Storm risk slight risk of increased flooding river flooding not expected. Wind damage not expected. But look at the total. Up to 8 inches in the wet east spot one of the biggest reasons for this is what we call an Atmospheric River or Pineapple Express. The blue you see here is moisture source that is very deep. Narrow stream. Stening all the way past hawaii heading in our direction this means heavy rain fall for the bay area and it will fall on your weekend. Back with detailed look if the weekend is a washout. Thanks so much. See you in a few minutes. Storm bring ago lot of snow to the mountain and thats affecting travel for anyone headed to the sierra. Tonight chains required along interstate 80 from king veil to the donner lake exchange. Right now there are no restrictions for the moment at least on highway 50. Now the snow is great news obviously for ski resorts and bay area ski shops. Which have really suffered this winter. But tonight business was baming at California Ski Company in berkeley. If it dent snow then ill do business, period. Its been a bad year. At this point we cant make it up. We missed the heart of the season december january no weather so it is what it is. Reporter resort operators say more snow needed before they can financially swing into full operation. And they will get 2 more feet of snow this coming weekend. California power grid operators issued a rare winter time flex alert today ended an hour ago. Customers were asked to not use heavy appliances such as washing machines and dryers until after 10 tonight. Rest of the country is using up so much natural gas to deal with the cold weather that it caused a shortage in our area. You can track the rain in the bay area using live doppler 7hd on our 7 news weather app. That app also makes it easy for you to share photo of how you are dealing with the rain. Go to our web site slash app for details. Full rain forecast in a moment but lets move on. Piece of mail is receiving a lot of attention tonight. Because of who it is addressed to. That letter calls bay area woman it was intended for an offensive name. Amma is here with the story. Weird. Yes it really is incredible dan and carolyn. We can all agree junk mail is really annoying but for one bay area resident lisa her junk mail down right insulting. She declined interview today tweeting she had a mystique to maintain so let me take you through what happen. This is the piece of mail that is making its way across social media. Addressed to Lisa Mcintire freelance writer in San Francisco but the letter was mailed to her moms addres address. Mom noticed mcintyre middle name had been replaced with offensive phrase. She sent this text to her daughter saying an interesting piece of junk mail had arrived for her. The mean spirited middle name wasnt just on the envelope. But on the letter inside as well. Its an offer for a bank of america credit card for Golden Key International honor society. Armed with pictures of the mean mail mcintyre turned to the internet tweeting bank of america about the glaring mistake. The bank responded to her tweet saying quote we are incredibly sorry this happened and are researching now to take the appropriate action. Well followup with you asan. Golden key also sent lisa a tweet that reads we are so sorry this has occurred. We are investigatin and will reach out to you personally soon. According to mcintyre twitter feed she did get a call from the Vice President of communication at golden feed and offensive language was added to the account some time between 2004 and 2008 and they are continuing to investigate. Mcintyre also tweeted she heard from b of a bank was very apologetic and takes responsibility for what happened. Heres where the outrage is story gets more interesting. Golden key tweeted again saying that the mistake was on their end not on the partner bank of america end. She has been a a valued member of the Organization Since 2000 but they misspelled her last name on that statement. Whole thing is odd. Very odd. Absurd. Thanks. New details tonight on the east bay transgender teen charged with battery following a school fight. Jewels gutierrez admits to starting the fight last year captured on cell phone video at Hercules High School but she is she act entered selfdefense against a bully. More than 2,000,000 people signed petition asking the prosecutor to drop the charges. She has entered a program and if she completes it the charges dropped. How did this happen and how can it never happen again . Those questions asked tonight by a new task force at San Jose State University investigating an alleged hate crime that took place in the fall of last year when African American freshman was targeted by his white roommates. Lisa is on the story. We must be courageous. We must be honest and we must be bold. Thats how san jose state special task force on Racial Discrimination introduced itself tonight. The 18 members are charged with delving into the on campus hate crime alleges from the fall semester when 4 students suspended pleaded not guilty to hazing and beating an African American dorm mate. I think a lot of things fell through the crack in this situation. 53 page fact finding report said the university didnt break any of its own policies. Bump here wonder how no one investigated after the suspect had a Confederate Flag in the suite. Barricaded the victim in rooms and put a bike lock around his neck. Clearly was a problem. Problem at least in this situation. Red flag i think all over the place. He is one of us. We are him and l it could have happened to michlt even though the victim never wanted to come forward, this report shows that several students knew all about it but kept quiet. That is until the victim parents saw evidence of hazing during a visit. The next Task Force Meeting takes place february 21. In san jos jose, lisa, abc 7 news. 2 more pedestrians hit by cars in San Francisco one with life threatening injuries. One happen at tenth avenue and california street this afternoon. Thats where 67yearold woman was hit just before 3 30. That driver is cooperate with police. Earlier today woman hit by taxi on sixth street. Police say she was jay walking. State investigators raided Richmond Office of company that installs a well known bath tub. Safe guard tub company is easy access bath tub you probably recognize the ads featuring celebrity spokesman. Allen explains why a wealthy bay area man is now in hot water. He doesnt want to speak to me tonight. Reporter woman identifying herself as the made said the owner of green works which markets and installs safe guard bath tub was not at his Blackhawk Country Club home tonight. Rod was not in richmond as offices were raided. We have a search warrant for this business today. Reporter the employee who shot this video said the coworkers telemarketer for the company nope for the Television Commercial with local and national celebrity. Investigators would only say they had a search warrant for ongoing investigation. It has to be something shady going on. Has to be something shady because it just seemed like a shady place. Reporter according to the contractors state license board the company has numerous complaints against it. Including false advertising. Failure to get permit and over charging customers. Employee say the Company Changed its caller i. D. As far as what i know that they change the caller i. D. Where we couldnt be traced. Reporter we tried to find the owner at one of the other office. We traced it here in san ramone and this is an office for lease. Nobody was arrested but inspectors and police say they will be back tomorrow. 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We show you new video of bieber dui arrest in florida last movement he was situated by officer as part of booking process. He was arrested while allegedly drag racing. He was charged with resisting arrest. Driving with an expired license and driving under the influenc influence. Mron you minutes men opens nationwide tomorrow. Film directed by and stars George Clooney and tells the true story of special team assembled near the end of world war ii to save many of europe priceless treasure from nazi destruction. Theres a Northern California woman with a special connection to the real Monuments Men. George warren has her story. Allied special team. Assembled to save europe great cultural achievement from certain destruction in the last day of the war. To be honest im learning so much. From this. Like so many of us leslie of lincoln new almost nothing about the real Monuments Men. Even though shes related to the team leader. Man portrayed by George Clooney in the film. George stout was my grandfather. And where i got my name lease lee. Her father died when she was a teenager. Just 6 years after his father george passed away. Neither one mentioned the harvard educated art conservationist heroic role in world war ii she only learned about the men when the book came out in 2009. Curious how would he take all this attention. The its kind of not if him. While we must and will win this war. Reporter stout name was changed for the movie leslie says to allow clooney to take some liberty with grandfather personality but she says his look is pure george stout. If you read about george stout they make reference to how he always prim and proper and dapper he was. And i do i remember that very much so. Thats kind of what i remember. Invitation. Reporter leslie got invitation to the premier both from the film producers and from the real Monuments Men foundation. Still dedicatedo recovering stolen artifacts. Reporter i think its grit to just share the story. Still so much art out there missing. Hopefully this will help with that. In sacramento, George Warren abc 7 news. The cast of the Monuments Men including George Clooney bill murray and matt damon on tonight jimmy kimmel livelive rate after this newscast at 1 11 35. Emotional appeal by a grieving father is leading to some changes at facebook. My son passed away january 28. 2012. And we cant access his face book account. I have tried e mailing Different Things but it aint working. All we want to do is see his movie. Thats it. John berlin says he wanted to see his son look back movie that facebook rae leased for users this week after hearing his plea face book contacted him and said would it make a video for him. Facebook is now working on way to help others grieving families. New warning as the olympic get under way. Tsa now banning all liquid from carry on lug annual nonstop flight from u. S. To the russian a. 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You can down load the 7 news app for your iphone ipad or android by going to our web site slash app for more information. In the spirit of the olympic we have a gold medal forecast tonight because finally after so much dry weather we are getting a really good soaking coming to the bay area. Certainly are. Sandhya is here now with the latest for u us. Thats right. Thats why you will want to stay tune to us here at 11 00 oclock. Live live doppler 7hd right now showing you some fog out there. Also have a few light green there returns just very light showers showing up along the San Mateo County coast right now. Its dripping outside if you have been outside and foggy as well with reduced visibility so watch out. Last 24 hours here is what we have received. So this storm did dump decent amount of rain. 80s00 half machine bay. Santa rosa redwood city. Oakland just over that. 7 tenths in concor concord. Livermore under half inch and san jose picking up 62 hundredths inch of rain. Sought rainfall was pretty well distributed. Not san jose a trace and santa rosa all of it from our camera here this is what you have to contend w. Fog in the morning. 51 m San Francisco. 52 in oakland right now. Low 50s. San jose Half Moon Bay and few from exploring camera. Few cloud outside and temperatures in the 40s from santa rosa to petaluma Fairfield Fairfield by the way just a very light rain not even measuring. Sfo camera no delay right now but tomorrow morning low ceilings. Few showers could cause problem so getting away for your friday keep that in mine. So the morning starts out with couple showers fog. Rainy afternoon. Soaking rain is coming this weekend with winter storm warning going up as early as tomorrow in the sierra nevada. So thinks going to mean several feet of snow people talking about it on social media. Thrilled bigger storm is arriving this weekend. Look at the moisture going past hawaii. This is why we are excited. We get atmosphere river or Pineapple Express few times a year and that brings us the heavy rainfall. 5 00 a. M. Tomorrow start of the rush hour. You are going to see some dense fog so give yourself more time for the morning commute. Fog may slow you down as well. Lunch hour make have you ever umbrella wide spread written but still not heavy. 5 00 p. M. May not be going quickly. Pretty good amount of written moving across the bay area with exception of the south basement 9 00 p. M. Tomorrow night. You will see some moderate pockets of rain and just gets heavier going that saturday morning at 7 00 a. M. Wave after wave of rain. You are going to need your full on rain gear. Kid have games early saturday they are going to hopefully get washed out. Midday hours on saturday nighttime still wet. Sunday morning another batch of moderate rain in the north bay and really pretty much a washout for your weekend so if you have out door plans make sure you have the rain gear or perhaps make your changes and indoors. North bay mountains impressive written total. 4 to the 8 inches through sunday afternoon. One and a half to three inches in the lower elevation Santa Clara Valley half inch to inch. Winter storm warning starts to. It gets windy in the sierra nevad nevada. Expecting several feet of snow above 7000 feet. Carry your chains if going to brave the wind and the snow. Tomorrow morning low 40s to low 40s. Tomorrow afternoon its going to be rainy one with temperatures mainly in the 50s and as we check out accuweather 7 day forecast. It is exactly what we need. Wet weekend with some heavy downpours. Few showers monday then chance of showers returning by the middle of next week. So we are not done. Now we are in business. Now we are in business. Be sure to tune in to morning news. Mike tracking the system moving through the bay area. Keeping an eye on the morning commute starting at the morning commute starting at 4 am. Back wi good evening. Stunning game from the warriors. Minus david lee and andrew bogus both out with injuries. Down 16 mark jackson provided motivation. Stop looking around for somebody else to solve it. You solve it you solve it you solve it you solve it. Sounds like when i have to fire up dan before a show. Jackson bulls jumped out to a lead. Dj there to the hoop and andre throws it down. Here comes curry taking over in the second quarter. Nice ball m. And curry drains the ree. Range unlimited like anything in the wren a. 34 for curry. Warriors flexing their muscles here. With authority. The warriors with a gut check win. Shaping up to be a rather soggy weekend at pebble beach. Rain delay in round 1 which they couldnt finish because of darkness. Shot of the day. James the approach on no. 6 at pebble and this is for eagle. 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