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KGO ABC7 News 500AM January 27, 2015

Pore like a rash than a good radar return because most of that is not reaching the ground but sprinkles and a light show are possible in the morning and it will taper this afternoon with mostly cloudy conditions and lowtomid 60. How about remark . We take you to gilroy where we have a sigalert and back up to the bay bridge toll plaza the drive is moving nicely. That is a great drive. As we look from emeryville camera to the eastern span of the bay bridge, no delays. Now breaking news in super bowl in San Francisco several armed gunmen crashed a vehicle into the historic Wells Fargo Bank before getting away and leaving a path of destruction. Amy hollyfield is at the bank and the museum on montgomery. Amy hollyfield . Look what they left behind. An s. U. V. Is sitting in the lobby of the Wells Fargo Bank. The gunman get away in a white get away and left the s. U. V. Here. We are told this happened at 2 30 this morning. We are on montgomery at wells fargo historical museum. In the lob they had a dislay featuring history from the gold rush period. We are told the criminals got away with gold nuggets. They were wearing ski masks. They were armed. They held up the Security Guard. They grabbed the geld nuggets and got away. Police are still looking for them. There is in sign of them. Glass is everywhere. They have the sidewalk proposed off to make sure no one steps in it. There is glass all over the street. It is a huge mess. It left the s. U. V. Hype. I asked if the s. U. V. Is reported stolen. The sergeant could not comment. It is in surprise if someone recognizes their suburban in the lobby of the wells fargo in San Francisco. The gunman were last seen east headed toward the bay bridge in possibly a white ford taurus. We have break news from the south bay where firefighters have been battles a twoalarm fire that chases several people out of their homes. Our reporter is at the scene. Matt . Arson have been called checking out the area. [ inaudible ] the first call came if at 3 30 this morning. I heard popping, loud popping and i thought someone hit a garbage can. I looked out the window and the garage is on fire and films flames shooting out ten feet. Firefighters arrived and evacuated ten from the Apartment Building and another home on the other side of the carport. Firefighters believe a car was up in flames and spread to the other two cars. Wind was blocked from reaching the carport by the apartment complex and firefighters say the wind was not a factor. That gave them enough time to get outs it spread. Only unapartment is evacuated. There is water damage. The other residents are allowed back in. In the last 15 minutes we saw police cars blocking the road leaving and now all that is left are fire trucks and they have half of the lane blocked off so when you come by you will drive slowly but the road is open. The big snow storm in the northeast, travel pans have been lifted across new york and new jersey in the past hard hour as they emerge from the worst of the blizzards. With seven states declaring snow emergencies. A city in massachusetts is reporting 22 of new snow. Transit systems in the new york city area are working to get trans and buses running. They were halted overnight. One person has dayed. A exploding accident took the life of a teen on long island last night. The Winter Weather mess is leaving a ripple affect across the nation. 99 flight ms. And out of sfo have been canceled today and across the nation that adds up to 4700 flights with no cancellations listed for oakland or san jose so far this morning. You should be able to log on to facebook and instagram this morning but last night it was different a passive outage sent people into a panic. Here is what we know. Absolutely we are talking about 1. 23 billion active users on facebook and instagram denied access for an hour. Facebooken forked quickly saying it was not hacked but a glitch caused by a change that affected the configuration and was recorded for users in the up, asia the United Kingdom and australia. Lizard squad, referenced the outage but did not claim responsibility. They are the group that shut down sony play Station Network on christmas day. Instagram relies on facebook for service was affected. Frustrated users sounded a local loser said i put my phone down and talked to someone facetoface. Another said i am glad the service was restored so we can keep tab on friends and family in the blizzard zone. Services are back to 100 percent for everyone curing to facebook. This is the biggest outage since december of 2010. Detectives have seized 2. 5 million in Marijuana Plants at a grow operation. Authorities received a tip about possible narcotics activity at a building on east 2nd street. Officers smelled marijuana. They found 825 marijuana plans and another 30 pounds of processed pot ready to sell. Pg e says power was being stolen at the sight. Officers are looking for the person beyond the grow operation. San Jose City Council will consider opening the First Ever Office aimed at providing aid to immigrants. The proposed office of immigrant affairs would help the population of foreign born residents with resources to stay in the country legally. Federal action took affect in the coming months and leaders expect thousands of residents to take advantage. The office would provide City Services and help immigrants with health care and provide resources on starting businesses. It looks like the government is setting up an infrastructure to keep tabs on you. According to a new report in the wall street journal the Justice Department has been building a database to track the movement of millions of vehicle. The real time tracking uses cameras and license plate scanners to record information open drivers. Officials say the goal is to track people connected to crimes but the database raises new questions of privacy and the scope of government surveillance. Meteorologist mike nicco is surveying the weather forecast. Looks like a warm one. It will be mild. The reason why is the winds coming from the south at 12 Miles Per Hour at Half Moon Bay and continue at sfo so it could be choppy on the ferry. Inland we are in the upper 40s to low 50s and 51 at danville and 50 in san ramon and the cool spots and 60 in pleasanton and livermore off the diabolo rain. 62 in the financial district and 64 in redwood city and cupertino which are above the average high. The cool spot is 48 in novato and 47 in fairfield. The bay water is looking calm. Next 24 hours are cloudy at noon and chance of a light shower with sprinkles this morning and through noon and then mostly cloudy this afternoon lowtomid 60 and decreasing clouds this afternoon, lowtomid sifts. 50s. Mid60 tomorrow and thursday and upper 60 by friday. 101 southbound pushing to 580 Clear Conditions. No fog. Certainly not much traffic up to 580. At the Golden Gate Bridge you can see it is clear as a bell. No delays whatever. We could see lanes change as the morning progresses. As we take you back to gilroy we are still dealing with the sigalert an overturned trailer carrying glass causing all eastbound lanes of highway 152 to close down. The sigalert is in affect until further notice. There is one way traffic criminal but there is an alternate. You can see 156 to connect you to 25 to get over to 101 and we are seeing slow traffic. Deflategate has been good for super bowl ticket sales. Stay tuned. When the flu hits, its a really big deal. The aches. The chills. The fever. 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Covering san rafael, south bay, pleasanton and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. 5 13 on tuesday morning. Doctors at university of California Student Health Centers are going on a oneday strike today affecting all ten campuses. In the bay area doctors will picket uc berkeley, uc davis and uc santa cruz the first time in decades doctors have struck against an employer. The university is charged with unfair labor practices and uc say they are encouraging the unions to get back to the bargaining table. There is condition fusion over the berkeley Downtown Post Office which says the building is off the market according to the Postal Service. There were two lawsuits filed that the Postal Service was trying to sell the building without performing environmental assessments. Protesters are wanting to presbyterian the building as a landmark. They have not said why the building is off the market. A complaint of a shoplifter led to police calling for the bomb squad in lodi. The blast neutralized the pipe bomb that officers found in the suspects s. U. V. Yesterday afternoon. A local newspaper reports that another dangerous device was rendered harpless with a water cannon. Police found loaded handgun magazines, as well. Officers are questioning a woman of the explosives. She was initially suspected of shoplifting at a walmart. The winter storm on the east coast could impact the bottom line of companies. Good morning, everyone, the northeast blizzard is not enough to stop wall street. Stock markets are open but companies will feel the lot of roddive losing up to 500 million. Know plow makers and generators were big winners and another business is the business of super bowl tickets. The average price was nearly 6,500. Double the price at this point last year. Money may not bay love but americans keep trying. This area they will send an average of 142 on valentines day up from a year ago. Love is getting more expensive. Men will spend twice as much as women 190 compared to 96 . Come on open up that wallet. We have to put up with a lot. That is true. If you take heat for jacking up prices during past disasters uber is capping their demand fathers in new york and boston. What few people are getting around using uber are paying triple the standard after paying the drivers they donate the remaining proceeds to the red cross. The east coast is shut down because of massive snow storm but that did not step people from trying to land a date. Singles are posting on craigslist looking for blizzard boyfriends or girls to ride out the snow with dozens of ads most promising a lost movie watching and wine while others are more forward about watt poster what the poster is looking for. If they cannot dry or take transit how do they get to the blizzard boyfriend or girl . That is a good question. Have to be someone in your building who you already know. Thank you is a question for our meteorologist. Did the snow fall live up to the reputation . It did if many areas. There will be exceptions here and there but it is snowing heavy in new york and in boston toward banger tapering throughout the afternoon in new york but you have to wait until tomorrow to taper from boston to bangor so it lived up to the forecast. Visibility is good as five as low as we have at concord. That is the cloud cover. Noting for. The fog returns tomorrow. Radar returns are Martin Luther a lava lamp. This is trying to really up our way but it is running into a wall of dry air so everything that is falling is evaporated. You can see from the east bay it looks clean other than the cloud cover which will stay with us all day with sprinkles and a spray shower and less likely headed into the afternoon hours and it will be clear and cool tone soing for will return to many neighbors and possibly warm again this weekend. Today is not bad with lowtomid 60s in San Francisco and oakland is 66 and 65 in fremont and palo alto and san jose and concord and santa rosa is cooler at 62. You can see the tule fog spilling in east bay and fog language the cost spilling into the north bay into the bay and the Santa Clara Valley is a few area that will not wake up or will yes will not wake up to the fog. This area will jog east leaving us high and dry. Hardly any radar returns that are less likely at action with clearing taking place headed through the evening. That is why we are 15 degrees cooler tomorrow morning. Mid60s and partly sunny sky tomorrow and lowtomid 60s on thursday and midtoupper 60s on friday and upper 60s to nearly 70 for the weekend. Clear from hayward to foster city. No delays. No accidents. San jose, the south bay, Clear Conditions. This is shaded in green. As we track weather and traffic it has not researched the ground and should not cause slippery conditions along 101 we are at top speeds to the san jose airport and along 280 to cupertino highway 8 a and highway 17 and 897. We have construction an the bay area. This project is here until 6 30 northbound 680 at monument boulevard causing a top on the brake leaving walnut creek into pleasant hill. Separate ahead seven things to know use start your day. The latest on two balloonists attempting a recordbreaking flight across the pacific. A Community Came together for a k9 officer to help a hero dog. Stay tuned. Hold it come with me. New dannon oikos triple zero is my go to protein snack. Cam, protein from yogurt . Yup, this greek nonfat yogurt packs 15 grams of protein punch. But what else . Unlike some other protein snacks, it has 0 added sugar 0 artificial sweeteners and 0 fat. Mmm. Will it up my game . No man new dannon oikos triple zero official yogurt of the nfl. Mmm dannon. Here are seven things to know before you go. Number one breaking news from San Francisco. Police are searching for three masked men behind a dramatic gold heist. They rammed a suburban through the front of the Wells Fargo Museum and made off with gold nuggets. Amy hollyfield will have a report from the scene. Two, breaking news in the south bay arson investigators are on the scene of an apartment complex in san jose. Self were ever several were evacuated. Three cars were burned. Social media is buzzing after facebook and instagram and tinder were off line for an hour with a billion users unable to access accounts. Facebook flames an update to the system and said they were not hacked. Why did a c. H. P. Car burst into flames . Video posted on youtube shows the scene on the Treasure Island offramp from the bay bridge, two officers suffered nonlife threatening injuries when they rushed to help the driving officer. A third location in the south bay is on the measles warning list. A man infected visited dave and busters and went to costco and walmart, as well, in gilroy. There are 73 cases of measles in california. Tracking the chance of sprinkles and maybe a light shower for the morning commute. So far that is not reaching the ground. We will talk how long it will last and the big warming trend in the forecast. It is not an easy commute. It could look so in san jose along 280 away from highway 17 it is not a problem but it has been in gilroy with a sigalert there and a new crash in oakland a statue at candlestick has been blessing sports teams for decades will have to find a new home. St. Francis was commissioned in 1973 and be removed from the stadium bus zone. We were over candlestick where demolition begins. It is not clear where st. Francis will end up. It could wine up staying in the neighborhood. People are going above and beyond to help a Police Officer save his k9 partner. This is sevenyearold frank, a shepherd diagnosed with lymphoma. Frank has two months to live if he doesnt receive treatment. We sergeant set up a page to cover the 10,000 cost. Since 4 00 p. M. When this was aired 8,000 in donation have poured in bridge the bring the deaths to 12,000 so now frank can get his treatment. Thank you so much to our viewers who responded. Koching through again. Another full 90 minutes is ahead and more on the east coast snowstorm. Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Good morning it is tuesday january 26. I am kristen sze. I am eric thomas with leyla gulen and meteorologist mike nicco has the radar and the weather situation. We will see where the rain is reaching the ground. There are mostly sprinkles. Breezy and mild with temperatures in the 40s to 60. We will continue out if the lowtomid 60s with a chance of a light shower this afternoon. How is the traffic this early hour . Not so great. We had a couple of problems. One is the sigalert in gilroy. A planned if you crash in deck on 580 before you get to highway 13. The bay bridge toll plaza shows cars stacking up and the fast trackers are moving fine down the middle and the cashpayers on sides. Breaking news a sir is going on for Armed Bank Robbers if San Francisco and beyond after slamming an s. U. V. Into the Wells Fargo Bank at montgomery and post this morning. Amy hollyfield is on the scene. Amy . A tow truck is here. It has the interesting dark of towing a suburban out of the wells fargo lobby. The thieves left it. They used it to program their way inside. It left a huge mess behind. Towing it will probably be messy, too, with a lot of glass in the financial district. Police say the men got

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