Speeds should be lower. The bay bridge toll plaza. Now under 30 minutes. So far so good. And we are tracking that massive winter storm on the east coast here at the live desk. As if the winds werent bad enough there is record flooding. Look at this video from overnight. Floodwaters froze hitting streets and turned parked cars into popsicles. Rescuers pulled more than a dozen people to safety as water surrounded their homes. I am fine. The house completely flooded out. Propane tank flipped over. More fire inside the house. Shocked at how quickly the water rose. This morning the worst of the storm is over and moving into southern canada, but freezig cold temperatures are still keeping people indoors. The man accused of plotting a tack on pier 39 is facing charges on terror charges. Everitt Aaron Jameson will be in court today. He made homemade pipe bombs. The indictment says jameson told undercover fbi agents he wanted to attack pier 39 as a show of support for isis. He went into detail how he was going to assemble the bombs and where he was going to put them. He was discharged from the marines in 2009. Sexual assault of an 8yearold girl in her familys home, noah holland broke into the rohnert home, climbed on top of the sleeping girl in her bedroom. He got into the home by finding the garage door opener in an unlocked car in the driveway. The girl fought holland off. Her mother heard her screams and called 911. Neighbors are stunned. My heart goes out to them, especially the little girl. You cant even imagine. Its horrific. I hope he gets whats coming to him. It just shouldnt happen. Police say tristan ford was not involved in the sexual assault. Health Officials Say its only going to get worse. Katie marzullo. Reporter the flu season has come early and with a vengeance. Were seeing a lot of serious cases, so weve had some cases in the intensive care unit at dominican hospital. Reporter the Health Officer expects things to get worse. Were really concerned that as the flu spreads there will be a significant amount of mortality and deaths as a result. They said that, you know, the flu is going around. Reporter no one under 16 is allowed and patients can only have one visitor at a time. The person im seeing, i dont want them to get it. We understand why its such a huge, necessary thing. Reporter in Santa Clara County at least four people have died from the flu since the season began and the Health Department reports five outbreaks just this past week. Eight total. The assistant Health Officer says prevention is key and that means the flu shot. The vaccine makes it less likely to get the flu and if you do youre less likely from going to the hospital. Stay home if youre sick. Reporter doctors orders. In santa cruz, katie marzullo, abc 7 news. Did you buy your lottery tickets yet . Tonights Mega Millions, a lifechanging 445 million. If you havent played in a while, lottery officials made differences. Tickets went from 1 to 2. The odds of winning now 1 in 303 million. So youre not going to win. And the largest Mega Millions jackpot was a 656 million prize split between three winers in illinois, kansas, and maryland in 2012. Im just giving you facts now. Dont forget about powerball. Tomorrow nights drawing is 550 million. Good morning. Take a look at our temperatures that were very mild. I stepped outside this morning, didnt even need a coat. Its so comfortable with temperatures in the 50s and 60s. Everybody else 58 to 59. Ocean beach at about 57. Here is the way it looks, 0. 15. One of the smaller amounts. Its left some dampness and a few puddles. Thats what youll find during the early commute. Its slippery and will get even worse as the rain increases this morning and lingers through the evening commute. Mass transit, youll want an umbrella while youre waiting at some of the stops outside to keep you dry. On the bay lower tides. A look at our temperatures today though were starting off pretty close to this. Well warm up a few degrees and that will put most of us to 64 degrees. Tonight some clearing. It will clear off into the 30s. 40s for the rest of us. So about 20 degrees cooler. 10 to 20 degrees cooler. As we do clear out, watch out for the fog tomorrow. Its going to be really thick. Lets look at our rain chances. All of us getting rain monday and all of us on tuesday. That storm will be stronger. Ill have that in 20 minutes. Some sierra snow. Heres sue heading down to walnut creek. Whats going on . Not much is going on. Were just going to show you some easy driving conditions as the taillights head southbound to highway 24. Youre at the limit 242 in concord to the 24 interchange. The tides are lower today. The Manzanita Park and ride that usually floods during the high king tides, the sausalito mill valley, is reopening today. Its been closed due to standing water. Very light conditions as you make your way from san jose, the Silicon Valley up to cupertino. The Santa Clara ValleyTransportation Authority unveiling a new mobile payment app called easy fare. Officials are urging riders to check the app. This Morning Stores are selling out of that bombshell book where steve bannon criticizes President Trump. I will have more on that growing feud next. The billionaire who tried to get donald trump impeached may be upping his game. The major announcement tom seyer. The abc 7 storm impact scale. Todays storm is level one. That means light rain, so keep an umbrella handy and drive safely. Track todays storm anytime on track todays storm anytime on the abc 7 news app. Heres a look at the storm impact scale this will go from this morning all the way through the afternoon hours with waves of showers on the way. Theyll be moderate at times but that will be the exception and thats why the storm is a 1, light on our storm impact scale. Also the fact the breezes will stay very light. Now we do have a chance of some heavier rain coming at us in my accuweather forecast. Now lets send it back to jessica. We are tracking President Trumps growing feud with former white house chief strategist steve bannon. The bomb shed book bannon criticizes the president is now on store shelves after publishers moved up the release date to today. In fact, one bookstore in washington, d. C. , opened at midnight and sold out of the boo in 20 minutes. Stephanie ramos is live in washington with more details. Stephanie . Reporter President Trumps relationship with former white house chief strategist steve bannon has blown up mainly over that book. Bannon is quoted in it. As you just said that book is set to be released today. President trump and his old friend, former white house chief strategist steve bannon, are not in a good place right now. Its not like there were regularly scheduled called and certainly no meetings between the two of them. Reporter the white house furious after excerpts of that new white house book fire and fury were released authorized by michael wolff, quotes bannon criticizing the president and his family. In it he calls donald trump jr. And Jared Kushner treasonous and unpatriotic for meeting with a russian lawyer they thought had dirt on hillary clinton. President trump tweeting overnight, i never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations, and sources that dont exist. Look at this guys past and watch what happens to him and sloppy steve. But on sirius radio yesterday bannon did have this to say. Never will ever come between us and President Trump and his agenda. Dont worry about that. Reporter that may be too late. He called me a great man last night. He obviously changed his tune pretty quick. Reporter the rightwing media outlet. No decision has been made. Stephanie ramos, abc 7 news. Its been an interesting week, stephanie. Thank you. San francisco billionaire tom seyer may be running for office. His Political Group says hell make a major announcement monday in washington, d. C. He made headlines in october when he launched a 20 Million Campaign calling for President Trumps impeachment. Steyer has been critical of leaders in congress. According to our media partner the bay area news group, he acknowledges hes thought against running against senator dianne feinstein. Police in the east bay asking for your help in finding a suspected arsonist who set fire to a motor home with someone inside. 30yearold Martha Javier set the home on fire. That fire happened on solano way and hilltop road. Good samaritans rescued the man inside, but he was burned and is in critical condition. Following the massive wildfires throughout the state Major Insurance Companies are denying coverage to those in hghrisk fire areas, even those who are able to get coverage are facing problems. According to a report released some homeowners are getting hit with much higher insurance rates in the aftermath of the fires. The state department of insurance is asking lawmakers to draft a bill to help homeowners secure affordable insurance. This is very frustrating for homeowners. Theyre doing everything fire officials tell them to do. The home insurers are not writing insurers. One of our recommendations is if the homeowner does these things to protect their homes the insurance would have to be written for them. The october wildfires resulted in about 9 billion in insurance claims in the north bay. Weve been talking about rain once again on the radar. Mike nicco in to show us what will happen. We have the radar dialed in on an area getting wet, marin county, southern sonoma and napa counties. And those areas are going to continue to see the better chances of steadier rain as we head through the morning commute. You can see as we head to the southwest more showers are developing offshore. Watch out, San Francisco, all the way down daly city, pacifica, about to get wet. Weve also got some wet weather if youre traveling on 17 through the summit, the santa cruz mountains, or highway 9 there is start to ing to get we. You notice the flags on the Ferry Building not moving. Not a lot of wind with this system as has been the case the last couple of times weve had a chance of rain roll through. My accuweather highlights, mild highs with waves of showers. You dont need a heavy coat but have maybe an umbrella and a lighter coat that may be waterproof. Showers will taper tonight but the fog forms tomorrow and sunday morning. The extended, heavier rain. A stronger breeze is coming next week. A look at 9 00. You can see the increase in the coverage and also theres some moderate cells out there in the form of yellow and even at noon the cold front will come in and it will kind of stall right here along interstate 80. Because it stalls there as you can see throughout the afternoon and into the early evening hours then it starts to fall apart. Rainfall totals will be most impressive on that interstate 80 corridor. You can see nearly half an inch in richmond and San Francisco. Then up to a quarter inch in the north bay. Heres my accuweather sevenday forecast. Were going to bring some dry weather for the week. Good timing there. The next storm becomes heaviest tuesday. A 2, moderate on our storm impact scale. Heres sue. Were checking in with the bay bridge. The upper deck is moving nicely, those headlights heading in the westbound direction from the oakland side of things. Well check in with the toll plaza. Still very light here. Its been a pretty light commute week with a lot of the kids still out of school that will change next week. Make no doubt about that. From hercules, still under 30 minutes. Even coming out of tracy up and over the Altamont Pass is all green this morning so we love that. By the way, if you are commuting from the central valley, ace train number one is on time and ace train number three is scheduled to leave on time no delays there. Warriors superstar kevin durant giving back to his alma matter in a big way. The nba finals mvp donating 3 million to the university of texas where he won National Player of the year honors from 2007. The donation will support the University Center for sports leadership and innovation and help pay for renovations to the mens and Womens Basketball practice facility and locker rooms. In turn, part of the facility will be named in durants honor. Theres a recall involving hp laptops. The defect that may cause some to catch fire. The jeopardy host has a message for fans. A space station that is tumbling out of the sky. First this mornings tech bytes. In todays tech bytes our massive and tied for apps. Apple says customers spend close to 1 billion on apps or purchases within them between Christmas Eve and new years eve. New years day alone 300 million in the app store. Thats a new record. Alexa will soon offer extra help around the kitchen. If you own an amazon echo youll be able to control your microwave with your voice but you must have a smart microwave integrated with alexa say. They plan to add other appliances later. And if youre looking for love, try a dating app this weekend like tinder, fumble, match, say theres always a surge the sunday after new years day. You need a solid profile with photos that show you smiling with no kids or pets. Way to be woman so, greg, its a lot to take in. Woman 2 and i know thats hard to hear, but the doctors caught it early. Hi, blake my dad has cancer. Woman and i know how hard that is to hear. But youre in the right place. Man and dr. Pascal and her team, they know what to do. They know what to do. The doctors know what to do. So heres the plan. First off, were going to give you all. voice fading away thinking about heading to tahoe, it looks quiet right now. Dropping to 6,500 feet, about 1 to 6 inches from the snow level to the highest elevations. Heavier snow monday and tuesday. Its about time. Longtime jeopardy host alex trebek recovering from surgery, removing blood clots from his brain after a fall. I came home to start recovery. The prognosis is excellent and i expect to be back taping more jeopardy programs very soon. Trebek delivered the news in a video posted to the shows Facebook Page yesterday. He thanked fans for their concern. Youre going to still see new episodes because the show is taped months in advance. The annual College Tournament will be delayed until april. Its 4 53. Stanford blood center says theres an extreme need for 0 negative blood and platelets and theyre calling on those eligible to donate as soon as they can. Fewer people donated over the holidays and that demand is higher than normal. Being surrounded by flowers and butterflies sounds like a great start to 2018, there are three days left to catch the popular butterflies in bloom exhibit going on at golden gate park. It was actually supposed to close last june. It was extended, though, until this january 7th. Thats this sunday. Visitors are treated to an up close look at 20 species of butterflies including monarchs. Admission 9 for adults, 6 for kids. Looks like fun. Who wants to think about monday morning commute when we havent gotten to the weekend yet. As we head throughout the morning and into the afternoon hours you can see the wave of moderate to possibly even heavy rain at times. That will continue and then transition over to showers by tuesday evening. This is one of the more aggressive models but this is what weve been waiting for. An inch to two inches of rain. Your 12hour planner up next. Well pop down to the south bay where the headlights are headed. This is the 880 overcrossing so you get an idea where you are. The roads are not particularly wet this hour. Its about a 15minute drive across the entire span. Looking good right here and not too wet either. Well watch that commute increase, im sure, as the morning goes on. We have not seen a lot of red which is excellent. A look at your drive times if youre heading out now. Tracy to dublin, 26 minutes. We have highway 4 westbound into concord. Just under 15 minutes and straight shot from san rafael to San Francisco is pretty fog free over the waldo. It is very slick so heads up and use extra caution there. Hewlettpackard is recalling 50,000 lithium ion batteries because they can overheat and catch fire. You may need to get your battery replaced right away. Michael finney first alerted us to this last night. Hp says of the laptops theres about 3 that could potentially overhet as a result of the battery issue. If you need a replacement battery hp will come directly to your home or business. Chinas first space station is expected to fall out of the sky around march this year and Northern California is in the line of fire. China launched the unmanned craft in 2011. Itll reenter the atmosphere as it passes over the pacific toward california. Engineers wont know exactly where its debris will fall until about three hours before it hits. They say the station will likely split into small pieces. Comforting. How do you move on past that . Its a 1 in 10,000 chance it will actually hit any populated area, which is still a little too high for me. Way more likely than winning the powerball or Mega Millions at this point. You need to throw out your romaine lettuce, any of it from all brands. We told you about this e. Coli scare yesterday and now were learning more about it. Breaking down the data from the berkeley earthquake yesterday and they need your help. And we may be warm here in the bay area at least compared to this on the east coast. But all of this snow in the east is affecting air travel here at home. Well have more on that next. When conditions change where you live were expecting heavy rain tomorrow. This is going to be a strong, slowmoving soaker. Abc 7 alerts you first. Taking the Flash Flood Warning up here very seriously. When you need to know whats headed your way. Right to our storm, a level 3 on our storm impact scale. Live doppler 7 is wherever you are. Live doppler 7 along with satellite. This is our storm system. This is our storm system. Stay ahead of coming up on 5 00 a. M. , tracking more rain in the bay. You can see some green on our radar. How much are we going to get this time around . We have the answer from meteorologist mike nicco. Not a lot. The fact its coming in during the morning commute it will keep things interesting and wet. It will taper during the evening hours but we could have a wet evening commute also. Right now im focused on the golden gate bridge. Thats heading up to the richmond bridge. Marin county getting most of the wet weather. Down to the santa cruz mountains. Its all moving to the northeast. You see a few drops on the camera in san rafael. About 0. 04 of an inch of rain. 12hour day planner. Showers increasing through t