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And beautiful. But earlier today we did have some street flooding from the rain. These storms swept into San Francisco during the morning commute. Vehicles traveling along scott went through the standing water. This is a recording problem here according to the neighbors. 20 years ago they have done some work on these grades and they have not worked since. I live here and this is my garage. Water gets too high and it floods my garage. So when that happens i clean out the group i mean i clean out the drain. Reporter utility crews were scrambling throughout the city tried to clean up after this wave of storms. They put down these prestaged flood barriers. At this point they say that the preparations paid off. We were very strategic in the lowlying areas and communities. We wanted to take care of all that debris and hopefully it will be paying off. Reporter even with preparation there was only so much water that the city could take. This is south of Golden Gate Park where the road was closed because of the high water on the roadway. And multiple commuters say when the rain comes here the streets get flooded. Passengers on the rideshare vehicles sometimes open the doors in his path without looking for people on motorcycles. Watch out for motorcycle riders. Reporter a lot of the water on this street has already dried up but the Public Utilities commission are working on a number of long term projects to mitigate these problems around the area. Christien kafton for ktvu news. Thank you. We have a chance of rain late tonight. Thats right but the overall activity will be decreased. If we had a system like this that could stall over the area for like 10 hours that is when we will be talking about real problems. I am meteorologist mark tamayo. You can see oakland and all these other areas reporting over 1 inch of rain fell. Here is the radar. You will notice the green, indicating the rain. The white areas showing snow in lake county. Winter storm warnings are in effect over the sierras. And this is from this morning with the rain totals. We show 28 reports of wind damage as well this morning. Also reports of snowfall in the Santa Cruz Mountains this morning. Also some movement going up towards the lake observatory as well with accumulating snow. Snow levels down to around 3000 feet in general. This is the radar right now. Some storms up in the north bay right now. This is near calistoga. They are becoming more scattered now. Lingering rain and snow showers in lake county. And this is developing by san mateo and even San Francisco. San francisco is not completely dry yet. A lot of activity in the Santa Cruz Mountains expected as well. Accumulated snowfall expected in the areas east of morgan hill. Once again, possibility of showers tonight. Overall heading into a break for the friday forecast. More on that forecast coming up in just a little bit. And the slick roads kept the highways busy today. This silver sedan landed on its roof today. This shutdown and on wrap this morning. An ambulance was called to the scene. No word on the condition of the driver or passengers. And a very wet commute across the bay bridge this morning. Steady rain and a lot of wind. And they had sandbags out free for the taking this morning on Sheppard Canyon road. They are getting ready for the water. The utilities says as many as 500 million gallons of water poured over the wastewater facilities at times like this and that is 10 times the amount when it is not raining. Be sure to download our weather app. You can get traffic updates and news updates as well. Remember to download the ktvu app. The gravity of the moment in our history hits you square in the back when you take the oath. The Senate Impeachment trial is officially underway. Charges were delivered. Senator sworn in on this historic day. This is only the third time in history this event has taken place. It comes among new allegations. Greg liggins has more. Reporter a lot happening in the last 24 hours today. This on a day when new information is being used by democrats. And the white house says the trial will prove that the president did nothing wrong. I do. God bless you. Do you solemnly swear that in all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of donald john trump, president of the United States, now pending, you will do impartial justice according to the constitution and laws, so help you god . I do. It was a historic date with senators being sworn in. It began when the seven house managers delivered the charges, abuse of power included. Removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States. It was transparently partisan performance from beginning to end. There were violations of federal law they say. Ukraine is at the core of this impeachment. The white house says it is overreaching. Both the revelations about mr. Parnas and the witnesses strengthen our push. Reporter parnas gave explosive interviews. Now the president continues to distance himself from parnas. The president was aware of what was going on. He was aware of my movements. I guess they had pictures taken which i do with thousands of people. And daily. But i had just met him. I dont know him at all. I dont know what he is about. Some say this trial will last only two weeks. This is a hoax and Everybody Knows that. It is a complete hoax. The entire thing with ukraine. So you have a perfect phone call. There has been an abandonment of responsibility to uphold the ideals much less the words of the United States constitution by the president of the United States and that now rests on the shoulders of each member of the United States senate. Reporter to say we expect to see a resolution from the majority leader on what the vote might include. Senator schumer says he wants to have that boat on tuesday, as soon as possible. Lets talk more about the interviews from parnas. What does he have . Lets unwrap this a little bit. Parnas has been indicted by the Southern District of new york for campaign finances. Theres a lot of questioning about why he is doing these interviews at this point. On the flipside, a lot of the Text Messages and handwritten notes have come out. A lot of surprising things have come out in the Text Messages including surveillance on the ambassador of ukraine. In terms of witnesses and what we could see, we know that four gop senators are being led by senator susan collins. But it will be up to the senate to determines what will happen. It seems to be a foregone conclusion that the senate will not be voting to remove president trump. But if enough vote in favor of witnesses at the trial, you could have truly damaging testimony. Then you could have a cascading effect. Thats right. And at the end of the day you need 67 senators to vote for removal and there are 53 republicans and 47 democrats. So you need 21 republicans to come over and say we are on your side. That is highly unlikely in my mind. But i think it is more likely that we will see some witnesses and perhaps we will also see more documents. At the clinton impeachment trial we did hear from witnesses but those were in closeddoor depositions before being brought to the senate to look at them. I anticipate Something Like that happening as well. A driver killed and two others were seriously injured. More on that coming up after the break. Plus continuing coverage on the storm today where snow fell at low elevations. There were dangerous driving conditions on highway 17 as well. Snow at low elevations cost at least one car to slide off the road on mt. Umunhum road. It is also clear that there was wet, heavy snowfall coming down at the time. Crews from san jose and calfire rescued the driver in the car. The driver was not injured. The park rangers closed the road afterwards because of that weather. Now lets go live to along the summit. Lets go to jesse gary. Reporter good afternoon you guys. Mother nature throwing us a curveball. This is the back edge of the storm. Its moving out of the area. We do have some blue skies appearing over my left shoulder. Sunshine struggling to come through those clouds. That is a sharp contrast to just about 15 minutes ago where we had moderate rainfall coming down. We also had fogging over the roadway. This is in summit county. Lets show you video that was shot earlier today. Heavy rain from noon onward along highway 17. Rain jackets are needed. We have not had any report of widespread flooding but the chp says they have had Service Calls for collisions. More so than on a normal day. Summit then responded to by ambulance crews. The chp reports 10 collisions here on highway 17 so far. They ask you slow down and keep your cell phones out of your hands. Allow extra space between the vehicles as well. It is very wet. It has been raining even though it is not right now. Now we have fog moving into the area which will be reducing the visibility for the evening commute. Remember to use your low beam lights instead of the brights. The bright lights reflect off of the fog and it is not helpful. I will send it back to you guys up in oakland. Thank you so much. A winter storm warning has been issued for the lake tahoe area. We have freezing rain and snow in the area on interstate 80 and highway 50. Bring your chains with you. They are required on all vehicles except for fourwheeldrive vehicles that do have snow tires. Weve heard of a number of spin outs already. And this is what it looks like now in late county where they received up to 3 inches of snow today. This is video from earlier today on top mountain. And some drivers were caught off guard. You need to drive with caution on the roads because the roads are slick. You could gets snow down to elevations as low as 2000 feet. The snow is beautiful, but it does bring dangerous driving conditions. Lets bring in meteorologist mark tamayo. We are not completely dry just yet. We do have a decreasing trend with this shower activity. This afternoon we had reports of a good thunderstorm near pacifica and San Francisco. This is the radar coverage over the past 12 hours. You can see the snow showers in lake county. Low snow levels. Also snow near tahoe. Quite a bit of snow should follow. This is in lake county again. Levels are dropping below 3000 feet. And these are all the storm reports from this morning. I will click on a few to give you an idea. Again these are from this morning. Snowfall coming down into the Santa Cruz Mountains as well from earlier this morning. Now we have widely scattered showers. Not completely dry just yet. Showers outside of st. Helena right now. Showers as well for redwood city. This looks like it is moving across the bay right now. Lets go back up in these maps. This is the Santa Cruz Mountains. Now this is moving closer to morgan hill. Outside lets look toward San Francisco. We still have clouds. Also the showers we showed you on the radar. Tomorrow morning it will be dry and cool. 30s and 40s expected. Partly cloudy skies and patchy fog expected in San Francisco. Scattered high clouds throughout the day friday. At 8 p. M. Tonight, scattered showers expected. Friday morning, that will break off. Sunshine expected friday in the south bay. Friday does not look bad after the colder start. I have your 5 day forecast coming up for you in a few minutes. And a driver was killed this morning in pacifica. The person was driving north in the southbound lanes just after 3 a. M. After crashing into an suv. The driver of the charger was killed. The female passenger taken to San Francisco general hospital. The name of the man who was killed has not been named yet. Coming up on the four, we talk about hackers and the 2020 election. More on that coming up after the break. Is a look at what is on tonight. It all begins at 8 p. M. And then we have the 10 p. M. News and 11 p. M. News right here on ktvu news. Beyond the routine checkups. Beyond the notsoroutine cases. Comcast business is helping doctors provide care in whole new ways. All working with a new generation of technologies powered by our gigspeed network. Because beyond technology. There is human ingenuity. Every day, comcast business is helping businesses go beyond the expected. To do the extraordinary. Take your business beyond. A San Francisco Bay Tech Company is offering Free Cyber Security Services to political campaigns nationwide leading up to the 2020 election. The Company Wants to help prevent the repeat of the Campaign Hacking by russia leading up to the 2016 election. Now we are joined by the head of Public Policy at the company. Thank you for joining us today, alyssa, as we are in this election year. Why did your company decide to make this offer . Thank you for having me here today, alex. It is wonderful to be here. The reason we wanted to do this is because we believe protecting our democracy and protecting elections in particular is very important. We are on a mission to build a better internet. We think protecting the elections is a very important part of it. What sort of Cyber Security services are you offering to campaigns . We are providing services that help them protect their websites and internal infrastructure. Everything from unauthorized access to phishing. Our view is that they should not be vulnerable at all. There are some relatively easy things that can be done to protect themselves. We encourage them all to take advantage. We want to make sure that the smaller campaigns you dont have the big resources can have the same type of access to these benefits just like the larger resources do. Which campaigns qualify for the free help you are offering . We are doing this in partnership with a nonprofit who has approval from the federal election commission. So , really primarily federal candidates and senate candidates, congressional as well. As you look at the situation going towards the election in 2020, weve often heard that russia continues to be a major threat in terms of trying to interfere with our election and trying to potentially hack into campaigns. What are some of the other threats out there that you are concerned about . We see a lot of things. One of the concerns is if a website goes down. A lot of traffic can do that. Those are destructive to political candidates. You can imagine something major happening and they want to accept donations so that can become problematic. It does not have to be foreign attacks. I see what you mean, just so that they can keep their systems up and running. So far, you put this offer on the table and so how many campaigns have taken you up on it . We Just Announced yesterday but we are not novice in election states and weve been Offering Free Services since 2017. Even in this election cycle before the offering we had 18 president ial campaigns on us over the course of that time period. How are you financially speaking able to offer these services for free . This, to us, is something that is core to the mission of the company. For us it is not really about the cost. It is more about the importance of protection. It is coming from a duty standpoint. We appreciate you coming on to talk about this, alyssa. Thank you so much, head of Public Policy at cloud flair in San Francisco. Thank you. The senate today handed mr. Trump a major policy victory about the trade deal. It did pass within overwhelming vote. It will rewrite the rules of trade with canada and mexico and it replaces a 25yearold trade agreement or nafta. It offers protection for farmers and manufacturers and seeks for more cars to be produced here in the country. It also talked about trade and copyright rules. It is technology and bringing it all into the 23rd century, technology and trade policy. Some say it did not address climate change. They were critical. People losing their mobile homes. But they will still have a place to live in south bay. More on that coming up after the break. And a tour highlighting the homeless crisis in oakland with governor gavin newsom. Up next we have his message. Governor gavin newsom completed a tour in oakland today. Earlier this week he visited grass valley and fresno. He brought more than words to oakland. Rob has the details. Reporter governor gavin newsom is no stranger to the homeless crisis. The San Francisco mayor dealing it for two terms. Today he came to oakland. This in an effort to get Homeless People off of the streets. Here in the shadow of the oakland coliseum, governor gavin newsom and oakland mayor libby schaaf unveiled some of the more than the 1 billion statewide effort to address the homeless crisis. Oakland is getting 15 trailers that can house 5070 people. We have the state support that is finally here. Truck that is not all that oakland is receiving. Some 19. 7 million is available today, immediately, for the city of oakland to address homelessness and first and last month rants. To make hotels permanent housing. Reporter oakland has more than 4000 People Living on the street, in vehicles, or shelters. Many were evicted under a court order tuesday and on wednesday they had this to say to the governor. Tell him to come down here. This is a crisis right here. Tell governor gavin newsom to come down to magnolia street we will be meeting with them with members of my staff shortly. I can assure you without breaking any confidence that there will be a lot of wonderful things that will be said and done. Reporter governor gavin newsom signed an executive order last week talking about empty lots where they can house the homeless. Now people want governor gavin newsom to know that they are desperate. It is very hard. It is a big journey year after year. I need to help my sister. Reporter governor gavin newsom is also pushing for state constitutional amendment legally requiring california cities to provide solutions to homelessness. Thank you, rob. And there is an agreement for those that own mobile homes in a seniors area. A developer wants to build luxury Housing Units at this mobile home park. They have more than 100 residents at that site. City leaders have approved the plan to allow the residents now to stay on the property. This is a great win for the community. I am very grateful for the persistence of these residents who have committed to protecting their own community and working with their neighbors together. 60 brandnew two bedroom apartments will be set aside for the seniors at their current rental rates. All right lets talk football. We are one day closer to the championship game. 49ers fever is ramping up. Yes they are. Sunday cannot get here soon enough, joe. I feel the build, do you . The packers are not yet in town. The 49ers were on the practice field. It was a very wet day today. They were staying loose. There was one obvious sign that this is not just any week. That is the crowd of reporters around the locker of jimmy garoppolo. The 49ers feel like they been involved in playoff caliber games for the last two months. And they are now trying to do their best to treat this week like it is business as usual. Theres nothing different. You need to prepare. You need to go out and execute. It sounds boring and rudimentary but that is what it comes down to. The stakes are high and there is a lot on the line. We treat it like it is another week. The routine does not change. Our preparation does not change. We go about our business. We are having fun doing it. You can be confident. But this is a Good Football Team coming in here and we realize that. The biggest crowd at levi stadium was in attendance on saturday. The game on sunday is sold out. The packers did practice indoors today at green bay because outside it was only 11 degrees. Thank you so much, joe. It is interesting how the 49ers use the great history of the franchise to kind of inspire this latest group. You had a lot of great veterans talking to the players. How much of a difference do you think that makes . It does not make a difference in terms of what is happening on the field. But it does make a difference with the players in the locker room getting a sense of the history seeing those photographs. But none of that helped when they did not have good people in charge making personnel decisions and those kinds of things. But they do get a sense of the history here. And the guys talked about that this week. They are proud to be part of that resurrection and rebuilding of the history as well. It is finally happening now and we waited a while for that. Thank you, joe. You can watch the championship right here this sunday at 3 40 p. M. And you can watch the point after. And then we have a special prime time edition of the news as well. A recent study shows bay area residents spent significantly less on gas than the rest of the company or i mean country. [ laughter ] more on that coming up after the break. And we had a lot of storms this morning. Im tracking scattered showers 30 thursday evening. I have your forecast coming up after the break. Stay tuned. When it comes to health coverage, it helps to have someone in your corner. Thats why theres covered california. 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Com looked at how people spend their money when it comes to getting food and getting around. We spend 84 the National Average on Public Transportation and 47 above the average for food. When it comes to food, lets start with that. What are area Household Spending to eat at home or out . An average of 5200 a year on groceries and 5000 per year on restaurant food. These are big numbers. We wanted to do this to encourage people to get the right rewards earning credit card. You could get hundreds of dollars per year by matching the right credit card with your spending habits. I want to talk about the second part of the data you looked at, Public Transportation. The bay area spends 1500 per year and that is well above the National Average. What is driving these patterns . San francisco has a really robust transit system. Bay area residents are spending twice the National Average. You make up for it on gasoline where you spend below the National Average. This is another trending credit card reward category. People have shifted programs more towards everyday value. If you have not changed credit cards in a while you could be missing out on rewards for transit, restaurants, everyday kind of stuff. If you are going to spend the money, where should you spend it and how should you spend it to get it to your advantage . I think the capital one saver card is a great one for bay area people with spending money on food and entertainment purchases. It also gives you 2 back when you go to the grocery store. And for groceries they have other options as well like the blue card. Both of these cards give you more than 600 in cash back in the first year. They both have good signup post bonuses. And then you could get 350 in the second year or beyond. What do you tell people who are skeptical to sign up for a rewards credit card. As long as you avoid the interest it is free money. It was a put as much as you can on the credit card. It really is free money. I made about 2500 just year from cashback credit card rewards. If you want you could get travel points instead and fund a great trip or hotel stay. Thank you so much for your time, ted rosman. Thank you for having me. We got hit hard today via winter storm. It brought rain and snow to lower elevations. This is a live look now this afternoon. That is downtown oakland where we see sunshine and blue skies coming through, mark. It is nice to see these changes. Thankfully this did not stall over the bay area today. But it had some big rainfall totals as we are showing you. As you can see on the radar, we have the green in the bay area. The areas in white represent the snowfall near lake county and also in the sierras. Now lets look at the radar right now. Not as much coverage. But not completely dry just yet. You can see how this activity earlier today in lake county with the snow coming down to as low as 2000 feet. Now the radar here is showing these storms backing off. This is marin county right now where we have some showers. This was earlier today in San Francisco. Now this is approaching hayward, this shower will be passing you quickly. Out towards the lake observatory in Mount Hamilton i expect we will have a lot of snowfall to show you once all of this clears out. Outside right now, we still have the threat of rain this evening. Tomorrow we are looking just fine with partly cloudy size skies expected and patchy fog. Mostly cloudy skies expected in the north bay. Temperatures expected to be in the low 50s. This storm front is now moving to the south. We keep showers in the forecast for this evening. But the overall trend will be decreasing. And friday, scattered showers to the north. A slight chance of a shower in the north bay on saturday as well. This shower chance remains to the north on this forecast model. We had rain this morning and going into the afternoon. Winter storm warning remains in effect until 6 p. M. Friday for the sierras. Snowfall could come down easily accumulating up to 1530 inches. Here is the forecast. On friday we look okay with partly cloudy skies. Also high clouds. And on saturday, rainfall expected. Slight chance of a shower approaching mendocino county. And on sunday some partly cloudy skies expected as well. Highs for tomorrow, the cool weather pattern remains in place so temperatures in the low 50s. This is the 5day forecast. Scattered clouds tomorrow and saturday. Partly cloudy sunday as well. Rain chances early next week. The commute this morning was challenging. I did see some accidents when i was driving around. But the storm did not sit on top of us for long, thankfully. Thank you so much, mark. We are hearing from a family who was rescued farmer my her car in Northern California when we come back. I was shocked and amazed. She is a tough lady. We will tell you what it was like during that search and the first thing she said when she was saved. More on that coming up after the break. A warning for people who have used Online Dating sites. Several popular dating apps will share your personal information with thirdparty sites and that includes your age, gender and Sexual Orientation and location. Not everyone will read the fine print. You are told to share his little personal information as possible until you are on a date in person. We have an amazing story about a 68yearold woman who went missing for one full week before being found in her suv that was found after she was buried in the snow. Reporter it was an incredible discovery in Northern California. This woman was missing for nearly one week. She was found alive in her snow covered suv. Paula james had not been seen since january 9th. A silver alert was posted as well as flyers around the area. Her family was worried she might be somewhere outdoors. As temperatures drop, so did their hopes of finding her alive. Search teams repeatedly flew over the Remote Community of butte meadows, 50 miles from her home. On wednesday they finally spotted what they hoped was her suv. Two hikers were dispatched to the scene and found the vehicle buried under layers of heavy snow. She was cold and hungry, but found inside alive. She was cold but awake. She did ask for a blanket. I was shocked and really amazed. She is a pretty tough little lady. Reporter it is unknown exactly how long she was there. Temperatures got down to the low 30s this week and she was able to stay warm by occasionally turning the vehicle on for heat. Also using floor mats and a blanket for covers. James did develop some frostbite. She is expected to be okay. Jeff paul from los angeles for fox news. A major volcanic eruption in the philippines. More than 100,000 people were told to evacuate. More on that coming up. Introducing a single sports destination. 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People are waiting anxiously to return to their homes and recover their property. Some people are defined the orders and going back to take care of livestock and other animals. They want to check on the animals but it is not safe. Drug now these villages are facing shortages of basic supplies including food and water. Many say they simply want to go home. They are not allowing us to go back. The volcano looks calm and now the weather looks nice. I do not know why we cannot return. Reporter Officials Say it could take up to two weeks to determine if the volcano has finished erupting. The silver sedan landed right on its roof. The accident shut down the off ramp to eastbound interstate 980 just before 9 00 this morning. There was no word on whether there were any entries. There was heavy snow in lake county this morning. This video was shot around 8 00 this morning. It was snowing so hard that snow plows were called out to clear the roads. Copper mountain has an elevation of just over 400 feet. We have live coverage. Bill martin is tracking the Current Conditions as well as rainfall totals. We begin with christian captain. His life for us in San Francisco with how efforts to try to get ahead of the storm worked out. Reporter well hear from bill about the weather in just a moment. I can tell you from personal experience, we saw a lot of rain here in San Francisco. I see some blue skies off in the distance. Earlier today, the rain came down. Flooding some streets in the city. The storm swept into San Francisco, hitting the city hard. Vehicles traveling along