Cloud was reported south of vacaville. You see those lightning strikes this afternoon, the thunderstorm erupted. It was confirmed by the Weather Service in sacramento that it did happen south of vacaville. Obviously, it did not touch down. It was not a tornado, but a funnel cloud, which is why they did not see any damage in that area right now around orinda highway 24, we are tracking street level radar and that is showing showers. Also some light to moderate rain right around pope valley, aetna springs, so were not completely through with this system just yet. Taking you back in time. Those thunderstorms begin firing up this afternoon, shortly after lunch in the south bay, and then eventually in the east bay. Those thunderstorms did produce hail across the region. Heavy rain at times, and that has led to a flood advisory that is still in effect for parts of the east bay until 7 15 p. M. Still, the potential is there. So for some minor roadway flooding. So watch out. Area of low pressure moving towards Southern California was the triggering mechanism. This level one system for the thunderstorms, the funnel cloud, and it provided the lift along with the daytime heating to bring us the active weather as we go. Hour by hour. We will continue to see a few more showers as we head into 7 p. M. Tonight, 9 p. M, and then it all winds down. This is a level one through this evening, scattered downpours, isolated thunder chance. Although once the sun sets, that diminishes minor roadway flooding. A look at the rainfall. San jose picking up 6000 800 of an inch. Oakland a 10th. Fairfield about a half an inch of rain. Here are some of the changes that are ahead. The sun is peeking through the clouds in santa cruz. Ill be back with a full look at the forecast preview of whats to come. Ama and dan. Okay, sandy. Thank you. Lets move now to coverage of californias primary election. With a majority of voters using mail in ballots, were still waiting to tally the final results. We in fact, we probably wont know if proposition one passed or failed for a while. The only statewide measure on the ballot is still too close to call tonight. It would use billions in bonds to provide housing for the homeless and the mentally ill. In the u. S. Senate race, it will be democrat adam schiff facing off against republican steve garvey in novembers general election to fill the seat left vacant by the death of dianne feinstein. Latifah simon is the frontrunner to fill congressmember barbara lees seat. Simons vote tally is more than double the next candidates doctor jennifer tran, a cal state east bay professor and alameda vice mayor tony daysog, the top two will be on the november ballot. Sam liccardo is in the lead for the congressional seat being vacated by anna eshoo, whos retiring Santa Clara County supervisor joe simitian is in second place with state Assembly Member evan low closely behind and many familiar faces enjoyed success. Last night. Representatives eric swalwell, mark desaulnier, ro khanna, zoe lofgren and nancy pelosi all advanced to the general election for the first time, though in almost three decades, california wont have a female senator in dc. Big change abc seven News Reporter anser hassan takes a closer look at the battle for equity in washington. Former baseball star steve garvey, a republican, and democratic representative adam schiff will compete in november to fill Dianne Feinsteins u. S. Senate seat from california, effectively ending the congressional careers of barbara lee and katie porter. Its such a shame that we will not be having a female as our senator for the state of california. I think that having a womens perspective is really important. Samina usman is constituent Campaign Coordinator for barbara lees Senate Campaign for the first time in more than three decades, california wont have a female senator, and of the bay areas 12 congressional districts, only three will be represented by women nancy pelosi in San Francisco, zoe lofgren in the south bay and lateefah simon, the likely replacement for barbara lees 12th district in the east bay. If she wins in november, it speaks to the issues that women face running in politics. Doctor Samantha Francois is a professor of womens studies at cal state east bay. She suggests that lower voter turnout means fewer younger voters, who are often more likely to vote for minority candidates. She adds that female candidates still face a tough time fundraising. Adam schiff outraised both his female opponents in the democratic party. Both katie porter and barbara lee by like 2 to 1. But professor francois also notes that schiff got big endorsements from high profile female politicians like pelosi and barbara boxer, and that exit polls suggest that women voters supported schiff in equal numbers to men. I think we have to have a broader lens in terms of looking at local elections, city elections, and county elections. And we saw obviously, Jackie Speier reelected the board of supervisors. Were still seeing that most americans believe that voters are more likely to support a candidate if the candidate is a white man. Doctor Sean Fletcher is a professor of Public Relations at san jose state university. He says women candidates may face barriers, but that their parties need to do more to empower their female candidates. I will put it on the system that is designed to select, to develop and to ultimately promote vote these women candidates as viable for their positions in the east bay. Anser hassan abc seven news. Voter turnout for this election is coming in at a dismal 18 so far, according to california secretary of state. In the last primary election june of 2022, just a third of registered voters cast ballots. We pulled this video from the year 2000 out of the abc seven news archives. Look at this. In that years march primary, turnout was above 50 back then, less than a quarter of voters used mail in ballots. 20 years later, voting by mail was used by roughly 90 of voters. California now mails every registered voter a ballot. Well low turnout, of course, means a small number of voters can make a big difference. Take a look. Just a few thousand votes separate the leading candidates to replace Congress Member anna eshoo, who is retiring. Former san jose mayor sam liccardo is in the lead, as we said earlier, followed by Santa Clara County supervisor simitian and state Assembly Member evan low. Abc seven News Reporter lena howland spoke with all three about the race just a day after super tuesday in Santa Clara CountyElection Officials have their work cut out for them with stacks and stacks and stacks of ballots that still need to be counted. Yeah, 145,000 ballots left pending. And yeah, well continue to process. And it is a lot of work. It takes a community of our staff to do the whole process and certify the elections. And candidates in some races are hoping those uncounted ballots will make a difference in the contest. For the u. S. House seat in district 16 to replace the retiring anna eshoo, one person has a clear lead, but less than 2000 votes separate the candidates in second and third place. We expected it would be a very tough contest, and it was. Former san jose mayor sam liccardo is leading the race. He hopes knocking on 2500 doors helped him secure one of the two spots on novembers ballot. And this is how campaigns are run, and certainly how ive won in the past is really making sure we have a grassroots operation that really engages people around the challenges that theyre struggling with the most. Santa clara county supervisor joe simitian, who has xiaos endorsement, is currently in second. The margin is healthy. Its clear im really looking forward to november. Simitian is confident he will be on the ballot this november. I think what sets me apart is the fact that ive represented 14 of the 15 cities in this district, and ive actually tackled big problems as a legislator and gotten results that improve peoples lives. Assembly member evan lowe is sitting in third, but hes staying optimistic. Yes politics can be a blood sport. Full contact. But at the end of the day, im excited about the energy that is also provided that demonstrates the type of vitality and hope and inspiration, and i want to be a good reflection of that so that others can answer that call for service as well. Official Election Results will not be certified until 30 days after the election by the registrar of voters in the south bay, lena howland, abc seven news San Francisco voters passed a ballot measure aimed at getting more drug users off the streets and into treatment. Measure f, backed by mayor london breed, passed overwhelmingly with 63 of the vote. The measure requires welfare recipients deemed to be struggling with addiction to enter into treatment in order to continue receiving benefits. As with any big Program Change or new initiative, it will require a return, working internally at the Human Services agency and with other stakeholders to ensure that the systems are in place to provide the assessment and the access to treatment that these low income individuals desperately need, the mayor says. Measure f sends a message that San Francisco is a city that offers help, but not one where people can just come and do whatever they want. Critics say it will likely result in people losing their public assistance, forcing them to live on the streets. And we are keeping track of every race from super tuesday. The results are right on our home page. Go to abc seven news. Com. New at six Santa Rosa Police are investigating after a woman and a boy were found dead inside an apartment this morning. Officers found them unresponsive and a union at the spring Lake Apartments on summerfield road. Both were pronounced dead at the scene. Police believe they are mother and son. 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He has pleaded not guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter and will go on trial in july. Flooding due to rising sea levels could be worse in the us than previously thought. Thats because not only is water rising, major coastal cities are also sinking, according to a new study that includes San Francisco and other bay area cities. Abc seven News Reporter suzanne fawn spoke with the experts. San francisco is one of several local cities sinking into the ground, according to new research, and that mixed with rising sea levels could make flooding even worse in the coming decades. The new information comes from a paper published in nature that studied subsidence or sinking in 32 coastal cities, including San Francisco, south San Francisco, oakland, richmond, foster city and santa cruz. Subsidence is part of the problem, but for the bay area, whats unique to us is our triple whammy of Sea Level Rise rising groundwater and lowland flooding from more extreme storms. Warner chabot is with the San Francisco estuary institute, an Environmental ScienceResearch Institute focused on the bay and the delta. The bay area is ground zero for Climate Change and Sea Level Rise. Were literally 8 Million People living in a bathtub. The report said its too late for mitigation efforts, so we need to adapt. Efforts are underway to control flooding in the future, foster city is improving its levees, and in San Francisco, theres a plan to elevate the Ferry Building and most of the embarcadero seven feet into the air. But that plan introduced back in january, would need approval from congress. Our future depends on taking action now. This is why the draft plan is so critical to protecting the citys seawall from earthquake and flooding risks. Its going to be a big price tag. Its going to cost a lot to make all the suggested improvements across the bay area, the cost over the next 25 years to prevent lowland flooding by the year 2050 is about 110 billion of Infrastructure Improvements were going to have to make. But not doing anything could be even more costly in the long run. The estimated price tag about 230 billion in estimated damages and repairs. That would have to be done. Theres a tremendous amount of planning being done at the city, county and regional level right now, and there will be an intensive amount of work done over the next couple of years in San Francisco. Suzanne phan abc seven news. Changes are coming. Yes, absolutely. And a lot of different weather going on today, too. Kind of a weird day. Meteorologist sanjay patel is here. Sandhya. Yeah. As we get closer to spring, dan and we tend to have the instability from the heating from the sun. And if you have a system coming by like we did today, you get it all. So let me show you live doppler seven. Well talk about what is happening still as we speak. Were still tracking some pockets of moderate rain right around windsor highway 101 Mark West Springs road, also around pope valley. Howell mountain road, watch out, were not completely done yet, althgh t chances of thunderstorms is diminishing as the sun has s a fod advisory. Urban and small stream flood advisory remains up from hayward to fremont to dublin into parts of livermore there until 7 15 p. M, as they are still seeing some minor flooding. So you take a look at the Wider Perspective here. Not only did we have thunderstorms today, along with hail and downpours, funnel cloud south of vacaville this afternoon, but they are seeing active weather across Southern California. You can still see some thunderstorms and some snow showers in the sierra. That area of low pressure is starting to move towards Southern California, where the activity will go and will quiet down in just a matter of a couple of hours. Beautiful view from santa cruz camera mid to upper 50s from San Francisco to oakland. Currently 57 in san jose and 54 degrees in half moon bay. A lovely view from our exploratorium camera. This is what you have to look forward to as we head towards the next couple of days. Petaluma 52 degrees. Everyone else in the mid to upper 50s except livermore at 52 degrees. Golden gate bridge camera a few clouds lingering this evening. Well go with showers. Still an isolated thunderstorm. Chance next two days. Sunnier and milder weather. And then this weekend we have chances of rain. But it is not a washout, showing you the storm impact scale through this evening. Well keep it as a one with those scattered showers , isolated roadway flooding, minor accumulations expected. If you get caught under one of these downpours, you could pick up a good deal of rain. San jose today in the last 24 hours, picking up almost 7 10 of an inch. You know, it was pouring this morning there. 6 00 tonight. You see those showers . 730 mainly in the north bay as we head towards 9 p. M. Still a few showers lingering. And then tomorrow morning most of you wake up to clear skies, but there will be some patches of fog and clouds around in the morning, followed by plenty of sun. Your temperatures in the morning in the 30s and 40s you will need to bundle up. There will be a few clouds and some fog around, but it is going to start off