the north bay mountains and the east bay valley. visibility is less than quarter of a mile through 9:00. 7:00, obviously we will have fog. temperatures are in the 40's to 50 of the it is milder this morning because of the cloud cover. by noon, hazy sunshine and temperatures in the low-to-mid 60's. by 4:00, a few high clouds and sunshine and notice the brees will start picking up as the cold front draws near. 58 at the coast and 64 at bay at 4:00 and 70 inland and everyone is in the mid-50's to upper 50's at 7:00 but with the breezes it will feel cooler. the next three days, some of the coolest days will drop another two to six degrees with breezes tomorrow. a front is close enough that the rain could fall in mendocino lake but the rest of us are mid-50's to mid-60's for highs. now the morning commute. leyla gulen? >> we have a couple of things going on with a 20--minute bart delay eastbound in daly city. we have report after an overturned big rig westbound along 80 so we have lanes blocked because of the overturned i truck. so far i

the worst of it in the east and for the north bay. with the recent rains, you can expect more downed power lines. it is likely to get a lot worse as we could see the gusts continuing here. we're going to detail the forecast and how the wind is going to impact the morning temperatures, coming up. >>> we have new details involving a hate crime investigation. we first reported the allegations last night. and it quickly turned into a national story. a black and white issue at san jose state has the school embarrassed and the students in shock. we hear from a friend of the victim and the three, white students who have been suspended. george kiriyama is on campus with the latest. >> reporter: we have called this university police to find out if one or all three have surrendered. we know that san jose state has placed all three on interim suspension. we did talk to a friend of the victim tonight. he says this kind of thing shouldn't happen here. >> howard is a friend of the 18-year-old african-american student who allegedly was subjected to

the fog isry where but the east bay valley and the east bay hills with fog through 9:00 and quarter-mile visibility or lower. then it fades. over the water, though, it doesn't fade until noon because the water can hold the energy of the sun better without retransmitting it as warmer air. because of that you do not get the overturning of the atmosphere as you do by land. by 3:00, we have hazy sunshine and clouds along the coast. we are mild today we in the upper 60's to low 70's in the south bay with san jose at 69 and mid-to-upper 60's on the peninsula and low-to-mid sits along the coast into downtown and south san francisco and sausalito and low-to-mid 70's through the north bay valley and low-to-mid 60's at the coastline and mid-to-upper 60's through the east bay shore and castro valley is more sunshine and 70's and most sunshine today is mid-70's. tonight, lower to mid-70's inland and it will be breezy tonight so dress appropriately tomorrow morning. here is the first cold front rolling through, we have a northwest wind and new air mass coming in. by saturday it will be ten degrees co

still dealing with rain mostly in the east bay. i want to show you where the heaviest downpours are, livermore, a lot of this activity is east of dublin but we're going to see more throughout the morning. only up in the east bay. yeah, pretty significant rainfall totals. wait till i show you how much rain over the past 24 hours. might just blow your mind. right now, though, he's always blowing our mind, good looks. >> oh, thank you. thank you. wow. starting the morning with a great start. we'll see how it goes from here. the bay bridge, a nice easy flow of traffic. there is the wed roadway and the highway 4, watch that as well having had rain a few minutes ago. that will be slick as the commute starts there. here one of the toll lanes isn't open for cash payers. fremont, the glowing lights. i had to use my wipers because the mist was pretty thick in this area. at times coming through san jose watch over the santa cruz mountains as well, thick in that area. >> breaking news we're following out of the south bay reports after robbery

the east bay hills looking to the southeast. the big story today is three to seven degrees warmer-than-average and everyone in the low-to-mid 70's away from the coast where you are in the mid-to-upper 60's. the high clouds are overtaking the northern half of our beautiful state with the low clouds pushed away and 70 in monterey with sunshine and 60 in tahoe. upper 70's to low 80's in san diego and los angeles and palm springs. safe travels. >> we have two sig-alerts but the first is odd northbound 101 in east palo alto a multi-vehicle crash with an overturned car and the person in that overturn vehicle was headed to the hospital where their boyfriend was shot. we are still tracking this. this is what c.h.p. is reporting to us. 31 miles per hour is the top speed. lots of activity and a motorcycle crash southbound at marsh road and another sig-alert with more on that coming up. later today, san francisco-based twitter is expected to set the rice for shares ahead tomorrow's initial public offering. twitter is expected to begin trad

of the winds pg&e says the biggest us which december is the east bay where 25,000 customers are still in the $. 8,500 is the told in the north bay and 100 homes and businesses are in the dark on the peninsula. pg&e says crews are working to restore power but there is in word when the lights are back on for everyone. and more evidence of powerful the winds have been with figures totaling 33,000 people in the bay area. more evidence of how powerful they have been, the gas station sign in condition core at -- in concord on clayton road. no one was hurt there. not far away winds blue -- blew the phone lines into each other swaying above the eastbound lane of the freeway and they were quickly cleared away. >> the winds brought down the tree in oakland, a photo sent to us at piedmont avenue a viewer tweeting that several blocks were without power. san us your pictures at ureport@kgo-tv.com. you can keep tabs on the rain with the weather app which is free. >> breaking news from napa where dozens are being chased from their homes by an out of criminal grass fire with an evacuation center sent

it does not include the east bay even though we are getting signs of east bay fog forming. poor visibility is awful, as you know. for the morning, dense fog and high clouds. hazy and a little cooler. still mild inland. not as warm as yesterday. some of the temperatures here, 50s for some. a lot of 40s here. redwood city is 51 degrees. i think we will see them hit about 68. i will tell you it drops fast, as you know. once we get to 5:00 the temperatures take the tumble even though it was really nice yesterday. cloud cover and cloudty the north. partly cloudy later on here. hazy sunshine. that fog is the huge story this morning. a little cooler on the afternoon highs. too much fog in the area. the big story is a cooler pattern tomorrow and saturday we will get more on that. 60s and low 70s for most of today. here is sal. >>> good morning. we are looking at traffic in the east bay that probably can't get much worse on interstate 80, westbound 80. we have been talking about the big rig and we are looking at the toll plaza here. the traffic is going to be busy. if you are coming

the south bay, easy drive. the green here in the east bay, we're looking at the tri-valley. the slower drive, some wet roads for 580, 84 through livermore, 680, we do have this backup that let loose. we had a stall here around north flynn road. we'll keep that in mind. we're looking here toward the east bay. off the antioch bridge, jamming up and again, the green here, wet roadways. more puddling as christine was talking about. close to the oakland area we see that for 580 and portions of 880. we'll give you a live look and see traffic moves past the coliseum, no major issues and the north bay moves smoothly. back to you. a look at 101 south. >> i want to give you live pictures out of wichita, account. you have one of those days nothing goes right. how about the pilot landing this plane at the wrong airport. that's right. took a wrong turn. the cargo plane landed at a corporate airport instead of the nearby airport base it was supposed to land at. crews are trying to figure out how to get the plane out of there because the runway there is so short, and this plane is, i mean,

an easy flow around the east bay. top left hand corner you are see the orange in san rafael, the 0 glow we saw. fog not so much of an issue a. potential problem over the course of the morning. we have guadeloupe canyon parkway. this is top of san bruno mountain a crash there. not a big deal. 280 and 101 moving smoothly. and the south bay we have a new crash reported north 85 at north 87. a lot of debris reported in the roadway. sounds like it's going to close for a few minutes. >> thanks, mike. >> rescuers, this is amazing, they pulled a puppy from the storm drain in dallas who was stuck there more than a week. >> happy endings, we love them. teachers from the school heard about the labrador mix. they could hear him yelping for help. for days they brought the puppy food and tried to rescue him. had no luck. eventually crews came in and sent cameras down the drain. they spent hours looking for the puppy. you can see right there, looking pretty good for the rough ride there. finally a trap with food did the trick. they

coast behind and mid-to-upper 60's along the east bay shore and warmest in the east bay valleys with temperatures in the mid-70's. cold front is coming in this afternoon and evening hours the winds pick you will and it will be brick through tomorrow morning and we will not tell with fog tomorrow. secondary push on friday night into saturday with the wet weather close enough to mendocino and lake county but not here. check out the seven-day forecast ten degree cooler by saturday. >> we have learned that president obama will address the nation about obamacare at 8:45 our time this morning and this will happen at white house briefing room. >> the morning news is back in 60 >>> as we hand things off to "good morning america" there are seven things you ned to know: a sig-alert is in effect for interstate 80 after a big rig crashed and rolled over ambassador embankment. one lane of westbound 80 is still closed and crews are uprighting the truck filled with 25,000 pounds of frozen food. >> look at the backup, eight miles per hour is the top speed and the sig-alert will lift by 8:30. the dam

in the low 70's in the north bay valley but low-to-mid 60's bodega bay and sausalito, and into the east bay valleys we will have low-to-mid 70's. tonight it is 8:00er at low-to-mid 40's with patchy fog and 50 for the rest of us. tomorrow is warmer in the seven-day forecast and breezy in the hills on thursday to friday and fire danger heightened with no wants or warnings and we will want it temperatures taper this weekend, but, still, above average. >> some of that falling drizzle could affect the commute with reports of accidents but the big story is el al -- el cerrito bart station with a fatality on the tracks. a bus bridge will take a limited number of passengers from the station to north berkeley and what police are telling us, if you want to go to fremont go to the north berkeley bart and park if free and take bus 72. that, really, is the only way around this unless you can take a car pool and avoid the trains altogether. this will stay closed until further notice. as we look at the rest of our commute across the bay area, southbound 680 is still bumper-to-bumper traffic but it is

this is how it looks from the east bay hills. the clouds are not touching the east bay hills. it is clear over to san francisco. we will put some sprinkles, possibly some light rain in the morning forecast. we will have a little bit of clearing. that will continue tonight. we have moisture and marine patchy fog in the north bay tomorrow morning for the commute and it will be mild and dry through the extended forecast. the temperatures today are going to be warmer than yesterday and low-to-mid 70's in the south bay and cupertino is 72 and los gatos at 74. up the peninsula, we have upper 60's to low 70's today from 67 in millbrae to 72 in los altos and low-to-mid 60's in downtown san francisco, and 66 in sausalito, and low 70's through the north bay valleys, and if i thought there would be a lot rain i would not put 70's in the forecast because the rain would keep it cooler, and upper 60's to low 70's along the coast and low-to-mid 70's into the another bay valley. temperatures are cooler with most of us in the mid-to-upper 40's and a few 50's around richmond and san francisco.

we're getting showers along the east bay. i want to show you san francisco, though, where you can no longer make out the top of the bay bridge as the low clouds continue to drop throughout the next few hours. that will likely force flight delays so keep that in mind. your overall temperature spread, across the bay area only slated to hit the low 60s in the heat of the day so. temperatures cool enough for a jacket all day long. 62 in san francisco, 62 in the south bay. and yes. some rain cooled air moving into the east bay. the moderate rainfall is pushing toward fremont. i want to widen out and show you the shower activity, kind of falling apart losing the organization. it continues to move over the land mass so keep that in mind. we're looking pretty good today. a few hours of rain to go. then we'll clear out. as we head throughout this afternoon, expecting mostly sunny conditions. we stop the clock at about 11:30. no more rain in the forecast after that. mix of sun and clouds until about two. the other clouds over our mount

in the east bay and north bay. the first forecast shows temperatures up to the mid-60's around the bay and between 62 and 65 and along the coast you will be in the upper 50's to lower 60's with the full seven-day forecast in a little bit. kristen and eric? >> the bay area is waking up to several major power outages and scattered debris from a powerful storm that ripped through last night blamed for the deaths of two. a driver was killed when he hit a tree on skyline boulevard in oakland hills and another man died when he stepped on a power line and electrocuted in east oakland on austin street. matt has more on that damage. >> the winds are very strong. a lost debris in the streets including a tree lying here in the middle of telegraph. we have seen a lost debris including garbage cans and signs from restaurants and even books. pg&e said in the east bay 20,000 customers are without power. in the north bay, 6,900 are pizza store, the restaurant, has its power still on. as you can see with the debris the potential is

in the east bay about 50 boy suts and membe of the liance club visited a cemetery. theylaced american fla on the grave sites of se of the veterans. the scos said they were proud to be part of today's special remembrance. >>> a family of a soldier killed in the vietn war today got an honor after 43 years, his family and fellow soldiers petitioned the army to honor him. today the ceremony accepted the purple heart on his behalf. >> he w a great guy. his unit.ved by all the guys in if anybody deserve this honor, it would be my brother. along with family, his former company coander and some soldiers attended today's ceremo ceremony. the cmander says the awa was 43 year ovdue. > the battle brewing in one bay area neighborhood. the loophole thatome say could leave them homeles. also -- >>> ergency drills are undery. i'll sw you why cal trans says this will be o of the safest tunnels in the world. >>> it's shaping up t be one of the driest years on rerd, but ficials have aplan. what they want to do up in the clouds. >>> we are acking an apoaching storm system. we'll let yo

electricity in the east bay. power is out to approximately 4500 customers in the north bay. at one time, nearly 20,000 did not have electricity in sonoma county. the outages currently affecting 56 customers on the peninsula and there are nine customers who don't have power in the south bay. pg&e blames the winds for taking down power lines and causing traps former issues. it will take hours before power is fully restored. >>> viewers are sending us some amazing photos of the wind storm damage. in oakland, there are some frightening families for the ortega family when a high tree crashed into a cottage in the rear of their home. it happened late last night near kaiser hospital. everyone is safe. power was knocked out. >>> this is a photo from tony. a tree fell down on rohnert taking out a treat light pole and blocking roadsed on adrian and southwest boulevard -- roads on adrian and southwest boulevard. send us our photos @ktvu.com or post them to our twitert and facebook pages -- twitter and facebook pages. >>> we

the east bay. the majority of these outages are in the areas oakland and oakland hills. there is about 6800 customers without power in the north bay. 13 in the south bay. about 62 on the peninsula. there are non reported in san francisco. >> high winds fuel a vegetation fire in napa county that has forced mandatory evacuations for some residents. the fire has burned 300 a. so far and is now 50 percent contained. the order is for residents of loma vista, a shady oaks and rigid drives, as well as soda sprain is at chimney rockrose. the order was issued shortly before 1130 last night. the napa high school gym is open 40 evacuees and the red cross is there to assist. whatoes at first spooul tte le? ok. hoy bunches oats. ching! mmmm! mmmm! mm! it's thoats. honey. yeah. hoy bunches oats. is ia grt cereal. >> welcome back. our developing story. we are waking up to know bart service. you can see these people and they are quickly finding now that they need another way to get to work or to the airport. we ar

from the east bay hills camera you can see thing for taking over the east bay hills and valleys. temperatures will be close to average today. in the mid-60's to near seven. that is a warm spot in livermore. it is quiet on live doppler 7 hd. this is no moisture falling from the clouds. high clouds will overtake the northern part of the state and another record high at 63 in tahoe tying a record high yesterday at 62. typhoon haiyan has moved through vietnam into southeast china where it will rain itself out over the next 24 to 36 hours with possible minor flooding the it is not a big issue. leyla gulen? >> good morning, everyone, at 6:41. you have traffic packed right now in fairfield away from 505, you will be on the brakes because of a sig-alert in effect with one lane blocked and a report of a brand new accident at cherry glenn. you are on the brakes getting to highway 12. then it eases. to the altamont pass, it is looking clear but 15 miles per hour west of this area and slow to the dublin interchange and on the brakes on the nimitz away from 238. >> if you cannot wait to get y

along the higher elevations of the east bay hills. foggy start and a cloudy ending. the extended period looks dries again. in the south bay today, mid-to-upper 60's with san jose at 67 degrees. well have mid-60's for most of the peninsula and flirting with the upper 50's to near 60 along the coast. mid-60's for downtown and south san francisco and sauce sleet 62 and mid-50's through the north bay valley and upper 50's at your coastline and mid-60's throughout the east bay shore with oakland at 66. 66 at walnut creek. up to 70 in brentwood and livermore. tonight we will have milder temperatures and most of us in the mid-40's to 50 inland but mid-50's around the bayshore. here is what will happen, you can see we get rid of the low clouds by noon and the high clouds come streaming in during the afternoon, evening, and overnight. a few sprinkles are possible across the not bay and through the commute with the best chance of light rain probably around 9:00 to 2:00. then it is gone. seven-day forecast shows cooler tomorrow, temperatures awa

north bay and east bay valley in the mid-to-upper 40's like concord at 46 and from the east bay you can see the low clouds and fog taking over the east bay shoreline. we have a foggy start. but a cloudy ending. light rain north bay tomorrow not a big deal. extended dry periods are a big deal because we need the rain. why see anywhere big storms coming our way again over the next, say, one or two weeks. temperatures in the south bay mid-to-upper 60's and remain warmest at 67 in san jose, morgan hill, and gilroy, and los gatos at 68. we will neither with 60 loan the coast today to mid-60's in downtown and south san francisco, and sausalito at 62 and mid-60's through the north bay valley and upper 50's at your beaches and mid-60's along the east bay shore and into the east bay veals, with mid-60's to around 70 degrees. moving forward, here is a look at today, low clouds this morning, brightest around noon and the high clouds come in in the afternoon, with our best chance of sprinkles tomorrow morning up north and through the noon hour, a scattered light rain and then it is gone. nothin

north bay and the power is still out for more than 1200 customers in the east bay. >> now, abc7 news meteorologist sandhya patel is tracking the wind and the extremely dry conditions. here is live doppler 7hd and with the details on a red flag warning as well, sandhya. >> yes, and it is the wrong combination. live doppler 7hd showing you what we are tracking. the gusty winds with the very low humidity creating the fire danger. we have the red flag warning for the entire north bay except the coastline until 5:00 p.m. gusts to 50 miles an hour with the low humidity and the dry fuels. any fires that do start will rapidly spread. check out the wind gusts right now. knoxville creek, 40 mile-an-hour winds. mount tams, 30. we will switch from the wind to the upcoming rain. your weekend and holiday forecast coming up. carolyn? >> sandhya, thank you. >>> a bay area man held captive may be a victim of mistaken identity. north korean officials say they are holding meryl new map of pal -- newman from palo alto. he is 84-year-old meryl hnewman. that newman won a medal of valor. her husband was ya

north bay and the power is still out for more than 1200 customers in the east bay. >> now, abc7 news meteorologist sandhya patel is tracking the wind and the extremely dry conditions. here is live doppler 7hd and with the details on a red flag warning as well, sandhya. >> yes, and it is the wrong combination. live doppler 7hd showing you what we are tracking. the gusty winds with the very low humidity creating the fire danger. we have the red flag warning for the entire north bay except the coastline until 5:00 p.m. gusts to 50 miles an hour with the low humidity and the dry fuels. any fires that do start will rapidly spread. check out the wind gusts right now. knoxville creek, 40 mile-an-hour winds. mount tams, 30. we will switch from the wind to the upcoming rain. your weekend and holiday forecast coming up. carolyn? >> sandhya, thank you. >>> a bay area man held captive may be a victim of mistaken identity. north korean officials say they are holding meryl new map of pal -- newman from palo alto. he is 84-year-old meryl hnewman. that newman won a medal of valor. her husband was ya

that's also the scenario in the east bay. 7:00 a.m. to noon tomorrow is where we'll find scattered areas of rainfall with the last leg of this wet weather. then eventually you will start to see conditions drying on out with temperatures in the upper 50s throughout the afternoon and early evening. now, let's go ahead and get a quick look at the water vapor satellite. this basically is a lot of moisture in the mid levels of the atmosphere that we're tracking. and it's a river of moisture is what we like to call it. there's what we like to term high "p" watt, precipital water within that. we're going to get our next possibility of rainfall throughout tomorrow morning. my colleague, meteorologist rob mayeda is here tonight and going to talk about the climate aspects of what's happening now and why it is so important and he'll have that coming up in 20 minutes or so. >> thank you, jeff. we have jeff ranieri, rob mayeda and third meteorologist, teaming up with our annual safeway food drive. >> christina loren from the safeway in san jose. we

bay but the east bay is going to be a very different place. >> reporter: professor bowser says the those who live in the east bay can do something to stay, improve their education and skills to compete. >>> a man pointed a gun at an employee and demanded money. he is described as a white male in his 20s. he was wearing a gray baseball cap, also that cap had a black bill and he's wearing sunglasses. >>> it was 40 years ago this week that oakland school superintendent marcus foster was gunned down by two members of what was then an unknown group. the liberation army. dr.foster was the first african american superintendent of the oakland school district. foster advocated for community involvement including giving community members the power to elect school members. a look back at the long fbi hunt for the sla tonight on a second look that's following the 10:00 news at 11:00. >>> some people living in oakland's piedmont neighborhood are calling on the city to close down a near by bar after two shootings that police say were connected to that business. both of the shootings happened on piedmo

the gusty winds here and your bay area crossings as well as the area across the upper east bay and the hills and the north bay. the toll plaza we're looking at a smoother drive. we have a big book up. we're looking at the traffic as you approach. more folks are hitting the roadways adding to. if you can get back to the maps we'll talk about the area approaching the bay bridge. highway 24 at walnut creek live from the station there, and the east shore freeway, have your flow of traffic as they do and this is going to be unusual for a friday. big problems across interstate 8 o. >> we'll keep checking with you. >> nbc bay area setting out to help end hunger now. a holiday food drink in its fifth year, getting set to get under way at safeway stores. >> bob redell is live at a pleasanton store with more on our drive and how you can help out. >> it's a bash. >> reporter: it's very easy. come up to any segue store, our push is do it today. you come into the store and the safeway store, 106th, these bags are prepackaged. 10 bucks, pay at the register and put it in. it's to support one of the 6

this is how it looks from the east bay hills looking to the west. there is still a thin film of haze in the lower levels of the atmosphere and this means colder air is locked at the lower levels with warmer air on top of it and the haze will hang around for the better part of the afternoon mixing with high clouds and sunshine. we will have light rain mostly in the north bay tonight and tomorrow and an extended period of dry weather takes over. if you have the irrigation system open, you are probably going to keep needing it. not is much but you still need it. the ever low numbers for the evaporation. san jose will be mid-to-upper 60's. gilroy and los gatos at 68 degrees. the peninsula is mid-60's and most neighborhoods, los altos at 67. headed to the coast at 60 along with the sunset, the warm spot, everyone else in the upper 50's and low-to-mid 60's from sausalito through the north bay valley and upper 50's at your beaches and mid-60's at the east bay with berkeley at 65 and along our east bay inland neighborhoods at 66. clouds will keep us mile es

we're starting out with clear sky, breezy winds, not only in the north bay but the east bay. with the wind we're looking at temperatures in the 40s and 50s in the next hour. by noon time in the upper 50s at the coast, to the lower 60s and by the afternoon big game today, temperatures will be in the low to mid-60s. so fair skies and less wind all around the bay throughout the afternoon, should be a very nice day today. it continues into the rest of the weekend but we'll get pretty chilly tonight with patchy frost. we'll talk about that and when the rain's coming back. katie. >> thank you. we're following breaking news in burlingame, two buildings are damaged by a four-alarm fire. the fire was reported just before 4:00 this morning in a residential four plex. crews found the building in flames when they arrived. at the same time they were struggling to protect a second building, a commercial building to the east. it was damaged. not destroyed though. no injuries are reported. the cause of the fire has not been determined. >>> following breaking news in is a knoll, interstate 68

the east bay gained 4900. san francisco, san ma tay know added 5600 jobs. >>> and overseas now, north korea has acknowledged it has detained a citizen. they are not saying if it was an 85 year old man. he was taken off his flight by an official. he was supposed to end a ten- day tour back on october 26th but escorted from the plane. he is a war veteran and there is speculation something may have come up at a meeting with officials that upset them. his wife is pleading with the authorities to let her husband come home. he has heart condition and it is not clear if he is getting hess medication. >>> that squirrel monkey made famous after being stolen from the zoo has died. officials say the primate died from complications related to heart disease on thursday. and in december 2011, someone cut into his enclosure and was taken. it triggered a hunt and world wide attention. the banana sam was found the next day. the story is part of san francisco lore. >> straight ahead, the faa says that passengers may use their c

pens at 48. 50 in the east bay. look at the difference. head up the golden gate bridge. cold between san francisco and the north bay. in the upper 30s. toward a nice afternoon we'll climb into the upper 60s to low 70s a. fair amount of cloud cover today. a storm system is lurking offshore. it might bring a stray shower or two so keep that in mind. plus we'll take a look at vicious wind headed toward new york city that could ground some. we'll look at the balloon forecast. back to you, laura. >> we'll need it. is spider man going to be up there? this morning pizza hut changing its tune, one of the many bay area restaurants open today in hopes of boosting holiday sales. but one manager of an indiana pizza hut he was fired for refusing to open. his employees deserve the holiday off. after the story gained national attention pizza hut issued a statement saying we fully respect an employee's right not to work on a hol ta. as a result we strongly recommend that the local franchisee reinstate the store manager and they hav

> the high winds knocked down trees around the east bay. a tree fell on power lines in berkeley and crews worked into the night to clean it up and get all restored. a resident was caught by surprise by the power of the winds. >> it came from nowhere. i had dinner and then i came downstairs and the winds were blowing out and blowing out and blowing and blowing out and then the power went out. >> tree was knocked on to both sides of interstate 238 with two cars damaged during the rush hour backing up traffic for several hours while the highway was cleared. >> a 100' tree fell in concord and knocked the street. the road was closed for several hours. in petaluma, a car crashed for a tree that fell on highway 101 with one person hospitalized. there was a big backup before it was cleared. the wind is blamed for being down a pine tree on a truck in petaluma the no one was hurt. the fire department worked hard to clear the debris. >> we want to see your wind and bart pictures at ureport@kgo-tv.com m. >> to download go to abc7 >> everyone is affecte

from the east bay hills, it is clean but cooler air. we have sunshine but temperatures not much different than yesterday. there is chilled sunshine. the high clouds and cool breezes with high clouds and the cool temperatures on sunday but not so windy. it always sees like it is next week. we have a chance of rain. next week. tuesday and when. fingers crossed. getting a lot of e-mails about it. i feel your pain. 62 in milpitas and 66 in los gatos and morgan hill and san jose at 64. up the peninsula we go low-to-mid 60's from millbrae at 61 to 64 in los altos. the coast is brisk with breezes and temperatures in the mid-50 but dress for something cooler, and low 60's downtown and south san francisco and mid-60's through the north bay valley with mid-to-upper 50's at the beaches and the east by shore low-to-mid 60's from 62 in berkeley and alameda to 64 in castro valley and the east bay valleys we have mid-to-upper 60's. tonight it is cooler than this morning and our shelter valleys will see more 30's up north and most of us in the mid-to-u

north bay and the power is still out for more than 1200 customers in the east bay. >> now, abc7 news meteorologist sandhya patel is tracking the wind and the extremely dry conditions. here is live doppler 7hd and with the details on a red flag warning as well, sandhya. >> yes, and it is the wrong combination. live doppler 7hd showing you what we are tracking. the gusty winds with the very low humidity creating the fire danger. we have the red flag warning for the entire north bay except the coastline until 5:00 p.m. gusts to 50 miles an hour with the low humidity and the dry fuels. any fires that do start will rapidly spread. gusts riout thet now. knoxville creek, 40 mile-an-hour winds. mount tams, 30. we will switch from the wind to the upcoming rain. your weekend and holiday forecast coming up. carolyn? >> sandhya, thank you. >>> a bay area man held captive may be a victim of mistaken identity. north korean officials say they are holding meryl new map of pal -- newman from palo alto. he is 84-year-old meryl that newman won a medal of valor. her husband was yanked off a plane as he

the winds pretty high in parts of the bay area especially the east bay, north bay hills, all of the bridges should be a warning, so that will be one issue. this area approaching oakland over to san francisco is also over the b.a.r.t. tracks which has no b.a.r.t. trains running. no b.a.r.t. service. that's when there was a strike. that caused the westbound 24 and the east shore freeway west 80 through berkeley. expect the hot point as far as traffic flow as more hit the roadway. as an alternate, checking in to see what the latest update is. right now the rest of the bay moving slightly but we'll track it. watch the bridges and the wind over the water. >> we'll continue to keep a close eye on the chaos the wind is causing. visit nbcbayarea.com for the latest up-to-the-minute information including weather alerts in your neighborhood. today community leaders and lawmakers plan to announce new legislation to legislate replica guns. the senators hope it will prevent shootings like when andy lopez of santa rosa was shot and killed by sheriff deputies. the deputy said he thought lopez's replica gun

this is highway 24 in the east bay. not really a big soaker but the storm continues moving in throughout the night. >> here is a look right now from our camera. you can see overcast out there. damp, damp skies. >> here it is. you can see a large area of moisture and it's continuing to push through the bay area now. we forecast yesterday it's starting as a north bay event and now, shifting south ward. we're getting light rain and moving down towards south bay. we have pockets of rain over east bay now. in places like, well, near danville and locations around the east bay and into the sierra, light snow now. we do expect an increase overnight. winter weather is in effect from 10:00 in the morning to okay tomorrow night. we expect several inches of snow above 7,000 feet. back to the bay area, we're getting much-needed rainfall now. we'll start at 5:00 this afternoon, notice later this evening, we can get intense rain, or more intense, i should say, rainfall pushing into santa cruz mountains and south bay. so might get soak

we inland, 67 in calistoga and mid-to-upper 60's if east bay and in the east bay valley almost reaching 20 degrees in many areas. overnight the lows are chilly in the north bay and mid-to-upper 40's for much of the other areas and my seven-day forecast shows the warmup today with dry conditions over the weekend monday and into next week we have nice conditions. however we have cooler temperatures and the possibility of light showers, as well. the fatality we reported earlier is not a fatality but a major injury accident. that purpose has been transported. good news there. we hope that person is getting treated and will be fine. >> we want you to help us feed the bay area this holiday season by visiting the abc7 news facebook page and take the pledge on give where you need. we donate a dollar in your on to the feeding america food banks up to $75,000 and your deed could be rewarded, everyone who takes the pledge will be entered to win $7,000 in cash. the winner will be announced december 19th so spread the love and help us give where you live. >> ahead, seven things to know before you go

>> from the east bay hills, you can see how clean the air is looking. we have the possibility, though, of poor air quality in the north bay so it is "spare the air" for all of us and no burning wood. no all of us. $100 fine and you can go to school, and $500 fine the second tie. it will be fine particulate matter is the biggest issue with the burning of the wood or the pollution in the air. now, temperatures will start in the south bay with santa clara, saratoga, 40, cupertino, the cool spot at 38. mountain view and sunnyvale and san jose, 41, and alum rock is 43 and los gatos in the hills and warm at 48. we are 36 in danville and 39 in lafayette and novato and california story and 47 in alameda and 43 in san carlos. the three day is friending dry with mild temperatures in the low-to-mid 60's. >> we have a brand new sig-alert it was an earlier reported accident and now is determined a sig-alert. if you are in marin county, southbound 101 there is an accident causing quite the jam in the southbound direction. one lane is taken away there. it is looking b

edition to the calcott tunnel through the east bay. safer ride >>> plus tumbling off a atv, wn a steep clf, the terrifying rescue tt forged new bonds among fries. >>> one man's quest to prerve a unique piece of th bay area history. it iolves amusement pas. >>> and we're seeinging a cool, area right nown the east bay. oakland, 58 degrees, cloud-free for now. we're traing changes ahead as a weather system just offshore breaks through the ridge of high essure, bringing ahance of ra to the west coasts we get back to the wk week, we'll talk about the changes in the forecast, en we come back. >>> take a look -- should be a much smoother a safer ride th weekend for drivers on one ofhe busiest highways in the east bay. the fourt bore of e calcott tunnel i now open. ch ushed firstrivers through at 4:30 this morng there are now four dedicated lanes inoth directions at all tis on highway 24. ane is going to drive it tomorrow and report back. >> i will. >> officials say the new tunnel is wider and taller and has briger lighting and better call box

chilly in the east bay with 46. and cloud cover and in the south bay, 49. ten mile visibility at the low level with cloud cover passing by. at 5:00 a.m. temperatures in the mid-40s. and mid-60s in the mix at 2:00 p.m. the past three days the weather has been awesome. a lot of sunshine, temperatures right about near average. we had this blocking ridge of high pressure system blocking all that storm activity and sending it off to the north. but through the next this hours we get a coastal low pressure system moving in. and it is too close to call at this point. is it going to ride down the coastline. most of the models have it moving from the north to the south and keeping the rainfall out of the bay area. but i think it's too early to call it dry for thanksgiving. i think we need another this hours to fine tune this forecast with how much the modelsdy agree. bottom line the highest chance of showers are at the coast and the santa cruz mountains. and once again with that high model disagreement we'll have better idea of the timing and intensity tomorrow. othe

the heavier rain will mostly impact the south bay and east bay. stopping the clock between 8:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. the heavy rainfall moves into the south bay. this is where we're going to be concentrated. as you break for lunch, take it easy out there. you see the yellow and orange, that's heavy rainfall on the way to the south bay. at lunch time. as we head throughout the overnight hours. seeing the storm system clear out of here. cool air trails behind. we will get residual showers tomorrow morning. everything should be clearing out of here by the time we hit thursday afternoon. if you want your seven-day forecast. you don't have to wait for it any longer. we have it scrolling for you at the bottom of the screen. every region in the bay area is covered. every region will hit the low 60s today. it will be cool and you will need the umbrella today. let's check on the drive and mike inouye. >> even if it's not actively raining, we do have the results of rain which is water on the roadways and slick conditions. 101 through san rafael. there is a cr

it started in the north bay and it used into -- oozed to the east bay and slid to the peninsula shore shrine and sliding into san jose. over in the east bay valleys you can see how dry it is on live doppler 7 hd as far as rain but the visibility in oakland and sfo and san carlos and half moon bay and novato is seeing an improvement as the fog is slipping arm. this is how it looks at sfo you can see fog hanging over and the reason why we have 25 minute flight arrival delays with fog until 11:00 this morning and then close do average fells but cooler through the weekend. a chance of light rain is possible on tuesday with a chance but it is light. 69 in milpitas the coolest spot, and 71 in cupertino and gilroy is 74. upper 60's to near 70 at the peninsula and redwood city at 70 . mid-to-upper 60's from south san francisco and sausalito through petaluma and low-to-mid 70's for the rest of the north bay and mid-60's at the coast and upper 60's to 70's along the east bay shore and into inland east bay neighbors low-to-mid 70's. tonight is cool with mostly clear conditions and fog will form

the shaking was felt across the east bay including castro valley, pleasant hill and also fremont. this quarterback follows a series of small -- this quake follows a series of small quakes since friday. yesterday afternoon 2.9 quake rattled san ramon. no damage reported. >>> the situation in the philippines is growing desperate. so far, more than 2300 bodies have been found and the spread of disease and lack of food and water threaten the lives of survivors. as alfonso van marsh shows us, violence in the streets isn't helping recovery. >> reporter: more security forces are on the streets of tacloban after mobs broke into a rice storage house. a wall collapsed killing 8 people. looters hauled away thousands of stacks of food while hundreds of typhoon victims waited in line hoping to get something to eat. disdisaster specialists are desperate for supplies. it's a logistical nightmare. 90% of the city is in ruins, the airport is destroyed. with hundreds of bodies on the street, there is fear disease will spread. this woman say, the smell is overpowering. there are so many dead bodies

. >> it's raining in the east bay now. we are seeing heavy rainfall showing up on our hi-def doppler radar. look at this another round that's making its way through parts of the east bay. you're going to see that dumping this morning. but then as we head in toward the afternoon things begin to settle down. but still, stormy weather heading along the 680, rain into sunol, just making more showers into livermore and more to come. it's spreading south. you can see the low continuing to bring rain into the bay area. more snow in the higher elevations but it's all going to be headed south throughout the day today. outside now we have mostly cloudy skies across the bay area. we are not seeing some rain, you may see a little drizzle or sprinkles. temperatures in the 50s. toward the afternoon, warming up and more sunshine up into the 60s in many spots but the winds likely to kick up as we head in towards tonight. we'll have more on that and the rest of your weather coming up. light now let's check your "kcbs traffic" with elizabet

and out in the east bay upper 40s for san francisco. the north bay patchy frost. two more hours of cooling before we hit our lows. highs are going to be comfortable. we are expected to climb into the 60s this afternoon, mid-60s for the south bay, peninsula upper 60s for the east bay today and san francisco is looking good at 64 degrees. then we've got changes headed our way. a storm system, yeah, this could impact your thanksgiving day. doesn't look like it's going to impact your travel before thanksgiving but look at. this i stop the clock, thursday, 1:00 a.m. look at what's lurking offshore. all of this moisture. it's coming up from the south. not everybody will be impacted. yeah, do count on a few showers on thanksgiving day. at least south of the golden gate bridge, more details on this in a moment. let's say good morning to mike inouye. >> good morning. could be an issue. you and i will be at the turkey trot as well. runners. we're looking at the north bay now. and traffic is running fine. we expect a lighter flow for the morning commute this week. it's midda

bay bridge backups extend east of the maze. and this crash in san jose northbound 280 by 7th is now blocking two of the middle lanes. a number of accidents in the south bay. >>> and that coincides with some of that rain in the bay area. pockets of heavy rain in the east bay and moving into the south bay. it looks like the winds will be kicking up though once the rain stops this afternoon. tonight blustery winds up to 70 miles an hour in the mountains. it's going to blow out there. looks like as we head toward the afternoon 50s and 60s. skies going to part. and then dry on the weekend. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >>> good morning to our viewers in the west. it is thursday, november 21st, 2013. welcome to "cbs this morning." the first congressman ever charged with buying cocaine apologi apologizes. what his guilty plea means for his future in po.lics >>> a-rod explodes. the yankee superstar loses his cool and lashes out at baseball's commissioner over a doping scandal. >>> fbi insider john miller in

east bay across the bay bridge. the metering lights a bit of relief. into san francisco, very slow from the east bay. you might want to consider the san mateo bridge to the south. 880 to 92 and over the water that is the case. also the foster city side, no major issues, a lot of company, 101 and 280 are clear, if you head up on caltrains stop for 215 or 225, folks taking b.a.r.t. you can wait and hope to get on that train into san francisco, hope, because it will probably be crowded. back to you. >> thanks, mike. >> 6:37. coming up on "today in the bay," a hate crime investigation shocked a campus in the south bay. we'll tell you about the new reaction this morning from the victim's family. >>> new details on the hate crime investigation going on in san jose state. in the last 30 minutes we received a statement from the victim's family saying they are all deeply disturbed by this situation, the statement goes on to say we are hopeful the district attorney's office will take the necessary measures to assure justice w

we still have wind gusts in friend and cross most of the bay area, certainly in the east bay. in the north bay, we still will have high gusts in the hills and the mountains and the high wind advisory will last until 10:00 tonight. right now, we have the high gusts in certain areas, at 44 miles per hour in fairfield and 31 miles per hour in napa, and calmer along the peninsula and into the south bay, so you may want to hold on to your hats for a little while longer. looking at live doppler 7 hd radar satellite, not seeing any thing in the way of returns, but the moisture is head the to southern california. the ridge of high pressure is coming in, leaching us with a cool air mass that will rest over the bay area the next few days with winds subsiding, and that is going to make things quite chilly overnight. we are going to be experiencing some freezing temperatures for parts of the forth bay. our highs for today, we are going to immediately be in the upper 60's to the lower 70's and unseasonably warm in santa rosa, topping out at 70 degrees. our lows for tonight are very chilly

the east bay shore. some of it is over the coast also at half moon bay less than eighth of a mile and half a mile in novato and 1.5 mile in napa. you can see from the east bay hills, most of the east bay shoreline is covered with low clouds and fog. this is the backdrop to talk about fog fading to sunshine. a few high clouds and a bright day. temperatures will cool through the weekend bringing us back to average after being so much warmer than that for the week. we still have a chance of rain pushed into tuesday and it is still just a chance of senior light rain. the system passing to the north with the jet stream two areas of high pressure dominating our weather so temperatures today are in the 70's in the south bay and everyone is in the low-to-mid 70's but milpitas is 69 headed to santa cruz is 68 and san jose is 71. on the peninsula today we have upper 60's to 70 degrees. mid-60's along the coast if you are headed to daly city or colma it is 63 and mid-to-upper 60's downtown and south san francisco a

all the areas you see shaded in yellow, the coast, the diabolo rain, east bay hills, sacramento valley, lake and men dough -- mendocino valley, we could have winds up to 70 miles per hour through 10:00 tomorrow evening and we will have downed branches and the possibility with badges coming down of local power identity ages starting at 6:00 this evening. we will see increasing sunshine today and temperatures in the low-to-mid 60's again. tonight, temperatures winds will keep us up in the low-to-upper 40's and possibly 30's but well hang out in the low-to-mid 40's and maybe 49 in san francisco. low pressure is departing and that is why it is breezy. the dry air will be bone dry again and that will bring us warmer weather. friday is the warmest difficult as the winds blow offshore. we will be in the low-to-mid 60's at the coast and mid-60's to near 70 for the prosecute of us and temperatures on saturday, sunday and monday are close to average and near 60 at the coast and mid-60's if the rest of us and we have another chance of rain possibly next wednesday. not a great chance but that is a

to the east bay and a sales tax increase in antioch. voters passed measure c with 68 percent of the vote so the sales tax goes up half a cent for seven years. the city estimates it will bring in $4 million a year which will pay for 22 new police officers and help with the dire financial situation. voters in marin the approved nine of ten measures. the only failure was a bond measure for improvements in the strawberry recreation district. >> national races here include chris christie won re-election in new jersey. in a race that sets him up for a presidential bid in 2016. democrat mcauliffe won the hotly contested virginia governor's race narrowly beating a tea party-backed favorite and the first democrat in two decades is elected mayor of new york city. the local election results will crawl across the bottom of the extreme during the newscast. >> a 16-year-old boy is under arrest after police say he lit another teen on fire on an a.c. transit bus. the 18-year-old is being treated for second and third second- and third-degree burns. he w

the east bay has 39,000 people in the dark, many of them in oakland. north bay, 19,000 people are without power, 9,000 without power in santa rosa. kron4's jeff bush has the affects from the wind. he is life in rock ridge where a tree fell and brought power lines with it. jeff, what is it like now? >> reporter: it has been crazy all night with the winds gusting at high rates of speed. it is very dark. the power is out here in this area. let's take video and show you what the sauce of the cause of the outage is. it knocked downpour lines, antennas. people were scared. the wind keeps coming. it is a big hazard now. tree branches are falling and littering the street. live you can see this is the stuff we are talking about. eucalyptus branches. live in oak oakland. >> reporter: it is gusty out there, some in the 40-mile per hour range. 39 in fairfield. 28 in santa rose a the rosa. 59-mile per hour gusts in vacaville. it is so important you take your time when you are driving over the bridge especially in an suv. the bay area is affected. down in the south