Seeing the traffic. Lets start with the bay bridge toll plaza. I can see the traffic is backed up. Even some of these lanes will be slow approaching the toll plaza. There have been no major issues. The other slow traffic spot is the altamont pass. It continues to be slow. If you look at the rest of the east bay, we do not have a lot of slow traffic yet. Traffic is moving well in the east bay including walnut creek, 680, 24 and highway 4, bay point. Its been a long wait but later today, bart roll out the first of its brandnew train cars. Alex savidge is live in walnut creek with more on todays big debut. Not in time for the morning commute, it doesnt sound like. Reporter unfortunately not but maybe if you ride bart on your trip home this afternoon, maybe you will be riding on one of these new cards. This is a milestone day for bart. Its a long time coming. Were a lot of delays trying to get these new train cars up and running. In a few hours, 10 of these new bart cars will begin carryin
Through this afternoon. This is bad cold polar bear. This looks like it will favor areas by the coast, maybe a little inland but that will play into our weather later today. If that swings and you could get some brief, heavy downpours. The coldest air is yet to arrive. 39 in kelseyville. Low 40s for some. I think you will see a few of these dip if the cloud cover clears out. This is the cold polar bear and within that you can get some clouds. 50s for the temperatures today happy friday, sal. Exactly. Its friday. What did he say . What day of the week is it . Good morning. We are a little too happy four 4 01 am. Westbound 580 looks pretty good as you drive through. We have a little problem on 580 at 205, an earlier crash. Its not causing a big delay but its there. If you are driving from livermore to dublin it looks good all the way to castro valley. If you looking at interstate 880, it also looks good. Its mostly dry out there and i think that will help the commute. Theres also not a l
0. 43. Mill valley had one third. There were higher amounts up toward legate and fort bragg. San jose and oakland had just over a 10th of an inch of rain. There will be more today. It will be hit or miss. Until the air comes in, we have the winter storm warning until 4 00 in the sierra although it looks like things are winding down. Its around 4500 feet right now. If you are traveling up 50 or 80, if you can wait it out, you will have a better opportunity for decreasing snow by late morning and early afternoon. This cold air needs to swing in here and it looks like its taking aim at us. Sun, clouds and showers. Then we do it again. 30s, 40s. The coolest air is not here yet. 37, kelseyville. Low 40s in rohnert park and cloverdale. We have not had Something Like this, this season yet. You have a break this morning with a couple showers but i think they will pick up later today. 50s for the highs across the board. Its getting a little more crowded however visibility is good. That is helpi
Another day we argue is another day we cannot spend debating daca or defense spending or other priorities. Reporter the shortterm resolution gives congress three more weeks to negotiate, extending the services until february 8. If an agreement is not reached by february 8, the senate will consider legislation dealing with daca. Reporter the president cast the blame for the shutdown on democrats saying the democrats are turning down security and services for citizens for in exchange for noncitizens. But democrats are holding out on a deal for daca to protect hundreds of thousands of young immigrants. The truth is at this point, there are issues including immigration that need to be resolved and kicking the can down the road without some path forward does not make sense. Reporter President Trump has suggested Senate Republicans change the rules to reopen the government with a simple majority, but Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell said they would welcome to chance of a filibuster whe
Harvey. They were on their way home when they got turned around and told to head to florida. Initially started heading towards home and then things changed and we ended up getting turned around. We made it to new mexico, and now we got a phone call late last night. Pg e will start packing up this morning and then when they get to florida, theyre going to help restore Power Outages that are expected from the next hurricane. We will be here when they start loading up. Stay with us as we continue to cover this developing story. Reporting live in hayward, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. Thank you, amy. Airlines are already canceling flights and offering passengers a chance to rebook free of charge. Some have even added cheap flights to help the evacuation. Some florida residents have already left their homes. We were at sfo where some arrived yesterday. Sandbags, as much as i could possibly do. We took everything from outside, all the valuables, all the perishables i got rid of. My family is th