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Rain as well. Things have cleared up dramatically in the 9 00 hour compared to where we were five hours ago. Two different stories right there from the shots, gasia. Yeah. The one in the sierra and one here. Not too far away. 150 miles apart. Cool to see that perspective. As we talk about the coming days, mark tamayo, you say this is a lot of rain but wait until saturday. Yeah. Were focusing on this weekend. This is a big deal moving into the bay area. We already have the rainfall and the wind from this morning. This weekend, it will be really ramped up. Take a look at the rainfall totals over the past 24 hours. San rafael, 3. 61 inches. Santa rosa, over two inches. Thankfully the bulk of the action was before the morning commute. Probably woke you up, the gusty winds. We had a wind advisory in place but that has expired. Mount diablo, gusts up to 61 miles per hour. On the satellite and radar, you saw the sierra with the picture up to borel. Come in closer to the bay area. Still linger
Daimler doubles down. Find out why its smart cars are getting bigger. And it sounds like Science Fiction but jets that break apart and reassemble midflight could soon become reality. But first, russian stocks are taking a hit today. Ruble is sliding the u. S. Has imposed new sanctions on companies to punish president putin first up porting rebels in ukraine. Ryan chilcote joins us. What exactly are we seeing . Before werenctions personal, they really targeted individuals in putins inner circle, then these are much broader. They have gone corporate, going after some of russias biggest companies. Rosneft has been sanctioned. Rosneft is not just russias largest oil company, it is the Worlds Largest quickly traded oil company. Bp has got a 20 stake. Its gdrs fell by 5 novatek, russias largest independent gas producer. Shares traded here in london and fell by more than seven percent. Promm which that gaz is the Worlds Largest gas producer that provides europe was not of its gas session. Per