>> rain has been coming down all night in the north bay. >> rain has been coming down all 101 in mill valley route 130 showing how slick the roads are. the north bay is where we begin coverage. amy hollyfield is along lucky drive in the north bay. i want to step out of the way and let you see highway 101 northbound. a car will come through hopefully you can see the flood ing. it is ponding. it is pending. the cars hit it and do not realize it is there. they slow down if a hurry. they realize there is a lost standing water here.

it is raining heavy. it is coming down. it doesn't look like it will ease up any time soon. i don't have a car coming law and we rolled video. when they hit the water it flies. we have to duck. it goes far and there is a lot the water. we have a car coming northbound lucky drive at highway 101. watch this car. it is clear he is not slowing down at all, a big van. it is at the love water this on the highway. you have an idea of how long it has been raining. overnight hours, we obviously could fought -- not handle much more. we got a break in the rain but we felt the impact of the other big storm. trees are still coming down and surprising people would thought the worst was over.

>> i have my neighbors with flooding and their hot water heater doesn't work, no floodings no leaking, nothing, i never thought this tree would fall. >> trees are still coming down because the ground is so wet. tremendous -- tree experts say they are heavy up the top so do not be surprised. it is not high tide which is expect at 6:00 am. if this is part of your drive there is standing water here and rain is still coming and high tide, also, is still coming. the recent storms have been great news for sierra ski resorts and this video shows the condition skiers and boarders enjoyed. most resorts picked up from 9" to 1.5 foot of new snow. >> you can see what is show up on live doppler hd with the

weather app that is free on apple's app store or google el play. breaking news in australia, police in sydney are negotiating with a gunman holding hostages in a shop for 13 hours. so far, five have escaped. we are monitoring the situation from washington, dc. good morning, matt. president obama was among first world leaders to be briefed on the crisis and the united states consulate in sydney was evacuated. >> a seen in the business district of sydney we confounding authorities and videoing fear. this armed man seen moving behind the glass and acting alone is holding sever people hostage inside a chocolate cafe. >> this is a very disturbing incident. >> reports indicate the gunman stormed inside the lindt before

10:00 a.m. local time forcing the hostages to raise their hands against the window and hold up islamic flags. the flag is not specific to any terror organization although it has been used by jihadist groups. >> we do not know the motivation of the perpetrator. we do not know whether this is politically motivated. obviously there are indications it could be. >> some people who are held have managed to escape. it is unclear how many hostages are inside the cafe. >> we are being tested today in sydney. >> the 9 takeover spread terror through downtown sydney normally packed with office workers and tourists. >> a woman shouted "he has a gun," and everyone ran like crazy. >> armed officers are swarming the secrets and several landmarks have been evacuated.

>> state department released a statement saying hearts and prayers go out to those hell hostage -- held hostage. matt? thank you. uber is criticized for hiking prices during the siege in sydney officially tweeted that it increased fares to encourage more drivers to pick up passengers near the stand off. after outbreak sprouted, they backed down and said they would offer free rides from the area. police are investigating a shooting that left three people injured at 10:00 last night in pittsburg. three people were taken to the hospital with wounds. though word on the suspects or what led us to the shooting. >> country leaders are calling a police officer in san jose to be fired for threatening remarks post on his twitter page. the officer's tweet were those protesting deadly police

brutality saying if anyone feel they cannot breathe or their lives matter i be in the movies tonight off duty carry my gun. another tweet, threaten me or my fame and i will use my god given and law-appointed right and duty to kill you. >> black leaders in the south bay want white fired. san jose police released a statement saying they are aware of the issue and have forwarded the case for review. >> father of an unarmed missouri teen shot and killed by an officer is not bay area this morning. michael brown sr. spoke to a packed crowd yesterday in san francisco thanking them for their support. here is that report. >> michael brown and his wave were the featured guest at the three-hour rally at third baptist church with a long history of civil right movement and invited to speak at the same podium where martin luther king jr. addressed congregation in 1958.

enough is enough. we got to stand strong. >> his comments lasted less than a minute but the pastor said that the presence was important. >> does the preparation of michael brown sr. help in the helping process? >> definitely. it was great energy in there last night. >> organizers came to san francisco because he was so impressed by the intensity of demonstrations in the bay area the last couple of weeks. the protests have included thousands of people mostly peaceful but they have also included vandalism, looting and crashes with police. >> we were -- must move protest to principled practical programs. >> the pastor brown said the bay area police departments need to reexamine strategy to improve their relations with the community. >> this appearance by michael

brown sr. cap as day of activities in the bay area religious community. at complied memorial church the congregation wore black in solidarity with black life matters and in berkeley this was a die in that we have seen repeatedly in the protests. michael brown is expected to speech in the mission high school during a black live matter rally. that is underway at 4:00. there are new details about the card board effi found hanging on the berkeley campus. an artist collective has posted a statement claiming responsibility saying it used images of people who were linked in the 20th century not out of racism but to connect past events to rent events. it apologized to african-americans who felt attacked. the chancellor said that campus must stay victim length --

vigilant and ensuring not to threaten or intimidate people. video posted on youtube shows a driver trying to get through a rally in berkeley and the caravanses slowly through the crowd with protesters yelling for the driver to stop and turn around. some in the crowd try to keep it peaceful but the help result the driver backed off and turned around and drove away from the protest. now in weather we check with meteorologist mike nicco. it is. coming down. i will zoom in on spots and show you what, exactly, is going on. the richmond district, the sunset, to the marin headlaps, tiburon, getting wet across the golden gate bridge and up 280 through daly city, colma, and around san mateo and hillsdale boulevard to third avenue we have heavier rain and around burlingame headed to the airport and san bruno.

in the east bay, the sunol grid to milpitas, up through the san ramon valley and toward...the altamont pass. leylanow, temperatures are mildr than they were this time yesterday. we are mostly in the upper 40 to, say, low 50's in most neighbors. i will show you what will happen today as we look at 680, looking southbound from walnut creek you can see it is wet. steady rain to afternoon scattered showers and the heaviest and steadiest is falling right now, and temperatures from the low-to-mid 50 but around the bay are in the mid-to-upper 50's and moving forward we have an opposite day, showers and increasing rain in the afternoon and wednesday is like today, rain in the profit and scattered like showers and we will get a break on thursday and more rain on the way for friday.

it is going to be drenched. in the north bay, this is san rafael 101 traveling in the southbound direction the headlights push in toward 580 in the northbound direction it is etch city but it is wet to the golden gate bridge. the drive is looking wet indeed and we have slick conditions on the roadways again and we have a bit of a cell of heavy rain over the sunol grade is where we have a jackknifed big rig sound 680 at mission boulevard, north, the lanes are blocked with possible injuries and delayed headed away from highway 84. 580 tracy to dublin is slower with folks taking it slower this morning at 32 minutes and highway four is clear and 101 southbound from san rafael is 18 minutes. member, the huge clean up in oakland neighborhood after a big water main breaks apart. >> the google role in a ground

breaking trial: can the government tell them to censor content? >> a look at the bay bridge toll plaza where you can see drops on the camera lens and still raining. this is abc7 news now so you are in the know as you begin the day in the know as you begin the day throughout the commercial break.

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covering daly city, dublin, los gatos and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. 4:45 on monday morning, a look at lucky drive in the north bay and the green bay area there is flooding here in the middle of the median being copied everywhere so be careful this morning. rain is still coming down. >> and there was a big mess after a water main break with water gushing into the streets around mcarthur boulevard and

north of 580. firefighters spent the day pumping water out of the people's homes and filling a big sink hole. one hope was flooded. three homes had several feet of water in the basement. >> firefighters humped out the water, there was 5' of water in my basement. i have pets and stuff and i was worried a cat drowned but he rescued. >> authorities are still trying to figure out what caused the 16" main to burst. the if you bart oakland connector schultz is back in service after being closed. it was shut down for on minutes because of an electrical issue. still no word on if it was related to the mechanical problems that shut the connection down on friday. the city of cupertino is taking stepping to make the streets safer for those on a pick with suggestions made by

the public last month on how to improve bicycle safety. suggestions include expanding the in the woke of bicycle lanes, allowing bicycles on sidewalks and creating a buffer between bicycle and traffic lanes on the streets after a 15-year-old boy was killed by a truck in october as he took his bicycle to school. now, we have to get a little perspective on the storm that arrived because we are thing about thursday's storm with record-breaking numbers of rain there. now, we are seeing a big storm and this is normally considered a real big storm. >> it could be a problem because we had the big storm before and the brown was saturated. the great news as we talked last week it is a gradual rain, not a heavy rain. i wanted to start with showing you what, exactly; going on with the wind because they are fatter at 15 miles per hour at sfo and 14 miles per hour at napa and

ten at hayward and 16 at half moon bay. there is no watch. no warning. there could be a small stream advisory if we see more bonding but with a push, at 15 to 16 miles per hour we could see a tree or two down but that is the exception rather than rule. the cold front is pushing through and the better looking radar runs, light-to-moderate rain is moving through the hearts of the neighbors and pushing in the north bay. not much fog right now. just about everyone is wet. everyone is see ponding. we have yellows in the north bay and moving through the santa cruz mountains, the moderate rain and the rest of us are light to moderate rains. headed into the almost hour, most of the this starts to move to the east with the heavy rain moving through the central valley and we will have scattered and lighter showers and they dissipate by action.

you can see them dissipating more and the clouds open a little bit and you know what will were what, we will have fog, patchy fog and patchy drizzle for the morning because the atmosphere is going to be so moist. by 1:00 o'clock or 2:00 headed over to the east bay the solid line of wet weather roll law and hest in the evening commute tomorrow and tapering overnight through when morning and we will wake up to the possibility of drizzle and fog again. rainfall amounts most of it is through tonight and it will fall in the north bay a couple of itches and when all is said and done we will have 1-3" cross most of our bay neighbors and 3-5" in the mountains so, today, we start with the moderate rain and go do showers and tomorrow we have showers and go to moderate and steady rain. wednesday we have moderate rain, a break on thursday, more wet wet on friday and the weekend

and into next week we are has been at possibly eight to 14 days of dry weather. >> we will look at the san mateo bridge where you can see the rain coming down making the drive eastbound and westbound across the water to and from the peninsula. we have wet conditions hang the san mateo bridge. we have flooding on the other side of 101. we also have the attenuators traveling in the northbound direction so we are not sure if they will be rearranging the consequences to have three lanes southbound, one north and one in the center. we will try to feign out but you can see the flashing lights as they make their move acros bridge. flooding on 101 northbound and southbound dieses, through redwood city we do have one and three lanes going to be under water there. if you travel in the northbound direction into san carlos, we have another cell hitting the

area so the rain is only going to get heavier and the pools deeper. be careful. be careful. facebook parts ways with >> they dropped microsoft search engine from the site and reportedly developing their own search engine despite the change, microsoft still owns a small stake in facebook. >> fashion lover now going mainstream at 4 years old, now designing for j. crew with paper dresses re-creating celebrity outfits for new children's line to help the store in the spring. british retailers are diagnose legal options after a rising glitch that they were sold on amazon for a penny. >> prices are only available for an hour but this was long enough

for some retailers to sell out the entire inventory. >> why doesn't that happen to me when i am online? >> you are not online enough. happening today, a federal appeals court is scheduled to take up a first amendment case involving google and a controversial movie that helped fuel protests in the middle east. a lower court ordered the 2012 antimuslim film "innocence of muslims," removed from google affiliate based on a favor-second scene where an actress with a voice dubbed over hers questions if mohammed was a child molest or. she was told she was take part if a different movie and has received death threats and google says the decision violates their first amendment rights. coming up, a long-awaited early morning system for earthquakes getting a much needed boost from the feds but it could save your life when the next big one hits. >> a new threat from sony

pictures from hackers that have devastated the company. >> you can see the embarcadero in san francisco with wet roads. be careful. at the love ponding water on the roads across the bay area. we will be right back.

>> .com has received new funding to create an early earthquake warning system for the state with $5 million allocated for the program if a spending bill aproved by congress. senator feinsteins called it a downpayment and says more money will be necessary to complete the system. a comprehensive system costs $80 million to build and operate for the first five years. >> we check with meteorologist mike nicco tracking the storm all morning. how does it look now, mike?

a lot rain. wish i could she it to you from santa rosa down 101 to san francisco and off the coast. that is the leading edge of the light-to-moderate rain taking over the peninsula north of the san mateo bridge. same thing for the east bay shoreline but headed into the east bay valley it is covering everything from highway four through the sunol grade. >> now, a look at san jose 87 at the julian street northbound side it is looking light but it is rainy and wet, southbound traffic is empty as we track weather and traffic you can see the area of yellow moving down over the san mateo bridge and that is where it is an indication heavier rain falling. we have a sig-alert because of a crash blocking two lanes northbound 880, we have a little bit of slowing away from 92 to the 238 into castro valley.

watch the speed this morning. >> it is 4:55. sony is holding a townhall meeting for employees to discuss a grow cyber attack after another if you threat. fusion obtained an e-mail from the hackers over the weekend promising more massive leaks of stolen files. the latest leak includes a top secret script from the new james bond film, a security consultant says that there could be no end. >> as the stakes become higher rather than having continue guys capable of carrying out sophisticated attacks you have hundreds. >> stole mails show executives slapping leonardo for making jokes of will smith's children. sony is not commenting. >> san francisco mission district celebrated i community and carnivale

the newly restored carnivale on 24th street. residents considered this 30-year-old painting to be the "joy of life," coming to the streets. a challenge brought the original artists together to restore the mission history. >> next at 5:00 a.m., the latest storm rolls in and we will track the trouble spots during the wet morning commute. >> a sad defeat for 49ers fans and what is next for the team and the coach after being eliminated from contention. >> a look at the oakland maze with traffic picking up in terms of volume but it is moving along. be careful. it is wet. it is wet. we be

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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> how many shopping gays until christmas? >> i have lost count. >> this is not kristen sze. obviously. ten. ten days. i am eric thomas. >> i am here for kristen sze who may or may not be shopping, i am matt keller. meteorologist mike nicco is here and those who want did get out of the rain and sit in the movies. >> great idea. or work. you could work. that is one of the thing you could do. you can see the yellows and the reds rolling through the heart of the bay account only area not seeing too much in