Down lines today and shut down the road in both directions. Taking a look at the water hazard in the financial district. Both drivers had to navigate around puddles. In Santa Clara County, a rescue just north of summit road well take you live there in just a moment. First latest on the weather. Its been a dicey day all over the bay. Yes. Despite the inconvenience scomb problems caused by the rainfall its just the rain weve needed. Here is a movement of the rain, so its winding down but another outbreak of rain developed. This is a smaller area reaching from clover dale to clear lake. Some could sweep south ward. Now, lets skip over to seera. There is some light snow right now. We expect snow levels to drop. Winter weather advisory until tomorrow morning. Back to the bay area, how about these rainfall storm totals . Over an inch and a half in mount st. Helena. San jose with nearly three quarters of an inch of rainfall. In spots totals could increase just a bit. Looks like heaviest is over for now. Well have rain and showers to follow evening and overnight hours. Thank you. Abc7 news was the first reporter to tweet photos of the car that went off a cliff in the santa cruz mountains. David . Reporter you can see the traffic is backed up at best, its creeping at worst in a dead stop this, is because of an accident happening about two and a half hours ago. Lets show what happened. As we look at video shot just minutes ago, a lexus sedan skided and dropped 50 feet down a cliff on the east side of highway 17. Patrol tells us the car overturned, and the driver and three passengers sustained major injuries the car was badly smashed and appears to have hit a tree. Three occupants had to be brought up and they sustained major injuries and rushed to two hospitals the fourth occupant received less severe injuries. Rain was heavy around 1 30 nochlt other vehicle was involved. Patrol says the driver appeared to have been driving too fast for conditions. Vehicle went into a slide. Coming down the hill. Collided with the right concrete barrier and overturned and went to the right side for the east side of the freeway. What kind of a drop . 40 . 50 feet . Approximately 50 feet. Southbound highway 17 traffic leaving san jose towards santa cruz kept open. Vehicles did slow down at the accident scene. Northbound traffic diverted and took a detour, its been a slow drive for anyone towards san jose. Traction means you will lose control. Reopening of the northbound lanes you can see this creeping along here has been complicated by efforts to get the car up the cliff and on to the roadway. Tow truck trying to do that because the car was lodged against a drain. So, theyre going to try it again. Live on highway 17, david louie, abc7 news. Its a virtual parking lot. On highway 17, the storm knocked down this tree early in the morning on Santa Clara County side blocking one lane for an hour. Take a look at this. There is wet cement. These are pictures. Two children were on board the bus at the time. The bus, as you can see has been towed away. The storm caused big problems in the south bay. 15,000 pg e customers lost power overnight. Most customers had had their power restored but the utility is reporting still about a thousand customers without electricity in that area right now. Classes at San Jose Silver Creek High School were cancelled today. Students were sent home with a warning to be ready tomorrow. Particularly my classroom, were going to have our tests but basically youve got an extra day to study. Not getting out of it. The power was restored this morning. A thousand customers still powerless. The storm system is bringing snow to the tahoe area right now this, is a live look at the camera. The area is getting rain at lake level, snow at Higher Elevations a Winter Weather advisory is in effect for areas above 7,000 feet. Check out this picture of a huge puddle at paul avenue in San Francisco. You were stuck in this coming to work. I was coming to where headlights were. There was flooding on the approach to 280, reduced to just one lane of traffic. Just a mess out there. And water fell, right . Yes this, could be really bad i need to move quickly. It forced chp to shut down lanes wed like to see your photos. E mail them to us. And you can put our radar in the palm of your hand with the weather app. Free for your iphone or an droid smart phone down load. More now on a story abc7 news broke yesterday mystery man saw a person lying in a San Francisco hospital stairwell who two weeks after Lynn Spalding disappeared has come forward. We learned what the witness told investigators now, vic lee with the story youll see only on abc7. Vic . Reporter our sources told us the man is a doctor from inda. Hes not licensed here but ucsf confirms hes working as a researcher at that hospital. Investigators were hoping he can provide Important Information since he seems to be the only one who saw Lynn Spalding during her 17 day disappearance. Unfortunately that, did not happen. October 4, 2 weeks after Lynn Spalding disappeared from her hospital bed a nurse heard a mystery man knocking on a locked door of an emergency man the man told the nurse he saw a person in the stairwell. He then left quickly never identifying himself. The nursing supervisor notified a sheriffs dispatcher said deputies would check it out but sheriff mirkarimi admitted they dropped the ball. There is no indication anyone was dispatched to that stairwell. Police distributed this flyer said theyre looking for the mystery witness the researcher says he came forward after he saw it on a Bulletin Board a source says the researcher told them he was on the 5th floor of the stairwell and said the person was lying between the three ready and 4th floors and added he didnt do near or touch, or move the person that, he didnt know if she was dead or alive. Investigators say spalding was dead by that time, and that her body would have been badly decomposed he said he didnt detect that. Investigators tell thaws is the extent of what he knew. Police say theyve now completed their probe. The only thing theyre waiting for is a medical Examiners Office on the cause of death. Hank harris is a family lawyer. Im curious to certainly read the medical examiners report when we get it its outrageous we dont have it yet. Investigators tell us the medical examiner is waiting for the toxicology reports. Vic lee, abc7 news. Officials in San FranciscoInternational Airport released preliminary findings today from a review of the Emergency Response to julys crash of Asiana Airlines crash. Three people were killed the airport commissioned the review. And auditor found the airport about d. A good job but called for better communication between personnel and public. The Emergency Alert system for staff failed and web site crashed the airport didnt do enough to keep restaurants open for stranded passengers and called on working with local hotels to deal with price gouging. The findings did not match in the death of a passenger run over by a fire truck in moments after that crash. One person is in custody and police are still searching for another man after an Armed Robbery and a hostage standoff today. Just after 11 00 this Morning Police responded to a report of an Armed Robbery on 83 ready avenue. Both suspects took off. One ran into an Apartment Building where he held a hostage at gun point before running away, again. Police are still searching for the second suspect. Happening now, thousands of uc workers are taking part in a oneday strike this, is video outside ucsf. Protests taking place through 7 00 p. M at five centers and nine campuses including uc berkeley and santa cruz the union accusing administrators of unfair labor practices and low staffing levels. Some hospitals postponed treatments and hired replacement workers. Sports news, 49er linebacker ahmad brooks lowered the boom on drew brees. The nfl fined him 15,000 for this hit. It outraged niner coaches and fans including current espn analyst ray lewis who thought it was a clean hit. Monday, lewis blasted the call, vowing to pay half of any fine received so ray will be putting his card to good use. This mixed opinion on the whole thing i dont think its a penalty. I think it was a clean hit. But that is the nfl. Im curious to see if ray lewis will come through. Hes got plenty of money. Yes, hell come through. Holiday cheer heading overseas. Packages put together today. Calling on thrill seekers where you can catch the worlds most extreme water slide. Then a new option for people suffering from back pain. And scattered showers as you can see. The green indicates areas where its waning right now. Spencer christian is coming up with the complete accuweather forecast. Taking a look at our emeryville camera. This is mcarthur maze. Its slow going on a day like today. Perhaps better for drivers making their way through San Francisco or back into the maze. A jet blue flight heading for boston was forced to land in orlando after an Emergency Landing slide inflated inside of the plane. Still no word on why it happened. Bay area volunteers got together to send care packages to troops stationed overseas the groups americans supporting americans packed up today in hillsborough. Sent to members of the u. S. Armys 101 is the airborne division. Hillsborough Police Captain says some items theyre sending are hard to get overseas. Things from home, but also magazines, games, different food item thats can make the journey there. Some comfort items like q tips and wet wipes are in popular demand over there. Volunteers have sent out about 3,000 of the care packages since the program started. On to business news. There is tension between google and microsoft. Its on the rise. And twitter moving into tv. Yes. Cory johnson is here with this afternoons after the bell report. Reporter yeah good, afternoon, larry carolyn. Twitter making a push for tv. Company now announced it will overhaul the mobile app devices but the search filters will include tweets to the trending section. Its going promote tv shows based on buzz generated on twitter. Residents getting a Second Chance on google fiber. People living in 180 fiber neighborhood whos passed on signing up for High Speed Network can now opt in one of the packages updates may be come together nations phone system as well the agency will begin a quote, diverse set of experiments to overhaul the nations telephone system allowing phone calls to be made in similar the way Internet Data is transmitted. Stocks closing down today, s and p lower and your bloomberg Silicon Valley also falling today. And tensions between microsoft and google growing deeper. Microsoft selling merchandise with slogans from the Scroogled Campaign if youre in a market for a mug that says keep calm while we steal your datea, well, youre in luck. Good to know, thank you. Spencer, been a busy day. Oh, my gosh. With weather cut ins. Massive traffic jams and flooding portions of roadways and power outages. Rain is moving out of the bay area for now. We have scattered showers and you can see rain is east now. So this is becoming more wide spread now. Reaching from clover dale over to clear lake. And beyond. So well see if that works down into the central part of the bay area tonight. Taking a look at blue skies from our camera here in downtown San Francisco. Temperatures mid to upper 50s in los gatos. 54 half moon bay. Beautiful view of the sky. Looking at western sky. Temperatures upper 50s from santa rosa to napa and novato. And there is a break in the clouds there these are forecast features, scattered showers into Early Morning hours. There is a clearing trend and windy conditions into friday. Taking a look at moisture that is well east. So well start at 5 00 this afternoon. During evening hours, could be pockis of light rain and maybe moderate rainfall but by afternoon, well see clearing out and drying out. There is a wind advisory in effect from thursday evening until saturday morning. The sacramento valley, winds could be gusting as high as 50 miles per hour. And bay area tonight scattered showers, lots of clouds around. Clouds into upper 40s tomorrow, well see partly cloudy skies, partly sunny after possibility of morning hours. Nice mild range inland and around the bay. Upper 50s to about 60s on the coast. Here is the accuweather forecast. Looking at this sunny, mild period ahead starting on friday. Actually starting late tomorrow. Continuing throughout the weekend into next week. But by wednesday of next week, thanksgiving eve, we may have rainfall. Well keep an eye on that. We wont be too sure until the end of the week. Thank you. Sure. Up next, singer in chief. First lady reveals a secret about her husbands vocal talents. Then, after 4 30. Its a music video crushing to those whove been denied ewelcome to covered california. Now, you can no longer be denied coverage because of a preexisting condition. Enroll today at coveredca. Com. You may remember the video of president obama singing al greens lets stay together. The first lady reveals the president sings at home all the time. 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Especially compared to noon or 1 00 in the afternoon. Its welcome. Storms bring concerns. Abc7 news is live in floodprone city where officials are working to protect homes and businesses. Look we are wr we are. Normally in winters in big rains, this place is flooded the water, flowing the water is higher. Its low tonight. Residents want to keep it low they have a plan to keep it low. But its a plan being debated and debated heartily. Another day, another rain storm. Another new story from san anselmo. The town flooded at least three times in 100 years. Last did 1. 6 million damage. The town sees this section of Memorial Park as a key i would say as a community we have a flood problem. And that we have to look at solutions. The town wants toechl pose a creek, sink baseball diamonds, build birms and create a water detention basin. Its controversial. Dan says this isnt a not in his backyard issue. He and other critics see this as a flawed and ineffective plan. Its 3. 8 of the creeks youre going to spend 17 million on 3. 8 . 3 is all of the water in the creek and out of the not just an issue of whether residents want to prevent flooding but how, and why . You can follow on twitter, getting tweets from abc7 News Weather Team as well as power outage information. An abc news exclusive uncovers al qaeda operatives living here in the united states. Slipping through the cracks of a refugee program. The city of Bowling Green seems far removed from concerns about terrorists until fbi discovered that two al qaeda terrorists from iraq have been resettled here two years ago as refugees and caught trying to obtain weapons to be used to kill more americans. In this video, being seen publicly for the first time this morning. I think they wanted to kill meshes and wanted freedoms america provided to them. Before coming to kentucky. Two part of an al qaeda connected group carrying out dozens of attacks on u. S. Soldiers in iraq. He had killed them. One roadside bomb killed four members of the Pennsylvania National guard. I think these two individuals are evil. Yet, the two terrorists were able to get through what an abc news investigation discovered was a flawed u. S. System of background checks both had been detained by iraqi authorities on suspension of being insurgents. I would say the system failed. A big break through in this case came from this warehouse outside washington. An fbi repose tori of 100,000 bombs used against american targets around the world. This is a box that contains a device. Reporter fbi officials were able to match the fingerprints recovered in iraq eight years ago with one of the men in kentucky. You can see that here. What is that like . It was like a finding a needle in a hay s