From baxter to the nevada state line and on highway 50 from myers. This storm even produced a little bit of hail in the Mission District in San Francisco. Kind of a strange sight. Lets go to our meteorologist to let us know what is coming. This is around 3 with the system that started early this morning. We zoom into street level and show you this cell that just manufactured through hayward the past 15 minutes. This line associated with Lightning Strikes even a little bit of hail reported with it. Its now approaching dublin at this hour. So likely some downpour moving into dublin as we track this line for you over the next 15 minutes or so it will approach pleasanton in men minutes. Livermore in about 16 minutes. We manufacture to the west a little bit. Near woodside downpour about to move in. We track that line of heavy showers moving into redwood city in 13 minutes and right now right around South San Francisco just some light showers. What we are watching now notice widen out the view. Next line of showers moving on shore time it out for you in the future weather. How long the system lingers in just a few minutes. Okay thanks a lot drew. East bay a Walnut Creek Police officer recovering after car crash caused by the rain. Driver says he did not see the officer at buena vista avenue and third this afternoon because of wet conditions. Officer went to the hospital for treatment. He is now out and was not seriously hurt. In the north bay emergency agencies said today this is an exercise for what is to come. Reggie is in mill valley in a spot where we always see flooding when it rains like this. Wishing complete home provides a book end of a day for drivers. Rain and dry spell in between. Day started with the look from high water on 101 near lucky drive. People facing a wet way to get to work. Then there was the tree that fell at just the right time. Driver saw the tree fall right in front of his car near panoramic highway driver not hurt. Road crew used this as Good Practice for the el nino season still on the horizon. We are there as much as we can be at this point. So we are getting there. Working hard to be prepared. Reporter rain gear activated. Shes taken precaution at her low logo home but worries about people up higher. I dont live up in the hill but some people are very concerned about potential land slides and trees coming down. Thats really scary. Reporter she describes one of many scenario. Marin county Sheriffs Office has been discussing for months. So theres some very large tide. If you couple that with heavy winds and a lot of rain you can see some storm surges and theres the possibility of coastal flooding so those are some of the things that we areyn watching for going forward. Reporter Sheriffs Department grateful this is an opportunity for them to remind to you sign up for Emergency Alert alert in marin and bay area so you know when emergencies weather included are hitting your area. Reporting in mill valley abc 7 news. In richmond the city handed to door to people with disabilities. New flood alert system in the south bay could make people in the middle of the night wake people in the middle of the night before water reaches the home but it sent out a fls sight so thats an issue. Katie is in;palo alto to explain the system and how the glitches are being fixed. X. Reporter this there are a lot of agencies,nkt involved in long term fixes. Federal state agencies so its pretty co[q icated i. Reporter in the shortterm theres help. I use Technology Silicon valley so sort of in the forefront here. Reporter he signed up for the new Flood Warning system. Put in place by the San Francisco creek joint Powers Authority. Sensor lean th 86 3 creek. Based on what is in the channel and will give them almost 2 hours warning. I think the ticket message alert are most useful part so if something bad happens in the middle of the night we wont wake up and 5 in the morning to realize there is water in the house. Reporter he and others have dealt with in the past. In this area these homes are below sea level. Roof lines of these homes is below the top of the levee. Reporter areas of palo alt alto, East Palo Alto and menlo park benefit from the warning. Fears of its kind program is fought without growing pains. What we saw yesterday there was a grich in one of the sensors. Reporter Automated System sent out a Flood Warning during a dry day. Now the joint Powers Authority is adding a. And. We screws calibrate it with every storm that comes through because this is a whole new program and we havent had many storms in the last year or so. Storms in the last year or so. Reporte reporter in the south bay, katie, abc 7 news. And this morning rain caused a deadly crash in sacramento that shut down interstate 5. Before dawn this fedex trouble with double trailer crossed over the center twird and right into northbound track. All lanes at the highway were closed. One person sadly was killed. The chp says it looks like the truck hit deep water and hydroplane out of control into oncoming traffic. Well all that rain east of sacramento now turned to snow falling in the sierra. Laura is at soda springs along i 80 with look at the Winter Weather there. Reporter the snow is coming in waves near Donner Summit along interstate 80. Spurt of heavy showers. Then break then some more. Just enough to keep the snowplows busy. Same for cheap control up for time in the morning then off then back up again. The mean time down the hill if truckee it was a little too warm overnight. Clouds proud rain. Not the many inches of snow some had predicted. I thought it was going to blow in a huge storm today. It was 40 miles an hour winds this morning and it kind of died of off. Reporter still, Business Owners here know how to weather the high and low of a high sierra winter. Kerry wilson lived and worked here for more than 30 yourself and while the holiday are important to her business, its not make or break. I think theres still dark clouds so theres still potential. Reporter after all several years of drought have taught folk in truckee one thing. Its how to keep the faith. We have more snow than last career any way so i think its just been coming every week we foot of new snow. Hope is the soda springs, laura anthony, abc 7 news. Rachel and our now Community Shared the photo with us calling herself a cool mom for letting her child jump throughout puddle in sonoma this morning. You have been sharing grit n photo and video f the rain. If you see Stormy Weather where you live safely take a photo or video and share it with us using the hashtag abc 7 now we would love to share your work. 3 people from the pwrvrnl of the council on is lat lamb ishmael relation just released from the hospital after sol 1 mailed a letter containing white powder to the branch early today. The santa clara prank one of the 2 offices he have been ateed today. Office in dc also received a lettergu Santa Clara Office is closed so investigators could process the scene. Spokesperson for care says an employee opened the letter saw the white powder dropped it immediately and called for help. Heart breaking right. Thats what it has come to where we are now trying to intim did it people by sending packages to them that are purportedly have a dangerous substance in them . Reporter dc office has been given the all clear. Test on the letter there determined the substance was fought dangerous. Fbi lab will determine exactly what it was however but the good news no one hurt at either office. Suspect now in custody in tuesday pistol whip attack on nanny in rind a. 18yearold mr mr. Miller of oakland kicked in the door took cash and electronic and hit the nanny with the gun before driving away in the family car. He was arrested yesterday after brief chase. He was driving a car seen near the home at the time of the break in. The car also spotted in orinda by a camera especially designed to read license plates. This is a critical too. In this specific case this was the key piece of evidence that led us to this where we are today. Reporter chief says more arrest are possible here. Miller will be charged with kidnapping, assault with Deadly Weapon and carjacking. East bay municipal utility district has come out with the right of and once again it has some well ite a look atty who is high up onn the lying and how they arenx tonight. Reporter busters wife is among the names was shown to have used more than 3000 gallon of World Trade Center a day at their home the lafayette. Oakland as executive Vice President billy bean was once again mentioned. Today from sky 7 hd you could see a repair crew including a diver working on his pool. To his credit his water young this time was nearly half of what it was in october. Olympic meltsist christy says i are gition leak was the reason she made the list. In a statement she says they have since stopped irrigating. Vince nooelt lead vocalist of motley crew still owns this home in danville. His Management Company says neal now lives in las vegas. And has been touring for two years. East bay mud has been releasing names of customers who go over a threshold of excessive use. These are people who violated an excessive use ordinance. Reporter topping the list of excessive water users is this home in alamo owned by a wine maker. According to records provided by east bay mud, that address uses on average more than 11,000 gallons of water per day. Keep in mine anything over 1,000 per day is considered excessive. The second name on the list is mark master founder of 24 hour fitness. We tried unsuccessfully to reach him at his home in lafayette. Hi this is lean from abc 7 news. We are looking for mr. Master. Jonathan warn an investment and Wealth Management advisor also from lafayette came in third. He reached out to us to tell us he was startled because he has a well. He says he stopped using east bay mud for his irrigation months ago. Still we saw his meter spinning fast. According to east bay mud the agency has collected more than 400,000 dollars in penalty fees abc 7 news. Well coming up here. Rain is soaking the bay area right now. A live look from the emeryville camera. Next on our news drew track the storm and let you know how much we can expect when we wake up in the morning. Plus replacing old Public Housing if San Francisco. Proposed new community in Portrero Hill could transform the neighborhood and not everyone is happy about it. Also ahead. The story behind teenager rocking out his fellow students. And life saver how 2 San FranciscoPolice Officers went above and announcer youre on the right track to save big during sleep trains triple choice sale. For a limited time, you can choose up to 48 months interestfree financing on a huge selection of tempurpedic models, or choose to save 300 on beautyrest and posturepedic mattress sets. You can even choose 300 in free gifts with sleep trains most popular Stearns Foster mattresses. The triple choice sale, ends soon at sleep train. Sleep train [train horn] your ticket to a better nights sleep can. If planners have their way these houses may be replaced with almost double the number of units. This is a rendering of the proposed project. City leaders look at the Environmental Impact report at this time. The slow process took another step today. Carolyn has the story. Reporter 1300 low income residents live in portrero terrace. You have probably seen the Public Housing complex from a distance driving on 280 into San Francisco. Heres the view from sky 7 hd of the 33 acres on the south slope of Portrero Hill. Tracy simmons lived here for more than a decade. Now throws a plan to tear the terrace down. They need to do something because mold here is making people sick. Reporter theres no question the 6 06 unit are difficult lap dated. They were built if phases started in the 1940s. For years theres been a plan for massivea redevelopment project. Today the Planning Commission approved the report for the project that will replace all the Public Housing, allowing the current residents to stay and adding at least 1100 new units. Rebuilding it in a way that creates not pockets of poverty but creates a mixed income community. Everybody would love to see a project go through but within reason. Reporter dennis lives down the street and thinks the project is too big and will cause too much traffic. Oo Getting Movement of pedestrians and traffic and bus lines is a real challenge and i really dont feel like they have met that very well. Reporter if the project is eventually approved, construction could take years before residents like eugene can enjoy it. Get busy. Ethe slow process took another step toda today. In San Francisco, carolyn tyler, abc 7 news. Two San Francisco plaintiffs went beyond the call of duty and saved an elderly woman trapped in her home. Officer mcfall and officer robertson from the richmond station have been checkup regularly on 84yearold woman who lives alone and has no family in the area. Very kind ofs them to make that effort obviously. Well, one night last week she did not answer the door. They heard her calling out to them. Turns out her bed fraimd frame had cracked causing her to fall through and stuck for more than 12 hours. The woman went to the hospital to recover. Well check out the scene ati resort tweeted this picture this afternoon from the east peak lodge. They wrote so much snow. Thats right. There is a lot of snow. Great to see. We need that desperately not only the skiers but snow pack to alleviate our drought. Around here the rain is nice to see. It is nice. Scattered storms out there right now and then a wide spread sweep i should say. Steady showers move through for the midnight hour. There was lightning. And even hail. Pretty active out there tonight. Certainly working over time tonight. We are track ago lot of green on the screen but one thing i want to point out a lot of folks were talking to me on twitter at belmont they heard what so you knowed like an explosion. That was a Lightning Strike that occurred just went through that region so we are seeing some Thunder Showers within the next round of storms. We track this one for you right here. You see pop of yellow moving through stanford at this hour. Menlo park the next 7 minutes. Palo alto 10 minutes and East Palo Alto in about 12 minutes. You could expect isolated Lightning Strike and possibility of hail with the downpour. We jump across into pleasanton right now where we know they are dealing with heavy showers at this hour and this is the theme with the next round of rain that moves through before the m id night hour. Into the north pay we go. Did you notice its light in nature but picking up intensity with pop of yellow. The winds light showers and we track this line. Its slowly moving to the south and east. I expect it to sweep through the bay area before the midnight hour. So definitely more wet weather is on the way. Also a chilly night out there temperatures in the upper from is to lower 50s. Currently 50 in oak land. 49 hayward. 52 fremont. 51 San Francisco and san jose currently 53 degrees. Future weather lets time out the rest of the evening. Rather unsettled bands of showers and thunderstorms moving through the 11 00 p. M. Hour even through midnight. Rather unsettled across the region. Now we cant completely name nature the chance of shower even for the friday morning rush. We include isolated shower in there. 6 00 oclock in the morning pecking up on light showers and we keep that chance even midday. This is a system that is very slow to exit so by one okay in the afternoon the chance is still there for isolated downpour then it beginsdn to exit the region by 5 00 oclock. So in terms of additional rain fall out there a lot of spots could pick up close to half inch of rain as the downpour move through in the overnight and Early Morning hours on friday. Also turning up the ocean water. Current wave height after moon bay 26 foot wave at this hour. High surf warning until friday at 4 00 oclock. Winter storm warning in effect until tomorrow morning at 4 a. M. Could still see 1 to 2 pet of snow over the past. Need the chain out there South Lake Tahoe 14 inches of snow. Donner 17 inches of fresh powder. Winter wonderland in the sierra next couple days. Isolated downpour upper 40s to lower 50s and even for the morning rush tomorrow may theyd to pack the patience with light showers move through then in the evening we again to clear out. Temperatures in the upper physician to lower 60s. Heres accuweather 7 day forecast. Track morning ers for you right hn the next storm is right on the heels of this one. Moved in saturday night in sunday. 2 open our storm impact scale. Showers taper monday and cool air rise the second half of the extended forecast. Dont be surprised if you hear light new england in the overnight period. We dont get that often. As we continue here on our news at 9 00. Local news at 9 00. Local teenager stars the organizers of out