Small creek flooding and also have a Coastal Flood Advisory from 4 00 a. M. To 10 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Because of the already salt rated ground and ocean swell and runoff, flooding of lowlying areas near the shore is a possibility. We have a High Surf Advisory until 6 00 tomorrow evening. Wave heights have been growing, westerly ocean swell, 15 to 18 feet, large breakers and unpredibl act wave action, all of those are possible. The focus is on the incoming storm. More on that later. Spencer, thank you. Crews used a chain saw to chop up a giant tree limb that came down on two cars in belvedere. Arborists say because of the drought the trees suck up as much water as they can but the branches get too heavy for the trunk to support. Lets go live to petaloma to see what else is risk. Reporter were reaching an interesting balance point. Everyone wants the drought to end. Water runs off the soil into the reservoirs but theres a risk. If it gets too saturated and we get too much rain, we get floods and mudslides. In mare rinne and sonoma, we have seen worse. But todays rain produced more than a few pockets of problems. One tree falling on one power line caused hundreds of people to lose electricity for hours beginning at 5 00 a. M. Its always inconvenient when the power is out. Reporter what are you doing . We have a generator. Reporter one of the few. One of the few, yeah. Reporter if you live along rivers or streams, take notice when the reassurance gurgle becomes a roar. More rain is in the forecast. The chief engineer, in this control room they look at runoff into water ways. How is that rain going to come . Is it going to have one of these big atmospheric rivers where we get more moderate rain storms with breaks in between. This would be a focal point, retailing wall holding up a retagged house. It began collapsing last weekend and continues to move on narrow terrace. Worried not only how it might block access to 300 homes but a worst scenario. If it comes through here, theres a house below us it could go down on. This could knock off a whole neighborhood. It could take some houses out, yes. All about the what ifs in an el nino, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. The rain is especially dangerous where the butte fire charred acres. Mudslides are a risk and fire survivors say its one more obstacle thrown their way. That snow and ice and mud and weve gotten stuck a few times in our own driveway. You know what i mean. So far the hills remained in place but its still early in the rainy season. In Southern California crews are keeping their eyes on a 1200 acre area that burned on christmas night. It remained stable despite heavy rain. They did have a muddy problem on 101. The median became clogged with mud and muck and workers spends the day digging it out. Abc 7 news was in marin county as drivers were dealing with flooded roads there and at high tide the ride outside mill valley flooded again here. This mans car stalled in floodwater on baskin avenue. They both responded to help get him out of the water safely while public works crews cleared the drains. One San Jose Community is worried they are particularly vulnerable, people were promised a new pump station year ago but it wont be ready until 2018. Their proximity makes them prone to flooding. Chris . Reporter good evening, it was vulnerable because it sits below the San Francisco bay. We spoke about the plan in place and whether enough is being done. Known as the lowest point in the bay area, some parts sit 13 feet below sea level. A lot has been done, a lot more needs to be done. Reporter tony santos lived here his entire life and worried whether officials are prepared to keep people safe. In 1983 a devastating el nino storm left them under 8 feet of water. He remembers it as if it were yesterday. Watching peoples personal belongings floating down the street and cars floating down the street. Something like you see on the news, you never think it will hit home until you live out here and it hit home. The city is working to fast track a pump station to replace the gold street station built in the 70s, funding is available but permits need to be approved at the state level. Its looking like the project wont be completed until 2018. Im committed to doing everything we can to put people in place and put resources in place and try to protect the residents and were prepared for the worst. Three portable water pumps and will add more if needed. Crews have been told to check the storm drains and additional equipment will be put to use. Were at the bottom of the funnel, no matter what what happens upstream comes downstream. We always catch the brunt of the misery. Residents hoping to avoid a repeat of the events of 1983. Abc 7 news. To track the weather on the go, download abc 7 news and our app and it will push alerts for notifications and Severe Weather alerts. A brazen daytime shooting in downtown oakland leaves an innocent bystander wounded. You can see a man caught on Surveillance Video pull his gun and open fire. One bullet hit a woman pushing a baby stroller. This happened as city council is considering a new law preventing more guns on the street. Laura . Reporter it played out on a busy oakland street, broadway in the middle of the morning. A discussion turns violent as the man in the tan hoody pulls out a gun and shoots three times. One shot hit a female bystander a half block away. Heard the shot, a young lady was standing right there with the baby in the stroller. Reporter she had just gotten off the bus when a woman was shot right on the sidewalk in front of her. She helped that woman inside a fast food restaurant. They gave me a bunch of cold cloths to apply pressure. I guess it hit a artery because it was bleeding to bad to be grazed. I applied something around her arm really tight to stop it and felt the bullet myself and held it down until the Fire Department and ambulance got here. An oakland Business Owner says it shows the suspect inside his store moments before the shooting. Unfortunately during the shooting an innocent bystander was struck by one of the rounds. Meeldly rushed to the local hospital where shes listed in stable condition. The shooting happened across the street from Oakland City Hall where they consider a proposal to consider locks or boxes for guns in cars and homes. It is just another in a long string of tragicry minders that we have to do better on gun violence. We need to make sure laws is stricter because innocent bystanders are getting killed, hit. Police recovered a handgun but still looking for this man who fired on a busy walk in the middle of the day. President obama made a major announcement, taking executive action to address gun violence. Every time i think about those kids, it gets me mad. The president wiped away tears when talking about victims of sandy hook. At 6 30, youll hear how local gun shops and gun violence victims reacted. Technology funded by a by area company could improve gun safety nationwide nks and next, treatment versus punishment, the controversy that some want to see built in San Francisco. The details on the investigation into how this judge turned down a bid to stop the nfl from working on a youth soccer field. That means work can continue until the parties return to court which is on monday. The field is right next to leaf vi stadium and the nfrl nfl is using it for security for the football. What makes this so important . Live in santa clara with an explanation for us. David . Reporter well, just as some baseball fields and football stadiums are considered better than others, so it is with soccer fields. At least according to some parents concerned about the safety of their kids. Thats why theyve been fighting over this soccer field. Rows and rows of plastic covering are being laid on the Kentucky Blue grass soccer field next to levi stadium. That will support facilities for the media and security personnel and production staff for super bowl 50. But this is their field. All of that water is probably pooling underneath those plastic boards and the cause of that is going to be either generation of bacteria that will kill the grass or the grass will drown because its underneath boards. Reporter the leagues attorney has gone to court twice. Soccer dad and architect Roberto Mendoza says theres no field like this for safety. His daughter is a high Level College soccer prospect. We played all types of different fields and fields in such disrepair and cratered. Theres a lot of injuries that come because of poorly maintained fields. Thats why he and other parents are concerned about replacement fields. Santa clara had been invited to host the state cup tournament starting this weekend. You have kids worked so hard to get to a point to play in this competition and now its in jeopardy. I mean, i hope they dont have to forfeit their game. We have some discussions ongoing. Santa clara City Attorney says efforts to find replacement fields are still underway is so is the work on the super bowl facilities. In santa clara, abc 7 news. Some powerful voices in San Francisco are urging us to toss out the crime and punishment approach in favor of crime and treatment. Today political leaders unveiled specific plans for Behavioral Health center aimed at reducing crime. Kristin . A San FranciscoDistrict Attorney unveiled the proposal with this tweet, look at almost any corner in San Francisco, we have a Mental Health crisis and they deserve relief. Followed up with a News Conference together with supervisors, along with professors from stanford and us santa cruz, proposing they build a state of the art mental Health Center after supervisors voted down a proposal to build a new jail next to the hall of justice to replace part of the current jail even though the state granted the city 80 million to build it. The proposed behavior all Health Center would screen those accused of a crime for Mental Health issues, offer behavior modification programs and provide housing for inmates and patients who need more care and ultimately keep people from going back into the criminal justice system. We believe that when there is a problem of Mental Health, putting the person in jail is not only not going to address that problem, it will actually make things worse. The supervisors and da says this behavioral treatment model worked well for miami. Statistics show 80 of police calls in the city involve Mental Health issues. They say thats why the need is dire. Theres a vote next tuesday on putting together a working group to identify potential sites and funding and concern. Dan . Thanks very much. Despite the recent rain california has a long way to go to get out of the drought and were not saving enough water either. Water officials released novembers use number showing california once again missed the 25 conservation mandate set by the governor. From june to november through the cumulative statewide reduction, however was 26 . All of this snow will certainly help the water supply. You can see it coming down hard today from the tahoe camera. Look at that. This feels like an epic snow year, it is pretty much on track. The central sierra, which includes tahoe is at 107 of average but we will take all of the snow we can get. All good news, we may have a long way to go in terms of drought but at least we have a positive trend. And more of that rain coming our way. Thats true, more rain coming our way and more snow coming to the sierra. We had a pretty good drenching of rain earlier today. Not much is happening at the moment. The next storm is closing in on us. Heres a live view from the southeast camera looking on the bay bridge and this is forecast features, the next storm arriving tomorrow morning, rainy and windy for the morning commute. Real will messy. Its probably going to be quite give yourself a lot of time. Well see a possibility of areas of flooding. Now our next storm ranks three on our storm impact scale. It will be a strong storm and heaviest rain in the Morning Hours but more rain to follow later in the day, flooding of low lying areas is a possibility as well mudslides be possible along with the storm. Starting the forecast at 10 00 tonight, well see spots of shower activity, lingering from todays storm but then 3 00 tomorrow morning or earlier, well see widespread rain having developed with the next storm. It will be moderate to heavy for much of the bay area, even at that hour and 5 00 tomorrow morning, 4 00, as the morning commute begins, well see still widespread areas of rain, moderate to heavy in some spots and light in others. The main body of the storm will be pushing eastward and away from the bay area by 5 00 tomorrow morning but still a mess for morning commuters because we have wave after wave of rain following the main body of the storm and that will continue until midday before we see the rain breaking up into pockets of rain and scattered showers and late tomorrow night, quite a bit of wet weather left and 10 00, were forecasting the rainfall totals will be reaching around a quarter inch in fair field and napa and over an inch in novato the bay area. Storm impact scale, number one on thursday, a weaker storm, but any rainfall on top of already saturated ground in the heavy rain from the first two storms this week could produce a possibility of flooding. Overnight lows under stormy conditions early tomorrow morning when temperatures tend to reach the lowest point, well see lows generally in the mid to upper 40s, rainy and windy conditions and tomorrow afternoon, rain will be scattered about the bay area. There may be breaks. Brighter break as we head this afternoon, highs tomorrow in the low to mid50s. A number three ranked storm tomorrow. Strong storm followed by a light storm on thursday ranking number one. Slight chance of rain on friday. Chance of rain again on saturday, sunny break on sunday. We can use it by then, another chance of rain again on monday. The pattern continues to be mostly wet. Good pattern. We like it. As the next storm moves in, watch the abc 7 news tomorrow starting at 4 30. Well have the very latest on the soggy morning commute. Tune in by state right here, how this 1yearold dog ended up with broken bones. Lois pricese. [ifrom Grocery Outlet. Hi, its. The rest of us hey there. Hi hey. 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