live where you live, this is abc 7 news. all right. get those umbrellas ready. we are just hours away from a series of storms that will drench the bay area. good evening. thanks for joining us. i m dan ashley, and i m ama daetz. downpours are possible with possible power outages. sandhya patel is here with live doppler 7. let s take a look at live doppler. no rain on our radar right now, but that will be changing quickly. just hours away, back-to-back storms for the weekend. the first one comes in tomorrow morning. the second one sunday night. on our storm impact scale, both are level 2 storms, moderate strength storms from 3/4 on the 1.5 inch of rain expected. wettest spots 1 to 3 inches. gusts to 45 miles per hour and over the peaks even higher winds means the potential is there for power outages. there is even the possibility of thunderstorms. 5:30, that rain is moving in. the winds are kicking up. 8:00 a.m. right across the heart of the bay. and as we head into the
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precipitation, when were petaluma could have sung simon and garfunkel down by the bridge and gotten away with it. i m still waiting. reporter: those those who looked, could have found trouble. case in point, san rafael. it missed people, houses, cars, but it did not out power to a dozen homes. to the north on highway 101. call it a fender bender involving three sets of fenders. the highway patrol cited slippery conditions. there was one minor injury and, again, all of this happened before the big stuff hits. so you can call it a lull, you can call it a break, call it a lull or a break. as you look at petaluma right now, we to know this, as they say in the midwest, if you don t like the weather, stick around a minute, it will change. in petaluma, based on the weather map, it s going to be just like the northwest and the north bay, it will change and it s going to get wet. live in sonoma county. thank you. as we prepare for more rain to pound the bay area, work continue
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a family, killing their 7-year-old daughter. what the little girl s mother is saying this morning. plus, may old mistakes be forgot. the celebration getting out of hand. a bonfire burning out of control, and how one city s display left revelers scratching their heads. good morning and happy new year. we hope your 2019 is already off to a good start. it got off to a soaking wet start in new york s times square. another massive crowd welcoming the new year. many after standing in a long, cold rainstorm for ours. hours. keep in mind no one at that celebration could have an umbrella for security reasons. now that owl all those people have left, a huge cleanup operation is under way. debris being taken away, and stages being taken away. fireworks went off at the city e one of the many elaborate celebrations around the world. five, four, three, two, one. happy new year! reporter: it s 2019, and not even pouring rain can dampen the festivities. glorious, got a chan