Investigation. Eddy street is blocked off here at van ness. Im going to continue to get more details and bring you the latest. Now we turn to the weather. Abc7 news meteorologist drew tuma in for mike nicco this morning. There is rain in the forecast. Luckily not today. One final dry day today. We have a live look at sfo just checked, we have no delays at our area airports. The weather cooperating this morning. Youll notice, though, a fair amount of cloud cover in the sky this afternoon compared to yesterday. But despite that, were going to be mild in the afternoon and mid to upper 60s. Thats weather. Lets get a check of traffic. Somebody got the pg e bill paid and we have the lights back on for the bay bridge this morning. It was totally dark this morning for about an hour and a half. It was actually an electrical issue that caltrans solved there. Quick check of drive times. Westbound 80, ab17 across the bay bridge and southbound 101, San Francisco to sfo you are in the green at 17 minutes. Take a look at some lingering weatherrelated closures coming up. Happening today, a warning going out from the coast guard about the sheer amount of debris making its way into our water. And this is a direct result from our recent storms. Abc7 News ReporterAmy Hollyfield live with the issues that debris is causing. Reporter hi, reggie. Theyre putting out this warning because they want to protect boaters and their boats. Some in the Berkeley Marina that have already been damaged, also a big ferry, a bay ferry had to return to its terminal in vallejo because its propellor was damaged but this warning is a twoway street. The coast guard wants something from you as well. Here is whats happening. These boats are running into big masses of trash. The coast guard says its all because of the rains that weve been having. Its coming down from the San Pablo Bay. Really coming down from the delta, the Sacramento Delta, through the San Pablo Bay and then ending up here in our San Francisco bay. Boaters saying theyre running into trash, but thats not all. Well, theres a lot of plant matter right now. Its some sort of a reed like from the wetlands or something, big wraps of it but its all sort of a thin, kind of small. Reporter you can even see masses of debris from afar. Look at that dark blob visible from the richmondsan rafael bridge. Now, a big cluster like that gives boaters a chance to maybe steer around it and thats why the coast guard wants to put that warning out today so you can keep an eye out for that but they want something from you as well. If you see floating hazards in the bay, theyre hoping you will report it so they can try and get all this cleared out and keep everyone safe. Reporting live in berkeley, Amy Hollyfield, abc7 news. On to developing news. Evacuees are returning home after two long days out of their homes. The work is continuing on the oroville dam. New video from chp shows crews dropping 1200 tons of rocks at the lip of emergency spillway. Theyre hoping to get it shored up ahead of several storms that are headed our way. Meantime, some of the people evacuated are starting to come back. This is a live look downtown in oroville this morning. Were used to seeing this area look like a ghost town but cars on the road, some businesses have their lights on today. Mandatory Evacuation Orders were lifted yesterday, but officials are asking everyone to remain vigilant. Im concerned. I mean, im okay with going home, however im concerned with them not being as truthful as they should be. I think theyre lifting it, you know, just so people arent freaking out and getting upset. Fema approved governor browns request for federal assistance yesterday. The water level is down more than 18 feet since sunday. The goal, though, remains to have it down 50 feet by the end of the weekend by using just the main spillway. The oroville dam emergency raising questions now about californias aging infrastructure. The last report from the American Society of Civil Engineers estimates it would cost the state 65 billion per year to fix and maintain dams, bridges, and old roads. This is all blamed on years of neglect. In its 2013 report card, the group said the state needs to spend nearly 3 billion per year for a decade to protect state residents from floods. The Group Releases its report card every four years and the next one is coming out next month. San Leandro Police are looking for the gunman or gunmen who shot and killed a father right in front of his own family. This past sunday, wardell taliaferro, his wife, their baby and a 5yearold were driving along Marina Boulevard when another driver shot taliaferro in the head. Police say it appears to be a case of road rage. His wife jumped in the drivers seat and drove him to the near hospital. As for a husband and a provider and family, brother, he was definiterily et. He loved everybody. Police say they dont have many leads. If anyone has information, youre asked to contact san Leandro Police. I am still tracking major developments into our live desk in the death of the half brother of south Korean Leader kim jong un. North Korean Leaders paying respects in malaysia. Just this morning, police in malaysia arrested a woman in his assassination believed to be a secret agent. She was using vietnamese travel documents and reportedly wearing a shirt with lol on the front. Yesterday, kim jongnam, died after he was injected with a poisonous substance at the malaysian airport. Happening today, President Trump is hosting israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu at the white house. Both men have declared their mutual support and outlined similar views on the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Both israelis and palestinians claim jerusalem or at least parts of it as their capital. Later this morning, abc news is going to have a special report. That starts at 9 00 a. M. Right here on abc7. Were also going to stream it for you live on our abc7 news app and on our website. The small group of protesters gathered outside the federal Detention Center in tacoma, washington, last night and theyre demanding the release of a 23yearold named Daniel Ramirez medina. He has filed a lawsuit claiming that he is proekted from deportation. Documents say he came from mexico when he was 7 years old. As he got older, he qualified for the obama era deferred action for Childhood Arrivals Program or daca. Immigration Officials Say ramirez is a selfadmitted gang member and a risk to public safety. Some oracle employees say they were forced to pay back salaries after the money was already in their bank accounts. What they now want from the redwood citybased tech giant. Plus new video showing a selfdriving car navigating bay area roads in the rain. Area roads in the rain. Why this dri good morning. Time now 6 11 a. M. Want to take you to the peninsula where we have temperature temperatures good morning foster city. The wider picture show you its not quite chilly out there in terms of february numbers. 50 right now, 53 oak, 51 san jose. And napa, currently 53 degrees so today youll notice a lot of cloud cover. It will be a mild day and it will be a dry day. 64 San Francisco, 65 behind oakland, 68, san jose, 64 the high in vallejo. Rain returns tomorrow morning. Well detail that in about six minutes but first lets check on the roadways. Not looking forward to that rain in several areas, including state route 37. That is skill closed right now due to flooding. Chp providing Traffic Control once again today but already starting to see those delays build on the westbound side and approaching atherton as well. Southbound 680, walnut creek to dublin, wide open, 14 minutes, just slight delays, southbound 101, santa rosa to San Francisco but check this one out. Northbound 17 between highway 1 and los gatos, 1 hour, 33 minutes, thats of course all due to the slide at vine hill. Traffic getting by one direction in each one lane each direction, i should say. Well check drive times coming up next. A health alert for anyone with extra pounds, the best and worst places where your body stores fat. Stores fat. Plus three men when did mixing food, stores fat. Plus three men with not food, become food . Thankfully at panera, 100 of our food is 100 clean. No artificial preservatives, sweeteners, flavors, or colors. Panera. Food as it should be. You need to eat this special. Kelloggs special k. Made with whole grains and fiber to help a body thrive. Folic acid and vitamin d. To make a body feel this good. Start your day with 150 nourishing calories. In a bowl of special k. Eat special, feel special. 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An oracle spokesperson says the Company Denies the allegations and will defend against them. Selfdriving cars have been on the streets of the bay area for quite some time but were getting our first look at how these cars do in the rain. Autonomous driving startup drive. Ai released this. It shows one of the cars navigating the streets of Mountain View during a recent storm. The driver isnt touching the wheel but the windshield wipers did go on. Drive. Ai says this video is significant because it is very hard to teach selfdriving cars to master difficult weather conditions. The California PublicUtilities Commission will host a public workshop in San Francisco on friday about criminal background checks for uber and lyft drivers. City officials have said third Party Background checks used by uber and lyft do not do enough because they only look at names and Social Security numbers, compared to taxi cabs that use the fingerprints and the department of justices database. Fridays workshop will be held on van ness avenue at 10 00 a. M. Despite all theyve been through, a couple is now happily married after fellow evacuees and the community threw them a wedding. Their marriage had been ten years in the making. This is not their marriage video. This is just video file video it have why dont you come back out to me and i can tell you theped to get valentines day. There we go. The oroville dam crisis put quite a stop to their plans. They were forced out of their home on sunday. So they put everything on hold, not for long because people heard their stories, evacuees became their wedding planners, officials at the shelter where they were staying did the rest. They put out a call to the community and donations started pouring in and the happy couple finally said i do. I know we had our ups and downs too and i will always love you. Henry, you may kiss your bride. And everything you see there, the music, and flowers, the wedding dress, the tux, all donated by members of the community. The love, very much theirs, though. You know, its nice to see something good come out of something that was really so horrible. Weve seen birthday parties, this, people really banding together. Thats my favorite story of the day. I love that. Now youre going to tell us more rain is coming. Im just the messenger but today were tracking at least bun dry day but we have storms until the forecast after today. Live doppler 7 showing you we are dry overhead and youre thinking, why is he saying were dry . Theres rain. I know it looks close and we do have this storm but this is thursdays storm that we are tracking. The rain off the coast, a lot of its going to evaporate before it moves over. Its got to kind to prep the atmosphere. Moisten it back up before we start to see any of these showers move there. Peeks of sunshine in the south bay. Your day planner show you the cloud increase throughout the day, ahead of the storm system tomorrow. Its a mild day. Look at this. Sunshine but still in the mid to up e upper 60s today so youll feel that. Storm impact scale for tomorrows storm is a 1. Its a light system. Its really just the timing of this storming coming right in the thursday morning rush so expect showers, brief heavy rain, its going to be a slow go tomorrow. Accuweather 7 day forecast going to show you, enjoy the mild day today. Its dry. The rain returns tomorrow morning and there you go. On and off showers at least through next tuesday. Thats weather. Lets check in with alexis. Taking a live look outside at the bay bridge toll plaza, we have had those metering lights on since 5 25 this morning. Just got a report of a minor crash within the backup there. I did just see chp escort someone off into the parking lot there on the right so i think that cleared fairly quickly but yes, you are definitely slow through the maze and slow on southbound 680 through the walnut creek stretch too. You can see a lot of brake lights starting to fill in but no blocking incidents for you. If you were with us at 4 30 this morning and into much of the next hour, we had an issue on the bay bridge, the lights totally off, some type of electrical issue, that is no longer the case. Westbound 80, highway 4 to the maze, 30 minutes, southbound 101, San Francisco to sfo, that is still in the green at just nine minutes. So far, mass transit looking pretty good this morning. One major issue, though. Well talk about that coming up next. Looks better with the lights on. Next, its time to ask finney. If youre an entrepreneur, what you happened to watch out for. The ads that we see on facebook are about to get a lot facebook are about to get a lot more anything with a screen is a tv. Stream 130 live channels, plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. You can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. Only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. Download the xfinity tv app today. Let us know what you think about this next story. If you ever sneak on to facebook at work, you may not be able to get away it for much longer and this is why. You know how videos on your feed out play right now and theyre silent . Starting today, theyre going to autoplay with sound. Facebook says the sound will fade in and fade out as you scroll through your feed and eeliminate the silent movie effect youre currently getting. If you dont want sound, if your phone or computer have the audio turned off, facebook will not override the mute setting on your computer or phone. Nope. Not here for that. No. Tame know to ask finney. Jillian from concord has a question about marketing. She spoke to us at our event in walnut creek. 7 on your sides Michael Finney has her answer. My question is if you have any tips for marketing a Small Business that is new. Hey, jillian, that is a toughest part of starting a new business. The internet, you know, its filled with Marketing Gurus who want to teach you how to market for a price. I dont want you to fall for those highdollar come ones. Instead, hit Networking Events at your local chamber of commerce and online. Social media is part of any marketing plan nowadays. You know that. But make sure youre giving information when youre on social media thats actually useful and not just a constant selling all the time. Be careful with discounts and promotions. They often only bring in bargain hunters who wont stay with you in the longterm. And the next time you get to ask a question on tv, make sure you sneak in the name of your business. Jillian, good luck, and thanks for your question. Come through, Michael Finney. That was just a little piece of advice from him to you. Look at that. If you have a question for michael, record it on your smartphone or tablet, share it on social media using askfinney or head to abc7news. Com askfinney. How many of us suffer from that belly fat . There is a new study that suggests the genes responsible for belly fat are also linked to Heart Disease and diabetes. If you are brokprone to extra l handles, you may be prone to other less visible conditions. People who tend to carry their fat as belly fat right in here and that fat, we think, is a little riskier. There are other people who tend to carry more of their fat down here on their legs. Absolutely. Thats subcutaneous fat or fat under the skin. Its less likely to be hoernlly active. Its less likely than the belly fat to put you at risk. He is pinpointing a few things you can do to lower your risk. 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