Very happy we are not in the frozen grips of the arctic air mass in the eastern third of the country. We are milder this morning because of the cloud cover. 42 is the temperature through 7 00 and 53 around the bay at noon and near normal and midtoupper 50s at 4 00 and back to 50 with clouds keeping it mild. Clouds inland and help toes in the midtoupper 30s and above average in the upper 50s to low 60s in the afternoon. A light breeze in the evening at 48. At the coast, we have temperatures running in the mid40s with high clouds and a few sprinkles possible but it will evaporate before it reaches the ground. By evening, about 49 degrees. Possible injury accident southbound on 680 at walk boulevard to fremont. Southbound direction, it is blocking one lane. We are watching this other accident, northbound 880 headed up to industrial parkway, a car versus a have divider with southbound traffic coming away from highway 92. Here is a picture of the bay big tolls where metering lights have not been turned on and traffic is backing up. You can see how the rest of the bridge is moving toward Treasure Island with traffic looking thicker but, still, moving along at top speed. We are hearing from an east bay whom whose quick thinking led to the rescue of an ducked girl after another woman came forward claiming to be the Good Samaritan who broke up the kidnapping. Amy hollyfield will give us this story. It is confusing. It was an observeant worker at target who helped crack the case for police. Roxanna ramirez is responsible for looking for shoplifters at target. She spotted David Douglas and she thought he acted strangely. He did not steal anything. She had a feeling something wasnt right. She took down the license late number and heard of the amber alert and gave the information to police who tracked him down to the antioch marina. The girl who was kidnapped was in the back seat the car. Roxanna ramirez says if you think you have helpful information, share it. Dont keep it to your sell. I wanted to keep it to myself and good thing i didnt, i saved a little girls life. Police now say this woman lied about her involvement. He came forward and claims she helped find the kidnapped girl and she gave tv interviews, police now say she played no roll in the case and has not cooperated with the investigation. The suspect gave a jailhouse interview and says this was all a cry for help to get out of a bad situation. A south bay family is asking for the Publics Health this morning finding a missing woman from san jose. Here is a picture of 22 22yearold. Her family says she went out with friends on saturday and has not come home. She usually is home by 10 00 each night. Her car is also missing, a 2000 chevrolet. If you have information, call the San Jose Police department. The santa clara Water District will look over a report today on the water conditions. We have the advance copy of the report. It is not good. We are at the stage where the yellow caution light is turned on. The report is being released today and indicates the rainfall is only. 16 bringing the total rainfall since july at only 30 percent of average. Local reservoirs are only at 33 percent of total capacity. California ag officials begin two days of meeting to decide whether to declare a statewide drought. The sierra watershed has seen over 3 of rain, just a tenth of normal. East bay has seen 4. 5, less than a third of normal. Neither districts though, is contemplating water restrictions. Water difficult mapped is down. The governor builds a campaign war check for the likely fall run for reelection. Brown collected 1. 7 million in the final week of 2013 including dream works c. E. O. Donating with the governor now has 17 million for the fall campaign. Developing news half of all americans are wake up to the coldest temperatures in decade. This buffalo new york the temperature combined with the wind chill right now feels like 27 degrees below zero. Our reporter is joining us from washington, dc, where it is a little warmer. Good morning, mary. Good morning from a frigid washington, dc. This city, like so many others around the country, is bracing for this record breaking cold. When you thought it couldnt get any colder, a dangerous arctic blast is plunging temperatures to historic lows across the United States. A light threatening bone chilling record breaking freeze. Im wearing long underway. I feel like i am skiing. But i am going to work. The freezing eyebrows and icing glasses. It is called a polar vortex, frigid arctic air bringing freezing temperatures to every state but hawaii. Polar vortex sounds scary. 28 below zero. 38 below zero. The deep trees is reaching into the deep south with reports broken in texas, schools if atlanta, closed. Blowing and drifting snow trapped flee amtrak trains outside chicago and more than 500 passengers are finally moved out mostly to buses for the long drive to chicago. The snow, ice, and wind still causing commuter chaos on the roads. And the runways. Jetblue canceling all flights until later today. My frustration level is here. If you want to know. The cold is also a serious danger forecast bite can occur in five minutes in the temperatures. To i good you a sense of how cold it is, this morning i brought out a couple of tea in an attempt to keep warm but look at this. It is now a solid block of ice the after 30 minutes. It is hard to believe what we are feeling here which is about negative nine with the wind chill, that would be considered warm compared to what most americans are feeling. Now you have ice tea . A tea popsicle. Flight conditions show cancellations slowly climbing all morning. So far, close to 2,000 domestic flights are canceled. That is up 100 in the past hour. Sfo is now reporting 22 flight cancellations. Oak and san jose both reporting no cancellations right now. As mary mentioned passengers may have suffered the most with the airline did not try to fly in and out of the northeast canceling all flights yesterday and leaving many passengers stranded at sfo. Jetblue expects to run at full capacity this afternoon. We will cling check with matt keller at sfo for an update next half hour. You have to wonder, boy, how can they stand with the wind chill. Grown bay is minus 42, 42 below zero is what it feels like, your flesh freezes in five minutes. It families like minus nine in atlanta. A batch of cold air that usually sits over canada, and the hudson bay, that has broken off and moved further to the south than normal so we have record cold temperatures. Part of the rope, the lack of ice has caused warming in the upper part of the polar regions and that warm air has dislodged the cold air which is why we are seeing that happen. Look at the temperatures in the upper 30s the in juneau and 32 in nome so it is warmer than average if alaska. Midtoupper 30s through the north bay valley. Everyone else is in the 40s until Half Moon Bay at 39. San francisco is at 50. A chance of sprinkles today. Again tomorrow. Another chance on thursday. 48 bart trains are running on time with no delays with mass transit but you will have a slow down headed into fremont from dublin along 680. This app shows a few extra details as the morning is wearing on and as you can see we have quite a few reporting this accident involving six vehicles and it is a major accident with lanes blocked. The top speed is lower than 40 Miles Per Hour. Showdowns there. You can track your own traffic with the exclusive app at the app store and gin our abc7news. Com 7 group. Controversy from the bcs championship between Florida State and auburn but not from the teams playing, a tweet from a rifle quaterbacks mom that is creating a buzz online. 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A Southern California family is threatening to sue a School District for not allowing their sixyearold son to pass out holiday candy with a religious message attached. East came with a note describe this as the birth and ministry and death of jesus christ and the teacher removed the note. He did not pass them out because jesus wasnt allowed in the school. It is his god given right to do this. By law and by faith. The School District is investigating the allegations buts is it appears the teacher was trying to maintain an appropriate degree of religious neutrality. The buzz you hear is hollywood after movie director michael bay walked off stage at the unveiling of samsungs new hd tv. How do you think it will impact how viewers experience your movies . Excuse me, im sorry. Im sorry. Okay. Lets thank michael bay for join us. The director of the transformers franchise grew frustrated at the Consumer Electronics show saying a problem with the teleprompter threw him off and later he said i just embarrassed myself at c. E. S. Florida state won the championship over auburn but it could not escape controversy. The most of alabama quaterback a. J. Sent out a tweet in response to the postgame speech from Florida State quarterback winston saying and i quote, am i listening to english, and quickly was deleted. She then sent out another tweet and i quote, anyone that knows our family knows we are far from racist. My tweet was not meant that way. I sincerely apologized if it offended anyone. Months are getting involved, too, that is how it is in the age of twitter. Better football on the west coast. Absolutely. We will go back to the east coast and i will show you the forecast if the game in charlotte, the queen city at bank of America Stadium and uptown, it will be wet with a subject of moisture coming in from the gulf coast with temperatures in the midtoupper 40s and we will show you the wind chill quickly with east of the Mississippi River a third of the country is under wind chill advisories and warnings this morning for dangerous conditions. We have a little bit of a haze out there, no spare the air, and not much in the way of anything falling right now but we could pick up a few radar runs open live doppler 7 hd as the rain will evaporate moving through the dry air in the middle and lower parts of the atmosphere. Clear looking from sutro tower, with pockets of sunshine today and the rain will evaporate before it reaches the ground. We have unsettled forecast through saturday and a couple of chances of sprinkles and dry again on sunday and into next week. Today, we will have lowtomid 60s in most neighborhoods and to Half Moon Bay and most the coast will be in the upper like San Francisco. Tonight, we going to have temperatures mild again and a few money 30s in the north bay valley and the rest of us in the lowtomid 40s until San Francisco at 48 degrees. High pressure is of my out of the way and a series of storms coming in right now the best we can do is lows that will tap into the moisture and bring us a chance of wet weather. This morning you can see the best chance up to the north, a few sprinkles, mainly cloudy though, and wednesday morning, can you see the rain is still to the north with a few sprinkles possible in the afternoon hours and as we head to when night into thursday morning we will have our best chance of any time of measurable rain and less than. 1 and when the front passes through it looks like it will be briefly dry for friday and temperatures rebound into the lowtomid 60s and another chance of rain saturday mostly in the north bay and look at the lowtomid 60s on sunday and monday. Have a great day. Good morning, over the Altamont Pass with our fair share of accidents. In fremont, this is where the accident was located and first reported at washington boulevard but southbound 680, as you come through that sunol grade it is blocking one lane involving six vehicles. 37 Miles Per Hour is the top speed approaching the accident and looking slow as you approach the backup, as well. We have this report of a crash headed through concord and westbound highway 4 of with you get to 680, a solo vehicle spinout down an embankment and crews are headed out this right new. Incredible new video showing a car crashing into a gas station. The gas station attendant caught right in the path and how he doing this morning. Coming up first, how did you sleep last night . The answer could depend on your mattress. Michael 15 any team before chantix, i tried to quit probably about five times. It was different than the other times i tried to quit. [ male announcer ] along with support, Chantix Varenicline is proven to help people quit smoking. Its a nonnicotine pill. Chantix reduced my urge to smoke. That helped me quit smoking. [ male announcer ] some people had changes in behavior, thinking, or mood, and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. If you notice any of these, stop chantix, and call your doctor right away. 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It is tuesday, thanks for joining us. I am kristen sze. I am eric thomas. We will check on the Weather Forecast and look at a more comfortable mike nicco compared to those we have talked to back east i am sure they are dressed appropriately. Temperatures are milder than yesterday. We are seeing mostly cloudy conditions here and on live doppler 7 hd can is why it is milder when you step outside. This is no radar return, a lost midtoupper moisture means rain will evaporate before it reaches the ground. We will be mostly in the upper to mid40s through 7 00. Midtoupper 50s at noon, and the day planner is through 4 00, and mid50s to near 60 and as we round out the 12 hours, it will be mild in the evening hours and upper 40s to around 50 degrees. We have unsettled weather that will continue throughout the sevenday forecast with a couple chances of rain ahead and a chance of snow in the sierra. First, though, leyla gulen has the commute. Good morning, everyone, we are tracking a couple of citizens in the east bay slowing traffic. First, we reported a northbound crash that is in the southbound direction with two lanes blocked involving a few vehicles. The backup is bumpertobumper traffic away from 238 causing a pinch through Castro Valley headed along westbound 238. Southbound 680 is where we have another accident six cars involved here and 37 Miles Per Hour is the top speed with one lane blocked and slow delays headed through the sunol grid away from highway 84 with no word on when the crash is going to clear. We have freezing weather gripping the midwest and east coast. Temperatures are plummeting to record lows across much of the United States this morning with wind chill warnings posted from montana to alabama, 187 million americans are facing historic subzero wind chills dipping as let as minus 60 degrees. A polar vortex is moving further east into the south with ten deaths since saturday are blamed on the dangerously cold weather system. The bitter cold is again bringing travel delays to passengers at sfo. That is where we find our reporter with where the situation stands at this hour. Matt . What a nightmare for travelers this weekend. Today is another bad day for cancellations and delays. We have seen several dozen more cancellations come in and also several hundred more delays across the nation. Here are the latest numbers, there are reports of 1,997 Flights Canceled in the United States today. At sfo, 22 flights are canceled and oakland and san jose are reporting no cancellations but it is still early. Passengers of secret blue my have suffered the most and did not try and fly in and out of the northeast because of a new f. A. A. Rule requiring more rest time for crews. Secret blue is ramping up the operations this morning and expect to be running at full capacity by this afternoon. A jetblue passenger we spoke with is hoping to make it to boston today. Hopefully the plan is i get out today. I have an internship starting tomorrow. That is the goal. I was supposed to my out sunday but it was delayed. The worst hit airports are in the midwest with half flights in and out of the cleveland and a third of flights to and from chicago are canceled. A few dozen flights are delayed in the bay area. You will want to check with the airline before you head to the airport. 500 stranded passengers are being picked up after three amtrak trains got stuck in illinois after hitting a 12 snow drift that paralyzed the engines starting at 1 00 oclock our time yesterday. Photos from the california train starting in emeryville and headed to chicago. Another from Southern California was struck and one that crosses illinois. All passengers will be in chicago by noon. Nearly 20 long hours after getting stuck. Oak police are investigating a shooting that occurred outside an east oak neighborhood market. A man was taken by ambulance from the royal market at 76th avenue at 8 00 p. M. He was shot once. The condition at the moment is unknown but he was conscious and alert on the way to the hospital. Shell casing at the store suggest the man was shot outside and ran inside. Police have not released any suspect information. Richmond is experiencing a significant drop in the murder rate and our media pan, the Contra Costa Times reports the 16 whom tides is the lowest since 1980 after mounting an organized effort to halt street violence using former gang members who work to keep the peace by discouraging retaliation. The city has five months without a single murder and a combination of enforcement, Better Community relations and youth outreach programs. A Founding Member of the black Panther Party is taking a public stand against the shooting death of 13yearold andy lopez. Big man howard will make a statement before the board of supervisors today. Andy lopez was shot to death in october by sheriff Deputy Erick Gelhaus carrying a plastic air rifle that the deputy thought was the real thing. Community activists have held several protests demanding justice and upset that Erick Gelhaus is become on the job. A former school aide in hayward is facing eight felony child molest ace counts. Police say the 29yearold mia cummings is accused of having a twoyear long sexual relationship with a student that began when he was telephone. She admitted cummings is jailed on 800,000 bond. Though do nut believe there are other victims. A hearing is scheduled today for the case of 13yearold jahi mcmath canceled now she is moved it of Childrens Hospital oakland after being declared brain dead after complications from tonsil surgery. The family will not say where she is now but they were in los angeles appearing in an interview with cnn and the uncle gave us this cell phone video of her being moved from Childrens Hospital oakland on sunday night. The family is holding out hope she will recover. We believe if her heart is pumping she is alive. The Attorney Says that jahi mcmath is getting nutritional support and antiboughters to antibiotics to fight inspections. A target employee is called a hero after helping track down a map accused of kidnapping an east bay girl. New detail on the priest found dead in his rectory and the tools police say were used by the suspect to kill the popular priest. nervous screaming never again Grace ElizabethLife Insurance from new york life can help your family keep good going. Ed lg mego ken e s ed lg mego when ifor your business. Curity tyco integrated security. 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Speaks of the blue, commuters are going to be singing the blues if you are traveling through union center to sunol. The good news is this crash is clears, with the two lanes now reopened after a three car crash. Over to fremont, southbound 680, this accident is still in place, one lane is blocked with speeds going lower and lower now at 18 Miles Per Hour where the slow down really starts at highway 84. Above to pleasanton, southbound 680 at sunol, another accident is bringing the speaks down to 35 Miles Per Hour. We have this accident, westbound highway four, before 680, a car spun out, want down an embankment and we are left with bumpertobumper traffic from 242. New details of a man charged in the killing of a beloved Northern California priest. Bullock said he didnt do it. The 44yearold is accused of killing reverend freed on new years day in the church rectory. The coroner says reverend freed was beaten to death with a wooden stake and a metal pipe and laid to rest yesterday. Hundreds of mourners gathered so say goodbye. Bullocks bail is society at set at 1. 2 million. Sevenyearold cold case that the Bay Area Police department wants help in solving. A camera catches a car slamming interest a gas pump. A woman helped officers track dow isnt it time you discovered the sleep number bed . The only bed clinically proven to relieve back pain and improve sleep quality. And right now, its our lowest prices of the season. Save 300 to 800 on our newest innovations. Plus, 18month special financing on all sleep number beds. Only at a sleep number store, where queen mattresses start at just 699. 99. Sleep number. Comfort individualized. Covering santa rosa, berkeley, san jose, and abc7, we are now hearing from an east bay woman whose quick thinking led to the rescue of an abducted girl. Amy hollyfield has what the woman did to lead to the safe return of the young girl. The hero was a target employee this pittsburg. She helped police find the kidnapped girl. Roxanna ramirez job is to look for shoplifters at target. She saw 43yearold David Douglas and thought he was acting strangely. He did not steal anything but said something wasnt right. I was shaking the steering while like something was wrong. I thought something was wrong with him. The girlfriend told her about the amber alert and looked at the alert and said it matched the car she saw at target and she wrote down the license plate, she called police and they found him and the kidnapped girl. Police say another woman lied about her involvement saying that she helped find the kidnapped girl and gave tv interviews and police are now saying she had no role later in the investigation. The real hero was here at target. As for the suspect, he gave a jailhouse interview to Bay Area News Group and said that this was all a cry for help, to get out of a bad situation. New this morning, San Francisco police are seeking the publics help to solve a sevenyearold homicide case. We a man was shot to death at 13th outside a now closed Club Caliente after two man flashed a gun. His mother will join miss today at the scene hoping to raise aware misand get any new ones to witnesses to come forward. The 49ers are preparing for the game in charlotte against the panthers. Crews are getting Candlestick Park ready just in case. This is a chance the game could be played in two weeks if the 49ers beat the panthers and if the saints can beat the favored seahawks on sunday. Send us your photos showing your 49ers pride. We have a baby theme going, this is sixmonthold sporting a fashionable 49er helmet. And levy is kaepernicking or new, new video shows the moment a car burst into flames after crashing interest a gas station and hitting an attendant in massachusetts. The security video shows the attendant in yellow gear and suddenly the car comes moving through the station in boston. The attendant was thrown 25 to 30. A fire broke out. He was badly bruised but will be okay. The 82yearold driver was not injured and said he accidentally accelerated rather than hitting the brake. Trade is underway open wall street and a look at the big board. The dow is up 104 points so a if day so far to 16,531. J. P. Morgan chase bank agreeing to pay 1. 7 billion to victims of madoffs massive ponzi scheme the primary bank in the later years of fraud that spanned decade and ended in 2008 when madoff admitted to the f. B. I. The Investment Business was relative a ponzi scheme. Fans were watching the super bowl can get their hands on David Beckhams underwear. You want an explanation . Okay, h m has the full t commerce ad for fans that have Samsung Smart tvs can buy the collection during a secondsecond spot during the we second quarter. How about weather . Really . Really in really . We going to let that go . Help yourselves. We will talk football and how cold it was and how many layers of protected gear they wore. This is what it is looking like over in charlotte as we head to the 9 weekend. Right now the temperature is 12 with twodegree wind chill and by the weekend, more normal Winter Weather is coming that way and it will be warmerthanaverage with midtoupper 50s and a chance of rain. Right now, it is much cooler in places like atlanta, further to the south than charlotte and feels like nine below in atlanta and 42 below in green bay. We watching the midtoupper level clouds stream in and keep us mild. 39 in woodside, and palo alto and menlo park are 40 and foster city is 4 to and san mateo is 46 and belmont is 47, and up to San Francisco the warm spot at 50, and a few upper 30s in the north bay valley and san ramon and everyone else is in the low lowtomid 40s and color sunrise developing with mostly cloudy to partly sunny conditions so we will say sunny pockets and our best chan of seeing anything d best chance of seeing anything is tomorrow at. 1 itch. Dry next week and record highs waiting to see. Half moon bay will be 61. Lowtomid 60s for the rest of us. Milder tonight with the cloud cover hanging around and mid30s in the north bay valley and San Francisco is 48 and everyone else is lowtomid 40s so the heater will not run much overnight. High pressure shows barely on our screen continuing to get moved to the east and our stream of midtoupper level moisture and series of weak areas of low pressure with no real big strong storm to hang our hat on but you can see there is moisture lingering out there in the form of sprinkles day as we head to 5 00, you can see it looks impressive up north but falls apart overnight and tomorrows clouds and a few sprinkles in the afternoon and wednesday night into thursday we have our best chance of wet weather and it will be interesting to see what going on thursday morning for the commute. Our seven day forecast when we get beyond that, it is briefly dry friday for the next chan of rain on saturday and light and sunday and monday above average. It is slowed considerably with all of the red and now a look at the backup, we have heavy delay away from dublin all the way southbound and that is a 25 to 30 minute commute at peninsula, northbound along 101 we have an accident to the shoulder but it is causing spectator slowing and as we look at the app we have a report of a minor accident in the number three lane at the toll with traffic slow as you make the approach. Track your own traffic with google play or the app store. Seven things to know before you go. Oh progressoh oh oh oh oh what do you know . Oh bacon . Oh oh oh [ female announcer ] with 40 delicious progresso soups at 100 calories or less, there are plenty of reasons people are saying progressoh share your story for a chance to win a progressoh makeover in hollywood. Go to progresso. Com to enter. Good morning on tuesday, a look at those extending your vacation heavenly resort from lake tahoe camera shows it is looking good but the snow is mostly on the trails where they have been making snow. We can use more of natural stuff but we will talk about that with mike in a second. As we hand things off to Good Morning America here are seven things to know of with you go. One, developing news, ten deaths are blamed on the deep freeze spreading into the south and eastern seaboard today. On polar vortex of frigid air is dropping the thermometers with the highs only in the Single Digits in georgia and alabama. The weather is making a mess of Airline Travel with 2,000 Flights Canceled nationwide and 22 at sfo. Jetblue canceled all flights at several major airports but hope to run at full speed by later today. More than 500 amtrak passengers would spent almost 20 hours trapped on three trains stuck in the snow are finally headed for chicago. One of the trains originated here in the bay area and they were all stranded after hitting a 13 snow drift that paralyzed the engines. The passengers are taken by bus to chicago. A huge 9 11 Fraud Investigation has ended with the arrest of 80 retired new York City Police officer, fire, and correction officers accused of faking workrelated stress and psychiatric disorders from the september 11th attacks. The District Attorney is planning a News Conference for 10 00 our time. Embattled Los Angeles County sheriff baca will announce his resignation under fire recently after an f. B. I. Investigation resulted in the indictment of 18 of his deputies. This is how it looks from the east bay hills camera with haze but not a spare the air day with a lot cloud cover and temperatures before average with a sprinkle at best and lowtomid 60s and upper 50s at the coast. Enjoy. 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