Bay area slammed by powerful spring storm brought thunder and lightning. Some strike destroy tree and damaged homes. Heavy rain cause flooding and even left snow on local mountain top. Next band manufacturing in right now. Heres leif look from the exploratorium camera in San Francisco. Cloud hang over the city with more on the way. Good evening im dan ashley. Carolyn is off tonight. Here des again. More desperately needed rain. 7 news meteorologist sandhya is tracking the storm. Here now with live doppler 7hd. Second part of the storm is inching closer to the bay area why live doppler 7hd is now starting to see some showers developing in the north bay. I a little bit closer a little bir here. We have seen not just showers but right around the lake county area you see some of the pink and purple. Thats mixed precipitation so we have seen some mixed precipitation show up on our rad as i as i take you in closer we is he very lit rain around santa rosa highway 101. Golf course drive here heading to rohnert park. Light scattered showers in the east bay at this hour but watch what is showing up when i say round 2 is coming. Watching the Lightning Strike that are developing off the coast here they are not making it right now but those strikes are pretty good indication that the air mass is very unstable and thats what we look at for tomorrow. Rainfall last 24 hours with this storm over an inch saint helena exploratorium airport 4500 just over half in oakland. San jose 42 hundredths and concord picked up 6 tenths. Well be adding to those total. Santa rosa by the way almost an inch. Dan ill be back to let you know what facing for the morning commute rest of the accuweather 7 day forecast. Sandhya. That gets your attention. Thunder boom could be heard across the bay area today. This sent people understandably running for cover in sausalito. And where there is thunder you know there is lightning. Massive bolt blasted a tree in berkeley today. Lillian is live in berkeley with a look at the damage that rare bay area Lightning Strike caused today. Reporter dan, this is just one piece of the tree we found laying on the ground. Its sharp. Its heavy. Amazing, no one was hurt. This is what is left of the large redwood. Most of it now in pieces. Scattered over a 3 block radius in this berkeley neighbor this flash was so huge and so 4 pul. Doug happened to be lacking out the window when the with 75 foot tree struck by lightning. It was literally an explosion. Like a bomb going off. It was violent. The shock wave like i could feel it in my xheingt. Reporter city workers wept from house to house board bordering window and looking at damaged roofs. Huge chunk of wood and fell on the back yard next door. Wasnt as bad for the homeowner 2 houses down but they still have a lot of repair work ahead. Broken window. Door. Broken sky light. Hole in the roof and few leak here and there. Reporter as for the owner of the treeshtion his house is red tagged. Hes avoiding all of the attention but people are still flocking to the neighborhood. Some even took pieces of the tree as receive near. Probably most exciting thing happened to berkeley and ill take this back and keep it as momento. Quite an amazing today. Fortunately no injuries. Just damage to about a dozen homes. Live in berkeley, abc 7 news. That was something lillian thanks very much. Another Lightning Strike hit a tremendous in sausalito. Force so strong it shattered window and sliding glass door in one home and damaged the deck. Another home 20 feet away also had its window blown out. So you knowed like a big explosion. Like a bomb went off. And several things fell off the wall if our house. And the power went out. Immediately. I have been through a lot of earthquakes. But never a Lightning Strike. We just dont have them that often here. Blast knocked out power to about 1,000 pg e customers. That has now been restored. City officials had to yellow tag a home in mill valley after large redwood tree came crashing down on a roof. It punctured part of the rav and cracked a window. No one hurt. Crew in menlo park closed this road bay laurel drive after largely tree branch fell on to some power lines there. This happened at about 4 30 this afternoon. Pg e says one customer only one customer actually lost power. Heavy rain do not keep these fans from taking part in the san jose giants fan fest today. About 80 people showed up at Municipal Stadium for a tour and meeting meet and greet. Sand bag kept the concourse from getting too wet. It worked out pretty well actuall actually. Heavy snow coming did you know in the sierra snow levels dropping as low as 2400 feet. This is video of castle peak on interstate 80. Chains required on 80 and 50 tonight. Now you can track the rain in the bay area using live doppler 7hd on the weather app. Down load it on our web site 7 news. Com slash app check that out when you can. It does come in quite handy when storms like this. More weather in a little bit but lets move on. With the midnight deadline the scene up for Health Insurance under the Affordable Care act last minute. Roblems. Cover california is having a tough time handling the demand and ustrated and nervousof people understandably. Leslie is in the newsroom tonight. You have been checking on the system all night long. Yes, i have right in the newsroom trying to make access to cover california on the phone. Dozens of calls all ending in busy signal. Way to speak to someone can take up to 2 hours. On line slow and frustrating. The cite is also very slow because theres a huge demand right now. Deadline day. By midnight everyone was to create an account uncover california and even the volunteers at the Health Center experts who know how to manipulate the on license web site being dumped out of it every time they tried to enroll someone. 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Leslie abc 7 news. Oakland Police Searching for a man who lured a 6yearold girl from her school and sexually assaulted her. Happened at 3 15 afternoon at ba elementary. After girl assaulted she managed to get back to the school and tell an adult. Police lack for for man wearing blue black jacket and driving a silver suv. Former San Francisco firefighters accused of driving a fire truck drunk and hitting a motorcyclist surrendered to authorities today. 43yearold Michael Quinn was in indicted wd on 3 felony counts last week. Surveillance video from june 2 2013 show as fire truck alledgedly driven by quinn going through red lit at fifth and mission and hitting a motorcyclist. That person suffered broken bone but survived badly injured as you see coming across the roadway there and hit the sidewalk. Quinn was arrested last july but the case was discharged pending further investigation. Quinn made bail today. He is expected to be arraigned to hear the formal charges against him on wednesday. Mr. To bring you here. Challenging Breast Cancer awareness. Local doctor working on new and better way that focuses on your risk of the disease. What is going on in this picture. The touching moment between the commander in chief and a baby in briefs. Ill have that story and we track. Heres a look at live doppler 7hd will the morning commute be wet . All that coming up bu first firt heres jimmy kimmel. Sample of what we have in store for tonight. Im the segment producer. You look familiar to me. No. Yes. Are you on tv. Are you on tv. No. Not recently Breast Cancer screening has been ongoing controversy of conflicting recommendations. At what age and how often . Now prominent specialist in the bay area hoping to change the way women are screened for that disease with the help of new Clinical Trial. Carolyn has the story. 63yearold maria norman healthy right now but concerned about screening option for Breast Cancer. My mother died, diagnosed with cancer at 34. Breast cancer and died at 37. And left hand 4 children. Have any of your relatives been diagnosed with cancer of any type unthe age of 20. To better understand her risk maria joined a program run by the university of california called the Breast Health network in exchange for providing detailed information on her Health History and that of her family. She received in Exchange Risk assessment for Breast Cancer. Speakingist ryan says the organization is constantly analyzing and refining statistical data gathered from tens of thousands of participants. My role really is to look through the a data and share a risk information. This program was created nearly 5 years ago with the goal of creating a personal strategy for treating Breast Cancer. But it seems it could become a testing ground once again. This time for something that has been fiercely debated in recent years how to screen and test for Breast Cancer. I dont want to argue about it any more. Ucsf Breast Cancer surgeon has been at the center of a National Controversy for suggesting that many women may not benefit from yearly mammogram. Arguing instead for more risk base screening. Now along with other researchers shes proposing a Clinical Trial that would test the effectiveness of recently developed tools including fast he have asian of genetic marker linked to different Breast Cancer. They have identified 60, 70 of these differences that actually probably make up, you know, a reason chunk of the increase risk for breast cance cancer. The doctor says a trail would take more focus lack at risk factor such as breast density and image beyond miami grachlt one Health Insurance provider expressed support for screening trillion. I think its really important that we manufacture away from one fits all model because even the provider in the medical community cant agree on onesizefitsall. Say doctor says the team will examine ina variety of security regimen and gentlemen met ick of patient and different type of Breast Cancer that appear all with the goal of giving women like maria more precise advice about the best way to protect their health. I just dont know if getting mammogram every one year is needed for me. We owe this to women. To take our modern tools and help us learn how to screen in 2014. Carolyn john sons abc 7 news. Now the do beingtor says the group plans to meet next month with lawmakers spear and representatives from blue shield and the National Committee for quality assuranc assurance. Goal is to secure funding and resources to begin screening trail as early as january. Well the president went way beyond shaking hands an kissing babies today. He and 5 month old bonded immediately during a white house event. Baby reached out and grabbed the first nose. The president no veto on this he seemed to like it just financial. Little boy family was there with members of the wounded warriors. Kind of charming picture. Well today rain made for dangerous driving conditions. 4 people were hurt when 2 cars crashed on highway 17 in the Santa Cruz Mountains this evening. One of them had to be airlifted to the hospital. The Highway Patrol had to close all northbound licenses for houre the and a half before they could clear that accident. Some of the bay area peak get dusting of snow. Santa clara county business 3700 feet tall and you can see the top covered in snow. Tomorrow is april first. Well the rape nearly cost the a the opening day. Threatening for awhile. Today heavy rain had the grounds crew at the coliseum working in over drive pushing water off the tarp. There you see them with broom and squeegee. Luckily brain in the storm in a game against the indian able to go on as planned. More coming up on that game in sports. But focus on theon the weather. Sand why is back with more written on the way. Sandhya. Yes didnt. Already on live doppler 7hd we have seen a change in the last few minutes. Look terrain band. Now starting to move from the north bay you can see some just off the coast so many of you will be getting wet as we head into the next couple hours. Rate now we are seeing some written around highway 101, petaluma, adobe creek drive, its light but some areas pick up moderate rainfall as you notice here green valley road out to fairfield. So do watch out if you are going to be leaving any time soon in the east bay. Looking at some light rain out toward bancroft avenue. Rain fall will pick up intensity as we go towards the Morning Hours and it will become more wide spread. Sierra nevada snow actually tapering but chains still required heading up to tahoe and under a winter storm warning for our exploratorium camera to San Francisco. Cloud gather exploratorium right now 49 degrees. 53 in oakland. Look at the temperatures. Low 40s san jose los gatos. Redwood city right now. It is going to be chilly tomorrow morning make sure you grab a coat or jacket from our sutro tower cam are still looking at included. Over San Francisco. 45 right now in santa rosa. 47 in Napa Fairfield mid 40s concord livermore this storm even though in the middle of spring is more like a winter storm so we are expecting some more cold air to come in from emeryville camera across the bay wet more the morning commute. Scattered showers into the evening hours. Chance of thunderstorms again and snow level around 3000 feet tuesday nature could lower locally to 2000 feet. Mountain diablo Mount Hamilton in tomorrow. Theres the cold front we saw Lightning Strike. Thunderstorms roll through earlier this afternoon. Now we watch all these speckle clouds here. This is cold unstable air. Area of low pressure will dive down with that instability and that means showers for your tuesday. Still the possibility of thunderstorms with some small hail going that your tuesday. So heres our computer animation taking you into the morning commute. 5 00 a. M. See how wide spread the showers are. Lick county area you may see mix of written snow again like today. Lunch time the rainfall picking up a little bit in intensity. And going into the evening commute. We still have widely scattered showers. Thunderstorm threat is still there. By wednesday before the commute we look at things to dry out. Partly cloudy so this is the second round we are waiting for om of the same storm system. Additional rainfall 3 quarter investigators inch and a half. Lower elevation through wednesday morning quarter to 3 quarters of an inch. Sierra nevada could get foot of snow until 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow. And speak of tomorrow, give yourself plenty of time for that morning commute it is going to be sloppy. Slow goingg due at the time scattered showers. On top of it it is going to feel colder than this morning so you will need to bundle up. Low mid 40s tomorrow afternoon stays on the cool side. Scattered showers. Thunderstormmperatures possibil temperatures only in the 50s. Accuweather 7 day forecast looking at early wednesday morning showers and then slight chance of light showers thursday night going into the wee hours of friday morning. E u but i promise you we will see spring like warmth. Maybe i shouldnt make promises. Dan we will see some warm weather this weekend with low mid 70s showing up around parts of the bay area. Try to keep my fingers crossed. Sports director larry is here opening day fun time. Strong opening day in oakland. Bizarre for the giants also. How is this. 17 runs. Bunch of error. 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