Parents and students protesting tonight in pleasanton. The big question, when will middle schoolers and High Schoolers get to come back to school . Rent relief and eviction protections on its way tonight to those impacted by covid. The storms heading out. Ill let you on up. Ski shops like this one busy as the rush is on to get to tahoe. Ill show you why that might be easier said than done. Abc 7 news starts right now. Announcer building a better area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. I mean, if youre coming from the bay area and youre trying to head up to a ski resort tonight, you probably are not going to get through. That is the warning from caltrans tonight. If youre thinking of heading up to lake tahoe, just dont do it. Blizzard conditions are making the roads extremely treacherous. Right now 80 is closed because of several jackknife big riggs, multiple spinouts and heavy snow. There is no estimated time for its reopening. And 350 is open but with chain controls ove
Meteorologist kari hall breaking down why thats causing concern as today in the bay begins right now. Good morning and thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Of course mike is keeping his eyes on the road. Lets start with the forecast for today. And this morning a very foggy start. Yes, we are seeing that in the south bay as well as other parts of the bay area as we wake up, take a look at our live camera in san jose. Its foggy and its chilly so we are going to see that for the next couple of hours and then turning very mild as we go into the afternoon with some sunshine. Taking a look at our breezy winds picking up for tomorrow. We are going to stay dry in the forecast as we start out with some cold temperatures and the fog this morning. We do have concern of freezing fog. Well talk more about that cong up in just a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking right now for the commute . Kari, the fog is the topic of one of the chp reports. As we look at the
Thats going help our temperatures out. But as of right now we cold livermore at 36 dublin at 34. Definitely more mild right along the bay with alameda at 48 oakland at 43 santa rosa you are spot below freezing this morning at 31 degrees. All that but not too far away from freezing at 34. Im talking the nice afternoon that we still have to expect in your forecast. Robin has had a couple of issues on the roadways this morning. It looks like the bay bridge has gotten pretty packed pretty quickly and no fun sitting in this the backup is growing for sure it started off with a little stall at the toll plaza could have crash there was a van that was sitting there. With the damage bumper. We didnt see the accident happened. It was just that one vehicle that caltrans rolled out they pushed it out of the way and that sort of kicked off our back up at the bay bridge toll plaza so started traffic started stocking up behind that and then now we have the usual early commuters coming in so you put it
In napa and clear lake and weve seen cold temperatures elsewhere as well. Well continue to watch that as well as the fog. How is it looking for the commute . Things are changing right now. We do have that deadly crash at camino diablo. Fog registering in the south bay. The metering lights just turned on before 6 00. Quickly filled in all of these lanes right here and a bigger factor looking at the oakland camera with that fog. The low clouds creeping down across the nimitz, the peninsula, south bay and east bay. Stay with us. Well give you updates. Back to you. Thank you very much. We begin with the rising number of covid patients. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson live in San Francisco this morning monitoring the already overloaded hospitals. And i know state Health Leaders there are being very clear the next few weeks could be critical especially as we move into the winter months which could make things worse. Reporter weve been talking about that surge expected after thanksgiving and
Senate but expect that to happen. Yesterday on the midday news, we were able to say that biden had confirmed that yellen was, indeed, his pick for treasury secretary. Wall street has suspected that for more than a week. She is one of the reasons the stock market has been doing so well. But this morning, as you saw on nbc bay area in that special report a short time ago the president elect made all of this official. The team im announcing today will play a Critical Role in shaping our plan for action starting on day one and move fast to revive this economy. They are going to help me help us, help the country lay out my build back better plan. Its my great honor to have this opportunity to serve you and the american people. And to join this incredible Economic Team at this moment of great challenge for our country. Reporter president elect biden has named neera tanden as the director of office of management and budget. Now, this nomination probably will not get through the republican dom