Night is minus 21. Yes. No, im not lying here. Ten below by the fourth quarter. It will be just brutal. For us here its really nice and quiet. Its almost too quiet. Its too mild and too warm for january. Just like it was in december. 30s to 40s to 50 in San Francisco. The coast has been the place to be. Get a little offshore pub. There is a little low spinning in. Hazy skies. Mild to warm again opinion mostly sunny. Maybe partly cloudy. Its nothing we havent seen or dealt with before. Here is sal. All right, steve, good morning. We are looking at a decent commute so far. And i think its going to stay that way on this friday the last day that a lot of people have off. Westbound traffic looks good coming into San Francisco. It will be the bay bridge. We promised we would check the san mateo bridge and the san mateo bridge traffic looks pretty good heading out to the highrise. I think this is a look at interstate 880. 580 westbound coming in from the tracy triangle a little bit of slowing already. Over the altamont pass. 5 01 lets go back to the desk. Thank you, sal. Crews are still watching out for hot spots from a grass fire near a popular marin county shopping mall. Claudine wong is joining us live from corte madera where she is talking to the citys fire chief. Good morning. Reporter good morning. We are live here in corte madera where there is still smoldering spot in this five acre marsh fire. I want to bring in the fire chief to give us an idea of what you are dealing with. We walked about 25 yards in from where your fire trucks are parked. Tell me what you are dealing with. That is correct. We are about that far in from a marsh levee road which makes access and water supply difficult. 10 48 last night a fire was reported in this area. Its frequented by homeless camps. So that is probably the cause. Crews got in here from about 30 firefighters came in and put a line around it. Lets walk around through here. You walked around to show us what you are dealing with. This is a marsh land area but we still have smoldering spots. And this is what you are concerned about. When the sun comes up, you expect more smoke and things to startup again. That is right. We have the grass stumps. As you can see they are very dense and big. Those will shoulder for hours or days. So our crews will be out here for days putting water and foam on it. Reporter we got a crew out here last night. They had video of the fire as it was under way. It took a couple hours to get people under control. You had homeless encampments out here. You had to escort a few people out. What do we know about this area . Its a marsh land area between the bay and the village of court ma dear real shopping center. The Central Marin Police authority has been out here sweeping the area for homeless. And then we had this fire. They were also out here tonight and helping get those folks out of here. Reporter the plan for today it could burn for days, hours . What is the way to make sure it doesnt pop up again . Well have people out here all day. Once the sun comes up it could pop up again. Well take care of it. Reporter thanks for joining us. Again, we will keep an eye on it for you as well. Live in corte madera Claudine Wong ktvu channel 2 news. Thanks. That fire and the dry grass comes after the driest year on record in marin county dating back to the 1870s. Steve paulson tells us only seven to ten inches of rain fell across the county last year. The annual average is 52 inches. The county will consider water rationing later this year. Happening now 100 Million People are in the path of a giant winter storm. The storm stretches across 22 states. It could dump up to two feet of snow and bring below zero windchills in the northern parts of the nation. Blizzard warnings still in effect from massachusetts to new york. New york state is under a state of emergency. Stay out of your cars to the maximum extent possible. If you dont need to go out, please dont go out. We want to make sure people are safe. We want them to be in a warm location. That big storm is also driving strong winds off the new england coast. The high tides every night and stretching into this morning, they are expected to cause flooding along the massachusetts coast. Now the snow and the frigid cold to the northeast are shutting down schools, businesses, and government offices. Massachusetts state buildings will be closed for the second straight day today. All Public Schools in new york city are closed. People are just being told stay indoors, avoid driving on the dangerous roads. And several major new york highways were shut down over night. New york state throughway the one that connects new york city to albany it was closed for the First Time Since super storm sandy. The throughway are both scheduled to reopen right about now. Jfk airport is expected to reopen in half an hour from now. It was closed early this morning due to the storm. There is a Ripple Effect nation wide from airport delays in the northeast to about 1,000 flights throughout the u. S. Have already been canceled for today. Bay area airports felt the pinch. Dozens of flights were canceled locally. Stranding people. Hoping to fly back east. I have friends here so i will crash with them. We have an office here. Im going to go into the office. Bostons Logan Airport shut down operations late last night. Steve paulson was just telling us they got 15 inches of snow. We just got off the phone with oakland international. One arriving and four departing flights are canceled there so far. San francisco is facing an important deadline in connection with the deadly Asiana Airline crash. Lawyers for the families of one of the victims want to see all video recorded by strengths fire trucks and helmet cameras. The City Attorney has until noon to hand the videos over. The family of Yee Mang Wang plan to sue the city over her death. Time is 5 07. There are two separate curt hearings Court Hearings this morning over jahi mcmath. They are still at odds over what to do with her. Tara moriarty is in oakland light right in oakland right now. Reporter lawyer from both teams will be meeting here in four hours at Alameda Superior Court for a settlement conference. And than they will head over to federal court. That is where a judge will hear a request for an order requiring feeding tubes to be installed in 13yearold jahi mcmath so she can be moved to another facility. They want the judge to order Childrens Hospital oakland to insert a feeding tube. And they want a tube that will make it easier for her to breathe. Jahi has been on life support since december 12th when doctors pronounced her brain dead. Childrens Officials Say they almost not insert the tubes because they have no legal obligation to operate on the body of a dead person. Lawyers for Childrens Hospital says jahis family attorney has not notified the hospital of any facility that would even take jahi. We will keep you posted on the latest developments and were trying to track down some interviews from the attorneys once they show up here to court. Time is 5 08. A former advisor to jean quan will now run against mayor quan in the november mayors race. Ly has known mayor quan since the 1960s. Seek l was quans unpaid legal advisor. But he resigned in protest in 2011 when against his advice mayor quan cleared out the occupy oakland camp from in front of city hall. It is 5 09. Happening now we are learning about a power outage in San Francisco. Pg e says nearly 1400 homes and businessessing are effect businesses are effected. They are all in the south of market area near zit and near sixth and folsom. Pg e expects to restore power by 6 45 this morning. Sal is watching it too. Time is 5 09. The fbi is investigating that arson attack at the chinese consulate in San Francisco. The Surveillance Video that may well provide the clues to identify the arsonist. Plus new details about san joses first homicide of the year. Good. Good answer. Check it out. Learnings fun now. Yeah, back in our day, we didnt have uverse high Speed Internet to play and learn online. All we had was that franklin fuzzypants. Ah, the educational toy bear. Remember when the battery went out . [ slow, deep voice ] give me your abcs. All i learned was a new definition of fear. I need some pudding. Yeah, theres one left. [ male announcer ] connect all your wifienabled devices with uverse high Speed Internet. Rethink possible. Welcome back. Time is 5 12. New information about san joses first homicide of the new year yesterday morning. Investigators tell the mercury news no one called 911 for about an hour about it. Early yesterday morning a man was found shot but he still managed to reach the front yard of a duplex on south 33rd in East San Antonio street. According to the mercury news tenants looked out their windows and checked to see what was happening but say they didnt see anything. Later on according to the reports a woman coming home found a man face down in her driveway. We still dont know the name of that shooting victim. It is 5 13. New this morning word that two americans have been detained in benghazi libya. The two americans are College Basketball players at benghazi university. That is not clear why they were detained. Last month four u. S. Military personnel were briefly taken into custody at a check point in libya and later released. Time is 5 13. Lets see what is happening. Do we have a commute this morning sal . I know you are watching everything. Yeah. We dont have much of a commute right now. Doesnt mean we wont have one later. Right now its still very nice. And yesterday we didnt have much of a commute. I still think a lot of people have this week off. As we look at the bay bridge toll plaza, it is very nice. There are no major problems come into the city. And also if you are driving on San Franciscos freeways northbound 101 traffic looks good coming up to the 80 split. Pardon me northbound 280 traffic also looks good down to king street. Remember there was a power outage south of market. Some of those signal lights may not be working. Be prepared to treat those intersections. Look both ways. You never know what could happen down there. This is a look at 580 westbound. It looks like we have a little bit of road work coming in off the altamont pass. Nothing major there as we look at 880. It is a nice looking drive. A couple of road work icons out there. So there is road work but traffic is so light. Its not causing a major traffic delay. Lets go to steve. Thank you very much, sal. The information coming in from green bay its brutally cold. Thank goodness they are not playing on monday or tuesday buzz windchills by then will be 2550 below. It will be really cold. The coldest air arrives sunday night. We are starting our day off at zero. Im throwing in the towel. It will be cold no matter how you look at it. We have really quiet and warm conditions here. Especially by the coast. As we get a little offshore breeze although its not as pronounced as it was yesterday. But still High Pressure says im large and in charge. And its not going anywhere expect for maybe next week. 42 san jose. A little warmer on the coast. 24 in tahoe. 35 ukiah. See the system 15 inches of snow at logan. I have a couples of 20 inches of snow. It looks like things should start to get better but boy it was cold. Green bay they are between systems starting to cloud up again. But the colder air we are just still beginning to move into the picture. This is all driving down starting today and going right into the weekend. And the really, really cold air comes in behind that sunday and monday. For us another day of mostly sunny skies. Hazy sun. Mild to warm. It will be warm friday. A couple systems next week. One will go to the north. That will give some north. Another low looks like it will come down the coast. If history repeats itself, it will miss us and go to southern california. Mostly sunny. Hazy. Mild to warm. It will be another nice mild day for many. Overall look for warm conditions into sunday and looks cooler starting early next week. All right. We are all going to wash our car this weekend so that will guarantee rain next week. Analysts say indications are the Auto Industry ended 2013 on a high note. Total sales are expected to be up 10 from december of 2012. That would make annual sales the best since 2007. Sales of small cross overs and luxury cars are expected to be particularly strong. Not strong was the first trading day of the year. It was the worst first trading day of the year. Since 2008 all three markets were down almost 1 . The dow was down 135. Nasdaq down 33. S p down 16. Futures are all looking a little higher this morning. Janet is one step closer to becoming the first female head of the federal reserve. The u. S. Senate set monday as the they to vote on her nomination. If approved, she will take over the job on february 1st. One day after Ben Bernankes second term and that post ends. Time is 5 17. Later today a humboldt county man is due in court facing charges of killing a popular priest. Homicide investigators say he was killed during a violent struggle. Just based on the evidence at the scene, it looks to us there was some level of struggle. The suspect has been identified as 43yearold gary lee bullock. There is no word yet on a possible motive but investigators think it was a random killing. A georgia Investment Bank who disappeared 18 months ago. He left a suicide note and declared dead about a year ago. But he was stopped in southern georgia for a traffic violation. First he gave officers two fake ids but eventually revealed his actual name. I assume he had been on the run for so long that once we found out whom he was and who he told us who he was, it was a relief to him. One report says he had been homeless and working odd jobs. The local Police Contacted the fbi. Price faces federal charges of bank fraud. Hes due back in court on monday for a bail hearing. San Francisco Superior Court has a warning about a fake email. It supposedly comes from Elizabeth Taylor. Like the person who sews clothing and spelled differently from the movie star name. And she says she is the clerk of the court and the recipient has to attend a Court Hearing on january 14th at 11 00 a. M. And should carefully read the court notice in the attachment. They say there is no court worker named Elizabeth Taylor and you should delete it before opening the attachment. Bill lever noticed someone has bought a 275 new wave oven using his Business Credit card. Well he filed a Police Report and the officer assigned to the case happened to be on vacation until next week. He called the oven company and was able to get the shipment tracking number and found out that oven was coming to bakersfield. I took the Police Report and i faxed it to the company the oven company. And they reconsigned the shipment. That oven was shipped back to the company. Bakersfield police say if you seafront charge on your credit card, make sure you file a Police Report and then contact the company. 5 20. Boy, they just cant seem to catch a break. Another delay for the passengers stranded in antarctica. Ho ho ho [ female announcer ] at 100 calories, not all food choices add up. Some are giant. Some not so giant. When managing your weight, bigger is always better. Ho ho ho green giant tomato florentine soup, it took a little time to get it just right. [ ding ] but finally, it happened. Perfection. At progresso, weve got a passion for quality, because youve got a passion for taste. Welcome back. Time now 5 23. For the second time in two weeks the city of sausalito is dealing with a sewage spill. The crew fixing a ruptured sewage spill. 500 gallons of raw sausage flowed down storm drains. Environmentalist says its one of hundreds that happened around the bay every year. Environmentalist also say they are hopeful of a full urban come back of the north American River otter. This river otter you see right here was sighted in richmond. Others have been seen in los gatos, walnut creek, and napa. There were 600 reports of otters in the bay area during the last two years. That is after going decades with only seeing a few. Scientists cant explain this change because no one has really studied the river otter and its not an endangered species. Today california will have its first snow survey of the year but experts are not expecting much from the results. According to the National WeatherService Northern california just completed its driest year since the Weather Service started keeping track back in 1921. Today snow survey is expected to be only about 20 of normal. That is a big difference from last year at this time. We had a pretty wet december so last years first snow survey was 150 of normal. The lack of snow is really hurting people who make their living from it. Now one ski resort dodge ridge may even stay closed for the entire season. But that is only if the weather continues to stay dry for the rest of the season. Resort operators say they are hopeful. The weather patterns change every single year. There are years we open in october and november. This isnt one of those years. It will change. It will snow. Many businesses say they are stocked with boots, gloves, and sleds and ready for the snow and business to roll in. Time is 5 25. A makeshift memorial that was honoring 13yearold andy lopez goes up in flames. The new information we found out this morning abo