The generations before us got to hae such a beautiful world. Avenue. There were long lines for the new phone. We have to fix it. Good morning, everybody and almost. The youth march. Opened this morning. Several people waited over night for the chance to be the first to get the new iphone. We asked them why they decided to wait in line. Before ending up in the plaza. When they could have had the phones delivered. Police stopped traffic along the way and made cars back up. Because of i think its just other cars idle to make way for time to upgrade. The atmosphere is a new thing the protests. For me. I like the atmosphere and i i just found out. If i knew i wouldnt be here. Want to go in and feel like them clapping for me. But here we are. Its been a long time. The wait began yesterday for youth are afraid for their some folks they camped out over future. And the fact that they have night. Along university avenue. One traveled from his home in acted to walk out of school. On behalf of the
Inch and a half of rain is anticipated with thunderstorms possible through tomorrow morning. And a wind advisory is going up later on today for wind gusts in excess of 40 Miles Per Hour. Showers marching across the heart of the bay area right now. They are light, but they are moving into the east bay. Anywhere from san leandro, 6780 and 580, oakland and emeryville. You are wet this morning. Further south in los altos. And right along the peninsula, the dumbarton bridge and southward into santa cruz n the north bay things are more widely scattered. Vallejo through hercules. And American Canyon some wet weather. And behind the front we are looking at snow. This is the system thats poised to move in once again throughout the evening hours, creating some rough weather. The ground is saturated. We picked up anywhere from 1 to 5 inches of rain in the mountains. We can talk about flooding right through tomorrow morning. Chris. Lisa, thank you. Weve seen a number of storm related problems this
Lets head to lisa argen for a quick look at the forecast. Good morning, lisa. Good morning, chris. Hi, everyone. We have a brief break before another vigorous cold front heads our way. We are ranking this storm system as a 2. Ill have more in a few minutes. And outside your window you have the sunshine. Earlier this morning we saw some pretty good showers move across the bay and even some embedded hail with that. So we are looking at anywhere from a halfinch to inch and a half of rain. We rank our storms from 1 to 5, 1 being the lightest and 5 being the strongest. And the winds will impact you again this evening. So not only do we have a wind advisory, we have a Flash Flood Watch this effect from 6 00 tonight until early tomorrow morning. So with the soil already saturated, anywhere from 1 to 1g in the Santa Cruz Mountains where they saw up to 6 inches of rain. We have a little bit of a break but the winds can create another round of problems tonight from 4 00 until 4 00 monday morning
Live from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. That is the sound of the biggest storm to sweep through the bay area in more than a year. Good evening. Im eric thomas. The storm has caused widespread damage. Trees have come down in every part of the bay area. Power lines are also down. Thousands of pg e customers are in the dark right now. Slippery roads made for treacherous conditions. Chp responded to more than double their usual calls. The heavy rain started this afternoon, but just in the past couple of hours, the brunt of the rain really hit. Team coverage tonight of this major storm starting with abc 7 meteorologist drew tuma. We knew this storm would be wet and windy. The storm moved onshore in the early afternoon. Heavy rain, strong winds. The good news, live doppler 7 d hd. The winds have calmed down. The heaviest of the rain has pushed off to the east. Were dealing with residual effects of this rain. This one 50 is starting in Sonoma County north of petaluma. We ar
Not one more. Not one more while troubling new information emerges on the young man behind the killings. Sham. Donald sterling responds to the nba, blasting the league for trying to force him to sell the l. A. Clippers. This as new reports that his wife is already on the fast track toward doing just that. Today, wednesday, may 28th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Lets get to the breaking news. The death of maya angelou at the age of 86. She was battling Health Problems and pulled out of a scheduled appearance this week. Angelou was found by her caretaker this morning. You see the hearse leaving her home a short time ago in winstonsalem. Here is rehema ellis with a look back at her life and legacy. Maya angelou. Best selling author and poet. I wrote this piece for every human being on earth. Reporter and so much more. Maya angelou was an activist, educator, t