♪ take the time ♪ in your life ♪ just before ♪ it passes by ♪ then you'll know ♪ to keep it slow ♪ so here we go [♪] ♪ here we go live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. we wanted rain. we are getting rain. another storm is moving across the bay area. that means the morning commute will be a challenge. we have our weather and traffic tomorrow working hard on in. we start with mike nicco. >> inland east bay is seeing the greatest amount of wet weather. that is where the yellows and the oranges are rome

independents whether it is 24, 4, or 680 through the men valley or 580 through the tri-valley. south san francisco and san bruno and the flood of moisture from san rafael off the coast to half moon bay. it isives of moderate-to-heavy rain rolling in through 7:00. 280 and 17 is raining in san jose. here is a look at what happens by noon changing to showers and we will see sunshine this afternoon with the compute home were easier. sue? friend on the maps and representing rain affecting the commute. slow out of the central valley and that is typical as you get back after the long holiday weekend. rain is affecting all of us. we had an early accident westbound 4 east of 160 cleared to the shoulder with slow traffic entering interest antioch. i had an early accident at oak street northbound 880 which is clear and roadway is looking good and now a new accident westbound 580, due to flooding and lane three the middle lane.

an accident eastbound 80 at pinole valley road. >> give yourself plenty of time this morning to get where you are going. our reporter is in milpitas. matt? >> we have had a consistent shower here the last 45 americans. the biggest concern is the condition of roads. we are going to be seeing puddling. wet roads. the biggest concern is the trouble spots on the roads. the underpasses, exits and entrances to the highways can be dangerous. be careful. i asked a driver if he was worried about driving in the rain. >> mostly worried abut the other drivers. i don't know if they remember how to drive if rain. >> always the other guy. we are more used to the rain. clear out storm drain. eliminate the roading in front of your home. if you see standing water do not

drive in it. it takes only 6" to stall the car. sandbags are available in most cities. a you take photos are video of the storms where you live we want to see them to share them. hash abc7 now. we could use the post on air or online at abc7news.com. >> many of the 25 protesters arrestedded for blocking rush hour traffic on the westbound bay bridge are free on bail. before 4:00 p.m. yesterday favor cars stopped in unison on the bridge with chained legging the cars and the protesters. they claim to be part of a martin luther king jr. day of protest. >> people are sick, ill, home lot, especially black people all over the streets of the cities and no one is doing anything. >> it is an action that callsancy to issues around black

issues around gentrification, policing, the murder of black people, around the issue of systematic racism. >> traffic began moving after 4:30 and there was already a huge backup. profiters were charged with unlawful assembly and obstructing free passage. >> several were arrested and they walked out of county james last night after make bail. they were greeted with alaws and hugs. it is fought clear how the district attorney will handle the cases. all of the charge are misdemeanor charges. >> the protest did not sit well with man drivers stuck on the bridge. one showed a picture of a children's hospital ambulance that was stuck in the traffic. it is unclear if there was a paint inside. another upset driver had this to say. >> one word i can say it is self i, not fair.

i am trying to make it to work, feed my family. i worker out at union hall so so...the bottom line is i wish they could have did something different. >> many of the drivers said the backup was about money. one was stuck in an uber with the meter running. all the bridge protesters may not have too much to worry about, you could remember a protest on black friday in 2014 when 14 black lies matter demonstrators chained themselves to bart trains in west oakland. it forced bart to shut down the tube strapping passengers for two hours. the profiters were arrested but last month the prosecutors dropped all of the charges when the protesters apologized for causing the delay. >> if you think yesterday's backup on the bay bridge was bad, wait for the super bowl. fans are expected to pack into the bay area for the big game. local hers are dough what they

can to prepare for it now. >> our reporter is here with what is being done today. katie? >> yes, san francisco knows how to go big look at massive clouds at pride or bay to to breakers the board will be discussing their plan this afternoon with drivers and people would rid muni will be re-routed. i went to show you street closures, super bowl city shut down at foot of market and the nfl experienced will tie up the as cone center. the closure starts on saturday and goes to february 12. also happening, a group of summer clans and city leaders are demanding the nfl reimburse the costs. of the one million or so people coming to the bay area some are flying in onist jets and 9 county board is meeting to figure out how hayward executive airport will handle 120 more jets than usual. we are talking big money for all

of this. it is estimated that hosting the super bowl will cost the san francisco area $5 million. >> today is the start of a four day hearing in a california public utility commission investigation into pg&e which will hurricane at whether pg&e broke any laws wren maintaining reports that resulted in five pipeline incidents after the explosion, the agency hire an employee to look at the records and she found pg&e fells through away some documents. if they are found guilty it could face big fines. >> police are trying to identify a body fund during an mlk clean up event. sky 7 was at martin luther king shoreline as investigators looked for everyday yesterday. the body is a man believed between 30 and 40. there are no obvious signs of how he died. low tide may have washed the body to the area and may have

been in the wall street for some time. all the storm moving into the sierra is adding urge to find a miss skier. on friday he did not come home. the search has been delayed pus of the severe chance of avalanche at the sugar bowl resort. the sheriff deputyies say his self was not enabled. >> the big story is the weather. where is it coming down hardest? >> everywhere. so you can see all of us in a small stream and urban flooding advisory until 9:45 with standing water to excessive run off so flooding of low lying areas and poor drainage areas and unpasses. here is an area, martinez through blast were hill and concord to walnut creek and this is an area, highway 4, toward 680 we could see more standing water than other places and 680 to san ramon and possibly dublin and another area, look at this,

280 from the bay you have district to daly city and colma could be ponding on the roads. offer the next six hours, we are going to deal with waves of pod rat to half rain at types and as we get to 11:00 it will taper. here is a look at the golden gate bridge with the wind not showing anything out there at 10 or 15 miles per hour. temperatures in the upper 50s to low 60. the east bay you hills we could have a scattered showers. the radar is not picking up a lot heavy rain it is coming down on 101 and another area are we could see a lot of ponding. our next best chance of rain is friday. an hour-by-hour look at what to expect in the next hour. >> at 680 near north main we have slow traffic. it is move along. but rain is causing things to bunch up. we will look a limit bit south

open 580 with an accident blocking a couple lanes, southbound at crow canyon in respond 680 southbound you will find slow traffic and the green on the map represents rain affecting your commute this morning. we have flooding westbound 580 at grand avenue causing an accident and eastbound 8 on is the reverse commute before highway 4 c.h.p. is raffle on the location and they will have to shut down the entire freeway in the eastbound direction to get 9 accident out of the lanes. we will look at your flooding areas in a few few minutes. >> today you can start filing income tax online but the warning is for taxpayers around the nation. >> and cleveland is the team to beat for the title and their all beat for the title and their all star

today's impact scale is level "2" so moderate rain. drive safely. can you track it on the abc7 news app. >> daly city, dublin, los gatos and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle hit a crowded police checkpoint if pakistan killing

11 and injuring 21. among the dead are four police officers, seven civilians, including two children and a local journalist. a local pakistani taliban commander is claiming responsibility for the attack saying it was in response to his comrades by security forces. >> dramatic video released by iraq's air main city what they say are airstrikes being carried out against isis targets. associated press say there is in way to verify the content or location. the iraq defense ministry said they destroyed a number of vehicles and one was a car bomb prepared to be detonated. >> happening today the mayor of flint, michigan, is traveling to the capitol to try and secure a federal disaster declaration for her city. the mayor said she apresbyterian eights. $5 million emergency deck which aration signed by president obama but said her city needs more. flint made national headlines

because of reportedly high levels of lead in the drinking water so they need bottled water. >> the i.r.s. will start accepting electronic tax runs but they are warning taxpayers to keep an eye out for trouble. the commission are said that people who claim to be from the i.r.s. are making phone calls demand money. he said a way to differentiate 20 scammers and the i.r.s. is the i.r.s. never asks for your credit card or debit card information over the phone. 9 deadline to file this year is not prim 15 but april 18th. can you catch the full report on "good morning america" at 7:00 right here on abc. >> last night's game between the warriors and cleveland was a match of the tie taps but it was more of an embarrassment for cleveland. all the warriors dished thompson and it was an early lead and technicalst went for 35 points and did not play in

the 4th. lebron james was frustrated throw down steph curry and the dubs were up by 30 and cruised dubs were up by 30 and cruised to 132-nato >> a lost of stuff want right and everything was wrong pore them. that is no indication of we are that great or they are not that great. we just had a really good game and they had a really bad one. >> everything went wrong for them. the warriors take on the chicago bulls on wednesday. we are trying to improve on the best record of 3-8-4. >> it is because the warriors are that great. that is why they won. >> just being humble >> the best two teams are in the west, us and the spur and they will play before the finals and that has happen the before but when it includes us it is sad. >> we will talk about the

weather. the finals are for the western conference. storm impact scale is light to severe depending on the amount rain, the potential flooding, the wind, put slides, -- mutt slides, tides, so but a lot to do with the rain and the potential for extending water and minuter -- minor flooding and it is coming in a a good clip and a narrow window. you saw the update as we look at vallejo, 680, 780, 80, all getting wet especially lake herm road. we will look at mill valley, sausalito, tiburon, all getting a moderate public of rain and it stepped through richmond to daly city and bay shore and brisbane and bayview all the areas are

getting ponding on waterways. the edge of the storm is 450 miles behind it but the edge is pushing into the cruz mountains headed interest noon and the monterey bay. we could have mudslides in the morning. here is how heavy rain is looking at the richmond bridge, moderate to heave morning rain can another storm friday interest saturday and then it is dry. at 5 o'clock, to 6:00, a lot of yellow over the heart of bay and it is moving into the south bay and the south bay and north bay get the heavy of the rain and it moves into the heart of the bay and 9:00 all of us are getting moderate-to-heavy rain and by association it is starting to taper to showers. we will get anywhere from 1" to 1.5" by the time we get to the afternoon and maybe half that in the south bay. my seven-day forecast shows it is going to be mild with temperatures in the 60s each day.

sue? >> we look at the areas of flooding this morning and obviously there are more than the three but here's the more severe areas reported by c.h.p. 880 northbound, 101 northbound luck lucky drive at san francisco, and van ness 101 in san francisco reporting flooding and the green on the map representing rain affecting the snow and slow from the central valley which is typical. and a couple of accidents and it rains through the san ramon valley and it is severe and no surprise we have two separate accidents southbound 681 in danville at sycamore and the other at crow canyon both, blocking one or two lanes of traffic. it is usually enough i do not see a tremendous amount of slowing and we are back in a bit with a look at the bay bridge commute to see if we have metering lights on. >> thank you. the united states markets open after the long holiday weekend and modest gains are keeping

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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. when you get dressed you will want to match the screen because the colors of the day or green and yellow. that is live doppler hd showing you the wet morning. we have the teams to guide you to work and school. i am reggie aqui. >> i am natasha zouves. meteorologist mike nicco is tracking it all. >> most of us will see the rain this morning so there is so ponding. highway 4 from discovery bay, brentwood, back to bay point, moderate rain right now, and you

can see around san leandro and heading up toward the oakland hills and piedmont, moderate rain and rolling through menlo park and peel appeal and more in portrero vietnam. so far a third of an emby midnight in san francisco and you can see tracks of water on the embarcadero. stand water is an issue through 7:00 and last offer showers through noon and it will be more dry this afternoon. busy this morning. the key is to take your team. we have a lot of pooling and standing water and stream of headlights from golden gate fields to the macarthur maze and into the bay bridge you are looking at a solid 15 minute drive so not too terribly. no metering lights. slow from the still valley is typical from real estate address and the green vice presidenting rain. two accidents in the san ramon valley, and one if sycamore valley southbound, and we have an accident in san francisco and it is southbound 280 at san jose

avenue and we will come become with another look at multiple accidents and solo spinouts next report. >> in santa cruz mountains at the summit, if you do see standing water like some of these folks, do not drive through it. it only taxis 6" to stall the car. the roads are getting wet in marin to northbound bay, really, getting at the of the rain this morning and this is pill develop a few hours ago hour 101, be careful >> coming into san francisco check out the golden gate bridge at 2:30 the windshield wipers are getting another work identity at the toll both with the soons lit up reminding drivers to take it easy and slow down. we would love to see photos of video of the weather where you live so #abc7now. we could use it on air or abc7news.com. >> major disruption open bay bridge all 25 protesters made bail overnight.

some of them were welcomed with cheers after being charged for causing huge traffic jams. janet o has the rationale of the protesters. janet? >> natasha despite the safety risk of protest were on the bay bridge profiters say it was worth it to draw attention on the serious issue. [ inaudible ] >> the protest organized by a group called the black seed did draw a lot of attention when necessity linked themselves to each other but to their cars. traffic on the westbound lanes came to a harassment yesterday and c.h.p. has to use bolt cutters to break apart the group. protesters say it was wore it to have their voices heard. >> we are here to disrupt business as usual because we believe that black life is black

health is important enough that people can wait for a little while and listen to what we are saying. >> the group claimed to be part of a nation-wide protest on martin luther king jr. day c.h.p. is now working with the district attorney to prosecutor the prosecutors -- >> two public hearings have been set for new use of force rules for san francisco police. this follows the fatal police shooting of mario woods in the bayview. the mayor lee called for a review of the department policy. demonstrators heckled the mayor off the stage yesterday during mlk sermons demanding he fire police chevy greg sure -- >> twitter has a widespread outage impacting man of the 300 million users. the season media giant said some cannot log on due to a "technical issue on e it went down at 12:30 our time.

according to social media tracking site many users are exacted five hows later. many are taking to facebook to vent. >> new details in the bart shooting, the victim and the suspect were on the same because before getting open bart at the pittsburg bay respondent -- point station and there was an altercation. the victim has been identified at 27 years old. police are still looking for the suspect seen in the surveillance video. >> we have if you video from a witness who captured tense moments leading up to the arrest of an off-duty santa clara county sheriff deputy. lee was arrested at a santa clara jack-in-the-box for brandishing his weapon and d.w.i. this shows a man with his happens in the air.

police surrounding him with their guns drawn. a witness who wants to remain aindependence miscellaneous said it looks like a major crime scene >> the officer looked like he was in charge and gave structures to lee and his friend and that if though move they will shoot. >> another witnesses say pose were called after he was angry because the order was taking too long. >> the search is on for two people who fell from a cliff into the ocean last night near santa cruz. firefighters rescued two people from a cliff but they could not find two ons are who lost in the water. the keg coast guard brought in a helicopter to search but no sign of them in the ocean. >> a map trying to take pictures of the southeast along the san francisco coast is safe after being caught in the tide. it came in before 3:00 p.m. and he was washed into the water. you can see how rough the waves were. the man and two rescuers

struggled and when ashore the man was able to walk to emergency responders. >> a group of san francisco supervisors and business owners are demanding the city be reimbursed for the cost of hosting the super bowl promotion am event and according to a new budget analyst reports that cost is now to $5 million. if addition, the city has toll merchants along san francisco streets, they are if longer allowed to set up shop. >> this morning the board of supervises in contra costa county will hear a report on the super bowl 50 on county airports. officials at hayward executive airport expect to see 120 more jets flying in and will have to double their staff. with so many more, aways closing extra runways to park all of the planes. >> potential help from san francisco today for those earning minimum wage, a dallas of political and health care workers are scheduled to submit

voter signature to qualify a ballot anybodity. california right now pays $10 an hour. >> people repairs to a sea wall in pacifica are on hold because of the storm hitting us right now. we were this pacifica as the crews dropped more boulders into the gaping sinkhole while sill looking for a long-temperature solution. they will wait will in the stormy weather passes through before making any permanent repairs. the hole opened up on saturday the 4 this time it has broken since being built in the 80s. >> here is a way to use the rain, the san jose couple have now invested $6,000 into rain barrels, and each of the thanks holes 530 gallons and they are all full. >> i don't think it is possible to store too much. you did empty it out although the guard were does not need it.

the ground level sippings when you lose the water. we can prevent that. >> they too much off the pool and they are resourceful. >> thou not have to spend $6,000 but you can get started with a smaller barrel for $200. >> you say your dad is all about this? >> atlanta want through a drought and he got barrels and hooked it to the sprinkler system and it works wonderfully. and i have tweeted about the santa clara valley and how many feet it has sunk because of the draining of the war table and that is what we are seeing in the central valley. not good. the south bay, a last light rain with pockets of moderate rain and as we look offshore here is our next moderate to half rain and it will hit the peninsula from about san bruno down into the south bay to about

cupertino. now, all of us, under an urban and small streamed in advisory so standing water to excessive run off will cause flooding of low lying areas and poor drip agency until 9:45 and in san rafael let me show you how half it is, a lost moderate rain, and the good news as we head into the afternoon, there is a chance of a shower but in the higher elevations of the santa cruz mountains and this is where i look the puddle to see how intense the rain is on the san mateo bridge and it is moderate. we get a break on wednesday and thursday and another storm open friday. >> looking across the san mateo bridge at continue meant drive time and metering lights jet turned on and 5:34 and the left hand cab lane is okay. if you pay cash that could be the way to go. from the central valley we have the typical slowing tracy to dublin with hotspots and the worst commute, westbound 580 at

grand, flooding caused an accident leader and traffic is stacked up so highway 13 on 580 expect 25-minute delays beyond the scene westbound. in san francisco, southbound 280 at san jose avenue a couple of lanes are blocked with an accident leaving town and eastbound 80 we had an early accident and now it is cleared and it is improving here. we will look at south bay commute and mother flooding when we return in a few minutes. >> next, could it be that you will get relief from red light cameras? california drivers could get a break from the pricey tickets. ♪ plenty of room ♪ at hotel california >> hotel california feels empty as the music world mourns the as the music world mourns the death of a rock-n-roll singer,

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>> texas prosecutors are trying to move the case of affluenza teen ethan couch to adult court. ethan couch is fighting to stay in mexico. his mom has been extradicted to the united states. they fled the country over fears he would be found if violation of the probation. mores against drunk driving wants the case moved to adult court and present 40,000 signatures ahead of the hearing today. >> friend municipal transportation agency is taking the next step in transforming van ness avenue. the board will discuss designating a trance oat only lane in both directions that will run down the middle of van ness. that means rather than the current three lanes for cars they will just have two lanes. also, more than 100, paing spots -- parking spots will be gone the first protect of its kind in san francisco. now, we will discuss the california stop. they are expensive. you get to a red light you make a right and you do not tale come

to a complete stop. if a red light camera cashes that it is $500 fine and many feel it is way out of proportion to the violation. >> we do all right but i thought, this could really, really, damage someone would doesn't make that much money. someone who could be an morally employee. >> i got both tickets in the pale and i was lib, my gosh. i make pretty good but $1,000 is a lot for a month. >> the woman you heard from said show has to pay for the tickets from her savings. the state senator introduced legislation to cut the find for a calmed california stop in half. governor brown vetoed a proposal to row dues the fine in 2010. >> time to really out the teal carpet in san jose. the san jose sharks celebrate the 25th anniversary. officials and current and federal players will celebrate.

the sharks are a financial spoon for san jose and have brought everything to the city except the stanley cup. the show starts at 8:15. the weather show started early this morning. >> we are driving do work it was coming down heavy. >> a lot hydroplaning and i was driving considerably slower than norm am so that gives you an idea of what to expect. the storm impact scale has been a nice tool to have with all of the winter storms whether they are light, moderate light today or strong we have had two of those so far and nothing major or severe. the "2" is moderate to heavy rain and giving it 2 quarter to 1.5" and standing water and minor flooding, and the weapons are low. the waves are low. the tide is low so it is nothing stronger than a "2" and the parkway from brisbane to south san francisco to the san bruno

gap toward possible pacifica and daly city we have half rain. watch out for the ponding. from the sunol grade and south on 680 you will find moderate rain around the parkway extending to 237. we have san jose over downtown moderate rain and you can see at the golden gate bridge moderate rain but it is not going side s ways, the winds are less than ten miles per hour which is good news. another reason, again, why the storm does not have a stronger impact than a "2". moderate-to-heavy morning rain and another storm friday into saturday and the extended forecast is were more dry. hour by hour you can see by 6:00, light to moderate rain across our neighborhoods and it is starting to open up in the central part of the bay and the south bay and the north bay light-to-moderate and all of us at 8:00 getting light-to-moderate with that slipping into your neighborhood by 9:00 as it starts to manufacture through the hat of the bay and by 10:00 it is in the east bay, the north bay and the santa cruz mountains and by

11:00 to 12:00 you can see it is starting to transition to scattered showers. two-thirds of 1 inch in the south bay and the rest of us have more than 1". enjoy the dry wet wednesday and thursday because it will be stormy on friday and the weekend should be untouched. >> sue? >> in walnut creek a solid band of brake lights turning to 24 and continuing through the men valley we have multiple incidents and we have one southbound 680 at sycamore valley. one southbound at yes canyon and another, a third accident, just added and all southbound direction. a nasty commute headed to oakland on westbound 580 from highway 13 we have would lanes blocked due to flooding and an accident happened in the flooding so you are giving your self a 30 minute drive from highway 13 beyond the scene of the accident and oakland near

the toll plaza for the bay bridge. the blue on the scene represents puddling, hydroplane potential and standing water so a last that is happening in san francisco southbound 280 near san jose avenue an accident has been cleared from the lanes. stay tuned. >> you may have heard sleep deprivation can increase the risk of type two diabetes and catch up sleep can reverse the risk. >> good to know. previous studies show that getting four or five hours of sleep a night can increase the risk of diabetes by 20 percent. now republicaners say two days of extra sleep could potentially reverse the risk. an expert describes how that works. >> you let them sleep ten or 12 hours a night for two nights the effects went away but you really cannot make up for all of the sleep deprivation vase on the

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once-in-a-lifetime >> if you have democrat hours. >> it is winter. it is nippy and the best way to catch a cold is the following of advise of mom. all the product of the study, they learned that it is what you have anyone for years, avoid calving a cold by washing your hands. >> there are other interesting facts. kids would took zinc has less colds, and probiotics off the common cold. and people say take echinaeca but they did not see it helped the average patient. at all. >> they do not take enough vitamin c. i am a super strong believer in vitamin c. >> meteorologist mike nicco has the weather. >> avid hand washer.

live doppler 7 hd shows the pockets of yellow and on are less right now but it does not mean the worst is over. we have another public of moderate to what rain. dug the morning hours, walking a dog, riding a bicycle, running is poor but the rain is getting down to los angeles and grape invite vine by the evening and in the sierra starting in four minutes, all the way to midnight, 1 2" of snow is possible at 6,000 feet. >> we have changes required on 80. c.h.p. is issuing an update on the more severe flooding areas southbound 280 at john israelis boulevard, northbound 101 at lucky drive, this is typical for that area. eastbound 380 at we oh in san bruno area we had a big-rig accident so be aware of that if you travel to sfo. we have a lot of solo spinnities and standing water and serious

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from correct check camera. >> a muchizer for drive in the so the bay but the roads are slick. this is a look from the camera in san jose at highway 87. we have team coverage to got you through it. we will start with meteorologist mike nicco with live doppler hd. we see it everywhere. >> yes, that is the case. if some areas it is heavier like holding over to hayward. you can see yellow. also, inism, headed up to discovery bay and antioch. we have more on way. check out the next three hours. more yellow and orange coming through all the way up until 9:00. it will hang around until 10:00. we will see it tapering. more than a third in san francisco and we have the heaviest this morning, changing to showers at noon. 2012 -- the day plan certificate dry. >> busy on the roads. take it easy. a lost standing