Very happy we are not in the frozen grips of the arctic air mass in the eastern third of the country. We are milder this morning because of the cloud cover. 42 is the temperature through 7 00 and 53 around the bay at noon and near normal and midtoupper 50s at 4 00 and back to 50 with clouds keeping it mild. Clouds inland and help toes in the midtoupper 30s and above average in the upper 50s to low 60s in the afternoon. A light breeze in the evening at 48. At the coast, we have temperatures running in the mid40s with high clouds and a few sprinkles possible but it will evaporate before it reaches the ground. By evening, about 49 degrees. Possible injury accident southbound on 680 at walk boulevard to fremont. Southbound direction, it is blocking one lane. We are watching this other accident, northbound 880 headed up to industrial parkway, a car versus a have divider with southbound traffic coming away from highway 92. Here is a picture of the bay big tolls where metering lights have not been turned on and traffic is backing up. You can see how the rest of the bridge is moving toward Treasure Island with traffic looking thicker but, still, moving along at top speed. We are hearing from an east bay whom whose quick thinking led to the rescue of an ducked girl after another woman came forward claiming to be the Good Samaritan who broke up the kidnapping. Amy hollyfield will give us this story. It is confusing. It was an observeant worker at target who helped crack the case for police. Roxanna ramirez is responsible for looking for shoplifters at target. She spotted David Douglas and she thought he acted strangely. He did not steal anything. She had a feeling something wasnt right. She took down the license late number and heard of the amber alert and gave the information to police who tracked him down to the antioch marina. The girl who was kidnapped was in the back seat the car. Roxanna ramirez says if you think you have helpful information, share it. Dont keep it to your sell. I wanted to keep it to myself and good thing i didnt, i saved a little girls life. Police now say this woman lied about her involvement. He came forward and claims she helped find the kidnapped girl and she gave tv interviews, police now say she played no roll in the case and has not cooperated with the investigation. The suspect gave a jailhouse interview and says this was all a cry for help to get out of a bad situation. A south bay family is asking for the Publics Health this morning finding a missing woman from san jose. Here is a picture of 22 22yearold. Her family says she went out with friends on saturday and has not come home. She usually is home by 10 00 each night. Her car is also missing, a 2000 chevrolet. If you have information, call the San Jose Police department. The santa clara Water District will look over a report today on the water conditions. We have the advance copy of the report. It is not good. We are at the stage where the yellow caution light is turned on. The report is being released today and indicates the rainfall is only. 16 bringing the total rainfall since july at only 30 percent of average. Local reservoirs are only at 33 percent of total capacity. California ag officials begin two days of meeting to decide whether to declare a statewide drought. The sierra watershed has seen over 3 of rain, just a tenth of normal. East bay has seen 4. 5, less than a third of normal. Neither districts though, is contemplating water restrictions. Water difficult mapped is down. The governor builds a campaign war check for the likely fall run for reelection. Brown collected 1. 7 million in the final week of 2013 including dream works c. E. O. Donating with the governor now has 17 million for the fall campaign. Developing news half of all americans are wake up to the coldest temperatures in decade. This buffalo new york the temperature combined with the wind chill right now feels like 27 degrees below zero. Our reporter is joining us from washington, dc, where it is a little warmer. Good morning, mary. Good morning from a frigid washington, dc. This city, like so many others around the country, is bracing for this record breaking cold. When you thought it couldnt get any colder, a dangerous arctic blast is plunging temperatures to historic lows across the United States. A light threatening bone chilling record breaking freeze. Im wearing long underway. I feel like i am skiing. But i am going to work. The freezing eyebrows and icing glasses. It is called a polar vortex, frigid arctic air bringing freezing temperatures to every state but hawaii. Polar vortex sounds scary. 28 below zero. 38 below zero. The deep trees is reaching into the deep south with reports broken in texas, schools if atlanta, closed. Blowing and drifting snow trapped flee amtrak trains outside chicago and more than 500 passengers are finally moved out mostly to buses for the long drive to chicago. The snow, ice, and wind still causing commuter chaos on the roads. And the runways. Jetblue canceling all flights until later today. My frustration level is here. If you want to know. The cold is also a serious danger forecast bite can occur in five minutes in the temperatures. To i good you a sense of how cold it is, this morning i brought out a couple of tea in an attempt to keep warm but look at this. It is now a solid block of ice the after 30 minutes. It is hard to believe what we are feeling here which is about negative nine with the wind chill, that would be considered warm compared to what most americans are feeling. Now you have ice tea . A tea popsicle. Flight conditions show cancellations slowly climbing all morning. So far, close to 2,000 domestic flights are canceled. That is up 100 in the past hour. Sfo is now reporting 22 flight cancellations. Oak and san jose both reporting no cancellations right now. As mary mentioned passengers may have suffered the most with the airline did not try to fly in and out of the northeast canceling all flights yesterday and leaving many passengers stranded at sfo. Jetblue expects to run at full capacity this afternoon. We will cling check with matt keller at sfo for an update next half hour. You have to wonder, boy, how can they stand with the wind chill. Grown bay is minus 42, 42 below zero is what it feels like, your flesh freezes in five minutes. It families like minus nine in atlanta. A batch of cold air that usually sits over canada, and the hudson bay, that has broken off and moved further to the south than normal so we have record cold temperatures. Part of the rope, the lack of ice has caused warming in the upper part of the polar regions and that warm air has dislodged the cold air which is why we are seeing that happen. Look at the temperatures in the upper 30s the in juneau and 32 in nome so it is warmer than average if alaska. Midtoupper 30s through the north bay valley. Everyone else is in the 40s until Half Moon Bay at 39. San francisco is at 50. A chance of sprinkles today. Again tomorrow. Another chance on thursday. 48 bart trains are running on time with no delays with mass transit but you will have a slow down headed into fremont from dublin along 680. This app shows a few extra details as the morning is wearing on and as you can see we have quite a few reporting this accident involving six vehicles and it is a major accident with lanes blocked. The top speed is lower than 40 Miles Per Hour. Showdowns there. You can track your own traffic with the exclusive app at the app store and gin our abc7news. Com 7 group. Controversy from the bcs championship between Florida State and auburn but not from the teams playing, a tweet from a rifle quaterbacks mom that is creating a buzz online. 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A Southern California family is threatening to sue a School District for not allowing their sixyearold son to pass out holiday candy with a religious message attached. East came with a note describe this as the birth and ministry and death of jesus christ and the teacher removed the note. He did not pass them out because jesus wasnt allowed in the school. It is his god given right to do this. By law and by faith. The School District is investigating the allegations buts is it appears the teacher was trying to maintain an appropriate degree of religious neutrality. The buzz you hear is hollywood after movie director michael bay walked off stage at the unveiling of samsungs new hd tv. How do you think it will impact how viewers experience your movies . Excuse me, im sorry. Im sorry. Okay. Lets thank michael bay for join us. The director of the transformers franchise grew frustrated at the Consumer Electronics show saying a problem with the teleprompter threw him off and later he said i just embarrassed myself at c. E. S. Florida state won the championship over auburn but it could not escape controversy. The most of alabama quaterback a. J. Sent out a tweet in response to the postgame speech from Florida State quarterback winston saying and i quote, am i listening to english, and quickly was deleted. She then sent out another tweet and i quote, anyone that knows our family knows we are far from racist. My tweet was not meant that way. I sincerely apologized if it offended anyone. Months are getting involved, too, that is how it is in the age of twitter. Better football on the west coast. Absolutely. We will go back to the east coast and i will show you the forecast if the game in charlotte, the queen city at bank of America Stadium and uptown, it will be wet with a subject of moisture coming in from the gulf coast with temperatures in the midtoupper 40s and we will show you the wind chill quickly with east of the Mississippi River a third of the country is under wind chill advisories and warnings this morning for dangerous conditions. We have a little bit of a haze out there, no spare the air, and not much in the way of anything falling right now but we could pick up a few radar runs open live doppler 7 hd as the rain will evaporate moving through the dry air in the middle and lower parts of the atmosphere. Clear looking from sutro tower, with pockets of sunshine today and the rain will evaporate before it reaches the ground. We have unsettled forecast through saturday and a couple of chances of sprinkles and dry again on sunday and into next week. Today, we will have lowtomid 60s in most neighborhoods and to Half Moon Bay and most the coast will be in the upper like San Francisco. Tonight, we going to have temperatures mild again and a few money 30s in the north bay valley and the rest of us in the lowtomid 40s until San Francisco at 48 degrees. High pressure is of my out of the way and a series of storms coming in right now the best we can do is lows that will tap into the moisture and bring us a chance of wet weather. This morning you can see the best chance up to the north, a few sprinkles, mainly cloudy though, and wednesday morning, can you see the rain is still to the north with a few sprinkles possible in the afternoon hours and as we head to when night into thursday morning we will have our best chance of any time of measurable rain and less than. 1 and when the front passes through it looks like it will be briefly dry for friday and temperatures rebound into the lowtomid 60s and another chance of rain saturday mostly in the north bay and look at the lowtomid 60s on sunday and monday. Have a great day. Good morning, over the Altamont Pass with our fair share of accidents. In fremont, this is where the accident was located and first reported at washington boulevard but southbound 680, as you come through that sunol grade it is blocking one lane involving six vehicles. 37 Miles Per Hour is the top speed approaching the accident and looking slow as you approach the backup, as well. We have this report of a crash headed through concord and westbound highway 4 of with you get to 680, a solo vehicle spinout down an embankment and crews are headed out this right new. Incredible new video showing a car crashing into a gas station. The gas station attendant caught right in the path and how he doing this morning. Coming up first, how did you sleep last night . The answer could depend on your mattress. Michael 15 any team before chantix, i tried to quit probably about five times. It was different than the other times i tried to quit. [ male announcer ] along with support, Chantix Varenicline is proven to help people quit smoking. Its a nonnicotine pill. Chantix reduced my urge to smoke. That helped me quit smoking. [ male announcer ] some people had changes in behavior, thinking, or mood, and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. If you notice any of these, stop chantix, and call your doctor right away. 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