Before the next double punch. Another potentially heavy snowstorm, followed by a knockout arctic deep freeze. Part of the midwest, dodged a bullet this week. Wont be as lucky this time around. Broadcasters are predicting subzero win chills and coldest weather in decade. The mercury expected to plunge in green bay where the packers and 49ers will play one of the coldest games in history. Temperatures hovering around zero. It will feel more like 15. The roughly 80,000 fans brave enough to embrace the bitter cold. They will receive free hand warmers, coffee and chocolate. For thousand getting home from the holiday has been an unending nightmare. Tens of thousand of delays, cancellations at airport across the country since the snow first started. Hundred more canceled for sun day. The family left cancun to find their connecting flight to omaha canceled. We didnt know any of this was going on. So we should have stayed. Real danger with all the extreme weather. More than 16 people have diedr
Live from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. Our goal is to start operations at 8 00 a. M. Bart crews on the job working overnight to prepare the tracks after last night, train derailment. Crews have been working to get the train back. Abc 7 news has more with the very latest on the progress. Sergio . Reporter well, cornell, it is a very different picture out here tonight than it was last night. Of course, the derailed train cars are gone. But let me show you right now. There are some workers that are up on the tracks because they are still damaged and the plan is to have them here working overnight to get those fixed. The plan is to have trains running through here by start of service tomorrow morning. This is what it looked like last night. A bart train with part of a cab hanging over the edge of the tra tracks. Now the train cars are gone, and 200 foot sections of the rails are getting fixed. Our goal is to have them operating by 8 00. Reporter a massive situation with
San mateo. So with the low clouds and fog nestled into the lowlying valleys, the visibility down to a quarter mile in santa rosa. It extends down to salinas and monterey. Over into the east bay you are clear in livermore right now, but the plan will be for more of the fog to kind of stay put through the 8 00 and 9 00 hours when it begins to scour on out. Then throughout the afternoon we are looking at sunshine pulling away from the marin county coast. Still there along the San Mateo County coast, but we will be looking at a return to plenty of sunshine today with temperatures well above average. So the broken record is about to end, carolyn. We are talking rain, wind, cooler temperatures and, in fact, rainfall in the next couple of inches the week ahead. We will have it for you in a few minutes. Thank you, lisa. Bart crews are hard at work this morning make repairs following a Train Derailment in concord on friday. The goal is to get trains running east of the Pleasant Hill station by
San Francisco City hall lit up in honor of the 49ers. Take on the packers tomorrow in green bay in the wild card playoff round. Bound to be an historic game. One of the coldest in history. So cold, some are already calling it the arctic bowl. Temperatures could drop below zero. It is going to feel more like 15 below. Good evening, thank you for joining us. Extremely cold, dense air, descending upon a wide area of the nation from the midwest to the east coast. Tonight, the mercury is taking a dive into the danger zone with many places, bracing for subzero temperatures. Here is abc news reporter, tai hernandez. Reporter a day of digging out. But it is just a brief reprieve before the next double punch. Another potentially heavy snowstorm, followed by a knockout arctic deep freeze. Part of the midwest, dodged a bullet this week. Wont be as lucky this time around. Broadcasters are predicting subzero win chills and coldest weather in decade. The mercury expected to plunge in green bay where
One officer was hurt in the chase. Police say an officer fired at the suspect, missed him but hit the car. We are waiting to learn more right now. In other news, the fight isnt over yet, a reprieve for the bay area teenager declared brain dead. An eightday extension less than one hour from the 5 00 p. M. D d deadline could which would have allowed the hospital to remove the girl from life support. Cheryl hurd has the details. Reporter this document is the reason why she is still on a ventilator here at oakland Childrens Hospital. It says she must remain on the ventilator until january 7th. We got reaction from both sides in this emotional case. Im not trying to hold on to a corpse. That is a live girl in there. Reporter reacting to a judges move to extend the restraining order, ordering doctors to keep the 13yearold on a ventilator until 5 00 p. M. January 7th. My daughter is alive. She is warm. Reporter follows weeks of tragedy. She came to Childrens Hospital to get her tonsils remove