Hills. We will be touched by a little bit more light rain through 10 00 this morning. You can see the plume of moisture sinking to the south. You can see we had ponding on the embarcadero in San Francisco. We had. 1 with temperatures up to 60 degrees. The morning rain will tea per taper to a random shower. We have areas of wet roads. If you are taking to the streets you have to be careful. This is the risk of solo vehicle spinout. This is near 80 with a vehicle the wrong way on the highway from the spinout. There is hydroplaning so be careful on the roads. Through orinda to the caldecott tunnel you are at top speeds with slowing in the eastbound direction with construction if those areas. Berkeley is a quick drive headed down 80 to the maze. The san mateo bridge is locking wet across the bay. Headed away from hayward to foster city all is quiet. It is accident free, as well. Good news so far, it is welcome sight from above the rain, not a lot but we will take it. Cornell bernard is in San Francisco. Good morning. It has been so long since we have seen rain many of us may have forgotten what it look like. At 19th light rain has been falling. We have wet pavement from the showers. We shot video on 280 at daly city where our windshields got a work out after a long winter night and dry spell. On 19th near San Franciscos state rain is falling with traffic slow. I talked to c. H. P. Because it has been so dries they say, for sore for so long, the pavement is slick. Be careful. I came from the north bay and the rain is falling there, too. On 19th avenue reporting for you. Governor brown will discuss the drought emergency when he meets with water leaders in Southern California. California faces the driest year on record. The governor will emphasize the need for all in california to conserve water. President obama is pledging support to the state as it struggles with the lack of rain writing today the president called to offer federal support for California Drought efforts. Crucial support in dire times. Snow is approaching the sierra. Much of the snow you see here at the resort is man made. The snow level is expected to drop to 6,000 feet. We will hear more of how much snow is coming to the sierra. Another snow survey is scheduled this morning. You can track the rain in the pay area using live doppler 7 hd on abc7 news weather app which makes it easy to share your weather photos and download information. This morning the largest cities is still at a standstill after a snow and instorm swept through the gulf coast in the south. Abandoned vehicles are clogging major highways and schools are still shut down. After two days of cold chaos, the cleanup is finally underway. After were of the south was paralyzed by a rare winter storm. It is bad. We did not expect it. 2 fell if atlanta but the city was blanketed in ice. I was on ice. Crashes blocked the interstate and cars were jammed for miles. Frustrated drivers, San Franciscoed, plane for 24 hours. A mothertobe was stuck miles from the hospital gay birth on i285 to a baby girl named grace. More drives will return to cars they were forced to abandon. Going to the airport we got stuck behind a couple of trucks. We republican out of the gas. The National Guard has been called to help. Want to make sure the kids are taken care of. The freeze was no much for Southern Hospitality with Good Samaritans coming to the rescue. Across the south, ice and misery from florida to Virginia Beach with residents sheltering if place. Hundreds of children if georgia and alabama were trapped at school because the roads were too dangerous to leave. In atlanta many asked why officials were not better prepared. I have been on the road for 16 hours. Someone needs to be held accountable. The governor admits mistakes were made. We have lessons to learn. Nfl Officials Say the frigid weather will ease up at the stadium on super bowl sunday. Fans can expect it to be around 40 at kickoff dipping into the 30s dug the game with clouds but probably no rain. The nfl made contingency plans to move the time or date of the game in the event of a huge snowstorm. Forecasters say it appears the new york area will be between two storm systems on sunday. Getting lucky. Very. Bart believes are back at work after a touching Memorial Service for the sergeant who was shot and killed by a fellow officer. Thousands turned out to remember Sergeant Tom Smith with officers across the country saluting as the casket arrived. An emotional bart police chief rainey said he will never be forgotten. He was shot by a bart detective michael maes who did not attend the funeral. Bart has set up the tommy Smith Memorial fund at wells fargo in san ramon to benefit the family. We have the address and account number on abc7news. Com. Police say an Early Morning fire at a redwood city scrap Metal Recycling facility is arson. The fire at the Metal Management ignited in a stick smile of metal recycleables after an employee heard an explosion. It took several hours to put out the flames. The smoke triggered a Health Warning for people in the area. Officials say they are still reviewing Surveillance Video from the fire and the details of the investigation remain confidential and a similar fire broke out a month earlier at the facility. A search is under way if a bank robber in santa rosa. His releaseed these security photos. He went into the Exchange Bank in santa rosa around 4 00 yesterday afternoon and gave the teller a note demanding money and walked out with cash. The Exchange Bank is offering a reward of up to 5,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction. Look over mikes shoulders to see how were rain we could get and how much it helps our drought. Would thing it will help the detroit at all, we need. 15 to stay even. This is just a blip, a drop in the bucket. It is nice the record highs are gone and we have seen the light rain. We take what we can get but it will not be enough. You can see light rain up to San Francisco from daly city and stretching across the bay bridge to oakland. We have light rain on 85 back to the park and campbell and through the San Ramon Valley very light rain from alamo, danville, san ramon, dublin, pleasanton, headed out toward live more on a 80 in the altamont pass. Today, height rain is possible through 10 00. Temperatures mostly in the upper 40s to low 50s and mostly clouds at noon and midtoupper 50s. A random shower is possible at 4 00 through tomorrow morning. Temperatures, dress for 50s. The c. H. P. Is warning drivers to be careful of hydroplaning and solo spinouts because of the oil buildup on the roads. There will be a wet commute for the morning. In hercules, this is evidence of that, eastbound highway four on shoulder, a solo vehicle spinout with the vehicle facing the wrong way. Along i80, the drive is nice to the hoffman split from richmond to albany and berkeley. 680 sin from walnut creek to dublin is 14 minutes and 101 southbound from santa rosa to San Francisco is 51 minutes and the Santa Cruz Mountains is 23minute drive and outside this is 101 southbound away from san rafael to San Francisco it looks like the roads could be drying up but expect to see moisture. Target says they now knows how hackers stole credit and debit card information. Popular retailer takes on the competition and shoppers will be the big winners. Republicans in congress unveil a plan for Immigration Reform with a challenge they will lay down. The long awaited rain is here. 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You can watch for more wallet friendly prices and styles in the spring. Google is selling off the motorola business to chinabased group for 2. 9 billion. That is less than the 12. 4 billion google paid for the company in 2012. The company is keeping most of the mobile patents this is the ron they picked up the company. They have lost 2 billion since google took it over. Maker of angry birds said the website back if operation this morning after a hack attack. Hackers defaced the website yesterday and this comes after reports that u. S. And British Spy Agency may have accessed personal data of the users. They have denied they share information directly with the intelligence agencies and says no user data was at risk. In hopes of ending the drought in california, a bay area muslim group will pray for rain. People of all faiths are invited to the Alameda County fair grounds to take part in the prayer service. Organizers plan to offer a similar prayer to the one deliver by the prophet mohammed during times of drought. Many of us have been hoping for rain so now that it is here maybe the prayers are answered. We want your pictures, the weather photos that you can post or share with us on twitter or instagram. I almost posted a picture of my wet garbage caps on on the cans. We need more rain. Here is what is going on the visibility shows the rain that is falling is small and light. It is not reducing visibility so much but it is making the streets slick. San jose has received the higher amounts. 1 at San Jose International airport and you can see saratoga headed to cupertino and prospect road and to campbell we are looking at 17 right there and some of the better radar runs so watch out for that. You can see the front is moving through and there is residual moisture moving through santa rosa but the heaviest of the wet weather is over but for one patch in the lower lefthand side of the screen that moves into the peninsula coast and headed to the south bay the next hour or hour and a half. In walnut creek, it is not raining very much and 680 is looking good and it was wet but not that slick this morning which was nice. Light rain. Until 10 00. Scattered showers until friday morning and a slight chance of rain on sunday and when we get beyond this, it is over for a chance of rain. Random showers and a few breaks in the clouds and upper 50s to near sick. Close to normal. Tonight is cooler by five to tendegrees from mid30s in the north bay valley to upper 30s in the east bay and lowtomid 30s for the rest of us and we will see how the day plays out with a plume of moisture, 7 00, steady rain to the south, break in the cloud cover headed to the lunch hour and that will destabilize the atmosphere the next bit of energy comes in and it is weak with not is much lift so we have a chance of a scattered showers and that will continue overnight weighing up tomorrow morning and all is clear, maybe a little fog developing and by tomorrow afternoon we are looking at a lot of sunshine and friday evening weather should not have any effect other than maybe you need a heavier coat. It will be clouds tomorrow with temperatures warmer than today mid50 to low 60s and same on saturday under sunny skies and the system skirts us to the west so this is a chance of height rain along the coast on sunday and the rest of us are in the midtoupper 50s and dry and warmerthanaverage monday, tuesday and wednesday. Serious citizens are rolling in as we take you to san jose along northbound 85 coming closer to this area with an overturned vehicle on its side. Now it is a sixvehicle crash. We have moist conditions. We have light are areas shaded in green and that means it is possible drizzle and rain falling so we have slick conditions. It is not going away. Be careful. We could see delays with slow downs along northbound 280 approaching highway 85. That is starting to impact other freeways. To the north we have this accident northbound 101, no delays and everything is over to the shoulder. As we stay in san jose, this is the drive along 87 northbound coming up to julian street, very wet out there, be careful of the slick conditions. Drive slowly. Kristen sze and Katie Marzullo . Thank you. Seven things to know as you start your day. A puppy found on a recycling plant conveyer belt has a new home. A diehard seahawks fan gets the surprise of a lifetime thanks to her son. What she will do on sunday. We are keeping track of the storm moving through the bay area with live doppler 7 hd showingtons of green and where the rain is he besis that millioa is that millions of people will qualify for Financial Assistance. Its important to remember that the lower your annual income, the greater Financial Assistance you will receive. Enroll today at coveredca. Com. 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