Morning commute. Some lingering showers from 7 00 to 9 00. Sunny at noon and mid50s. In the mid50s but very windy at 4 00. And itll be wind chilly. Have a heavy coat when you step out this evening. Heres sue. What are you watching . Were over to san mateo now. An earlier problem with a big rig that stalled out. For a time it was blocking all lanes of eastbound 92 and then for a time just the ramps from 101 were closed. They issued a sig alert. I checked and it looks like everything has been cleared. You can see by the green sensors. Well check back. It looks like that is smooth sailing for now. We do have an accident westbound 84 near ruby hill, partially blocking a lane of traffic although sensors are green. Jess . Late last night the Senate Passed a 1. 5 trillion rewrite of the tax code with the vote along party lines, and after initially passing the plan, the house will have to do a doover today. The bill ran into some procedural problems. Abc News Reporter Arlette Saenz is live in washington with more on this story. Arlette . Reporter hey, good morning, jessica. It was another late night in the senate, but Senate Republicans were beaming as they passed their tax plan. President trump is now on his way to taking a victory lap. Shortly after midnight a celebration erupted in the senate. The tax cuts and jobs act is passed. Reporter republicans cheered as they passed the most sweeping tax overhaul in three decades. Their vote was met with protests. Kill the bill. Reporter democrats were outraged. What a disgrace. Thats what this bill is. Its an absolute disgrace. Reporter hours earlier a similar scene played out in the house. Speaker paul ryan overjoyed as he gaveled in their vote. But vort lshortly after there w unexpected procedural snag. The house will be forced to vote again today, but the outcome is not expected to change. Republicans are on the verge of handing President Trump his first major legislative win. But gop leaders say they still need to make a sales pitch. If we cant sell this to the American People we ought to go into another line of work. Reporter the bill gives the biggest tax cut to corporations. It permanently slashes their rate from 35 to 21 . Tax cuts for individuals will expire after eight years. But americans will see their standard deduction and Child Tax Credit doubled. A new study Shows Americans making 75,000 or less will face a tax hike in a decade while wealthy americans will continue to see a tax cut. The white house insists President Trump wont benefit personally. The president will likely take a big hit, but on the business side he could benefit. Priority number one it helps the american middle class. Reporter President Trump says hell hold a News Conference after the house passes the bill later today. The president had hoped to sign this bill into law by christmas, but the white house now says that may not happen until the new year. In washington, Arlette Saenz, abc 7 news. Arlette, thank you. Happening today officials will discuss when we could be voting on a possible 3 increase on bridge tolls. The Bay Area Toll Authority would need to take action at its meeting next month for that measure to appear on the june 2018 ballot. The toll increase would raise 100 billion over 25 years for a new b. A. R. T. Cars, the b. A. R. T. Extension in san jose, and improvements to bridges and freeway interchanges. The up to 3 increase would apply to all except the golden gate bridge. New time lapse video shows the fast pace of repairs to a storm damaged section of highway 35 in the santa cruz mountains. Heavy rain washed away a long stretch of road. They expect it to reopen in january of next year. 4 34 now. In vacaville investigating an officer involved shooting that left a suspect wounded. Police tweeted out this photo of the scene last night. Police received a call about an assault with a deadly weapon. Officers tried to stop a vehicle matching the suspects description. The suspect fled, and a chase ensued. Shots were fired and the suspect was taken to the hospital. No word yet on the suspects condition. The fbi needs your help in identifying a bank robber calling the orange goatee bandit. He robbed a Wells Fargo Bank december 1st and struck again three days later. In both cases the fbi says he passed a note to a teller demanding cash. The suspect described as a slender man about 58 with an orange mustache and goatee. He also has an earring in his left ear and tattoos on his right hand. Morgan hill police are crediting a person for helping them. A 62yearold man was shot. Police say the victim called police before it happened to say that someone was coming to shoot him. Police got another call while they were treating the victim. At the same time we received a 911 call from a citizen that was driving by and happened to see the two suspects running out of the house. The citizen turned around, followed, called 911 and our officers located the vehicle. Three people were taken into custody. Police say the shooting was not ran am do. Two of the suspects are from morgan hill and the other from san jose. Cannabis will be the hot topic when lawmakers help leaders, growers and sellers meet in alameda county. The board of supervisors hosting a summit to address the challenges and opportunities when marijuana becomes legal january 1st. Supervisors say its emerging as a Major Economic force. The system to track the movement of Legal Marijuana through the state. A Historic Building at the center of a gentrification, the Old Sears Building at telegraph and broadway was bought by uber in 2015 with plans to bring in 2,500 workers and develop upscale retail and office space. Opponents claim it would lead to gentrification. The building is now known as uptown station. To word on the purchase price. A look at live doppler 7. You can see highway 4 coming in from the Central Valley and also 580, tracy through the altamont pass. Slow down there. Things will get slick. The leading edge gilroy down near san juan, and its going to continue heading south at a rapid clip. Because of the cloud cover, look at the temperatures up to 19 degrees warmer than yesterday. So lets start on the peninsula where you have 46 and thats the cool spot. Menlo park and daly city. Everyone else in the upper 40s. You can see some of the puddles right here on the embarcadero, about. 13 of an inch of rain. The flag is starting to unfurl, too, as winds pick up on the back side. Your commute planner, this is all for the morning, poor, because of the puddles on the road. Rain, we have it in the south bay if youre taking mass transit and we have Small Craft Advisory which will linger into the afternoon hours. Temperatures today in the mid to upper 50s from 56 in vallejo to about 59 in concord. Well take a look at how much longer this rain will last and if the chance on christmas is going to materialize like we talked about yesterday. First lets talk to sue. There have to be some accidents out there. Lets check with the east shore commute. Heading on into powell street and the mcarthur maze. No delays here. You can see our east bay commuters out of the Central Valley are causing slow traffic up and over the altamont pass. We did have a problem with an overturned vehicle on its roof as a matter of fact. That is partially blocking a lane. Sensors are green so thats showing no delays. High winds reported by the chp. Wet road conditions, dumbarton, san mateo and bay bridge. Use extra caution and give yourself extra time. Thank you, sue. Getting a ticket at broken meters will soon be a thing of the past. And a tiny craze is a big hit. Were going to knock on fairy doors. Uber will have to play by new rules after a major court decision. The full story next. The abc 7 storm impact scale. Todays storm is level one. That means light rain so keep an umbrella handy and drive safely. Track todays storm anytime im worried. I have this medical bill. Oll, huh . Dave, you have anthem and they have people to talk to who are empowered to help any question you. Is, is he okay . Real people . Living and breathing. Hopefully not breathing like that. For all the things that keep you up at night, Anthem Blue Cross has a solution. Were back on this wet wednesday morning. Look how quickly they roll down into the grapevine in l. A. By the afternoon hours. 62 there. A red flag warning down around Santa Barbara and into the National Forest and that starts at 6 00 this evening through 10 00 tomorrow morning. Fire danger continues from South Lake Tahoe all the way down to about fresno and thats going to last through 7 00 this evening and well still get another 1 to 3 inches of snow on our passes. In fact, you can see the snow falling right now as we look from our heavenly cam and thats it. Its going to be dry through tuesday. Jessica . A major change for uber in europe. The European Unions top court has just ruled the Ride Hailing Service uber should be regulated like a taxi company. The ruling stems from a complaint by a barcelona taxi drivers association. The taxi drivers wanted to prevent from setting up in barcelona and said drivers should have authorizations and licenses. The san francisobased uber argued it should be regulated like a Technology Service and not a transport Company Since its an app. Ultimately the taxis have won. The decision could affect uber service all across europe. Reggie . Thank you, jessica. In two weeks you wont get a parking ticket if youre parked at a meter that isnt working. A new state law will prevent Government Agencies from penalizing you. Supporters say it gives cities an incentive to fix broken meters. If youre lucky nouf see an empty parking space, you pull in, get your stuff out, its broken and youre going, what am i going to do now, find another place to park . You can park there legally. It seems to make sense. Starting january 1st youll be able to park at broken meters without penalty for up to the post the time limit. A tiny craze is sweeping one east bay city and its turning into a pretty big idea. Small fairy doors are popping up. Cornell bernard went knocking to see what its all about. Reporter big things are happening in alameda. To find it youve got to look down and think small. Theres a fairy door, the first one we put up. Reporter 10yearold serena takes us on a tour of miniature fairy doors which seem to be everywhere if you know where to look. And that one has the same colors of this house. Reporter three years ago she and her grandfather started making the tiny doors giving some away and hiding others around town. It kind of blew up in a good way. Ive always had a dream, i would randomly be famous at some part of my life. My dream is coming true. Reporter most days its not unusual to have kids knocking on his door, not this door, but this door. Theyll sit there for a little bit and, what are you doing . Were waiting for the fairies. Reporter others have been inspired. The fairy movement has its own Facebook Page with pictures and maps of hundreds of fairy doors. There was a tiny Ribbon Cutting on webster street. A very warm and friendly town so we love all kinds of people big and small. Reporter a contest to see who can find all of the doors by posting on instagram. No fairy sightings yet but if they show up they have lots of little places to hang out. In alameda, cornell bernard, abc 7 news. Yeah. Lets get over to mike nicco. Look at you. Take a look at whats going on outside. A couple things to know, this is a steady rain over in San Francisco. The winds are starting to pick up and that will help dry the ground a little bit. The heat it creates will help dry things out, also. The later you leave for the morning commute, the easier its going to be as far as navigating wet roads and well turn from steady rain to some scattered showers this morning and then the chilly breezes for the afternoon hours when you need the sunglasses. Freezing cold valleys the next few nights. And our christmas storm is starting to fade. The cold air plunging in behind this system thats going to hang around for the next several days. Hour by hour what will happen today. The scattered showers still up across the north bay and along the coast and even some snow in the Higher Elevations around ukiah, clover dale and clear lake. A few lingering showers around San Francisco and the peninsula coast. And by noon all that fades away. That dry air rushes in and keeps us dry this afternoon and kind of chilly. Lets take a look at our winds. Up to 25 to 35 miles an hour. 29 in santa rosa. 32 in livermore. Observi oakland, 39. Some of the warm spots at only 42 degrees. My accuweather sevenday forecast, temperatures in the 50s tomorrow. A chilly start friday. Well see a few 60s as we head inland there and also saturday and sunday. Look at that, kind of cloudy on christmas. Not looking like it will rain after all. It would have been so cozy. You can still get the fire log on tv. Thats fun and listen to christmas music. We have tracy up and over the altamont pass, no stalls or accidents there but an accident, a vehicle on its roof westbound near ruby hills. It looks like its out of lanes because im not seeing any slow sensors. Heading to fremont and southbound 680 before south mission. Debris in lanes and slow traffic heading southbound in that area. We will come back and take a look at your drive times in just a couple of minutes. Now lets talk about the company trying to develop a Transit System of tomorrow. Its marking a new speed record. Were talking about virgin hyper loop one. Take a look at the test run outside of las vegas. The magnetcally levitating pod sped through a nearly airless tube at 240 miles an hour. Wow. This is 20 miles faster than its previous record. And the pods could eventually hit up to 700 miles an hour when it is fully developed. I like the purple lights. This is the sound of christmas, santa and helpers clocking in early to spread a little Holiday Cheer yesterday. You could see a couple of his reindeer there, mrs. Claus, even the grinch passing out gifts to children with the Santa Clara Medical Center Foundation which raises money to improve health care. Thats great. The drug aimed at treating one form of blindness. Hes behind some of the Top Tech Companies but has a long way to go. Elon musks twitter nono. First this mornings tech bytes. Facebooks new tagging tool. Itll find your face even if you werent tagged in a photo. It will also tell if you someone is using your picture on a phony account. You can turn off the feature if you dont want it but you can ask that a photo be removed. So the latest list of the worst computer pass words, it does have some surprises. 123456 and password topped the list but letmein and football still on there but less popular. New to the list is iloveyou. Sounds you wouldnt expect from a bird. Imitating the iphones default ring tone. The owner says the bird belts out the ring tone when it gets upset when [ splash ] [ horn sounds ] dang ok, i gotta run. Hey, wait, theres something i need to tell you dang. Dang dang dang. Dang. See zero in a whole new way. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero first months payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. Now with the people first warranty. But at this moment, shes fighting a brain tumor. Announcer please take a moment and join st. Jude in finding cures and saving children. Visit stjude. Org. I have some good news at 4 53. We had measurable rain last night. Measurable rain as we head throughout the Morning Hours and live here the steadiest of the rain is quickly moving into the south bay. An hour by hour and your day planner coming up soon. Here is natasha. Thank you so much. A possible breakthrough from people suffering from rare blindness. Approving a medication that can alter dna reversing the genetic form. It is to treat retinal dystrophy and is the first to treat a genetic disease other than cancer. An important recall today involving a name that is super silly but is important to tell but, the Squatty Potty recalling about 2,400 of these childrens versions of the device. Is that what we call it . Michael finney first alerted us to the recall. It involves the companys squ Squatty Pottymus, a hippo shaped hippo stool sold online. We have more information on how to get a refund on our website, abc7news. Com. Again, the Squatty Pottymus. A mistake or a prank. This morning no one is quite sure what to think of a now deleted tweet by elon musk that apparently contained his phone number directed to the technology chief but musk sent it to all 16 million of his followers. The post was quickly taken down. A reporter at a news website called the phone number, got a voice mail message featuring a recording of a video game. We still have some rain out there. You can see by 7 00 gusts topping 20 miles an hour and as we head throughout the day you can see about 20 to 25 at noon. And then well stick around that at 5 00. The winds could actually pick up a little bit during the overnight hours so the valleys will be cold but the mountains and hills wont be as we hit 25 to 30 miles an hour. I want to jump ahead to christmas. This is the wetter of the two mode models. As we head to the evening hours and overnight into tuesday look at the chance of rain rolling through and the rainfall amounts could be double what were getting out of this system. Look at all the snow in the sierra. The folks up there up for the christmas week are very happy about that. Closer to home we do have some delays at the cash paying lanes. Looks like theres a bus stopped here in the commuter lane. Im not sure whats going on with that. Well check with the bridge and see whats happening there. No metering lights. Once youre on the span its looking good. Ace train number 1 is moving nicely. Slow traffic if youre taking westbound 580. On the sunol grade westbound 84 near ruby hills a little bit of slowing. Theres an overturned pickup truck on its roof. It is out of lanes. A bay area icon getting some badly needed help. Abc 7 news was at oridas square where the marquee is about to get a makeover. You may have seen from b. A. R. T. Or highway 24. Its a treasure from days gone by but its towering marquee really needs a fix. The letters o, r, and i no longer light up and its showing its age. 76 years to be exact. The community has come together and raised 4,000 to fix it up. Little monsters start planning a trip to vegas. Lady gaga will kick off a twoyear residency at the park theater. She says its been a lifelong dream to perform like this. The announcement comes at the end of a successful year for her, a super bowl performance and a soldout tour. She has that movie coming out with bradley cooper. As if i needed another excuse to go to vegas. Done and done. Thank you, gaga. The elusive former star tim lincecum has been spotted and is looking swole. He posted this on instagram, timmy is now 33 and looking to make a comeback after not pitching in the majors last season. He will throw for teams if an upcoming story. Is that the story . Its because he hasnt been seen. People want to say, you look good, timmy. Thats all. People shining lasers at planes in the bay area. Vote remembers supporting a new transit tax, but its who will be paying for it that residents are getting behind. Hey, and speaking of taxes, Senate Republicans have passed the gops tax bill. Democrats not happy, to say the least. I will show you the reaction coming in this morning. Coming in this morning. Observing well its a perfect nespresso hold on a second. Orge. Mmm. [mel torme sings comin home baby] hey there. Want a lift . Where are we going . No dont tell me. Let me guess. Have a nice ride. How far would you go for coffee thats a cup above . I brought you nespresso. Nespresso. What else . Im worried. I have this medical bill. Oll, huh . Dave, you have anthem and they have people to talk to who are empowered to help any question you. Is, is he okay . Real people . Living and breathing. Hopefully not breathing like that. For all the things that keep you up at night, Anthem Blue Cross has a solution. As you wake up a storm moving through the bay area leaving some wet roads this morning. Here is the view from our roof camera looking down at the embarcadero. Weve watched snowfall all night, too. This is what conditions look like from our tahoe camera. We could use a little more rain than we got, mike, but we will take what we get. The timing is not great but we have to take the good with the bad and we needed more and will get
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