conditions as we speak. spencer okay, dion. >> it's wet and getting wetter rapidly. here's a look at live doppler seven. once again, you can see the heaviest rain right now is still in the north bay. becoming more widespread though and moving southward. so we're all going to feel the impact of this rain sometime tonight. this has been the pattern throughout the day and now into the evening. the bands of rain are moving down from the northwest, pushing to the southeast. so let's take a look at our exclusive abc seven storm impact scale. this is a level two storm. it has felt like a level one for much of the day, because the rain has been relatively light up until now, but the ground is saturated. so now as the rain gets even heavier, along with gusty wind and downpours, it's trust me, it's a level two. so here's the forecast animation starting at 6 p.m. and taking us to 8 p.m. when you'll see the rain. the heavy rain becoming steadier and more widespread. and then 9 p.m. 10 p.m. pretty much the same picture, although it will start winding down a little bit in the north bay around 10 p.m. not until after midnight will the entire bay area see the rain beginning to lose its intensity

and breaking up into isolated showers. meanwhile over in the sierra, the snowstorm is underway and a winter storm advisory or actually a warning in effect until 4 a.m. a closer look at that and our local forecast a little bit later. >> dion okay, sounds good. spencer thanks. in the north bay, the storm arrived this morning and many folks were ready for a drenching. abc seven news reporter cornell bernard is live for us in petaluma with how folks are coping. and maybe i should say how you're coping, because now it is raining compared to what we saw just about half an hour ago. >> oh yeah, definitely raining dion yeah, so far so good. lots of umbrellas up all over petaluma tonight. the rain definitely picking up here in the last 15 minutes. we are getting soaked for sure. more rain is on the way and folks around here they're ready for it. the rain took sonoma county by storm saturday. windshield wipers getting a workout on very wet roads. >> what we like to see nice things, rain.

>> taylor fry is making sure every storm drain in downtown santa rosa is clear and ready for a downpour for. well, yeah, we're doing a great job. >> downtown parks is killing it. it's clean. >> the city worker says, with more rain coming, there's no time to waste. >> storm drains not filled with leaves. so streets aren't going to flood. the water will be able to get down into the storm drains and out to the creek in petaluma. >> neighbors living on wyndham way thought their street was flooding from the storm, but all this water was actually caused by a water main break which took several hours for crews to repair. >> the fireman was banging on my door saying, if you want a car to drive later, you'll have to move it down the street because the street is going to be closed . uh- because a water main broke. so i started filling the bathtub in the sink and uh, shortly thereafter the water turned off in san rafael. >> umbrellas are up for many. the rain is a welcome sight. >> i think we need the rain, but

maybe not all at once. i'm happy that we have it. and this year's been relatively dry so far, so p-g-and-e's says it's adding extra crews this weekend to respond to possible outages. >> they ask customers to be ready. >> charge up your cell phones now if you do lose power, you can always charge your cell phone in your car, have an extra battery pack. >> um, check your flashlights. >> make sure your flashlights are working, have batteries ready. >> in san anselmo, we found christian santana smoothing some fresh concrete in the rain after it got damaged overnight. not what you want to be doing today, i guess. right >> but no, i wasn't planning on doing this today. but it is what it is. >> yes. so here we go. wind and the rain. definitely cranking up tonight. the sonoma county fire district says uh- trees could topple overnight in heavy winds. flooding is also possible on some roads through the russian river valley. so if you're driving tonight, be very careful

and try to stay dry. we're live in petaluma tonight. cornell, bernard abc seven news. >> great advice. cornell i hope you can get dry. maybe we can get you a bonus or something for all of that soaking you're experiencing. all right, well, in the sierra, they are expecting to get about 1 to 2ft of fresh snow by tomorrow. today, the sierra avalanche center issued a backcountry avalanche warning for the central sierra through 6 p.m. tomorrow. taking a live look now from the conditions at our cove at zephyr cove, camera. um, hard to see. it is dark, but you can see there that flag is flapping in the wind. this is looking out at the south end of lake tahoe. now, earlier today this was the scene along i-80 in truckee as crews with snow plows worked to clear the freeways and streets. caltrain is reminding anyone heading to the sierra to expect delays right now, chain controls are required for all vehicles except four wheel drives with snow tires, as many in the u.s. are bracing for more frosty

conditions as winter weather causes disruptions around the country. 35 states are currently facing winter advisories or warnings spanning from the atlantic to the pacific. the midwest is experiencing dangerous temperatures and record snow, where the iowa republican caucus is experiencing subzero temperatures. the conditions aren't any better in upstate new york, where the bill steelers game has been postponed due to the relentless conditions the nfl has agreed with our assessment that we need to postpone tomorrow's playoff game until 4:30 p.m. monday afternoon . even more freezing conditions are expected next week as arctic air is expected to come down from canada and hit the northwest. now, the weather across the country, combined with the continued grounding of the boeing 737 max nine planes, are creating hundreds of flight cancellations, according to the website flight aware. more than 1300 flights into, out of or within the us were canceled

today at sfo, there have been 73 cancellations. there have been nine at oakland and eight at san jose international all. now, don't forget you can always track the forecast anytime with the very same live doppler seven that spencer uses. just search abc seven bay area in your device's app store to download it right now. moving on. in the east bay, oakland police are investigating a deadly shooting that happened just before three this afternoon. they say officers responded to the area of 94th avenue and a street to find a person suffering from a gunshot. that person was taken to the hospital where they were pronounced dead. so far, no other details have been released. now all of this comes as a heartfelt session was held in search of healing for the community. oakland leaders facilitated the event at the oakland asian cultural center. the goal there was to build bridges and encourage support and understanding all of it coming at a time when the city

is dealing with an increase in crime and the recent killing of police officer tuan lay, we all have to walk by faith and faith teaches us that in the darkest moments, it is always darkest just before the dawn. >> it's been some darkness in the land. we just buried a police officer. he gave his life . that was the darkest day that we have all seen in a very, very long time. but that also means that there is a light that is going to come to us as people who attended the event also spoke about battling stigmas and coming together to combat the hurt and pain in their neighborhoods. >> a gathering today at the port of oakland to protest the u.s. support of israel's military involvement in palestine. organizers say aid supplied by the u.s. has directly contributed to the humanitarian

crisis in gaza. over a thousand people blocked access to the port early this morning and again this afternoon, the protesters say the port is used to ship military equipment to israel. new details now on a carjacking and kidnaping in san jose. a woman who was reported missing has been found safe. police say the woman who was visiting from mexico was a passenger in a car when it was stolen. she was missing for several hours. police say she was dropped off at a police station by a good samaritan this afternoon, and is currently being interviewed. a man suspected in that carjacking still hasn't

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safety. so far, no other information about the surfers condition has been released. all right, now taking a live look at conditions outside where you can see along the embarcadero in san francisco, things are looking pretty wet. so coming up, we'll check back in with spencer for details on the rain and what you can expect for the rest of your weekend. >> and coming up in sports, the forty-niners resting up on this rainy super wild card weekend. a familiar face though, coaching his team in texas, demeco ryans. his defense dominates. houston

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state as republican presidential candidates try to make their case to voters in the last few days before the iowa caucus. abc news reporter reena roy has more on how the weather could impact voter turnout. heavy snow, high winds and dangerous cold hitting the hawkeye state just days before the first republican primary contest. but temperatures expected to be well below zero monday in what could be iowa's coldest caucus day ever. some planning on sitting out?

>> i wasn't planning on it. if the weather's not nice, i probably don't want to take my car out of the garage. >> others are hopeful voter turnout won't be an issue. >> i think most people live close enough to where they're going to caucus, where they can make it. >> republican candidates urging their supporter to show up. they can throw a blizzard at us and we are going to fight. >> yeah, they can throw wind chill at us and we are going to fight. >> former south carolina governor nikki haley canceling all of her in-person events friday, holding telephone town halls and doing interviews. >> but back on the campaign trail on saturday, this is go time. >> all eyes are on iowa. >> the front runner, former president donald trump canceling all but one of his events this weekend. there you have the worst weather. >> i guess, in recorded history. but maybe that's good because our people are more committed than anybody else. so maybe it's actually a good thing for us. president biden's team is also planning on being in iowa on caucus day to remind voters what's at stake.

>> reena roy, abc news, des moines buoy for us in comparison, we'll take the rain anytime. >> absolutely. don't want that subzero weather. no been there, done that. yeah >> especially during your good morning america time. >> oh, many, many, many times. yeah let's let's take the rain. well, we have to take the rain because we can't stop it. it's here it comes. looking at live doppler seven. you can see it's more widespread now than in the previous hour. it's still mainly a north bay event in terms of the heavier rainfall, but it's really beginning to cover all of the bay area. and as i mentioned, getting quite heavy and steady and more widespread as it sweeps down from the northwest to the southeast, it will be hitting all parts of the bay area over the next couple of hours. the wind is expected to get gusty at times, but right now it's breezy but not very gusty, with most wind speeds right now under 20mph. let's take a look at our current temperature readings. it's well, it's around 54 here in san francisco. although it's not automatically registering 53 in oakland. we've got 57 in hayward and san jose, mid 50s at san mateo and half moon bay. and

looking at the wet pavement at the golden gate bridge, other temperature readings right now mid 50s at santa rosa, petaluma, napa, 48 at fairfield and low 50s at concord and livermore. and check out our forecast headlines. rainy and breezy with occasional downpours tonight. tomorrow into monday, which is martin luther king junior day. partly cloudy, some flashes of sunshine drier obviously, than today, than tonight and the remainder of next week will be wet and unsettled with periods of more rainfall on the exclusive abc seven storm impact scale tonight. storm is a level two. we had lighter rain during the day, but now the ground is saturated and as the rain gets heavier with downpours at times this will be a level two impact on us with gusty wind and possibly flooding on roads and creeks. here's the forecast animation starting at 630 between 630 and about eight, we'll see the rain pushing southward and eastward, hitting more parts of the bay area with steady rain and heavy downpours at times down into the south bay. by about 10:00, and into the peninsula and santa cruz mountains after midnight. we expect the system to weaken a

bit and taper off to just widely scattered isolated showers by the early morning hours, so tomorrow will be a mainly dry day, but we'll be left with rainfall totals ranging anywhere from a quarter of an inch to about three quarters generally, and of course, a lot more in the far north. ukiah about 1.2in, and in the sierra it continues to snow heavily in some places. a winter storm warning is in effect until 4 a.m. tomorrow for the western slopes of the sierra, and the entire the greater tahoe area. 6 to 14in of new snow, generally, some locations may see a foot to two feet gusts up to 60mph. obviously traveling conditions will be a very difficult overnight. low temperatures will be mainly in the upper 40s to around 50. highs tomorrow. relatively mild, mainly right around 60 degrees. a few locations up in the north bay may not quite. make it to 60. and here's the accuweather seven day forecast. another dry day on monday for mlk day. rain returns on tuesday. probably only late in the day. continuing into wednesday. that will be a level one storm for that two day

period. partly cloudy and dry on thursday with yet another level one storm coming in late friday into saturday, so we have unsettled, wet weather. more of it on the way now. >> abc seven sports with chris alvarez as the nfl playoffs kicked off today as the top seed in the nfc, the 40 niners earned the week off. >> their opponent will not be decided until as late as monday's eagles. buccaneers game, which you'll see right here on abc seven. so who does linebacker fred warner want to play next weekend? how about nobody? >> i'm excited to watch. just as a as a football fan. excited to watch and obviously seeing who we play. but um i hope everybody loses. you know i hope everybody loses. and then who knows. and then we won't have to play. i'm just kidding. >> uh, first game of the weekend. former niners defensive coordinator demeco ryans and texans hosting the browns, texans rookie quarterback c.j. stroud threw three first half touchdown passes. how about the stanford man catching the last of them? dalton schultz, texans

up 2414 at the half. third quarter houston brings the blitz joe flacco just kind of throws it up. and stephen nelson is there to pick it off. and speeding down the sideline. has some blockers and 82 yards later it is a pick six 3114 houston is rolling very next possession cleveland goes. two. and another flacco pick six christian harris 36 yards back to the house. and his cinderella season falls flat in houston. damico he loves it texans roll 4514. the likely face top seeded baltimore next weekend. and look at this. this is what's happening inside the bills stadium in orchard park, new york today. so the nfl has moved tomorrow's bill steelers game to monday afternoon in buffalo. the idea of 80,000 fans of bill mafia being on the road with more lake effect snow expected to hit the area, is not a great idea. kickoff now set for monday at 1:30 p.m. pacific 430 eastern. super wild card weekend. wrapping up here on abc seven. catch the eagles in the bucs monday night kickoff just after five, immediately followed by after the game. the warriors are getting underway in a back

end of a back to back in milwaukee. we'll have the highlights at 11 last night in chicago, steve kerr and the legendary 9596 bulls were inducted into the team's ring of honor. michael jordan, scottie. scottie pippen. excuse me. unable to attend. now, remember when klay thompson set the all time nba record for threes in a game in chicago back in 2019? had another nice night last night. scored a team high 30 as the warriors got their four game road trip off to a winning start. >> it was really cool to be in the same building as the 96 team. seeing all those guys at halftime was special, and to see them still uh- together after all these years, it's really cool and that's a bond. we look forward to having down the line as well. >> i'm lucky to be a part of it and lucky to have played in chicago. this is an amazing city and a great place to play and um, um, i'm thrilled to have been honored with the group stage star wars night in ottawa. >> these senators, sparky's rooting against the sharks. three minutes to go down one. philippe zadina blasted it home, and all of a sudden we're tied

at four. and this sharks fan in ottawa made the trip. he's hyped. final seconds still tied at four. vladimir tarasenko beats mackenzie blackwood with 3.3 seconds to go, and the sharks drop another heartbreaker five four. they'll play monday in buffalo. the start time of their game has been moved up to 9 a.m. pacific time. because of that bills game that was moved to monday afternoon. they want people to be able to. i guess, go to both games in buffalo. i might say the hockey game. it's inside and then watch the bills on tv. but i'm not brave enough for the cold. >> well, it was funny because you said, take a look at this. and i was like, there's nothing to see. it's just all white snow white out there. oh boy. good. pretty wild inside. good to be on the west coast, chris. thanks well, still ahead. it was a day on the slopes that one family will surely not forget anytime soon. they could barely believe their eyes when they crossed paths with this unexpected vi

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last run yesterday afternoon at heavenly near the powder bowl chairlift. she and her group came across this bear. now, danielle told me a stranger tried to approach the bear. not a good idea. and that's when it made a run for it. more of this wild encounter and what one wildlife experts take is on how the creature reacted. did that, and much more tonight on abc seven news at 11. well, that's it for this edition of abc seven news at six for spencer and chris and all of us here. thanks so much for joining us. we leave you now with a live look outside where it is pretty much soggy all across the bay area. you see that fog condensing up on the lens there. we do have spencer telling us that we can expect more soggy conditions throughout the rest of the weekend. however, when things will dry up, stay tuned. we'll see you for the news at 11 tonight.

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