Gutter autos pineapple express. I consider them lightly. Out in front of the house a tee trimming crew was cutting down branches. Here inds marin county we have 15 crews roaming this, is something we do year round. Theyll work tomorrow, when storm gets gusty, well keep them out as long as conditions are safe, theyre out here working 365 days per year. No sandbags on the sidewalk and owners of shops that flooded several times over past years say theyre not concerned. There is not been any rain. The creek is low. Were not worried. Just minutes ago i spoke with a representative from county public works told me theyve not been out clearing drains because they were out clearing drains for two months in preparation for storms. They say they will be out in force, tomorrow, reporting from Marin Headlands abc 7 news. Mark. Thank you. Santa clara valley Water District using web cams to monitor creeks and rivers around the county. Water managers, can see where storm drains are getting clogged. And alert crews to clear the debris. The web cams in los gatos skb morgan hill refresh every five minutes and are watched in storm conditions. Going to be mazing how quickly a creek can overflow and cause a lot of street floodings and damage. When there is blockage in one trash rack. Now, Water District is hoping people will be pro active in both monitoring web cams and cleaning leaves and other debris that can clog storm drain autos theyre humpgering down a Christmas Tree lots across the bay area now, in this lot workers started tying down trees so they wont topple over. Theyre also laying down tallest trees but say they will not close up shop because of the storm, workers say theyre used to being out in wintery weather. They plan to set up tents. A big storm equals phone shall dangers on the water. Coast guard is suggesting people be careful because large waves can sweep people way, theyre reminding boaters to avoid sailing touring during the storm. Be careful. You should check to make sure the boat is tied to a dock or anchored before the storm moves in. It will be a test for the bay bridge project. Caltrans met to figure out how to secure equipment and materials and to avoid polluting the bay when rains come. We will have that story later in a live report youll see on abc 7 news at 5 00. The approach serves as a reminder to make sure youre ready for a natural hazard, prepare is at abc 7 news. Com under see it on tv. Today a school bus burst into flames, Firefighters Credit the driver with rescuing a girl in a wheelchair. The driver lifted the student and carried her to safety. You can see in these pictures provided by the School District the flames gutted the bus. Abc 7 news is at the bus barn now and will be reporting live on abc 7 news at 5 00. And Santa Clara County 15yearold boy will be charged as an adult in qex a deadly crime spree. Police arrested the boy friday, they believe he, and this man murdered 22yearold rory parkpettiford during an attempted car jacking. The crime spree also included four armed robberies and a shootout injuring a police officer. In santa cruz, deputies investigating reports of break ins at three elementary schools. You can see them on the map. This happened this morning in march vista, live oak and bradley schools, deputies say a computer and print we are taken at live oak. There was damage to buildings. Milpitas Police Looking for a gunman in a traffic stop shoot out today. ÷ n students were greeted with an announcement that grief counselors were there to help them. Teachers will follow up with classrooms led discussions on how you deal with grief. The memorial continues to grow. People who live here in redwood city say peacing by alameda and jefferson was just heart breaking. Heart breaking. I have a child, a grandson the same age. Tammy says her grandson went to the same preschool as laila. of several people who soughttvkz comfort on a facebook page. Everybody is writing about Little Things they remember, one little girl said last night we ought to remember to give each other a hug, be grateful we have each other while here. Police were back at the scene this morning continuing their investigation. Laila hit by a truck, riding her bike to school yesterday. Police say at this point, it doesnt look like laila, or the driver were at fault. It was just a terrible accident. As classmates try to deal with the tragedy, many of them are wearing blue today. Because it was her favorite color. Wt. S makes your heart feel god for the community that theyre gathering together and i think having an appropriate response. But also, reminds us how fragile life is. And how laila will be missedded. She says sh sm students painted their finger nails blue. Police say it was foggy at the time of the accident and maybe the moisture caused tires to slip. They just dont know what happened. Theyre still trying to figure it out. 234 redwood city, abc 7 news. Oykos University Getting ready to hold a concert to dedicate a Memory Garden dedicated to those who were killed in the shooting spree. Former student one goh is charged in the shooting. A judge is zigd whether he is mentally competent to stand trial. Youve heard of the path marin county has a high rate of Breast Cancer, it turns out its not the only area. The Group Public Health institute came up with a ro jekt identifying other so called ,z cancer clusters. We have the findings. We knew marin county had high rates of Breast Cancer, now, researchers say other counties do, too. Here is a map showing counties and city thats have 10 to 20 higher rates than the state wide rate. Contra costa and sanlta clara counties, information taken from california cancer registry, compiling data between 2000 and 2008. Researchers dont know why these areas have high rates but information may help them later. I think that having some data, you know empowers you to make progress. Theyre about 27,000 new cases of Breast Cancer in california every year. In marin county, abc 7 news. Still ahead, apple issues a pink slip to the man in charge of the iphone mapping system. Well have that, plus why Kentucky Fried Chicken is writing a check for county autos more trouble for the former elmo puppeteer. And later a first for the amgen tour of california. Cities to host announced today. Taking a look outside right now at the skyway, you can see its easy going for drivers heading south. But for drivers there on the lefthand side of the screen more legal trouble today for the former Creative Force between sesame streets elmo. A lawsuit accused him of trolling gay telephone chat lines looking to meet under aged boys for sex. The plaintiff was 16 when he met clash, claiming clash had numerous elmo dolls in his apartment where they met to have sex. The first accusation was recanted. His spokesperson says the suit has no merit, clash resigned from sesame street last week. Four california counties are splitting 200,000 paid by Parent Company of Kentucky Fried Chicken for health and safety code violations. The company sued for not properly installing cooking equipment. Prosecutors say new ovens were not ventilated properly and pose aid health hazard. The company also paid 94,000 in costs. The mead head of apples botched mapping system gets the boot. Cyber monday breaking records. More shoppers search for bargains on mobile device autos yes. We have more in your bloomberg after the bell report. Hi, john. Good afternoon, dan and carolyn. Numbers show major growth in online shopping. According to numbers from ibm, cyber monday was the Biggest Online spending day of the year, up 30 from last year, shoppers relied on mobile devices, especially the ipad. And speaking of apple a management shake up at the company, uproar over the new iphone flawed mapping system led to ouster of richard williamson, manager in charge of that program. The company is now consulting without side mapping experts and pushing its maps provided to fix several mistakes that replaced google maps on the new iphone 5. The fight between hp and autonomy getting more intense, mike lynch fired off a heter demanding the company explain charges that they used accounting tricks to inflate the value. Hp shot back saying it would not provide anymore details. Over to google larry page met with officials today. Ftc wraps up its 19 month long antitrust investigation if the companys business practices. Sources tell Bloomberg Google seeking to persuade fcc it hasnt broken laws. The company is reportedly worried entering into any settlement with the agency may hurt its future business dealings. The company and motorola units settle a lawsuit with Immersion Corporation that has sued motorola claiming some of the smart phones infringed. Under the deal google will pay for past missed shipments. Talk about the stock parkt. Stocks ending the day down, investor as wait news on fiscal Cliff BloombergSilicon Valley was down on the day. Sales of microsoft x box 360 are outpacing those with the new gaming system. A spokesperson blogged 750,000 consoles were sold in the u. S. Last week, and that compares to just 400,000. The brand new wiiu, everybody fighting for those gamers and their 8an attention during the holiday season. Dan and carolyn, back to you. Thank you. Were expecting big changes in the weather. Yes. Sandhya patel is tracking it all. It did sound intense. Yes. With a first storm hitting during rush hour, timing of the storm does not look good. From our sutro camera, you can see clouds gathering as wewllo check out live doppler 7 hd. You can see these are clouds in advance of the storm system. The stormuhed not here yet, but well be watching for it as it arrives in the wee hours of the morning and well feel wind and rain coming down hard at times. Temperatures now in the 50s and 60s, stormy for the morning commute. Rain shifts to the north bay on thursday. And more wet and windy weather follows as we have two more storms coming in beyond tomorrow. First storm system bringing us a burst of wind and rain. Second brings rain first to the north bay, then spreads it south. Thursday, and friday. Really friday is when the rest of the bay area will get hit by the storm, third one bringing wide spread wind and rain saturday night into sunday. So i want to show you timing of this. 11 p. M. Tonight which is still looking at clouds heading into the wee hours of the morning rain and winds will start. 5 00 a. M. You can see Stormy Weather morning commute starting to look nasty. Were going to see heavy wind, rain. Really continues until 8 00 a. M. You can see the front continuing. Once the front goes through, were going to see scattered showers for wednesday afternoon and evening. Thursday, 5 00 a. M. Showers in the north bay. Heavier rains start to shift. Thursday evening, well see some heavy rain focused in the north bay. Then, watch what happens. The front starts to sag stouj ward. The rain line shifts. Friday morning commute does not look good. At this point heavy rain accompanying it. Well see gusty winds for friday commute wh. All is said and done there is a third storm due here over the weekend. Up to 8 inches in wettest loks. Six inches in the north bay. Towards east bay this, is through sunday. Three to four inches for south kbai and monterey bay. Wednesday through saturday, flood watch up lake county. Sacramento valley were concerned about flooding of creeks and streams. Wya debris flows are possible. Winter weather advisory, high snow levels so this 10 00 a. M. Wednesday to 10 00 p. M. Excuse me, were looking at four to eight inches of snow. So in the morning temperatures into upper 40s so mid50s give extra time. Temperatures with wet, windy conditions upper 50s to low 60s. Here is the accuweather forecast. Next five out of seven days is wet, then, a break wednesday. Almost certainly, thank you very much. Coming up on abc 7 news, medical marijuana and children. How young is too young . The 7yearold girl fighting leukemia her mother gives her pot every day. And tonight is the night. The winner will be named. A look at the all ladies fi while who is hot and who is not is always he valving and changing as we know. Yes. Weve got a look at gq magazines disstix of being the least influential of 2012. Included on the list mitt romney, Food Network Star guy fieri. Limb lehr and madonna also make the list. And its not a list you want to be on. No. The stars of the hobbit getting ready toin tro dus their new movie. Halle barry in the spotlight for a bitter custody battle. Oscar winner halle barry, her fiancee and exhusband making headlines nearly a week after a thanksgiving day brawl between two men. These pictures showing the exbadly bruised, he was dropping his daughter off at barrys home when the fight broke out. A judge issued an emergency protective order against aubry. His attorneys hoping to list part of the order that prevents him from seeing his daughter. The stars of the hobbit met with eager fans. The hobbit will hold a premier there. Most of the movie shot on location in new zeal yanld. On dancing with the stars tonight is the only star finals, Melissa Rycroft gos in with the stop he score its not about the score. Its about knowing you put everything out there. Yes. Its in reach. Its hard part is over. I want to be proud of what weve produced. And i want to win. Be sure to look for interviews on otrc. Com. The 2013 amgen tour adding a new twist. Riders will head south to north whit runs next may. The tour will start inpivpescone coast. San jose will host stage six, marking the age year the raise visit that had city. The only one to participate in allvnu÷ eight tours. And lth stage of the tour of california runs from San Francisco to santa rosa. There is more on abc 7 news. Com. Youll find it under see it on tv. Amazing. Still head on abc 7 news at 4 00 the gft makes a bold move to stop the shipment of unsafe foods. Questions over the deadly attack in benghazi, libya. Un ambassador susan rice goes on the offensive meeting with Top Republican whos blame her for inak rilt information. Plus. In San Francisco, the aclu filed a lawsuit challenging the ban on women serving in combat. The story is coming up. Im michael finney. If you want an e reader for christmas, the choices can be overwhelming. Ill compare newest models and tell you which one could be on republican senators who have criticized susan rice over her explanation of the attack in benghazi, libar not backing down. Chris stevens was killed in that attack along with three other americans. Top republicans met with rice today, she appears to be the top candidate to become new secretary of state but a fight may be brewing. Abc 7 reporter karen trafers has the report from washington, d. C. Hillary clinton is secretary of state. But the political posturing and mud slinging has started. High on president obamas list to take over as the nations top diplomat, susan rice. She has been under fire from some Senate Republican whos say she misled the American People about the attack that killed four americans including u. S. Ambassador to libya. Several have vowed to block her nomination to the state department. Five days after the attacks, rice placed blame on an antimuslim video. It seems to have been hijacked with a say but some individual clusters of extremists. But the administration said it knew it with was a terrorist attack. The talking points rice was given for interviews were wrong. Focus is misplaced. Today rice went to capitol hill in a Charm Offensive meeting with republican senators. And it doesnt sound like a successful visit. Were significantly troubled by many answers that c we got. This month, the president laumpbled a fierce defense of rice. When they go after the un ambassador73[e they think shen easy target . Then theyve got a problem with me. The republican senator stopped short of saying theyd still block rices nomination. But said they still have questions that need answers. Abc news, washington. A simmering protest against mohammed morsis power grab erupted violence today in tahrir square. One demonstrateor reportedly killed by a canister during a running street battle. 100,000 egyptians are protesting against the debris decree granting morsi absolute control of the country. Demonstrators are afraid it will lead to a dictatorship. Officials took samples from yas yas yass body. His widow requested on whether he was killed by israeli agents using a radio active poison a charge israel denied. Yair fat was 75 years old when he died eight years ago. The bangladesh called a factory fire that killed 111 garment workers the work of an arsonist, labeling it sabotage but theyre not releasing anymore information about a motive. Closings dr dr clothing from the western states are made there. Protestors marched through the streets. A bold move by fda shut down the biggest organic Peanut Butter plant in the country. We told you with this yesterday at 4 00. Today, more about what fda inspectors found inside of that facility. Inskbrorkts describe a horror show of a Peanut Butter plant. A facility with trouble. This morning now shut down, after a wide spread salmonela outbreak that sickened 41 people in 20 states. Fda finding salmonela throughout. No hand washing sinks, leaks left water on the floor. And open doors that could allow pets to enter. There was a reasonable probability of seriouskru9 injuy or death to consumers from consuming products coming out of this facility. This is the first time they used new powers to shudder a company it says is a health risk. The governor said it will not allow the producers to reopen until it says, sunland no longer has a reasonable probability of causing consequences or death to humans. This 8yearold was one of those who ate sunland Peanut Butter sold at trader joes and