Coverage. Kiet do and ryan takeo have all the lastminute work that will hopefully keep the damage to a minimum but lets start with Roberta Gonzales tracking the storm. Computer models do suggest that this storm is not backing down. Good morning, everyone. This is our hidef Doppler Radar. At this particular time we have nothing on the screen, everything is upstream. That is it. Doesnt look like much right now, but it is. Thats a plume of moisture in which in the center of the core its intensifying as the morning progresses. We currently have some areas of dense fog and mostly cloudy skies. Temperatures in the 50s, very mild for this time of the morning. Meanwhile, his wind warning is in effect upgraded from a high wind watch to a warning which means we will over the next 24 hours have damaging winds up to 70 miles an hour in the high country. Flash flood watch in the entire bay area tonight overnight through thursday night. High surf advisory has now been extended just about the entire coastline of the state of california. Meanwhile, the impact today will just be the cloud cover. It is quiet. It is calm. Our temperatures unseasonably mild in the mid60s. The impact of this storm tomorrow high for flooding or wind. Elizabeth will talk about the traffic report coming up. City workers are expected to hit the streets of San Francisco again today to clean the 2,000plus storm drains in the city. Ryan takeo joins us live near russian hill. I guess ryan workers are scaling hillsides to stop rock slides. Reporter were here at Telegraph Hill. Look right here you can see were near the base of coit tower the hill leading to coit tower. You see the danger signs hard hat area keep out where crews were rapelling down. 150 feet yesterday. Theres a history of high profile rock slides. The latest issue is back in 2012. A rockslide crushed a car and caused and evacuation. Here are crews working on the rocky and jagged cliffs on Telegraph Hill yesterday. Their mission . Prevent rock slides ahead of the big storm. Three workers used crowbars to poke and prod and loosen rocks that could crash down during heavy rains or rain runoff. Work crews are also busy clearing storm drains. Cities are asking everyone to help out. They are asking if you see one covered with leaves, they want to you clean it up to keep the water flowing. Were asking and soliciting the help of citizens of San Francisco to help participate in trying to clean the catch basins because thats the number one cause of localized flooding. Yesterday i was at pg e livermore facility. Crews there practicing getting ready for the storm. They expect a lot of power lines will be down overnight. The utility has on staff meteorologists and they are checking the radar to see where crews should be dispatched and they are sending those crews out ahead of the storm. They are sending crews out today. Live in San Francisco, ryan takeo, kpix 5. Now to the south bay where people are also getting ready for the big downpour tomorrow. Kpix 5s kiet do is in san jose with what they are doing to be prepared. Reporter good morning. Were live here at san jose Central Service yard at the corner of center and salon avenues. They have free sandbags prefilled. Get them while they last because the word is out that if you can stay at home and stay off the roads on thursday morning, then do so. If you need proof, here you go. Last week over the Santa Cruz Mountains you can barely see where youre going at times. And this time, it is expected to be even worse. Now, sandbags in san jose are going quickly. And san jose is forecasted to get several inches of rain in a relatively short period of time. No one we met today is taking any chances. My garage doors leak when it storms hard and put the sandbags up there and it takes care of it. Reporter in mill valley, public works crews have handed out more than 1,000 sandbags. Hundreds of people have been lining up to go to three separate bagging stations across the city. The Fire Department says they are bringing in even more crews for the big storm of 2014. Its great news for the drought in santa cruz. They have eased mandatory water restrictions to make them voluntary now. Before the storm moves in, be sure to download the cbs bay area weather app. Check conditions in your area and get realtime radar. Just search kpix in itunes or google play. Time for traffic with issues on 101 in the south bay. Reporter we have a couple of accidents that could slow you down if you are commuting between san jose and sunnyvale. Its cleared to the shoulders but its causing delays to story. Northbound 101 approaching oakland road, you can see those Speed Sensors are all under 25 Miles Per Hour so gridlock there and then it clears out a bit through santa clara and then halting again in sunnyvale northbound 101 at mathilda. So two accidents popped up around the same time. Outside heres a live look at the bay bridge. Looks like they are going to the metering lights slowly this morning. It may be because theres extra traffic on the bridge. It got crowded for a while because of an accident on southbound 101 right around the cesar chave exited. Its slow on the other side of the span. You can see yellow sensors just past the Yerba Buena Island exhibit. So overall, they are clamping down on the metering lights to keep traffic to a minimum on the bridge. Looks good not backed up to the maze yet and mass transit is going to be a good option for tomorrow but its a great idea for today as well because everything is on time no delay for bart systemwide. That is kcbs traffic. Back to you. All right. Thank you, elizabeth. Fourth night of east bay protests over the killing of black men in new york and missouri at the hands of police. It was mostly peaceful but news this morning. This is new. Dozens of people smashed windows, looted a Grocery Store on san pablo avenue in emeryville and there are looting problems at three other businesses nearby including a 7 eleven where the employees were threatened. Emeryville police made no arrests. Traffic on highway 24 in oakland was brought to a stop. Protestors briefly blocked a freeway near the Macarthur Bart station. Chp apparently used tear gas after the protestors failed to disperse there. There were at least 13 arrests at that area berkeleys mayor addressing complaints about the way police handled earlier protests. We had to call in lots of other Police Departments. We had Police Departments from all over. So people have said theres been Police Violence and rubber bullets. None of our people have done any of that. Last nights Berkeley City Council meeting was canceled because of a possibility of disruption. In los angeles, lakers players joined in the protests. Their shirts say, i cant breathe. A message of solidarity after the death of eric garner in new york. The lakers also tweeted a photo of kobe bryant before the team played the kings. A new cbs news poll shows a growing number of people, 41 , think the use of force by police against garner before his death was not justified. On the issue of race relations, only 45 of people polled think things are good now down 10 from earlier this year. Down to the lowest level in cbs news polls since 1997. U. P. S. Embassies and military bases abroad are on high alert today. Thats after a new report following the senates release of the cia torture report. Susan mcginnis reports it happened after 9 11. Reporter the 500page summary says cia interrogators used brutal techniques that went beyond the limits of the law. In all, the report says at least 39 prisoners were subjected to harsh interrogation between 2002 and 2009 sometimes before conventional methods had been exhausted. It finds 9 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh mohammed had a series of Near Drownings which prompted him to share false intelligence he later recanted. President obama says there was no good time to release the report but it was important to do so. Part of what sets us apart is when we do something wrong, we acknowledge it. Reporter the president commented on the report during the interviews with two Spanish Language networks on monday. We did some things that violated who we are as a people. Reporter president obama banned the use of torture shortly after he took office. He says its use is wrong and counterproductive. The cia says the techniques led to the capture of terror leaders and saved thousands of american lives. Former cia acting director mike morrell who is also cbs news Senior Security contributor oversaw preparations of the cias rebuttal of the Senate Report. The democratic report is deeply flawed. In fact, there were some members of congress who didnt think we were going far enough. Reporter the Justice Department has already decided no cia officials will be prosecuted. Susan mcginnis, cbs news, washington. The u. N. Top special investigators is calling for senior u. S. Official who authorized the torture noun to be prosecuted. Time now 6 10. A legal setback this morning for oscar pistorius. A ruling that could have him spending a much longer time in prison than expected. Ands of San Francisco and l. A. Going to war with uber. How riders could benefit. Im tracking the storm and figuring out how much rain will fall in your neighborhood. And just a heads up. We have two earlymorning wrecks one in san jose and another in sunnyvale. Its slowing down the ride on 101. Tell you will every you all about it after this ill tell you all about it after this break. ,,,,,,,,,,,,, rain is pounding the north. Good morning. Roberta gonzales in the kpix 5 weather studio. Take a look at this. This is what the calm before the storm looks like. We have very quiet conditions today. Mostly cloudy skies. Temperatures in the mid60s. Rain develops heavy at times later on tonight. We are getting the rain and rain is pounding away in the northeast, as well. A noreaster a winter storm is dumping recordbreaking rainfall. This is around new york city here. Winds wreaking havoc, as well. Some spots are dealing with 50 mileperhour winds. 20Million People are under winter storm warnings in the northeast. Nearly 3,000 flights were delayed or canceled yesterday and the same may happen today. New this morning from south africa, prosecutors can appeal the conviction of oscar pistorius. He was found guilty of manslaughter, instead of murder, for killing his girlfriend last year. He said he thought she was an intruder. He got five years in jail but could be out in ten months and go under house arrest. Prosecutors say he killed his girlfriend after a fight and deserves a much harsher sentence. Top prosecutors from both San Francisco and l. A. Say uber is breaking the law. They filed a lawsuit against the company. The suit claims uber use misleading language when it does criminal background checks. The lawsuit also claims uber charges riders extra for airport runs but does not pay the airport its user fees. There are certain things that uber has been saying that they do that they have not been doing. The district attorneys want an injunction filed to force uber to stop violating California Law and to pay restitution for riders who have been unfairly charged bay area family struggling to put food on the table got a gift on the 6 00 news on kpix 5 last night. Google presented a checks for 1. 3 million to food for bay area families. We have been involved with the organization now for 13 years here at kpix 5. This is the largest donation we have ever received from one of our neighbors right down the way. You can donate anytime at your neighborhood Whole Foods Market and today San Francisco stores will donate 5 of the days sales to the San Francisco marin food bank. If you are going to whole foods, go today. Thats a big check. Its good to be google, isnt it . They have the money. Office supplies was here yesterday on our noon show and they have a program called give Something Back and they gave 210,000. We want to thank everybody at this time of the year. Thats very true. A lot of Generous Companies out there. Were doing okay except for two accidents you mentioned earlier in the south bay. They are still there causing a big backup. So yeah, if you are about to get to work or head to work and youre traveling on 101 northbound, youre going to hit two traffic jams between san jose and sunnyvale. First one is right there northbound 101 on your screen approaching oakland road. You know, its already cleared to the righthand shoulder but its still really backed up. Looks like its jammed up from tully, clears out through santa clara and then you get hit with another traffic jam in sunnyvale this one northbound 101 approaching ma tilt da. This is blocking a lane. You can see the delays just behind it. So yeah, thats no fun trying to commute to work and get hit with two separate accidents. Heres 101 in marin county. This 101 commute looks great out of sausalito into San Francisco. Not seeing too much fog. You can see the Golden Gate Bridge everything is quiet there. Bay bridge once again they are going through the metering lights relatively slowly. There was an earlier accident just past the skyway. Its cleared now but still backed up and you can see the 580 approach slow from 24. We put up a map of the macarthur maze. Eastshore freeway looks okay right now through berkeley and emeryville and 880 the 880 approach looks great near the Oakland Coliseum and continues that way into downtown oakland. That is your latest kcbs drive to work. Roberta is tracking the storm. It is traffic and weather together. That will be the main focus tomorrow with the major pacific storm heading this way. It is hidef Doppler Radar and what do you see . Absolutely nothing. This storm is still well upstream bringing some rain showers in the Northwest Quadrant of the state of california in advance of the storm. We have a high wind warning in effect now upgraded from a watch which means well see damaging winds in the bay area. At sea level wind gusts at 35 plus Miles Per Hour. Flash flood watch in effect for the bay area. Well see 9 of rain in ben lomond on top of the 10 last week. We have saturated soil. And we have the High Surf Advisory in effect for the coast of the state of california some swells up to 25 feet. Right now, it is cloudy. We have areas of dense fog. We have temperatures currently in the mid50s. The winds are light but will be increasing later this afternoon out of the southeast 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour. It will become breezy the rain showers develop tonight. Lets track it together. Futurecast the one thing we do not want to see is the main line stall. If that happens well see more copious amount of rain. This appears to be slowing down ever so slightly. Right now putting the bulk of the heaviest rain showers between 4 a. M. And 8 a. M. In the north bay. Purple is one inch of rain an hour. There you have the line across the central bay easily by the lunch hour, gradually sagging south into the Santa Clara Valley towards the evening commute. And behind it, lots of moderate rainfall still. So tallying it all up in the next 24 hours, these numbers have been changing with the advancement of the low, well see over 2 of rain in pleasanton, nearly 3 in san rafael, over 3 in pacifica, over it in san jose. These over 2 in san jose. These totals, thats a lot of water in 24 hours. Even if the storm doesnt pan out and we see half of that there will still be flooding. There you have the storm affecting the northwestern corner of the state of california. Winter storm warning in effect. We have three feet of heavy snow above 7,000 feet at lake level about a foot of snow. 60s today our daytime highs. Okay, it rains hard tomorrow. The winds blow hard tomorrow. Then it tapers off on friday leaving us with dry conditions on saturday and partial cloudiness on sunday more rain monday and tuesday. Thank you, roberta. An online backlash against a professor at ucberkeley all for her response to the protests that are now gripping the city. 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Giants playoff hero Travis Ishikawa dropping the puck before the sharks and oilers. Just a few minutes in pavelski scores. His two goals on the night, a teamhigh 14 on the year. Second period now tied at 2. Logan couture scores. Sharks win 52. San jose has won four of five. This is scary, folks. Panthers quarterback cam newton was injured in a car accident in charlotte yesterday. Newton had two small fractures in his lower back when his truck rolled over multiple times. He was kept in the hospital overnight for observation. But clearly, the panthers and more importantly cam newton escaped a very serious situation yesterday in charlotte. So the giants, they have struck out twice. But the meetings continue. They need a third baseman. They need a pitcher. Stay tuned. Well have more tonight at 6 00. Im dennis odonnell. Have a great day. Blue every play of the day, nba hoops, lebron james takes the pass and finishes the break and doesnt need help. Jean elle straight and do the backwards dunk. Cavs win 105101. Your play of the day. With the police use of force, all the attention, one bay area city isnt waiting to take action. Details on the new push for accountability. Prepping for the upcoming storm, coming up well tell you the work going on today ahead of the storm, its coming overnight. ,,,,,,, heres some news you may find surprising. Were for an open internet for all. Were for creating more innovation and competition. Were for Net Neutrality protection. Now, heres some news you may find even more surprising. Were comcast. The only isp legally bound by full Net Neutrality rules. Your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. A uc professor takes to twitter to support her students but not everyone supports it. The reason behind the backlash. Im kiet do live in san jose. Even at this early hour folks are still grabbing sandbags in preparation for the big storm of 2014. We have been watching a stall and a reported crash on westbound 80 nearby Treasure Island. Tell you about it coming up. Good morning, wednesday, december 10, good to have you on board, im frank mallicoat. Im michelle griego. Time now is 6 30. Of course all eyes on the sky because if you have a canoe it might be a good way to get into work tomorrow. Mostly cloudy skies right now. Sfo is already reporting 3hour delays on some arriving flights. Just because of the increasing clouds here. Well be increasing our windas well this afternoon. Good morning, everyone. Hidef Doppler Radar nothing on the screen right now. We have fog and clouds, but the precipitation is now developing it is upstream and it is now beginning to move onshore to the northwestern portion of the state of california. Cloud cover as we peer out towards the bay bridge very mild temperatures. Winds are nonexistent at this hour. But well be increasing later today out of the southeast 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour. A high wind warning is now in effect for damaging winds over the next 24 hours especially as you begin to ramp up in the overnight hours tonight through our thursday. In addition, we have a Flash Flood Watch in effect for tomorrow through thursday night. It appears at this particular time nine inches of rain in the wettest locations in the bay area generally speaking two to four inches across the urban areas and now the High Surf Advisory has been extended throughout the entire coastline of the state of california. This is a powerful pacific storm. Not affecting us so much today. Mostly cloudy. Pretty calm conditions actually into the 60s. It is tomorrow when this storm will have an impact. Beginning in the north bay, between 4 00 and 8 00 in the morning then across the central bay by the lunch hour then across the Santa Clara Valley towards the evening commute. It will have high impact with flooding wind and commute. Our eye on the storm coverage continues. Heres frank. Thank you, roberta. The bay area of course getting ready for the big storm. Sandbags are being filled, trees being trimmed, storm drains all being cleaned out, as well. Kpix 5s ryan takeo live with some rather unusual storm preps going on in San Francisco. Ryan. Reporter flooding is a concern at Telegraph Hill near coit tower. You can see here the danger signs, they say it all. Hard hat area, keep out. And the sidewalk is closed. Now, theres a history of high profile rock slides here in the area. The latest issue is back in 2012. A lock slide crushed a car a rockslide crushed a car causing evacuations. Here are crews working on the cliffs yesterday rapelling 150 feet. Their mission to prevent rock slides ahead of the big storm. Three workers used crowbars to poke, prod and loosen rocks that come down during rain. Yesterday i was at pg e in livermore. Crews were practicing on utility poles getting ready for the storm. Pg e expects a lot of power lines will go out starting overnight. The utility has meteorologists on staff. They are going to be dispatching field crews starting today. Were going to forward deploy as many resources as we can areas we anticipate will be hardest hit. Reporter work crews are also busy clearing storm drains. If you see a drain covered with least, please clean it up to keep the watered flowing. Now covered catch basins are the number one cause of localized flooding. Live in San Francisco, ryan takeo, kpix 5. People in the south bay are also preparing for a drenching. Kpix 5s kiet do in san jose checking people loading up on sandbags ahead of the storm. Kiet. Reporter yeah. We just saw one lady just pack up her car and drive off here. She grabbed about 15 bags. Were live at what will probably be one of the more popular spots in the bay area sandbag filling stations this is the Central Service yard at Center Street in san jose. Dozens of sitting on pallets prefilled ready to go and free. If they run out fill your own. There will be flooding. Trees will fall. And driving will be treacherous. Take a look at the scene here on highway 17 last week. This was when it was at some of its worst. You can barely see the road at times and tomorrows storm expected to be even more intense. Sandbags are the hot item right now in san jose. Homeowners not taking any chances with the area expected to get more than 2 in just a few hours. In mill valley, public crews have been handing out more than 1,000 sandbags. Hundreds of people have been lined up at three stations across the city grabbing them as soon as they come in by people trying to stop the inevitable. Im going to bag up and hopefully stop the rain the floods, hopefully it doesnt flood, but hopefully stop it from going into the downstairs and into the garage. Reporter about these sandbags, they are only good at stopping water about a foot high and bring your own shovel just in case somebody snags the one thats here. Also, if you are caught using this sand for something other than Flood Control you could be prosecuted. Kiet do, kpix 5. Dont get caught off guard. Get all the latest storm alerts on kpix. Com storm. More than a Million People living in the east bay could soon see a spike in their water bills. East bay municipal utilities District Board voted yesterday to impose a 14 surcharge starting in january. Thats about 4. 30 per Single Family home but the increase could with dropped if rain fills the local reservoirs. Lets check in with elizabeth and the roads. Problems trying to get on the bay bridge from the east bay two problems in fact. One was a stall approaching the 5th street exit. Well, now thats clear but now we are getting word of probably a worse issue, westbound 80 approaching the tunnel just past the tunnel. Three cars are involved. One lane is blocked. It is pretty heavy from the incline. You can see it in the sensors end to end. Thats why they have been going through the metering lights so slowly. And so now you are backed up the 580 approach stacked up on the sensors 14 Miles Per Hour and heavy from powell on the eastshore freeway. So again if you didnt get that clearly, theres a stall westbound 80 at fifth and then another accident just past the tunnel on westbound 80 coming into San Francisco. All right. That is kcbs traffic. Back to you guys. All right. Thank you, elizabeth. New this morning, east bay protests over Police Killings of black men in new york and missouri were mostly peaceful last night except in emeryville. Dozens of vandals smashed wind and looted a Grocery Store on san pablo avenue. They also robbed a 7eleven nearby and threatened the employees. At least two other businesses were also hit and a number of parked cars. There were no arrests. The chp says it arrested 13 people last night and Berkeley Police arrested 6. Protestors brought traffic to a stop on highway 24 in oakland. And protestors briefly blocked the freeway near the Macarthur Bart station. Chp apparently used tear gas after the protestors failed to disperse. A ucberkeley professor is getting some mixed reviews for her treatment of the protestors. Writing professor kaia oakes said if any of my Berkeley Students were tear gassed, batoned or shot are rubber bullets last night you can have an extension on your essay. Some people were outraged by this. Others support her. I think its critical. I believe its a good idea. If people want to participate they should be willing to. Provoked saysprofessor oakes says she gives extensions for all kinds of things. Sonoma county deputies will be wearing body cameras. President obama called for body cameras after the shooting death of an officer of Michael Brown in ferguson, missouri. Erick gelhaus shot and killed andy lopez for carrying a fake gun last year. San francisco approved a plan to reduce the number of Stores Selling tobacco in the city. The board of supervisors passing the antitobacco legislation yesterday. They hope it will cut the citys tobacco selling stores in half over the next 10 to 15 years. Currently there are about 1,000 tobacco selling permits throughout the city. Its 6 39 right now. Someone is once again trying to poison dogs in the bay area. Where the tainted food turned up this time . A flight out of sfo lands with an extra passenger on board. The special midair delivery straight ahead. And the market just opened up about 10 minutes ago. Lets check the early numbers. Not good. The dow is down 71. Well get an update from kcbs radios financial reporter jason brooks. , start a revolution a revolution in coffee quality with the finest nespresso coffee blends. A revolution in technology with unique centrifusion. A revolution in taste with a naturally formed crema on both coffee and espresso. Nespresso vertuoline. Experience the revolution of coffee. vo rescued. Ed. Protected. Given new hope. During the subaru share the love event, subaru owners feel it, too. Because when you take home a new subaru, we donate 250 dollars to helping those in need. Well have given 50 Million Dollars over seven years. Love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Good morning,everybody. Welcome to your wednesday as we take a look outdoors. We have mostly cloudy skies. Thats what it looks like, the calm before the storm. We have your complete pacific storm details coming up as the news continues. Thank you, roberta. Southwest flight landed with one more passenger than it had when it took off from as to. Yesterday. A woman on a flight to phoenix gave birth after takeoff. There was a nurse and doctor on board to help. The other passengers had no idea what was happening. [ pause ] i thought i heard a baby cry a gurgling sound. I thought some baby had too much milk or whatever and im like theres no babies on this flight and then the woman sit there is calmly turns around she goes she just gave birth. Were like he must have been sleeping. Sure it was a baby . The pilot landed at l. A. X. A closer airports. Southwest took the plane out of service and put passengers on another plane to phoenix so they got to their destination and mom and her baby boy are said to be doing fine. Birth certificate says where . The air. Southern california . Were trying to figure that out. California. Maybe fresno. [ laughter ] time now for a look at whats coming up a little later on cbs this morning. Gayle king joins us now from new york. Good morning. Frank and michelle, i love that story. I thought the best line came from the pilot who said, we took off with 1209 passengers and we landed with 110 we took off with 109 passengers and we landed with 110 [ laughter ] coming up, well talk with former cia Deputy Director and the man who ran the enhanced Interrogation Program about what they say the Senate Report got wrong plus anna werner is in Oklahoma City with why a judge is being asked to intervene over a blown call in high school. A High School Football game. They are serious in oklahoma. And criticism over low paid workers to a struggle with technology, walmarts ceo lays out his plan to turn around the company. The news is back in the morning. Well see you at 7 00. Sounds like you got a good show. Okay. All starts at 7 00. One more thing. The ladies of the talk will be here, too. The ladies of the talk theyre always fun. Sounds good. I think so. See you then. Theres some new rules now for americas big banks. Here now is kcbs radios financial reporter jason brooks. Good morning. Reporter good morning, frank and michelle. Regulators want to avoid a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis in which banks, shareholders and taxpayers paid dearly for some very risky bets by large financial institutions. The Federal Reserve is proposing new regulations to require banks to set aside more capital to protect against those risky bets. In essence they want banks tow give up those businesses and downsize so they dont have to set aside that much capital. The Financial Times of london reports that Jpmorgan Chase would have to set aside another 22 billion to meet its own risky bets. And it has until 2019 to do so. The stock market is gearing up for another lower open. As we look at the big board, the market is taking a bit of a tumble in the early going. Dow down almost 100 points, continued weakness in chinas economy. The main catalyst for that. Nasdaq down 13. S p down 10 in the early going. Frank and michelle, back to you. Thank you, kcbs radios financial reporter jason brooks, on a hump day. Lets check in with elizabeth who is tracking a crash on the bay bridge. Unfortunately it means trouble for commuters right now heading from oakland into San Francisco. The accident is right there right around Treasure Island and then we also had a stall closer to 5th street. That was backing up traffic anyway on the skyway so we had two separate incidents and now its slow from end to end. Our sensors are telling the story heavy from gilman across the incline. They are working to clear the accident right now with three cars blocking one lane but even a small fenderbender and one that clears quickly can do a lot of damage to the morning commute for a while. So yeah, if you are traveling through the bay bridge, it is backed up through the maze. Westbound 580 is now backed up even east of the 24 interchange. And i mentioned those heavy delays already through berkeley. If you are traveling on the eastshore freeway, thats why that drive time is up to about 34 minutes from the carquinez bridge to the maze. Theres a bit of slowing as well through richmond. If you want to avoid the bay bridge, you can always ride mass transit. Everything is on time so far including all bart trains systemwide no delay. Ace trains 1 and 3 on time. 880 approach looking okay. This is a live look near the Oakland Coliseum. Its getting more crowded now in the northbound lanes but it still looks clear. The drive time is only 16 minutes between 238 and the maze. So we are watching two separate accidents in the south bay. Everything is cleared to the shoulder. Look at these backups because of that residual delay on northbound 101 in san jose and in sunnyvale so really heavy from yerba buena road to 237. Heres roberta with the forecast. Our hidef Doppler Radar at this time not picking up rain from the north or south or any points in between. Lets check this because it is well upstream that we see a plume of moisture that is now developing some rain showers just off the coastside of the Northwest Quadrant of the state of the union. This will intensify as it moves closer to the coast. In advancement of the core of the area of low pressure, we have winds increasing. High wind warning in effect for tonight through tomorrow. Some of these wind gusts will be in excess of 70 Miles Per Hour. There will be damaging winds. Meanwhile, a Flash Flood Watch is in effect for the entire bay area through tomorrow and we have a High Surf Advisory in effect for the entire coastline of the state of california. This is the scene looking out towards the bay bridge. This is what it looks like when its the calm before the storm. Mostly cloudy skies temperatures currently in the 50s. And heres what you need to know. We have some areas, some pockets of dense fog inland this morning. We have increasing winds this afternoon. And tonight the rain develops in the far northern portion of sonoma county. Futurecast, you know, this concerns me a little because it has been slowing down and when that happens and it stalls you get more precipitation. When you see this line of purple here, this is the front. That purple color denotes one inch of rain per hour. That is where it is between 4 and 8 00 in the morning. This is where it is by lunch hour over the city of San Francisco and the central bay. Then it surges to the south over the city of san jose and the Santa Cruz Mountains towards the evening commute. Light to moderate rainfall behind it and very gusty winds. There will be ponding. There will be flooding. And there will be those damaging winds. Okay, were tallying it up like this t over three inches of rain easily in the santa rosa area. This is updated information. Over 4. 25 in 24 hours in santa rosa. Over 2. 5 in San Francisco, over 2 in. San jose even if the storm doesnt pan out and we only see half of all that well still see some flood in the bay area. Meanwhile the rain begins across redding and ukiah and eureka. Winter storm warning now in effect above,000 feet in the high sierra over 3 feet of heavy snow anticipated. All right. Theres your sundown tonight and by then well realize highs today unseasonably mild into the 60s. Rain begins overnight tonight in earnest. It will be heavy rain tomorrow. Thunderstorms a possibility. Gusty winds tapering off on friday a dry day saturday and increasing cloud cover on sunday. And more rain, michelle, on monday and tuesday. Thank you. We have a new warning for pet owners in San Francisco. Theres been another case of mysterious meatballs. Kpix 5s mark kelly tells us one dog had to be rushed to the emergency room. Reporter meet taco the chihauhau mix who is always getting into everything. Its tough. You always have to be on guard. Reporter sarah morris was walking taco in potrero hill and when he was just about home safe and sound, something caught his eye. That meatball was sitting right about there. Reached into his mouth to grab out whatever he had eaten. I had a meatball in my hand. So immediately panicked. Reporter sarah knew the horror stories. In two years, poisonous meatballs have popped up all over San Francisco. Some laced with strychnine, others stuffed with pills. The meatballs got many dogs sick, even killed a dachshund. Hurting people or animals for no reason makes no sense. Reporter she worried her dog would be the next victim and rushed him to the San Francisco spca because with dog poisoning timing is critical. Because of her prompt attention we were able to make a big difference for this patient. Reporter after a day in the hospital, taco gets a clean bill of health. Oh yay reporter cool. And his owner holding on to him just a little closer tonight. Be careful and watch out for your loved ones. Think he is happy to have you back . Im happy to have him. Reporter in San Francisco, mark kelly, kpix 5. Animal control is testing the meatballs to see if its poisonous. It is 6 51. Some bad news for oscar pistorius. The legal setback that could mean a whole lot more time behind bars. Reporter and im kiet do live in san jose. The sandbags are going like hotcakes here in san jose as People Get Ready for the big storm of 2014. ,,,,,,, my baby drove up in a brand new cadillac. My baby drove up in a brand new cadillac. Look here, daddy, im never coming back. Discover the new spirit of cadillac and the best offers of the season. Lease this 2015 standard collection ats for around 329 a month. Know at the 55 the cia says a Senate Report on interrogation techniques at five things to know at the 55. The cia says Senate Report on the interrogation techniques at secret prisons only tell part of the story. The report accuses the agency of using brutal and illegal tactics on prisoners. The president says the cias actions did significant damage to americas standing in the world. Oscar pistorius could get a more severe sentence. A judge in south africa dismissed an attempt to appeal the sentence of five years in prison. But prosecutors can try once again to convict him on more serious charges. Pistorius was found guilty of culpable homicide for shooting and killing his girlfriend. A huge storm causing a lot of problems in the eastern u. S. New york city surrounding areas reporting recordbreaking rainfall. About 20 Million People are under a winter storm warning now. Some spots are also dealing with 50mileperhour winds. Three high ranking Democratic House members are pressing for congressional hearings into Police Tactics and race. The request comes after the policeinvolved deaths of two unarmed black men in ferguson and new york city. Speaker john boehner says he is open to Holding Hearings on the issue. And local protests over Police Killing of those black men in new york and missouri stretches into four straight nights. 19 people arrested as protestors briefly shot down highway 24 in oakland near macarthur and emeryville vandals smashed windows and looted a grocery on san pablo avenue and robbed a nearby 7 eleven and damaged a few cars. Crews are busy prepping for the big storm we are getting tonight and into tomorrow including here over near the base of the hill before coit tower. You see sidewalk closed danger signs keep out. Thats because theres a history of rock slides in the area. The latest issue is back in 2012, a rockslide crushed a car and caused an evacuation. Heres a look at crews working on the rocky and jagged cliffs of Telegraph Hill rapelling 150 feet. Their mission prevent rock slides ahead of the big storm. Three workers used crowbars to poke and prod and loosen rocks that could crash down during heavy rains or runoff. Work crews are busy clearing storm drains. Cities are asking everyone to help out. If you see one covered with leaves, they want to you clean it up to keep the water flowing. By the way, we checked in with pg e. They are dispatching crews today ahead of the storms. They have on staff meteorologists telling cruise where to go. Live in San Francisco, ryan takeo, kpix 5. And im kiet do live in san jose. We are at the citys Central Service yard where they are giving away prefilled sandbags for free. Come and grab them while supplies last. Certainly people have been doing so all morning long and looks like they are not going to last if this place keeps up here. Word is getting out if you can stay at home and stay off the roads thursday morning, then do so. If you need proof here you go. This is highway 17 last weak over the Santa Cruz Mountains. You can barely see where youre going at times. This time its expected to be worse. So back to the sandbags. They are going quickly in san jose. San jose forecasted to get several inches of rain in a short period of time. Nobody we met out here is taking any chances. In mill valley, public works crews have also been handing out more than 1,000 sandbags. Hundreds of people lining up at three bagging stations across the city. The Fire Department is staffing additional people ahead of the big storm of 2014. All this rain of course is great news for the drought. The mandatory water restrictions in santa cruz are back to voluntary water restrictions. Live in san jose, kiet do, kpix 5. And another check of your bay bridge commute. We got the all clear from chp so all lanes are now back open after that earlier crash near Treasure Island. It was westbound 80 so if you are heading into San Francisco, we are still seeing residual delays and it is backed up well east of the maze. And you can see the eastshore freeway suddenly jump to 36 minutes from the carquinez bridge. I want to walk you through the storm as it approaches. The heaviest rain and gustiest winds between 4 and 8 a. M. In the north bay, across the central bay by lunchtime, and then by the Santa Clara Valley in the early to Late Afternoon hours. Gusty winds, flooding rains, boy, be prepared for your thursday. Lingering into friday. Thank you for watching. Captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com good morning to our see viewers in the west. It is wednesday, december 10th, 2014. Welcome to cbs this morning. Brutality and deceit after 9 11. The man who was the architect and planner at the cia join us to defend the agency. Stories of a gang rape unravels even further. We talk to the alleged victims friend. Forget about the football booth. They take the case to court to rectify a mistake. Fi