Tonight. Reporter this time around santa cruz to santa rosa will take the hardest hits. Whats coming is not really spring like. We are essentially expecting a winter storm. It is almost indicative to what we would see mid winter, its within of the most impact d for pg e. Reporter for the last week pg e has been tracking this storm using a wide variety of data and tracking sources. We are able to ingest various weather model information and then we translate that into impact for the business and we have an outage prediction model essential three we run in realtime and ahead of the event. In the next 24 hours the coming storm is going to tlifr a whole lot of water to california, up here in the monday tans and along the coast. But what good is that information . Its good for each and e. R. A. Incident just like this. Whenever the event occurs, you will be able to get each and every incident just like this. Whenever that event occurs you will be able to get the right amount of crews to the scene so that you can get the power up and running as quickly as possible joop this tree gave way without notice around 1 00. Contract crews were immediately dispatched to clear the massive fallen tree. Stand by pg e repair crews already awaiting the storm came right away. We got crews and resources mobilized ahead of the time using our outage prediction technology. Reporter once the storm stops pounding they start focusing on micro climate to micro climate. We are able to make tweekz and alert tweaks and alert people we are getting impacted. Reporter remember, pg e is regarding this as a winter storm. These crews are coming from all oe over all over the pg e territory. The reason is very quick and simple. You have to have a 24 7 presence because you dont know how much damage you are going to get. You dont know how much is going to be from residual damage from other storms that finally make the trees collapse. So it is going to be interesting for the next 24 hours. This is a significant storm where the weather has picked up significantly since we got here. How heavy is the rain right now. Reporter i would call this moderately heavy rain, but theyre expecting later some very heavy rains at least in various spots. So as a result we could have some of that small stream flooding. The other thing is remember these hills have maybe a few days to dry out. A lot of this lond is completely saturated. If you get too much more water in tln tl on a tree that was leaning could actually fall over. Thats exactly what happened earlier today. The wet weather already beginning to affect bay area roads. Take a look at our live drive line traffic lights and all of that red you see those are areas that are slow going at this hour. This is the mcarthur mays. All of those headlights heading up to richmond and beyond. It is very heavy right now in the commute direction. It also looks like it is pretty slow going headed towards the bay bridge as well. We have some rain drops on the lens as we take a look at highway 101 in San Francisco. You can see looking beyond those rain drops there are a lot of headlights. It is slow going here tonight as well. Not a good night to be out on the roads. You can download the free ktvu weather app for the late s on the storm. We are also posting updates on facebook twitter. President trump and chinese president had their first facetoface meeting this after. President trump and melania had their first meeting at the maralago re sourt in palm beach. Mr. Trump has long said that china has treated the u. S. Unfar lee and how do deal with north Koreas Nuclear threat as well. Republicans implemented the highly controversial Nuclear Option. The rule change on Supreme Court nominations should ensure that judge neil gorsuch will be confirmed tomorrow. The so called Nuclear Option which lowers the threshold to a simple majority of 51 votes not the traditional 60 became reality on the Senate Floor Today with three democrats joining every republican in the Upper Chamber to end the date on judge Neil Gorsuchs stripping the minority from using filibusters to block the majority. The option was used by se mcconnell. What were facing today is the fall out. Democrats scrambled tom stop the rule change, but to no avail. Make no mistake about it, for all the back and forth when history weighs what happened, the responsibility for changing the rules will fall on the republicans and leader mcconnells shoulders. Even some republicans warned against using the Nuclear Option reminding those in their own party when the tables were returned on them in 2013, democrats then the majority eliminated fill Bernie Sanders ers against executive branch and judicial al nominees for filibusters against executive branch and judicial nominees. We need to get past unprecedented filibuster. As Senate Lawmakers still have a maximum of 30 hours to debate. In washington, joe wald man fox news. That are major developments into congressional investigation sjoe nunez re kusz himself. Congressman nunez called the charges entirely false and politically motivated. He said it was in the committees best interest to step aside. Democrats say he was too close to the whitehouse to be impartial. Lets get some perspective now with brian. Brian, i want to start with the Nuclear Option. We know the democrats did this a few years ago with judicial appointments. But this is the first time with a Supreme Court nominee. Does this up the an ante. Absolutely. It is the last bar that needed to be jumped in terms of judicial appointment. It was avoidable but both sides close not to avoid it. What is happening m washington . Why are people not working to the like they used to . I think it goes back to whats happening in local districts and in states. Were seeing elections where its 3 Million People difference in number of votes for say the president in towns and counties across the country. 51 percent to 49 unless theyre in districts where theyve been allowed to provide a window. I think its the state of the country right now. We are very divided. We have been in history and hedr and we will come out of it eventually. I want to touch a little bit on what President Trump said today in regards to syria. Probably his strongest words tonight and there is word he is considering military action there. Think about going back in time and he advised as a candidate and so forth dont get involved in a fight that isnt ours. So you wonder whether these pictures that are emerging from syria of these children or anything else happening there really caught his attention. Now we are looking at potentially the Trump Administration putting together a coalition. Weve heard that all before. This is just a huge day m washington especially for President Trump. There is also the issue with north korea test Firing Nuclear weapons. And now hes meeting with the leader of china. What is at stake with china what does he need to do during this twoday submit. To the extent he could get agreement from the chinese president to have north korea pulling their horns in terms of the missile testing the better off we are going to be, and the better off the world is going to be. It doesnt look like the north korean ames have been trun indicated at all and china doesnt seem to have any effect on them. Thats going to be his mission to have 206 nort korea find a more Peaceful Place in the world. Im not sure thats going to happen. Dont forget there is going to be all of these relations we are going to discuss with china. There is a whole lot of things on the table. This is Donald Trumps busiest day in afs by far. President trump very critical of china on the campaign trail. And he has to talk about them during their meetings. The whitehouse is trying to force facebook to identify the companies who created an account for. A number of accounts popped up after President Trumps inauguration. Coming up Governor Brown meeting with state lawmakers right now ahead of his vote a vote on his controversial gas tax. Moderate to heavy rainfall across portions of the bay area. Looking outside right now showing the wet roadways and gusty winds. A wind advisory to talk about as well. Well. Firs though a bay area woman accused of murder out from behind first though a bay area woman accused of murder out from behind bars after paying a 35 million bail. Youre going to be hanging out in here. So if you need anything, text me. Do you play . Use the chase mobile app to send money in just a tap, to friends at more banks then ever before. You got next . Chase. Helping you master whats now and whats next. A bay area woman accused of killing her ex boyfriend is out from lined bars after posting the largest bail amount ever seen. Friends and family secured her bail money with a combination of cash and homes. She was the heiress to a real estate fortune and will be monitored under house arrest. Reporter tiffany li left the San Mateo County jail this afternoon. She climbed into the front seat of a waiting suv and then was driven off after posting a record 35 million bail. In this county it is unprecedented. In other counties its been made before. Reporter in april of her by friends body was found. Police say li was worried she would take kus ee of his two daughters and hired a hit man to carry out the crime. Its a terrible story but we will prevail. Looking forward to the court and getting everything out there into the public. Greens body was discovered a few weekdz after the killing and lee was a rs d at her ils borough mansion in late may 2016. Shes been in jail until posting a record 35 million bail. The bail is too larng from a traditional bail bonds company. So a combination of cash and real estate was used to secure you dont remember the bail to security bail. I would rather be here than in jail. It is a different set of emotions for the family of keith green. This day didnt come as a surprise but still shock and some disbelief. Despite the severity of charges li was able to walk out of jail. We have not experienced things like this before in San Mateo County. Money can get you all sorts of things. Nothing seems right about it at all. Its a very difficult time for keith agencies mom drnkeiths mom and family. Reporter she is spending her first night under house arrest. She had to surrender her passport an the passport of her two hours. Her Attorney Says she is aware of all the conditions and she will not run. As for the other two men they are still in jail under a no ball order. Tiffany lis case is posted for trial in sept. A childrens swim instructor is behind bars in San Francisco accused of possess g chien porn ago fee. Nicholas hodges is being held on 335,000 bail. Investigators say they uncovered 600 files containing child pornography at his home. He is an instructor at a swim school. Police say the school is cooperating with the investigation. An up dit on repairs to the damaged spill ways at the oroville damage. Work continues to remove debris below the flood controlled spill way. They say so far nearly 1. 5 cubic yards of debris have been hauled away. Regulators are working with crews on a design for a permanent fix. We need this in a matter of hours and days instead of weeks and months. This is the kind of project that would take 2 or 3 years to design and 2 or 3 years to build. Were going to do this in about nine months and youre going to be along for the ride. Back in february 18, 0000, people were forced to evacuate tharp homes after the oroville dams was damaged and it was in danger of collapsing. More rain moving into Northern California right now. More reports of some heavy rainfall. We have this area of low pressure and thats going to be the source of some wind. That cold front eventually pushing into the region. It is covering a good portion of the bay area, the green yellow, orange. Santa rosa the most recent observation reporting heavy rain. Over the heshg lease area as well herculese area as well sit is extending out towards the bay. Some portions of the inland valleys increasing the rainfall over the past few minutes. Then well checkout the coast line here, approaching the south bay. San jose. Theres the kovrm out toward we had wood city and man ma say owe. These sand san mateo. Oakland airport thats a gust to 20 milesanhour. These winds will become a lot stronger after 8 00 tonight. Here is our live camera looking out towards san jose. Some drops on the camera lens. A wind advisory for the north bay and the bay shore line that means gss to 45 milesanhour. Gusts to 45 milesanhour. The wints could be gusting to over 50 milesanhour on friday. Rain and wind tonight. We talked about the stronger winds. The main event with this first system mog in right now into the evening hours. Here is our forecast model tonight. Taking a closer look at your friday forecast and also another system that could approach the bay area by late friday. Another effort to find the killer of a nasa employee shot by walking home. It could have been their brother, their son their loved one. Up next the new evidence that could lead to an arrest. Later in sports we go live to san jose as the sharks have a play off match as the regular season winds down. A dis member d body dis dismembered discovered inside a home. What we are learning. Member d body dis dismembered discovered inside a home. What we are learning. Ed body dis dismembered discovered inside a home. What we are learning. Assad. The secretary of state came to the cameras and informed us that the United States is wosh g to build a coalition a coalition to retaliate against the Syrian Regime thats been carrying out this campaign thats left more than half a million seer yans dead in a civil war. Whitehouse officials came together last night. Today members of the joint chiefs came together much the president was briefed on options. Tonight as the president is meeting with the chinese leader at his resort in south florida we got the word that the United States has launched a military attack tom hawk missiles on syria. We are expecting to hear from President Trump shortly. John roberts is live at maralago in south florida where we await word. Ive just been told by a Senior Administration official that President Trump did not call russian russia putin prior to these missiles being laufrnl d at syria. We were discussing this rl yer tonight that because of the fact there are so Many Russians who are in that country and russians who might have been manning some of those ante aircraft batteries that the president might in some way telegraph to the russian leader what was about to happen not necessarily to seek his permission for it but to say youve got a lot of people in that country but apparently there was no contact between the president and putin. We must say that any military would probably get a good idea that something is on the way ment how did the president come to this decision. We are expecting to hear more about this tonight but about a week ago his ambassador to the United Nations tell grafd that the regime change in syria was no longer the top priority for the United States. Which he may have seen was a green tliet that he could start attacking his own people. That climax d tuesday into wednesday with that gas attack. President trump saw thachlt you cant help but look at those pictures of the children and the babies who are dying and suffering so horribly. Its the sort of pictures that could just bring tears to your eyes. On wednesday afternoon the president said that he had been impacted very strongly by those images an that he was completely re thinking his approach and now we see 40 some odd cruise missiles being fired. Well be back to you again. This is happening as the president is meeting with the chinese leader and now official word from the pentagon, the number of cruise missiles that have struck is now at 60 at different chemical weapons sites there inside syria. The host of special report and our own core spont en brent is live with us in washington. The timing of this, no notification of the russian what is the message here. Strength. President trump is saying i can strike. This is retaliation for basically the use of these chemical weapons. There is a lot of questions online and around about the legitimacy of that it was in fact, alsad r we are told that u. S. Has high intelligence that it was laufrnl d from the Syrian Air Force from the air. The Turkish Ministry of health has all the indications that it was gas with the foam g of the mouth, the jerking. The u. S. Intelligence is confident. The strength here is it is a signal it is a different message than canned eight trump canned eight can date trump said candidate said. This essentially is the reaction and retaliation for President Trumps own red line that he talked about in the rows garden just rose garden just the other day with jordans king. I do want to point out that russia has signaled that this would have negative consequences, the u. S. Administration the Trump Administration was hoping to get the United Nation to d a resolution in the Un Security Council tonight. It did not. But the russian en voi warned envoy warrant of negative con kwenss saying we have to think about negative consequences and all the responsibility of military occurred will be on the shoulders of those who initiated such doubtful and tragic enterprise. That is the big question because russians are on the ground in different places through