into the bay area. how much wet weather we can expect and when it will arrive. plus, a warning about what investigators are calling the mother of all data breaches and the 49 ers reveal plans for their own super bowl party and you're invited. abc seven news starts right now. >> always live. abc seven news starts right now. boy get ready for what's expected to be a very

wet 48 hours here in the bay area. >> a large storm is headed our way and the public is getting some not so subtle messages about the best ways to prepare. with that, we say good evening and thanks for joining us, i'm dionne lim. that storm is gaining strength as it heads our way. now it's a level four on our storm impact scale and threatening to bring a lot more rain over the next two days. we've got team coverage, starting with spencer christian. hi spencer. hey, dionne. >> let's take a look. right now at live doppler seven, and you can see the first wave of lightrillionain and showers beginning to push onshore from the peninsula down to the santa cruz mountains and into the south bay. it's going to become a lot more widespread as we get later into the evening. as you pointed out, this is a level four storm that we haven't seen in a long time here on the exclusive abc seven storm impact scale, bringing overnight and tomorrow heavy rain, flooding, strong damaging winds, downed trees and power outages are likely. here's a forecast animation notice between 3630 and about 1230 tonight. we'll see rain becoming widespread. moderate even moderate to heavy.

then overnight. notice these vivid colors of red and orange. that's heavy rain. that will continue right on through the morning hours into about midday tomorrow before the storm begins to break up. a little bit into pockets of heavy rain as opposed to widespread heavy rainfall. we have a flood watch in effect for the entire bay area until monday morning. we could see widespread localized flooding, wind alerts in effect, a wind advisory for those areas that are in the lower elevations down near the surface, in the in the beige color, in the purple color. that's the hills and hills and mountains where we expect wind gusts up to 70, possibly even 80mph at times. and we have high surf advisory with uh- breakers expected to reach heights of 25 to 35ft. i'll give you a closer look at this storm and the seven day forecast. a little bit later dion. >> all right, sounds good. spencer thanks. now across the bay area people are getting ready for the big storm and the impact it could have. abc seven news reporter cornell bernard is live for us in pacifica, where a

lot of sandbagging is happening. they are getting ready. cornell >> yeah, definitely. a lot of folks are getting ready for the storm. dion. for sure. light rain falling right? falling right now here in pacifica. all lies at this hour on the pacific. that's cranking up some rough surf at this hour. and all the sand you see here was kicked up by the last storm. and a bigger weather system. well, it's on the way. >> and then you have this uh- the boards all the way up, and then we have the sandbags. >> jucunda egan is prepared for the storm. her home facing beach boulevard and pacifica is a fortress of boards and sandbags ready for heavy rain, strong winds and high surf. and she's done some praying, too. >> i have a lot of a lot of faith in god. god is going to protect me, but i do. i'm concerned not only for myself and my neighbors, but for the city. >> beach boulevard is off limits to cars, and pacifica pier remains closed to the public after a storm damaged the structure in late december. we found folks shoveling sand and

sweeping water crews, santana is concerned about flooding, so i can clean out some of this water that came in from the waves and from the rain coming in. >> lately, things have been kind of hectic in in pacifica, digital freeway signs across the bay area asking drivers to avoid travel. >> sunday and monday due to severe weather. >> we have just a lot of equipment that's going to help us rescue people in different situations. >> california's swiftwater flood search and rescue team 11, based in marin county, has been activated for the storm. >> as you know, marin county always gets a lot of rain, and we've had flooding here and swiftwater events within marin county, so we're just kind of getting ready for that in case it does happen. >> earlier this week, first responders in sonoma county rescued a stranded driver who they say drove around flooded roads sites. 8-80 pg says it's up staffing crews around the state from humboldt county to san luis obispo. they're bringing in extra power poles and transfer wires in case of storm damage. >> we're prepared across our service area, but it looks like

at this point, no part of our service area will be untouched by the storm. >> bring it on. let's go. yeah >> back in pacifica, regina hill and her dog bentley are ready for rain. >> i think it's a good thing. i think it's healing. it'll clean up the air. it'll clean up our environment. and we need the water. >> yeah. some people are welcoming the storm. others hope it doesn't bring damage or flooding. p-g-and-e's asking folks to be ready for possible outages. charge your cell phone. have flashlights and batteries standing by. it's going to be a wet couple of days for sure. stay safe everybody. we're live in pacifica tonight. cornell, bernard abc seven news. some great tips and same to you, cornell. >> thank you. now, san francisco also preparing for heavy rains sf public utilities set up some temporary flood barriers along 18th street and folsom to help reduce impact and avoid water damage. one resident there says he worries about how well the street pipes will be able to drain staff will be on site near

the barriers day and night, and will help with priority access. california mayor's office of emergency services is on call for the upcoming storms. the state service held a press conference today urging the public to take caution in the wet weather. >> with this heavy rainfall, significant high impact flooding is likely, including the potential for flooding on many roadways. major rises or flooding on creeks, streams and rivers, mud and rock slides and debris flows. >> more than 7 million sandbags are at the ready. swift water rescue teams and equipment, high water vehicles and emergency response personnel, personnel pre-positioned. >> the oes also added that coastal areas will see the most impact from those storms. southern california already is dealing with the effects of the heavy rainfall. check this out. this video from long beach. dozens of homes already dealing with severe flooding, and now an even bigger storm is on the way. people who live in ventura and santa barbara counties are

receiving evacuation orders in santa barbara. they're even going door to door to notify residents they could be forced to leave. well, taking a live look now at heavenly mountain resort at lake tahoe, the national weather service says if you plan on going to tahoe, your safest option now is to wait until after the storm passes. there aren't any clear windows for travel. drivers can expect delays, snow covered roads and reduced visibility. people are already there being told to plan to stay until tuesday. now we are tracking the weekend weather with live doppler seven and it's what you can do as well. just scan the qr code. you see it on your screen right now using the camera on your phone that will take you to our website, abc7 news .com, where you can stream live doppler seven in real time. moving on. democratic voters head to the polls in south carolina today for the primaries . it will be the first state to award democratic delegates in this year's election. voters

there are expressing concern over a number of key issues, like inflation, cost of living, jobs, health care and police reform. president biden doesn't face a major democratic opponent and is expected to easily beat the other two candidates on the ballot. the president is in delaware today, reopening his reelection campaign headquarters . well, the countdown continues to the 40 niners matchup with the chiefs in the super bowl. the team is scheduled to leave for las vegas tomorrow afternoon, monday, both teams will take part in opening night, what used to be media day and fans are now invited to attend. the niners are currently two point favorites to beat the chiefs. if your super bowl plans are still undecided, the team is hosting the official niners super bowl party at thrive city, right outside chase center. gates open at 2:00 super bowl sunday. tickets for the watch party will be available thursday through ticketmaster. more speculation today about whether

the chiefs most famous fan will make it to las vegas for the super bowl. still ahead. reason for taylor swift to celebrate ahead of the game. and it is coming from the other side of the world. but first, remember your old myspace account? did you ever shut it down? the connection to what cyber investigators are calling the mother of all data breaches

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a huge trove of previously hacked data. some 26 billion account records stolen from sites like linkedin, dropbox, snapchat, venmo, adobe and x. abc seven news anchor stephanie sierra spoke with a cybersecurity expert who break down what we know. >> can you walk us through what you know about this breach and how it started? >> sure. it's unusual in that oftentimes when we're talking about breaches, it's individual organizations who have data about us and it gets stolen. in this case, this is really an organization which is aggregated information from thousands of breaches over the last ten years. and because they had a misconfiguration in part of their networking software, people could get at it. so this 26.6, i think billion records, which is like five times as many people as there are using the internet on the earth, is really a composite of all of those attacks. >> reports also suggest there's a silver lining that none of this data is newly stolen. is

this really true? >> yeah, that's exactly right. most of the research that i've seen has shown this to really be that composite, right? this combing over of old data to bring it into one place, there has been one bit of research that came out fairly recently that showed that a small percentage of it may be somewhat new to what people have seen before, but it doesn't appear that there's anything that's appearing here in this particular breach that hasn't appeared somewhere else before. >> for people watching at home, right now, what can we all do to help protect our accounts? i'm thinking about all of them linkedin, snapchat, x, but especially those with ties to our bank account like venmo. >> i'd recommend just for people to take a look at things like password managers, things like lastpass, or one pass where you can have a single password to sort of a vault, a storage unit, and it's going to reset a different kind of password for every one of those services you touch. san francisco's chinatown kicked off lunar new year celebrations with a special ceremony at its annual flower market fair. >> we are a week away from the

start of the lunar new year, the year of the dragon in the flower market is special because of the symbolism, plants and flowers represent growth. while some fruit represents happiness. at the fair today, visitors were treated to traditional chinese music performers and 120 shopping kiosks. >> so we were walking to the bookstore and then we happened upon this and we were so excited we couldn't believe how wonderful it was, especially since we live in morro bay, which is a small town. and then we came here and this, this is happening and it's fabulous. what a fabulous surprise, right? >> the market fair will be also open tomorrow, the lunar new year celebration is from now until january 24th, when the main lunar new year parade will be held. well, the approaching storm has organizers of one of this weekend's biggest events improvising the change runners can expect tomorrow at the san francisco marathon and taking a look outside where you can see those skies looking a little

gray. maybe the calm before the storm. we have weather anchor spencer christian tracking that wet weather with your accuweather forecast next coming up in sports, we're getting ready for a super week in las vegas ahead. >> purdy's impression how brock showed head coach kyle shanahan he was the real deal right away when it happened. we'l

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instead of running through golden gate park, all runners

will go along great highway near ocean beach. there is concern about flooding and possible falling debris inside the park caused by weather. we saw that with that giant tree that fell just a couple of weeks ago. >> notice that four in the box down there that represents the storm level on the arkstorm exclusive storm impact scale. this is a level four storm coming our way, one we haven't seen in a long, long time. >> yeah, and i know you're tracking it very closely. >> we are. we've been doing that all day dion. here's a look at live doppler seven. you can see a lot of green showing up there. much of this is moisture not hitting the ground yet. but in the southern part of our viewing area down around oh santa cruz, down to gilroy, there is, or i should say gilroy, down to santa cruz. there is some rain falling already, and it's approaching the main central part of the bay area. as you see on the looping satellite image. so let's get right to details on the storm. as i said on the exclusive abc seven storm impact scale, this is a level four. haven't seen a storm at that level of intensity for quite some time. heavy rain tonight and tomorrow. flooding likely. strong damaging winds downed trees and power outages

are likely to accompany the force of this storm as well. here's the forecast animation starting at 7 p.m. notice between seven and about midnight just after midnight, we'll see widespread areas of moderate to heavy rainfall, and then even heavier rain indicated by these more vivid colors of red and orange moving into the bay area during the early morning hours up until about 5 a.m. and then beyond from 5 a.m. to about 1030 or 11. we'll see the storm, the heavy, the heavy downpours rather continue, but not quite so widespread. there will be some little breaks in between. then by about 3 p.m. tomorrow, we'll see the most intense elements of the storm. having pushed out of the bay area, followed by scattered showers that will continue through monday and even into tuesday. so rainfall estimates by 11 p.m. monday. well nearly four and a half over 4.5in down at ben lomond. nearly 3.5in san jose, san francisco is just under three inches oakland, over 2.5in. and of course, the north bay will get soaked, as it often does with 3 to 4in in some locations. now a flood watch is

in effect for the entire bay area until monday morning. we expect flooding on rivers, streams, creeks and roadways. we also have a wind advisory and a high wind warning in effect for the bay area down at the surface. these areas in beige, it's a high. it's a wind advisory with gusts likely to get up to about 60mph between tonight at 10 p.m. and sunday night at 10 p.m. the purple areas over the hills and mountains. we may see gusts up to and above 70mph. you can see how that could cause trees to fall and power to go out high surf advisory in effect from 4 a.m. tomorrow to 4 a.m. monday. large breakers could reach the heights of 25 to 35ft. risk of rip currents and, of course, dangerous surfing and swimming conditions in the sierra. winter storm warning in effect from 10:00 tonight to 4 a.m. tuesday, three feet or more of snow in the higher elevations right now, though, back here in the bay area, the wind is calm. temperature readings generally only in the 50s mid 50s. san francisco, oakland, san jose, half moon bay and low to mid 50s in many other locations in the east bay and the north bay. so

on we go to overnight lows generally mid to upper 40s. highs tomorrow under still stormy conditions. up to maybe about 60 degrees in the mildest locations. and here's the accuweather seven day forecast. once again, this is a level four storm for late tonight and tomorrow, followed by more rainfall on monday and tuesday, but only at level one. maybe a break on wednesday. we're hoping for that. and then more rain and showers are likely to fall on thursday and friday. the 40 niners leave for las vegas and super bowl 58 tomorrow, and so do we. >> earlier this week we got a glimpse behind the red and gold curtain. as for niners owner jed york revealed a conversation he had with coach kyle shanahan took place before training camp heading into the 2022 season, so last season kyle had to break the news that after paying jimmy garoppolo millions in trading three first rounders to move up in the draft to acquire trey lance, their best quarterback was actually rookie brock purdy, the last pick in the draft. i think our third string quarterback is our best quarterback, mike okay, i'm

mike. >> what does that mean? he's like, well, i think brock will end up being our quarterback at some point. one thing that owners don't love to hear when they've invested money and or draft picks or both, into people that the last pick in the draft is the guy that we think is the best. that's that's generally not great news. um, but but he's honest and he let it play out the right way. >> uh, the good news is brock is there and he is doing well. the warriors and hawks getting underway just right now in atlanta. full highlights tonight at 11. last night the dubs started off this crucial five game road trip with a win in memphis. jonathan kuminga is playing the best basketball of his young three year career. jc scored a game high 29 last night and his athleticism was on full display. look at a little alley oop. that's just too easy for jc. scored 20 or more in eight straight games. the game is slowing down for him and the warriors have themselves a

rising star as they keep getting better every other day. >> uh, i know the game can still change in every at the time, so just reading the game slowly and just kind of slowing down, it's helping me to just see everything on the floor. >> jc is just, um, really, um, figured it out. i think he's really broken through and it's just been amazing to watch because, you know, it's two and a half years of a lot of work and ups and downs and he's stayed with it. the whole time. and i'm just, i'm so impressed with, with what he's done. and he's, uh, he's really becoming a hell of a player. >> would love to see him in the dunk contest. moving day at the at&t pebble beach pro-am that looked like me this morning. waking up wyndham clark started the day well back eagled though both two and four shot an eight under on the front nine, putting him up into the lead and he kept on going. how about the approach on ten? this is why he's a good golfer and most others aren't. that is pretty. so good for birdies on the back nine. if it

went eight, if this went on 18, he would have had a shot of 59. but it's just short. the only thing that didn't go right for him today. clark 17 under overall 11 under 60 on saturday. but just a one shot lead heading into championship sunday weather though putting in tomorrow's final round in jeopardy. let's finish on ice nhl all star game in toronto thomas hurdle the sharks represented on team mcdavid, taking on team matthews in the final. tied at two. the head of team matthews. that would be maple leafs star auston matthews. scores to give his team a32 lead. he scored twice as team. matthews took a big lead up in toronto, and team mcdavid, trying to come back. hurdle scores get it within two, but matthews was your mvp as team matthews goes on to win it seven four. that is your look at sports.

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this is the japanese government. yeah. you may have heard swift will be performing in japan the night before. her boyfriend and the kansas city chiefs take on the niners in the super bowl. now that has raised questions about whether it's even possible to get to las vegas in time for the game, the japanese embassy in washington quashed those concerns with a tweet saying if her private jet leaves tokyo right after her concert, swift should arrive in las vegas before the super bowl begins. the mvp here, tokyo's noise regulations listen to this events must stop using the public sound system by 9:30 p.m. local time, which means an early end to the concert. aha! and an

early start on swift's trip. i think the whole private jet thing probably is the biggest help. >> that's awesome. yeah it is. it probably is. >> yeah. a lot of people watching this, a lot of people will be there. i know, and i'm more interested in madison. are you are you packed? are you ready to go? >> ready to go? >> yep. yeah, yeah. look you've been waiting for this. yep. all packed. all right. well, thank

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