Announcer now news to build a better bay area from abc7. A wild round of weather in the bay area led to a close call for a family in the north bay. Good evening, im dan ashley. A bolt of lightning this morning splintered a 100foot tall tree in mill valley at water view drive and lcd court. Some neighbors say it sounded like a bomb going off. Abc7 News Reporter Lauren Martinez is here with a story youll see only on 7. Lauren. Dan, the strike split the tree in two and would fall on the home below. They evacuated the family making for a very unusual Christmas Morning. It was like a bomb went off. It was right behind the house. Reporter residents of water view drive in mill valley were woken up just after 4 00 christmas morn when a strong force of lightning split this redwood tree. It exploded into shards where it sent part of the tree on top of our house, on top of our car, on top of the power pole. Reporter the Fire Department evacuated the lobos family for three hours. They live just be
We have a risk of sneaker waves, rip currents there, it goes until 9 00 this evening. Dont turn your back on that water. We have water falling from the sky down across the south bay. Mainly in it the Higher Elevations now. One or two may try to sneak up into san jose and your neighbors. Right now from 280 and 17, it is dry. Breezy conditions in mount tam. Those winds will taper throughout the day and so will the chance of showers. Heading out through 7 00, 43 to 47 degrees. 52 to 54 with sunshine at noon. 55 to 56 this afternoon, chilly by 7 00. Mid to upper 40s. Lets turn it over to sue. Good morning. Good morning. Not too busy out there for this day after christmas. Thursday morning. We have nice flow of traffic on the east shore freeway past Golden Gate Fields and on to the macarthur maze. On the bay bridge, a high wind advisory, no slowing here. No metering lights yet. Well keep our eye on that for you. It will be quiet this morning. In the pleasanton area, we had an overnight fata
Live. Lets look at those breezes out there. Theyre blowing steadily offshore. Thats why well have clearing skies from north to south as we head throughout the day. Some of our fastest breezes are up around 20 miles per hour. No advisories, watches or warnings. A stormy pattern yesterday to a much calmer pattern. That transition is breezy. You can see how clean it is. 41 to 46 degrees. A windchill making it feel a couple degrees cooler than that. Maybe wear some of the new clothes you received yesterday. Calmer conditions at noon. Mid 50s at 4 00. Lets turn it over to sue and talk about that commute. We go back to the san mateo bridge, we have this stall registered on the chp log. The left hand shoulder there. Not causing problems, well keep our eye on that. Minor delays for those left cash lanes at the bay bridge. We have a high wind advisory for that span and the benicia bridge. Looing at all that green out there. Heres your drive times, tracy to dublin, 22 minutes. Highway 4 looking
Breezes tapering as we hit 42 to 54 at noon. Dropping down to 45 to 48, chilly this evening. Were heading back to work, some of us. Some of us didnt stop going to work yesterday. Thats true. It is light up there this morning. You have a solid stream of headlights from the east shore freeway from Golden Gate Fields into berkeley and emeryville. We head on into the bay bridge toll plaza, it is definitely light there. Sluggish on the upper deck coming into San Francisco for your commute. If you are headed back to work today. Good news for east bay travelers f youre co if youre coming up and over the altamont pass, youre not delayed at all. One problem spot with a solo spinout facing the wrong way northbound 17 after the summit. Not seeing a lot of slowing yet but that is blocking the slow lane. Breaking news in the east bay, the chp confirms that three teens are dead after a christmas night crash in pleasanton. This happened just before 10 00 last night on northbound foothill road just no
From 220 post. The likelihood that a Retail Business would want a stand alone third Floor Office Space that is accessible from an alley that provides minimal foot traffic, marginal street visibility and has some Security Issues is in our opinion simply less than minuscule. On the overhead, i want to post one more image which is looking at the alley from grant street and if you see the orange box, that is where the third floor business is. Pretty tough to see. Pretty unvisible. So with all that said, nothing prevents the third floor and the upper floors being turned back into retail if at some future point that becomes viable. Project does not include any physical changes that would preclude that, so i am going to let the project sponsor speak about the actual efforts to lease this building, but before i go, in your packet, you have support letters that collectively include 41 signatures in support of the project including a leter from members of the Street Building at 210 post which in