places in the city. >> fremont police are investigating a serious crash. you can see this vehicle hit a tree near a pole on mission boulevard at nickel street. police were called to the scene around 8:30 last night. they closed part of the road and redirected traffic. paramedics responded to this incident but police have not said how the driver is doing. it's 4:30. if you're just waking up, here's an update on your weather and traffic. >> here's a look at where the fog is thickest, 101 from petaluma, rohnert park, sebastopol, up towards santa rosa and windsor. visibility a mile or less in this area. this will be around for the entire morning commute. for the rest of us, don't necessarily have fog, if you look from the exploratorium, we have low clouds out there, that will help slow the sunshine today. it didn't slow the cooling down. we're 39 to about 49. seasonally cool this morning. 52 at the coast. 57 to 60 as clouds turn over to haze as we head towards lunch.

53 at the coast. 60 to 63 at 4:00. heading out this evening, 49 to 53. jobina? >> thank you, mike. good morning. good morning to walnut creek, live look here showing you 680 which is beginning to get busy for 4:31. no slowdowns in the area that i'm seeing. nice and quiet at the richmond-san rafael bridge, a live picture showing you one lonely truck making its way to the toll plaza. we have antioch to hercules, 26 minutes. highway 4 to the maze, 13-minute ride. highway 85 to the san jose airport, 7 minutes. overall, look at our map, you can see the only slow spot is the commute coming out of tracy. >> thank you. we're tracking developing news in the south bay. a big police presence in san jose overnight. abc7 news was on vista verde drive as officers searched for a wanted fugitive. there's no word if the suspect is in custody. we'll get you an update as soon as we have it.

part of building a better bay area is building a b.a.r.t. accessible and safe for everyone. >> today the b.a.r.t. board will discuss how to improve the system, they're dealing with declining ridership and growing safety concerns. >> julian glover is live in fremont with the issues they'll take up. >> good morning. it's far from perfect but it's what we have to live with here in the bay area. as you mentioned later today b.a.r.t.'s board will discuss how they can build a better b.a.r.t. that more of us want to use, this comes at a time when ridership is on a steady decline in off-peak times, so nights and weekends. in an article published in the "san francisco chronicle" yesterday, it was reported that b.a.r.t. has seen a drop in 10 million night and weekend passengers since 2015. top concerns were said to be safety, reliability and trains not running in the direction or area that you're trying to get to. inside of b.a.r.t.'s two-day board meeting they'll take up

those concerns like rebuilding ridership perhaps by further increasing service on weekend, b.a.r.t. police department will also be discussing their vision for safety and goals for the riders experience in five years from now come the year 2025. we did not see anything on the agenda discussing the newly launched ambassador program that they now have 10 of those uniformed civilian employees patrolling the trains during those late nights and weekdays. we do know that part of the session will be open to the public. if you got something to say, now is your time to raise tse concerns. the meeting starts at 8:30 in oakland and it is two days. it lasts until friday. reporting live outside of fremont station, julian glover, abc7 news. >> thank you. an attack on a passenger in the east bay is the latest example of the challenges that b.a.r.t. faces. police are searching for the person who attacked a man on a daly city bound train as it was approaching the lake merritt

station about 6:00 p.m. tuesday. police say the suspect attacked the man with a chain after asking him for directions. the victim's injuries were not life threatening. developing news on the coronavirus. a massive jump in cases reported in china. >> there's now more than 60,000 cases worldwide. china reported 14,000 new cases yesterday after implementing a new way to diagnose the virus. 218 people are now infected on the diamond princess cruise ship which is quarantined in the water near tokyo. japan's governor will allow elderly patients and passengers to leave the ship starting tomorrow. a 14th american has now tested positive here in california just hours after the cdc warned the spread of the disease in the u.s. is likely. health officials are warn being a problem with some coronavirus test kits sent to labs across the country including here in california. the cdc says some of the kits are flawed. they don't work properly. they were meant to allow states to do their own testing.

they're supposed to get results faster than if they sent the samples all the way to the cdc in atlanta. the cdc is sending out replacements. we know you want more information about coronavirus so we dedicated one paige on our website to all the stories. you will find that by going to abc7news.com. your voice your vote, a democratic presidential hopeful will visit the bay area today. former south bend indiana mayor, pete buttigieg, is fund-raising for his campaign. he will meet with donors tonight. tomorrow he will hold more events with donors in san francisco and palo alto. pete buttigieg and senator bernie sanders are fighting for front running status and amy klobuchar's chain has gained new momentum. andrew dymburt has a look at the still divided field. >> reporter: good morning,

really after new hampshire, three candidates have a full head of steam moving forward but this is still anyone's race and now candidates have over a week to campaign until their next contest. after the new hampshire primary its bernie sanders leading the democratic pack by a hair. but ahead of the nevada caucuses the culinary union, one of the most influential voting groups in the state, launched a campaign against him saying he wants to end health care for workers. >> in fact, many of the unions are strongly supporting of the medicare for all single pay system. >> reporter: mayor pete buttigieg who came in second in new hampshire and claimed his own victory in iowa is sharpening his attacks on sanders. >> i don't think that even progressives really want to be in a world where we can't keep our promises. >> reporter: amy klobuchar is reintroducing herself to voters. >> hello, america. >> reporter: waiting in the wings billionaire and former new new york city mayor michael bloomberg shaking up the race while shaking off criticism.

>> what do you say to democrats who argue that you're trying to buy this election? >> i'm not trying to buy the election. we've been at this for ten weeks and the best way to communicate in ten weeks is through something like mass media, through television and social media. >> reporter: and next up for these candidates are the nevada caucuses. democratic officials there say they have been working around the clock to make sure that they avoid any of the issues we saw in the iowa caucuses. andrew dymburt, abc news, washington. coming up next, thousands of pg&e customers find themselves in the dark. why the lights went out in an instant. and it's something you don't want to think about, but you can fall victim to robbery in seconds. hear from a former police commander about the smart thing to do if you're confronted. >> i didn't want to think about our warm weather going away. it's not so bad, but we have some fog back. >> that's always a sign that things will be cooler. let's show you the numbers. hi, everybody. here we go. 38 in menlo park. we have 41 in redwood city.

as we climb north on the peninsula, a bit warmer. 45 to 48 degrees. looking at other neighborhoods, in santa rosa, 40 along with livermore, some of our cooler weather. we have 46 in san ramon, fairfield, 43. 51 now in oakland. all right. here's south beach, looking back at the bay bridge. you can see just a little hazy. the clouds are above the bridge right now. there's foggy areas and low clouds for your driving and bay commute. cool this morning, mild this afternoon for mass transit. peninsula is in the 40s through 9:00. near 60 this afternoon for a couple hours. east bay valleys, 42 to 57 at 11:00. low 60s from noon through about 4:00. and then we'll take a look down in the south bay, we're going to see a lot of cloud cover this morning. then more sunshine and low to mid 60s. 60 to about 63 from noon to 5:00.

we'll look at the weekend forecast coming up still a small possibility of wet weather sunday. let's turn it over to jobina. good morning. >> good morning. thank you very much. hello, everyone. happy thursday to you or small friday as i like to call it. green across the board. the commute out of tracy on 205 is the only slowdown i'm seeing at the moment. moving over to a live look at the san mateo bridge, smooth traffic. it looks a little foggy but not too bad. the golden gate bridge not foggy, looking good. traffic and the fog is clear. the drive times, albany to the maze, 4 minutes. fremont to san jose, 13 minutes. highway 101 to cupertino, ten minutes. it will be a nice r brzezinsktom steyer...k at this.

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obama: at a time when washington is divided in old ideological battles he shows us what can be achieved when we bring people together to seek pragmatic solutions. bloomberg: i'm mike bloomberg and i approve this message. here's a look at the weather around the state today. 70s holding on around l.a., palm springs and fresno. we have 61 in monterey with cloud cover. 67 in sacramento. 66 in chico. showers possible in eureka. 57 in yosemite, look at the dwindling snow pack. 58% of average. we are not going to add to that in any significant way. we have temperatures above average. low to mid 50s today, tomorrow and saturday. sunday 50 with a light mix at the highest elevations, then a cold front will bring us back to

average, no snow next week. >> thanks. an opera performance and thousands of homes went black during a power outage in san francisco. pg&e says underground equipment failed just before 8:00 last night. the opera was canceled because of the outage. a pg&e map shows the areas impacted. some 9100 customers were without power. most of them in ash bury and hayes valley neighborhoods. laguna and ivy street were blocked as crews tried to work on the issue. they had power restored by midnight. police are searching for a robbery suspect in the east bay that could be linked to several crimes. richmond police say on monday a robbery suspect robbed a victim at gun point in the business district. the suspect demanded money and property and ran away. investigators are working with officers in other east bay cities to see if the richmond suspect is connected to other crimes. he does resemble one of them

caught on camera attacking and robbing that man in his oakland driveway on monday. you see the red pants look similar. so what should you do if you're attacked or have video of a crime on your property? anser hassan talked with an expect to get us some tips. >> reporter: this man vacuuming his car on monday afternoon doesn't see his attackers coming, but he stayed calm which might be why he's still alive said richard correa. >> one thing to do is stay calm. >> reporter: he says an attack like this could happen fast but it's important to try and stay calm. no unexpected movement and only do what you're told to do. >> don't do anything that they haven't asked you to do. it's a very dangerous time. >> reporter: he says it can be tough but try to make mental note of the suspects.

like what they're wearing and hairstyles, and listen to what they say and do. >> here there's two fellas committing the crime. they may very well have dialogued at some point. people should focus on that and remember it. >> maybe give a name? >> a name. >> there's really no policing is what i'm frustrated about. >> reporter: mike, who lives in the oakland hills has ring video of people trying to break into his car. but he says people have to be proactive. don't leave anything of value visible in your car. and even if suspects aren't caught, it's always important to file a police report. >> because if there's block after block of no break ins and then two square blocks where there's break-ins every single day at certain hours, the police can step in at that point. >> reporter: anser hassan, abc7 news. san francisco public works is sweeping up dirty sidewalks. the department will launch a new initiative today to deep clean neighborhoods with businesses. crews will start at the corner of eddy and larkin street and

move on to other streets. crews will steam clean the sidewalks, cover up graffiti and pick up litter. you're never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. >> here's mike. >> here's one of our colder neighborhoods. walnut creek, loong south on 680, it's 39 degrees now. as you head south, you're looking at that haze and fog that's starting to push through the east bay hills. that's going to lead to cooler conditions, plus we'll have some clouds roll in over top. that will block out the sunshine and enhance the cooling today. seasonal tonight with dense fog returning and mainly dry except for that slight chance of rain sunday. the best chance now is over the north bay. for highs today, we have 58 at half moon bay. 59 at san francisco. 60 to 64 around the bay. about 62 to 66 in our inland neighborhoods that will see sunshine a bit quicker like the east bay and south bay. here's tonight. you can see widespread fog once again with temperatures of 41 at

napa, santa rosa and cloverdale to 47 in san francisco. let's jump ahead to saturday evening, clouds roll in. storm system to the north dipping down during the morning hours. the best chances of measurable, steady light rain in the north bay, the rest of us with drizzle and fog. by the afternoon hours, it's still around mendocino county, that's it. once we get to sunday evening. let's see if there's measurable rain out there to be had. we will start at midnight and go through about 8:00. you can see a couple hundredths of an inch out there. that's it. my accuweather seven-day forecast, you're seeing temperatures about the same tomorrow. a little bit of warming saturday before that chance of rain sunday. slightly seasonal temperatures and breezy for presidents' day. jobina? >> thank you. good morning. julian glover told you about this commuter alert earlier in the week. i'm bringing it back, you can expect this to be in effect through mid 2022. the express lane construction for the san mateo 101 project is

what it's called. 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. expect nightly lane closures between 380 in south san francisco and whipple avenue. in san jose, showing you 87 here. nice and clear. same thing goes in emeryville, showing you 80 right now headlights making their way towards the maze and the bay bridge toll plaza. no metering lights are on. we have tracy to dublin, 36 minutes. antioch to concord, 13 minutes. san rafael to san francisco, 15 minutes. kumasi? >> thank you. a major tech conference has been canceled over fears of coronavirus. >> and spotify is out with the most popular valentine's day songs. here's tech bites. in today's tech bites, the world's biggest smartphone trade show canceled because of the coronavirus. >> the world mobile congress was set later this month in spain. organizers announced the cancellation after amazon, sony and facebook pulled out of the event over fears of the viruses spread. facebook's whatsapp

messaging service has more than 2 billion users. >> that's up from 1.5 billion users two years ago. the company's ceo is promising to fend its fully private form of messaging despite growing pressure from lawmakers. and the songs you'll need if you're looking for love this week. >> spotify released its list of the most streamed songs on valentines day. ed sheeran's thinking out loud is number two, and "all of me" by john legend is number one. >> those are good ones. >> am i basic if i just listen to those? >> that's all right. very touching. the oakland zoo takes a stand to help the environment. what it's saying no to starting today. sfo is about to give visitors a spectacular new vul of the airport. you don't need a plane ticket to avoid it. skin care just got sweeter. >> oh. >> why you might be craving dessert after you try this new lip balm.

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all right. let's look at 5 to 7 inches below where we should be for the rainfall deficit. so far no measurable rain this month in san francisco. and that could tie us for 1864 with the only month besides this month that has not had any measurable rain. we've been as low as 0.04 in

1963, a tenth of an inch in 1889. >> 1864? >> all right, that's going back deep. vision zero in san francisco means safety improvements are coming to a busy intersection in the panhandle. construction is under way at mass son massonic avenue and oakland streets including signals that give pedestrians a longer time to get across. where this has happened in other laces, pedestrian/car crashes has gone down 60%. starting today, the oakland zoo is going plastic free so they will no longer sell plastic bottles. the three sculptures will be on display and they represent the growing plastic pollution in our oceans. >> okay. a big change coming to sfo. here's a live look at airport. by the end of the week you'll

get a new vantage point of it. >> really we wanted to calf out space for the public to enjoy. that's where we're standing now today. it's great that we're able to work that into this project. >> it's called the sfo sky terrace. you will find it at terminal 2. the 3,000 square foot indoor and outdoor lounge cost more than 6 million bucks to build. it opens to the public tomorrow and you do not need a plane ticket to get inside. it's before security. >> have you seen it? >> i just seen it through julian glover's eyes. he gave us that tour yesterday it looks really cool. >> it is neat. a nice view, with those 10 1/2 foot glass walls you can see just about everywhere. it's neat. let's talk about what's going on with the drought monitor. it will update in about an hour. this is from last week's data. nothing changed from week to week here or across the state. as you know, we have not received any rain. so it's likely that could spread but it's a temporary item right

now because our reservoirs are still doing rather well compared to the historic average thanks to the last couple of winters. they've gone down a percent or two, but when you look at 93% of historic average to 136%, that's why people are still not talking about how dry it is. once these start to drop, then you will hear people talk about it. let's get over to jobina. hi. >> good morning. good morning, everyone, looking live at the bay bridge. things are moving nice and smoothly. it's not too crowded at the toll plaza. you should not expect delays if you're headed into san francisco. live look showing you 880 at the coliseum, those headlights making their way south. our drive times here pulling up for you all, albany to the maze, 4 minutes. fremont to san jose, 14 minutes. highway 101 to cupertino, a 10-minute ride. bringing you the overall map, you can see we do not have major slowdowns except one here coming out of tracy for our super commuters. you can expect speeds to be slow on 205 and moving over at the

toll plaza, you can see as you get through it, nice and clear on the bridge. >> thanks. fans of oreo cookies have another way to enjoy the sweet treat. it looks like the real thing but this oreo is just for your lips. it's flavored lip balm that looks like the cookie. we can enjoy the smell and taste of an oreo all the time? milk's favorite cookie is a hit in this form. the lip balm is sold out on amazon, if you want it, you can't. >> would you want that? >> no. you know i love lip balm, i don't need it to taste like food. >> no food at all? >> un-huh. i don't need it. >> no. keep it flavorless. keep it flavorless and keep it moving. >> i don't know if i agree. >> just want it if it's lemon. >> i like the lemon oreos. i'll wait for that version. >> i'm sure it's coming. next at 5:00, live in

richmond with a vote to rename a school in honor of former first lady michelle obama. and car break ins are one of the most frustrating crimes in san francisco. now there's a new plan to help victims. i'm back. it's okay. i'm not sick. that's the important thing. >> this is sweet. a bay area family finally reunited after a mother and her daughter were kept away for weeks over a coronavirus scare. and we're taking a live look outside at the city, sales force tower. 4:57. we'll be right back.

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when tom says we can save the world and do it together believe him. i'm tom steyer and i approve this message. . welcome to 5:00 a.m. on this thursday, february 13th. >> a lot of stories to share with you. we know you want to know how to start your day. we're checking in with mike for a look at our temperatures. >> we'll do that. >> i was so happy it was warm. now i don't know what you'll say. >> it will be cooler today. >> oh. >> i promise saturday will be warm. sunday will not be. we'll get a 50/50 weekend.