It is starting in many parts of our area including in San Francisco. We are checking the condition first in the north bay. How does it look in the bay . [ inaudible ] it must be so wet we cannot hear her. We will work on that mike and return to her later. All the storm is moving in in the busiest travel days of the year. Matt keller is at sfo look for travelers trying to boat beat the rush. Matt . We have the rain at sfo coming down good. You can see the water is kicking up from the roads. When you get here make sure you bring your rain jacket and umbrella and you are prepared. Who wants to standout in the rain. I know love reporters standing out in the rain and i will have my photographer follow me in here at terminal two with security. The security line is going all the way out of the Security Check point and sfo has five cancellations and seven delays reported. Who knows what travelers will face now the rain is here . It will be busy. There will be 6. 5 million travels passing through sfo since thanksgiving day, a 5. 7 increase compared to last year. The san jose airport is expecting 18 increase. What can you do to get home on time . Get here two hours early for domestic night and three hours early for international flight. You do not want to be stuck in that line and only have 15 minutes to make the plane. It will be like love actually, or other favorite movie. He brought that up to tease reggie. Still havent seen it. C. H. P. Said a car riddled with bullet on the freeway was targeted. It is the third shooting on 580 in cloak in three weeks. Here is that story. Eight bullet holes are scattered across the vehicle, both victimsen conscious but bleeding badly. One victim had a bullet wound in the cheek and the other victim had two bullet homes in the leg left and one in the right leg. They said someone started shooting as they exited 580 east at harrison. The driver pulled off the freeway and stopped where he dialed 911. C. H. P. Shut down a mile stretch of 580 eastbound to harrison, the third freeway shooting in a month. On monday, a road rage incident took place west of grand avenue. A driver of a mercedes shot into another car missing two people inside and the suspect sped away. On november 30, someone shot at two people as they drove near the fruitvale avenue exit. The man and woman inside were hurt. No arrests have been made in that case, either. All lanes of 580 have we heard from the homeowner after the house fire broke out in Oakland Hills starting at 10 00 p. M. , First Responders called for help after they arrived with the flight flickering and his daughter yelled, he ran outside and saw smoke coming from the garage. We got out and we watched it go up, first concern, did everyone get identity in outn the house and watching it get bigger. Despite how bad it looks, the house is not a total loss but certain parts look like they are decimated. All five family members are okay. He is not sure about the two cats. They have a couple of lizards. His wife is a Science Teacher and brought the lizards home over christmas break. New details in the ghost ship fire, the owner has hired an attorney. The fire broke out three weeks ago today killing 36 people. According to our media partner, he has hired Southern California attorney Keith Bremmer and the District Attorney has open add criminal investigation and said that possible charges could include murder. Derick ion almena leased the building from the owner, and leased it to 20 others although there was no zoning for it. And a new Sexual Assault charge, involving High School Students who will face charges. Police arrested the 15yearold after a girl at another high school claimed she was assaulted following a football game. The boy was released because the investigation was on going. Yesterday Police Reveal the 15yearold is now facing Sexual Assault charges. His father said it was consensual. Starting today, only one courthouse in alameda will be open through the rest of the year. The others are closed because of budget issues. The courthouse in oakland on washington street is the only one open. Staff is available to handle emergency matters. All court highways reopen on tuesday in january on the 3rd. Now the forecast with meteorologist mike nicco. We have wet weather. Yellow, oranges and reds and potential for moderate rain across the north bay from novato and petaluma and rohnert park and santa rosa and up to st. Helena. The leading edge is pushing into the east bay with commuters on highway 4, 680, 24, about get wet with ponding. There is more to the north, so while the initial heaviest and most steady rain is falling this morning we have more on the way through the evening. Temperatures are mild this morning at mid40s and 46 at san jose and union city is 51 and fremont is 53 so just find something that will keep you warm and dry. The san mateo bridge shows wet weather has made it down there on the road, today, it will be wet most of the day and choppy waves. We have brief downpours and it is raining on the golden you have the picture of the Golden Gate Bridge and the parking lots on either end of the Golden Gate Bridge now through new years day are closed for people to park. You can only take uber or taxi or bus to get the parking lots. Otherwise you have to drive across the bridge and show by car. This is san rafael in the northbound and southbound direction, no traffic, but you can see it is wet. San jose, too, 280 at 880 overcrossing, very light traffic conditions. We will come back with a solo spinout in San Francisco in the next report. Rain is coming down in many parts of of the bay area and the heaviest is in the the bay. Good morning, guys. We are here at lucky drive with the rain steady behind me. The lane heading northbound, a car coming off the ramp, as the cars approach lane you can see the water is flying. That area is flooding. This area is known for flooding. When we first arrived, we could see the flooding signs. I believe the signs are left from last week because we had another storm last week. If you head out this morning, whether you are doing shopping early or heading to work allow yourself some time because the rain is Getting Started here and already we are seeing puddles and flooding here in marin county. That is the latest for abc7. Thank you. The San Francisco police union heads to court to stop a new useofforce policy. Coming up, why it claims officers rights are violate we are hurrying. Ouch, ouch, i am hurt. Scary scene on the slopes, a rush to save a young boy left dangling on the ski left. We are heading to break and there is a look at the rainy commute. The good news is hardly anyone else is out there. Else is out there. Stay a lot of you will be headed to sfo and it is raining. We will much how the delay are piling up. Sfo is known for that as it rains. If you have photos post them using abcnow. We can put them on the air. Look at this, the rush to save a young bozak eling from a ski lift in utah with a minutebyminute effort to pull him to safety. Here is dan. We are hurrying. Hurrying. Frightening moment for the parents stuck in a dangerous situation. Help. Help. His backpack caught on the lift when he tried to get off but that kept him from plummeting to the snow below. The lift was caught but the strap called serious pains. Ski paul tried to comfort the boy as they rushed to save take deep breaths. We know it hurts. They rushed to get a ladder others put padding under in case he fell. The patrol had what they needed minutes later. They are coming, here they are, they have the ladder. They shot up the ladder to secure the boy as he killed and struggled to stop the pain in his arms. Quick kicking. Relax, you are good. Moments later they get a harness around the child and were able to lift him to safety avoiding a tragic day on the mountain. Glad he is okay. People get caught on the ski lifts more often than you think. Make sure you are not caught on anything before you get off and if you have a backpack ride with it in the lap. After seeing that, i will the San FranciscoCity Attorney said the Police Commission is not required to bargain with the union over the new useofforce policy. The Commission Approved the policy on wednesday, the day before the meeting, the union filed a lawsuit against the city saying the commission engaged in badfaith negotiations. They changed lank that both sides agreed on in closed door meetings. The City Attorney rejected the Union Argument saying the commission is not obligated to bargain on this policy. What is the policy. The changes include police banned from using a neck hold restraint. By removing the less lethal option it could force the officers into using a higher level of force and that is certainly not what i want to see. We worked with the union and fill good about that, negotiated in good faith the union is saying they agreed to keep the technique until tasers would be accepted in the department. Future first daughter of ivanka trump made a stop at sfo on way to hawaii landing late partly because the ail removed a man from the jet before take off from new york. Other passengers say he was bother by her presence and made harassing remarks. He was shaking and agitated. If i was security i would not take a chance. He did not yell. There was no screaming fight. It did not happen. She was calm. Jetblue said the removed passenger was rebacked. Sad news on the warriors oldest and most dedicated fan. Sweetie passed away at the age of 107. Here real name is helen brooks. We have profiled her several times. She went to games when she could, watch on tv when she could not. She died yesterday surrounded by families and friends her presence was a big a thrill for us as it was for her. Our thoughts and prayers go do her family and friends. Her favorite player was draymond green. He is a proud papa this morning, draymond jr. Arrived yesterday with images posted to instagram. He flew home for his sons birth and missed the game in brooklyn but we will back in detroit. He posted a snapchat video on a private jet. Counting down to Christmas Day when steph curry face lebron james and cavaliers in cleveland. This will be the first time the two teams have played since the nba finals in june when cavaliers beat the warriors. You can watch the nba finals rematch from the arena only on abc7 on Christmas Day with tipoff at 11 00 a. M. Watching the rain this morning as promised. Like the threes raining on the cavaliers. Now, a 2 and moderate today with moderate to heavy rain and showers and brief downpours, thunder and hail possible, and snow to 2,500 feet. Right now our dry spot is san jose 101 and 880. In the Santa Cruz Mountains we are seeing the rain rolling in and it is tonight when it could turn over to snow. Our bridges show richmondsan rafael and golden gate and bay bridge all getting wet. I will show you the sierra, a lot of snow is falling and i have more on that next report. Sfo has tarmac and runways, all wet. Steady rain to showers is the first highlight. Downpours and hail and gusty wind and Christmas Morning is white with frost inland valleys. The steady rain shows by 7 00 moving through the south bay and we turn over to scattered showers with yellows and oranging and by noon still hanging around, 2 00, 3 00, 4 00, not quite so extensive but they will turn cold. Look at the snow, Santa Cruz Mountains, diabolo range, heading to 11 00. Half inch to 1 of rain is possible and make quarter inch in the south bay. The sevenday forecast is ahead. We have a lot of popping and ponding and puddles blue is a potential for puddles with to low spinouts because of the winter including wrong way lane 4, northbound 280 before ocean avenue and on 80 in the eastbound direction near willow we have a spinout there and it is blocking the fast lane. We are working on getting that out of there with a brief traffic break. We will look at the mass transit options in a few. If you are doing last minute shopping why not pickup a toy for a deserving child . The tremendous last minute need you can help. A joke backfires on facebook c. E. O. Mark zuckerberg and some accuse him of bullying. A flight from sfo is nearly grounded and searched with a prank affecting hundreds. But, first, techbytes this morning. Tesla is tops. Consumer reports indicating the luxury automaker is number in satisfaction which is 7 higher than porch which is number two. Google will introduce new smart watchers next month, the first with the significant update to the google Wearable Software with the brand of their manufacturing partner. Pokemon go is now available on the apple watch. You can perform certain ingame activities without the phone. There is no way, though, to catch pokemon with the watch. Users can collect from spots and users can collect from spots and spot the the stormimpact scale is level 2 which is moderate rain. Gear up. Drive safely. Track the storm any time on abc7 news app. Download it now. Look at the southfield from an ecigarette shop in springfield, ohio, the guy is scoping out the case. He breaks the glass. He slips in. Grabs the small tv. And then. Having trouble getting out and is caught on shatter glass. That slip up shows his face to the camera. Mark zuckerberg is accused of being a bully for his jab. This good song. Asorry, mark, im afraid i cant do that. There are no good songs. Good, that was a test. That is funny. He made this nickel become joke in a video showing off the butler jarvis, and a singer coming to the bands defense saying in part when you have a sunrise like yours you may want to be considering more responsible with bullying given what is going on in the world. Why would nickel back be the butt of so man jokes . You have to accept it and move on. Sorry, nickel become. Nickel become. Volunteers will accept curb side donations from 6 00 to 11 00 and stop starting at 7 00 a. M. Lefty odouls needs 13,000 toys to reach their goal. The sevenday forecast as opposited. Today we are in the low 50s and a few mid50s but we will have the rain, steady this morning and showers and thunder, hail, lightning, snow, and chilly sunday morning and a slow warming trend and dry through thursday. Around the state, everyone is getting touched by wet weather getting touched by wet weather and mountain snow. Whiteout conditions. Stay away from the travel. After today enjoy the skiing. We do not have chain restrictions but i will check back. On mass transit, no problems and bart is modified schedule through january 2nd coming 10to15 minutes apart. And only ace train 3 and 5 are running. Muni is running free service on new years eve starting at 8 00 p. M. Green means rain in the drive and the blue on the map means puddling. We have a couple of solo spinouts. Virgin american flight to boston almost had to make an Emergency Landing because of the hot spot name, Samsung Galaxy note 7 and the flight attend arounds were worried someone was using that device which has been recalled because of fire danger. The flight attendants made several announcements saying the owner of this step forward, or pilots have to divert the flight. The culprit fessed up saying there was no galaxy note 7g and the wifi name was just a prank. We are tracking a more serious situation in the mediterranean. Two hijackers threatening to blow up a passenger jet with new details to bring you next at 5 00 a. M. Mother made delivering an early holiday gift to a drought thirsty bay area. A case that has haunted santa a case that has haunted Santa Cruz Mountains police for good morning, east bay. No matter where you are in the bay area you will get rained on. Look at this shot of the bay bridge toll plaza it is coming down right now. Good morning on friday december 23rd. I am natasha zouves. All the traffic is flowing. There is no one in