Storm. Keeping a watchful eye. About 24 hours away from seeing the rain make its initial approach along the coastline, right now live doppler 7 is showing a picture here that will look different over the weekend. Next seven days rain chances go up substantially over the weekend and sunday, expecting heavy rain and strong winds and even tuesday a moderate storm in the works. Rain in the forecast for several days. Moderate storm, morning downpours, showers continuing in the evening, winds pick up. Inch of rain could be likely but higher elevations, perhaps three inches. And storm is upgraded on sunday. Injection of energy, turns into a three on the impact scale. Serious issue in the morning. Heavy rain and wind coming through. Flooding and wind damage concerns. 3 1 2 inches of rain. Start you out on friday, clouds increase in the evening. 11 00, perhaps a light shower in the north and action picks up saturday morning. Walk you through rest of the weekend in the full forecast. Ama. Thank you drew. The Santa Cruz Mountains may be the brunt of this. There with Emergency Responders tacking about potential for evakations. Upwards of 12 inches, dramatic flows. Instruments say that river could hit 16 to 19 feet this weekend. Well see flows we havent seen in the area in excess of ten to perhaps 15 years. Beyond flood stage in is. Most likely to hit flood stage. For longtime residents, not a good thing. Once the river is fully filled up and there f theres a lot of storms, trees break and lot of times theres log jams and water immediately backs up. Program manager for Santa Cruz County monitors river and stream conditions and rainfall gauges to give him advance warning whether to order evacuations but flooding not the only concern. Potential for mass movement, corrosion and sloughing off banks and mountain sides, always that potential with big storms may be one. Even a nonscientist can see how capacity to contain all the rainfall weve already had has its limits. Santa clara county has more beds ready for the homeless. Shelters are accepting donations of blankets, toiletries, socks and rain ponchos. Many cities have said up sand bag filling stations. You have to bring your own shovel most places. List on abc7news. Com. Sunday its going to be entirely different story around the bay area as you were gathering. Wayne friedman has more on the preparation. Lets put a damper on this bright blue day. Its gorgeous today. Sky blue, produce bright and at farmers marked a sunny interlude between watery doom and gloom especially come the forecast. Im going to be wet dealing with wind. Hopefully dont fly away with the tent. Going to be rough. In a downpour so the weather experts tell us, showing up is being a professional around here, just bring gloshs. But doesnt a rainstorm hurt business . This is a good day, make up for that. In petaluma, watching the river. Highest ive seen it. Nearly reached top of the d street bridge. Water caused probles last year but not flooded for a while. This weekend tides in petalumas favor. No king tides but seven foot. That high, in the lower river, prevents water from clearing too quick. A little we can handle, a lot, lets not worry about that after a perfect post card day. Two back country skeers escaped injury after triggering avalanche near ski resort in nevada. Also buried parts of the state highway between reno and tahoe. Mount rose seen 70 inches of snow in the past week. Squaw valley and others seen snow. You can track with the news app. Live doppler 7 anytime for you. Enable the push alerts to get advisories on your phone or tablet immediately. Tonight an east bay family praying their girl will be okay. Shot while sitting in car with mother. 66th and outlook near mills college. Laura anthony with more. Its horrible. I mean its awful. Most awful you can imagine. Reporter the mother ever a young son, Claire Stanley says the sounds were unmistakable and way to close to her home in east oakland. Four or five and then a pause and another four, right after the last gun shot heard a car peeling away. Reporter another neighbor heard it too. Sound close, right outside the window. Oftentimes hear them but dont see police action. Minute i saw the police, i thought wow. Reporter a 22monthold toddler shot once in a car with mother. Investigators dont know yet if unprovoked or exchange of gun tire between two cars and investigating whether the shooting related to murder yesterday on myrtle street. That was first first homicide of 2017 and going to look at if there is any connection. This is out of control. Theres no reason for this. Babies being killed or shot . Thats crazy. Dont make no sense. Killing the community. Innocent people, babies, women. Everybodys getting caught up in the cross fire. Reporter police are not releasing any information about a suspect or vehicle at this time. In oakland, laura anthony, abc7 news. The 2yearold was taken to benoff hospital in oakland, in stable condition. Community activist went to hospital to comfort the family. Driving down the street, cars shooting at each other and end up shooting a baby. Two years old, fighting for her life. First to hyland, then the Childrens Hospital in oakland. Cousin told us not retaliation shooting. Family is understandably devastated and asking the community for prayers and to keep the girl in your thoughts. And watch as red light runner caused accident in newark this bast new years eve, happened at 1 30 at cherry boulevard and maui avenue. Despite the force, no one was injured. Driver wasnt impaired by cited for driving without a valid license. Amazing werent hurt. Much more ahead. First van ness, then another change coming for drivers. 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The number 38 is considered the work horse of bus lines in the city. 32,000 people a day rely on it. Pretty fast but hard to get a seat. Reporter number 38 travels up and gown gherry boulevard nearly crossing from one end to the other. Approve this corridor backed by transportation authority. Heres animation, bus have a red carpet lane save time up to 20 minutes per round trip. Get me back to work a lot faster. Run from Market Street to 34th avenue. Even those that dont take the busses, this project contains street repaving and Pedestrian Safety elements. And saver crossings with short distances. And repaving making for smoother ride. Says this project is long overdue. This would be one of the major improvements of the quality of life of san francisco, one of the best used bus lines in north america. Reporter the cost, 300 million, the project is set to start this year, 2017, and completed by 2020. In san francisco, leabc7 news. Animal control officials credit the compassion of abc7 news viewers like you for helping them find new homes for cats and dogs. Yesterday told you about the 42 pets brought into the shelter on tuesday and learned they took in 33 more animals yesterday. Caused crowded kennels and filled them to capacity. Today officials tell abc7 news cats and dogs are finding new homes in response to reporting by alyssa harrington, 13 lost pets reunited with owners. Raiders are gearing up for big game. Team and quarterback connor cook practiced ahead of the playoff game. First quarterback in the modern era to have first career start come in the ploufrs and one of the best golfers of all time is pulling for him. Tiger woods says heart broken by derek carr but hopefully the guys rally and ill be pulling for them. Wayne freeman will be there for that game. Live coverage at noon and kickoff at 1 20 on channel 7. Well have postgame interviews after the game. Good news for wayne and raiders. Weather better in texas. Rough around here. Drew . A day of dry weather on the way and everything goes downhill Early Saturday Morning and not just one storm but a week of rainfall. Live doppler 7 showing it was quiet out there. Nice day today, lot of sunshine, chilly and clear skies tonight, falling rapidly. 33 in santa rosa, 43 san jose, and 33 in livermore, and Half Moon Bay along the coast with around 37 degrees. Freeze warning into effect in early friday for 3 00 in the morning. Santa rosa down and over to morgan hill. Drop below 32 degrees, bring in the pets, protect the plants and pipes. After the cold start chilly but dry. Sunshine early on, giving way to increasing clouds. 50 in the high in santa rosa. And rain gear gets a workout. Moderate storm with morning downpours, evening showers and stronger winds. Then the storm is upgraded to three. Injection early in the morning, wind is concern and flooding is possible in some areas. Could see 3 1 2 inches of rain in the urban spots and more in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Serious storm coming early on sunday. Friday, quiet, cloudsin crease into Early Morning hours. Rain, moderate, pockets of downpours and pops of yellow. Saturday afternoon may see some breaks. Scattered showers in nature. Dont get used to it. Heavy rain fill right back in midnight on sunday. Upgraded. Lot of yellow and orange on the screen, heavy rain continuing through 5 00, 6 00 in the morning, future weather across the region, fair game for downpours to continue for several hours and wind picking up as well. Potential rainfall over the weekend, Santa Cruz Mountains taking the brunt. Ten inches or more on the leeward side. And san jose, three inches. More in north bay, three to five inches. Along with the rain, winds pick up substantially. Going into sunday morning, look at winds rise significantly. 40 mile per hour gusts widespread. Stream and creek flooding concern is high with all that rain all inning in short time. Hydroplaning is issue with roadways. Power outages likely. Right now river flooding is low. Keep eye on through the weekend. Storm picks up sunday morning, monday scattered shower and moderate on tuesday. Two on the impact scale. And morning and evening showers even into friday. When you get unusual weather where you live, take a photo and share with us using the abc7now, may use it on the air. New rules getting tomorrows the day well play something besides video games. Every day is a gift. Especially for people with Heart Failure. But today theres entresto. A breakthrough medicine that can help make more tomorrows possible. Tomorrow, i want to see teddy bait his first hook. In the largest Heart Failure study ever, entresto was proven to help more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading Heart Failure medicine. Women who are pregnant must not take entresto. 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And republicans announce plans to defund planned parenthood but group is not giving up. Plan to fight president obama received a classified report today on russian interference in the u. S. Election. An unclassified version of that report will be released to the public next week and u. S. Intelligence leaders answered questions on capitol hill as part of a senate hearing. Under fire from donald trump, the director of National Intelligence came to capitol hill to make his case. Whats your response when you see donald trump still questioning u. S. Intelligence. No answer. Repeatedly attacked the intelligence agencies. They have no idea if its russia or china or could be somebody sitting on a bed smb someplace. Doubling down on new years eve. I also know things other people dont know. But director James Clapper says hes now more sure than ever. It was russia. Who is the benefactor of somebody about to become commander in chief trashing the Intelligence Community . I think there is an importa skepticism which policy makers which to include policy major number one should always have for intelligence, but i think theres a difference between skepticism and disparagement. As trump questions american intelligence, he praises russias vladimir putin, and he seized on comments from julian assange, the head of wiki leaks. Said a 14yearold could be behind the hack and russians didnt give him the info. Clapper asked about asang. Is there any credibility we should attach to this individual . From some senators, outrage. When it comes to choice between your people and intelligence agencies and julian assange, were on your team every time. Today tweeted that Dishonest Media like to say im in agreement with julian assange, wrong. I simply state what he states and up to them to determine the truth. Adding a big fan of intelligence. Any doubt in your mind that russia is behind the hacking . Zero. Lindsay graham says president elect i hope hell listen. Even some Trump Supporters are a hard time defending him. Why do you think donald trump continues to question u. S. Intelligence . I cant answer that, you have to ask donald trump. Do you believe russia behind the hacking . Yes. Are you concerned donald trump im not going to speak for the president elect. Thats mary bruce reporting. James woolsey resigned from the trump transition team. Telling exuded from matters and team didnt respond to questions. Biden was asked to comment on trumps frequent use of twitter. Grow up donald, grow up. Time to be an adult, youre president , you got to do something. Show us what you have. Youre going to propose legislation, were going to get to debate it. Let the public decide, vote in congress, see what happens. Bidens political plans after leaving office are unclear, he ha floated idea of president ial run in 2020 but also brushed off suggestions he return to politics. President obama set to deliver farewell address at mccormick place, Largest Convention center in the nation. More information tomorrow. House speaker paul rien says republicans are going to defund planned parenthood as part of the bill to rebeel obamacare, Congressional Republicans have tried for years to strip funding from the group because it provides abortion services. Immediately launched National Effort aimed to make them abandon that effort. Planning events that include marches, rallies and more man 20 offices in the bay area. To what president obama is calling a terrible case in chicago. A special needs man reportedly abused as torturers stream it live on facebook. Now two young men and two women charged with battery and hate crime. Warn you, video is hard to watch. Felony charges against the four people accused in this vicious attack on an 18yearold with Mental Health challenges in chicago. Investigators now calling it a hate crime. White victim held captive as long as two days, bound, beaten, are cut with knife, forced to drink toilet water and verbally abused by black captors, including racial slurs and mentions of the president elect. All while police say the suspects laughed and streamed attack live on facebook. The actions in that video are reprehensible. This Police Report shows the victims parents reported him missing on monday. While authorities searched, claimed the parents getting Text Messages from people claiming to be his captors. Then found this video and discovered victim wandering on a street disoriented and alone. Hes doing as well as he could be at this time. Cooper, hill, brittany and covington face charges. Expected in court on friday. And spokesperson from Facebook Says the video has been taken down. Two grieving sisters say they missed saying goodbye dying father after forced after flight on the way to see him. Another passenger so upset did so