closed captioning by closed captioning services,inc . is blaming pg&eollapsed. claiming the utility walk add a from the negotiating table last week. good morning i'm kristen sze. and i'm cheryl jennings. terry mcsweeney joins us from san bruno. >> reporter: a news conference is getting underway inside that room. san bruno city officials say they are beginning a campaign to get pg&e to come back to the negotiating tables and to resume negotiating in good

faith. something that pg&e, the city says has not been doing. take a look at what we are talking about going back to september of 2010, the explosion in san bruno, a devastating impact on the city. eight people were killed, 38 homes destroyed, 70 homes damaged. the negotiations between pg&e and the city were not moving forward, according to the city. take a look at what san bruno says is happening this is what they are announcing right now. they say pg&e walked out on negotiations and they did that last week. the city says, it will join formal negotiations with the puc and teague to make sure that the city -- and pg&e to make sure that the city is fully compensated and there's a significant fine for pg&e. the city wants pg&e to fully fund itselfy million dollar compensation trust fund which to -- its 70 million dollar compensation trust fund. in addition to the money paid to the city of is and that

could go for anything. the city manager talked to us about that a short time ago. >> that damage we believe will last generations long past the time that the homes are rebuilt, streets are repaired. we are anxious to see the community's interests are adequately and fairly resolved. pg&e to get their reaction to this campaign in the words of san bruno city officials. pg&e has yet to come up with a statement in response. heather ishimaru is inside the news conference now where san bruno city officials are making their announcement. she will have the full story at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. if you would like to see the news conference in its entirety we are streaming it on abc7news.com. terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. law enforcement officials and volunteers continue the grim task of digging for human

remains. convicted killer wesley shermantine directed authorities to the mass grave. shermantine and herzog are(0qpw suspected of up to 30 murders in the 80s and 90s. >> reporter: a san joaquin county spokesman just wrapped up his briefing in the last hour he revealed more about the well where crews are digging and what happens next. crews have been digging since friday. they've dug at least 45 so far they've found at least 1,000 bones and fragments. personal items, including clothing and journal . the big dan when serial killer wes shermantine made a deal a map in exchange for money he calls the location herzog's bone yard in reference to his partner loren herzog. the well was bought by a rancher in 1982. that rancher tells investigators he filled in the well in the years that sure how deep the

well. >> we are trying to find information about how deep that well goes. we're not being too successful. it was dug back in the 1800s. there's a second well not on the same property. as soon as we get done with this well then we are going to the second site and evaluate that and see what with we need to do there. >> reporter: there's a bay area connection. 9-year-old michaela garecht disappeared in 1988 shermantine hinted that herzog kidnapped and killed the girl. her family is anxious to learn if her remains will be found with the others. the remains of a 16-year-old has been tentatively identified. she vanished from a stockton high school in 1985. wheeler is the second victim to be id'd. shermantine led investigator to the remains of a 25-year-old.

the sheriff's department is scheduled to give another update on the dig this afternoon. we will bring you any new information on abc7 news at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. katie marzullo, abc7 news. security screeners at oakland airport found more than just peanut butter in a jar. a man tried to take onboard -- it turned out to be a bag of marijuana. police questioned the man and cited him, they also seized his pot. tsa says it at least the second time in the last four months that screeners have found pot hidden inside a peanut butter jar. caltrans decided this morning that conditions are clear enough to go with the planned closure at the upper deck of the bay bridge. live look right now from our capra, bay bridge, hd camera westbound closure will begin friday night at 8 p.m.

scheduled to reopen 5 a.m. tuesday the weekend closure is needed to allow crews to do paving, lane reconfiguration and demolition work on the new span. caltrans expecteds the bridge to open tuesday any unexpected rain could extent the closure and we have a new tool that can help everyone trying to get around the weekend bridge closure back-up. >> it is great. jonathan bloom shows us how to avoid all those traffic jams. >> announcer: driving to work, okay. >> reporter: ben commutes into san francisco across the bay bridge. >> normally this is terribly backed up in is the worst bart of my trip. >> reporter: from friday night until tuesday morning there won't be any back-up because the upper deck will be closed if he has to drive into the city ben says he will use waze. >> i will use it to know which bridge i should take.

>> reporter: instead of relying on road sensors waze gets data from every user in real-time making it suited to help during a major bridge closure. >> there could be dozens of alternate routes those routes will change minute by minute. >> reporter: by using the app you are automatically contributing your speed and location. >> the more users we have the more i'll be able to do my entire report. >> reporter: since traffic reporter frances ding drink began featuring waze more -- dinglasan began featuring waze more than 2,000 users have joined. >> someone submitted a picture. >> reporter: a passenger took this picture, remember using your phone's touch screen while drive something dangerous and illegal now you can report traffic without touching your phone. just wave your hand overyour iphone and waze will ask questions to make a report. >> i would have never reported

that previously. hands-free makes it easy. >> reporter: it can navigate to stored locations like home and work. >> driving home. >> reporter: waze will up to the minute status on the weekend closure and reopening of the bay bridge. in san francisco, jonathan bloom, abc7 news. >> you see how easy it is. you can become a traffic spotter by downloading the waze app, it is free for information on how to download waze visit abc7news.com/waze. still ahead, cancer patients and doctors beware the widely used drug made by local biotech giant that is being counterfeited. how did it happen? new focus for investigators trying to determine how whitney houston died.

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retaliation for new international sanction. the white house says it shows iran's leaders are under a lot of internal pressure. congressional leaders from both parties praising a deal to extend a payroll tax cut cutting the issue 6.2% social security tax taken from paychecks by two percentage points saving families making $50,000 about $1,000 in taxes. the agreement calls for extending unemployment benefits it would add 100 billion dollars to the federal deficit. >> we are working on some of the finer points. we feel good about the course of action. >> we were not going to allow the democrats to continue to play political games and raise taxes on working americans. >> the current tax cut and extra jobless benefits end march 1st, unless congress votes to extend them. the house could vote this week. investigators have issued subpoenas for medical and pharmacy records from whitney

houston's doctors. the coroner's office says it is standard procedure in most death investigations. investigators found several boths of prescription medication. the beverly hill -- in the beverly hills hotel room she died in. houston's ex-husband bobby brown issued a statement today saying their daughter's condition is improving. 18-year-old bobbi kristina was taken to the hospital a day after her mother's death. 20/20 will air a two hour whitney houston special friday night at 9:00 here on abc7. a bay area biotech giant has a warning. there are counterfeit vials of the drug avastin on the market. doctors prescribe it to treat cancer bringing six billion dollars a year in profits for the company. the company says the fakes don't contain the drug's key

ingredient and don't say the name on the pack damaging. the company is working with the government to track down the fakes. meteorologist mike nicco with the forecast. >> breezy again today bringing in clean air mass one that could cause frost the next couple of nights. new chance of rain has crept into the weekend forecast. he's the biggest buzz in the nba right now and everyone from new york to taiwan is toasting jeremy lin. caught on video, a man steals a $6,000 rolex from an airport security check point. the reward being of

5, 4, lin for the win, got it! >> it doesn't get more lynn sane than this. palo alto's own jeremy lin sinks a three pointer. this is the sixth straight win lin has led the knicks to since coming off the bench 11 days ago. lynn insanity has spread all wait to taiwan. -- lin-sanity has spread all the wait to taiwan. -- all the way to taiwan. jeremy lin's sudden rise has landed him the latest sports illustrated cover as as if this is not incredible enough the white house spokesman revealed president obama is tracking lin saying his story is one that transcends the sport. i see a game coming on between

the president and jeremy. >> a little linmania. >> pretty huge. >> mike some changes coming. still out there, pretty fast, let's show what is going on as far as the camera bouncing around up on vollmer peak looking towards emeryville, san francisco, sutro tower in the distance. the winds are gusting up around 30, 35 miles per hour in some of our higher elevations. a little choppy on the bay. definitely see that flag blowing out of the north northwest right now as we look back from south beach towards the northeast. rain showers developed over napa mill valley 2/10 of an inch there. everybody else measured in the hundredths. once they blew through the winds brought a quiet commute storm all the way down in l.a. headed ford san diego higher

elevations -- headed for san diego, it is a cold car system. low to mid 50s now almost total sunshine monterey bay the same. we'll keep to mostly sunny, breezes also once the sunsets the atmosphere while decouple that means it will get calmer allowing it to be colder during the night and warmer during next couple of afternoons. chance of rain sunday into monday now possibly scattered showers friday night also. first let's talk about today upper 50s to low 60s with our breezes fastest over the ocean where they could get up to 30, 35 higher elevations right now around 20, 30 in most of our neighborhoods. monterey bay same situation 56 monterey everybody else inland upper 50s to low 60s. wind advisories throughout the central valley.

advisories lake tahoe, 30, snow starting to taper. we'll see all that wet weather and mountain snow around southern california 64 in palm springs. back home, lack of clouds and winds means frost is possible in the north bay valleys mid to upper 30s east bay, fremont, palo alto south around san francisco, oakland richmond and up towards san rafael, low to mid 40s. here's that cold front sweeping to the south high pressure pushing the storm track inland for the next about 48 hours. come friday night that's when we'll start to see within or two of these little impulses break off and come down saturday morning scattered showers saturday afternoon fine. sunday looks like a few showers in the north bay and out over the coast. sunday night i think the bulk of the wet weather still stay over the coast snow in the sierra that's the reason why bay bridge open or they are going to be working on it

because the rainfall amounts are very light most in the north bay or out over the ocean. snow weekend up in the sierra, if you are heading that way, keep it here we'll let you know how much in the next couple of days. temperatures close to normal, if not warmer tpwhaoebgs. with the -- twitter mobile users are giving the company more information than they realized. twitter admits when you tap the find friends feature the company server downloads your entire address book that includes name, e-mail addresses and phone numbers. information is kept for 18 months. now i have to rethink my twitter account. the company says it will update its app to let users know the information is being downloaded it does not say the practice is going to stop. >> search is on this morning for a man who swiped a very expensive watch that a passenger left behind at airport security it happened at the ft. lauderdale airport

in florida. surveillance video shows the man taking the $6500 rolex watch. police believe the thief caught a flight to north carolina and they plan to subpoena passengers on that plane. there's a $1,000 reward for his arrest. still ahead, millions watched prince william and princess kate say i do. now barbie is getting a royal wedding. the new dolls you can own, next. oscar sunday is february 26th,. you can predict winners get the latest buzz righto oscar.com you can download the app for iphones and ipads.

a much needed storm ing new snow in the sierra which means improved ski conditions. >> let's check in at heavenly ski resort. you are getting blown around. >> reporter: yeah, it is blowing up here right now. we've got 14 new inches of snow since monday we got eight inches overnight, five a couple days ago, skiing conditions are going to be awesome for the weekend. >> russ, what percentage of your runs are open now? >> we've opened up a lot of terrain with the new snow, 50% of the mountain open, 2400 acres, a little something for

everybody. black diamond, open falls, going to be a great weekend we are looking forward it to. >> russ, thank you for braving the elements to be with us. see you this weekend. >> thank you guys! later today at 4:00, something everybody loves could make you sick. the cars with the most toxic new car smell at 4:00. then at 5:00, the medical outbreak in san mateo jails delaying court cases those stories and more later today. finally, 's famous royal couple is going plastic in a limit edition barbie collection. the dolls of the prince and princess will go on sale in april in time for their first anniversary, april 28th. >> william will be featured in his especially commissioned military uniform and kate in her custom made dress accessorized with a tiara and veil. >> the set will cost $100.

>> one last check of the weather with mike. >> you would like to have hair like those dolls today. winds 30 in livermore, 20, 30 around the bay area, tangible if you are going out over the next couple of hours. that's going to do the it for now, thanks for joining us on abc7 news. >> who wants to be a millionaire is next. >> have a great day. >> by! closed captioning by closed captioning services,inc

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