In the south bay. Scattered showers around san jose, sunnyvale and cupertino. So widely scattered showers this morning. But its later this afternoon that we really do get whacked with low pressure thats pushing all of this through the bay area. The winds pick up, the rains come down. And you can see on the futurecast that now were going to stop this at midday so 1 00 in the afternoon, the major band is still up in the north bay. That is whats going to be moving south kicking up the winds giving us good rain and gusts to about 30, 40 Miles Per Hour before it all moves out overnight tonight so it will be blustery today. High wind advisories are posted for gusts up to 60 miles an hour in the higher elevations. Thats this afternoon. Numbers on the chill side, as well. And were not done with it yet. After rain today, lingering showers tomorrow. Friday another storm comes in early. Partly cloudy skies on saturday before the final on the 123 punch comes in on sunday. Well have more details deadhead. First traffic with roqui. In marin county we have closures. We are not done getting prepared from the last storm, let alone the rain starting again today. So highway 1 between panoramic highway and muir woods road is closed from last weeks storm because of storm damage of course. So take panoramic highway past the closure to get back on to highway 1. If you are taking the Golden Gate Bridge heres a live look at the wet road coming from marin county into the golden gate toll plaza. That will take you about 14 minutes. And the same story across the span of the bay bridge. We have rain and cars coming into downtown San Francisco. So from the carquinez bridge along the eastshore freeway to the maze will take you about 19 minutes and expect no delays through the toll plaza. Those metering lights should turn on in 30 minutes. From hayward to foster city its 15 minutes. But you can see the rain coming down hard. Utility work on highway 84 from last weeks storm is under one way Traffic Control so give yourself some extra time if thats a part of your morning commute. Ill send it to you. All right, roqui. Thank you. The bay area is doing all it can to brace for this next round of rough weather. Public works up in the Santa Cruz Mountain is working overtime to prepare for the storm. That includes chopping down problem trees before the wind gets to them. Caltrans is doing their part to prepare but that you should also be ready for whatever comes your way and that means avoid flooded areas. The city of orinda is now under a state of emergency. A huge sinkhole opened during last weeks storm. Now officials are worried it will only get worse with the next rounded. Kpix 5s Sandra Osborne joins us live from the corner of miner road and camino [ indiscernible ] where its causing issues. Reporter good morning. Miner road currently closed to all through traffic and that could last for weeks. [ sound of heavy rain ] reporter let me show you whats going on. A big fence is up now. The problem is that this is the main path to several neighborhoods including Sleepy Hollow on the other side of the fence right there. But go ahead and take a look at some of the video. Last night the city council declared a state of emergency and said it will take at least four weeks to fix and its not cheap. It will cost up to 1. 3 million to safely fix the structural problems here. We were actually hoping to be able to get in start working in the sinkhole to remove debris and assess the damage. Reporter the challenge they are now facing is this next round of this rainy weather. They are saying that this sinkhole could be inundated with storm water and, of course, they are going to try and put up one of the storm drainage systems but there are so many nearby creeks they will see how the overflow from that impacts any potential work here. The city is getting bids and hopes to start work as soon as possible. Sandra osborne, kpix 5. In two days president elect donald trump is set to become President Trump and much prep work is under way in washington for his swearingin. Some politicians have no plans to watch trump take office. Kpix 5s anne makovec is here to explain. Reporter a growing number of democratic lawmakers say they are planning to sit this ceremony out and the largest number of politicians joining this inauguration boycott is from california. Its not about conservatives or liberals from my perspective. Its how he treats people. Its how he treats, um, issues. Reporter east bay congressman mac desaulnier one of at least 54 democrats who are planning to skip the inauguration. Thats about 10 of lawmakers in congress. For many, it is a vote of no confidence in president elect donald trump. Im just not celebrating an administration that campaigns and continues to, um, be divisive, um, one that denigrated women and wants to deport dreamers. Reporter many lawmakers will be Holding Events in their districts. Jared huffman of san rafael hosting three days of service in his on thursday speaking at a naturalization ceremony friday helping out habitat for humanity and cleaning up the Russian River and on saturday, speaking at a womens march in santa rosa. And speaking of the womens march, theres a big one you might have heard planned for washington, dc on saturday and sister marches all over the country including several here in the bay area. Well be talking more about that coming up in the next half hour. Yeah. I talked to representative barbara lee last week and i asked her, where are you going to watch, where are you going to be then during the inauguration. She hasnt decided. Reporter love it or hate it, that inauguration is going to be mustsee tv for everyone. Its so true. So some of the lawmakers skipping the inauguration say its more than just about trump. Reporter for a lot of people its in support of, um, the civil rights icon and georgia congressman john lewis recently announced that he would be skipping the ceremony saying he doesnt believ mr. Trump is a legitimate president. One of many problems. Well be watching. Thank you. President obama holds his final News Conference today one day after shortening the prison sentence of former army soldier bradley manning. The transgender soldier has served over six years of a 35 years sentence for downloading hundreds of thousands of secret documents and passing them to the website wikileaks. Manning has been compared to former nsa contractor edward snowden, who leaked classified information on u. S. Spy programs. But the white house claims theres a difference between the two. Chelsea manning is somebody who went through the military criminal justice process, mr. Snowden fled into the arms of an adversary. She is set to go free in may. New this morning, police in antioch are trying to piece together a deadly shooting they say that a driver who was shot ended up crashing into a house. It happened late last night near 13th and simmons street. When officers approached the car they found the victim in the drivers seat. Theres no word on any suspects. Fans are raising money for the members of the tower of power band who were hit by a train. They held a benefit concert last night in oakland. [ music ] it was held at yoshis where the band was supposed to play last thursday. The show was canceled when two members of the band were hit by a train on their way to the show. Marc Van Wageningen and Dave Garibaldi are still in the hospital. Tragedy has struck our family and you support your own. . Organ music ] people come together when artists need support. Friends say they are in stable condition but have very serious injuries. The money raised will help go towards their medical bills. The widow of a man who went on a shooting rampage in orlando, florida has appeared before a judge in the case. She made a brief appearance yesterday at federal court in oakland a day after the fbi arrested her at her familys home in rodeo. Prosecutors say that she knew about the nightclub attack before her husband omar mateen carried it out. 49 people were killed. Some relatives say she knew nothing. [ indiscernible ] he responds, he said dont you see the news . She said no. He said i love you, babe. Hang up. Thats all she knows. He pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State before he was killed in a shootout. She faces charges of aiding and abetting. Another hearing is scheduled today to formally appoint a lawyer for her and determine how to transfer the case to florida. A ucberkeley student suspected in a deadly crime spree is now charged with murder. Pablo gomez, jr. , was arrested this month in burbank in southern california. Police say gomez stabbed two women in South Berkeley january 6 and robbed a third woman. A 27yearold woman died from her wounds. No motive has been identified. He will be in court february 1. Time now 5 10. An update on the meningitis cases in one local community. Why Health Officials say that they think the scare is officially over. And if you cant beat the weather, well, this is always an option. Where these chickens are having a great time. I hope youre not we have more rain on the way today, friday and sunday. Well have the forecast coming up. And heres a live look at what would be the Richmond San Rafael bridge but those raindrops are playing with our traffic cameras. We have a crash to tell you about. Well be right back. ,,,,,, you marin county Health Officials are confident no more cases of meningitis will surface in the county. One marin county man died this monday from is bacterial meningitis but no evidence of transmission or infection in the county and no link between that case and the woman found dead on a muni bus. A statement said the county of marin is working closely with the city and county of San Francisco and college and neighboring jurisdictions to closely monitor for meningitis in the bay area. The Golden State Warriors are now another step closer to leaving oakland for San Francisco. A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the new arena. It included ak crow bats and choreographed construction cranes. It will be part of 11 acres including restaurants and offices. We are going to build one of the worlds greatest gathering places, a place San Francisco has never had before. The arena is scheduled to open for the 20192020 season. If you want to try out some of San Franciscos best restaurants without breaking the bank, this is the week to do it. Today the start of the restaurant week. 130 of San Francisco restaurants are off meals. We know whats on the menu for Donald Trumps inauguration. Its good news for california wineries. After taking off this friday, trump and mike pence will dine on lobster from maine, beef from virginia, and shrimp from the gulf of mexico along with three different california wines. Jailor, black stallion from nap valley and core develop. Sounds good. Nice dinner. Time now 5 15. Lets check the roads with roqui. Thank you so much. Led head to danville. We have a new crash to tell you about thats blocking lanes so if you are heading outlet me tell you about southbound 680 before el pintado road. Not main delays but its blocking a right and left lane out there so traffic is only moving through the middle lane and it is a threecar crash so just keep it in mind if you are heading out the door in the area right now. Moving over now to the Altamont Pass traffic is getting worse here while the rain is coming down. So coming out of tracy youre moving at about 30 Miles Per Hour. And then you go down to 26 once you hit north flynn road. So north tracy boulevard to the Altamont Pass will now take you up to 30 minutes. It frees up through livermore and then youre back to slow moving traffic along the dublin interchange. Take a look at the peninsula commute from hayward to foster city across the span of the san mateo bridge, traffic is moving but traffic is also cars are also moving slowly because the rain is coming down out there. The roads are very wet. So please take it slow out there right now. The nimitz freeway looking good in both directions on 880 northbound from 238 in san leandro to the maze that will take you about 16 minutes so thats a normal commute. But if you are driving along the bay bridge toll plaza you will want to take it extremely slowly. A lot of rain coming down on the bridge now so from the carquinez bridge along the eastshore freeway to the maze will take you 20 minutes and then expect those metering lights to turn on and to slow you down probably around 5 30 or so. Moving to the 80 freeway here, eastbound 80 after highway 4 theres a solo spinout. We have an initial band of rain thats moving through and eases up in the next couple of hours but in the meantime the kpix 5 hidef doppler is lit up this wednesday morning. Well show you some of the hot spots or wet spots actually. You can see out in the east bay fastmoving, too. This was over marin about 45 minutes ago and now this band of showers is all the way out towards 680 and 4 toward antioch and fairfield. Even as we begin to ease in the north. Livermore and 580 light to moderate rainfall coming down. And in the south bay, not much just light rain being reported officially in san jose and a few widely scattered showers all being ushered along by low pressure abeam the coast and rain and wind will spread south today. Main band later this afternoon. This is just the initial warm front rain thats coming through easing up and then the big front will be coming in later in the day. The entire bay area will see gusts from the south from 30 to 45 miles an hour up in the east bay hills and in the mountains of marin up to 60mileanhour wind gusts so there could be Power Outages. Heavy wind and rain. Its a fast mover. Rainfall amounts half to two inches up top and you see the little Lightning Strikes there in our fancy animation . Thats for real. There could be some thunderstorms this afternoon, as well. So a Lightning Strike or two would not be a surprise. After this initial push we get two more storms one on friday, one on sunday. Right now, the numbers are mostly in the 40s for the bay area. Snow level down to 4500 feet. Rain will develop. Highs in the mid40s. If you are going to the inauguration, fog early, sunny later in the day. New york with cloudy skies. Tonight in the bay area, rain in the bay area, temperatures in the upper 40s. Daytime highs out of the bay area mostly in the 50s that will do it for us, as well. Theres snow in the mountains. Temperatures in the low 50s so we get a onetwo punch rain later today after the initial burst this morning, a few showers tomorrow, morning rain friday, more rain sunday, then we get a break on monday and tuesday. Trending today lady gaga promises she is not going to disappoint at the super bowl halftime show. Pepsi released a behindthe scenes video of the singer and crew practicing. The thing is its such a big world stage in terms of how many people see it and its been done so many times. I think that the challenge is to look at it and say, you know, what can i do differently . Gaga reportedly wants to perform on the roof of the stadium but no one knows if thats possible. So engineers and lawyers are working on it. We might have to wait until super bowl sunday to find out. Set for february 5 in houston. If you are having trouble sticking to your new years fitness goals, this could give you some inspiration. A 94yearold woman in australia says she works out 10 times a week. [ heavy accent [ indiscernible ] this is edna shepherd. She will turn 95 later this month. She signs up for 10 fitness classes each week to keep her in shape. Her advice for the Younger Generation is to eat properly and keep off the grog. Had to look that up. That means alcohol. Finally some viral video out of oregon. It shows some chicken sledding. Take a look. Yay oh [ laughter ] a woman in portland captured this video. The areas gotten so much snow, some schools have been canceled for nine days. So this mom had to be creative to entertain her children. They are calling it the snow days chicken pool. You havent seen a portland snow day until you see the kid pulling his chickens in a sled. Okay. And im dennis odonnell. Coming up, the 49ers have found their next head coach one problem. They cant quite announce had yet. But we can. Coming up. [voiceover] you are San Francisco. Weve been with you from the beginning. Weve seen each other through good times and bad. Sickness and health. Were with you San Francisco, and you bring out the best in us. Care. Good morning. Seahawks offensive line coach and former raider head coach tom cable removed himself from consideration for the 49ers head coaching job left and that left one man standing. Will you accept this . The 49ers final rose in the head coaching search will go to falcons offensive coordinator kyle shanahan. One report said he will accept once the season is over. They host the packers in the nfc championship game on sunday. Yesterdays groundbreaking for the warriors new arena in San Francisco was a formal event except for the head coach who went with much more casual attire. Im a southern californian by nature. You may have been able to tell by my attire. [ laughter ] somebody asked me why i didnt get dressed up. I said, i actually did. [ laughter ] um [ laughter ] there are there are pants and then there are dress pants. So i wore my dress pants. Yeah. You can bet kerr will be on the sidelines when that baby opens in 2019 at chase center down the road. Im dennis odonnell. See you tonight. Coast to coast protests are happening this saturday. One day after donald trump is sworn into office. Coming up, the inspiration behind the women who say the stakes are incredibly high ,,,,,,, this is the food system. But what if it didnt have to be . At blue apron, were building a better food system. Where we value quality and flavor over quantity and shelflife. 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Well have more coming up. Good morning. The next round of storms is going to calls a lot of trouble in orinda. Crews are figuring out how to fix a massive sinkhole that opened up last week. Kpix 5s Sandra Osborne joinsist live from miner road which could be closed for weeks. Sandra reporter orinda city officials declared a state of emergency last night because of this massive sinkhole. You can see behind me miner road. You were just mentioning it there. Large fences are blocking all through traffic. They are talking about potentially three weeks of work before they can open that up. Thats not including fixing everything there. Now, heres one of the big issues miner road is actually a busy road in the city of orinda leading to several neighborhoods including Sleepy Hollow on the other side of the fence. Daylight video of the massive sinkhole though. City officials held a special meeting last night night about it. They say crews will have to work 7 days a week for at least four weeks in order to get everything fixed. Two sewer main lines, a culvert and, of course, the asphalt all heavily damages when Stormy Weather caused the earth to open pickup. Right now the city is taking bids from potential contractors. This next round of rain is a big concern. They say the area could be inundated with storm water again especially if a storm drainage system cant handle the creek overflows from some of those nearby creeks. And, of course, city officials also talked about the price tag for fixing sinkholes of this magnitude. They are talking about somewhere around 1. 3 million. Sandra osborne, kpix 5. Del valle Regional Park near livermore is still a mess. It will remain closed until at least sunday. Last week, water from Lake Del Valle flooded campgrounds, picnic areas and beaches. Sonoma county Authorities Say they dont expect the Russian River to flood during the upcoming storms. Last week the river crested well above flood stage. Damage to roads in the county is estimated at 7. 1 million. Damage to private property is also expected to be in the millions. Time now 5 31. With all this rain its good to see mr. Hackney hard at work firing up the hidef doppler. Slaving over a hot weather computer this morning. A cool day, rain and wind with an initial blast this morning already. It will ease up later in the next few hours but after that, we do have rain, wind, so prepare for wet as you head out to face your wednesday morning. The latest on hidef doppler, moving very quickly now. 30 minutes ago it was over concord and walnut creek. Now over antioch and out toward brentwood they are getting moderate cells. And down toward orinda the 680 corridor thats drying out even as this heads east of livermore. Low pressure still offshore. The brunt of the front is still up north. The rain and wind will spread south midday. Gusts could be up to 60 miles an hour at the peak. Thats why they have wind advisory posted. Power lines, tree damage a potential threat. Also thunderstorms could possible with this, this afternoon. That would also be a threat for Power Outages so heavy rain, gusty winds, head south today. Brief break tomorrow well have a few isolated showers and two more storms on friday and sunday. High temperatures today well be look for mostly in the low 40s and in the extended forecast, were not done yet. After the rain today well go to isolated showers on thursday. Friday another storm comes in. Saturday we do get a better break before the last in the series of storms moves in on sunday. As for how its affecting your wednesday commute, heres roqui. Thank you, brian. Yeah. We havent even recovered from last weeks storm so the rain cant come just yet. Okay, it is 5 33. Lets take a look at your marin county commute from the Golden Gate Bridge headed across to the golden gate toll plaza 14 minutes from 580 in san rafael. And in marin, we have a closure from last weeks storm affecting your roads today. Highway 1 between panoramic highway and muir woods road thats closed but you can take panoramic highway past the road closures and get back on 1 for those using this area this morning. Okay, taking over the bay bridge toll plaza those metering lights are on that traffic is starting to back up toward the maze from the carquinez bridge along the eastshore freeway to the maze that will take you up to 23 minutes. Expect a 15minute drive from the toll plaza into downtown San Francisco and those roads are wet so make sure youre driving slowly and safely. I cant tell you that enough this morning. Same story across the span of the san mateo bridge from hayward to foster city, roads are wet so make sure youre driving okay there and i see ponding on the roads as well so be careful for that. Mass transit is raining so this is a great suggestion for you guys this morning. Bart is all on time. Ace is on time. Muni and caltrain are all on time so stay safe out there. Michelle. Thank you. New this morning, former president george h. W. Bush is in the hospital. His chief of staff says he was sent to a facility in houston saturday for shortness of breath. He is in stable condition and responded well to treatment. The 92yearold is expected to be discharged within the next couple of days. President elect donald trump is now in washington ahead of the inauguration festivities. Last night he met up with Vice President mike pence for dinner with foreign diplomats. I want to thank mike and karen and all the people in room. We have so many friends. 147 diplomats and ambassadors, never been done before. [ applause and cheers ] meanwhile, in the u. S. Senate, confirmation hearings continue today for more cabinet nominees. Among them secretary of commercial nominee wilbur ross and tom price for department of health and human services. President elect donald trump wont have a honeymoon. A cnn alleges 40 of people approve of the performance during the transition lower than previous president s. Meanwhile, more than 50 democratic members of congress refuse to attend the inauguration. I cant go to this inauguration because he continues to spew hatred, bigotry and prejudice. Trump said the numbers are rigged. Women who dont feel represented by Donald Trumps policy proposals are going to washington. Anne makovec is here with details. Reporter this march on washington is a big movement. Its getting bigger as far as the number of people expected to go. All types of people. It is alleged to affirm our shared humanity and pronounce a bold message of resistance and selfdetermination. The official womens march in washington will be saturday in d. C. On the events website they say the election rhetoric demonizes us and this may unify us. Some people from the bay area are planning to fly to dc to take part in this including this mother of three from berkeley. She says this is the first time she ever was part of anything. Its something that i woke up i called my girlfriend and we were, like, we have to do this we have to do this, we cannot step back and let people do this for us. She is going to unite with other women from around the country wearing pink hats. And there will be marches here in the bay area as well this saturday. The socalled sister marches include a rally at San Francisco city hall at 3 p. M. , oakland marchers gathering at madison park at 10 a. M. To make their way toward Frank Ogawa Plaza and in san jose the march at city hall at 10 a. M. To Cesar Chavez Park and it is not just here in the u. S. There are womens marches planned in 32 countries around the world. This will be a huge trend on social media this weekend. Sounds like it. So what does this march expect to accomplish . Probably no impact on the Incoming Trump administration policies. This is bringing together 100 different interest groups. Planned parenthood, sierra club, naacp, moveon. Org. So organizers are hoping that this march will spin a sort of web of activism a show of solidarity at least. Thank you. To add to that activists are calling on bay area schools to cancel classes on inauguration on friday. A group of teachers and students gathered at Oakland City Hall yesterday to demand school districts, colleges and universitieses to close friday. To make sure that the whole community can come together and act on the day that president elect donald trump is about to be sworn in. Officials with Oakland School districts says classes will be held friday. Its time for teachers to go to work. J. C. Penney wants a piece of the pie when it comes to leisure clothing. Ill wagner of cbsmoneywatch. Com reports. Reporter good morning. Investors are waiting for earnings reports today. We heard from Goldman Sachs which beat expectations in the last quarter. Yesterday, the dow fell 58. Nasdaq was down 35. Futures pointing to a higher open. J. C. Penney is jumping on the leisure trend. They are partnering with nike to add nike shops in 600 stores. Most located in the mens department. And gas prices have fallen for eight straight days. Aaa says theres less demand and plenty of supply but aaa warns this could be temporary. The National Average is now 2. 34 a gallon of course more expensive in california. Its always more expensive in california and especially here in the bay area. So, jill, google maps has a new feature that may help drivers when get to their destination. Whats that . Reporter yeah. The app may soon help you find a parking spot. The Website Android Police says there is a new feature on a test version of the app that gives users parking information near their destination and will break it down into easy, medium on limited availability. Michelle is . That would work well here, too. Ill wagner of cbsmoneywatch. Com. Thank you, jill. Time now 5 40. A bay area woman facing charges after police say that she took advantage of her job as a house cleaner. What she is accused of doing next. Lets take a live look at 880 in oakland right now. It is 5 40 and look at the roads. Its smooth. Roqui will have the traffic report coming up. Ete forecast ,,,,,,,, a house cleaner is under arrest. After she reportedly stole as we look at the bay bridge this morning, the front is still well to the north of the bay area. The complete forecast is coming up along with gusty winds. [ no microphone ] a house cleaner is under arrest after she reportedly stole from the homes that she was hired to clean. Now police are worried there might be more victims. Police say that they found several stolen items including jewelry and credit cards inside sandra cuotos home. She reportedly hit homes in Mountain View and san jose. If you are not home and the house cleaner comes in to do her work, put things away, keep them in a lock box, if you can, do an electric key code where the code changes every time the individual comes back so they dont have access. Mountain view police are asking any other potential victims to contact them. A man is in custody suspected in the fatal shootings of his pregnant ex girlfriend and an orlando, Florida Police officer. After nine days on the run, lloyd was arrested yesterday. Police say he was heavily armed when he was found hiding in an abandoned house. Many of the officers that i spoke to tonight actually wrote down in tears because they felt that they were finally able to cry. Detectives had been trying to arrest lloyd since december 13th when his exgirlfriend was murdered. The storm thats bringing more rain to the bay area is hitting washington and oregon hard bringing with it snow, ice and rain. This is the scene along interstate 90 about 50 miles east of seattle closed due to snow and ice. Ski lifts will be closed also. And in the portland area. Flooding. City crews are having a difficult time keep storm drains clear a new study shows those perfect sunny days that send us to the beach may be in short supply. Researchers say our mild days are moving on and that Global Warming is to blame they claim. The earth will have 10 fewer days of justright weather according to some Climate Change journal. The last three decades the planet has had 74 mild days a year. By 2080, the number goes down a little. In one canadian kitchen a sweet domestic scene has captured the hearts of more than a million people. The video shows a pig the size of a polar bear looking up for some food. Four years ago this pig weighed 3 pounds. It was a commercial breed of pig and now weighs 650 pounds. Unlike most picks esther has a twitter page and novel on the New York Times bestseller list so the owners indulge her cravings for cake and ice cream. Good thing she is a New York Times bestseller. Not made into bacon. Canadian bacon. [ laughter ] no kidding. She has a twitter and novel like most people. Better on twitter than i am. Lets talk about traffic. Lets start with minneapolis. It is raining outside and its going to get worse later this afternoon. So this is a good thing to use today if you can. Bart on time ace trains one and three on time muni on time but we have a capitol corridor delay on train 521, 20 minutes late due to track work. On the roads, traffic slow at 13 miles an hour and then 26 Miles Per Hour on north flynn road. So now thats a 40minute commute between north tracy boulevard and the Altamont Pass. You do breeze through livermore a little bit and at the dublin interchange more slow traffic. Into the peninsula from hayward to foster city will take about 14 minutes so traffic smooth there but there is ponding on the sides of the road so drive safely. 238 from san leandro to the maze will take you about 15 minutes and to the bay bridge toll plaza you have some traffic at the metering lights those lights are on and the traffic is backed up towards the maze so the maze to downtown will now take you about 13 minutes. And do expect to slow down as that rain starts to come down as well and expect some high winds there later on this afternoon. Oklahoma city thunder versus Golden State Warriors tonight, 7 30 p. M. I will be there and i will expect rain and some traffic on the nimitz freeway as i head in. All right. Ill send it to you. All right, roqui. Thank you. We have that rain easing up a little bit now. More rain today. Hidef doppler shows we got hit at 3 a. M. With initial impulses and now it begins to ease up a bit except if you are far enough east out around discovery bay. There are a few cells around the bay area, san ramon at 680 and wide swath of light rain toward oakland, san leandro and hayward and then down in the south bay scattered light showers, thats about it in the early going. Wind advisories are up. Wind gusts to 60 miles an hour with power lines and tree damage the potential result. Mix in with all of this the fact that we could get a thunderstorm or two this afternoon, lightning would not be a surprise with the unstable air that we have, this tropical tap, with low pressure abeam the Pacific Northwest is tapping into it. So the rain and the wind develop today around midday as well show you in the futurecast in a minute and the winds get energized, as well. Heres the futurecast you can see up in the north bay about 1, 2 p. M. Thats when it really begins to develop. Its a fast mover so rainfall totals look at that by 7 00 tonight. We get not only whacked, the brunt of it comes in during the evening commute tonight. Winds picking up, as well. As i say thunderstorms are a threat with this, too. So its pretty good bet theres going to be some Power Outages in the wake of the wind, the rain, and the potential for a Lightning Strike or two. Winter storm warnings where the rain turns to snow up in the mountains as much as 18 inches at the passes high above the passes. 6 inches down to 4500 feet. Winds up there 60 miles an hour, as well. Give yourself extra time. Heavy rain gusty winds heading south today and you will notice Lightning Strikes at our nifty animation. Brief break for thursday, a few isolated showers tomorrow. Then the second in a 123 punch comes in on friday with the final one on sunday. Well get pretty good storm on that day, as well. We are beginning this wednesday morning with numbers mostly in the 40s. So its chilly adding into the mix. At sfo, it could be some delays this morning. Rain develops winds out of the southsoutheast to 30 and if you are heading to washington for the inauguration, 55 degrees and some fog. Heres how it looks. Wednesday rain, tomorrow isolated showers, friday more rain, saturday a break before the final in a series of systems comes in on sunday. And then well finally have clearing on tuesday. Well be right back. ,,,,,,,,,, apparently, people think im too perky. So now im not being perky, telling you that drivers that switch to progressive save an average of 548 whoo i mean, whoo. Researchers at the American CityBusiness Journal crunched the numbers. The report says. Mayor ed makes the mayor of San Francisco gets more pay than any other in the u. S. Researchers crunched the numbers and the report says mayor ed lee makes around 289,000 a year. Thats about 50,000 more than the mayor of los angeles. The mayors of houston and new york city round out the top 4. New this morning, some big layoffs at lowes. They are laying off 2400 workers. The company says most of the cuts will be at the store level but some will be at the Distribution Centers and Customer Support centers. The ceo of lowes says it will enhance efficiency and productivity. More details have been released this morning about why the under water search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370 has ended. Many factors went into the final decision but the main one is that crews feel that they have looked everywhere within the current search area and found nothing. Australian a malaysian leadership in charge of the search admit the efforts have been costly and they believe that Current Technology isnt advanced enough to find the aircraft at this time. Officials are trying to make the cost of airplane tickets more transparent. The department of transportation wants to require airlines to clearly show how much it costs to check a bag or bring a carryon. The department of transportation is also looking for Public Comments about whether airlines should be required to show the change and cancellation fees. Meanwhile, there was a record low amount of Flight Cancellations a few months ago. The department of transportation says that airlines canceled just 0. 29 of flights in november. Thats less than one out of every 340 departures. And its the lowest number in more than 20 years of recordkeeping. Lost bags hit a new low with just over 2 reports of missing luggage for every 1,000 passengers. With so much buzz over who will run the white house after Inauguration Day its natural to wonder how much would the place actually cost. Zillow crunched the numbers and discovered just under 400 million. The price tag is apparently 397 million, about 14 higher than before the obamas moved in. Prices in surrounding downtown washington, dc have jumped by 38 in that time. And while the white house is not for sale, zillo says it would rent for 2 million a month. It is 4 minutes before 6 00. In the next halfhour, two days before donald trump will be sworn ins the next president , the number of lawmakers planning to skip the inauguration is growing. Well hear from them next. Reporter the city of orinda under a state of emergency because of a sinkhole, next round of rain not helping. ,, vo at friskies, no ones surprised tender pieces and crunchy bites ended up together. Thats just what happens when cats call the shots. New friskies tender and crunchy combo. Tasty textures cats gotta have. Friskies. For cats. By cats. And im kenny choi. The rain is here its not expect the n good morning, its wednesday, january 18. Im michelle griego. Im kenny choi. The rain is here. Its not too bad yet. But we expect the next round of storms to move in later today as we take a live look at the bay bridge. Could cause problems for the bay area thats still trying to clean up from last weeks storm. Kpix 5s Sandra Osborne joins us live from orinda where theres a sinkhole. Reporter and good morning to you. Yeah. Orinda city officials actually called for a state of emergency after a massive sinkhole opened up last week. Right now, you can see that currently theres a big fence blocking off miner road. It is blocked off to all through traffic for weeks as crews assess the damage. The problem with miner road being the one thats blocked is its one of the main roads