good good afternoon, everybody, i'm larry beil >> heavy rains pounding the bay area today, it's rain that we needed but created lots of problems. in the north bay, drivers had to wade through flooded roads. a similar scene in the south bay this, car stuck in heavy flooding this morning. it wasn't just flooding, trees toppled in the wind and rain across the bay area. this tree fell on power lines and caught fire in santa rosa. >> so much rain, one neighborhood in pitsber flooded

this morning. it's dry right now, but more rain is on the way. we have live coverage this afternoon. and you're without umbrella, spencer that tells us what is going on. >> just a minute ago, i had the umbrella up, it was raining here. this is how fast it was scattered areas of showers are moving showers just passed over us. and i thought well, i'll put the umbrella down just a moment. here is live doppler 7 hd. areas of showers and rainfall scattered about the bay area. some pockets of locally heavy rain. moving from sonoma county into napa county. a wide area of down pours there. rainfall over the east bay, near livermore, pleasanton and san

ramone. check this out giving you a wider view of the big powerful storm picking up wave after wave of rainfall and thunderstorms beginning to move into the santa cruz mountains and well inland. let's talk about wind gusts, before getting to winds, let's talk about rainfall totals they have been impressive. an inch and a quarter in san raf yes. over an inch in san francisco. and now looking live at mount tam, it's rainy and windy now. overnight gusts 64 miles per hour in los gatos. winds calmed down a bit now. you can see from a bit of sunshine breaking through here now. more showers coming our way and thundershowers late tonight. i'll give you a look at the

seven-day forecast. >> and abc7 news continues our team coverage live in the santa cruz mountains where they're ceiling with a storm there. david? >> people in the mountains are very resilient. if people need to fill sandbags but don't have a shovel, they improvise. a fresh load of sand showed up just in time. >> my garage is flooded. so. yeah. i am trying to keep it from really taking over. >> you know this rain is due sooner or later. >> it's great. absolutely great. >> a tall pine tree fell down, blocking lower bonnie doone road. crews cut it up and left it on the side of the road.

>> crews cleared the trees quickly. i didn't hear about vm power outages but we didn't get winds forecast, either, yet. >> however, crews were working to trim branchs that could snag power lines. storms could be good for business. >> good for business we need rain. whenever rain to see more fall so we'll get more. yeah. >> the rain made for slippery road conditions and low visibility and there are strong winds. >> it was fun, yeah. >> a little bit, not much. >> in scots valley david louie abc7 news. >> an abc7 news morning crew found this car in a flooded lane along northbound highway 87 in san jose. it appears the driver ignored cones trying to divert traffic from high waters and trying to drive through and got stuck.

some new video of crews repairing a pumping station next to highway 87. officials expect copper thieves stole wiring inside of the station that damaged a generator powering the pumps in the storm drain. >> also the driver of this red car also had to be rescued after they tried to drive true that deep water. don't ignore the calm, folks crews pulled them to safety and this driver, fortunately, wasn't injured. >> in san leandro, heavy rains caused part of a roof to collapse, sky seven hd was overhead today showing damage there near a creek rising fast. sergio? >> we've seen a couple people come here just to gaze at fog here at the creek. it's not flooding or anything,

it just hasn't been at this point in quite a while. it's been dry and people saying this storm did bring headaches but well worth it because they need the rain. rain came down hard enough in san leandro to trigger this roof to collapse. gera geraldo was on this side when it went down. >> everybody ran outside. >> the owner of a company says no one was injured when the 15 by 15 foot section collapsed. but it did damage some sm equipment and broke a water line for systems. that sprayed water all over the factory floor. plastic bag factory will be off line for a day. in danville this, tree blocked roads up to the eugene o'neal national historic park site. up in the hill a bit another downed tree took out power. >> i woke up, got up at 4:15. mr. computer wasn't blinking at

me. mr. television wasn't blinking at me. >> she says it took crews a couple hours to get here. according to pg&e, 700 customers were without power because of the storm damage. >> and here is a live look at san francisco international airport. rainy weather grounded flights and delayed hundreds more today. sfo had 142 flights cancelled nearly 400 delayed for up to an hour and a half, san jose and oakland airports combined for 11 cancellations and 160 delays. >> we want owe-to-see your weather photos and your video. you can post them on our abc7 news facebook page or share with us on twitter or instagram. >> listen to this. a man hit by lightning in fresno county this morning in western

fresno county near an oil field the 36-year-old found unconscious just before 11:00. nobody saw it happen but officials say the man's wounds were consistent with a lightning strike. he's being treated in a local hospital. >> several communities have been evacuated due to the threat of flooding and mudslides. and some debris broke through barriers so far no, serious damage to report and coming up, here at 4:30 we'll tell what you is being done to protect homes in that area. >> four men in custody in connection with yesterday's shooting. this abc7 news was the first to break strit on twitter. a man driving home said men pulled up beside him and began

firing. seven shots hit the car, one went to the top of the cowboy hat. westbound 580 was shut down for an hour during the evening commute. patrol says officers recovered stolen weapons and the investigation continues. >> now in, a story you'll see only on abc7 news, partner of the man shot to death by san jose state university police is questioning why they shot him. officers say they saw antonio guzman wielding a saw blade near south 8th and east san salvador streets saying he lunched at one police officer. guzman died from being shot twice in the back. >> how is that they were afraid for their lives? he was walking away. i don't understand. shooting him in the back? come on. you know? tony was not an animal, he was a human being. do you know what? now, they left him with no father for what reason?

>> insisting guzman would never confront police for fear of being deported we'll have live details that may raise more questions in this case >> five of six san francisco police officers indicted on collection charges appeared in federal court today. the oofsers were allegedly caught on surveillance video, taking money, drugs and electronics for residential hotels that is three years ago. a lawyer called video evidence weak. >> i don't think this is a case the government has been actively investigating, actively working to try to find evidence. i think they sat on this, that in and of itself suggests to me they maybe didn't feel they had a good case. >> the attorney says the officers will not look for a plea bargain and will insist on a trial that clears their names four of the five entered not

guilty pleas today. >> new developments today in the case of a uc berkeley student that came down with maesels the health officials say two of the relatives have also contracted maesels the student likely got infected while visiting the philippines. if you road bart dur during that time, experts say watch for symptoms throughout the weekend. >> hazardous materials scare today in san jose. the emergency room was shut down briefly this morning after a man exposed to some sort of substance was brought in. he had not been contaminated before coming to the hospital officials say they shut down the emergency room out of an abundance of caution the er was reopened after crews determined there was no evidence and the injured man is expected to recover. >> we're in the final countdown to oscar sunday. we are live on the red carpet.

katie? >> reporter: the red carpet is covered. take a look. this is real life, this isn't the movies but does make me think about the movies, especially those that can use visual affects to make just about anything go away or appear as they want tochlt we're going to fill you in on movies and how they used affects. stay with us. >> can't wait to see that. the dramatic river rescue two of men and their best friends. >> michael finney taking your questions on twitter and facebook and will answer them here live in just a few >> taking a look outside highway 87, traffic looks mightily clear right now. abc7 news at 4:00 >> here is a look at live

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you can see the dogs being helped into the raft right there. >> and the dogs didn't seem to mind the weather. >> oscar sunday is this sunday on abc7. >> that is the farrell williams song "happy" the first ever oscar nominee concert held in los angeles this morning. all songs and scores for hollywood big night were featured. >> larry practically dancing to that song. >> yes. >> visual affects teams using advanced technology to find out what is real and what is computer again rated.

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>> in this world, seeing is believing. >> sometimes, film makers spend weeks on what will be only 20 seconds inside of the movie. coming up we're going to talk about oscar himself. back to you. >> katie i know there is a lot of concern about weather. is rain in the forecast? >> are you speaking of yourself? i don't know this, is not moving this, is good. my feet are ready for it. i'm wearing rubber boots but sunday, i'm hoping to be more glamorous lacks like rain is go toing clear up for sunday. keep your fingers crossed. that is what i'm doing and i'm sure real celebrities are doing as well. >> katie, you look fabulous.

>> live reports from hollywood throughout the weekend. >> very sensitive about my hair. >> hers isn't moving. >> hers is perfect. >> spencer christian is on the roof. >> i'm spencer... with the hair. >> this is what you call weather diversity. other areas the sun is breaking through clouds just as it is here, this is moment teary. this, too, shall pass. going to live doppler 7 hd taking a look at what's happening around the bay area, pockets of down pours scattered about. up in the north bay. another area of rain just developing parts of northern southern sonoma county. let's move over to the south bay and peninsula. down on peninsula, redwood city, woodside now. taking a live view on the east

bay looking at western sky, beautiful view there. clouds in various levels and sunlight reflecting hoff bay waters. how about this view? sunny over san francisco. and a live view from our roof top cam racht these forecast features more showers and thunderstorms overnight. a slight chance of showers sunday afternoon. movement of the storm bringing us up to current time, low pressure system kicking up waves of rainfall into our direction. it's a medium risk of

thunderstorms overnight. and that means no ponding on roadways. mudslides and rock slides just a high surf advisory is in effect. flash flood watch in effect as well. higher elevations will get several more inches of rain. now, talking about our high surf advisory from 8:00 this evening, for coastal areas of san francisco, bay area and monterey bay, westerly swell, break hers up to 20 feet. rainfall totals by afternoon up to an inch of additional rain in north bay mountains. winter weather advisory in the tahoe area, low temperatures

tonight into low 50s high temperatures tomorrow moving into mid to upper 60s and accu-weather forecast shows a chance of rain three out of the five days next week. >> i think we can see a rainfall behind you, spencer. >> yes. >> i'll get that pot of gold. >> very pretty. >> beautiful >> thank you. >> okay. >> coming up next a teenager received a special invitation from the white house today. then, after 4:30... >> mortician said something wasn't right. >> a live and kicking. a man declared dead wakes up inside of a body bag. what the coroner believes might have h

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a northern california sixth grader is sky high after a big honor. a tech tie designed by jordan has been selected as the new tie for southwest airline pilots for the next year. there it s the tie features tags from different airports. her name is on one. on the front and made by tag on the back. she doesn't want to be a designer or pilot, instead she dreams of being an olympic volleyball player. >> a fremont high school student chosen for first-ever white house student film festival.

she created this film called "discovery" looking at how technology can benefit students. the selections picked out of 25, so great job there. >> how exciting. >> yes. >> still ahead president obama's warning to russia did ukraine >> flooded roads made for difficult driving conditions today. >> live doppler 7 tracking scattered showers. spencer christian will be back to tell us how long the weather will last. >> the fix of drugs officia

high winds and dangerous flood conditions. signs put up today the rain is not over yet. spencer christian has more. >> it's not over yet. here is a lock at what we have at the moment. some pockets contain heavy down

pours. we'll get waves of showers and around midnight there is a good g.chance of isolated thunderstorms, then into overnight hours we'll see a shower beginning to taper off. by tomorrow afternoon, we'll have partly sunny skies, it's going to be mild. >> spencer, we'll check back with you in just a >> what better place to watch storms than high

got it worse. >> what is the al you're of the headlands on a cold, blustery day like this. >> we don't see that often. not sure, here is the wettest spot today. park and ride at highway 101 exit in mill valley. was it more of a park and paddle? >> i know why people may watch. >> allen told us by the time he learned it was too deep, it was too late. this happens here especially during high tides. land does not float. >> it seems deeper this year. >> why? >> well... global warming. >> i knew you're going to say that. >> good news, it's only water, it goes away.

bad day? good day. a matter of attitude, altitude. in marin county, wayne freedman abc7 news. >> science lesson from wayne. >> you can track the rain on our abc 7 weather app. >> southern california having big problems mud flowing into backyards and hillsides. right now, evacuations have orders east of los angeles. abc7 news reporter john gregory is in akuza. >> this is a plan. it's going to, i don't want it coming this way. residents stayed as long as they could. the fire left the ridges barren,

now, winter rains are washing them down towards homes. >> ridge view drive under a mandatory he vac order. homes against the hillside. residents across the street are are taking precautions. and just in case it really got bad. >> residents have been doing their best to divert some of the mud and debris. when you look at consistency, it's like soup at some point, just there isn't much you can do. first, fire, now, rain. just weeks apart. >> this is the first time i've experienced fire evacuations. mud, possible mud evacuation. so, yeah. excitement. >> they packed up what they can, and moved to safer ground hoping when the rain stops, hillside and their homes are still there.

>> now, massive mudslides destroyed 200 homes in 1959, after fires began before. back then, people were not aware of the risk. officials say they have learn from theed past and residents should take these orders seriously. >> the president is warning russia there will be consequences if it intervene was military in ukraine. the president's comments came after the interior ministry accused russia of occupation official says armed men took up positions around two airports and a coast guard station on the crimean peninsula. the president expressed deep concerns over the military movements. >> any violation of ukraine sovereignty would be deeply destabilize whiching is not in the interest of ukraine, russia, or europe.

>> earlier today, ukraine's impeached president says he would continue to fight for the future of his country echoing comments that any military intervention is unacceptable. >> we're learning about the death of act r actor phillip seymor hoffman the actor kie died from a toxic mix of drugs spokesperson said he had heroin, cocaine, and the death was ruled an accident. police say they found at least 50 packets of heroin in his home and a needle still in his arm. >> a new york jury acquitted cary kennedy on charges of a misdemeanor charge of driving while impaired he crashed into a big rig in 2012, testifying she mistook a sleeping pill for her thyroid

medication. afterwards, admitting that access to strong legal representation gave her a benefit that others don't have. >> and we need to take a hard look at our criminal justice system in the united states to make sure that it really is just. and that everyone, everyone in our country has true access to justice. >> the human rights advocate is the ex-wife of new york governor andrew cuomo. >> still ahead, nasty job rejection e mail to a job hunter offers a lesson to all of us. >> why president and vice president running around white house in shirt and ties today. >> today's seven on your side q and a is just ahead i'm still taking your questions and you can contact me on facebook.com and on twitter at f

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>> it doesn't go you can see lots of clouds and breaks of showers and locally heavy down pours right now. getting active weather in parts of sonoma county. and north towards winsor. quite a live trail there some look like they're locally heavy. here is a bigger picture. 7:00 this evening there is a big storm off shore. that is the center of the activity brought us heavy rain, following the time line here, overnight, into tomorrow, then afternoon we'll get partial clearing. energy of the storm goes south ward. there is concern down there, stars on the red carpet. maybe showers taper off before sunday, if i were one of the stars i'd have an umbrella handy

just in case. state wide conditions tomorrow, show rainy conditions down south. rain will be tapering off here giving way to sunny skies. we'll see high temperatures only 59 in los angeles tomorrow, 60 in san diego. after morning showers, partly sunny skies into afternoon. it's going to be mild here in the afternoon with high temperatures mid to upper 60s around the bay, and inland and near 60 on the coast. i'll have more for you on abc7 news at 5:00. >> spencer, thank you so much. >> still ahead at 4:00 a man declared dead wakes up in a body bag in a funeral home. how family members say he came back to live, plus... >> this is ugly. >> are you kidding me? >> the fallout today from a college basketball celebration turning into an all-out brawl. >> and i'm michael finney. can insurance companies raise rates because your car has too

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after rude treatment of perspective job hunters went viral. the woman asked to be connected with employers in the air. e mailed back said your invite is inappropriate, ask tacky the man contacted hoping to access the job bank she called him annoying and said i suggest you join the other job bank in town, oh, wait. there isn't one. >> this is a woman trying to help other people get jobs, right? >> the staff at a mississippi funeral home will not soon forget what happened just as they're about to open a body bag. >> this is sad for the family in the beginning right? workers preparing to enbalm their loved one

the man inside started to kick. he was alive. yes. they opened it and found the 78-year-old walter williams alive. >> he'd been brought to the funeral home after being pronounced dead at home. family members could not believe it. they got the news. >> i don't know how much longer he's going to grace us, and bless us with his presence, but hallelujah. we thank him right now. right now. >> the coroner says his pace maker may have stopped working, then, restarted. funeral home says they've never seen anything like this before that. good for the family good, for him. >> yes. better to be alive most of the time. >> speaking of which, michael finney is here. breathing. because i can hear him. getting ready to answer questions sent by facebook, twitter and e mail. some companies offering to help

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there, start the search. here is what you're going to find. prices are going to vary. companies want a portfolio that is varied. sometimes, they want people with great credit. sometimes, they're going to want it with less and make more money. you're going to see different deals. >> okay. >> kim p asked my insurance jumped to $4,000 they claim increase is from a new law because the car has over 100,000 miles on it it's now a danger on the road. is this legal? >> i have never heard of this before. there is no new law i'm aware of unless something got snuck through some wrchlt we're going to look into this. i've never heard this before. that jump is pretty much illegal in the state of california. not, you know, there could be instances but it's a bizarre -- we're going to look and find out what is going on. >> thank you. >> sure. >> thank you. >> still ahead, up next, how bees and bee keepers are feeling sting from our job crisis.

>> abc7 news room we'll continue our team coverage on storms, we're live with repairs after copper thieves made things harder for drivers you're going to hear from a partner of a man shot and killed by campus police the reason she's confident that he would never have attacked officers it's a story only on abc7 news when cheryl and i see you at 5:00

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fill out the entry form. here is tonight's prime time line up at 8:00 with last man standing. then, the neighbors. then shark tank and 2020 at 10:00. as you know we've had plenty of rain today. our mostly-dry winter weather is really hurting bees. abc7 news has the story from fresno county. >> it's one of the busiest times of the year for the honey bees for bee keepers in the valley. >> a lot of sleepness nights. >> a third generation bee keeper he's gone through many pollenation seasons but this is unlike any other. >> without rain we don't get flowers wchl out flowers, plants won't grow to produce a lot of flowers. >> the drought meant less fruit

trees and less room for bees to forage. it's crucial to the health of each bee and the hives >> it's like giving them a shot of steroids. amazing how fast they grow, how healthy and how happy they are when bringing in a lot of nectar. >> without sweet stuff, he knows the bees' health and his pocketbook will be hit >> production is down about so that is why the price of honey has gone up in the stores >> he says many will keep fingers crossed more rain is on the way so the bees can keep thriving. >> more rain is coming up this weekend. thanks for joining us for abc7 news at 4:00 the news at 5:00 begins right

now. >> thank you, our latest storm hz been cautioning problems around the bay area including flooding and trouble on the roads. >> a nice rainbow across the bay area, more showers are on the way. i'll have the accu-weather forecast coming up >> a story on abc7 news. partner of a man shot and killed by police talks about his death. >> good evening, thanks for joining us i'm cheryl jennings. >> we begin with today's big storm, which caused problems around the bay area. >> in the north bay, heavy rain caused street flooding in mill valley. we want to show you how deep water was here near highway 101. >> east bay there is so much heavy rain, one neighborhood was already flooded well before 5:00 a.m . >> and then, south bay this car

stuck in a flooded lane along northbound highway 87. it appears the driver ignored patrol warning cones >> the storm comes when the state needs every drop of water this, is video of phoenix reservoir in the north bay. official says they're at 70% but experts say it's not enough to bring california out of the drought. it's still a crisis. >> i'd say spencer christian is looking at rainbows and rain. monstering the latest rain. spencer? >> getting breezy and chilly here on the roof now. you can see at this spot it's dry at the moment but not dry across a lot of the bay area. we have pockets of rain, showers, and locally heavy up in sonoma county now a line of showers from occidental out to winsor and beyond. pulling back to take a look at

the storm off shore, you can see it's pushing wave after wave of showers in our direction producing thunderstorms as well. nice, soaking rains. over an inch in san francisco. over 9-tenths in san jose. and this is a look live overnight. so intense elements passed us now but there is more stormy weather on the way. >> spencer, thank you very much. now we have live team coverage of the by area storms with abc7 news reporter david louie.