4:29. >> good morning to you. hi. let see what our weather has in store today. am i right there's not going to be rain today. >> no, there is. a little bit. >> sprinkles on my way in, actually. >> i can't keep up with this. >> there it is on live doppler 7. it's mainly from san francisco southward. you can see across the dumbarton bridge right now. towards fremont. let me put this into motion. it's moving from northwest to southeast. the closer you are to the coast, the more likely you are going to deal with a little bit of moisture in the form of light showers. even snow in the santa cruz mountains as temperatures are near freezing. we're freezing in danville. 32. a lot of mid 30s inland and upper 30s to low 40s around the bay. oakland and san francisco around the mid-40s. afternoon temperatures will top out in the low to mid-50s and see the specks of green. that's your ran donnal shower. >> we had a sig-alert in oakland.

a pick yun truck that flipped over and caught fire before the 580 merge. we temporarily had all lanes blocked. it really did not last too long. emergency crews were able to clear that fairly quickly. giving you the thumbs up. back in the green. not seeing residual delays. a quick check of the bay bridge toll plaza. stackup on either side. no issues if you're using fastrak and no metering lights. we should have under an hour until that happens. abc 7 news is committed to building a better bay area. b.a.r.t. is an integral part of that. we're digging into the challenges facing the agency. >> starting today, b.a.r.t. is starting later as the transbay tube is retrofitted to withstand a major earthquake. we're waiting for the first train to leave the station with amy hollyfield. >> reporter: good morning, jessica. these are the people being impacted by this new normal at b.a.r.t. this is a line of people all waiting to catch a bus or -- that they've been told will get them to san francisco.

there are no trains running right now. there are employees out here who are helping guide people and answer their questions. but we've also heard some questions asked that they didn't quite know the answers to. there is some confusion on this first day of this new service. b.a.r.t. does have buses that will get people to san francisco. we've got a line here, though, in antioch. also look at this line of people. a picture of people waiting for the bus at pittsburg bay point station. we're hearing a second line is developing there. a lot of frustration there as people are very confused. we're also hearing of issues that people didn't quite think of. we met a man who needed to load up his clipper card, but of course, the station is closed. >> i knew about it. they say a lot of stuff about it. it's just during the morning, the clipper card, getting to the bus, it's closed right now. how can i get to the bus?

that's what it is. the clipper should be open in bay point. but i need to get from here to bay point, right? how am i going to do that? >> reporter: here is the bus leaving antioch. this bus is headed -- left a few minutes ago headed to pittsburg to pick up people there and get them to san francisco. i have want to show you a couple buses here. one just pulled up wi: looks li people are going into this station, though. maybe to get their cards read? why do you have to go into the station? why do you have to go into the station right now? >> i don't know. let me try to get that question answered as we're all learning this new normal on this first mornng of this new system. no trains running because of at ethquake retrofit project

that's expected to last for 3 1/2 years. hopefully, this will get smoothed out soon because they've got 3 1/2 years to deal with this. reporting live from antioch, amy hllyfield, abc 7 news. amy, thank you. we'll let you find out what's going on with the station now looking to be open. abc 7 news is following the bay area b.a.r.t. 1350er7b of our building a better bay area. join us to see what it's like to ride b.a.r.t. now and what -- a safer b.a.r.t. means a better bay area for all of us. a truck drove into the living room of a home in antioch. this happened just before midnight on golden bear drive near hillcrest avenue. the homeowner said he was sleeping when he heard a loud boom. the truck was reportedly being chased by police. no one inside the home was hurt. vallejo police shot a driver sitting in a car at a taco bell drive-through.

officers say they opened fire when the driver reached for a gun. hearing from the victim's family. they aren't buying the officer's version of the story. reporter hasan went to the memorial labs night. >> family and friends of willie mccoy are mourning after he was fatally shot by police while parked in the drive-through line at this taco bell in vallejo. >> i'm outraged. this community is outraged. he's not robbing taco bell. he's in the drive-through trying to get something to eat. >> police got a call after 10:30 p.m. on saturday about a mercedes parked in the drive-through line with the driver slumped over. once on scene, the police checked the vehicle. >> he's passed out but the car is in drive. in a statement, vallejo police claimed that mccoy had a gun in his lap and when he started to move, they told him to keep his hands visible. they went on to say, quote, the

driver quickly reached for the handgun on his left. in fear of his own safety, the officers discharged be their weapons. >> if you wake up out your sleep, you're going to do any kind of movement or just to wake up or whatever. that could be a threatening movement just waking up to these scary police out here. >> older brother mark mccoy admits his brother had trouble with the law in the past. he doesn't know why he was slumped over but the rapper had been touring and was exhausted. those who came out and set up a memorial in honor of mccoy. the family is looking into conducting their own investigation. in vallejo, abc 7 news. the ntsb has finished another round of interviews in this investigation into the pipe, the gas pipeline fire in san francisco's richmond district. the board is saying it will send a three to four-foot piece of a punctured pipeline back to washington so specialists can take a look at the material.

investigators say the preliminary report is about two weeks. muni service on the 38 geary bus line will no longer be rerouted off geary boulevard at parker avenue, the site of last week's explosion. new this morning, mayor london breed is hoping to remove barriers to building housing in the city. according to the chronicle, the mayor plans to introduce legislation to eliminate the fees the city charges with affordable housing projects are built or renovated. in the last fiscal year. the department of building -- collected $1.5 million in the permit fees. >> what's going on. first we'll start by looking at our temperature change. we're cooler in most areas. we'll go neighborhood level and do it in -- noe i valley, 42. ocean beach at 46. those are the warmer spots. pretty much the warmest spot around. union city 41.

pittsburg at 40. daly city 41. everybody else in the mid to upper 30s. pleasanton i, a frosty 32 degrees. it was 29 at my house this morning. had to get the old key chain-sized ice scraper out. that's the third time this year. i think we've met our quota. we have several weeks of weather left. here's the commute planner. random showers out there. alexis and i ran into those coming across the bay bridge. cooler morning for mass transit. watch out for rainbow from one of the random showers today. our temperatures from 39 this morning in the east bay valley to the 40s at 10:00. mid-50s from noon to 4:00. down to 47. quick cooling by 8:00. peninsula, you struggle to make 50. you'll have to wait until 1:00 or 2:00. then you kind of stay there until 4:00. then you drop into the 50s. a mixture of sunshine and clouds today. here's a look at the south bay.

38 at 8:00. sunshine there. the clouds gather as we hit the low 50s from noon to 4:00. back down to 45 degrees at 8:00. as far as those temperatures right now as we've talked about, they are just a little bit below average. anything that does fall this morning, those random showers, could have a little mixture of snow and graupel in them. could be interesting in another shower develops. we're keeping on it. alexis is with me right now to find out about the commute. >> overall, looking quiet. a couple issues overnight. we're looking at mostly light conditions here. walnut creek, southbound 680 as you approach the highway 24 interchange. all is looking good. know that we have various lanes closed between olympic and rutger. i'll keep an eye on that and make sure it doesn't cause a delay into the walnut creek stretch. as of now, no issues. quick check of drive times. little surprised we're actually

in the green here. westbound 580, trace toy dublin. typically that's in the yellow. that's coming in at 38 minutes. dublin to mission boulevard at 15. northbound 85, 101 to cupertino, loss in the green at 15 minutes. happening today, public school teachers in denver, colorado, are going on strike over salaries and bonus. substitutes and administrators will staff some classrooms. it's expected to cause significant disruptions to 90,000 students. the teachers union and the district have not been able to agree on -- reach an agreement and in the bay area as well, oakland teachers warn that they, too, could walk out by the end of the month because of a labor dispute. oakland unified district says negotiation rs ongoing to avert a strike here. the pilot who died when his single engine plane crashed into the side of mt. diablo. the 48-year-old resident of plaster county -- he loved music

and was a be madison counadisoad enthusiast. crews were at the site yesterday to recover his body. faa and ntsb investigators will determine why the plane went down. now to the peninsula. a sinkhole in san mateo county is getting bigger. take a look at these pictures on the right from chp's office in redwood city. the hole opened up on highway 35 last week and has taken out an entire lane of traffic. both lanes are closed between page mill road and highway 9. cal trans hopes to have it repaired and back open by next tuesday, which is the 19th the. another blow for victims of the camp fire. many evacuees are forced to relocate again. the l.a. times says paradise and county officials reversed a decision that allowed people to live in rvs on their burned properties. at least 130 families are

affected. fema said allowing people to stay on the potentially toxic land would put more than a million dollars in federal aid in jeopardy. they've distributed a list of housing alternatives. >> announcer: you're never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. let's take a look at the state forecast. it's a little quieter than it has been. low to mid-60s and sunshine? so cal. low to mid-50s everywhere else in the sierra. in chico, mt. shasta,nd moving towards tahoe, there's a slight chance of snow today. for today and tomorrow, during the day your best times to head to the sierra. we've got heavy, wet, almost sierra cement snow coming wednesday and thursday. several feet of it. in fact, up to four feet above 4,000 feet. 10:00 tomorrow evening through 4:00 thursday. there's even more snow after that for friday, saturday and sunday. if you were near the mountaintops, you likely saw more snow. up to 2 inches fell near the

summit early yesterday advantag powder. >> i'm from colorado. i when i heard there was snow, i thought it was a tiny patch. it's actually snow. i'm from colorado. i approve. real snow. >> in berkeley it was like 60 degrees. we drove up here it's like a winter wonderland. >> in mt. tam, they also saw some snow. developing news from virginia where state lawmaker is backing off his plan to seek the ouster of justin fairfax. >> he was going to suggest articles of impeachment following two allegations of sexual assault. fairfax denied the claims saying both instances were consensual. he's calling for an fbi investigation. meantime, governor ralphth is b a blackface photo scandal. he has noo step down but stumbled in televised interview since the scandal broke. >> the first indentured servants from africa landed on our shores

in monroe -- >> also known as slavery. >> yes. >> virginia attorney general mark herring's future also unknown after admitting that he, too, wore blackface in the past. new this morning, acting secretary of defense pat shanahan is in afghanistan. he's meeting with u.s. commanders and afghan leaders. shanahan told reporters he wants to stress to the afghans that they must decide their own future. shanahan took over as defense secretary on january 1st after james mattis resigned. a san francisco fire station cat is gaining international attention after firefighters were told they need to get rid of her. edna has lived at the fire department 49 for four years and provides stress relief to the team. firefighters say they received an anonymous complaint about edna and were told by their captain that edna needs to be gone by today. firefighters told anchor dion

lim they're reluck tactant to g camera in fear of losing their jobs. we're updating the story when we hear from them. >> pop star ariana grande is now a grammy winner. she won best pop vocal album. she wasn't there to collect it after a public dispute with the producer. she accused the producer about lying about the reason he couldn't perform. she said it wasn't true and her creativity and self-expression were being stifled. >> it has been so much drama. didn't she wear dress she was going to wear to the show and took a picture anyway? >> yeah. >> outside of the ariana grande controversy, the grammys were the best awards show i've seen in a long time. >> wow. high praise. >> it was just lwemepeor after

tribute.sh a tribuf. the best you've seen out of music awards shows? >> any awards shows. >> high praise. >> honestly, i'm a super critic. i really loved it. >> glad i dvr' d it. >> as we look from mt. tam this morning, not much in the way of low clouds. we'll have to worry about fog, though, as we get deeper into the forecast as we look at tomorrow. it's especially thick across the north bay. mid to upper 30s are more the rule than elsewhere. except the east bay valleys and south bay. i should say that's more the rule than the exception. the exceptions will be richmond, san francisco, oakland, san mateo.

half moon bay. santa cruz in the low to mid-40s. let me show you live doppler 7. you can see two swirling air masses. one coming down from the gulf of alaska and one raked hawaii over the weekend with rain and just gusty winds and big sur of. those are going to need over top of us. when they do, they're going to bring us a chance of wet weather again. >> let's fast forward to tuesday at 10:00 in the eveningment all is quiet. look how we've encroached upon by midnight. coming to shore, the rain. the green is light rain, the yellow is moderate. same thing with orange. heading through the morning hours, it's going to be wet. so wednesday is looking pretty wet throughout the day. in fact, let me show you the seven-day forecast. we have it as a 2. a moderate storm. we're going to give you a break for valentine's day. don't think you can use the wet weather as an excuse for anything. friday and saft are both 1s.

pretty light showers. overall, off to areat start ts monday morning. looking at light volumes here on the san mateo bridge. westbound 92 as folks leave hayward towards foster city. no delays at the toll plaza. a quick check of the traffic maps, too. a few rogue sprinkles this morning. you may have to use your wipers once or twice. looking dry through altamont pass and getting out of tracy. not terrible. stop-and-go traffic. 26 miles an hour on 205. 16 miles an hour once i make it to 580. average there. thank you, alexis. google is going dark when it comes to its chrome browser. the tech giant is experimenting with a night friendly viewing option. dark mode is being tested on android devices now. the pop-up menus are usually dark gray instead of white. the test is in the early stages. google working on a new way to get you where you want to go.

>> here's techbytes. >> in today's techbytes. google working on a way to get you where you're going. >> an augmented -- camera in real time. early review says it's like what was promised with google glass without the headset. no word when it will be ready for use. target modified the app after being called out in a tv rorp. >> a station in minneapolis found the prices on the app change when users approach target stores. some rose by hundreds of dollars. in a price is online or -- they tell you if the price is online or in store. the captain marvel movie. the website. the movie set during that decade. check it out before movie debuts march 8th. >> i cannot wait to see that. i'll be first in line. those are your techbytes. >> have a great day. some of you will be excited about this.

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let's take a look at what to expect as the storm moves in. didn't get a chance to say that. hydroplaning is going to be high wednesday.

moderate, down trees. this is more like an atmospheric river event. it's going to be a couple of days of steady rain, unlike the on and off showers we've had lately. >> thank you, mike. sources say southwest airlines could announce fares and schedules this week for the new service to hawaii. last week a plane took off from oakland and landed in honolulu on a test flight. it must receive federal approval. people think the announcement could come on valentine's day as well and flights could begin in march or april. >> that makes sense. that would be great. glass held as the top spot. the lego movie two, the second part debuted at number one. it features a star studded list of celebrities who lend their voices, including chris pratt, tiffany haddish. most enjoyed the movie. it didn't hit the ticket sales making only $35 million. what men want opened in second

with $19 million. cold pursuit third at 10 poib $8 million. the upside, fourth place at 7.2 million and glass dropped to fifth. $6.4 million. kevin durant makes his debut as a tv host today. >> the golden state warriors forward is hosting a new show called the boardroom on espn plus. it's the biggest original show for espn plus, a streaming service. espn is our sister network. the boardroom focuses on the evolution of sports business through the eyes of athletes, sports execs and tech entrepreneurs. this morning, on gma durant will chat with robin you want to tune in with gna at 7:00 a.m. after abc 7 mornings. they could turn over and have snow on the summit. be aware of that through the morning hours. other areas seeing light rain, you can see the dumbarton bridge on the eastern side.

cedar boulevard, fremont, that could head to the sunol grade. here we go. this morning at 7:00, just random showers the closer you are to the coast. as we head towards 9:00, there's a sprinkle here and there. as we head towards noon, the better chance moves up into the north bay. that's where it's going to stay. still a random shower is possible for the rers of us at 7:00. then it's over. by overnight, fog fills in, in the north bay because of the decreasing in the clouds. let's take a quick look at how much will fall out of these random light showers. not a whole lot throughout the day. you get caught under one, .02 inches of rain. it makes things slick for your commute. the heavier storm, couple of inches of rain on the way. here's alexis. we've had a nice start to the monday morning commute. looking at the traffic maps, one issue in the south bay. if you're traveling on the northbound 280 side of that interstate and trying to get off

the bird avenue off ramp, be aware there's a disabled vehicle. there's no hazard lights, it's totally blacked out. chp on the way to the scene to assist with that. hopefully, that's cleared up soon. a quick check of drive times. these are nice and light too. 17 minutes. no bay bridge metering lights yet. nine minutes into the city. southbound 101, san francisco to sfo. also in the green at nine minutes. valentine's day a few days away. don't worry if you haven't made plans yet. san francisco is the best u.s. city to be spending the holiday. two big reasons. the city scores high for the large number of things to do and how easy it is to access gifts. san francisco tied for first for the most chocolate shops per capita. it scored well for being budget friendly. san francisco scored 96 out of 100 for this holiday. okay. sure. next at 5:00 a.m., team coverage of b.a.r.t.'s later start.

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>> announcer: good morning north bay. >> this is abc 7 mornings. now at 5:00, a big change affecting hundreds of thousands of b.a.r.t. riders. starting today, b.a.r.t. service starts later. >> we're already seeing long lines and confusion. >> try to clear it up. try to. >> it really is a huge change for folks, and a lot has to be worked out still. it's the first day. >> so we're going to check in, in just a moment. first, we'll check in with the weather this morning. hi, mike. >> hi guys. tracking a few showers towards daly city, south san francisco, pacifica. all the way to half moon bay. if you're coming through the sunol grade and headed into the