Everyone is at the limits. Thanks. Our Team Coverage of the snap continues with abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield in san rafael. Mike sees the lowest temperatures in san rafael. Good morning, yes, very cold here in san rafael. We have picked this condition to keep an eye on at temperature gauge in san rafael. It shows it is 43 degrees. Such a swing considering days ago i was warm outside. Now it is cold. People got prepared. We had lots of warning this was coming. Stores in the bay area told us people were stocking up on firewood. People are working to protect their plants. Here is a good tip water your plants during the cold. What do put in when it is not phrasen frozen will ahead eight radiate heat. Orchard supply store had to stock up to get ready for this weather. Now it is here and do not forget to grab your gloves and a heavy coat this morning before you head out the door. It is very cold. Thank you. No one is more intimately familiar with the goose butchess than those would work
Not your imagination but we saw temperatures in the 20s . Yes, absolutely, in the inland valleys and fremont even is at 29 and palo alto is close at 31. We have frosty spots around the bay. Midtoupper 30s in most neighborhoods and flirting with 50 is it at noon and 51 below average at 4 00 and dropping quickly back in the mid40s by 7 00. Temperatures inland are running around 20 to 21 degree cooler than this time yesterday with widespread fog inland and 30 and the upper 40s at noon and 50 at 4 00. Then back to 39 degrees at 7 00. At the coast we have frost at Half Moon Bay hanging around 32 all morning. Midtoupper 30s for elsewhere and upper 40s with chilled sunshine in the afternoon and 41 at 7 00. Good morning, everyone, a grinds from the Central Valley. In livermore, though, we have a stalled big rig. You see very close traffic approaching the scene. It doesnt lighten up much until you are beyond the dublin interchange traveling westbound on 580. At pleasanton, an early hitandrun ac
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Rosa, 29 in napa. 36 degrees in fremont. And 39 degrees in san jose. So even inside the bay we are seeing some cold temperatures and probably colder over the next hour and a half or so. So we have freeze warnings up for almost the entire bay area for this morning and again i think a colder night overnight tomorrow night and into tomorrow morning. Thats when well see some very cold temperatures around the bay area. Highs today are still going to only be on the chilly side. It will be sunny and bright but these numbers only in the 40s and the 50s. We want to go out to kiet do in fremont now in the middle of the cold. Reporter i hate being cold so i thought hat, gloves, jacket. Here we are live in fremont. The coldest part of any city it seems is the top of a bart platform. Here at 5 01 a. M. It is 37 degrees. Thats an improvement. It was 35 degrees a couple of minutes ago. We have footage of people getting ready for the cold weather. We have been beating this drum all week long warning p
Rockridge and orinda stations. Some cars quickly filled with smoke, sending several passengers to the hospital. Anne makovec is live at the orinda station with more on the breakdown and the panic that followed. Anne. Reporter oh, really was a mess. All told, nine people were treated for medical issues and we just found out from the Fire Department saying it was not smoke, it was brake dust that was filling the bart cars. But it affected a lot of people negatively. 700 people were stuck inside a tunnel inside a train for almost an hour and the entire pittsburgbay point bart line was affected for most of the morning. Passengers were taken out on stretchers once they arrived at the Rockridge Bart station this morning. The train they were riding had suddenly stopped in the Berkeley Hills tunnel partially filled with smoke. An emergency brake was engaged by accident, not on purpose, and that emergency brake caused white smoke. There was never a fire. But there was a good amount of white smo