Broadcast center, h is abc7 news. Live doppler 7hk showing a lot of green on might. That means rain sticking around after soaking the bay area h evening. This evening. It is the first of three storms make for a wet week ahead. Ama indicates has the night off. Pouring rain pelted the bay brimming. Started puddling up which made for dangerous driving conditions. It was a bit tricky though there were no serious accidents reported. People walking along the embarcadero in San Francisco had their umbrellas out of course and as the rain pit the popular tourist area. There was light blooding a few inches deep and taking a live look mow at golden gate cash dash lube now at imold ep gate bridge cam. Pour more about the storm and the series of storms, here is sandhya patel with live doppler 7hk. There are two more storms and live doppler 7hd will take you in and show you where it is raining. In the east bay we are seeing loit on dash cash light on moderate rain. San leandro and hayward area and washington avenue, we are seeing that light on moderate rain across the san mateo bridge. We are seeing the rain on on the peninsula. We are looking at san mateo and foster city and down toward san carlos and also seeing some light rain. Palo alto and, guess what. Finally it took hours, but made from the south bay to the santa cruz mountains. I want to take you closer to street level. Santa clara, West Virginia street, moore park avenue, you are getting wet into cupertino. How much rain . A trace amount. 1. 42 and almost three quarters in saint helena. We do have two more things in the accuweather sevenday forecast. I will de ale part of your weekend plan. Dan . Thank you very much. Right now it is drizzling in San Francisco as you can see pr the exploratorium camera. The rain was enough to keep some people indoors ad. Alan wang is live it at the shopping sen iter. At least it is a chance to get the lastminute Christmas Shopping done. Yes, dan. The friday before christmas is always expected to be a busy shopping kay. And shopping is an important element to the kays success. The days rain may have put a damper on. Retailers in the north bay say everything was going well on the friday before christmas until the storm rolled in. Pretty much started dying when the rain came in. I think it was around 4 00. The Christmas Shopping spirit took an immediate dive as rush hour traffic seemingly ignored the retailers. Open air shopsy village and the town center were deserted. We think today is busy. Retailers needed more hard core shoppers. You impot tau could you go it a, do what you go it a do. She was one of the few. Lastminute Christmas Tree shopping came to a halt in greenbrae. But john hardin saw as an opportunity. We thought it would be a good time to sneak out and get something con. Thats. It worked out great. Lastminute christmas shoppers are expected to come out, but there is more rain in the forecast and retailers are hoping he can get their christmas he can get their Christmas Spirit on and brave the elements. Abc7 news. Trucks are being turn had around along interstate 80 in the sierra. Rain here means snow up there. They are being stopped at apple gate because of accumulating sleet and snow on the troy. It is creating hazardous driving conditions. The westbound truck traffic is being screened in Nevada County on make sure drivers are carrying chains. Month restrictions cash dash no restrictions along highway 50 at h point. Heavy rains spoiled plans in west sacramento. The water accumulated on the ice and turned into slush. They coobt play hockey they couldnt play hockey. It has been postponed until tomorrow afternoon. Now when you get unusual weather where you live take a photo or video and share it using abc7 now. That will help us find your content which we want to do and use it on the air or our website, abc7news. Com. Well, moving on, on night Oakland Police are on the lookout for a man who kidnapped a woman, robbed her and tried on sexually assault her as well. He released surveillance photo they released surveillance photo. Police say the man put a metal object into her back and walked her into a secluded area. She fought back kicking and screaming the entire way. The attacker ran off with her stolen items. A pormer youth former youth pastor is accused of molesting children. Gabriel lopez is accused of molesting two imirls part of his imirls part of his bible study class. He was arrested h week at his home in pinole and he volunteered at john sweat high school. Detectives believe there may be other possible victims as well. A fiery wreck killed the driver of this pick up truck h afternoon. It happened about 3ing on near the cal train station. It was seen speeding and driving moments before h this. Accident. They will need dna on identify the badly burned remained. The District Attorney met facetoface with mario woods, the man fatally shot by police. George gascone told the crowd he hears their demands and understands they are upset. They want the mayor to fire the police chief. They blame him for the death of woods who was shot at least 15 times by officers in the bay view cricket earlier h month view district earlier this month. The conclusion of the investigation and whatever rational we come up with will be made public. The demonstrators want police to undergo sensitivity training. The Police Department is asking the city to allow officers to also be armed with tasers. Governor brown declared a state of emergency in San Bernadino county which means the state agencies can help deal with the aftermath of h months this months shooting rampage. They are meeting with families of the victims. But there is controversy about the trip. It feels more like an afterthought on his trip on hawaii for christmas vacation. And there is a new controversy between the two leading democrats. A Software Glitch allowed four members of the better me Sanders Campaign to con load confident download confidential files. They fired the sanders and then shut the campaign out of the database. He accused them of siding with clinton. They reached an agreement to restore access to the database. Clinton and sanders will faceoff at the debate in maam name. In new hampshire. You can watch it live right here on abc7 starting at 5 00 p. M. A busy day. Stay with me. A lot hour coming up. El nino is expected to cause chaos on the Russian River. We will take you back three decades when a storm sent the river rushing into nearby gernville. And star wars is going for a record at the box office. The numbers already being racked up. And star wars is not just a theater experience for these fans who are feeling the force big time tonight. Abc7 news at 11 aduring sleep trains ur latriple choice sale. Ig for a limited time, you can choose up to 48 months interestfree financing on a huge selection of tempurpedic models, or choose to save 300 on beautyrest and posturepedic mattress sets. You can even choose 300 in free gifts with sleep trains most popular Stearns Foster mattresses. The triple choice sale ends sunday at sleep train. Sleep train [train horn] your ticket to a better nights sleep were not just packing theaters tonight, but they were getting a taste of the force. In several cities including los angeles and San Francisco, thousands battle ited with light sabres. Isnt that a great im men at night . Surge great image at night. Sergio is live with this Galactic Free for all. Sergio . The crowd here, dan, has cleared out quite a bit, but there are still a few people here. The force is strong with them. They have been swinging their light sabres at each other for more than three hours now. It is not very long ago in a galaxy not far away at all, hundreds of jedi braved the rain to experience the force. To try to break the record for the biggest light sabre battle. This battle is one of several across the country, and a star wars event would not be complete without costumes. It was the second day in a row for some. Me and my friend decided to dress up for the movie yesterday. Some were worried about the night. It was their first night at battle. Have you been practicing with the light sabres . No, and i am kind of scared. As if on cue they the clouds parted over embarcadero and at 7 00 the forces of good and evil went at it. It is crazy. Even in all of this rain, everybody is here. We are all one big star wars family. It was a free for all. The colors of the sabres painted the night sky in red, blue and green and children battled adults. There doesnt seem to be a lot of rules. Anyone can be a target. There were probably only two rules to follow. Have fun, and if you have seen the movie already, no sharing spoilers. [coughing]. I hope i am not catching a cold from standing out in the rain for three hours now. Reporting live in San Francisco, abc7 news. Thanks, darth. Thank you very much, sergio. Star wars the force awakens could set a new opening week end record for ticket sales. Thats the expectation. Disney which owns the star wars series is estimating ticket sales of 215 million. The film earned 57 million on thursday night alone. Tickets are Still Available and theaters added additional showings to handle the demand. It is not unusual for the Russian River to flood. It usually causes little damage. However, this is an el el nino season when weather can push the river to the extreme. We go back to 1986 when a blast of rain caused the biggest flood ever. This is the Russian River on its best behavior. So calm and serene. Just what people who live here love about it. But the old timers know better. A lot of people have been here since 1986 and they dont have a clue. It is like you are breathing water. You are so incredibly dense. The water never stopped coming from the sky. It was so loud. It was deafening. Believe it. Monday morning it came up 10 feet in about eight hours. After two feet of rain fell in 10 days, it went up 48. 8 feet. Thats still a record. How high is 48. 8 feet. Do you see the old bridge . The water came all the way up to the walkway. Locals still call this the great valentine flood. But there is no romance here. It caused 40 million damage. The river lived up to its name and cars looked like boats. The dela caw delicatessin. To cross residents clung to a rope. They didnt tell us nothing. They just said it wasnt going to flood and my house is now under water. There was no way out for more than a thousand people except by National Guard helicopters. For those who did remain behind, the red cross shelters moved to Higher Ground three different times. Be prepared for things next time. To a degree they have. Now during floods the water rarely wreaks the built up homes. Abc news. Lets hope we dont get a repeat of that. It is still raining in spots around the bay area. Strong weather has reached san jose an hour ago. Sand yaw Patel Sandhya patel is tracking it all for us on live doppler 7hd. It is great to see that rain. Let me show it to you on live doppler 7hd. Although it it is lightening up, it did reach the south bay. The rainfall intensity is hitting Castro Valley and you can see it on the peninsula. We have light rain from redwood city and Mountain View and loss altos hill and the wipers are still going in the south bay. Santa clara and san jose. You can see the radar does push into street level. Willow glen and dont put your umbrellas away just yet. Santa cruz and watsonville is getting rain as well. In the sierra it is turning to 80. Chains are required right now and the snowfall intensity is starting to pick up not only across 80, but 50 as well. The temperatures are mild in the 50s with all of the cloud cover. We are looking at rain drops from the exploratorium camera. The scatter ited showers tomorrow morning. More rain is coming on sunday and another storm graces us on Christmas Eve. That timing though has changed a little bit. I will show you that in a moment. 2 00 a. M. , east bay, south bay, still have some rain drops tomorrow morning. Dont be surprised if you can hear the pitterpatter of rain drops. Look for some scattered showers. It should not be problematic. Light to moderate rain at 8 00 a. M. Then you notice at 10 00 a. M. The last of the showers will be pushing through. By afternoon, 2 00 we are pretty much looking at clearing out. You will get a chance to head out and do some holiday shopping. Winter storm warning until 4 00 p. M. 6 to 14 inches of snow is expected with the snow level coming down to 4,000 feet. Tahoe under a Winter Weather advisory. Good idea to carry your chains and expect some delays. Up to a flood is certainly possible. Here is a look at the next storm. It comes in early sunday afternoon. On our storm impact scale it ranks one. It may impact travel heading out of the bay area. Up to an inch for the wettest spots. Here is the sunday storm. At 9 00 a. M. It is north of the bay area, ukiah, cloverdale. It is light to moderate. It starts to move across central portion of the bay at 2 00 p. M. And then it continues to cover most of the region at 3 00 on sunday afternoon and sunday evening. You will want to carry your rain gear on sunday night. Still some rain shower activity into the late part of sunday night. As far as rain totals with the sunday system, most regions will see anywhere from about. 28 to. 67. Just over an inch along the coastline or higher terrain. Tomorrow morning, 40s and make sure you have your umbrella with you. Still some spotty showers. Then for the afternoon we will break out the sunshine. Upper 40s to the mid50s. It is going to be a cool day. If you are heading out shopping a little fog on saturday morning. A few showers as you notice. Noontime this is your planner. Mostly cloudy and brightens up at 4 00 p. M. And cools down at 9 00 p. M. Temperatures in the 40s. Accuweather sevenday forecast, next storm on sunday is a one on our storm impact scale. Monday night into tuesday just a few light showers. Dont can sell any plans. Wednesday is dry and then thursday, Christmas Eve is a two on the scale. That will be wet and windy. Here is the great news. My gift to you and everybody, it will be dry on Christmas Day for santa. Im getting a new bike. Oh you want to go biking. Thank you very much. R2d2 is going president ial. Up next, why the droid and this just in. The final countdown to christmas is here. Wait what . 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Along with the hula hoop, blue jeans and that little thing we call the interstate highway system. And all this doin . It takes energy, no matter whos doin. Theres all kinds of doin up in here. Or what theyre doin. What the hecks he doin . Energy got us here. And its our job to make sure theres enough energy to keep doers doin the stuff doers do. To keep us all doin what we do. Brought to you by xfinity. They wanted revenge on the team that ended their 28game win streak. But milwaukee is proving that tonight it was no fluke. Carter williams is subject to the warriors animosity. He will have to leave with a back sprain. They need to use that as fuel. Only two first half threes. The warriors are 58 first middle points. They were down 13 or 15 in the third and a 174 run. Clay with the three. Curry trying to shake Carter Williams and they call that a two. Carter williams out played steph until fourth. An 80 run by himself. Curry 10 of his 26 and boom you would think this is the warriors and clippers. 121 h of 112 the final. They are now 2 sick1. The home win streak is still alive. 30 in a row. We were very public about the facts we wanted to get revenge, but then we came out and played with the edge and mentality. We didnt have the aggression and physicality we needed until the last 20 minutes of the game. Well, they got it done. The sharks won the first two games on the fivegame road trip in ottawa where they would now make it three in a row. He was unable to clear the puck. Bobbie ryan beat him and the game tied at one. His shot is off mask and he is messing with it. The rebound goes between his legs. The senators win 42. High School Football and they dominated in mission viejo. They were shut out by the diablos. Four yard there to mission viejo. They rolled 240. One last night and vogel song signs a oneyear free agent deal with the pirates. 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