plastic bottles, lids, straws, utensils. part of the city's goal to have zero waste by 2020. >> he's bringing us the sunshine. meteorologist mike nicco. good morning. >> reporter: sunny disposition. hope so. it involves what we're dealing with. was it a little noisy in your neighborhood? here may be the reason why. 40 and 25 in the foothills. get down to the surface, not quite as fast. i noticed on the pay bridge a little tugging on the steering wheel by the parise itself. a little breezy this morning. calm through the afternoon hours. d 40s to hoetehrgh w down to check that out. 280 at 880 overcrossing.

headlights headed in the northbound direction towards cupertino. very light as you can see. we have slow traffic outlet of terracee and a tracy to altamont. you're looking at 40 minute from tracy to dublinton. thank you. we're dragging into day 32 of the government shutdown. hundreds of thousands of government workers without a paycheck. >> it's hard to believe. a plan is in the works at city hall to help furloughed workers. abc 7 news reporter -- who is it? amy hollyfield. sorry. that's what happens when the name isn't in the prompter. she's live with what the city is going to consider. amy. >> i'm not fog to take that personally, reggie, i know it's early in the morning. supervisor at city hall is disappointed the city of san francisco hasn't done anything to help furloughed employees. he's aiming to change that

starting todakn f e faceofple ed a rally calling for an he said of the gey hen wked since christmas eve, haven't had a paycheck. they are starting to wonder how they are going to pay for groceries. this supervisor says city hall should be helping. >> we can make transportation free. we could waive payments or defer payments owed to the city. we could offer short-term work placements or short-term loans. there's a lot that we can do to make sure she is workers who are caught up in this mess and being held hostage are at least supported by their local government. >> reporter: so today here at city hall, he's going to propose a rece legs to help san francisco residents out of work because of the shutdown. mayor london breed's office said they have been working to find solutions to support federal

employees. the big concern for everyone is no one knows how much longer this shutdown is going to last. reporting live in san francisco, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> i will never forget you, amy. you make such an impression. thank you. chp is reaching out to help members of the coast guard who are having to work without play. the squad club of the santa rosa chp is launching a gofundme campaign to provide free meals at a deli in petaluma. the campaign raised $1600 of its $10,000 goal. we do have a link to that do fund me on our website, abc7news.com. >> those hundreds of thousands of federal employees currently out of work are set to miss a out of work are set to miss a second here is serena marshall. >> good morning. they are going into uncharted territories as it drags owned and american families pay the price. border security, raising flight

and food securities for families. at the airport, a tsa line closed as sickouts escalate. last reported at 10% of the workforce, more than triple the normal rate. >> my wife also is a transportation security officer so we've lost both our incomes. >> we're going to see not only massive disruptions but maybe a complete shutdown. >> not just tsa, 800,000 americans, many working without pay. from the coast guard still rescuing those at sea to nasa flight controllers. this deadly plane crash in ohio won't see an investigation by ntsb because of the sthhut down. mitch mcconnell will introduce a bill for the border initiative but it's unlikely to pass. democrats want to open the

government first. thousands suing tetra tech is demanding governor newsom rescind a contract. tetra tech is accused of faking soil samples and falsifying records during the cleanup at hunters point naval shipyard in san francisco. the examiner reports activists and neighbors plan to march on the capital if that contract is not canceled in 30 days. happening today the governor's plan to give the state university $300 million in funding each year is up for discussion. cal state trustees will meet in long peach later this morning. they will review the proposed budget increase and discuss plans to improve student success. the $300 million will fund csu's plan to help students graduate faster and increase enrollment by 800,000 students in the coming school year. heads up for muchi riders. they will run shuttle buses instead of light rail along t 3

line. the buses will run between embarcadero, bayshore and sunny dale. the changes will last through february 8th. we do have good news. we actually need this here because our coffee machine is broken. >> it is? >> yes. >> you can get starbucks delivered to you in san francisco. >> mike nicco is not happy about it. starbucks said most items on the menu will be available for delivery, uber eats app, $2.49 booking fee. starbucks has been testing its service in miami. it plans to expand to new york, los angeles, and washington, d.c., in the coming weeks. mike, i have an emergency keurig stash if you want to get into that? >> do you? >> i'll hook you up on the commercial break. >> it is my monday, technically. i was off for the holiday. when you come to work and

there's a handwritten sign that says no coffee." we will make it through, i promise. let' talk about what's going on. east bay, no wind, walnut hull, lafayette, pleasanton, upper 30s. where there is wind, just about everywhere else, mid to upper 40s. let's take a look at other neighborhoods, 37 santa rosa, novato, warmer in oakland at 50 than san francisco. that doesn't happen often. 46 pacifica, 46 mountain view, 46 san jose. here is look at what's going on in south beach. watch out for breezes on the bridge this morning. same thing if you're taking the ferry. chilly this morning but mild this afternoon. take a look at north bay starting at 39 then 48, then 55. that's our 8:00, 10:00, and noon temperatures. look at those 60s in the afternoon hours quickly falling to 46 at 8:00. we've got 45 in the east bay but then we'll be in the upper 50s from noon to 4:00. back to 51 as we head spot evening hours. san francisco starting off with

49, heat index and sunshine. we'll reach the upper 50s to 60 around 2:00 to 4:00. back to 53 at 8:00. so pretty quiet here. i'm hoping we could stay the same. bring sue in and find out. >> pretty quiet. it's early enough. >> knock on wood. knock on my head, sue. >> go to san jose, highway 101. those headlights underneath 880 overcrossing and headed in the northbound direction. you can see traffic moving quite well. no delays here. we do have one problem area. it is in the vallejo area. we'll take a look. eastbound 8 onnear willow, hercules between hercules and crockett. left lane is partially blocked. heads up, they are going to try to push that to the shoulder so it's not delaying you at all. a little farther over, looking god antioch, westbound 4, all the way into concord. we'll take a look at some of those drive times for you. 39 from tracy to dublin, antioch

to concord, less than 15, if your travels take you from san rafael to the city just over 15 minutes. >> thank you, sue. the oscars still don't have a host, but this morning they will at least have nominees. >> this is always exciting. oscar nominations will be in an hour. "vice" and "a star is born." "bohemian rhapsody" and "green book" for best picture. rami malek is a favorite for his role as freddie murphy. >> just a phenomenal experience for me, to share his story and queen's story with a whole new generation is something i'm going to be very proud of for a very long time. >> so who will get the nomination and who will get snubbed? find out at 5:30 when we go live to beverly hills. that is this morning. the big show is sunday february 24th. abc 7 is the only place you can watch the oscars. okay. i am a total slacker and i have

not seen one of the movies this year you've seen several, though. do you have any favorites? >> "a star is born" is still my favorite. i know that's been kind of slipping as far as people's expectations because it didn't do so hot at the golden globes and i also really loved rami. i thought he was great in "bohemian rhapsody." >> sue hall liked "bohemian rhapsody" so much she saw it twice. >> i get it. it's pretty great. that's all you really need to know. >> we'll find out in a little less than an hour. it is a major pain for commuters, but it turns out there's one big benefit to the temporary closure of san francisco transbay transit center. also, members of a stafford fraternity are fighting being kicked out of their house. the time is running oh! oh! oh! ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it.

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we're not the only ones breezy. the santa anas across l.a. basin, high country, high desert. that's going to continue to tomorrow. if you're flying or driving down there, it's going to be a tough. one temperatures mid-60s. most of the state mid to upper 50s, until high country. tahoe about 38 degrees. here is a look at tahoe. look at that fresh snow. 110% of average. that's it for a while. you're just going to have to ski on the groomed stuff.

no snow in the forecast. temperatures 40s after today even 50s on sunday. a transit center shutdown has one benefit, saving money. it closed september 125th after workers found cracks in steel beams supporting the building. s responsible forhe joint power. operating and maintaining the center. engineers are still working on a fix for the cracked beams. there's still no word on when the center might reopen. on the peninsula, a stafford attorney has less than a week to save their house. deadline for theta also mismanagement. they received low scores in eight-point standard and excellence program. one member said that should not be the reason to kick them out.

>> we're the first organization that's really being penalized primarily for performance in the standards of excellence program. >> the fraternity launched a petition to try to save their house. they have until monday to appeal. if that appeal is lost, the fraternity will lose its house but it can still operate. a final decision will be issued february 1st. in the north bay, so much runoff from our recent rain has created some spectacular sights. waterfalls are becoming big attractions around town. >> abc 7 news reporter went to check out what's making a big splash. >> reporter: the sound the lush green hills below mount tam. creeks and streams of babbling with runoff from recent storms but it's not compared to this. check out cascade falls. this waterfall near fairfax is putting on quite a show. a spectacular sight so much

water crashing down. >> it's amazing. i'm so grateful. the energy of the water is incredible. from this spot cascade falls is so loud, sounds like a jet engine. hard to believe only a month area these falls were a trickle. james and his son ethan came to see it up close. >> it's super awesome and super big. a couple months ago twraus super tiny. >> it's fantastic. i love seeing mother nature out here kicking butt and taking names. >> other waterfalls on tam are creating similar suspect kelce. the website says its reservoirs have reached 90% capacity. it tweeted alpine lake spilling over the top. downstream it continues. >> i want to go swimming. >> who says don't go chasing waterfalls anyway.

cornell barnard. >> wow. >> i saw a rainbow yesterday. i love it. >> came out of nowhere. >> cornell every once in a while throws you a curveball but acts like he didn't do it. that's what i like about his style. >> i flew back, went to l.a. for the weekend just to have some fun at the mother ship, if you will, disney land. you notice there's has lot of mud fog out into the ocean, run off from the mudslides down there and also the wet weather we've had. >> yeah. >> not quite as green and blue as it normally is. that's okay. we've got the rain and desperately need it. take a look at what's going on, never more than seven minutes away. take a look at theding there. a little active early in the morning. sunshine, high clouds, mild temperatures. we've got that today. calmer and cooler nights. so when we had all that rain, we were having pretty mild nights. that's not going to be the case the next several nights.

the extended period of dry weather. this happens every winter. we get about a two-week period where it shuts off, then we get warmer than average. sometimes we flirt with records. that we'll have to wait to see. here is a look at the high pressure. stubborn area of high pressure, pushing the jet stream. there's a steady storm coming. they will stay to our north. let's see what it does to our temperatures. how about upper 50s to 60s. cool spot, lakeford 56 as usual. fairfield and antioch at 58. oakland, morgan hill and santa cruz at 61 and santa rosa at 62. tonight the wealth of 30s in our inland valleys, south bay and towards redwood city. low- to mid-40s around the bay, 47 in san francisco. here is a look at my accuweather seven-day forecast. do you like 60s? we pretty much have them. near 60 today, low 60s tomorrow, low- to mid-60s thursday and low to upper 60s friday. dry over the weekend, even with

cloud cover. look, near 70 sunday. inland, what a stretch of weather. sue seems to be nodding in agreement. >> we were hiking. the hills are so green. there's a lot of mud as you were mentioning. east shore freeways travel past golden gate fields, emeryville, mcarthur maze, from hercules into san francisco under 30 minutes. so we'll take a quick check of the bay bridge toll plaza. no metering lights but cash paying lanes on the right-hand side are definitely starting to stack up, guys. >> thanks, sue. google faces a hefty fine after being accused of breaching privacy rules. % >> spotify may be giving users something they have wanted in tech bytes. >> google being fined $57. >> they say the online giant violated tough new privacy laws regarding data collection and

user consent. it's the largest fine under the new rules. google is considering its next step. spotify testing a new blocking feature. >> called don't play this artist feature. it let's you completely block certain artist while you're using the streaming service. no word on when it could be available. there's a new app that can put you into a prayer session with the pope. >> pope francis unveiled the click to pray app to worshippers. it let's you know what he's praying about. when you're done, one click let's the world know you have prayed with the pontiff. how about that. >> very 2019. those are your tech bytes. >> have a good one. >> okay, alexis. who is your don't play artist. >> i'm going to throw under the bus. >> that's a popular one. >> what about you? >> taylor swift. steve kerr spills a big secret about one of his players. >> norgts to cancel free trials.

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we saw some breezy conditions out there. if you're just joining us, i wanted to show you hills, anywhere from pretty calm around la honda at 8, altamont pass at 15, east of san jose 33, head up into the north bay we're gusting to 42 at saint helena. this will continue the next several hours. >> thanks, mike. mastercard is putting in place a consumer protection that lawmakers couldn't get done. from now on it will stop

companies from charging you automatically at the end of a free trial period. this is one of the top consumer complaints. many times people don't understand when they order a free trial, they have actually signed up for continued service unless they cancel the subscription. now if you use mastercard to sign up, the company has to get your permission to continue charging you. tey need to provide it to mastercard. very interesting. >> i like that idea. the raiders still don't have a home for 2019 season but they know where they will be playing one of their games. nfl says the raiders will be paying chicago bears in london next season. there's no date yet. it will be the second year in a row the raiders played in london and the fifth time in the last six seasons they played outside the u.s. there is a date that excuse me. okay. >> no date has been set? >> i think no date has been set. >> we go with that.

>> are we going? more sports. >> warriors coach steve kerr scooped many website in l.a. because he announced green is getting married. he popped the question to tv personality hazel renee. bay area reports neither green nor renee announced the engagement before kerr spoke. hopefully that was all coordinated. >> oops. >> oopsie. >> talk about what's going on weather wise. saw a sneak preview there. let me reveal it once again. temperatures in redwood city 1 degree warmer than average. san jose, too. both at 60, not 69, redwood city, typing too quickly. san jose warmer than average at 62. take a look at the rain season especially compared to january versus where we are. january we have a nice surplus, livermore, san jose, santa rosa.

the entire rain season, 68 to 92%. not quite where we should be. sue. >> checking out san rafael. if your travels novato to san rafael, across golden gate bridge looking at 20 to 24-minute drive. looking good, fog-free, no delays over the grade and robin williams tunnel. there you see slow and go over the altamont pass with a 40-minute drive in towards dublin, pleasanton. an earlier accident pushed to the right-hand shoulder no longer blocking. hercules eastbound 80 near willow. >> thank you, sue. gray whales started migrating south along our coast. a drone has captured images of a calf swimming alongside its mother. the monterey bay whale watch provided this rare sight. gray whales attracted to monterey bay on migraton because of an abundance of squid which provides food. warmer waters in mexico give the

whales a safe place to give birth and nurse their calves. they will return to alaska in the spring. >> that video is just incredible. robots can get pink slips just like us. a japanese hotel has fired some members of its all robotic staff. the hotel unleashed 243 robots. "the wall street journal" reports they didn't meet customer service expectations. as a result the hotel fired half of its staff. is that a dinosaur? >> yeah. unfortunately he got fired, too. >> tough in the jurassic area. >> what to you do when you're a fired robot. what's next? >> what is there for you? you can't work at chuck e cheese. it's tough out there. >> next, the athlete who pleaded guilty to tax fraud overnight. >> why a popular san francisco park will close this spring. and -- >> undercover agents outside of

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