brought traffic to a standstill one of two bay area protests in the death of a new york city man put in a police chokehold. we are on 101 near university avenue. good morning. traffic was brought to a standstill right here on 101 near the university avenue exit when the protest spills on to the highway they block the both lanes of traffic at 9:30. 200 people matched on to highway 101 in palo alto. drivers were stuck. stanford university students organized this protest. we can for for longer not be heard or not be seen. everyone needs to know so everyone can have an impact. california highway patrol and palo alto police were finally able to steer protesters

out of traffic which was stopped for ten minutes and police made no arrests. this was one of the protests happening around the bay area. other groups protested in san francisco and oakland in reaction to the decision not to invite the officer in the death of eric garner as a result of a chokehold. >> chanting profits were peaceful unlike last week with the ferguson profits, -- protests, a few bottles were thrown. police are represented if there are more protests tonight. this is the incident that led to the death of garner who suffered breezing problems while police tried to restrain him on staten island in july. officers believed he was selling cigarettes illegally. the head of the police officer

union called the death "tragic," and claimed it resulted directly from his resisting arrest. in new york, the final words were echoed "i can't breathe," moving through midtown manhattan. dozens staged a die in inside grand central terminal. we will have a report from staten island at the top of the hour with the latest development. light rain today. more thunderstorms on friday. people across the bay area will have little time to clean up from yesterday. like this massive sink hole that opened in san francisco. it could take weeks to fix. >> a off collapsed from rain nearly came down on a mother and her two toddlers. here is that story. >> there was a hole. i could see outside of the building. all of the rain was coming in. the mother said her one-year-old was on a chair, the

2-year-old was running around the coffee table and the rain was pouring down. >> i heard a noise and i looked around and my roof was hanging. >> she got on the phone to call maintenance but it was too late. the whole thing caved in, the wood on there fell here and dropped on the computer and another hit the tv. >> the dam was confined to the living room so the family can stay there. she is trying to get over the fact that she and her children narrowly escaped enjoy. >> workers say a leak if the roof allowed the rain to pool in the ceiling until the weight of the water caused it to collapse some shop owners in san francisco will spend the day cleaning up. the stable cafe at 17th was forced to close yesterday after water soaked perishables and

backed up drains. the auto repair was forced to close after sewage water submerged three cars. businesses say this is the 4th flood in seven years. commuters in marin can only hope this does not happen again. there were four flooded lanes of southbound 101 in marin city with gridlock going on for miles. a 30-minute drive into san francisco turned into two help hour ordeals. residents were advised to stay home. this is unprecedented action. they told people to stay home because of the congestion and flooding. evidence the rain is doing good with the storm bringing huge flows to the creek which drains into a larger creek that feeds reservoirs that supply drinking water. not a drought buster but a good start. amy hollyfield will look at the

flooding impact in san francisco at top of the hour. remember you can track weather where you live with live doppler hd on smartphone or tablet by downloading the weather app from itunes or google play. new video of a suspect shortly before he was shot by an off-duty san francisco police officer. the surveillance video from social video act groupy a man appearing homeless walked into a business called "another cafe," on pine and leavenworth and after an altercation he threw coffee on a woman and he was chased out with a cough maker by a baseball man then he tried to problem an officer in an apartment building. there was a life-and-death struggle for the officer's gun and the suspect was shot if the chest. he is in critical condition. a large homeless camp in san jose is going to be closed for

if. officials plan to permanently dismantle the homeless encampment 72-hour notices directing people to remove themselves and their belongings by this morning. city would beers and the santa clara water district crews will take down the structures and clean up the trash. officials believe 300 people camp in the area along the creek each night. >> a fire chief on the peninsula faces felony in connection with credit card fraud. the prosecution claims the chief of the central county fire department, 50-year-old, used phony names to set up credit card. he and his wife used the cards to make purchases from a fake business they set up. he is on leave from the fire department serving burlingame. his wife has fled the country.

vallejo fire investigators are trying to december the cause of a two-alarm fire that gutted an apartment breaking out after 7:00 p.m. at on valley vista avenue. crews weapon the fire from spreading to the other three units. a woman who residents the burned apartment was at the store with her two sons when the fire broke out. i hit a few light shower on way in but meteorologist mike nicco is here to talk about it. between mill valley on either side, between san rafael and fairfax and sausalito and to muir beach we have light rain. same at hayward through the dublin grade to san ramon to pleasanton and to livermore and danville, possibly a light shower. the key is, it is light, probably not causing flooding but keeping the streets moist. showers over the santa cruz mountains and headed to the

south bay. the patchy fog is developing at three miles in santa rosa and thicker fog around san rafael. 101 shows year's visibility is the same because of rain. this time, it is fog. we are going to have light showers and lighter breezes and upper 50's to low 60 and the rest of us in the low-to-mid 60's. moving forward tomorrow, a chance of showers and thunderstorms with locally heavy rain and the moisture will linger with a slight chance of a shower on saturday and sunday is the dry day this weekend. if saratoga we have a sig-alert because of a downed tree but this is now what we will deal with. since the rains subsided today, the morning commute has dangerous conditions on the roads with downed trees and branches and potholes. we cleared the one on the bay bridge and at the amount pass, this is going to be repaired by

4:50. but at grant line road there is a lane taken away because of a sinkhole. there are delays from tracy. through the altamont pass it stays clear. at skyline boulevard along highway nine both directions are closed so if you live in saratoga, you need an alternate route to get to work with no word when this will clear up and, finally, a look at the golden gate bridge is wet and moving along at top speeds. a spectacular start to nasa's ambitious plan to explore space and what the space age has riding on the first flight of orion. >> remember the man who survived an 11 story fall, a washer's family reveals his remarkable battle to recover. >> we are keeping weather and

traffic up through the traffic up through the commercial break.

covering novato, oakland, sunnyvale and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. welcome back at 4:42. a new benchmark in space exploration is on hold at cape canavaral. there was to be a launch half an hour ago and nasa can still call for the lift off. it could one day take astronauts to mars. this test mission is unmanned. nasa wants to see how well it holds up during the flight. if everything goes well, the capsule coup could be used for long term missions going deeper into space than any other spacecraft since apollo. >> we hear from the family of the window washer who fell 11

stories in san francisco two weekend. >> perez is still if critical condition but he is able to speak. his daughter spoke exclusively to abc reporter. >> pedro perez has washed windows if 15 years. >> he would not do anything to put himself in danger and risk him not being with us. >> the family doesn't know what went wrong the morning perez fell from the roof of this build ing landing on this moving car. perez is 58 was helped by several pedestrians. minutes later a confused co-worker who mistakenly thought perez was dead called the family to say he had passed. his 19-year-old daughter didn't want he face shown on tv. >> you found out he was alive...there was hope? >> yes, i started shaking and i

was so happy we didn't have to tell micy step he passed away. >> moving car he landed on helped break the fall. since the november 21 accident, perez has had several operations. >> his pelvic area is shattered and he had internal pleading. >> per rose broke the right arm in several places, his legs and back were not broken and according to the family, he suffered no major head injury. >> he is not on a breathing machine he can breathe on his own. he is talking. >> the family reached out to us because they need help. while he has medical insurance, the union has not contacted the family directly. we called the union. during our interview, a union representative called to offer help. >> we will put him on disability, it is in the progress. >> the family watched the accident on tv in disbelief.

>> it is a really big fall. how did someone fall that high and still survive? a 20-year old man from australia with a form of life-threatening leukemia is part of the warriors today. >> this is a picture of the 20-year-old signed for a one-day contract with the warriors to fulfill the wish that he attend an nab game for the first time and will attend the practice shoot around at practice facility and shooting baskets. >> he and the family will have lunch and later they will attend the game against the pelicans of new orleans. the warriors will go for the 11th straight win. new orleans jazz, i can say, but they are not in utah but pelicans ...

>> the new orleans pelicans. >> pelicans. >> all of the other animals they could pick... >> crawfish. >> that is a good one. muskrat. muskrat. okay, moving incredible rainfall deficit, this year, finally, we fine. that is just this year. it could be temporary. but the next 8-14 days will be wet. conserve although we have a surplus for the rain, in santa rosa, the ron you are not here is because your rain page is not

working not because we don't love you. as far as winds, they coming from the south which is a moist flow so we have drizzle and light showers. up and down the napa valley from st. helena to napa and american canyon and vallejo and benicia you are ready to get wet. i will show you what happened with the cold front was the focal mechanism for the heavy rain and we don't have that will set coming our way today. we got this moist flow from th south. the mountains will lift it, that creates instability, and will create scattered showers. >> the sun will be out and that will lend heat to the atmosphere and that will trigger a few light showers as we head through the day. at 7:00, to noon, really scattered light showers through 5:00, and tonight less rain than

this morning and more like fog. moring for toll morning than this morning. as we head to noon you can see the showers lining up and we have a cold front coming in tomorrow evening so we will have light-to-moderate rain and we could pulse up a thunderstorm or two to heavy rain which could lead to localized flooding tomorrow evening. not on the scale of yesterday. tonight through saturday morning lingering light shower and saturday afternoon into sunday we should be dry. the moist flow will continue. rainfall amounts .1" to half an inch and 1-2" in the mountains by saturday afternoon. the seven-day forecast shows steady temperatures and low-to-mid 60's and with the dry air on sunday and tuesday and wednesday showing no rain. we are picking up green and

tracking traffic and weather together with sprinkles along 680. traveling right here along 680 out of pleasant hill at the highway 24, traffic is moving along fine but there are still sprinkles and you can see the area of green an indication where the rain could affect the commute over highway 24. the rain from walnut creek through lafayette to the caldecott tunnel there is a lot of green so it is a moist drive through danville and san ramon valley and along 580 with a problem along westbound 580 at grant line road, a pothole in the process of getting repaired and causing major delays from tracy. when you squeeze by the traffic picks up and you are moving along full speed ahead. breaking drivers of bad habits. we will talk about that, but, if you are looking for a perfect gift under the tree yahoo has a few ideas.

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drivers of a bad habit, the crackdown on vehicles that block the box. shooting stars, a holiday ornament on angel island you can see for miles. >> dry morning but the road is still wet in san francisco at embarcadero. embarcadero. you can keep tabsburg

a look at the golden gate bridge where you can see the deck is wet because there are still showers moving through the bay area after the huge storm we had yesterday but traffic is moving along smoothly. starting this morning, blocking the the box if san francisco will cost big money. city officials say drivers could be accustomed to getting away with it but no more. starting today a crackdown

begins with police officers joining parking control officers. fines for the violation range from $100 to $258. an area that is focused on is south of market during the evening commute. >> san francisco giants could be watching golf in february because buster posey accepted an invitation to tee off at the at&t classic at pebble beach. he has been invited before but always there was a a he had a 15-18 handicap. he has played augusta stats are bet we when it comes to budgeting average. >> he still needs on the handicap. we are trying to bring that out of the double digit its. a holiday ornament the brighten the skies over san francisco tonight a 3-d light on angel island in the shape of a

shooting star is so big and brit you can see it up to 15 miles away. it is not only intended to celebrate the holidays but bring more aware misto the history of angel island, immigration gateway significant to the bay area. >> now the weather forecast. what did we have in terms of rain? >> remember the earth from san rafael where i looked at the fog? it is now raining. be came on 101. we have wet weather. you can see it on san rafael across 37 and hit sonoma and napa and american canyon. we have wet weather around san ramon and dublin and leften and milpitas is wet. big picture has snow falling and the winter weather storm warning is expired for lake tahoe with a mix of rain at the lower elevation and scattered snow at the higher will vase and low-to-mid 60 through the central valley and up me 60's with shower around los angeles and san diego. it is wet in california.

yesterday, you needed a submarine to get you down 101 through san rafael and here is a picture of it. as you said, that is where we are seeing more rain. coming to senator ralph toward 5 80 flooding could be a problem with all the green indicating potential problem. the drive along 101 near 880 is traveling nicely and the rest of san jose is moving along at top speed. we are accident free this morning. we will see how long that will stay. a study fine as controversial drug used by breast feeding moms could put their health at risk. the medication is a still laboratory to increase breast milk production but republican shows the drug appeared to increase the risk of heart problems in women that are bad enough to bump up the risk of

cardiac arrest 16 times. 9 drug is not legally marketed in the united states so women want it can still get it from outside the united states or through certain compound pharmacies. the shopping season is in full swing and to big companies want to make sure you make the most of every minute including the time in the public restrooms. >> you can buy items while you are sitting in a toilet stall "a stall mall oil ads on the door will offer rods like toilet papers and whiteening strips. you can with the smartphone and like that you have done your business, so to speak of the it will spark a lot of puns but will sales be >> apple and samsung have a new round in the billion dollar patent fight. the battle ground to square off on today.

did you get a flu shot? you may not be as protected as you think with warning from top health leaders today. you are looking at the bay bridge with traffic picking up. scattered showers. you will want to keep on top of you will want to keep on top of weather and traffic and bre

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