Now, news to build a better bay area from abc 7. He was always so caring. A woman mourns the loss of her cousin killed while trying to stop someone from stealing his laptop. Condolence notes fill the windows of the coffee shop where it started. Im dan ashley. Im kristen sze. The man died on his 34th birthday. Melody woodrow spoke with the victims friend and cousin today. Reporter dan and kristen, they are absolutely devastated. They cant believe hes gone, especially on his birthday. You can see flowers have been set up here where he died. This was just hours before a joint birthday party, new years eve celebration that he was hosting at his apartment. Tonight were honoring his familys request to not reveal his name yet. People who live around montclair are still struggling to make sense of a young man killed outside this starbucks, dragged by a getaway vehicle as he attempted to get back his stolen laptop. I thought, i dont know this man, i wasnt here. But i live here and he was part o
A minute but check your weather. Rain. Rain and a little bit less cloudy. Running a few degrees colder through the north bay. Santa cruz as well 41 degrees. 43 degrees in san jose. 38 in rose. How much cooler are we running compared to the past 4 hou24 ho . Look at pacifica, about 13 degrees cooler than yesterday so what about that rain . Your temperature trend for today will include a lot of cloudiness. Ill take you through the rain time line shortly. Lets check in with mike. Rain time line vianey said that. Traffic time line we have that as well and in fact the time line were getting shorter as far as the drive, if youre paying cash from oakland side, we have fewer cars in the backup and still dont have all the lanes open. We still have that one closed, so of that early commute we talk about the early bhurs we see 5 00 tends to loosen things up a little bit as they open up one more lane and traffic should build though, maybe 7 30 8 00 and things will thin once again. Contra costa cou
The big story today is the weather. Its been raining much of the weekend. Its caused a number of week. This video was sent in. Flooding south bound 280 just before the Mission Street exit. Gingerly driving through that mess. Drivers had to navigate the big puddle, causing some mighty big traffic backups as well. The weather really cause problems all around the bay all night and all day. So whats in store for today . Rosemary orozco with more on how the state is shaping up for us. Perhaps just a few scattered showers. It started out a little slow, but then the sky opened up. Outside our doors at this hour, a slick roadway over the Golden Gate Bridge. Mostly cloudy skies, and we are going to remain mostly cloudy at least until the afternoon. Will get some breaks in the cloud cover as the system continues to wind down. Outside our doors at this hour, widespread scattered showers reported over the bay area. There is a look at the radar. You can see the north bay done really dry at the mome
From large speakers like ones mounted on this pole. Starting this month, the speakers will go silent for maintenance. The system hasnt been yoorpgded since 2005. And the amount of time could take up to two years. Reporter 119 locations are part of the outdoor public warning system. And Officials Say its more efficient to did all the work at once. During a tsunami or other emergency such as a contaminated water supply. The system is going silent meaning no more familiar sound every week. Its gonna be weird that its not there anymore. Reporter the city will spend up to 2. 5 million to upgrade the system. Residents will get emergency notifications through alert sf like this one. I get text alerts from the city. They use traditional media and social media. Media. Reporter you can sign up by texting your zip code. Not everyone likes relying on technology. Reporter although ther tests done every week, the last time they used the system was back in 2012. State regulators say pg e failed to ma
there will be continued pressure on many republican members to ask for witnesses and documents. reporter: with with the real battle now under way, democrats looking beyond the senators sitting in judgment hoping to make their case directly to the american public. alice barr, nbc news, washington. thank you. and here is another live look at the senate floor there. again california congressman adam schiff is there addressing the senate. this is expected to go on for several more hours. nightly news will pick up our coverage and update the hearings coming up at 5:30. and how do we make sense of all of this. larry ger sten will join us at 6:00 and every week thiet we re airing a special 7:00 newscast focusing on this impeachment trial. tonight we ll be joined by bay area congressman ro khanna, that is live at 7:00 p.m. in local news, a surprise for one south bay couple when they came back from vacation one day early. they say it appeared their pet sitter kept the two