Again. Reporter unfazed by the high drama on capitol hill. The fbi as part of our Counterintelligence Mission is investigating the russian governments efforts to interfere in the 2016 president ial election. Reporter the testimony from fbi director james comey offering two black eyes to the Trump Administration, first revealing an Ongoing Investigation now in itself seventh month. That includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the the campaign and russias efforts. Reporter and then publicly undercutting the president , refuting trumps tweet. Director comey, was the president s statement that obama had his wires topped in trump tower a true statement . The department has no information that supports those tweets. Reporter the white house still refusing to back down fired back at comeys testimony and then quickly distanced itself from former Trump Campaign associates caught up in the investigation, including Paul Manafort. Paul manafort. Paul manafort. Reporter who served as Trumps Campaign chairman. And then obviously theres been discussion of Paul Manafort who played a very limited role for a very limited amount of time. He was the chairman of the campaign. Reporter fbi director comey says the russians were, quote, unusually loud in their intervention, almost as if they didnt care the u. S. Knew what they were doing. He says hell be back meddling in the election in 2020 and possibly next year. Abc news washington. The president s pick to be the next u. S. Supreme Court Justice is in the hot seat this morning on the second day of his confirmation hearings. Judge neil gorsuch promised yesterday to be independent and fair if confirmed. California senator Dianne Feinstein says gorsuch faces tough questions on abortion rights and gun control. The hearings are concluding by the end of the week. A confirmation vote call called in the next two weeks. Good morning and we are getting new details this morning on this huge fire in kansas that destroyed an apartment complex under construction and also severe nearby homes. We have just learned three firefighters were hurt. They do only have minor injuries. Officials just gave a News Conference a few moments ago and they say everyone is accounted for, including some of those construction crews. Firefighters are still monitoring hot spots right now. But the next step will be for fire teams to assess all the damage at daybreak. Theyll look into the construction process and if that could have led up to the fire. Right now, they dont expect any foul play. Take a quick look at your tv. Authorities need your help finding a man who may be lost. His name is marlo. He was last seen yesterday morning. He was in a silver kia opt ma with the license plane 6 tjp 870. He was wearing a marooncolored long sooefed shirts, blue jeans and glasses. He suffers from a medical condition and may become disoriented. Call San Jose Police if you have any information about him. San Francisco Police are investigating whether rain played a role in this crash between a squad car and another car. It happened at 5th and brannen streets just before 6 00 last night. Two Police Officers and two other people suffered minor injuries in this crash. The other car had a lyft logo in the front window. The ondemand car company has not said if the driver was working for them at the time of the crash. San jose police stay naked man shot by officers last week was holding a caulking gun. John bradley bowls was seen threatening children before he led officers on a chase friday. They opened fire after he pointed what looked like a weapon at them. San joses police chief says he was shot again after reving his engine. The city of oakland expected to approve a controversial 24story building. The project is part of the macarthur transit village. The city Council Passed a proposal earlier this month. Neighborhood residents not happy with the project because it will be nearly three times taller than any other structures in the area. They say it will obstruct views and make traffic works. The City Council Meets at 5 30 tonight. San francisco supervisor set to decide whether to move ahead with a plan to ask voters to approve a local personal income tax. The money would pay for Transportation Services if the Trump Administration cuts federal funding to sanctuary cities. The idea faces a few hurdles. California bans local income taxes so the legislature would have a pass a measure amending that law. Governor brown would have to sign off on the measure. Then the issue would be put to the ballot. San jose preparing for President Trump to make good on threats to hold back money from local governments. The new budget plan and fiveyear forecast from San Jose City manager assume theyll get no money coming from the federal government starting in the 2018 2019 budget and in the four years after that. The projection is intended to guide city council. A week of wet weather this week is expected to slow work on reopening hellier canyon park in san jose. Most of it has been closed sinc last month. A few areas, including the dog park, are open right now. No word on when the park will fully im tracking a trund of live doppler 7. You can see it right there. Thats where the lightning came downright near fitzpatrick lane and joy road and Coleman Valley road. This is heading to the east rather rapidly so could drop another bolt of lightning or two in the 15 to 20 minutes or so. Guerneville, northern santa rosa, the Northern Areas of there, so please be careful if youre going to be out and about. Lets talk temperatures. Upper 50s, 57 to 59 across San Francisco and pretty much 55 to 60 around the bay with 60 right now in union city. Walnut creekn canyon about 60, petaluma 57, lets look at whats going on in the south bay. Thats actually 101 and 880 in san jose. Wet roads most likely this morning. Little dryer this afternoon, breezy areas if youre on the water and if youre out and about, youll need the umbrella. It will become a little more scattered this afternoon. Temperatures will hold about 62 to 67 degrees. Tomorrow, 57 to 62, cooler than average and that will hold through at least thursday, 57 to 64 and tonight you can see those showers and thunderstorms come through, upper 40s to low 50s. More on that coming up. Good morning, mike, and already weve had several slide off and spinout crashes. You got to slow down and drive for conditions this morning. One of those areas in the vacaville area in the case to the outlet mall, a vehicle lost control. They have pushed that off to the shoulder and sounds like a couple vehicles involved in another collision, westbound 80 off ramp to southbound 680 and that is just partially blocking near the dor decordelia not too much happening at the bay bridge toll plaza yet. Little bit of a stackup in the far left lanes and the metering lights are expected around 5 30 this morning. We do have a tree down in the south bay in the los gatos area. Well look at that coming up. Amazon loves to advertise it. The money it says youre going to save by buying your items online but how do you really know . The question being raised this morning about whether amazons discount prices are on the up and up. A bay area woman dies after drinking herbal tea. The store that sold the drink and the rush to trace where the toxic tea leaves came from. It is 4 38. It is 4 38. You can keep track of be prepared for the weather this morning. We are on storm watch. Heres a live look at san mateo bridge. The rain has been coming down pretty heavy. Meteorologist mike niccos going to have your hourbyhour forecast coming up and if you take photos or videos of the weather this morning, share them by using abc7now and you might see them right here on the tv. Hi, and here at the live desk, i want to show are you this incredible video that i just got here into the live desk. Amazingly, look at this plane crash, all 43 passengers and six crew members survived this. And in the video, you can see those huge flames and massive black cloud rising up. Happened in south sudan yesterday and Officials Say it happened because of bad weather. Firefighters got out there pretty quickly and some u. N. Workers helped evacuate people from the aircraft. Everyone doing okay this morning. Police have identified the man who killed himself and his 8yearold daughter outside of a capitola mall. 36yearold Carlos Garcia shot his daughter and himself on sunday afternoon. His wife called 911 to report he was making suicidal threats. Both the father and daughter died at the scene. The little girl was going to turn 8 next week. So many of us use amazon to buy items. Beware of socalled list prices. According to a report by consumer watchdog, amazon misleads us about discounts. List prices are the crossed out prices displayed in the case to the current cheaper cost. Critics say amazon could be inflating the price. Bottom line, check other sites for the market price to be sure you are actually getting a deal. A stockton lawmaker wants to make College Tuition free for instate students by taxing millionaires. Assembly woman susan eggman introduced a bill to make a 1 tax on californians who earn more than 1 million a year. That tax would generate about 2. 2 billion every year. Eggman says that would be enough to make public colleges tuitionfree for residents. It would be put on the ballot. A woman who got sick after drinking an herbal today has now died. Health officials are trying to determine what turned an herbal remedy into a deadly poison. Heres lilian kim. Reporter the medicinal tea blend has made two people sick. But while a man in his 30s recovered, a 56yearold woman did not. Yuping xie died at California Pacific Medical Center over the weekend after having suffered through weakness, abnormal heart rhythms. Nws spread quickly through San Franciscos chinatown. I even get sick eating some of the places here but getting sick is one thing and dyings another. Reporter i guess they were going in there to seek a remedy and it has the they thought they would get help but they didnt. That is really sad. Reporter San Franciscos department of Public Health says the tea leaves, which have since been removed from the store shelves, contained a plantbased toxin that is used to treat pains and bruises. We asked to talk to the owner of the store but were asked to leave. Dph says sungwing wo is fully cooperating with inspectors to find the source of the toxic tea. The Company Building the Dakota Access pipeline says the Company Remains on track to start moving oil this week despite what it calls coordinated physical attacks along the line. Documents do not detail the atta attacks but say they pose threats to life and the environment. They argue its a threat to their water supply. When complete, the pipeline will move oil from north dakota to a Shipping Point in illinois. Ivanka trump is getting an office in the west wing even though she doesnt have an official government job. The Washington Post and po li tico say she will receive security devices. Ivanka trump has already been present at several highlevel meetings. She says she will continue to offer her father candid advice and council. Lets get to meteorologist mike nicco because it was a wet night. I could hear the rain coming down. Yeah, it came down a little moderate at times. Heres a look at walnut creek where you can see some wet weather falling right now. Definitely 680, whether its southbound or northbound is going to be wet. In fact, all of our roads are going to be wet this morning. Showers, were going have steady rain this morning, showers with a possibility of lightning, thunder, and hail all the way through tomorrow afternoon. A brief break arrives thursday. Then our strongest storm is going to hit friday and linger into saturday. Lighter weather in the south bay. You can see all the way around the southwest side there as you bump up into the Santa Cruz Mountains and look whats lurking offshore. Some yellows and oranges so moderate to heavy rain there but no lightning just yet. When this first wave pushes through, well get a little bit of a break during the latter parts of the morning into the early afternoon hours and then this little wave right here is going to roll. Mix it with sunshine and thats why were going to have the possibility of even more thunderstorm this afternoon and evening and again during the overnight hours through tomorrow. So its a 1 on our storm impact scale. Here we are at 7 00. You can see some of those heavier showers moving through and then by about 4 00 or 5 00, redeveloping and then you can see tomorrow morning, they roll on through and then by tomorrow afternoon, theyre just about gone. They were supposed to be pause point in there. I apologize for that. Lets take a look at whats going on with our accuweather 7 day forecast i put together. You can see that break on thursday and then wet and windy friday. If were going to have issues with damaging rain and winds, that would be the day. Showers linger into monday. I want to take you now to some video. We got overnight from a tree that fell down in los gatos so this is southbound highway 17 between state route 9 and main street. It doesnt look like its huge. They said it was about 6 inches around and just in the last couple moments, sounds like caltrans crews were able to get this cleared off to the shoulder. They were saying they werent even going to arrive until 5 00 but just as i was walking up here, they said the roadway is clear. The flares are up but they will burn out. That was the southbound side of highway 17 in the los gatos area. Were still in the green right now and i think they got this cleared early enough that its not going to turn into a big issue. We dont have any residual delays or anything like that. It is wet out there this morning, though. Well take a look at soggy Traffic Cameras coming up next. Parking tickets sure are expensive and for some people, a financial burden. The push in sacramento to make it easier for you to pay up. Youtube promising to change and apologizing to the Lgbtq Community this morning. How it says filters intended to protect youngsters from sensitive content went too far oonch. The warriors are a month away from going for another nba title. How their preseason will start with a serious road trip. First this mornings tech bytes. You wont need to say an instant goodbye to your Instagram Live videos. Users will be able to save them to their phones. Those videos will be preserve bud they wont be saved on instagram. And waiting online at theme parks may become an attraction in itself. When a new universal water park opens later this year in orlando, visitors will get a wristband that tells them when its their turn. And chuck berry is topping the music streaming charts. The day after his death, johnny b. Good was the most downloaded song with a 10,000 increase and overall album sales have increased more than 9,000 . A new album release is sett for later this year. Oh, god. We just did this by the way, on we just did this by the way, on our when i have an asthma attack. I feel like a fish with no water. Learn how to prevent your childs next asthma attack. Because even one attack is one too many. Todays storm is level 1. That means light rain, so keep an umbrella handy and drive safely. Track todays storm any time on the abc7 news app. Download it now. Its 4 52 now. Youtube is apologizing morning after users complained the site was filtering some videos about lgbt issues. The company says its restrictsed mode incorrectly labeled some videos on the site. Youtube says lgbt videos are not automatically filtered out. Though some discussing more sensitive issues might be restricted like politics, health, or sexuality. Youtube is promising to fix the mistake. A stas lawmaker wants to make it easier for you to pay parking tickets and all the fees that come with them. Tom lackey introduced a new bill to allow cities to provide low income drivers with more payment options. It would require certain cities to offer payment plans to people who need extra time and ban cities from adding penalty fees. Lackey says the cost of a parking ticket can quickly skyrocket out of control. We believe in Holding People accountable for following the rules and we just think that the penalty assessment has gone crazy. Lackey says he hopes to help drivers who get caught in that spiral and eventually lose their car registration or even their ability to drive. Go ahead, take a look at your screen because i want to show you a 59. 6 carats of geological joy looks like. This is the largest flawless fancy pink diamond ever graded by the gem logical institute of america. Its known as the pink star and its expected to fetch a whopping 60 million when its auctioned off in hong kong in just two weeks. If it does, it will be the most expensive pink diamond ever auctioned off. Where are you going to wear that . Everywhere. Always. No, youre not. Doing the dishes for sure. Just dont hit me while youre wearing it. Thats all. Lets take a look at rainfall totals. All over the map from 1 4 inch in san jose, 1 2 inch in concord, oakland, 1 4 inch in redwood city to 9 10 in San Francisco to 3 4 inch in napa. So, as we head through 9 00, another 1 10 inch is possible and then not much until we get to 7 00 and then you can see during the overnight hours, another 1 4 to 1 2 inch of rain is possible and as we head towards wednesday evening, well had another 1 10 on to that. So were going to continue to add on to these totals. Alexis. Not a ton of rain out there at the moment but its enough to really cause some issues on the road so we have had several slideoff collisions and spinouts as well. Nothing major blocking at the moment but heres a live look outside at the south bay. San jose, 280 and highway 17, you can see all those drops on the camera lens there and see a little road spray kicking up. Drive times still okay for the most part. Youre in the yellow, tracy to dublin. Southbound 680, dublin to mission boulevard, about 16 and northbound 85 between 101 and cupertino you are also until the green at just 17 minutes. Well take a closer look at the bay bridge commute coming up oonch. An edamame product is being recalled. Advanced fresh concepts has voluntarily recalled edamame products. Theyre sold in 8pounce packs. No one has actually gotten sick yet but the product is being pulled in 33 states, including california. Listeria can cause fever, muscle aches, severe headaches and diarrhea as well as other g. I. Problems. The warriors are going to be returning to play in china next year. The dubs are going to play two games against the minnesota timber wolves. It will be the warriors third trip to china. Theres no question that china is the single most important market outside north america for the nba. And here are the numbers to back it up. Welch says more than 300 Million People play basketball in china, making it the most popular team sport in the country. The warriors are also the most followed team in china on social media. Next at 5 00, potential changes coming to President Trumps health care plan. The revisions would help medicaid recipients. There is, though, a catch. And police want to find the driver who did this in alameda county. It is unbelievable. Speeding out of a parking spot right into a group of people, including a 3yearold girl. What were now learning about that incident. Hey, guys, and we told you about google promising to make some changes to their content, specifically we talked about lgbt content, but its not the only big change thats happening this morning and it will affect some other videos that you watch online. Ill have that from the live desk next. Investigators hope someone will recognize this woman accused of an unusual crime at bay area banks. Live look outside at 4 57. Abc7 news now, your way of abc7 news now, your way of keeping track of weather this it is 5 00 a. M. If you havent looked outside, it doesnt look quite that black. I mean, it is rainy, but it isnt complete blackout. In any case, it is going to be wet drive for you this morning. We saw definitely in the north bay a lot of rain and it seems like its eased up a little bit. A little bit. Yeah, its still out there steady in some areas, scattered in others so lets take a look at live doppler 7. And ill show you exactly what were talking about. Hi, everybody. The heaviest of the rain did fall while we were sleeping and you could see that theres more developing offshore. We even had a thunderstorm around occidental about a half hour ago so that potential is still out there. Heres a look at san rafael where weve had nearly 1. 4 inches of rain in the last 24 hours. Were looking south on 101 there. So through