Richmondsan rafael bridge. Expect ponding on the roads. You can see it is raping everywhere raping of everywhere. The if lanes is getting light rain, also. It will turn to moderate rain by 7 00. The day planner shows a little bit of a break in the afternoon. Then the showers and thunderstorms develop. That is this afternoon and the evening. In the in the 60s now. Midtoupper 50s and cooler this afternoon. Cool heads could prevail the hopefully, sue. Sue . Slick roads. The s curve by the marin ymca. By North San Pedro reports of an accident in the slow lane. It is looking heavy as you make your way out of novato. The accident westbound four just getting word from c. H. P. It has gotten clear. The backup remains a solid 45 minutes to the scene. Again, that accident just now cleared out of the lanes. Kristen and eric . The front end of the store is hitting the north bay and will likely ruin the morning commute. You are looking live at a west highway 101 if san rafael. Our reporter is in marin county. Amy . We arent getting drenched just light rain coming down with notable exception is the wind. We drove across the Golden Gate Bridge into marin from San Francisco and we were tossed around silt a two happens on the wheel morning when you are on the bridges. That is when we felt it. When you do get hit with the rain it will be sideways rain in the face. The umbrella will struggle today. Grab the hood. The rain pants. Cover your Charlie Hebdo to yourself head to tow. Not a lost soaking rain right now here at the tip of marin county but we planning to head north when we sign off from the report to see what is going on north of marin as we bring you the latest open this storm. Reporting from vista point for abc7 i Amy Hollyfield. Pg e said extra crews and resources are on alert. Crews are dealing with several hundred Power Outages in the northeast and south bays. The utility is using data from the smart meter to restore power quicker. Pg e is urging tuesday have flashlights and radios and fresh batteries available just in case. Remember, watch out for downed power lines treating them all as if they are energized n richmond you can pick up free sandbags to protect director home and property at richmond fire station 64 on karl certain boulevard at bay viewer avenue or the City Corporation yard on harbor way and ohio avenue. Delivery service is available for people with disabilities. The storm is forcing yosemite natural park to close the pass for the season. The road normally closed each fail. It reopens in the spring. Yosemite is reminding park visitors that all drivers are required to carry chains while driving in the park during winter months even if the car has four wheel drive. If you see Stormy Weather today, safely take a know tore or video and share it with abc7now. We could use it on air or on online. A packed house if San Francisco at city hall. Protesters outraged at the Police Department after a 26yearold man was slot and killed by officer. Natasha zouves has the meeting and Public Comment was heard for five hours. All the police chief suhr is renewing a call to equip department with tasers but they downed out of fire chief suhr. Many forced to wake outside and chanted from the hallway while speakers lined up. I want you to resign and the five officers that did this i want their jobs and champions property. The crowd emotional over the Fatal Police Shooting of 26yearold mario woods captured on cell phone video. They tried to arrest him in a stabbing investigation and say he refused to drop a knife. San francisco is one of only two large cities in the United States that does not issue stun guns to the officers. The chief wants to ask the commission to reconsider. London Police Department was able to subdue the subject with the use of a Conductive Energy device. We have had conversations that call it a taser. That said, it worked. Demonstrators say they are not interested in tasers. It doesnt address the larger issue. They wanting in short of chief suhrs resignation and the officers involved to be charged with murder. A man is facing criminal charges accused of assaulting a Police Officer in brentwood at a gas station on oak street and brentwood boulevard at 9 00 last night. Investigators say three men were smoking marijuana and the officer confronted them a man ran away before attacking the for. The suspect tried to grab the officers gun and run away again. Another officer caught the suspect and tazed him before arresting him. An oakland family calls loading almost everything in a first the final straw if their fight against squatters next door. This is story you will see only on abc7. Sky 7 shows flames gutting a home. The fire started if an r. V. Parked next door. The flames jumped to the gillette family home. Neighbors have called police about illegal activity on the property several times the cops come around but do not do anything. They look at us and. What can we do . They have more rights than us. We have taken action and put efforts interest this. And even currently. The squatters arrived at the property own died. Police say though did not necessity who is responsible for the property. Agoers behind a new initiative to localize marijuana in california will collect signatures. This is one of 16 marijuanarelated initiatives in circulation according to the secretary of state. Among other things, the initiative was authorized resentencing and deinstruction of records for prior marijuana convictions. Warriors will be back in action tomorrow night in boston but the 230 record starts the season as as sports world is buzzing. The alltime n. B. A. Record is 33 wins in a row held by the 1971 lakers. If this streak continues, the warriors will be in position to tie the record with a win of their own on christmas day. You know to game at oracle arena against the cavaliers, lebron james, the first time the two teams have most since the n. B. A. Finals and you will watch that gay on abc 67 at 2 00 p. M. Lebron james. Would . I have heard of that guy. Good morning, everyone, our best radar run is north of american canyon, heading up 29 to where it intersects telephone headed into napa head over to fairfield and it should be there in half an hour and over the next three hours we will have light to moderate steady rain cross the neighbors and most of us have light rain. It is the intensity is going to pickup. My scale shows the yellow, the heaviest in the heart of the morning commute. When the showers and storms develop, the intensity with traffic and widespread nature of it is not so great. The evening commute could be affected a little bit but not like this morning with wet weather developing on 280 and 17 in san jose and temperatures are dropping to afternoon while we get a lull from steady rain before heavier showers and thunderstorms develop. We are in the midtoupper 50s this afternoon. The richmond side, the toll plaza on the richmondsan rafael bridge is raining right there. We will have a break tonight afternoon and saturday afternoon into sunday a storm just like this with almost the same results coming in. Hour by hour look at the rainfall is remaining up next. In san blocking the slow lane with a bit of the red brake lights. Otherwise remark is getting by nicely. It is fortunate it is this early. That hour is typically very, very slow so, again, southbound 101 an accident in the slow rain. The early accident in the bay point and pittsburg area near bailey has been cleared. The dam is done. You are looking at a 4045 minute ride out of antioch westbound 4, usually very slow and even more so this morning. A sigalert in again i guerneville at 1st street, a car is under the tree blocking the road. It will be a couple of hours until it is out of there. Kristen and eric . Supreme Court Justice who is in stranger to controversy is, again, drawing fire. In a few minutes his regards about black students that is making headlights this morning. Hallelujah a traffic stop with a twist a traffic stop with a twist after the break out san rafael, south bay, pleasanton, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. The supreme Court Justice scalia said that black constitutes would benefit from being at a slower track school. Scalia made the regards yesterday while the court was hearing a challenge to the race conscious admission policy at the university of texas austin. He suggested that black scholars come from less advanced schools where they do not family like they are being pushed ahead in classes that are just too fast for them. Scalia has long opposed affirmative action. Severe weather and flooding is taking a toll in the pack northwest in oregon where locals say flooding is some of the worst they have ever seen. Residents are seeing more thoroughfares flooded and impassable. The flooding closed the cheese factory. The city of berkeley is hosting a free workshop on preparing director home and family for high winds rain and flooding from storm from ninofueled storms. El nino is here remain it could contribute to heavy rains forecasted. Be prepared. Grab the umbrella. And the abc7 news app. Here is more from our weather team. High wind. Heavy rain. Flood, mudslides. When el nino unleashes its fury, abc will be on air. And on phone. Breaking weather news right to you will be streamed. You will know when the storms come. Storme el nino is here. 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Slide across bridge s way and sausalito to tiburon, you can see a moderate push of wet weather and about to come open, you can see right there, heading to research mop, we have a little bit of moderate rain with the steady and light rain. That will slide south through the morning commute. We will have this to look forward to, the lightning developing around eureka. That storm is heading to the east. That cold we are air mass is coming down toward us. That is why it will be cooler this afternoon. Why we will have a chance of a thunderstorm. Right now you can see the lighttomoderate rain falling from our camera. The help ons are not is breezy. Not at lower level. Off the elevate surfaces like our bridges and the eastwest bridges and you get a southwest wind at 30 miles per hour. The winds at the Golden Gate Park are coming from the southwest and guffing to 37. Rain and breezy to sures and thunder today, another storm with the same setup on saturday afternoon through monday morning. It will be frosty. Tuesday and wednesday morning before more rain rolls in on thursday and friday. Here is a look at the radar republicans, you can see the yellows are holding by 6 00 as this moves through the heart of bay. By 7 00, it is over. By 8 00 it is in the south bay. By 9 00 it is again same tune. I like that. We been consistent where the timing by noon, there could be showers developing across the north bay. By 3 00 to 5 00 they will move in to our neighborhoods with another series with a colder air moving in from 5 00 to 7 00 and that exits the south by at 9 00 and another coming through between 9 00 and midnight and we will have scattered lighter showers through tomorrows commute in the morning. 12 in santa cruz money tapes 12 in santa cruz money tapes and 13 in the my sevenday outlook shows a brake on friday evening through most of saturday. And saturday Late Afternoon the rain runs. The heaviest rain is on sunday. Monday morning, just light left over showers. Tuesday and wednesday morning we could have forecast inland. But sunshine and a break. Good morning, everyone, a wet one. One. Back did slow here a bit as you make your way up the hill with the accident if the slow rain beyond the civic center. And we have a stalled truck blocking a lane and it is slippery in that section of the freeway but beyond lucky drive so give yourself plenty of time. No metering lights yet. It is raining, fortunately there is very little track and no delays heading interest San Francisco right now. We do have a bit of a delay, this is a sigalert that is issues for the highway in guerneville and there is a tree downed here and one that hit a car and it is completely blocking the road, with a couple of hours c. H. P. Estimates until they get it out of this. 5 20. What would you do to get out of a traffic ticket . Some people town on the water woulds, make an emergency president ty situation or change their outfit for a more provokive look. 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You can even choose 300 in free gifts with sleep trains most popular Stearns Foster mattresses. The triple choice sale, ends soon at sleep train. Sleep train [train horn] your ticket to a better nights sleep here are seven things to know before you go. A look at live doppler hd the first part of the storm, the steady lighttomoderate rain moving through the neighborhoods all the way to the end of the morning commute and i have showers and thunderstorms. Not only today but again this weekend and i will give you an update on the sierra dumping of snow. Two, a slick wet commute and this is an citizen at the top of the hill southbound 101 san rafael. The linking lights in the slow lane and traffic is early enough is getting by but we will follow it this morning. Ten people are now out of their homes after twoalarm fire in San Franciscos Mission District this morning. It happened on mission with have the gays on scene to assess the damage. But no injuries. 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Where theres no need for sales because we offer amazing prices on thoughtful gifts everyday. Lets put more value on what really matters. This season, bring back the holidays. With t. J. Maxx, marshalls and homegoods. Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Live doppler hd is showing the storms sweeping into the bay area receipt now. We are tracking what is expected to be a powerful weather system with coverage with what you need to know before you head outdoor. I am eric thomas. I am kristen sze. Rain is here in the bay area. Many parts. Without further ado we will check with meteorologist mike nicco tracking live doppler 7 hd there is flooding in side streets in neighborhoods of last radar sweep with moderate rain from daly city up to at t park. It is moving across the bay and into oakland and the next three hours you can see that steady lighttomoderate rain moving through all of our neighbors neighborhoods. From the exploritorium the drops developing looking to downtown San Francisco. Lighttomoderate rain through the morning commute and a quiet period. Do not let your guard down or the umbrella get too far away from you. By 3 00, showers and storms will be developing for the later part of afternoon and into the evening. We are in the 60. We will fall into the midtoupper 50s by 4 00. Sue . We have this solo spinout which i have a feeling we see more of, solo spinout top of the hill southbound 101 beyond the civic center if the slow lane and it has hit the slick roads and the brakes and the middle divide and, bam, there you have it. I have a feeling we will see that. The san mateo bridge is moving nicely. At 14 minutes from Hayward Cross the flat section highrise to foster city and san mateo. In delays. We will go back outside where we have a sigalert with trees down and the friend on the screen representing rain that could affect the roads. Highway 116, at 1st street, a court is under the tree and blocking the road. C. H. P. Will try to get a tree to remove the tree. It will be a couple of hours. Mike shows us the front end of the storm is here hitting the north bay. It will ruin the morning commute or make it difficult. You are looking at a picture from the Golden Gate Bridge where you can see the roads are wet and so is the camera. Our reporter is in marin county. Yes, we are getting a light rain here. The issue right now is the win. It feels different from the previous storms. This is windy. I have had a hat blown off my head. I have trouble keeping my hood up. Here is what drivers are dealing with. In is highway 101. We are at lucky drive exit. It is wet. They got heavy downpours through here. Early this morning. It is a great day to slow down. Take it slow. Be prepared not only for the standing water, watch this cargo through. We have water right here the he slowed down nicely. Perfect. Gold star for that guy. You have to be represented for the water. You have to be ready for the wind when you cross the bridges. We got, nod around driving cross the Golden Gate Bridge into marin from San Francisco. It is a two happens hands on the wheel. It is not cold were do you fault need extra layers but you want head to toe coverage. Because the rain is here. If you head out give yourself plenty of time. The rain will affect the commute. Not in a if way. Pg e is ready for outages. Now outside, we will see how it is stacking up. Matt keller in fremont where you are getting wet in the south bay matt . It is yet in fremont. The rain is slowing and now a slight sprinkle. We know it will be a busy morning for pg e at the Distribution Center with the wet weather and wind causing problems. From the past half hour a pg e truck leaving the command center truck leaving the command center in fremont and this is the are, with sheets of rain falling. The utility will use data from Smart Meter Network to restore power. Pg e uns everyone to have flashlights, radios and fresh batteries ask watch out for downed power lines. Treat all power lines as if they are energized. Pg e said it could take hours to reach some areas. I checked the pg e site and there are a few outages but nothing widespread south of San Francisco. But north of San Francisco, yes, there are problems in the north bay. 5 35. The north bay is likely to see heavy rain, gusty wind and large waves. Some areas could see flooding. First responders say they are ready. There could be wind damage. We will experience power lanes or trees down. Be prepared no that. We need to clear trees from the roads or homes. The San Rafael Fire Department is giving away sandbags at several locations. People have been loading up to protect their homes. In San Francisco, public works have been preparing for the storm since last week. Crews have cleared leaves and debris from the storm drains to prevent flooding. Officials are now urging everyone to pitch in. You can use a broom or waste or dust bin. You do not have to wait for the city. If you see a problem we welcome the help. All the city is happening out free sandbags. They have given out 10,000 sandbags in the past month. People are warned to stay alert at the coast. Waves this week hit 30. The coast guard is warning power ful rip currents can pull you to sea in seconds. If eurpoe dreaming of fresh powder at lake, does it not take more than a few inches of snow to trigger big delay getting into lake tahoe. This storm is expected it bring more than that and another storm is expected to hit on sunday. C. H. P. Recommending bringing warm clothing and food to wait out the delays. Chains are needed and a charger for the phone. Sunday could be tough. In the south bay, los gatos saw crews clearing vegetation from the water district. When you see Stormy Weather today take a photo or video and share it with us. We could use it on air or online at abc7news. Com. Saved from a fire. New video showing paramedics giving a dog oxygen after being rescued. Crews treated the dogs and cats for smoke inhalation. New details emerge in the San Bernardino shooting. Reports show the suspected gunman, syed farook, and his friend, enrique marquez, became related by marriage last year. Mar questions bought the Assault Rifle used admitting that he and farook were plotting another attack in 2012 but called it off. Enrique marquez is not charged with a crime. Lawmakers are investigating a string of racist emails between two employees of a department run by the vier protection the Environmental Protection agency. The emails contain commends of people with ethnic names and action senators. Consumer watch dog uncovered the emails and made them public yesterday. The organization is demanding full vex and punishment. You are lying. Your mind is brain washed. The accident of corrections employee could be charged with a hate kill after throwing coffee into the face of a muslim man. A confrontation started when Denise Slater approached muslim men who were praying at the park on sunday. Slater say negative things about the muslim belief the lady was yelling, all lies, satan, you pray for satan. Allah is evil. After a park ranger tried to deescalate the situation, slate are struck this man with her umbrella and splashed coffee into his pay and now the alameda d. A. Is looking into the possibility of charging slater with a hate crime. Looking at live doppler hd, it looks like a huge wave moving through. Absolutely. Good call. We will talk about the winds. I will show you the wet weather coming through. They are coming from the south but from the west across the north bay and that is the bantedry, the cold front coming right through vallejo and oakland and San Francisco right now and that is also where we are seeing the light and study rain town interest moderate rain headed to san mateo bridge in 20 minutes. Across the dumbarton bridge in 40 to 45 minutes. It is going to be one where if you are driving a smaller car you will notice the winds hitting the vehicle. Lighttomoderate rain here, and light rain behind the front. We will then have showers and thunderstorms developing in the later part of the afternoon and into the evening. In between we get a lull. Times are going to fall from the 60 into the midtoupper 50s. Ryville shows the moderate rain falling northbound toward richmond along east shore freeway. We have a break tomorrow evening. And saturday. Late afternoon. Into sunday. Well see almost the same type of storm unfoamed. The look at what will happen the rest of day and the weekend form coming up but, sue has a lot to talk about. Wet roads. Several solo spinouts, southbound 101 the accident is now again. It is moved to the lincoln avenue parknride but slick roads and we saw Amy Hollyfield in green bay and that is lucky drive on 101 which usually floods. The cars are hydroplane asking that is an issue. Walnut creek south 680 beyond north main people are behaving nicely with no delays. A few brake lights on 24 and a few brake lights on 24 and good to the colorado represents rain affecting your commute. Thank you. Before you head out the door consider giving your credit card bills a look. There is another large data breach. Find out who is hit. A surprise performance, pa a surprise performance, pa dont are those. You there. Stormtroopers halt turn here. Go go follow them bb8 beep, beep this way whered they go . They went that way that way, they went that way i cant believe that worked of course it worked beep, beep, beep los altos, petaluma, antioch and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. All the People Living in peace imagine it is fought a look alike. That is madonna sing on the streets of paris with her tenyearold son, david. City of light is the stop on her tour after the sold out show she tweeted and i quote, im singing songs in paris meet me there now. The concert paid tribute to the 130 victims of the november 13 paris terror attacks. She sang three songs include like a prayer, and imagine. If you ate at elephant Bar Restaurant you could be victim of a data breach. Workers discovered Illegal Software in the payment process, system that some rains some restaurants. It affects credit or debit payments between august 12 and december 4. There are nine elephant Bar Restaurants in the bay area. 61 vehicles make the rangings of the safest vehicles for 2016 model year, japanese brands dominating the Highway Safety list, toyota and honda and subaru with the most. 48 vehicles earned the top safety plus for having advanced rated front crash prevention systems or automatic braking capability. That is up from 33 a year ago. The chrysler 200 was the only domestic car to earn the designation. 13 others had basic rated front crash prevention systems that issue as warning but does not brake. People could be skating again in san mateo. Backers pushing to reopen the ice rink scored a victory against the developer. San mateo Planning Commission voted to recommended that the city Council Reject listens to depolish the popular rink. 200 rink supporters including Youth Hockey League participants packed the meeting to voice their opinion. The research cannot make money and is considering other uses for the land. Thisisbananas. Lightning is cracking and severe storms last behind hail and flash flooding. Mother nature put up a fantastic show. What is ominous to one man is another mans art. That would be the storm chaser. Right now we will focus on walnut creek. You can see it is raping southbound on 680. With a lot of brake lights going on there and it will be that way. The light to dark green in walnut creek north main to Pleasant Hill and headed do through the san ramon valley. Oakland is starting to see a let up headed to the toll plaza and across the bay bridge but san bruno gap lighttomoderate rain affecting sfo with night arrival delays. Some of the rain is impressive along the mountains but notice as we head toward the south bay you hardly see any radar runs and what you see are on the lowest scale and a nasty rain shadow. We have had half to threequarters inch of rain and barely any rain in the south bay. Enough to coat it but no ponding on the road. Behind the system, this is where the thunderstorms are, rolling in tonight. On 101 and 880 behind the cars and trucks you do not see the spray coming up and that is because the rain has been so slight. It is still slick so be careful. Rain and breezy to showers and thunder this afternoon and overnight and another storm like this one and frosty lows on tuesday and wednesday before more rain rolls in on thursday and friday next week. We have the cold front move down 80 so the best rain is move out of San Francisco and oakland and headed to the san mateo bridge over the next half hour. Dumbarton bridge and the south bay between 7 00 and 8 00 and by 9 00 steady rain is over transitioning to the isolate the showers at noon and by 5 00, you can see the scattered nature of the thunderstorms developing and we see yellows and oning and reds during the evening at 9 00, 11 00, and overnight all the way through tomorrows commute. Thinking of half an inch to 1 of rain with a lot of it localized in the afternoon hours and evening because that will bring locally heavy rain, gusty winds and small hail. We are still watching trees topple. Sue is helping me follow this. She said santa rosa has seen another tree come down with winds until 10 00 this morning. A will so it 2, for the storm watch of the tomorrow evening no wet weather, in the morning. But in the afternoon, height rain will develop and it will be stormy on sunday, and mop morning, a few left over showers and tuesday and wednesday, we start off with the frost and only warm into the lowtomid 50 in many writers. It is a bear out there now. A lost wet roads, standing water, and solo spinouts. Metering lights are on and stacked to the macarthur maze. In you can car pool those drivers are getting right through with no delays. That is a great suggestion if it is possible. Traffic is 15 minutes now from the back of the line to the toll plaza. At the richmondsan rafael bridge the line of cars is folks paying cash and the fast trackers are getting through with no delays and the sheen is on the road raining and wet. We have a sigalert issues in guerneville area highway 116 at 1st street, a serious tree covering a car and blocking the entire roadway. C. H. P. Has no st. Time of opening at this point. At 6 00, making the grade, the new federal Education Bill that will become law that will find a sweet spot in evaluating americas schools and teachers. A grand mother goes in take her grandsons gift off of layaway. Walmart will speed up check out time at the stores and the smartphone is the ticket. Smartphone is the ticket. Stay tuned. Who patiently teaches how ta feast comes to life. The family. Who spends their holiday dinner with thankful strangers. The neighbor. Who shares the season with another. You inspire us to do everything we do. For goodness sake. Wait, wait, wait. There it is. The dramatic moment when a roof collapsed in london. Folks are walking along the sidewalk and panicked. No one was hurt. Officials say high wind was to blame. The mobile payment wars are heating up. Walmart has a new feature called walmart pay letting shoppers use smartphones to make purchases. Walmart becomes the first retailer to have their own mobile payment system. It will test it today. In stores in arkansas. That is their home base. It will be launched nationwide by the middle of next year. Aholiday season is a season of giving. This story from massachusetts underscores the sentiment. Debbie said she got the surprise of her life when she reached the toys r us layaway counter to pay for her grandsons christmas gift. She was told someone not only paid her balance but the layaway balance for every other customer. That is right, theathon miscellaneous Good Samaritan dished out 20,000 to make a lot of holidays brighter. Well done. Well played. Now the rain is where, mike . All over the place. We have rain everywhere this morning, the intense difficult is going to be different. High surf is what we have developing along the coast, 9 00 911 foote waves and consistent swells with large brakeers and up to 30 like the early storm. The rain will get to los angeles by the evening. 69 before it reaches this. 55 in Fresno Sacramento is 63. 44 and falling in lake tahoe. The winter storm warning began at 4 00 this morning through 4 00 tomorrow morning. Still looking at 12 and 28 is possible at kirkwood. It is snowing in heavenly and the sevenday forecast, another dumping of snow on sunday. No chains required so now is the good time to sneak out. The east shore freeway bumpertobumper traffic into the macarthur maze. A lost folks but no state of the unions or citizen ac san jose, 880, roads are slim but if delays. A problem at millbrae avenue or san bruno avenue, two lanes are mocked. The republican is on on on the green on the map is representing the rain. Check this out, republican president ial candidate donald trump nearly had a finger chop by a bald eagle in august during a photo shoot for Time Magazine with an eagle named uncle sam. Not clear why time just released the video he criticized time for not making him the person of year only. Okay. Look at this, a man in mississippi captured stealing something kind of large, a brand new refrigerator from a whom under home under construction. The man is see prying on the window yesterday morning in front of the house, then went in dragged the refrigerator out still in the box out the front door into a black pickup truck. That is not notice average at all. Is it . At 6 00, taxi drivers take on uber drivers and a protest against uber items violent in canada. A grinch spoils the family festive christmas display. You will not believe what a you will not believe what a thief stole from a familys spend less time chasing sales and more time going the extra mile. Find thoughtful gifts at amazing prices everyday at t. J. Maxx, marshalls and homegoods. Give something special, to those most special to you. Find thoughtful gifts at amazing prices everyday at t. J. Maxx, marshalls and homegoods. Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Rain intense filling with slick roads and streets especially at the bay bridge toll plaza. We will show you all of the trouble spots. Rain here means snow in the sierra. You can see snow in lake tahoe at heavenly resort. That could be the wind affect. The snow will be coming down today. The most powerful radar, live doppler 7 hd, tracking the storm all morning. The green on the screen shows where the rain is. But our meteorologist can internet where it is hitting. I can tell there is a lot of green. We will check with meteorologist mike nicco and find out. Mike . All the best radar is headed to Castro Valley if you are driving crow canyon or 280 or 580, or coming from san ramon, get ready for bonding on the roads. This is crossing right over 588. Headed to dublin. And lasten. Then it will get into the sunol grade in half an