and it's a great thing, dan and cheryl. i can't tell you how happy i am to see the rain here in the bay area. right now, just some cloud cover. let's check out live doppler 7 hd. and we do have some very light showers passing through the east bay right now, parts of the peninsula. let's start with the east bay. livermore, 580, dublin boulevard, if your travels are going to take you through this area,be prepared for soom wet roadways. mist and drizzle and then down towards the south bay, we are also seeing some spotty returns. look at san francisco. .05 of an inch of rain. nothing measuring in san rofel, napa, santa rosa. i'll be back with a detailed look at the timing and what's ahead for tomorrow. cheryl? >> all right. thank you so much.

it has been a busy season for gutter cleaners. those people prepare for a wet winter. >> workers are slammed in the souts bay. residents are gearing you want for what will be an el nino weather suspect. it could bring a lot of rain to california. >> well, today's rain only adds to the sea cliff erosion along the pacific coast. the last elnino caused problems for pipes. and there are concerned over another possible wet winter is forecast as a real possibility. live in pacifica with more on the risk. >> well, dan, i think all of us have been here before covering the story. in pacifica, four, fife years ago. residents have to be evacuated because of that eroding cliff. today, with the rain, a reminder and quite possibly a solution.

>> it's as if time stood still at the apartment building in pa sa i havic. no one has lived in the building since it was deemed unsafe several years ago. and the storms and the high tide e rowed the cliff. the city of michigan is finally carrying this billing down. residents. >> reporter: invited to a week a o go to waeg in. many your support. >> it eat my conce american. and that's nod grood, either. >> boulders say the bottom of the cliff have kept erosion to a minimum. terry lives in the apartment complex next door. >> it's kind of stable. so it won't knock down -- those were two falling into the water. so they wapt to knock them down.

and i can understand why. >> julia moved here just a year ago. from her balcony, you can see the apartments that were red tagged. >> i was told that they already put everything in this block here for the apartment. >> she fears even with the buildings gone, the cliffs will continue to erode. >> you know, i kwont to live here until they tell us to move out. >> some predict that may happen sooner than expected because of the potential sea level rise from climate change. in pacifica, abc 7 news. >> there is concern tonight that a convicted child molester, 51-year-old robert bathes is kmpted to be released to a treatment facility.

friday morning at 8:30 at the court house. >> santa clara county reports. the second to die in custody in the past month. abc 7 news rorter david louis was first to tweet the results. he is live now in san jose with new details just out. david? >> well, dan, 33-year-old watt walter roach died on monday inside county jail. and the coral nor's report indicate there was no foul play. however, the official cause of death is not yet determined. that will take a toxicology report that will take another week or two. >> they followed procedures, according to top graphs of the sheriff's office. when 33-year-old wouldn't leave his cell, they did a so called sell extraction.

they used pepper spray. finally, he was shot with plastic projectiles. >> that had no effect. he wouldn't come out of his cell and was unsuccessful. he waited, but he would not comply. >> when those steps failed, they used physical force to proceed them. >> you probably recall this incident three weeks ago when an officer used pepper spray. a stud day by university researchers in north carolina says chemicals and pepper spray can pose health risks. inhalation of these chemicals can cause effects. walter roaches died on the eighth floor. the county health agency koord nates mental health departmentcare at the jail and at homeless shutters. but no one is willing to speak to us about policies and procedures. squl the inner kwounty, where he

jursz goent v enough zfss for these people. we don't have enough mental health servicefuls. in san jose, david louis, abc 7 news. >> two san jose police officers will not face charges for the fatal shooting of a suicidal man earlier this year. family members say he's -- >> calling in a fake home invasion robbery and then charged that responding aufrszs with a knife. watt kin social security a former football player. the family says he has no history of mental illness. >> san francisco police are investigating a report that a drooecher side wiped leo and then hit the car behind him. the cyclist says when he tried to take a picture of the driver, the man med up floiing him on to

the wind seed. the car is describabled as a red cadillac like this one. the driver e venn shlly stopped and a a bicyclist got off the hood. >> san francisco judge has ord herbed a new graffiti tagger this morning. ab skrrks 7 news, the judge, issued the interim preliminary unction objection. the stimattorney's office has caused more than 8le,0 0 dlargs property damg. >> the sheer amount of damage a, even n just the last year alone, we had newspaper rougs kparms. >> under the injux, terry can only travel on munic for work. >> well, still no suspect, but an out pouring of grief tonight

for the open artist. 27-year-old an tonal owe ramos was working oon a live in west oakland tonight. laura, it's just outrageous. >> it is. that's what we've been hearing all day here. they have new arrests with oakland police. mean time, though, here, you can see the memorial growing really by the minute people coming by all day. a tremendous show of grief and love for this artist killed in an instant in the middle of the morning. >> we know that there's a new beginning. >> less than 24 hours after one of their own was gunned down, while painting a mural that symbolizes peace, several artsists friends and family of antonio rrksz amos returned to pay tribute to him. >> there's people that want to take some other things in order to make themselves whoefl.

there was no arguemented, just a few words exchange. >> there was no altercation. there was nothing like that. it was just walking through here and he probably stole something or did something to the mural and antonio was asking why did you do that? >> his friends say it would be just like ramos to try to talk to a passer by, not con front him with anger. >> for his generation, you know, he spoke to a lot of people out here. a lot of people with different backgrounds.

in oakland, abc 7 news. >> is someone targeting cats in san jose? video surfaced a cat napping and now there's evidence the problem may be bigger and deadlier, too. that's next. >> plus, how facebook is completely changing your profile. >> everything old is new again at twitter. and wall street loves it. what happens when it hits the road? >> and

could there be a cat killer on the loose? we're joined now with vick lee. >> well, tonight, we're talking about this cat. and unlike the cat in the video who was snatched from his house, beardsly was found, unnor chew gnatly, he was dead. and the autopsy found that he was not killed by a coyote. >> here's the security video we showed you last night. 17-year-old go-go the cat lounging on his front lawn monday night last week. a car stops by the house. and the cat napper gets out. he approaches go-go who tries to escape. slowen down by age, he cannot keep up. >> i don't understand why anybody can do that. >> go-go's owner received a lot of e-mails since our story.

seems now, like quite a few cats that disappeared from the district where go-go lived. >> there has to be a connection. we have a predator. >> janice mckinny's 15-year-old cat was also abducted. he was last seen in their planter box. on monday, someone responded, saying he found a dead cat which looked like beardsly. mckinney's husband went to the spot, which was some five miles away. it was a gruesome discovery. >> he found him in a box in between two driveways and a cul-de-sac. he had plastic around him and there were rocks on top of the box. >> an autopsy of beardsly found he died from blunt force. >> it was fast and he probably didn't feel anything. >> one last thing. when beardsly was found in his

makeshift coffin, he was missing his collar. could it have been taken as a trophy? vick lee, abc 7 news. >> california's two senators are urging president obama to exonerate the man known as the port chicago 50. they're turning other lawmakers and advocates looking for justice for a group of african american sailors convicted of mutny during world war two. two explosions killed 320 men. the two senators sent a letter to the president saying "those explosions are the remind r of the brave men who served and the painful legacy of a segregated military. >> twitter stock jumped to 3%. dorsey took over as twitter's interim ceo. he also served as ceo of the payment service called square.

tech news reported the san francisco bay twitter will make a former announcement as early as tomorrow. >> profile pictures on facebook are about to look very different. today, the menlo park company announced you will soon be able to use a 7 second video provile instead of your picture. users will also be able to use a video for a set period of time. and there are new controls over what people can see. people visit facebook profiles 4 billion times a day. >> thousands of ford f-150s are being recalled tonight. it may slam on the brakes when it should not. >> as you guys probably know, the f-150 is ford's best-selling model. however, tonight, recalling 37,000 of the newest models. the problem is with the automatic braking system.

it may incorrectly detect another car nearby and slam on the brakes. ford says it has one accident report, but no injuries. the infected car will get a software update to fix the problem. >> how one self-driving car says something else all together. today, google lets us see firsthand sitting in a car that's drooiing itself. the first outsider to ride in this google car. he's rode around an obstacle course for four minutes. >> it's pretty spacious in here. there's two of us. it's just a go button and a stop button. that's all there is. >> you thought your kids were adiblgted to come pulter toys? well, now, pet toy makers are coming up with dozens of prey around the fishing game.

the cat food maker tries to understand more than 2 million apps for cats. they will take dogs for a game of chase around the yard. there's even a go-pro camera that gives you a pet's eye view of the world. >> that little cat was funny. >> wasn't that great? >> thank you. all right, well, abc 7 news here, i shared this video on instagram. she said it was short by sweet. >> that's right. twitter, the hash tag rain was among the top five. of course, many people were combined to see the drops. >> what is this mysterious substance on the ground. surely, it did not rain. >> well, rain isn't the only thing people are talking about on social media.

sunset really was breathtaking. >> everybody who shared their pictures in that beautiful picture, sandy is right in the middle. >> we love this rain and we need it desperately. >> you know, it's such a rarity here in the last years. so when we do get it, and it is the first system of autumn, it's really a welcomed sight. right now, the ground is wet. people are all bundled up with jackets and no umbrellas. take a look at live doppler 7 hd. that's because our radar is still picking up some light returns, primarily in the east bay where livermore is providing some light rain. take you down to street level. kennedy street, day i havefield drive, you can see 580, a bit on the wet side. now, as we take a look at the wider picture here, you see where that moisture is coming from. it's a bow nusz up wrest and a

little bill more drier has has chimed in. thank you for that photo. if you do send me pictures via twitter, make sure to tag them with hash tag abc 7 news. lake tahoe showing you a very dry, debt prad need of snow. right now, snow levels are around 13,0e 00 feet. but they are expected to drop down to about 9500 feet. you could see a couple of inches of snow there and some thunderstorms. mid 67, san jose, 63. most areas this afternoon in the 60s. cloudy skies from our tower camera. you're looking at upper 6s. scattered showers through the morning hours.

there's an opportunity beyond sunday morning. cold fronts just off the coast. subtropical jet feeding this abundant moisturement not all of it is hitting the ground, but we do have more showers in the forecast for the overnighters. 10:00 p.m., you start to see that moisture moving in. we get those showers developing.

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>> all coming up in half an hour on abc 7 news at 6:00. >> well, full-timely here, judges today confirm hundreds of sky divers have jumped their way into the record books. >> it's amazing. 202 sky divers from near le 30 countries linked together in formation and then broke and then made a second formation within 60 seconds. >> and you guys broke the record. [ cheers and applause ] >> you see'm like it's never that many. >> you watch them come in, come out one after the other. it kind of gives you goose bumps. >> doesn't it? well, it took the sky divers several attempts jumping every couple of hours before they were able to accomplish this feat. the old record had 121. this is 202. that's a really cool image. >> "world news tonight" is coming up next.

>> for all of us, we appreciate your time and hope toe see you again in half an hour at 6:00. >> bye, bye. breaking news tonight. now officially a hurricane and growing. several possible tracks. north carolina, up to new jersey, new york, straight to boston. all bracing for a possible hit. it could grow to a category 3 hurricane. the secret meeting we now learned. the county clerk who refused marriage licenses to gays was invited to a secret meeting with pope francis. what did he say? american war planes suddenly put on notice. given only a one-hour warning about the air space, as russia unleashes strikes over syria. martha raddatz, standing by tonight. the manhunt in this country. the convicted killer, set free by accident. he's been on the run for five days now. and the alarming headline about taking calcium. are the side effects worse than the help? dr. besser says women and men