major headaches for people who needed bridge. cal trans came up with a temporary repair. they put a metal plate over the affected area to keep things from falling. >> right now there's an emergency director's order. what that does is clears away for funds for cal trans to do long-term repairs. the metal plates are a short-term repair. obviously, we can open the bridge now and have it ready for the morning commute. >> reporter: those were happy honks. people are finally getting to cross the bridge when they reopened it. they reopened the westbound lanes around 7:30 and started opening the eastbound lanes. about an eight-hour long shutdown. what a day. cal trans says they will do it again today if they have to. they wvel be from the richmo richmond-san rafael bridge. amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. thank you, amy. alternateloreas highway 37. sky 7 flew over the highway

yesterday. you can see a long line of brake lights as people headed eastbound leaving novato. it took an hour and 40 minutes at one point to get from 101 to sears point. that's about seven miles. reggie, it wasn't just highway 37. >> the traffic problems were felt to san francisco in the financial district. it turned to gridlock. >> my plan is to look at my gps and pray it gets better. >> i have to take one passenger to 20th and him to the airport. it's been 45 minutes on the other side of the street. >> the traffic was so bad in the city, even other modes of transportation, if you wanted to take the cable car, that was temporarily stopped last night because it was so gridlocked. we use the abc 7 news app to keep you updated throughout the day. muck enable push alerts and customize the app so you only get alerts for news where you live.

>> i was stuck in that traffic yesterday in the financial district as well. what was usually a 20-minute ride took me 50 minutes. >> domino effect. >> quiet now on all fronts, pretty much, right? we're tracking storms in the forecast. hi, mike. >> that will be the issue later today, the rain that slows down the commute. hi everybody. here's a look at the storm impact scale. a 1 for today. showers and brief downpours. chance of lightning and breezy conditions the closer you are to the coast. quarter of an inch in the south bay. here's a look at the storm. a very defined swirl and heading towards us. but notice it's over the ocean. more likely you're going to get wet. coverage increases as we head through the morning and then it gets heavy at times from 4:00 and 7:00 when we start to throw the thunderstorms in there. we start in the upper 30s to 40s. we barely make it to 50 today. most of us back in the 40s with

the heavier rain pulling down cooler air.st. wealk me aboha arnjoyin thatoohell ai i have a ltl more iormaion on the crash gettingrkway, it w initially in the left lane. everybody has moved off to the shoulder now. we have onlooker delay and residual delay. hopefully that improves soon once you get past that. we're looking at decent volume, too. altamont pass. quick check of drive time. westbound 580, trace toy dublin. we're in the yellow at 46 minutes. southbound 680 dublin to mission boulevard in the green at 16 and northbound 85, 101 to cupertino, in the green at 14 minutes. thank you, alexis. this morning, federal investigators are joining the investigation into that massive gas explosion in san francisco. national transportation safety board officials from washington,

d.c. arrived in san francisco last night. they're investigating wednesday's explosion at geary boulevard and parker avenue. today they'll interview witnesses and collect evidence. two westbound lanes on geary are closed. parker is still closed to traffic at geary. parole denied for the woman at the center of a dog mauling case. 63-year-old marjorie knoller was convicted of second degree murder after her dogs killed a person in 2001. her brother and former partner were in the courtroom. crying as she read a statement. her parole was denied in part because of behavioral issues in prison. she's eligible in another three years for another parole. he agreed to testify at a house hearing after the judiciary committee dropped the threat of a subpoena. >> they hope to understand hi role in the russia probe. kosarn

with more. >> while he's still the head of the justice department. the clock is ticking as william barr gets one step closer to becoming the new attorney general. >> the showdown between matthew whitaker and democrats ends in a compromise. jerry in addition letter, chairman of the judiciary committee says the hearing is back on this morning. the fallout came after democrats prepared a subpoena just in case whitaker didn't answer their questions. well before the first question had been asked. whitaker, in a statement to the committee, accused them of deviating from protocol. ebs the first cabinet official to appear before congress. it will focus on whitaker's conversation with white house officials, the president and his role in the mueller probe which last week whitaker indicated was coming to a close. >> i've been fully briefed on the investigation. i look forward to director mueller delivering the final

report. >> the house intelligence committee is also launching a sweep investigation into the president, his family, his finances and possible russia ties. the president lashing out in a tweet calling the scrutiny, quote, presidential harassment. when the president appointed him, democrats called on him to recuse himself from the mueller investigation because he has criticized it in the past. it is important to note that there is no evidence that he's interfered in it. mona kosar abdi, abc news washington. the state of louisiana is being stopped from enforcing new regulations on abortion clinics. the state passed a law reuiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. the justices agreed in a 5-4 vote to put the law on nd jujohn rertsoined the decision. leanings regarding abortion in the supreme court.

democrats introduced a com climate change. congresswoman alexandria, owe casio cortez introduced it yesterday. they're calling itfdr. students from at least five oakland high school plan to stage a sickout to support their teachers and protest multimillion dollar budget cuts. it includes students from oakland tech, skyline, oakland high, mclie mons and met west schools. they plan to march starting at 9:00 a.m. to district offices. they staged a similar walkout last week. there's a plan to cut $21 million from the budget. the school district board is scheduled to vote on the proposal next week. teachers it oakland are called.preps in case a strike is they made picket signs at the education office last night. >> 95% have voted to authorize a strike. teachers are asking for a 12% d

that same period. he month.ders want a strike and temperatures are hanging out in the area. mt. diablo at 32, freezing kl cold at 3800 feet. get up into los gatos, about 37 degrees. you don't need as heavy a coat nor an ice scraper this morning. here's a look at live doppler 7 off the coast. picking up light rain there. that's going to be heading towards the coast over the next hour or so. you'll see an uptick in your chances of getting wet. had light rain when i was crossing bay bridge earlier. it's requestigoing to get worse. the same thing for mass transit. add breezes in there as we head into the morning and afternoon hours. east bay, we stay 40s until

10:00. barely around 51 from noon to 4:00. a chance of rain just about every hour after, say, 9:00. in the north bay, we don't escape the 40s today. 39 this morning. a chance of showers at 10:00 all the way to 8:00 with temperatures dropping into the low 40s. so chilly showers tonight and look at san francisco, 48 to 49 degrees. from 10:00 to 10:00, also notice at 10:00, yep, chance of thunderstorms starts to roll in. if you're heading out this friday evening x be prepared to dodge drops and even listen and look for lightning and thunder. could be one of those nights. let's talk about the commute and bring alexis back in here. we were all like, let's get out of here as fast as we can when we found out the richmond-san rafael bridge was closed. >> a lot of folks use the bay bridge as anlo en thattoday. of course, mike. we have cal trans crews there in case. they're monitoring the situation

and if you're just waking up and joining us, all lanes are open both eastbound and westbound for the richmond-san rafael bridge. of course, that was following the very long closure yesterday due to the chunks of concrete falling. crews are monitoring the situation. we do have amy hollyfield driving the bridge for us as well. definitely keeping a close eye on this. right now we're looking at a slight delay for folks approaching the toll plaza. but no significant issues in either direction. a quick check of mass transit this morning. b.a.r.t., 25 trains in service. normal service, no delays for san francisco based ferries. and ace also. starting monday. beginning early morning commuters on b.a.r.t. instead of 4:00 a.m. trains, they will start rolling out at 5:00 in the morning. who wl affected, b.a.r.t. will have 15 new bus shuttles taking them to other stations. 64% will head to downtown san francisco.

the reason for the later start is because b.a.r.t. will begin a huge retrofit project of the transbay tube. it's estimated to take four years to complete. thank you, alexis. coming up, wells fargo has an update for customers after the atms went out of service. critics are calling it the monster in the mission. many are against the proposed housing development near the b.a.r.t. station.

how far reaching the storm is today. with stormy conditions along the north bay coast to santa barbara and snow in the mountains. in so cal, low to mid-60s with sunshine. 4:00 this afternoon to 4:00 monday, down to 3,000 feet. two to four feet. snow level will drop down. whiteout conditions. so you've got to go today before the sunsets. the snow, it will be light tonight, light to to moderate snow saturday and heavy snow sunday. it's pretty quiet. everybody getting a nice night of sleep before they get to deal with the fresh and it is pow pow. you'll be -- monday, nothing,

but more snow tuesday, wednesday and thursday. >> thank you, mike. >> good morning, san francisco-based wells fargo, atm and mobile services have been restored after a widespread outage. wells fargo customers who tried to use an atm yesterday with an out of service message, the disruption affected online and mobile banking. in a statement, wells fargo said it was experiencing issues. here at abc 7 news, we're committed to building a better bay area by covering the issues we face like housing. it's one of the most expensive places to live. solutions are not easy. take for example a project nicknamed the monster in the mission. the mixed use development would be ued at 16th and mission street that is right next to the b.a.r.t. station. droneview 7 flew over for the proposed three new buildings. they would bring 331 market

value units to the area. he faces intent opposition in the community. hundreds of people packed a community meeting last night. >> we don't need more luxury housing in the mission. the community has demanded for years for affordable housing on that site and for other sites. >> the benefits we think outweigh all of the concerns because safety will improve, crime will go down. >> to sweeten the deal, developers proposed buying two mission district properties and donating them to the city with the intention of a affordable housing being built there. we want to hear your ideas about building a better bay area. what issues do you see where you live and what would make them better. use the #better bay area on social need to join the conversation. >> delta airlines and coca-cola are apologizing for napkins passengers felt were inappropriate. the diet coke napkins featured a place -- on to quote, plane crush. the napkins read because you're on a plane full of interesting

people. hey, you never know. the airline issued a statement it missed the mark on this one. coca-cola issued a similar statement. >> really? >> come on. i stand by it. >> no one is forcing you to put your phone number on it. i think it's kind of nice. it's a funny joke. >> i feel like it's creepy. >> if someone handed you a napkin and you can't get away for five hours, right, you're trapped on a flight. you're like, oh, great. >> i think it would be creepy if the person next to you did it and you really didn't want to talk to him. if it's a cute guy that passed on row 7. >> the best case scenario, jessica. >> i'm hoping for the best case scenario. >> we got -- we're covering extremes. >> they're ple.>> see, it c .tr

>> let's talk about the weather. love all the differing opinions, though. 44 in lakeport. ukiah 46. the rest of us in the low to mid-50s. lows tonight, how about 30s in the north bay with fog forming as we clear out temporarily. 38 livermore, 39 redwood city. everybody else in the low to mid-40s. here's a look at our storm. we had snow on hamilton already this morning. we're going to have waves of showers roll through today. some will be heavy at times. you can see that area right along the coast. that's the best chance for thunderstorms, lightning and thunder. we have a chance of very heavy snow in lake county. winter storm warning, 4:00 this afternoon until 4:00 this evening. down to 2,000 feet. up to a foot of snow. for us at home, we've got the 1 on the storm impact scale. even though we could have brief downpours which could cause localized ponding on the

roadways from noon on. you can see during the morning hours, the thing rotates over the ocean and once we get to lunch, they're more consistent and the coverage expands as we head into the afternoon hours. there's snow on diablo and snow in the north bay. as we head through the evening hours, it drops a little bit and so does the chance of showers and thunderstorms. for tomorrow, we've got waves of showers that will increase as we head into the afternoon hours. so if you're thinking about going to fan fest at oracle park, that forecast is coming up. always seems to be a chance of showers with that. we've got a 1 for tomorrow, 1 for sunday and 2s for wednesday and thursday. alexis. overall, off to a friday light commute here. we're definitely enjoying that. just one slow spot in particular getting out of the tracy stretch. westbound 205 at mountain house parkway. we have a three-car crash on the shoulder.

a lot of folks slowing down to look at that. on,eretter than a typical weekday commute. the bay bridge toll plaza looking better than average. no stack up on either side of the toll plaza. no metering lights yet. this should happen at 5:25, 5:30. apple fixed the face time bug that let people eavesdrop on unanswered video calls. >> mears techbytes. >> in techbytes, apple's face time fix is inment. >> they've corrected a fix allowing them to activate the microphone on someone else's iphone. apple is giving the arizona teen a reward as well as money for his college fund. netflix making it easier for iphone users to keep up with their favorite shows. >> the streaming service is expanding the smart downloads feature to ios devices. it deletes downloaded episodes and downloads the next one. finally, you can name a

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4:54 on a friday. boys of summer. we're already thinking about them. how many times have you almost said at&t park lately? it's oracle park and its fan fest tomorrow. your chance of getting wet throughout the day. starts sat 10:00 and ends at 3:00. dress warmly also. temperatures around 50. thanks, mike. disappointing and surprising news for moviegoers in san francisco. van ness near owe fairly is is s closed. another theater owner may be in discussions to lease the space. but it basically suddenly closed down last night. facebook held a big summit at its menlo park headquarters to focus on the original goals,

bringing people together. more than 400 community leaders from across north america were invited for the facebook community summit. >> that spanned -- - >> for us people better off financially in the group and they can pass. now the lack of oh, i didn't know this or i don't know that, facebook has to erase that narrative. >> facebook announced new tools to help group administrators grow and manage their communities as well as a new mentorship program to help more people connect. let's talk about what to expect weatherwise during the commute today. scattered showers will be the easier of the two commutes. as the storm system comes in, making the evening commute tougher. the showers will create slick roads everywhere and even localized ponding. here's a look at the rain

potential through sunday. we've got a good chance of nearing an inch in many neighborhoods or at least three quarters of an inch. my concerns haven't changed much. still hoe droe planing a big one. sunday, it becomes breezy and snow on the mountain roads sunday as the snow level drops to around 2500 feet. speaking of in morning's commute, here's alexis. good morning, mike. flashing back to yesterday with the closure of the richmond-san rafael bridge. looking at the toll plaza, extremely light volumes and everything remains open for this morning's commute. more on that coming up. quick check of drive times today. we are friday light. pretty much all the way around. highway 4 to the maze -- no metering lights for the bay bridge. that should happen closer to 5:30. nine minutes for your drive into the city and southbound 101, san francisco to sfo, if you've got an early flight today, shouldn't have any issues getting there. you're in the green as well at

nine minutes. the first sign that baseball season is almost here is a day away for giants fans. they will hold the annual fan fest at oracle park. c ayoaches will interact with fans, signing autographs and taking selfies. fans can tour many parts of the ballpark. admission is free and the gates open at 10:00 a.m. the event ends at 3:00 p.m. pitchers and catchers report for spring training in arizona on tuesday. next at 5:00 a.m., ntsb investigators are on the scene of the san francisco gas explosion. abc news reporter matt keller will have the very latest for us. what caused chunks of concrete to fall from the richmond-san rafael bridge? the new and rebranding happening at one las vegas hotel.

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like, it's actually been on a grill. as soon as you grab it to go take your first bite, it's like just like, "psscheew". insanely good. now at 5:00, chunks of concrete falling from the richmond-san rafael bridge. the ten hour long shutdown and what may have caused this. good morning to you. >> huge pain. >> i know. it is friday, february 8 pt. we cannot have that scene again today. >> hopefully the only thing falling from the sky is a little bit of rain. i know it's in the forecast today. right, mike? >> yeah. the evening commute will be mucked up again by the rain that's going to increase today. hi everybody. showers, brief downpours are possible. lightning and thunder along with