Miles per hour and one to two inches of rainfall for most areas and two to five inches may fall in the hills and coastal areas and possibly flooding and wind damage with us as well. Notice after midnight up until about 6 00 a. M. Well see areas of large heavy rainfall spreading across the entire north bay and down into San Francisco, so its going to be a challenging morning commute, but it gets even worse as we go into the midday hours and into midafternoon. Well see areas of heavy rain over the entire area. The areas of orange represent the heavier rainfall and red represents the heaviest rains so you can see the evening commute tomorrow is just going to be a mess. We also have a high wind watch in effect from 11 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. And gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour and downed trees and power lines are possible and a Flash Flood Watch is in effect for the burn scar areas in the santa cruz money tabs and coastal areas south of monterrey and flash flooding possible. Ill give you a closer look at this storm and its various effects a little bit later. See you in a few minutes. As the Stormy Weather moves in people all across the bay area are getting ready. Laura and the any is live in oakland with a look at the preparations in the east bay. Laura . Reporter im actually at the Ace Hardware Store in aisle 5, the goto aisle for anyone who wants to get red for the rain moving in, umbrellas, plastic sheeting and rain suits, anything anyone could need for the next couple of days. That will get you so it will be all water tight and not leaking in everywhere. Great. Im waterproof now. Reporter with heavy rains moving in, east bay residents are gearing up at this ace hardware in lafayette where tarps are especially hot sellers. The type of thing that we recommend for people coveringle. Here, its the gray tarps here and we have them in various sizes and these will be waterproof type tarps. Reporter in oakland east bay mud had its crews out at the estuary checking out a sensor estuary hat may have malfunctio falsely indicated there was an ore flow of sewage in the water there. There was no physical evidence of any overflow. However, out of an abundance of caution we posted signage and we let people know stay out of the water while we conclude an investigation to see if indeed there was an overflow. Reporter east bay mud will continue to monitor the situation as the next rains move through. And in piedmont they will keep a close eye on the football field and it flooded over the weekend and could very well do it again tomorrow. As we do when we get a large storm event, fields can flood to a certain degree typically because its at the catch basin in many ways of piedmont storm drains. Reporter eastern mud reports overall storage was much better than this time last year, 80 of capacity and the snowpack in the sierra is still well below average. In the east bay, laura anthony, abc 7 news. Reporter king tides crept up on the unsuspecting driver of this white van near the bay bridge toll plaza in oakland. Sky 7 was overhead earlier. The van was parked in a marsh area when the tides rose. Firefighters rescued the trapped driver who wasnt injured. Its shaping up to be a great december for ski resorts in the sierra. Snow began falling last night and its still coming down and thats what it looks like right now in south lake tahoe. This camera is at heavenly Mountain Resort and snow could fall in the next few days. Track the snow with the abc 7 news app and we have live doppler 7 and issue push alerts to your cell phone and tablet. A short time ago the dmv says uber has to stop the selfdriving car service until it gets a permit. Already some people are documenting issues with the selfdriving cars. Abc 7 News ReporterMelanie Woodrow has the story. Reporter look, mom. No hands. My goodness. Its really happening. Reporter the spinning cylinders on top of these roberto xd90s mean selfdriving ubers have arrived in San Francisco. It sounds fun and innovate in spite of if matched with a selfdriving uniex riders can opt out. Its dangerous. What if the whole operation were to malfunction . Couldnt that cause like a catastrop catastrophe . Maybe take a life. Reporter already today one taxi driver posted dashcam video of an uber selfdriving vehicle running a red light though its not clear if the vehicle was in selfdriving mode at the time. In response uber says safety is its top priority, also that the incident has been reported and they are looking into what happened. Since debuting its selfdriving vehicles in pittsburgh three months ago, uber has said it has no significant accidents to report. Uber has not obtained testing permits for selfdriving technology. In a statement california dmv says 20 manufacturers have already obtained permits to test hundreds of cars on california roads and uber shall do the same and in a blog post uber writes the company does not believe it needs the permit because a person is still behind the wheels monitoring the vehicles. Reporter uber selfdriving vehicles will be sharing the roads with cyclists, pedestrians and lots of driver. While some see danger other commuters along busy Market Street see opportunity. I personally would try it because it eliminates human error. Reporter love if or hate it selfdriving ubers are now part of San Franciscos fabric. Melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. Coming up on abc 7 news at 6 00, 7 on your sides Michael Finney takes a closer look at the legal aspects and whether uber is breaking hat law. Are mixed signals coming out of todays nfl owners meeting about the raiders future in oakland . Commissioner Roger Goodell says there isnt a stadium proposal on the table that addresses the longterm issues in oakland and says the league will continue to work at this. His pes Mission Comes a day after oakland alomeda county leaders give ronnie lotts group the approval to try to negotiate a stadium deal with the raiders. Mark davis is maintaining his commitment to move the team to las vegas. The leagues deadline to file for relocation is february the 15th. A man was arrested today accused of making terrorist bomb threats against the vta. Detectives say 42yearold jonathan kind made calls to the Customer Service center and Media Outlets t. Caused a lot of details as buses had to be stopped and searched. More live from the Valley Transit Authority office. Reporter we checked with vta officials and Law Enforcement and as of right now they are not saying what made this man so upset burks they looked into the threat and they found no bombmaking materials. Valley transportation authority, trains and bus res back on schedule after a suicide bomb threat this morning. We did not shut down service, but we did stop buses at certain points and stop transit at certain points. Reporter three calls came into vtas Customer Service center and the first one shortly after 9 00 when a man threatened to jump into a train and minutes later he called again and then the third phone call came in at 9 31 when the individual threatened to carry out a suicide bombing on a vta vehicle. Reporter vta notified the office and transit control officers after the first call and two hours later officers located the suspect and 42yearold Jonathan Keim at a Fast Food Restaurant in san jose and he had also emailed a Radio Station which also notified vta. The transit officers arrested the suspect in the vicinity of highway 87. He did not have weapons or explosives in his possession. Sheriffs deputies did not find bombmaking materials and they say kei sm a known vta passenger. I dont see why there would be a terrorist thing to vta, nothing really wrong with vta. I keep my surroundings pretty aware an whoever im with i make sure they are safe as well, so its pretty scary knowing that this happened this morning. Reporter keim is charged with making a false bomb threat n. San jose, lonni rivera, abc 7 news. A tennis coach also a registered sex offender in custody accused of Sexual Misconduct with an underage female. 61yearold matt montana was arrested last week. Hes been charged with continuous sexual abuse of a child and multiple counts of lewd and lascivious acts involving children. Montana was providing private tennis lessons at west valley colleges. Hay wads police chief has been on administrative leave since august and suddenly announced her retirement today taking effect immediately. She was placed on leave in august over a confidential personnel issue. Today the city manager issues statements saying stewart had moved up her planned retirement by about four months and Police Captain mark kohler took over as the acting chief after stewart was placed on leave. 5. 0 earthquake rattled the north bay today and the quake hit at 8 41 and was centered in the geysers 72 miles north of San Francisco. There have been nearly two dozen aftershocks and the biggest one measuring 3. 0. There are no reports of damage or injuries. Coming cup on abc 7 news at 4 00, yahoo hacked again. More than a billion accounts affected. What you need to know. Plus, the Silicon Valley superstars meeting with the president elect at trump tower today to mend fences. And there is something new in the air, the merger between virgin and Alaskan Airlines and what it means for customers. And taking a life like at the san mateo bridge right now. Looks better if are you heading westbound to the peninsula on the righthand side. Traffic coming into the east bay much slower on the lfnltds stay with us. Were back after a short break. Of reach for far too long s have Health Insurance. Thats been out how . They enrolled through covered california. Its the Health Insurance marketplace where youll find a range of plans from leading Health Insurance companies that offer you the best combination of quality, rates, and benefits. And, through covered california, you may get financial help to pay for coverage. To have Health Insurance starting january 1st, you need to enroll by december 15th. Visit covereca. Com today. A bombshell from afternoon from yahoo. More than a billion users may have been exposed to a hack. The hack took place in 2013. The stolen information may include names, phone numbers, addresses and they believe the credit and Bank Account Information wasnt compromised. Yahoo is notifying users who might be affected and forcing them to change their passwords. The company says the incident is different from a hack in september affecting 500 million people. Silicon valley leaders sat down with president elect donald trump today, a summit that brings together former foes. And many tech leaders backed Hillary Clinton in the president ial race. Kristen sze is here with todays highprofile fendmending. Reporter laurie larry and ama, jeff bezos, Tesla Ceo Elon musk and googles Parent Company alphabet ceo laurie page with the saltandpepper hair there, all accepting mr. Trumps invitation to the roundtable. I want to thank everybody. This is truly an Amazing Group of people. I wont tell you the hundreds of calls weve had asking to come to this meeting. The summit aims to improve the rocky relationship between candidate trump and the tech community. In trump criticized apple for make products outside of the u. S. And elon musk has questioned the president elects character. Today no sign of tension as mr. Trump promised to support trade and innovation. Paul holland says it makes sense with tech leaders to come to the table. The responsibility of the organizations is to do what they can to have a voice on things like immigration, on immigration, on tech policy and taxation and so forth. All right. Its always interesting, right, to see who sat where. Im going pause video for you. Right there, mr. Pence and mr. Trump, and right here you have jeff bezos, larry page, c. O. O. Of face Sheryl Sandberg and over here peter thiele, one plaintiff trumps biggest supporters in tech who helped arrange this meeting and next to thiele is tim cook right there and next to him oracles sava katz. Also interest, none of them spoke with reporters when leaving. The Vice President elect pens tweeted productive as many mitt today with tech leaders focused on job creation and innovation. Larry and ama . Thanks so much, kristen. Todays decision by the Federal Reserve says a key Interest Rate could be the start of a trend. Todays quarter of a percent of a hike marks the second time the fed has raised rates in more than ten years. The last time was six months ago. The fed board had delays a rapid rate increase to help stimulate Economic Activity by making it cheaper to borrow. Investors fully, pektsed the rate hike and even so stocks fall across the board. The dow dropped more than 118 points after flirting with the 20,000 mark for a brief time today. The nasdaq lost 27 points and the s p 500 fell 18 points. Amazon is now testing a system that delivers packages by drone in the united kingdom. This service is called prime air and promise thoz deliver packages of up to five pounds within 30 minutes. This is video provided by amazon. Now these drones fly no more than 400 feet above the ground. They are guided by gps and amazon says it will use the data compiled in this beta test to expand the service over time. Well, Alaska Airlines and virgin are an item but now will continue to operate separately. Heres abc 7 News Reporter lieian melendez with more on the merger. Reporter Alaska Airlines employees were greeted by their future coworkers from Virgin America. Together as one they will create the fifth largest carrier in the country. Is this a good day . Yeah. What do you think of the airplane . Reporter dont get used to it. The plane was designed just for the celebratory flight. What comes next is a big unknown. For now the slogan is more to love. The other thing i love about this purpose statement were not done. Reporter for now the airlines will continue to operate separately. The details of the merger will be hammered out beginning next year. Alaska air group purchased the burlingamebased Virgin America for 2. 6 billion and alaska made it clear it wanted to become the dominant west coast carrier with a combined fleet of 226 planes and nearly 19,000 employees. San Francisco Mayor ed lee said it will give Silicon Valley companies more options. As they work really hard up and down the west coast, they need to go over to the east coast, do the ipos on wall street and come back and do the hard work. Reporter alaskas ceo promises no layoffs in positions like pilots, flight attendants and mechanics and expect some managerial positions to be cut. There are roughly 600 management positions at virgin and roughly 300 of those positions and in time, might be one to two years down the road will become redundant. Reporter alaska will work on bringing together the two mileage programs to benefit all members. At fso, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. Might be a good time to fly. Because its going start raining here very quickly. Oh, my gosh. Its going to pour and winds will be strong and we may have Power Outages and right now were looking at relatively calm conditions. Heres live doppler 7. Areas of scattered light rainfall but its not going to be scattered or light for long. A live view from imliville looking under cloudy and gloomy looking skies. Everywhere, San Francisco, mountianview and gilroy 63 and san jose 65 at Half Moon Bay. As you can see by the raindrops on the camera lens, 50 degrees and 60 at napa and 61 at livermore and one more live view, abc 7 looking out at the embarcadero, strong storms arrive in the Early Morning and everything rainy throughout the day and that includes the evening commute. Is going to be messy. Storm impact scale. This approaching storm ranks 3 on the impact scale. A strong storm with gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour and likely in the Higher Elevations. We expect 1 to 2 inches of rainfall generally across the bay area 257bd to 5 in coastal regions hand in the Higher Elevations and the possibility of wind damage and flooding. I need to emphasis, forecast animation by 6 00 tomorrow morning. Entire north bay as well as San Francisco will be covered by moderate to heavy rainfall as indicated by the vivid colors of orange and yellow and then rain spreading to all parts of the afternoon hours and just intensifies and a few areas of red there flashing on the screen representing the heaviest downpours of rain so you can see going into the evening commute tomorrow its just going to be wet and messy and wind and by 11 00 tomorrow night the storm will be winding down. Lets take a look at our projected rainfall totals anywhere from an inch of rain tomorrow expected in mounta mountianvi