No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. San mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. Golden gat bridge drive time less than 30 min from 37 to the toll plaza. robin in our top story this morning. Wildfires continue to burn in Southern California. Forcing people from their homes and scorching hundreds of thousands of acres. The thomas fire is the largest blaze. It has burned 230 thousand acres and is 10 percent contained. Some of the strongest santa ana winds in recent memory are fueling the fires. And conditions are expected to remain in place through at least the next few days. Kim hutcherson has the latest. Mark brown ca dept. Of forestry and Fire Protection weve experienced some extreme fire behavior on the fire. California officials. Warning that the massive thomas fire is still advancing. And nearby communities must be prepared for the worst. Sheriff bill Brown Santa Barbara county this fire has acted in an unpredictable manner. It has be
Uninjured. Reporter the driver told chp officers that he could see the massive tree as it was falling on to the freeway and didnt know if he should speed past it or slam on the brakes. He close to stop, and his camaro skidded under the tree as it fell and snapped across the northbound lanes. The car didnt get much damage, and the driver escaped unharmed, thanking his lucky stars that the trunk broke instead of falling on top of his car. Weve seen crews work quickly. They managed to cut apart the huge portion of the tree that was laying across the southbound lanes. So were expecting them to be able to open up both directions of highway 13 pretty quickly. Reporting live in oakland, abc7 news. Thank you very much for that. A warning for bart riders. Theres a major delay at San Francisco and the peninsula stations. Bart is blaming power issues. The bay areas rain is expected to ease up at some point tonight, but not just yet. On stanfords campus, it poured today. That didnt stop the diving
She was ejected. Police and firefighters gave her cpr, but they werent able to revive her. Investigators say theyre not pursuing the driver when she crashed. A sevenyear veteran of the Santa Clara Police department is in jail, accused of domestic violence. Fellow officers arrested daniel bird yesterday morning. Investigators say they responded to the call just after midnight. A woman he had been dating had visible injuries. Bird was off duty at the time. He has now been placed on paid leave. The entire bay area got quite a soaking yesterday, and that caused Power Outages and downed trees. Our reporter has the details. One of the biggest impacts this storm left was on this 200foot tree that came down across both lanes of highway 13 in oakland. Patrol officers found the tree blocking all four laels of the highway and a car trapped. The driver was still trapped in his vehicle. They go to extract the driver out of the vehicle, break branches out, get the driver out, and the driver was unin
Captured during a newscast in istanbul. A car bomb went off outside a soccer stadium yesterday after a match between two of of the countrys top teams. Followed by a suicide becoming less than a mile away. Officials now say 39 people, including 30 Police Officers, have died. 155 people were hurt. 13 suspects have been arrested in connection with the attack. The tributes continue for those who lost their lives in oaklands warehouse fire. The youngest victim was honored in song. The school of the arts held a memorial concert last night. Former classmates and ensembles performed in honor of 17yearold mcgill. Our News Reporter wases there and has the story. A touching memorial for the youngest victim of the ghost ship warehouse fire. The 17yearold was a student and vocalist as a San Francisco school of the arts. Saturday a performance was held in his honor. Choir is a team sport and this was his team, this was his family. The director of vokoun cal music was also drave of ns teacher. She sa
For all of San Francisco. Good morning way area. Lets get up and get going. This is abc7 mornings. Good morning. Im caroline tyler. Thanks for joining us on this sunday, december 11th. Lets start with a quick look at the weather with meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning, everyone. Haycock at a dry start to our day. Its cloudy, a lot cooler out there. And yesterday, boy, we had over an inch in oakland. San francisco was three quarters an inch and san jose about. 4. The east bay hills we see some lowlying fog. 48 in the city. 5 is san jose and gilroy. From sutro its pretty gray and chilly. There is fog. Its in the north bay. But the headline is the much, much cooler temperatures. As you go throughout the morning you see the high clouds begin a thin out a little bit. Partly to mostly cloudy today and we have a carbon copy tomorrow. You want to say tuned for the extend the outlook. Its looking pretty stormy. Carolyn. Lisa, thank you. Breaking news. Had this accident after 4 00 this morni