Run below average. Upper 40s to low 50s with increasing clouds this afternoon. It will be dry during the daylight hours. Now, the friday morning commute. Good morning, it is very light and we have 27 bart trains that are running on time but if you are going to be skipping the mass transit and taking to the cars you are looking clear on highway four from antioch to pittsburg and concord with the top speeds there but 680 is clear. At the 24 interchange, you are looking at a great job. Mass transit, everything is running on time and bart and muni and caltrain, no problems out there and a look outside at the bay bridge toll plaza where it is wide open with a few cars trickling in from the east bay into San Francisco. Marzullo have been talking to folks about the freezing temperatures. It is cold im freezing i. It is 33 because my weather app told me that. But there is a freeze warning until 9 00 a. M. And i am not crazy. Also, people are taking precautions we have been telling people about covering things up, so as you look at the video in west san jose, the home of our colleague, big draping over all of the plants and shrubs and trees, and the only thing not covered is frosty the snowman who is in his element. For humans who drive, a different kind of prep work. I leave the house 10 minutes early to remain what up the car and see out my window. The heater doesnt work until i get here and i pull up it works but that doesnt work. Bundle up and im here. She works at starbucks which opens at 4 30. Not a good time to have a short commute. Not if there is not enough time for the heater to kick in and she says they brew extra hot coffee during the winter down here. We have major power outage in the north bay, and this is in benicia, three separate outages there affecting more than 4,000 customers starting a half an hour ago. It is tough to go without power at 38 degrees at the moment in benicia and right now pg e is working to fix the problem but no word when it will be restore ed. Exposed pipes are vulnerable to piping because of the freezing temperatures. Ensure your pipes are okay by covering them. Outdoor pipes need to be properly insulated to protect them from freezing. In santa rosa, they are trying to keep 850 animals warm including 13 giraffes. 200 animals need extra heat and shelter and some do fine in freezing temperatures but others prefer to be inside out of the cold. Two hummingbirds are playing in the frozen fountain yesterday. We got this ureport kgotv. Com as the birds took a sip of ice cold water. We want to see your pictures at ureport kgotv. Com. In the central valley, farmers are working to protect the citrus crops. One of the tools the growers have are peach pits. Though light them on fire and place them around the orchard and it fights against cold night air and protects the crops. The sited stress citrus injury is worth 2 billion. There is a cold swath of area from texas to detroit. Schools and businesses are closing because of slick conditions. Crews in arkansas and missouri are working to restore power knocked out by the wintery storm. For the latest open our weather changes you can download the weather app katie was talking about. It will give you Severe Weather alerts, radar and hourly temperature forecast and it is free at abc7 news. Com apps. The South African government is preferring funeral ceremonies for Nelson Mandela who died at the age of 1995. People are flocking to his home all night. The current president zum. A just stopped by. The United Nations paused for a moment of silence following word of his death. We this were words of tribute from president obama. We will not likely see the likes of Nelson Mandela again. It falls to us as best we can to follow the example he set. Memorial grew outside the embassy in washington with ten official days of mourning. People are sharing their memories of Nelson Mandela on our facebook payment page. Now if san rafael the red cross is helping six people displaced by a house fire find shell december that break out on a home before 3 00 this morning. A dog and two turtles inside the home were okays as well, this morning. The police are investigating the Fatal Shooting of a 22yearold man found lying on the street. Police have identified the victim and released this photo of him. According to investigators, officers found rodriguez suffering from a wound if vallejo yesterday. He died at the hospital. Police are asking anyone with information about the shooting or the gunnen ma, to give them a call. A vigil is held in vallejo for 26yearold man shot to death last friday at an apartment complex. He was found dead after police got reports of gunshots on carolina street at apartments. This is no motive or suspect description. The vigil is at 5 30. The District Attorney says a hunter who started the rim fire is likely to face federal charges. He made the announcement on the when, the unidentified huntedder let a campfire in august in the National Forest and the flames created the 402 square mile rim fire, the Third Largest if state history. He says the federal prosecutions privately have told him about the pending charges. However, the United States attorney in sacramento has no comment. If you feeling freezing this morning, you are not alone. Many of us are. Everyone but San Francisco is in the freeze warning until 9 00 so keep the pets in. Keep the plants covered not 9 00. Keep yourself bundled up. The valley has hard freeze warning with temperatures are below 24 or 25 degrees for several hours. This is how it looks from the tower this morning. In the east it will be cooler. Be prepared for that. Our spread is biggest this morning at 22 to 39 degrees inland valleys to San Francisco. We will wake up to sunshine and we will have plenty of it through noon at 46 to 50. In the afternoon, we have light showers at 40 to 46 and through tomorrow morning we will have our best chance of snow, 2 to 6 above 2,500 in the bay area. And tomorrow, money 40s if we are lucky and freezing cold temperatures on sunday and monday morning and the temperatures in the afternoon are in the upper 40s to low 50s below average again. Our traffic is quiet on the road as we look at highway four you can see the top speed in the westbound direction 580 in the westbound direction is 27 minutes. Antioch to concord is 15 minutes. 101 southbound from san rafael to San Francisco is under 20 minutes. We have this event happening over the weekend a holiday train is back for the weekend only from San Francisco to santa clara, the holiday train is going to be decorated with 60,000 lights traveling between the two areas so you can come out and see it and it collects toys for underserved children. It is a great event. You can find out more information by going to our website. Our time is 5 10. There could be a lot more holiday parties this season, the Bloomberg Business report is next. A hightech feature on a new baby bouncy chair is generating talk. The admitted crack smoking mayor of toronto rob ford spread his questionable charm south of the Canadian Border with sharp words he has for mom swaps one of my snacks for a yoplait. I dont mind, i mean its orange creme. And when mom said bobby was too edgy. sup girl. I just swapped him out for tyler. sup girl. Mom never questioned bobby again. Two can play at this game. [ female announcer ] swap one snack a week for a yoplait. And everybody wins. Yoplait. It is so good. All across america, people are using lysol in hundreds of ways. Whats christines story . I started using lysol disinfectant spray, gosh, as long as i can remember. I use lysol on soft surfaces because you cant put your couch in the washing machine. I think that lysol disinfectant spray compares to other products in that it actually kills the germs. Which helps keep my family healthy. Its tried and true. I mean all you have to do is just spray. It does the job for you. Lysol hundreds of ways to help protect your family. Covering benicia, san ramon, san mateo, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. Good friday morning at 5 13, the 291 million Mega Millions jackpot is the largest in two years. Officials redesigned the drawing with bigger jackpots to compete with powerball, but still you have to match six numbers. 32 nations commodity beating in the world cup hope for luck. A lottery is held to determine the eight groups of four in next summers first round in brazil. The field includes five time world cup champion brazil, defending champion, spain, and the United States. The 90 minute ceremony is televised to 190 countries. You can watch it on espn2, our sister network. The Holiday Party could be a good one. People on getting important Public Benefits may have been hacked. From the New York Stock Exchange we explain more in the friday morning business report. Good morning, we are talking about prepaid cars that government uses to pay unemployment, food stamp benefits. Some of them may have been hacked. J. P. Morgan chase says that personal data on 500,000 of the cards could have been compromised. The bank says they have credit monitoring services. The four day weekend sounds good, right, but for movies, thursday is the new friday. Hollywood studio is squeezing in an extra day support Weekend Box Office reports this year by adding thursday tickets sales and opening policemens a day early. According to data, 14 films had sales with 50 million screens on thursday night. As for trading, futures are higher but in 15 minutes we get a positively jobs report and that is the big one this time, so it could go a long way helping to determine how much more stimulus, if any, the fed will continue providing for the economy. Next monday could be a big Online Shopping day, walmart. Com and other retailers are trotting out bargains for green monday. Last year, the monday after cyber monday ended up being the third big of the Online Shopping day of the year. The Holiday Party could be more gun this year with Business Leaders appearing more subsequent rouse. The owner of a steakhouse says hot dates like to thursdays before christmas were backed up with reservations by last year and they back to having opening bars. And embattled toronto mayor is criticizeing president obama. Mayor ford denouncing president obamas Health Care Law telling sports radio show that the Affordable Care act is too expensive despite the fact that canada prides itself in a government run h care system and says as a person i like president obama. I dont like his policies. Some parents are sounding off after a new baby bouncy seat has an ipad holder. The toy Company Released this video showing how it works. The toy company is selling the seat for 80 and says it offers play and learning at finger tips of the baby but some parents are disgusted. Customer reviews say the contraption has to be one of the worst ideas for baby products. What do you think . You can join the conversation on facebook. Com abc. I could write a whole blog because i have so much to say about that but we dont have the time now. In a word . I thought you were going with the brrr word. That works. I put the picture of 23 degrees but can you beat that . I got a tweet, 20 degrees in North Livermore here is live doppler 7 hd, it is clear. It is sitting on top of mt. St. Helena so when the storm comes in it will be the first to see it and it will have snow in it, too. 38 now, and 37 in west portal the cool spot around San Francisco and coming in through the Ferry Building and across the Golden Gate Bridge 41 and the financial district is 40. Same in belmont. Freezing cold in appeal in palo alto. Close to freezing from pittsburg at 27. 25 in petaluma. 26 right now in american canyon. Richmond is a warmer spot at 38 degrees. From mount tamalpais, it will be sunny, chilly, dry, rain and snow. Freezing cold on sunday and monday. Possibly even on tuesday morning. Highs today are no different than the last couple of days, upper 40s to 50s, an increase in high clouds from north to south in the afternoon. By 6 00 tomorrow morning, moment of the wet weather is over. Temperatures are going to stay up in our lower elevations in the mid30s to mid40s around oak and San Francisco. At noon, you can see coming in by 7 00 scattered light showers, with the air super dry, so the rain is going to have to make its way through the layer of dry air. After the 7 00 hour, it will. The heavy of the rain coming in with the front and santa rosa and vallejo at 10 00 through the part of the bay, midnight, through the south bay, 1 00 oclock to 2 00 and scattered light showers account cold of the air is afterred this system or we would see snow levels down even below 2,000 feet but most of the snow is going to fall before 2,500 feet. Tomorrow we have increasing sun. East bay hills, anywhere from 2 to 4 above 2,500 feet and we could get up to 6 on Mount Hamilton and it will be, looking beautiful tomorrow. Cold not your thing . That is not your sevenday outlook temperatures are below average until at least wednesday and thursday with money 50s and even a 60 in the forecast. Have a great day. Be safe. Good morning, everyone, 59 20, we have an issue which is a stalled car with debris in the lanes southbound at 880, so watch out for that and everything is running on time. We do not have any slow downs and the drive from Castro Valley is clear. 580 across the richmondsan rafael bridge is seven minutes. Along the dumbarton, it is 11 minutes. We had reports of black ice yesterday. With the freezing temperatures, be careful. You do not want to spin out. Caltran is on the scene making sure everyone is safe. Coming through walnut creek from Pleasant Hill a few extra cars are out there and busy away from highway 4 to the 24 junction. There are no accidents. It will only take fine minutes. Kristen and eric . Ahead, seven things to know use start director day. The grinch steals more than christmas in one neighborhood. 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It flooded several buildings in the area. South Africa Government is preparing funeral ceremonies for former president Nelson Mandela who died on thursday at age 95. South africans including current president zuma gathered out of the his home. His body left the home and headed to a military morgue in the capital of pretoria. There was a fire at a home with a dog and two turtles saved. An better alert for a 14yearold take were by her boyfriend in washington state. Elizabeth romero was seen getting into her boyfriends green ford escape and the two are headed to mexico and could pass through california. There is a new will can pain to get more young adults help rolled in Health Insurance, giving the get of health is aimed at parents and grandparents who have to buy gifts for young people for the holidays. The bay bridge toll plaza shows it is friday lite but we are seeing a buildup of congestion over the usual spots but, again, the black ice and freezing temperatures could make for a slick commute. First, today, for twitter, the social network has named a woman to their board. Former chief executive is joining twitter board immediately. She oversaw the Financial Times and will bring more old media experience to the blogging service. Twitter faced criticism for not having women on the before. Facebook lacks female Board Members when it went public in may of 2012. Two william now sit on the facebook board including cfo sandburg. An amazing Animal Rescue underway in Miles Per Hour after to men saw a photo circulating on facebook showing two deer trapped on ice. They stranded quarter mile from shore on the partly frozen lake. People on facebook asked why no one was helping so doug and jane came to the rescue using their craft to reach the dee and the animals could not stand up because the ice was so slim so the men tied them up with rope and towed them to shore. This morning, Philadelphia Police are accepting for the grinches caught on video stealing victims decorations. It happened last week two daze before thanksgiving. A woman is take decorations from a home in south philadelphia. An hour later, the woman comes back and thi