accuweather forecast. here's mike nicco. >> i lowered the storm scale. that's good news. we'll have light to showers. it could be locally breezy and brief intense rainfall. we should keep this a 1. we have a chance of thunderstorms, mainly across the north bay. that area has also shrunk. we had thunderstorms up a lock the mendocino county coast, those have since dissipated. new showers are developing from half moon bay northward. guess what, our commute is about to get wetter on san mateo bridge, the bay bridge, the golden gate bridge and the richmond-san rafael bridge. here's a look at walnut creek. sprinkles falling here. we have the best chance of showers from now until noon and then the chance tapers heading into the afternoon hours. temperatures mild. mid to upper 50s most of the day. all right. how about that commute? here's sue. >> it's wet in some spots of the we have standing water on the roadways still. extra caution advised.

san rafael, no rain right now. but traffic is slowing past the civic center. let's go back to walnut creek for a minute. southbound 680 past north main, you see brake lights here headed towards the 24 interchange for an 8-minute drive from 242 in concord to highway 24. it's looking good down the corridor. 40-minute drive out of the tracy, central valley area over the wall -- the antioch and livermore into hayward and you're looking at about a 50-minute drive all the way on that 580 stretch. let's check highway 4 to the maze. 21 minutes. another 10 to 11 minutes behind the bay bridge metering lights. about a 32-minute drive there. if you're taking a flight this morning, it's looking good. a mudslide in danville. officials posted this photo of the mess on twitter last night part of the road is closed

because of the mudslide. drivers can use danville boulevard as a detour. b.a.r.t. trains are moving again after a downed tree caused problems. this happened last night before 6:00. b.a.r.t. had to single track for a few hours while it was cleaned up. no injuries or damage reported. ferry service back to normal after a rough evening commute. you can see the choppy waves and gusty winds on the bay. this video was taken between san francisco and alameda and everyone just going about their businesslike it's a normal day. the ferry had to cancel a few evening runs because of the tough conditions. >> let's get you to the santa cruz mountains now. this is new video overnight of arcing wires on summit road near marty road in los gatos. you can see the small fire was sparked. pg&e is there. no word on the impact for customers in the area. also in the santa cruz mountains, highway 35 it closed because of this. a mudslide. trees are also down across the roadway. this video was shot around 3:30 this morning at bear creek road

and gist. cal trans is responding to clear the road. flooding still a major concern as we deal with the impacts of the storm. >> reporter matt keller is live above the guadalupe river in san jose where there is a little bit of good news. matt? >> reporter: yes. things are starting to calm down here, alexis. we're still dealing with a lot of the damage here in the south bay. now you're looking at the guadalupe river. it reached flood stage overnight. it was at 9.15 feet last night. flood stage is 8.5 feet. it's been going down ever since. the latest observation has it three feet below the flood stage. a lot going on overnight on idylwild road. two large trees came down. they started cutting up the trees with chainsaws to open up the roadway. cal trans responded and shut down lanes between los gatos and bear creek road. look at this scary situation.

we showed you this video before. arcing wires. wires and trees were down across bear creek road. that will take a while to clean up. you may be the first one to come across downed trees and power lines and especially in the mountains, especially around highway 17. obviously, you want to be extra careful when you're driving this morning. reporting live in san jose, matt keller, abc 7 news. >> thank you, matt. crews cleared this collision on the richmond-san rafael bridge last night. this truck was knocked on its side in the eastbound lanes last night at 8:00. that driver is okay. traffic got by just using the shoulder. the highway a patrol had to wait for winds to die down before uprighting it. the scene was cleared around midnight. >> in sonoma county, water sub erjd the area in shellville. the highway patrol -- they're driving along the flooded section. one officer and other people helped to push an suv that

stalled in the flood watt rs. >> this morning, crews all other over the bay area will be busy cleaning up trees. crews removed a tree that fell at fill more and hay streets last night. tim shea took a cell phone video of the firefighters showing up to help. >> it's not safe to walk under these trees when they're laden with weighter, you can hear them -- water, you can hear them creaki creaking. you know they're going to break. >> hyde and broadway, two trees fell across the tracks there. on the peninsula, a gigantic tree snapped and came to rest on power lines. this is along busy skyline boulevard in san bruno. the position of the tree forced officials to close all lanes of skyline between manor drive and sharp park road. pg&e crews responded to power outages all night and downed trees. we met up with tree trimming crews yesterday as they were

clearing low-hanging branches off a 60-foot monterey cypress. >> this is a very dense and forested part of oakland hills. this is an area that we do a lot of work, work like this to make sure that our communities are safe. >> pg&e says tree trimming crews are out and about all year long. this week they've been extra busy. remember, as the next round of rain moves through, you can track is with live doppler 7 any time by downloading our news app and enable push alerts to get hazards or warnings in the area. new at 6:00, a warning for parents about a wildly popular video game, fortnite, a security flaw that may have exposed you to hackers. the new billboards commuters may see in the east bay with a very important message. here are my storm concerns for today as showers redevelop as we speak. hydroplaning a high one as we'll have more ponding on the roadways today. roadways today. trees topple power lines, small

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country really quick. whiteout conditions because of the blizzard. caution on the bay because we have bay shore flooding and our fastest breezes are this morning. the beaches, we have that high surf warning through tomorrow afternoon. about 5:00. here's a look at what's going on flood warning continues up in the north bay until 8:15 where some of the streams and creeks overfilled their banks and caused flooding. here's a look at that at 5:00. tomorrow evening, breakers up to 40 feet along the coast. with king tide starting today and climaxing sunday, this is our first coastal flood advisory which includes the bay shoreline. 7:42 is when high tide hits the golden gate and it will spread through the rest of the bay and cause flooding. i wouldn't be surprised if we have another one tomorrow and again sunday -- saturday and sunday. sunday is going to be our highest tide at about 7.1 feet. >> that's a look at what's going on as far as your watches and warnings right now. we have more rain in the forecast. i'll show you that hour by hour

when it comes up. i want to bring sue in and talk about the commute. >> right now, we've got a solid stream of headlights from golden gate field into the maacarthur maze. moving at the limit or slightly below the limit. metering lights turned on at 5:28. you can see the cash paying lanes are virtually wide open. the fastrakers not so much this morning. we can look at drive times if you're headed out. walnut creek to highway 13 there. on the oakland hills. there's your 580 compute from trace toy dublin, about 40 minutes. i think we felt shaking over here. we're working to confirm that right now. obviously, we had a 3.4 earthquake in the piedmont area yesterday. in a moment.we felt a little in in the meantime, east bay

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this is the second day in a row from piedmont. we got confirmation that we we felt four minutes ago. >> 6:11, yeah. >> it was a 3.5 and, again, this is basically the same exact area where we saw the earthquake hit yesterday at around -- that was 4:45 or so. >> 4:42.

>> that was a 3.4. >> yes. initially it was 3.7 and then downgrade today 3.4. this is around highway 24 and state route 13. reggie said whoa, did you feel that? then there was another little shake after that. looks like a lot of folks that we work with in the newsroom felt it. we're hearing from one of our co-workers in oakland. she said she felt a little shaking, too. >> right. one of the characters from spongebob squarepants. that's a nice little gif showing two earthquakes in a row? that's interesting. you're letting us know that you felt it this morning all over the area. >> another early morning earthquake to start the day right. yeah. at least this one wasn't as early i guess. >> that's true. hopefully some of you are already up by the time this one got to shaking this morning. continue to tweet us, let us know where you felt it around the bay area. this was centered in piedmont. second day in a row. so a lot of activity.

>> it's a little unnerving. >> it is. it's relatively small. hopefully this will be just like yesterday where it wakes some of you up but doesn't cause any damage. we're going to move on. new at 6:00, incredible video from france. if you're not looking at your tv, i suggest you do so. wow. this is an explosion at university of lyon this is a science library. work was being done on the roof teft the explosion. it appears it was likely accidental. three people were hurt and the fire is under control. obviously, some scary moments there this morning in france. new this morning, a prosecutor says san francisco police discovered, quote, lots and lots of explosive-making materials in the home of the man suspected in sunday's explosion in the so ma neighborhood. that's according to the examiner. the 37-year-old faces seven

felonies in connection with the blast that shattered windows on tabor place near second street. nobody was he pleaded not guilty to all charges. a free training program in san francisco will help chariot shuttle drivers find new jobs as muni operators. about 300 drivers will lose their jobs next month when chariot closes. mayor london breed announced a new training program yesterday. it's called city drive. it's a three-week course to prepare them for the commercial driver's test. the license allows to you drive a bus. >> if i lose a job, i don't know what i'm going to do. i bought a car because i figured we renewed a contract with a client. i figured i was secure. >> city drive will provide on-the-job training with muni so chariot drivers can continue to get paid during the transition. >> you see the chariot drivers all over san francisco. kind of shocking. all right. we're going to look outside

right now. our first look. update you on this b.a.r.t. situation. an earlier train was taken out of service. a disabled train on the . tioc anton direction. to the richmond-san rafael bridge, it's quiet this morning. not as wet as yesterday for sure. they have a wind advisory there. we'll pop down to the south bay. highway 87 in both directions there as you make your way on the right-hand side towards the san jose airport. but traffic is moving nicely. we did have ponding and flooding at the intersection of 87 and 280. heads up there. they're trying to get that drained out. we've had a couple of solo spinouts in the area. heads up. we'll have our tahoe report because it is snowing and there are chain requirements coming up after mike. >> sue, let's look at what's going on. you're never more than seven minutes away. golden gate, a light shower over your neighborhood right now on either side. breezy early, showers and thunderstorms, especially across the north bay. that's the best chance of

thunderstorms. cooler tonight with showers mainly in the north bay. we'll have a chance tomorrow. again, mainly in the north bay and for all of us sunday. that is it for a while. temperatures already in the mid 50s in many neighborhoods. in the mid to upper 50s. very mild. very muggy when you head outside. in that atmosphere, it's very buoyant this morning. but it just doesn't have the energy yesterday like we had yesterday to create as many showers and thunderstorms. that's why i lowered it down to a 1. mid to upper 40s. here's a look at south bay. we're still waiting. just north of 237. we had a heavier shower in san mateo and foster city. there may be minor ponding on 101 and 280 there. the marin head lands and towards richmond and kensington, moderate showers right now. the morning commute, i think it will be the tougher one. rain and breezes this morning.

they'll be intense locally but very isolated during the evening commute. if you're headed to tahoe, sue will talk more with this. we have a blizzard today and winter storm warning tomorrow. more snow coming sunday. it looks like saturday is your window. 7:00 through noon, all of us with a chance of showers. look at those yellows during the lunch-hour and notice into the evening commute shall they start to taper. here's my seven-day forecast. tomorrow is a 1 for especially the north bay. saturday we get to dry out, except for the north bay. light rain sunday to the early afternoon hours. on the holiday, monday, a stretch of warmer and drier weather. tahoe? toyota tahoe report. i get that backwards. here it is. >> we do have the toyota tahoe report comingorirst tehe season. what a great way to get started. we've got lots of snow falling right now. if you're headed towards squaw alpine, chains required on 80 and 89 for a four-hour and

30-minute drive. north star is clear and looking good. although chains on the roadways there. about a 4.5-hour drive there too. heavenly, via 50, chains are required. chains are required on all the major tahoe freeways right now. sugar bowl is getting snow there with a nice base. still a 4 hour 20-minute drive there. 50 again, chains required. we had reports that 88 was closed. they have reopened it with chains required to get to and from kirkwood. that's your toyota tahoe report, first one of the season. exciting. "good morning america" is coming up at 7:00 on abc 7. >> ginger zee is live from new york city with a look at what's ahead. hi, ginger. >> good morning to both of you. i know you're bat'rise ta abouts that originate right there on the west coast moving across the country. so a major arctic blast also going to settle inrain, some ofk and mudslides, i know that we've

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we'll talk about the earthquake. that is today's earthquake. it looks an awful lot like yesterday's earthquake, doesn't it? just about the same region and about a couple of hundred yards away. this is today, which is to the west of 13. this is yesterday. the blue one over there, which is to the east of 13. notice they're less than a quarter of a mile apart and just about the same magnitude and the same depth. a 3.4 yesterday. a 3.5 today. yesterday, it woke you up at 4:42. today, 6:11.

rain and thunderstorms in the forecast, too. we'll talk more about that coming up too. reggie? >> new at 6:00, a long time nudist resort destroyed by fire about to reopen to the public. they're taking reservations for day passes starting saturday. on the left, sky 7 showing you what the resort looked like after the valley fire. on the right, new video released by the resort on youtube. you can see many of the resort's buildings pools and decks have been restored. we promise not to be in sky 7 over that once it reopens. >> probably a good idea. next at 6:30, we're tracking breaking news. another earthquake happened again in the east bay. much more on that coming up. facebook taking more actio

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it has happened again. another earthquake hit the piedmont area this morning. the magnitude 3.5 hit at 6:11. a few minutes ago on the hayward fault. it feels like deja vu, it is. this comes exactly one day after a 3.4 earthquake in the same exact area. we've received your phone calls from our abc 7 news viewers who say they felt the quake in oakland, hayward, san leandro, san francisco. no reports of any damage right now. same as yesterday. b.a.r.t. is inspecting tracks to make sure everything is okay. expect delays if you're headed

out. >> we're hearing from a lot of you this morning sharing your reaction to the quake on twitter. sara gallagher says felt it in he wiel cerrito. daniel says i'm in el sobrante and it felt like a jolt. felt in point richmond. lived through northridge quake and today is that quake's 25th anniversary. she's right. thank you for letting us know what you felt. you can still let us know at abc 7 news bay area. completely forgot, we were talking about that earlier. the 25th anniversary of that earthquake. >> luckily, this was not so serious. >> 3.5 magnitude right now. >> sam spot as yesterday. >> reggie and i felt it. >> hol the lt days. >> mike was walking behind the set at the time. this is not a -- >> our building does float on

springs. >> i thought he bumped p something back there and my chair was like -- >> not this time. >> reggie. >> then the second one came around and i realized no. >> i feel so left out. amazing. 3.4 yesterday. 3.5 today. both within like a quarter of a mile of each other. >> what's the likelihood of that happening. let's talk about weather. we've got good news. i do. i lowered the storm impact scale for you. still going to be light to moderate showers with locally intense downpour. be very brief. rainfall amounts will be low and breezes will taper. they'll be local within the showers that you can see stretching from just caldecott tunnel. pretty much moving from southwest to northeast. only the south bay not seeing some wet weather. walnut creek, got some drips on you right now out on 680. we'll have temperatures in the mid to upper 50s all day.

the temperatures starting to be scattered at noon and almost over at 7:00. sue? >> as we mentioned, we reiterate that b.a.r.t. is running slower due to the earthquake this morning. they're doing track inspections. it's routine. this is protocol. 10 to 15-minute delays systemwide on b.a.r.t. san rafael, southbound 101 past the sichk center in the north gate mall, they're getting a little wet with brake lights swords central san rafael. a 20-minute drive from novato across the golden gate bridge into san francisco. you have four lanes in your southbound commute headed into the city from marin county. a little windy on the span this moas ll. about 40 minutes f tracy up and over the altamont pass this morning. otherwise, pretty good with slow traffic across the san m bridge. we'll check on that in a bit. >> thank you, sue. crews worked quickly to save

a home in saratoga. the water was knee deep. it was recently plugged leaving overflow with nowhere to go. the crawl space beneath the home was flooded. >> it is nothing compared to what you see in the back. the back is like a huge lake. everything is -- because the water, everything is draining from that side. the creek is plugged. so it just all behind that wall. >> the homeowner spent the last 23 years at her home and she's never seen anything like this before. crews will be out today cleaning up the mess left by falling trees all over the bay area. >> crews in mill valley were cutting up this huge downed tree. it crushed the rear of a car and crashed into a home, which is across the street from marin horizons school. the tree narrowly missed the people inside. nobody got hurt. sadly, a different story in the east bay where a man died after a tree fell on thim. it happened in oakland on the embankments off interstate 580

near macarthur boulevard last night. they believe the victim lived along the side of the freeway. cal trans owns the land so it's in charge of figuring out what caused the tree to fall. a tree falling caused this collision. a couple was driving when they hit a tree that had come down. it happened before the lawrence expressway. the couple is okay. in marin county, downed power lines have closed part of lucas valley road. it's between big rock trail and nicasio valley road. public works says the damaged lines may not be repaired until later today. >> the santa clara fire department tweeted this video of damage caused when a tree went down on crestbrook drive in saratoga. the falling tree brought down power lines and a transformer. the fire department is warning the public to stay away from power lines because they could be energized. >> in east san jose, an intersection went dark when a truck crashed into a light pole.

police say the driver was taken to the hospital and traffic there was snarled for more than two hours. about 28 and a pg&e kcustomers are still withot power. power is out 07,385 in the peninsula. about 6,000 in the dark in the south bay. in the east bay, 1800 customers affected. travelers are warned to expect more delays at san francisco international airport due to the weather today. you're looking live at sfo. airport officials are already reporting 29 cancellations and 19 delays this morning. 188 flights were canceled yesterday due to the weather. another 477 were delayed. if the wind and rain aren't enough, now comes huge waves. there's a high surf warning in effect a lock the coastline for today and tomorrow. breakers could peak between 40 and 50 feet high.

a storm like this brings choppy seas, low visibility. it's dangerous for people who don't have to be in this environment. >> the coast guard says anyone heading out on the water should file a float plan and double-check your safety gear. it goes all up and down in red. that's where that high surf warning is. man, can you imagine the breakers. 25 to 40 feet and president thunderous noise they bring about. i love hearing that. i hate the damage that they cause. now, we've got the beginning of king tides today and a climax. 7.1 feet sunday. we may have to issue this. the national weather service for the next couple of days. it's from 5:00 this morning. high tide at 6.3 feet hits the golden gate at 7:42 and spreads throughout the bays and cause flooding along the bay shore. minor creek flooding up in the north bay from guerneville to

petaluma until 8:15. we've got the breezes being through 9:00 this morning. perpendicular to our east-west bridges and also if you're out on the ferry building. we just had a shower roll across the golden gate bridge. it's wet again. everything is caution because of the periods of showers we'll have today. the east bay, 8:00, looks like you get a lull but from 10:00 to 2:00, you have the best chance of showers today. in san francisco, lull is possible at 8:00. again, 10:00 to 2:00 for you. the last stop in the south bay, up to 2:00, you have waves of showers rolling through. notice temperatures this the normal bell shape curve from the mid-50s in the morning to near 60 in the afternoon, back into the mid-50s during the evening hours. we don't have the same setup as yesterday for thunderstorms. i'll show you that and the chances of rain coming up. >> got ponding going on there and rain showers happening right now at the richmond-san rafael bridge. it's dumping right here, right

now. extra caution. those are going through the fastrak lanes and they are definitely slow down which is good news. across the span, we have a high-wind advisory. let's go to the san mateo bridge where it's seeing rain. brake lights across the span for a 22-minute drive from 880 towards 101. no stalls or accidents. just slow and go across the span with high winds as well across the bay area bridges this morning. so green is good. we do see slowing fairly typical for your morning commute. we'll take a look at the drive times elsewhere. highway sbo 4 into the maze. the bay bridge backup here. another 12 minutes to the commute in san francisco. sfo looking good. just over ten minutes. new at 6:00, heads up if you own a kia or hyundai. they're being recalled because they could catch fire. the issue, improper fuel pipe repairs from a previous recall. several models are involved. owners will be notified by mail

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ziefrkts red happened in the past hour. let me zoom down and show you how close the two are from yesterday. at 4:42 you were you were y up. about an hour and a half later today. 3.5 magnitude. they're about a quarter of a mile away. that's that for now. will we do it three in a row? tune in tomorrow. here's a look at the scattered showers and high elevation snow. in fact, traveling today, we more c slipperyomorroe sno we have the worst conditions,

most n tense snow until noon today. the blizzard with whiteout conditions. the snow continues until 4:00 tomorrow morning. another one to two feet of snow is possible. that's why we have the high avalanche danger until 7:00 friday morning. widespread and large destructive avalanches. that caught my eye. here's sue -- or reggie and alexis. >> we do not want three days in a row. just to be really clear. the sequel was enough. we don't need three days in a row. >> trilogy, reggie. >> i don't need that trilogy. cleanup continues after yesterday's strong storms. >> abc 7 news reporter matt keller is live in san jose with actually good news. matt? >> reporter: the good news, guadalupe river is actually on its way down. it's now more than three feet below the flood stage but did reach flood stage overnight.

11:15 last night. flood stage is 8.5 feet. localized flooding was an issue. maserati stuck in the off ramp of northbound 17 on the hamilton avenue in campbell. this was around 11:00 last night. the chp closed the off ramp until a tow truck cleared the vehicle. a lot of trees went down, knocking down wires in spots. this is bascom avenue south of union avenue. this is the parking lot of an apartment complex with a big mess to clean up today. highway 35 was closed in both directions due to a mudslide and trees down across the roadway. a lot of rocks and debris blocking traffic. be aware of -- it shows are more than 1900 customers in san jose without electricity. matt keller, abc 7 news. >> that means we'll have a lot of stoplights out this morning as well. use caution. we're not done with the rain yet. you can track the next storm

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so far sputnik has not commented. today marks day 27 of the government shutdown and it appears there is no end in sight. >> yesterday house speaker nancy pelosi asked president trump to postpone his state of the union speech which is supposed to happen january 29th. she cited concerns about security with the secret service and department of homeland security affected by the shtdsh. republicans are calling it a ploy to deny the president the stage. stepping up efforts to help federal workers impacted by the shutdown. lefty o'doul's is offering free meals for those working without pay or furloughed. it's good for workers and their families. >> these are our neighbors and friends, people we see every day. work for tsa, the coast guard. work for the park service. having a hard time. >> the owner of lefty o'doul's

says the offer will continue for the duration of the shutdown. federal workers need to show a work i.d. card to get a free meal. now to your morning money report. apple is cutting back on hiring and being blamed on slowing iphone sales. >> bloomberg reports that tim cook made the announcement earlier this month saying only some divisions will be affected. cook says important future areas like artificial intelligence and planned expansions in texas and l.a. will not be impacted: another macy's store is set to close in the bay area. the store on west washington avenue in sunnyvale will shut down in the coming months. a developer bought the billing anticipating macy's would close. they will redevelop it as part of a project including retail and housing. trading gets under way this morning. we're slightly down. about 55 points. 2019 is posed to be a busy year for guitar legend and long time bay area resident carlos

santana. >> we spoke with him from las vegas where he's set to resume his residency at the house of blues. santana wants to treat it as a musical laboratory. >> i know people want to hear what they're accustomed to hearing and what they grew up with. we'll play and honor that. at the same time, we have special sacred zones, unknown zones that we visit in order to stay current, stay fresh and stay inspired. >> santana moved to vegas from the bay area about ten years ago. he says he's looking forward to headlining the bottle rock festival in may. what about princess and the knee. the most bizarre royal story goes to the sun. the newspaper, the sun. not the celestial being. it all started when meghan markle stepped out in this $35 maternity dress from h & m for

visit. the dress is above the knee. that's where the story gets strange. the sun focused on markle's left knee saying it has an uncanny resemblance to princess charlotte. the headline reads, princess charlotte's face has been spotted in meghan markle's knees. >> get out of here. >> i'm knot sure if this is the ultimate tribute to her adorable niece or the rudest possible story. >> leave her alone. >> leave her alone. >> six months pregnant. she looks very nice. no. it does not look like charlotte's face on her knees. that's ridiculous. >> some woman called her fat lady at that event. >> i'm not surprised. someone who is pregnant on the air for nine months, yeah. you get a lot of really nice things. >> meghan laughed it off and

said i guess that's me. >> i love her $30 dress from h & m. >> above the knee, what is the world coming to? >> ridiculous. >> wear a dress above the knee, it's going to look like somebody else's face? >> tabloids are wild. >> that's why you shouldn't wear a dress above the knee? >> i don't know if that's a lesson learned. >> the key word is you said tabloid. there we go. let talk about the weather. hi everybody. never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. >> sutro tower bouncing around. mostly cloudy, showers today. the best chance of thunderstorms across the north bay. i downgraded it to a 1. mainly in the north bay and a slight chance for all of us sunday. let's talk about today with the high temperatures. mid to upper 50s. 56 to 59. when you step outside, we're not far from that right now. it will be cooler tonight. should be in the 30s. 40s.

instead the mid to upper 40s. heading towards hercules, ponding is probably happening there. same thing on 101 from larkspur all the way down to sausalito. we have a moderate shower there. a thunderstorm in middleton headi heading towards hidden valley lake. look for a brief, intense bout of rain. best north and way east of us during the afternoon hours. from 7:00 on, look at the coverage of the thunderstorms or the chances of showers and isolated thunderstorms. best in the north bay. all of us could have them through the afternoon hours. by 6:00, it's starting to fall apart. notice the rainfall amounts today. yeah, they're very light. couple of hundredths of an inch. up in the north bay, a quarter to a third of an inch. tomorrow's rain, look at that. where are all the rain gauges changing. up in the north bay. it's a 1 for them. get a break saturday. a 1 for sunday from the morning to the early afternoon hours and

starting with the holiday monday, it gets sunny and warmer next week. sue? >> we do have chain requirements up in the sierra now. if you're traveling on 50 and 80. they are required. they are stopping trucks at apple gate. the big rigs are not allowed to get over the pass quite yet. we have the b.a.r.t. delay. it's routine. a 3.5 earthquake in the east bay this morning at 6:11. so systemwide now, they've slowed down the trains. doing track inspections. that is protocol. give yourself a little extra time this morning. we've had this right lane blocked southbound 17 from los gatos to bearcreek road. the mudslides and debris. i'm not seeing any real slow traffic across the santa cruz mountains. be aware if you're traveling southbound from los gatos towards bear creek, you'll have one lane there. guys? >> thank you, sue. pop superstar mariah carey accusing her former assistant of betrayal and blackmail in a major lawsuit. according to the documents obtained by people magazine.

she's accusing her of violating a confidentiality and nondisclosure agreement. mariah claims her former assistant secretly recorded videos of her and threatened to release them until mariah paid her millions of dollars. you you can see much more on the lawsuit at 7:00 a.m. on gma. drama. a group of oakland teachers is planning to hold a major disruption tomorrow. this is video of an earlier rally. the wildcat underground say they are protesting the slow pace of contract negotiations between oakland unified school district and the teachers union. organizers say teachers and students from several schools will gather at oakland tech at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow to rally outside the school before then marching to district offices on broadway at 9:00 a.m. coming up next, the seven things you need to know before you go. a live look

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so you need people that it iyou're close to...r footing, to help guide you. i think about how important it was for me to have the role models that i've had. oh, look at that! i wasn't able to get there alone. he essentially plucked me out of obscurity. he's the one who said, "hey, man, this is your life, this is what you need to do." nobody can do it alone. the more help you can get along the way, the faster you can achieve your goals. i'm in it to fly. ...to help people achieve their dreams. ...to speak for those who can not. whatever you're in it for... ...we're in it together. it's 6:57. here are the seven things to know before you go. number one, breaking news. the bay area waking up to

another earthquake. it's the second day in a row. this time a 3.5 on the hayward fault centered in the piedmont area like yesterday. it hit us today at 6:11. no reports of damage. >> the sequel was cute, the trilogy not needed. we don't need to do it tomorrow morning. nope. look at this. we've got pretty healthy showers from about the san mateo bridge northward. the storm is a 1 on the storm impact scale with the north bay the most likely to see any thunderstorms. the morning commute will be most adversely affected as the showers are less likely during the afternoon and evening. number 3, we are having wet roads still with ponding and standing water out there. rain in some sports as mike has been saying. the bay bridge metering turned on. high winds too. slippind sliding. number 4, pg&e crews working to restore power to thousands of customers this morning. most outages in the north bay. number 5, expect more delays at sfo due to the weather. here's a live look at the

airport. we just checked in. 31 flights are canceled this morning. 23 are delayed. number 6, incredible video coming in from france this morning. this is an explosion at the university of lyon. a huge fireball erupted into the sky. three people were injured. crews were working on the roof at the time of the explosion. number 7, the empress of soul, gladys knight will sing the national anthem at the super bowl. the nfl made that announce: she follows pink who performed the anthem last year. midnight train to georgia. >> no pips. >>. >> maybe a surprise appearance. never know. did we say this? atlanta is her hometown. >> that's where she's from. >> that's cool she gets to do that. >> good for her. thanks for joining us this morning. if you got woken up by the earthquake, i'm sorry. we're here every morning earthquake for not. >> "good morning america" start right now. >> sta

good morning, america. triple threat. those winter storms moving across the country bringing snow, wind and a major arctic blast east as the west gets pummeled with flooding rain leading to pileups and dangerous rockslides. now, ginger is here with the new timing and track. pelosi's power play. with a shutdown on day 27, the speaker now tries to block president trump's state of the union as struggling unpaid federal workers raid their retirement accounts and hit food banks to feed their families. terror takedown. the 21-year-old arrested in georgia accused of plotting attacks on the white house and the statue of liberty. the deadly suicide bombing killing four americans in syria caught on camera. isis now claiming responsibility just w