at six starts right now. >> now, building a better bay area moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc seven news from protests in san francisco to the playoffs in the south bay. >> just about anything happening in the region this evening is being impacted by a winter storm that won't let up anytime soon. get ready for an already soggy saturday to get even soggier. good evening and thanks for joining us, everybody. i'm dionne lim. there is a lot more rain in store for us this weekend, and we've got you covered with live team coverage, starting with abc seven news weather anchor spencer christian spence this storm, which is now a level two. that is correct, diana. >> and i like your technical phrasing there. even soggier that's what it's going to be later tonight. let's take a look at live doppler seven. we can see that the rainfall has expanded to cover a wider range. a wider portion of the bay area is generally light or light to

moderate, but there are little pockets of downpours beginning to develop right now south of san francisco, all the way down to burlingame and then across the bay, over to oakland and richmond, and out to orinda. so it's going to be a very wet night. it is already. it's going to get even wetter this is a level two storm on the exclusive abc seven storm impact scale. as storm of moderate intensity. and for tonight, we expect continued widespread rainfall with pockets of heavy downpours, gusty winds in the hills and a slight chance of some thunder as the atmosphere is a bit unstable. here's the forecast animation starting at 630 between 630 and about 9 or 930, it'll continue to be mainly light to moderate rainfall after 9 p.m. gets a little bit heavier and becomes more widespread, and then even heavier still after midnight. between midnight and about 4 a. we're going to get some widespread heavy downpours. perhaps some strong gusty wind, and may even contribute to some localized minor flooding. a wind windfall rainfall totals by about 4 a.m. we'll uh- 4 p.m. tomorrow. we'll arrange anywhere from about 2/10 of an inch down in the south bay to over an inch

in parts of the north bay, so it's going to be a really wet storm. and some of the features of this storm to bear in mind are that we expect multiple storms coming through the bay area over the next several days, with heavy rain at times, strong gusty winds, possibly some downed trees and power outages, and of course we're looking out for flooding on rivers, creeks and streams. more on the accuweather seven day forecast a little bit later, dion sounds good. >> spencer. thanks our team coverage continues now from the north bay. firstrillionesponders are standing by ready for possible flooding, even landslides. abc seven news reporter cornell bernard is live for us once again in san rafael with more on this. cornell >> yeah, heather dion here we go again. another round of storms moving in. it's been wet. it is windy and firstrillionesponders are ready for what's next. storm moved into the bay area saturday with the goal of getting everyone wet. the heavy rain giving marin county a super soaking. but for some drivers it

was time for a pit stop. >> i'm getting new windshield wipers. >> artegiani wasn't the only driver looking for help at o'reilly auto parts in petaluma, where old wipers bite the dust and new ones are installed by employee garrett birza. >> this is just my first set of up today, but i've already done like tens over the past. you know, just a couple weeks. >> super awesome. i didn't know how to do it. so he offered to do it for me and i said, thank you. >> so now what? now you're ready. >> now i'm ready to go drive around in the rain in santa cruz, the chp posting on x about this toppled 50 foot tree blocking aptos street at soquel drive. >> drivers asked to find an alternative route. >> we'd ask people to slow down uh- stay home. if you have to. um, don't go out unless it's absolutely. essential. >> sonoma county firefighters are watching the hills or possible landslides like this one from last winter on river road in guerneville. they're also keeping a close eye on the russian river, which is well below flood stage. we've got a little ways to go, but if the rains continue or if they start

to increase and get a little heavier, which we're expecting, then that's definitely going to be something that we're going to be keeping an eye on. >> we do have a swift water team ready to deploy at any moment. we have all of our equipment here ready and staged in mill valley. >> umbrellas were up across town. we found activist artist white trying to raise awareness about teen bullying in schools. the rain not dampening her message a little bit more of a passion driven thing. >> so it's no problem to me. i do not mind standing out here for the kids. >> the message to everyone this weekend just everybody please stay safe and stay dry. and i am trying to take that advice. captain jones also reminding us that cars and water don't mix. if you approach a flooded street, be safe and turn around and we're live in san rafael tonight. cornell bernard, abc seven news. all right. >> always good advice, cornell. thank you. now the wet weather could not keep thousands of forty-niners fans away from levi's stadium for tonight's

playoff matchup with the green bay packers. abc seven news reporter anser hassan is once again live for us and lots of excitement behind you on sir. >> dion, these fans have been pumped. the 40 niners just scored minutes ago. they now lead seven three. these fans are expecting a big game tonight. tailgating started early. fans have been out here for hours. the 40 niners are hot. they've had an incredible season. this is the 10th time the two teams are meeting in the playoffs. 40 niner fans say their team has had a lot of rest coming into this game. they expect to crush the green bay packers. well, the niners are going to win 45 to 12. >> that's what it's going to be. you sound really confident. oh yeah for sure. they're only getting field goals. that's it. niners are scoring. they're not going to be stopped. we got this i think the niners are going to beat the crap out of the packers. >> we're going to great that cheese and get us a win and work our way into this to the conference finals.

>> we know the 40 niners faithful will show up rain or shine for their team. now, we spoke to some fans who came from across the us just for this game, some coming even from mexico. so virginia, actually you came that far for this game. yeah, yeah, of course i mean this is a big game. >> they finally healthy brought praise playing well i mean the team was ready and primed for a super bowl run for mexico. >> for me. mexicali, you came all the way just for the game? yeah, sure. 12 hours driving. >> now tonight's winner moves on to the nfc championship team game. this team hoping to write the next chapter in this team's storied history. dion will bring you all the latest tonight at 11 reporting live anser hassan abc seven news. >> sounds great i'm really impressed by how far people have traveled. that is dedication, sir. thank you. now don't forget, you too can keep track of the rain anytime with the very same live doppler seven that our meteorology team uses. just search abc seven bay area in your device's app store to download it now for free. well,

moving on the wet weather wasn't enough to stop people on both sides of the abortion issue from gathering on the streets of san francisco, anti-abortion activists did descended on the city for the 20th annual walk for life. that march closed down market street for much of the day, busses filled with participants came from hundreds of miles away. >> we wanted to come and show our support and show the world that, um, abortion is it's murder makes your heart feel good to stand up and show that you are proud to be pro-life. >> meanwhile, pro-abortion rights groups held a counter-demonstration near the main library. protesters there called for reproductive justice in the wake of the overturning of roe v wade. >> i think that after roe was turned, like so many people don't have access to abortion, and even though we might feel safe in this city, we might feel safe in this state. i think it's really important that we show up, especially when there's such a big force across the street. >> the supreme court has two

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to collect 25,000 signatures, or about 10% of oakland's registered voters lead of the recall effort, say tao is responsible for high crime rates in the city. tao, though, has not responded to their recall effort. the deadline for her to do so was yesterday. a campaign to rally support for the proposition b ballot initiative launched today in san francisco. prop b is called be safer. the bill would fund full police staffing for 5 to 10 years, set a minimum officer staffing level , and allow sfpd to request its own budget changes, prop b is backed by a coalition of city and community leaders who say it could improve public safety and financial transparency. prop b

creates a recruitment fund. >> it creates the mandate and it creates the pathway to bring back the minimum number of officers. we need to have in san francisco. >> prop b will be on the ballot on march 5th. the mayor of san jose is calling for a new city policy to prevent encampments from returning to downtown. public spaces. last fall, the city used $2 million to move unhoused residents from the guadalupe river trail into interim housing. since then, some camps have returned. mayor mehan wants to create no return zones and limit where those encampments can be. he says the move would protect public areas. >> if you were here prior to that cleanup effort, you can see why people stopped using the trail. this is a public trail here along the river that should be accessible to everyone. >> some homeless advocates are pushing back on the proposal, calling it cruel. though the city council's rulings committee will take it up this coming

wednesday. a long forgotten piece of san francisco history is back, but on a much smaller scale. doug vargus and his twin brother dan built a mini version of the 1939 world's fair golden gate exposition on treasure island. the model went on display for today only at the treasure island museum. it highlights the fair's art deco architecture and some lifelike details of the nearly century old expo. >> i got inspired. i looked at what the real estate i had to work with, and then i had to plan an attack. how i'm going to build this thing in that space. so it was it was challenging. but inspiration helps. and that's what brought the joy of wanting to share with the public how incredible it's going to be. >> yeah. pretty impressive. the mini version of the expo will now become part of a private collection. well, coming up, chris alvarez joins us with a preview of sports, including highlights from the nfl playoffs. plus, the woman you could call taylor's taylor and the piece of clothing getting

all almost as much playoff buzz as the 40 niners. plus get ready for a night of potentially heavy rain as we take a look outside at sfo. abc seven news weather anchor spencer christian is up next with your accuweather forecast

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statewide emergency following deadly ice storms there in new york. dramatic video shows a car , yeah, trying to pass a semi truck before crashing into a snowplow. the good news no one was injured and in michigan, a dog came to the rescue after his owner fell through the ice. i mean, we're getting away with it mildly in comparison. >> we are indeed in comparison. this is mild weather here in the bay area because there is a bitterly cold weather in other parts of the country. snow and whiteout conditions. no we don't have that here. >> yeah, and this is pretty normal for this time of year. >> it is to get rain like this. this is our what used to be normal. yeah. right. right maybe in some of our recent years this wasn't happening. so. but this is the norm. here's a look at what's happening right now. and

live doppler seven the norm. we've got green showing up all over the screen. so we have fairly widespread light to moderate rainfall. we have some little pockets of steadier rain right now mainly over in the east bay out near walnut creek to pleasanton, uh- not pleasanton, but pleasant hill. we've got some steadier rainfall right now over in the oakland, berkeley area. we've got some steady rain as well. a little bit farther south around union city, uh- is wet over in the east bay right now is going to be wetter over the entire region as the night wears on, because we've got wave after wave of rainfall coming in and some of these waves are going to be more widespread and they're going to be heavier later tonight. now it's gusty near the coastline right now, but the winds are fairly tame in other parts of the bay area. at this moment. current temperature readings are 56 degrees here in san francisco. also mid to upper 50s in oakland, hayward, san jose, san mateo and half moon bay. looking along the bay bridge from emeryville, things look a little quiet there right now, but maybe not for long. 52 degrees right now at both santa rosa and petaluma. petaluma and mid 50s at napa, fairfield and

concord. and these are our forecast headlines. it will be rainy and breezy to gusty throughout the night hours and overnight hours as well. stronger storm comes in late tomorrow late sunday into monday bringing more downpours and a chance of some thunder and the potential impact from all of this is that we'll have flooding on creeks and streams and rivers , and maybe even some downed trees and outages of isolated power outages. here's our forecast storm impact scale, showing that this is a level two storm. and for tonight and overnight periods, we expect more widespread rain, gusty winds in the hills, a slight chance of thunder, and some of these rains could be really drenching. forecast information starting at 630 shows a fairly quiet pattern, but it gets a little bit more widespread and more intense between 630 and 930. after 930, the rain gets even heavier, and between midnight and about 4 a.m, we're going to get some of our heaviest rainfall before the system starts to weaken a little bit in the wee hours of the morning. overnight rainfall estimates, um, maybe up to about

2/10 of an inch south of the golden gate for most areas in the east bay, the peninsula and south bay. but up in the north bay it will be much wetter with many locations receiving over an inch of rain. and we have a winter storm warning in effect for the western slopes of the sierra until 10 p.m. monday. heavy wet snow will expect 8 to 16in of snow between about 6000 and 7000ft, but above 7000ft we could see 1 to 3ft of snow and gusts up to 45mph back to the bay area. overnight lows will be mainly in the low 50s, so relatively mild. this is not a cold storm coming through tonight. tomorrow's highs in the low 60s. so again a fairly mild storm. here's the in terms of temperatures. here's the accuweather seven day forecast level two storms on sunday late sunday and on monday. then on tuesday and wednesday lighter rain. so level one storms those two days. finally we start to get a little bit of drying out. thursday or friday and notice how mild it's going to be going into next weekend. high temperatures will be climbing

into the mid 60s. >> abc seven sports is sponsored by your northern california honda dealers. >> welcome to sports from levi's stadium, 40 niners and packers in the nfc divisional for the 10th time. these two teams have met in playoff history. that's an nfl record. they are currently underway right now. we're not allowed to show highlights, but you will have your full highlights and reaction tonight at 11. one of the more fun storylines this week, the emergence and popularity of christian us custom jackets, christian of course. the wife of 40 niners, fullback kyle use check and she designed taylor swift's custom chiefs jacket that featured boyfriend travis kelsey's jersey number. she wore that last week in kansas city. now, kristen sze designs took social media by storm over the past week, and she's gained 500,000 followers on instagram alone in this past week. and earlier this week, we talked to her ultimate hype man, her husband kyle, who couldn't be more proud. >> so proud of her. and i think she's extremely talented. and the things that she's putting out there is are one of a kind. and i just want to make sure she got that credit. um, you know,

at first the announcers, you know, they're like, hey, taylor swift can get nike to do anything. and i was like, ah, come on. like we gotta let these people know it was all it was all christian. um, that was all her. so i was really happy to see her get her credit. taylor had said that she was going to wear it. you never know until you get to the stadium. so when we saw it at the same time everyone else did when she, you know, came out of the golf cart with the jacket on and we were fired up, approached kyle about getting a custom jacket from his wife. >> um, no, i haven't, but my wife actually was talking about that. but i told her i don't have a number, so you better not wear that. that'll be so embarrassing for us. but uh. no, that was cool. my, um. she's awesome. and she does. she does that stuff all the time. she's my daughter. my daughter likes to make clothes since she was, like, seven years old, so she's always sending her some stuff to that. they try to make. so it's awesome. it's cool. >> afc divisional you saw it right here on abc seven. former niners defensive coordinator demeco ryans and the texans trying to upset the afc. top seeded ravens in baltimore. down ten three in the second stephen

simms on the punt return. and he is gone 67 yards to the house. and this game is tied at ten. damico he's fired up but it's all ravens in the second half. all lamar jackson. he ran for two touchdowns as the ravens scored four straight times. he's up the tunnel and gone both jackson style. a great first season in houston for ryans, but it's over with. the ravens win 34 to 10. they'll host the winner of tomorrow's bills. chiefs game in the afc championship game. with stanford's win over oregon last night, women's basketball head coach tara vanderveer tied mike krzyzewski as the winningest coach in college basketball history, with career win, 1202 two. tomorrow she has a chance to stand all alone when the eighth ranked cardinal hosts oregon state for a 2:00 tip off down on the farm, she just considers it part of the journey. but her players, they're excited for, i guess i don't allow myself to go there, right? >> you know, so i just i want to do a great job for our team and, you know, it's a number. i mean, it's if it was if it was i know

it's um, i know it's a big number because i'm old too. but um, you know, it's not the point of what i'm doing at all. >> we're just like, soaking it in, like how honored we are to be a part of her historic moment. even though she won't allow herself to, you know, celebrate it. too big. we'll celebrate for her. but i think this has just been an amazing experience being here, being coached under here, under her. um, and just the opportunity to, um, make history on sunday is really exciting. >> this abc seven sports report is sponsored by your northern california honda dealers, deion on. >> chris, thanks. while much of the bay area's sports attention is focused on the niners today, one little girl is all about hockey right now. we'll take a look ahead to her. big night

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finally, now it is day two of a wish. come true for big san jose sharks fan in the south bay. 12 year old addison kypreos and her family will be at the sap center for tonight's sharks game. addison is living with a rare health disorder, and the organization shadow jumpers helps families that are dealing with the illness. now, when they discovered addison was a huge sharks fan, they connected her with the team, who then invited her to join them at practice yesterday. she even got a custom hockey stick, a locker room tour and tonight she gets to see her first nhl game in person. the sharks take on the anaheim ducks at 7 p.m. in san jose. look at the attention to detail. the jersey, the stick, and now the game. wow, look at that. all smiles and hugs around. and yeah, it's nice to see community coming together like that. >> it really is great for her, great for the team, great for the community. >> yeah. let's hope for a 40 niners win. that would be great too. >> that would be fantastic. >> all right well thanks for

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