Hills. We will be touched by a little bit more light rain through 10 00 this morning. You can see the plume of moisture sinking to the south. You can see we had ponding on the embarcadero in San Francisco. We had. 1 with temperatures up to 60 degrees. The morning rain will tea per taper to a random shower. We have areas of wet roads. If you are taking to the streets you have to be careful. This is the risk of solo vehicle spinout. This is near 80 with a vehicle the wrong way on the highway from the spinout. There is hydroplaning so be careful on the roads. Through orinda to the caldecott tunnel you are at top speeds with slowing in the eastbound direction with construction if those areas. Berkeley is a quick drive headed down 80 to the maze. The san mateo bridge is locking wet across the bay. Headed away from hayward to foster city all is quiet. It is accident free, as well. Good news so far, it is welcome sight from above the rain, not a lot but we will take it. Cornell bernard is in San Francisco. Good morning. It has been so long since we have seen rain many of us may have forgotten what it look like. At 19th light rain has been falling. We have wet pavement from the showers. We shot video on 280 at daly city where our windshields got a work out after a long winter night and dry spell. On 19th near San Franciscos state rain is falling with traffic slow. I talked to c. H. P. Because it has been so dries they say, for sore for so long, the pavement is slick. Be careful. I came from the north bay and the rain is falling there, too. On 19th avenue reporting for you. Governor brown will discuss the drought emergency when he meets with water leaders in Southern California. California faces the driest year on record. The governor will emphasize the need for all in california to conserve water. President obama is pledging support to the state as it struggles with the lack of rain writing today the president called to offer federal support for California Drought efforts. Crucial support in dire times. Snow is approaching the sierra. Much of the snow you see here at the resort is man made. The snow level is expected to drop to 6,000 feet. We will hear more of how much snow is coming to the sierra. Another snow survey is scheduled this morning. You can track the rain in the pay area using live doppler 7 hd on abc7 news weather app which makes it easy to share your weather photos and download information. This morning the largest cities is still at a standstill after a snow and instorm swept through the gulf coast in the south. Abandoned vehicles are clogging major highways and schools are still shut down. After two days of cold chaos, the cleanup is finally underway. After were of the south was paralyzed by a rare winter storm. It is bad. We did not expect it. 2 fell if atlanta but the city was blanketed in ice. I was on ice. Crashes blocked the interstate and cars were jammed for miles. Frustrated drivers, San Franciscoed, plane for 24 hours. A mothertobe was stuck miles from the hospital gay birth on i285 to a baby girl named grace. More drives will return to cars they were forced to abandon. Going to the airport we got stuck behind a couple of trucks. We republican out of the gas. The National Guard has been called to help. Want to make sure the kids are taken care of. The freeze was no much for Southern Hospitality with Good Samaritans coming to the rescue. Across the south, ice and misery from florida to Virginia Beach with residents sheltering if place. Hundreds of children if georgia and alabama were trapped at school because the roads were too dangerous to leave. In atlanta many asked why officials were not better prepared. I have been on the road for 16 hours. Someone needs to be held accountable. The governor admits mistakes were made. We have lessons to learn. Nfl Officials Say the frigid weather will ease up at the stadium on super bowl sunday. Fans can expect it to be around 40 at kickoff dipping into the 30s dug the game with clouds but probably no rain. The nfl made contingency plans to move the time or date of the game in the event of a huge snowstorm. Forecasters say it appears the new york area will be between two storm systems on sunday. Getting lucky. Very. Bart believes are back at work after a touching Memorial Service for the sergeant who was shot and killed by a fellow officer. Thousands turned out to remember Sergeant Tom Smith with officers across the country saluting as the casket arrived. An emotional bart police chief rainey said he will never be forgotten. He was shot by a bart detective michael maes who did not attend the funeral. Bart has set up the tommy Smith Memorial fund at wells fargo in san ramon to benefit the family. We have the address and account number on abc7news. Com. Police say an Early Morning fire at a redwood city scrap Metal Recycling facility is arson. The fire at the Metal Management ignited in a stick smile of metal recycleables after an employee heard an explosion. It took several hours to put out the flames. The smoke triggered a Health Warning for people in the area. Officials say they are still reviewing Surveillance Video from the fire and the details of the investigation remain confidential and a similar fire broke out a month earlier at the facility. A search is under way if a bank robber in santa rosa. His releaseed these security photos. He went into the Exchange Bank in santa rosa around 4 00 yesterday afternoon and gave the teller a note demanding money and walked out with cash. The Exchange Bank is offering a reward of up to 5,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction. Look over mikes shoulders to see how were rain we could get and how much it helps our drought. Would thing it will help the detroit at all, we need. 15 to stay even. This is just a blip, a drop in the bucket. It is nice the record highs are gone and we have seen the light rain. We take what we can get but it will not be enough. You can see light rain up to San Francisco from daly city and stretching across the bay bridge to oakland. We have light rain on 85 back to the park and campbell and through the San Ramon Valley very light rain from alamo, danville, san ramon, dublin, pleasanton, headed out toward live more on a 80 in the altamont pass. Today, height rain is possible through 10 00. Temperatures mostly in the upper 40s to low 50s and mostly clouds at noon and midtoupper 50s. A random shower is possible at 4 00 through tomorrow morning. Temperatures, dress for 50s. The c. H. P. Is warning drivers to be careful of hydroplaning and solo spinouts because of the oil buildup on the roads. There will be a wet commute for the morning. In hercules, this is evidence of that, eastbound highway four on shoulder, a solo vehicle spinout with the vehicle facing the wrong way. Along i80, the drive is nice to the hoffman split from richmond to albany and berkeley. 680 sin from walnut creek to dublin is 14 minutes and 101 southbound from santa rosa to San Francisco is 51 minutes and the Santa Cruz Mountains is 23minute drive and outside this is 101 southbound away from san rafael to San Francisco it looks like the roads could be drying up but expect to see moisture. Target says they now knows how hackers stole credit and debit card information. Popular retailer takes on the competition and shoppers will be the big winners. Republicans in congress unveil a plan for Immigration Reform with a challenge they will lay down. The long awaited rain is here. We see a lot of grain green turn around every now and then i get a little bit hungry and theres nothing good for me around turn around every now and then i get a little bit tired of craving something that i cant have turn around, barbara forever ive been praying for a snack in my life and now i have a brownie ending all of my strife i finally found the right snack one of t is that millions of peopleia will qualify for Financial Assistance. Its important to remember that the lower your annual income, the greater Financial Assistance you will receive. Enroll now at coveredca. Com. Covering cupertino, wine country and all the bay area this is abc7 news. Welcome back at 5 13. A look from our emeryville camera of the new span of the bay bridge. Leyla gulen is telling us that traffic is moving along swimmingly the and speaking of water, there is some drizzle as you can see. Stalled immigration efforts to be revived when House Republican leaders meet to outline Reform Efforts to the rank and file. The focus is on Boarder Security and a path to legalization. There are 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the united states. The principles are unveiled at the annual retreat in cambridge maryland. House leaders want to see if republican members are will to tackle immigration in Midterm Election year the. Syria has shipped out only a fraction of the chemical weapons arsenal and will miss the deadline to send toxic acts abroad for destruction. Two deliveries of chemical weapons this month to a northern syrian port amounted to only 4 percent of the 1,400 tons reported by syrian leaders. A watch dog group is working to destroy the entire chemical weapons program. Another drop for the dow. The government will take a cut from Christmas Tree sales. Here is americas money report. Good morning. Topping americas money, stocks sliding. Markets suffered steep losses following years sell off which was the result of more cuts to the fed economic stimulus program. Facebook shares are soaring after the companys new earning report exceeded analysts expectations. Target is help how it was hacked thieves stole passwords from a vendor and credit in fact was stillen from 40 million customers and personal data from 70 million more. Crediters in congress are saying humbug to part of the massive farm bill in congress a 15 cent fee the government collects on every Christmas Tree cut down or imported into the united states. A study by a website for married people says cheaters cost businesses 17 million a day in lost productivity. That is members americas money. J. Crew clothes will be less expensive after announcing they are cutting prices. They were routinely compared to again but now prices are considerably more expensive because of designer styles which is hutting the bottom lines and profits are down 20 percent. You can watch for more wallet friendly prices and styles in the spring. Google is selling off the motorola business to chinabased group for 2. 9 billion. That is less than the 12. 4 billion google paid for the company in 2012. The company is keeping most of the mobile patents this is the ron they picked up the company. They have lost 2 billion since google took it over. Maker of angry birds said the website back if operation this morning after a hack attack. Hackers defaced the website yesterday and this comes after reports that u. S. And British Spy Agency may have accessed personal data of the users. They have denied they share information directly with the intelligence agencies and says no user data was at risk. In hopes of ending the drought in california, a bay area muslim group will pray for rain. People of all faiths are invited to the Alameda County fair grounds to take part in the prayer service. Organizers plan to offer a similar prayer to the one deliver by the prophet mohammed during times of drought. Many of us have been hoping for rain so now that it is here maybe the prayers are answered. We want your pictures, the weather photos that you can post or share with us on twitter or instagram. I almost posted a picture of my wet garbage caps on on the cans. We need more rain. Here is what is going on the visibility shows the rain that is falling is small and light. It is not reducing visibility so much but it is making the streets slick. San jose has received the higher amounts. 1 at San Jose International airport and you can see saratoga headed to cupertino and prospect road and to campbell we are looking at 17 right there and some of the better radar runs so watch out for that. You can see the front is moving through and there is residual moisture moving through santa rosa but the heaviest of the wet weather is over but for one patch in the lower lefthand side of the screen that moves into the peninsula coast and headed to the south bay the next hour or hour and a half. In walnut creek, it is not raining very much and 680 is looking good and it was wet but not that slick this morning which was nice. Light rain. Until 10 00. Scattered showers until friday morning and a slight chance of rain on sunday and when we get beyond this, it is over for a chance of rain. Random showers and a few breaks in the clouds and upper 50s to near sick. Close to normal. Tonight is cooler by five to tendegrees from mid30s in the north bay valley to upper 30s in the east bay and lowtomid 30s for the rest of us and we will see how the day plays out with a plume of moisture, 7 00, steady rain to the south, break in the cloud cover headed to the lunch hour and that will destabilize the atmosphere the next bit of energy comes in and it is weak with not is much lift so we have a chance of a scattered showers and that will continue overnight weighing up tomorrow morning and all is clear, maybe a little fog developing and by tomorrow afternoon we are looking at a lot of sunshine and friday evening weather should not have any effect other than maybe you need a heavier coat. It will be clouds tomorrow with temperatures warmer than today mid50 to low 60s and same on saturday under sunny skies and the system skirts us to the west so this is a chance of height rain along the coast on sunday and the rest of us are in the midtoupper 50s and dry and warmerthanaverage monday, tuesday and wednesday. Serious citizens are rolling in as we take you to san jose along northbound 85 coming closer to this area with an overturned vehicle on its side. Now it is a sixvehicle crash. We have moist conditions. We have light are areas shaded in green and that means it is possible drizzle and rain falling so we have slick conditions. It is not going away. Be careful. We could see delays with slow downs along northbound 280 approaching highway 85. That is starting to impact other freeways. To the north we have this accident northbound 101, no delays and everything is over to the shoulder. As we stay in san jose, this is the drive along 87 northbound coming up to julian street, very wet out there, be careful of the slick conditions. Drive slowly. Kristen sze and Katie Marzullo . Thank you. Seven things to know as you start your day. A puppy found on a recycling plant conveyer belt has a new home. A diehard seahawks fan gets the surprise of a lifetime thanks to her son. What she will do on sunday. We are keeping track of the storm moving through the bay area with live doppler 7 hd showingtons of green and where the rain is he besis that millioa is that millions of people will qualify for Financial Assistance. Its important to remember that the lower your annual income, the greater Financial Assistance you will receive. Enroll today at coveredca. Com. 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We have had overturns and solo vehicle spinouts. Governor brown will discuss the emergency when he meets with water leaders in Southern California and emphasize that all in california need to conserve water. President obama yesterday reached out to brown offering federal support for drought efforts. The cleanup is finally underway after the south was paralyzed by a rare winter storm. Many residents sheltered in place because of the icy misery. In atlanta, frustrated drivers are stranded, many for 24 hours after the city was blanketed in slick ice. After School Counselor in san jose accused of selling pot to students can make the First Court Appearance. Police arrested the 20yearold difficult as diaz for selling marijuana to students. The dean of students at u. C. Santa cruz has been arrested for suspicion of d. U. I. Around 4 4 00 on saturday morning on highway one near freedom boulevard. The 49yearold was booked and released on bail. She has been on paid leave from the University Since tuesday. This morning officials are warning super bowl fans to watch out for fakes. According to Homeland Security federal eighths have intercepted 20 million in counterfeit merchandise and tickets tied to the game a 15 percent increase everlast year. A live long dream has come true for a mom in washington state. Watch this. What . What are you talking about . Those are super bowl tickets. No no row ten in the end zone. We cant. We can. We fly out on saturday. He posted this clip of his mom, a diehard seattles fan opening a package containing tickets to the bill big game. He says he was able to increasing three tickets for 1,000 less than he thought so he went for it. I cannot stop watching that. It is now 5 27. The morning news continues at 5 30 with the top stories. Including remembering how the family of a bay area girl who vanished a quarter century ago today plans on making the disappearance. 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It was very slick the we have this insurance democrat, an accident involving a vehicle that flipped on its side. That is what c. H. P. Is reporting. We had a few other vehicles stopped in the area so up to six vehicles could be involved and we trying to filter in the details but it doesnt look to be causing any delays and it is early in the commute. We take you over to lafayette to orinda and highway 24 the onramp is a solo vehicle spinout and all the grown is indicating where rain could be affecting the commute and we will keep you updates. The roads are starting to be wet in the bay area with great news considering our drought situation but not so great for the commute. Amy hollyfield is at the caldecott tunnel. What are you fining, amy . We are getting a break in the action. It is dry. We have something to show. It has been a while this is video of rain. This was around 4 40 drive on highway 24. This was through lafayette and orinda enjoying the rain. It has been so long. We are on tap to have our driest january ever recorded in northern california. A welcome sight. All of the rain dances have paid off. We are at the caldecott tunnel watching the traffic were it is moving fine. This is coming from the tunnel toward the city. This is berkeley. It appears people remember how to drive on wet roads. They are wet. The streets got a soaking overnight. Be cautious. Maybe plan extra time in the commute. Thank you, amy. The rain we are getting is next to nothing in terms of what we need which is leaving some people more concerned with each passing day. In petaluma the pastures where usually be green this time of year giving the Dairy Farmers a break of the one farmer is now paying twice as much for hay to feed 400 cows at a cost of 10,000 a week. This affected august of agriculture and it is going to affect the beef producer and the pork producer and sheep producer and all the way down. It will be a trickle down effect. If it does not rain considerably in the next six weeks, we will have mandatory restrictions. If the santa rosa gets. 25 of rain it will still need 19 more inches. Water officials conduct the second snow survey of the season at 11 a. M. The first snow survey showed the water content of the lake tahoe snow pack was only 20 percent of average for early january. Readings showed the state snow pack dropped to 10 percent of normal. Can you track the rain in the bay area using live doppler 7 hd on our weather app which makes it easy to share your weather photos and download information at abc7 news. Com app. In san jose an after School Counselor is accused of selling pot to students. Police arrested 20yearold edward diaz after school got out on tuesday. Officers responded to a report a counselor with the after School Program sold marijuana to a couple of students. Investigators interviewed diaz and arrested him. It is a sad commentary on society to have Something Like that happen at a school. He is held in the Santa Clara County jail on 55,000 bail and could make the First Court Appearance today. In the east bay, the family of a dublin girl who disappeared 25 years ago will hold a vigil tonight as they have done in the past. She was 13yearold when she vanished january 30, 1989 walking from school to ice skating lessons. Her family and other supporters will walk the same route at 7 00 p. M. That proceeds to st. Raymond catholic church. 100 people took part last year the. The oakland teen accused of killing his sister during a fight over laundry is in custody of the 17yearold Justice Toliver was shot to death in an oakland part on thursday. Her 14yearold brother killed her because she bleached some of his clothing. Teen walked into Police Headquarters with family and the lawyer at his side. Justice toliver leaves behind a threeyearold daughter. A report on shooting death of 13yearold andy lopez by sheriff Deputy Erick Gelhaus is in the hands of a District Attorney killed this october while walking with a toy gun designed to look like an assault rifle. Erick gelhaus told investigator he thought the gun was an ak47. District attorney must now decide whether to press criminal charges against the deputy and says it could take 90 days or more to make a determination. The city of san jose is pushing a federal Appeals Court for the quickest possible resolution in the lawsuit against major league baseball. Our media partner the San Jose Mercury news reports the city lawyers have asked for the Circuit Court of appeals to set a march 24 deadline for all legal arguments which could allow judges to rule on the case by summer. San jose is challenging a federal scrums order dismissing the citys argument that the m. L. B. Violated antitrust laws by delaying the bid to move to san jose by the the as. Go brown is in great position to be reelected in develop after he has approval rate at a record high at 60 percent of likely voters approving of the way the governor is handling the job up for man 10 percent in a month. Experts say brown gained bipartisan support after releasing the new proposed budget. The governor announced a multibillion dollar surplus and proposed using it to pay down state debt. Poll found that if novembers gubernatorial less were held now, 53 percent of likely votes would pick Governor Brown and 17 percent would choose republican assemblyman. First Lady Michelle obama is in the bay area today and tomorrow and will hold one fundraiser at an undisclosed location San Francisco if the Democratic National committee. To, she join House Democratic leader nancy pelosi if a womens lunch and v. I. P. Reaccept at the fairmont hotel. Tickets are sole out from 500 to 32,000 today, congresswoman speier is holding a public forum on dog Management Plan for the National Park service that covered 21 locations in the area. The new rules would ban dogs at crissy field in San Francisco where they are allowed now off leash and most of ocean beach. The proposal would require the use of leashes at five plays in marin county where dogs can run free which begins at 8 30 this morning. We will lose a great beach walk day it may as well be for rain. The light rain will continue through 10 00 this morning and you can see from san mateo and redwood city and between the dumbarton and san mateo bridges to hayward and fremont and newark and all the way through the dublin grade to hayward and up to 238 538. There is light rain in that area. Dublin has some, headed up to san a point and danville and up to lafayette and walnut creek. It is very light. You can see the radar was showing some light rain here in San Francisco. But the visibility is allowing us to see from sutro tower to the bay bridge. Light rain. 7 00 this morning. That is the first hour of our 12 hour day planner, and temperatures are 45 to 55 and 5 to 10degrees cooler than yesterday at this time. Mostly clouds and sunshine during the lunch hour and midtoupper 50s and handing in the midtoupper 50s but a secondary chunk of energy will come through bringing an isolate ed shower from 4 00 to 7 00. Now the commute with leyla gulen. We have an accident in orinda hanging out on the onramp to worker highway 24 and that is where we have the solo vehicle spin intermediate and we have reports of a solo vehicle spinout and an overturned vehicle in san jose on northbound 85 near the creek and it look like egg is on the shoulder but we seeing plenty of traffic over the altamont pass, and there is no difference there because we see that slowing and it could be more so this morning because of the wet weather. Hour is a look at this, the toll plazas where remark is bidding as you approach the cashpaying lanes and a look from emeryville camera to the bridge with traffic mooring smoothly. The roads could be slick. We have a report of chain rarements in the money tables with the lake tahoe report coming up. Target finally answers the big question in a massive security breach. How hackers stole the personal information of 110 million accounts. Take a chance take a chance on me check this out, hitting the notes for mans best friend the Pitch Perfect pet p. A. S. Going viral. We are tracking a storm with all the grown from live doppler 7 hd showing who is getting wet with a lot of movement. Meteorologist, mike nicco, has the latest profit one of the best things about is that millions of people will qualify for Financial Assistance. For example, if youre a Single Person making less than 46,000 a year, or a family of four, earning up to 94,200, you may be eligible for premium assistance. The lower your annual income, the greater Financial Assistance you will receive. Get answers, and get covered. Find out if youre eligible and enroll now. At coveredca. Com. Covering daly city, dublin, los gatos and all the bay area this is abc7 news. Welcome back, the clock strikes 5 44, how is this a sight from the embarcadero camera in San Francisco . Wet pavement. That is right. Not a lot. Light rain. But we will take it. Mike will tell us on where and when and how much ahead. In italy an Appeals Court is deliberating in the third murder trial of American College student amanda knox who is at home in seattle. The court heard closing arguments this morning in the 2007 murder of her british roommate. The codefendant and exboyfriend was if court. They were first convicted of the murder in 2009 during a drugfueled sex game according to the prosecutor. The high court overturned the acquittal. To she is convicted they could try to have her extradicted from the united states. New detail on the massive data breach aknows target shoppers. Hackers gained access to 40 million debit and credit card numbers using stolen credentials from a vendor using the credentials to access the retailers system and personal information of 70s million was accessed. Target has taken extra precallings to protect Consumer Information including limiting or updating access to some of the systems. It is not rain but monster tides causing flooding in mill valley. Standing water is forcing drivers to maneuver around highway one at the 101 interchange caused by a king tide which happens when the sun and moon are closest to the earth. Officials closed the parking lot as a precaution. The king tide will subside on saturday and will not return again this winter. We had a report early this month, and i saw the king tide a couple of times. It is not coming from before the water. It would be nice if the rain was creating the ponding but it is not. The rainfall amounts have been on the lower side of what i forecasted. Visibility is something you like to look at to see how heavy the rain is. It will reduce visibility. It is not doing it much. Livermore is ten. Concord is nine. That is where the best radar returns are. The lower left of the screen we have another batch of light rain and that will continue to keep our roads slick through the morning commute. The radar is hot but showing moderate rain around dublin and pleasanton and the update to livermore. That radar is running hot. Ours is showing less in the way of rain you can see with the darker green and industrial perk way, all those areas, dublin boulevard, are going to be wet. We will put it in motion and you can see the best plume of moisture is to the south and we have a few scattered height sprinkles moving through the north by but mostly, the next before is headed to San Francisco and the peninsula chest and when this manufactures through, we are going do have a lull for the bet we part of the day until the scattered afternoon showers. When we step outside, 47 in santa rosa with the cooler air slipping into the north bay account rest of us are in the lowtomid 50s to even 58 in San Francisco. This is how it looks from the east bay hills camera showing how light the rain is. We can see all the way back to San Francisco with light rain until 10 00 and scattered showers until friday morning and another chance of light rain near the coast sunday while the rest of us are mostly cloudy. Temperatures today are in the upper 50s to near 60 degrees and tonight significantly cooler, midtoupper 30s inland and lowtomid 40s at the coast. The next batch of rain is sliding to the south during the five oclock hour and the clouds are developing and maybe a stray shower in the Santa Cruz Mountains at balloon and scattered showers throughout the afternoon and the evening hours and they will taper to tomorrow morning and we could wake up where fog. We have a dry breeze come manage and more sunshine for friday. Here is the sevenday forecast temperatures are burning up two to four degrees tomorrow with the extra sunshine and it will be mostly sunny on saturday, and mostly cloudy on sunday and temperatures like today, and monday, tuesday, and wednesday we are become above average in the lowtomid 60. Have a good one. C. H. P. Has been warning drivers to slow down and you are being too overzealous as you drive on the fast side because we do have moist conditions and that is causing solo spinouts. Eastbound 80 at powell street it is blocking a lane and you could see slowing coming from emeryville to berkeley westbound traffic is building and you can see the pocket of green indicating possible drizzle so, still, we do have it falling from the sky and not so much as we want but highway 24, the onramp has the solo spin intermediate and the car is left there. Someone left the vehicle to get some help. Northbound highway 85 to san jose, we have an accident involving an overturned vehicle and everything is on the shoulder. This is the semi yes bridge away from shared to foster city building. Everything is moving smoothly. Great news this morning, a puppy rescued off a recycling Conveyor Belt is headed it a new hole. 200 people from around the country wanted to adopt the threemonthold puppy but an employee won the lottery and gets the poodle. Gym has been in foster care recovering from the injuries if a month. The veterinarians say she will be just fine. 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Its important to remember that the lower your annual income, the greater Financial Assistance you will receive. Enroll now at coveredca. Com. Yes honey . Dad told me that cheerios is good for your heart, is that true . Says here that cheerios has whole grain oats that can help remove some cholesterol, and thats heart healthy. [ dad ] jan . Good morning at 5 53. Look at this picture from lake tahoe. This is heavenly. You can see snow coming down right now with the storm which is much needed. Mike nicco has been saying hopefully up to 2 on mountains. What will happen . Heavenly that we can get some rain the. It started out as rain with 1. 25 in the sierra but it has turn over to snow. The plume of moisture is pounding the sierra so we are getting that lifting and i am sure they are cloud seeding. The snow is falling. It is beautiful. The winds are not too bad. That means hopefully they can ski in this. Record high yesterday at 56. And only 36 today in lake tahoe and 2 of snow. Lowtomid 60s to the south where the rain is moving. The winter storm warning is in effect until tomorrow afternoon at 4 00. We will ask leyla gulen how the drive conditions are. Need your chains if you are traveling 80 or 88 or 50 if you are headed to the resort i will have the full report after 6 00. We have treacherous conditions in the bay area so if you are staying at home, you have toen careful of the slick conditions at powell secret we have a so slow solo vehicle minutes away from the tunnel. San mateo bridge is 13 minutes from east to west. Here is this, the drive through berkeley. The car is not a affecting traffic. San jose office park is cleaning house. Dozens of trees are being removed as part of a land to upgrade airport place off highway 101. The city is granting permission if developers to uproot 50 frees mostly redwoods. The Developers Say they will replace the redwoods with smaller flowering trees to improve the complex occupancy rate by improving view. The Menlo Park Police department is offering a free Bicycle Registration Program to recover last or stolen bicycles which allows bicycle owners to record Registration Information and have a secure database managed by police. If a bicycle is stolen police will add a salary number to the stolen property database and if it is recovered anywhere in the state, it can be identified and returned to the owner. New treatment to reduce peanut allergies in children is showing programming results. Researchers in britain used an experimental therapy on 100 kids with severe peanut allergies. Doctored started by giving small amounts of peanut flour and after six months 80 percent of the kids could safely eat a hand will of nuts. 5 56. A California Home is called a house of horrors, the new details we are learning of the homeowner who hoarded hundreds of snakes. We are tracking a storm with live doppler 7 hd and the overnight rainfall hitting the bay area and what is to come. Home high before nation. The lake tahoe homes where birds are taking their long rest for winter. The homeowners were okay with this . Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Happening now at 6 00, live doppler 7 hd is tracking the first rain to hit the bay area in weeks. Meteorologist mike nicco is ahead with what to expect as you head out the door. Anoaing out abandoned cars, trapped kids and icy roads bring life to the largest cities to a standstill. The state governor is responding. Do you know the identity of this man . If you do, you could be to line for 5,000 cash reward. A lot going on not the least of which is the rain. Thanks for christianing joining us, i am kristen sze. I am Katie Marzullo. We storm we start with storm watch. The rain has moved in. This was after midnight last night, with steady showers and the first measurable rain in weeks. What is in store for your commute . Mike nicco is tracking the storm with live doppler 7 hd. The heaviest rain is to the south. Here is a camera of 87 near the shark tank. It is wet at