Clouds, 51 to 56 degrees. The morning commute, guess who will tell you all about it, hi, sue. The east shore freeway, the solid stream of headlights moving at the limit. If your travels take from you the upper portion of the east shore freeway, hercules through san pablo and el cerrito, berkeley into the mcarthur maze, youre looking at about a 26minute drive and thats through the toll plaza. No delays here except for a few minor cash paying folks. Thats not a bad commute. Quiet up there. We do have existing drive times for you in a few minutes. Mike told us yesterday the winds will be worse in Southern California and that is proving to be the case. Were talking about gusts topping 50 Miles Per Hour in some areas thats fanning the flames for the wildfires burning out of control. The rye fire burned 7,000 acres near santa clarita. The skirball fire and the thomas fire has grown to more than 90,000 acres. Thats near santa paula in Ventura County. A live look at the flames this morning in
See the camera shaking here. Were looking at temperatures today once again above average. 40s and 50s throughout the next few hours, then low 60s by noon time. More sunshine with mid60s 4 00 this afternoon and we will see more cloud cover with perhaps a splash of rain coming our way. Ill have the details in a few minutes. Chris. Lisa, thank you. One last chance to say goodbye to late San Francisco mayor ed lee. His funeral will be held today at city hall. Thousands are expected to attend, including some of the bay areas most prominent politicians. Abc 7 News Reporter Tiffany Wilson has more on the preparations. The steps of city hall bear the weight of San Franciscos love for mayor ed lee. Its thought provoking, sad and beautiful. Reporter this memorial serves as a living reminder of the mayor the city lost unexpectedly after he collapsed at a supermarket tuesday. The past few days have been filled with public and private grief. Thousands paid their respects friday. The owner of sams d
Live where you live. This is abc7 news. Amen low park home suffers thousands of dollars in fire firings believe power lines and a hungry rodent sparked it. Thanks for joining us. Im eric thomas. Im dion lim. The family wasnt home during this fire and the damage could have been worse if not for a Quick Response from firefighters. News reporter Melanie Woodrow reports. Reporter firefighters say an Early Morning fire Christmas Eve is unlike any theyd seen before. The first time in 20 years ive come across a squirrel fire. Reporter a squirrel chewed through the neutral line energizing the entire home. With that surge of electricity, looking for some place to ground. Right behind the left side of this plywood was actually the doorbell. Reporter which is where the smoldering fire began. From here it up anterior. Reporter menlo park Fire District chief was walking his dog and noticed the fire. Somebody was ringing the doorbell. Reporter emily allen says he told her to call 911. If he hasnt be
Clearer than it was this time yesterday, gorgeous picture of the Embarcadero Center there. Lets talk about your accuweather 1 hour planner, starting off with temperatures, we do have a few 30s inland, low to mid 40s elsewhere. As we head towards noon, mid to upper 50s with a little more sunshine than yesterday, we will be in the mid 50s to near 60 by 4 00, by 7 00 maybe you can hear that new coat, 49 to 52. Will have more on that coming up next. Here is sue with a look at not too many people on the roads this morning. Lets hope we dont jinx ourselves here. We will go to the bay bridge toll plaza where things are perfect if you want to be up this morning and traveling you will have no delays at the bay bridge and into San Francisco. Green all the way around and that is how we like it. Lets take a look at some of our mass transit. Changes for this morning, if you are travel to the bridge you cannot park in any of the lots there. Muni will be free new years eve from 8 00 p. M. Until 5 00
Painted for us. That was nice. Im sure it looks great and its festive. Here we go. Move on from the awkward silence. All right. Live doppler 7, we have half mile visibility in santa rosa, petaluma up to 5, so the ebb and flow of the fog across the north bay will be one big story across the morning. Pretty quiet out there. Here is my accuweather 12 hour planner, 38 to 47 this morning, 55 to 58 about noon, 53 to 60 at 4 00 and 48 to 51. A real nice day to be outside other than the fact that its a spare the air day and there is the possibility of poor air quality. We will talk more about that next. The onesie was a big gift at our christmas yesterday at home. They are pretty cool. All right. Here we go, a lot of head lights but moving in and at the limit past Golden Gate Fields and on University Avenue and into berkeley and the berkeley curve into the macarthur maze, no delays here. Green is great, thats what were seeing all around the bay area. I have a feeling it will be that way pretty