Five times. Reporter as he constant reminder. The last major flood in 2005 caused his building to slide. The place was condemned because it tilted a little bit. Now every time a new customer walks in, the door slams open toward downhillside of the gallery. Just three weeks ago he prepared for another flood. It was inches from cresting before the rain stopped. They are on the creek bed so the downtown areas are extremely vulnerable to floods. From creek gutters to installing flood gates and sandbags, homeowners are ready. Were at full saturation. If we get ready in the one to two inches per hour, then we could have some trouble. Everyone knows, if it is heavy enough, there is no holding it back. I have a double whammy i live a creek also. If this goes, that goes, then im swimming to another country. Reporter back live now, weve been keeping an eye these stairs. Most were exposed. Most underwater. Weve been keeping an eye on the creek levels all day long when we arrived about 1 00 today, it was just under two feet. An hour later, three feet, an hour later about, four feet. It is about five feet right now. It would have to come to the bridge deck to be a flood level. Thats a little over 11 feet. Folks here know it can happen very quickly. If you get rainfall, an inch to two inches per hour, it would go from 11 feet to five feet in less than an hour. Nbc bay area news. Thank you very much. On the peninsula, people getting ready for wind gusts and clogged gutters. Live with storm preparations there. Reporter you know, the wind gusts definitely. Im struggling to hang on to my umbrella here. Were at the town and country shopping central. Were seeing a lot of people pop in to grab some supplies on the way home. The rain really kicking in throughout the day. Kind of moderate. If you look at the ground, a lot of parking spaces. Filled up with water. Theyre leaping over the puddles to get into the store. Getting ready for the rain and its here. The wind and rain storm saturating the bay area has local gutter cleaners busy with neighbors concerned about overflooding gutters and flooding. The water goes over the gutters. It gets stuck by your foundation. Or you have water coming back and causing roof damage. The National Weather service also warning. Debris could tumble down in the santa cruz mountains, especially around the area of the loma fire where the burn scar has left the area unsettled. That area could get up to five inches of rain in the next 12 hours. I feel like it followed me from colorado. Im not used to it. I grew up here and it was always so warm and hot. Reporter some are stocking up and planning a warm night at home. I just do projects and cook. Reporter even nose practically live in the water say this much rain is messing with their routine, too. Were divers. Sometimes we can ship out of stuff. Reporter when you know the divers are complaining tights wet outside, that certainly the rain is getting in the way. We are seeing people coming through, stocking up on supplies. As you heard earlier, definitely a lot of rain throughout. Were seeing it coming and going. Thank you very much. Another big one coming in. The numbers are in. Despite the rain and snow, the snow levels are actually lower than average for this time of year. That come from the snow pack survey of the season. They say it measured about six inches of water content in the sierras. Just over 50 of the average that we have seen. They say this thnot to forget d status. A man groped his victims before they tracked him down and arrested him. Police believe there could be more victims. Reporter they do indeed theyre asking people to speak up. If you woke up to a man touching you you did not know, it is time to contact authorities. Its scary. Especially if youre asleep. Someone might come and do something to you. Reporter he is one of several neighbor whos are outraged. Police say 24yearold Ishmael Vasquez has been break sboo home single men, groping them while they sheep and then running off with their valuables. They were in the garage. Jump over the fence. Reporter the latest sexual breakins happened along North Kingston avenue. The same suspect was arrested for groping another man at a gym in 2014. So what was the reaction of these guys when this happened . From what i understand, pure shock. You think that early in the morning, youre just waking up or sleeping. You dont expect anyone to be coming into your home. Let alone touching you inappropriately. Reporter police consider him a sexual predator but fear his victim list could get a lot longer. Police concerned that some men might not come forward. The right now that suspect is right behind me in jail, coming your way at 6 00. Find out how police were able to capture him so quickly. Literally in minutes. Thats ahead in just a moment. Rick boone, nbc bay area news. Okay. Well see you at 6 00. . Mass murderer Charles Manson is reportedly in the hospital. There are reports that he left the prison today and test a bakersfield hospital about an hour away from the prison. The hospital will not comment. Back in 1971 he was convicted of killing actress sharon tate and six other people. Day one of the 115th congress and it started off ugly. House republicans scrambled early today to reverse a plan to weaken the independent office of congressional ethics. They approved it in a closed door meeting last night. But president elect donald trump tweeted his disapproval asking if that was really more important than tax reform or health care. Paul ryan promised the American People lawmakers are listening. We hear you. We will do right by you. And we will deliver. Senate republicans have already introduced legislation to begin repealing much of the Affordable Care act. The measure is officially called a budget resolution. Democrats led by nancy pelosi are pledging to fight it. They argue that millions could lose health coverage. President obama makes a rare appearance tomorrow to preserve his signature domestic policy. With both houses of congress and the presidency in its control, the gop will almost certainly get its way. Still unanswered is what the gop will put in place of obamacare. CKamala Harris is taking th oath here. Meanwhile, the state assembly will be twr working on her replacement. A San Francisco land lord organizes a meeting between artists living in bay area warehouses. Well have the details coming up in a live report. She told me, you can talk to dogs in your brain. She said she would come to me. Meet the little girl responsible for finding a lost dog missing for months. It is todays bay area proud. Our storm system continues to move in with a heavier pocket of rain heading toward lafayette, also orinda. Thats at 5 19. Its just a date. I can stay. Im good. I wont be late hey mom. Yeah. No kissing on the first date, alright . Life doesnt always stick to a plan, but with our investment expertise well help you handle whats next. Financial guidance while youre mastering life. From chase. So you can. A live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. A bit of a backup right now. You can see lots of rain drops on the lens. A bit of a blur. It has been like that all day. There could be a stronger storm on the way. Jeff will have the full forecast coming up in about seven minutes. Workers are calling raw sewage forced them on evacuate the hall of justice in San Francisco this afternoon. You look at the second and third floors. Look at them putting on plastic boot toys protect themselves from the foul smelling water. The spokesman from the District Attorneys Office says this is just the latest headache from a floor affected by rodents, asbestos and deemed unsafe for earthquakes. Artists are coming together to try to prevent another ghost ship warehouse tragedy. They are meeting at the theater in mission district. Thats where we find mark matthews. I know you met with the organizer of the meeting. Whats on the agenda . Reporter well, artists from all over the bay area are invit here. These are people who live in warehouses like the ghost ship warehouse in oakland. And they will be meeting with fire officials and building officials to try to find ways to make their work spaces and their Living Spaces safer. Oaklands ghost ship fire was a wakeup call for a lot of people. Fire inspectors and most importantly, People Living in the warehouse spaces that may or may not be legal. The San Francisco landlord just bought a cart full of fire extinguishers and extension cords to give away. I was able to get these illuminated. In the oakland fire, victims died because they could not find the exits due to the smoke and fire of the collective. He wants tonights meeting about preventing that from happening again. It is a completely free event for artist to learn how to make their areas safer. They made space for 20 artists. She is leaning on the city to make more spaces available. Including legalizing Living Spaces that are not currently permitt permitted. The government and the city officials need to start prioritizing artists if they want to see them remain in the bay area. Reporter coming up at 6 00, we will hear the explanation on why some people coming here are afraid. Not of fires but of being thrown out of their places. Thats the story were working on for 6 00. Nbc bay area news. Speaking of warehouse fire safety, a new Public Safety director will lead and implement the safety plan and act as liaison. Johnson is a form he Alameda County prosecutor who wont to advise Kamala Harris in 2014. The oakland native served as a member of the dna cold case unit. She will take her new position on january 9. Our next story is bound to bring a smile to your face. Bits the Successful End to a twomonth search to rescue a lost dog. Perhaps the only thing sweeter than the conclusion is the little girl responsible for it. Theres only so much Life Experience one can really gain at the age of 6. But when it is the right experience, as megan recently told the adults in her life, including her mom karen, it can make all the difference. She taught me a huge lesson that day. The story begins in the fields and orchards of hospitalster where a few months ago they began searching for a did lost dog. They were quickly on the pace. They learned the dog had escaped from a new home two days after being adopted and clearly had no interest in going back. She was in what we call fight or flight mode. Deanna and her experienced rescue team tried and tried and failed for two months to catch the dog. Ive done Animal Rescue for years. All the typical things like cage traps and baiting with smelly foods was not working. The only way to earn her trust was to get someone that she might remember. Which is where megan comes in. You see megan and her mom foster and train rescue dogs in their morgan hill home. 75 in just the past year alone. Weve done therapy dogs and weve trained some obedience dogs. She has retrained several feral puppies. One of those dogs was the stray. Her bond with megan was uncanny. Which was why in late december, they drove to hollister to figure out what they could do and saw daisy sitting in the field. Karen started shooting video and was not the one who told megan what to do next. Megan says that was daisy. She told me. You can talk to dogs in your brain. She told me, if mom got in the truck, she would come to me and i believed it. So out megan went. Laid down in the middle of the field and waited. I didnt have a plan. I just started doing it. And i had all my experience with the dogs. Daisy was cautious at first. But then this dog who had run from every well meaning adult looking to help her finally surrendered to the charm good girl of a 6yearold dog whisperer. I am so proud of my kids. I was just amazed. I could not believe my eyes. There is no way i can watch that and not cry. This is the best foster dog ive ever had. Theyve had fun catching up since then but wont be staying together. They want to keep rescuing other dogs so they found a great new home for daisy. They will be in touch though. Some bonds clearly are never meant to be broken. Daisy has been documented and is now with a forever family. Her voice worth the price of admission. Shes fantastic. Jeff ranieri talking with the storm. Still looking at rainfall continuing throughout tonight. There is a flooding concern for the santa cruz mountains. We have storm ranger out. The Doppler Radar on wheels. You can see our crew continuing to fine tune everything out here. It is ten feet above and with the Doppler Radar closer to the surface, we can give you an accurate picture of whats happening now. As you can see. From the north bay to the south bay. This is a zone that is getting heavier rainfall compared to other areas and that has been the peninsula from San Francisco to san mateo. In terms of the east bay, were looking at the heavier rainfall continuing to move through fremont at 5 47. Pleasanton, 6 07. East pleasanton, 6 13. A little to the north, we can see the rain moving right through danville at 6 10 tonight. We are working on getting our storm ranger picture up live. If you want to learn more about the mobile radar. Well show what you will be happening later tonight. After 11 30, well see the storm trying to push out for some scat aerd rainfall at 7 00 in the morning. I think well get some rainfall for your morning commute tomorrow. It does not look like it will be widespread and heavy. Temperatures starting off in the 40s in the south bay. And as we get you here, well start at 45. San francisco, friction. The north bay at 38. I want to take you back to the futurecast. Well show you how the rest of wednesday will play out. And i think well have some scattered areas of rainfall throughout the afternoon on wednesday. Once we hit the evening hours, we should be done on wednesdays forecast. Lets take you wednesday to thursday. We should get some sunshine in here. Thought wet weather here is producing Copious Amounts of snow. Avalanche warnings for the back country. And from yesterday through next 24 hours. Total accumulations at 7,000 feet. Could it range two to four feet. Were talking one to two feet. Up toward shasta, at least one foot here in that forecast. On the extended, lets spend some time on this. Rain rourns saturdays forecast. But by sunday, we could be looking at accumulations from one to four inches. This is the day when the flooding could be the highest. And then well see many lingering areas on sunday and tuesday. For inland valleys, very similar. Jacket weather staying in place. At least we get a break on thursday and friday. Sunday is the day when the rivers could reach cresting levels. Ill watch it closely. Thanks so much. If you want to watch the storm ranger we have a live picture. Nbc bay area. Com. Speaking of storms, golden gate bridge. Got some water on the lens. Not a lot coming down. As we just heard, its on the way. Also ahead, jury selection continues in the sierra lamar case. Life. Is unpredictable. Life is deaths. And births. Sickness and health. Love and heartbreak. And covered california is there for it all. Not just to help keep you well. But to make sure the cost of being unwell doesnt ruin this whole life thing. Because its more than just health care. Its life care. The search is on for a new 49ers head coach and general manager. Remember the team fired its previous head coach and gm on sunday. 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Visit covereca. Com today. We are tracking the storm moving across the bay area. Some of the heavier range to the south over san mateo. And we can expect to it move into pleasanton by 6 07 tonight. Well have a full wrap tonight at 6 00 on this storm and also another storm that could be Even Stronger by this saturday and sunday. Okay. Thanks, jeff. Thanks for joining us. Nightly news is next. Tonights stunning reversal. House republicans retreat after voting in secret to gut an independent Ethics Office that investigates lawmakers accused of misconduct. President elect trump weighing in on an embarrassing firestorm. Family poisons. Four children die, four others hospitalized. A mother now in critical condition. The fatal mistakes that ended in tragedy. School uproar. Outrage after an officer is seen slamming a girl to the ground. What happened . Caught on camera. A dresser falls over onto twin boys. One toddler leaps to rescue the other. 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