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We get whats coming next. Another storm ranking two on our impact scale for tonight. And a third storm, a stronger one coming in on wednesday. That one ranks number three on the storm impact scale. Deal with the next storm first. Number two on the scale, a storm of mad rat intensity continues through the early part of tomorrow. A half inch to an inch of rainfall. Gusty winds. By 10 00 well see rain pushing widespread into the north bay and some of it will be moderate to heavy. By 11 00 p. M. And 12 00 midnight rain pushing to all parts of the bay area. Areas of moderate to heavy rainfall and gusty winds will continue into the Early Morning commute. 5 00 in the morning well still have areas of downtours. Wet pavement, pooling, ponding, puddling of water. Possibly a problem for commuters. A slow and messy commute tomorrow. And more Stormy Weather to follow. Ill show you the week ahead in just a moment. Larry and ama . Thank you, spencer. Well be checking with you frequently. Im sure you will. Flooding is a big concern in napa where floodwaters drenched downtown the last time el nino was around. Improvements have been made since then. Wayne freedman joins us. Reporter behind me is the napa river. For the first time in memory, for the first time ever, residents in downtown napa are not concerned about it even in an el nino year. The reason they have done a lot of work and preparation. Does it look like a flood plain . Lets ask Katherine Cabrera who has a long memory. Were used to being flooded. Reporter shes remembering the new years eve flood of 2005 when the river crested at more than 30 feet and claimed much of this town in the process. It was the 21st time the napa river has flooded since 1862. Residents hoped it was the last as they dealt with the usual problems. Basically the whole basin is filled up with water. This is going to be new carpeting, cleanup work and all of the rotted wood on the walls. Reporter now ten years later, napa has reason to believe such a disaster wont happen again, and this is why. A recently completed Flood Control bypass right through the heart of town. Its built for the 100year flood part of an ongoing 600 million project. It will flow through this shortcut. And its over our head in depth at this point when that happens. Reporter phil miller knows it well. Hes the chief engineer for this network of bridges, river reroutings and walls, lots of walls. Weve got another 200 million to spend. Reporter around lincoln avenue in particular where the sometimes angry napa river still knows no bounds. This area remains in jeopardy. As for the rest. At this point would downtown napa flood . No. Reporter in a community thats seen more than its share of trouble the last few years, thats the stuff of sleeping at night. Wane freedman, abc 7 news. A little preventive maintenance was down in alameda ahead of the storm. Crews spread out to trim trees. A pretty big job by the looks of it. And when you get unusual weather where you live, please take a photo or video and share it with us using the abc7now. That will help us find your content and use it on the air or at abc 7 news. Com. Its a rough start to the new year for the u. S. Stock market, which suffered its worst opening day in eight years. Analysts are blaming the slowing economy in china and increased tensions in the middle east. The dow plummeted 276 points closing at 17148. Lost more than 450 at one point earlier in the day. The nasdaq closed down 104 and the s p lost 31. The growing rift between saudi arabia and iran is now spreading. More nations are following saudi arabias lead. Today bahrain and sudan cut diplomatic ties with iran. Iran says it regrets two attacks on saudi arabia diplomatic missions. The violence started with saudi arabias execution of a prominent shiite cleric over the weekend. An earthquake in northeast india near the borders with myanmar and bangladesh. More than 100 others have been injured. Falling debris from collapsed buildings appear to be responsible for the deaths and injuries. Strong aftershocks have been felt across the region. Done in by a selfie. Authorities in Monterey County arrested Victor Martinez after they say he took a selfie with a person he had just robbed and then texted the photo to the victim. The Armed Robbery happened in pacific grove. Police say martinez and two others held up four people sitting in a car. Heavy security greeted workers who returned for the first time to the San Bernardino social Services Center where 14 died in a shooting rampage. Security officers stopped every car and checked every badge as nearly all of the 608 employees returned to work. Most of us are relieved to be back at work. We want to continue with the normalcy. And we miss each other very much. And the center is planning to make a permanent memorial for the victims and their families. For now a chain link fence will remain around the center where the shooting happened on december 2nd. Tears of grief from an employee of the San Francisco district attorneys office. Wanda bailey says a coworker called her the nword at the hall of justice. Bailey claims when she complained to the Human Resources manager, she was scolded. You could have just told a supervisor. You didnt have to tell someone else. And i said, well, i didnt do anything. Bailey says this incident has made her ill, and shes now suing the city. In a statement to abc 7 news, representative for San Franciscos Resources Department said that every allegation is thoroughly investigated and appropriate corrective actions are taken where warranted. Police in San Francisco are looking for two people who stole precious necklaces from a 90yearold tibetan woman. This happened on Christmas Day and was all caught by surveillance cameras. Lyanne melendez joins us. Reporter what was stolen here has a lot of sentimental value. The family now spends their mornings and weekends going to flea markets hoping to find what was stolen. She left her native tibet 60 years ago. She had only two possessions, two necklaces that she always carries with her. They took everything she got. So she never leave it anywhere. She take it with her all the time. Reporter on christmas, her daughter, the owner of this Jewelry Store was loading her van with some items. Loading the stuff. And its just like five to ten minutes. So i asked mama can you watch this bag . Reporter in one of the bags were her mothers necklaces. This Surveillance Video shows the moment when the car pulls up, the passenger gets out and reaches inside to grab the two bags. Then they drive off. Mama is shouting. What happened, mama . It was just five minutes. They took my bags. Reporter witnesses say they saw the driver of the car minutes before entering other stores. Ironically the 90yearold womans a dementia and is constantly searching for her tibetan jewelry. She forgets what happened. And every five minutes shes looking for that, searching for that. Reporter inside one of the bags were other items and jewelry from the store valued alt about 40,000. But the family says they just want what was stolen from their mother. Police are asking for the publics help. In San Francisco, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. San Francisco Police are investigating an accident between a truck and a muni lightrail vehicle today that injured five people including the muni driver. Initial reports say the truck made a left turn in front of the muni vehicle at third street and egbert avenue. Five people went to the hospital with neck and knee injuries. The chp is looking into an unusual singlecar accident on northbound interstate 880 in san leand leandro. The driver lost control and ran off the road at the Marina Boulevard exit. Witnesses say the car flew 30 feet in the air right off the embankment. The driver went to the hospital. No word on the extent of his injuries. Heres a live picture from heavenly Mountain Resort where crews have their hands full today. Theyre trying to figure out why an unoccupied chair fell from a lift on the downhill side of the north bowl yesterday. Operators immediately stopped the lift and evacuated all 65 people who were riding it. Fortunately no one was hurt. The largest ship ever to visit the u. S. Is now heading back to asia. Sky 7 hd shows the 1300footlong Benjamin Franklin going under the bridge today. The ship stopped in l. A. And in oakland. It can carry 18,000 shipping containers. That helps bring costs down because of volume. It is now carrying Agricultural Products grown in california back to asia. Still ahead, a big cleanup after a bizarre accident. A boat sinks just a week after the owner died. One and done. Jed york talking about his decision to fire jim tomsula. They are already digging into a soccer field. Michael finney is here taking your questions on twitter and facebook. Hell answer them live in just a few minutes. Search for Michael Finney on facebook or twitter to ask finney. And lets check our traffic along 101 through san rafael. It is raining outside. You can see a little bit there. Its not looking good on your northbound side. Thats the left side. Its moving, but there are a lot of cars. A little bit better on the righthand side. Grow old with me let us share what we see just you and i grow old with me let us share what we see and oh the best it could be just you and i this is abc 7 news. Well, it was a humble and apologetic jed york who met the media today. The 49ers head owner fired coach tomsula yesterday that saw levi stadium half empty for a lot of the home games. York said several times that he regretted getting rid of the previous coach jim harbaugh, but he danced around those questions. York did admit hes reacted to emotionally sometimes especially on twitter and said he sought out advice from his uncle Eddie Debartolo jr. York said gm trent baalke will stay on. Theyll pay off the 10. 5 million that they own jim tomsula and now try to fix this mess. I could have easily come out here and said, hey, we had a lot of injuries this year, a lot of things didnt go our way, were going to stick with this. Thats not where we are. Were willing to spend what it takes to get everything right to get back to a championship culture. And this season wasnt fun. It wasnt fun for me. It certainly wasnt fun for the fans. And, you know, i truly am sorry that we had to go through this year, but you have my word that im going to do everything that we can to get this team back. Were in need of somebody that can win super bowls. Personality doesnt matter . Were in need of somebody who can win super bowls. Do you have that guy . We havent won a super bowl since 1994. Yeah, so who is that person . Harbaugh out, tomsula out. Who is next, larry . Thats a good question. Jim harbaugh was the per no, not go back to that. The niners need to restore credibility. They basically nuked themselves in the past year. They need a named guy who has experience and can clearly handle this job. They need someone who is willing to work with the gm trent baalke. I would argue baalke issed a responsible for this teams demise even more so than jimmy t. Everybody loves david shaw. He doesnt want to leave stanford. Chip kelly wants the job, but he cant get along with harbaugh, how are you going to get along with chip kelly . Hugh jackson, the former raiders head coach, bengals offensive coordinator would be very intriguing. Theres a lot of pressure on the 49ers right now. They had better get this right. Failure is not an option right now. Not really at this point. A lot of angry fans. Very angry. And jed knows that. The nfl is just beginning its transformation of the 49ers home, levi stadium, for super bowl 50. Sky 7 hd was overhead today as crews worked to clear the turf inside the stadium in preparation for a brandnew field ahead of super bowl 50, which will be on february 7th. Were still a month away, but theres already big controversy for organizers of the super bowl. The Santa Clara Youth Soccer League is suing the nhl to stop the league from using its fields right next to levi stadium. The nfl took over the cityowned soccer park today. Advocates say theyll destroy the field but the league has promised to make repairs after the super bowl. Last week a judge asked the nfl not to make any drastic changes until the issue could be heard in court. The first hearing is wednesday. However, sky 7 hd shows us many holes being dug today. Abc 7 reporter david louie will have more at 5 00. Jennifer newsome who is a cousin of Lieutenant Governor gavin newsom died on Christmas Day. Theres no questions about how her boat went under. Amy hollyfield has the investigation. Reporter brennan said his sister jennifer died on Christmas Day. Now her boat is gone. As he watched cleanup crews toss her belongings on to a barge, he asked them to please be careful. Supernice antiques and fine china down there. I know that. So you know, just deal with it day by day. Reporter the man living in the boat across from hers here at the harbor called 911 just before 5 00 this morning when he saw that it was sinking. This for me is really rough because that was that was my best friend. Reporter a dive team confirmed no one was on board. The coast guard says there could be a logical reason the boat sank such as recent rains maybe overwhelming the bilge pump. But Brennan Newsome who is Lieutenant Governor gavin newsomes cousin is a bit more suspicious. They told me the only way to sink a boat like this is like siphoning water on to it. So thats it. I dont know. Im a little bit shocked. Reporter police and the coast guard say it doesnt look like a crime was committed, but once the harbor master gets the boat out of the water and takes a closer look, if theres any sign of anything suspicious, theyll launch an investigation. In san rafael, amy holyfield, abc 7 news. A fare increase greeted b. A. R. T. Riders today. Many riders headed back to work for the first time this new year. B. A. R. T. Raised fares 3. 4 on new years day. That means that a round trip from fremont, San Francisco, is up from 11. 90 to 12. 30. It seems like they go up a lot, for sure. But i understand they have costs on their side. So its a little bit frustrating, though, for sure. Will you change how you commute . I dont think so. Not at this point. Its really the only option given traffic. So just roll with it. Reporter the fare increase happens automatically every other year. Fares are also going up for santrans customers. The youth pass dropped 15 cents to 1. 10. And the adult monthly pass will now cost 65. 60. Commuters on the Golden Gate Bridge will notice a change this evening. The current lane configuration isnt helping traffic during the evening commute so crews will shift the lanes only twice a week instead of every day. So heres the new configuration. Monday through wednesday, it will have an equal number of lanes going south and north, three each way. Thursday and friday evenings that will change to four lanes northbound and two southbound. The lanes used to change to four and two every weekday evening. Time to check on our weather. You can see the clouds behind us. And there are a few sprinkles out there this afternoon. And plenty more coming. Spencer christian joining us. Now the umbrella is up. Earlier it was put away. Now you got it. Thats right. Im currently shielding myself from some of the sprinkles. Theyre passing through the bay area. Heres live doppler 7 hd. A few wet spots right now. The rain is not very widespread but there are wet spots on the road didways and that may slow down the evening commute. Up in the north bay areas of rain lightly near san rafael, vallejo. Fairfield, napa, bodega bay. The Golden Gate Bridge is cloudy and the pavement looks wet although well see evidence of rain falling there, at least not any intense rain. Stormy tonight with showers later in the day tomorrow. A stronger storm comes in on wednesday and showers will continue into thursday. Now, tonights and tomorrows storm ranks two on our storm impact scale. Thats a storm of moderate intensity. Well see winds gusting to 45 Miles Per Hour. Half an inch to an inch of rain in most locations expected and a Flash Flood Watch is in effect until 10 00 tomorrow night to the areas affected by massive fires last summer. Flash flooding and debris flows are possible. Rainfall projections for the next storm by, oh, 7 00 tomorrow evening we expect over an inch of rain at novato, napa, and san jose, most other locations will see a half inch and maybe twothirds of an inch. Winds will be gusty overnight. Well start our wind gust animation, 7 00 this evening, by 10 00 look for gusts up to 41 Miles Per Hour. At Half Moon Bay 30, at napa by midnight gusts to 48 Miles Per Hour and point rayies. Then well see winds tapering off rather significantly by tomorrow morning. Midmorning hours. Even stronger with gusts of 50 Miles Per Hour. Downed trees and power lines are likely. Lets look at that approaching storm. Beginning our forecast animation 10 00 tomorrow night. Into wednesday morning well see heavy downpours of rain rather widespread downpours with strong gusty winds, a stormy commute wednesday morning. That will continue across the entire bay area untilled a least the midmorning hours before it tapers off into showers and periods of rain tomorrow afternoon. Rainfall totals by, oh, thursday night we project will exceed two inches, maybe 2 1 2 inches in places like novato. 3 inches expected at san jose, over 2 inches at san carlos. Overnight low temperatures mainly in the low 50s. Tomorrows highs under rainy and then showery conditions will reach into the mid to upper 50s. As we look at the seven days ahead, you can see that the Stormy Weather wont taper off till thursday. Then we get weak systems to produce chance of showers at least over the weekend. So we have an accoutive patternl nino influenced weather is here. Up next, a lot of money. Powerball fever sweeps the nation. Then new after 4 30, some of the hot new gadgets at th General Motors is making a Huge Investment in San Franciscobased lyft. The automaker is putting 500 million into the ondemand ride service in large part to develop an autonomous ondemand network for selfdriving cars. The Company Plans to set up car hubs nationwide that would help people who dont own cars become lyft drivers. Jonathan bloom will take a look at what this all means coming up at 6 00. Want to get rich . Expect to see a case of powerball fever sweeping the country in the next few days. No winner saturday so the Powerball Jackpot will skyrocket to 400 million by wednesday. That is the largest its been in over two years. The thought of a huge mpayout already has people dreaming split. Well split it right down the middle. Part of the excitement is dreaming what you would do with that kind of money. Dreaming about it is actually your best shot of getting close to the prize. Despite that we keep putting our 2 in, dont we, ama. Yeah. Your chances of winning are 1 in 298 million. Not great but one lucky person or group will be very happy. Hope its our group. The news at 4 00 does continue. The fbi is jumping into the fray in oregon as ranchers take a stand against the federal government. President obama closing in on a new executive action on gun control. And the new political ad raising eyebrows and live from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. Here are the stories making headlines at 4 30, just in time for our wet winter napa is reporting progress on its ongoing federally funded creek and river Flood Control project. The 600 million project is now twothirds complete and and that is the expectations for a wet commute tomorrow morning. Spencer will have the latest on the tim jt of our approaching storms coming up in just a few minutes. Carolyn tyler tweeted this photo saying someone hit this power pole last night causing an outage for San Francisco resident. The question is was it a drone . Shell have the latest at 5 00. Closing arguments are under way in the federal case against Raymond Shrimp Boy Chow accused of racketeering, murder and money laundering. Vic lee is following the case in court and now has an update live in San Francisco. Reporter the hearing has ended for the day. It resumes tomorrow. Closing arguments for the defense started rather late today, but raymond shrimp chows attorney is asking them not to say what they told on the stand. Four became government witnesses testifying against chow. Well have more of what he said tonight at 6 00, but heres what the prosecution told jurors during its closing arguments. Prosecutor susan badgers closing arguments took all morning and most of the afternoon meticulously explaining all the charges against Raymond Shrimp Boy Chow. As an backdrop an arsle an of firearms seized during the raids and arrests displayed on a table. Chow, 40 took the stand in his own defense, says hes innocent of racketeering, money laundering, trafficking, drugs, and two murders including the high profile killing in 2006 of allen liang. But badger told jurors chow is a ruthless opportunistic thug and that he was a shot caller of a criminal syndicate. Chow mein tans hes a changed man since he got out of prison in 2003 on previous racketeering and hes devoted his life to community work. To that the prosecutor said mr. Chow went back to the only life he knew. He surrounded himself with thugs in chinatown for a hit on liang. The prosecution said chow has the most to benefit from liangs unsolved shooting death because he then took control of the organization. But chow meaintains his innocence. At the risk of being rude, did you have any involvement with mr. Liangs death . Mr. Liang . No. Reporter prosecutors say he based his whole life on deception. Dont be deceived by him. Vic lee, abc 7 news. The fbi is getting involved in the highly charged takeover by a group of militiamen in rural oregon. The group is armed and now occupying a Federal Building on a National Wildlife refuge for the Third Straight day. Brandi hitt tells us why theyre vowing to stay there for years. Reporter the fbi is now stepping in hoping for a peaceful ending to this tense oregon standoff where openly armed militiamen calling themselves citizens for constitutional freedom have taken over a federal wildlife refuge led by ammon bundy. Because weve allowed our federal government to step outside the bounds of the constitution, theyre coming down into the state and taking over the land and the resources. Reporter the group claims this land does not believe to the federal government, and theyre ready to defend themselves should officers move in. The standoff started saturday after this rally in support of ranchers dwight and Steven Hammond. The two have been ordered to serve a fiveyear sentence for an alleged arson fire on federal land, 127 acres burned. Im going to jail for five years for 127. It seems like a bit of an overkill. Reporter while the hammonds and bundies have many supporters, some feel uneasy. I dont like the militias message. Its sort of frightening. People touting guns. Reporter president obama has also been notified. This ultimately is a local Law Enforcement matter. The fbis monitoring the situation. Reporter theyre also involved in this confront tags with the government two years ago over grazing rights but say their actions here will be peaceful. Dwight and Steven Hammond say they dont support the militias message and will report peaceful to prison today. Were learning new details about president obamas executive order on gun control. The president met with attorney general Loretta Lynch and top Law Enforcement officials today at the white house. His plan will require background checks for guns bought from dealers online or gun shows. President obama will make his recommendations tomorrow. He says these executive actions are within his Legal Authority and consistent with the Second Amendment. This is not going to solve every Violent Crime in this country. Its not going to prevent every mass shooting. Its not going to keep every gun out of the hands of a criminal. It will potentially save lives in this country. House Speaker Paul Ryan says at the very least the president is, quote, subverting the legislative branch. Gop candidates are taking aim at guns and the clintons on the road to the white house. We have the latest from washington. Reporter president ial Election Year is here and the 2016 race is switching into high gear. Im donald trump, and i approve this message. Reporter frontrunner donald trump made good on his multimillion dollar promise launching his first tv ads in the early primary states. His proposals on full display. Thats why hes calling for a temporary shutdown of muslims entering the united states. Reporter his attacks on president obama and Hillary Clinton are heating up as former president bill clinton hits the trail for his wife solo in new hampshire. Donald trump says your past is fair game. You keep coming up on the trail with him. Is it fair game . The republicans have to decide. Im trying to tell the democrats in the country that i think hilly will be the best president. Reporter clinton set her sights on the entire gop field. The republicans seem to have a particular fixation on blaming president obama and me for everything that happens in the world. Ive noticed that. Reporter the blame game will intensify this week when president obama uses his executive action on gun control. The president s going to put in place on monday that infringe on your Second Amendment rights. On my first day in office, theyre gone. For the next few weeks the candidates will be crisscrossing iowa and new hampshire. Ted cruz will win the day with the most events. Five Campaign Stops in iowa. Reporting for abc news from washington. Theres controversy surrounding trumps first tv ad. The video of people streaming over a fence isnt mexico, as the ad seems to convey, instead its a border in morocco. When Media Outlets pointed that out to trumps manager, he said no bleep its not the mexican border, but thats what our country is going to look like if we dont do anything. The bachelor is back. What the new man looking for love says he plans to do this season. Im Michael Finney. Ask finney is just ahead. So im still taking your questions on twitter and facebook. Search for Michael Finney. Ill answer your question right here live in a few minutes. Im Spencer Christian. We see sky filleded with clouds and theres rain on the way, too. Some of it heavy. And that is not the news these people want to hear on the skyway in downtown San Francisco. It is gridlock in both directions. Choose, choose, choose. But at bedtime . Why settle for this . Enter sleep number, and the lowest prices of the season. Sleepiq technology tells you how well you slept and what adjustments you can make. You like the bed soft. Hes more hardcore. So your sleep goes from good to great to wow only at a sleep number store. Find the lowest prices of the season, going on now. Save 600 on the 1 rated i8 bed. Know better sleep with sleep number. Star wars the force awakens continues its push towards box office history. That pulled in an estimated 88. 3 million this past weekend. Its now earned 740 million domestically and 1. 5 billion worldwide. That puts it second all time behind only avatar which earned just under 3 billion worldwide. A new season of the bachelor premieres tonight. Ben higgins got his heart broken last season on the bachelorette. Now hes looking to find a soulmate among 28 women. The one piece of advice he got from former bachelors was to be true to yourself. Higgins appeared on Good Morning America today. If this is going to work, we all have to be who we really are. How old are you again . 26. Are you old enough to get married . Yes, definitely. There wasnt a question in my mind. Just searching for clues here, people. The season premiere of bachelor kicks off tonight at 8 00 followed by the bachelor live at 10 00, thats a new onehour postshow tellall. We need Spencer Christian to tell all. Yes, we do. About el nino. Hes arrived. Theres more to tell than we can do in one minute, but well try. Heres live doppler 7 hd. El ninoinfluenced storm pattern is with us. Weve got scattered showers right now across the bay area, but heavier rain is on the way and snow on the way to the sierra. Winter storm warning in effect from 10 00 tonight. We expect several inches of snow. Up in the passes, one to two feet in the highest peaks. We expect about 21 inches at kirkwood, 5 inches at tao city and pull back and look at the statewide conditions in addition to snow in the sierra, rain and showers scattered across the remainder of the state. That includes the bay area. Well see our heavier rain overnight and early tomorrow morning. Scattered showers, mostly cloudy sky, high temperatures reaching only to the mid50s. Our rain chances here in San Francisco. 100 . Tuesday and wednesday. 50 chance on thursday. Looks like a dry day friday. It will be a wet weather pattern. Larry and ama . Thank you so much, spencer. Still ahead on abc 7 news at 4 00, its hard to tell what exactly youre looking at, but this could be the future of television. Yeah. Im the future of television. Right now im 7 on your sides Michael Finney. You can go out and eat. You get food poisoning. Someone should know about that, right . Who do you tell . 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Reports say the display soninlaw about as thick as a thin sheet of plastic laminate. The tv even continues to display video as its being rolled up for transport. The worlds first smart bra will also be revealed at the show this week. It measures biometrics through a data sensor on a special sports bra. It will track your heart rate, breathing rate and stamina. The Consumer Electronics show runs wednesday through saturday. This is a big week for oculus rift, the companys Virtual Reality headset will be available for preorder starting on wednesday. No word yet on how much it will cost. The company says the device will usher in a new era of entertainment and interaction. Time now for some interaction with Michael Finney because he is answering your questions sent to him via facebook, twitter and hes here now. The first one comes from joanie a. Can a Floor Companies that installing a floor add an additional amount while theyre installing the floor . Well, kind of sort of and the starting point is if youre having any work done in your house for 500 or more, the contractor must be licensed and they must give you a contract that spells out exactly what theyre going to do, how theyre going to do it and what materials are going to be used. In the middle of the project if theres a change in order for them to change the contract, they have to give you a change of contract order and then you have to sign it. If you disagree with it, you start beefing with them. If you really beef with them, then you get hold of the state contractor licensing board. Normally, you know, its going to be something big. They cant just go, i want more money, the costs went up. No. There had to be a hole under the floor. Something unforeseen. Right. Good way of putting it. Question from a twitter user. Last sunday i went to a restaurant in chinatown and i got food poisoning. Who should i report this to . The department of Environmental Health with your county. They all start there. Here in San Francisco, if its just you or a couple of friends that got sick, thats what you reported. But if theres more people than that, go to a Different Agency. Much too complicated. Ill post a link on our website that has all the counties in the state where you can report it. And if they want you to go ahead and report it to the federal government or to a Different Agency let them tell you. Anna e. Asked do the labor laws in california cover all workers even undocumented ones . You Better Believe it does. Theres no way of getting around paying someone a fair wage whether theyre here legal or not. As a matter of fact, sometimes when someone is undocumented theyre going to take you to the border, theyre going to deport them, they stop and make sure they get all the money from the employer first or get the correct minimum wage. All the labor laws apply. Minimum wage, overtime, breaks, everything. Nothing changes. Thank you, michael. Sure. Vegetables are likely to take more of your plate in 2016. And taking a break from work is good for you. You didnt need me to tell you that. Heres jane king with a wellness report. Vegetables have moved from the side to the center of the plate and expect to see more of that this year. Bon appetit magazine says seasonal vegetables especially squash and parsnips for the winter showing up as the main dish and meat is going to the side. The rise of the vegetable could also help with food waste which is estimated to be 133 billion pounds a year. Taking breaks at work actually increases productivity because it refuels us. Even just a 60second break is beneficial. Researchers at the robert h. Smith school of business say pushing ourselves with no time off taxes our brains making it harder to stay on task and remain attentive. The recommended they do recommend leaving your desk for a lunch break even if its just 15 minutes. Can meditation gadgets help reduce stress and happiness . 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Today marks the first day that the Oakland Raiders can file an application to move the team to southern california. It comes one week after the city of oakland failed to present the nfl with a detailed plan for building a new stadium here. Laura anthony is live at Team Headquarters in alameda. Laura . Reporter hi, ama. Well, as we speak, the raiders have yet to file their formal relocation application, but with a special nfl owners meeting set for next week, the expectation is they will file those formal papers and soon. Quarterback derrick carr happily signed autographs for raider fans outside the teams alameda headquarters. Without knowing whether this might be his last season in oakland. Diehard fans certainly hope not. I hope they stay in oakland. I dont want them to go anywhere. Reporter today marked the first day the raiders and two other teams, the San Diego Chargers and st. Louis rams, could submit their applications to the nfl to relocate to the los angeles area. Im on the stadium committee. Reporter raider fans may have gained an unlikely ally in 49er owner jed york who told reporters his preferences for teams to stay in their home cities. I think its vitally important at the National Football league that we do everything to stay in the markets were in. Reporter last week oakland city leaders sent the nfl a fivepage letter with no financing or specific plan, asking for more time to come up with a new stadium deal here. As the process plays out, its clear the ball is not in oaklands hands especially not the fans who could only wait and hope. But just make it happen in oakland. Weve been in l. A. , weve been divorced once, why have a second divorce . Reporter the owners have a special meeting in houston when they could vote on which, if any, team could move to southern california. Laura anthony, abc 7 news. Thank you so much for joining us for abc 7 news at 4 00, im ama daetz. Im larry beil. Abc 7 news at 5 00 begins right now. They think that theyre above the judges request. A south bay youth soccer field now a battlefield as the National Football League Starts digging it up before the court hearing. Rain undermines a home and the problem could cut off the entire neighborhood. Im abc 7 meteorologist sandhya patel. Live doppler hd tracking backtoback storms. Ill have a closer look coming up. Also ahead the search for a successor as 49ers owner jed york explains why he fired head coach jim tomsula. And did a drone knock out the lights in a San Francisco neighborhood . We heard a loud explosion, pop. Live, from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. Well, the rush is on to save this home in the Sonoma County community of monty rio near the russian river. A steel hillside supporting the house is about to give way. Neighbors could become cut off if that house and the mud fall on to the narrow road below leading to their homes. Heres a look at whats happening on live doppler 7 hd. The green shows the rain heading into the bay area. Some preventive maintenance today in alameda ahead of the storms as crews pulled out chain saws and trimmed trees. Good evening. Im larry beil in for dan ashley. Im ama daetz in for kristin zo zee. Now that has opened the storm door. Abc 7 meteorologist sandhya patel here to look at the next storm rolling in. Its coming in later on tonight. It will take us into tomorrow mornings commute which looks messy. It is dry, streets are still wet. Take a look. You can see where well still seeing damp roadways right now. Take you into the north bay and you notice across highway 101, old redwood highway were seeing some showers around san anselmo also see light returns spotty in nature around Peninsula Area across highway 35 and as we head towards the Santa Cruz Watsonville area very light showers. Two storms are coming in. Heres a look on the storm impact scale tonight into tomorrow. Its a two. Wednesdays a three. Details on the timeline coming up. Thank you, sandhya. See you in a few minutes. You can stay on top of the changing weather any time with the abc 7 news app. You can download it