>> abc7 news begins with breaking news. the breaking news affects bart passengers. the connection between oakland international aiport and come see bart is out of service. the people mover started operating only 2 1/2 weeks ago. bart says there is an equipment problem on the tracks. there is no word on when it will be fixed. bus service is available on a.c. transit bus 73. >> good morning, i am eric thomas here for kristen sze. >> the other ton story is the continuing rain and the storm damage. we are getting a new look at the devastation from the powerful storm that swept through the bay

area yesterday flooding highways and downing trees and damaging homes and businesses. the russian river is already overflowing the banks and it is expected to rise here over the next couple of hours and that is a scary in the for folks at home who might be flooded. knick is there with -- nick is e with the latest. nick? >> those would live here need to know they need to watch the river but are taking it in stride and using kayaks do get around if the water is higher and they are hoping it will crest soon and start to recede. >> >> it goes around the back of the two houses and comes right here where the bridge is. >> it just so happened that the "right here," is his front yard. the gravel parking lot has been transformed for a mini lake and construction workers are trying to salvage what they can and the call to the guy who uns the house, words he knows no homeowners wanted to hear.

>> we are flooded. >> it was a theme often repeated, flooding from the main stem of the russian river predicted to hit guerneville the hardest where drake road and the russian river meet. flooding the intersection and turned this golf course into a version of water world. these swollen banks of the russian river are among the areas that officials are most concerned about. >> i do not freak out but worry about those who suffers. >> voluntary evacuation was in place but not enough to save the amusement park. the r.v. has been swallowed and is feet underwear barely surprise ill the behind it, the house, ruined rug, saturated flooring and water-logged walls. >> sad. sad. it's -- it only floods for a few hours but it really affected people's lives.

>> it has started to rain and the home owner is keeping an cry on the water level. in 1986 there were 3 feet of water in the second increase of the water room and now is only 12" from the garage. the heaviest rain may have moved on but the weather alerts have not stopped. >> the entire bay area has to worry about the threat of flooding. >> that is some of the lighter rain. right now, i will get you updated on flood advisory for all of us until 9:00 but for solano county, and that means rapid rises in increases and streams with more bond on the roads in the flooded areas keeping them not seeing any relief for the next couple of hours. the leading edge of it, castro valley and 280 across the san mateo bridge to some of the

heaviest of the weather at redwood city and alameda and into the santa cruz mountains. this is all headed to the south bay so this is where we are going to see the best chance of some of the understanding as we head through the afternoon hours. this should start to taper during the evening hours but be careful, this is more storm behind us and that is why the flood advisory is out until 9:00. thank you. the bankrupt of the storm could be gone but it is certainly causing some headaches this morning. people living in drawn city are waking up to a giant tree that came crashing through the roof inches from where they were sleeping. sky 7 showed the damage from overhead. look at that. it is a the love work to get rid of the, the large tree crashed on to a residential care facility on the court just before 4:30 this morning and everyone is okay. two residents were taken to the hospital as a precaution. everyone else is moved to another care facility. right now, workers are still there chopping down the big tree. in san jose there were two

weather-related holes in the roof of a safeway and it is getting worse. some workers got out minutes before a 50' section collapsed during the storm. we are at at the safe way. >> firefighters say there are now two hole, one is 50 by 50' and the other is half that side. contractors are taking a look inside and if you can see it, you can see there is extensive damage. there is a hole in the ceiling. there are wooden peoples dangling in the aisles. >> video from sky 7 h.d. shows a giant hole in the roof of safeway. it partly collapsed at the store on san jose's east capitol expressway during yesterday's powerful storm. it happened before 4:00. safeway was open and people remain inside when the ceiling came will crashing down. today, employees take another

look at the damage contract outside the confused customers are turned away. >> anthony scott intended to make an ice cream delivery. everything was blocked off and i found out that the roof fell in from the accident yesterday so guess this won't be no ice cream for a while. >> one suffered minor injuries and neighboring businesses were evacuated and are still closed. >> it will be rather inconvenient for lunch. >> her store is open but employees still shaken up. >> it is really, really scary. the first thing we thought of, water will trickle down the buildings and our could last but apparently there is a nice wall between it. >> it is up clear when or if the safe way will re-open. firefighters say the hole has gotten bigger since yesterday. there is risk of collapse. >> security guards continue to

turn customers away and it is unclear when or if the safe way will re-open. i reached out to safe way corporate and have not heard back. >> thank you. 40 people are waiting to return to their onlies this morning in wad wood. flooding yesterday at a mobile home park forced the residents to take shoal step at the fair oaks community center. water get up to 4' deep. the right lanes are closed on north interstate 880 in milpitas because of flooding. we caught this scene a few minutes ago. if you are driving in the area, use caution when you pass by that area. conditions, helpfully, will improve as the day goes on. >> the powerful storm moved through the area and it dumped record rain throughout the region. san francisco's downtown was soaked with 3.5" of rain, the wettest december day in 19

years. san jose was hit with more than 3" of rain, the third wettest day to that city's history. and whiskey town, california, was drenched with 1 2" of rain, the most in the entire state. pg&e is still trying to turn the power back on to 3,000 bay area customers with the biggest out agency affecting 870 corms and 710 in the east bay and 535 customers in the if peninsula and another 300 without power in the south by. >> customs and people living in san francisco diamond heights are dealing with a power outage with crews trying to restore power to businesses and the safe way and walgreens are closed. >> we call up with a woman reading by flashlight at a coffee shop in the dark. >> fairly simple. there is no light at home. this is no way did have coffee.

i can have coffee here and read. >> a veterinarian clinic is closed and crews are trying to use a generator to power backup lights. >> the storm that soaked us is hitting southern california. mud surrounding homes in one area and 100 homes in a senior live community have been damaged and more than 20 have been red tagged. the area is under "mandatory evacuation" orders but some had to be rescue asked carried out by firefighters this morning. >> there i was, kind of stuck on the front porch and soon the mud was flowing around both sides of the house going into the street and i few i was if trouble. but the good lord put me on that front porch. >> the homes were red tagged and residents in in this area are

facing mandatory evacuations after the hills were weakened by the fire last january. the hillside could break loose from the heavy amount rain. >> the bay area took a pounding but there is a side benefit from the storm. look at the before and after lexington reservoir in santa clara county. the storm put more water in the depleted reservoir but it still has a long way do go and is only at 26 percent of capacity right new. >> if the skies do clear, and they will, you may want to lock to the stars. >> we will tell you about a meteor shore you don't want to miss. >> a soccer player survives a brush with death after lightning struck during a match. >> a look at traffic on san mateo bridge, there is still and rain here. you can see drops on the camera lens and meteorologist mike nicco has the forecast after this.

♪

♪

[instrumental music] ♪ something you don't see each day people on a tarmac for united flight from sfo to australia turned yesterday to frustration after 15 hour flight the plane was diverted because the airport has debris on the runway and the passengers waited eight hours before a new flight crew arrived. >> with the clouds clearing over

the woke the bay area could be in for quite a sight: nasa says you can catch shooting stars as part of the meteor shower tomorrow night. if you have kids in the house they could enjoy the event before bedtime at 9:00 p.m. at the height you could see 120 meteors an hour. >> south american soccer player resurvived the unthinkable, lightning strikes a player from peru during a match. you can see the smoke drift away after the strike to the left of the scene. the announcer thought the man was dead. incredibly, he is being treated in the hospital for buns. he said he feels like he was born again. >> a vacation home no longer. we will show you what sent a home plunging and the pacific straight ahead. >> a him owner may have trouble getting into the house. we will slain what is happening here. that i

if aunder a microscope, put we can see all the bacteria that still exists. polident's unique micro clean formula works in just 3 minutes, killing 99.99% of odor causing bacteria. for a cleaner, fresher, brighter denture everyday. covering novato, oakland, sunnyvale and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. take a look at this video from early this morning, water pouring from a car from a tow truck that pulled it from the flooded road in san francisco. the driver did fought realize how deep the water was when he drove through part of the interchange. the area below 101 often floods during the big storms. the driver was wet but otherwise escaped unharmed. >> the storm made its mark on the washington coast. high wind.

plunged into the pacific ocean at watch away beep, the third to fall into the ocean. the owner says when he bought the home ten years ago it was miles away from the beach. no homeowners had erosion insurance. >> winds from the storm caused this unusual sight in oregon, a few hours east of portland when a him owner in a small town came home she founded hundreds of tumble weeds on her porch. >> ouch. >> thank you is not something you see every day. >> no. >> we got a break although it looks misty out there, but some areas are getting a break and other areas are getting light-to-moderate rain that could cause more flooding or keep the areas that are flooded from receding. we will look and show you the biggest concerns in the north bay. i have if news for you if you live around the russian river,

the timetable for the flooding has been moved up that was set to expire at 12:35 and now it is at 6:35 tomorrow morning so that is good news for the folks around the russian river. we have had waves of light rain move across and we are seeing that right now, the heavier rain in the north bay is moving through mill valley, sausalito, pulling away from san rafael and san quentin but across the richmond and san rafael bridge, with an uptick in the wet weather right here but you slide down the heaviest wet weather is moving through east palo alto headed to 101 and pulling away from university avenue in palo alto. it will go into the mountains. you can see the heavy rain moving through los altos hills and headed to los altos mountains and sunnyvale. the whole system is moving down on to the south bay but, notice, it is losing the steam.

as far as the wind, the tree that came down today did not come down because of the wind but because of the rain. the rain weighted the top of the tree. it lost its footing because of the soft ground. it went over. that is a possibility of seeing more of that occurring the next couple of hours. >> the rainfall surplus, everyone is great for this rain year that began july 1, from 3.25 in livermore to 5.5" at moffett field and san jose is 5" of plus, and 3.25" at oakland at the airport and 4.5" at san francisco, and santa rosa is up near 4.75". the rain moved through san rafael and look at this, it is an area that now has standing water as we look southbound on 101. that is an area you will have to avoid for the next couple of hours. this is how it looks from the east bay hills thicker clouds are coming in with the moisture to sausalito and the golden gate bridge and rain hasn't quite made it down to 87 near the

shark tapping but it is coming your way in the next 20 minutes to-an hour so scattered showers and storms are possible, dry during the weekend day but come sunday night, monday and tuesday we will have a rain that will last the entire 48 hours the right new we have low-to-mid 50's so it is cool. this morning, following the storms rolling through, as we head into the afternoon and evening hours, we will start to see it tapering and we will wake up tomorrow with clouds and patchy fog. as we head through saturday we will have the most sunshine then but upper 50's to low 60's and the same thing on sunday but it will be mostly cloudy sunday after the sun it is the light rain move ms. and it may not stop until tuesday night. wednesday is looking cloudy and thursday is also looking pretty dry, but, we have snow in lake tahoe today, we will have snow in lake tahoe on monday, tuesday and wednesday coinciding with the same storm so it is looking up in that respect and we should not have the flooding with the next system as we have with this

one. >> hope it stays okay. >> more news right new. we would like to thank you for all the images you have sent during and after the storm yesterday. here are a few of our favorites taken shows firefighters rescuing several pets from a flooded building in healdsburg. remember, we want want to see wr where you live and you can mail them to us at ureport@kgo-tv.com or post them on our abc7 news facebook page or share them with us at twitter@abc7newsbayarea. >> ready for the next perfect pet? stick around and meet curry, the little one. at 3:00, on rachel ray, carrie underwood hangs with rachel and talks about her

and for many, it's a struggle to keep your a1c down. so imagine, what if there was a new class of medicine that works differently to lower blood sugar? imagine, loving your numbers. introducing once-daily invokana®. it's the first of a new kind of prescription medicine that's used along with diet and exercise to lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes.

invokana® is a once-daily pill that works around the clock to help lower a1c. here's how: the kidneys allow sugar to be absorbed back into the body. invokana® reduces the amount of sugar allowed back in, and sends some sugar out through the process of urination. and while it's not for weight loss, it may help you lose some weight. invokana® can cause important side effects, including dehydration, which may cause some people to have loss of body water and salt. this may also cause you to feel dizzy, faint, lightheaded, or weak especially when you stand up. other side effects may include kidney problems, genital yeast infections, urinary tract infections, changes in urination, high potassium in the blood, or increases in cholesterol. do not take invokana® if you have severe kidney problems or are on dialysis or if allergic to invokana® or its ingredients. symptoms of allergic reaction may include rash, swelling, difficulty breathing or swallowing.

if you experience any of these symptoms, stop taking invokana® and call your doctor right away or go to the nearest hospital. tell your doctor about any medical conditions, medications you are taking, and if you have kidney or liver problems. using invokana® with a sulfonylurea or insulin may increase risk of low blood sugar. it's time. lower your blood sugar with invokana®. imagine loving your numbers. ask your doctor about invokana®. >> many schools lost a lot of money closing during the storm and how they plan to recover the losses. >> at 5:00, drought doubt. the biggest storm in years still hitting the bay area and how big of audients it -- a dent it is

making? >> and now, friday's perfect pet. >> curry with our guest from the humane society. an honor to have you here. hello, little buddy. tell us about curry. >> curry is nine months old mix weighing about 15 pounds but a pound or so is hair, i think. he is super friendly. he loves to jump. he loves other dogs and people. he has a lot of america and he will need regular grooming so we are looking to an experience owner. he loves walks. he could do okay with cats we are not sure. we have not introduced him to any yet. >> young kids? >> i think so. >> tell us what is going on tomorrow. >> bring your pet or take a picture with your pet and they

will be professionally done, a $20 donation and everything goes to support our animals. >> very good. have your picture taken and take a new pet home. >> great to see you. hope your holidays are good and hope we can find permanent hopes for all of the animals including curry at the humane society. if you have questions on what is going on, call them or check out my facebook page and we will pull up fun stuff. nice to see you. >> back to you guys. >> thank you. >> a cutie. >> from all of us at abc, thanks for joining. who wants to be a millionaire is coming up next. have a great

[cheers and applause] >> yeah! hey! hey! hey! hey! i'm terry crews, and i'm ready to start giving away some money right here on millionaire! [cheers and applause] as a piano teacher and mother of two, our returning contestant is a multitasking queen, and today's she's got a million things on her mind. from springville, utah, please welcome christi leman! [cheers and applause] >> hi. >> oh. good to see you again. you are doing so, so well. now, i heard all these facts about you. you're a piano teacher.