>> wow. maybe you heard this today. booming thunder sent people scrambling. some people said it sounded like a bomb had just gone off. we heard the same thing in sausalito, here. good evening. >> it was the lightning before

the thunder causing real problems in sauce letta. a bolt hit a redwood tree this afternoon the force blew windows out in two homes. >> this is, it sounded like a big explosion, like a bomb went off. and the power went out immediately. >> now, about a thousand customers in sausalito don't have power and crews are working to fix that outage. this afternoon in walnut creek passing cars shot spray, making for dangerous conditions. >> i can tell you felt like we're driving through a monsoon. people walking on west santa

clara. watch out for puddles, created flooding throughout the streets there. spencer christian joins us with a wall of color. >> these colors indicate active color. darker green areas of rainfall, yellows indicating down pours and in cases, thunderstorms activity. mainly in lower marin county towards the golden gate eastward. and fairfield east of morgan hill. hooking at radar, you can see

movement of the active weather pushing east and north. we're going to start our forecast at so during early evening there won't be at of active weather. notice another area of rain and possibly thunderstorms becoming more fully formed for the late night hours. more on that later. >> in what happened on holly street and main avenue. >> yeah. lightning hit that redwood tree. it yued to be 70 feet, causing it to come down. or, i should say, causing it to

explode. that is how people, neighbors are describing it here. it exploded because after it did, you had, around this neighborhood a lot of shardss and logs all over the neighborhood. they're saying so homes have been affected because of the pees of that tree, that, again, as firefighters described it, exploded. let's hear from dona mccracken here in berkeley. >> we had huge chunks of

redwood. large pieces are throughout the neighborhood. >> and this is caused by lightning. going to take a long time for the departments to clear this debris here in berkeley. also, power interrupted because of the explosion. live in berkeley, abc7 news. >> thank you. still don't want to get hit with one of those chunks. this is a good day to be inside for lunch. gusting winds were down and people were running to get

indoors. >> 52 flights have beens cancelled at sfo. >> taking a look outside to see how traffic is doing the commute gets underway. you can see on the san francisco skyway, my goodness, just inching along. and this is not as bad as it often is. you can see it's getting to be bumper to butcher. better for folks heading towards 580. >> rain turning into snow meaning ski season is on. folks say they have received 19

inches of fresh know. in heaven hi they're looking to get everything covered >> you can down load it from our web site abc7 news.com/apps. >> state senator leland yee back in court this morning. he did not talk to the governor called on yee to resign. >> yee remains free on bail,

expected to appear in court again next week outside of the court house, his attorney questioned methods used during this investigation >> police in oakland investigating the killing of a 17-year-old boy on interstate 580. a second victim told police he'd been shot on five # 0. the victim is expected to be okay. >> midnight tonight deadline to sign up for health care under affordable health care act. technical problems prevented last minute users from signing up. california's site hasn't seen that problem. abc7 news is live with the rush.

cornell? >> reporter: we have heard bay area rescue mission. folks trying to make that deadline. we've learned people trying to enroll who have had problems may be granted a new grace period. the pressure is on to get people signed up for obamacare. >> to get the word out, today is the deadline to enroll. >> people have to remind them and make it easy for them. >> saying the group covered 100

people since saturday. seemed like many people were trying to contact for help. i can never get through. >> mary says she's helping. >> i know anything can happen. i know how important it is. hopefully, i'll be able to find a plan that works for me. >> call centers have been swamped with questions from the public and there are reports the web site has been running slowly today. more people try to enroll. if you missed the deadline, you can see a tax penalty of $95. for higher wage earners it could be 1% of your income and a much bigger fine. >> cal basketball coach retiring after 34 years n the bench. >> yes. he has two years left on his

contract. monty beat cancer and said help is not an issue for him. >> i was on the phone earlier, i guess. i told someone i was going to retire. i said yes, all of a sudden there was a clap of thunder and lightning and everything. i think it's time for me. is this a reason? no. it's time to turn it over to someone else. >> question is, who is that person going to be? the record 677 and 316 only one losing season in 32 years. warriors, 18 years as well as stanford a trip to the final four the search for the coach's successor begins immediately.

>> still ahead on abc7 news at 4:00 asiana airlines acknowledges the likely cause of the fatal crash at sfo >> a local woman has been chosen to garden at the white house >> search teams looking at wreckage flight 370 >> also, michael finney taking your questions and will be here to answer them live. you can contact michael on facebook.com. showing rainfall easing up a bit in the south bay. just off shore, another area, line of showers beginning to push onto the peninsula coastline. more weather coming our way. i'll have the accu-weather forecast coming up.

to figure out why several cars burst into flames in a walmart store. walmart closed when the fire started so it's not clear yet whom those cars belonged. crews were able to put out the blaze quickly >> the national transportation safety board released hundreds of pages of documents continuing an investigation into july's crash of asiana airlines >> asiana admits the cause was likely caused by insufficient speed but also points fingers at

the aircraft maker, boeing. >> david? we're inside of the cockpit. like it's cousins these jets can operate on auto pilot. however, asiana is pointing at boeing. the documents at the auto pilot. hiller aviation specialist shows us scenario yut lined by the airline. the glide path was too high so the crew disengaged to take corrective action. >> aassumption sooem seems to be the auto pilot was on and functioning. thinking the throttle was still

going to adjust speed when, in fact engines were idling. and not being threat tlotelled. >> that meant it was going slower and slower. that would be reflected in the air speed gauge. and the 777 dropped below the speed needed to reach the runway, it struck the sea wall instead. >> you can't turn over control then check out. >> city attorney represents six survivors of the crash. >> question is why did the crew allow the situation to deteriorate? assuming they've been confused how do they allow 40 nauts to bleed off? >> asia points to

the investigation continues with completion expected this summer. >> the head of gm will try toechl plain why it took more than ten years to catch a faulty ignition switch. gm recalled small cars because of the faulty switches. congress will hold hearings tomorrow to figure out what executives knew and why the government did not investigate sooner the ceo is expected to testify. hearings as gm issued another recall today. we have the list on our seb webb site >> the first lady will plant the white house kitchen garden wednesday and a local woman will be there to help. sarah ting amember of food core. she served in the oakland

unified school district. mrs. obama invited ting and several food core volunteers to help with the garden. >> all gardens in the bay area being well watered. >> and free, too. >> looks like they'll north bay getting a break. you can see we've had rainfall around san jose earlier. another line of showers, perhaps thunderstorms forming off shore. this has been the movement. it's west to eastward and that means snow in the sierra. there is a look here at abc7.

you can see rain drops there. and taking another live view from mount tam, we can see high temperatures, current temperatures, i should say, mid to upper 40s. a live view towards golden gate, interesting formations there. saz with possibilities of isolated thunder. okay, showing frontal system bringing us current batch of rainfall. starting at 5:00 we'll see

continuing easing up of the intensity. notice trailing showers behind that front overnight tonight into morning. we'll see pockets of shower activity. it will be a wet and slow commute we'll see a more organized area of rainfall pushing in to the north bay firgs. that pattern continues into wednesday morning, finally it winds down, wednesday morning. by 7:00 we'll take a look at rainfall totals about 1 to 2 inches in the higher elevations around the bay area. about half an toifrj inch into lower elevations into sierra we have a winter storm warning in effect and expect 2 to 6 inches of snow in valleys. a foot or more in highest peaks overnight, lows ranging from yid to upper 40s for the most part.

tomorrow, scattered showers and could occur anywhere. high temperatures mid to upper 50s and here is the accu-weather forecast. showers lingering and partial clearing. a slight chance of showers thursday. a sunny, warm weekend over the weekend >> 35,000 a's fans wondering if the game is going to be played >> when the game starts it should be okay. field will be saturated about 2, 3 innings in, it's probably going to be raining again. >> yes. >> amazing. >> yes. >> could with very long >> celebrities get personal >> and one father's request sends apple co-founder o

>> stars get to shake it one more time on "dancing with the stars" tonight. >> celebrities will perform a dance symbolizing the most memorable year, ever. more now from los angeles. >> on round three of "dancing with the stars" we'll see the celebrities perform a reflection of the most-memorable year of their lives. >> you'll see a different side, more emotional sensitive. we're doing a slow waltz. it's more getting in touch with your sensitive side >> i'm getting a spray tan and getting a pencil mustache. >> it's going to be fun, upbeat a great message for the

most-memorable year of his life. >> they're staying focused on having fun and entertaining the audience. >> that is our purpose, our goal to work, every week. we work hard >> really hard. then to see everybody cheering and smiling is just the best. . >> i expect to get ht out of it. whether the best of me is going to be able to win it's for people, and junls to decide i want to know i did everything i can. >> for pop star cody simpson the routine takes a personal route. he's dancing to his own song. >> we have jazz to his single "surf board". it's going to be in his element. he can really just kill it. i'm going to do jazz dancing to my music. >> i heard he's putting on a speedo. >> what? >> ten couples compete tonight

with robin roberts sitting in as the sirs celebrity guest judge. you'll see it tonight at 8:00 right here on abc7. >> and you can catch two hours of "dancing with the stars" starting at 8:00 tonight followed by "castle". then, abc7 news at 11:00. >> we're of course on storm watch. this is the weather picture. you can see green means rain. spencer will be back in a moment with the weather update. >> also, us us and south korean military exercise why the white house is telling to back off. >> and a stunning report from chimit change from a professor

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we're on storm watch. it's been an active day. check out the down poor around noon in sausalito. people had to hide if getting soaked by driving rain. >> we're begging for this. now, it's arrived. in san francisco, the city hit with a strong down pour this

afternoon. you can see traffic not that bad the road is wet. we've seen spinouts and accidents today. hell us check in. >> we have stormy weather with us you can see parts of the south bay here, it's a line of rather heavy down pours. i'll have a look at the accu-weather forecast. >> in south san francisco, take a look at what happened outside during the down pour here. garbage in bins were sent down the street.

>> don't be surprised. >> we want to see your pictures please e mail them to us. and you can post them on our abc7 news facebook page. >> now, to mystery of the missing malaysian airlines flight yet to produce definite answers about where that plane went down. abc news has the latest. >> the black boxes have about six days of battery life left. mr. being silenced forever. >> one of the masteries we have is being applied and brought to bear here. >> australia has a special ship

with high tech detectors. so many times ocean debris has been spotted. only to discover it's another false lead. it turns out old fishing gear. >> depends upon how effective we are. right now it's the size of the indian ocean, which would take an amount of time to search. >> it's three weeks since the plane went missing. 239 people aboard. this man demands the latest information, and demands the prime minister retract assessment there are no

survivors with you but at this point there are no concrete answers. today, the prime minister of australia promised if it's solvable, we'll solve it. residents on a south korean island have been evacuated following a exchange of artillery fire the south moved residents to safety. no shells were fired at any installations. >> provocation the north have once again enganled in is dangerous. the north says it's an attempt to occupy and would take steps

to which the west could quote, hardly imagine. >> an ebola outbreak has now crossed into two other nations. saying four people contracted the virus and three have died saying there are 112 cases in the country. this is video abc news took to a hospital ward two years ago. it's transmitted through blood or secretions from an infected person. there is no cure. >> a minnesota couple is on the run after being accused of collecting thousands of dollars to fuel a life style.

ordering 70,000s ndz food stamps while living in that mansion. >> these rich folks ripped off the system. this office is going to do everything we can do to make sure people do hard time >> authorities say they started receiving assistance in 2005 after claiming they lived with andrea's mom in minneapolis. investigators say the home was a yacht in florida. >> it's unbelievable >> up next it's raining inside during a busy shopping day. >> i'm michael finney. i'm still taking your questions on twitter and facebook.

i'll answer your questions live in just a little bit. >> rain drops keep falling on our heads and camera lens. rain scattered about. i'll have the accu-weather forecast coming up. >> this is a live look at interstate 680. it was pouring earlier this afternoon in the east bay. northbound traffic heavier. and looking good

we're guessing a man will never use valet parking after this. saturday night, the guy apparently forgot to put the car in park. it ended up in 15 feet of water. divers helped pull the car back out yesterday i'm guessing no tip. >> probably not. >> that is some dramatic video. this is in israel waiting for first waves to run through after rainfall people waited for hours to see this. within seconds it was transformed into a river >> take a look at what happened in hong kong there.

giant hail stones sent water pouring through. more rain expected for the next few days >> they stayed >> yes. you know when you have to shop you have to shop. >> spencer christian keeping us up to date on storms. >> that is why i shop online. intensity easing up. in the north bay, thunderstorm activity. we have weather forming off shore, tomorrow look for a calm weather picture with snow in the northwest. and on the coast rainfall and rain going to cover california tomorrow. areas of rain, showers and thunderstorms including the bay

area, less of a chance of thunder. here in the bay area we'll see showers continuing overnight into morning hours. there may be isolated thunderstorms. into afternoon, wet for much of the bay area. so cooler than after rinl. but there is nothing average about the weather now anyhow we don't normally get rain but we're in dire need of it. bring it on. >> we didn't get any now. >> that is right. >> thank you. >> well, apple co-founder known as a practical joker. this video proves

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california governor had sobering words on the subject of

global warming saying ums are setting in motion chaefrngs in weather that could become catastrophic. >> it's not a slow walk to destruction. we're putting russian roulette with tipping points. >> he says if california is eliminate green house gases it would only eliminate 5% of the problem and foremost of us, it's old news you go on to living your normal lives then get a report out like today that kind of rattles nerves a little bit. >> last year, the hottest ever recorded.

every decade has been warmer. the trends are alarming. >> you don't tell us how bad it is because it will paralyze people. >> dr. root is one name among hundreds who worked on this climate change report the word frustration fails to company tour the measure of the concern. >> when i started in this field 25 years ago, i really believed we can stop mass ex-stinks. we're going to lose half of the species on the planet. it will be hard not to lose half of the species on the planet >> it's based on objective science a study notes we're seeing seeing changing climate. >> if we lose green ones oceans can go up 7 to 9 feet.

>> ask we're seeing knit super storms. do you remember hurricane sandy? the panel says it's a product of climate change. we're used to income a stable climate pattern. we're going to a time now it's not going to be stable. >> california drought also a product of the climate on the weather. less snow, earlier springs and less water for crops. sorry to scare you,ñáhñe(u

it prompted the s.w.a.t. team in benicia. >> >> we don't hear that too often. unsettled weather has been felt across the bay area.

in walnut creek, rain made driving difficult and put storm drains into overdrive. >> it's been a very wet monday as well people trying to dodge rain there, too. >> in the north bay what looks like hail, perhaps snow flurries on top of mount tamalpais >> with rain came cold temperatures today. good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> i'm cheryl jennings. >> thunder, and rain the weather rolled through the bay area. let's begin now with sandhya patel. >> we're just getting started with the storm. this steady rain starting to shift but we have very heavy rain right now taking you in closer we have heavy rain coming down. today we've seen thunderstorms.

now there is lighter rain towards richmond, berkeley and oakland. it's steady as you can see so far rainfall have changed from a third inch to a half inch. we've seen over an inch in the santa cruz mountains. we still are not done with thunderstorms. we may see low snow levels cheryl? >> thank you. >> abc7 news is live