For awhile. Maybe not for too long. Heres live doppler 7hd you can see here in the immediate San Francisco bay area just about ended but we have areas of shower rain around monterey bay still in the viewing area and part of the over all region so still wet in parts of the bay area. But look like most of the moisture moving off on shore i should say is moving down south of the immediate bay area. Rainfall total 24 hours quite impressive. 2. 8 inches at kent field. Inch quarter San Francisco or 6 tenths inch at oakland. Some locations lower total. Sz tomorrow we see more rain develop in the north bay. Give you a closer look at that and weekend forecast in just a few minutes. All right thank you so much. There is plenty of storm damage left over from the recent rain. Heres a picture of the mud and rock slide that blocked highway 1 today between Stinson Beach in marin county. It wasnt a huge slide caltrans called in to clear the roadway and evaluate the surrounding hillside. Street flood something deep near the town of Bloomfield West of petaluma and sonoma county. Rescue craw had to use a wave run tore pull this driver out of that vehicle. Water was about 3 feet deep. Driver wasnt injured. Valley ford road closed until all the flooding subside. In rohnert park flooding forced closure of the rohnert park express wait a minute since reopened but city officials said drivers tempted to go around the barricade and drive through the water would most likely get stuck. Large ficus tree crashed on to parked car in San FranciscoMarina District today blocked south bound lane of lom a barred street before cut up and hauled away. L the weather and low visibility caused 82 cancellation at sfo today. Delay were average of 2 hours. We will have much more on today travel problems coming up on 7 news at 11 00. All that fresh snow in the sierra today as tahoe ski resorts doing back flip out there. 2 biggest holiday week are just beginning. They can all more snow despite our exceptionally wet december. Snow levels are still below average in the sierra. But the last snowstorm done really great things for our sister resort in the like tahoe base 9 general. Delivered over 3 feet to a lot of the resorts so they have been able to open up. Heavenly open 2 more lifts during the past two days because of snow making and of course the natural snow. You can see what is showing up on live doppler 7hd any time with the abc 7 news weather app free on a el app store or google play. We also have more information at abc 7 news. Com slash apps. President obama ka said Sony Pictures made a mistake by cancelling the release of movie next week because of north korean hacker but the hacker who threatened a september 11 type revenge calls ate wise move. Lee ann has more. President obama told reporters he wished sony would have come to him before cancelling the release of the movie the interview. I would have told them do not get into a pattern in which you are in tim dated by these kinds of criminal attacks. I would be fibbing to say i wasnt disappointed. That sony picture ceo Michael Lenton reacting to the comment. He said it was the theater that pulled the plug on the movie. The movie theaters came to us 1 by 1 over the course of a very short period of time. We were completely surprised by it. And announce that had they would not carry the movie. At that point in time we had no alternative but to not proceed with the Theatrical Release on the 25th of december. Reporter moore move ais a comedy about 2 journalist who got app interview and asked by the cia to assassinate him t. Now hacker believe to be associated with the korean government are demanding that all trailers be removed from the internet. Or they will rae lease more danieling information against sony. We would still like the public to see this movie. Absolutely. Steve teaches Information Technology at uc berkeley. He says why in the do what the wall street journal is proposing. They think it make sense is that the American Government either buy the film or get a copy of it grat from us sony and put it on the internet with no contract restriction. Reporter in the mean time sony has hired a Silicon Valley company fire eye in milpitas to deal with the hacking issues. President obama will be in hawaii with his family for the holidays. Mr. Obama said he has a very long list of movies he plans to watch. When asked if he could see that movie the interview he said he never releases his movie list. Lee ann, abc 7 news. San mateo county officials declared state of emergency today because of the severe storm damage. Board of supervisors officially made the designation today clearing the way to apply for state and federal aid to repair shelter and other emergency services. Also today the 11 family of flood damage Mobile Home Park who have kids in the Belmont RedwoodShores School district received holiday gift bag. They included advice a target safeway card used to buy clothing food or presents. Money for those cards came from a go fund me do initial page and the family of fellow students at nisbit elementary school. Effort raised more than 31,000 dollars. Last tonight people saw huge flames shooting out of the chevron plant in Point Richmond they said not a big deal but not everyone is buying that or settling for how long it took for chevron to notify residents about what was going on. Laura anthony has more. Like a roman candles. Those who live near here say the big flame in the sky looked like something serious. First i thought the refinery on fire. And then i went up on top and i saw it was just the blow out. Part of the natural Safety System that we have in place at the refinery. Chevron Spokesman Says the flaring wasnt planned but he also wouldnt call it an emergency. Its important for the community to know that what they saw last night was really the Safety System at work. What was burning off was excess fuel. That was in the unit we were depressureing the unit making sure it was brought down safely. It was extremely large. Far beyond normal and of course this created a lot of concerns about air quality in the immediate community. According to Contra Costa County hazmat director the matter around the refinery did el have it during the flare. But not enough to exceed state or federal limits. Im disappoint that had chevron down played the seriousness of what happened. Cocoa supervisor john joy also sits on the board of the bay area air Quality Management district. This was not normal flaring. This was flaring related to the a problem at unit. And anyone lacking at it could determine it was well above the level would you normally see. Could it lead to penalty. If not a reason explanation for what the flaring was about. Unit that experienced the problem has been shut down. Both chevron and the air Quality Management district will investigate the incident. In richmond, abc 7 news. San francisco sheriffs Deputy Arrested today accused of assault ago man he later arrested and falsifying a police rohr. 33yearold michael charged with 4 felony and myself did he mean or stemming from november 3rd incident at San Francisco general hospital. Prosecutors say Video Evidence shows him choking a hospital patient in unprovoked attack before argue him. They accuse him of lying on the Police Report saying he was attacked by the patient first, hes being held on 13 138,000 dollar bail and is awaiting a court day. Hes 5 year vet run of the sheriffs office. San jose newly elected mayor is accused of trying to stack the city council by appointing ally to vac antiseat. Tonight the castle hearing from 4 candidates one who could be apointed. Critic say the move unethical but the public should weigh in on this. If we have the details. Fight they are trying to pick my rae placement if without proper process. Assemblyman is joined by the south Bay Labor Council and members of the community blasting the process used to fill his former San Jose City council seat. They are calling on newly elected marry card 0to keep it open until the public can vote. But he is pushing to appoint someone to take the spot immediately. Very, very disappointd with this process. Unprecedented. Its dishonest. Its unethica unethical. Reporter person appointed would hold the spot until august of next year when the winner of special election tak takes the seat. City council is hearing from several candidates but riccardo has already thrown the support behind matthews. Former City Council Woman who is willing to do the job for free. People of dris district fourth deserve to have a representative who can advocate for the if i want this council and to leave that seat vacant do a great did disservice to 100,000 residents. Reporter new mayor already taking heat from the police union who back his opponent during a close race in november. He inherited mayor chuck reid pension reform. Matthew supported riccardo run for mayor. Hes trying to stack the council with his votes. Reporter councilman feels hes looking to seat an ally. I think this is a sign of not being willing to collaborate and weakness. Reporter he says the public will have a chance to vote during special election in april but until then he wants that seat filled. In san jose, abc 7 news. Still ahead. On abc 7 news at 9 00. Exclusive video from moments after former nfl player rice punched fiance. Why he doesnt want to you see it. Woman loses nearly all her savings in the latest scam hitting the bay area. Im Michael Finney ahead on 7 on your side like you should watch out for. We are still in a drought. But recent rain just enough to save the farm for north bay the Holiday Season is here, which means its time for the volkswagen signthendrive event. For practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a germanengineered volkswagen. Like the sporty, advanced new jetta. And the 2015 motor trend car of the year allnew golf. If youre wishing for a new volkswagen this season. Just about all you need is a finely tuned. Pen. Get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first months payment on select new volkswagen models. Female announcer sleep trains ends sunday. E for 3 event its your last chance to get three years interestfree financing on beautyrest black, stearns foster, serta icomfort, even tempurpedic. Plus, get free delivery, and sleep trains 100day low price guarantee. But hurry sleep trains interest free for 3 event ends sunday. Guaranteed sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep l. California unemployment is now at its lowest level since the early months of great recession. State jobless rate stands at 7. 2 percent thats down a tenth from october. Number of new jobs created more than 90,000 is the second largest since the state began tracking them in 1990. Hears some of the local numbers marin county continues to be the lowest in the state. More than 12,000 new jobs were created in alameda and Contra Costa County last month but they continue to have the bay area highest unemployment rates. State congressional delegation trying to get president obama to protect the large swath of land in northern california. Its the bear yes a Snow Mountain region primarily in napa and yolo county. For years congressman Mike Thompson and senator boxer have been trying to get congress to declare National Conservation area. Now they are asking the president to declare National Monument which he can do without congressional authorization. Governor Brown Administration today announced series of revision to its plan to build a pair of tunnel that would distribute water through the central vaechlt most significant change to the plan is elimination of 3 large pumping stations near the town of court land. Now think a single pumping facility 40 miles away will do the trick. Tunnel critic responded today by saying administration revised plan contain some fatal flaw that would drain the delta the great Drinking Water threaten farm and doom the salmon population. L. We have had the drown far from over. In the north bay the daily down pour was enough to change things dramatically for a rancher. Wayne has the details. What a mess. Another driveway flooding from excess rain water. So why you might wonder isnt he complaining. You have to have water if you dont have water you dont have anything. Beginning with the get to erases along with the wife. Continuing with the swiss style cheese for which hes famous. Reinforced by dark memory of too much sun and dry dirt on his 1,000 acre in sonoma count county. Weather pattern change. I think we are coming out of the woods now. Last winter he got to know don too well. While following the saga of the north bay drout drought. Start digging in the middle of winter what does it say. You are in trouble. By the end of last winter the drought forced don to sell the cattle to import feed from out of state to wonder if after 37 years here he could continue this way of life. His reservoir fed by rain water almost dry. Not any more. Nobody ever thought we would have this much water. This tim of year. It means relieve not only don but the rachblers in the renal. Down the road neal had the same concerns last year. This morning he found another inch of rape water registered in his game ichltd we wont hall any water. We are done with that. Our water tank are running over for our houses. Our springs our wells have all been recharged. Our reservoir running over. Its not even winter yet technically. Thats fichbility water in the creek. Grass in the hills. Merry christmas from the sonoma marin county line wayne abc 7 news. Spencer is back. I thought when i walked by the Weather Office today i heard them singing rain rain go away. Maybe it was just me. It might have work. It might have been in my head. I thought we were sing it softly. We have been saying that. We had enough for a while. Settle down. Exactly. Lets hope for a dry break. Maybe its beginning right now. Shower activity and we see some 80s of light rain as well around monteray bay still part of the area but bit south of the immediate San Francisco bay area and that is panly light rain pretty much winding down as well. So we are in a little bit of a break right now from the rain fall. However we have some rough surf High Surf Advisory remains in effect until 3 00 oclock tomorrow afternoon. Wave height up to 20 feet occasional breaker over 25 feet and there is a danger of is rip current so well keep that in mind along the coast line please. Current temperatures mainly mid 50s around the bay area. San Francisco Oakland 58 hayward. 56 mount view so pretty uniform range of current temperature readings. Live view looking at foggy conditions from our exploratorium camera as we look toward embarcadero center. Forecast feature we see areas of fog and drizzle tonight but no more significant rainfall expected in the over nature hours chance of some light rain tomorrow mainly north bay. Winter officially begins sunday afternoon at 3 03. Pacific time. Satellite radar composite image frontal system most recent storm third of the week. Area of drizzle remaining hyped the frontal system right now but we have active stormtrack. Jet stream strong and generate ago stream of moisture to the bay area and form in the rainfall and forecast animation 5 00 oclock tomorrow morning and look like we see some areas of light rain mainly in the north bay tomorrow. Chance of some light rain work its way to other parts of the bay area but north bay event then overnight tomorrow night into early suntd morning. See some Little Pockets of light rain as well. Then things start to dry out after sunday. Mane while in the sierra we have still have Winter Weather advisory in effect until 4 00 oclock tomorrow morning. Expecting maybe 1 or 2 inches of additional snow fall above 6000 feet and mainly south of highway 50 so chain requirement may be lifted for the mainly highway. Back to the bay area. Cloudy tonight. Fog and drizzle. Low 50s and tomorrow mainly cloudy day and sunbreak through here and there there could be pockets of light rain mainly north bay with High Pressure generally tomorrow in the upper 50s to low 60s. Heres accuweather 7 day forecast. Winter arrives on sunday then it gets warmer. Monday tuesday we see High Pressure in the upper 60s in our inland location. Mid 60s around the bay even mid 60s on the coast. Wednesday Christmas Eve probably see a little bit of rape not very wide spread not very heavy and Christmas Day its dry and mainly sunny and cooler with high in the upper the 50s but lovely Christmas Day coming our way. Good present opening weathe weather. Family gathering. Thanks. Coming up on 7 news at 9. Bay area film make intercuba when american leaders announce the stronger relationship with the nation government. Describe the reaction there. G for sky diving trip 7 decades after the last time he put on a parachute. He was 18 years old tell. His plane shot down by vo nourished. Rescued. Protected. Given new hope. During the subaru share the love event, subaru owners feel it, too. Because