Station being interviewed. Police hope they will learn more about what happened here in the middle of the night. To that end, they are interviewing neighbors. Live in palo alto, katie marzullo, abc7 news. 6 01. Notice she was high and dry there. Yes, but there is a possibility for showers this morning, right . Thats right. Lets check in with meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning. Waking to light showers north bay by kelseyville, cloverdale, damp in sonoma, napa, a few light showers south around marin, showers remain pretty much far off the coast because the main activity look to the north this is where we have heavy showers, rain, thunderstorms, gusty winds. This is what is heading south throughout the day today long the coast a chance of showers throughout much of the day. Then the rain becomes likely throughout the evening hours with temperatures in the upper 50s to lower 60s about the same deal around the bay, slight chance of showers mid 50s to about 60 renegade shower becoming likely after 7 00 and inland mild numbers lots of clouds around, once again showers overnight tonight. Good morning. If your commute takes from you the east bay to the peninsula, via san mateo bridge, looking good now, tail lights towards foster city, 13 to 14 minutes to get across the span either direction eastbound looking good too. Southbound out of marin over the waldo through the rainbow tunnel waldo tunnel looking nice, no fog, no traffic coming into San Francisco, a little bit of wet roads with isolated showers through marin. San leandro, accident with a truck, 26 foot truck plowed into parked cars at east 14th and 162nd avenue, Amy Hollyfield is headed there. New accident north 680 before 80 at Cordelia Junction car in center divide. 6 03. San francisco list have a wanted federal parolee in custody after a standoff. Police recognized the man yesterday on monterey boulevard. He took off and collided with a police car. The parolees car was found after somebody phoned in a tip. Police confirmed he was in a house on appleton avenue and set up a perimeter with the s. W. A. T. Team, he surrendered. Live doppler tracking storm two being expected to arrive fully tonight Sonoma County residents and businesses are getting ready nearly an inch of rain fell in downtown petaluma yesterday. Some in lowlying areas are not taking chances. One family has been packing sandbags to protect their business just in case they have experience with flooding suffering major damage during the new years day flood of 2005. The water was in this whole area, the rain was immense and this building happens to be at the base, all the structures around us are elevated a few feet but theres water here like being in the valley. West of santa rosa in the town of occidental, trees fell yesterday on ground that is already saturated. Authorities are preparing for more downed trees because they expect the next two storms to pack a stronger punch. In San Francisco, city workers are preparing for the next storm with sandbags they brought them in yesterday to protect businesses and homes in the mission district. The neighborhood is a former lagoon and rainwater trickles down from other neighborhoods the city has a multiMillion Dollar plan in the works to help keep the mission from flooding. Stay with abc7 news for continuing coverage on the storms getting ready to hit the bay area. You can track the storm yourself any time with live doppler 7 hd on abc7news. Com. General petraeus has admitted to a close friend that he screwed up royally over the affair with his biographer paula broadwell. In his most frank comments, petraeus confided in an old army friend general shelton. Petraeus told him in a letter resigning from the cia was the right thing to do. U. N. Ambassador rice is facing more republican criticism for statements she made following the consulate attack in libya. Rice met with Senate Republicans over the past two days to answer their questions. This latest opposition comes from moderate republican senator Susan Collins of maine over whether rice should be nominated to be the next secretary of state. The two had a private meeting yesterday and collins says, she questioned rice on her term as assistant secretary for African Affairs in the clinton administration. Your morning commute, mostly dry. What about your afternoon commute . Traffic and weather together next on the abc7 morning news looking good on the Golden Gate Bridge. Meteorologist lisa argen will have your full for. Also will check in with sue hall. Maker of iphone, ipad and other gadgets good thursday morning. Wet pavement in the north bay some spreading south into marin county highway 101 by cloverdale wet with light showers also clear lake and weve had a few showers into marin county. Heres what is to come another strong system in fact this one will be stronger winds, all sinking south throughout the day today, heaviest rain in the north bay flout the afternoon. 1 00 today just scattered showers around much of the bay by the evening commute, a few showers, rain heavy tonight, temperatures today in the 60s. Good morning. Showers now in the north bay san rafael coming out of past lucas valley road out of novato towards civic center, nice no issues with headlights towards lincoln boulevard if you go to the metering lights lights are on bay bridge toll just a couple minutes ago i was light, now you can see the damage is done backed towards the west grand overcrossing, little sluggish upper deck into San Francisco, overturned vehicle 121 at 128 cleared. 6 10. Apple is getting ready for a south bay expansion. Energy drinks under scrutiny. Outside help the fda may be turning to, to figure out if it is safe for consumers. Texting and data can add up to hundreds. Michael finney and come good thursday morning. Waking up to dry skies in the city, but there are light showers in the north, sunrise at 7 05 we wont be seeing much of that in the next several days. Storm number two on the way today, this one here going to sink south throughout the afternoon most of the rain throughout the day in the north bay by the evening overnight, getting into heavy rain, gusty winds and a look at more wet weather for your weekend, coming up. 6 13. Cupertinobased apple is expanding offices to a third south bay city. Apple has struck a deal with a developer for a two building campus in santa clara on Stevens Creek boulevard near the cupertino city border the site could accommodate more than 1200 workers and the first building could be completed in 18 months. More people starting Small Businesses. Study found 29 million started new businesses in 2011, 60 increase from 2010. The study says the uptick is a sign more are confident about the economy. Also cautions some chose to start their own businesses because they couldnt find other jobs. Economists have said the economy wont fully recover until Small Businesses pick up the pace of hiring. This morning the fda may be ready to turn to outside experts for advice on energy drinks. In the last month monster and five hour energy have come under scrutiny. Now the New York Times reports the fda may turn to experts from the institute of medicine and other agencies to determine whether those drinks pose a safety risk to consumers. This is a sign the fda does not plan to take immediate action on energy drinks. Average American Household spends more than 1500 every year on cell phone service. There are ways to save. Michael finney and Consumer Reports look at prepaid options. Reporter good morning. If youre looking to save on your cell phone bill, Consumer Reports says a prepaid plan maybe your best option. It seems like everyone is on a smartphone these days. And we are paying big bucks for all that connectivity. Average American Household more than 1500 this year on phones and services. The biggest spenders easily spent twice that. Reporter Consumer Reports says a prepaid plan can be a smart way to save. 2 3 of our subscribers who switched to Prepaid Service knocked 20 or more off their monthly costs. Reporter Prepaid Services are offered from Companies Like tracfone and Straight Talk, big providers also offer prepaid plans. Prepaid plans are pay as you go or a monthly allocation of minutes. Some have unlimited plans. You may pay more upfront for the phone but you can save in the long run. Reporter the phones offered with prepaid plans used to be basics some carriers now offer smartphones the galaxy s 3 available from metro pcs and iphone five from cricket wireless, another Prepaid Company if you dont need the latest smart tone, Consumer Reports recommends Straight Talks prepaid plans available through walmart. It interesting that people in our survey were happier with Straight Talk than with Contract Service from any of the major carriers. Reporter Straight Talk has several plans, including 45 a month for unlimited talk, text and data, half the price of verizons cheapest unlimited plan. Another tip, when you are coming off a contract, if you have a phone you like, ask if you can transfer the phone to a prepaid plan with your Current Carrier or had you carrier . You can get the same service you have been getting but pay a lot less. Im michael finney, 7 on your side. Bet you are wondering who are the lucky few getting showers now . I think we are all wondering. They are lucky because they are light showers and they are going to increase the winds are going to increase, flooding concerns by the weekend then we are still looking at a third system to head our way late saturday into should be the last one. Live doppler, you lucky folks this the north bay, cloverdale, clear lake, a few light returns as you head down highway 101 Cobb Mountain, you may run into showers there have been a few often coast this will remain widely a few off the coast, this will remain widely scattered. 58 redwood city, mild start and we are looking at breezy winds in oakland out of the southeast at 17, gusting to 21 Half Moon Bay these will continue to increase throughout the latter half of the day by overnight, rain and wind, big time again right on through your friday morning commute, widely scattered showers once again for saturday, flooding concerns several inches of rain in the north bay with this system it does favor the north bay, but still we are looking at more rain than what we saw yesterday many High Surf Advisory from the north coast through San Francisco, 15 to 16 foot swells and the Second System on cue for thursday into friday then a lot showers really not going to stop, this is the next system saturday night into sunday. Heres the timeline, 1 00 this afternoon, showers scattered around the central bay, heaviest rain north bay, afternoon and evening commute getting wetter overnight hours very wet, 5 00 tomorrow morning, heavy rain the front doesnt push through until noontime, plenty of showers behind it this takes us through saturday morning. Here comes the last system that brings more heavy rain, more gusty winds. We will be looking at this in terms of several inches of rain perhaps up to 10 inches in the highest elevations of our north bay mountains. Three to six inches sonoma, napa through saturday inch and a half to three inches this is just the Second System, up to six inches in the Santa Cruz Mountains high elevation snow with 12 to 30 inches above 7,000 feet through 4 00 tomorrow morning and look ahead, temperatures dont change too much, Second System tonight into tomorrow, saturday night into sunday, finally we dry out. Good morning. Happy thursday, if you are in san jose drive takes you northbound 85, light drive this is past hp pavillion and julian exit at the limit in san jose northbound 680 Cordelia Junction before you reach highway 80 car in center divide. Some of your drive times now highway 4 not bad out of antioch, bunching up and speeds pick up towards 242 in concord. Out of santa rosa towards novato 20 minutes, nice dry 84 the dumbarton bridge towards university avenue. A look at our waze app, looking at Mountain View area 101 both directions moderate in the northbound direction, by one of our traffic spotters into san Jose Montague expressway, santa clara moderate, no delays traveling towards 237 looking good, if you would like to navigate your commute, you can download this free app on apples app store or google play 6 21. Bay area linebacker now off the roster. Push towards parenthood, Prince William and his wife are receiving aspect builds on a new addition for the couple. Katie talks to rod stewart at 3 p. M. , right here on good morning starting out wet in the north bay from highway 101 cloverdale wet through Cobb Mountain and clear lake most of the activity is offshore, mild temperatures, breezy winds to start out, upper 50s throughout most of the bay, the rain sinks south throughout the day today, widely scattered showers, then they become more concentrated with gutsy winds overnight through friday morning more scattered showers but the third system holds off until late saturday into sunday. Lets take a look at the top searches on google all about the lottery. Florida lottery, power ball, winning power ball numbers and winners. This comes after last nights big power ball drawing worth more than 500 Million Dollars there are two winners one in missouri and the other in arizona. Prince william and his wife are getting a push towards parenthood, the couple toured a hospital in cambridge yesterday. One young mother gave a gift to the couple, a homemade romper with the words daddys little copilot many speculation has been building that they will soon have their first child. The couple will celebrate two years of marriage in april. Linebacker mcclean could be released from the team today. He was held out of practice yesterday because of an undis undisclosed teamrelated issue. Hes still on the roster this morningnn he said on his Facebook Page hes no longer a raider. With or without mcclean we are getting ready forayers day december 6th, pregame at 5 well broadcast the game against the broncos at the coliseum we want to see your team pride, email your fan photos to u urecord. Well show them on air during raiders day next thursday following two breaking news stories. A truck smashes into several parked cars in the east young woman in palo alto wakes up to a frightening discovery in her home. We jut told you about the big power ball drawing. California missed out this time around. Could the golden state be getting ready to play the game . Well explain. Good morning. Live look at the bay bridge toll, carpool lanes getting by nicely otherwise traffic backing past overcrossing towards the macarthur maze. Gusty winds still out there this morning take extra care. Well be back with your full commute coming up. Good thursday morning november 29th. We see towards San Francisco it is dry right now, there are isolated showers but get ready for later on. Thanks for joining us im eric thomas. And im kristen sze. It is the calm before the storm. Good morning. Live doppler 7 hd this morning shows the main rain in the north bay this is very light from highway 1, cloverdale and clear lake, a few showers through san rafael, novato now mainly offshore. We have a system cuing up to the north of us spreading very heavy rain along the north coast this is what spread south throughout the day our Second System will bring heavy rain tonight into tomorrow. As you head out today, cloudy skies, chance of showers upper 50s to low 60s at our coast around the bay the same, mild, a little breezy in spots, isolated showers, then more widespread throughout the evening. Evening commute could be rain and the Morning Hours shouldnt be bad, once the rain starts getting going again, not going to stop right through the weekend sis Second System today, for now a little break out there good morning. Hayward towards foster city, live look at the san mateo bridge tail lights towards the incline section and highrise i should say moving at the limit, a little sluggish on the flat portion of the span, 15 minute drive from hayward, clawiter toll towards san mateo southbound 101 past civic center busier, light to the Golden Gate Bridge no problems coming into San Francisco. Look at mass transit, everyone on time great way to get around no delays. New accident eastbound eight 80 at cordelia, big rig stalled in lane three, one of middle lanes. Breaking news in alameda county, a large truck has smashed into a parking lot in san leandro. Amy hollyfield just got to the scene. What does it look like amy . Reporter are you ready for this one . The driver says it was because of a sneezing attack. He told officers he started sneezing and then he may have pulled the Steering Wheel right and thats what caused him to crash. Heres his struck, still stuck on the sidewalk. He was driving this big dump truck.