Rain in the lower elevations and 2 to 4 for the hills and wind gusts of 50 miles per hour. Many elements coming together to bring a vigorous system our way. You can see cells here from point rays off the coast. It has been the lighter rain, heavier downpours and along the coast in San Francisco and san mateo and 280, lighter returns. Further south and east into san jose and livermore, 580. Some light shower activity. Were looking at a wind advisory, winds continue to crank up but by noontime, well have gusts over 35 miles an hour and when the front moves through from 6 00 to 9 00 tonight, we could see wind gusts in excess of 50 miles an hour. Were talking total as much as 3 inches before tomorrow night. And we have another system for the second half of the weekend. Cornell . Well, lisa, thank you so much. Brace for it. As lisa said the most powerful storm of the year so far will bear down on the bay area later today. Along with it, gusty winds, abc 7 News ReporterTiffany Wilson is live in pacifica where residents are about to feel the intensity of this storm. Reporter good morning, were in the prelude to the big storm but i can tell you its starting to get pretty miserable out here. It already started raining and wind has picked up and take a look at these waves behind me. They are going in sets. Some of them so intense that the water is splashing all the way over the sea wall and across the street and hitting the driveways on the other side. Heres one coming over. That wasnt as big as weve seen this morning but these waves are intense. And the intensity has some pacifica residents worried about the sea wall. Previous storms led to a gaping hole and street detours around the eroded area but locals think its only a matter of time before another section gives way and today could be that day they tell me. Now, some other families told me they are taking a close look at their property this morning, trying to secure any loose Patio Furniture and plants. Weve also seen sand bags out. Several people out walking dogs referenced the majestic beauty and power of these waves but they know the beach is no place to be during todays storm. Stay off the seawall, dont get on the beach, you have to be careful about the waves, people have died down here. Reporter with waves as big as these, its easy to understand why a Small Craft Advisory was issued overnight. Local fishermen told us they are doing all they possibly can to tighten up their boats, put out extra buoys and just ride out todays big storm system. Live in pacifica, Tiffany Wilson, abc 7 news. Stay safe out there. It is not just the rain that makes this storm so powerful, strong gusty winds could make things down right dangerous in your own backyard. Yesterday was spent trimming drought damaged trees vulnerable. Keeping branches and power lines apart is a 365 day a year job. Where theres saturation of soil, the wind will move the tree just a little bit and sometimes the weakened roots cant take that extra pressure. Though it may be a bit too late before this weekends storms, advise residents to trim trees so they dont have to worry about them falling on to cars or homes. Steady rain fell throughout the night. They are used to the usual problems but know that things can change in an instant. Abc 7 News ReporterMelanie Woodrow explains. As the rain came down, people outside soul food didnt seem to mind. Gosh no, they have an awning so that works out well. A little rain now with a lot more on the way. A really big storm is coming. Reporter the heaviest rain is expected saturday night. The Fire District spent the day doing community outreach. The concern with the wind is trees down and wires down. Reporter with those words came the call. Right now they are going to be dispatched to a tree down near an apartment complex in a district. [ sirens ] reporter with the trunk split so high up they will need a bucket truck to cut it. A scene that could repeat itself this weekend. Lets check it out. Roads are slippery and covered in snow in the sierra too. Chains are required on parts of 80 and highway 50 right now. A lot more snow on the way this weekend. Highest elevations could see up to 3 feet of snow. And because of this weekends storm, San Francisco is opening up two emergency shelters that can hold up to 200 homeless men and women. The first shelter is at the county fair building hall, it opens at noon today and cannot hold pets. The second shelter is at bill graham on grove street. It opens at 2 00 p. M. And pets are allowed there. The shelters will provide transportation to those who need a rides. San francisco public works will hand out free sandbags to residents on ceassar chavez street. You can pick them up at 8 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. Today. You can use the abc 7 news app to enable push alerts to receive breaking weather information. We also have resources to help you plan for these storms at abc 7 abc 7 news has learned that radios went down for 11 minutes friday night around 11 30. This is video of oaklands communication center. The Department Says officers had to rely on cell phones to communicate with each other and with dispatchers. The cause of the outage is not known. This war of words between the Santa Clara County sheriff and head of the Blue Ribbon Commission looking into conduct at her jails. The sheriff is innocenccensed a retired judge first came the cameras, the sheriff bought them with her own money and had them installed and thursday they captured this inmate fight. The chairman has since commented that the fight could have been avoided if those inmates hadnt been allowed to mingle. Sheriff smith fired off ang anry letter. The allegation shes making is not factual. Its a lie. Its dishonest. Reporter she clined an interview saying she doesnt want to detract from the work of the commission and wrote her own letter. I was clear in my statement that was broadcast, that if the officers knew that the inmates on 4a did not get along with one another, it wouldnt make sense for them to be let out at the same time. She goes on to write, sheriff, me thinks you doth protest too much. The sheriff says she is wrong. We would never segregate based on race or ethnicity or anything. Not only would we not do that but the u. S. Supreme court has said its illegal to do that. The sheriff is asking her to disclose emails and other documents that pertain to jail operations and she is asking for an expert to review the fight. Abc 7 news. Police in the east bay are looking for a man accused of stealing someones identity and going on a pretty big shopping spree. This picture from late january shows him with a shopping cart with a items purchased at the costco in concord, opened several Bank Accounts in anybody elses name and used them to fund his shopping trips. There are five confirmed cases of zika in the bay area. One case was reported friday and contra costa reported two, all of which were contracted travel to south and central america. Two other zika cases were confirmed last week in napa and San Francisco. The virus is usually pred by mosquitos but researchers have also identified zika cases transmitted through sexual intercourse. Lisa is keeping an eye on this major storm set to arrive in the bay area. You can see the clouds lowering and Poor Visibility here in San Francisco. Everybody is in the 60s, rain showers moving across the bay eastward to the northeast and were looking at gusty winds up to 25 miles an hour in Mountain View. But this is nothing. Well talk about whats to come, damaging winds and possible flooding throughout the evening hours. Thats next. Were bracing for it. Also, the mysterious mechanical problem that made the b. A. R. T. Commute for many a miserable ride and what the agency is doing about it. New information about the knife found at the former Brentwood Home of you have the power to heal. Because your purchase of vaseline intensive care lotion, supports the vaseline healing project. Join us to help millions in crisis heal their skin. Good morning, were back with this image from live doppler 7 hd. Pretty much tells the whole story, a sea of green as the first and series of el nino fueled storms make the way into the bay area. Lisa will have the forecast in a few minutes. New this morning, city of pacifica is planning to demolish apartments. It has been vacant since 2010, at risk of crumbling over the cliff. A construction fence is going up monday and demolition starts tuesday morning. One neighboring building has already been demolished and another has been yellow tagged. This is all because major storms have caused the city to red tag the 20unit apartment building. B. A. R. T. Is trying to figure out a mysterious problem that sidelined dozens of cars that created more congestion during key commute times. Laura anthony has the story. Reporter regular trans bay commuters tell us b. A. R. T. Trains are always packed during peak times but some may have noticed the conditions were even tighter. Theres a lot of crowds. Reporter it had to do we a technical issue, happening on eastbound trains traveling through the trans bay 2. Cars that have older expulsion equipment were experiencing spikes in voltage and circuitry that is meant to protect the motor from the voltage was getting damaged. So far 80 cars have been taken out of Service Temporarily at b. A. R. T. Maintenance yard. B. A. R. T. Says its a problem thats happening intermittently for some time but became more frequent lately. To keep it from happening, b. A. R. T. Has taken this west oakland substation offline. Although they dont think its the source of the problem. Were still trying to figure out exactly what caused it. We did major inspections and looked at the third rail, the track and found nothing. B. A. R. T. Expects to have all cars repaired and back in service by monday. In west oakland, laura anthony, abc 7 news. What are your thoughts on b. A. R. T. s crowded trains . We want to hear from you like the 2013 b. A. R. T. Strike. Share your comments on social media with the dearb. A. R. T. More than 200 transportation projects are threatened because the state collected a lot less gas taxes, money aimed at funding 225 shovel ready projects. That includes many in the bay area, the widening of highway 4, interstate 680 interchange the highway 92 and 101 interchange project and the b. A. R. T. Extension to san jose. These projects and many more can be delayed or canceled. Authorities are examining a knife found at the old o. J. Simpson estate. Is the knife used in the double murder case, the trial of the century. Reporter first lead in years. The actual item is described as a knife. Reporter leaving a flurry of interest. Testing a knife that was found reporter the possibility that the knife used to murder simpsons exwife and her friend ron goldman in 1994 may have finally been found. Well, i was really surprised. Reporter police say a construction worker handed the knife allegedly found buried on the property to an offduty officer near the simpson estate. At the time the house was being rebuilt. The retired officers lawyer called the lapd to alert them he had evidence but was told the case was closed. This is another case where an lapd officer mishandling evidence in the o. J. Simpson case . I certainly hope not but it is very concerning to us that a police officer, whether retired or active, would not know to submit and turn in evidence or what is believed to be evidence. He held on to as a souf near for 18 years, might not be evidence at all. The initial evidence shows it couldnt be the murder weapon, the knife not matching details of the crime. Reporter investigators say over the years they received 150 knives, some recovered during the demolition and reconstruction of this house. It would be interesting if there are some evidence on the knife that pointed to who might have helped to bury it. The news breaking as American Crime story the people versus o. J. Simpson is in full swing. Im not black. Im oj. It was too late to slow the kind of tweets and speculation abc news, los angeles. Just when you thought el nino was gone. It is back. This storm is no joke. Elements all coming together to bring heavy rain and gusty winds and possible flooding and seconds one on its years. After that abysmal february, 2 of normal rainfall and san jose had a third of an inch, we have a number three on our storm impact scale, its a strong one and thats today. Anywhere from 1 to 2 inches much rain through late tonight. As much as 2 to 4 inches in the higher elevation. Wind gusts in excess of 50 miles an hour. Live doppler 7 hd beginning to see yellows indicating more moderate rain in the north bay and Santa Cruz Mountains and by the delta. Well take you for a tour where the yellow just north of san rafael and highway 101 from novato and eastward to the Richmond San Rafael bridge el cerrito picking up rain and oakland, lighter amounts from cloverdale and its been raining about all night long there into the Santa Cruz Mountains. And over into morgan hill in the south bay, very light and heres the heavier shower activity from the delta real vista into the sacramento valley. We widen the viewing and notice the trajectory moving across to the eastnortheast with much more to come. Sierra nevada is quiet right now but a winter storm warning on the way allowing for the rain now to change over into snow. From saturday night through monday morning, thats a long time but within that time were looking at 2 to 3 feet of snow, i should say in kirkwood. Were looking at the changeover through the overnight hours. Look how mild it is with the southerly wind, 62 degrees in oakland, san jose and golden gate bridge, looking damp and foggy. Everyone is at 60s and 58 in santa rosa. The National Weather service issued a Flash Flood Watch from 2 00 this afternoon for the entire bay area into monterey and possibility of flooding along creeks and streams. A lot of rain is going to come down in a short time. Weve got a powerful jet stream, a strong cold front, creating gusty winds and some damaging winds as well, perhaps a power outage or two not unlikely. Look at santa rosa, heavier rain, more offshore. Anywhere from 4 00 this the afternoon to 9 00 tonight, thats the frontal passage and heaviest rain and the gustiest wind. Well watch that closely. Behind it things really settle down in terms of rain and wind but then a second one is on its heels and that one is going to bring also some thunderstorms possibly. So the wind profile this afternoon, take a look at the yellows, anywhere from 20 to 30 miles an hour by noontime. Off the coast here, 40 to 50 miles an hour. This is 3 00 and it justin creases with the frontal passage. Its going to be rough going out there. By tomorrow, its a moderate storm system comes our way with a half inch to inch and a half. You can see the spotty nature of the cells here tomorrow indicating the possibility of some sun breaks and a thunderstorm is possible. This one comes in even later, sunday night into monday or monday morning commute, should be kind of messy and well put the two together allowing for the rainfall to total 1 to 2 inches today and then through monday, 2 to 3 inches even more than that in the higher elevations. Gusty winds increasing rain and wind throughout the day. The accuweather forecast showing a stormy time of it throughout the weekend and things lighten up by monday and only dry day is tuesday and well have more moderate storms heading our way next thursday and friday. Plus it rained on my roof overnight. Very warm and very humid out too. Very subtropical. Thank you so much. Whale watchers getting a real treat. Amazing video of a hump back sonoma count School District waiting for answers, a false alarm, new tests show problems in the junior high not far away. Wayne freedman explains what the county has found so far. Reporter the water is off again in another heelds berg school. Theres no protocol how to deal with a situation like this. Reporter thats the superintendent, for a second time in two weeks they are testing on campus for fear of lead contamination. Were trying to get out in front of it and make sure kids are safe. Reporter it is healedburg high where pipes are pushing 100 years old. A preliminary warning led to importing water and taking any food preparation that involves using water off of campus. Parents are pleased with how the district has handled this so far. I think well be dealing with it more and more, youve got older homes and aging infrastructure. I think its not going to just be a healedberg school problem. Theres a Sonoma County health problem. That agency ran more tests and we wont know results until next week. County Health Officer karin millingman. It does not necessarily mean their child has lead poisoning, it depends on how much they consumed and whether or not it reached a threshold to cause problems with them. The district hopes such questions will never need answering. The superintendent has a child attending school in the district. You want to take every extreme precaution and treat your students as you would treat your own kids. Arent you doing that . Thats exactly what im doing. Abc 7 news. Take a look at this invedible video from a whale watching boat. Its a humpback with a buoy and rope entangled around its tail. They tried to unravel the rope and the whale gives up and gives it a strong flip and the line breaks off. The animal lifts its tail high out of the water to show, yeah, its finally free. Still ahead in our next half hour, decision day in five states over who should get pred shal nominations. Well tell you where votes are set to be cast. Were keeping a close eye on a big storm set to arrive later its. Good morning, were starting this half hour with a quick look at the weather and live look outside where weve got rain on the lens and rain falling on the east shore freeway. A powerful el nino influenced storm expected to arrive in the bay area today. The biggest one of the year so far. Good morning, we have a lot of energy offshore, a strong jet stream and gusty winds and potent cold front. Right now this is whats ahead of it with moderate rain into the east bay, were taking you around richmond, berkeley and highway 80 into oakland and high with a 13 and 680, light to moderate rain further north and west around novato, 101 looking at good returns there. Lighter rain through southern marin and daily city and then it becomes more spotty further south around san mateo, 280 and over into the east bay from fremont to milpitas. This will fill in through the later Morning Hours and right now the winds are gusting from 23 miles an hour at the coast and Mountain View. The rain is coming together, a strong cold front and the gusty winds right throughout the afternoon into the evening hours. Were going to time it out and talk about how much rain and talk about the Second System on its heels tomorrow. The strongest storm of the year so far will hit the bay area later today. Abc 7 News ReporterTiffany Wilson is live and residents are bracing for the severity of this storm. Good morning, how is it looking out there . Reporter good morning. It has been died down a little bit in terms of the rain since a half hour ago when we last checked in. But wind gusts lisa mentioned, im feeling that. You can also see it with the waves here behind me. Were well out of the flash zone but some of the biggest waves have gone over the sea wall and crossed the street touching driveways on the other side. However, these pacifica residents are a tough crowd. A lot have been out walking this morning and told me they are taking a close look at their property trying to secure any loose Patio Furniture and plants before the very strongest wind gusts get here. Several people talk to me about the majestic beauty of and power of these waves but they know the beach is no place to be during todays storm. It is dangerous, better to watch these pictures from at home on the comfort of your couch. However, the intensity of the waves certainly have a lot of residents worried about the sea wall. Previous storms led to a gaping hall. Street detours and locals think it is only a matter of time before another section gives way. The ocean undermined a lot of this and you cant tell until a sinkhole opens up. I think the people that live along the ocean front here are the ones that really have to worry. And steve franco told me after the interview, watching the water this morning, he thinks here we go again that another issue could arrive after this big storm just seeing intensity of the waves, so many hours before the storm is due to reach its peak intensity. Again, they are bracing for the worst here and hoping for the best. Live in pacifica Tiffany Wilson, abc 7 news. All you can do. Thanks very much. The bad weather has delayed a traffic switch open the broadway 101 interchange project in burlinggame. Since december of to 14, they are building a overpass instead of moving traffic this weekend, the switch to the new bridge has been rescheduled for next weekend. You can use the free app to track weather powered by el nino to receive breaking weather information. We also have sources to help you plan for these storms at abc 7 news. Com elnino. Now to your vote, your voice and your vote happening today. The next round of states will cast their ballots in the 2016 race for the white house. Democrats are facing off in louisiana and nebraska and kansas. And these states may be small but they mark an important day in a race where every delegate will count in july. There are 178 delegates at stake in the republican race. On the democratic side, 156 will be at stake. A spirit of innovation is getting praise from the demander in chief. Americas drive to invent technologies and tackle our countrys greatest challenges is what makes the country great. He says some of the sharpest minds from Silicon Valley companies have helped modernize the government for the way we live today. Thats what this is all about, making sure the government of the people by the people works better for the people in the 2 1 century. The eastiest thing to do is to blame government for our problems. X prds obama will attend the festival in austin to address growing technologies. Many will take a brandnew sat exam this morning. Looking at whether test prep courses are worth the money. Heres a live look from the golden gate bridge. Weve seen we are seeing lots of rain falling. Big storm heading our way first in a series of el nino fueled storms heading right for the bay area. Lisa will have your full forecast coming up in just a few minutes. I was walking home. Just picked us up two breakfast croissants for four bucks, when this bear attacked. With one swipe, it devoured one of the croissants. Then jack showed up and took care of the beast, so i could escape. And thats what happened to your breakfast croissant. And yours . It survived. Share it with yourself. Freshly cracked egg with ham and bacon, or sausage, get two breakfast croissants for four bucks. First time this morning, new and improved s. A. T. Will be taken by students nationwide, 7 on your side Michael Finney looked into the best way students can prepare for the changes. The most stressful period of the high school years, the junior plans to apply to uc berkeley and university of santa clara and been attending tutoring sessions. Helps a lot. It made me more comfortable. Reporter at c2, 5,000 for nine months of tutoring. And david kemp is the center ceo. Its not just the test prep the student receives but being able to receive College Counseling and admissions help. Reporter at saint ig nashs, more than 99 of students go on to college. The director of the Guidance Office says whether students benefit from tutoring variousries. Some students need to work with an individual, whether one on one situation or someone in a classroom setting. Reporter others may do well studying on their own, using Test Preparation or free online tutoring. Anyone who takes the preparation test will be offered free classes from the academy designed to boost their scores. The goal is to measure a students current knowledge versus the old test which was a predictor of how well a student would do in college and marks the return of the 1600 as the perfect score. The test is becoming harder from a content perspective. The best preparation for the new test might just mean school itself. Rely on course work they are doing and day to day work they are doing in the courses. Stephanie chan has her heart set on harvard or stanford. Im obsessing to different questions that will be on the s. A. T. And how different it is from the old s. A. T. Reporter already taken it based on the score from the new test, he decided to stick with his old scores instead. I did better on the old one. I should stick with this. Reporter students have a choice of taking either the s. A. T. Or act test. If they take them both, most colleges accept the higher score with the college applications. Im Michael Finney, 7 on your side. If you love watching wheel of fortune, the wheel mobile is returning to the casino and you can stop by to give a wheel for prizes and audition to become a contestant. Today and tomorrow noon to 4 00. And meteorologist mike niko little be there tomorrow. All details are posted at abc 7 news. Com. And you can watch here abc 7, 7 30 at night. Lisa is ahead with the accuweather forecast and it is wet. Weve had light to moderate rain all morning long and winds have begun to increase. You can see clouds here and most areas in the 60s, we have a ton of subtropical moisture and very powerful jet stream all coming over the bay area this evening. Possible flooding and possible Power Outages as well. Well talk about it next. Lisa, thanks. In sports, a flash back from the welcome aboard my starship. Ahoy, mateys its full of things i love. Like me brave crew. And my fellow Space Adventures and free of things i dont. Like aliens. Just like eye patches. And when its time to refuel, i eat chex cereal. Its full of stuff we pirates need. No artificial flavors, and its glutenfree. Excelsior eat up, me hearties keep it down im exploring the galaxy. Arrrr, thats not even a real spaceship. The bay areas best and brightest are about to go head to head in the most Prestigious Science contest. The talent culminates next week. 40 High School Students are still in the running. We caught up with two students aiming for that prize and hoping to change the world. At a computer combatting cancer and app to diagnose asthma. So alarming that people are dying from diseases that can be detected early and can be treated because they dont have access to the expensive system. Tackling world problems. Anything reporter created this device and app to test lung function. Barometers used in the tree cost thousands of dollars. Ours is 35. It tests for copd and asthma and chronic bronchitis and restrictive long disease. This is a selfassessment in the beginning. Reporter shes heading to washington, d. C. As a finalist for the intel 5 prize along with jonathan, a senior at the harker school. Very excited to head to d. C. Reporter jonathans work centers on targeted cancer treatments. Hes using public genome data. And predict which drug or drugs will be the best to treat you. Reporter as two of 40 finalists nationwide they are competing for more than 1 million in reward. You cant put a prize on experience. Its amazing, the experience can be rewarding. Im excited to continue making medical devices and help improve lives in the future. Reporter after the competition, both are decidesing between stanford and harvard for college. In san jose, abc 7 news. Amazing students, good luck to them. Were tracking a big storm, serious storm coming to the bay area. Thats right, we have a Flash Flood Watch for the entire bay area and also an airport weather warning for this afternoon. If you have a flight out, this afternoon its going to be particularly tricky with a storm of three on the way. This is our storm impact scale and rate the storms all winter long from 1 to 5. One being the we cannest and five being the strongest. Today is a three with one to 2 inches of rain. 2 to 4 for the hills and this is just through this afternoon and this evening. Wind gusts in excess of 50 miles an hour. You can see the Santa Cruz Mountains getting heavier rain but well take you into street level right around vallejo and crockett, hercules and 680 and martinez, light to moderate rain. Highway 24, berkeley, light rain into emeryville, even lighter and alameda, oakland, it is slippery out there in the north bay, southern marin county, highway 101 and now beginning to see the rain pick up in the east bay. 680 fremont looking at very light shower activity. Some sprinkles and down through campbell and Santa Cruz Mountains, the moisture blum just getting going. We have a ton of moisture out there that continues to stream over to the bay area out moving to the eastnortheast and theres plenty more out there as we widen the perspective. You can see the bright white clouds here and right there but that is just an energizing jet streak that will allow for all of these elements to come together and have a particularly strong system hit us this evening. 62 in Mountain View and oakland, good morning San Francisco, certainly has been mild. Were in the warm sector of this system with temperatures in the upper 50s, lots of subtropical moisture and the National Weather service issued a Flash Flood Watch for the entire bay area. Monterey, 2 00 this afternoon throughout the evening hours. Throughout the Morning Hours its been light, weve had moderate rain. By noontime, still scattered showers but by 1 00, things begin to come together and well have moderate rain stay with uts throughout the afternoon hours. This is not even the front. The front is right behind this with the yellow and oranges and reds from 6 00 to 9 00 tonight. The heavy rain and gusty winds and behind it scattered showers and winds will die off. Look at this color coding here. The orange from noontime to 4 00, anywhere from 35 to 40 mile per hour winds in San Francisco. Then higher than that with the passage of a cold front. Thats the wind portion. This is the snow portion with the winter storm warning from tonight through tomorrow. Its raining right now in the sierra but we will see two feet to tahoe city, 3 feet in kirkwood. Then we have another system, this is a dtwo, a half inch to inch and a half for sunday night. This comes in later on sunday. Possible sunny breaks and thunderstorm perhaps tomorrow but here we are midnight, overnight hours continue to see the rain gather. Theres the front and it will take through the Morning Hours then well look at the scattered showers into monday. This is a general rainfall total for sunday afternoon. 3 to 6 inches, higher elevations, 1 to 2 inches lower, gusty winds and heavy rain. A mild afternoon but a three on the storm impact scale. Leftover showers on monday. The only dry looks to be tuesday, and couple of twos lining up for next thursday and friday. We waited all winter long to make up for a really disappointing february. Serious rain, serious wind. It goes without saying driving out there, just really be careful, right . Definitely. In sports, the former warrior back in action in the d league. Abc 7 supports director larry beil has the sports report. They are tied with 72 win Chicago Bulls from 9596. After beating Oklahoma City on thursday night. No home loss for more than 400 days, back to an overtime loss with the bulls in january of 2015. Golden state can break that bulls record on monday night against orlando. That will be the second game of a back to back after facing lakers in l. A. On abc 7 on sunday afternoon. Steph curry says the fans deserve as much credit as the guys on the floor. So much energy and so much from our fans every single night. They can be as part a part of this accomplishment of the winning streak as we are. That means a lot. Its something that we talk about beginning of every year, protect the home court, if you want to be great this is not the regular season the cal womens team hoped for, 414 but the bears made history in the pac12 tournament. Seeded 10th, taking on arizona state. The pac12 freshman of the year down low here. Twopoint game. Inside, shes 64 and goes for 24 points on 11 of 12 shooting. Nice use of a left. Asia thomas bringing in threes, 7564, first time a ten seed has beaten a two in tournny history. How tough they were and speaks to the conference about todays upset. This league is top to bottom and prepare each other for this. But i just am so proud of our players, thats what they were today. Stanford taking on washington in another quarterfinal. Kelsi unstoppable. Layup, game high 29. Huskies up by 16. Erika mccall, 22. 6758. Lilly thompson, stanford within two. But washington who hold you cant block there. Talia knocks down a three. 7365 washington. Who would have thought it would be cal and not stanford in the semis. Theres one reason were showing highlights from delaware, former warrior bear barron davis, dunking, debut for the delaware 87ers, that is the worst nickname in sports. He retired after a bad knee injury and wanted to play again. His team lost. Still fun to see baron throwing down after all of these years. Thats a wrap on morning sports. Have a great weekend, everybody. Thanks, larry, you can catch the warriors against the lakers tomorrow right here on abc 7. Pregame coverage starts at noon and tipoff at 12 30 p. M. Be sure to catch after the game and mike will be live brace yourself for cuteness. Meet estella the guinea pig with the custom made wheelchair. Shes featured in latest edition of healthy fit magazine. We profiled her when she was fitted for the wheelchair. Some adjustments need to be made. To help sponsor her care, look at the story at abc7news. Com. Unbelievable. We have serious rain heading our way right now. A Flash Flood Watch from 2 00 this afternoon. The rain is coming down in val ho, around highway 80 and 680 through ben eesh sha and wall nut creek. Highway 24, as well as 680, marin county through san rafael, 580 and further south, not so much but its coming together along the peninsula and east bay within the next few hours. Look at that offshore. Thats whats pushing into the bay area. Thats why we have a Flash Flood Watch. Be safe. The winds kicking up all day long from 6 00 to 9 00 tonight. Drive carefully everybody. Thanks for joining us for the abc 7 saturday morning news. Abc 7 news continues at 4 30 p. M. And at 5 00, nba countdown gets us ready and followed by toyota after the game with larry beil. News continues online, on twitter and facebook and all of the mobile devices with our abc 7 news app. Have a great day and stay safe and stay dry. Announcer jack hannas wild countdown is sponsored by nationwide. Jack hi, everyone. Im jack hanna, coming to you from my base camp here at the columbus zoo, and welcome to wild countdown. A lot of baby animals are cute and cuddly, but only a select few get to be called cubs. Oh, look at them playing. Today weve got bear cubs. I knew wed see some bears but never expected to see a mother and three baby bears. Lion cubs. He says im not letting go of this, buddy. Even little hyena cubs. Benson its a tiny one over there, maybe a week old. Jack look at him youre right and later my blooper of the week. So stick around to see our