reena: kentucky one of the hardest hit states. the governor has declared a state of emergency. >> the level of devastation is unlike anything i have ever seen. sadly, far too many homes that people were likely in entirely devastated. reena: the town ofa: the town ot nearly leveled. >> tonight, we are going to focus on those who have lost so much. that is where our hearts are. reena: the courthouse clock tower collapse. >> now we clean and get a game plan on how to open back up and start serving our community. reena: further east, devastation and a storm caused this train derailment. officials confirm at least two fidelity's and multiple injuries after storms caused this roof to collapse at an amazon distribution center. the president speaking to the nation this afternoon. >> it is a tragedy, and we still do not know how many lives were lost and the full extent of the damage. i want to emphasize, what i told all the governors, the federal government will do everything it can possibly do to help. >> in the bay area, we are on storm

reena roy, abc news. dan: you can help the victims of the midwest tornadoes by donating to the red cross. call 1-800-red-cross. ama: and coming up next, we will check on our local weather. while not as severe, we face some dangers in the days ahead. >> it is really calling for unity and not finger-pointing. dan: how can we make oakland safer as the town reaches a murder milestone? we sit down with the ♪ i see trees of green ♪ ♪ red roses too ♪ ♪ i see them bloom for me and you ♪ (music) ♪ so i think to myself ♪ ♪ oh what a wonderful world ♪ >> moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. dan: live doppler 7 gives you the best view of the storm that is blanketing the bay area. while the worst is over for the moment, we will have wet weather all week long. ama: you can see the wind pushing sheets of rain. this was right by the studio in san francisco just a few hours ago when the strongest part of today's storm rolled through. we will check in with drew tuma every 15 minutes. dan: he has every com

i'm joined by reena shaw, capitol hill staffer and strategist.group. and jennifer rubin, msnbc contributor. welcome to both of you. jennifer, i think john puts things into words very interestingly. the beginning of the sentence about the citizenship was polls we take about how what your approval rating is for joe biden and what his performance has been and how many people like him and how many don't. he says the real issue here is that we as citizens need to embrace the idea that democracy is imperiled and behave as such. not compare him to other presidents, whether a democrat or republican. >> right. the polls that i am concerned are about the ones that show a very high percentage of americans who say that they would resort to violence if need be. the high percentage of people who, as you say, do not believe that the election was fairly won. the high number of people who believe that democracy is not important in their lives. i think it's these factors, coupled with the fact that the right has created this alternative reality. you alluded to it

reena, good morning. >> reporter: gio, good morning to you. millions are making that mad dash ahead of the holidays. airports across the country are packed. hopper is estimating more than 2 million will fly every single day during this holiday rush with airlines projected to see a 184% increase in passengers compared to this time last year. now, the tsa says they are prepared, but still they are urging people to arrive early, at least two hours ahead of a domestic flight and three hours before flying internationally. now, if traveling overseas, read up on covid protocols before you go. and if traveling with gifts, bag or box them instead of wrapping them up, so it is easier to open if an alarm goes off. now, on the roads aaa also expecting to see near prepandemic levels. and if you areng this holiday season, your best bet is to hit the road before noon. but the good news here for drivers, gas buddy says gas is down ten cents per gallon since thanksgiving with the national average expected to dip down to 3.25 by christmas and it is expected to

just to give you numbers reena and area. they expect about 375,000 people to pass through open for now until january 2nd across the country. 109 million people. so you will not be alone. a lot of flights are full are pretty close to full. >> mask up. that is the policy inside or outside just to show you how things look like. and i want to tell you, i'm so cool that the rain around me. so that's why i'm out here and i'm nice and dry jojo in show that we get back down to me. >> okay. anyone exposed that. but you get it. it's pretty frightful out there but very delightful under this all right. thanks for making us smile. good morning. they did. was the only waterfalls. >> and 76 right now. we do have breaking news, which is also some good news to know because the pill to treat covid has been authorized by the fda. it's the covid pill from merck and it's only authorized for adults at this point with early symptoms of covid. and if you have faith, it's a high risk of hospitalization or, you know, older people. if somebody has a c

reena. good morning. senior administration officials tell us president biden will announce resources for states to deal with this latest wave of the pandemic. >> and that will include additional personnel and critical supplies for the most hard-hit hospitals and areas. as cities and states around the country. once again start to implement measures to deal with the pandemic. president biden will address the nation tuesday. this is not a speech about locking the country down senior administration officials say the president will announce support for hard-hit states. cities and hospitals like the deployment of 1000 additional troops to help the most overwhelmed hospitals. >> and hundreds of additional ambulances to help transport patients to less impacted areas fema will also increase support to help expand that capacity and set up new search facilities in louisiana and maryland and expand intensive care and emergency units in central california. we are now on an upsurge of delta. we have not yet. >> seen th

reena rose from poverty to council presidents and is credited with many accomplishments. his biggest may have been getting former president barack obama's signature health care plan passed commonly known as obamacare. iraq once credited to read with getting him elected. he mentions that many times. president obama talked about that in his biography autobiography, even mention it was just yesterday read was 82 years old. in national news. we could learn more about the attack on the capitol next year and the to the january 6th committee investigating the riot says lawmakers hope to have an interim report on their investigation ready by the summer of 2022 and a final report done by the fall. most of the committee's work has been done behind closed doors, including hundreds of witness depositions. some lawmakers have indicated they if they would prefer to hold public hearings during this entire process. in the south bay, jurors and elizabeth holmes case spent their 5th day deliberating without reaching a verdict. 37 year-old holmes is accused of defrauding investors and adver

my hayward on up towards livermore, reena. >> this story is just incredible. what you're looking at. dramatic body camera video from the aftermath of a tornado in kentucky shows the 2 babies found wrapped in blanket inside a bafta that have been thrown from a home. now, the grandmother it took them into the bathtub for safety along with blankets and the bible as the storm bore down on them. december 10th the boy's 15 month year-old kaden and 3 month year-old dallas were pulled from the rubble by deputies hours after the storm. one of them was taken to the hospital for treatment of a head injury but will be ok, both children survived and so did their grandmother. that is miraculous. coming up in the next hour, the ron covid variant is getting in the way. >> people seeing their loved ones and some airlines are canceling flights because of the i'm morgan, and there's more to me than hiv. more love, more adventure, more community. but with my hiv treatment, there's not more medicines in my pill. i talked to my doctor and switched to fewer medicines with dovato. do

reena john, the human that we have a lot of accidents out there. let's start with this one along. >> highway for all lanes are blocked 80 eastbound west of highway 4 there. that's out in hercules as you're traveling from the east and to the city's. i was driving into the city this morning. slick conditions heavy winds but visibility very low. so although it's a little under 11 minutes. give yourself more time. let's get a look at the san mateo bridge. we've got an accident there. this is not a 2 westbound at foster city. it looks like they are getting a handle on that accident because at some point multiple lanes were impacted. they're trying to get that off of the bridge to the working on that currently northbound at high street in oakland. you do have an accident there. looks like one of the lanes impacted because of that. let's head over look at the richmond sandra fell bridge. you're traveling at a richmond slick conditions. it's really coming down. still a little under 12 minutes as you're traveling out of fremont 6.80, southbound south of arg

excited about all the new snow falling today sugar bowl ski resort celebrated its opening day reporter reenasacramento is live at sugar bowl tonight. so rowe described the conditions up there. i imagine it's while there you go. boyer, you're in it. it >> it is thick. it's been coming down steadily. it's super cold. but everyone here is so grateful that it came down just in time for opening day. take a look. lots of snow behind me and many people coming from near and far to take full advantage. >> it's great. it's ready. >> a beautiful opening day for sugar bowl started with snow and even a little it's been a long time coming as northern california has been without rain and snow for several weeks but mother nature didn't disappoint as the store dump several feet of snow just in time for opening day, this storm came in what we call right side up, meaning the first foot or 2 is really dense heavy snow which was like glue and it's stucked all the rocks in the ground and then the top 2 feet, a really dry light and fluffy, which is perfect for skiers and snowboarders

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still to come, reena john, thank you for that. and we have a hot spot. this is along 13 in oakland, northbound north. the redwood road. all lanes currently blocked. >> because of a traffic hazard. there. you also have a couple of other issues like a long 24. we have a hazard west and fish ranch road in orinda that's slowing things down a long 5.80, westbound of another hazard southbound east of webster street in oakland. so delays all 8580 13 as you're traveling there. but once you reach the for the maze about a 40 minute drive into the city, slow commute. san mateo bridge a little under 60 minutes for your drive time as you're traveling there. you definitely want to drive slow. let's get a look at richmond as you're heading out of richmond across towards sandra. phil 13 minute drive for you and the golden gate bridge 23 minutes from the north bay into the city will have more on that coming up. for now, let's talk about the sky yet. a lot of people are going to be their plan to wherever they're going. and if you're as a foe, that plane is. >> probably la

shirts are still underway reena roy ab. news, mayfield, kentucky new developments tonight in governor newsom's gun control plan governor is working on a way for private citizens to be allowed to sue makers of assault rifles and ghost guns newsome announced the plan on twitter tonight. he says it's inspired. texas's latest abortion law which allows private citizens to sue abortion providers yesterday the supreme court upheld that texas law in most places. now newsome says his plan would allow residents to seek damages of up to at least $10,000 and legal fees against anyone who manufactures distributes or sells an assault weapon or ghost gun in california. he says he's directed his staff to work with lawmakers and the attorney general on a bill that went enact his plan. new at 11:00 this evening a thief targets a local toy drive that helps bay area children in need abc 7's tim johns spoke with one of the organizers who say at first the thief tried to fool them. for the past 28 years the northern california chapter of the nfl

reena john, thank you for john talked about it. the fog.te into work. >> a lot of the benicia bridge antioch as well along 80 and hercules as you're traveling through this area. we're seeing fog all along. our different highways now, not tracking any accidents. that's the good news, folks taking their time and drive and slowly this morning heading from the east bay into the city. a little under 11 minutes. you can see the metering lights are still off here at the bay bridge traffic moving along 5, 1880, through berkeley and emeryville headed across towards the peninsula. little under 30 minutes to make that drive out of richmond down to under 8 minutes on this friday morning. and in the south bay. let's check on conditions there long one. oh, one 85 in the low park under 31 minutes to 5 any to not see any major delays. darya james, back to you. thank you. rain. it's 5.49. let's talk sports were is getting ready for their big matchup with phoenix suns tonight. yes, indeed. kron 4 sports director jason dumas has a preview of the game and of c

reena don, thank you for that. all right. well, we do have a couple of accidents out there to tell you about. this one on the dumb barton bridge. 84 westbound. >> west. they're just of the toll plaza. so we see just a slight delay because of that accident. but no major issues here out here martinez westbound east of the hamburg avenue. you've got an accident. >> so we're seeing a little slowing. and then in concord to 42 northbound of all of their road. you've got another accident there. and we're just seeing a slight delay as you're heading from the east bay into the city a little under 9 minutes for your drive time this morning. you still have very slick conditions along the san mateo bridge a little under 14 minutes as you're heading across towards the peninsula and you can see the rain really starting to come down right now along the golden gate bridge about a 20 minute drive as you're traveling from the north bay into the city. check out other highways everything pretty much in the green. it's pretty light at this hour.

. >> as reena and daria were saying, where actually clearing that out pretty quickly this morning.o if you do need to run some errands, do some holiday shopping. wait a couple of hours going to be much better for it to sit that coffee and enjoy a nice quiet morning before the rest. the family gets up your view outside at the transamerica building as well as some of our other buildings in financial district obscured by any low cloud cover at this moment. we are seeing dryer conditions now across the north bay really having dried out for portions of sonoma and napa counties staying that way through the rest of the day still in the midst of mostly light to moderate showers for the rest of the bay area. we saw some heavy rain earlier this morning. a lot of that is cleared further to the south and east. as you can see, right around morgan hill down to gilroy. we are still seeing some heavier rainfall out that way as well as out into the central valley snowfall in the sierra nevada at this point has traffic pretty snarled up there. so if you want to head to the sierra really the best tim

still to come, reena. all right. is tomorrow. we've got to leave a little earlier to make sure we get in safely. we talked about highway flooding. >> southbound 8.80, north 80 west. you're still seeing flooding conditions as you're traveling through there along the maze. once you do reach the foot of the maze about a 90 minute drive into the city. you can see they've turned the metering lights on trying to slow folks down there. the san mateo bridge 15 minutes. we were at 30 in the last hour because of an accident we had there that's been clear still very slick conditions. so you don't want to spin out drive slow as you're out there. 9 minutes heading across towards sandra fell via the richmond sandra fell bridge. the golden gate bridge about a 22 minute drive 37 till the tolls. other areas seeing high flooding waters northbound want to one to that. 3.80, west connector in south san francisco. and it looks like we're seeing delays all along. one o one because of those slick conditions about a 34 minute drive. 85 to menlo park. we

reena, thank you for that, john. it's a cold one out there. got to keep that in mind. >> all right. some accidents out there to like this one in oakland, west bound, 5.80, to 80 west. so you are seeing a slight delay as you're araveling through there and a little slowness along 24 up in westbound 37 just east of skaggs island road. you've got another accident. and so you're seeing a slight delay as you're traveling along 37 heading into the city right now. little under 90 minutes for your drive time. then we had some earlier issues that slowed us down. hey, across towards the peninsula. a lot of improvement. we were up to about 17 minutes. now we're back down to 13 along 80 in hayward and little road got an accident. so be mindful of that and highway for about 14 minutes as you're traveling towards to 42 darya. james, back to you. thank you. rates 9. '02, and our top story, california's new indoor mask mandate, which is now in effect statewide. but. >> in effect is a tricky word. >> and it depends on where you are, whether it's the state rule, you'll fall or your local rule to help

reena john, thanks for that. traffic is backed up. >> 2 about the foot of the maze, the air as you're traveling along 5, 8080 traffic moving along pretty nicely, not seen any major issues or delays traveling to him, a villain berkeley heading across towards the peninsula a little under 15 minutes for your drive time as you're traveling there now, last time we checked in, we had an accident along highway 4 that has since been cleared. so a little under 41 minutes traveling from one 60 to 2.42 at this hour and we'll leave you with a look at 6 a tz traveling southbound down towards to 62 a little under 26 minutes darya james, back to you. thank you, ray. it is 6.33 and. back to the big story. our top story is the omicron variant, which found in san francisco. first case in the whole country. and that's obviously a big problem. that was. >> found airport officials who detained while a detained but somebody who came into the country at sfo started feeling symptoms. they think there are more cases out there. but at lea

reena rose from poverty to council presidents and is credited with many accomplishments.gest may have been getting former president barack obama's signature healthcare plan passed commonly known as obamacare president obama once credited read with getting him elected. he did mention that many times throughout his book and then he actually even talked about it yesterday when president obama took to social media to remember his friend harry reid was 82 years old in national news. we could learn more about the attack on the capitol next year in aid to the january 6 committee investigating the riot says lawmakers hope to have an interim report on their investigation ready in the summer of 2022 saw about maybe 5 or 6 months from now and they want to have a final report done by the fall. most of the committee's work has been behind closed doors including hundreds of witness depositions. some lawmakers. they have indicated that they would like to hold public hearings during this process. in the south bay, jurors and elizabeth holmes case spent their 5th day deliberating and did

reena john, thanks for that. all right.ts new ones that just popped up this one south san francisco. >> actually a traffic hazard here. southbound one. oh, one west, 3.80, we have another accident along millbrae that has been cleared off of the highway there. so that traffic hazard here, we're still seeing delays as you're traveling along one on one out here to read a 24 eastbound west of wilder road. we have a traffic collision there. so we are seeing delays on both the eastbound and westbound side. so be careful and cautious as you're driving through there, traveling into the city right now. little under 19 minutes for you still slick conditions this morning to take your time high winds across the san mateo bridge and delays along one o one. that's why we're at about 20 minutes as you're traveling there at a richmond, a little under 14 minutes for you as you're traveling along toward sandra fell darya james, back to you. thanks >> so let's turn our attention to a pretty big story out of san francisco where a family visiti

reena tom, thank you for that. all right. so we're seeing slick conditions out there. remember, we were following a couple incidents along 5.80 in 80 earlier this morning. >> it looks like the accident. that was a long 5.80. is clear right now. but again, i'm still seeing some delays along 8.80, southbound north of 90 avenue in oakland as you're traveling from the east bay into the city will be a little under 13 minutes for your drive time there. we've got high gusty winds across the golden gate bridge in the richmond. sandra fell bridge. let's get a look at the san mateo virgil as you're heading across towards the potential with slick conditions. there. it will be a little under 14 minutes. again, daryn, we're talking about how our cameras our out because of the weather conditions out there. so again, take your time and drive safely. all right. well, we've got you covered. and oh, by the way, submit your photos to kron 4 dot com. guys, we were sent. >> then we would have more coverage they want to 5. '02, is a time right now. and what we're following in the east bay i

santa rosa nevado and napa each at 39 degrees currently some 40's further south reena.ge is recovering from an earlier accident and slick and wet conditions. >> that we've seen all throughout the morning. you can see chp over looks like they just got that pulled to the side of the bridge a little under 15 minutes now heading into the city this morning. the meteor lights are still on because id's still slick and wet out there heading across towards the financial a little under 15 minutes for your drive time there. highway 24 pretty slow on the westbound and eastbound sykes. we had an earlier accident on the westbound side near wilder wrote that lasted like 4 or 5 hours. that is just been clear. but you still see residual delays on the eastbound side. you've got an accident just popped up. 24 east that east of communal possible in a so you're going to see delays on both sides here. also traveling westbound on 80 down from crockett to the maze. also pretty slow because of the slick weather conditions were seen about a 35 to 40 minute drive through that area highway for a l

that's when you want to get back out there and do your travels may be into the sierra reena. john, thanks for that. all right. well, we have multiple hot spots out there. we're going to start with this one in lafayette, westbound 24 east. >> cullen is rode all lanes are currently blocked temporarily starting with this accident here. another hot spot. we're all the lanes are currently blocked. this is out in san pablo 80 eastbound at hilltop drive. so we're keeping a close eye on that. san pablo avenue might be a good alternate to track get around that if you're trying to travel long, 80 high street 8, 80 northbound at high street. you have one lane currently blocked another accident. 5.80, westbound east of grand avenue here in oakland up in fairfield. another accident were lanes are blocked. 80 westbound under highway 24 as you're traveling from the east bay into the city. look at this rain continues to come down. high gusty winds on the bay bridge as well. so a little under 10 minutes. definitely want to take your time because there are pockets of water there heading across

attachment report is included in various other publications including the annual housing inventory and reena submittals. that is what we have to look forward to. with that, i will conclude my presentation and answer any questions. >> that concludes the presentation by staff. back to you. >> supervisor mar: thank you so much for that josh and michelle. and for all your work on the job-housing report. i want to say that, we also have fernando ortiz here as available to participate in the discussion. it's if it's okay with you, i like to invite fernando to share an assessment of the report. >> chair melgar: welcome. i have several questions. i will wait until after his presentation. welcome. >> thank you, chair melgar. thank you supervisors. i think i'll make this pretty quick. thank you planning department staff. this was really quite informative. i think as joshua said, one of the things that really stood out in this report is the need at the moderate income levels. that is something that we've seen throughout the rhna reporting and here as well where we see -- looking at my data here, in a n

attachment report is included in various other publications including the annual housing inventory and reena submittals. that is what we have to look forward to. with that, i will conclude my presentation and answer any questions. >> that concludes the presentation by staff. back to you. >> supervisor mar: thank you so much for that josh and michelle. and for all your work on the job-housing report. i want to say that, we also have fernando ortiz here as available to participate in the discussion. it's if it's okay with you, i like to invite fernando to share an assessment of the report. >> chair melgar: welcome. i have several questions. i will wait until after his presentation. welcome. >> thank you, chair melgar. thank you supervisors. i think i'll make this pretty quick. thank you planning department staff. this was really quite informative. i think as joshua said, one of the things that really stood out in this report is the need at the moderate income levels. that is something that we've seen throughout the rhna reporting and here as well where we see -- looking at my data here, in a n

attachment report is included in various other publications including the annual housing inventory and reenaubmittals. that is what we have to look forward to. with that, i will conclude my presentation and answer any questions. >> that concludes the presentation by staff. back to you. >> supervisor mar: thank you so much for that josh and michelle. and for all your work on the job job-housing report. i want to say that, we also have fernando ortiz here as available to participate in the discussion. it's if it's okay with you i like to invite fernando to share an assessment of the report. >> chair melgar: welcome. i have several questions. i will wait until after his presentation. welcome. >> thank you chair melgar. thank you supervisors. i think i'll make this pretty quick. thank you planning department staff. this was really quite informative. i think as joshua said, one of the things that really stood out in this report is the need at the moderate income levels. that is something that we've seen throughout the rhna reporting and here as well where we see -- looking at my data here in a ne