Announcer now news to build a better bay area from abc7. A wild round of weather in the bay area led to a close call for a family in the north bay. Good evening, im dan ashley. A bolt of lightning this morning splintered a 100foot tall tree in mill valley at water view drive and lcd court. Some neighbors say it sounded like a bomb going off. Abc7 News Reporter Lauren Martinez is here with a story youll see only on 7. Lauren. Dan, the strike split the tree in two and would fall on the home below. They evacuated the family making for a very unusual Christmas Morning. It was like a bomb went off. It was right behind the house. Reporter residents of water view drive in mill valley were woken up just after 4 00 christmas morn when a strong force of lightningit pl s redwood tree. It exploded into shards where it sent part of the tree on top of our house, on top of our car, on top of the power pole. Reporter the Fire Department evacuated the lobos family for three hours. They live just below.
Announcer now news to build a better bay area from abc7. A wild round of weather in the bay area led to a close call for a family in the north bay. Good evening, im dan ashley. A bolt of lightning this morning splintered a 100foot tall tree in mill valley at water view drive and lcd court. Some neighbors say it sounded like a bomb going off. Abc7 News Reporter Lauren Martinez is here with a story youll see only on 7. Lauren. Dan, the strike split the tree in two and would fall on the home below. They evacuated the family making for a very unusual Christmas Morning. It was like a bomb went off. It was right behind the house. Reporter residents of water view drive in mill valley were woken up just after 4 00 christmas morn when a strong force of lightning split this redwood tree. It exploded into shards where it sent part of the tree on top of our house, on top of our car, on top of the power pole. Reporter the Fire Department evacuated the lobos family for three hours. They live just be
We have a risk of sneaker waves, rip currents there, it goes until 9 00 this evening. Dont turn your back on that water. We have water falling from the sky down across the south bay. Mainly in it the Higher Elevations now. One or two may try to sneak up into san jose and your neighbors. Right now from 280 and 17, it is dry. Breezy conditions in mount tam. Those winds will taper throughout the day and so will the chance of showers. Heading out through 7 00, 43 to 47 degrees. 52 to 54 with sunshine at noon. 55 to 56 this afternoon, chilly by 7 00. Mid to upper 40s. Lets turn it over to sue. Good morning. Good morning. Not too busy out there for this day after christmas. Thursday morning. We have nice flow of traffic on the east shore freeway past Golden Gate Fields and on to the macarthur maze. On the bay bridge, a high wind advisory, no slowing here. No metering lights yet. Well keep our eye on that for you. It will be quiet this morning. In the pleasanton area, we had an overnight fata
it is martin luther king holiday happy holiday, everyone. let s find out what the forecast is looking like if you have any plans outside. a lot of people have today off. we are looking forward to another warm day around the bay area. we could tie some records. it will not be like last week. we re waking up to clear skies as we look from the roof camera. a cold start for sox of us. we re below freezing and 39 degrees now in oakland and 40s along the midpeninsula. into the afternoon it will be like i mentioned another warm day. mid-to-upper 60s and 70s will trickle in. and oakland 70. 67. livermore with a high of 69. clear skies. and overall. we are looking at very mild weather. the forecast shows that temperatures will start to take a tumble as we push into the middle of the week. we ll hold on to try whether and sunshine even heading into next weekend. that s a look at the forecast. traffic around the area doing all right. some easy conditions. no shocks or surprises your
forces. cnn cannot confirm this. we are hearing that many of the police there who were once violently fighting against the protesters are now being taken hostage. these pictures here are escorted. others believe to be defecting by choice to the other side. a short, short truce broke in overnight, bringing in the deadliest day ukraine has seen bringing in protests. at least 100 killed. for the olympic athletes there in sochi, that is actually enough to toss out the years of training and leave the olympic games. translator: my friends are there. people i know. close friends of mine. to go on the start line when people are dying and the authorities broke the main rule of the olympic competition which is peace. i simply cannot do it. back in washington, sources tell us that officials are fast tracking sanctions and asset freeze on the ukrainian government are about to cross the president s desk. to new jersey, chris christie answered 13 questions at a town hall meeting and he