winchester up to cross junction, 52. have to be dealing with the fog in a couple of spots for a couple more hours. down in the mid-40s in the cool spots. 50 andrews with the fog.

winchester up to cross junction, 52. have to be dealing with the fog in a couple of spots for a couple more hours. down in the mid-40s in the cool spots. 50 andrews with the fog. 51 in arlington. good morning, monika samtani. >>> it is for us because we're at work but not for 95 commuters on the southbound side in virginia. the early morning crash was finally cleared to the shoulder in newington after backlick road. i've been talking about it for over an hour. virginia constituent place told me it involve -- virginia state police told me it involved a car and a truck. from springfield right into newington all low the -- although the lanes are open, it's heavy through that area. it affected the northbound side as well. let's go over to another map.

sark cross junction. -- frederick county, virginia, cross junction. the other story, a little fog.we have subjects three to five -- we have visibilities three to five miles. a quarter mile visibility over the state of delaware. temperatures are up. it's muggy. frizz alert sort of thursday out there. well in the 50s now. frederick is down to 52 with martinsburg. 57 in culpeper and annapolis and 54 at the pax river naval air station and cambridge. outside in d.c. good visibility. you can see that on our weather camera. cloudy skies. 57 degrees with calm winds this morning. and there's the humidity up to 89%. so we've got a muggy air mass in place. look at all the rain out west. it does look like this will be getting here but not until tonight. maybe 10:00, 11:00, 12:00. a couple of showers as i said north and west of d.c. possible this morning moving to pennsylvania. we'll be mostly cloudy. here we are at 4:30. want to take you to 9:30. notice a shower or two up toward hagueerstown. the -- hagerstown. the bulk of rain will move in overnight. tomorrow morning looks wet. perhaps cleari

turns out the truck has hit a steel electrical junction box installed on roberta's property.ssengers are not hurt, but the accident dislodges high-voltage cables, which feed electricity to the entire neighborhood. the cables attached to the junction box are pulled out of the ground when the suv hits the box. now power is out for more than three dozen homes. switching her camera to video, roberta is ready to record anything else that might happen on her land. within the hour, new hampshire electric co-op workers are on site to assess the damage. but before they can make any repairs, a flatbed tow truck must first remove the suv. the conditions are potentially deadly. >> you got wet ground, snow, and electricity. not a good recipe. it's a recipe for disaster. so the electrical worker, he was getting down in front to make sure that the power was off, so that they could restore the power to the other houses. >> as the power worker looks down at the cables, the tow winch fails, so he never sees the suv rolling towards him. >> oh, look out! oh, my god! >> robert's unable to alert t

the critical junction will be christmas and holiday season in 2013. the consumer was a bit shaken by what happened in washington and confidence fell. now we need to see a resurgence of consumer confidence in the holiday season. that's the make or break for next year. >> i heard someone describe the market this year as a teflon market, nothing seems to derail it. what could? >> the critical junction, even though earnings are quite strong, we'll see record earnings on the s&p to match the earnings today as we see the third quart e reported however revenue growth is sluggish, really plflat, no better than 2o 3% and that's 100% on the come. it a faith trade. we have to see the faith transit into actually numbers come q 4. >> you mentioned we'll be back into the crisis mode in a few months. do investors need like a two-face investment strategy, pre-crisis investing and post crisis investing over the next six months? >> as i talk to institutional clients, still very scared by the events of 2007 and 2008. no one is taking as much as four or five years ago an

the critical junction will be christmas and holiday season in 2013. the consumer was a bit shaken by what happened in washington and confidence fell. now we need to see a resurgence of consumer confidence in the holiday season. that's the make or break for next year. >> i heard someone describe the market this year as a teflon market, nothing seems to derail it. what could? >> the critical junction, even though earnings are quite strong, we'll see record earnings on the s&p to match the earnings today as we see the third quart e reported however revenue growth is sluggish, really plflat, no better than 2o 3% and that's 100% on the come. it a faith trade. we have to see the faith transit into actually numbers come q 4. >> you mentioned we'll be back into the crisis mode in a few months. do investors need like a two-face investment strategy, pre-crisis investing and post crisis investing over the next six months? >> as i talk to institutional clients, still very scared by the events of 2007 and 2008. no one is taking as much as four or five years ago an

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just a little bit of slowing 280 toward the 87 junction. otherwise you are looking good in the san jose area. mass transit shows everyone out and running on time. bart is the way to go. outside, a nice drive with no delays all the way in to san francisco. >> thanks. it is 6:21. >> are you happy at work? coming up, one thing likely determining whether you are excited to go to the office in the morning. >> we have had wild winds in the bay area and the damage last behind at a popular east bay shopping center and what visitors and i know tnry winkler. and i know there are many myths out there about a reverse mortgage, so i want you to know the facts. there are currently no credit score or income requirements to qualify. you can get tax-free money from the equity in your home. you can use the money to pay off your current mortgage if you have one. the remaining money can be used for anything. there's no monthly mortgage payments. and you still own your home! call today to get your free guide and dvd. it explains how a government-insured reverse

winchester up to cross junction, 52. have to be dealing with the fog in a couple of spots for a couple more hours. down in the mid-40s in the cool spots. 50 andrews with the fog. 51 in arlington. good morning, monika samtani. >>> it is for us because we're at work but not for 95 commuters on the southbound side in virginia. the early morning crash was finally cleared to the shoulder in newington after backlick road. i've been talking about it for over an hour. virginia constituent place told me it involve -- virginia state police told me it involved a car and a truck. from springfield right into newington all low the -- although the lanes are open, it's heavy through that area. it affected the northbound side as well. let's go over to another map. southbound 270is final. it's just slow. over in wheaton, the two left lanes are blocked with a crash. we'll take a quick look outside. here's what it looks like with fog at the american legion bridge. >>> time to see what our partners at cbs this morning are covering. >> norah

that's a live look at spaghetti junction downtown. traffic seems to be moving well there. sharon is checking out the rest of the area and marty with with weather. >> still 48 degrees. that is still 4 degrees above our normal for this hour of this day. 48 is also 8 degrees warmer than this time yesterday. showers to the west now in western maryland but it's going to take a while to get in here. take an umbrella to work, you may need it as you leave school and work and at the beginning of coming home and that commute. not a lot of rain is coming in by the way. 69 at lunch going to a high of 66. >>> any complications on the commute? here's sharon with traffic. >> good morning. our biggest complication has now cleared. that accident 95 northbound at maryland 22, we have just learned it's cleared, it was blocking two right lanes. a new issue though, some emergency road work, that is going to be on northbound belair road at 695, the northbound ramp to the inner loop of the beltway is blocked for emergency road work. that detour is posted. otherwise speeds on the beltway looking

traffic is flowing nicely with a delay to the 24 junction. kristen and eric?> it is 5:41. >> uninvited guests are turning a country club interest a pigsty. >> winning ticket was struck in gold last night in the and why can you move the tv out here? the wireless receiver. i got that when i switched to u-verse. but why? because it's so much better than cable. it's got more hd channels, more dvr space. yeah, but i mean, how did you know? i researched. no, i-i told you. no. yeah! no. the importan and i got you this visor. you made a visor! yes! that i'll never wear. ohh. [ male announcer ] get u-verse tv for just $19 a month for two years with qualifying bundles. rethink possible. >>> covering benicia, san ramon, and san mateo and all bay area, this is abc7 news. >> the traffic is moving fine on the bay bridge toll plaza but a commute problem is developing right now. we were telling you about single tracking at orinda because of a train that caught fire, bart has issued an alert saying this is now a major delay on the pittsburg line and the sfo direction which goe

this is a 15-acre fire that shut down the junction of interstate 5 and the antelope valley freeway. that's highway 14, about 90 minutes that freeway was closed. winds were gusting to 65 miles per hour. >>> to our continuing coverage of the u.s. government shutdown, which is now in its fifth day. here's a live picture of capitol hill in washington. earlier today congress held a saturday session on a measure to pay furloughed workers, but there is no apparent progress toward a larger deal. today's action will allow federal workers to get back pay when the government reopens, wherever that is. the vote was a rare sign of bipartisanship. republicans are insisting on defunding obamacare as a condition of passing a spending plan. democratic leader nancy pelosi today called on house speaker john boehner to allow a vote on a clean bill, something she says some republicans support. >> right now enough republicans have publicly stated their support for a bill that could pass and be on the president's desk today. >> meantime, defense secretary chuck hagel says 400,000 defense civilian employee

look at walnut creek, you can see traffic is moving smoothly coming away from highway 4 to the 24 junction. >> leyla gulen, thank you. a trial begins in michigan to determine if the largest public bankruptcy in united states history can move forward. the case pits detroit's emergency manager against union and pension funds that claim that the city is not qualified to wipe its books clean because it failed to hold good-faith negotiations where them this year. the city is at least $18 billion in debt. it filed for chapter nine protection in july. the trial is expected to last several days. >> hashtags score: twitter has a credit agreement worth up to $1 billion head of the initial public offering. the san francisco-based company will have more financial flexibility going into the highly anticipated i.p.o. with twitter yet to set the price or timing for the market day but it will be done by thanksgiving with shares trading on the new york stock exchange under "twtr." the budget wrangling that has the blue angels roaring into the bay area again. >> and a vaccine for a type of diabetes that cou

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through yahoo and google data centers located around the world and public internet and there are junctionoints where they are grabbing information. what i think this gets at though is it helps us understand more about how the information is being gathered but under scores how important these companies is to surveillance. if the companies suddenly stopped cooperating i don't think the nsa would be blind but it would be like putting out one eye. it's important for them. >> what is the responsibility on behalf of the companies. we're talking about privacy issues, and capitol hill is working towards changes. what is the corporate responsibility? >> they have a legal responsibility to aid, but now that it's gone public, and companies that have international user base recognize that they depend on trust. their entire model involves getting our most sensitive data, and if people think they're not secure there the companies are going to hurt us. i saw a recent estimate that over the next three years just the american cloud sector stands to lose $23 billion. overseas people are shifting to other s

or 242 through pleasanton hill, there are a few extra tail lights as you move out toward the 24 junction so watch out for that. when you get on to highway 24 you are moving along just fine. that is a picture of it and you can see there is traffic there. it is only 4:32 but we notice more traffic but it will get worse. we will have the details for you. >> we are noticing more cloud cover along the coast. here is live doppler 7 hd, the clouds are next to the coast wealth visibility at five miles up and down the coast. this is how it looks from the tower, to the north. the cloud cover is encroaching pond the bay but it will not get further east than san francisco. the clouds the keep the coast cooler, 70's hard to reap today. mid-to-upper 60's are more likely. sunshine around the bay at 72 to 80 and remain warmest inland at 77 to 82. katie and eric? >> bart will roll 200 buses to replace some of the lost train trips. abc7 news reporter, amy hollyfield, has a review. amy? >> we are dealing with seasoned professionals here. look at these commuters. they are here, in line, for a bus that is no

it's wide-open and quick eight minute commute heading away from highway 4 to the 24 junction. >> let's talk about visibility. dry air is yielding unlimited visibility. no fog. no worries as you travel around. you can see the sparkling lights from san francisco all the way over to emeriville and oakland. it's chilly inland once again about 39 in the north bay. that's our microclimate spread at 7:00. we'll have a few high clouds around noon through 4:00. the storm sliding over the sierra will drop our temperatures a little bit. low 70s at 12:00. 4:0072 to about 80. clouds will clear out and temperatures drop into the mid-to-upper 60s by 7:00. as we look at the next three days and dip into the weekend temperatures will be slightly cooler. one or two degrees and keep above average friday, saturday and high sunday's forecast coming up in about five minutes. >>> no b.a.r.t. strike this morning. talks will resume later this morning. >> fremont police make a pitch for surveillance cameras in targeted neighborhoods. but city leaders say wait a minute. >> police nab the person that dropped dry i

side is starting to build as you make it to vasco road and it eases up to livermore and the 680 junction. if you are coming from highway purr to walnut creek along 680 we are under ten minutes and grab highway 24 into oakland it is under ten minutes and 580 tracy to dublin is 16 minutes. the san mateo bridge is wide open, 14 minutes away from hayward to foster city. >> san jose leaders are taking action to stop the police recruits leaving the department for other cities after getting expensive training from san jose. matt keller is in san jose with the details. matt? >> the hiring sign has been up for a while at the san jose police department but it is not is much the recruiting but the retaining of officers that has city leaders looking if a solution. it costs $170,000 to drain a recruit -- train a recruit but up to 40 who graduates five have left because of shrinking benefits. there are new plans to charge recruits if they leave to another department. they want a five year prorated retention plan making them pay 100 percent if they leave less than a year up to charging 25 percent if th

along 680 in the southbound direction, nine minutes gets you from highway 4 to the 24 junction? >> we will start talking about the fog. it is thick in santa rosa and just entered napa valley. you were clear 40 minutes ago and now down to half-a-mile visibility. we have cloud cover along the bay shore. clear in livermore. temperatures in belmont are 52 and palo alto is 53, the warm spot. men let park -- menlo park is 49. redwood city is coolest at 46. 50 at half moon bay. san francisco and san carlos and hayward and concord at 50. now a look at the eastern span of the bay bridge, you can see it is cut off by low clouds. we will have flight arrival delays at sfo. they will let us know we in about another hour. clouds on the coast. a slow cooling trend for the week but the wet weather will stay over the ocean and another seven days of dry weather. temperatures are a spread from low-to-mid 60's along the coast and upper 60's to 70's for the bay shore and fremont is 73 and palo alto. mid-70's around san jose and mid-to-upper 70's in the north bay. concord and livermore in the upper 7

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smooth drive from highway 4 down to the 24 junction. it's another day to take out that convertible. >>> another great day of sunshine. here is our day planner. starting off with temperatures that maybe aren't quite as cool as yesterday but 40s around and low to mid 50s through the 7:00 hour. by noon it's going to be pleasant everywhere. make it a hard time getting a seat at your favorite cafe with these low to mid 70s. by 4:00, 68 at the coast. 74 around the bay. warm sunshine across the board. quiet this evening from 60 at the coast, 66 around the bay and dress for 70 inland. next three days. here is your full weekend in view. bright beginning to the weekend with temperatures staying above average with that dry air holding on all the way through sunday. i do see a small shift in the pattern next week. it's going to bring cooler weather. we'll see if it brings rain. that's coming up. >>> thank you, mike. >>> next terrifying moments for a san francisco family. a couple who watched as a carjacker drove off with their kids strapped inside.

motorcycle collided with a car early this morning on ashburn farm parkway and the intersection of junction say patrick wren jr. and leah wren were thrown from their harley-davidson and were killed at the scene. the driver of the vehicle was charged with involuntary manslaughter and driving under the influence. >>> two people were killed when their ford lorer crashed into a tree near the intersection of evergreen -- explorer crashed into a tree near the intersection of evergreen and laurel road. >>> one woman died in an accident that closed route 50 near snickersville turn spike in loudoun county for several hours. she was a passenger in avon hit by a vehicle that crossed the -- a van hit by a vehicle that crossed the double yellow line. >>> 81 names are added to the national fallen firefighters memorial in emmetsburg. the annual ceremony this morning honored 73 firefighters who died in the line of duty in 2012 plus eight more from previous years. because of the federal government shutdown, the event was moved to mount st. mary's university campus. it's normally held you might recall at the

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there are actually five men and seward is very keen at that junction to find a negotiated resolutionwith the south. because of that, there are people here in washington, his friend for example, who think that seward is too keen to negotiate. in 1863, something that he was too successful because he feels that the war will be won and that seward let the southern states back in. for some there, that his entire liberal. >> as you pointed out, seward was eloquent in imposing the compromise of 1850, in terms that really speak to us today. he sounds like a man living in the 20th century speaking to people who are living in the 19th. he is by far the least willing to compromise in the senate. as i think that you also point out in your book. his wife is harboring fugitive slaves in new york. he is a fierce anti-slavery man. can you say something about how he personally and morally evolved to the point where in 1860 he is ready to compromise with the slaveholding south? >> seward on slavery definitely evolves over time. he does harbor fugitive slaves in his home, which is really quite remarkab

certainly we know up in cross junction we have had reports of profit in opal. until 9:00 a.m. let me show you the day planner hour by hour, with the temperature climbing to 5 by 11:67 by 3:00. high today around 68. really a beautiful afternoon. once we get past the morning chill. 36 in frederick, that is up 35 cumberland, you can see all the 30s out here. we don't need to get to 32 to get frost. surface temperatures and air temperatures can be different. we are close enough with the air temperature to get some of the surfaces, especially the darker surfaces. 47 degrees officially at reagan national. again the sunrise not until 7:24. >>> 50s and 40s across minnesota, wisconsin and north dakota this morning. 40s getting into chicago. we are going to be in the upper 60s even near 70s in a few spots. mid to upper 60s while the 40s and 50s move off toward the northeast and great lakes. by wednesday the 40s and 50s really march southeast. national 55. only in the mid to upper 50s wednesday. looks like thursday and friday even colder. thanks to this storm. another cli

. >> this occurs way before the junctions of there is no good way for you to get around this.tion. a little closer to home there was a set of accidents on the east shore freeway where we have not recovered. the drive time is double what they should be. that is not the end of the problem there is an accident reported on westbound highway 24 and just after the 680 merge. that has backed up the traffic into concord on pleasant hill on interstate 680 southbound. we're still looking at a slow ride on an estate 580. this is nothing unusual but just heavy traffic. it is starting to get slow on 1 01 northbound and 85 spread the north bay ride is still pretty good. maligned a check of the bridges, the back abide the bay bridge is lighter than usual because of all of the slow traffic. a lot of it has not reached the bay bridge. we are still seen the drive time increase from 11 to 13 minutes. the golden gate bridge volume is up but no problems or surprises. >> we have a surprise us and we have been talking about the possibility of frost but as of right now we do not have the conditions t

a lane is causing bumper to bumper traffic. 680 is very busy coming away the curb toward high 24 junctionminutes from highway 4. in the south bay the firefighters and red cross responded after flames broke out. matt? >> location, location, location, it matters with real estate and it marries with response time. they were able to arrive quickly at this home because a fire station is right down the street. the homeowner said he just happened to be awake at 3:35 and heard a topping sound and called 9-1-1 and got the other family members out of the house. firefighters saw smoke and flames coming from the attic and it took only 15 minutes to put out the fire the. >> it was a "prayer area," sort of a shrine area and there was no candles. he described it as a "light." we are working on the cause. >> firefighters say there were smoke detectors that were not working. the homeowner is going to stay here until he can get an electrician. others are going to a nearby family member's home. >> the mother of a bay area girl who disappeared defy years ago says he is grateful police are re-opening her daug

the oregon study also showed that junction expanding medicaid doesn't necessarily improve health care outcomes. it showed no improvement in physical health care outcomes. just giving someone a medicaid card is not health care access. there was a press editor parading our public/private partnerships. saying people are getting better access. we'll have a level one and level two trauma center. we have a children's hospital working on a $2 billion modern health care complex. we believe we have a better approach. helping people buy better insurance. it's out of a outdated approach. we have a better approach to provide services to those people. and if you believe the exchange claims and i'm not sure they will hit these targets. we think a better way to provide for that 6% is through the public and private partnerships. and this money is not free. people like to think it's free. >> i want to pick up on this with you. you generally talk about better approaches. you're the head of the republican governor's association. and the rga started running ads saying, in effect, that the real progress a

it is ten minutes to head away from highway 4 to the 24 junction with no crashes to report.ts of congestion. >> nfl officials will meet with members of a native american group pushing for the washington redskins to change their name. the group says redskins is racist. the controversy is prompting the san francisco chronicle to adopt a new policy limiting the use of the name. it will only use the team name when necessary. one other newspaper has stopped using the redskins name. >> bay area based twitter is getting into the halloween spirit to help kids in need inviting 300 homeless children and their families to stop by the twitter building if san francisco for trick-or-treating this afternoon. other companies including microsoft are providing costumes for the kids. family services is hosting a dip are and a magic show. >> oprah is having a big yard sale on saturday. you can preview all of her goods starting today. you have to go to the santa barbara poe -- polo club to do it. she is keeping prices low so all the fans can have something. 4,000 people are expected to go throug

>>> at the top of the hour that's a live look at spaghetti junction downtown. no problems there. south of there on the baltimore/washington parkway lots of problems. sharon will details those after marty's first warning weather. >>> 56 degrees right now. that's going to be 8 degrees above normal. that 56 is going to also be 6 warmer than this time yesterday. there's a fall feel to the morning. there's first warning doppler weather radar. there's a slow moving low that's spreading clouds into the area now. clouds in the forecast until early sunday morning. not a ton of rain but showers around. 65 at lunch will be your daytime high with showers beginning in the afternoon. >>> call it state route 295 or the bw parkway, here is sharon gibala at wjz traffic control. >> good morning. 295 definitely the big issue at the moment. 295 southbound just after 175 an accident there still blocking all lanes. traffic is being diverted off onto 175. an accident in aberdeen on route 40 at carroll avenue. that water main break on putty hill avenue still there blocking all lanes at pairing parkway,

here is walnut creek southbound nine minutes away from highway 4 to the 24 junction. >> we continue toollow breaking news from taiwan where a strong earthquake struck this morning. the earthquake has been downgraded great 6.6 earthquake to 6.3 magnitude centered in a mountain area of taiwan on the east coast. it shook tall buildings in the north swaying for more than 30 seconds, close to a minute. this is no tsunami alert. the subway was affected and criminal -- cell phone service was interrupted with the shaking felt all the way in shanghai and japan. we will continue to monitor it. >> in antioch, four are recovering from wounds when a pair of dogs attacked forcing police in a life or death decision. amy hollyfield has this story from antioch. >> police have not said what breed the dogs were but a man who saw it said he thought they were pit bulls last night in antioch on a quiet street. a plan was walking his two dogs and two other dos ran -- dogs ran up and attacked. three neighbors ran out to help when they heard the screams and they, too were attacked. >> i stayed here because the

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there's another look at spaghetti junction which apparently we have problem with that camera. now wjz has the stories people are talking about this morning. here's don. >> thank you. >>> we also have a eastern school shore advisory to pass along. talbot county schools will be operating on a 90 minute delay with no morning pre-k due to heavy fog east of the bay bridge. >>> congress grills healthcare.gov's point person. a cabinet secretary is taking the blame for the website's failures even as americans continue to struggle to use it to sign up online. it's danielle nottingham with the latest for wjz. >> health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius said computer specialists are working 24/7 to get healthcare.gov working properly. >> you deserve better. i apologize. >> sebelius blame d the slowness of the site on robs with a ver vie verizon server. >> i'm angry. >> cbs news obtained this internal government memo from september 27th. it discusses incomplete security testing on the website. >> we have exposed millions of americans because you-all, according to your memo be

it apparently began in an electrical junction box and was likely caused by electrical gear used to cultivate the plants. no one was home at the time of the fire. and there is no word of any arrests. >>> a santa rosa woman is dead after she was hit and killed in the parking lot of her gym. 72-year-old susan smith was killed just after 8:00 this morning. a man backed into her with his truck and ran over the victim. witnesses tended to the woman before firefighters arrived but she was pronounced dead at the scene. the driver of the pickup is cooperating with the investigation. >>> one man is in the hospital and a gunman is on the lose tonight following what police are calling a road rage shooting in fremont. ktvu's mike mibach tells me that the man was upset that the victim was driving too slow. >> reporter: bullet holes, a dusty old mercedes all tied to a story that police say started with road rage and ended with gunfire. >> just before 5:30 we got a call from someone in the area stating that a shooting had just occurred. >> reporter: police said moments earlier, the suspect was driving desti

at walnut creek it is moving nicely toward 24 with a few brake lights moving to the junction but southbound680 to the dublin/pleasanton area you are looking good. san mateo bridge is looking good to the foster city area and we are looking at ten minute backup toward the bay bridge from the macarthur maze with no metering lights but the cash-paying folks are jamming things up. >> san francisco landmark fades into history. next, what will rise from the rubble. >> super storm sandy a year later. we see how the worst natural disasters is being remembered. >> the tough questions congress has for the administration official at the center of the troubled obamacare >>> covering novato, oakland, sunnyvale and all the bay area this is abc7 news. >> it was a year ago today that the super storm sandy slammed into the eastern seaboard changing the lives of millions. sandy left neighborhoods destroyed and washing homes into the ocean. we are joined by a reporter in new jersey. let's begin with progress. a lot of federal money was appropriated but is it getting to those who need it? >> good morning, there

things seem to be moving a little bit on spaghetti junction. jessica kartalija in for don today. let's head over to chelsea. >>> good morning. temperatures are mild out there. sitting around 61 degrees at bwi marshall. we were at 62. we dropped one degree. still some 50s out there in western maryland. pax river at 60 degrees, ocean city at 64. it's going to be a beautiful day out there on the beach today. here's what you can expect, plenty of sunshine, high pressure at its peak today. temperatures will be on the rise into the mid 80s before it's all said and done. 71 degrees by dinner time with partly cloudy to mostly clear skies. >> thank you. . >>> now over to sharon at traffic control. good morning, again. >> good morning. a mostly clear morning commute thus far. one issue out there. that's going to be that accident 95 southbound just approaching the tunnel. we still have a left lane closure there. speeds on the beltway still up to par. 50 though on 95 between the baltimore and the -- between the beltway and the tunnel. there's a look at 95 at o'donnel street. everything runni

creek camera, southbound 680 is building, and it will take 11 minutes away from highway 4 to the 24 junction. >> live doppler 7 hd shows it is dry with low clouds and fog. you can see in san rafael the low clouds and the fog is dropping on 101. we will keep an eye on this area. you are under part of the dense fog advisory and we will see warmer weather this afternoon with less fog and cooler conditions tonight and more clouds and cooler weather tuesday, wednesday and thursday. we will see a jump at nine to nine degrees and watch the cloud cover. it is thick through 9:00 business dissipates quicker. we have hazy sunshine if most neighborhoods and sun over the coast with temperatures in the upper 50's. we will have mid-60's around san francisco and low-to-mid 70's around the bay shore. we will have low-to-mid 80's in the east bay valley. more warm weather tomorrow and you can see the cooling thursday , friday and holding steady on saturday. it is still dry on sunday and monday. >> holiday predictions are out. >> we are following the only commute now that the strike is over. this is a look at t

into frederick county, just straddling the state line here west of strasburg there, south of cross junction. it's 57 there but not raining at all. down to our south we've seen the showers come out of the lady smith area toward the northern neck. you see a few still out there not far from colonial beach this morning down just west of red vial. they're running about 64 according to jan down there, one of our weather watchers. in southern st. mary's and southern calvert, the bulk is pushing toward the eastern shore. cambridge, oxford, looks like you'll get a couple of showers there. temperatures rather mild. 50s and 60s east of the mountains. west, though, behind the cold front we've dipped into the mid- 40s now in cleveland and columbus. pittsburgh not quite in the cooler air but they'll be there a little bit later today. we've got 60s in ashburn. 60 arlington. 59 for rockville. to the south dumfries with that big traffic backup monika was talking about, 58 and 60 degrees in baden. one more look outside on our michael & son weather camera, there's reagan national. we've got the clouds out the

it apparently began in an electrical junction box and was likely caused by electrical gear used to cultivate the plants. no one was home at the time of the fire. and there is no word of any arrests. >>> a santa rosa woman is dead after she was hit and killed in the parking lot of her gym. 72-year-old susan smith was killed just after 8:00 this morning. a man backed into her with his truck and ran over the victim. witnesses tended to the woman before firefighters arrived but she was pronounced dead at the scene. the driver of the pickup is cooperating with the investigation. >>> one man is in the hospital and a gunman is on the lose tonight following what police are calling a road rage shooting in fremont. ktvu's mike mibach tells me that the man was upset that the victim was driving too slow. >> reporter: bullet holes, a dusty old mercedes all tied to a story that police say started with road rage and ended with gunfire. >> just before 5:30 we got a call from someone in the area stating that a shooting had just occurred. >> reporter: police said moments earlier, the suspect was driving desti

it is just congestion over to the 24 junction. >> developing news, we are learning that the person with a toy gun who was shot and killed by sonoma county sheriff deputies was a boy. katie marzullo has details. >> it is a 13-year-old son of this man, andy lopez. he was carrying a friend's toy gun. the family lives near the shooting scene. it happened at 3:00 in the afternoon. two deputyies were patrolling and they saw a male with an assault weapon and called for backup and ordered the man do drop the weapon. he did not. they fired several time. he fell on the gun. the deputies first secured the gun and handcuffed the boy before starting emergency aid. the boy died at the seen. we now have a look at the toy gun. investigators call it a copy an assault weapon. it is not sure if it is was a working b.b. gun and they found a plastic handgun in the boy's waistband. police and the district attorney are investigating the shooting. >> katie, thank you. the bart strike is over. >> the trains will not run in one area for a while. service the be temporarily shut down in one city so investigators c

outside we go and here is a look at the drive through walnut creek, heavy traffic making it to the 24 junctionand also if you plan on taking highway 92 to half moon bay for the pumpkin festivities expect some heavy delays and you do not suppose they want to "squash" the >> very nice! >> the winds outside are very light, just two or three miles per hour. speaking of walnut creek and san ramon valley, our coolest temperatures are this right now. san ramon is 42 degrees, and danville is 43 and 44 at dublin and 45 at pleasanton and walnut creek and half yet at 42. 48 in concord, and the other side of the ridge, pittsburg and antioch and brentwood mid-to-upper 50's. elsewhere, 48 in new hayward and mountain view and 46 in los gatos and 50 in san jose and 47 in fremont and our warpest temperature is oakland and san francisco at 44. very cool in half moon bay and 40 at santa rosa and napa and 43 in novato. it is cooler this morning, you may need a heavier coat but not this afternoon with the warmer temperatures arriving with possibly 30 to 35 degree spread between the low and high this afternoon. it

outside and this is your walnut creek sludge, you make that commute from highway 4, down to the 24 junction rhyme or reason, plenty of congestion. >>> 6:526789 -- 6:52. >>> seven things to know today. >>> number one, a tanker rolled over at carlson boulevard forcing evacuations a at nearby hotel. at least some of the residents were evacuated. fire crews say the tanker is slowly leaking some propane. 500 gallons all together there. abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield is live on the scene and will join us with the latest in a few minutes. >>> number two, investigators trying to figure out if fireworks are to blame for a fire on yorba buena island last night. the fire slowed traffic on the bay bridge before firefighters managed to put it out. >>> the first nobel prizes of the year were just announced in sweden and two winners are from here in the bay area. randy schekman of uc berkeley and thomas sudhof of stanford won the nobel prize for their work in cell research. >>> days away from the end of the cooling off period and still no deal for b.a.r.t. and its unions. the two sides will return to t

steve in cross junction, virginia just told me 35 degrees. amy in luray 28.w -- even though the airport is reporting 32, upper 20s there as well and upper 20s in warrenton and stafford this morning and close to freezing in many areas in montgomery county as well as howard county and frederick this morning. a little bit of a glow on the eastern horizon on our michael & son weather camera. you see the generally clear skies ahead of the sunrise. 40 degrees at national airport. that's jupiter near the moon if you're wondering about the planets you're seeing. humidity 65% and the pressure on the way up 30.21. we've had this upper level trough over the eastern u.s. basically that means the jet stream is dipping like this. when that happens cold air moves in, cold enough for this time of year that we have lake effect snow showers going o. had some thunder yesterday morning in the cleveland area. picked up a bunch of snow in the highest elevations. three inches of snow at snowshoe and they'll get a few more passing snow showers here and there. for the most part it wi

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san jose is looking good and very light with just a few headlights northbound 280 beyond the 17 junction on the way to cupertino and we will take a look at the san mateo bridge at it will minutes between hayward and foster city and the tail lights are headed in the foster city direction looking if so far with the fingers crossed. >> developing news from the peninsula where menlo park police are holding a woman on manslaughter charges for running a couple walking their dog. our reporter is at the sheriff department scene. matt? >> the driver in this crash has yet to be booked in jail. she was taken to stanford medical center for treatment after the crash. police say the 54-year-old woman was driving east in menlo park before 6:55 and she hit a couple from behind while they were walking theiring do. her car then went over the center median into the westbound lane before crashing into a vehicle and hitting another show has been arrested on two counts of vehicular manslaughter. the man and woman died on the scene. police say they were a couple if their 50's. the victim's dogs with taken to t