abc7 news starts right now with breaking news. the breaking news involves an attempted plane hijacking from turkey where the passengers said this was a bomb on the plane bound for turkey. the passenger demanded the pilot take the plane to sochi where the olympics are taking off but it is now on the ground. cnn has the news agency says the hijacker is in custody. the plane was carrying 110 passengers. it took off from an airport in the ukraine on the way to istanbul.

the turkish government sent two fighter jets to escort the plane. the pilot landed safely in istanbul. >> good morning, much, thanks for joining us. kristen sze is on assignment. to the weathers our mount tamalpais camera show as steady trickle of rain ahead of the pineapple express head our way. this is a picture. amy hollyfield is standing nearby and said we could see a lot of delays when the storm hits. meteorologist, mike nicco is on the roof right now. mike? >> thank you. it has begun. i have the umbrella. steady rain is falling. the storm system is about an hour ahead of schedule. we will look what is going on. this is the pineapple express, pineapple pipeline, it is starting south of hawaii and stretches toward us. that is why we will have a big soaking this weekend, at least

48 straight hours of rain. now, we took this graphic because it gives you an idea what to expect. the highest amount, or effect of the storm is unban flooding including streets and park lots. don't expect much river flooding or wind damage. it has been too dry for too lounge our rivers can handle anything we they at them right now. live doppler 7 hd shows light to darker green covering most of the bay area and that means the steady rain is here. we are going to measure this rain almost up to 9" in some areas. and 2 to 4' in the sierra. >> that is a lot of rain. some folks are worried about all the rain and the creek next to their home and if the creek will flood. repairs were done a year ago but the neighbors are concerned the repairs will not hold.

cornell? >> it started raining here ten minutes ago. neighbors are watching the weather. they are also watching this, the creek, hoping it stays in the banks. they hope it does not flood. again. our we hope it doesn't come. >> neighbors along the creek in east palo alto are on edge waiting for the approaching storm and hoping that history does not repeat itself. >> it was bad. >> john's home was surrounded by water in december of 2012. that is when the creek overflowed pouring floodwater right into his home. >> water couple down the street like crazy and got to the driveway. >> john was lucky flood waters stayed out of his house but the other neighbors, not so lucky the emergency repairs have been done, with sandbags covered in concrete have been added for flood protection but the san mateo officials admit, it is

only a temporary fix. >> do you think the improvements will be enough? >> no. >> with big rains predicted sandbags are offered to all residents along the peninsula. many neighbors are glad to see the rain but hope sandbags are not needed. >> if they are, sandbags are tree to all residents. $5 million in flood protection has been okayed by the we state to raise and reinforce the levee here and widen the creek to the bay. construction on that begins in the spring. a lost residents we talked to are concerned about this weekend. >> work as usual. >> you expect to work? >> yep, yep, yep. >> employees are back on the job in spite of a raid year at the company they work at by the state investigators. there have been a couple of complaints sin the investigation

exposed complaints against a company that installs well-known walk in bathtubs. amy hollyfield joins us from richmond where the employees are worried. amy? >> an employee tells me that a lost people did not show up for work today and those who did come here came with a bundle of nerves wondering if they. have a job and if they get a paycheck today. >> employees of safeguard tubs arrived not sure what to expect. >> hopefully we will be able to...to work together. >> i don't know if we will be working. much showed up. >> hoping for the best? >> hoping for the bill. >> they are uncertain because yesterday law enforcement officers showed up with a search warrant. >> we went on break and the feds or whoever they are, they came through and they told everyone to come sit down and they told us that they had a warrant out.

>> this morning, a manager was quick to bring people in and shoe us away. >> work, as usual. >> you do expect to work as usual? >> yep, yep, yep. >> where do you think it will be normal? >> because it is a normal great. a great day today. thank you. >> as employees continue to arrive you can hear him reiterate his pentagon. >> work. and more work. >> an employee inside sent us text messages saying that some people can't work because investigators confiscated material they need to get the job done. she says managers spent the morning if a meeting. investigators will not give specifics about the case but complaints against the company with the contractors' state license board including false advertise asking overcharging customers. you may recognize this company because of its commercials which of on ten feature local and national celebrities promoting the easy access bathtubs.

an employee tells me working here has been a unique expense. >> i have been here three weeks and this is crazy. i have never been employed in a place like this in my life. >> we have heard some employees who said the direct deposit hit her bank account today. those who get happened a paycheck get them at 2:30 on fridays so still to be determined whether they will be paid today. as for the company, we have reached out to try to get a comment from company headquarters and the owners but we have not had a response. police are investigating a stabbing outside of a downtown hotel in san jose this morning. investigators say a man was founded stabbed in the neck in front of the marriott after 3:00 a.m. police believe he may have been stabbed in a parking garage a block away and walked or was taken to the marriott and then taken to the hospital. no word on his condition. >> yesterday morning a man was fatally stabbed in the same

area. it is not known if they are connected. >> a state lawmaker unveiled a bill to require cell phone makers to include a kill switch to deact separate the devices if stolen. the senator joined a call made by 9 police and the prosecution. many target cell phones because they have a high re-sell value and the kill speech eliminates the incentive to kill the phones. half the involveries in the city involve cell phones. >> there is a four letter word making big waves on social media. a bay area woman receive add credit card offer where her middle name was changed to a mean name. the reaction is all over twitter. abc7abc7 news reporter katie marzullo has the story. >> it the theory of the victim is that a data entry employee

was messing around. the suggested middle name is making the rounds on social media where lisa first went public with the trashy piece of junk mail. someone created a facebook page with the same make featuring bank of america but the credit card offer came from the international honor society which has claimed responsibility for the mistake, that lisa first learned about in a text from her mother as the mail went to her mom's house. she tweeted pictures of the envelope and letter to both companies prompting promises to investigate. "we are so sorry this occur asked we are investigating and will reach out to you personally soon." the vice president of communications does call her and was able to determine the middle name was added to the account between 2004 and 2008. who did it? that is unknown. >> peninsula congressman jackie speier is gearing up for the

next big fight on capitol hill over the growing economic inequality. she spent the night at a homeless shelter. her office furnished this picture of her at the shelter in redwood city. the "san francisco chronicle" reports that she met people at the shelter would had long years but losing their jobs. she says every member of congress should actually meet the homeless so they can appreciate who they talking about rather than just rattling off numbers about them. >> still to come, the secret service zeros in on how hackers accessed target's computers. >> a listers attending the funeral of philip seymour hoffman.

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>> 400 fell attended a private funeral mass for philip seymour hoffman including spike lee. he died on sunday. police believe that philip seymour hoffman overdosed on heroin inside his manhattan apartment. he leave behind his partner of 15 years and their three concern. his family and friends are landing a larger memorial service later this month. >> tv host is facing backlash over her choice of a hashtag

talking about the murder of a three-year-old girl in napa using "freezer tot" on twitter and facebook and her followers responded by demanding that she remove the hashtag and apologize which has changed a short time ago and it now reads "justice for kayleigh." her mother, sara krueger and her boyfriend ryan warner face murder charges. what do you think of the post? let us know on our facebook page at facebook/abc7 news. >> we know how hackers carried out the massive data breach at target. "wall street journal" says hackers infiltrated the target computer system by accessing the electronic billing system by a refrigerator contractor and they are working with the excrete --

with the secret service to figure house they abscessed it. >> good morning, everyone, we are on the roof where it is raining and we are feeling the effect of the storm and it is unlawful completely here with flight arrives at sfo at an hour and half and that will continue through sunday. i will show you how much rain is going to come through the weekend. >> the locally butted -- brewed beer that is creating a buzz. >> the man who createed the popular dog breed is second-guessing himself and things it could be a

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>> covering novato, oakland, sunnyvale, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> all right, i love this word "gully washer." do you know that phrase, mike nicco? is that what we are expecting? he is on the roof. >> i was getting my umbrella ready. yes, we are on the roof where it is raining and it is going to be a gully washer. that is why you want to get the storm drains and gutters cleaned. even if you have a creek and there is a lot of dead vegetation in it, try to clean it out if you can because everything to get the water to flow away from us is what you are going to want. we have not had a storm like this since december of 2012, on the 23rd and 25th of that month we had an inch of rain. here is live doppler 7 hd, it is raining everywhere, light rain, a now sprinkles are still possible, but, really, we are

starting to see the moisture ramp up building across the ocean and coming in from the west want we will have is a scene like this for the better part of the week as we look if sutro tower to a soggy downtown san francisco. and you not even see over to yerba buena island or treasure island because of the rain that is in the way. here is a look at what is going on, the warm front is the leading edge of the warm and moist air and we are getting we that. the break you see between the cold front and the warm front is where we are going to have sprinkles, some light rain overnight but notice on the left side of the screen some brighter and whiter clouds are develop asking that is the pineapple express getting geared up and that will be the heavy rain for tomorrow morning that will possibly bring some flooding. you can see a better picket of the soaker and at the top of the shore i wanted to show you this graphic we made to last night to give you an impact from the storm with the greatest is urban

flooding, and creek flooding, as wealth, and mud and rock slides, and possibly in the not bay and santa cruz mountains. we have rain showing up as jell-o and moving through during the evening hours, so plan on it being wet for 48 hours. tomorrow morning, you can see the moderate-to-heavy rain starting to move in and that is when we will see the flooding that will taper during the afternoon hours, but notice the jell-o never goes away and that is where you are going to get so were rain. on sunday morning, sunday at noon, a last push of moderate-to-heavy rain and by sunday evening it is out of here. rainfall amounts are .5" to an inch in the santa clara valley. 1" to 3" for the rest of us. it will be heavy snow in lake tahoe, 2 to 4' down to 7,000 feet so travel will be treacherous.

plenty of patience. this is a 48 hour event and on monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday the sun will come back out and we will have clouds and it will be dry and temperatures are back to average if not above average. once it stars to rain, it will continue raining for the next 48 hours or so and watch out for the flooding, tomorrow, and lisa will get you glue that and you can check out live doppler 7 hd with our app around our website, utilize them. >> sad news, a cal football player died during a work out. the 21-year-old collapsed during conditioning drills this morning and died. that is according to our media partner, a backup defensive end for the bears and was a public health major at cal originally from bakersfield. we have breaking news in san francisco right now, sky 7 is over a granite company in san

francisco where there has been a fatal industrial accident. firefighters say slaps fell on two workers one worker has been died. the other worker was taken to the local hospital and we will follow this story for you on abc7 news. back in a moment.

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the breed leading to puppy mills and led to dogs that may not be wanted or have health problems. >> the waiting is over for thirsty patrons of the russia river brewery with 300 waiting in line for 11 hours for the 11 a.m. opening of the bar and the first picks of the extra hoppy ale. one says he heard it is the number one beer in the world and he wants in on it. >> two young sisters have dating life figured out. the six and nine-year-old from massachusetts created this lit of boyfriend rules and their mom tweeted it: nice handwriting. 31, doesn't smoke. this between, brushes teeth and noses. doesn't tattletale. makes you laugh but maybe most

importantly number four, not living with his parents. good idea. right? love that. mike nicco will monitor the weather for you. let's take a look at all that snow? it will be a great weekend. if you can make it up there, drive safely and don't forget to put your chains on and keep the lights on. thanks for joining us.

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