To investigate a fatal motor accident at fremont boulevard. Look at the video shot a few seconds ago. The collision between a mini cooper and motorcyclist was reported after officers were flagged down by passing drivers. The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene. It appears alcohol was a factor. The driver of the vehicle has been identified as 23 years old from emeryville arrested for suspicion of d. U. I. Before police could make the arrest he ignored police requests to stop the car and took off down fremont and crashing the car into a pole. The suspect jumped out of the vehicle and ran into a field. The officers gave chase and took the suspect interest custody were the vehicle caught on fire. Heavy debris continues to liter the intersection with many evidence markers as investigators gather evidence. This started at taco bell a mile and a half up the street where police initially made contact with the suspect. They asked him to stop and he ignored the requests and this intersection is where the suspect clashed with the motorcycle. You can see the debris. This intersection will be closed for a while and neighborhood businesses are affected. This mcdonalds would usually be open but they closed because the area is closed. Big impact. Thank you for the report. Leyla gulen . Nick said the intersection could be closed until 9 00 this morning could severely impact the commute. You have a couple of alternates including thornton and el dorado from the east bay to connect to the nimitz which takes you to highway 84 and then the dumbarton bridge. It is not affecting traffic, 56 Miles Per Hour through young city and fremont and the dumbarton at 61 Miles Per Hour so top speeds and starting with the bay bridge toll plaza the metering lights are turned on and at look at san rafael, still drive, pushing to the southbound direction with tail lights away from 580 toward San Francisco will take you, now, 20 to 23 minutes. The rain is on the way. And mike nicco is on his way. Live doppler 7 hd shows moving down afternoon the coast including cloverdale in the next half hour and you should be get wet in 45 minutes. We will breakdown the next 12 hours, partly cloudy with temperatures in the upper 40s and rain moves in by lunch. It will be light. It will hang around until 4 00 and by 7 00 it is again. Inland, we have rain to the north after the 7 00 hour through the 9 00 and it will shift to the east bay inland by noon and the south bay by 4 00. At the cost is our best chance of rain to the north and it will sink through the heart of the coast and be gone by 7 00. It will be 5 to 10degrees cooler than yesterday so even if you do not get the rain it will be cooler than it was. Greater amounts of rain in the forecast. Matt and kristen . A result seen in San Francisco when a van hit as fire hydrant. Water is shooting up about 75 into the area in the middle of the night in the ten door line a driver crashes into a fire hydrant. This happened before 1 00 oclock this morning and witnesses say a man driving a car crashed into a minivan and the tax knocked over the fire hydrant and the driver of the car was taken into custody open suspicion of drunk driving. On the peninsula, a five hour long stand off kept neighbors from their home into the night and burglaries are still use with Amy Hollyfield in palo alto to show us what happened. Kristen, police thought the men were still inside the home and they had Surveillance Video showing the men inside the house and police tried to coax them out and they surrounded the home and tried to get then out of there for five hours. At 11 30 the s. W. A. T. Team stormed inside and found an empty house. They think someone was in there and the home owners interrupted a burglary at 6 30. Show was out of the home and returned home and noticed the rear door of the home appeared to have been forced open. At the same time she heard a door slamming from inside her home and there should not have been anyone else inside the house. The homeowner pulled up a live speed of live feed of the pug particulars in her room and police thing it was not a live feed but the burglars escaped immediately before the police arrived. In the mystery of flight 370, officials are defending their decision this morning to text family members saying there were no survivors of the flight. Katie marzullo has more on that and why the search was call off. A lot going on. First, Officials Say that the rain and wind is making it too dangerous to search today so the effort resumes tomorrow. Relatives of passengers marched at the embassy and rushed the gate. They got a text stating plane is lost beyond a reasonable doubt with in survivors. They are devastated and furious. From the beginning they hide everything. [ inaudible ] the airlines say they sent the text to ensure the relatives did not hear this from the media first. The c. E. O. Of the Airlines Says the conclusion is businesses on satellites showing the last location. There is no land mass so we can conclude it must have been downed. And outrage as the search continues, they are giving each family 5,000 covering hotels and transportation and he wills and other spends but pleasures say families can sue for damages and could end up getting millions. Australia has announced they will waive visa fees for family who want to go to australia. We are following the story on air and online with reporting continues on twitter abcnewsbayarea. Mike, the rain is moving close to the north bay . It is. It is not there yet. I dont think it will be there for most of us until after 7 00 but sea ranch is getting close. We need more than 1 in livermore, san jose, and Mountain View and 12 in oakland and San Francisco and 12. 5 at sfo and 19. 5 at santa rosa. Corner of Sonoma County we are seeing light rain on live doppler 7 hd and todays rain will be light. Tomorrow morning we will be deeping with heavy showers and thunder liking into thursday morning and by thursday afternoon into friday we will have a break before more rain this weekend. A stall has been reported in oakland this turned into an accident westbound a 80 at 980 with two lanes blocked off not causing delays for folks leaving oakland. It does not appear to impact the commute. As you head away from berkeley toward emeryville, 60 Miles Per Hour to University Avenue and it loads up and you get to the bay bridge tolls the metering lights were turned on and highway 24 is move along there from orrin can. Everything is building 580 to 101, san rafael to San Francisco, still under20 minutes and more cars are on the road. Coming up, the glitch forcing starbucks customers to find a new way to pay for the coming cup. 74yearold woman who spent three decades in a california prison is released. The deal giving her freedom for the first time in years. And Sheryl Sandberg says no way over a plan and the first thing that came to mind is, can i afford to go to the hospital . Now that ive got covered california, i know that if something happens to me that im covered. Im in. [ female announcer ] everyone deserves health insurance. Are you in . Find free, confidential, local help at coveredca. Com. Covering walnut creek, burlingame, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. Good morning on this Tuesday Morning at 6 13. Can you see both sides of the bay from the gorgeous picture. We have some clouds, not a lot, but that will change as the rain starts to push in and that will happen shortly. We will talk to mike nicco about the timeline. A california woman is free after serving 32 years for her role in a 1981 killing. The 74yearold mary virginia jones walked out of jail before midnight. She was convicted of firstdegree murder and sentenced to life without parole in a killing committed long side her boyfriend and she maintained he forced her at gunpoint to help him. The prosecution conducted a new investigation and agreed to accept a plea of no contest for involuntary manslaughter. I did not willingly participate if in this christmas crime but i blear but i believe this will be in my best interest. 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Since they updated it some customers have had log in issues so they have been forced to switch to cash the how is not wide spread and they tell the wall street journal this is not uncommon when a new app is issued with ten million Customers Using the mope app. Do not deny a person in the morning their coffee. We are not denying there be rain but it will not be so much. Today. Today, it is the going of the storm, the appetizer. Live doppler 7 hd in the northwest corner shows the area north of sea ranch is getting lighttomoderate rain. You can see the lows responsible to the north and that is the center of energy headed to the north so our rainfall amounts are light until the lows send another bit of energy through this time tomorrow when we have heavy are rain. We are in the midtoupper 40s in the south bay with clear conditions. Increasing clouds to the north but clear for most of the morning so we are at 40 in calistoga. Midtoupper 40s around lafayette and danville and newark and cupertino and san carlos. The only areas around 50 are san pablo and San Francisco and alameda upped jumped from 51 to 52. From Mount Tamalpais, it is clear, with light rain on the way today can it will be cooler for all of us, and heavy rain, thunder is possible, and our best chance of rain this weekend is saturday. Upper 50s along the coast and heavy rain tonight and milder in the upper 40s to mid50s. The morning commute is starting dry with rain in the north bay by 9 00 and heart of the bay by noon and the south bay dug the remainly afternoon hours and falling apart on the end of this system. A break in the early evening and by 12 00 you can see the scout showers are out there ahead of the rub of moderate torain that will be around this time tomorrow morning with the commute tomorrow the toughest the entire week for weather. We could have thunder. Heavy rain. With scattered showers in the forecast through noon thursday. 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Nick . Good morning, more than 30 evidence markers and you can see the debris stretches 75 yards more than five hours after the initial response Fremont Police continue to actively investigate a fatal motorcycle accident. Look at this video, the collision between a mini cooper and motorcyclist was reported after officers were flagged down by a passing driver. The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene. Alcohol was a factor. The driver of the vehicle has been identified as 23yearold from emeryville arrested for suspicion of d. U. I. But before police could make the arrest they say he ignored requests to stop the car and took off down fremont and crashed into a poll. He traveled through intersection headed northbound on fremont boulevard the motorcyclist was lively traveling westbound and they collided in the intersection. There is motorcycle debris all over and it is a horrific scene. Debris literred the intersection and two dozen evidence markers peppered upanddown fremont boulevard as investigators continue to gather evidence. Look at the scene, investigators are still here and they know everything they immediate to collect has to be done this morning before they can on the intersection with area businesses affected and the mcdonalds and 7 11 remain closed. With the intersection closed we check with leyla gulen. In fremont, the intersection which is major, connects you to the dumbarton so you will want to avoid that intersection and you can reconnect to the nimitz right here. According to our waze app, thornton is the good alternate. Northbound 880 is blocked and in oakland northbound 880 at 23rd avenue a possible dump truck fire in the engine blocking one lane and we have delays headed in the number direction through oakland. Here is mike nicco. Here is live doppler 7 hd sea ranch with we have lighttomoderate rain and that is picked up very well on the live doppler 7 hd on mt. St. Helena and then you can see this is moving to the southeast at 15 to 20Miles Per Hour s