The latest as soon as we get it. Now, lets turn to the weather now and rain is falling off and on through most of the day all over the bay area. Yeah t is not done. And lets begin with rosemary orozco. How long is it going to stick around. Were winding down for the next few hours as they will continue to taper off through the evening hours. Boy what a great start. And that they will be going to rumble through the bay area and for their time lapse as they would break away for the isolated scattered showers. Pretty much where they would remain at this hour to squeeze in a little bit closer to take a look at where they may have a few scattered showers at this time in and over portions of the south bay and the mountains reported there. Some areas are picking up half an inch toinch for the santa cruz mountains, sliding along the peninsula, mainly dry seeing just one little light cell over areas of southern portions. And that you may have just a little bit of the light rain along 280. And that were shifting to the east bay with a few more scattered showers here. And for the east bay along 580. And along highway four right around antioch working their way through pittsburgh this afternoon and as they would head over to portions of the north bay. And that it will be here in just a moment. Lasting all the way for tomorrow morning, the pines, right about 4,000 feet, the trip up towards the sierra again, the Winter Weather area for tomorrow morning and then the Flash Flood Watch for 9 00 this evening in the rocky and the jerusalem fire areas in the county areas, although it is not there in that graphic. And you can see more on the way. As they will continue to wind down and ill show you what is expected through the evening hours, how much rain fell, the cool weather that will move in afterwards in just a bit. Thank you, one of the first things we saw this morning on the highway in the way to work, lightning, rolling through the bay area, striking a little bit too close. Lets get to the story now as they would join us live. Now, as there will be more on this very close call. Yeah, this homeowner said that they would be lucky to be alive, given what happened this morning, after they struck their tree, now let me show you it looks like a bomb went off in their backyard this is what it looks like this morning, the massive chunks of their tree, believed to be a redwood scattered everywhere, all because of the lightning strike. They woke up to go to the bathroom outside and in the corner of the eye they would see lightning and then heard that explosion and where she would go back inside and that they saw a big piece of the tree that went through their bedroom window, landing right on her bed. And you can see it, the grass shattered every the glass shattered everywhere. You can see the tree just exploded in front of me. And that they would give me a minute and that is a miracle. Yeah. Usually that the trees, they would fall down, but this is not with the lightning that would just cut the tree in half and that it has exploded. Reporter well her neighbor is the the baxter, also showing us where a part of the tree also came through this end. One of the logs, they went crashing through their kitchen window, breaking up a few lights, nearly missing the wife here who was inside that kitchen, grab me a cup of coffee and then she left in a matter of seconds. And all of them are considering themselves lucky and my photographer, they would deploy this tree that it would have been more than 100 feet tall towering over the house. No longer here. Crews have been spending the day cleaning up all the mess. And that a lot of pets, they dont necessarily like thunder and lightning and im wondering how simones dog is doing. Reporter yeah, that little dog, that they were certainly rattled, shaken up. When we saw her this morning, that they really are crediting the homeowners and the dog for saving her life. And for waking her up early. Getting her out of their bed. And because as we have showed you that log, they went right straight on to her bed. And that, you know, she was still sleeping, who knows what would have happened. Oh, she is just so fortunate and that sometimes that it will be as cold out and that youre in your bed and that they might make that dog wait a little bit longer before they need to get up. Good thing they would listen to the dog. Now, Allison Smith is live. Thank you. All right, we heard them briefly touch on it, sierra, seeing it. Their first big significant snowfall of the season. Maybe a second here with a live web cam there from state line looking over the lake right now. Just about 33 degrees with the light snow and in that area. Well check the other headlines that were following for you now. Opening statements began this morning in the long awaited trial of raymond shrimp boy chow. The federal prosecutor told them that they ordered a cold blooded style hit on the man who would head to San Francisco china Town Organization before chow. Chow could face the life sentence if he is convicted of murder, racketeering, Money Laundering charges. Chow was represented by the wellknown defense attorney who will be speaking with the media any time now as we will bring you updates as they become available. Well have a few report for you on the 5 00 news. The group of students along with supporters would held the rally at uc berkeley, demanding more diversity on campus. And the students from uc berkeley, also from their Public High School and in berkeley, they say that diversity would increase if the university admitted that the top 10 of the students from each open Public High School. And the rally started at noon in front of uc berkeleys building. A rainy wait for some passengers that are trying to hail a cab at the San Jose International state and the estimated 300 taxi drivers would walk off the job at 8 00 this morning. And that they would happen tomorrow and the head of the city council meeting. The Council Member there will consider eliminating the mandatory fingerprints where all drivers of the Ride Sharing Companies like uber and lift. They have placed that counselor proposing the monthly background check from 1 of the drivers. And that they are arguing that they ultimately show you the finger plants and that they should do the same. And requiring the drivers to get fingerprinted. That they would denounce that scheme and that drivers would refuse to sign up. The preparation is outside way in milwaukee ahead is underway in milwaukee ahead of the gop debate. Preparing jeb bush, still looking for a breakout moment after he admitted that he would fair poorly in previous debates. And that they would attack the media for what they call the unfair coverage and following the politico report. Following the questions about their past at west point academy. As they would say that scrutiny would come with the job. And that it will be the scrutiny to allow people threatened. And that they would have clothing against hill polling against hillary and how well i do, theyre worried. You have to be straight balling with people, not only in what you say and under your policies, but in the things that you have published about yourself. Meanwhile the candidates relegated to the second tier stage debate promising to make the most out of that opportunity. Chris christie the vocal opponent of the gop ranking system says hell debate on any stage at any time. Again, the debate was set for tomorrow milwaukee and the main debate starts at 6 00 in the evening our time. Ktvu ross palombo will be there reporting throughout the night. They made it official today for the New Hampshire primary and the Democratic Front runner made her way in to a crowded office of their state house. And today she would sign that paperwork to put her name on the ballot in their primary. It is the fourth time clinton has filed in New Hampshire and the first two times as the political spouse for her husbands run for the white house. And then in 2008, that was for her own campaign. Now shes back as she says that she knows what it will take to win. This is really about everybody else. Its about everybody else that would work hard. And that campaign on and what they would hope to be able to do as president. It has the primary is scheduled to be held in february. Volks wagon has yet to reveal volkswagen has yet to reveal a fix for their cars. 10 to 40 times the allowable amount of harmful ox sides while being driven. Nearly half a million vw owners are going to get a gift in the mail. Jeff flock has more from the story in chicago. Reporter volkswagen is offering 1,000 gift cards to owners of half a million of their diesel cars. Its a part of the german auto giants effort to win back consumers and be good over the emission scandals made on monday. Accepting the cards does not mean that the consumer gives up their right to sue volkswagen. Youll pay extra for vehicles if they thought were environmentally friendly and also offer good performance. Turns out it was all a massive fraud. And this story is going to grow in to one of the largest corporate disasters that the nation and the world has ever seen. Reporter the volkswagen were equipped with software that turn on the emission controls during the government tests, but would turn it off the rest of the time. The nation control generally inhibits the vehicle performance. The epa says that the cars would be made 10 to 40 times more pollutants than allowed. Robert clifford is an attorney who has filed a Class Action Lawsuit on behalf of owners. He says that this was a steady deception. It has germany was sent over to the headquarters sent over. And for the local people to tinker with the software to get them to comply. They would launch a Gift Card Program for owners on friday. They are currently working on the fix for the vehicles, making it compliant with their standards. No word on when that will happen. See why they are calling out starbucks, sending them to declare war on christmas. Lets give you a live look at the commute home with the weather going through the bay area. Now, emoryville eastbound a little slow. Westbound direction is not too bad. The four on 2 will be right back. With a 100 electric nissan what will you do . How far will you go . How much will you see . Electrify the world. Now with a classleading 107 miles on a charge, the nissan leaf is the best selling electric car in america. Who wants Grassfed Beef that doesnt eat too much of their paychecks. The cashstrapped College Student who simply wants organic and local produce. The parents. Who may not have a healthy budget, but still make sure their children eat healthy. You inspire us to do everything we do. For goodness sake. It is the cup controversy and the goliath getting slammed for their holiday coffee cup that youll see them right there and staying lack thereof as it would come to the holiday spirit. And playing red without the decoration that they have used in the past as some people, they would be calling it a war on christmas. And their they have more. Reporter not everybody is cheering on the new holiday cups from starbucks, as they would be released in late october. And subtle shades of red. And the snowflakes and the reindeer on the cups. This year nothing. The stories would come up. And i would also have to say this that it will be on the land of the treat to be offended. And for them. I dont think that it will be that big of a deal. And it will be from their cubs. And during the holidays with the design. In response many frustrated customers are taking to social media with the hashtag errychristmasstarbucks. Also their names are Merry Christmas. And the shares of the starbucks are slightly under pressure on their midday trading. When the Fox Business Network would host the next president ial debate on tuesday night. In new york, im adam shapiro. Really stunned by all the coffee cups. And that you can see it as it is red with a Christmas Tree or a wreath or coffee mug as you can see it right there, thank you. Our director clark. Thank you very much. And playing the red one. Yes, keep turning. There you go. Yeah. I dont know. That they are both nice and both obviously to me that they are saying happy holidays. They would say Merry Christmas and whatever you would want it to say at this time of the year. And im one of them and that you would expect that on the cup. And that snowflake that youll want a little more. They would take me back a little bit more. I wonder how the baristas will be dealing with that and people saying Merry Christmas. As you would say on the report, yeah, Merry Christmas. Yes. My gosh. I like that idea. And which one do you like . I like the pictures. That i would be offering the different stickers to pick the ones that you would want. There you go. Very nice. Look at rosemary on to something for next year. Yes, probably pretty popular today and that it will be so close outside. Oh yes, i dont know how many people i saw Walking Around with those cups. And for today. In fact that i would want one myself. Giving you a look outside the doors, we do have a sunshine returning to the bay area. And take a look at this beautiful bay over the east bay hills. That they are partying as we will be beginning to see the storm wind down. Now, in to the afternoon, just isolated scattered showers. And that is what well continue for the next few hours before we will finally see the storm move completely out with a look at some of the preliminary rainfall totals and the National WeatherService Still working on the total completely and that it will be very close to this. Gilroy with. 7 inches. San rafael, close to. 4 inches. Santa rosa, almost half an inch and oakland. 3. Concordia little bit more than. 4. And that it will be a good amount here. As we know most of this came during the morning hours, right . Actually customized our radar here to show you between 7 30 this morning and 10 30 this morning. And boy did it really rumble on through. Now, a pound for many portions of the bay area and thunderstorms just firing off hundreds of lightning strikes reported. Here is where they are right now. And it will be this afternoon and their evening hours. A little bit closer. That they would have a few snow showers opening up. And along highway 4 in and out of antioch, pittsburgh, closer to concord with a few scattered showers. The north bay, yes, st. Helena with a few isolated showers in your area and lake county also reporting a few sprinkles. Going back up the hill where we would continue to watch the snowfall. That will remain in place for the sierras to city year all the way to the pass where the higher peaks could pick up 16 inches, which is just great news. For us, well continue with these few isolated sprinkles as we get in to the evening hours at 10 00. It is mostly cloudy and still a little bit of the blue there showing up on the screen as we would get going there tomorrow morning, pretty much finish. And that it will be closer from the early spring. Because of it, most of us would remain in the 50s today. And 58 in oakland with walnut creek and down in to the south bay of san jose. As you would look north, more of the same in napa. Tomorrow morning getting out the door, partly cloudy skies, just a very slight chance for the scattered showers. Again, well be on our way to the dry weather by then. 44 in fremont for the morning. 50 in oakland and the upper 30s for santa rosa and napa and close to 2, the coast, we have 48 for pacifica. 50 degrees San Francisco. And their afternoon highs, slightly warmer as we will get in to the lower 60s for their afternoon and still a cool day. With mostly sunny skies. 64 for oakland and 60 degrees in redwood city, shifting to the south bay. 62 in san jose and the inner east bay with the lower 60s for you as well. That extended forecast here. The temperatures, they will be slow to climb up. On wednesday, in fact, they could wake up with the patchy fog and that dry air in place and the winds will die down. It will be a cold morning come wednesday. Maybe lasting in to thursday morning. 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