Last night but i have some good news this morning. Highway 17 is open in both directions, but bad news for sheriffs deputies, they have still not caught their man. Now, we did get an update from the Sheriffs Office last night. Or early this morning at around 2 00 a. M. Its a tweet that says, suspect still at large. Seen in the area of aldercrof heights and locust drive. Residents should secure homes and report any suspicious activity. The deputies were in the Santa Cruz Mountains with their guns outs last night looking for suspect. A man robbed the bank of america in Scotts Valley. Police chased him on highway 17. When he crashed at Redwood Estates. A Scotts ValleyPolice Officer fired at the suspect, the highway was shut down and the massive man hunt began. After 10 00 last night, they got a call from a woman saying a man armed with a knife was inside her home and had taken off in her van. He fled the area. Deputies responded. Upon receiving the 911 call. And he fled from the van as currently on foot where an active search is going on to locate the suspect. Reporter in the last place he was seen was about six miles away from that womans home. Deputies have advice for residents in that area. Stay inside, lock your doors. Turn on any exterior lights you may have, and if you see anything suspicious, call 911. Reporting live in the Santa Cruz Mountains, matt keller, abc7 news. Okay, were going over to alexis smith now. She has a look at traffic this morning and interesting problems out there. We are improving. So i want to take you back to the major issue we had, basically, all night last night. In the dublin area, so westbound 580 just east of 680, thats where we had that crash yesterday that resulted in a big semi fire and a big mess all night. All lanes opened up about 11 minutes ago and using our distance measuring tool, about 3 miles but those speeds are picking up. Maybe just a mile and a half of stop and go traffic at this point and i think since weve got some friday light volumes we will start to see that improve in just a few minutes. Well check drive times coming up next. Right now, lets check in with mike nicco. Good news from my side of the institute yo also. Look at live doppler 7. I overlaid the fog layer. Youre not saying anything because there is no fog. Lets take a look from our sutro camera and overlay the 12hour day planner. 30 to 45 this morning. Some of us scraping ice off the windshield this morning. Low to mid 50s, 51 to 55 at noon so you could probably sit outside if youre in the sunshine and theres not much of a breeze where you are, which there shouldnt be. 54 to 56 at 4 00 and then 42 to 49. Grab a coat if youre heading out for the friday evening festivities. Warmer weather this weekend and an update on our next chance of rain, coming up, lets get some more news. Lets go back to one of the issues alexis was just talking about, that big overnight mess on 580 in dub rin. Thats right. Elissa harrington keeping us updated near the 680 interchange. What are you seeing . Reporter well, this is what we have been waiting to see since last night. Traffic finally moving along 580 west near the 680 junction. Crews just finished clearing the mess from a big rig fire in the dublin area. We were just at the scene not too long ago, and this is what it looked like. Caltrans workers clearing charred debris from the freeway. They needed to make sure the area was safe before reopening all lanes. They worked throughout the night. This fire happened around 6 30 yesterday evening. Flames engulfed a big rig. Alameda county Fire Department tweeted some pictures. Truck collided with a smaller car, but there were no reports of any injuries. Truck was filled with dhl mail and firefighters were able to extinguish those flames but the fire reignited just a few hours later. Again, we are here along 580, the westbound lanes near that 680 junction where there was a huge traffic nightmare that started yesterday around 6 00. More than 10 hours, we saw lane closures but again the chp just reopened all lanes. Drivers are finally moving during this morning commute. Reporting live in dublin, elissa harrington, abc7 news. All right. Developing this morning, President Trump will have his first conversation with russian president Vladimir Putin tomorrow. This is the first since hacking allegations that putin helped land mr. Trump in the white house. This caps a week of aggressive moves by the president , including squaring off against mexico. Heres abcs stephanie ramos. Reporter President Trump insists the border wall will go up with american money but mexico will eventually pick up the tab. Ive said many times that the American People will not pay for the wall. And ive made that clear to the government of mexico. Reporter mexicos government against this idea when it was a campaign promise. Whos going to pay for the wall . Reporter and still against it under a trump presidency. Mexicos president nieto telling the mexican people, ive said it once and again, he said, mexico will not pay for any wall. Pena nieto later tweeting his Upcoming Trip to meet with trump at the white house was off. Trump telling lawmakers it was a mutual decision to cancel m. A meeting between trump and british Prime Minister theresa may is on the books for today. Aside from todays meeting with may, mr. Trump will head to the pentagon to sign more executive orders and attend the ceremonial swearing in of his new defense secretary, general james mattis. Stephanie ramos, abc news washington. Trump hotels, one of the private business entities owned by President Trump wants to expand here to San Francisco. Not only is the citys approval process seen as impenetrable, the president s threats to deny funding to San Francisco because of its sanctuary city status already has some city supervisors angry over anything that has to do with trump. Trump, inc. , already has a footprint in San Francisco, though. It owns part of 555 california that is formerly known as the bank of america center. Supporters of california wanting to become a separate entity, a proposal would repeal part of the constitution that declares california an inseparable part of the u. S. More than 585,000 voter signatures need to be collected by july 25 to get this initiative on the november 2018 boll ballot. If that passes, there would be a statewide election in 2019 for voters to decide if they want california to be its own country. Happening today, a new private ferry operator is now taking east bay commuters to San Francisco. Tide line has been certified by the state for public commuter service. The ferry will be making two runs every friday morning. This is the first time in more than ten years that a new ferry route has been added to the east bay commute. One drawback, though, the ferry holds just 40 people. Coincidentally the golden gate ferry is preparing to expand its service area for the first time in 40 years. Today at 10 00, the Golden Gate Bridge highway board of directors is expected to approve an agreement. If approved, service is going to begin monday at 5 30 in the morning. The ferry currently serves passengers from the larkspur ferry terminal. Safrps is trying to new tactic to cut down on car break ins. New signs are going up in high traffic tourist areas like this one. Theyre going to remind people to removal nls and lock their cars although it seems like car locks dont stop thieves most to the time. The city has installed 30 of them around the city so far. It costs 3,000. The supervisor says the hope is that the signs will prevent such a known San Francisco problem. All right. It is a Traffic Alert but boy, we are really starting to improve quickly here in the trivalley. So, if you were with us starting at 4 30 this morning, you saw we had that major problem, westbound 580, it was a crash that happened around 6 00 last night. It was a big semi fire. We had about a threemile solid backup. We are really starting to improou, down to about 20 miles an hour heading into the pleasanton area, but we really with are coming down on these drive times. At our worst point, we were up to 45 minutes. Were back in the green now. Just 3. Southbound 680 wide open and then northbound 85 wide open through the south bay and ace rail we thought we were going to have a problem with this this morning as well, had a Union Pacific train stuck in the tracy area. That cleared just in time and we dont have any delays. 3 is just about to leave this morning as well. Lets check in with mike nicco with a look at our forecast, pretty nice weekend. Yes, it is. Chilly nights but warmer afternoons, little bit above average. Before we get to that, cold morning. 33, menlo park, 34, redwood city 36, foster city, 37, san mateo 39, everybody else about 42 to 46 degrees. On the other side, weve got hayward at 41 but look another that. 39 at fremont, san jose, los gatos at 38, san ramon getting near frost at 33. San francisco 47, 43 in mill valley and napa 37 in santa rosa. Heres a look at walnut creek. Lot clearer than it was yesterday f. Youre going to be on the water today, going to enjoy the sunshine, light breezes out there. Dry all day if you have to get on the roads. Public transit, just chilly to mild at your various stops. All right, 35 degrees at 101 and 880. Also in san jose, about 56 to 58 your spread today. Some 60s creeping into the south bay, east bay, north bay tomorrow and then everybodys in the 60s except for San Francisco sunday. But i promise, they will get to you in my accuweather 7 day forecast and so will some rain. Details coming up next. Caught redhanded. How a planned heist doesnt exactly go off without this body camera video reveals what really happened during this controversial arrest. It is 5 11 in the a. M. And heres a live look outside. Heres a live look outside. Just a reminder that we keep so, this wubt a good plan. The man in this surveillance video, you see him pick through items to steal from a san rafael store, not realizing he would be in jail in less than 24 hours because of something he did. The thief use add rock to break into the store where he stole cash and clothing. Heres the part where he gets caught. The next day, a store employee on her way to her second job spots this guy because he was wearing the items he just stole. He was wearing my boyfriends boots that he had special ordered. He stole those. And he was wearing those a pair of really expensive fox, like, moto cross pants, and a 500 al pine stars jacket. This actually gets better. Look at this. Amanda called her boss. He and his brother found the bandit and held him there until police got there. Officers say 28yearold jose vazquez was booked on burglary and possessing stolen property charges. A federal grand jury has indicted a las vegas man in connection with the 2006 murder of a San Francisco chinatown gang leader. Allen lee young was the leader in San Francisco. Raymond chow took his place when he was gunned down at his business. Chow is charged with arranging the murder. Well, the new indictment charges le with aiding and abetting and causing the murder. Chow is currently facing life in prison. He could face the same sentence if he is convicted. In texas, criminal charges against a mother and her two teenage daughters have been dropped after video from the arresting officers body camera surfaced. The mother called for police to report her neighbor choked her 8yearold son after catching him littering. This is the response from the arriving officer. Teach your son not to litter. It doesnt matter if he did or didnt. It doesnt give him the right to put his hands on him. Why not . Because it dont. What do you mean . When her daughter tries to intervene, the officer is seen throwing both of them to the ground. Police dropped charges against them, but their lawyers say the family wants that officer fired. The officer is still unlds going additional training after being disciplined for ten days. Todays gma first look, new details this morning about the murder of a producer. Ann sweeney was killed while on vacation in belize. More than one person may have been involved. Abc has the details. Reporter in this mornings gma first look, murder in paradise. 39yearold ann sweeney killed while vacationing at this ecoresort and horse farm in belize. The fbi saying it now believes more than one person may be behind the mysterious murder. The public in belize might have information about this suspect or suspects. Reporter Belize Police say on the morning swaney was murdered, she volunteered to stay behind from a horseback riding excursion because there werent enough horses for everyone. When the group later returned, they reportedly found her yoga mat and other belongings on the water front deck but saw no sign of her. And thats when we were alerted that her things were down at the yoga platform. Reporter and coming up at 7 00 a. M. , former fbi special agent brad garrett weighs in on the case live. With your gma first look, im lindsey janice, abc news new york. Police in one indiana city are making headlines for the way theyre making light of a pretty big drug bust. Someone in columbus, indiana, received this package in the mail. Inside, 30,000 worth of pot. So, here she took it to the police and they posted photos of the marijuana on their twitter page, saying the package was sent to the wrong address and the Rightful Owner should swing by the station to claim it and bring their i. D. Trying to figure out this. Okay. From 7 on your side, as the popularity of the Golden State Warriors surng surges, so do the ticket scams. In fact, its gotten so bad, the warriors have put out a mid season fraud alert. More than 650 fans have showed up at the gates and had to be turned away because their tickets were fake. Its a devastating blow, of course, for those who pay hundreds of dollars for these counterfeit tickets. The warriors say fans are taking a big risk if they buy from unauthoriz Unauthorized Third Party websites and thats where scammers love to do business. Instead, the team recommends that you just buy them on their website, warriors. Com, which verifies tickets before they are resold. Baseball season is coming and the as fans somewhere have the chance to meet their favorite players. Fans can get autographs, take photos with the players. There will also be a kids area with interactive games, food trucks for the hungry. Fan fest is free and runs from 11 00 to 2 00 tomorrow. I wonder what the weather will be like. Who could i ask . Hey, mike nicco. It will be a winner, thats for sure. Sunshine, 60, 61 degrees so enjoy that and enjoy meeting all your favorite players and good luck this season. Heres a look at whats going on. A few high clouds roaming across as i put the cloud layer on doppler 7. Bright white cloud cover that would normally come our way this january, its going to head to the north. Thats where the storm track is going to be for the weekend and thats why were going to be so much warmer. Today, just sunny and getting back to seasonal high temperatures. The rest of my accuweather highlights, cooler and wet, wednesday, thursday, friday. Heres a look at todays temperatures. Warm egs in palo alto, coolest inland east bay, concord, antioch, livermore and San Francisco at about 56 degrees. Tonight will be chilly with some tule fog becoming more dominant and some of that will move into our inland valleys in the north bay and east bay and temperatures will be near freezing there. My accuweather 7 day forecast, 60s around the bay tomorrow. Everywhere sunday and look at that low to upper 60s, a touch of spring in mondays forecast. Tuesday we start cooling and then that wet weather arrive wednesday and a little heavier and breezier for thursday. Alexis is back. Do you have good news . Things are really starting to calm down. We started off with a couple of issues getting out of the Central Valley into the trivalley but those are wrapping up and were looking good here. No metering lights yet. Well see if we flip those on. Were seeing some pretty friday light volumes at this point. Taking you back to our good news here on westbound 580 just before you get to 680 in the dublin area, thats where we have that major crash last night into this morning. Got all lanes opened about half an hour ago so just have some very, very light delays there and i wanted to show you 580. Hopefully our still picture will come back up but we were seeing heavy delays early today. I guess youre just going to have to take my word for that. Well check drive times next. We trust you, alexis. Check out this police pursuit. This is dash cam video out of newton, kansas. Going down this highway at 100 Miles Per Hour. Lets take this full for you. In what looks like an attempt to shake the officers, the suspect veers into the grassy highway divider across several lanes into the field. Yeah, this all happened yesterday. So, i want to show you the suspect getting out of the suv, hopping a fence, and then making a run for it. Eventually, police ended up catching up with him. It turns out the suspect was an escapepy from colorado. Next, the seven things you need to know as you start you day. Also some welcome news for people who are sensitive to gluten. A new tool is at your disposal now to make sure the food you eat is in fact gluten free. Plus what led to this incredible scene in south america. And a reminder that abc news is going to have a special edition of 20 20 tonight to edition of 20 20 tonight to honor mary tyler proof of less joint pain. And clearer skin. This is my body of proof that i can fight Psoriatic Arthritis with humira. 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