Live from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. That is the sound of the biggest storm to sweep through the bay area in more than a year. Good evening. Im eric thomas. The storm has caused widespread damage. Trees have come down in every part of the bay area. Power lines are also down. Thousands of pg e customers are in the dark right now. Slippery roads made for treacherous conditions. Chp responded to more than double their usual calls. The heavy rain started this afternoon, but just in the past couple of hours, the brunt of the rain really hit. Team coverage tonight of this major storm starting with abc 7 meteorologist drew tuma. We knew this storm would be wet and windy. The storm moved onshore in the early afternoon. Heavy rain, strong winds. The good news, live doppler 7 d hd. The winds have calmed down. The heaviest of the rain has pushed off to the east. Were dealing with residual effects of this rain. This one 50 is starting in Sonoma County north of petaluma. We are starting to see some flooding in that area. Take note of that. Another Flash Flood WarningSouth Central napa county. We are seeing flooding in that area as well. Well take you to the south. This Flash Flood Warning goes until 2 30 in the morning at castro creek at hayward. Theres flooding happening in this region. If you live in this area, know that we are seeing some creeks rise above their flood levels. An entire regionwide Flash Flood Watch is in effect. The only exception, the city of San Francisco through 4 00 tomorrow morning meaning there is the potential for flash flooding across the region. This is part of the reason why. Look at the numbers. Over an inch of rain in many locations. Santa rosa over two inches of rain. An inch and a half in San Francisco. An inch, over an inch in san jose. Wind gusts, mt. Diablo, a wind gust of 88 miles an hour. Were not done yet. Sunday, here comes another storm moving in for the second half of the weekend. Well detail that and go hour by hour on future weather and show you what to expect on sunday in your accuweather forecast. Drew, thank you. We pick upper Team Coverage with lisa amin. You saw numerous downed trees tonight. Reporter to give you an idea of how wet its been out here, this is a glove ive been wearing all night long. Its filled with water and drenched. The rain is making life miserable for many tonight. In walnut creek, a 40foot eucalyptus tree fell across two lanes of traffic. The driver of this suv tried to avoid it but couldnt. When they turned on the left, they hit the tree and were struck from behind by a separate vehicle. Neither drive was hurt but this car had a lot of damage. The wind and heavy rain brought down this massive tree on los valley drive. It took out power lines leaving nearly 80 families in the dark. Jack, this is mimi. Im out in front of the house. Reporter they are communicating through walkie talkies and getting updates from one another. With the tree blocking the only road out of the neighborhood, getting information would otherwise be nearly impossible. I havent been out because the wires were clear across the bushes and my driveway and the firemen were here and they said dont go in the house. Were staying warm. Pg e called in extra crews to work on the downed lines. Parents figured out a way to manage the unpredictable situation. Started parking on the street and walking through. About the only way to get out. People are going out and catching their kids and stuff like that. And i just checked in with some homeowners. They tell me theyll hopefully get power restored by 6 00 tomorrow morning. Live in walnut creek, lisa amin gulezian. This map shows dozens of Power Outages throughout the bay area. At the height 53,000 customers were in the dark. At this hour about 16,000 are without power. The orange dots show the areas with the most outages. Pg e has more than 200 crews spread out around the bay area to handle the outages. San francisco is fighting water with more water. Abc 7 news was at 17th and fullsome in the mission where public utility crews have put up these temporary plastic flood barriers filled with water. This is an area prone to flooding. The hope is theyll protect the buildings. The city could order more for the next storm if it works. Bay area coastal communities got rain and gail force winds. Serg Sergio Quintana has more. Reporter winds took down tree branches. The winds kicked up even more, up to 48 Miles Per Hour in some places. Its caused Power Outages and triggered other emergencies. A large part near Pillar Point Harbor went dark including an Indian Restaurant that had to finish the day by flashlight. Residents took shelter at the local seafood house near the pier where there was still power. I dont like the wind at all. In fact, a tree, one of our branches broke, which made me sad. Were doing fine. Weve done a lot of work on the house in the last year to make sure it was safe. Reporter the two flags blowing at the harbor master station are warnings for boaters. The first is a small craft weather advisory. The second is a gail force wind warning. On the pier, a windsock flapped, tarps were snap, and this man had to lean into the wind to stay oup right. Along the coast, the winds kicked up before sun set. I probably noticed a change around 3 00 or 4 00. Reporter traffic along the coast was at a crawl. Shoppers were walloped by the winds as they walked out of the supermarket. Some sprinted with their umbrellas to keep them from blowing away. Sergio quintana, abc 7 news. In just a few days these apartments will be gone. El nino storms have eaten away at the cliff side. Theres an emergency order to tear down 320 esplanade. The Property Owner depolished the property next door. The owner declared bankruptcy and has not taken action. The demolition is set to start on tuesday. In western Sonoma County, a large ridwood tree destroyed a home narrowly missing the woman inside. It happened on hampton way. The homeowner was with her two dogs when she saw the tree falling and quickly ran outside. Shes staying with friends tonight. Heres a live look at sfo. The rain and winds delayed more than 320 flights and canceled 70. There could be more problems tomorrow so be sure to check withior airline before you head out. Right now there are chain controls for interstate 80 between ki drivers are taking it slow. And heres some video kirkwood resort sent to us. Skiers and boarders enjoying more than ten inches of fresh powder with up to 20 more inches expected tonight. Our abc 7 viewers are sharing pictures and video on social media. Rachel posted this video on instagram saying a few weeks ago, i was walking in this creekbed. Not today. Fabulous. Share your pictures and video using abc7now. Still to come at 11 00 were continuing to track rain on live doppler 7 hd. Meteorologist drew tuma is back with a full look at the accuweather forecast. Plenty of problems here in the south bay. Trees came down on roads, on cars and at least one house. Im katie marzullo. A live report coming up. A rape on uc berkeleys campus. Why they think its related to like greasy fast food if youtreats your body. T youd have no way to watch cat videos. So say no to greasy, fast food. And treat your body right. With the delicious rotisseriestyle chicken sandwich from subway. Made with our new handpulled, allwhite meat chicken raised without antibiotics. All on our freshlybaked bread. The Subway Sandwich shop. Fresh is what we do. Police believe a man who attacked and raped a female cal student earlier this morning may be kecked to three other assaults. It happened just after midnight on etna street near dwight way. He grabbed the woman from behind and dragged her off the sidewalk where he sexually assaulted her. Surveillance video shows a man wanted for three assaults. Thats man attacked women from behind just like the attacker this morning. Petaluma police are searching for thieves who busted through a gun stores front door. The stores owner said the thieves took 12,000 worth of guns. Most of them semiautomatic handguns and one ar15 assaultstyle rifle. Police are looking for a light green 1990s era honda accord. Police say wet roads and a speeding driver caused a fatal crash in the east bay that tore this car to pieces. Abc 7 news was in san ramon just after noon today where witnesses say the driver lost control and slammed into several trees. The driver was the only one inside and was killed instantly. Those are the sights and sounds of rain falling in the south bay. San jose getting its share of precipitation from this powerful storm system. Katie marzulo continues our coverage from san jose. That heaviest downpour in san jose happened around 9 30. We were on the road at the time. It definitely felt dicey out there. The rain and the wind taking their toll on drivers and then some. With windshield wipers at full speed its still hard to see through the driving rain. We caught up with the driver of this car after chp safely escorted him off 680. He spun out, hit another car and ended up facing the wrong way in the median. It was a scary moment. I had reflections of my life at one moment. We got down trees and downed power lines, car crashes. Reporter another driver was on the Stevens Creek boulevard on ramp as this massive branch came crashing down from high above. Tree fell over the fence from somebody elses property. Just goes to show you, you dont know what youre going to run into. Reporter another large branch came down and the sidewalk flooded in front of valley fair mall. You didnt have to be behind the wheel to be in harms way. Ethan was home with his family. A tree fell on to their porch blocking the front door. Ethan called 911. Firefighters cleared the path to the front door but someone will have to come out and take away whats left. No one was hurt inside the house or in either of those cars. Thats the good news. Of course a good reminder to always be careful out there. Katie marzullo, abc 7 news. To the east bay where high winds knocked over a large tree. Abc 7 news was on maraga road near lafayette elementary. The tree blocked the road and it took a couple of hours for crews to clear it out of the way. This was the scene in oakland on i580 east at coolidge. Crews responding to a downed tree there. This was one of many in oakland. It blocked the i5 80 at chatham. Lets get the latest on where it is. The good news is the heaviest rain and strongest of the wind we experienced today is out of here. Live doppler 7 hd. A tour around the region. Light scattered showers at this hour. Into the north bay, light greens from petaluma north into novato. Light rain falling at this hour. The east bay, a little pop of yellow to the east of hayward. Thats about the biggest downpour at this hour. Were dealing with light showers from redwood city to san jose. Take a look. When winds very strongly moved through San Francisco, gusting over 40 Miles Per Hour, this picture taken by justin to my twitter page showing you a tree came down on a car. This is one of several storm reports weve gotten when the storm moved through over the past several hours. The winds have relaxed compared to earlier today. Most areas less than 15 miles an hour. Along the coast Half Moon Bay gusting to 18 and sfo gusting to 23 miles an hour. Temperaturewise, a south wind right now. Its rather mild out there for thus time of night and time of year. 56 in hayward. Same in san jose and santa rosa. 54 degrees. Were tracking another storm quickly on its heels. The storm impact scale. Rating them from 1 to 5. 1 is light, 5 is most severe. Our storm coming on sunday is a 2. Its a moderate storm. It will pack a punch once again but this is something sunday evening. There is a chance of a thunderstorm but the difference with this storm compared to todays storm, its not going to be as windy. Future weather as you go hour by hour through your sunday. 7 00 sunday morning, not out of question there could be an isolated downpour. There could be a crack of thunder. Midday on sunday, we may see a bug break in the activity. A lot of cloud cover overhead but not many showers popping up. That quickly changes. By 6 00 on sunday, heres our next storm moving onshore. The heaviest of the rain will start in the north bay. The pop of yellow on the screen. By 9 00, 10 00, downpours working through vallejo, even onshore along the peninsula and into the south bay. And then that heavy rain could continue through early monday morning. By midnight, pockets of very heavy downpours developing across the region. And then its out of here first thing monday morning. By 6 00 monday, looks like scattered showers out there. Wind forecast. Not as strong as we saw today. Some good news there. Rather breezy out there. Anywhere from 25 to 35 Miles Per Hour will be our peak wind gust. Additional rainfall. This is going to be a good soaking. A lot of spots may see close to an inch if not over an inch of rain by sunday evening. We still have some snow heading towards the sierra. Winter storm warning through monday afternoon, 4 00. Watch those numbers rise. As we go into monday afternoon, nearly three feet of snow in some spots. 26 inches in tahoe city. 38 inches of fresh powder in kirkwood. 30 inches in donner. Certainly will see a lot of snow the next 36 hours. Overnight tonight back in the bay area, winds on the calm side. Still the chance of a scattered shower out there. Overnight lows, not too far from where we are. Upper 40s to 50s. Sunday, much of midday on sunday it looks to be overcast skies. In the afternoon and into the evening, thats when the heaviest rain moves in. Well get into the lower 60s across the region. Heres your accuweather forecast. Tomorrow, showers. Chance of a thunderstorm. Much of the activity will be on sunday evening. By monday, a morning shower possible. A break in activity tuesday into wednesday before we track another storm. First into the north bay on thursday. Rain and wind areawide on friday. 2 on the storm impact scale. And by saturday, scattered shower lingers. Certainly the worst of tonight is over. Thats good to hear. Still to come on abc 7 news at 11 00. Do you want a chance to spin the wheel . Wheel of fortune is in the bay area this weekend. You could be the next co what will you do . Ctric nissan leaf. How far will you go . How much will you see . Electrify the world. Now with a classleading 107 miles on a charge, the nissan leaf is the best selling electric car in america. In the battle of burgers. 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