Zone. Those along the green break know that the tides can change the area here. We dont usually have a problem unless theres a lot of rain first and then the tides and then were like knee deep rather than ankle deep. Reporter in san rafael this public works crew removed any potential runoff that could block the drain and when that happens the parking lot in this canal district floods. This is in preparation of the storm and another king tide. Public works announced it will have a few crews starting thursday morning to respond to any flooding. You have the king tides and the bay is full and system is full and when you get two to three inches of rain a 24hour period theres nowhere for the water to go. Residents of this mobile Home Community were ready to face thursdays storm. We keep sandbags red and the community actually down by the boardwalk, a gentleman down there that puts out a water blatter like a levy. San rafael that is three sandbag stations available for residents. In marin county, lyanne melendez, abc news. Check out this spectacular shot from sky 7 and just an amazing picture look over the bay banged towards San Francisco with Treasure Island in the foreground. This pick tower is about to change though. Lets get the latest from the meteorologist drew tuma. Kristen, our approaching storm is coming with the strength we have not seen in months. The storm impact scale is going to show you this is a strong storm. The first three we have had, this rainy season, moderate to heavy rain, strong wind gusts and the threat of flooding in our urban areas and also along our burn scars. Want to give you an early warning. Thursday evening rush is going to be a mess. The combination of heavy rain will cause localized flooding. It will be wet and dark and expect delays thursday evening. Live doppler 7 along with satified radar. Its a 3 and strengthening at this hour. Well go hour by hour and show you when the heaviest showers hit you and the strong full accuweather forecast. Drew, thanks so much. Track the approaching storms with the news app and live doppler 7 and enable push alerts to get weather advisories on your phone or tablet. Turns out the recent rains were not the cause of that sinkhole that opened up along a cliff in pacifica this past weekend. A large pipe flitting was not welded allowing them to wash away a part of the wall. The initial engineer is on the scene making repairs and a popular walkway along the walkway should be hope in about two weeks. A rare move by top climate scientists in San Francisco today. They took to the streets to blast president elect trumps position on Climate Change. The American Geophysical union is meeting in the city this week and abc 7 News Reporter vic lee is on the story. Our communities are under attack. What do we do . Stand up, fight back. The about 400 scientists and environmental activists gathered at jesse square outside Mosconi Center to stand up to president elect Donald Trumps position on Climate Change. Science and evidence at risk of being ignored, disparaged and disregarded. Since winning the election mr. Trump has said hell keep an open mind about the climate deal struck in paris, but during the campaign he tweeted that the concept of Global Warming was created by and for the chinese in order to make u. S. Manufacturing noncompetitive. Those here also spoke out against his proposed appointments. Oklahoma attorney general Scott Prewitt as epa chief and exxon Ceo Rex Tillerson as secretary of state. Im here because im terribly concerned about the Incoming Administration who are science deniers. Reporter American Geophysical union builills itse as earth scientists and among the hundreds of booths called this one science is never settled, a lone voice. Peter ward found himself constantly defending his position on global sglarmg we have never actually demonstrated in an experiment in the laboratory or in the field that when you increase Greenhouse Gases you cause the air to get much warmer. Reporter 26,000 scientists and others are attending this convention which ends friday. What wont end is the controversy over Global Warming, an issue that will most likely heat up during the trump presidency. Vic lee, abc 7 news. Meanwhile, the department of energy says it will not provide a list of names of staffers who worked on Climate Change issues as requested by president elect Donald TrumpsTransition Team. Doe officials suggest trumps team is looking to fire staffers for their work on Climate Change. In a statement the doe says we will be forthcoming with all the publicly available information with the Transition Team. We will not be providing any any names to the Transition Team. Local engineers, designers and Business Executives are vowing not to build a database that would track Muslim Americans or anyone else based on their religion. Since the pledge went pluck at 10 00 a. M. Today so many people have signed up the organizers have had to recruit more people to help them verify the names. Abc 7 news worther melanie road row has the story. To minimize the collection of data. Valerie aurora is an independent consultant who specializes in diversity and conclusion. The never again splej a pledge by individual tech workers to not participate in any kind of creeks of a registry or a database or list of people based on immigration status or religion pause we believe that list will be used to vie late human rights by the trump administration. So says people have signed this list privately over the past couple of days and since then organizers have had a difficult time keeping up the a ton of requests. Shes hoping every person with Significant Technology schools will sign the pledge. Unless we risk all the things hes spoken about, things will come to fewtition. Donald trumps Transition Team released a statement saying president elect trump has never advocated for any registry or a system that tracks people on their religion and to imply otherwise is completely false but thats not slowing down neveragain. Tech. The website reads weve educated ourselves on the threats like these and the role that technology and technologists played in carrying them out. In San Francisco, mel nye woodrow, abc 7 news. A milipitas man was arrested for possible bop making materials on view drive this morning. Authority say the person they designed has had a criminal history. No none of it it relatesed to terrorism. The detained man has not been arrested. Authorities say an adult woman and two children live at the house. The search and cleanup will continue through tomorrow. All westbound lanesch highway 12 are hope tonight following a spill of Swimming Pool chlorine. Has mass cruise quickly cleaned up the gas. A freeway east of town had to be closed after what appeared to be a solo traffic accident. It was a flatbed from weeks drilling in pump and they were on the and it looked like the lote shifted and dumped off of their flatbed truck. No nurse are reported. The efforts to keep the raiders in hockey land took another stop forward. The alomeda department of supervirusors aid greed to hold a meeting with developer ronnie lott. They are hope the city council will hold its meeting getting under way at 5 30. We veal a live report at 6 00. Much more ahead for you on this tuesday evening. Coming up, the past complaints about the. Why . And a place to play. Why this playground is a dream come true for kids in the east bay. Zero really can be a hero. Ds get zero down, zero deposit, zero due at signing, and zero first months payment on select volkswagen models. Right now at the volkswagen sign then drive event. New information today on the potential cause of the ghost ship fire. Were also learning what the Oakland Fire Department new about the illegally converted warehouse before the inferno that killed 36 people. Abc 7 News ReporterLaura Anthony is live at the scene. Laura . Hi, kristen. While the mayor has said that the city did receive complaints about this building, the fire chief said today her department did not receive any complaints. In the meantime were learning more about what might have caused the fire. This building would not qualify as a statemandated facility. Reporter the Oakland Fire Department says her department hasnt visited the ghost ship warehouse in the past 12 year, much less inspected it but she told reporters the law did not require it. An empty structure would not constitute inspection. If it was an active business then it would qualify for an inspection. Reporter thats despite an arson fire outside the building on the lot next door in september of 2014. All of a sudden we see flames. Reporter when abc 7 news interviewed the ghost ship founder. Contrary to some reports, theres no determined cause. Experts in the Oakland Fire Department and investigators are looking at and determining the cause of the fire. The investigation is still ongoing, and at this time no final determination has been made as to the exact cause of the fire. Reporter Contra Costa CountyDistrict AttorneyNancy Omalley says her office is heading the criminal investigation. I cannot give you a specific time line but i will guarantee to the community, to the family members who lost someone in the fire to those who survived the fire that we will work diligently and we will be me todayic and we will be thorough in bringing this case to just e justice. In oakland, Laura Anthony, abc 7 news. Federal officials have imposed new sanctions against wells fargo. Its because the San Franciscobased bank didnt come up with an adequate plan to bail itself out in case of a taxpayer bailout. Wells fargo was the only one of five huge plans, chase, bank of america, bank of new york and. Just as soon as californias high speed rail board approved spending more than 3 billion, a new lawsuit is trying to block some of that money from going to help peninsula computers. Most of that money will go towards building the first high speed rail segment. Another 600 million will pay to electrify caltranz tracks which would esentially shared. The state can not spend bond money to electrify call train. A new report out says fracking might be a concern to Drinking Water across the u. S. Today the Environmental Protection agency deleted a conclusion from a past assessment which said fracking had, quote no, widespread systematic impact on Drinking Water. Instead the epa now believes fracking can impact Drinking Water under certain circumstances. 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Might be tough to see the moon this evening. A lot of cloud cover and live doppler 7 showing a couple of isolated sprinkles and what youre seeing is a warm front slowly moving through the region and it will move into the north bay and stall over the north bay on wednesday. The first system is a light system. Mainly impacting the north bay and santa cruz mountains. Limited moisture and hour by hour we go. Wednesday, future weather. Watch the timestaff right up here. 56 in the morning, morning commute under way. Mainly cloudy skies and much of the action focuses in santa rosa and the evening rush really no problem. A lot of cloud cover for the majority of the reason and that rain right around santa rossa but watch what happens as we get closer to thursday. This storm is going to intensify and sweep through the entire bay area, so its then on the storm impact scale. This storm gets an upgrade and big upgrade. It goes to a 3, a strong storm. Not seen a 3 at all this rain is. The last time we had a storm of this strength was nine months ago way back in march. On thursday moderate to heavy rain and winds gusting over 30 Miles Per Hour at times and the big issue likely is flooding in the urban areas and also along the burn scar. We jump into thursday. Thursday morning you can see the wet weather beginning in the north bay and right along the coast but watch what happen as we get into the midday lunchtime hour. That rain just expands in coverage and thats when everybody is going to need the rain gear. Early in the afternoon thursday, there e theres pops of color and even into the evening rush, an ugly quite with help offy downpours and guchty winds and ponding on the roadways and then the cold front will have a very sharp cutoff with the rainfall. By 8 00 the north bay is drying out and by midnight early friday morning this system is out of here, but it will bring significant rainfall. Future tracker rainfall showing you widespread amounts likely over an inch of rain and some spots could get very close to two if not over two inches of rainfall with this storm system. A Flash Flood Watch is in effect for our burn scars and heavy downpours could lead to flashed intoing. The wind tracker says the winds are going to peak across the region over 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour. Were tracking the potential windy concerns for downed trees and limbs could fall on power lines and that can a cause some isolated power outages. Watch us on abc 7 news which will come in handy on thursday. Scattered showers mainly in the north bay and on thursday this storm goes to a three, a strong storm and rainy and windy. A lingers showering and then mother does a 18 a 0. We brighten up and were chilly starting on saturday. Sure. Cracking down on hazing in major league baseball. What offensive bring is out of here and then at 5 30 on world news with david muir. 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