Commute. Here is sue. A couple problems, bart is experiencing a major delay, this one out of lafayette due to equipment problems in the pittsburg direction, so heads up there. We start with a sig alert on 880, sky 7 is directly above what happened was a wrong way driver who started driving northbound in the southbound lanes of 880 and milpitas by 237, that caused multi vehicles to get involved in an accident. The left lane pardon me, the right lane, the slow lane is the only one getting by. Again, this is southbound 880 with multi vehicles, no estimated time of opening, try to use 680 or Dixon Landing to mission boulevard for your alternate. Its quite an extensive backup. Major backup there, sue, lets talk a little bit more about that. Abc 7 News Reporter matt keller is on the ground at that same scene in milpitas. Matt, what can you tell us . Reporter good morning, jessica. I just talked with the chp officer and she gave me an update on what is happening here and what is happening with the victims. Lets show you the big mess that is right in front of us here on southbound 880 right at the 237 interchange and you can see there are five vehicles that were involved in this crash, the green van is the van that the wrong way driver was in and that person suffered the most devastating injuries, major injuries, and that person, a male, was taken to the hospital and is has major injuries. So very serious there. Officers were initially saying this could be a possible fatality but theyre saying right now that that person is at the hospital. Theres only one other minor injury, a person taken to the hospital with minor injuries, complaints to the leg. Here is a live look from sky 7, you can see how big this backup is and just how expansive this crash is here on 880. When i talked to the chp they told us what happened when they first got that call. We had two calls very close together within a matter of minutes and our units were responding immediately. Got on the freeway traveling the wrong direction, but it wasnt very far from here where we got the call. Reporter and now the chp is investigating the crash, theyre trying to figure out exactly where that person got on on the freeway, they are also trying to investigate whether or not drugs and alcohol were involved in this crash, but right now weve got major traffic issues here on southbound 880, they say theyre expecting all lanes to be open in about two hours, theyre hoping to open up one more lane, but right now they have three lanes closed, all the interchanges to 237 are open so thats the good news, if you want to get around you can use that express lane and traffic is open in that direction. Back to you in the studio. We are also following some more breaking news and, again, this is this appears i should say to be weatherrelated. A Police Pursuit in the east bay ended after the driver tried to make a get away encountered major storm damage. Amy hollyfield live for us on Pleasanton Sunol road in pleasanton. Good morning, amy. Reporter yeah, we just got new information from pleasanton pd, they are now telling us they think this tree came down because of weather. Let me get out of the way so you can see this huge mess. A giant oak tree is blocking Pleasanton Sunol road here in pleasanton. This is this road is a twolane road that runs right alongside interstate 680, we are parallel to the interstate right now. What theyre telling us is that an officer was pursuing a car, they havent told us why, and then the car crashed into the tree that had already fallen. It was down and they believe because of the weather, the weather brought the tree down, the car crashed into it. They havent told us how that driver is doing, if anyone was injured when this happened. The car was just towed away moments ago so the tow truck operator was here, got the car out of here, but as you can see the tree is still here. This happened at 4 45 this morning and no movement yet on getting this tree cleaned up. It, loo like its going to take a while. It will be quite a protect getting all of these limbs out of here so until then this road is closed. Looks like it will be for a while. Live in pleasanton, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. Four people had to be taken to the hospital after this two cars collided headon during heavy rain in brentwood, it happened just before 9 00 last night at sand creek road and fair creek avenue. You can see how badly damaged those cars are. Several ambulances were called out to help with people who are hurt. Despite raining at the time authorities have not said whether water was the cause of the collision. And an extra reminder to drive carefully this morning. I want to show you new video from palo alto where there is a power outage at the oregon expressway and bryant street. In fact, abc 7 News Reporter matt keller was there earlier this morning before heading out to that breaking news in milpitas and he was able to capture this. We saw a lot of cars actually blowing through the stop signs that police have set up when those lights went out and we have gotten multiple reports of lights out at various intersections in palo alto. If you do live in the area or youre having a morning commute that goes through there, please be careful, no word yet on when exactly pg e will be making any repairs. I will let you know as soon as we get an update during our newscast. Back to you. In the north bay emergency officials worry about debris flow and mudslides because of the wildfires last year. Officials have been concerned about the complications rain could bring as it hits baron soil. A dry december gave crews extra time to clear storm drains and canals. Ropes of hay are snaking down the streets to block debris in burn areas. We are looking good but want our community to remain vigilant, report something if they see it. If they see flooding, mudslides, debris flow, please report it to 911. In Sonoma County several trees came down on electric lines knocking out power to dozens of pg e customers. Power has since been restored. We need the rain and all the reservoirs in the south bay including almaden and clair row stand at a layer more than half the normal average this time of year. Water Officials Say rain is edge couraging considering we have had such a dry december. Keep track of the storm where you live with our abc 7 news app. Get hour by hour local forecasts. Enable push alerts to get breaking news updates. Pg e about to switch thousands of us to a new rate system. What this will ultimately mean for how much youll pay. A group of bay area women uniting against President Trump, the role they played in the show of solidarity at the golden globes. And as you know ive downgraded the storm to a 2 up until 8 00, now i will downgrade it to a 1 from 8 00 until lingering light showers. Breezy conditions, about 15 to 25 miles per hour. 25 miles per hour. We will talk mor lets think about what goes in hoh. , renee. And we think bablams gonna kill the stomach flu . Im scared to use the facilities. I dont blame you. If you want clean, your cleaner needs bleach in it. Clorox means clean. 6 10. Pg e will begin charging customers different prices at different times of the day. This is called variable rates and starts in april. 150,000 residential customers will see their monthly bills based on when they use electricity not just how much they use. Pg e expects that most customers will see lower monthly bills but they say that if you end up paying more in the first year at least of the switchover they will credit you the difference and you also initially have the option of opting out, but by 2020 the majority of customers will have this new format. We will start by talking about temperatures. We are in the mid to upper 50s down in the south bay, 55 to 57, lafayette 52, everybody else also in the mid to upper 50s until you get to fairfield at 52. Its a mild morning thanks to the southerly wind, you can see the Santa Cruz Mountains about to get hit, this will roll up 101 into the south bay and highway 5 and curl its way into the east bay. Thats why you guys have the best chance of wet weather after 8 00. Most of it revolves around the wetness this morning on the bay, but breezy but dry this afternoon. Showers early if you will be doing exercise, walk the dog later on this afternoon if you can when its drier. Out and about have an umbrella handy, especially in the before mentioned areas of the east bay and south bay where we will have the best chance of showers moving forward. We will take an hour by hour look at the rest of today and tonight where fog will form and tomorrows potential rain in the north bay. Were taking a live look on 880 southbound in milpitas where this four and five, maybe even six cars involved southbound near 237. You can see the green van on the left up against the center divide, that was the van that was going the wrong way headed northbound on southbound 880 that caused this whole collision. Apparently it is an injury accident, but not a fatal accident. So lets take a look at sky 7 thats over above, you can see another car there involved. Tow trucks are on scene. It is about two hours away from clearing and its a ginormous backup. Take 680 or mission boulevard south to copd makes it hard to breathe. So to breathe better, i go with anoro. 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There is a fundraiser today for the family of chp officer andrew camilleri. You probably remember this story, he was killed by a suspected drunk driver on christmas eve. He leaves behind a wife and three young children. A fundraiser today begins at 11 00 a. M. At famous daves barbecue in hayward 790 west winton avenue. 100 of the money raised will go towards the camilleri trust fund. Its been almost a year since President Trump took office. A monthly meeting that formed because of his presidency is going strong. The group is finding more not vegas after the golden globes. The women meet at the social study in San Francisco. Morgan scheid letter and harmony gragg ga believe that their gatherings called thats what she said played a small yet significant start. I feel the paradigm shifting in our room and to watch that happen on a National Scale is very pro to under. The gathering is all about women, no men allowed and say it is a safe space where women find support and inspiration from one another. The mission is to make sure that the current display of empowerment is more than just a moment but a start of fundamental change. We thought this was a successful launch and mission it and it turns out it may not have been. An expensive and highly classified government satellite appears to be a total loss. Elon musk launched the zuma satellite on sunday. Dow jones reports the satellite didnt separate properly from spacex and may have burned in the atmosphere. Industry experts say the lack of an official announcement may signal there is more to the story. Its estimated the missing satellite could have been worth billions of dollars. Its 6 17 this morning. Mie, it was a 16th wettest day in San Francisco on record yesterday, isnt that right . Records go back to about 1870, maybe a little farther than that. It was a daily record rainfall down in san jose. If you thought it would never stop raining yesterday youre right, it never stopped, it rained just about all 24 hours. Here is a look at where its raining right now, sunol grade and 84, is trying to get out of pleasanton and livermore on the east bay valleys down into milpitas a little difficult there. Also on highway 4 coming through byron and discovery bay, brentwood wet and also the altamonte pass getting wet. 42 minutes into sfo, even though its not raining right now, its going to be cloudy through the Morning Hours so expect delays. As one storm exits look at the storm track diving down from the gulf of alaska, this weak storm is coming into the north bay with a slight chance of scattered showers tomorrow. For the rest of us fog. Expect more of that during tomorrows morning commute. Rain is turning to showers already, its going to become a little breezy in afternoon, more so than yesterday. Dry and pretty nice weekend with temperatures warmer than average. Today about 57 to 60 outside, so not much warmer from where we are right now. As far as our temperatures tonight, about 10 to 15 degrees cooler with low to mid 40s inland, mid to upper 40s around the bay and coast and 51 in San Francisco. Our best chance of showers as we move towards that one after 8 00 will be in the east bay and south bay. A chance north but such a light chance i didnt even put a storm impact scale on wednesday. Sun and clouds thursday and then more sunshine and low to mid 60s for friday, saturday and sunday. Some good news there. Lets see what sue has. Were going back, weve got, well, first a bart delay that has 20 to 30 minutes on the lafayette line due to some equipment problems and so they are saying expect a major delay also into sfo and pittsburg and bay point. Now were going to go to 880, this is the sig alert southbound, three or four vehicles blocking the land lanes, on the right side the live spot from sky 7 and that is showing one lane open, thats the exiting lane to 237, it is the slow lane and theyre saying they hope to have another lane open here shortly, but there is a very, very big backup as you might imagine, again, this is a sig alert they are recommending 680 or mission boulevard to avoid the big backup, southbound 880 in milpitas. Elsewhere we go outside to the Santa Cruz Mountains where we do have reports of several accidents at the summit at bear creek and thats causing a lot of delays north 17 for about a 40 minute delay getting from the coast up towards los gatos and northbound. The california highway patrols Golden Gate Division is now going to offer the option to text 911 to report emergencies. This is supposed to be meant for those who are in a dangerous situation where they cannot call. Right, and perhaps not for everyo everyone. The 911 text is specifically support those who would be put in further harm by calling as well as those who are deaf, hard of hearing and have a speech disability. They emphasize a text does not replace a phone call to 911 for most of us. New details about the future of an iconic San Francisco cafe that was supposed to close. Its not too late to reverse heart damage caused by so much sitting. The new research that will have you thinking about a new exercise routine. First here is ginger sze with a look at whats ahead on Good Morning America at 7 00. Reporter good morning, the National Championship showdown finishing in dramatic fashion with a close overtime win for alabama. We will speak with the hero freshman quarterback who led alabama to victory and his teammate who ended the night with a win and a fiancee. It is all coming up only on gma. We can now simulate the exact anatomyh care, of a patients brain before surgery. If we can do that, imagine what we can do for seizures. And if we can fix damaged heart valves without open heart surgery, imagine what we can do for an irregular heartbeat, even high blood pressure. If we can use analyze each patients Breast Cancer to personalize their treatment, imagine what we can do for the conditions that affect us all. Imagine what we can do for you. Were still watching this storm as a 2 on our storm impact scale, moderate. A little breezy, up to 25 miles per hour. In a court filing exxonmobil is alleging california communities seeking damage for Climate Change got together and conspired to vilify and taunt the oil industry. They include San Francisco, oakland and santa cruz and they demanded, rather, exxonmobil pay billions of dollars to cover losses from rises seas. The Company Claims that city officials got together in a hotel room in Southern California six years ago and concocted plans to use government investigations and legal action to force Oil Producers to respond to Climate Change. The closure of an iconic coffee shop. Cafe roma isnt closing after all. A plan to sell the cafe fell through and the owners are working on a deal to extend their lease. They have been a north beach staple for four decades. A lot of us sit too much and we know it isnt good for us. There are a new study that is giving us a little hope. Even if middle age if you start exercising it can help reverse some of the existing damage, just be ready to work hard. None of this, oh, i will walk on my lunch break or take the stairs once a day. No. The study in the journal circulation tracked 52 middle age people who sit a lo over two years a group saw their oxygen intake go up and heart muscles become less stiff. There is a chance. Free pass toss red wood state parks are up for grabs. Good for the second saturday of each month. The Redwoods League says its to celebrate 100 years of saving the red wood forest. The goal of free second saturdays is to inspire visitors with the beauty nd faur of the trees. More than 16,000 free vehicle day use passes are available. We are tracking several crashes as that major storm moves out of the bay area this morning. One of them involving a wrong one of them involving a wrong way driver on 880 i woman so, greg, its a lot to take in. Woman 2 and i know thats hard to hear, but the doctors caught it early. Hi, blake my dad has cancer. Woman and i know how hard that is to hear. But youre in the right place. Man and dr. Pascal and her team, they know what to do. They know what to do. The doctors know what to do. So heres the plan. First off, were going to give you all. voice fading away good morning, bay area. Lets get up and get going. This is abc 7 mornings. Right now its 6 30. Still tracking breaking news in milpitas. Sky 7 live over the scene of a wrong way crash on interstate 880. As you can see, it is causing a mess during the morning commute. Welcome to tuesday, january 9th. Alexis is off, sue hall is tracking that crash for us in just a moment, first i want to get to meteorologist mike nicco for the latest on this storm. Good morning. Hi, everybody. Storm as we expected downgraded to a 2 and thats going to last through at least 8 00, this moderate storm could pump out light to moderate rain in the east bay and south bay, which means more standing water for your morning commute. Right now its just light rain from saratoga and los gatos up 17 into the heart of san jose and down 101 through coyote, morgan hill and san martin. Over in the east bay its starting to bush out to the boundaries of the eastern parts of contra costa and alameda county. Scattered showers low to mid 50s, pretty mild in morning, mid to upper 50s with isolated showers by noon when the storm is down graded to a 1. During the 4 00 hour we will probably take the storm impact scale off completely because the chance will fade. Temperatures in the mid 50s and low to mid 50s with a few stars poking through the clouds by 7 00. Been a tough commute. It has. On top of that add insult to injury, bart had a major delay, now its reporting back to ten minute delays, this is in the lafayette station due to equipment problem in the pittsburg bay point and San Francisco direction. Some improvement there. Heading outside live, theres matt keller, the back of his head, he is on 880, we will probably be coming up to him next. We will go to sky 7 and look at the didnt, it is a sig alert blocking all but the right lanes, southbound 880 in milpitas before 237. Looks like the 237 exit is open but there is a large delay, 680 and mission boulevard continue to be your best way around it and we will get to matt in just a second and see what his new information from the chp is. Guys . At the live desk tracking that backup in milpitas and youve been doing throughout the morning, sky 7 live over the scene. We want to get now to abc 7 News Reporter matt keller, he is live along interstate 880. Hi, matt. Reporter good morning, jessica. What a mess out here, five vehicles involved, we just saw one vehicle taken away on a tow truck, we have another vehicle that is on a tow truck so that will be leaving shortly, hopefully, but you can see quite a mess out here. Here is a look now at sky 7, you can see just how big the crash scene is and the backup its causing. This call came in as a wrong way driver, he was heading north in the southbound lanes on 880, just before 5 00 a. M. His van crashed into a car near the 237 interchange in milpitas, the wrong way driver had major injuries and was taken to the hospital, one other driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Three other drivers were not injured. The chp says theyre looking into why the driver was headed the wrong way and whether drugs and voluntarily was involved. They are hoping to get another lane opened soon and the final two lanes by 8 00 this morning. They are continuing their investigation on the scene. Matt keller, abc 7 news. Abc 7 news app told you about this wrong way crash at 5 28 this morning. Be the first to know when breaking news happens, download the abc 7 news app and enable the push alerts. Caltrans crews have been busy repairing potholes on northbound 880 near fifth avenue in oakland. Some were actually ripping apart drivers tires. Crews had to close one lane to fill in the potholes, but its back open now. Happening now on the peninsula, traffic moving once again after a big pothole problem forced caltrans to shut down two lanes of northbound 101 in palo alto yesterday afternoon. This is just north of embarcadero road and crews had to work through the night to fix the potholes. Chp was warning repairs could take until 6 00 this morning, it actually opened before that. The rain being glamd for numerous traffic accidents all over the bay area. Abc 7 news near golden gate park, this car rolled over last night, it happened near 36th avenue and lincoln way. The driver lost control of the car, fortunately everyone made it out okay without serious injuries. A live look at sfo. I am just checking flight aware right now and there is an update. They say they are currently experiencing inbound flights delayed on average about 42 minutes because of low clouds. We were doing so well this morning until we werent. While we are getting rain very little snow is coming down in tahoe because the storm is too warm. This is what it looked like from the caltrans camera at castle peak last night. The snow level is so high there are no chain requirements so far. The east bay got a good soaking during yesterdays storm. In oakland the rain did bring minor Flooding Issues because storm drains were filled with debris during the dry spell. Slick roadways along highway 24 in or linda. Some find the rain an inconvenience, the water watchers at the east bay mud welcome the deluge. So far overall the area is tracking below average but this storm and the ones that will hopefully come later in january should probably bring us back up tot a minimum. E. B. Mud says thanks to last years winter the major water Storage Facility is currently 93 full, that is well above the average for this time of year. You can keep track of the storm where you live with the abc 7 news app, a live look at live doppler 7, you can see the bulk of green is moving out of here, we still have some activity in the north bay and San Francisco. You will get hour by hour local forecasts on the app, be sure to enable push alerts to get breaking news updates. Happening today one of the men charged in the deadly ghost ship warehouse fire is expected in court where he will ask for public money to pay for his defense. This is max harris, the creative director, facing 36 ounts counts of involuntary man plauter one for each victim. Four lawyers are working pro bono and would like to split the same costs that a public defender would be paid for in the case. Harris and Derick Almena have pleaded not guilty. Happening today San Francisco supervisor jane kim will file her no, maam name papers to run for mayor. Kim says she is ready to stand up for the change the city needs. Today is the deadline for candidates to file paperwork to enter the election. Ed lee died unexpected last month and there are a total of 26 potential candidates so far. They include former San Francisco board of supervisors president angela alioto. San Francisco City attorney dennis herrera, mark leno and london breed. Some history in australia this morning, samesex marriage possible there. Look at this videoover night, those first marriages right after the stroke of midnight. The samesex marriage law took effect december 9th but couples had to give one months notice of their intention to marry so today was the first possible date for a wedding. There were a few exceptions but for the most part today is the day. I should note australia requires all couples to give a months notice for weddings unless they have an exception for medical or travel, perhaps legal reasons, et cetera. Back to you. Check out these numbers from San Francisco yesterday the 16th wettest day ever with 3. 15 inches of rain, the old daily record was about two and a third set back in 1872. San jose 1. 4 inches, the old daily record was 1. 03 set just last year. So you thought it rained all day, yeah, it did in most neighborhoods and its Still Holding on with light showers or radar returns showing up in the north bay, out over the ocean, moving away from us, coming up through the Santa Cruz Mountains, coming through the Santa Clara Valley and up the diablo range into the east bay. Those are the areas i will keep watching for rain through about 8 00 and more scattered after that. Look at those stacked and packed on a drier san matteo bridge than it was this time yesterday but still damp out there and you will still find slib ri spots on the road. Mass transit wet this morning and on the bay wet this morning dry this afternoon but breezy. Now about the kids, we are off to a damp start this morning with temperatures around 53 to 55, lingering showers at 11 00, dicey if you get to go outside, 54 to 57 but it will be dry at 3 00. Have them dressed for 55 to 57 degrees. I will take an hour by hour look at the rest of today and the chance of rain in the north bay tomorrow next. Here is sue. Headed back to milpitas, the sig alert has all but one lane blocked, it is looking a little better, that original van, the green van reported driving the wrong way on southbound 880 earlier this morning is the only car thats still left out there besides emergency crews so hopefully we will get another lane open. Right now the traffic is really backed up and unfortunately in the backup southbound 880 we have a new accident reported, a couple of vehicles blocking the hov lane or the high occupancy vehicle lane thats southbound 880 at Dixon Landing road. If you can get over to mission boulevard or you can get over to 680 that is your best bet, hopefully we will have better news here relatively quickly and really rough commute on i5, northbound is closed before 580, transitioning over towards the westbound drive due to an injury accident and it looks like it is raining there with the green on our map. So delays if you have folks coming in from the Central Valley at this hour. Youve been busy these last two days. Thank you. Car lurg laers have become an epidemic in San Francisco and now police are taking a new approach to stop it. There is a twitter account dedicated to this subject. The department is created a dedicated team at each district station to focus exclusively on fighting property crimes. Police chief which will cram scott says there were nearly 31,000 car burglaries last year, if that sounds like a big jump it is. Its a 24 increase from the year prior. Happening today it is back to the future for the oakland raiders. The team will introduce jon gruden as their new head coach again. Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of gruden first being hired by the raiders, he spent the last nine years as an analyst for monday night football with our Sister Network espn. That new contract of his worth 100 million bucks over ten years and that takes him right to 2020 when the franchise is moving to las vegas. Gruden will be introduced at team headquarters, you can watch the News Conference on our abl 7 news app at noon. You probably saw this on social media, the new ad by h m sparking outrage, now one of the worlds top music stars is cutting ties with the company. Apple investors demanding the company do more to study the impact of smart phones on our kids and now apple is responding. Today at 9 00 op live with kelly and ryan, hue grant kelly and ryan, hue grant previews sfx tsfx feet shufflingc life can change in an instant. Be covered when it does. With a health plan through covered california. 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Theres a lot of rain but right along 80 and barely turns into snow at our highest elevations above 8,000 feet. More moisture down to the south and that will translate into heavier snow on the peaks in yosemite today and even some thunderstorms around los angeles. Temperature down there about 61, yosemite 50, 46 in tahoe. Scattered showers south of sacramento to fresno 58 degrees. My accuweather sevenday forecast for tahoe, some isolated snowshowers tomorrow, maybe an inch or two, and then sunshine returns and temperatures nearing 60 by sunday. I dont like that. I think a lot of people agree with you, mike. We are following breaking news right now involving the storm and a police chase. A driver was trying to make a quick get away and was stopped by a fallen tree. Amy hollyfield live on Pleasanton Sunol road in pleasanton. Good morning, amy. Reporter good morning. Can you imagine driving down the road and seeing and running into this, look at this huge oak tree that had come down and was blocking all these lanes when a car came up and crashed into it. Police say they believe this tree came down because of the wet weather that we have been having. This is on Pleasanton Sunol road, this happened at about 4 45 this morning here in pleasanton. You can see the car being towed away. They havent told us how the driver is doing, if the driver was hurt in this crash, but what happened was the driver was being pursued by police, they havent told us why Police Wanted to pull that driver over, but then the driver crashed into this tree and now the tree has been towed out of here and were still trying to figure out what happened to that driver. It looks like this road is going to be closed for a while, both lanes are blocked, theyve shut down the whole road and we just did see a crew arriving right now, looks like they are here to assess that its going to take to get this tree moved out of here. Doesnt look like its going to a quick easy project at all. Dont count on this road being open this morning. This road runs alongside interstate 680 so it runs parallel and it is out of operation as of right now. Reporting live in pleasanton, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. A Big International story to get to, the Associated Press reporting early this morning that north and south korea have agreed to hold talks to ease the military tensions along their border. Its a very big step on top of the fact that the two countries are also, quote, actively cooperating in the upcoming winter olympic games. North korea will send athletes to south korea next month. Officials of both countries gathered for the first formal talks in two years and the two countries actually issued a joint statement this morning with all of these new developments and we are now waiting on a timeline for when those formal military talks will happen, but this morning a major step towards cooperation. The google employee fired after writing what many view as a sexist memo saying the low number of women in tech is because of biological reasons, well, he is now suing the company. In a class action suit filed with another Google Engineer james damore claims that google has an open hostility for conservative thought and access it of using hiring quotas favoring women and my yorts. Singer the weekend tweeted that he will no longer work with h m because of this image of a child model in a hoodie that reads coolest monkey in the jungle. The artist says he is shocked and embarrassed about i this. People flooded social media saying that the ad is racially offensive. H m issued an apology and they have pulled the hoodie and also pulled the ad. New developments this morning, apple responding to that letter from stockholders asking the company to look into Public Health crises concerning young kids and smartphone addiction. These stockholders who own a bit of shares of apple they say that they want to develop software to let parents limit phone use and to carry out a study investigating the impact of smartphone overuse on mental health. Apple responded saying we take this responsibility very seriously and we are kmitied to meeting and exceeding our curse midwest expectations especially when it comes to protecting kids, however, it didnt actually say what steps they are going to take and when those possible controls would be made available. Now ton o. En to your money report. A Sexual Harassment lawsuit has essentially spelled the end of four barrel coffee. The company is changing its name to the tide following claims of harassment against its founder jeremy tooker. He stepped down as owner on saturday. Coowners say his shares that equal about a 50 stake in the company will be given to employees. Eventually the coowners will also divest making the company 100 company owned. Forget about reclining your seat on british airways. The airline is now pre reclining your seats. Basically theyre locking the seelts in an upright position or position thats only slightly back. For now you only have to deal with the change on economy flights in europe. British airways has not installed them on the long haul flights from the u. S. Just yet. You know im here for you this and i know that you are not. You dont want to be able to recline your seat all the way back. I dont want you to be able to recline it to my. If one of your new years resolutions is to save money there is a tru trend out of japan that can help you shred your debt. 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Here is a look at san rafael, a little fog trying to form. In this area we will look at for thick fog tonight. Showers will taper today, still be best in the east and the south when they do develop. The chance of showers across the north bay tomorrow but such a small chance i didnt even put a storm impact scale on it. You can see a few green areas right there in the extreme east bay and south bay this afternoon, thats the last chance of the wet weather. We will see more sunshine in the north bay, temperatures around 57 to 60 degrees. Tonight under a partial clearing and partly foggy conditions we will have low to mid 40s inland, mid to upper 40s around the bay, the coast, 51 in San Francisco. Here we go through time and you can see still some wet weather hanging around at 9 00 but look at that, by noon its just about over and there you go by 4 00 in the afternoon this may be a little chance of a stray shower down in the south bay while most of us are drying out, especially once we head to the 7 00 hour. Lets take a look at my accuweather sevenday forecast. So a chance of light showers across the north bay tomorrow, most of us just mainly cloudy. More sunshine thursday and warmer sunshine with low to mid 60s for saturday and for sunday. Sue promised some better news. Lets go back to milpitas, this is southbound 880 with the sig alert. We have three lanes now getting by which is much better than before, we just had one lane open. So this is southbound just before 237, tow truck is on scene for the final car which is a van in the very far left lane, this was a wrong way driver about 5 20 this morning that crashed into several vehicles. So better news. We are in the final cleanup stages. The backup, though, does remain and we will take a look at our maps. We have very slow traffic all the way back beyond Dixon Landing road now and in the backup we have an accident, two left lanes blocked here, so thats adding insult to injury for super long even when this does clear at 237 so you still have that to deal with in the backup. Give yourself plenty of time. Take 680 or mission boulevard for your alternate routes. Several incidents in the Santa Cruz Mountains at bear creek at summit and los gatos, you are looking at a slow drive from the coast for about an hour drive northbound, another rough one in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Its not a friendly week for driving. Thank you, sue. Coming up next the seven things you need to know before you go. Looking live with abc 7 news now. We will keep live doppler 7 and traffic conditions on your screen. Okay mcdonalds. I see your one, two and three dollar deals. Tell you what, ill raise you five. 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Quick look at your 12 hour accuweather planner, isolated showers by noon but pretty dry by the evening commute. Number three, breaking news, Police Pursuit a driver into pleasanton this morning where he hit a tree that had already fallen down across the road because of the weather. This is a live look out there. The driver was taken to the hospital in unknown condition. Number four, be careful on peninsula road. Some traffic lights are down in palo alto right now, they are out of power. Police say they have set up stop signs but we have seen several cars blow right through then at oregon express bay and bryant street. Number five, watch out for standing water in martinez, this is pacheco boulevard underneath highway 4. Its dark there so you have to be alert to see this and drive around it. Number six, today is the deadline for candidates to file paperwork to enter the election for San Francisco mayor in june to replace ed lee who died unexpectedly last month. There are a total of 26 potential candidates so far. Number seven, back in black, the raiders will introduce jon gruden as their head coach today 20 years after he was first hired by the team. We will live stream todays News Conference on the abc 7 news app beginning at noon. We set records for our rain yesterday and it is starting to move out of here but still problems this morning. We will be back in 25 minutes with an update. Leaving you with a look at sfo where we are good morning, america. Breaking news for our viewers out west. The first major winter storm of the season hitting right now. Parts of the freeway under water. This is the end of the road for us. Were on the 101 southbound, and we cant go any farther. Thousands in california facing mandatory evacuations. And now a warning about flash floods and mudslides heading for those spots already devastated by the wildfires. President trump takes the field at the big game last night, and now, tracking that high stakes meeting between north and south korea. North korea announced this morning they are sending athletes to the olympics. What will this mean about the Nuclear Showdown in the west . And an abc news exclusive. Tonya