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bay area, so bundle up if you're headed out. it's going to be dry, but chilly for those of you out and about. >> we knew this day was coming. we knew it. the second that he had to go away, that he was going to come back. >> and former 40 niner dana stubblefield set to go free more than a month after his rape conviction was overturned. good morning everybody. it's saturday, february 8th. as you step out you will feel the freeze as we did. >> yeah. well, you know, it's about to expire right now, but we're going to redo that again for your sunday morning, monday morning and even tuesday morning as that cold air is certainly with us. the air mass is dry and that allows for exceptional radiational cooling. but right now we're warmer than we were last couple of hours. so we're in the low 40s, san francisco, upper 30s in hayward, upper 40s along the coast. that's come up quite a bit. and we still have a couple of 30s from our inland valleys, livermore and petaluma. so that 24 hour temperature change is extreme in livermore,

but not as extreme as it was right along the coast. in other words, it's still cold out there, and we go through 9:00 with all 40s. and by about 11:00 we're in the 50s. we have to wait right through 11, 12:00 to warm through the mid and even some upper 50s by late in the day. those will be further to the south, san jose and gilroy back into our frost advisory and freeze warning again tonight. stephanie. >> all right lisa. thank you. new this morning a house fire in san jose overnight. take a look. crews responded to the scene at this two story home near woodland terrace. there were no injuries, but seven people will now have to find a new place to live. we're told a cat died in this fire. crews were able to fully extinguish the flames, but the incident, of course, is still under investigation. in the north bay, people living along the russian river in sonoma county can return home. the sheriff's office has downgraded the evacuation order to a warning. residents are advised to keep an eye out in case flooding happens again. sky

seven footage of at least one home you see here, still partially underwater. sonoma county officials also released the names of two people who died during this week's storms. the victims were found in flood waters in separate parts of the county. 61 year old john radich from calistoga was found wednesday night in a culvert on franz valley road in santa rosa. deputies say he was stuck in that flooded culvert. frank robinson and 81 year old from sebastopol was also found in flood waters on sanford road. his bike was seen nearby. he had been reported missing since wednesday evening. developing overnight. hamas has released three more israeli hostages in exchange for dozens of palestinian prisoners. three male civilians were released today as a part of the cease fire agreement between hamas and israel. they had been held by hamas for the past 16 months. the men appeared to be in tough condition compared to the other

18 hostages that have been released so far. it's unclear if hamas and israel have entered talks to begin the second phase of this cease fire. if no truce is reached, the war could resume in early march. the trump administration has sent an earthquake through the medical research community. the national institutes of health is going to be cutting funding by $4 billion. and as abc seven news reporter tara campbell explains, it's going to affect local researchers who are working on everything from cancer to hiv. >> friday night, a blow to the bay area's medical researchers. >> this is going to be a disaster. >> president trump's administration announcing the national institutes of health is slashing critical funding to universities and medical centers. >> we will not be able to function because we need the infrastructure, we need the staff. we need people to help us put in the grants. >> the nih cutting what's called indirect cost payments down to

15%. the payments are made to universities in conjunction with the grants the nih doles out for research. the money covers everything from administrative staff to facilities such as labs and top research. universities can typically see rates well above 50%. >> so to go down drastically to 15% was shocking. today. >> doctor monica gandhi is the director of the ucsf center for aids research. >> we will go down to an indirect rate that's so drastically cut, we won't be able to do a lot of our work. >> i'm also very worried about the uncertainty of what's going to happen. >> doctor pamela munster is a professor of medicine at ucsf. her cancer treatment, research and clinical trials are often the last line of hope. >> my patients who are in clinical trials that are funded by the national cancer institute, are they continuing with their treatment? and like a lot of patients, as you can imagine, are quite anxious. >> meanwhile, doctor gandhi says the impacts will be far

reaching. >> everyone who works at ucsf, which is of course, one of the biggest employers in the city of san francisco. they are largely funded by the infrastructure support from the nih. >> as of friday night, the nih funding cuts are set to go into effect monday. tara campbell, abc seven news. >> san francisco is suing the trump administration over sanctuary city policies. the lawsuit challenges the president's executive order mandating federal agencies cut funding to local jurisdictions with sanctuary policies. >> since his first term, donald trump has tried different ways to coerce cities into doing the job of the federal government and carrying out federal immigration enforcement. >> santa clara county joined san francisco as plaintiffs in this lawsuit. the legal action comes a day after the justice department sued the city of chicago and the state of illinois over their sanctuary

policies. meanwhile, there's a call for change here in california following president trump's executive order banning transgender athletes from womens school sports. a group of students, parents and organizations showed their stance in support of the ban at a california interscholastic federation council meeting. the cif is the governing body for high school sports across the state. >> be brave. stand up for girls. save girls sports. >> i want to strongly exhort each and every one of you to stand up and protect these young girls who have been competing for years in their sport. >> every morning it's something else. so we we're in a lot of pain. i'm open to talking about the regulations to try to make sure there's a level playing field, but this is not what it's being used for. >> the cif announced that it's not wavering from a commitment for inclusion, despite the president's order. new developments former 40 niners star dana stubblefield is set to

be a free man. a santa clara county judge granted the petition filed by his attorneys for his immediate release. in december, an appeals court overturned stubblefield's 2020 rape conviction, determining prosecutors made racially discriminatory statements during his trial. a violation of california's racial justice act. >> we knew the state was coming. we knew it. the second that he had to go away, that he was going to come back because it was the most infected jury trial that we have ever been a part of professionally. >> prosecutors claim the former nfl star lured a woman to his home with the promise of a babysitting job. stubblefield said the interaction was a paid, consensual transaction. california's attorney general's office is appealing the overturned conviction to the state supreme court. happening today, a goodbye party for a san francisco cannabis shop, the vapor room. it's temporarily closing as the owner, martin olive, recovers. he was shot multiple times outside the shop

just last week. >> very tethered to my pain. and it was. it just would not stop. you know? and then it got worse as more bullets hit me, and i just. i remember confusion and anger and fear. i thought i was going to die on ninth street. >> olive is recovering from seven gunshot wounds. the shooter was killed after a standoff with police. the motive still remains a mystery. friends set up a gofundme account to help olive pay medical bills and other expenses. we have a link posted over on our website, abc seven news.com. all right. it is chilly out this morning. let's check in with lisa. >> yes, we still have some 30s, but as we look out over towards emeryville, we've got 43 at the oakland museum in 47 at the airport. so we're talking about a slow warm up, but at least another ten to maybe 13 degrees for many of you. and we're back to frosty conditions tonight.

and we also have rain in the forecast to talk about. that's all coming up. >> also next. state farm asking to raise rates yet again affecting millions of policyholders across the state of california. i'll take a closer

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degree murder for the stabbing of tech executive bob lee will be sentenced in may. he refused to appear in court yesterday, though three of his attorneys and his mother were present. jurors returned the verdict back in december. >> do you know why he refused to come into court? >> i have no idea. did that surprise you? no. listen, it's a procedural hearing just to set a hearing date. not a big deal. >> is he going to be changing attorneys anytime soon? >> yeah. at this point, the only attorneys would be for appellate purposes. >> bob lee's family is expected to speak in court prior to his sentencing on may 16th. second degree murder carries a sentence of 15 years to life. state farm is asking for an immediate emergency rate hike, potentially affecting all of its california policyholders. the company says it was already struggling prior to the l.a. county wildfires. now i'm taking a closer look at just how bad the company claims its financial situation is and

what critics are saying about it. in the wake of the l.a. fires. state farm sent this letter to the california department of insurance warning of its, quote, dire financial situation, requesting approval for an emergency rate hike. an average 22% increase for homeowners, a 15% increase for condo owners, and a 38% spike for rental dwellings. >> state farm is having trouble remaining profitable in california, and a big reason is that the claims the cost of doing business have gone up. >> state farm is the country's largest insurer, responsible for 20% of the premiums in the areas affected by the l.a. wildfires. the company says it's received more than 8700 claims, and has already paid $1 billion to customers. >> when there are claims it's more expensive to repair the homes or even have to rebuild a new home from scratch. construction costs, structural materials those prices have gone way up. >> but critics say state farm refuses to provide proof it

needs the hike. >> this request is really outrageous to this point. state farm has only delayed and refused to respond to requests, both from consumer watchdog and the department of insurance, to prove the rate increase was justified. >> carmen balber, the executive director of consumer watchdog, argues records show state farm has plenty in the bank, reporting the company made $1.4 billion in homeowners insurance from 2020 to 2022. and she says state farm's parent company has $135 billion in the bank. >> and if anyone should be bailing out state farm in california, it's the parent company who's profited. >> in order for this to move forward, the rate hike has to be approved by the state's insurance commissioner, ricardo lara, in response to state farm's announcement. his office wrote, to protect millions of california consumers and the integrity of our residential property insurance market, the department will respond with urgency and transparency to recommend a course of action for commissioner lara. >> it's shameful for state farm

to be trying to take advantage of this tragedy. >> now, state farm was already granted a 20% rate increase in march of last year. four months later, the company requested another 30% hike last july, but that was never approved. so this 22% potential spike would amend that one and if approved, it would go into effect may 1st. and lisa, i know this is the last thing you want to hear as you've seen the impacts of this. >> yes. and i've been going to my friendly seven on your side to help me out because i'm having issues too. and yeah, i think it's ridiculous, but. >> we're going to get you some help. >> yes. thank you. stephanie. seven on your. stephanie is on your side. so yes, hopefully we'll get some answers. we'll get answers. all right. good morning everybody. we're starting out certainly chilly with our frost and freeze advisory expiring. but that is cold air. as you look at live doppler seven right now that speckling of the clouds and that is going to continue to infiltrate into the bay area. not only is it cold, it's going

to get drier. so the drier the air, the quicker it warms up and the quicker it cools down. so there's not a lot of moisture in the atmosphere. and so that's why we bottom out lack of wind. and we'll be looking at those conditions for the next several days. even colder for our sunday night into monday time frame. okay. look how blue it is there. you can see tam in the background. so pretty. 39 in hayward, 46 in san jose with 50 half moon bay. you are in the upper 30s this morning, so that gives you an indication of how quickly you cool off and warm up with that dry air. mass 43 santa rosa 42 in napa with still just 35 and fog in livermore. so very chilly out there, so clear and cold this morning looking at sunny afternoons and a continuation of those frosty mornings right on through tuesday until we see a return to the rain that's going to bring in our storm impact scale. and we're looking at probably the rainiest day coming in on thursday. and here's a look at where we stand so far in terms of rain. we don't need any more

in santa rosa, where we're 170% of average, with 34in of rain, 110% of average, over 15in. in san francisco, hayward is almost ten inches of rain above average. looking good. concord, though, could use some help with only three inches of rain and 4.5in for san jose with 59% of average. our snowpack is good in the northern sierra, sort of adequate southern central sierra. and then as we get down south, we need more rain in this impact that we're going to see coming up. this is a look at our atmospheric river. looks like it's going to hit into central and southern california when the rain returns wednesday, thursday and friday. so that's good news for southern california. of course, all the wire wildfire ravaged areas not going to be able to absorb this rain anywhere from 2 to 4in of rain locally. los angeles probably upwards of near two inches. the rest of us lesser amounts. and these models still battling it out, wanting to bring more rain

to san jose than san francisco. we'll see if that pans out, but it looks like we could see upwards of half inch to an inch, maybe in our inland valleys. that would be really good. 56 in fremont, 59 is one of the warmer locations today in san jose. but overnight tonight, once again very cold with temperatures near freezing and numbers even on the coast the next few days really dropping further. the accuweather seven day forecast. we're dry, we're sunny, we're cold the next four days, and then the storm impact scale with a level one on wednesday, thursday and friday. so by that time, i'm sure the north bay will be able to handle the rain, even though it's been a lot. >> and as for the rain next week, the south bay potentially could be impacted more. >> yes, and hopefully the east bay too where they need it. right, right. >> all right lisa, thank you. and still ahead this morning, some business owners in the mission district are excited to see the valencia bike lane go away. the question is when it

a world war two airman declared missing in action, was finally laid to rest here in the bay area. sergeant yin hoppe was 20 years old when his plane was shot down during a mission in germany. his family searched for answers for years and finally got them last june. sergeant hoppe was identified through dna and a 2013 match of information on three captured airmen at a cemetery in germany. his flag draped casket arrived at sfo last friday after a service in daly city. yesterday he was taken to his final resting place at golden gate national cemetery. well, construction on the controversial bike lane on valencia street has been pushed back. according to the chronicle, san francisco transportation officials said the wet weather delayed the start of this project. it had been scheduled to start this

monday. the project will remove the bike lane that runs down the center of valencia street and replace it with side running bike lanes. construction is set to cost over $1 million and take 2 to 3 months to complete. the new start date for construction is february 18th. a spider monkey rescued during an unusual traffic stop in the central valley is now on its way to its new home. the monkey was found back in december and here he is after chp officers pulled over the driver of a rolls royce for a dui in madera county. now the animal was severely malnourished and, you may remember, was sent to the oakland zoo for rehab. they named her azules. now the zoo says she's doing much better. after a month of treatment and has left for her new home in an appropriate social group. glad to see her recovery is going on. well, tonight on the red carpet is celebrating oscar season with

all the nominees. >> how does it feel? >> the stars of this year's best movies are feeling good. from the first time nominees to the history makers, to some of the biggest names in hollywood. >> i just feel such a deep sense of gratitude. >> it was a great feeling. >> this is a big honor. >> it just feels really rewarding. >> plus, how this year's oscars telecast will be different in light of the recent fires across southern california. what new oscar host conan o'brien is revealing? don't miss on the red carpet. and the nominees are tonight at 9:00, right here on abc seven. and remember, abc seven is your home for the oscars this year. it's on sunday, march 2nd, and for the first time, the show will stream live on hulu as well. disney, of course, is the parent company of hulu and abc seven. still to come, this morning, a new sculpture in san francisco's hayes valley comes with a

caveat. don't climb. now. the city is having to erect signs

i mean, i know how the fire affected me, and there's always a constant fear that who's to say something like that won't happen again? that's fair. we committed to underground, 10,000 miles of electric line. you look back at where we were 10 years ago and we are in a completely different place today, and it's because of how we need to care for our communities and our customers. i hope that's true. [joe] that's my commitment. [ambient noise]

put into place for an 18 foot tall sculpture in san francisco's hayes valley. the talking head sculpture was installed last month in patricia's green on octavia octavia street. now it was originally created for the burning man festival in nevada, according to the chronicle. it instantly drew visitors and led to increased safety measures. because of so many visitors and after children were seen climbing on the structure. the city has now surrounded the area with temporary safety pylons and signs warning visitors to stay off and for children to avoid climbing on it. that permanent signage is in the works. not quite there yet. when an interesting sculpture. well, the chinese new year parade is officially one week away and abc

seven is the official broadcast partner for the big event is one week from tonight. you can watch the parade live. saturday, february 15th, starting at 6 p.m. right here on abc seven and wherever you stream abc seven news. looking forward to that and not looking forward to the cold freeze again tonight. >> i know i was saying before, if it's not the cold, it's the rain. now we're into the cold and the dry where temperatures are coming out of that frigid range. we've got a panel here of some 40s to near 50. half moon bay, you know, half moon bay was in the upper 30s. so that's a good indication of how quickly the dry air mass warms and cools off. and we're going to have an even drier air mass as we get into sunday and monday. so we could see temperatures drop off. stephanie, into the 20s in some of our coldest inland valleys. and we also could see some upper 30s in san francisco. so more cold air to come, but sunny, dry days through at least tuesday. and then we bring in our storm impact scale, which you would expect for february. >> yes that's right. good day

for soup or stew or something like that. >> couple layers. >> exactly. thank you all for joining us on abc seven mornings. we'll see you back here at five. have

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