live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. the north bay starts to get ready filling sandbags and making other preparations while the first big rainstorm of 2015 caused a bead on the bay area. people who live along the rivers and streams are facing the possibility of flooding. good morning i am eric thomas. i am kristen sze. >> crews are here right new getting ready for the rain. we spotted them clearing out a sewer line at 16th an area prone to flooding. businesses are rolling out the sandbags just in case. >> flood watches are issued in some areas. this is from the golden gate bridge camera showing the clouds

from the north bay that will get the brunt of it initially. meteorologist mike nicco joins us with more on that. thank you. i look north toward where the tower camera is showing us, i see anybodier clouds moving in but the heaviest of the rain is still a ways. now what will happen we will look at green that is taking over all of the north bay, the flash flood watch. since we talked 24 hours ago it has been moved up to 10:00 tonight through 6:00 on saturday morning. that is a long window for flooding with a 24-hour window for 4:00 friday morning to 4:00 saturday morning when we could have gusty southern winds at thrive-miles-per-hour gusting to 50 to 60 miles per hour. that could cause downed trees and power outages. here is what is happening right new, not much. all to the north. this is where it will stay for the better part of the day. north bay steady rain arrives during the evening commute, scattered light showers for the rest of us and the north bay gets the said difficult rain

through the commute tomorrow and then everything dumps on us tomorrow morning and i have hour by hour timeframe for that and for you coming up. >> thanks mike. with flooding timing is everything so residents and business owners and emergency operations agencies are preparing for the miami when heavy rain and high tides meet local waterways. amy hollyfield is in mill valley with more on preparations. amy? >> we are learning it is important to prepare but to properly prepare. believe it or not there is a right and wong way to fill the sandbag. this is perfect. notice how it is only filled halfway. that is the best way to did it to be effect effective. >> we can only sandbag. >> she is doing what she can to barricade the cafe on miller avenue in mill valley from the upcoming storm. it has flooded before. even the customers want to make sure it is protected. >> i help get the sandbags but i am getting older...so this year

my customers got the sandbags which was is nice. and he got 50-pounders which i could not move. i usually get 20-pounders. that was so nice. >> there is an art to sandbagging. firefighters have it to a science. there is a a youtube video on how to pack and stack your sandbag. fill it only halfway and walk on them to flatten them. you place your second layer you want to make sure when you place the sandbag you place it over the seem of the first layer and walk on it again and it will give you a much more effective bay area. >> firefighters and a representative from the emergency management team met to map out their plan for the storm. one concern is communicating with residents. >> we have a telephone emergency notification system and encourage people to sign up for that in case we have to send out emergency messages. >> they are not expecting major flooding but thing they will see

it in the typical areas. >> we have heard from caltran they will close the problem areas to keep people out and safe. >> they do have work crews right now in marin county clearing culverts and storm drains with extra employees tomorrow to respond to calls. with rain headed our way later today we want to remind you it is easy to track live doppler 7 hd any time by down ling the weather app if free on apple's app store or google lay and we have more information at abc7news.com/app. >> breaking news. the sky 7 is over san francisco's bayview district. we believe it is a shooting. police are only calling it a "critical incident." >> they will not give details of what is happening on oakdale

avenue. there are a dozen police officers there. we will gather more information and update you as we get it. you can get break news 24/7 by following us on twitter@twitter@abc7newsbayarea. >> thealameda will release more information about an assault at a 99 cent store. the man in this surveillance video molested an eight-year-old girl at the store on mission boulevard on sunday. the suspect cornered the little girl in the toy aisle. he crashed her. he touched her inappropriately. >> palo alto police are asking help getting an armed robbery suspect since the attack at an electronic store. this is a sketch of the man police are looking for. he and an accomplice stole gaming consoles worth $1,200. they were captured on surveillance video leaving the store. the man in the dark shirt is the one they are still looking for. miss have tracked down and arrested the man in the white

shirt 24-year-old jason viazde. >> a san francisco public defender will not be charged with a crime after trying to keep a police officer from questioning and police will not pursue charges against the public defender would was cuffed and detained for an hour january 27 when they tried to talk a detective with wanted to interview and photograph her client and a k different young blackmen facing misdemeanor theft. the decision not to charge her came after the american civil liberties union said the indents raised serious questions about the department's tactics. >> personal information of tens of millions could have been compromiseed when hackers targeted anthem, a health insurer. good morning, 80 million people impacted. anthem said it was not health or credit card information but the information stolen is equal

sensitive. >> it is the biggest health insurers and today anthem is scrambling to kin a massive security breach. the personal information of tens of millions of customers and employees and the c.e.o. is pong the victims targeted. >> the high profile frenches are the most severe of what are becoming common. >> anthem said it was a very sophisticated attack from the outside. the insurance giant confirms hackers stole product, special social security numbers and home addresses and employment information that can be used for identity theft. >> company says this what was in evidence that credit card or medical information such as test results or insurance information was compromised. a california congressman released a statement today. >> how many more breaches will be endured before we admit that the private sector cannot solve this problem? this attack could be a nightmare for millions. >> the fbi is leading the

investigation and law enforcement say that hackers often still stolen information on the black market where there is a huge underground demand. next week the white house will hold a cyber security summit bringing together key leaders in government and the private sector. president obama recently urged congress to pass legislation promoting better information sharing between private companies, the public and the government. >> we have to stay ahead of those who are trying to do us harm. >> customers will be contacted about monitoring services that will be free but watch out for fraud u activity. thanks knick. another high profile hack has load to the resolutioning nation of a continue executive at sony pictures. amy pascal stepped down three months after the massive attack revealing embarrassing e-mails co-chair of the company and head of the film studio. shell launch a major new

production venture focused on movies television and theater. >> would you be willing to pay extra to film potholes and repair california crumbling roads? a state lawmakers is proposing a new fee on drivers to raise the money. matt is running the land past the drivers. matt i can get what they are saying. >> you can. the roads are a problem and they are enduring a backlog of $59 billion if repairs across the state. >> bay area traffic takes its toll on the roads. in turn, the state take as toll and fees and taxes from you to help pay for road repairs. assembly speaker is roping another fee to raise $2 billion to fix california's crumbling roads bridges and highways. most drivers with pay $52 a year a buck a week but no matter how little it costs

drivers we spoke with are not happy abut the possibility of paying more. >> we pay enough in taxes. if they would use the money more wisely, they could maintain the roads. >> law militias are facing the truth that gas tax revenues are going down. you can see the suvs on the roads and they fill up at the pump and they use a lot of gas and they pay a lot in gas taxes. right in front of us we have a nissan and there are a lot of these on the roads and it is. >> electric car so they pay no gas taxes and there is less money for road repairs. >> the new fee is not connected to the gas pump, and it could be charged as part of insurance plans and vehicle registration. the state also is look at charging by miles rather than how much gas you buy but it could take several careers to implement. hybrid and electric cars could avoid the fuel tax but they will pay the same fee as the gas guzzlers. >> if i use less gas i pay less.

more gas they pay more. that is fair. why want. to have another way to be taxed. that is why i don't like it. >> whoever uses the road the most should pay more rather than everyone paying the same fee. >> a to thirds vote of the legislature and if it is passed that would be needed and republican support would be needed to get the two-thirds vote in the legislature. thank you. college life taking a toll on your children. the dangerous health problem you will want to talk to your son or daughter before another weekend on campus. >> why everyone is talking about one manufacture "sports illustrated" swimsuit model days before the issue hits the

jordan has launched airstrikes on isis in syria. this is file video of a similar campaign but the attack comes after isis released video showing a captured jordan pilot being burned alive in a cage. jordan responded to that by executing two al-qaeda prisoners including one they had hoped to swap for the pilot's safe release. >> the leads of the catholic church is breaking new ground. pope francis will become the first pontiff to speak before congress when he visited the united states later this year.

speaker officer said he will address a joint meeting of the house and senate september 24 and visit new york city and philadelphia during his first papal visit to america. >> students are less experienced at partying and more reason to depression. almost one in ten current freshmen admitted to expensing depression, up from a previous study in 2009. the same students reported spend less time at parties 9 percent saying they partied six hours or more a week and the students would come of age during the recess buckle down more in high school partly due to worries about financial success although they appear to be more responsible than we were. >> speaking of responsible, "sports illustrated" swimsuit issue. in my house i am responsible. the magazine makes left with the new issue and celebrating black history month in the east bay a

chance to explore where you live. >> plus, live doppler hd is tracking rain moving closer to the north bay and when the storms will hit your neighborhood next in meteorologist mike nicco

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jeter, her first time on the cover although she has been in flee times. he is still on more magazine covers than she has. >> i will switch gears right here. how is the weather? we will move on as fast as we can eric. good morning everyone, it is cloudy. the clouds are starting to lower with moisture in them. there is not enough to let go and become substantial through the daylight hours. we will look at live doppler hd and put several areas of let pressure that are churning in the secret stream that now is just to our west but as we get through the afternoon hours this rain shield and the jet stream will slide our way and right now the steady rain is to the north and embedded moderate-to-heavy rain and highest elevations and radar is estimated 1.1 and that is the inch level along the coast and as you move if a third of an inch. the winds are a story for us picking up already along the cost at 18 miles per hour and the rest of us are 10 or 15 at

times but they are coming from the south and that is slowing the forward of our system and bringing us clean air. we do not have to worry about unhealthy air like we did at this time yesterday in oakland and san rafael. we did not have a problem this morning and look clean along 680 and looking southbound. to the north from sutro tower you can see the lower clouds coming in, a few drops on the mount tamalpais camera and cloudy and breezy with rain moving into the not bay during the evening commute and heavy rain and thunder for all of us tomorrow, scattered light showers on saturday and a heavier push of rain on sunday. the coolest temperatures are low-to-mid 50's and mid-to-upper 50's rather, low-to-mid 50's, and look where most of the steady rain is, up in the north bay. here is how it comes in around 6:00. then, scattered showers for the rest of us in the evening and overnight while the steady rain continues in the north bay and

then at 12:00 it starts to be moderate-to-heavy in the north bay and moving across most neighbors by 3:00, and by action it is in the south bay is the evening commute is messy and it becomes scattered with showers with brief heavy rain at times and as we head to saturday for fanfest at at&t park, there are scattered light showers possible and it could be dry and as we head to sunday you can see the we wet weather coming in. rainfall amount through sunday morning 2-4" and 1-2" in the south bay and 6-10 inches along the coast and the snow level is high 8000 to 10,000' over the weekend dropping to 7,000' on monday when the system leaves us. you can see money 60's for us and that is how warm the storm is through the rain and upper 60's to 70 when the sun is shining with dry weather back tuesday and wednesday. we are not. not quite there. >> with black history month

taking shape in the east bay and indie films hitting the big screen there is plenty to do. >> leyla gulen has ideas on how to explore where you live. [ inaudible ] >> films are lighting up screens the 17th annual san francisco independent film festival kicking off tonight for two weeks. in celebration of black history month, the black artist on art protect series is the inspiration behind an oakland. business show indication contemporary black artists as they mark their entry into documenting their role in society. the next event is a page turner the 48 california international book fair is happening to oakland with 200 booksellers from 33 countries companying to what is recognized at largest exhibition of its kind. >> now that the super bowl is over spring training is around the corner so that means giants

fans can get up close and personal with the world series champion for free at at&t park on saturday. a bay bridge away on sunday fans can meet their players and get autographs and pitch like the brothers. go to abc7news.com for more information. leyla >> making a home at the oakland zoo, a new credit are like

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