Crews were prepping the site for demolition. Two large excavators were brought in to begin ripping bound 320 esplanade avenue. They have to teardown the small building first and then feel with the back of the building with the long arm. From sky 7hd you see debris from 320 that tumbled down to the water below. Wind and rain also caused major trouble for people of this pacifica home. Aeneas i have tree came crash on top of it and knocked out power to the whole neighborhood. I came home about 4 00 and the power was out. I left and i came back. They wouldnt even let us up the street for an hour. From sky 7hd we spotted new trouble spots along esplanade avenue. Residents of the bluffs department told us offcamera the crane is part of a construction crew thats been onside for the last few weeks trying to shore up the cliff with cement and massive steel rods. Meanwhile a wind tunnel. The wind can get gusty out here to 50 Miles Per Hour. In fact, just last week they were clocked at 77 Miles Per Hour. Blew the roof off the southern portion of this building here and landed out in the street. He says weather to makes the planned teardown complicated. Abc7 news. Crews in napa county will keep a close eye on river and creek levels this weekend. This is hopper creek where homes are just a few feet away from the water. Many waterways are swollen with more rainfall on the way. Yesterday brought less rain than expected so the National Weather service cancelled a need warning for the napa and Russian Rivers. But residents in the north bay are concerned about the potential for flooding this weekend. Abc7 News Reporter melanie radioed row shows us how people are getting ready to forestville. They stopped out in guerneville to see how high Russian River was getting. The yellow gate, when it gets up there, its starting to make people nervous. When the river raises, their hominoids. We live next to are a creek that cant empty in the river too well without overflowing. The rivers refer is setting the bar for the weekend. According to the rainy day jewelers, the river gets too high, they stay closed. 32 feet. We dont believe it, we heard 37 feet. Residents say they are relieved for now. We hear its not going to be as much of a need zone as predicted. But restaurants and hotels are giving customers the option to opt out without penalty. We want to be flexible. This is not the ideal weather. In forestville wet weather created muddy grounds and needed streets and some roads impassable. Although the ducks like it. He is thinking about moving. Thinking about it now. But he said there are a lot of fun things to do on the river if he can just make it through this. Melanie woodrow, abc7 news. Also in the north bay shes decided to go wake boarding open the east side after the road was flooding and it was chosed. They plan to continue wake boarding all weekend long. The south bay was spared any major trouble last night but drivers had it contend with wet roads during the evening commute. New potholes seem to pop up, giving people another hazard to avoid. At usa touchup auto body, they are working with about a dozen more cars than unusual. This is from bumpers, back rear end smashed in, some frame damage. Whether it see it heavy, pouring down with a lot of rain, i go, oh, its going to be busy, there will be more accidents. They found a few locations in the south bay trees or branches came down but none caused damage. Pg e is stocked and ready for the he will nanny no season. Heres a warehouse packed with 14,000 parts from transformers to cables. There are inhouse metol jets to track the storms and they use is that right meter data to pinpoint the outages. You can use the free abc7 news app to track the weather powered by el nino and create push alerts to get breaking weather information. We have resources also to plan for the storms at our website. Investigators hope dno from two howl man skeletons found in napa this week will help them identify who they are. They got a call wednesday about a skull found in pope valley. They recovered enough bones for two whole bodies, but just one skull. If dna cant identify them, investigators there try to reconstruct a face using 5 08 is our time. A title of organizational grand marshal this year goes to the black lives movement. The pride parade typically has several grand marshals. They are selected for being local heroes who have made significant contributions to the bay area lgbtq area and society at large. This years pride parade is junh one of the oldest and largest events celebrating irish culture take place today in San Francisco. More than 100 colorful floats, irish dance groups and marching bands take part in this mornings 156 San Francisco st. Patricks day parade. This is video from last years celebration. The parade connection off at 11 30 on Market Street and ends at specific center. The event is free and will happen rain or shine. 7 on your side Michael Finney will anchor the coverage of the San Francisco st. Patricks day parade. It begins at noon on air. And as well as the abc news app. 5 209, the fine. Will people need their umbrellas for the parade today . They will. We will see showers but its nice to have a lull in the precip. There is rain in the forecast. It is in the upper 40s to low 50s in San Francisco. Doing very well for the month of march. But we still have a Flash Flood Watch in the north bay. A couple of storms to go. We will talk about next. Thanks, lisa. Also coming up, is it really worth signing up for new credit cards for the rewards . 7 on your side will take a closer look. Plus, the new wonder material that could lead to buildings that can be programmed. We will explain when the abc7 morning welcome aboard my starship. Ahoy, mateys its full of things i love. Like me brave crew. And my fellow Space Adventures and free of things i dont. Like aliens. Just like eye patches. And when its time to refuel, i eat chex cereal. Its full of stuff we pirates need. No artificial flavors, and its glutenfree. Excelsior eat up, me hearties keep it down im exploring the galaxy. Arrrr, thats not even a real spaceship. Your body is a finely tuned instrument. Diarrhea can throw it out of rhythm. Imodium multi symptom relief combines two powerful ingredients to relieve diarrhea faster and ease gas, cramps and bloating. Restore rhythm with imodium. And ease gas, cramps and bloating. Look, i know youre a cow and all. And you may not know what im talking about, but, uh. The yogurt made from your milk, is delicious. Mmmm, yoplait. New this is abc7 news. If your mailbox is stuffed with credit card offers, you are not alone. Banks are up being the deal with signup bonuses but 7 on your side Michael Finney tells us not everyone is biting. You see the offers everywhere. Cash back, bonuses. Just for opening a new credit card account. If you have a regular credit card that doesnt reward you with 2 cash back, you can do better. And a new survey by creditcards. Com said most cardholders are ignoring those sweet deals. 25 million americans have stuck with the same cards for tip years. Many of those have no rewards. I just dont open the envelopes that come in the mail. I will prefer to keep the ones i have and usual le i think the rewards are tricks im probably missing out on a lot but you get so many of them in the mail. So are they missing out . If you are just buying the things you would ordinarily buy, its free money or can pick up the nice sign up bonus and treat yourself to a vacation. Many offer bonus points that buy you plane tickets or hotel stays. Yet millions of consumers are sticking with their old cards. Some people do feel kind of a loyalty to a bank, even if the bank may not be so loyal to them. And there can be drawbacks to those deals. First, many give you a bonus only after you spend a certain amount of money like this offer of 50,000 points, but only after you spend 4,000 within three months. Thats dangerous. And it can induce someone to spend much more than they otherwise would have. Overspending may cause delinquencies and penalties, wiping out the benefits of those rewards. Like its just an introductory type thing. And then you get like a higher rate. Im always really reluctant to take them. I just dont. I just stick with the credit cards i already have. Remember opening new credit cards can harm your credit rating, at least temporarily. And you should avoid closing ole owed acts. Those are the ones that really boost your credit score. Im Michael Finney. 7 on your side. Breaking news out of new york this morning. A tugboat has overturned on the hud sop river. This is in new york about 25 miles north evidence midtown manhattan. One person died, two others are missing. Fire cruise pulled two people from the water. The tugboat was holding ferry workers who are constructing a new bridge span in new york. We will stay with this story and bring you more details as they become available. A bay area lawmakers wants the public to have more say in how immigration agents operate in local jails. Assembly member introduced the truth act in oakland. It would require public hearings before police and sheriffs departments can participate in deportation programs. City Council Members and county supervisors would have it sign off open any agreement. Right now those agreements between a Law Enforcement agency on one hand and i. C. E. On the other are being made privately in secret without public input. We think this should be public input. He said his bill would ensure that immigration authorities comply with the state law that i want will deportation hold requests by local police departments. 5 15, the time. Newly proposed legislation would require employers to give three paid days off for parent can participate in School Related activity. We show it improves your childs educational chances in life and its critical we give parents the opportunity to do it quite forcing them to make the tough decision between paying the bills and being involved. Assembly member mike gotto introduced the bills. Less than a quarter parents with an annual income below 30,000 describe themselves as very involved in their childs education. He hopes the bill will change that. Back to our rain. The heavy downpours sent millions of gallons of muchneeded water to the reservoirs. We flew over the largest it res view, anderson reservoir, which is just 50 full. Statewide state officials stress the importance of water conservation. At this reservoir in santa clara county, many are hold being out hope we will get enough rain to get out of the doubt. I feel raze all the wind is picking up. These guys came here and see it and its even flowing over. This view shows Stevens Creek reservoir is also close to capacity. Other reservoirs arent as fortunate. Lexington at had 44 , and anderson at 51 . Overall the ten reservoirs in the south bag are at 56 of capacity as of friday afternoon. And while water not res scores is at least visible, ground Water Supplies levels are low. We dont know what will happen next year. This could be one decent year followed by several more dry years. Officials request the Water District say despite the rain, conservation efforts need to be taken seriously. Until we are fully recovered and ground water levels and statewide res scores are back tonearmal, we should still continue those water cops vision habits that weve adopted. Back at this reservoir visitors take a moment to reflect. I took a few pictures. You dont see that often. Ive only seen it when theres el nino type weather. The water at uvas water will continue to spill over throughout the weekend. Lisa argen joins us now with the accuweather forecast. While i was out there at the reservoir yesterday, officials were telling me its been three years since the water was able to spill over. Thats amazing. And five years since San Francisco has had nearly 19 inches of rain. March has been a bonus month, as you know. The average is about is about 3. 2ed. This is a 1 on the i believe packet scale. Here is where weve had the heaviest rain, most saturated soil and thats where we could have some problems. Anywhere in the east bay and south bay perhaps a quarter inch. Half inch to greater amounts in the hazer elevations. Then a stronger storm after this one today will arrive tomorrow. So the Flash Flood Watch until 5 00. These streams and creeks are running very fast. Additional rainfall could cause flooding right on through tomorrow evening. Heres live doppler 7hd. You see a smattering of light rain up in the north bay throughout santa rosa and occidental. Geyserville and the sweep on top of mount st. Helena showing a few showers by calistoga. Right now from marin, southern marin to san rafael and moving over to the Richmond San Rafael bridge. This is what we are watching. Its a line of showers. And right now theres thunderstorms offshore. This will be continuing to inc. Is south throughout the day today. So how are we doing so far this season . Much, much better than we were just a couple weeks ago. 99 of normal in San Francisco. Even though san jose has not seen a lot of rain in the past couple of days. 101 p. Ars of normal with livermore, you too 98 of normal. You would like to see more rain and more is in the forecast through the weekend for you. But not a whole lot today. 51 San Francisco. Its 47 san jose, 44 morgan hill. And a live look outside from our exploratorium camera from pier15 you will see the clouds. 47 santa rosa, 50 concord. Good morning livermore, 48 for you. The winds will continue to be breezy today, accompanying the front. Two more storms this weekend, one light, one moderate and feeling like spring, very much like spring next week. Here are the wind gusts, anywhere from 25 to 35 Miles Per Hour in San Francisco from about 10 00 right on through 6 00. So the st. Patricks day parade had be breezy with scattered showers. Heres the band of rain. 11 00 still well in the north bay. And by 2 00 some scattered showers and the line continues to inc. Is south throughout the afternoon with perhaps some heavier do you know pours. 11 00 we still have showers. And by tomorrow we are hooking at a 2 on our storm impact scale with moderate rain, anywhere from a halfinch to an inch of rain. Pick this up 8 00 tomorrow with more widespread rain showers. Some periods of heavy downpours are likely. But by 11 00 you notice still very scattered. Then we continue to see 2 00 through 4 00 in the afternoon,. Peninsula, the east bay looking at some showers. So rainfall totals from this morning right on through tomorrow night. You see the most in the Santa Cruz Mountains. And in the north bay over an inch there. Perhaps an inch in concord. It would be nice to see another inch in San Francisco. But perhaps some urban flooding will accompany that. A winter storm warning through 11 00 on monday. Check out these totals. 52 inches in donner. 30 inches around south lake. And we talked about the parade. It should be, you know, kind of a typical march day. Upper 50s with some scattered showers. Back home hook for the heavier downpours. Breezy winds. The sevenday forecast, dont forget to set your clocks ahead tonight. More rain tomorrow. A few Early Morning showers on monday. And the accuweather sevenday forecast featuring a drying trend with more sunshine and low to mid70s throughout the middle of next week which will feel pretty good. Thanks for the Daylight Saving reminder. Im already dreading using an hour of sleep. I feel you. Thank you. Getting ahead in math and welcome aboard my starship. Ahoy, mateys its full of things i love. Like me brave crew. And my fellow Space Adventures and free of things i dont. Like aliens. Just like eye patches. And when its time to refuel, i eat chex cereal. Its full of stuff we pirates need. No artificial flavors, and its glutenfree. Excelsior eat up, me hearties keep it down im exploring the galaxy. Arrrr, thats not even a real spaceship. The north bay has born the brunt of the latest storms. Abc7 News Reporter wayne friedman. One creek, two guys in get suits with boards. Stephen and jeremy, are we really out of their mind or what. We were pretty concerned. Thats why we wore the helmets. You will seal their death defying attempt later but this is what you get when a really bad storm in marin county turns out to be not so bad after all. Did you think it would be worse today . What, the weather or my hair . Make no mistake, they had their share of weather woes. A bad day for a bay tree. It fell and brought down powerlines. Local roads and highways suffered a full compliment of fender benders and worse on this case on North San Pedro road. This car went off the embankment, took out a light box and rolled. Driver is okay. The tow truck guy busy. How many of these today . And its only barely noon. Three. Three before noon. Is that a normal day . No. About the time he finished talking, another encouraging appearance by the sun, but not a permanent one. It yielded more raindrops. And inside the blank boutique, the last flood more than a decade ago feels like a distant memory. I really dont think we are going to flood here because it hasnt been consistent rain. No, just the fast running creek. All the better when a storm becomes a fearless ride. Abc7 news. Researchers at Harvard University developed a new type of material. Its made from tiny cubes that fold down flat or pop up. 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