we're talking roadwork in the north bay both directions of 101 through the novato exit between atherton and highway 37. you will find various lanes blocked. should be wrapping up shortly but there's actually more roadwork in the cotati rohnert park area. watch out for various lanes blocked. the roadwork should be wrapped up by 5 a.m. here's a live look at the golden gate bridge. , looks good this morning through the waldo grade and everything is moving fine across the span into san francisco. elsewhere at the bay bridge toll plaza no delay heading westbound 80, roadwork eastbound 80 if you are heading off of the decline towards oakland. and we have a full freeway closure pittsburg eastbound 4 at loveridge should wrap up with caltrans about 5:30 this morning and westbound 4, that looks great through antioch. up and down the nimitz if you are traveling through oakland, once again we have our ongoing roadwork between fruitvale and 980 so watch out for that. passing the coliseum good to hayward. mass transit continues to roll along on time. no issues this morning with bart, ace, muni and ca

i also want to thank and acknowledge debra atherton. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: it is nice to see everybody. jeff is generous. i was not expecting to be up here. i know you have had a productive day. i think that the public defender's summit is something not to be missed and a template for the rest of california and probably the nation to follow. i am proud of our public defender. i am proud of our criminal justice partners because over the last four years, we have seen a great amount of innovation. jeff and i started the city's first reentry council, and it might be bewildering to you, but before we started it, believe it or not, those stakeholders in the criminal-justice system really very irregularly rarely would come together and talk about ways that we might mitigate, reduce our recidivism rate. great progress has been made, but san francisco still needs to step up its game. i was delighted to hear the conversation that took place here, but no the statistic that for every four people that sanford's is the police department arrests and t

speeds as low as 27 miles an hour traffic backed up to atherton.y of extra time if you are headed into san francisco this morning. new accident in antioch westbound highway 4 approaching summersville right lane blocked this affecting your commute ride this morning as you make your way over to pittsburg. ace train 1, five minute delay. ac transit may have to be rerouted due to ongoing protests in oakland. bay bridge toll plaza, metering lights on, traffic backed up well into the foot of the maze. >>> 6:38. >>> trading underway on wall street now. live report from the new york stock exchange straight ahead. here's a live look at the big board, dow did move this morning up 124 points. >>> heavy hitter adds his support as a giant fan's fight to recover from a traumatic head injury continues. >>> death takes a holiday. california prison officials say executions are on hold for at least another year. >>> sew and bailout in the same sentence. -- solyndra and bailout in the same sentence. following a hearing at the house this morning the day of it is revea

traffic is backed up to atherton avenue. emergency road repairs are being ordered for lanes on the redwood highway. there are two lanes that are reportedly close to 41 a one southbound. more in a complete traffic of the coming up. >>justine: of the white house will be served with a subpoena and related to fremont base solyndra. the hearing has just started. the reason this committee wants to serve the white house with a subpoena is because they are saying that the white house has delayed or denied several requests to hand over thousands of documents related to solyndra. solyndra received a half billion dollars federal long before filing for bankruptcy in september along with laying off thousands of workers, you're looking at video from the day that workers showed up and got their pink slips. in a previous hearing, the ceos lead the fed and refused to answer any questions. an energy department spokesperson says that the administration provided 80,000 pages of documents already. >>mark: we're waiting for the opening bell on wa

the 9th annual bowl, both schools are from atherton. you see in the yellow and in the blue menlo.y must win to get into the playoffs next week. sacred heart prep is already in but the coach says they are not playing this game any differently. >> no, not really. i mean, this is a big game for us. you know, the kids in the school are excited and it is another football game that we want to win and, you know, they had a really good year and we had an okay year. so t is all about this game. we want to win. >> a lot of seniors. i know you are led by your quarterback larson but you have a couple of -- you have like three different running backs and one i really love the name of tyler mccool. yes. we have descent speed in the backfield. we run an offense with 3 backs. obviously your quarterback is important as well. but, you know, all three of those guys can run pretty well. >> reporter: both teams have had nice long drives that come up empty. still 0, 0 in the first quarter. the game is helping another program. the bridge program that goes out to helping underserved youth. all profits fr

also at issue, the impact on the peninsula cities of atherton, menlo park, and palo alto, which suedears ago to block the route. city leaders claim the train would lower property values and divide the cities. the rail says it will draw up new reports. >>> a notorious serial killer sitting on death row in san quinten says he can't be extradited to new york on new murder charges because he is too busy. rodney ocala, also known as the dating game killer because of a stint on the popular tv show said he needs time to work on his appeal of his death sentence. he acts as his own attorney. he was convicted of stranging four women and one girl. dehe says sending him to new york pits his life and death appeal against a nondeath penalty case that is 30 years old. they say the families of the murdered women also deserve justice. >>> well, more on a story we first brought you last week. the peninsula spca now has more than $12,000 of reward money to help track down the person who drown advocate -- a cat in redwood city. the cat had a five-pound weight attached to its neck using plastic zip as fa

roadwork out of novato southbound 101 between atherton and highway 107.ll should be picked up by 6:00 this morning. peninsula roadwork there northbound 101 is closed detours in place. they should be picking that up bay about 5:00. just a few more minutes. before you leave the house, abc7news.com/traffic. >>> as parents this is something we think about for the first time in 30 years the number of overweight school kids in our state is falling. districts are working to reduce that number more. thomas ryan elementary in san jose kids engage in physical activity. the idea to keep kids moving as well as eating right. >> if we do not deal with this epidemic, this is the first generation that will be facing a shorter life span than their parents. >> if you are fit you can live longer. have a healthier life. physically and maybe even mentally. >> right that young man has the message. several districts are offering more fruits and vegetables for lunch and doing away with sugary drinks. only one in nine bay area counties showed fewer obese school children over the

roadwork between 101 ramp to 37 closed until 6:00 this morning at southbound, northbound between 37 and athertonn marin various lanes northbound noncommute correction direction. 880 nimitz near the coliseum. northbound 66 at the coliseum accident on the shoulder no significant delays. san rafael live look coming past lucas valley road towards the civic center moving at the limit just a few headlights southbound. toll plaza very light as you can see, no metering lights. smooth ride into san francisco upper deck. abc7news.com/traffic before you leave the house. >>> tough to listen to this one. new research shows more women are turning to drugs to get to sleep at night. according to a connecticut health care consulting firm nearly 30% of women admit to taking sleeping pills a few nights a week. sleep deprivation is expected among new moms. doctors are hearing more complains from older women about sleep deprivation due to family stress, anxiety and hormonal imbalances. women 40 to 59 are the biggest consumers of sleep aids. doctors say using drugs from time to time to get to sleep is safe. but long

you will find some roadwork through novato on southbound 101 as you pass atherton. mass transit, you know, things could change. but right now everything is on time including for bart. but, of course, we have been talking about this strike, this plant protest around oakland. not sure what that will do. anticipate possible delays also for a.c. transit. muni, caltrain, ferries, everything else no delays. south bay everything is great come out of downtown san jose just a couple of headlights out of downtown on 280. that is traffic. back to you. >> thank you. >>> deaths from prescription painkillers are now at epidemic levels. more people are dying from prescription drugs than from heroin and cocaine combined. prescription drug overdoses have been a big problem for car crashes as a leading cause of preventable deaths in the country and users are starting young. >> usually around 11, 12, 13 years of age, they start dabbling. they may not even know what the name of the pill is and they take it. you know, you go from toddler to experimenter. >> 48 states including californi

roadwork through novato in stretches in both directions between 37 and atherton but through the waldorade everything looks great. south bay roadwork the story up and down some of the freeways especially 880 in both directions between 280 and old bayshore highway, some stuff out there cones and caltrans workers. maybe a little slowing, to be picked up by about 5 a.m., possibly 6 a.m. i think i put up a picture of the san mateo bridge. here's a live look this. camera is just past the toll plaza. so this is across the span. and the right side of your screen is the commute direction. we like to point that out because that's where a lot of folks are going towards foster city and san mateo, a 13-minute drive time from hayward. up and down the nimitz this is a live look at 880 again near the coliseum. quick trip towards downtown oakland. we have been following these "occupy oakland" protests around downtown. it's an active fluid situation still so always possible delays street closures around frank ogawa plaza where the protestors are camped out. so plan accordingly. bart, ace, muni and calt

approved that plan in september. 15,000 people live in the community located between menlo park atherton redwood city. >>> security experts say china is behind a string of cyber tacks that targeted 48 chemical and military-related companies. the report says companies were sent e-mails containing malicious software designed to steal industrial secrets. the attack was traced to a system owned by a these man in his 20s. the government denies being behind the attack saying it too was targeted. >>> can you imagine facebook not based in palo alto? zuckerberg said if he was starting facebook today he would stay in boston. instead he dropped out of harvard where the facebook idea originated and moved out to silicon valley. he says the valley has a short term mentality. but acknowledges his social networking site wouldn't be where today with nearly a billion users worldwide without having silicon valley expertise and capital. >>> 5:15. toyota moving vehicles from the freeway into the family room. the japanese automaker will begin selling robots to help sick and elderly people walk and balance the

all the way to atherton, mid 60s, half moon bay. 64 for you. east bay, san ramon, alamo, dublin, low 60s tomorrow. for napa and snowman valleys, it will be a slow burnoff with patchy fog. by the afternoon, we expect a few more rays of sunshine. i'm going to troy and post the tree-lighting our weather section, i loved it so much, i'm going to be posting it. no storms the next seven days. we're looking all good to go. >> thanks, jeff. >> no problem. >> let's go to sports. >> reporter: jim is live in the comcast newsroom. good evening, jim. >> hi, glad to see you're doing well after black friday. i know. let's get going into sports, everyone. you know, for most of us it is black friday. for the 49ers we redubbed it black eye friday after they fell for the first time on the road this year. here's how things went. thursday, the 49ers saw their eight-game winning streak snapped as the much-anticipated harbull went to john. holding them without a touchdown for the first time. friday, the younger brother, jim, spoke on the difficulty of the short week.

as the taking down the peninsula, it looks like heavy rainfall is a little bit east of atherton. the wet weather is definitely in effect for berkeley in emeryville as well as the month. the light rainfall will persist throughout a good portion of the morning. cause her yellow indicates moderate rainfall harr and. >>darya: a man was found dead in vallejo on interstate 80. his car was found in the bushes and this is the city's 13th homicide of the year. for people are dead in what this qr police are saying is a murder- suicide. they received a phone call from a 39 year old man who told police he was suicidal. by the time they got to the home, the shooter was dead as well as his wife in her parents. police in fairfield are looking for a driver who hit and injured 86 year-old and then took off from the scene of the accident on thursday afternoon. if this happens when the child was crossing the street near dover avenue. the vehicle is described as a newer model lexus sc be within our license plates. the driver is described as a middle- aged white female with blond hair. >>darya: carls

now baldwin may be jumping into that arena but we will see what life holds for him after atherton are.--life after 30 rock. now 1 01 south bound is moving well we will have more on whether and your commute in just a moment. city of napa, a while fire has destroyed a least one home. several other structures have been evacuated. homes in the area around so canyon--soda can yen. about 90 a. have burned so far we have no reports of any injuries. we have a crew headed to the scene in we will have a live report coming up in just a few moments. we have been talking about the concerns around the bay area and james fletcher has more on this. pajama that red flag warning has been extended it was set to expire at 6:00 a.m. but it has been pushed back to 9:00 a.m.. it is up in napa county that we see the fire right now. the difficult part is when the wind gusts to 40 mouse, hour or more--at 40 mi. per hour or more, you get that wind. you see all the embers being thrown around. that makes it difficult for the firefighters. they have 50 percent containment they are hoping for full containment later

along with atherton and belmont. it will be cooler on sunday. here comes the system thursday into friday. there will be lane late thursday into friday. one more system drops in sunday, tori. >>> thank you, steve. >>> it is 7:41. just two days after being attacked by a shark, a very lucky surfer is out of the hospital. a nurse rolled 27-year-old eric taratino out of the hospital yesterday. he has no trouble walking. this morning he's back home in monterey. on saturday, a shark bit him. he suffered bites to his right arm and his neck. >> i just want to thank everyone that supported me. all of the my -- all of my friends. especially those in the ambulance. they did a great job. >> the shark also got a -- got a good bite of the surfboard. the bite was just millie meters away from a major artery that could have kill - im, doctors say. >>> officials e-mailed us a few minutes ago saying the waves are big enough. the contest has a permit for ocean beach through november 12th. >>> "anonymous" appears to have a new target. how the online hacking group is

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just a little bit of congestive around atherton avenue in the southbound direction of 101.rk: san francisco could add new legislation for the plastic bag ban, protesters would be charged for each bag that a protester is given. there is a band for supermarkets to provide single use non combustible plastic bags. walnut creek police are looking for this man, he is accused of defacing a bank of america. he is described as a white male, clean shaven with brown hair. he was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with the letters l r g across the front. >>mark: police are looking for a 15 year-old who took part in armed carjackings. his 14 year-old accomplice has already been arrested. police say that the two used in automatic pistol and then, that there still vehicles near the bart station on wednesday and again on thursday. a 40 year-old is being held at the juvenile hall in alameda county. new details of the death of greg haugen, the seattle mariners outfielder. and arguing about loud music could be the reason he was stabbed to death. he was in the netherlands this month as a part o