>> crews were busy trimming trees in the bay area, that could knock down power lines during the storm. workers hired by pg&e chopped down three 70 foot monterrey pines that wrapped their branches around distribution lines. more than 200,000 customers were affected by blackouts during last month's storm. >> everybody's getting ready, what do we expect to see tonight? >> spencer christian is live with an accuweather update. >> it's on its way hours away here's live doppler 7 hd. you can see we have lots of clouds increasing in the area. the rain is yet to arrive, it's on its way, and will likely arrive tonight in the north bay and spread to the rest of the bay tomorrow. here's the abrooching storm, a different view bringing with it a high risk of urban flooding, meaning flooding of low lying areas and poor drainage areas. rock slides, wind damage. only a slight risk of river flooding, we expect up to 10 inches of rain from the storm. a flash flood watch is issued for the north bay. 10:00 tonight to 6:00 saturday morning. potential for rock slides, mudslides as i mentioned earlier, a wind advisory is in effect for the entire bay area. from 4:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. saturday. there's the potential for downed trees and power lines. here's our animation or at least a bit of it we'll see rain developing in the north bay, and spread ago cross the entire north bay overnight. not much of it will reach south of the golden gate, the storm may not have a significant effect on the morning commute for most of the bay area. except in the north bay the rest of the day will certainly be impacted by the storm. i'll give you a look at that in a few minutes. we have a look at the north bay, no rain yet, but a lot of cloud cover we'll keep an eye on it throughout the afternoon. residents, business owners and emergency operations agencies were busy preparing for possible flooding in the north bay. >> amy has the story. >> all we can really do is sandbag it. >> reporter: candace is doing what she can for the upcoming storm. customers want to make sure it's protected. >> i am getting older. this year, one of my customers went and got me the sandbags which is so nice. >> there's an art to sandbagging. >> mill valley firefighters have it down to a science. fill it up halfway and walk on them to flatten them. >> when you place your second layer, you want to make sure when you place the sandbag, you place it over the seam of the first layer and walk on it again. it's going to give you a much more effective barrier against water. >> this morning, firefighters and a representative from the emergency management team met to map out their plan for the storm. one concern is being able to communicate with residents. >> we have a telephone emergency notification system. >> they aren't expecting major flooding but do think shale see it in the typical areas. >> crews spent the day in marin county clearing out culverts and storm drains. they will have extra employees on hand to respond to calls for help. december storms served as a wakeup call for businesses throughout the region. some were caught offguard by the heavy rain and it affected their businesses. >> reporter: the store behind me has been closed ever since that storm. you can see it's boarded up. the rain caused a partial roof collapse. can you bet that many other businesses across the area have been checking for their own cracks not wanting a repeat of what happened here. >> i was amazed at the water that came in. >> employees at this pet shop in san jose were taken aback by last december's storm. >> it was running straight out of the roof into these big buckets and garbage cans. and it splattered, there were wet towels everywhere. >> this cell phone video shows some of the rain seeping through the roof. employees scrambled to move their pets. >> we want to keep them warm and dry, we don't want the product to get wet and lose money that way as well. >> this safeway store didn't fair so well. the damage parts of the roof caved in this store has been shut down ever since the storm, no word on the future. and nearby businesses are now feeling the pinch. >> this brings in walking crowd. >> managers say their roof is completely safe, they hope to see more customers in the coming weeks. >> after the folks at andy's downtown, a crowd surfing campaign raised $3,000 to patch up parts of their roof. >> it's a very old roof, it's been patched many many times, so it's definitely at the end of its useful life. >> a wait and see approach as they look ahead to the upcoming storm. >> it's not the rain but fungus that will doom this huge you can lip tuesday tree in berkeley. it stands watch over the pool entrance to martin luther king jr. middle school. it's created a four-foot cavity fearing the tree could come crashing down. the city has not yet set a date for its removal. >> you can track the rain on live doppler 7 hd any time. it's free on apple's app store or google play. we have more information at abc 7 news.com/app. jeremy is facing embezzlement charges. cardera is accused of taking $20,000 from the president anton little league and spending it on a family vacation to southern california. he was once the president of that little league. the investigation found him try to repay the embezzled money after coaches in the league found out. the check he wrote bounced. >> a san francisco public defender briefly arrested by police last month filed a formal complaint today after charges against her were dropped. police arrested and cuffed jamie when she tried to stop the detective who wanted to interview her clients. and a codefendant outside a san francisco courtroom. both men were facing misdemeanor theft charges. >> the deputy public defender says the officer who tried to question her clients has a history of violating rights of african-american men. eric holder is in the bay area today he took part in a roundtable discussion in oakland on how to build trust between authorities and people of color. this is part of the obama administration's effort to address concerns following the high profile deaths of eric garner and michael brown. once again, attorney general will push for police departments to equip their officers with body cameras. from sky 7 hd, you were looking at the sequences of a major work slowdown that's been happening at california's port many. a crowded line of ships waiting to be unloaded. small businesses are caught in the middle of the issue. >> one company that's feeling the pain as a result of this. >> i'm actually in san leann tremendous we'll show you fairfield in a minute. this parking lot normally bustling with container trucks coming and going. today there were a few trucks it's been that way for several weeks, in fact, activity here thanks to what's going on at the port has been cut by 75%. >> take your old wheel off, and you get a new wheel. >> thanks to the work slowdown at the port of oak land this man hasn't received a newports shipment in three months. >> for a small businesslike mine, there comes a point when it shuts you down and that's where we're at right now. >> the last he heard, the container was stuck at long beach, and he can't supply his customers, he won't be able to feed his family. >> i'm frustrated in knowing that an organization uses my family as a negotiating tool. >> we would unload four times as many containers right now as we are. >> dave weber is in much the same boat. sitting out in the bay on a container ship. weber's company the an ex-consolidation center supplies green coffees and teas to roasters all over the bay area customers who now just have to wait. >> it's impacting the inbound product, making it available for the roasters everybody's frustrated if you will anxious to get product that should have already been here. >> weber told us, he's already had to impose rotating layoffs on his employees. he realizes a labor dispute at the port has resolved soon, it could take weeks or months for his shipment to return to normal. >> in san leandro, laura anthony, abc 7 news. coming up on abc 7 news at 5:00, the negotiations that are underway between port worker unions and why container trucks are so fired up right now. >> a plea is going out to help people burned out of their homes find a place to live. more than 120 victims of three major fires over the last week are still homeless right now. that includes a large fire that killed a man in the mission district. the city announced it has set up a fund and property owners who can give these families a place to live can go to abc 7 news.com and look for this story. still ahead at 4:00, the billion dollar plan to fix california's roads and why every driver will end up footing the bill. new at 4:30. 80 million people exposed. the hack targeting the nation's second largest insurer. and why experts think this is a big sign that hackers are changing their tactics. coming up on 4:12 this thursday afternoon. you were talking 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yesterday, last night to be exact. his name is carlisle villizon. he is a repeat sex offender, wearing a tracking device one of those ankle bracelets when he was arrested. this is how it went down. officer nelson said that an oakland police sergeant helped with the investigation. he went through the state database, which keeps track of sex offenders, and he found this man's name and he had a repeat incident in 2010 and he put 2-2 together basically, very good police work. he figured out who the suspect might be and basically, they tracked him down and made an arrest at his place of employment. here's what j.d. nelson told us about this repeat offender. >> he's a registered sex offender, on megan's law, his case in 2010 is nearly identical to this case, with the exception of, he wasn't tackled by a good samaritan going out of the store. everything else is the same. >> just to recap what happened sunday afternoon the 8-year-old girl was in the toy aisle when this man came up to her and touched her inappropriately, her mother was at another aisle and she did not see the incident obviously, the man then casually walked out of the store, stills that the sheriff's department released to the media showed the man walking out of the store, and so basically in 2010 this man was at another store, and he did exactly the same thing, he fondled another young girl, and then he walked out of the store. he was caught tackled as you heard, j.d. nelson say, he was tackled outside the store by a good smarten that's why he went to prison that's why he had the ankle bracelet good police work by the oakland police department sergeant who found him on the state database, and that tracking device incidentally put him at the 99 cent store on sunday afternoon around the same time. that's how the arrest was made. back to you, vic lee abc 7 news. >> lawmakers are considering a plan to patch up california's roads at taxpayer expense. a new proposal would charge drivers $52 a year likely through insurance policies with the dmv. assembly speaker said that would raise $2 billion annually, to repair roads, bridges and highways. the state is facing a $59 billion backlog in infrastructure repairs. >> i feel like we pay enough in taxes, if they would use the money more wisely i think they could maintain the roads. >> we should pay more. >> have the test -- the gas is more reasonable. >> gas tax revenues have fallen in recent years with more fuel efficient cars hitting the roads, and the roads continue to age and deteriorate, hybrid and electric car drivers would not escape this fee, because they won't be charged at the pump. california driver's licenses may soon go digital. a state law passed in 2012 let's drivers show proof of insurance on their phones. now a state lawmaker wants to do the same thing with licenses. if approved the dmv would create a mobile app that would allow californians to access a digital form of their license or identification card. the organization will use a grant to jump start their plan for the next 20 years. >> a million dollars provides us an opportunity to set up our first ever endowment even though we're part of uc berkeley, we really raise our own funds to do this work. to have a million dollars to help lay the foundation for the future is a big thing for us. cal is one of nine nonprofit groups around the world to win the endowment. after a dry month, the atmospheric river is upon us. >> and we're so excited. spencer christian is here with the timing of it all. >> it's about to end, it's going to begin ending tonight. here's live doppler 7 hd. clouds over the bay area right now, rain the first rain which will allow the north bay, just hours away, here's a live view from our emeriville camera giving you a look the cloudy western skies. these are our forecast features. we'll see heavy rain and gusty winds in all areas tomorrow, and on the weekend we'll see periods of rain and showers. the wet weather won't really end until early next week. we have temperature readings in the low 60s in most locations. freemont and livermore. only 59 in los gatos and petaluma. the storms will start to push in the north bay tomorrow night followed by storm number two on sunday. there will be a little bit of an easing up in the action between the two storms not exactly a dry break, just a little bit of a lowering of intensity on saturday. 7:00 this evening, we'll see light rain developing in the north bay, during the later hours of the evening, we'll see spotty light showers pushing down perhaps below the golden gate, most of the activity noticed in the nighttime hours and early morning will remain in the north bay. the north bay is going to get a soaking before the rain begins to move in a significant way. southward and eastward. later in the day tomorrow we'll see strong gusty winds and heavy rain pushing across the entire bay area. tomorrow's evening commute is likely to be a slow and complicated one, bear that in mind the rain goes on tomorrow night into early saturday. then it starts to taper off we get that little bit of a break or at least easing up of the temps today. by 11:00 saturday morning expect rainfall totals to be 10 inches. 3 to 6 across the north bay. 1 to 2 inches in the south bay and up to five inches in the santa cruz mountains. the wind gusts will start to intensify overnight as well. the time line, by 7:00 tomorrow morning, gusts on the coast from 41 to 55 miles per hour. 41 miles per hour gust also at oakland tomorrow morning through the day, strong powerful gusts all day tomorrow into saturday evening actually see the winds tapering off a little on saturday. it will be a windy day. snowfall in the sierra, maybe snowfall above 8,000 feet. overnight, the low temperatures in the mid-50s mainly tomorrow's highs in the low to mid-60s mainly, in the accuweather 7-day forecast shows this wet pattern wednesday into next week to get some drying out. and i'm sure we'll welcome this pattern of 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rain, abc 7 news reporter amy holly field is on storm watch. she tweeted the storm is coming, people are preparing. sandbags are out in the north bay, crews are clearing out storm drains. in san francisco's mission district, crews spent the day removing debris from sewer lines, a sewer pipe at 16th and harrison. the rain may not reach san francisco until tomorrow morning and this storm shouldn't be as bad as last month. but no one is taking any chances. >> eric holder is in the bay area today for the last in a series of meetings around the country about the relationship between police and the community. vic lee was there, and tweeted holder pushing for all police departments to issue body cams in wake of ferguson shooting. developing now tens of millions of blue cross/blue shield customers are at risk after hackers targeted the major insurance company. karen traverse is in washington with the story. >> the nation's second largest health insurer, and it's suffered a security breach. it was a very sophisticated external cyber attack. >> some of the hackers now are so good, it's almost impossible, in reality, to keep them out. and on top of that you don't know that they're in. >> the personal information of tens of millions of customers and employees, even the ceo compromised. that includes birthdays social security numbers. home addresses, and employment information. all things that can be used for identity theft. >> the company said there was no evidence that any medical or credit card information was compromised, but the damage may be done. >> the data that was stolen is really all the elements you need to create credit. >> law enforcement sources tell abc news that hackers often sell information to people on the black market. >> our information has a street value. >> president obama is pushing to pass information that promotes better information sharing between private companies and the government. >> we want the businesses to be able to share information not only with the intelligence community who can protect them but also with other businesses. so they will not be attacked also. >> anthem will work with its affected customers to provide free credit monitoring and i.d. production services. karen travers abc news, washington. >> what should you do if your information was stolen in that anthem breach? michael finney has some tips on how can you protect your own privacy. that's coming up. pope francis will address a joint meeting of congress when he visits the u.s. later this year. the joint session will be the first time a pontiff addresses congress. the pope will also likely cannonize a missionary who brought catholicism to california. he had expressed interest in coming to california to do so, but said he won't have time. he's also scheduled to advise oil new york and philadelphia. president obama addressed religious and government leaders today at the national prayer breakfast, the dalai lama was in attendance. the president spoke at length about the islamic state which he called a brutal vicious death cult that in the name of religion carries out barbaric acts. king abdullah was supposed to read a scripture, he had to return home suddenly earlier this week, after isis executed a jordanian pilot. >> jordan bomb barted isis targets in syria today. king abdullah vowed a harsh war in response of the brutal killing of the jordanian pilot. rallies took place throughout jordan today in support of the slain pilot. jordan executed two al qaeda prisoners, including one they had hoped to swap for their pilot's safe release. a philadelphia man is suing the tsa over what he claims was a wrongful arrest two years ago. the tsa stopped roger at the philadelphia international airport, when an agent spotted a possible bomb in his carry-on. this surveillance video shows him in the orange hat patiently waiting until he was led back to a private screening area. he waited 30 minutes while agents checked and rechecked his bag. finding nothing. the 57-year-old eventually asked to file a complaint. he said moments later, he was arrested and taken to jail, where he spent 23 hours. >> i was terrified, i had fallen off the face of the earth and i hadn't had the opportunity to call anybody. i hadn't had the opportunity to use e-mail. and no one who i knew really knew where i was. >> he stood trial but was acquitted after surveillance video contradicted the tsa agent's claim that he was acting aggressively. his lawsuit targets the tsa the agent and the city of philadelphia. the only all male catholic prep school in san francisco is dealing with a scandal right now. the abc 7 news i-team has interviewed teachers who say the principal showed them pictures of naked women and other images not appropriate for a school environment. >> how does it come up? >> let me show you this. look at this, what do you think about this one? that's how it comes up casually, like it's no big deal. >> even more sensitive, two teachers accused the principal of showing them a racy video of a reardon high student. the i-team investigates what really happened tonight at 11:00. protecting your privacy in the world of social media. >> and the relationship secrets your hands could be revealing. we see big clouds building up north, and rain will soon arrive. it's going to be here for a while, i'll have the accuweather forecast coming up. taking a live look at the traffic on the sky way, it's still dry outside. it's backed up in both directions. i think it's worse on the left-hand side, that's your traffic approaching the lower deck. you're heading south toward 101 who wants to try a new burger? that's good! it's really good. very juicy. that's melted garlic herb butter. it's original. i like soft buns. i would buy this. this is amazing! could this be from jack in the box? definitely not jack in the box no. i'm not a big fan of jack in the box burgers and... this is really good! thanks... i guess. that is my new buttery jack with garlic 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there. >> i'm looking to see whether there's a ring or not on that finger. >> that too. >> that's the key. here's live doppler 7 hd. we have clouds around the bay area right now. rain is just hours away it's going to be a rainy spell tonight. continuing through the weekend. we could see many, many inches of rainfall down around bay level and up to 10 inches in the mountains of the north bay, across the 48 contiguous states tomorrow a calm day comparatively speaking. heavy rain in the northern half of the state including the bay area tomorrow. strong gusty winds as well. rather dry and mild in the southern part of the state. here in the bay area after rain that will linger in the north bay overnight, we'll see heavy rain and strong gusty potentially damaging winds spreading across the entire bay area tomorrow. the morning commute may not be so bad. the afternoon and evening commute will be a slow and potentially hazardous one. bear that in mind and give yourselves some extra time. >> thank you, spencer. you can use our free abc 7 weather app to track the storms. we got this cool new feature that let's you share photos with friends and family. you tap these three little lines on the top left, that will take you to the weather app's index. you tap share a weather postcard and choose to take a photo or select a picture from your own phone's library. here's what we created this afternoon, the whole thing took five seconds. even michael finney can do it. well, we think he can. you can download the app for free through apple's app store or google play. >> still ahead a lesson in modern technology. schooling kids got that went viral. >> the personal information of millions of people may have been compromised in the recent anthem security breach. what can you do if your female announcer: save up to $300 on beautyrest and posturepedic. even get three years interest-free financing on tempur-pedic. keep more presidents in your wallet. sleep train's presidents' day sale is on now! ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ a movie that's been hotly anticipated for months is running into competition for hitting the box office. domestic violence advocates say there's a better use of their money, they're pushing $50, not 50 shades which asks people to donate $50 to a domestic violence shelter instead of going to see 50 shades of gray. how easy it is for things to go viral online her goal to teach them about privacy, and nothing you post online is truly private. becky worley has the story. >> now that there's a snapshot we can communicate with pictures. >> snap chat despite the privacy firestorm when the app initially came out in 2011 the fun of it is to send embarrassing pictures. >> a british teacher felt the need to create a dramatic experiment, to teach the hard lessons of photos gone viral to her class of 9 and 10-year-olds. she had them take a picture using snap chat. and then took a screen grab, asking people to share with their locations. one friend posted it and the exponential growth led to 27,000 shares on facebook alone. >> the fact that it went viral shocks them as much as it shocked myself, really. >> we're seeing the first few generations having the same ideas about what they should keep private. >> the photos are deleted. all you have to do is press this button and this button on your phone, you have a screen grab and it's forever. >> 300 million users facebook. sky's the limit on how widely it could spread. to fight this oversharing, snap chat notifies users when a screen grab has been taken. savvy teens have found new ways to circumvent this. >> you take a screen grab without sending a notification back to the person that sent you the photo. >> some people on line altered eded photo, even putting devil horns on her head. >> you can't see -- we'll have an opinion. >> that was becky morally reporting. the information stolen from the anthem database is the most potentially damaging to customers. >> if you're among the 80 million victims you should take immediate steps to protect yourself. >> i've been talking to privacy advocates all day. keep in mind the bad guys got customer numbers, address, birthdays and social security numbers. they hardly ever get all that together in one place. that's all they need, by the way, to potentially cause a nightmare of identity theft. the information could be used to open bank accounts create a fake i.d. and impersonate victims. be wear of your e-mails. >> what we'll see after this breach is many e-mails purporting to be anthem, trying to get more information from you, or to install malware. just be careful. >> place a fraud alert on your credit report with the three major credit bureaus, they'll notify you if someone tries to open an account in your name. check your bank statements really clearly from here on out. take anthem up on its offer of free credit monitoring, i posted the information you need at abc 7 news.com under 7 on your side. amazon has opened its first customer merchandise pickup loch in their country. it's located in indiana orders submitted by 10:00 p.m. can be picked up there as early as 9:00 the next morning customers will receive a text with a link to a bar code. as amazon puts it you click, scan and accept. purdue gets something from this, 2 1/2% back on any purchases picked up there. amazon hopes to expand to other universities as well. >> money may not be able to buy love valentine's day, it will still cost you. this year americans are expected to spend a record of $19 billion on flowers, candy, cards, gifts and dinner. a dozen roses will cost you between 20 and up to 50% more on valentine's week than at any other time. a typical meal at a restaurant is likely to cost you $70 more per couple on february 14th. that's due to two reasons, expensive fixed price menus and because they got you. married couples spend about $6 less on average on gifts than single people. that's because they've already closed the deal. >> right, they're trying so hard. >> quite the buzz kill there, michael. >> it's going to cost you people. >> yes. >> all right well, with black history month taking shape in the east bay an indy film hitting the big screen, there's plenty to do this weekend. layla has ideas on how to explore where you live. >> nearly 50 documentaries and feature films will be lighting up screens on both sides of the bay. 17th annual san francisco independent film festival. tonight's indy fest opening bash kicks off the program that lefts two weeks. in celebration of black history month, the inspiration behind a new exhibit in oakland. the purpose is to showcase contemporary black artists. many of them vocals and this next event is a real page turner, the 48th california international book fair is happening this weekend in oakland. more than 200 book sellers from 33 countries are coming to what's recognized as one of the world's largest exhibitions of its kind. now that the super bowl is over, spring training is just around the corner that means giants fans can get up close and personal with their world series champions for free on saturday. just a bay bridge away on sunday. a's fans can meet their players and get autographs. for more information about these and other eventses where you live, go to our website at abc 7 news.com. up next, two separate bay area high schools on one campus, it's creating some big problems for students. up next what happened and what they're doing tonight to find a solution. >> the abc 7 newsroom. coming up new at 5:00. >> we're digging into our savings, buying things on credit. >> bay area truckers at their wits end. will the port go from a complete slowdown to a shutdown. those stories and a lot more coming up at 5:00. female announcer: when you see this truck, it means another neighbor is going to sleep better tonight because they went to sleep train's ticket to tempur-pedic event. find the tempur-pedic that's right for you and see why they're the most highly 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that occurred as john o'connell high school. now, both the district and the patients want to take a proactive approach. let me explain there are two schools here, using the same facilities students from ida b wells high school begin in january. the student with the weapon had been attending ida b. wells. on january 21st both o'connell and wells were on lockdown because of that incident. a few students told the resource officer about the gun and police detained the student for possession of a deadly weapon with the intent to assault. o'connell high has been a model school and many parents are obsessed they made the decision to put the two schools in the same building. >> they never had any problems you know. and once they moved police have been in that school every week. >> really the parents want an opportunity to galvanize around school safety and take their voice and present some recommendations to the school district on what they believe is best for their students. and we completely support that very much honor that. >> ida b. wells will be at this location until december 2015. so almost a year. parents will likely go to the district to ask that the move comes sooner. at 6:00, we'll tell you more about that meeting live in the mission district of san francisco, leann ma len dez abc 7 news. >> thank you, we'll see you in one hour. thanks for joining us for abc 7 news at 4:00. abc 7 news at 5 begins right now. preparing for a river of rain in the north bay, while in the south bay. >> there may be some new places where we need to patch. >> a pet shop barely recovered from being hit in december, has reason to worry about these next storms. live doppler 7 hd tracking a pair of storms that will bring heavy rain and high winds, we'll take a look at the time line coming up. >> these people don't care about anything. >> truckers are outraged the labor dispute that hurt its bottom lines and showed no signs of slowing down. >> trimming trees. pg&e contractors doing what they can to allow power lines from crashing down. >> all we can do is sandbag it. >> the cafe owner in mill valley is getting ready for the storm. the north bay will be the hardest hit and by all accounts it's going to get drenched. >> good evening. >> here's a live look outside -- from our emeriville camera, we have storm clouds moving in tonight, we have live team coverage for you. >> abc 7 news reporter carolyn tyler is in the north bay. chris winn in the south bay. we begin with sandia to see what's going on right now. >> this is going to be a welcomed site. clouds behind me take a look at live doppler 7 hd no measurable rain across the bay area. it is well to our north and it's coming, as you'll notice there up around eureka, they are getting some rain. let's take a look at what risk the first storm brings, that is going to be a high likelihood of urban flooding. moderate urban flooding. up to ten inches of rain expected in the north bay mountains, that's why a flash flood watch starts tonight at 10:00, runs until saturday at 6:00 a.m. the creeks and streams will quickly rise, drainage in poor drainage areas there's potential of mud and rock slides. the winds are going up, trees and power lines could go down. wind advisory starts at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow. gusts 50 to 60 miles an hour when you take a look at really the time line, just some light rain this evening spreading across and then for the start of the morning commute, we get some moderate rain moving into the north bay, it gets heavier at 8:00 a.m. closer look at the timing of that, the next storm and the weekend coming right up. alma? >> thank you, sandia. >> the last significant rainfall we had was in december. one of the hardest hit cases was in a sonoma county town. how they're bracing for this latest storm carolyn? >> the

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