Morning menu and how mickey d. s is fighting back. Hey, good morning, everybody. Lots going on this morning including news in the hunt for flight 370. What the chinese say one of their planes spotted off the coast of australia overnight and the really surprising comments from a malaysian official seeming to offer fresh hope to the families of the passengers and also seeming to contradict some of their earlier statements. Oh, and you mention the families. What they have been going through the past 3 1 2 weeks is just harrowing. Also ahead on gma, youll be interested in this story, the red hot Political Drama house of cards in the middle of a reallife drama this morning with uncle sam. Why the show is threatening to leave maryland where it is filmed and how state lawmakers are firing back to try to make them stay. Yeah, theyre pulling a real Frank Underwood move in maryland this morning. Yes, they are. Well tell you about that coming up. But were going to start here with the breaking new
Check out 2 00, the swath of yellow denoting heavy rainfall making its way from San Francisco and heading down toward the east bay and the south bay. And here is a look at your 5 00 commute hour tomorrow afternoon. And we are talking about a lot of rain. We will also bring in some isolated thunderstorms and also some strong winds. We will talk more about our forecast coming up. Leigh, thank you. The California Department of Water Resources will measure the snowpack on tuesday. The snowpack is normally at its peak for the april 1st survey. Despite recent rain and snow it is expected to be crit techily low. Critically low. Snowpack is 22 of normal. Snow fell in the sierra this morning and with it slippery road conditions. Tire chains are not required on vehicles, and that could change when the storm moves in this week. Watch the morning news tomorrow morning starting at 4 30 for the latest weather and traffic updates. Track the rain anytime on our abc7 news weather app. Download that fro
But they do know that he was drunk, he took a breathalyzer test and the fire started in his apartment unit. Everyone out. Livermore firefighters tried to wake up people with shouts and knocks on the door at 1 00 oclock this morning as the Apartment Building went up if flames. You could see the flames coming from the building. This cell phone video captured how big the fire was with flames from the windows and the roof. Eight units have fire damage displacing seven. A man had burns on his hands and faces and breathing buns which can be very serious. He was airlifted to a burn center. They did not find him right away. The property manager says he seed in silence for a while. The gentleman that lives in the unit where the fire began was hiding across the street and came out an hour or two after the fire occurred. He says he was homeless and a church had just found him the apartment to live in a couple of weeks ago. He was drinking. Perhaps what occurred is something happened to the unit t
Company. That is a chip from one of the field events, accusing the company of hiding behind a slick Public Relations campaign. Those are designed to boost the image of the utility continuing to face a problem and today, pg es ceo answers questions about commercials and pipeline disaster that killed eight people. Laura anthony live tonight. He didnt want to answer questions. We have just 15 minutes and this week there was anninger here in san bruno from city leaders a spokesperson used the word accident talking about what happened here three and a half years ago. The company ceo did not use that word again. Hes not saying what people are want to hear. Speaking public hi for the first time, the ceo told abc7 news he wants to focus on the future. Not a past that killed eight people in 2010. We understand it, were committed to making sure our system is the safest. The indictment u. S. Attorney claims pg e failed to maintain p inspect pipeline 132. In a way that would have prevented san bru
Municipal airport just before 8 30. Chico is reporting no injuries or damage as a result. For more on the tornado and the rain here in the bay area, lets go straight to meteorologist anthony slaughter. What do you have for us . Things have quieted down quite a bit since the tornado earlier. You can see from our radar we have lots of green and a little bit of snow falling across the sierra, but the thing i want to central in here on is the tornado we saw earlier. This particular cell as it moves through, heres Chico Airport and you can see it moves right over highway 99 and right over Chico Airport. Now, the thing thats remarkable with this, even though we did have the sightings of the funnel cloud and the report of the actual touchdown near the airport, we have not heard of any damage, nor have we heard of any injuries or fatalities. So thats some excellent news but, again, it does seem as though that small tornado did move overhead. Still keeping an eye towards the radar, at least to