igog relocate over a mile of power lines underground and technology right along expressway in camden avenue. and a lot of folks use bart to get to where they need to go during nba all-star weekend and lunar new year parade agency says this weekend crushed the post-pandemic record for the number of riders. more than 139,000 people taking the train to where their locations ward says it beat the previous record by nearly 16,000 riders. >> well, it certainly was a busy weekend. we're thankful to have had some good weather in generally. we're continuing that really nice trend. today is a bit of an interruption with just an opportunity of a few sprinkles. nothing to cancel your plans over, though, looking really nice over san francisco right now. you definitely have a lot more cloud cover overhead. fairly overcast. start to this morning. looking at radar, we do have shower activity to the north of the bay. mostly nothing more than a few sprinkles right now for us. but once you head north of ukiah, that's where it really kicks into gear. and you really can see some heavy rainfall up in the trinity

utility plans to put a little more than a mile of lines underground near almaden expressway and camden avenue. p-g-and-e's says it's to cut down on power outages. they say anti spark settings on the aboveground lines were causing unnecessary outages. burying the lines will both remove the wildfire risk and keep the lights on. abc seven news reporter zach fuentes will have a full report on this. coming up on abc seven news at four. the race for oakland mayor is well underway. last night, the major candidates vying to replace recall mayor shantel spoke to voters in a public forum. they talked about everything from the city's budget crisis to crime to corruption at city hall. abc seven news reporter j.r stone spoke with all three candidates hoping to lead the town. >> former congresswoman barbara lee, former oakland city councilman loren taylor and former chief of staff renea webb all running for oakland mayor. lee and webb addressing public safety first and foremost tuesday night. >> i want to make sure that our public safety issues measure in in becomes the reality of a public safety strategy,

p-g-and-e's will be moving a little more than a mile of power lines near albany expressway and camden avenue. the utility says settings to prevent its equipment from sparking wildfires are causing extra power outages in the area. burying those lines will remove the wildfire risk and keep the lights on. farmers and beekeepers are buzzing about a growing problem. talking about stolen beehives. the pilfered pollinators are critical to california's almond harvest, and thieves are. thefts are reaching record highs. now, the state beekeepers association says hives are being stolen every day. it's getting so expensive and so extreme. in fact, beekeepers are now partnering with private detectives to investigate these hive thefts. california farmers rent millions of beehives this time of year, when almond pollination season is at its very peak. who knew? right. beehive theft. who knew everything these days? >> it's crazy. dan. >> hey. nice weather coming. but we do have some rain. >> yes, we do. and it's just going to be a little bit of spotty rain tomorrow, and then it's gone. all right, dan, good e

so we are getting you down to street level radar in the south bay, camden avenue, campbell, willow glensan jose, santa clara getting steady rain also in the east bay from castro valley to dublin. some light showers right now going into pleasanton. a lovely view which is a welcome sight. rain on our exploratorium camera right now. so far we have received about a half an inch in santa rosa, third in san francisco, a little less than that in oakland, seven hundredths in san jose and livermore. i've seen totals as high as 8000/600 of an inch in venado and mill valley, just under that at 7000/900 of an inch. great looking pattern. we're going to have rain chances every single day taking you into next week, so definitely is a wet pattern. there's only one day where i don't have a storm impact scale. 40s and 50s on your temperatures right now. slick view of the golden gate bridge tonight. light to moderate rain, a level two storm saturday, soaking windy conditions sunday through next week. the active pattern continues. so on our storm impact scale this is a light level one light to moderate ra

p-g-and-e's will be moving a little more than a mile of power lines near albany expressway and camden avenuets equipment from sparking wildfires are causing extra power outages in the area. burying those lines will remove the wildfire risk and keep the lights on. farmers and beekeepers are buzzing about a growing problem. talking about stolen beehives. the pilfered pollinators are critical to california's almond harvest, and thieves are. thefts are reaching record highs. now, the state beekeepers association says hives are being stolen every day. it's getting so expensive and so extreme. in fact, beekeepers are now partnering with private detectives to investigate these hive thefts. california farmers rent millions of beehives this time of year, when almond pollination season is at its very peak. who knew? right. beehive theft. who knew everything these days? >> it's crazy. dan. >> hey. nice weather coming. but we do have some rain. >> yes, we do. and it's just going to be a little bit of spotty rain tomorrow, and then it's gone. all right, dan, good evening to all of you. let me show you wh

so we are getting you down to street level radar in the south bay, camden avenue, campbell, willow glenn jose, santa clara getting steady rain also in the east bay from castro valley to dublin. some light showers right now going into pleasanton. a lovely view which is a welcome sight. rain on our exploratorium camera right now. so far we have received about a half an inch in santa rosa, third in san francisco, a little less than that in oakland, seven hundredths in san jose and livermore. i've seen totals as high as 8000/600 of an inch in venado and mill valley, just under that at 7000/900 of an inch. great looking pattern. we're going to have rain chances every single day taking you into next week, so definitely is a wet pattern. there's only one day where i don't have a storm impact scale. 40s and 50s on your temperatures right now. slick view of the golden gate bridge tonight. light to moderate rain, a level two storm saturday, soaking windy conditions sunday through next week. the active pattern continues. so on our storm impact scale this is a light level one light to moderate rain

southbound 17 traffic at camden avenue.h, and traffic is backed up nearly from the 280 interchange. this vehicle was seen speeding prior to the collision and was apparently, according to witnesses, driving recklessly and then got into a crash. southbound 17 near camden avenue. northbound 880 recovering. now this is recovering after some earlier problems near high street. there was a car fire there. bay bridge has absolutely no backup here. that's great news. driving into san francisco at 815. weather should be nice today, i think, is what i heard the man say here. steve. >> i think you know it will be sal. that is correct, sir. all right. reno 28. i saw him down to 25. truckee 19 and then 20 for south lake tahoe, minden and also carson city in there. be nice. after that snow, they had february totals. remember, january was not our rain and snow friend. but february has been nice. palisades. sugar bowl, boreal. sierra. snow lab, soda springs, northstar, kirkwood, bear valley, heavenly. all between 50 and 96in of snow through

mile of power lines underground and also install new technology along alamuddin expressway and camden avenue. the project addresses the impact of the enhanced power line safety settings, which automatically shut off power to prevent wildfires. officials are saying is part of a broader initiative to improve reliability in san jose. it's 10, 19 right now. and a north bay family is remembering their loved one who died in a plane crash in alaska. his name was andrew gonzalez. he was one of 10 people who died in the crash. kron four's. lindsey ford has more. >> he is someone that's very hard to define so many things. whitney bowers, the widow of andrew gonzales, says he was selfless soul crushing everyone's at a loss. it is unimaginable. what what is our current reality? gonzales, who is from santa rosa was one of 10 people killed in a plane crash in alaska earlier this month. the small commuter plane went down in the bering sea gonzalez who worked as a power generation technician had to travel a lot to small remote areas. so i was at home waiting to come from. landing from that flight. got a fee

were out there working to underground about a mile of power line near the almaden expressway and camden avenue, pg and e says the project will remove transmission lines from high risk fire areas and significantly reduce outages for nearly 10,000 customers currently protected by its enhanced powerline safety settings or apps. those settings shut off power if a hazard is detected to prevent wildfires. >> here, the electrical circuit that serves these communities, the 6101 line, passes through both urban and high fire risk areas. so in this case, we want to keep the safety settings in the high fire risk area, but reduce the impact of eps outages in the urbanized neighborhoods. >> the utility says once those power lines are underground, 15 steel transmission towers will be removed from the area. >> okay. it was kind of a fun day, right? the showers came down, the light sprinkles drizzle. depending on where you were, what you got, if you're further north, there was some rain up there, a quarter inch half inch up towards cape mendocino, but everything south has been pretty light. 10th of an inch, fi

utility plans to put a little more than a mile of lines underground, near the almaden expressway and camden avenue. abc seven news south bay reporter zach fuentes has reaction to the project. that's part of building a better bay area. >> reporter these crews are hard at work. the project is one p-g-and-e's says will help provide a solution to a problem frustrating homeowners in this san jose neighborhood. unplanned power safety shutoffs. >> like last two years. it would be off. no notice. actually. the power would go off and then you'd get the alert from p-g-and-e's. >> the problem happening so often, dan kennedy says he invested in a generator for his home. other neighbors resorted to other alternatives. >> we lost power consistently, so i decided about five years ago to go solar. >> this particular street was without power for several hours. wednesday while p-g-and-e's worked on the project. the utility says it will significantly reduce outages for 10,000 customers in the san jose communities of almaden valley and santa teresa. >> the customers are currently protected by enhanced powerline safet

while crews were busy working to underground a mile of power lines near the almaden expressway and camden avenue project will remove transmission lines from a high risk fire area and significantly reduce outages for nearly 10,000 customers currently protected by its enhanced powerline safety settings, or eps. now, those settings shut off power if a hazard is detected in order to prevent wildfires. >> here, the electrical circuit that serves these communities, the 6101 line, passes through both urban and high fire risk areas. so in this case, we want to keep the eps safety settings in the high fire risk area, but reduce the impact of eps outages in the urbanized neighborhoods. >> pga says once the power lines are underground, 15 steel transmission towers in that area will be removed. >> millions of americans are bracing for another round of winter weather this week, and as jonathan siri reports, the conditions are threatening to impact flood recovery efforts in kentucky and tennessee. >> another winter storm is sweeping across the country this week, and it's bringing snow, ice and bitter cold tem

about a mile of power lines underground and install new technology along almaden expressway and camden avenue impact of the enhanced power line safety settings, which automatically shut off power to prevent wildfires. they say that the move is part of a broader initiative to improve reliability and san jose while maintaining safety during extreme weather events. if you've noticed there are fewer cars on the road this week. that's because a lot of kids are still not in school it and just take presidents day off. they took the whole week. it's called ski week or at least that's what it's informally become as people tend to go skiing this week because, you know, it's a february. so the slopes usually a pretty good. there is a san francisco article that wax have cisco chronicle article from 1998. and it showed districts in red county were pressured to make ski week official because, you know, they have presidents day off, but a lot of parents were like, yeah, we're just going to take the whole week off. and so many students were missing that they decided let's just let him have the week off becau

utility plans to put a little more than a mile of lines underground near almaden expressway and camden avenue. the project is one p-g-and-e's says will help provide a solution to a problem frustrating homeowners. unplanned power safety shutoffs. >> like last two years. it would be off. no notice. actually, the power would go off and then you'd get the alert from p-g-and-e's. >> p-g-and-e's says the project will significantly reduce outages for 10,000 customers in san jose, communities of almaden valley and santa teresa. >> 5-10. live doppler seven along with satellite. we are transitioning between our drizzle yesterday and high pressure today. so the system that brought a little bit of light moisture to the region during the day yesterday. that's now moving off to the east. you can see some of that around salt lake city. now we have high pressure building in. and as it does, it could create some breezy conditions in our hills today. but for the most part, it's bringing us ample sunshine on. our thursday looks terrific today. we'll have mild temperatures just really shaping up to be a nice aft

this is along almaden expressway and camden avenue and they're doing this. they say as a part of a safety improvement, you know, and they automatically shut off power to prevent wildfires. and that could be a problem with this move is part of a broader initiative to improve the reliability of power in san jose while maintaining safety. and you probably noticed was this wednesday, you're thinking where is everybody? and they have a whole week off monday was presidents day. and so typically we know that that's one day off. it's a holiday. but, you know, it's come to be called ski week, at least here in california. historically, the one day vacation kind of morphed into a whole week off for kids. and that's because, well, it started apparently the francisco chronicle looked at this and there was an article back in 1998, and they found that school districts in moraine county. we're actually pressured into making this unofficial holiday the whole week ski week because parents, would just do it anyway. they're pulling their kids out of school for the rest of the w

as crews were busy working to underground a mile of power lines near the almaden expressway and camden avenueransmission lines from a high risk fire area and significantly reduce outages for nearly 10,000 customers currently protected by its enhanced powerline safety settings. those settings shut off power if a hazard is detected to help prevent wildfires here. >> the electrical circuit that serves these communities, the 6101 line, passes through both urban and high fire risk areas. so in this case, we want to keep the safety settings in the high fire risk area, but reduce the impact of eps outages in the urbanized neighborhoods. >> pga says once the power line is underground, it 15 steel transmission towers in the area will be removed. >> the holiday weekend gave a much needed boost to businesses along the santa cruz wharf. last week's storm and high surf warning shut down the wharf, including on valentine's day, but it reopened saturday once large waves were no longer a threat. businesses say while closing for valentine's day was a loss for them, the longer holiday weekend and big events ma

utility plans to put a little more than a mile of lines underground near almaden expressway and camden avenue. the project is, one p-g-and-e's says will help provide a solution to a problem frustrating homeowners. unplanned power safety shut offs. >> last two years. it would be off. no notice. actually it would. power would go off and then you'd get the alert from p-g-and-e's. >> p-g-and-e's says the project will significantly reduce outages for 10,000 customers in the san jose communities of almaden valley and santa teresa. so many people talking about the asteroid that could hit earth in 2032. well, the odds are down. nasa now says the chance is 1.5% of hitting our planet. that's down from 3% last night and 2% last week. nasa says new data collected overnight reduced the impact probability and could drop even more as scientists learn more about the asteroid. >> we don't need another. >> which year is this? >> 20 2032 2032? >> okay. >> we just don't need another. >> what am i going to do in the next seven years? >> follow your dreams. >> you know, always. >> watch the movie spaceballs. well,

utility plans to put a little more than a mile of lines underground near almaden expressway and camden avenue settings to prevent its equipment from sparking wildfires are causing extra power outages in the area. burying the lines will remove the wildfire risk and keep the lights on. >> residents in parts of southern santa clara county are being warned about a change in firefighting services. the county fire department is expanding services into south county fire district, territory that includes san martin and parts of unincorporated gilroy and morgan hill. the change comes after supervisors voted to end their contract with cal fire. tonight at 6:00, south county officials are hosting a public meeting in san martin to share more information about that change. >> monterey county officials are warning nearby residents of new smoke coming from the battery facility that caught fire weeks ago. they are urging anyone living nearby to keep all windows and doors closed. this is video from the original fire at the moss landing facility. that fire lasted several days and prompted evacuations. monterey

plans to put a little more than a half a mile of lanes underground near almaden expressway and camden avenuesays settings to prevent its equipment from sparking wildfires are causing extra power outages in the area. burying them will remove the wildfire risk and keep the lights on. >> residents in part of southern santa clara county are being warned about a change in firefighting services. the county fire department is expanding services into south county fire district, territory that includes san san martin and parts of unincorporated gilroy and morgan hill. the change comes after supervisors voted to end their contract with cal fire. tonight at 6:00, south county officials are hosting a public meeting to share more information about this change. >> monterey county officials are warning nearby residents of new smoke coming from the battery facility that caught fire weeks ago. they are urging anyone living nearby to keep all windows and doors closed. this is video from the original fire at the moss landing facility. the fire lasted several days and prompted evacuations. monterey county offic

this one is in campbell, right near camden avenue.s the reason for very slow traffic heading south on 17. at this hour and accident coming up to san jose north 101 at east dunn. that's still partially blocking. and we head over towards southbound 880 the nimitz in fremont. earlier accident cleared. still slow. drew. >> hey, sue, look at this lovely view from our tam cam. that sun is up and it's going to be a nice, mild day. daytime highs very pleasant. we'll get you into the mid and upper 60s for daytime highs and heading into the weekend. expect that spring like weather to continue both saturday and sunday. >> reggie thank you drew. if you're shooting us on the abc seven bay area app, abc seven at seven continues. everybody else is watching gma. >> where do you find the soul of bmw? it's not just in a long legacy of performance, but in those who drive it. >> i want you i need you. oh, god. don't play. >> hurry into the bmw presidents day sales event and receive exceptional offers through march 2nd. >> hi, this is daniel. john buys ba

utility plans to put a little more than a mile of lines underground, near almaden expressway and camden avenueipment from sparking wildfires are causing extra power outages in the area. burying them will remove the wildfire risk and keep the lights on. let's see how traffic is doing this morning. hi, sue. >> good morning. reggie. we've got fog on the golden gate bridge. may be hampering your visibility just a little bit, but traffic is light headed out of marin county. elsewhere. we'll take a look. we've got this stalled ac transit bus. it's still blocking lanes. this one is westbound 80, right near appian way. and traffic is very slow, as you can see by the speed markers stacked up beyond highway four towards rodeo. >> thank you. sue, we're going to check for solaris. semper solaris is a local veteran owned company founded on military values like honesty, integrity and honor. when you choose semper solaris, you're not just investing in your home, you're supporting a business dedicated to serving bay area families and hiring us veterans with p-g-and-e's rates at an all time high. the longer yo