me s need to take responsibility the impacts their products have on children. >> reporter: especially since some leaders in silicon valley have recently spoken out about the impacts of social media on children. we reached hear. >> meantime, marc benioff tweeted, smoking, drinking too much and spending too much time on social media, none of these things are good for you, they definitely aren't good for our kids.

social media is virtually unregulated while drugs and alcohol are subject to stringent regulation. cyber security expert dick rom the ceo of nsf la la la just got back from davos, switzer land, is there a concern about worldwide security out there and what the biggest dangers are? >> yes, the thought process right now is more around the problems with, a, social media, b, the lack of governance and now boards are getting involved because, you know, the unfunded liabilities right now potentially, if the risks out there on $500 billion were i heard this year in davos, that's with a b, billion. there's going to be a lot of individuals that are hacked, a

lot of banks incurring losses and do they have the capital to endure those things. so when you start talking about that type of money and that type of threats to companies and individuals, what kind of governance, what kind of metr metrics, can we get more scientific about things, it's not only the technical people do the right things, now business people are getting involved in what they have to deal with. >> are we talking more about the hacks like we saw at sony, or are the biggest acts in this nation states like china or north korea that are trying to infiltrate large corporations? >> yes, there's that. if it's a large corporation, then generally there's concern around nation states, if you're talking about you or me individually, probably not, but it may end up being the north koreans because for lack of a

better description they're a mafia state, so a lot of the ways they do make money is through monetizing crime. so men you have a country gunning for mom or dad or you or me from those county thrries problem. >> what can we do collectively to combat that? >> part of it is making sure we have the right fools. making sure your cooperaoperati systems, latest operate system, making sure from a security product perspective, you're running something, and it may cost you money, as opposed to free stuff, but make it tools that are effective. other than that, it's going to be up to a lot of the carriers, so whoever's running your high speed cable mode dum, your dsl,e

bigger companies are going to be doing more to try and stem some of these attacks. >> if i'm running a 9-year-old mac mini, maybe i should update? >> maybe you should. >> this is a subject we're going to have to unfortunately learn more and more about as we continue and grow in the computer world and technology. >> thanks for having me. shifting gears a little bit, if you get up early enough tomorrow, you might catch a rare sight in the sky. the moon is super because it's at the closest point to the earth, it's blue because it's the second moon of the month. and it has a reddish tint because of the lunar eclipse. once again as spencer mentioned, you can catch the coverage of the superblue moon right here on abc7 mornings from 4:30 to 7:00 a.m.

and from what we know, the conditions will be good to watch it too. >> if you don't want to get up that early, stay up all night, then you can catch it before you go to work, sleepy. this is the blue moon blue skies, looking out foefr the bay, from our camera. chilly conditions in our inland valleys overnight. we'll have near record warmth as we get toward the end of the week, 59 degrees at half moon bay, 64 in oakland. its quite mild out there, look for low temperatures dropping into the mid to upper 30s in the north bay, upper 30s to right around 40 in the east bay. now let's take a look at this super blue blood moon tomorrow morning, best time to view it

will be between 5:00 and 6:00 a.m. this is a lunar eclipse, not a solar eclipse. so look at the western horizon and you'll catch all the colorful displays of this celeste yal explained earlier, it's the closest point, it will appear bigger and closer than usual. the planner tomorrow, after the eclipse, we'll have some lingering high clouds in the early morning hours, high temperatures in the mid to upper 60s in the bay and inland. and specifically tomorrow, we'll be looking at 66 down in san jose, 66 in santa rosa and 65 at napa. here's a look at our accuweather 7-day forecast, so warm and spring like, beginning on

thursd thursday, we'll see inland highs topping out about 70. it then early next week, look for mid 70s inland, low 70s around the bay shoreline, upper 60s to near 70 on the coastal areas, so it's going to be spring like, late spring like, almost like late may. incredible weather coming our way. great viewing conditions sup super blue blood moon. >> and you'll be streaming that for us? >> i think i may be live snoring it. >> see that truck over there? i think larry just put you under it. >> i'm going to record your live stream. it will feel like real time. >> you hard working man, you. breaking records at the

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it's a no-go for today's spacex rocket launch from cape canaver canaveral. you're looking at video of the last time the rocket was used in may. but mission control scrubbed the launch. the next launch try will come tomorrow afternoon. it set a report again last year for serving the most passengers in the airport's history. more than 55 million people traveled through sfo. the bay area airport has set new records for passenger traffic. sfo claims it contributes more than $35 billion to the bay area

economy and helps generate 165,000 jobs. the tsa found a record number of guns in passenger carry-on bags at screening checkpoints last year. that's up more than 16% from 2016. agents found firearms all across the u.s. that's only a fraction of the 17 million people screened at various tsa checkpoints. officers in one of the bay area's largest police motorcycle units are now boasting new uniforms. santa clara p.d.'s motorcycle officers are now wearing kevlar re-enforced uniforms, they have padding that will project officers from a high impact slide in the event of a crash. new legislation to help the

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and here are the stories making headlines at 4:30. a woman shot and wounded by police, pointed a rifle at officers, according to the police chief. the chief hadox had planned to shoot officers if they came to her home. russian fighter planes in international air space. this took place over the black sea. abc news tweeted this video is, it said the u.s. aircraft was operating within international

law. about 30 members of congress plan to bring a daca recipient to tonight's state of the union address. he's considering checking ids of those attending the address and arresting any illegal aliens. house republicans have voted to release a classified memo written by gop staff of the fbi's handling of the russia investigation. maggie as the details. >> reporter: it's the memo that e that's dividing congress. >> we all want all of this information to come out. >> reporter: and pitting the white house against its own department of justice, president trump appears to support the memo's release. the democrats said it would be reckless to release the memo.

republicans claim it would expose potential bias within the justice department. >> we need to have transparency and accountability to hold people accountable if they violated the rules. >> reporter: the democrats called the memo purposefully deceptive. >> the republicans are trying to whip up a controversy out of thin air with a misleading cherry picked memo, written by their own staff which contains significant inaccuratities and omissi omissions. >> reporter: and they have written one of their own. democrats charge that the gop is only releasing their memo to distract from the russia probe. >> they're trying to detract from an investigation that has already found a serious effort to attack our democracy. >> democratic memo was voted down, also along party lines, republicans say that's because it hasn't been properly vetted. >> we'll treat the democrat memo

exactly the way we treated the republican memo. >> reporter: the gop memo is four pages long, but the information that memo was based on is still unknown. today the senate is expected to pass a bill by california senator dianne feinstein that protects young athletes from abuse. she spoke about the legislation this morning in front of other senators and usa jgymnasts. >> the bill extends the statute of limitations so it doesn't begin to run, and this is significant, it doesn't begin to run until victims realize they've been abused. >> the bill will entitle victims to statutory damages of $150,000 as well as punitive damages. the house passed a similar version of the bill last night, this legislation comes just days after larry nassar was sent to

prison for sexually abusing 150 women and girls over 25 years. a star of the tv series "glee" has been found dead after being hit with child porn charges. they did not reveal the cause of his death. law enforcement official said that he was found hanged at his l.a. home. he pleaded guilty in december to possessing thousands of child porn images on his computer. the worker thought the drill was the real attack. all though the word exercise was said six times in total during this month's drill, the employee said he did not hear the word. other workers realized the difference. the alert also led to the

resignation of the emergency management administrator. a massive search is under way for pierre anez who had gone fishing alone, his boat washed up on shore along the coast of france. quick silver is headquartered in huntington beach. mark ferrell has chosen his -- >> some are critical of stefani's political ambitions. >> reporter: larry, catherine stefani will be representing district 2, mayor ferrell's old district. it is an upscale district which includes the marina and pacific heights. now everyone we spoke to believes she'll do a fantastic job as supervise, but as you said, not everyone agrees she's

the right choice. >> i catherine sevetephanie. >> mark ferrell wasted no time picking to his successor to the board of supervisors. >> catherine has been a fierce advocate for gun control laws, a national leader on this issue that i know she'll carry forward at city hall. >> reporter: sevetephanie has n been -- >> i know the job, i know my community and i know the issues, i know how city hall works and i am i believe hit the ground running. >> reporter: in the crowd, oaks land mayor and oakland supervisors. >> i can't wait to work with her. >> we have someone who's ready to roll up their sleeves and do their job and focus on the city. >> reporter: which is exactly

what stefani did. just hours after being sworn in, stefani was at today's board meeting. >> do you have any plans to run for supervise? >> i do. i will be running. >> reporter: but supervise malia cohen and members of the aggressive alliance said that ferrell should have appointed an interim supervise. ferrell is not running for mayor, so there is no incumbent in june's mayoral race. >> that same double standard still exists. >> reporter: well, stefani is married with two children and again she will be the incumbent in the november's supervisoosup election. my family and my children have been coming here probably

for about 30 years. >> a popular restaurant now closing its doors for good. the peninsula cafe that says it has no choice. i'm spencer christian, our skies look bright and sunny

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it's doors. >> jeanine has the story. >> reporter: inside the depot cafe, it's very homey, eggs and bay c bacon are served while you're being warmed by the fireplace. and everywhere you look is something of interest too the california caltrans station. >> it means a lot. my family and my children came here, we've been coming here probably for about 30 years. and it's really disappointing that this is happening. >> reporter: disappointing because after 34 years the depot cafe is closing, they have been in the building since the late 1800st. >> i'm very heart broken and i never thought i would close up by business this way. >> reporter: the owner says she's lost a good portion of her business because of the construction happening on both sides of the cal trains.

her parking lot has shrunk to about six blocks, it's down the street about a five minute block away. >> it's more children, it's so hard to find the parking, and hard to get here. >> reporter: she says that cal trains has left kept her on a month to month lease. she feels she has no alternative than to leave. >> we have been coming here for a long time and it's real sad. >> reporter: the last weekend for the cafe is sunday february 18. she really can't afford to reopen anywhere else. okay, we'll start with live doppler 7, showing mainly sunny skies across the bay area right now, look for low temperatures dropping to the mid to upper

30s. just cool around the coast. and during the overnight hours, as we look forward to the blue blood moon, it's going to be in its closest orbit and it's going to have an orange hue. as we approach that time, you'll see skies mainly clear. chilly outside, great sky conditions for viewing the super blue blood moon. look for high temperatures in the low to mid 60s on the coast and mid to upper 60s everywhere else. we have got quite a warm spell coming through the weekend and into early next week, look for temperatures around the bay to reach into the mid 70s, we'll see upper 60s on the coast, it's going to feel like late spring here in late winter.

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if you want to save money, take a look in your trash can. nearly half of the food in this country is being thrown away and all that garbage has inspired a new movement. kristen zee bites into this trend that's getting people to eat from roots to stem. >> reporter: at the republican natural restaur restaurant nearly every food scrap gets used in a recipe. >> if we're using three-quarters of it, that doesn't make much sense to me. >> reporter: most of the fruits and vegetables get pureed,purr or made into something else. >> we dehydrate the pulp and use it as seasoning power.

>> fennal straps make a delicious dessert. from a chef's kitchen to yours, this new trend is getting a lot of attention. >> if you're buying really great food from the the farmer's market, you should make the most of it. >> it's called root to stem cooking. >> you can use the whole vegetable, not only what you would buy in the vegetable, but the stem, the roots, the leaves, everything. >> it's a responsible trend, food waste is a huge issue right now. >> reporter: according to the national resources defense counsel, 40% of the food we buy gets wasted and the average american household is tossing out $120 of uneaten food each month. preventing that isn't as complicated as it sounds. it just takes some creative thinking, every vegetable can be eaten from root to stem. >> about half of the weight is

in the stem. cut the stems off and you can use them for all sorts of stuff. you can puree it in a soup. >> reporter: caret stems tastets close to parsley. >> even the stems of radishes can add to your meal. >> just wash them like any other green. you can saute them with vinegar, they add like a nice peppery bite. >> reporter: chefs say not only is root to stem cooking not only the responsible thing to do, it will also give you a boost at the dinner table. >> you already have it, you already spend the money on it, why not use it? >> if you want some more ideas on how you can join the root to stem movement, check out our abc7 facebook page.

french authorities are investigating that botched campaign for nutella that causes that huge riot. it will examine whether the store vltded -- announcing sales of the chocolate and hazelnut spread, some 70% below the regular price. they're going nuts for hazing nuts. nutella says the stores are entirely responsible for this. >> 70% off is probably only a few bucks. >> if it's nutella, they're going for it. equifax is giving you extra time to protect your credit, all of this meant to help people who may have been affected by that big data breach. >> michael finney here to explain what's going on. >> the beach and treach and the math. those wanting to take advantage of equifax's offer of free

credit monitoring must sign up by tomorrow. however, the company is extending free credit freezes through until march 30th. freezes keep creditors from looking at consumer accounts and is a major barrier to identity thieves. you may remember 15 million americans were put at risk for identity theft because of a breach at equifax. the san mateo county district attorney's office announced the settlement today, after making agreements with the da's offices, officials accused walgreens of charging more than the lowest or advertised price for the item. walgreens was selling infant formula, baby food and over the counter drugs that were past

their expiration date. walgreens did not admit wrong doing but agreed to pay $4 million for its -- a system that delivers critical warnings and information to people on their cell phone. one change put in place will provide wireless providers to send out alerts within no more than 1/10 of a mile of the target area. and it will be -- other changes include spanish language messages and extending the length of those alerts. the new rule takes effect in november. now i want to hear from you, the "7 on your side" hot line is active from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. monday through friday.

amazon is diving into the health care business. it's teaming up with berkshire hathaw hathaway. the project is in its earliest stage stages. meantime amazon employees in seattle are getting a new work space, three of them, actually. complete with treehouse meeting spaces and even water falls. there are more than 40,000 plants including a 35-foot fake cuss tree. amazonspheres and hope they will inspire employees to come up with the next big idea. the louvre in paris is putting 31 paintings looted by nazis during world war 2 on display. the goal is to find the rightful

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silicon valley starbucks are racing to lead the driverless delivery market. >> one company in fact is using their technology to team up with local businesses with the goal of bringing more options to consumers. >> reporter: bay area startup udel unveiled it's all electric autonomous delivery vehicle. >> it feels great to see it come

to fruition. >> reporter: the vehicle completed a 2 1/2 mile route which included multiinal traffic lights and turns. there are 18 cargo compartment. upon arrival, a customer can just unlock their assigned space. >> if you don't want to drive down there and park. because they'll bring it right to your door. >> reporter: dr. perez at san jose state university says the interest in autonomy is high. >> autonomous vehicles, they have a software that is written in order to control these vehicles is on everybody's radar, trying to learn from this technology and trying to implement it. >> reporter: to ensure liability, the company programmed the vehicles to be

tracked remotely. >> the fact that it's literally two blocks away, being able to reschedule the deliveries. >> reporter: today's drive was supervised by a safety driver. vehicles won't be fully autonomous until regulators relax the rules in the next few years. >> that's remarkable. >> amazing. >> udel says it will start doing deliveries using it's first completed vehicle sometime in february. some google engineers are showing off their new electric car. the car is about the size of an suv, but it's narrower than a typical car, it can be be be e configurconfigur configured for several types of deliveries. abc7 news at 5:00 starts right now. >> they were a big part of our

family. >> this is like losing a loved one. >> the animals are attacked and killed, how a pack of dogs found their way inside. >> we escaped to other rooms when he entered the restaurant. >> reporter: they now have a new list of demands after accusing the star chef of sexual hara harassme harassment. less than 12 hours and counting, getting rhe ting read celestial event not seen here in 150 years. zoos are supposed to be safe places for animals and for people to learn about them. >> but san jose's happy hollow zoo is in shock that four of its most popular attractions were killed by a pack of vicious dogs. >> david?

>> reporter: kristen and dan, for animal lovers this is a real tragedy, the four miniature donkeys were a very popular attraction at the zoo. the three dogs involved in the attack have been apprehended but the fourth dog is still at large. it happened when the zoo is closed when a miniature stallion named sweet william was killed. >> these dogs appeared to be on a mission, you know, what's disturbing about this is that it appears they were looking for food. >> reporter: five nights later the same dogs returned and dug under a fence and