Weather. Less than quartermile visibility. Santa rosa two and a quarter. We have fog and we have temperatures at or below freezing. Watch out for those fringes and overpasses. Leyla and i are watching that for you. Lets talk about those temperatures, 32 in navado, 29, santa rosa, freezing temperatures in the east bay. Everybody else in the mid30s down south, upper 30s, around the bayshore. How about mid50s to upper 50s, sunshine with a few clouds this morning, brighter as the day unfolds. Talk to leyla about that morning commute. Good morning. Good morning to you. The pretiff light in terms of accidents, i have to say. We dont have any reports of anything blocking the roads on the freeze ways. As you can yee behind me, lots of green out there take you into the north bay, mike was fwilgt freezing fog, this area indicated by orange that does mean there is going to be fog in your way there looking at top speeds, may not want to drive quite as fast it could be rather slick. Continue in the southbound direction, through the waldo tunnels and golden gate bridge, you can yee how clear it is out there it does clear up, looking a at much safer commute. 580, clear, tracy to duplin 26 minutes. 14 from antioch to concord. 101, San Francisco to san raffaele, 17 minutes. Breaking news right now in east oakland, a family was able to escape aft their house caught fire early this morning. Firefighters are still on the scene right now, mopping up the fire that raced through a prefab home on 90th avenue near 8th street before three. The sound of the fire and smell of heavy smoke woke up a couple and their children. The fire destroyed that home and damaged two others before crews could get it under control. The cause was under investigation. The firefighters say it does not appear to be suspicious. Developing news from the north bay, students a at san raffaele Elementary School are getting an unplanned threeday weekend. Classes are canceled today while crews work to fin fiction a gas line fin damaged in the crash. Katie mar glue is slow live in san raffaele with more on the story. Katie . Reporter eric, this is we are on woodland avenue, laurel dell high school. I can tell dish Elementary School. I can tell you right now there is a faint smell of gas in the air and i can show you why. This is the damage that has been left behind. You can yee the busted pipes and wires. Both the gas line and the pg e electrical connection to the school that have been severed. And you can yee up on the sidewalk and some of the landscaping here where the car jumped the curb and crashed into the walls. So no gas, no electric that mean he is no school. Classes cancelled for today. If you take a look at this video, sky 7 hd over the scene when it happened yesterday, around 5 45, a minivan slammed into the school. At this point, we still dont know why, but the driver and passenger inside the minivan to the hospital, minor injuries. No classes at the Elementary School last night, there was a planned holiday concert, that was a real bummer. We understand firefighters did help move the props for the show to a nearby church so that the show could go on. Staff at laurel dell Elementary School not off the hook today, they are to report to short school for their duty but there will be no classes no students here at laurel dell. Also, the superintendent of schools says they will be working, fixing this problem all weekend and fully expects that school will be back in session monday morning. Live, Katie Marzullo, abc7 news. Thank you so much, katie. Happening today, b. A. R. T. And its unions will be back at the table with a federal mediator over a disputed clause in the new labor contract that ended the strike. They are hoping to resolve the conflict over a clause that gives the transit workers six weeks of paid family leave. B. A. R. T. Insists both sides agreed to take it off the table and says it is a mystery how it got back in there. Union leaders say a deal is deal. Matt keller will have a live report with more in the next half hour. Contract talks resume today between ac transit and Union Drivers much the union and the district are nearing the end of a 60day cooling off period that averted a strike back in october. Todays Contra Costa Times reports the situation approaching a boiling point again. Starting sunday, ac transit plans to launch new routes and restore hours the giant agency was forced to cut when it ran short on cash several years back but its not clear whether drivers who dont have a contract will actually show up for those routes. Starting monday, those popular San Francisco express buses that run along the busy muni line are being replaced with greener vehicle is the. The San Francisco examiner reports the new hybrid buses will be taking over for nx judah express. The buses were introduced in the city this past summer to help alleviate the passengers that travel on the n judah route between the sunset district and downtown during the morning and evening commute. The budget deal hammered thought week by a Bipartisan Group of lawmakers goes to the senate next week. The house easily passed the mesh sure by a 33294 vote over the strong on jenks of Tea Party Members much the spoons from Speaker John Boehner subjects that his patience with the tea party is at an end. This budget agreement takes giant steps in the right direction. Its not everything i wanted. But when groups come out and criticize an agreement that theyve never seen, you begin to wonder just how credible those actions are. Minority leader, nancy pell lows so i have San Francisco, agrees the deal suspect perfect but urged lawmakers to embrace it the deal prevents a government shut down for at least two years, it eliminates i 65 million in domestic spending cuts known as the sequester, it does not raise taxes and shaves 23 billion off the deficit the next ten years. 5 06. The fbi is launching a new initiative to find northern californias most wanted criminals. The list includes this man, daniel san diego, a domestic terrorism suspect wanted in two bay area bombings a decade ago. This is an image progression image of what the 35yearold might look like now. The fbi gave abc 7 news the surveillance video, too which shows one of the 2003 blasts at the Chyron Corporation that emeryville and shackly cosmetics in pleasanton it is a story dan noise and the i team covered extensively at the time. The fbi believes the companies were targeted because because of their ties an animal testing lab. 5 07, time for a check on the forecast, the weekend arrives and the warmup hopefully. Mike . Yeah exbig warming trend coming, possibility of records as we head toward monday and tuesday. I think we got a bug walking across our camera there he is up early this morning. Looking for the explore tore yum picture, was a beautiful picture until started covering the trans america period midthere look at that all right. Never mind. Lets move on. Here is your air quality for today. Going to have poor air quality possible the Santa Clara Valley, our tenth spare the air of the winter season. Lets talk about your day planner for today, lets break it down, we are going to have temperatures in the 20s, mainly around santa rosa, the rest of us, low 30s to low 40s by 7 00, frost out there, even with the clouds, we have managed to dip down to those levels we talked about yesterday. Mid50s at noon, mid to upper 50s at 4 00, quick sunshine by the lunch hour. Not too bad in the evening hours. Upper 40s, low 50s. Here is a look at our next three days. Saturday, low 60s. Good morning, leyla. Good morning, mike. The freezing fog we have been talking about, freezing meaning we do have possible black ice in this particular vicinity, this is in fairfax, right at sir Francis Drake boulevard, involving an overturned vehicle, this whole area shaded in orange, indicating where fog could be affecting your morning commute, blanketing 101, through san raffaele, farther down close to waldo tunnels, we look into san jose, a wide picture of it you can yee how much green is on this map, you can basically tell that its all at top speeds, 69 miles per hour, by the san jose airport, along 280, 64 miles per hour. High advice billity there, you can yee that traffic is turning smooth flow, accidents on the mainline but we will certainly keep our eyes peeled. How mcdonalds is honing to lure millennials. The Bloomberg Business report is next. Remembering mandela, one of the special guests to visit a former South African president lying instate for the final day. Plus, the tweet that was retweeted the most times this year. In todays tech life, instagram announces a new feature to the popular app. Prove it. Enough is enough. Dcon baits are specially formulated to kill in one feeding. Guaranteed. Dcon. Get out. Wanted to be here for your fist christmas . You see grandma lives waaaay down here, and you live way up here. Brian, your cousin, hes a little bit older than you, he lives here, in chicago. And your aunt lisa lives here, in baltimore. Uncle earnie . Waaay out in hawaii. But dont you worry, we will always be together for christmas. [ male announcer ] being together is the best part of the holidays and cheerios is happy to be part of the family. You just ate dallas 5 13 on this friday morning. Say that again. Friday morning. A live look from our rooftop hd cam. Of course, the embarcaderembarc light for friday. Check the weather coming up. Right now, more news for you. Happening now in south africa, tens of thousands of mourners are waiting in line in pretoria to pay their respects to nelson mandela. Here is a live look. The body of the former South African president is lying instate for the third and final day today. Officials say some 50,000 people gathered in morning and lines are several miles long and they keep coming from all over the world. This morning, reverend Jesse Jackson stopped by to pay their respect to man who broke down barriers. He will be buried in his home village sunday. He passed away last week at the age of 95. Twitter is out with the most retweeted tweet of the year. Here to s glee star lea micheles first tweet after the death of her boyfriend and costar, cory monteith. Tweeted, in part, corey will forever be in my heart along with a pitch of the couple embrace. The message was retweeted more than 408,000 times in 133 countries. Last year, the president and the first lady hugging after the election victory was the most retweeted tweet. The Obama Administration is asking Health Insurance companies to make it easier for people to sign up and get coverage. For that and a look at tweeting, get to bloombergs jane king at the new york stock exchange. Good morning, jane. Hi, good morning to you. All the problems related to implementing ate fordable care act, a little bit of good news. You may be able to get away with paying your Health Insurance premium late. The Obama Administration is asking insurers to allow late payments and signups for customers in the Affordable Care act. Even cust make partial payments. This to help smooth as people start the health care system. Eyeing the budget that the house passed yesterday. The meantime, amazon starting a new business called pan trip. Usa today says it will launch next year with thousands of products usually found in the center of the grocery store, cleaning supplies, paper towels, pet food, cereal, beverage, it will let prime shoppers put the items into a box of a set size, up to a certain weight, for a small fee. The move does put amazon in competition with the warehouse retailers like cost coand sams club. Get ready for the new mcapp. Mcdonalds testing a new mobile app in 1,000 stores as it tries lure younger diners. The mick d app customers can dream at stores. Country order or pay with the app, just the deals on it the fast food chain is facing growing competition from five guys and chipotle, both have mobile apps and generally attract a younger crowd. Have a great weekend. 5 16 now. Abc7 honored bay area cultural and Community Leaders last night as part of a profiles in excellence series. I have developed a career around the fact i have outlived all the people whose memories dont agree with mine. At able 92, betty reed salkin is the Oldest Park Ranger and one of the circle seven award workers. They work it is he ro this is the 25th year that abc7 has produced the profiles in excellence series. A mystery in richmond, a letter mailed decades ago has finally arrived at its destination. The letter from former Navy Secretary james forestall dated february 5, 1946 and addressed to agnes r. Smith, and thanked smith for her service in the greatest navy in the world. The letter is now with the point mitch riche mond History Association and trying to track down the intended recipient. The History Association is excited because where has it been . Where did something sit . It has a very old look to it, never gone through the post office a second time, flake somebody found it in an old magazine and remailed it, but that isnt the case either. The post office says that it has no idea where the letter could have been for the past 27 years. Anyone who may have known agnes r. Smith or her family should contact the Point RichmondHistory Association. Forestall would be the first secretary of defense. He was a driven patriot, they called him. 5 18. Time for a check on the accuweather forecast. Cold out there this morning, some area, watching the dre zi fog, leyla and i, phone information black ice, navado now, visibility still an eighth of a mile and your temperatures running right now at 34 degrees. That is good news, was 32 earlier the point at which black ice develops. Petaluma, sebastopol, gurnville, 28, 29, same thing with napa. American canyon at 25, we are good in san raffaele, 39, mill valley, 35, sausalito 40, bodega bay. 35 in san jose. Brentwood, 38. Not bad. A look from mount tamil pie i cant you yee the clouds, keep the temperature up a bit. They will move out of here, sunshine, seasonal temperatures it is our tenth spare the air day. Keep an eye on that for, northwest wind means cleaner air, hopefully wont be quite as haze zwli as yesterday. Clear tonight, temperatures about the same as this morning, we will find some frost in our inland valleys again, but a warm and dry pattern is going to develop tomorrow and last all the way through next week. Still dont yee any real rain in the forecast through the end of the year. Temperatures in the mid to upper 50s today, 60, santa rosa, cloverdale, 59, morgan hill, 62, warm spot. 58, san jose today, 59, oakland, 56, San Francisco, look at the 57s around richmond, concord, livermore. Low to upper 40s, inland, upper 40s to low upper 30s to low 40s for most of the area. Cooler exsense, San Francisco, 44. The warmer exception. While you were sleeping, hold on through, yee all the moisture stay aid way from us, High Pressure is going to build in here the next couple of days, keeping the storm track to the north and then we will have High Pressure build over the great basin once again, that will bring us you the offshore flow, warmer pattern, northeasterly wind, that is a polluting wind and why we play is more spare the airs. Low 60s tomorrow, accuweather forecast, low to upper 60s, where we will see the possible record high temperatures monday and tuesday, slight cooling trend, back into the mid50s at the coast, near 60 for the rest of us thursday. Have a great weekend. Heres leyla. A new report of an accident, right at the bay bridge toll plaza, blocking one lane involving two vehicles, we will keep our eye on that take you to the east bay though, looking nice and clear, make your drive along the anymore mitt or the 580, accident free out there, moving along top speeds, to the south, make it through fremont, also make it up to sunol along 680, yee lots of green out there, so far it is a friday light. Drive time traffic across the bridges, the golden gate to start with we are look ac the a nineminute commute out of sausalito, despite that accident, eight minutes will get you from the maze into the city along the san mateo bridge that is a quick 13minute drive, back to the east bay we go here is walnut creek, 680, extra taillights out there, not slowing things down, nine minutes will get you from highway four to highway 24. Kristen, eric . Thank you. Ahead, seven things to know as you start your day. One of the biggest celebrities on earth reveals another big secret. The surprise beyonce kept from her millions of fans around the world. The weekend celebrity to thd ewelcome to covered california. Now, you can no longer be denied coverage because of a preexisting condition. Enroll today at coveredca. Com. Shop the adam levine collection, exclusively at kmart. And go behind the scenes at shopyourway. Com adam wears off. [ female announcer ] stop searching and start repairing. Eucerin professional repair moisturizes while actually repairing very dry skin. The end of trial and error has arrived. Try a free sample at eucerinus. Com. Good morning on this friday the 13th hope, hopefully our lucky day. The sutro camera looking down on San Francisco. Might be lucky did you like it warmer, that is the change comingtoand over the weekend, although we do still have a spare the air day today. We will check in with meteorologist mike nicco in a moment. Whether you are just joining us or heading out the door, here are seven things to know today. Number one, breaking news, an oakland family escaped to safety after they were awakened by a fire burning in their home on 90th avenue. It happened before 3 00 this morning, the fire destroyed that home