12-year-old son, and two other children are missing. joins. tonight abc7 news reporter lillian kim is live with the latest on the search. lillian? reporter: the unidentified father of three found shot to death just before 8:00 a.m . police are now trying to find his three children and their mother. the 35-year-old is nowhere to be found she lives in a different residence. police aren t calling her a suspect but believe locating her is critical in this case. investigators say she s not married to the father and it s unclear what custody arrangement they ve had. hu hugo ortez is the oldest. the third child is two years old their father fwound a fatal gunshot wound in front of his house he lives in a mother-in-law unit behind a main house on 16th street. his neighbors called police as soon as they discovered the body. we ve had a homicide we don t know why the individual was murdered. there are children what aren t there and the mother is gone. that is somewhat suspicious. h
bill martin is tracking the next storm s arrival. we begin in the south bay with. it was a windy day here, so much that the wind toppled this tree. this is just some of the mess left behind. reporter: it s a muddy walk from the door to the driveway at this family s home in san jose. the remodel is going to stay like this. it s pushed things back. hauling things out, he couldn t bring in a tractor because there was so much mud. reporter: the storm did little to help south bay ressive wars, currently at 75% of average for this time of year. the ground was dry, so we expected the water to just kind of soak in. now the ground is wet, so we re hoping the next series of storms will bring waters into the ressive wars. we had about 20 trees that were damaged by a broken limb or fell over. the city of san jose has free sand bags ready for residents and its equipment is ready to go. as soon as it starts raining they ll be out in the street. reporter: one problem? the
through. at the summit we found a business manager named, no joke, joe weatherman. the chp sitting up here are never sit hearing for more than four minutes because this road makes people crazy. they drive too fast. they don t pay attention to the conditions. reporter: that isn t exclusive to highway 17. we found this van flipped over on highway 77 near the 101 interchange. the chp advise franchise this happens to you, you drive off the roadway if you can. if you can t, stay in the car with your seat belt on. the chp today, as in any other day that we have weather situations like this is urging people to urging drivers to slow down and remember that that posted speed limit is for ideal conditions, which these are clearly not. they also say one more reminder. if you hit some of that pooled water on the roadway, resist the temptation to slam on your brakes. instead, let off your gas and hold on to your steering wheel instead. at the summit on 17, kris sanchez, nbc bay area
bay area braces for the next wave of rain. the next series of storms is forecasted to be much stronger than today. bill martin is tracking the next storm s arrival. we begin in the south bay with. it was a windy day here, so much that the wind toppled this tree. this is just some of the mess left behind. reporter: it s a muddy walk from the door to the driveway at this family s home in san jose. the remodel is going to stay like this. it s pushed things back. hauling things out, he couldn t bring in a tractor because there was so much mud. reporter: the storm did little to help south bay ressive wars, currently at 75% of average for this time of year. the ground was dry, so we expected the water to just kind of soak in. now the ground is wet, so we re hoping the next series of storms will bring waters into the ressive wars. we had about 20 trees that were damaged by a broken limb or fell over. the city of san jose has free sand bags ready for residents and its e