Hours. It was a close call but spared downtown. There was an evacuation but then allowed back in. What a mess. I am sorry you are not feeling well. I hope you can rest up this weekend. In the east bay cruise are back out this morning to remove a large tree that fell on a house in danville crashing down at home on bridgewater circle near old creek road. It was decorated for the holidays. No one was hurt. Similar scene on the peninsula. This tree crashed down outside of a home in east palo alto. It crashed two cars parked on beach street. Witnesses say no one was hurt. Crews cleared the debris off the sidewalk so people could still walk through until they got all of it cleared. In Santa Cruz County bear creek road closed because of a mudslide. The road closure had traffic back up in both directions a resident decided to ditch the car and leave it on the shoulder. Have to walk home in the rain, not the first time. Wont be the last. I live here and the slide has been coming down all day. I am not too surprised they are not letting us pass. Santa cruz mountains saw steady rain for showers and drivers had to watch out for rock slides. Residents dealt with fast moving floodwaters. Cornell barnard caught up with a homeowner who said the two creeks surrounding her home overflowed sending a couple of inches of water flowing beneath her home. Ever been this bad . No. Two years ago we had flooding but nothing like this. Sarah said she will wait for the water to subside and get fans to dry it out. The inside of the house was spared. Lucas valley road is still closed in marin county. A tree came down west of big rock near sky walker ranch. It took a pole and power lines. Deputies say the closure lasts through the morning. I should be a much better day at sfo because year was a mess. We see cancellations already this morning. They are blame on poor visible and high wind. If you fly out of sfo check what is going on. We checked the flight tracking website. There were seven cancellations. There were seven delays already. The average departure delay is an hour. It is still early. It was much worse yesterday with 381 delays and 137 cancellations. Pg e crews are working to restore power in cities across the bay area. 3,200 pg e customers have in power in fremont, 100 in San Francisco, 70 in the north bay and a handful in the eat bay. East bay. You crews are on stand by. Dangerous night on bay area roads. A lot of problems with it taking a really long time to get out of San Francisco. Elissa . It took us an hour to get out of San Francisco. Wherever we turned, gridlock. Not much better when we made it to 280. The exit on 2380 south shut down when a tree fell on the offramp. Not far away, c. H. P. Shut down the onramp to southbound 35 from northbound highway one after a pine treee fell crushing part of the guardrail. The car wasnt able to avoid the tree and crashed into it. We advise everyone to slow down because you never know what will come around the next corner. It has been busy. A lot of trees are down and a lot of traffic collisions. There were problems in south city as well with traffic lights at Country Club Drive were flashing and crews moved from one message to another. You see this all the time so we expect it. In San Francisco, i am here for abc7. You can track any storm with our news app with live doppler hd available by enabling public alerts for the Winter Weather advisories. A wild night in San Francisco with several sent to the hospital and a string of damage left behind. Six or seven cars were involved and two hospitalized with seven with minor injuries and a huge mess. This is video of the geyser of water from the hydrant hit during the crash. It happened at 20th and lincoln. We are stopped. Everyone just chillin. Next thing i know the car in front of us is smacked and bounced, hit this one, this truck takes it in the back end, smacks into the back of me and he swipes down and hits another gentleman and took out that fire hydrant. Witnesses claim the driver was going around 65 american and Police Confirm they think speed was a factor. They do not know in drugs or alcohol were involved. The suspect in the hospital. The investigation is continuing. Happening today negotiations resume whether uber has to stop their Self Driving Car Service in San Francisco. City and Company Officials concluded they have in clear resolution. The city and mayor contend that testing needs to stop physical uber get as permit. Uber does not thing they need a permit because the vehicles still have a person at the wheel to monitor them. The state threatened legal action. Ubers self driving cars were spotted on city streets last night. At t workers are landing to protest on overpasses in the bay area. At t is extremely profitable but they keep getting asked to work more for less pay. They say the company offshoring jobs are raising bills for customers. Call Center Representatives will protest across the state including in San Francisco and oakland. Starting at 6 00 a. M. , at t has not responded for comment. The accweather forecast with meteorologist mike nicco. You will notice a difference when you step outside. In San Francisco, temperatures are in the upper 40s to nearly 50, not so drastic. Warmest around crissy field and financial and bayview at 50. Everyone else is in the upper 40s. We have 50 degree temperatures, palo alto, richmond, belmont and young city. Everyone else in the money 40s. Walnut creek is a higherreceiving rainfall amounts, 1. 75 until look south on 680 it is drying out. On the road today watch out as alexis mentioned, we have breezy bridges. The breezes come from the north were like yesterday when they came from the south. Choppy way on the bay and out and about it will be good, just cooler. Mount tamalpais, up to 45 Miles Per Hour wind moving to the ground so we will have gusts at 15 to 25Miles Per Hour and temperatures in the lowtomid 50s. We are in the upper 40s to 50s for a cooler day tomorrow and lowtomid 50s on sunday. Lows are 20s and 30s. That is next. Alexis . Good morning, i have a busy start and i will take to you a new problem in the south end of San Francisco with some time of a gas leak a tanker truck leaking fuel trying to get to the bottom of this, and the offramp is closed on south end of San Francisco so you cannot use the ramp. We have a closure northbound 121 at Wooden Valley because of large rocks and trees downed in the roadway and big parts of the road are crumbling. It could last well into the day tomorrow or into tomorrow as they make rehairs. Quiet at the bay bridge toll plaza but we have a high wind advisory on the bridge. Stay tuned. A slow down for the commute on a busy stretch of bay area road. How much the speed limit is going down. Road work gone down the rain ruins pg es work in the east ruins pg es work in the east bay and drivers pay the abc7 news all morning. Last night, even nba players are not immune to the terrible traffic, members of the morning nick, were struck on the embarcadero two hours before scheduled game. To get them this, Police Escorted them on the muni tracks, on the road, to the bridge. A spokesperson said the bus arrived at arena at 6 45, 45 minutes before tipoff. We all wish we could get a Police Escort on the way home. That is a fantasy. Sinkhle is causing trouble in an area of valley view drive that was sinking last night. Pg e said crews were doing pipeline work and filled the hole with material that did not set because of the rain and that opened up a hell. Police had to close it down to one lane. There no word on when crews can repair the damage. Pacifica is demolishing the part building. The building is hanging at the edge of the eroding cliffs. They say this can in long are way for the Property Owner to do something. Breaking news from the live desk. A Washington State officer is in serious condition after being shot during a gun fight in mount vernon. The shooter is in custody. It started last night when officers responded to someone getting shot. They got there the suspect opened fire. The suspect then hid inside a home for hours forcing neighbors to evacuate. He was arrested. The suspect has not been identified yet but he has a plenty criminal history. The injured officer had surgery a few hours ago but his condition was worse overnight and we will watch in the updates. Thank you. Drivers in south San Francisco will have to slow down on the main roads. Police dropped the speed element speed limit from 40 to Miles Per Hour to reduce accidents. The scenes are being replaced. Other cities in San Mateo County have posted 35 Miles Per Hour sped limit on el camino. A berkeley resident said this woman stole her identity and opened a number of fraudulent lines of credit using credit to buy several thousand worth of merchandise at cost coe, target in vallejo and has a distinctive tattoo on the left of her neck. She also has almost weight length brown hair with reddish highlights. The connection to the man in the previous photo is not clear but he is considered a person of interest for now. Police are looking for unsuccessful smashandgrab robbers. Let men, one with a gun, smashed display cases at a Jewelry Store at the individual average Shopping Center at 12 20 in the afternoon. Reports indicated that the shots may have been fired but it was not true. In the end, the wouldbe robbers got away empty handed. Officials of reevaluating roads in and out of yosemite after being closed because of flooding concerns. All visitors and hotel guests were enoughed to leave before 5 00 p. M. Officials were worried the river could flood into yosemite valley. It is the first time in six years yosemite had to close all major roads. Winter weather alerts are serve out in 30 states as a deep freeze is setting in for the weekend. Here is more on the arctic conditions. Blinding snow cripples drivers if upstate new york with whiteout conditions. It is brutal. You get used to it. It is real cold. Dangerous wind chill gusty wind making it feel like 20 to 30 degrees below zero. In vermont skiers and boarders will be drawn to the slopes. Days like today it is challenging. [ inaudible ] i am sure they are taking a hot of breaks and drinking water. Great to be on the snow in december but fighting the clothe is in the clothing. Thank you is the say, no such thing as bad weather only bad clothing. Safety officials from the midwest to new england warn to limit time outside. Bone chilling area has new yorkers moving even faster. Puffy coots and snow boots are on full display. I heard it is a good plan to put on layers and i am layered up. I look like a sandwich with three pieces of bread and let to us and tom mit to. Layer up, and move quickly. Get from point a to point i dont understand that analogy. She a sandwich . I think the cold got to her brain. And if you are a sandwich you might as well be a ruben. Whatever. That is for after the holiday. New years resolution. Good morning, i wanted to show you the wins are busting to 26 in concord and 18 in enough enough and 25 in sfo and they are coming from the north with the winds of change, literally, chasing all the wet weather away are us for now. Can you see behind me there were showers developing over the ocean and i will show you where they are in a second. Half an inch of rain in san jose and 280 and 17 where it is more dry bit molt. Cloudy this afternoon and chilly breezes and frosty cooled nights ahead for the valleys and sunny and dry this weekend, grab the sunglasses. Today, we will top out in the lowtomid 50s but it will not feel like it with the breezes. Dress for temperatures in the 40s. You can see the showers hugging the coast, developing over the ocean because the ocean water is so much warmer than the air today and some could steer into the Santa Cruz Mountains and toward the dab me range and even dust mount hamilton, a remote possibility by 4 00 or pack you can see they are leaving us. Where do they leave us tonight . The 20 in santa rosa, napa, cloverdale, san ramon valley, 30s everywhere even in San Francisco. After another chilly Night Saturday night into sunday sunday we barely reach 50s and lowtomid 50s around the bay or inland at the coast barely into the upper 40s and 50 and we will warm up on tuesday and level off on wednesday into thursday a chance of wet weather. The breezes affecting the commute . Yes we have a high wind advisory for the bridges in the bay area. Looking receipt now at the Golden Gate Bridge zipper truck is there and Golden Gate Bridge and benicia and richmondsan rafael bridge and bay bridge and san mateo bridge all have high wind advisory so in a high highprofile vehicle both hands on the wheel. We have friday lite volumes westbound 580 tracy to dublin in the green at 28 minutes with no delays westbound 4 or southbound 101 heading to the airport. We have a crash on northbound 101 at candlestick. Workers win a legal victory against apple. The company is being forced to pay them 2 million. New advice after the yahoo security attack. Steph curry gives parents and kids an early holiday gift. Today in techbytes facebooks bold new step to crack down on fake news tapping professional journalists to fact check stories users report. The Fact Checking organizes include kaiser washington postd abc7. General motors has started testing fully Autonomous Vehicles on public roads in detroit. The michigan governor allowed selfdriving cars on public roads hoping to restore the image as a vehicle innovator. It is Free Shipping friday. Dont forget more than a thousand retailers are taking part including target, best buy, toys r us and jc penney all guaranteed delivery by christmas guaranteed delivery by christmas eve. Employees had work in apples retail are celebrating a victory after being ordered to pay town 2 million to around 20,000 employees after a 2011 lawsuit filed by employees who claimed apple failed to give them adequate breaks and pay wages in a timely manner after employees left the company. Employees get 95 each in the settlement. Apple has yet to comment. Steph curry is continuing the warriors season of giving. He posted 15 milk a wish families that came from all across country arrive at warriors headquarters yesterday. Steph curry supplied each with a duffle back full of shoes and basketball and gear and personally signed all of it. The kids took part in the worse team huddle during a closed door practice. We need this. We got a lot of stuff. I see shoes, i just peaked, shirts, a lot of stuff in the bag. The kids and temperatures got to see the game last night and make a wish said meeting steph curry is one of their most requested wishes from kids across the country. Mike, the rain mostly moved through but the win is stick around . Absolutely. Absolutely. It is a different wind but it valleys through the Early Morning into the afternoon hours. Hours. As far as what will happen range and then they will collapse. We have snow showers in the sierra to lake tahoe and rain will hand an san diego. The forecast for the sierra the heaviest snow is over and bone chilling cold this weekend. Alexis . Good morning, mike, i will take you back to northbound 101 around Candlestick Park we have a rollover crash that flipped. It planted on the left shoulder. It was hit by another vehicle. We are work on getting video from the scene. There is still debris and an oil spill in the left lane. That is blocked. Better news southbound 280 offramp is back open and we had another crash involving fuel spill but it sounds like they got it back open and as mike mentioned it is breezy especially the eastwest bridges so high wind advisory including the bay bridge. More on rollover at 5 in rogue one has you itching to have your star wars fantasy, tonight at spark social sf at mission bay boulevard north at 4th street this is video of the battle that got lit. Get it in it got lit. We concerned out the event facebook and 600 people have already rsvp and los angeles and seattle will have similar battles and in you are thinking glow sword, 90 those called Something Else in the movie . They are but they had to rename them because of a legal settlement that does not allow them to be called what we know them as. Bay area is waking up to a dry morning and now giving way to storm cleanup with damage left behind by the most powerful storm in months. A cliff rescue was completed overnight and hear from the chimer that was stuck for hours. Crucial Court Decision in the case of two santa clara jail guards acussed of savagely guards acussed of savagely boating an beating an heavy, labored breathing heavy, labored breathing coughing breathing through oxygen mask breathing through oxygen mask breathing through oxygen mask breathing through oxygen mask covered california. Its more than just health care. Its life care. Good morning, bay area, lets get going. The after mat from the storm this is mount tam look at our beautiful bay area. You can see