. >>> a holiday headache. this is a look at sfo where travelers who could not get home yesterday will give it a try today. as many of us head back to work, the holiday weekend is going for some travelers to the bay area. the weather caused major problems for passengers flying out of sfo yesterday. that snowballed into the evening stranding many people overnight. dozens of flights were cancelled and delays were two hours long. the sunday off thanksgiving is considered the big of the days at sfo with an estimated 140,000 people passing through. some passengers spent full days at the airport trying to catch a flight. >> we will be wasting another day here. i am hoping to get back home because tuesday is my 21st birthday and i would rather not spend it at the airport. >> no bay area airports are reporting delays this morning but we will keep monitoring things. we will let you me if that changes. >> speaking of delays be glad you were not in this line, a reporter from our seattle station was trying to make it home from chicago fly out of hid way where the security line literally stretched

they average at sfo. today, drizzle and fog, mild, low-to-mid 50's and low 60's at noon with clouds and scattered sprinkles and mid-to-upper 60's and then it will be breezy and light rain developing in the north by. >>> our viewers are canceling trips to work tomorrow. >> it is a good idea. it will be treacherous. if you travel to work give your sex an early start. if you are traveling in the dark, you know adding with the rain it will make trouble. the san mateo bridge has trouble pus of the heavy congestion from hayward to fogs step city. we will move on to the maze loading up headed through emeryville up to the by babe and you can -- to the bay bridge and you can see carpal is best bay with these or more people. >> storm preparation work is underway in san francisco that is prone to flooding. rains swamped two businesses in the mission district with damage from the storm lining the sidewalks. the city new is bringing funding if flood prevention efforts with crews installing removable aluminum floodgates outside a business. >> it is a major city problem with a backup of sewage, et cet

bridge and downtown san francisco in chinatown, all the way down to san bruno and sfo we have moderate-to-heavy rain headed to alameda and oakland. you will see a downpour any second in your neighbor. this stretches down toed with wood and back. highway 92 to half moon bay and light are rain in the east bay valley and san jose in the south bay right now. it look like the entire system is now starting to gain speed. all of us should be sees waves of moderate-to-heavy rain through the lunch hour. we will get our most damaging wind and rain new through the lunch hour and it will become more scattered in nature as we head to the afternoon. the toughest commute is going to be right now through 9:00. >> in fact, most of the bad conditions are due not just to the rain but the wind, the wind has been a real factor and we have c.h.p. high wind advisory, and you look at the bay bridge toll plaza from the east bay, you are not going to find some company. the wind-driven rain pushing across the bay bridge toll plaza is pretty much empty as far as cars. going do take you no time to get to

abc7news.com. >>> and sfo the airport expected travel problems to ease up after airlines canceled 240 flights because of the storm. that last passengers looking to other ways to get to their destinations of the stranded passengers faced limited dining options because nearly a thousand food service borkers went on strike and the young is involved in a dispute over health care payments and job security. >> you can track the storm by downloading the weather app on apple app and google play with more information at abc7news.com/app. >> a lane closed officer pulled a gun on protesters in order to protect the life of his partner who was attacked. a freelance photographer snapped this picture of the gun being pointed at protester. someone determined the officers were police and the officer said his partner was kicked in the head. he first pulled out a baton before pulling the gun. >> we are extensive to the display of a gun. in this situation, the officer escalated to that level to protect himself, his partner, with was just assaulted and the or insuperintendent bystanders trying to peaceful

foggy. 52 snap, 49 at the airport. here's sfo and most of the dense fog is up in the north bay. but we have it in our east bay valleys and parts of the peninsula. i'll detail that for you and talk about the rain for the week ahead and our dry weekend. >> lisa, thank you. also ahead, how grinches may have ruined christmas for several dozen needy bay area families. plus, an analysis of holiday sales finds very few actually good deals. we will tell you ways to make sure you get the at kaiser permanente, everything you need is under one roof. another way care and coverage together makes life easier. okay, a little easier. become a member of kaiser permanente. because together, we thrive. ♪ start a revolution a revolution in coffee quality with the finest nespresso coffee blends. a revolution in technology with unique centrifusion. a revolution in taste with a naturally formed crema on both coffee and espresso. nespresso vertuoline. experience the revolution of coffee. being. >> the most powerful rocket of launched from this air force base took to the skies last night. the unmanned rocket

. 43 in morgan hill. good morning half moon bay. 50 for you. and a look at sfo where the fog not as widespread but it's a cool morning once again. we should get used to this. usually you are waking up to numbers in the 40s. with a couple of clear spots, not out of the question to get upper 30s with the fog in the protected valleys. we have fog out by the delta, which, as i said that, it's clear. visibility pretty good right now. but a mile and three quarters santa rosa and concord at about 5-mile visibility. so as we take a look at our sutro tower camera, changes today are subtle. a few more high clouds in the north bay. but we will see some breaks around. and then the rain holds off for the most part until the evening hours, and gets going overnight. takes us through the monday morning commute. much of the day on monday. and becomes widely scattered late tomorrow. a couple more impulses behind it, keeping us in a pretty unsettled pattern. here's a look at what you can expect then as we go through the afternoon with 4:00 today, cloudy skies in the north bay. by 10:00 we've got some

-upper 50's and flight arrival delays at sfo averaging 1 hour and 49 minutes. steady rain on tuesday, and a rain on wednesday afternoon and dry on thursday. >>> we have 50 bart trains running on time and ace train is 26 minutes late heading into fremont and ace train three is 16 minutes late and this is because of fallen debris that is cause the delays. muni has in problems. as we look at berkeley, that is a nasty drive at 30 minutes from the split to albany, berkeley, emeryville, across the bridge do san francisco sow have the extra time. it is because of an early accident that has cleared on the eastern span of the bridge. we are now dealing only with the backup. into san jose, 87, across julian street traffic is wet but moving along without any problems. the am pass, mike has been telling us there is heavy rain falling trafficking weather and traffic and the yellow is an indication of heavy rain with delays from tracy and along 580 at 16 miles per hour. >>> the dictionary reveals the "word of the year," and san francisco wants to history the 2024 summer games but we learned the ci

-moderate rain and some moving through south san francisco and sfo. no delays yet. the showers in the north by are tapering. winds are light. less than ten miles per hour. not spending any damage or ponding. we have rain showing up on radar over 101 and 880 and it is light. most of the inland east east is dry. random morning showers and more showers this afternoon in the evening. and another storm on friday and dry and prettier and warmer the weekend. the low pressure developed on the cold front that brought us the exceptional rain in the evening with the gusts. we have a warm front that will stay to the north. when the cold front moves in, in the evening and overnight, we will see uptick of issue batch -- >> scattered showers through the lunch and at 5:00, especially 7:00 through 2:00 in the morning we will have our widespread rain. tomorrow, scattered shower and fog and we will have a tease before midnight with more showers in the north by through the morning rush hour into the lunch hour and by 5:00 through evening festivities on friday, it will her out and get cooler so you will t

is everywhere with only low-to-mid 50's around the bay shore. sfo has no flight arrival delays which is good news although a show passed through the last 45 michigan -- >> we thought we were in the clear on the bay bridge we have another accident reported. you can see the lights approach the tunnel westbound, three cars involved lane two we have of the tunnel. expect slower conditions on way into san francisco. the toll plaza is backed to the macarthur maze. >> 580 into the dublin/pleasanton area is 36 minutes. 25 minutes antioch to concord and san rafael into san francisco has a drive of 20 minutes. with the accident just now cleared on the shoulder at dumbarton toll plaza westbound in lane six now is on right shoulder. >>> it is 6:309 the conditions agree of the spread of the flu open west coast ahead of the holiday season. >> hundreds of students are starting the winter break earlier than expected. >> photos loaded to facebook could look sharper and a brand new feature affects you. we have more weather and more traffic all morning. we will have weather and traffic through th

. shows two hours and 29 minutes delay for arrival flights at sfo. >> now, 55 percent of state, in the worst academy and now only a third of state with 9886 of the state under some type of drought condition for the first time the long range forecasters say 2015 has 7 1% probability of being agency to above average as far as precipitation so we will improve the drought but we will not eliminate it the drought. that is good news. >> can see the wet weather over san francisco right now headed over to alameda and piedmont and oakland. here is the cold front with moderate rain embedded in the height rain starting to move into the northwest corner getting buffetted by southern wins at 15 miles per hour. look what it is doing to the south bay keeping you dry on 101 and 880 and the steady rain changes to afternoon showers as the don't moves from north to south and rain in the north bay tomorrow night a quick chance and dry and warmer on sunday through next week. notice where the storm track is mainly in the north so after rainy commute the front is going to stall but it will lose the moisture

, and sfo picked up three quarters of an inch if three hours. this will go on for 36 hours! >>> i am leyla gulen in the traffic strong and that is the macarthur maze and the east bay with traffic slow and wet. we have 93 incidents currently. that is including solo spinouts and stalled vehicles and flooding and more. >>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >>> at 6:30 a rainy and wet morning. live doppler hd is tracking the storm bringing heavy rain to the north bay. south bay. east bay. everywhere in between. pretty much all of us getting hit. thanks for joining us on december 2. >>> i am eric thomas leyla and lisa. >> it has been heavy. it is only light in the north bay around santa rosa and guerneville and everyone else has heavy rain. this is lombard where you navigate define the moderate rain, the puddles and the rainfall has increased so since 2:00 this morning we have been adding the totals at three-quarters of an inch at sfo. at lafayette and oakland and concord are looking at very heavy rain. the yellows are an indication of moderate to half rain. through

travel season is officially underway at sfo. but between cancellations and delays, things were off to a rough start at the bay area's busiest airport, thanks to the weather. katie marzullo has the story. >> waiting in line for over four hours, that's kind of ridiculous. >> he's trying to get to nashville to see his family for christmas. first his southwest flight was delayed for three hours and then he missed it because of that long line at the ticket counter. >> everybody was rebooking and having to reschedule and people were missing. i was standing in line with somebody and he missed his flight like hours previous. >> he is booked on a flight sunday out of oakland. >> i'm frustrated. wished it could have been on time and wish i could have gotten home to my family. >> for this family their delayed flight was a wish come true. they were running late, partly because of the wet ride coming in. >> it took about an hour and 15 minutes to get up here from menlo park. >> but because their flight was delayed 90 minutes. >> we can actually eat dinner and relax and sort of regroup and then

." [ laughter ] we have of whether or not i would readings and visibility that the be impacting sfo and perhaps oakland this morning. this will stay with us throughout the next several hours. even the 10:00 hour, 11:00 we will begin to see the crease lift a little bit. they aren't going to go away totally. we will have holes in the overcast. see partly cloudy skies today, very mild afternoon readings in the 60s, and this does begin a pattern change. i'll explain coming up. >> lisa, thank you. we have developing news of the shocking murders of two new york police officers." two new york police officers. the officers were ambushed and murdered and never had an opportunity to draw their weapons. they were wenjin liu and rafael ramos. >> a brazen and deadly attack in new york city. leaving the police commissioner and mayor shaken. >> we tried to bring some sense to the madness that occurred this afternoon in the streets of brooklyn. >> our city is in mourning. our hearts are heavy. >> sinking in. two police officers shot to death on the streets of brooklyn in broad day light. >> they were q

delays at sfo. >> an hour and six minutes. >> call ahead if you are traveling today. we continue online and twitter and facebook and all mobile devices. see you in 25 start a revolution a revolution in coffee quality with the finest nespresso coffee blends. a revolution in technology with unique centrifusion. a revolution in taste with a naturally formed crema on both coffee and espresso. nespresso vertuoline. experience the revolution of coffee. >>> good morning, america. breaking right now, the christmas storm that could wreck so many holiday travel plans for millions of americans. snow, high winds, big rains, and thunderstorms. major delays looming on the road and in the air. will you make it home in time for the holiday? >>> new this morning. police on high alert. the new threats this morning after the two officers were shot execution-style, ambushed in their squad car. emotional individualle vigils as friends and family. outrage growing as police blame leaders for inciting the violence. >>> lady came in with a child. >> is he choking? >> yes, he's choking. >>> two parents in

at sfo. 56 minute flight arrival delays here at sfo with low clouds the cause for the delays. we have fog and low clouds for much of the bay area and low visibility open roads, headed out of town, be careful. live doppler hd shows very dense conditions especially through the north bay and certainly across the san mateo bridge. temperatures are going to be two to five degrees cooler than yesterday in san francisco in the my 50's and location land lower 50's and 50's for san jose lower 50's and 50's for san jose and half moon bay and 54 from the nimitz, it is clear. if you have a flight a san jose airport, it will not be a problem and we do not experience traffic. it is a local day light situation. we have a fog advisory over the bridges there and the area shaded in orange trafficking weather and traffic is an indication of we heavy fog. 580, tracy to castro valley a short 32 minutes. 101 northbound from highway 85 san jose airport 11 minutes and 280 through daly city is under ten minutes to san francisco. >> still ahead, the free ride will soon be over for golden gay transit rider

of a breeze today. here is a look from the sfo camera and we do not have flight arrival delay because we have clear skies. it will be a cool and breezy christmas day and cold are nights ahead with a dry pattern into the new year. >> breeze here, too as far as track, empty. that is where we have a sig-alert with more information on that will set could up when we run. which means it's timeson for the volkswagen sign-then-drive event. for practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a german-engineered volkswagen. like the sporty, advanced new jetta... and the 2015 motor trend car of the year all-new golf. if you're wishing for a new volkswagen this season... just about all you need is a finely tuned... pen. get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first month's payment on select new volkswagen models. >>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >>> just about 6:30 on christmas morning, a thursday. good morning, everyone, i am eric thomas with leyla gulen and we hope your christmas is a great one. >> merry christmas everyone

, a clear drive. san francisco to sfo is 10 minutes. 880 is wide open, and 101 through san jose not a delay to be seen. >>> we have what is becoming a major weapon in the battle against package theft: surveillance video. they help identify grinches who steal gives from our steps. matt keller is in the south bay with an example. and what a gentleman will do. >> many are returning gifts today but a san jose man is hoping a gift will be returned to his house and he is hoping the san jose police defendant can help out with that. check out the surveillance video from the home in the evergreen neighbor. postal worker dropped off a package at 9:00 p.m. and half an hour later you can see a white car pull up, a man walks up with a piece of paper in his hand and grabs the market and gets in the back the car and takes off. inside the package, a christmas gift for the home owner's daughter. >> it service emotional value. [ inaudible ] the message is, don't tell other people's package; don't steal other people's joy. >> they will take the surveillance video to the san jose police department today.

hours ago colder on the north bay and the south bay. sfo is a little colder with temperatures seasonably cool. and this afternoon with the sunshine it should be a nice day, although it is a spare-the-air day. with poor air quality in the north bay as the eastern pacific ridge press down on the atmosphere, bringing poor air quality and the very, very stable air with light winds. from our sutro tower camera we are looking at a sunny sunday today. right around 10:00 101:00 the clouds really begin to guilter and we will see clearer conditions. more sunshine today. it will be cool pucks we are looking at the coldest days still to come as the strong cold front pushes down from the north on tuesday. so here's a look at our water vapor imagery. you see what's coming. you see the lines here. they are called ice oh bars where we have when they are very very close together that designates very windy conditions. the northeasterly winds. and perhaps up to 50 miles an hour, especially out by the delta w that the cold air. so overnight lows in the low to mid-30s in santa rosa right through w

because of the storm. it is that keep of week at sfo. yesterday, the weather caused delays and cancellations at san francisco international airport and last night there were delays of three hours after four-hour delay early in the day. 130 flights were canceled. oakland and san jose international airport experienced only mimer -- minor delays. >>> people were treated to lightning across the bay area. >> what a treat. >> what a treat. this is from ocean strikes over a period of half an hour. then it was gone. light rain followed. not much wind at that point. we saw plenty of lightning this morning. >> we saw dozens. i took a picture and posted it to ureport@kgo-tv.com and hopfully -- hopefully you post your photos. >> according to pg&e the biggest outage is in san francisco with 3,200 customers without electricity. mostly in chinatown. >>> 1,000 customers have their power knocked out in fremont and vacaville has 463 outages. 300 are experiencing outage in san jose and los altos. it is just one those mornings. >>> you can see the weather where you live with live doppler hd and th

right now. the winds are picking up at 18 miles per hour at forward and 12 at sfo and 13 at santa rosa and that is easy compared to what we will have moving forward and we will get up to around 25-miles-per-hour gusts and by 7:00 this morning at noon we at 25 to 35. these are gusts not sustained and as we head into the 5:00 hour, the lows offshore or 35 to 45-miles-per-hour gusts and they will stay up for the better part of the night but in sheltered valleys with the deeper valleys seeing sub-freezing temperatures. in the afternoon we drop to around 15- to 25-miles per hour. we will stay there for the better part of the day. breezy tomorrow but not so windy as today. from mount tamalpais we have gusts around 35 to 30 miles per hour and in san jose at 101 and 880 we have a cold front and another one bying dry air and total sunshine and the winds make it feel cooler than the thermometer and more so in the shade 9 we will have frost and a cold night because we are having frosty night tomorrow and thursday and warmer and not quite so dry air this weekend. your helps and continueers will no

sfo and wind chills in the 20's and 30's and you can see the flags blow on the exploritorium. feels like the 20's and 30's but it will feel like low 50's from noon to pack, and the temperatures will be the same but dress for 30's at 10:00 tonight outside in san francisco. >> still have a wind advisory? >> yes. they have been issued for all of the bridges. right now from emeryville camera, you can see it is bouncing. if you drive a high profile vehicle, it is going to be a shaky drive into the city. walnut creek and 680 southbound, tail lights are light right now as you make it to highway 24 as pleasant hill. we are dealing with downed trees in certain areas through the santa cruz mountains and i will have more information on that and your new year's eve mass transit schedule. >>> thank you, leyla gulen. investigators in san jose this morning are looking into the origin of an apartment fire indirectlily caused by tuesday's windstorm last night. the man whose apartment burned was outside cutting up a tree that fell and took out the neighborhood power. when he went back inside he saw h

are up to 4 at half moon bay stuck around three and no delays at sfo. the area of low pressure responsible for showers to the north and the heavy rain is with it. we will have light scattered showers on live doppler hd coming from southwest to northeast throughout the day today and an area that is raping the most is on 280 and 17 with the most is on 280 and 17 with flashing lights. >>> and light showers today, with showers and thunder and local flooding tomorrow afternoon, and light showers lingering on saturday but dry and bright on sunday. the cold front is moving to the west and that is the lifting mechanism that brings the buoyancy needed. right now we have top position right now we have top position -- drizzle and more fog tomorrow. by noon you are okay. after the lunch hour, the waves of showers developing with yellows and oranges and possible locally heavy thunderstorms with small hail and localized gusty wind. wind. we will have .1 to the mountains. saturday afternoon and sunday, dry and sunday evening, rain. the rest of us get rain on monday. a break on tuesday and wed

valley and the cool spot on this map is 51 in danville and 52 in brentwood. sfo has in delays even with the low ceiling. we will have showers and thunderstorms and moderate and brief heavy rain and hail from the storms rolling through this afternoon and low-to-mid 60's and lingering showers, dry tomorrow afternoon through sunday and more rain sunday night and especially monday and later on in the seven-day outlook. >>> i am happy to say it has been friday light with only a couple of accidents. this is a look from the san jose bureau camera to 280 aheaded away fromly 17 -- and from walnut creek from 280 closer to the 24 junction we see the bunching up of traffic. as you continue south into danville, up to san ramon and 580 you can see the traffic is clear but with the exception of 580 westbound we had an accident block one lane at mission boulevard at southbound 680 loan the sunol grade an accident on the shoulder causing some delays. >>> you cannot blame the rain or a mudslide for the closing of highway one on the san mateo county coast. the devil's slide tunnel will be shut down b

caused a few flight delays at san jose international, but at sfo the weather racked up 110 cancelled flights for the bay. the combination of low clouds, wind, and spotty rain meant flights from boston and los angeles, and plenty of cities in between were scrubbed or delayed. >> i'm flying to l.a. >> what happened to your flight? >> it's cancelled. >> eric is also trying to get to los angeles. >> pretty much three hours delay. almost all the flights i have seen, three to four hours. >> he even double-booked flights to try to get back home for a important date. >> i booked a second to see if they canceled the first one and it's a business flight. i just need to get back home. had an event to go to tonight, but i guess it's not going to happen. >> the weather triggered a ground stop at sfo for a while. the second day in a row air traffic as temporarily halted. across the bay near concord, light, steady rain and windy conditions made for potentially slick driving conditions and san jose near santana road steady rains fell for a couple of hours. part of the off again and on-again pattern

numbers in the upper 50s a good deal of fog. 44 minute delays at sfo and some sunshine on the way for the raiders and the niners. we will talk about that and the storm when we return. >> thank you, lisa. also ahead, a northern california man killed in a failed rescue attempt in yemen. new details on what happened in yesterday's predawn raid. >>> and how the napa earthquake is not stopping one community from lending a helping hand to troops overseas this holiday. find options to fit your budget. nah, nah, insurance, nah, nah, nah, discount. my name's flo, you want to go out with me? no. uh-huh-huh! these guys should've gone to my place, cuz right now, i have two breakfast croissants for just four bucks. they're both made with a freshly cracked egg and melting cheese on a buttery, flaky croissant. try the supreme with bacon and ham, or the sausage. they'll fill you up for - whoa hey! what are you doing? you can't make a commercial for your restaurant at my restaurant! not if you keep interrupting me, i can't. we gdid he help pick it out?er. no, he's a cat. is this mine? that one's f

seeing if as we look southbound on 101 in san rafael and sfo more than an hour flight arrival delays because of the low clouds so call ahead. mostly cloudy, light showers across the north. dry today, tomorrow and wednesday. get your storms ready, storm drains, gutters, weak trees. if you see what is a dying limb on a tree or a tree that is potentially dying, cut it down now and get it out of the way because with winds at 50 to 60 miles per hour and the saturated ground and 23-5" of rain possible at the lower end to a food possible rain in the mountains you can picture the damage. today, the radar runs north of 80 and then it tapers and overnight clouds open up and mother fog tomorrow with sunshine and mother nature will tease us on tuesday and she should the door on that and by 5:00 you can see the rain coming in. the system is flowing, in the north bay, heading through the heart of the day during the heart of the bay and move through the south bay in the evening rush hour. it will affect evening rush hour and beyond that showers through friday as we get on the cold side of that. som

the mid-to-upper 50's and sfo is 61 degrees! right now. isn't that beautiful from east bay hills camera? warm before the storm today and tomorrow. we set a report high yesterday in oakland at 74. possible today, as well. foggy again today with tonight lows in the 50's. owe average high is 58 to 59 and that is where we start out. heavy rain and wind and large surf is coming on thursday. warm air rain starts wednesday night. it could be moderate with the orange there. as we head to the evening hours, it will continue but right up here in the upper left hand part of rain there is the cold front and the red with the thunderstorms and the flooding that will begin at 7:00 in the north bay and that push into the heart of o'clock and hang around and scattered showers will linger thursday night into friday. the hest rain -- the heaviest rain is in the first patch. 1-3" if the rest of us, and 5-8" in the north bay mountains with the coast nearly a foot of rain. we will have issue batch flooding. dangerous surf. creek flooding. mud and rock slides. high winds, we have a watch so prepared fo

near 60 degrees for some. 59 sfo/half moon bay. southerly breeze will keep a lot of the temperatures on the mild side. mostly cloudy. some rain again, kind of skirting right along the coast here. mostly cloudy. a lot of 60s on these temperatures. i know the dumbarton bridge, any improvement? >> it's pretty bad, steve, westbound. we have a crash that's blocking -- it's right in the middle of the bridge. it's an overturned vehicle. they are having trouble getting that car out of the way. traffic is backed up from the nimitz freeway. it's also very slow on 880. now the spleaut -- san mateo bridge is getting busy because people have heard about the crash and are using the san mateo bridge which is the obvious solution. a lot of people are on the bridge. both bridges are bad. i would still recommend using the san mateo bridge. you will just be stuck in a whole lot of traffic. now, if you are driving to the bay bridge. that's okay. no major problems. about a 20-minute delay and then off you go to the peninsula. when you get there, it's not too bad on 101. if you are driving this morning over

likely to go up. also, the food workers at sfo, the union has called a strike today to protest their working conditions or something that they are not happy with, and that means bring a sandwich. bring something to eat. you probably won't be able to to get anything there to eat as your flight is canceled. that sounds lovely, doesn't it? one of the things i want to mention, the dumbarton bridge is okay. if you are driving too fast for the conditions, no matter what the posted speed limit sign says, you can be pulled over. headlights are required any time you are using your windshield wipers. even during the day. >> we will check in again soon. >>> power outages, threat of flooding, those are some of the concerns from what is shaping up to be the largest storm to hit the bay area in more than six years. ktvu's alex savidge live in the hartsfield-jackson of where some businesses are -- heart of where some businesses are closed because of the storm. >> reporter: we are getting blasted by a pretty heavy band of rain here in downtown san ann selmo. at the entrance to this arts studio a pil

. that is a huge improvement over the more than 250 cancellations at sfo yesterday. no major problems are expected at the two airports in oakland and san jose. however, you should still contact your airline ahead of time before heading off to the airport this morning. in the meantime, many travellers heading to sfo may be hungry as they wait for their flight. a strike by 1,000 airport workers. they walked off the job over job security and healthcare. the strike impacted the vast majority of the airports restaurants at the peak of the storm. the workers are expected to be back on the job tom. >>> barts annual safety escort program will be under way tomorrow. it is helping curve crime against holiday shoppers riding bart back to oakland from san francisco. there were supposed to be escorts betweenand 7:00 this morning but oakland police say the escort program has been cancelled tonight due to anticipated protests. we are trying to find out when the escort program will begin. >>> time is now 7:09. we can smile because juan of the south bay's -- because one of the south bay's holiday even

gusts to 43 at the napa airport. 20 to 40 miles an hour. sfo east at 29. some of the heavier amounts look like they are pushing off to the big valley. there's plenty to go. santa cruz right over highway 17, back towards morgan hill and gilroy, that looks to be the heaviest down to steady rain in monterey. when you start to see the lighter greens, that's decreasing in intensity. same for the east bay. some of this might be drip, drip, drip, we'll still be in the rain for most of the day, most of the week. not as much to the north. but there are have been 1-inch amounts for many. no warnings or watches. cold air development will keep nus a cold pattern. 40s and 50s on the temps. gusts to 38. napa airport is going bonkers. concord, 20. cold today. if you don't have to leave house the -- to leave the -- to leave the house, i wouldn't. it looks like the rain is letting up. but i'm sure the table has already been set with all sorts of issues, sal. >> i've learned from you, the other day when there's no clouds, the temperatures dropped. >> that's correct. >> i listened to you for what? a lo

. thank you. >>> 7:06. well, if you will be flying out of sfo, expect more flight cancellations and delays today due to the weather. this is a live look at the airport right now. sfo tells us there are 48 cancellations so far today due to the weather. they are also expecting delays up to two hours, almost three hours from 8:00 this morning until 11:00 tonight. they say exactly two hours and 43 minutes if you want to be specific. yesterday, 145 flights were canceled. last thursday, 250 flights at sfo were canceled due to all of that heavy rain and very strong winds. no major delays are reported, at least so far at oakland or san jose airport. >>> 7:07. a pittsburg high school student was arrested during class on suspicion of killing one man and shooting two others. shootings happened late sunday night at the meadows mobile home community near highway 4. the 17-year-old opened fire on three men outside of a party. police say he was not a guest at the party or even associated with any of the people there. the man who was killed has not yet been identified. police say the two other men who wer

2.75. i said only. 2.75. cazadero 1.50. sleepily hollow, 1.30. sfo, .75. oakland, .75. san francisco .23. many people have brought this up. we've mentioned it. the sierra nevada is not in on this party. they are getting some snow but i mean, we take the bulk of the precipitation heavy and then these systems are sliding more south and east. by the time they get in the sierra, they all part. it doesn't mean they are not getting know. they are not getting the heavy snow or the winter storm warnings or the blizzard warnings. it's getting general snow, which is good. it still adds up. we get the rain and it continues from vallejo wrapping back -- an intense system around fremont/union city. just like that. it disappeared. it's moving rapidly into the san jose foothills. there's still some coming down out of the most direction. and some of that might give us -- this next system, they've been woefully underdone on the projections. this will be a weaker system that comes in this evening overnight. so showers this morning. mostly cloudy, some rain develops by this afternoon. it won't be heavy

the embarcadero, san jose, sfo, half moon bay and hayward and livermore showing signed of a wind. 28 in tahoe. 40s, 50s down to san diego from eureka to san diego. this system will move in. that will will give us okay rain to the north bay. the rain -- heavier rain is moving north. there will be far less than that to the south. could be pockets of .50 to 1.50 to some of those from this final system. there will be one on saturday. that will be farther north. partly cloudy to mostly cloudy. 60s on some of the temps. 50s for others. look for a couple of sunbreaks in the morning. we'll increase the clouds along with the southeast wind, a mild pattern. a weak brushes us on saturday. then a break, sunday, monday, tuesday. that's as far as i'm going. >> all right, steve. >>> it's an unbelievable story of survival. >> you realize the finer things in life are something as small as unconditional love. >> may want to grab a tissue. up next, the incredible odds one dog fashioned just to get reunited with her guardian. it was feared she had drowned in a recent bay area storm. >>> it looks like a

the desk. >> a lot of red there on the traffic map. thank you. >>> if you will be flying out of sfo today, you may want to check the status of your flight before heading to the airport. we just talked to officials at sfo who say passengers may experience delays of at least two hours due to the weather and the faa says delays could even be as much as four hours. that's a lot of wait time. there are currently 34 flight cancellations and 33 flight delays at sfo. that's according to the website flightaware. two flights have been canceled at san jose airport, one flight is delayed there due to the weather. we also just checked with the oakland airport. they say there are no significant delays at oakland this morning. >>> well, steve says this rain storm is the heaviest we've seen since december of 2012. as sal has been taking us, taking a toll on the morning commute. tara moriarty is in san francisco where it's coming down heavy for a while. has it let up a little bit? >> reporter: it has. it's sprinkling in san francisco. we're along the embarcadero where we have seen a lot of people ou

over sfo this morning. how about the east bay. we got a few scattered showers . as you get in areas near berkeley as well as covington. the snow continues to fall at this hour. if you are traveling to the sierra. there is still a winter weather advisories. snow is expected with this and blowing snow is going to be the issue if you are going to the sierra. we'll continue with the possibility of showers. we'll take a look at what you can expect on your day . i will sharl more coming up. >> >>> happening now, if you are needing to shop, you are running out of time. this is your last weekend. those stores are opened late. >> there are an a few store a few stores that's staying open late. we have a clock to count down for you. today is the biggest shopping dy of the year, it is called "super saturday". >> toys r's' us is getting you to their store. this coming week, they are going to stay open until 39 hours straight. a few stores down is target. that's where alliis reporting live from. >> reporter: this is one of the busy target here in the bay area. there is always someone working here

contract for sfo restaurant workers. this is for them walking off the job again. >>> we are in st. anthony's getting ready for the holiday meals. how you still have time to help out. >> . >>> good morning to you. i am claudine wong. >> i am mike mibach. >>> had a hill drizzle as i trove into oakland. we will turn to rosemary now. >>> 3:03 is the arrival of the winter solstice. we have a drier pattern. we have fog as well. look into san jose. still waiting on the sunshine and all the cloud cover out there. most of us not likely to see the sunrise on the way. move over to storm tracker two and look at all the cloud cover. the moisture beneath the beam and not being able to to be picked up. i had it on my way in as well. we have got the cloud cover that we can see here. it is a partly sunny this afternoon. and mention of clouds the second half of the day. they begin to finally nudge in and take the weather pattern. it will leave to a number of fridays for the week ahead. >>> we have a coastal flood advisory in addition to the shoreline from the north bay down to the monterey area. fr

peninsula, 50s. 57 mountain view. we're looking at 57 sfo. if you are headed to sfo maybe picking somebody up, some of those arriving flights because of the low clouds and fog delayed by an hour. the afternoon today, under mostly cloudy skies. upper 60s for oakland, hayward, fremont. san jose you are checking in at 66. santa rosa you will get to 67. 63 at pacifica and again mostly sunny skies for the bay area. we're going to continue with this pattern, at least for a couple of days. i do see wet changes at least the possibility of wet changes coming our way by christmas eve. good morning, sal. >>> good morning to you, rosemary. we're looking at a commute where traffic will be mostly normal this morning. we have a couple of major incidents, though, that we'll get to that are going to be tying up traffic. but here at the bay bridge toll plaza, it looks like a normal commute with about a 20, 25- minute drive into san francisco. we've taken an informal poll and a lot of people are working monday and tuesday. some on wednesday. it looks like the dropoff will come later. this is a look

for the holidays, there could be trouble ahead. we are live at sfo this morning. here is a shot. you can see a lot of people kind of coming into the airport now. things look like they are running fairly smoothly this morning at sfo. however, a big storm is threatening to derail travel plans for millions of americans. high winds, thunderstorms, soaking rains are all set to slam into the east coast and the midwest. coming up in a couple of minute, we'll tech in with alex savidge who has been out at the airport all morning long checking in. he's talking to some very cheery travelers. >> yes. >> they are happy to be getting out of town and heading somewhere for the holidays. >> and meeting alex as well. thank you for joining us. good tuesday, december 23rd. i'm pam cook. >> i'm brian flores. >>> let's get your day started with weather and traffic. by the way, steve is off. rosemary is here and -- >> we're holding down the fort. >> it should be a nice day today. >> yes, it is gonna be a beautiful day. yesterday afternoon, sunny skies, temperatures in the 60s, well above the seasonal avera

tallahassee area overnight. you should prepare for potential delays today if you are flying out of sfo or picking someone up at the airport. storms in the rockies as well and along the east coast could cause problems throughout the day. cars were lining up outside of the entrance this morning as travelers were showing up for their flights. but because of the fog, we have here an faa website report delays could reach an hour at sfo today. at 9:00 this morning, the airport will switch to a ground control program. that means that because it cannot handle the air traffic all at once, the sfo will limb i the number of planes departing and in particular arriving at sfo in a given hour. >>> it was a bumpy start to the christmas week at la guardia airport. a southwest airlines plane clipped wings with an american airlines jet. both planes, one passenger, heard a jarring bump. when she looked outside, she said she saw half the wing of the southwest plane was missing. no one on board either flight was injured but people on the southwest plane had to walk off the aircraft and be bussed back to the t

up to two hours at sfo. >>> and the california high pressure is mark the holiday with the annual dui crackdown. it began at 7:00 last night. the chp saysing it deploying all -- says it is deploying all officers. the enforcement period runs through midnight on sunday. >>> an apple company in missouri issued a recall of caramel apples that may be linked to listeria. the company says it recently heard from one of its suppliers here in california that there may be a connection between the outbreak and the apples they provided. the cdc says the listeria outbreak has affected 29 people in ten states, including a santa cruz woman who died. >>> an african-american man tackled and arrested by bart police in august is suing the transit agency alleging civil rights violations. he claims he was falsely accused of accosting a woman in a case of mistaken identity. bart has not even the lawsuit and is not commenting. >>> a federal judge in oakland ruled a class-action lawsuit against facebook can continue. it was filed against facebook users by an oregon -- by users in oregon and arkansas. they cla

. sfo propertying 53. and low 40s as well. the winds preventing any fog from forming not morning and keeping temperatures up because it keeps the atmosphere mixed and that cool dense air isn't allowed to settle in. fifty-seven for the afternoon today. and mostly sunny nice oakland. fifty-six redwood city. fifty-nine san jose. up east from santa rosa and napa. and so the winds will eventually die off as we get into the second half of your day. i'll have a look at what we can expect for your bay area weekend coming up. >> thank you so much. time now 7:03. we are also keeping an eye on the roads. look at there. there is the reason why we liver in the bay area, folks. chamber of commerce day there morning across the golden gate bridge. no major problems on the traffic span across the golden gate bridge.fully really in the bay area. as we take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza looking very nice. no major problems as we have seen. i looked at the traffic maps a few moments ago. it is a sea of green and we like green whether it comes to traffic. get out there. eight to ten minutes to get

degrees, may not even really notice. 44 at sfo and mountainview right now. 36 redwood city. we'll take a little tour for you. you're waking up with 35. upper 30s for foster city as well as sunny veil and 36 degrees reported in saratoga. 37 outside your door san ramon and 39 for brentwood. winter spare the air day. so with the cold temperatures in mind that i need to remind you unless you're exempt that it is not okay this morning. north bay, just slightly unhealthy that the rest of us will be with moderate air quality for today that i will have a look in the extended forecast, even colder, blustery weather coming up. i'll have that for you in just a bit. >>> the last game of the season for the 49ers, levi stadium. kicking off 1:25. cardinals still have a shot at winning the division. >> but all of that. >> the focus really is jim harbaugh. >> that's what everyone has been talking about. we've been hearing for a while of course that jim harbaugh, the university of michigan has been trying to get them to take their head coach job. and now the multiple reports are saying that he is g

be nicer on the coast, then it will be inland. 30s, 40s to 50. 50 as sfo, long peak 39. some are cold. menlo park continues to cool off. 36 cold degrees. foster city has dipped. belmont and san mateo, that's cold. 2 in minneapolis. 8 below up in bismarck. 1, the loneliest number, the loneliest number. >> there is a song there somewhere. >> denver 13. all the way down to albuquerque and oklahoma city and even little rock. cold air has made a good plunge. there's more on the way. the leading edge of that will start to work its way in tuesday. that's what will mick up the wind -- pick up the wind. as the low forms over southern california, they may get more precip out of that than we will and also las vegas talking about a possibility of snow. that's how cold this system is. a lot of dynamics is in place. the fog is the big story. mostly sunny, partly cloudy. but then turning colder and very windy as we head to tuesday and wednesday. high temperatures on tuesday will probably be set by about 10:00 or 11:00 this morning. that cold air will come flying in here. wind advisory is out fo

airport. the duty manager at sfo expects delays as long as three hours later today because of rain and wind. 92 flights have been canceled at sfo today. if you are heading to oakland airport or san jose's airport, expect storm-related delays there as well. >>> drivers heading from the bay area to the sierra mountains should be prepared for stormy road conditions this morning. this video is from a caltrans camera on highway 80 and the road looks mostly clear. traffic moving but it does look very snowy off the roads. chain requirements are in effect for that highway between kingvale and the donner lake interchange. caltrans crews are working around the clock to keep those snowy roadways here. >> still coming down. but they are keeping the roads pretty clear right now. >> as much as three feet of snow could fall at the summit by the end of tomorrow. >> and the storm is also bringing a lot of rain to saferl. that's prompting fears about mudslides and flooding. one area of concern is and glendora near los angeles. that's where a major wildfire burned almost 2,000 acres earlier this year. so

beginning to pick up, higher elevations out to the valley. sfo due north at 20 miles an hour. livermore has gob from calm to 9 miles an hour to the north. san jose is northwest. san francisco, i did see 24 miles an hour around the presidio and around the embarcadero, 14. you combine that with that cool temperature and that cuts right through you, for us. wind advisory started two minutes ago. that will take us through this afternoon. you can see the system beginning to dive down to southern california. the low is going to norm. once that does down in southern california, high pressure to the north, lower pressure to the south. clears everything out. that cold air moves in. a cold and windy day. what's the good news? it will be sunny. partly cloudy skies. they will clear out pretty fast. upper 40s, 50s for some. i think it's a cold, windy day for parts of the east bay. we have an issue on 880? >> yes. traffic was looking really good this morning. there is a new problem on 880. want to go to the maps. around this area, fifth and embarcadero. chp reporting at least 13 cars pulle

were 43. due north sfo at 22. it's been a blustery, cold morning. san francisco, gusts over 23. had gusts to 46 yesterday. it's very close to las vegas. it looks like, though, it's more rain if there is any snow it will probably be tonight as the system rotates through there. there's been snow in southern california. our low will eject out towards arizona. hello, tara. turn your mico on. what she's trying to say is, good morning, steve. >> good morning. you were talking about how chilly it was in concord. i just want to make sure people understand about black ice. >> could be a little bit around, that's true. >> take it easy oin the roadway -- on the roads. we're gonna take a look at the bridges. this is the richmond san rafael toll plaza. not a lot of folks out there. good for them. have the day off. i want to show you this shot. it's very so beautiful. just a beautiful drive as you make your way into san francisco. no delays. we have a wind advisory in effect for all. bridges except the golden gate. make sure you have both hands firmly on the steering wheel. back to the desk. >>>

airports slowly getting back to normal after two days of the stormy weather. the duty manager at sfo said there are only expecting about eight storm-related cancellations this morning. that's a big improvement over 150 cancellations at sfo yesterday. flights are expected to go smoothly at oakland and san jose airports. it's probably still a good idea to call ahead before you head off to the airport. >>> a massachusetts man is facing assault charges this morning. he's accused of attacking a 74- year-old female security agent at boston's logan airport. police say it started when a tsa agent told him his carry-on was too big. now, according to the police report, he swung his backpack into the woman's face and knocked her off her feet. surveillance cameras show he then quickly walked away but he was immediately tackled and was arrested by a nearby state trooper. he's identified as a 53-year- old financial analyst. police say he told them he was aggravated and made a mistake. >>> house republicans are prepared to pass a bill blocking president obama's executive actions on immigration. even sup

. >> dominate. >> okay. >> dominate. >> okay. >>> inside sfo the cadets wait to board the flight for the american youth championships, a chance to express team spirit which is already had. they're wearing hoodies that were made for this trip. >> how many have you not been on a plane before. it's the first time, are you all ready. >> these youngsters ages 8 to 11. >> what was the reaction had you found out you were going to any? >> all right. >> i feel kind of nervous, but it feels good at the same time. >> it feels good. this 11-year-old tells me to be away from richmond where two friends his own age were shot and killed at a corner store, wrong place at the wrong time. >> too many people are getting murdered and i don't want to end up like my friends. >> a chance they can overcome the odds. the anxious mothers are waiting to see them off, a journey they couldn't afford but now made possible from ktvu viewers donation. >> they probably won't be able to step out of richmond. >> i want them to know there are better things out there. >> 1, 2, 3. >> a chance encounter with cal women's ba

look outside. and into sfo, we have the low clouds and the fog this morning. so i would say expect delays if you know somebody flying into sfo. if you're jumping on to the highways this morning, be prepared because it is fairly widespread. no advisory but the national weather service here in the bay area but for sacramento they have issued one and i'll show that you in a moment. we're waking up mostly cloudy, a few peaks of sunshine out there this morning. but i'm seeing fog in areas like santa rosa, livermore and san jose. all reported at the airport. so i'm going to figure that this is a little bit more widespread. you'll probably find it along the coastline as well. national weather service office in sacramento decided to issue a dense fog advisory for parts of the delta and this includes parts of our viewing area, so if you do live in areas like vallejo, benesia into fairfield there's a dense fog advisory that lasts into the next couple of hours. 56 in oakland. 55 novato. 52 san jose. we warm into the 60s today. i'll look at the afternoon highs and i'm tracking two systems in t