Officials expect to have all the barriers in place by noon today. Theyll remain until the threat of heavy rain passes. Its 4 30 now. Back to mike nicco. This is a three on the storm impact scale. Well take a look at that scale right after i show you the current temperatures so you know how to dress this morning. Hi, everybody. Mid to upper 40s in places like clear lake, clover dale, ukiah, san ramone and gilroy at about 50 along with santa rosa. Everybody else 51 to 54 degrees. So lets talk about that storm impact scale. We talked yesterday, they had tendencies of being a three with that heavy amount of rain that was going to fall so, sure enough, we bumped it up to a three. One to two inches in most areas. Two to four in the north bay. The flooding is a concern. Well take a look at flash flood watch, the wind advisory and your commute planner because its going to get really messy during a couple of them. Thats coming up next. Here is sue. All right, yeah, the first three of the season pretty exciting actually. We do have some light conditions that could change with the rain coming down this is san rafael. North san pedro road with a 20minute drive to the Golden Gate Bridge and over to walnut creek southbound 680 is looking pretty good towards highway 24 with an eightminute drive from concord to the 24 interchange. One problem out there it is on 680 the connector ramp to eastbound 80. This is northbound 680 the ramp. A solo spinout and a car up on the embankment so its not blocking lanes. My sensors are looking good. But when they get the tow truck that may be a different story. Well update in a couple of minutes. Thank you, sue. New developments in the deadly shooting spree in northern califoria. The gunman hit seven different places including an Elementary School in and around corning. Were seeing the first image of the suspect. The alleged shooter is kevin neal. The shooter was bent on engaging and killing people at random. He shot at several homes before he made his way to the school. Quick thinking staffers heard shots and immediately placed the campus on lockdown. Police ended up killing him. His mom tells the Associated Press he called her a few days before the shooting saying its over now. Im on a cliff and theres nowhere to go. On to developing news, the search is on for an escaped killer from hawaii who could be in the bay area now. Look at his photo. Prosecutors and Police Agencies who have dealt with Randall Saito say he is psychotic, extremely dangerous who escaped from a Mental Health facility and flew to the south bay. Matt keller is live for us at the san jose airport. Matt . Reporter a Prosecutor Says this man fits the criteria of a classic serial killer, and now hes on the loose after landing here in san jose on sunday. Here is his photo again the he is 59 years old, Randall Saito. 6 feet tall, 220 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes. Saito escaped from a State Hospital in oahu sunday morning. He was acquitted after being found insane. In 1993 a court denied saitos request saying he continued to suffer from sexual saidism and necrophilia. A 500,000 bench warrant for his arrest. Going back to his violent past. He has a propensity for committing another violent offense. Reporter police in honolulu are investigating how he pulled off his escape. He is dangerous and should not be approached. If you see him call 911. Reporting live in san jose, matt keller, abc 7 news. B. A. R. T. Police need your help finding a man behind a bigoted and belligerent attack and this was caught on camera. This happened monday night on a warm springs bound train. The man you see there in the long sleeved shirt yelled racial slurs at another passenger and then slapped and punched him. By the time b. A. R. T. Police arrived the suspect was gone. Police are asking for help to track down that man. City leaders revising rent control for the second time in the past year. Last night city councilmembers voted 65 to maintain the current 5 cap on rent increases for apartments built before 79 covering half of the rental market. Tenant groups want to link increases to the Consumer Price index. And this morning im monitoring tensions with north korea from our live desk. We have learned china is sending a senior diplomat to visit the north and hell serve as an envoy of president xi jinping. Its unclear if its a direct result of the recent talks. According to President Trump last week the chinese promised to impose more sanctions on china. But well have to wait and see if it actually happens. China is north koreas main trading partner. And on a related note another quick story from our live desk. Three ucla basketball players detained in china on suspicion of shoplifting are back home this morning. They arrived at Los Angeles International airport late last night. Freshmen liangelo ball, jalen hill and cody riley had been detained for questioning since last week. Chinese Officials Say the situation was resolved to their satisfaction. President trump had asked president xi to intervene during their meeting last week. All right, jessica, thank you. About 300 Parking Spaces used by ferry passengers are closed permanently. The marin ij says the smart train needs a portion to construct a station and other amenities as part of a 55. 4 million project. Its located not far away from the ferry terminal. 230 spaces in the lower part of the lightly used parking lot will still be available. Smart plans to Begin Service in lark spur in 2019. Crabbers began pulling their pots at 12 01 this morning. This means fresh dungeness crab could be in markets by the end of the week. The high winds could slow the haul. The recreational crab season began a week and a half ago. All right. Lets take a look at our flash flood watches. This is for the north bay. The area you see shaded in green from clover dale down to mill valley to st. Helena. The recent burn scars are the area were most concerned with. Thats where the runoff could begin and it would be easiest for it to begin there because theres just Nothing Holding the ground in anymore. Also, weve got some trees that may be weakened by the fire but still alive and those could lose their footing, also, and come down. Debris flows, mud slides and flash flooding as rainfall rates could hit a half inch per hour that starts at 4 00 this afternoon through 3 00 in the morning which is mainly dark most of that time. So its going to be hard to see but if it does come, you need to get out immediately. You need to be ready to evacuate if you live near some of the burn scars. We have a wind advisory and the same thing, we have some winds that are weak in the north bay. We have winds elsewhere i should say some trees that are weak in the north bay. Trees elsewhere that are naturally weakened by our dry summer and this is the first good wind storm of the season. Trees and power lines, some localized Power Outages from 1 00 today until 3 00 tomorrow morning. Its damp on the richmond side of the bridge. Caution, damp this morning but puddles this afternoon as the heavier rain rolls in. Mass transit, take an umbrella. Youll need it later on and Small Craft Advisory if youre going to be out on the water. Winter storm warning begins for the sierra. Travel not recommended from 10 00 a. M. Today to 4 00 a. M. Friday. Up to four feet of snow at the highest elevations. How about that, sue . Sounds great. I checked with chp, too, and no chain requirements this hour. If youre going to travel now would be a good time to go. We do have some increasing volume there on your east shore commute past Golden Gate Fields and berkeley and on into the mcarthur maze but its moving nicely, just a lot of company out there. Some delays for cash paying folks in the lefthand cash lanes. Otherwise no metering lights at the bay bridge and youre looking at a nice ride across the upper deck into San Francisco. Some slowing out of tracy as you can see thats fairly normal for this time of the morning. Those early commuters. Ace train number one getting out on time from stockton. We do have a solo spinout out of lanes towards 680 to eastbound 80. Well check back on that when the tow truck gets on scene. That may change it up. Guys . New this morning, its getting harder for washington to ignore the women accusing Alabama Senate candidate roy moore. Hear why hes now saying its all an attack on god. Theres another hitch in the as push for a new stadium near lake merritt. Concord has a smarter 911 system in place this morning. How it will make getting Emergency Response help even faster. Were heading to break but dont forget that storm is a three. The heaviest of the season so far. 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Abc News Reporter lana zak joins us live with the latest. Reporter good morning to you, jessica. In roy moores latest speech to alabama voters overnight he largely sidestepped the specifics of the allegations against him but said he told voters he viewed this as a spiritual battle over, quote, god and the capital. Roy moore is telling alabama voters he is the victim of a coordinated attack by democrats and washington republicans. Why do you think theyre giving me this trouble . Why do you think im being harassed . Reporter following the fifth woman who come forward with stories of abuse as a teen. The allegations are credible. Reporter tom llamas reports the few supporters he has kept are trying to stay out of the spotlight. I believe the democrat would do great damage to our country. Reporter Mitch Mcconnell tells the wall street journal he thinks the best option would be a writein campaign for the former senator and current attorney general jeff sessions. The attorney general is totally well known and extremely popular in alabama. Its a heck of a dilemma when you have an unacceptable candidate bearing a label of your party within a month of the election. Reporter for his part sessions said he didnt want to interfere in the election but sided against moore. I have no reason to doubt these young women. Reporter now mcconnell says he believes the president is currently discussing the possibility of sessions returning to the senate, but he also says that should moore win this election, he believes the senate would have to seriously consider removing him. Reporting live from washington, lana zak, abc 7 news. Concern over the impact, a wildlife refuge in 1869 to protect migrating birds there. Tens of thousands still nest at the lake and depend on the narrow water way that links the lake and the bay. The ballpark will be built adjacent to that water way and abc 7 reached out to the as. We have not yet heard back from them. A smarter 911 system is in operation in concord. Smart 911 provides Emergency Responders with detailed information about you including your cell phone number, home and work addresses, special medical needs and details of the car you drive. That info pops up when people call 911. Individuals and families can provide only the information they care to share. We have more information on our website, abc7news. Com. Santa rosa police hope someone will recognize two watches that were looted in the wildfire burn areas. Authorities arrested the suspects october 28th in the fountaingrove neighborhood. A local jeweler recognized the names from a press release and told police those same suspects sold him these watches three days earlier. The Department Released the photos in hope the owner or owners will come forward. So today is the biggest storm we have seen in many months. Lets check in with mike and see what we have in store. Im tracking highlevel and midlevel clouds. Not the heavy, wet clouds that are coming in later on. Very light this the rest of us will those pockets. Accuweather forecast, windy, rain with downpours and the extended sunday, monday and tuesday. Lets talk temperatures real quick. Low to mid60s along the coast, San Francisco, richmond and through the north bay. For the rest of us mid to upper 60s, about 65 to 68. So a mild day when its not raining. 50 in santa rosa. Palo alto and san jose. So, again, kind of mild with the rain. Moisture on top of us. This is why were going to see an increase in the intensity as that energy taps that moisture. Here is how it plays out hour by hour. This morning you can see the best radar returns across the north bay and thats where they stay. More of the north bay and see the red developing at 4 00. A real nightmare. A couple of ways develop along the cold front. You may be trying to sleep at midnight. It may be too loud with that rain and wind, same thing in the south bay as you get through the 4 00 hour. Wake up at 7 00, 8 00. Youre late getting up it will still be raining in the south bay. Scattered showers after about noon. Look at these rainfall amounts. An inch and a half to nearly three inches of rain. Some flooding tomorrow morning. Sunshine friday. A little less saturday and then the one for sunday, monday and a two, moderate for tuesday. Sue, how is it looking today . So far, so good. We are expecting some problems on the roadways obviously with a lot of water, standing water. Right now were seeing slow traffic out of tracy. We do have the solo spinout. The connector ramp from northbound 680 to eastbound is out of lanes. Im not seeing any slow traffic there at the cordelia junction. Check on the drive times. Lets check on b. A. R. T. 28 trains running. Muni is looking great. 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And then after midnight the heaviest of the rain is over. Flooding could continue. Welcome to your hump day drive. To san jose first. Headlights on 101 northbound, the 880 overcrossing. Everybody is moving nicely there. No problems for your traffic flow. Everybody is at the limit making their way from richmond to marin. The solo spinout. No tow on scene yet. Well come back and take a look at the drive times in a few minutes. This should do the trick. Take a look at this. Curbed San Francisco uncovered the wrapping paper. Theres the ferry building, palace of fine arts, you can see the bay bridge there and victorian houses. The money going to a local charity of your choice. Now that could be the gift that keeps on giving. Talk about highs and lows. Coming up next at 5 00, pot advocates will be happy or not so happy about regulations. It all depends on where you live. Plus, police right now trying to figure out what drove a man to go on a shooting rampage. 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