And right now, what you see are these oranges and yellows. And these are significant rainfall rates throughout the south bay right now. Lets click on these. And i know, when you think rainfall rates really just give you a great idea of how hard, they say its coming down for an hour. Its an average of 2. 37 inches. Not too much rainfall. But that rate, 0. 50, those are significant. Those will get you off the road. Those are the kinds of winds you pull over, in milpitas, parts of palo alto, short lived and of course it causes problems. In north bay were concerned mostly with the flash flood concerns which last until, this morning lasts until 6 00 a. M. For the burn zones. Then we have an advise advice wind advisory. See you back here in a little bit. Well now, ktvus jesse gary, its a major hardship for others. Reporter good evening to you. And the past hour, the conditions have worsened, i removed my glasses because theyre getting soaked. More than the 10 00 hour. On santa clara in downtown san jose, you can see the street is wet, slick with rain. Pooling on the corners but now starting to stretch in to the middle of the street. As hard as this weather is for drivers though, it is the major inconvenience, heather said, for those who cannot come in from the rain. Just under the skyway linking the 280 freeway with highway 101 sits a growing homeless encampment. A neighborhood of tents and tarps tied together by rope and a resolve to survive. Rain is the enescapable enemy inescapable enemy during the winter months. Its hard to stay dry, hard to get money to eat because no one wants to stop in the rain, everybody wants to get out of it. 100 people in this camp. Reporter pastor scott is one of the few who is willing and able to come to the aid of the less fortunate. In the midst of mud and trash and intermittent downpours, he brings small treasures toiletries, to help live the homeless life less hard. Youd be surprised how valuable this stuff is. I give all this away in a few minutes. Yesterday we had sleeping bags, tarps, you know, basic necessities. It always goes away, five minutes. Reporter providing for the less fortunate is the only problem brought on by rain. Crews in the santa clara Water District were out earlier in the day removing debris such as this downed tree limb that can clog storm drains that lead to localized flooding. Right now our first significant rainstorm, were getting out, getting our feet wet. Reporter Maintenance Worker ryan says rain continuing over the next 24 hours could make a manageable problem more challenging. For motorists, the challenge is navigating slick streets where pooling can create hazards. Especially traffic right now. In 101. Reporter and next to a portion of the 101. The reality, one person inconvenienced can be an obstacle in the rain. Yeah, a lot worse. We dont get any reprieve at all. Reporter and homeless advocates stress now that the holidays are gone, the needs for the less fortunate remains. Give what you can, monetary and physical donations, warm blankets, socks, et cetera. Were live in downtown san jose. Jesse gary, heather back up to you in oakland. Yeah, very important to speak of those on the street, especially at this time, jesse thank you. It was a close call for the muni bus at pacific about 6 00 during the evening commute. Nobody was hurt but the tree did cause minor damage to the bus. People in the sonoma and napa county fire areas have done what they can to mitigate the possible effects of the rain triggering mudslides and debris flows. Additionally many burned out lots were covered with plastic tarps. After the debris was removed, many Property Owners fearing loss that it implemented a range of erosionless practices. With todays storm and more rain to come tonight, there still could be problems. Hopefully the rainfall rates stop producing significant incidents. If there are mudslides, for major flooding, please call 911. Officials say they dont anticipate problems thanks toed good work at city, state, and county levels but theres a lot of work ahead. Check the latest bay area conditions by downloading our free ktvu weather app. New at 11 00, a federal Appeals Court in San Francisco has ruled that pg e overpaid its shareholders in a case involving the utilities transmission system. The court ruled its all because of a federal agencys mistaken decision to reward pg e for complying with federal law for putting the statewide operator in charge of its lines. Federal law now allows utilities to profit within organizations that transmit electric power such as californias grid operator. But the court ruled that law was aimed as involuntary actions not those mandated by law. It could lead to refunds by pg and e customers. A Police Officer was arrested on Sexual Assault charges, he was taken in to custody on charges of Sexual Assault of a person who could not resist due to being intoxicated, unconscious, or asleep. Police said the allegations involve off duty conduct. Mccall has been with the department for four years nourks suspended without now suspended without pay. Tens of thousands of immigrants who came from el salvador in the midst of war and Natural Disaster are going to lose their protection from deportation. The Trump Administration says it will revoke special protected status for salvadoreans in september of next year. In cases they were given to Social Security numbers, work permits and drivers licenses. Advocates tell us california is home to nearly 30 of the estimated 195,000 immigrants who will be affected. Everything is going to be hard. Because this administration before he is start, he say im going to kick everybody out. Advocates will be holding a forum on saturday at the old sal va el salvadorean consulate. Meantime, senator Dianne Feinstein says she and two other lawmakers have introduced legislation to provide permanent protection from deportation. Well, President Trump attended the College Football championship in atlanta this evening. The president stood there on the field as the National Anthem played. And a feature earlier, he doubled down on crit civil of athletes criticism of athletes and the American Federation quote we love our flag and our anthem and we want to keep it that way. In atlanta, few demonstrators took a knee where the game was held. President trump may not be the only tv star running for the white house in 2020. There are calls for Oprah Winfrey to consider a campaign after her speech last night at the golden globes. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama joins us now with news thats gaining a lot of momentum. Reporter frank, some people say if donald trump could win the president ial election, Oprah Winfrey might be able to do it too. A widely known celebrity, prominent businesswoman. She built a multibillion dollar fortune. Some people wonder if the nation needs another president ial candidate with no political experience. Oh, that is the insatiable dedication to uncovering the absolute truth that keeps us from turning a blind eye to corruption and to injustice. Reporter Oprah Winfreys rousing golden globe speech now has people calling for oprah to become president. Great leadership abilities and to have a black woman in office would be inspiring. Reporter within 24 hours, hashtags on social media were calling for hoprah2020, fuelled by comments from her friends, including her long time partner who told the New York Times its up to the people, she would absolutely do it. I could see why many people think she would be an attractive candidate. Shes smart, shes savvy, shes a great public speaker. Reporter terry bimes, of uc berkeleys institute of governmental studies says trump lay aiz new path lays a new path, winning with no experience, at eye time when voters are dissatisfied with politicians. That still exists. So that may make it a right moment for another celebrity to win a partys nomination. Reporter but bimes says Oprah Winfrey has not been vetted, a lot can change and its too early to say who will emerge as candidate. Bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, corey booker, the list is very long of the people who potentially could run in 2020. Reporter at the North Berkeley bart station, reactions were mixed. Policy is much more important than personality. Its a great idea because its time for a powerful woman president. Shes been very helpful to society. Shes welleducated. The idea of it sounds really good. But she doesnt really have any political experience. And i think people are arriving a lot on their dissatisfaction with the current president. I think a lot of people will vote for whatever looks different and better. Reporter today a white house spokesman told reporters on air force one that we welcome the challenge whether it be Oprah Winfrey or anybody else. Professor bimes says the democratic primary in 2020 could end up just being as crowded as the 2016 republican primary where trump was one of 17 candidates. Its a lot of work too, thats for sure. We will see. Thank you very much. A chp helicopter targeted by lasers. Once again, thats what were learning about the latest crime that police say happens all too often. A surge of car breakins in San Francisco, 82 per day. Now city leaders have a plan to tackle that problem. Hopes of reversing the trend. New at 11 00, a veteran Police Officer who rose through the rarchgs indale ranks in daly city has become chief. Beginning nearly 25 years ago as a patrol officer. He also worked on the San Mateo CountyNarcotics Task force and later as an officer. Daly city is home to 26,000 people. Looking for the person who shined an intense green laser beams a chp helicopter. It happened shortly after 6 00 when the chopper was on patrol at the east bay parkway and giant road. Laser came from a san pablo neighborhood but police have not made any arrests and dont know the motive. I dont know why theyre doing it other than maybe that theyre just curious as to how far their laser beam can go. The curiosity can be deadly. A laser can cause blind spots for the pilots and a glare in their eyes. Chp says people shining lasers might think the light is the size of a little dot when in fact its a swath of light thats sometimes six to eight feet wide. Now a new plan at preventing breakins. As Tara Moriarty reports, there was an average of one car break in every 17 minutes in San Francisco. We are notoriously known as the city of broken glass. Reporter its a reputation San Francisco doesnt want to have. It doesnt happen in other cities and it shouldnt be happening in San Francisco. Reporter car breakins. There were about four of them every single hour in 2017. Whatever it is weve been doing so far is not working. Reporter thats why today supervisors hillary roenan and norman yee announced a board resolution to chep up chief up with scott by assigning a team to provide operations. We believe that this will complement the foot patrols deployed and the city wide effort to arrest and prosecute organized crime rings. Reporter more than 30,000 people had their cars broken in to. Compare that to 2012 when there were only about 13,000 breakins. Thats more than double. This in 70 of the cases, property was visible when cars were broken in to. Reporter sfpd ramping up its park smart campaign, reminding not to leave valuables in the cars. Vehicle breakins. Reporter many have blamed it on prop 47, we categorize them as misdemeanors, headaching it easier making it easier for serial burglars with no penalty. Thats why the court, probation, and the District Attorneys Office needs to work more hand in hand with police. Well, we cant control what happens in the courts, we cant control what happen tez District Attorney level. But we can control giving them the best case we can give them. Reporter police and city Officials Say theyre curious to look at the property crime stats six months from now. Only then will they be able to see if their new strategies have an impact. In San Francisco, Tara Moriarty, ktvu fox 2 news. The first major rainstorm has led to evacuations in southern california. Thousands of people who live in some of the areas destroyed by lass months thomas fire have been told to pack up and leave because of danger of flooding and mudslides. Evacuation orders were issued today for parts of ventura, l. A. , and Santa Barbara counties. Sandbags are in high demand and impossible to find in some areas. I called around and called the Fire Departments and earlier they didnt have any. I heard they ran out, i came up here this morning and there wasnt any. The mandatory Evacuation Order now affects some 21,000 people and that cub could grow as the rank continues overnight in to tomorrow. Were getting our share of rain around here. Coming down good and its exactly what we need right now, the very dry december. A record dry december. Now its taking up some totals, two inches of rain in San Francisco, we talked about that. And still raining hard outside. Were going in to the Morning Hours with some heavy rain. Theres the radar and west coast is inundated from san diego to ensenada. Morgan hill, watsonville, they picked up an inch of rain in the last couple hours, really heavy rain. It continues tonight through the early Morning Hours chl ill Morning Hours. Ill show you the computer model. It favors the north bay in the next hour, hour and a half as that low moves out. The north bay will get a nice, heavier rainfall accumulations. By 3 00 a. M. , it starts to dry out, but the roads are wet. Early morning commute, potential light showers. Tomorrow mornings commute, the regular commute from 7 00 to 9 00 should be fine. But up to 7 00, from 4 00 to 7 00, it will be real wet and messy. 7 00 a. M. It backs out a little bit. Valley fog and a few more scattered showers around 10 00 a. M. , really light stuff. It spins out and moves on. Thats tomorrow afternoon. So the sky looks like this. Few scattered showers for oakland, berkeley, san rafael, point richmond, richmond, albany and then by lunch time just a distant memory. And maybe a few sprinkles and then it clears out after that. So whatd i just say . Tomorrow should be a much nicer day. The main thing about tomorrow will be the clearing, every day of clearing. But that first part still going to feel pretty darn yet. Forecast highs in the 50s, a warm starm. Lake tahoe hasnt been getting snow. Getting way up there, but its not an impressive storm for them. But we have more in the offing now as we get down not in this five day but the next five day, a colder, stronger storm. Very encouraging storm, exactly what we need right now. Were getting away with it too. And were coming in cycles, not all at once. Exactly. All right. Thanks. New at 11 00, now its a good time to get out and enjoy some of californias natural wonders. The save the Redwoods League offering at 40 California State Parks that feature redwood forests. A number here in the bay area, including mount tam and marin. And henry cal state park in santa cruz. Passes are being offered the second saturday of each month, january 13th, this month. You can get yours at freeredwood day freeredwooddays. Com. Bruno mars will join other big names including the killers for the sixth annual festival. Organizers released the line up. The chain smokers, snoop dogg also all set to perform. It runs from may 25th to may 27th. At the napa valley expo. Three day passes go on sale tomorrow morning at 10 00. Coming up, the warriors looking for a little revenge tonight against the nuggets. How they made out next in sports. But first, a story thats trending right now on ktvu. Com, this eight month old goldendoodle is a [ indiscernible ] thanks to humans. Just three months old. By the way, he has a high score of 93. Of 93. And blap 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 okay, boy. I dont know if its going to get much better than this. Not, when a game if you look at how it went down, in the final moments in overtime and how many true freshman had everything to do with it, and theyre like, what, 18, 19, 20yearold kids . Theyre on national tv it was outstanding. Everything on the line, they call alabama the crimson tide, theyll be singing that long in to the night this evening. 130. Georgia, the underdog leading. Then saban makes the risky call, put in a freshman. He starts delivering immediately before anybody knew how to pronounce his name. 137. But georgias got a fresh one. Quarterback of their own, from. Watch him go up top for hardman. Slips a tackle, gone. 80 yards. Now youre thinking all right, theyve stabilized. 207. Enter antioch har harris, another true freshman. 35 yards, six carries. 64 yards total. Field goal to keep bama in it. Trailing only by a touchdown. One possession, 2013. Again, viola showing that left arm, he looks like steve young back there. He nails it on a fourth and four, 3 49 left. 2020 for alabama, overtime, a field goal for georgia. Second and 26, lets loose, deep for smith. Do i need to tell you hes a freshman . Yeah, its his first catch. 41 yards, the walk up, National Title victory, five and nine yards for bama. Seven for saban, that ties in with the legendary bryant. Warriors, they dont like playing second fiddle like theyre playing right now. Not only the best record in the nba at this point, but seemingly having the most fun. Denver comes to town, warriors looking to avenge a loss right around christmas time against these guys. Draymond creates the turnover, bouncing to klay, they reverse. Stefan finds a way on this one. Draymond will get it to him. The drive and for once, they give him a call he solved. It counts. And a little worried about his health on this. But hes okay. 32 points and as youll see shortly, hes got his shooting touch intact, knee is good and feeling the rhythm. Good enough to dance. Not many guys take that shot right there. 32 points, he had five more threes. Just feeling it. These are the house [ indiscernible ] at the oracle. Getting in to it. Slam dunk as he goes deliver the post again since he stepped in a dancing mode. They coast 124113, 338. Tomorrow is going to be all about the oakland raiders. As you know who is coming back. But today, 49ers say lets sneak in to the headlines just a little bit. They hired ken norton jr. As you know. He was fired by the raiders unceremoniusly after the coordinator hired by the 49ers as an assistant head coach to kyle shanahan. Assistant coach for the defense and he will be in charge of in sideline backers. Happy to say, hes landed on his feet. Still in the bay where he belongs. Yeah. Big day tomorrow for the raiders, looking forward to it. Well be there live at noon. Thanks. Good night, everybody. Hey, thank you. Heres an andrew jackson. Make a clean set of sheets happen, ill introduce you to his twin brother. chuckles you dont have to do the banter, but whats it cost me . Manny, it was a great idea to come on the train. Rail is the last bastion of respectable travel now that every airport has become a sweatpant convention. We are all traveling to portland because jays exwife, dede, is getting remarried. Were so happy. For us. It means the end of those damn alimony payments, so im gonna make sure dede goes through with it. Itll be, i do, i do, im done. bell dinging how much choice action are we gonna get on this trip . Im managing my expectations. Dont you know anything about trains . Chicks go crazy. The vibrations get them all worked up. Also, theyre trapped, which is nice. Hey. Were just gonna go bang out this toast for mom. Yeah. Shouldnt have waited till the last minute. Itll be a nice distraction from your motion sickness. Its good, as long as im not facing backwards when the train is oh, god, no