abc7 news meteorologist leigh glaser is tracking the typhoon. >> it's decreasing in speed and strength but still giving vietnam, the northeastern quadrant there, quite a bit of a pounding, right there near the coast. winds right now, if this were a category -- if this was a hurricane, it would be a category 1, barely a category 1, 75 miles-per-hour, and let's show you where this typhoon is going to continue by early tomorrow morning. those winds -- remember, once these things reach over land, they start to decrease rather quickly. so those winds will go from near 75 miles-per-hour now. by early tomorrow to about 40 miles-per-hour, as it takes its track right into southern portions of china. so, the worst is over but they're still going to have to deal with very heavy rainfall the next 24 hours. >> thank you, leigh. >>> our coverage of the developing story continues now on our web site, our facebook page, and on twitter. >>> a grass fire anywhere candlestick park is still smoldering. fire broke out at 4:00 this afternoon northeast of the parking lot. thick smoke rose. fire units were on

. >> i'm meteorologist leigh glaser. the winds have died down, but there's some nice warming in the accuweather seven-day >> this week the long search for a multimillion dollar softball complex in san jose could be over. the city council will have a proposal to build it south of east ridge mall. the san jose mercury news reports some council members feel the site is too small. they want to see it built at the county fairground. however that may have additional costs and take more time. >>> a group of parents in northern california is fighting an elementary school recess policy that is supposed to make the transition from playtime to classtime easier. students at navigatorletry school are told to freeze at the end of recess and assume a position where they put their hands on their knees but parents don't like and it call the position victimizing and almost pornographic. they want the district to do away with the practice. >> daughters bent over and assume this position. she can be like that for ten minutes until you get t

abc7 news meteorologist leigh glaser is tracking the typhoon. >> it's decreasing in speed and strength but still giving vietnam, the northeastern quadrant there, quite a bit of a pounding, right there near the coast. winds right now, if this were a category -- if this was a hurricane, it would be a category 1, barely a category 1, 75 miles-per-hour, and let's show you where this typhoon is going to continue by early tomorrow morning. those winds -- remember, once these things reach over land, they start to decrease rather quickly. so those winds will go from near 75 miles-per-hour now. by early tomorrow to about 40 miles-per-hour, as it takes its track right into southern portions of china. so, the worst is over but they're still going to have to deal with very heavy rainfall the next 24 hours. >> thank you, leigh. >>> our coverage of the developing story continues now on our web site, our facebook page, and on twitter. >>> a grass fire anywhere candlestick park is still smoldering. fire broke out at 4:00 this afternoon northeast of the parking lot. thick smoke rose. fire units were on

. >> i'm meteorologist leigh glaser. the winds have died down, but there's some nice warming in the accuweather seven-day >> this week the long search for a multimillion dollar softball complex in san jose could be over. the city council will have a proposal to build it south of east ridge mall. the san jose mercury news reports some council members feel the site is too small. they want to see it built at the county fairground. however that may have additional costs and take more time. >>> a group of parents in northern california is fighting an elementary school recess policy that is supposed to make the transition from playtime to classtime easier. students at navigatorletry school are told to freeze at the end of recess and assume a position where they put their hands on their knees but parents don't like and it call the position victimizing and almost pornographic. they want the district to do away with the practice. >> daughters bent over and assume this position. she can be like that for ten minutes until you get t

leigh glaser is here again.e heading to cabo or mazatlan in mexico, watch out for tropical storm sonya. and we and phone bill. do you ever notice the strange charges that pop up on your bills? what are they and where do they come from? michael finney takes on gray charges. >> mystery charges are costing americans billions of dollars a year. one estimate goes as high as 14 billion. you may have noticed them. charges for $10 and less on your credit card and cell phone bill. >> have you ever figured out what the charges were for? >> no, sometimes there are strange descriptions. >> the taxes or the city, something like that. >> and sometimes it will say texting charges. do you ever receive one of those? what do you do? >> let it go. >> often the charges are not even from the phone companies, but from third parties who pay the phone p cs -- phone companies to do the billing. on phone bills those questionable charges are called cramming because they are crammed on the bills. they are called gray charges because they f

leigh glaser is here again. if you are heading to cabo or mazatlan in mexico, watch out for tropical storm sonya. and we my name is eddie metcalf. i enjoworking in my yard and you know, i can't. i can't do that any more,'cuz i'm missing most of my lung. they did a cat scan of my kidneys, no more kidney stones. that's the good news. "but, we found a spot on your lung." that frankly scared the "hell" out of me. i hadn't smoked in 22 years. how could this happen to me? he said, "well, you know about radon gas?" we'll... you know, i heard about it. he said, "well, the second leading cause of cancer" "in america is radon, 22,000 people a year die from this." i literally left the doctor's office, got a test kit, put it in my house, and our result was 39.8. the upper limit is 4. we got to get this fixed. that was on a monday, and on wednesday, our mitigation system was up and running. well, i think everybody should have their house tested. we'd never know. we'd still be living there. i could get another tumor from it.

here's leigh glaser showing what kind of weather travelers can expect. >> live doppler 7 hd showing a few clouds here and there. other wise, it's been a dry day. let's go ahead and take you to where the winter storm is raging. dallas all the way down to houston. houston is rain. dallas freezing rain. some icing. boy they had to de-ice so many planes today. so many cancellations and lot snow around the great lakes, buffalo, even toward cleveland you see some snow, as well. here's the forecast for tomorrow. that big massive area of moisture heads up to the tennessee valley area. here's a more refined look. by monday at 5:00 a.m., you can see memphis, tennessee, getting hit with light snow. 3:00 on monday, that heavy rain continues to march up toward the tennessee valley. tuesday at 6:00 a.m., boy, washington, d.c. raleigh, some icing there and then check out on tuesday by 3:00 new york city, the rain but it will turn over to snow as you head to the wednesday time frame. our rain backing off a little bit. we will look at the accu-weather seven-day forecast coming up. >> thank you. >>> a

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leigh glaser is tracking the storm. >> it certainly is but still packing some pretty good wind speedsright now it's category one, starting to move in just to the northeast portions of vietnam, but it's just barely a typhoon, as it makes its way, landfall, head can towards the north northeast. winds will start to come down to 60 miles-per-hour later this evening, and as it heads into the southeastern portions of china by monday morning, looks like the winds will die down to 40 miles-per-hour. it will dedowngradeed to a area of low pressure then. so, it looks like the worst from this is about to end. >>> many of those who evacuated in vietnam in preparation of the supertyphoon have return home tonight. vietnam's coast appears to have been spared the brunt of haiyan's force, as leighshowed us, a weekenned high yap made landfall in northern vietnam. 600,000 people living in the central region were evacuated. >>> another nation in haiyan's path was battered with heavy wind and strong reasons. it's the 30th typhoon to hit china this year. several flights were cancelled due to the weather, l

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here's leigh glaser showing what kind of weather travelers can expect. >> live doppler 7 hd showing a few clouds here and there. other wise, it's been a dry day. let's go ahead and take you to where the winter storm is raging. dallas all the way down to houston. houston is rain. dallas freezing rain. some icing. boy they had to de-ice so many planes today. so many cancellations and lot snow around the great lakes, buffalo, even toward cleveland you see some snow, as well. here's the forecast for tomorrow. that big massive area of moisture heads up to the tennessee valley area. here's more refined look. by monday at 5:00 a.m., you can see memphis, tennessee, getting hit with light snow. 3:00 on monday, that heavy rain continues to march up toward the tennessee valley. tuesday at 6:00 a.m., boy, washington, d.c. raleigh, some icing there and then check out on tuesday by 3:00 new york city, the rain but it will turn over to snow as you head to the wednesday time frame. our rain backing off a little bit. we will look at the accu-weather seven-day forecast coming up. >> thank you. >>> a ma

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leigh glaser has a check on the forecast. >> it certainly was.n low clouds, fog that will venture into the coast as well as the bay. i do want to mention tonight we do have the meteor shower, of course, the best view will be midnight to dawn. if you look east, the full moon will interfere with that. here is a look at what you can expect overnight tonight. we'll look for the low clouds, a bit of fog, as well and then we'll start to clear things out. so look at partly cloudy conditions for your sunday and then as we roll into the first part of next week, that's when the chances of rain will go up. highs tomorrow in the 60s. upper 60s in the east bay, upper 50s at the coast and monday the clouds thicken leading to showers and rain expected. moving from the north bay to the south bay on tuesday and then a few lingering showers on wednesday and dry things up next weekend. >> all right. thank you so much. >>> several churches in richmond held an early thanksgiving celebration today called every day is a day of thanksgiving. the event was hosted by hill

eastern time. >>> and for a check on how our sunday weather is going to be let's go to leigh glaser. and also a bit on the breezy to windy side depending on where you are. you can see live doppler 7 hd picking up a clear sky. but the wind gusts are starting to pick up. that wind advisory up for the bay area until monday at 7:00 a.m. gusts to 29 in santa rosa right now. the south bay calm right now. san carlo, only 6 miles an hour. that is sustained wind in san jose. by the way if you are heading to the raiders game tomorrow, no complaints. hazy sunshine. it will be chillier. with daytime highs only in the mid to low 60s and the breeze will be with you as well. also around the state we'll look for 68 for los angeles, 70, fresno. windy near monterey tomorrow, 59 degrees. and yosemite, 59 as well. if you are going east, washington, d.c. enjoys sunshine, a fall like day at 54 degrees. 68 for dallas. and denver, 63 degrees. remember, before you go to bed, it's time to fall back. set your clock back one hour as a return to pacific standard time 2:00 a.m. sunday morning. otherwise we warm u

leigh glaser is here for a first check on weather and live doppler 7hd. >> and numerous more flights will be canceled tomorrow as well as tuesday as this cold front, this wet weather system marches its way across the eastern half of the united states. we are clear as you can see from live doppler 7hd. but you can see the wintry mix moving up toward the dallas area. icing conditions there. connecting flights and get ready for numerous cancellations there by early tomorrow morning. here is how the storm system will go. by 5:00 a.m. most of it is in the dallas area. then the heavy rain will push to middle tennessee. severe thunderstorms expected in the atlanta area. then by tuesday afternoon in through tuesday night the snow willbank up no, sir new york city and heading over toward the great lakes. a lot of headaches travel wise to look forward to this week. we will look at our forecast coming up. >> thank you, leigh. >>> we will take more than a little cold and rain to keep some people from their holiday deals. shoppers are already lining up outside stores way ahead of black friday. se

leigh glaser is here for a first check on weather and live doppler 7hd. >> and numerous more flights will be canceled tomorrow as well as tuesday as this cold front, this wet weather system marches its way across the eastern half of the united states. we are clear as you can see from live doppler 7hd. but you can see the wintry mix moving up toward the dallas area. icing conditions there. connecting flights and get ready for numerous cancellations there by early tomorrow morning. here is how the storm system will go. by 5:00 a.m. most of it is in the dallas area. then the heavy rain will push to middle tennessee. severe thunderstorms expected in the atlanta area. then by tuesday afternoon in through tuesday night the snow willbank up no, sir new york city and heading over toward the great lakes. a lot of headaches travel wise to look forward to this week. we will look at our forecast coming up. >> thank you, leigh. >>> we will take more than a little cold and rain to keep some people from their holiday deals. shoppers are already lining up outside stores way ahead of black friday. se

and now to leigh glaser with a look at where the winds are carrying the smoke. >> here is a quick look at the winds and most locations are reporting almost calm conditions. i know toward redwood city in the last 15, 20 minutes they have been reporting winds out of the north, northwest at two miles an hour. we will take you down to almost street level. you can see where seaport is and where the industrial fire is taking place. the wind is carrying the smoke plume from northwest to the southeast and you can even see some of the communities that could be affected even as far south as sunnyvale, san jose, mill pea disand -- mill pea disand even toward fremont. i can tell thought air quality readings have improved in the last four hours as they are trying to put out the flames of that fire. >> leigh, thank you. >>> turning now to the devastating typhoon which is now a tropical storm. haiyan has made landfall in vietnam and bringing with it 74 mile per hour winds. in the philippines, a state of emergency or mar marshall law could be declared. the death toll is rising. thousands are feared de

and now to leigh glaser with a look at where the winds are carrying the smoke. >> here is a quick look at the winds and most locations are reporting almost calm conditions. i know toward redwood city in the last 15, 20 minutes they have been reporting winds out of the north, northwest at two miles an hour. we will take you down to almost street level. you can see where seaport is and where the industrial fire is taking place. the wind is carrying the smoke plume from northwest to the southeast and you can even see some of the communities that could be affected even as far south as sunnyvale, san jose, mill pea disand -- mill pea disand even toward fremont. i can tell thought air quality readings have improved in the last four hours as they are trying to put out the flames of that fire. >> leigh, thank you. >>> turning now to the devastating typhoon which is now a tropical storm. haiyan has made landfall in vietnam and bringing with it 74 mile per hour winds. in the philippines, a state of emergency or mar marshall law could be declared. the death toll is rising. thousands are feared de

let's get the latest on this storm system from meteorologist leigh glaser. leigh?here in the san francisco bay area, not picking up returns at all. delightful day today. let's take you where the storm system is really kicking up all kinds of havoc. a heavy rain moving towards las vegas, southern california, higher elevations you see there, plenty of snow is falling. you'll find snow in flagstaff and phoenix, moderate rain this morning but this system shifting east, folks and look at dallas. yeah, you see the pink? that is freezing rain headed toward s the dallas fort worth area overnight tonight? the planes, a good possibility overnight tonight and tomorrow morning and all of this is going to shift towards the east. sit a big travel week ahead of us and looks like we are going to find numerous slow downs across the country, ama? >> thank you. >>> developing news from the north bay where winds and dry conditions spread a massive fire in sa say know ma -- two plants have been knocked offline and the fire burned the cooler tower at a cale pine corporation plant. it's

first we want to get to leigh glaser.was a nice sunny day but you needed a jacket. >> you did thanks to the winds from the west. it calmed down a little bit this evening. but the temperatures tomorrow may rise a few more degrees before the clouds begin to thicken and rain is in the forecast. live doppler 7 hd showing you some of the clouds gathering near the coast. there you go, just in the last few frames you can see it starting to move inland. coit tower, san francisco 52. it's 48 in redwood city. 46 in los gatos. and emeryville looking out over the bay, santa rosa at 44. concord, 51 and livermore, 54 degrees. here is a look at a live shot. and you can clearly see the low clouds and fog racing in from the bay heading over downtown san francisco. so it will be cold overnight with the low clouds moving inland. also fog near the coast as well. a mixture of sun and clouds for sunday. temperatures rise a few degrees and the rain will return across the bay area as we head into tuesday and wednesday. by the way we have a full

. >> abc7 news meteorologist leigh glaser is here with a look at what they are facing in the midwest. >> a lot of the severe activity has started to wind down. live doppler 7hd is showing you the hefty line and the very strong cold front that moved from chicago and st. louis and all the way through the upper midwest. you can also get a sense of how many tornadoes, close to 65 tornadoes reported as this cold front moved through. as you can see on the detailed map, the majority of them in the illinois area. once again most of the rain has tapered of on. it is moving toward the east. the severe threat i think will wind down for this evening. we have some rain in our accu-weather forecast and we will talk about that coming up. >> thank you, leigh. you can get weather alerts and live radar by downloading the abc7 news weather app by abc7news.com/apps. abc7 news reporter sergio is live at sfo with those details. sergio? >> ama, we have been keeping tabs on the flights that have been delayed because of the storms. by far the longest delay is the united airlines flight that was supposed to le

. >> abc7 news meteorologist leigh glaser is here with a look at what they are facing in the midwest. >> a lot of the severe activity has started to wind down. live doppler 7hd is showing you the hefty line and the very strong cold front that moved from chicago and st. louis and all the way through the upper midwest. you can also get a sense of how many tornadoes, close to 65 tornadoes reported as this cold front moved through. as you can see on the detailed map, the majority of them in the illinois area. once again most of the rain has tapered of on. it is moving toward the east. the severe threat i think will wind down for this evening. we have some rain in our accu-weather forecast and we will talk about that coming up. >> thank you, leigh. you can get weather alerts and live radar by downloading the abc7 news weather app by abc7news.com/apps. abc7 news reporter sergio is live at sfo with those details. sergio? >> ama, we have been keeping tabs on the flights that have been delayed because of the storms. by far the longest delay is the united airlines flight that was supposed to le