Damaging winds threatening power outages, its all hands on deck for crews already in position prepared for the worst. Were in good shape. Were ready to roll and well be out there all day. Reporter and so there you have it. Crews are ready. And officials are asking everyone in the danger zone to take the storm seriously because forecasters say this morning the snow could call up to 4 inches an hour in some areas. Reporting live in new york city, im elizabeth hurr for abc7 news. So if you are flying to the east coast, maybe dont. 6,000 Flights Canceled and counting already this morning. Abc7 News Reporter kate larsen is live at sfo. Kate . Reporter thats right, natasha, reggie, many flights as you say about 6,000 canceled in and out of the u. S. Throughout the country. Here at sfo, a smaller number, about 43 canceled so far today. Of course, most of those flights to the east coast. Lets go ahead and take a look. Heres video of the airports. This is washington, d. C. , and weve also got baltimore, which is, of course, very close to d. C. , some of the major cities affected today by this winter storm. Of course, the east coast affected but also the midwest cities like chicago and even all the way south down to florida, new york airports experiencing a lot of delays, of course, boston logan as well as we mentioned baltimore and the washington, d. C. , airports as well as philadelphia airports. I actually spoke to a number of travelers already this morning, many of whom were actually showing up at the airport today because their flights were canceled yesterday. So, now theyre trying to get to the east coast today and theyre keeping their fingers crossed that well actually make it happen. So coming up at 5 30, well hear from them and well keep you posted on all these delays as they continue throughout the day. I have a feeling it will be a long day for them, kate. Thank you. A frantic rescue effort in oakland after a man drove into the water last night. He crashed into the marina along the embarcadero just north of 16th avenue. The man was unresponsive when firefighters pulled him out around 9 30. They performed cpr before rushing him to the hospital. We do not yet have word on his condition. We are tracking developing news in nape this morning. Two flifr plifrs on administrative leave after fatally shooting a man. It happened at the store on kansas avenue. Witnesses say a crazed man was stabbing and slashing at cars. When officers got there, two of them shot and killed him. One home depot employee saw it all unfold. He was really acting aggressive. He was screaming and kicking cars around everywhere and he was i just saw him walk right past through here and as soon as he just crossed the street and i kept doing my job and i just heard i think it was four or five gunshots. One woman who lives in a homeless encampment says she knows the suspect, a homeless man in his early 20s. Happening today, one of three suspects arrested in a deadly freeway shooting is expected to appear in court. 24yearold Demarcus Doss was shot and killed on i80 last thursday. One of the suspects is charged with his murder. Two 17yearold boys were also arrested for the crime. They have not yet been identified. It is not clear what led up to the shooting. Johnson is scheduled to appear in court today. The chp is continuing a search for a gang of bikers who beat a lyft driver an a San Francisco freeway last week. This is the video that went viral. Up to 15 bikers attacked that driver in the middle of rush hour traffic on 101 wednesday. He survived and is now sharing his story with abc7 news. Reporter Alex Quintana is in pain but grateful to be alive. He thought he might die on the side of the freeway after he was brutally attacked last week. The road rage incident has captured national attention. They were all hitting and kicking from everywhere. Reporter the 35yearold was driving for lyft on southbound highway 101 near the cesar chavez exit. Witnesses captured some of the crime involving 10 to 15 young men on dirt bikes and motorcycles. Quintana believes he thought he was trying to run one of them over. One shattered his leg. He looked at me right in the eyes and my leg all i could do was lay there and cry and think about my kid. Reporter supporting his kid, his baby elijah, is the reason quintana was driving all the way from modesto to the bay area every day to work for uber and lyft. Now, the new father is out of a job and from his hospital bed is trying to help Law Enforcement track down the bikers. He says the chp calls the 12 00 boys. Its important. Not just to, you know, get what happened to me but so something doesnt happen to somebody else. Reporter quintana has had surgery for his leg, which was broken in three places. Hell need another operation and then will come months of rehab. At sf general, carolyn tyler, abc7 news. Happening today, the Morgan Hill School Board will meet in emergency session to discuss sexual abuse lawsuit. The parents of three girls molested by a former teacher have reached a tentative settlement with the district. John arthur lloyd was convicted of abusing the girls while they were students at paradise elementary. He was also accused of abusing a fourth girl. The parents say the school failed to see obvious signs of abuse. The parents are demanding the district do more to protect students, both sides will be back in court tomorrow. Happening today, the city of oakland is taking a stand against president trumps proposed border wall between the skpus mexico. Oaklands finance committee will present a proposal to the city council to consider a boycott against the wall. That will include all construction, engineering, and security businesses plus many more. The Committee Says about one in four oakland residents was born outside the u. S. And about a third of those immigrants comes from mexico. The Council Meets at 9 00. The weather cant wait. Stop talking, reggie. All right. Temperatures are up to 8 degrees warmer this morning in some neighborhoods than they were yesterday. That bodes well for another warm afternoon. Check it out up in the hills, in the 60s, everybody else around 50 to 54 degrees except for dublin. 49. Mid to upper 50s around the bay shore, petaluma at about 59, 48 in santa rosa right now. Heres a look from the east bay hills camera. Tree pollen is going to be high, uv index is going to be high also. Lets take a look at walnut creek. Early commuters. Not bad. Well talk to Frances Frances . Oh my god. Told you i was having a rough time. Well talk to alexis in a minute. Yard work is going to be good, watch out for the pollen. Small waves out there, watch out for the burning sunshine. Mid to upper 70s around the bay and upper 70s to low 80s inland and tonight look for more fog and im going to go run and hide now. Frances dinglasan, the original traffic reporter, i will take that as a compliment. We are looking live at the bay bridge toll plaza. Just a few minutes ago, we had a tanker truck. That is cleared from the board so it really never was a major issue and now its no issue whatsoever. Quick check of drive times here. Westbound 580, tracy to dublin, slowly increasing there. Southbound 680, about 14 and northbound 85 between 101 and cupertino also looking great, in the green at 16 minutes. Little overnight road work to talk about. Parttime workers in san jose have a little more protection this morning. Why they now have first dibs on extra work hours. San Francisco May become home to a Major National memorial to its victims and survivors. As you just heard mike say, were heading into what looks to be another nice day. Be another nice day. Hmm. [cell phone beeps] hey [police whistle blows] [horns honking] woman hey [bicycle bell rings] turn here. There. Excuse me. Uh. Uh. [indistinct announcement on p. A. System] so, same time next week . Well, of course. Announcer put away a few bucks. Feel like a million bucks. For free tips to help you save, go to feed the pig whatcha been doing braydon . Reading lets see pictures, pictures,pictures theres a boy riding on his bicycle you can read too grandpa yea its always better when were together it is 4 42 and theres a live look at times square this morning where, man, the city that doesnt sleep, that certainly is true this morning but maybe going a little slower than usual because parts of new york expected to get up to 2 feet of show and that is why many of the School Districts in new york and in other places in the northeast have called off school for the day. It is going to be a rough day if youre traveling to the east coast. More on this throughout the morning. Boy, and as we look at new york, be glad you are not on the east coast, not in the midwest, because that snow making it a nightmare for drivers. In fact, i want to show you this video into our live desk. 35car pileup on the kennedy expressway in chicago. Actually, two separate Chain Reaction crashes that happened less than a mile apart. Seven people had injuries and remain hospitalized at this hour. They are bracing for more snow in chicago today as well, not just the east coast and the midwest as well. Some parts of chicago expected to get up to 10 inches by midday. Theyre going to have to bundle up. Storm damage has closed a popular campground in the north bay. Steep ravine camp background in the Mount Tamalpais state park is closed indlooechbt now. The state Parks Department says the access road to get there is unsafe to drive or walk on. Highway 41 leading to Yosemite National park has reopened to oneway traffic near fish yafrp. The road serves as a major artery to park traffic. It was shut down after a massive sinkhole showed up. Caltrans says months of heavy rain caused the shoulder to erode and form add fivefootwide hole. Crews had to replace the entire portion of the road. Caltrans hopes to finish the work in the next new days. A federal Appeals Court in San Francisco will hear an appeal about why would horse roundups in nevada. The lawsuit filed on behalf of nevada ranchers wants the bureau of Land Management to round up and remove more than 6,000 wild horses from public lands. The American Wild Horse Campaign is appealing that lawsuit. The hearing starts at 9 00 this morning. San jose now has a new measure in place intended to help parttime workers. It gives them priority for any additional work hours their employees may have. The law is the first of its kind in the nation. A lot of businesses were keeping their work force in parttime status, probably in order to avoid paying benefits. Reporter the executive officer of the south Bay Labor Council is happy this day has come. He says the parttime work force in san jose was growing and the workers were struggling. The fact that more and more of them were working parttime meant that more and more of them were having a hard time putting food on the table and paying their bills. Reporter the law requires businesses with more than 36 employees to offer additional hours to their current parttime employees before hiring more parttime employees. Some 1200 companies in san jose are affected. The Silicon Valley organization opposed measure e, the executive Vice President says though well intended it could hurt small to medium sized businesses. Any time you see a significant regulation such as opportunity to work, it tightens employers bottom line and makes it harder for them to add on employees. Reporter but because it is now law, theyre working with san jose businesses to help them understand and implement the first of its kind law. An Assembly Woman from san diego is working on legislation that would implement similar rules statewide. San francisco could soon be home to a National Museum chronicling the impact of aids of the world. The staff of the National Memorial grove is gauging interest right now in a place. It would be similar to the Holocaust Museum and the National September 11 memorial. It is pi day. Pi. Were not talking about, like, the delicious kind of pie. Were talking about the mathematical kind of pi. Probably the only thing you remember from geometry class, right . For those of us who dont, pi symbolizes the ratio of a circle circumference with diameter, you know, 3. 14, et cetera, as in todays date. Pi day at started at San Franciscos exploratorium at pier 15. It is the 30th anniversary now and to celebrate, there will be tons of free events starting at 10 00 a. M. This is video from last year. Go to our website, abc7news. Com, for more info and entry is subject to capacity. I wouldnt hate you if you brought a pie to us. We would love that. Any type, really. Always open to that. Not picky. Hey, mike. Can i get in on that . Im in. Thank you. Hi, everybody. 3. 14, thats as far as i can go. Lost a lot of that knowledge. Heres a look from our roof camera. You can see it looks pretty quiet out there, mostly sunny, youll need sunglasses, warmer than average again. More widespread fog develops tonight and that signifies a change in the jet stream and brings a chance of showers wednesday and a better chance sunday and monday. Heres a look at the storm track. It is sliding south and it will arrive tomorrow and then mainly a north bay rain event. The rest of us, not much. In fact, here it is. This is the north bay. You could put a 1 on it if you wanted to put a storm impact scale. Its going to rain but wont have a tremendous impact. Here we are at noon tomorrow, see the clouds increases from north to south and you can see the blipz of green up until midnight. The cold front kind of sweeps through during the Morning Hours and brings a little sunshine in the afternoon hours so rainfall amounts compared to yesterday have even dropped more. Just a couple hundredths of an inch in the north bay, not even getting out of the north bay, the rain, at least measurable rain. Or at least in San Francisco. In oakland, some of our spots that will measure the rain. Lets talk about tomorrow. 60s for the most part, little chance of sunshine in the afternoon thursday, a warming trend will peak on st. Patricks day, little bit cooler through the weekend and it looks wet most likely on monday. All right, mike, we want it to stay nice forever so well hold on to the next 234u fu days. No pressure there. Take you to traffic maps right now, overnight road work should be wrapping up by 5 00 this morning. Eastbound 12 ramps to northbound and southbound 101 are fully closed there in the santa rosa area and that should be done within the next 15 minutes, caltrans doing overnight sign installation work there. A live look if you are coming in from the north bay, at golden gate bridge, southbound 101, wide open, we are counting cars so far this morning. Well talk about mass transit next. Folders, rulers, pencils are all critical supplies. The big boost hundreds of young people in oakland are going to be getting today. Extra credit, the change coming to credit reports that could boost your score. First, this mornings tech bytes. In todays tech bytes, pandoras new service. Its called pandora premium and its meant to challenge streaming services from apple and spotify. It allows users to play any song or album and use all features for 9. 99 a month. A tinder outage puts love on hold briefly. The worlds most popular dating app was not working. Its still unclear what was wrong. No comment from tinder yet. And Hidden Valley ranch is getting into the Online Retail business. There are tshirts and swag. Including a ranch fountain, which comes also with a years supply on dressing for the bargain price of 100. Ill take it. Ill take it. Those it is 4 52. Five people rescued off the coast of florida when the boat they were in started to sink. This happened yesterday afternoon near naples. This dramatic video captured by a helicopter crew shows deputies helping in that rescue effort. The boat was about a half mile offshore when it started taking on water in some pretty rough seas. Its unclear what caused that boat to sink. A fresno Business Owner is defending some controversial remarks he posted on facebook targeting hispanic individuals. Its called roll one for me sushi bar. He wrote the servers are building a wall around the establishment because hispanics never tip. People are calling on the community to build an economic wall around the restaurant. He says it was meant to be a joke. I was defending my staff more than impugning hispanics. I didnt say all. I hate generalizations. I hate that stuff. Wade apologized for his comment and said that he will be more aware of what he posted online going forward. I should hope so. Happening today, thousands of students in one east Bay School District will get new school supplies. Nearly 700 classrooms are going to get these supplies including folders, rulers, pencils, markers and more. More than 22,000 students at 4 is schools are going to receive the packs. Ub, a school and Office Supply store, made that donation. Oakland mayor libby schaaf is going to be there to hand out supplies this morning. A new way to fight diabetes is on the streets in vallejo. This mobile Diabetes Education and Prevention Center features workstations and a kitchen. Abc7 news was there as the Toro University and Sutter Health unveiled this van yesterday. It will provide screening for diabetes and demonstrations on how to prepare food that is healthy and delicious. Touro university points out that 55 of californian with diabetic or or diabetic. The final trust of this guy back here, the bay bridge, is going to be gone this morning. We started this time lapse video of the work to remove it yesterday. Demolition began november 2013 but this truss was one of the last visible sections for the on the bridge for drivers going past. The span is going to be taken apart out of sight in oakland. The concrete foundations will be demolished sometime this fall. Lets talk about how were going to have an increase and some cloud cover along the coast today. Heres a look at your fog forecast. And notice it never completely covers but it does ebb and flow and once we get to the evening hours, really starts to cover the coast and youre going to be cooler today than yesterday. Heres the big story youll hear about all day, the noreaster and the dividing line between snow and rain is right around baltimore and washington. Blizzard means were going to have a lot of snow and its going to come down sideways so 27 inches of snow in skranton. You dont want to get out and drive in that. That looks miserable. Well take our temperatures in 70s. Thats better. Heres a look at wl, southbound 680 still wide open, commute has been quiet and mass transit looking good too. B. A. R. T. Here, 33 trains in service, ace 1 out on time today. The last several days, San Francisco bay ferry had had several routes running on reduced capacity vessels. Havent gotten word today but it is possible. Well take a look at the south bay coming up. Credit reporting agencies are changing what information they report. The nations three largest credit reporting agencies will soon exclude tax liens and some civil debts if that information does not include relevant info like name, address, Social Security numbers. Many liens and most judgments do not include all of that data in part because Social Security numbers are often redacted for security reasons. Equifax, expeern and transunion are now making the move to ensure consumer data is accurate. Some people believe excluding the information, bottom line, will raise your secret score. The d. C. Woman known as the dancing grandma sbragted her 108th birthday with the harlem globe trotters. The team surprised virginia with an honorary jersey yesterday. They taught her how to perform that famous finger spin and donated 108 game tickets in her honor for underprivileged kids. Look, shes doing it. If she looks familiar to you, thats because for her 106th birthday, she celebrated at the white house. You might remember this video of her dancing with the obamas and that video went around the world many times over. That is wonderful. Next at 5 00, health care, executive orders and wiretapping, the whirlwind week at the white house continues. A bay area county on the verge of approving a Taser Program for police officers, the hefty price tag that could come with making it a reality. And at the live desk, im tracking that east coast storm. It is affecting flights this morning, a heads up if youre heading to the airport. Heading to the airport. And the hersheys miniatures. We pour em we pass em we pick em delicious fun for everyone. Hersheys miniatures are mine, yours, our chocolate
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