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>> bay area drenched again. and with more rain on the way. next rain right around the corner. >> most welcome the rain but many still hope to dry out and repair the damage left from last week. good evening. >> we are in for another wet week. >> we sure r.here's a live look from the exploratorium camera. spencer is in for sandy and tracking the storm with live doppler 7hd. >> it's not letting up very much. here's widely scattered shower activity at the moment but locally heavy downpour continue to develop offshore and move on shore one right here just off the peninsula coast license. towards san francisco and golden gate and a line of pockets of heavy

activity through southern marin county out towards vallejo into solano county. more 80's of precipitation developing offshore but they are widely scattered. let's move along to the written fall total since sunday at 4:00 p.m. most location have received up to inch and a half or more in some spots. over 3 and quarter inches in kent field which is really soak. forecast animation at 11:00 o'clock tonight during the over tonight hours. pockets of showers and locally heavy down pour. we continue before the next big wave arrives tomorrow. show you that in a moment. >> thank you so much spencer. today storm didn't bring us much written as we saw last week but still cussed some problems especially in the north bay. another storm set to hit tomorrow residents doing all they can to keep the floodwater at bay. 7 news if continues the storm watch live from sonoma county. cornell? >> light rain falling tonight here at shellville intersection of highway 121 and 12. it's closed. because of flooding at

this intersection. cal-trans as you can see working to clear the water out. there's no time to lose. new storm is on the way. >> normally this truck maybe plowing snow. but tonight it's plowing water. away from the juchtion of highway 12 and 121. after heavy rain cause flooding. rain fell most of the evening in the north bay soaking highway 37 and like bill road this down pour captured in san rafael on highway 101. treacherous driving conditions created in a split second. >> so it is coming out here. >> she's keeping a close eye on all the water surrounding her home in san anselmo. heavy rain turned the yard into a catch base i hope for the neighborhood. army of pump now moving the water out. you are pumping a lot of water. >> yes we have 2 pump under the house one in the front corner and one in this corner over here. >>reporter: so father water stayed out of her house and she

wants to keep it that way. >> we take tree out of driveway off houses fences. >>reporter: he has been working 24 7 for theless week. his fleet of trucks trying to keep up. his craw responded when the huge tree fell just feet away from a home in ross. this tree landed on a house in napa on soda canyon road. creating a lot of exterior damage. new storm on tuesday could cause more trees to topple the. >> expecting to get call force tremendous that is have fallen over. people get up in the morning and see the first lit. look out then realize there is a tree in the driveway or on the house or the deck. >>reporter: san anselmo creek below flood stage but raging with water. she hopes the next storm is into the deluge to her property. >> this is not a flood zone so t but it should be. >> in marin county, abc 7 news. about these storms are swamping low lying areas like this mobile home park in belmont. we show you the

pooling rain today causing real problems for the folks there. all 3 mobile home parks in bell mont redwood city are still cleaning up from last week heavy rains. red cross is providing cleaning supply for those residents. in sap pablo heavy rain today caused flooding. residents there stay storm drains overwhelmed and all the water went through back yard even that homes. small streams in the area also overflow the bank adding to the mess. >> some of the heaviest rainfall drevrnl may rip county and the reservoir there showing it. they are spilling over. this is the first time in at least two years the gates of alpine dam have opened. 4 reservoir this the county are spilling over tonight. that written water officials say the county is still in a drought. >> today heavy rain didn't cause the problem of previous storms in san francisco but there was some damage like this tree that came down in golden gate park. large pain tree fell on bike path. nobody was hurt and crew quickly remanufactured the fallen tree. >> rain caused this rock slide.

mud rock tumble down telegraph hill in san francisco landing on chest nut street. no damp reported. this is near the spot where rock smashed a car and threatened a building nearly three years ago. >> despite all of this damage and mayhem here is one of the rainbow to show up after the storm. this welcome back involved 2 bay area teenager who tibingt upon themselves to jump in and help out when the community needed it. l alan nissan lorenzo. >> it was a neighborhood eye sore. 5 section of the steel fence knocked over and because it was linked together into one flimsy piece nobody had been able to utility it back up. >> we have this they think on facebook called the center of the community page. i saw tha that. when i saw that the fence was down. >> robert is an offensive line man for the hay school football team in san lorenzo and can bench 350 pounds he had to recut teammate and friends michael who plays defensive end. >> we lifted whole thing up in

one try. lifted it up from the middle. he pulled i bush and one side started to fall down. we manufactured one of the leg become over. >> teens knew another round of rain quas coming so grab the tools and began cleaning out the drain along the road. >> my parents are good about teaching me total stuff for your comment and not just think about yourself. >> respect the community and respect other people property. our coaches had a lot to do with. that i was raised to do that. >> that paid off. this is abc 7 news. tractor weather where you live with live doppler 7hd by down loading the 7 news weather app. go to our web site or get it free from the apple app store or google play. protestors gather peacefully in oakland tonight to remember those killed by police. several dozen people stood around like merit with candle and cell phone this evening. they offered prayers

and honor the people killed by officers. >> earlier in the day a different group of protestors surrounded police headquarters. chin themselves to the front doors. one person climbed a flag pole and raised the flag with the faces of black men killed by police. another group blocked traffic at broad which and seventh. 25 people were arrested. disrespectful and offensiv offensive. those words were the san jose police officer association describing tweet by an officer about police protes protest. officer philip white now on leave and today someone filed a complaint with san jose independent police auditor about these tweet. one read quote threatening my family and i will use my god given law appointed right and duty to kill you. cops lives matter hash tag. police internal affair probe will see if it violated the chief orders. >> sydney under siege. next on 7 news. new development in the

deadly hostage crisis at australian cafe. tonight the local connection to the gunman. >> plus last year it was just a dream. this year a reality. how a local hospital changed the life of a teenager once thought too sick to save. >> and we are tracking more storms taking aim at the bay area. here's a look at live doppler 7hd. will your morning commute be a wet one. >> 7 news at 11

>> tonight new development deadly hostage crisis in sydney australia at cafe. there is a live look where flowers and

look at all the flowers people who have come by to pay their respects. we now know the names of the 2 hostages who were killed. the victim are ka taken a day so that lawyer and mother of 3 andtory johnson the manager of the calf faichlt he was apparently shot while trying to take the firearm away from the gunman. also learn more about the gawn man who was killed by police when they storm the building. here's karen travers. >> flag across the sidney area lowered to half staff after monday terrible tragedy. >> we have lost some in app attack we would never thought we would see here in our city. >>reporter: the incident began at about 9:30 local time monday morning. in heart of downtown sydney. suspect identified as 50-year-old if man taking over the cafe holding 17 people hostage. authorities say he was a self-proclaimed islamic sheikh and alleged sexual

predator well known to them. he made headlines last year when he pleaded guilty to sending angry hateful letters to the family of fallen australian service members. during the standoff 2 hostages seen through wind 0holding up a black flag showing a muslim professional state. several women up load video to you tube saying he was demanding an isis flag and conversation with australia prime minister. >> only asking for flag and phone call and that's it. >> some hostages were able to escape. just after 2:00 a.m. local time the more than 16 hours after it began, the standoff ended. >> i believe at that time if they didn't enter they would have been many more lives lost. >> 3 people dead including the man. officials say it was an isolated incident. the act of one individual. abc news washington. >> he was accused of killing his ex-wife miss pall god

father lives from hayward and sat down with us. he told us the familiarityly was relieved he was arrested and charged with murder though that was short lived. >> the we were so happy that finally justice has been done two week later found output him out on bail. if he was still in jail if the innocent victims wouldn't have died. the should have just lock him up and throw the key away. >> he visited the family here in confidential for a month early last month. they told her to be safe because the man was abusive. in april she was found murdered in sydney. when he found out about the standoff he said he just prayed for the hostages. >> let's move on. it's 10 days before christmas but teenager in shasta like already got her present. gift of life. st lillian spoke with the girl who got a brand new heart just in time for the holidays. >> 14-year-old miss johnson

back at the children hospital for routine follow-up. it has been three months since she received a do inner heart and now she's looking forward to celebrating the holidays. >> new heart christmas. >> she has come a long way since diagnosed with cardio my open think so sick this time last year she spent christmas in the hospital. this year she will be spending it at home. her and her family only christmas wish. >> last year at christmas we had no idea what the future was going to hold. so least this year we if know what it might hold. >> liz says a lieutenant she wants to do after holiday like returning to her old school. go swimming and maybe even play softball again but first things first. she still has to figure out her wish to make a wish foundation. >> if i don't know yet. i don't know total limit i have to think still. >> she knows she will never

have life of typical teen. she takes nearly 2 dozen pills a day and system trips to the hospital. she and her family gritful to second chance of life just in tim for christmas. in palo alto, abc 7 news. >> l breaking news now. bad crash on the golden gate bridg bridge. look at this snarled traffic. >> you can see the rain is coming down. leif look from the toll plaza. happened about 10:20 tonight. so about an hour ago. 3 cars involved and we get report one person may be seriously injured which is a shame. we'll stay on top of it. >> you see all the rain there. that means snow for the sierra and treacherous driving conditions. >> here's video from early this evening snow falling on interstate 80 at king veil few miles west of done intersummit. >> chains required for 80, 50 and 88. spencer is in for sand why -- sandhya and tracking the rain and snow. >> we have had period of rain

and showers throughout the evening right now we look at not very wide spread written fall but we have a line of rather impressive downpour reaching from just right around monterey bay and watsonville and gilroy morgan hill out into the hill country. less densely populated area but back to more populated 80's. rather impressive cell develop offshore beginning to move into san francisco couple of smaller cell moving up around the golden gate and lane of rainfall and showers moving through southern county through san rafael across the bay towards richmond vallejo and fairfield so we have areas of significant precip. tition rate four and more pockets of rainfall and showers developing offshore. appear to be fizzling and may intensify as they approach land. here's roof top camera embarcadero center. things look calm. 53 degrees in san francisco. 52 across the bay oakland. redwood city 59. morgan hill 54 at half moon bay. here's

calm view as well from emer emeryville which is west ward across the bay to san francisc francisco. 50 right now at santa rosa, napa petaluma and fairfield and concord, 51 in livermore. view from the exploratorium camera over the bay. these are our forecast feature. scattered showers overnight. occasionally could be locally heavy. rain intensify tomorrow as the second storm in as many days arrive. see a weaker storm arriving on friday. satellite radar composite show passage of the cold front this brought us our first storm early today. in all the trailing activity behind the front meaning mainly showers tonight. then tomorrow we have this next big storm pushing around midday that will provide another soaking for us. the storm list moderate for your ban flooding, mud rock sliding down tree not so much because of wind but because of loose soil saturated soil and low risk for river flooding. so let's start forecast animation 5:00 o'clock tomorrow morning at which point we see

pockets of showers with some locally heavy although perhaps brief downpour. won't be raining area wide but will be wet and the going will be slow for the morning commute. most of early part of the day tomorrow just scattered showers and occasional heavy downpour but by midday we see the next frontal system arriving bringing heavy rain from north to south right through the central part of the bay area that is the pattern during the mid late afternoon hours which means the evening commute will probably be a slow and challenging one. then the rain will taper off with showers. by wednesday morning showers become more widely scattered during the day wednesday and probably end by late wednesday night. by 11:00 o'clock wednesday night we are projecting rainfall total up to 2 and a half inches in the north by mountains and santa cruz mountains 3 quarters inch to inch and a half generally in the lower lying area. across the bay area tonight with scattered showers with low pressure mainly mid upper 40's then tomorrow scattered showers early. heavy rainfall later. stronger winds tomorrow. high

mainly mid upper 50's and here's accu-weather 7 difficult forecast. heavy rain to showers helpful rain tomorrow, showers on wednesday, perhaps few lingering showers early thursday but then drying out later in the day on thursday. third storm arrives on friday. showers lingering into saturday morning. partial clearing late saturday and mainly dry day on sunday. him if whew! . >> we needle the brake. >> l will the raiders go become to the future? >> larry her with that. >> they would like to. fans are hoping to see gruden back on the side lines next year not going to happen. tell you why. chuckie

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>> good evening. man known for enthusiasim unknown to mankind is now just playing out the last 2 games. barring some miracle jim harbaugh era will end when the frainers finish this season. my off hopes finish off yesterday in seattle with a little help from the referee. today the nfl admitted that this call was wrong. nick moody did not rough the passer in the fourth quarter. but the penalty and automatic first down came witness killed the niner hope. instead of a lead in the field goal it led to a touch down and game over. harbaugh team niners all banged up but 7 and 7. he vow to fight to the finish. >> we have a lieutenant to play for. play the next 2 games like the our lives depend on i it. if playing for winning season and playing for each other. playing for the the-of the game. until a lot of ways i have never been proud interour team, for the guy that

is showed up. for the guys that fought. in a lot of ways never prouder. >> niners and 7 and 7 out of my off contention. drew breeze and saints 6 and 8 leading the afc south after dismantling the buyers on monday night footbal football. about went for touch down. 8 yard there for 7 nothing lead. jay cutler was sacked 7 times by what is a pretty bad new orleans defense. bear man wants to get in the game. third quarter breeze. saints beat chicago team that is imploding every week. 31-1 31-15. mark davis and raider fans hoping to lure john gruden back to the side lines. got bad news in. espn announcing during half time that he has agreed to contract extension that will keep him broadcast go through the 2021 season. lets face it. easier wearing make up than coaching. i know. that's a guys who wears make u up. cal polly known as a grit engineering school. basketball

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