the house in question is near the corner of 9th and virginia streets in west berkeley, not far from san pablo avenue. nbc's traci grant joins us at city hall tonight. ed and legally, can berkeley do this? >> reporter: well, they have done it twice before, actually, but it took a lot of legal wrangling. residents called them the neighbors from hell and now it seems like people here at city hall want to do something about it. >> they did buy a house here but they did not buy the neighborhood. >> reporter: despite that tom ter mitt says it feels like the people who live in this home of the 1700 block of 9th street in berkeley have taken over the neighborhood. he says he and the other homeowners on this street have endured 30 years of problems associated with that house. fights, noise, fireworks, but recently, he realized it was even worse than he thought. >> talking about this does not include reports that have been generated from other cities. >> reporter: at a meeting last thursday with the city of berkeley zoning adjustment board, nine uniformed police officers showed up, sat alongside angry neighbors and descri

west grand now for most cars. hot spot is westbound 205 in tracy this is waze traffic application 16 miles per hour as you can see ading to 580 approaching that crash, looks like west grant line slow heading through the area. i was thinking of the it as a possible alternate, but we are seeing slowing there as well now i want to take you back to the traffic maps to talk a new injury crash reported this is southbound 101 at will fred look out for this because i -- at wilfred look out for this, because i think it might slow things down. that crash is on the shoulder no slowing at this point through san mateo good news for you. flooding reported southbound 505 at midway as i head towards vacaville if you want to -- as you head towards vacaville if you want the waze app go to abc7news.com/waze and join our traffic spotter group. >>> definitely a slow down so be careful out there. >> 6:20 now. >>> clicking the dislike button. the angry bay area mothers taking a direct stan against an unpopular face book policy. >>> oscar sunday february 26th, right here on abc7. you can predict winners and get the latest buzz right now

west. "today in the bay's" tracie potts is live in tampa, florida now to tell us more. >> reporter: marla,morning. next stop -- nevada. it is a caucus state, not nearly as big as florida in terms of the 50 delegates that were awarded here but it is going to be an important stop because now we've got several smaller caucus states that these candidates are going to have to try to withn i the month of february. in florida romney won every major voting bloc here in florida. we learned overnight that he will now get secret service protection as well. apparently a result of a request by his campaign. newt gingrich, who tried to compete here, negative ads between the two went back and forth. in the end was unable to pull out anything close to a win. he says though moving forward he's going to compete everywhere, that florida is not the end of the road. rick santorum and ron paul, third and fourth respectively here in florida, also hope they can gain some steam, get some momentum in those upcoming caucus states. but for now it is mitt romney and florida and those 50 delegates that he won here last

tracie potts , wbal-tv 11 news. >> now traffic pulse 11 and insta-weather plus together. >> a few things going on. there is a west side problem at frederick road. it is off to the side. all lanes get by. we're down to 23 miles per hour. on the southbound harrisburg expressway, speeds around 57. the j.f.x. smoothly into town. a problem in harford county, a vehicle fire. six the fork in the white marsh area on southbound 95. problem free at the harbor tunnel. this is the outer loop at frederick. building but most of that is a volume. the accident is off to the side. this is 95 at 24. southbound traffic continues to move well. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> good morning. things will change by the tail end of the weekend. it is ok for now. 32 at the airport. 28 in frederick. 34 in parkville. we have mostly clear skies. a beautiful sunrise. go outside and check that out. a big storm in the rocky mountains is producing blizzard conditions around denver. a piece of that storm is going to slide across the country and maybe give us a chance for some light rain or snow on superbowl sunday. cooler conditions tod

west 80 good heading towards vallejo. now the waze traffic app, commuters have turned on this free app and they are on the roads out of tracy still looking good flew the altamont pass even -- good through the altamont pass. this is a great tool to have, you can check out traffic wherever other commuters have turned on this app. you can go to abc7news.com/waze to download it to your iphone or smartphone it will be especially helpful to get around the bay bridge closure this weekend. >>> our time is 5:11. >>> just to follow up on what frances said it is decision day we'll know in hours if the planned closure of the upper deck of the bay bridge this weekend is a go for work. we will show thank you exclusive waze to navigate around the closure. >> weather is going to be a big factor in that. >> warning about a controversial breast cancer fighting drug. >>> the valentine's day tradition that is not a big hit with san francisco cleanup crews. more colors. same edge. droid razr by motorola. buy one for $199.99, get another one free. and back for a limited time, get twice the data for the same low price. verizon. >> closed captioni

tracy is in washington this morning. ben, good morning. >> reporter: it is a very sad morning here on the west coast and at this elementary school where these two young boys went. their father, josh powell, has been considered a so-called person of interest since 2009 when his wife disappeared. then this past week on wednesday a judge refused to give him custody of his boys, and that may be why police say he set his house on fire, killing himself and his children. this home video shot minutes after firefighters first arrived on the scene shows the home of josh powell engulfed in flames. >> just heard a huge explosion. it shook my house. and then i ran outside, and the whole house was on fire. almost immediately. >> reporter: inside, officials found the bodies of powell and his two young sons, 7-year-old charles and 5-year-old braden. >> there's some things we may never know because the person who murdered the two kids killed himself, and he may be the only one with answers. >> reporter: about 10 minutes before the fire started, powell reportedly sent his attorney an email that read, i'm sorry, goodbye. then just minutes a

because west side ag districts, west side irrigation district, del puerto irrigation district, their water will be shut off this year with a 30% water allocation. the city of tracy is important. they should have their water. 30% water allocation is unacceptable. so, the inconsistencies are -- around the valley are certainly interesting as these different amendments come up, but why divide a community that relies on the water that comes out of this allocation? mr. chairman, i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from california. mr. mcnerney: mr. chairman, i thank my colleague for his remarks. drought affects everyone. my big concern here is protecting the water quality of the delta. right now we see saltwater coming into the delta, we see farmers pumping water and having salt in it, not able to use it, needing additional treatments. all i'm asking is that the secretary look at the bill and prevent parts of the bill that will deteriorate water quality from going into effect until we're sure that it's safe. we're not asking for anything other than that. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the ge