There. The bay area getting a brief break from the weekend rain. A series of storms is lined up off our coast and getting ready to roll in. When . Youll find out. Good evening. Im eric thomas. From Power Outages to downed trees crews had their hands full. In alamo cleanup crews took time chopping up two trees hundreds of years old, a few of the many that fell across the bay area. Highway 13, a tree fell across the entire road shutting down traffic for several hours, crushing that car. The driver was not injured already in the sierra, rain not seen there in decades causing problems for people near the truckee river. And a massive snow storm is on the way there. And back here in the bay area, looking live from our emeryville camera, quiet. But the break from rain wont last long. Lets check in with drew tuman. The temporary local in the showers today. The weekend started off with a lot of rain and it has added up over the past 11 days. December so far wet in a lot of spots. San francisco
The oval office. Never said hes about to get beat in a friendly golfers bet. The two also getting into it over their crosstown baseball rivalry. See who came out on top this monday, december 12th. From abc news, this is world news now. Hes having the best year yet. His cubbies are winning. He gets to go golfing there. Playing a little putting there with the president. Looks like fun. Looks like a lot of fun. Were going to get into that a little later. A lot of news happening over the weekend and especially this morning. Absolutely. We want to begin this half hour with lawmakers united investigating claims russia trying to influence the president ial election. Even though the u. S. Intelligence Community Says its confident russia was behind the hacks donald trump is still questioning those claims and hes blaming the democrats for leaking that information. Likely choice for secretary of state Rex Tillerson is coming under scrutiny. With his relationship with Vladimir Putin. More now from
Its december 26th is in the red monday or whatever day it is. We say good morning on this monday. Im kendis gibson. And im Marci Gonzalez in for diane. We begin with a swath of heavy snow blanketing several states canceling flights and causing problems on the roads. Lets take a look at the radar. Look how huge this thing is. That is a big storm system forcing weather alerts in 17 states over the past 24 hours, and its not done yet. The snow moved east overnight making its way into new england. This morning, Winter Weather slamming states from the great lakes to the northeast. Overnight, the storm reaching the boston area where a tricky morning commute is expected. The storm is dumping more than 6 inches of snow on at least 8 states causing major problems on the roads including this 33car pileup in flint, michigan. In detroit, this passenger plane skidded off the snowy runway after landing. 724, we just went into the grass. Reporter all 70 on board are safe after an emergency evacuation
54 to 55 at noon and 4 00. Grab the sunglasses and the coat this evening dropping into the 40s. Launch . New issues the last couple of minutes. In richmond we have reports of a car fire. It is off on the shoulder. Westbound 833 before cutting boulevard. We have Emergency Response on the scene. In backup yet. We not hearing of any lanes blocked with the emergency crews. Also in the daly city area southbound 280 john daly boulevard we have a vehicle on the roadway on the shoulder. They will break the traffic for that. Blame it on uber and lyft a San Francisco agency is saying part of the reason our streets are so congested is because there are too many ride hail company cars on the road. Amy hollyfield is at van ness and mission to explain. Good morning, drivers we talked to this morning say they are not surprised. The San Francisco examiner is reporting there are 45,000 uber and lyft drivers on the streets of San Francisco. That is a major factor in congestion in the city. Congestion in
Rage trial the guilty. After gunning down former saints star, will smith. We hear in a bombshell news. The emotional moments inside the courtroom overnight. A magical morning for hollywoods biggest stars. Awards season officially kicking off with the golden globe nominations for tv and movies. Will lala land sing . Moonlight shine and tom hanks score another winner . Who is waking up feeling golden . Were hearing from those lucky stars here on gma. Good morning, america. We hope you had a great weekend. It is a big morning for the movies here. Golden globe nominations about to come out. The start of the awards season. Yes. And speaking of movies, there is a lot of excitement building for star wars rogue one, which opens this week. Some of the first reactions are coming in, and the buzz inside hollywood is this could be one of the biggest blockbusters ever. Were going to have a lot more on that coming up. You get to see it tonight. I am tonight. Very exciting. In the meantime, millions