Some swerved, others didnt have a choice. Carla was happy to have her seven month old experience in ra for the first time. It is the first real rain that hes seen. In ben loma it was trees impacted, heavy wind and rain topland an oak and spruce tree blocking this road. Tiny rivers formed alongside roads in felton and more established rivers began to flow once again. We need it to replenish the ground water and make the grass green. We need rain. Whether you view the rain as trouble or treasure there is still more to come. This river is moving so quickly tonight that it is taking a lot of branches and debris with it. Live in san jose, nbc bay area news. Thank you. It wasnt just the Santa Cruz Mount angs, trees are coming down across the bay area. This large tree took much of the day to clear from the roadway. Over on the peninsula, a huge tree branch snapped from a hundred year old oak on wood side taking a power line with it. Traffic was closed in both directions for hours. Also on the peninsula a notorious spot for flooding. A d look on the left live and the right a la oook at that sam area, it created big delays. We are in palo alto this evening. Well likely see the same thing tomorrow based on the forecast. Thats right. Could be another long commute along 101 tomorrow with this rain that snarls things on the road. For one family this storm has created major problems at home. My dad was saying it used to happen to his parents. Adrian was making School Lunches when she came across a major issue down stairs. It was about two inches of water and kept rising. Shes not talking about rain water. This is gross. Thats all toilet paper. Sewage water and human waste flooded the house. Theres poop water in my kids room, eh. Its what she cant see that really worries her. Its a little gross to think that my neighbors poo is in my house. She said it happens when the drain near the street gets clogged with debris. It is on city land so crews this morning pulled the pipe. The second they pulled the big branch out all of that drained. Now city sanitation crews will clean up today. It was a complete mess. The Red Wood City public works deputy estimates that pipe is more than 50 years old and they do have plans to repair that damaged section. We want to the show you live in San Francisco where the rain is creating big problems for people to get around. We are live there in the north bay watching for signs of flooding. Mark. We are right along the frontage road of red wood highway and is this area chp said could be a problem because it is relatively low area next to the bay. Right now it is not a problem. Let me take you back to San Francisco in a weather story that made news around the country. The cable car turn around at hyde and jefferson was empty this morning. No cars, very view wouldbe drivers. We thought we would ride just for fun. A couple tourists from finland were disappointed to find the cable cars werent running. As the man in the key osk explained the rain shut down the system. For the day or the week . Just for now. The antique cable cars break breakdowning. The cable cars brake system was deemed not good enough on a down poweur. Look at coming down. M much of the parking lot had to be gated off. Commuters got wet but considering the drought they didnt seem to mind. This is definitely great. More rain expected with this storm tonight. Along with a chance of lightning. Well be back at 6 00 with an update. Nbc bay area news. Thank you mark. As can you imagine flight delays, on average were three hour delays and more than 100 flights were cancelled at sfo. A live look auoakland airport, everything running smoothly there. Best advice, if youre flying in the next 48 hours, check with your carrier for any delays. Among the hardest working people during these days and nights like these, chp officers and tow truck drivers, hundreds of accidents bringing the commute to a near halt. This is a live look at i80. You see a lot of traffic. We have the latest. You can see behind me, this is pretty typical for traffic this time of the day here on i80. The rain isnt nearly as heavy as it was this morning, in fact its nonexistent except sprinkles. Twice as many reports of accidents than usual. More than 400 calls during the morning commute. One driver told us it took an hour and half to go ten miles this morning because of that trouble traffic. The chp said the number one cause of accident is speed. They say it is critical to create space for other drivers in the rain. Its horrible because is it is storming so hard people are a little bit more cautious but, yeah, ive seen some pretty bad accidents. Well, drive slower, its wet, you got to be careful. The chp said it is a great time to check your tires and replace your wipers, especially with more rain on the way. Well this new storm is great news for skiers, this is echo summit. Lake tahoe could see up to two feet of snow. A nabeighborhood in venture countiy is under mandatory evac oohations. Authorities warn there could be more evacuations. You can check the rain yourself. At nbcbayarea. Com. How does it look in your neighborhood . This woman here is collecting rain water. Would love to see your weather picks. Savage is the only word that appropriately describes it. Still ahead the Surveillance Video of a deadly Beating Police want you to see. I took full responsibility for everything i did, only thing i can hope forea and wish for ia second chance. Ray rice opens up about the assault on his wife and everything he learned from the ordeal. I think it is a warming thing, call it comfort. This man is using pizza to help fill the stomach and hearts of six children. The story will make you bay area proud. Then at six, more than four years after he died, steve jobs now a star witness in the tech giant. , apple. S. Every day is a new opportunity to help make life better right here in San Francisco. Whether its helping local businesses like the fruitguys grow and prosper, supporting nonprofits like juma ventures as they fulfill their mission or helping neighborhoods like the tenderloin become vibrant communities. If theres a way to help the people of San Francisco thrive and succeed, well find it. Thats the power of local connections. Thats bank of america. New and disturbing video of a deadly attack on a homeless man in San Francisco last month. Police are asking for the publics help in identifying these three young men. You can see right here, minutes before they kicked and beat to death an elderly homeless man. Investigators say it was unprovoked, and the victim needed crutches to walk. Veteran officers who seen it all say this was bad. I have 25 years in, this is one of the worse attacks ive ever seen. I think all offous who were investigating this case were personally infected by what we saw. Police believe they will find more Surveillance Video of the trio. Former Baltimore Ravens running back ray rice answers criticism about punching his thenfiance. My wife is an angel. She can do no wrong. I take full responsibility for my actions. They are now married. One month after she opened up about what happen in that elevator, ray rice did the same. Said counselling ripped him apart and put him back together and said he has a better understanding of how violence has a Ripple Effect that stretches beyond his own family. Now i realize the amount of families we have effected, Domestic Violence is a real issue in society. We can take one bad night, we are truly sorry for the it people who are really going through it. Rice was reinstated in the nfl last week after appealing his suspension. He had a lot more to say. You can watch our exclusive interview on our website. He talks more about the future of his football career and his relationship with his wife. Cellphone video turned out to be crucial evidence in the arrest of three men looting a store in a protest last week. The video shows mostly silhouettes but enough to charge three men for breaking into this smart final. This follow the grand jury decision in ferguson, missouri. A. Liccardo will be sworn in january 6th. He replaced reed who was termed out. How about free pizza for a good cause, the gourmet way one man has chosen to help others. In tonights story will you see someone try something for the first time and become addicted to it. What he is now addicted to, is doing good. It creates a convection, this way. He is never late to the party. At least not the ones for which he has been hired to cook the pizza. I think we will put applewood smoked bacon. He says it takes over two hours to get the wood fire oven up to the 900 degrees he will need for the job, so hes always early which is interesting seeing as though the pizza thing came to him later in life. Which i would have done it a long time zblag it was four and half years ago with his eyes on his kids tuition went look fin for a way to supplement his income at his day job. He bought a fire oven and was sold. Once i had it i couldnt take my eyes off that oven. So ron decided to get one of his own and has been busy just about every weekend since. It was a great financial decision, he says, but so much more. Its just, to me, its just, enjoyment. I thoroughly love it. Which was never more true. My names ron, nice to meet you. Than on a recent monday in palo alto. We enjoyed success over the years and it was time to give back. And what better way to give to the Sick Children and their families staying at the Ronald Mcdonald house in stanford whit what he does best, he offered to take care of dinner one night and they jumped at the offer like, well, people jump at free pizza. Ron understands it is a simple thing, but made with love, could be a powerful thing to people in a tough spot. Find a little bit of happiness. Im proud to do it. And after four and half years, ron said, this was the first time they had reached out to do a charitable event like that and it didnt know he would be touch sod much. He wants to keep doing it and finding opportunities. Which is going to be hard because theres not too many days hes not booked. I have had his pizza, its excellent but i enjoy talking to him more. Hes such a good guy. And that is one thing he loved about this operation was not only making the pizza but talking to people while doing it. Comforting in so many ways. Thanks so much. Thanks. This is good Wood Fire Pizza weather. This is where you get a movie and book, some good pizza. Good advice. Stay off the roadways, get yourse yourself pizza, maybe delivery. We have a lot of down trees and multiple spin outs. Were not done with the storm system yet. The main branch is off east. Still tracking center of low pressure moving in over the next 24 hours, which will provide another reenforcing shot of wet weather. I want to show you your 24 hour rain fall total in case you missed it again. You can see in the north bay anywhere from one to one and half inches of rain fall. Continue down to San Francisco. Pleasant hill one and quarter inch. Men low park, a tremendous amount of rain in 24 hours. We had isolated flooding on 101 near palo alto. You can see in san jose o11. 39, havent seen rain totals like that since 2010, its been 1,777 days, so yes this is a big deal across the south bay. And we will add to that. Still tracking spotty areas of rain across the bay area. Most consistently where we need in in the south bay. It will continue generally off to the north and east. Prepare for the slick roadways tonight. Lets get a look what we can expect with this next wave of wet weather through 9 00 tonight, hit and miss areas of pockets of rain fall. Then through 11 00 it may seem we are done as we are mainly going to be dry but check 24 out as the wave of wet weather moves in at 3 00, isolated pockets of rain are likely to return by 3 00 a. M. And will unfortunately for your commute stay in place. If you can tele commute might be a good day to do that because it will be wet on the roadways. We will see more isolated flooding problems, possibly more trees down, maybe some power outage issues. Lets get a look at the highlights from this storm system, well bround it up for you. Next 24 hours, gusty winds may hit 35 miles an hour. May have embedded thunderstorms as that pushes across. We may pick up an additional one to two inches of rain fall, could put our rain total at 100 to 200 of the average. Great for the droughts. You want to Pay Attention to San Francisco. That will have the highest risk of thunderstorms in the forecast tomorrow. Theres another zone with the best chance of thunderstorms in the north bay, including napa, santa rosa and down toward the trivalley will be jacket weather down in the 60s. Tomorrow and thursday and friday rain staying in the forecast, well get dry saturday and also sunday. So this is good news. Please take it slow out there. Back your speed maybe five to ten miles an hour will help you quite a bit. Very good advice. Just ahead at 5 00, stuck in an unusual spot on the golden gate bridge, how this car got there and what it took to get it out. Plus to infinity and beyond. What happens this week in the bay area seen as a critical step to mars. This is something we dont see very often. This young man wedged his car on the sidewalk of the golden gate bridge. Daniel soto was drunk when he veered out of his lane and into the walkway around 5 00 a. M. More than five hours later crews brought in a crane to lift that blue mustang out and over the railings, the 22yearold was arrested on drunk driving charges. Violence shooting just after midnight, three homes struck by multiple rounds from a handgun. Police are offering an award for information about this case. Were one step closer to landing astronauts on mars on the orion space craft. The space craft will travel 3600 miles from earth to test four systems, radiation, separation, the heat shield and the parachu parachute. Check out these retail robots, they are available at orchard in san jose. The robots have 3d cameras to scan and identify items, the robots can lead people to the aisles. They also speak multiple languages. Very nice. Well, a daring stunt in the rain, next. Todays rain didnt make this dare devil stunt any easier in downtown jose for a good cause, they are raising money for shatter proof, a group formed to prevent, treat and help those recover from addiction to drugs and alcohol. The founder says the disease kills 15 people every hour. They knew it was going to be rainy and they still did it. Very brave. Dedicated. Were looking at rain fall across the bay right now. Very scattered in nature. We will fin to see that tonight. Tomorrow we will see a chance of rain and all the way through friday but dry this weekend. Amazing to see all this rain. I know its wild. Thanks for joining us. See you at 6 00. On our broadcast tonight, mandatory evacuations in california, as a nasty and sprawling storm moves onshore. Too much rain, way too fast. And in a droughtstricken region, that now means floods. Knocked out. Who turned out the lights in detroit . A huge power grid suddenly goes dark. 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