Froze to death. 3 of the victims died over the past two days. As the temperatures turn so bitterly cold. One person died in open garage in saratoga. 3 others in san jos jose. Now heres live look at Current Conditions along highway 17 in the Santa Cruz Mountains. This is just past summit road. It started raining here earlier this evening. This road is notoriously dangerous and the rain and snow. Writ now things arent moving smoothly. Lets head to the north bay where there is some snow. This advertise highway 29 near calistoga where the snowplows have already been dispatched. There is more of this to come too as the cold front moves to the south of us. Snow is expected on Mount Hamilton and diablo east bay. We give you the latest on the weather spencer. Start with words you of dont hear in the bay area. Snow has arrived. Heres a look at live doppler 7hd. We know rain has arrived. Wide spread as you can see from the north by to the central part of the bay area down to the south by and Santa Cruz Mountains but up in the north bay for several hours now we have been getting a little snow filtering down from the north as cold air meets the moisture so up in the parts of northern napa county and northern Sonoma County we have some snow in the higher el vision and of course we have rainfall spreading down to the south bay and Santa Cruz Mountains and eventually snow collect in those areas as well in the higher elevation. This is where we have our Winter Weather advisory for above 1500 feet until 6 00 a. M. In the north bay mountains and above 2500 feet Santa Cruz Mountains east bay hills diablo range in effect from 1 00 a. M. To continue am 2 to 4 inches of snow could accumulate in those elevation also. Closer look at the complete weekend forecast in a few minutes. Thanks very much. Good time to remind you as the storm manufactures through to get the weather app that gives you hourly temperature forecast and Severe Weather alert. Down load for free at this web site. The kind of weather we are having is remin reminder of how helpful that app can be. Power outage sent some benecia rest didnt on deep freeze terrible timing. Power rae stored but total of 4100 customers lost electricity early this morning. Out am was caused by the failure of underground cable from what we understand some schools shuffle students to the sun yebingt warmest classroom and alter the lesson plan day. Its probably about 25 degrees in there. Because they know its about just shy of 30 here and in there its not, its actually colder. Its pure cement. Reporter power was restored by lunch time to all 3 schools that were affected. In the north bay repair Services Getting a lot of call to fix faulty heater systems as people turn on their heater for the first time in a year many find out they just dont work properly. And they need to be serviced in order to get up and running. Farther north 101 closed north of will its in Mendocino County because of snow and traffic accidents it has caused. No estimated too im so far on when it might reopen. Storm system bringing snow to tahoe of course. This is the camera on enter state 80 at castle peak. Chains required if you are driving on i 80 so heading up, know. That 1 to 2 feet likely by tomorrow. Greater truckee tahoe ream is under a winter storm warning until 10 00 oclock tomorrow morning. Now as the temperatures dip below freezing in the central valleyize single formed on some of the citrus trees. Grower Association Says the industry has spent 12. 4 Million Dollars on frost Protection Measures including wind machine and extra irrigation. Temperature drop from 31 to 28 degrees in the Fresno County area this morning so below freezing a real problem for them. Growers say anything under 28 degrees for more than 45 minutes can damage the fruit. Citrus growers Association Says any damage to the fruit is likely limited and not expected to significantly affect price or supply at least not at this point. We are keeping on top of the cold snap and any problems its causing. Join us for Live Team Coverage on our site on channel 7 and remind you when you have the time check us out on twitter and keep you updated on breaking news there as well. Developing news here right now International Incident is over in. Palo alto man held captive in north korea since october is coming home. Home for the holiday. North Korea State News Agency announced tonight that the country has now deported new man. North korea authorities arrested him while on the plane to leave the country october 26. Took him off the plane put him in custody. Last we can north korea released this video climateing that new man apologiesed for crimes he committed during the korean war. New man belonged to secret will tear group and aided gorilla during the war. He reportedly tried to cop tact members of the unit on his trip no. Word when he will ariff back in the United States but he is on his way. Vice President Biden praised new man rae lease. He met with government leaders in south korea spoke with new man by phone after his release. Vice president also said i offered him a ride home on air force 2 but as he pointed out theres a direct flight to San Francisco so i dont blame him i would be on that flight, too. He wanted to come straight home. South africa is holding a series of events to honor Nelson Mandela who died yesterday at the edge of 95. Sunday will be national day of prayer and reflection. On tuesday a Memorial Service will take place in johannesburg stadium. The antiapartheid leader body will lie in state starting wednesday until his burial on sunday december 15. President obama and the first lady will travel to south africa next week to pay their respects. Always love him for teaching us that it is possible to overcome hatred and anger in order to build a new nation and a new society. Reporter retired ash bish told mourners at cape town people best way to honor him is to value unity and democracy that he embodied. In the spring of 93 85 students at uc berkeley led a protest that bring change to south africa ultimately. 7 News Reporter spoke w2 former students who helped win the apartheid in south africa. These papers were typed by students with a plan to help end apartheid in south africa. Year was 1985 and the students were from uc berkeley. California Assembly WomanNancy Skinner was the leader of the student difficult vest committee. It was students and city leaders and it was the if is to difficult vest 1979 so there was already activism. Reporter there were daily rally at this plaza. Students quickly began camping out. Berkeley police staged a raid and arrested does he says of protestors. One leader of those demonstrations was student body president pedro. Who spoke to us by skype from new york. I think our protest played in a role in elevating the issue and generating broad support for the issue. All that is left of the future is now. Reporter by now the movement had gained a lot of Media Attention and interest of professor, celebrity and lawmakers. Ask the question what the hell is the university of california doing making profit from slave system in 1986 . A then speaker of the calf assembly will brown was in serrated to address the crowd and help convince the uc regent to vote to withdraw the University Investment in businesses trading with south africa. A little over a year after the protest began, the regent voted on 3 year plan to difficulty veingt their hold ntion south africa. The first vote was the rage vote that caused california to become the identifiable capitol of the movement kill apartheid eand memorial to remember the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela will take place in the rotunda of city hall in San Francisco on wednesday at 8 00 oclock in the morning. In the newsroom, abc 7 news. Hotel Security Guard in san jose jumped into action after speeding driver plowed into a squad car early this morning. Police say the driver of this cadillac smashed into one of their patrol cars at west san carlos and south boulevard before 6 00 a. M. Officer was stopped at the red light. Both the officer and the driver were hurt. Suspect tried to run away thats when the Security Guard tackled him. Hes lucky he wasnt part of the accident. One 0our Security Officers had been standing outside the officer car just chatting with him. Literally just stepped back as the officer i guess was about to leave. Stepped back on to the sidewalk and thank god very fortunate thats when the accident occurred. Reporter driver of the cadillac faces charge of felony hitandrun. Neither he or the officer injuries are life threatening. The San Francisco authorities have arrested a man they think is responsible for despicable crime throwing 2 cats into the bay. Eric le Roy Patterson was arrested at embarcadero 4, do you want San Francisco, after people called in tips as to where he might b be. Police say he resisted arrest and as a result may have to spend some time at San Francisco general hospital. Investigators say a woman was carrying her 2 cat ins a carrier last week when patterson suddenly grabbed the carrier and threw it right there into the bay. Well, you can see washington happened to the carrier badly damaged. Both cats died. Police say patterson has a history of assaults. Well more to bring you on this busy friday night. Technology is changing the way your children are learning in school. Still ahead here. You will meet some of the people behind this Education Revolution that is happening. Also baby seat that has some parents outraged. Why they say it is just going too far. California man on mission. Just how long he plans on ringing that bell. You know its hard to believe an amazing effort he makes. Ill have the [son] all right,she has no idea. [man] no one told her,right . [son]hi [mom screams] your season is here. Lets just call it the baking time of year. You need special ingredients. You need the staples for homemade. You need safeway sugar for just a buck eightyeight. And that magic thing that makes everyone want another only two ninetynine for challenge butter. And when hands get messy, quite surely theyll say, yum wow yay what a sweeter holiday. Safeway. Ingredients for life. Most of us had to adapt to the internet but all young people have ever known. So schools are now race to go make Children Education as modern and connected as the rest of their lives. Away from the classroom. And this week that effort got a very big pwingt from 2 of the most influential names in tech. Heres jonathan bloom. When mike teaches Math Technology is everywhere. How he collects the homework. L and goes over the trouble spots. This is quul to . 144. Reporter take a rubber style and ipad and power point it equals a class ramp full of kids who are paying attention. Totally engage with the kid they love it. And you just can see their eye open when they Sea Technology on the big screen. Reporter its the new face of education. For new generation of learners. These kids are dinl tl native and this is their world. They were completely engage entered the math class. Reporter never mind the ipad and fancy pro 86 screen. Most important ingredient is one you cant see. This middle school has blazingly fasten net connection. Luxury that half the schools in San Mateo County dont have. Typical school in america has the same Internet Access as typical home but they have 500 or in the case of this school over 800 kid trying to use that band width ethe head of the education super highway nonprofit out to change that with some serious help. They just received 9 Million Dollars from microsoft founder bill gates and facebook founder zuckerberg among others. I think what bill mark and others realize is we are at a Tipping Point writ now in terms of technology be able to really make a difference. Reporter he envision a world where dozens of class room stream video at once using world event like the passing of Nelson Mandela as teachable moment but to good it there the super highway has to find out which schools need the upgrade, connect them with federal grant money and help in spending it the best which possible. Superintendent says investing is good for silicon valley. To have the work force they need to keep it competitive moving forward we need to invest in our public school. Nice to see the great partnership, 7 news. Some parents are sounding off after fisher price introduced a new baby bounce seat complete with an ipad holder. This video shows how the new activity seat works. Toy company says it puts play and learning at baby finger tips but speed limit parents say they are disgusted some rae view on amazon call it one of the quote worst ideas for a baby product. Sign of the times. Any way, spencer is had the weather forecast. Another chilly night and rain mix in there. We have i hope deed. Cold weather sipe of our times indeed. Lets go to have live doppler 7hd and the messy picture. We have rain spread all over the bay area rate now. In someplaces heavier than others. We have snow in some of the higher peak north bay already. Not heavy snow but could accumulate in the over nature hours. Live view across the bay as we look at the morning record low for this date. Not all time record but for this date. 25 degrees at nap a. Working the old record 29 set back in 1948. 26 was the low in livermore. Tying existing record for this date so quickly pretty cold around the bay area. Not balmy out over San Francisco. 50 degrees in the city here. 51 in oakland. 52 at half moon bay. Live view from east bay camera in emeryville. Cloud over the bay area. Writtening raining in some spots. Temperatures low to mid 40s for most of the locations upper 40s at napa and novato. On to one more live view from our exploring camera looking clouds over the bay if you look towards the bay bridge, forecast feature snow levels did you know to 1500 and 2500 feet. Very unusual in the bay area. Rain with us through tomorrow morning and freezing warning wont depart for a couple days. Low pressure system the cold storm dropping south ward ahead of it that cold front slicing through the bay area right now start our forecast animation 11 00 oclock tonight and well see the rain pushing south ward as the front swings through. Dry mainly dry cold air behind the front some cold air cause some of the precision of course turn into snow. Clearing out early tomorrow. Paperly sunday afternoon but cold. Bay area snow Winter Weather advisory in effect. Until 6 00 oclock tomorrow morning with north by mountains with snow level down to 1500 feet. Infect from 1 00 a. M. To continue am tomorrow for the if Santa Cruz Mountains east bay hills, dab blow range 2 to 4 inches of snow above 2 2500 feet. On we good to coverage for the state. Northern california down through the sierra even into the situation era fool foot hills. Saturday at 4 00 p. M. 3 to 12 inches of snow likely in the foot hills. One to 2 feet in the mount and major travel delay of course are likely. Back to the bay area tonight we expect low pressure to be mainly in the mid to upper 30s right around 40 at some spots. Of course we have rainy conditions overnight then tomorrow mainly sunny by afternoon with High Pressure talking afternoon high here freeze watching for sunday 2 to 9 am subject breezing freezing for every part of the bay area. Exposed pipe may burst. Heres 7 day forecast after 2 frigid mornings sunday monday we finally get temperatures moderating on tuesday and get back to more normal levels of wednesday thursday and friday t. Slight chance of rain by next thursda thursday. No big deal. Its the rainy certainly need more rain. Wednesday 56 greex. Cant wait for that. Beach weather. Thanks very much. Just ahead here tonight. Man with a red kettle. A little bell and an iron will. How he wrang his way into the record book and not finished yet. 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