Ext i knew the driver was on top of me trying to put his tongue in my mouth. Reporter three of the 20 women suing lyft appeared before reporters saying they had been sexually assaulted by the ride share companys drivers. Their lawyer. The bottom line is lyft does not take safety of their passengers seriously and never has. Reporter this is the second lawsuit filed against lyft since september. 14 individuals said in that suit they were the victims of rape and Sexual Assault by their driver. Since September Lyft says it has added more safety features. Bomberger says they dont work. The reason we know these dont work, eight of the women that are part of this lawsuit had their incidents occur after these features were in play. Reporter and there have been even more victims, he says. Weve gotten calls from 100 different women since just september of this year. Reporter one plaintiff who went by the name of ashley and her husband said lyft was uncooperative. They wouldnt give the police any information. Yeah, when i was with the police, we contacted lyft, and they werent helpful at all. Reporter the lawsuit asks the company to digitally record all rides. If an employee knows that their employer is watching them, theyre not going to be committing crimes in the car. Reporter now lyft responded with a written statement that says in part, we are relentless in our work to build safety into every aspect of our work. Lyft says it has launched more than 15 safety features including criminal background monitoring and inapp Emergency Assistance to make reporting easier. Lawyer bomberger says expect more lawsuits to come. Vic lee, abc 7 news. Vic, thank you. In our ongoing effort, abc 7 news spent a week earlier this year exploring the ride share industry. The iteams dan noyes with a look at how they check the background of their drivers. You can see the stories on our website, abc7news. Com. To our storm watch coverage. Its dry right now as you can see from our sutro camera but more rain is coming. So when . Spencer christian is tracking the storm. Spencer . Its not that far away. Lets look at whats happening right now on live doppler 7. You can see most of the bay area is experiencing fairly calm weather. But down in the southern most part from morgan hill to gilroy to hollister, some areas of fairly steady downpours in the region. Its all moving eastward away from the main part of the San Francisco bay area. Whats left of our storm ranks 1. For the remainder of the night scattered showers giving way to just isolated pockets of rain during the overnight hours. Notice well see some wet spots later tonight but by the time the morning commute rolls around tomorrow we should be looking at vastly improved conditions. Then the bigger storm comes friday. Ill give you a look at that in a few minutes. Rain this morning caused several problems around the bay area including this crash involving seven vehicles in san jose. Three people were taken to the hospital. In san bruno workers are now shoring up a landslide. Abc 7 News ReporterAmy Hollyfield has the story. Reporter as the next round of rain rolls in, bay area residents are preparing. Im going up in the attic to make sure my roof is not leaking because we had a couple of really heavy downpours. I thought it was branches hitting my window. I guess it was hail. We did one of those french drains on the side of our house. We live up in the hill over there. There was a problem with water flowing down to our house and flooding into the bottom level. So we dug a ditch so its draining out to the street better. Reporter there are concerns about the possible side effects like this one in san bruno. A landslide where about 30 feet of earth has crumbled to the ground. Authorities are watching it and hoping to stabilize it for the winter and protect san bruno avenue and the sidewalk. Its scary. I was just thinking about the trees that are leaning over and a little worried about that. Reporter even as we deal with serious rainrelated issues, people are also focusing on the positive. Im glad its raining. I know we need it. I dont have to water. I love it so i run on the trail all the time daily, and for a while there, because there was no rain, it was looking really dry. Reporter no homes are impacted by the slide. This is all crumbling into a canyon. They will work on a design for a permanent fix that will be constructed when the rain stops but right now the city manager says theyre focused on a temporary fix and theyll know within the week whether they will be able to open up this lane of san bruno avenue and this sidewalk. In san bruno, Amy Hollyfield, abc 7 news. Now can you track the next storm with the abc 7 news app. We have live doppler 7. You can enable push alerts to get weather advisories on your phone or tablet. The impeachment inquiry of President Trump is now in the hands of the House Judiciary Committee. Today members heard from constitutional scholars on the issue of what is an impeachable offense. Among them stanford law professor pamela karlan who produced a memorable moment when she took exception with a suggestion from Ranking Member doug collins of georgia that she and the other scholars were partisan and didnt know all the facts about the case. Dear mr. Collins, i would like to say to you, sir, that i read transcripts of every one of the witnesses who appeared in the live hearing because i would not speak about these things without reviewing the facts, so im insulted by the suggestion that as a law professor i dont care about those facts. For more on what happened during the days hearing to reporter Serena Marshall who is live in washington. Serena . Reporter ama, at the heart of todays testimony is the question of abuse of power. The democratic witnesses claim its true and its clear the president abused his office or the lone republican said with the Current Evidence presented by them it would be them abusing the power of congress. Two arguments hitting at the heart of the impeachment debate. If Congress Fails to impeach here, then the impeachment process has lost all meaning. If youre going to accuse a president of bribery, you need to make it stick. Because youre trying to remove a duly elected president of the united states. Reporter what is a high crime and misdemeanor . Thats what four constitutional scholars were asked to answer as the impeachment probe enters a new phase in the House Judiciary Committee. The three law professors invited by democrats agreeing. President trump has solicited president Volodymyr Zelensky of ukraine to announce investigations of his political rivals. Soliciting itself is the impeachable offense. Reporter and a single legal scholar for republicans echoing gop sentiment that the process followed by democrats was flawed. This call was anything but perfect. This is not how you impeach an american president. That has not been explained to me why you want to set the record for the fastest impeachment. Fast is not good for impeachment. Reporter but actually if mr. Trump does get impeached the process in the house will have taken longer than for president clinton in 1998. President trump weighing in from overseas. It is the most unfair thing that anybody has ever seen. Reporter but the white house rejected democratic offers to participate in the hearing. One of the reasons democrats argue waiting for the courts to weigh in for the 2020 election isnt an option. We cannot wait for the election to address the present crisis. The integrity of that election is one of the very things at stake. Reporter an Impeachment Vote in the House Judiciary Committee would come as early as next week. Democrats expect it to begin drafting articles of impeachment in the coming days setting up a full vote in the house before christmas. Live on capitol hill, Serena Marshall, abc 7 news. Serena, a Top White House official has said they do plan to participate in the senate, though, right . Reporter yes, ama, thats correct. Even as the white house has rejected offers to participate in the hearings happening right now in the house on capitol hill, they said that if it moves over to the senate, which would likely occur some time in january, they plan to participate fully including requesting live witnesses. Ama . Serena marshall reporting live from washington, d. C. Thank you, serena. President trump heads back to washington. His time with fellow World Leaders marked by some drama. New efforts to clean up the tenderloin. A possible solution to a big trash problem. Well explain. And protecting yourself a gun charge has been dismissed for the man who went on trial for Kate Steinles killing. Jose ines garcia zarate, who was acquitted of all but a gun possession charge in the 2015 shooting death of steinle on San Franciscos pier 14. An Appeals Court later overturned the sole conviction saying the judge improperly instructed the jurors. Today San FranciscoDistrict Attorneys Office said it will not retry him on the charge. We make these decisions very methodically. This particular person is also charged by the federal government for the same conduct thats alleged here. As a result of it were going to step aside and let the federal government take their case. Garcia zarate is in custody awaiting trial in federal court next month. San francisco is busy trying to clean up the tenderloin and a new program revealed today will add 100 recycle bins with a bad trash reputation. These bins have newly designed locks making them much harder to open. The hope is this will directly solve one of the biggest sources of the trash problem. We have a huge problem in this neighborhood, in particular, where trash goes in a bin and coming out of the bin because its pulled out or its kicked over or pulled away entirely or weather. To start the bins will go to tenderloin businesses and larger apartment buildings. If it goes well the plan is to order 1,000 more. Trash pickup times will be tight to limit the time theyre out in the open, and steam clean and wash the tenderloin every week. The security of Homeland Security wants people to be aware when browsing or shopping online as so many of us do. 7 on your sides Michael Finney joins us with more. What holiday scam should you be aware of this season and how do you protect yourself . The founder of cyber scout, Cyber Security and Identity Theft website, also a very good friend and joins us now. Thank you for being here. Thank you for inviting me. You wrote the book on Cyber Security actually. And we did a thing together about it. Why now . Why is it this time of year . Because the holidays are a perfect season. You end up being the gift that keeps on giving because of one big thing, distraction. Theyre counting on the fact youre distracted and you are their day job. Right, okay. So youre busy, you fall for it. Give me, i dont know, what are the top three we should be watching out for . The top thing is phishing attacks in general. You may see a bargain for travel, a bargain for shopping. You may get a notice that theres been a problem about the package thats going to be delivered or that what you ordered from amazon or another Ecommerce Company theres an issue. Please log in and give them the information. I would say beware of the ishings and that is call from your bank, they just need to you give them the Security Code on the back to make sure youre you or you get a text and says your account has been frozen. You panic. It says click here. You do. Suddenly your computer becomes a transmitter, your phone does, or they could put ransomware on your device, too. Lets go for ecards and gift cards. Ecards the problem is that you get an ecard, you get all squishy except it may not be who you think its from. It might be a real buzz kill. If you get an ecard, contact the person who supposedly sent it and say did you send me the ecard . Gift cards the problem is if theyre on a rack far away from the cashier somebody could get to the card, take off the back, look at the authentication code or the activation code, then put the backing back on, put it always get a gift card behind the cashier not somewhere off to the side. Thats why you see them behind glass counters sometimes, right . It would be even better if theyre behind a glass counter but somebody should be nearby. So what should people do to protect themselves other than the three things you just told us . Just generally holiday protection. The big one, first of all, dont just download any app you see. Go to a legitimate app store. Secondly if you get contacted by anyone, never authenticate yourself. Only you a effectively better protect you. And dont use public wifi for anything other than browsing. Do people still use this to place orders or whatever . They do. Never do a sensitive transaction on public wifi. I mean, one of the good situations if you dont have a Virtual Private Network is just turn wifi off so euroyoururiy operating within your mobile provider. You could be clicking into a network you think is the real network but its something established by the tracker to trick you. Adam levin, cyber scout. Thank you for joining us. Happy holiday. That is fabulous information. It is scary out there. You have to Pay Attention all the time. All those ishinges. Got to keep track. On to the rain. This current storm is vanishing. But another one is approaching. Not quite an ishing. Live doppler 7 and you can see that much of the bay area has quiet weather conditions. Lots of clouds and some damp spots. Its way down in the southern most part where we still have active weather, some showers and some steady downpours in the gilroy area now. Thats all moving eastward away from the central part of the San Francisco bay area. The view from sutro tower. You can see we have clouds of various levels of the atmosphere, low clouds, mid level clouds and these are our current temperature readings. Basically about 55 to 58 degrees for most of the region now. San francisco, oakland, redwood city, san jose, gilroy and half moon bay. This is the view of a colorful western sky from our emeryville camera. Thats gorgeous. We have temperature readings right now right in the mid50s at santa rosa, petaluma, napa, concord and livermore. And this is how it looks at the golden gate. Lots of clouds there but a few breaks and bright spots as well and these are our forecast features, showers tapering off overnight. Mainly dry tomorrow but clouds will linger and there would be a couple isolated spotty showers. Then we get a windy, rainy storm coming in early friday. Our current storm, whats left of it, ranks 1 on the storm impact scale. Tonight look for scattered showers. Little to no measurable rainfall. And well have light winds. On we go to our forecast animation starting at 6 00 p. M. And still at that point well see a few areas of light, scattered showers and they will continue into the evening hours and the late night hours. During the overnight hours going into the morning commute well see the rain tapering off and once again although were at the end or near the end of the storm system there could be wet spots for the morning commute. Bear that in mind. Overnight lows will be mainly in the mid to upper 40s and then tomorrow we can expect highs ranging from well, not much of a range. Upper 50s to about 60 degrees. A fairly narrow range of temperatures. Now lets move ahead to friday morning as the next storm moves into the bay area starting at 5 00 friday morning well see a wave of rain and some steady downpours and wind gusts associated with an approaching cold front that will push into the north bay first and by midday into the evening hours on friday well see rain becoming more widespread. Then on saturday the rain continues here. It starts to ease up just a little bit, but the storm starts to produce significant snowfall in the sierra on saturday and that will continue into sunday as the storm breaks up here in the bay area to just scattered showers. The rain, the snow, rather, continues over in the sierra. So lets move along and take a look at the accuweather 7 day forecast. We will have lingering clouds and maybe a couple isolated sprinkles. The main event in terms of weather coming our way now comes in on friday. A level 2 storm ranking 2 on the storm impact scale, moderate intensity, windy, rainy. Showers will linger into saturday and sunday. Then some clearing on monday. Thanks. Were going to get a good rainy season. Absolutely. Thanks, spencer. A target takeover in the south bay. The special sh the ones that make a truebeen difference in peoples lives. And mikes won them, which is important right this minute, because if he could beat americas biggest gun lobby, helping pass background check laws and defeat nra backed politicians across this country, beat big coal, helping shut down hundreds of polluting plants and beat big tobacco, helping pass laws to save the next generation from addiction. All against big odds you can beat him. Im Mike Bloomberg and i approve this message. Warm feelings of home this season. 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