Areas of most concern, burn areas of the Santa Cruz Mountains in the north bay, rain coming, jesse gary is live in the Santa Cruz Mountains. All of those burn zones and rain coming they must be worried. Reporter that is exactly right , you can see the scorched hillsides all around me. Its loose a lot of spots, coming down little by little and others, add the rain you talked about to this dangerous mix and you could have bad situation that turns much worse. Volunteer firefighter Jennifer Garner smith taking the rough and rugged route to eyeball a problem off chiquita road. Hotspot still smolders, 18 days after the loma fire started. Fires are common, burnedout areas, so its not an emergency we just washed. Reporter she is also constantly peering upward at loose dirt turned into a slide danger waiting for the right amount of water. Although fully contained the loma fire burned over 4400 acres, a total 12 homes destroyed, many more damaged. There is a burn spot above, were trying to seal it. Reporter fresh from dodging the fires distraction noble and his son are sign and boarding up for the coming rain storm and bracing for much like that could follow. Were concerned. It is the nature of things for tops of mountains to the down to the valley. Reporter the question for residents and first responders, how much rain will it take to move the needle from benefit to worsening a bad situation. Gentle sprinkles would help the rebirth of vegetation the downpour it would be disastrous. Youre getting a sudden onset of debris flow, mud flow into a creek area that isnt necessarilys to handling that runoff in a short period of time. Reporter crews have sandbagged utility poles to keep them up when the rain starts to come down. The wildcard is the weather and what it will or wont do to the scorched area left vulnerable to an october soaker. The risk is the roads slide away. And you would be stuck here. Either here or anywhere along chiquita, on the edge of the canyon. Reporter even see how Loma Chiquita runs its way through the canyon, although he on the bottom to the top, that is all loose dirt similar to what im standing on. The fears heavy rain if it comes could wash out the roads. Residents would be trapped until help could get to them. Live in the Santa Cruz Mountains jesse gary ktvu fox2 a lot of people taking this seriously, thank you. What could be the serious rain since last month could mean slick roads and more accidents than usual. The Highway Patrol ready for a busy morning and has advice of how to get through what could be a wet morning commute. Our biggest recommendation is to give yourself time. If the major rain will be during the morning commute, anticipate a slower commute the normal. Allow yourself more time to get to work, leave earlier if you can, ultimately just have patience. In addition to rain the storm is expected to bring powerful winds that could bring down trees country tremors were out in mill valley cutting dead branches so they dont fall on power lines. Pg e promises have crews on hand to respond to outages from the storm. Today donald trump denied more allegations of a his treatment of women. In the past 24 hours at least 4 women have accused donald trump of improper behavior. The story in the New York Times features 2 of the women who say trump groped or kissed them without their consent years ago. During an angry speech in florida trump said his accusers are liars. He claimed the news media and Hillary Clinton are part of a political establishment that he says is out to destroy him. The establishment and their media enablers will control this nation through means that everyone down. Anyone who challenges their control is deemed sexist, racist, causing a folk. Zina fall, morally deformed. This it this wasnt just allude conversation or locker room banter. This was a powerful individual speaking freely and openly about sexually predatory behavior. Actually bragging about it. The show obama made these comments in the keith battleground state of new hampshire, take a look at this from time magazine, on the left is its cover from august showing Donald Trumps face melted. The caption reads meltdown. On the right is a cover release this morning for an upcoming issue, similar illustration with Donald Trumps face in what looks like a puddle with the caption, total matt deblouw. The new issue is due out october 24. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in San Francisco for a soldout fundraiser, long lines waited for her, she didnt discuss the new allegations of donald trump directly but she referred to reports donald trump may continue to attack her husband former president bill clintons past infidelities during the final weeks of the campaign. Hillary clinton said she doesnt care if truck goes after her but she will, defend and stand up for every other person in every other group. I would be fighting hard no matter who the republicans nominated to try to make the case to win this election. But i wouldnt go to bed every night with and not in the pit of my stomach about what the alternative is. And what has been unleashed by his hateful divisive campaign. Earlier she made a surprise appearance at her Campaign Headquarters where she was presented with a homemade picture of herself by the granddaughter of House Democratic leader nancy pelosi. We talked with the area voters who say they plan to turn out to vote in Alameda County the register of voters is record expecting a record turnout, a stay at the start of the year registration was 800,000 nows 850,000. Many we spoke to in the city of alameda said they have never seen anything like this president ial campaign. It is pretty crazy right now. I think it is clear, i wont say anything too much. I think we need to get out. You look at the national election, the highest seat in the land, it is garbage what they are doing to each other. This isnt politics, its fighting. Alameda county like every other bay area county needs pay poll workers to make sure the election goes smoothly, if youre interested youre asked to sign up now. Stay with ktvu fox2 , and ktvu. Com, for further news and issues facing voters perspective the man accused of placing bombs in new york and new jersey faced a judge from his hospital bed. He was arraigned via videoconference from a hospital in new jersey, taken their after he was injured during a Police Shootout that led to his capture last month. During the hearing has public defender stood next to him and hospital down in plastic gloves. He pled not guilty to the attempted murder of police, Authorities Say he is the man who detonated a Pressure Cooker bond in new york city that injured 31 people, he is also accused of detonating a pipe bomb in new jersey. To Boston Police officers in critical but stable condition after they were shot while responding to a domestic disturbance call last night. Officers went to a home in east boston after the gunmans roommate told police he was being threatened with a knife. When officers went inside the home they say 33yearold Kirk Figueroa opened fire with a shotgun. He was wearing body armor. 2 officers were shot, other officers rushed in and shot the suspect and pulled the wounded officers to safety. When an officer goes to work in the morning, they think they will come home at night. 27 years receded over 12 years met dead. Yesterday that couldnt go home after their shift. And got they will go home sometime soon, but this is dangerous work. The suspect was killed in the gunbattle with police, Kirk Figueroa is listed as the founder of a private security firm, cold blue protection group, they say they provide security for police and private businesses and bounty hunting. A pedestrian that died after being hit by a pickup truck in San Francisco had also been shot. Police say the accident happened shortly after 5 am on the connector between westbound interstate 80 and northbound 101. The man was hit by a pickup truck and taken to nearby hosp will where he died. Doctors found he had been shot in the leg. The driver stopped in was cooperative, not under the influence of drugs alcohol. To say about that capsized and sank this past weekend was raised from the bottom of the big bay. Video of what happened from sky fox, police use sonar to locate the cabin cruiser, 30 people were tossed into the bay saturday during fleet week when the boat capsized. Everyone is out of the hospital and expected to be okay, police say it appears the boat may have been overloaded. To bursting were fire crews got the upper hand on a 2 alarm structure fire, flames broke out just before 12 30 pm near san bruno avenue and bayshore boulevard, smoke could be seen from supper miles away, no injuries reported in the cause of the fire under investigation. 28 East High School placed on lockdown as authorities searched for 2 suspects, they are now in custody. Sky fox overhead as algolani high and springhill Elementary Schools in lafayette placed on lockdown. All started around 10 30 am when Pleasant HillPolice Chased the man them in your the school. The lockdown is elected around 11 45 am, police have said why they were chasing him. A man and his wife robbed at gunpoint. Right outside their home. Pistol whipped and robbed of their jewelry. Coming up the attack caught on tape. This seawall is part of a 30 year effort on the part of San Francisco airport to keep the bay at bay. From sea level rise. First attempting to broaden its audience, the new feature launched by twitter today that will take Live Streaming to another level. The ceo of Wells Fargo Bank has stepped down but there is a lot of anger over the banks tactics. John stump under fire for weeks after the bank admitted opening 2 million unauthorized accounts and the names of customers. That led to questions from 2 congressional committees, and 5000 employees fire. Now some of those former wells fargos workers are saying it isnt fair they were forced out but stumped was allowed to retire. Some former wells fargos employers started a movement asking the customers to take a step that they say wells fargo cant help but notice. They want customers to take part in a National Close your wells fargo account day. That day is set for saturday, november 12. President obama in pittsburgh for the frontiers conference, it focused on increasing americas capacities in science, technology and innovation. Obama discussed how investing in science and technology will improve lives including sending humans to mars by 2030. The administration awarded 300 million in research initiatives. Avocado lovers seeing a spike in prices, a case of avocados is now averaging 76 after a poor growing season for california farmers. Shoppers hope the price a job when the avocado harbor started in mexico but there is not enough avocados picked to drop the price. Some restaurants are worried the continuing shortage of avocados will force them to increase their menu prices. Fda investigation into homeopathic teething products has revealed troubling information. Researchers discovered a possible link between highlands teething tablets and gels and that deaths of 10 children, plus more than 5 or 400 other problems. Earlier this week the Company Announced it would stop distributing teething ms. Medicines in the us, the products are sold in Retail Stores and online and previously distributed by the cbs and highland. Starbucks introducing a new drink that blends coffee with beer. It is called espresso cloud iepa. Made with a glass of iepa top of the vanilla orange espresso foam and served with a shot of espresso ported. It took starbucks a year to develop it but you wont be able to tried everywhere, you have to go to a starbucks evening location if you want to get it, and there are several in the bay area including napa, santa rosa and san mateo. Twitter announce its expanding who and how its Live Video Service can be used. The video streaming app has been limited to content from smart phones but now twitter is testing a feature called producer that allows streaming from professional cameras, apps and Virtual Reality recordings. It will be limited to to media companies, the feature is an attempt to widen twitters appeal through the increasing popularity of videos online. Another check of the weather, a lot of rain headed heading to the bay area. The real story is north of year. 3 or 4 inches of rain in parts of the north bay the next few days. North of that, a foot of rain, some of the basin regions. Series rain nor the santa rosa. For us, well get rain, i dont expect flooding issues, things are pretty drive. Big time storm, Pacific Northwest this will go down as one of the strongest storms theyve ever seen in recorded history. 63, columbus day storm was big, this has the earmarks of that big win and rain. On the south end, we get wet, most of the rain in the Pacific Northwest, because of the tropical nature, it hits the hills and goes up and expands, as it rises and condenses. You see this all the time the Santa Cruz Mountains, areas north of marion county, they could see 48 inches of rain. Whereas it may only see 3 1 2 over 4 days. That is the keith, over a bunch of days. Coming close, rain around eureka where its been raining hard most of the day and that rain will continue into the evening and get to us, rain gets here 3 or 4 am. Us being santa rosa in hillsboro area. Cloudy right now, were priming the pump, meaning all this moisture is setting the tone for when the match comes in, the match being the dynamics from the upper atmosphere. The rain is in, thats why its cloudy and moist, you get the spark, and impulse writing on the jet stream. On friday morning early and it will rain. Again the real rain, the bulls eye there. Santa rosa is only forecast, 2 1 2 2 1 4 inches, but i think they will see more , you get the idea. Look at the rain. They could see a foot or 18 inches of rain in the alps. Where the main service reservoirs. Orrville, good news, well see a lot of good productive water. The downside, the Pacific Northwest, because it is a warm system not snow there will be no snow. You are holding the precipitation, that will rush that will run off so flooding is a likelihood for tacoma, south of portland and seattle. 70 and tomorrow your morning commute, if you can avoid that avoid that. Tomorrow at 9 am, still really went in wind. 11 am, lunchtime raining in san jose, afternoon commute rated here, a bit of a break. All about the morning commute and rainfall, maybe an inch or 2 in some places in the north bay, a lot of right this time of year, but you go north near 40, 50 miles it will be a big deal. Well see you back with the latest computer model, that is through the next will be a 12 hours. Smack known as one of the luckiest spots in the bay area, a lot of big winning Lottery Ticket sold. But now luck has run out. Why kevin us is closing its doors. 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Cell phone provider Verizon Communications says it plans to shut down call centers in 5 states including california. Is expected the move will affect 3200 workers in all. In the sacramento suburb of Rancho Cordova 1000 jobs said to leave, verizon said affected employees are offered jobs at other locations or severance packages. The and i spent comes days after the Company Announced job cuts in Stores Nationwide as it deals with increasing competition in the wireless industry. If you have galaxy note 7 phone samsung would like you to traded in for a new phone or refund. Samsung says it will let Customers Exchange the note 7 for any other Samsung Smartphone , and you can get a 100 credit on your wireless bill. If you dont want to stay with samsung you can ask for a refund or another brand of smartphone and you will still get a credit of 25. Amazon is increasing its workforce for the holidays with an additional 120,000 jobs. 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