That youve had in quite a while. It was for most of us. This is a live look from the emeryville camera in the east bay. Rainmaking the pavement slick out there. Were also dealing with gusting winds, and it makes it hard to even keep your car straight in many places. Good morning to you on this wednesday, january 4. Were going to get you through it. Im natasha zouves. Im reggie aqui alongside jessica castro. We have traffic reporter alexis smith looking at your roadways and mike nicco, this is only a 1 on the storm impact scale . Its transitioning to a 1 right now. Let me show you how thats happening. Were still feeling the effects of the heavy rain overnight. And you can see a little moderate rain around san mateo and then through livermore and out highway 4 into ant i dont care and discovery bay. Were transitioning to greens, which is when were going to get the 1. Let me get you updated on the Flash Flood Warning. You can see the San Lorenzo River overflowing and flooding is possible until 6 45. Weve also got flash flooding up in Sonoma County. As the lano road is getting flooded by the colgan creek and the rest of us could have ponding on the roadways and thats the biggest threat until at least 5 45. And thats the challenge i had this morning, alexis. Oh, boy, yeah, that was not fun and you add really limited visibility on top of that and it is a dangerous commute this morning. Heres a live look at southbound 680 through walnut creek, so that is starting to fill in and slow down and yeah, its not great anywhere this morning. Our drive times overall are okay at this point. Westbound 580, 36 minutes. Southbound 680, really, really wet right now through dublin down to mission boulevard, 17, and northbound 85, you just saw that switched down to 16 minutes, but a ton of reports of flooding this morning, several crashes too. Ill try to get to most of those coming up next. Alexis, thank you. This mornings commute is going to be a lot messier than what we saw yesterday. Amy hollyfield is tracking conditions on the roads for us. Amy, its been a busy morning out there. Very busy. Im going to show you the latest situation that police are dealing with. A car well, this minivan right here crashed into three parked cars, which you can see on the other side of this street. This happened on brotherhood way in San Francisco. The Police Officer here tells me this is the taraval district. They say weather was likely a factor that this driver was probably going too fast for the conditions, probably slid on the slick roads and also had visibility issues because of all the rain that was coming down. No one was hurt in this situation. Thats the good news. They are waiting, though, for tow trucks to come to clear out this situation. That could take a while because if you are a tow truck operator, it has been a very busy night. Reporting live in San Francisco, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. Amy, thank you. We appreciate it. The rain also causing big problems in the south bay. Lets go to matt keller. He is live in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Matt, what are you seeing there . Reporter good morning, reggie and natasha. I found some shelter here, under the felton Covered Bridge and the rain is still coming down pretty good right now at about 5 00 a. M. And you can see the San Lorenzo River right behind me, we moved under the bridge so we could get a better view of what is taking place here. We have a Flash Flood Warning, a Flash Flood Watch and a flood advisory, and if you look, the rain is still coming down so a lot of concern here in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Of course, be careful driving up here. The heavy rain caused mud and rock slides, no road is immune. Weve seen rocks on highway 9, the chp is reporting a tree across the road and mud and debris on highway 152 west. Just be careful driving. The rain has not let up, and i got word from our assignment desk that there is a tree down on idlewide and 17, the northbound direction. That can cause big problems for the morning commute. And the San Lorenzo River here, the flood stage is 20. 6 feet. The latest observation about 45 minutes ago has it at 18. 79 feet, so there is room to grow, but not much. So, were, of course, going to be keeping an eye on it this morning. Reporting live in felton, matt keller, abc 7 news. Matt, thank you and we do appreciate everything you do out in the field. Sometimes being a tv news reporter, not as glamorous as you might think. Look at your screen. Thats katie reporting from the Santa Cruz Mountains just last night. All she had was her jacket and her hood for protection and you can see such a trooper, absolutely soaked there, her jacket drenched. It was cold out there. And true katie form, she just kept going and we appreciate it. Way to go, katie. It does look pretty stunning, though. You can actually see the rain for understand behind her. Pg e is working to repair several pour outages in the bay area. San francisco has 36 customers without power, the peninsula, 186. North bay has a lot, 745 customers. East bay, 107. And the south bay, 840 customers. Although that said 980. In any case, something in that range. In pleasant hill, a woman snapp snap photos of her cars. The tree came down as winds were gusting. If you take any photos or video of the weather where you live, we want to see it so post it on social media with the abc7now so we can find it and you may see your photos on abc 7 news. If you are heading to sfo today, this is going to be an issue. Bad weather is causing early delays this morning. We just checked flight tracking website flight aware. It shows seven canceled departures and 13 canceled arrivals, thats up slightly from the numbers we got from the duty manager about a half hour ago and still very early. No cancelations for san jose or oakland, one delay each. More than 100 flights in and out of sfo were canceled yesterday because of the rain. Strong winds are producing powerful waves. Check this out. Abc 7 news was in pacifica last night as huge waves punded the kn Municipal Pier there. When youre watching all that rainfall, its hard to think of the drought. If reservoirs in the east bay are any indication, were looking okay. Our system capacity is at 80 overall so thats all the reservoirs and storage, and thats really good but looking forward, we do need the snow the snow pack to be healthy as well. And theyre monitoring the levels of all seven reservoirs that fall under the east bay utility district. January is off to a good start with rainfall but its still too soon to determine the actual impact. You can track our rain and snow with the abc p news app. We have live doppler 7 there any time, enable push alerts to get weather advisories on your phone or tablet. Oakland mayor libby schaaf plans to return the new police chief. Anne kirkpatrick is going to head the department. She becomes the First Female Police chief in oakland. She worked at police chief in spokane, washington, and was picked by Chicagos Police superintendent to head the departments new bureau of professional starts. Oakland pd was at the center of a bay area sex scandal involving an underage prostitute. The department has gone through three chiefs since then. A Senior Policy Adviser to former state attorney general will lead oaklands fight against street violence. She will be the citys first director of public safety. She is an oakland native and part of johnsons job be focus on rebuilding trust in Oakland Police following a series of scandals. The warriors will break ground on their brandnew San Francisco arena on january 17 at noon. The chase arena will be built in the citys mission bay neighborhood. A group of opponents tried to Block Construction in november. The chase center slated to open in 2019. Now, your accuweather focus with mike nicco. I wanted to start with the san mateo bridge. You can see it ponding and puddling and everybody driving very slowly right now and thats good to hear. Ill tell you what. That was a brutal commute. Heres a look at the yellows and the oranges that are sitting right on top to have the bridge but as we go up to lafayette, its starting to shrink a little bit here. Ton of standing water on 24 is almost like driving through a river this morning. As you head out highway 4, you can see antioch and oakley, fair view avenue there, that area and look at this discovery bay, all the way down to the Altamont Pass, and it just keeps going down 84 through vineyard avenue all the way down to oak tree farm drive in southern pleasanton right there so heres here it is in a nutshell, the morning drive, early downpour so the earlier you get out, the harder its going to be. Watch out for those mountain and rock slides in the mountains. Lets talk temperatures. Its as warm as were going to get right now, mid to upper 50s. Tomorrows going to be dry and dry for most of friday. A huge storm coming this weekend that could last three to four days. Details on that next. Heres alexis. Wow. All right. Well, it is not going to be a fun commute as mike mentioned. I have live doppler 7. You can see that orange and yellow, the heavy stuff, thats mostly out into the triand central valleys at this point but it has been all over the bay area this morning and weve got a lot of flooding. Southbound 680 off ramp to eastbound 580, weve got water across all lanes between 6 and 8 inches deep. That is not good which would ift at a high rate of speed. Hearing that a lot of vehicles are just hydroplanes through this area and napa, lane closures and even some full closures at times between highway 12 and 121 and 116 there in the napa area and mikes been talking about the flooding in Sonoma County as well this morning. On top of that, we have high wind advisories, bay bridge, richmo Richmond San Rafael bridge, it is treacherous. Thanks for the warning. A mysterious odor wafting over San Francisco is back. Next, what the citys trying to do to find out where its coming from. Also a rash of small fires are hitting a san jose neighborhood. Coming up, why police think an arsonist is at work and what the person is targeting. Heres what the rainy morning looks like from pier 15. You can see the drops on our lens. Lens. You can stay on top of now a live desk update. From abc 7 mornings. This just coming in out of new york where police have shot and kill add teenager in brooklyn. This is new video that we just got from the scene. A big investigation is underway right now. Our abc station there reports two officers and a sergeant confronted the 18yearold when he fired a gun into a Hangout Lounge earlier this morning. He reportedly ran away, suddenly turned towards the officers with a gun in hand, and two officers fired. That 18yearold died at the hospital. No officers were injured and there were people still inside the lounge at the time. None of those people were hurt. Natasha, back to you. Thank you so much, jessica. A School Resource officer in North Carolina is on paid leave this morning after he slammed a High School Girl to the ground. All of this caught on camera. Take a look at your screen. The cell phone video shows the officer picking her up and look at that, throwing that student to the ground. This appears to be a violent act, but many of the students who were there are actually coming to the defense of that officer. They say he was trying to gain control of a situation involving two girls fighting. One of them was the sister of the girl in the video who was trying to defend her. A San Jose Police wanted to know what or who is cause ago series of small fires along the 101 corridor. The latest happened yesterday morning. Several suspicious fires were also started along highway 101 near story ode over the weekend. This has been becoming a chronic fire in this same location. Weve had over a couple dozen of these calls over the past few weeks in the same location, same area of the freeway. In most of these cases, palm trees are the source of the fire. We saw lots of charred, exposed wiring near homeless camps. Also nearby, highway lamp posts had copper wiring yanked out. Residents in the area tell abc 7 news they have seen a homeless man chopping down trees, yelling that they are evil, and reportedly setting some on fire. Police have not sard if theyre looking for any particular individual but they are investigating. A massive man hunt underway right now for an escaped rhode island inmate accused on Sexual Assault on a child. Police say this former Army Reservist broke out this weekend by cutting through a fence. Abcs Lindsey Davis has the details. Reporter in this mornings gma first look, federal authorities are on a round the clock man hunt for this man, 35yearold James Morales, an escaped inmate. Mr. Morales has the potential tore dangerous. Reporter the former Army Reservist broke out of this maximum security ward at a federal Detention Center in rhode island on new years eve. Our immediate priority has been and continues to be to find James Morales and get him off the treats. Reporter morales faces charges for Sexual Assault on a child and for stealing 16 guns from a u. S. Army reserve center. Police released this wanted poster showing morales has multiple distinct tattoos. Police say he escaped by climbing a basketball hoop to get to a rooftop, then cut through a fence and climbed through razor wire. Well have the latest on the search coming up at 7 00 a. M. With your gma first look, im Lindsey Davis, abc news, new york. Its 5 17 now and the big mystery over the big stink in San Francisco and richmond is lingering on. According to the examiner, the source of that rotten egg smell continues to elude investigators. They say the chevron refinery and west contra kcosta facility remain possible sources. The smell was first reported on december 27. There have been no medical complaints associated yet with the odor. California drought watchers are feeling optimistic about the wintery blast pelting the sierra this week. Surveyors for the department of Water Resources say it should help our snow pack. They took the first manual measurement of the season yesterday in el dorado county. It shows show levels are below average, about half the normal amount but they say its a good start considering just two years ago, the survey was taken on a dirt patch when the drought was much worse. We hope storms like the one were getting right now may help our drought but mike, it was downright scary on the roads this morning. It definitely was. It was time to slow down. It was a time to stay plenty far behind the person in front of you. But try to drive in their tracks. That always seems to work a lot better. Heres a look at walnut creek. Heres a look at the Golden Gate Bridge. San franciscos had about inch of a rain in the last 24 hours. The heaviest of the storm is pushing through right now and the biggest burden on you if you want to look at it that way or the highest of the danger is right now. Dry and cooler thursday and friday morning. And then a washout likely this weekend. You have plans to be outside, you better start changing them. Heres a look at some of our heavier rain. You can see huntwood avenue right there, industrial boulevard, hayward down towards unioncity, right south of the dmv, right in pleasanton, right noun 680, right south of the fairgrounds too. Alameda fairgrounds. So ponding is going to be possible. Look at the north, were starting to see a tapering already of this heavier rain and you can see it through 9 00 and then by noon, scattered showers around and that will continue for the evening commute and overnight. Things will start to dry out. Let me show you whats going to happen this weekend. Here we are, saturday evening, about 1 1 2 inches. But sunday evening, 3 1 2 inches, by monday afternoon, 5 inches of rain, thats about a third of the annual average for san jose if it comes to fruition. You may get rain shadows but there you go. Brandnew storm impact scale, a 3. Even more damage coming sunday. Alexis . Wow, okay. So, i guess we better just get used to driving in conditions like this. It is not fun out there this morning. I have live doppler 7 on top of our traffic maps and just about everybody dealing with that wet pavement. In particular, southbound 880 just before you get to industrial parkway, weve got what sounds like a pretty nasty crash. One vehicle is up sort of teetering over that Center Barrier right now and the air bags did deploy weve got emergency crews on the scene. That yellow and orange is really heavy rain on 880. This is a closest camera i have to that, the san mateo bridge. So this is 92 just past the toll plaza. You can see, really soggy, really low visibility, hydroplani hydroplaning possible. Ill talk about that flooding and some areas its affecting this morning coming up next. Thank you, alexis. Happening today, if you want to see some of your favorite bands perform live, then listen up. Tickets for bottle rok napa valley go on sale this morning at 10 00. This years festival will feature more than 80 acts and dont forget about the gourmet food, the wine, the beer, bottlerock posted this picture on its facebook page. Threeday passes start around 300. They go up to 3,500. You can go to abc7news. Com. Also, coachella goes on sale today. And beyonce is headlining. Next, the seven things you need to know to start your day. A toddler survives after a dresser fall thanks to his twin brother. You first saw this frightening video yesterday morning. Now youre going to hear from their mother. The abc 7 storm impact scale. Todays storm is level 1. That means light rain so keep an umbrella handy and drive safely. Umbrella handy and drive safely. Track todays of your brain can make it hard to lose weight . Contrave is an fdaapproved weightloss medicine that may help adults who are overweight or struggle with obesity lose weight and keep it off. 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And because of that, we still have a storm 2 moderate on our storm impact scale, but you notice as we look up stream on live doppler 7, it is tapering over to light showers so the hardest part to deal with is right now. And number two, of course, the weather impacting the roads this morning. Im going to take you back where mike was talking about in the trivalley. Weve got some major reporting flooded reported i should say southbound 680 to eastbound 580. Also weve had quite a bit around 101 and 280 just south of the bay bridge so slow down, drive for conditions this morning. And number three, heres what it looks like on the roads. This is a video from the town of felton where a Flash Flood Warning is now in effect. The San Lorenzo River filling up fast. If youre driving, keep it slow. Number four, sources confirmed that outsider Anne Kirkpatrick will be oaklands Newest Police chief. She worked in spokane and chica chicago. Mayor is expected to make it official today. The person is under the age of 65. They have not released their name or where they live. Health Officials Say flu activity is increasing in monterey and other. President obama heads to capitol hill today hoping to save obamacare. President will meet with democrats to try to preserve elements of his signature Affordable Care act. Janet jackson is a new mom at the age of 50, she and her husband welcomed their first child, a baby boy, yesterday. His name is eissa. Both baby and mom are said to be resting comfortably and she reportedly had a stressfree, healthy delivery. Congratulations. A Northern Californias mall decision to ban teenagers is facing pushback now. Art and fair last week announced that teenagers can no longer enter the mall and we apologize for this incorrect video. I wanted to tell you those toddlers are okay. Teenagers cant enter the mall unless theyre with a parent or guardian. Thats sparked outrage from the aclu. The mall is saying theyre just trying to keep the peace. Art and fair officials point to numerous fights in years past. A utah mom of twin boys spreading a message about furniture safety. The boys are fine. Youll probably seen the nanny cam video shared on social media. There you see the twins playing and then it falls and it traps the boy on the left. The other brother eventually manages to push the dresser back just enough to free his twin. The family has since anchored the dresser to the wall and the boys mom is urging other parents to do the same. I honestly felt like the worst parent ever, and it was such an easy thing for me that i could have done to prevent what happened to my children. It will take you 5 to 10 minutes and just bolt your dressers down, your book shelves, and do it today. Coming up on Good Morning America at 7 00, were going to hear more from the boys mom. She talks about where she was when that dresser fell. Were coming back at 5 30 with even more on the storm, including where the winds are already causing damage. Plus torrential downpours north bay. 5 27 in the morning, its wet outside and a live look at sfo. Were going to keep tabs on delays and cancellations as the delays and cancellations as the morning kee good morning, bay area. Lets get up and get going. This is abc 7 mornings. I cant stress enough what a mess it is out there when you head out on the roads. This is a live look at live doppler 7 and it tells a story. Green and joyellow all over tha map as this storm continues to hit us. If you have to drive this morning, a live picture shows you what you have to look forward to. You can see it is wet at the bay bridge toll plaza. Many of us dpriping our steering wheels as we headed in this morning. Good morning to you on this wednesday, january 4. Im natasha zouves. And im reggie aqui. That storm is continuing to pelt us and we have Live Team Coverage starting with abc 7 news meteorologist mike nicco. Yeah, felt like running a 10 k this morning driving to work because you had to work so hard to keep the car on the because of the ponding on there. Let me get you updated. Flash Flood Warning down in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the central Santa Cruz Mountains for the San Lorenzo River. It is overflowing its banks rght now. Thats until 6 45. Weve got central Sonoma County around colgan creek, flooding llano road. Let me show you where that is and its that area right there north of 116. And weve also got a small stream or urban and small stream advisory until 5 45 for all of us because of the excessive runoff thats causing the standing water and the rock slides up in the mountains but notice the heaviest of the wet weather is just about over. Once we get through about 8 00, were going to transition to some scattered showers but until then, what a doozy of a commute, alexis. Oh, boy. I have about 35 incidents on the boards right now, most of them are solo vehicle spinout crashes so that means, folks, likely driving too fast for conditions. A new one, northbound 680 in the dublin area, still coming down really hard right here. Thats that yellow and dark green seeing on live doppler 7 but one vehicle spun out. That is facing the wrong way. Sounds like they are pretty much off on the shoulder but keeping a close eye on that one. Some delays on the southbound side. Bay bridge toll plaza metering lights are on as of 5 29 this morning. We have a crash on south 880 in hairds. Alexis, thank you. We continue our storm coverage in the south bay now. There are big problems in the Santa Cruz Mountains. That soaking rain leading to rock slides. Matt keller live for us there this morning. This morning. Good morning, matt. We wish we could hear you, matt. Were going to get back out to you in the field. We appreciate it. Lets talk about power outages. Pg e slowly getting power back for some bay area customers. You can see there on the map all the dots in green and yellow represent a power outage and the biggest is still in the south bay with 840 customers without power. The north bay has 745 without electricity. 4,000 people in the north bay town of guerneville were left without electricity for about three hours yesterday. A tree fell on to a power line along the Russian River, knocking out power to most of the time. Light were out at some straunlts and employees just had to make due with what they had. We were still able to finish out some dinners and meals that were going as well as i can still do most of the bar. Apparently our soda machine doesnt work well without power so im a little bit limited. And of course for pg e its all hands on deck as they try to get the power back on. Parts of the north bay inundated by rain and some located vineyards flooded this morning. Part of snider lane underwater. Even locals were confused. How do you get out of here . That is a good question. I think theres an exit down that way. The way we came in. Well, a lot of attention today will be focused on the Russian River because it may overflow its banks if enough rain comes down. In solano overflowed drainage ditches and roads. There are plenty of flooded signs warning motorists of the possible danger ahead. One car drove right through. We watched it and fortunately, even though it got pretty deep, that driver did make it safely. Well, you hear that noise coming from outside your apartment and you walk out and see this. Firefighters using chain saws to cut a tree off of your car. This happened around 9 00 last night on saerkt and octavia streets in San Francisco. Fortunately, the tree didnt hit anyone or any buildings. Abc news was in pacifica. Those owners of the cars are out of town on vacation. Neighbors said they felt shaking and then heard a big boom. You heard a crack or a snap and then like an earthquake and i jumped out and ran outside. It was a huge gust of wind, you know . Shook my house. But then my dog came and got me, so i knew that it was more than just shaking my house. That neighbor contacted the car owners on facebook to let them know what happened and you can track our rain and snow with the abc 7 news app. We have live doppler 7 there any time you want. Enable push alerts to get advisories as we get them. A dangerous situation for firefighters in fair field. They have to back away from a fire when ammunition started exploding in the garage. It happened on oakwood drive last night just north of interstate 80. Once most of the flames were out, firefighters worked on the hot spots. Flames did destroy the home. A Community Forum in oakland today is scheduled to address how to protect tenants who live in warehouses from eviction. The forum inside the Oakland City Council chambers was scheduled after the ghost ship fire killed 36 people last month. Since then, several warehouses in the city have been inspected and some have been shut down. The residents evicted. An emergency ordinance has been submitted that would place a moratorium on those evictions. Today an embattled Apartment Building in pacifica could become one step closer to being torn down. Pacifica City Council Members will host a special meeting about this. The building was yellow tagged back last january, and it is still hanging at the edge of the eroding cliffs that are falling away into the ocean. Council members are now considering approving a contract to tear it down altogether. The owner of the property declared bankruptcy in 2015. Now, your accuweather forecast with mike nicco. Looks like pleasantons getting another round of moderate rain. Foot hill road, heading up to the hard of pleasanton right there, that beautiful Downtown District and this stretches all the way over towards livermore. Weve got some good news for our highway 4 commuters. Theres still a lot of standing water on the roadway, but its coming down much lighter and that will continue to be the trend. Same thing for discovery bay, vasco road, but the Altamont Pass still going to get at least one or two more waves of some moderate rain which will keep the standing water in your area. Now as you head down 84, look a little bit clearer. Heres a look at sfo, one of the lower rainfall totals, 3 4 of an inch for most of the peninsula. Thats a good number. Insteadiest rain is falling now through 7 00 then we transition over to scattered, light showers that will actually get a little bit lighter as we head towards the afternoon and the evening hours. Notice temperatures dont change. Were in the mid 50s all day. Grab a heavier coat this evening, well be in the 40s. About. 085 of an inch of rain. On the water, not as breezy this afternoon. Out and about, the heaviest rain is now. You can get out later this afternoon. Alexis. Okay. Weve got a lot of flooding out there as you can imagine. This video is from about two hours ago, one of our crews driving in San Francisco. This was on 101, right around the 80 interchange and just check out the hydroplanes here, just some huge rooster tails kicking up and then, yeah, never fun when youve got a big truck right next to you either so hopefully were going to start to see some of this flooding taper off here this morning. We definitely still have some areas with high water so slow down. I want to flip to the traffic maps now if we can do that. Just showing you it is starting to push out of much of the bay area. We do have heavy stuff around the tri and central valleys. But im really hopeful that conditions are going to get better here throughout the morning commute. Southbound 880 before industrial parkway, we have another crash still blocking the two left lanes so that is stacking up well north of 92 and im just hearing about a new crash on northbound 880. Thats in the fremont area. Coming up, donald trump versus the intelligence community. The new questions hes raising about the investigation into the russian hacking of the election. Plus the video so many people are talking about this morning, a girl slammed to the ground by a School Resource officer and we just found out about her injuries. Ill have that next. Jessica, thank you. Also the search for the Good Samaritans who stepped in to help star wars actress Carrie Fisher and the details we are learning about the memorials for her and her mother. It is 5 38 as you are about to go out the door. We are taking a look at live conditions throughout the area, including lake tahoe where you can see some of the snow falling if you look carefully against that white light there. Well be right back. 5 4 is in the morning. This is a live look at a rainy, backed up bay bridge toll plaza. If you take any photos or video of the weather where you live, we want to see it. Post it to social media with the abc7now so we can find it and you may see those photos right here on abc 7 mornings. Now a live desk update from abc 7 mornings. Now to a story were watching closely for you. A young girl slammed to the ground by a School Resource officer in North Carolina. And we just got an update on her. Her mother announced that she has a concussion. She also says she is planning to pull her daughter out of school. As we mentioned earlier, the School Resource officer is on leave. The cell phone video shows the officer picking up the student and then throwing her to the ground. Many students, though, are defending the officer. He was trying to break up a fight between two girls, including the sister of the girl who was injured. That update just coming into our live desk. Reggie, natasha, back to you. That video is hard to watch. Thank you. The family of star wars actress Carrie Fisher and her mother, hollywood icon Debbie Reynolds are going to hold a private memorial for them tomorrow. Fisher died last tuesday and reynolds died just one day later. Planning is still in the works for a larger public memorial. Fishers brother, todd,mentes the United Airlines passengers who tried to revive his sister to be there. He credits them for giving his family chance to say goodbye to his sister. The family has reached out to meryl streep to deliver a keynote eulogy. 5 43 now and president elect drefrp says an intelligence briefing about russian hacking is delayed until friday. Intelligence leaders say thats always been the scheduled time. Its a latest development in the back and forth battle between mr. Trump and intelligence officials. Mr. Trump says it is unclear who was behind the hacking, despite the intelligence reports saying it was absolutely russia. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange says it was not the russians. Whether assange is a knowing participant, thats hard to tell. About an hour ago, the president elect continued his questioning of the hack. He tweeted, Julian Assange said a 14yearold could have hacked podesta. Why was dnc so careless . Today is the first full day on the job for a couple of california senators. Harris is the first black woman to represent california in the senate and the first ever indianamerican senator. He is now the u. S. Representative for californias 17th congressional district. Kana was sworn in on a bicentennial edition of the constitution instead of bible because hes a practicing hindu and because he wanted to honor the year he was born, 1976. And newly reelected House Speaker paul ryan is scratching his head over this one. The son of Roger Marshal dabbed during his dads swearing in yesterday. Ryan thought the teenager was holding in a sneeze and says hes still not quite sure what dabbing is. Marshall tweeted his son is grounded. If you take muni along gary boulevard in San Francisco, listen up. There will be a move to make your ride safer, faster and more reliable. A committee is expected to recommend approval for the Rapid Transit project. Basically an upgrade to the 38 geary route. The project includes bus only lanes, new stations, new traffic signals. These are expected to shave off as much as 20 minutes per round trip. No matter what the outcome, the Oakland Raiders are expected to make history on saturday with. Rookie quarterback conner cook expected to start in the teams wild card game. He would be the first qb in the super bowl era to make his start in the playoffs and derek carr revealed he broke his finger in week 12. Raider nation, you can watch your team on abc 7. Theyll take on the texans in houston. Live coverage starts at noon on saturday with kickoff at 1 30 all an abc 7. The list continues to grow for the 49ers potential gm picks. Among they will, eliot wolf of green bay, former 49er draft pick and current espn analyst, louis rid didick and possibly t most intriguing, anything caserio from the patriots and the offensive coordinator is also a top coaching candidate. The big story this morning, the weather here in the bay area. And mike is all on top of that. Yeah, lets talk about the storm impact scale. As you mentioned a while ago, reggie, it was a 2 but now were transitioning to the 1. Because the steady, moderate to heavy rain is now becoming light rain and it will become scattered showers this afternoon. There may be some minor ponding on some lesser traveled roads. I wanted to show you san rafael dropped out. The reason why . 3 1 2 inches of rain over the last 24 hours. North bay getting soaked. About 1 2 inch on the san mateo bridge. Traffic moving pretty quietly right there and thats good news because theres a lot of water on that bridge. Steady rain to light showers. Cooler tonight and dry until friday evening and then that stronger storm comes in. Our heaviest weather is about to exit out of livermore, head through the Altamont Pass and head out to tracy and thats the last built of really moderate rain except for right around san martin down towards gilroy. And you can see the transition already taking place of those scattered showers. So, lets talk about whats going to happen as we head into tonight. Mid 30s inland, mid 40s, thats nearly 20 degrees cooler than this morning. Saturday evening, already nearly 2 inches of rain. By sunday, were about 3 1 2. By monday, 5 and this is being a little conservative with the rainfall estimates so because of that, i bumped the storm up this weekend, friday its a 1, light, saturday its 2, moderate, and then sunday, its a 3, which is strong, and then monday, its moderate also. What a doozy we got coming this weekend. You know, you might want to invest in a boat to get around the bay area here. This is just not good here this morning. But conditions are starting to improve so i do have live doppler 7 on top of our traffic maps so you can see it starting to push out. Southbound 880 before industrial parkway just got some good news. That crash where a vehicle actually went up on that Center Barrier cleerd but a fourmile backup if youre heading towards hayward. Northbound 880 before thornton avenue, couple vehicles involved in a crash. It sounds like one spun out, went across the road and that is now blocking at least the right lane, possibly the two right lanes. But so far, pretty minor backup. Live look at walnut creek, southbound 680, definitely soggy and filling in there. 42 minutes out of the central valley. You guys are still dealing with some pretty heavy rainfall. Westbound 4, 22 minutes and southbound 101, green at 17 minutes. Alexis, thank you. New at 6 00, help for San Francisco taxi drivers competing with uber and lyft. The rules of the roads. Also, its happened again. What this boy did that landed him in a dangerous predicament. Plus the force may finally be with us. George lucass home for a hunt for a Star Wars Museum is just about over so the question, are we the winners . Heres a live look at the Golden Gate Bridge as we continue to take a look at whats happening on our roads and with the rain. You can also see whats you can also see whats happening with live doppler 7 abc 7 storm impact scale, todays storm is level 1. That means light rain so keep an umbrella handy and drive safely. Track todays storm any time on the abc 7 news app. Download it now. Its 5 51. Welcome back. Well, you may remember the little boy who got stuck on a ski lift. Well, it happened again for the second time at the same resort. Take a look at your screen. This is another boy who got his backpack stuck in the chair lift at the Sun Dance Mountain resort in utah. Crews rushed to save him. We can tell you he is okay but also two weeks ago, this nearly identical thing happened. A boy got his backpack caught. They had to get a ladder eventually to free him. After that initial incident, sun dance urged everyone to prepare. They say you need to start wiggling before you get off the lift to make sure youre not caught and if you have a backpack, keep it on your lap. Happening today, a fire station in Contra Costa County is set to reopen after a threeyear closure. Pittsburgs fire station is going to be staffed again. It closed in 2013. The district said it was because of a budget deficit and declining property taxes. The official grand reopening for station 87 happens saturday. Happening today, elon musk is hosting an invite only event in nevada. The giant battery plant is just outside of reno. He invited investors only to tour the space. The plant will produce rechargeable lithium ion batteries. The Palo Alto Based tesla motors reports they deliver just over 76,000 of those electric cars last year and that fell just short of their goal of 79,000. Tesla says a switch to new selfdriving hardware caused them to burial miss it. One of the states largest dams will have to release more water because of the rain Northern California is getting rain. Several inches of rain are expected in sacramento. Folsom dam will release about double the amount of water they had planned. The water release is part of a delicate balance to prevent flooding but to keep adequate water storage for drier months. Lets talk about whats going on in the east bay, thats where im seeing yellows and oranges, thats where the moderate rain is going to cause ponding especially around the Altamont Pass. You can see right there on live doppler 7. Let me go up to weed. Why . Because when i tell you not to go through the mountains because its snowing, listen to me, my son, who was stuck in weed for about 8 hours last night because it was snowing so heavily on his drive back from eugene. Yeah, were going to have a little talk when he gets home. Heres a look at whats going on around the rest of the sierra. You can see a lot of snow there and rain about to encroach upon the grapevine and it will turn into snow. About 38 in tahoe today. Lets spend a little more time talking about tahoe because youre getting slammed right now and until 4 00 tomorrow morning, 1 to 2 feet at lake level. Were going to add another 9 inches by 10 00 this morning and another foot by 5 00 this evening and possibly 1 1 2 feet by 11 00. But this weekend, 5 to 7 feet of snow possible. It is going to be a bear up there. Alexis . Okay. Yeah, not a lot of fun on the roads this morning. Hopeful though that we are going to start to bounce back. Taking a look at our traffic maps with live doppler 7 on top, most of that heavy rain really pushing out of the busiest areas, still pretty heavy between livermore and tracy and 580 is slow. Southbound 880 before industrial still about a fourmile backup through the hayward stretch, thats due to an earlier crash. Also just got the all clear south of there, northbound 880 before thornton avenue we had a multicar crash where one vehicle spun out, went across the entire roadway but they were able to push that to the shoulder. And weve got some flooding in Sonoma County, highway 12 and 121 in the napa area. That is fully closed through that stretch. Theyre hoping to have that back open by 9 00 this morning. Maybe a little bit earlier with the heaviest of the rain pushing out of the bay area. Really slow commute through the bay bridge toll plaza this morning. Looks like we have a little bit of fog forming and we have a high wind advisory too. Those metering lights have been on since 5 29. You definitely want to drive for conditions. Alexis, thank you. Its San Francisco versus los angeles. Star wars creator george lucas will decide this month which city will be getting his museum. San francisco is offering lucas a fouracre water front site on treasure island. You can see the mockup. Lucas would finance the project himself. His Narrative Art Museum kind of looks like a galactic fighter in architectur architectur architectur architectural drawings. Lucas has a personal Art Collection of more than 40,000 paintings and drawings. A warning if you shop on amazon. Buyers are seeing more items coming from third parties. Michael finney first alerted us to this last night. A forbes columnist says three times he bought for christmas three items, i should say, never even showed up. The sellers took his money and took off. In each case, amazon made good on that deal. However, amazon, like ebay, says that buyers have to accept some responsibility for checking out the suppliers. Two of my amazon gifts over the holidays still havent arrived. Just want to put that out there. Still havent arrived. All right, anyone whos tried acting knows that it is a tough job and outtakes are part of the gig, right . One poor man dressed in a costume had to bear the load in a minnesota commercial. Watch as the mascot for an autodealership keeps falling as he tries to walk on the rink. Oh. Hes not wearing any skates. Poor guy. That was probably part of the problem. Ouch. Yeah. That last face plant is the worst by far. Athough i kind of that one looks a little bit on purpose, doesnt it . I dont think so. Maybe . You dont think so . Not just so it gets on the news . I hope that his costume provides some padding. Pi think that was a real fall ad i feel bad for him. Next at 6 00, our coverage of the storm that is hitting the bay area right now. We are tracking delays at sfo this morning. What you need to know if youre going to be flying. Plus dangerous conditions in the Santa Cruz Mountains, how the pounding rain and winds are impacting roads this morning. Also, california lawmakers asking a very unusual person for legal help. Im going to explain that next. Im going to explain that next. J anything with a screen is a tv. Stream 130 live channels. Plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. You can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. Only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. Download the xfinity tv app today. Good morning, east bay. Lets get up and get going. This is abc 7 mornings. It is 6 00 a. M. , a wet and windy morning greets you outside, across the bay area as the first in a series of powerful storms slams into our neighborhoods. You can see the slick and soggy roads as that backup continues to build at the bay bridge toll plaza. We were white knuckling it on the way in and you can see this video, dangerous conditions for drivers overnight, interstate 280 was blocked near cesar chavez in San Francisco after four cars slammed into one another. And were not going to get much of a break over the next seven days. Start our coverage with abc meteorologist mike nicco. I hit the brakes this morning, nothing happened, they were so water logged, i had to pump