Hi, mike. Hey, jessica. When you grab the umbrella, temperatures much milder this morning. Were mainly in the upper 40s to 50 degrees. We do have cooler spots in morgan hill and clear lake. Lets look at the 12hour planner. Were planning on getting wet this morning through the morning commute. Well get a break at noon and at 4 00, we have a chance of thunderstorms, that means lightning and hail and it will be breezy this afternoon. Temperatures hanging out in the mid50s. Well talk about how much rain well get out of this system. A stronger one later this week. Sue . The east shore freeway to take a look and see how things are going. Not bad at all. You can see the gaps in between the cars. Youre moving at the limit. Not a solid stream of headlights but certainly a lot of folks out there. Caution for wet roads this morning. We had a sigalert that was cleared over the waldo grade. Its pretty slick out there. Weve got a big rig accident. Its moved to the righthand shoulder. Right near stone valley road and the alamo area. Its not blocking lanes. Once again, slick roads, need to slow it down. Thank you, sue. In napa, a family has been torn apart after i. C. E. Agents swarm their property and arrested the father of the family yesterday morning. This was one of several deportation arrests in northern california. Abc 7 News Reporter lilian kim has the story. Probably five or six cars stop. They get out, armed with bulletproof vests. Helena saw at least a half dozen immigration and custom enforcements agents on her property. Her husband was doing yard work behind the house where he was taken into cutts di. The family feared the day would come but held out hope. He didnt drink. We just assumed they were coming for other people who really are doing wrong stuff. Reporter her husband is 39 years old and came here from mexico at age 4. The family hadnt heard about the warnings of possible i. C. E. Sweeps over the weekend. They sought the help of Rapid Response network. An organization that assists undocumented immigrants facing deportation. I. C. E. Agents made their presence known. Within a couple hours of the arrest they were seen gathering at this parking lot on gasser drive. We feel like its a tactic to increase fear in the community and cause them to forget they have rights. But thats why Rapid Response exists, to remind people they have rights. Daughter isabella will continue to follow her fathers advice, to study hard and cherish her legal right to be in this country. Thats why i want to go to college and do everything, because i have the opportunity. Im a u. S. Citizen. I shouldnt take it for granted. A family devastated but doing everything it can to bring him back home. In napa, lilian kim, abc 7 news. Teachers at the Florida High School where a gunman killed 17 people are returning to campus today. Students will return to class on wednesday. Still man do Stoneman Douglas held a they were able to request any services they need and change classes. The threestory building is cordoned off by a chainlink fence covered with banners from other schools showing their support. Mean while, President Trump vowed to tackle gun control this week. After the Florida High School shooting, he proposed banning bump stocks, raising the age limit to purchase semiautomatic weapons and tougher background checks. He will likely face resistance from his own party. The nra strongly disagrees with his proposals. You do not want to raise the age . Thats correct. The president has talked about banning these bump stocks. Is the nra prepared to back that . The nra already made it clear, the atf needs to do their job and they need to make sure their definitions are consistent. The nra called for this before the president made a statement. On the related note, neither House Speaker paul ryan nor Mitch Mcconnell as publicly called for legislation on gun control. In the south bay, deputies are looking for three suspects in a rash of burglaries. The Santa Clara CountySheriffs Office released these photos. The trio is wanted for breakins in the Los Altos Hills area in recent weeks. Theyre offering a reward for any information leading to an arrest for conviction. Two people are recovering from minor burns after a fire damaged their home in san jose. Flames ripped through a home yesterday afternoon near more ril avenue. The fire was so big it threatened a home nearby. They kept the fire from spreading and no one else was hurt. The red cross is assisting the people displaced. They believe a cooking mistake sparked the fire. Get ready to see selfdriving cars on the road without anyone behind the wheel. State regulators are expected to clear the way for automakers to begin testing totally autonomous vehicles. Instead of a person behind the wheel, automakers will be required to have a remote operator ready to take control if needed. Companies will have to say where they intend to operate, notify local authorities and have a plan in place to communicate with launch. The driverless vehicles could be on california roads as soon as april. Lets take a quick look at how much warmer it is than yesterday at this time. Up 12, 13 degrees warmer. That puts our east bay temperatures right in the mid to upper 40s, to even 51 at alameda and el sobrante is 50 degrees. Heres a look from the roof camera in downtown San Francisco. Theres a sheen on the roads ahead of the steady rain. Its coating most of the roads this morning. If youre taking mass transit, temperaturewise, 3450imilder th morning. On the roads, theyll be wet this morning. Theres less of a chance of them being wet during the afternoon hours. Theres still a chance. On the bay, its not only going to be wet, but breezy today. As far as San Francisco goes, a chance of wet weather through 8 00, 9 00. Then it tapers. You can see temperatures struggle to reach 50 before a chance of a thunderstorm hits somewhere between 2 00 and 6 00 this afternoon. In the south bay, weve got a chance much wet weather all the way up to 10 00. And then were pretty much dry the rest of the day with temperatures in the low to mid50s. Theres an isolated chance of a thunderstorm here. In fact, ill show you where i think the best chance of the rain is going to be coming up in the big forecast. Sue . We have slick roads out there. Also the Early Morning commuters out of tracy up and rolling this morning for a 35minute drive westbound on 580 to livermore from tracy. Problems on 17 highway 17 in the Santa Cruz Mountains. In the northbound direction, we have an accident at little moody curve. It popped up there for you. Its northbound near redwood estates. The southbound drive is also very slow. That is road maintenance. They have the right lane blocked off southbound until 6 00 a. M. This morning. Thats why youre seeing all those slow and red sensors on your map there. Thank you, sue. A man gets upset at a loud party next door. What he tried to do. More trouble for the Movie Company owned by disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein. The decisions forced to be made. A flu the quick moving storm will touch everywhere except southern california. Its blasting through down to fresno. Heres what it does. A Winter Weather advisory. Up to a foot of snow is possible. Even 18 inches in isolated spots. The snow level down to 2,000 feet. You got to be careful if youre traveling up that way. Now, heading deeper into the next eight days, 4 to 5, maybe 6 feet of snow . Got a big storm coming later this week. Lets look at the accuweather seven day forecast. It looks like it will arrive wednesday night, hang around with several feet of snow. The same storm going to bring us good chances of rain. Mike, thank you. Menlo park police are looking for a man accused of firing an Assault Rifle in a backyard and its all because he was upset about a loud party next door. We were on selfire avenue. Neighbors called 911 when they heard the shots about 11 00 saturday night. It was pretty crazy. The lights, everything, theyre set up in front of the house, table, everything. It was like part of a movie, i guess. The s. W. A. T. Team raided the home after getting a search warrant. Police say the suspect, Jose Gutierrez was gone and they believe hes still armed with the rifle. Hes driving a silver honda accord with license plate 5zck 527. A man is in custody after Fremont Police say he robbed and sexually assaulted two women inside a store. Detectives looked for clues at the party city for several hours on saturday. The victims told police the man entered the store before it opened. He pulled out a gun, robbed the women and sexually assaulted them. Patrol officers captured him on grimmer boulevard. The Weinstein Company is going bankrupt. The studio has struggled to stay in business ever since the cofounder and namesake Harvey Weinstein was accused of Sexual Assault last year. The board of directors plan to sell the assets to an Investor Group and rename the company and add more women to the board. But a 500 million deal fell through. In a Statement Released last night, the Weinstein Company says it has no choice but to file for bankruptcy. A legendary art designer who, among other characters, created woody in pixars toy story has died. Bud lucky designed characters from more than a half dozen series. He animated classic segments for sesame street and ad man in San Francisco, he designed tony the tiger and toucan sam. Lucky died in connecticut after an extended illness in a hospice care facility. He was 83 years old. Japan approved a drug that claims to kill the flu in just one day. The pill is seen as a possible rival to tamiflu and should hit store shelves in japan pretty soon. Dont expect to see it here for a while. The earliest it will be available will be next year. The drug Company Needs approval from u. S. Government regulators before selling it here. Its 4 44. At least four people are dead after storms with relentless rains and fierce winds hammered parts of the midwest and the south over the weekend. The National WeatherService Confirms there were at least 12 tornadoes. This cell phone video captured one near the kentucky tennessee border. In tennessee, urk see cars destroyed, roofs torn off and debris scattered throughout neighborhoods. It started raining real hard and he saw this barn, the metal from this barn take off and then the windows busted out. Flooding prompted more than 100 water rescues in kentucky. Emergency Officials Say that after the damaging wind and heavy rain, flash flooding is going to continue this week. Wow. Nothing like what were seeing in other parts of the country. But we have our own rain here and luckily, youre never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. Heres mike nicco. Thanks, jessica. The heavier, steadier rain pulling out of north bay and cross the San Pablo Bay and Golden Gate Bridge and move into the heart of the bay. As it moves from north to south. Slight rain right now, but just enough to make things wet. A little bit of ponding possible as we get deeper into this morning commute. You can see, weve got rain, steady rain and its more showers. Theres the cold front. See the difference between the solid line of white and the more freckled or speckled side. Thats the cold air behind it. Its going to create the instability, creating lightning and small hail. By 7 00, you can see yellows and oranges. It could be moderate at times. There could be ponding on the roadways as we get deeper into the morning commute. Then by 9 00, its in the heart of the south bay. By noon, everything is kind of quiet right now. The clouds open up just a little bit. Then you can see the scattered showers start to develop around 3 00 or 4 00. Notice theres some pink and some white as the snow level drops down to 2,000, maybe 2500 feet. Even at 7 00, we still have a few showers. Once the sunsets, the chance is just about over. By 9 00, the entire bay is going to be wet, anywhere from a tenth to possibly a third of an inch. If it does pick up that steam and drop moderate rain as we showed you the yellow through the heart of the bay into the south bay by the morning commute. Once we get past this, weve got a break tuesday and wednesday. Then a 2, when is the last time we had a 2 on the storm impact scale. Big time rain coming thursday. Ill talk more about that coming up. Heres sue. The north bay, well check out the ride with slick roads through san rafael past san pedro and freight is patas park. Use extra caution. Golden gate bridge is clear. We had one sigalert over the waldo grade for slick roads blocking a couple of lanes at the time. Now thats cleared. Hopefully, knock on that will not happen again this morning. Okay . Lets go to the Santa Cruz Mountains where we have an accident northbound 17 near little moody curve. Then roadwork in the southbound direction. Looks like that might have been picked up since the last report. Ill check on that in the next few minutes. Thank you, sue. Prices dropped . 06 for a gallon of regular grade gasoline the past two weeks. The National Average is 2. 59. Industry analysts say its the first decline since december. Prices are expected to rise again as crude oil costs go up. You mient want to fill up soon. According to aaa, the current price is . 23 higher than this time last year. The average price in california 3. 33. In San Francisco, 3. 43. Oakland at 3. 32 and san jose at 3. 29. The wait is over if youre a samsung fan. The company unveiled two new flagship smartphones. Heres techbytes for this morning. Samsungs new super smartphone. The galaxy s 9 and s 9 plus have been unveiled. The cameras have i am 3r06d and the phones can send emojis similar to the iphones animojis. A big contributor to traffic jams. They lure people away from public transportation. Uber and lyft have increased occupancy in cars. Not a lot of walking going on on the catwalk. The fashion show put drones to work instead to carry handbags. The audience had to accommodate the Remote Control presentation by shutting off wifi and hotspots for 45 minutes. Anna wintour was not happy. When is she ever . Okay. Black panther is now just the fourth film ever to earn more than 100 million in the u. S. In the second weekend. The blockbuster made 108 million at the box office this weekend. That pushed the domestic ticket sales to 400 million. Black panther earned 700 million worldwide. The comedy game night debuted in number 2 followed by peter rabbit, annihilation and 50 shades freed. Marvel is owned by our parent company, disney. A group of whale watchers are probably still talking about their weekend trip and the unexpected bath they got. A Community Effort on to preserve a colorful sign thats been a beacon in san jose for more than 50 years. A new garage in the east bay is giving new meaning to the phrase, put it in park. How its making every square inch of space count. Announcer the abc 7 storm impact scale. Todays storm is level 1. That means light rain. Keep an umbrella handy. Track the at home. Ld generate your own energy, or to save energy, unplug unused appliances. Do your thing, with Energy Upgrade california. Its 4 53. Check this out. The Storm Prediction Center put us in a thunderstorm threat today, especially this afternoon through the early evening hours with lightning, thunder and hail as our primary threats out of these thunderstorms. Mike, thank you. American Indian Tribes say theyve been cut out of californias Legal Marijuana market and they start their own pot businesses. The rules require them to be licensed by the state, would strip them of authority over their own lands and their right to selfgovernance. Theyre circulating a proposal to allow them to participate in the legal market. An effort is under way to preserve a landmark part of san jose for decades. Abc 7 news was at the poor house bistro as a band played to support the dancing pig last night. You may have seen the neon sign at the sap center. The original owner is no longer there. The city owns the land. The Preservation Action Council wants to restore and move the sign. If we can get it up and operational, which were going to do, then it will become a legacy for not only people today, the preservationists of today, but something for those of tomorrow. The reason this is even an issue is because plans for google to build a campus on the land where the dancing pig currently dances. Oakland celebrating the grand opening of northern californias First Fully Automated parking garage. Take a look here at the video from city lift showing how this automated garage works. You simply drive your car into what designers call the hive. The robotic equipment moves the car between levels and into its own space. The idea is to squeeze more cars into less space than garages where you have to drive into a space. The garage is located on 24th street and broadway. That is pretty slick. A playful whale along the california coast delighted a group of whale watchers. Take a look. The whale gave boaters a shower this weekend in ft. Bragg. Whale watching one of the most popular pthings to i hear thats not very pleasant, mike. Looks fun. Ive never been that close where they spray you. But im told that it smells really bad. Probably comes from a place you dont want to know about. Yeah. Hi everybody. Going to be a little breezy this afternoon with temperatures running in the low to mid50s in most neighborhoods. 51 to about 57. There could be a few upper 50s out there in concord and frem t fremont. Cold again tonight, getting close in the east bay. Mid30s to low 40s around the bay and the coast. We start with the next system thursday. Its a 2 on the storm impact scale. We go for thursday, friday and saturday. Off and on rain during the entire 72hour period. If you look at our colorcoding over here. Green is at least an inch to possibly 2 to 3 inches up in the north bay. Weve got a march beginning of a march miracle coming our way. Sue . Weve got a couple of issues. Highway 24 in the westbound direction by fish ranch road, we saw a spinout that overturned multiple times and landed on its roof on the side of the righthand shoulder westbound. Im seeing slow traffic in the eastbound direction right now as well. Well check back with the chp on this one. Yeah, expect delays and please know the roads are slick. Sue, thank you. Former First Lady Michelle Obama is set to release a memoir. Its set to go on sale in november. It will be titled, becoming. It was published in 24 different la languages. She will speak at oracle arena. Tickets go on sale today. Vip tickets priced at 3,000. This will be her first appearance in the bay area since november. Next at 5 00 a. M. , the snub California Democrats have given dianne feinstein. A College Basketball coach is arrested after a game in San Francisco. The encounter that had police at the teams hotel. The underdogs that are giving a florida its 5 00 a. M. About to get up and hit the roads this morning. Know this. Its going to be a little wet out there. Thats right. Live doppler 7 showing the storm hitting the bay area as we speak. Good morning. Thanks for joining us. A wet monday, february 26th. Natasha and alexis are off this morning. Of course, sue and mike helping us navigate all of that weather. The road may hit back this morning. Because it is wet. Even where its not raining right now, we had drizzle roll through and spotty showers. Your roads could be wet even though theyre not covered in green like with live doppler 7 from concord through about orinda and oakland and towards San Francisco and northward. Let me broaden out and show you how the storm is moving th