at the coast and santa cruz. a eucalyptus tree came down at 9th avenue at twin lakes beach. it knocked out power there. the road will be closed until they get the tree removed. a lot of localized flooding on the connector ramp. 280 to 87. puddles everywhere on the road in the south bay. you want to be extra careful about that localized flooding. if you're in the mountains, be careful about debris in the roadway. i told you about that mudslide on niles canyon road. my advice, you may be the first person that is hitting that debris and coming across that debris this morning. you want to go extra slow around the corners and be extra careful getting on to the connector ramps. obviously, you can see a lot of localized flooding. >> driving this morning. you can track the rain and check the weather conditions with our

abc 7 news app. the latest news as it happens. happening today. school teachers will announce if they approve to go on strike later this month. the teachers have worked out a contract since july of 2017. union leaders a-- teachers wanta 12% raise over three years. they claim oakland pays some of the lowest salaries in the area. oakland says they can't afford to give them the raise they want. if you're waking up to a good morning, let's get a check of weather and traffic. we start withdrew tuma. live doppler 7 is our picture for much of the morning. you're going to be dodging some showers. i want to get you to street level. let's go to san jose. you can see the light, moderate showers with top of yellow on the screen. on the storm impact scale, we'll

track the scattered showers. could have a brief downpour from time to time. even a slight chance of a thunder shower popping up in the afternoon. if one does, we could see isolated hail. we're tracking later on tonight as cold air rushes into the storm. we could see a mix of rain and snow in the highest peak. a much closer look going hour by hour. first, let's get a check of the roads. a lot to talk about this morning already. i want to take you out to the fremont sunol area, niles canyon road that matt just talked about. it sound like one vehicle involved. airbags were deployed. so we've got a closure there. you're shut down between mission road and the sunol area. easy alternate to get through that area. that will be state route 238 to 680 and vice versa. if you're coming from the tri-valley. definitely have to avoid that. that could last up to a couple

days. we'll hear from him shortly. tracy dublin, 35 minutes. antioch to con roared in the green, 14 minutes. >> thank you, alexis. in the east bay, police are investigating a shooting that left a man with critical injuries in antioch. reports of shots fired before 2:00 yesterday afternoon near lemon tree way and sycamore drive. the victim is 30 years old and police haven't released any more information. >> we're learning more about the father of seven killed in a wrong-way crash in san francisco. he lived in concord. a driver hit his minivan head on early yesterday morning on highway 101. that driver also died. several passengers riding with him were among the nine injured. friends say he was driving for uber at the time of the crash. >> he was a very hard working guy. he came to u.s. about four years ago to look for a different opportunity and better life for his children and his family.

it's just very hard to even haen. it's very unfortunate. it's not his fault. >> the crash is still under investigation. the chp says drugs and alcohol may have been involved. as we mentioned, he leaves behind seven children and a go fund me page has been set up to help his family with funeral expenses. we have a link on our website, abc7news.com. uber issued a statement after his death saying "this was a horribly tragic ins dentd and our hearts go out to the victim and his grieving family. we stand ready to work with authorities to assist their investigation in any way we can." we're learning more about a plane crash in southern california. authorities confirm five people were killed here yesterday afternoon. this cell phone video posted to twitter showed heavy smoke and flames. after the plane crashed into a home in i don't remember ba linda. here are the details.

>> residents rushed into the streets after a small plane crashes into a home in their neighborhood. >> i have a single family residence fully pen gulfed at this time with reports of four people missing. >> firefighters responding to the scene. >> we found a well-involved residence, two-story family dwelling with fire showing from all sides. they did notice that there was some debris from a small aircraft. the rest of the aircraft was located to the rear of the residence. >> from above, you can see the extensive damage, a huge hole. firefighters working quickly to stop the flames from spreading to other homes. >> five individuals deceased. one is the pilot, a male. four were in the residence. two males and two females. >> one firefighter suffered minor injuries. smoke from the fire could be seen for miles. witnesses in the area described hearing a loud boom. >> we heard the plane winding like -- and we heard an

explosion in the sky and it shook our house really -- so much, i like immediately went to the ground. >> debris scattered throughout the neighborhood. a small piece of wreckage could be seen in the street. one neighbor tried to douse the flames with a hose. help santa rosa rebuild after the north bay wildfires. kaiser is donating, $1.6 million to help build a new apartment complex. kaiser's main campus borders the mobile home park which was destroyed in the tubbs fire. kaiser donation will help build 160 apartments on the burned property. developers are also looking to collaborate with kaiser on health care programs for future residents. the pentagon confirms nearly 4,000 additional active duty troops are headed to the southern border to support customs and border protection. they will be adding about 150

miles of wire between ports of entry. the new troops are expected to deploy later this month. there are 2300 troops along the border in california, arizona and texas. now to the snoozer bowl. >> fans of the patriots are celebrating a win. these are videos of fans dancing with the streets. they beat the rams 13-3. it was the lowest scoring super bowl in the 53-year history. this is the patriots sixth super bowl championship. the team will hold a victory parade tomorrow. the super bowl, of course, featured several players with ties to the bay area. >> patriots receiver and punt returner julian edelman was born in redwood city. he went to wood side high and he was awarded the mvp award. >> make a couple plays. we were able to do that. there was a lot of plays by a lot of their guys. defense was unreal.

holding that offense to three points. it's pretty crazy. they should be the mvp, the whole d. >> qb tom brady went to sara high school and the rams, jared goff is from novato. he attended marin catholic high school and cal. a lot of local guys, drew. >> fantastic to see out there all the athletes coming from our neck of the woods. we're talking about rain coming in. this morning, we're seeing isolated showers. down to street level. first, stop along the peninsula at this hour. you can see in redwood city, north of wood side, there's that moderate shower there. that pop of yellow. we're about to see this move into san leandro. the east bay, light to moderate rain out there. we'll take you to the san mateo bridge right now. live look. you see drops on the camera. it's going to be a little slower than normal to get where you're going. temperaturewise, it's a cool morning out there.

42,in gear. rain will be in the forecast all day today. on the storm impact scale. it's a level 1 light system. showers, a brief downpour  possible. we're watching, could see a mix of rain and snow at the highest peaks. let's go hour by hour for you. later on this morning, we're tracking the isolated shower out there. even into the afternoon. we're seeing the showers in parts of the region. what i want to point out is watch this. into the evening hours, you can see in the extreme north bay and mt. diablo, see the pops of white on your screen, that could be snow mixing in with that rain. that's something we're watching. it's like snow level, probably about 2,000 feet. but could see a cold storm later on tonight. that's pretty exciting. but this morning, the rain not the best thing on a a lot of hydroplaning, a lot of

standing ai with its brakes on fire. sounds like the cab caught fire as well. it is a sig-alert to westbound 580. it's shut down while they get this figured out. the bay bridge toll plaza, metering lights, look at that. all that water spraying up from that person who was entering the carpool lanes. he may have to reverse. i don't think those are open yet. we should have the metering lights on 5:25 this morning. we have a sig-alert and another crash in south san francisco. we'll head there next. alexis, thank you. coming up, the governor of virginia is facing growing calls to resign. the new action he's taking today. new technology could help san francisco police communicate with people who are hard of hearing. an estimated 14 million americans get to sleep in

on this monday morning, we're waking up the showers in parts of the bay area. lve doppler 7 shows you green on the screen. even downpours. i want to track this now. it's beginning to move ony.'sus and east at 25 miles an hour. likely a downpour moving through san ramon shortly before 5:00 in the morning. we have light showers near fairfield as well. today grab the umbrella with

you. plus chilly day temperatures and topping out in the low 50s. a look at the accuweather seven-day forecast. >> drew, thank you. virginia governor ralph northam called for a large meeting with his administration staff. a racist photo in his yearbook. virginia's two senators, the naacp and more than a dozen key democrats are calling for his resignation. the photo in question is featured on his medical school yearbook page showing one person in black-face and another in a klansman's hood and robe. >> i believe then and now that i am not either of the people in that photo. >> to think that this is acceptable behavior for our governor. >> northam did admit that he used shoe polish to darken his face while dressing up in a michael jackson costume. new this morning, san francisco's police officers may have an app on their cell phone

to call on an american sign language interpreter to help them at crime scenes. the san francisco examiner reports the video chatting tool is in response to complaints over communication barriers between officers and the deaf or hard of hearing. they're expected to vote on a policy including step by step procedures for officers to follow when interacting with witnesses, deaf victims or perpetrators. if your office is a little empty today, you are not alone. millions of employees are expected to call in sick this morning all because of the super bowl. >> some of them might have died of boredom. a survey found 14 million adults will miss work today after the big game. more than 8 million of the workers are taking a pre-approved day off according to employment firm challenger gray and christmas. it's expected to cost more than 4 billion bucks. bosses are expected to cut back hours today. marin 5 headlined the super bowl show with travis scott and

big boi each singing one song. the show received mixed reviews. >> ♪ ♪ >> many viewers took to social media and said they were underwhelmed by the performances. adam levine took to instagram afterwards and said we thank the universe for this opportunity to play on the world's big ebs stage. we thank our fans for making the dream possible and thank our critics for pushing us to do better. >> he should be thanking his trainer. that's the only thank you i have this morning. >> the drones were pretty cool. >> therapy great. >> if you made it that far. if you're like us, you fell asleep in the first half. >> it was boring. >> but, again, that trainer.

>> the commercials were also kind of boring this year, too. >> i didn't care at all. >> people started tuning out. i'm done. >> maybe people are calling in sick because they're hung over from partying. they abandoned watching the game. >> went to the drink and the cake. >> yeah. >> cake? guys, you got a lot going on in weather today. we've got rain going on and frozen precip later this evening. we'll show you the current moment. live doppler 7, we'll zoom in towards the south bay. showers dotting 101 in the region. even 280 right now. moving into the east bay. hayward a downpour at this current hour. lighter showers over oakland as well. the rooftop camera here at kgo on the embarcadero. wet roadways, we're seeing hydroplaning already an issue. we're likely going to deal with that for a couple of hours.

as you step out the door, 40s and low 50s. need the umbrella too as you go outside. we're seeing that rain sticking with us. future weather, hour by hour, 9:00 this morning, still we're tracking those showers through parts of the region. it's an unsettled day throughout the day, even into the afternoon, we're still seeing the showers popping up in spots. what we're watching, as the sun goes down and cooler air moves in here, you see these white colors on your screen. plus ukiah and mt. hamilton and mostly sunny diablo, we could see mixing of rain and snow in our high peaks later on tonight. something we'll be tracking. but it's all about precipitation today. a lot of cloud cover, scattered showers on and off. it's a cool day. temperatures only topping out in the low 50s. here's the forecast. showers today. again tomorrow, there's that chance of mixed precip at our highest peaks. the story wednesday and thursday morning, cold mornings on the way in 20s and 30s.

let's get a check of the roads, alexis. >> not doing great. a lot of issues already on the roads today. i think the rain has a lot to do with it. we have a sig-alert. both directions of 101 are closed due to this crash initially. now, we're down to two lanes closed on the southbound side. started off as a disabled vehicle. northbound 280 south of there before the 101 merge, we also have a flipped pickup truck that took out barrels as well. we've got one lane open both northbound and southbound on 280 in that area. a couple of pretty big problems. fortunate fortunately, it's early enough, there's not a huge backup for either of those. a quick check outside. walnut creek starting to fill in. the road spray is kicking up. have the wipers on high. give yourself a few extra minutes this morning. thanks, alexis. netflix said its viewership plunged as they ditched the streaming service in favor of the super bowl.

>> here's the techbytes. netflix is acknowledge thag it took a hit on super bowl sunday. >> the viewership in the u.s. was down 32% compared to a normal sunday. the lighthearted post said apparently this super bowl thing is kind of a big deal. as d, the supl dominated on social media overnight. the #super bowl bowl was used more than half a million times. the first and only touchdown was the second moment. and the end of the game was the most tweeted moment. it's facebook's birthday. it marks 15 years since mark zuckerberg started the site in a harvard dorm room. it was only for college students when it started. you needed a dot edu those are your techbytes. >> have a great day. a popular bay area restaurant chain has plans to expand nationwide. plus, the message behind the most liked picture on instagram.

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welcome back. 4:53 on this monday morning. we're tracking showers and isolated downpours to start out your monday. we're going to take you to street level. i want to show you this downpour moving into parts of the east bay: union city expected about 5:11 a.m. we'll take a closer look at the storm hour by hour in a few

minutes. the cost of child care is rising in the bay area. the inside center for community economic development. compare the cost of monthly child care in 2014 to the year 2018. the medium cost of child care for preschool age kids rose 40% in the bay yar from $1,000 a month to $1500 a month. the biggest jumps in san francisco where the cost rose 55% and in marin county where it rose 54%. >> we wonder why there are no kids in the city. there you go. >> the fate of sears in the hands of the bankruptcy court. the judge will address the future of the company and the 45,000 employees. 425 stores to chairman eddie lampert. lampert has been accused of misconduct. sesiled bankruptcy wi t hopes of remaining in business. a food -- has plans to expand nationwide. you're looking at curry up now.

the sf gate reports the fast casual chains wants to adds 350 locations across the country by the end of next year. curry up has six restaurants and several food trucks in the bay area. the owner says 40 new locations are in the works. the restaurant will be franchise locations. >> i think it's good. >> i like it. anyone on valencia street, it's cute inside. live doppler 7, what we're tracking this early morning. showers out there. we do downpours right down the street level. san ramon. we're tracking this downpour. the orange on your screen, live doppler 7 -- half an inch per hour. what i want to do is zoom out and i really want you. it is going to be moving off to the north and to the east over the next couple of minutes. >> have that rain gear with you. scattered showers throughout the day. could see a mix in our highest

mountains by the evening hours. that weather. let's get a check of the roads. we are not handling it well. we have a lot to get to in the tri-valley. we have a semi that caught fire with the brakes. that is on the livermore avenue. the ramp is closed. now we certainly are seeing a backup there. we're not sure what the obstruction is. something is blocking one lane on the peninsula. north turnoff for the san mateo bridge. that is causing a delay on the approach as well. we're doing okay for the most part. a lot of standing water out there. you will have to have the wipers on high. take it easy. >> thanks alexis. new developments about the most liked picture on instagram. an egg that ended up dethroning kylie jenner.

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now at 5:00, a wet morning across the bay area. this is a look at live doppler 7. what you need to know for the rest of your day and let's give you a hand here. you need to know that you need an umbrella. >> right. >> you need rain boots. >> sure. >> and some patience to get that drive under way. >> yes. it is happening again. the rain has returned. it's going to be soggy week. never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. >> drew tuma is here. >> mondays weren't hard enough. now we're dealing with moore rain. live doppler 7 with an active sweep. i want to zoom in around fremont. the yellows and the oranges about to cross 880 right now. that's a heavier downpour. we'll track that downpour moving off to the north and to the east. pleasanton, you're likely going to see the downpour