And even now because she just sold a home she bought in 1986 right after she made it big with that album. The home sold for 800,000. Today. It is in connecticut. Can you imagine . I think her net worth is 30 million. That tells me she is smart with her money. She does not spend all that she has. I love the idea of living below your means. She had a huge home. I will mention the temperature in connecticut is 37 degrees. That 800,000 home in connecticut probably 2. 4 million here in the bay area. I was very proud of you today speaking of the weather because i have been talking about how people are driving to work in good weather and driving to work in bad weather and you said that. Do you think about that . I anchored the 5 00 news for years and you know that evening commute, when there is any rain on it is just as bad. Absolutely, sometimes worse. In the morning it was the fog but now that is lifting. Rain is coming but moving into Mendocino County near lake county. The actual rain on t
Go to abc7news. Com. Were no longer under a flex alert, but were still urged to conserve electricity today. Theyre looking at the graph so you can see demand at a low point right now, as you would expect, but it is expected to peak again around 5 00 this evening. The concerns that too many people using our electricity would cause power outages, and you can see the map now. Pg e dealing with small scattered outages throughout the bay area. Quick action in the scorching heat by firefighters to keep small grass fires from getting out of control. Thick smoke from this one along highway 101 slowed the evening commute. Fire broke out at about 4 30 at mckee road. Chp closed the roads on ramp to 101 for a while. The flames did not spread to nearby buildings. You can track the temperatures where you live with the accuweather app. Download it to be alerted. Developing news. Gulf coast residents are keeping a close eye on Tropical Storm sandy which made landfall this morning. A wide area from tex
The 1100 block of pacific. They dont know where the fire originated from. When they showed up, there was heavy fire in the basement. Lets show you some aerials from nbc bay area chopper. It appears this is a commercial Business Building on the bottom with residential units on the top. According to the city officially spoke to, crews arrived shortly after 8 00 a. M. And this was deemed a 2 alarm fire. One perp was rescued and that person were being told has minor injuries. The San Francisco fire tweeted out they have a good handle on the fire but it is still active. Area near pacific and stockton is still blocked offer. This say seven businesses have been affected from this 2 alarm fire. There look to be 20 residential units inside the building. They dont know how many folks have been displaced. Were still trying to determine how many displaced residents there are at this time. However, City Services are here, the red cross is here. We have Business Services here also to provide assista
Confidence of President Trump. And then hours later flynn was out. President trump ignoring questions today as his spokesman explains what led to the resignation of National Security advisor mike flynn. We got to a point not based on legal issue, but based on a trust issue where the level of trust between President Trump and general flynn had eroded to the point where they felt he had to make a change. Reporter white house lawyers said flynn did nothing illegal, but the president asked him to resign after he misled the Vice President and others about discussing sanctions with russias ambassador. You cannot have a National Security advisor misleading the Vice President and others. Reporter former acting attorney general sally yates first alerted the white house three weeks ago, warning that flynn was vulnerable to black. Why did it take weeks to deal with flynn . I think the first question should be where was the department of justice in this. Reporter democrats want answers on whether
Christmas right up the street. Still a good week away. After thanks giving, everyone is shopping and crazy. Im a little over eager and speaking about the holiday a lot of people are heading up to ski and have some fun, i want to show you pictures we have of the most beautiful thing in the world, brand new snow. We been talking about the fact that it is light and fluffy snow. It is about 14 or 15, theres going to be a lot more snow especially on sunday so the snow level could get down to 3500 feet. Weve had many rainbows and a mix of sun, clouds and showers, weve had many cells and one good one came through San Francisco. Its long gone but now is just to the west over san lorenzo in hayward, along industrial boulevard but theres not much left of that guy. May be a little bit. 680 near fremont, there may be some scattered shower activity and some on the peninsula. A little guy came in and parts of the skyline, theres a couple of little guys near the mix which had held early this morning,