>> abc7 news begins with breaking news. >> a knife found at ago's former estate bringing the 22-year-old murder case back to the national conversation. one of the biggest questions this morning: why it took for long for an officer to turn it over? >> i am kristen sze. >> i am reggie aqui. >> we will get to the protecting news a moment but, first, a big storm is headed to the bay area. >> bring rain to parts of the bay area and a look from our golden gate bridge camera, showing you, a lot of drops on the lens. so much so that we cannot see the traffic on the bridge. >> the heaviest rain is still on the way. we are seeing storm damage in

san francisco. look at this video from presidio heights, a tree fell on a muni bus and an s.u.v. no one was hurt but this is a sign of what we can see through the weekend. >> meteorologist mike nicco is tracking the storms. >> mike? live doppler hd, you can see the friends and the yellows with moderate rain move ashore on to the peninsula coast and the marin county coast and moving up toward the northwest up interstate 80 through our neighbors as we head and the afternoon. in fact, you can see it is raining now at sfo with arrival delays an hour and 14 minutes. the planner for the day, light showers through 7:00 and it will taper to drizzle and spot resolution showers as we head through later in the evening. let me give you an idea of what is coming our way tomorrow with storm number one, two very strong storms. this is probably the strongest we have had all season at 10:00 tomorrow morning until 11:00 in the evening. all of us have gusts up to 55

miles per hour possible and we could have debris knows from our bun areas and lake county at 4:00 tomorrow afternoon. through 6:00 a.m. on sunday. more on the big storm coming up. >> keep tabs on the storms where you live, all weekend long, with the help of the abc news app, you can follow live doppler hd and get protecting news updates, enabling the push alerts. >> breaking news in the o.j. story. the a knife reportedly found at o.j.'s estate years ago and never admitted into evidence. we wanted this unexpected announcement from police. tiffany? >> almost hard to believe. just this morning, the l.a.p.d. confirms that they are testing a knife found on o.j.'s old property. but police warned, the story could be bogus. it has everyone talking. >> the bombshell discovery on o.j.'s former estate. >> the actual item is described as a knife. >> at a news conference this

morning, the l.a.p.d. said that end the symptom estate's new owners tore down the house if the late 1990s a worker discovered the night and took it to a traffic officer who was off duty and he kept it as souvenir until last month when the l.a.p.d. found out. >> i was really surprised. i would think that an l.a.p.d. officer, if this story is accurate as we are being told, would know any time you are coming into contact with evidence you should and shall submit that to investigators. >> tmz protect the story and the retired coffee cop called a friend to get the case number for the case thinking he would frame the knife and have the case number engraved on the frame. the friend told supervisors and they obviously were not happy, and demanded the retired traffic cop hand over the knife. >> it is my understanding that he believed it was, the case was

closed. >> because there was never a conviction the case still open and the knife is now undergoing extensive forensic testing. in 1994 the land investigators spent months looking for the murder weapon. it was never found. even if there is evidence it is connected to o.j. he cannot be re-tried because of double jeopardy. simpson is serve time for robbery and kidnapping in nevada. >> he is up for patrol next year. it is too early to say if the retired officer who kept the knife will face criminal charges. the department warns the investigation is still early and they need to figure if it is legitimate and if the true is the one used in the double murder. >> in doubt more to come. >> san jose police are looking for a driver involved in a deadly crash at the intersection of camden and lee avenue, just re-opened after chosing for several hours. our reporter, john it o is at

the scene. jap it? -- janet? >> s.u.v. vs. a truck ended in a crash behind me, one person died and now police are look for the other driver to get some answers >> san jose police arrived at camden and lee avenue shortly before 3:00 this morning and this was the scene they found: silver nissan frontier and red dodge coe lighted leaving the debris all over the streets including tires and bumpers. the driver of the silver truck died from the injuries. now police are looking for the driver of vehicle who ran. police confirmed they are still talking to several people who were around the area at time of the incident. they have detained a man for further questioning. he is believed to be somehow connected to the vehicle that fled. >> we are trying to figure out how he is related. >> this strip mall has been losing business all morning due to the closed off intersection.

>> we can call customers and move them but everything else is dead. >> camden and lee is a busy intersection and you can see the traffic is free-flowing but it left businesses and morning commuters frustrated when its with closed for seven hours this morning. in san jose i am janet. >> and officials are looking at security measures after a report of sexual abattery in a women's restaurant on a campus last night after 9:00 on the second floor of the college complex. the victim is a student. the district services and the city of pittsburg police searched the campus and never found a suspect. no other details are released. >> woman accused of smothering a 13-month-old boy pleaded not guilty to abuse charges this morning in court. hidden nap any camera video shows the 20-year-old

approaching the crying child whose cries were muffled before going limp. she moved her hand away and the baby started crying. the woman advertised her services on a babysitting website. >> unbelievable timing, a day after the santa clara county sheriff installed cameras she bought her sex the cameras catch a big brawl. look at this, the sheriff said that the fit protect out yesterday afternoon in the maximum security unit of the jail in san jose. we first told you about fight on abc at 4:00. the unit was in lockdown for hours. the sheriff said that no guards were hurt trying to break it up and it is just a coincidence that it happened in the same area where she installed the new cameras open wednesday. the cameras were purchased by the sheriff herself, spending $700 of her own money after learning a county plan to add cameras would take two years and $20 million. the public for the cameras was prompted by the beating death of

an inmate, michael tyree. three former jail guards will stand trial for his death. >> bart officials are trying to figure what is causing mysterious damage to trains in the transbay tube. it is leading to more crowded trains and longer waits. our reporter is at the san francisco embarcadero station. amy? >> yes, they have had to pull 80 cars out of service and that means short are trains and the passengers are saying, yes, they had a feeling something was going on. >> bart rider say squeezing on to crowded trains is getting tougher and tougher. >> standing room only. >> but in the evening it is ridiculous. we have to go backwards to get a seat. >> many riders did not hear about the latest problem, a mystery issue in the tube that is daning the cars. 80 are out of commission in the

maintenance yard. >> that is a lot. >> that is why we are...okay. it explains, a little bit, why it is getting worse. >> bart said it appears to be a power problem, too much power reaching the cars and knowledge daing them starting february 20 and it is getting worse. 40 cars were taken out of service on monday. this leaves riders with questions. >> it is concerning there must be an issue. i am concerned and a train goes down while i am in it. >> is the system getting old and suddenly, there is an electrical issue? >> a spokesperson is meeting with the experts for the late of the fashion often what is going on and what is next on the issue before she talks on camera about it so stay with us as we continue to follow the story for

you. >> an impact on a lot of people happening today, the sonoma health county workers are checking for lead in water pipes at the elementary school and some buildings of the junior high school are the oldest in the district back to the 1920's. the district will replace the pipes in the summer. until that time bottle water is available or they can fill up their own bottles. >> the 97-year-old woman fighting eviction from her long-time burlingame him has died. her attorney said that the ever ice is what caused her death. hatch and her 58-year-old rome mate were given notice to leave the cottage she was living in for 66 years and the new product own said a trust requires him to sell the to the -- to sell the cottage. a dome gofundme page raised $47,000 to help the lady.

>> the republican presidential candidates are not holding become. including last night where it got weird and wild. coming up how donald trump is responding to personal attacks. >> a look right now at lake tahoe which is gearing up for more snow with the stormy welcome on tap. meteorologist mike nicco has more on what it will mean where you live. that is coming

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>> novato, oakland, sunnyvale, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> spring has sprung. the bought blossoms are coming out and, bam, winter runs. >> people are beg for the rain. >> on the weekend you can have plans inside, movies, see the wheel mobile at the graton casino but we have a strong storm coming our way. one of the heavier showers is moving up to napa. can you see it is heading to the

northwest and it is extending down to the monterey bay and it look like the south bay and inland east by will get some of the wet weather, the rain shadow you normally get in the south by, no, the massive low will overpower it with a parade of storms this weekend, and the pineapple connection is there, an atmospheric river event, with the from longed duration high velocity wind that brings us 50% of our average rainfall and we will get that twice this weekend, saturday and sunday. damp and mild with showers toking, have an umbrella handy, and a weaker storm on thursday and friday. storm-impact scale shows from "1" light to "5" severe and we are strong with this saturday 1-2" of rain and gusts up to 55 miles per hour. that is how it plays out, you could also put today up here because it will be the same

timeframe and we wake up tomorrow with drizzle and pockets of light rain and by noon the steady rain develops and it is stormy at 7:00, we have yellows, oranges, and even reds are popping up as the storm intensity increases when the winds are the fastest and most likely time we get the power outages. by 11:00 we taper back to scattered showers with the first storm. look at rainfall amounts, 1.5" to 2" and sunday's storm could nearly double. 3-4" by monday morning. i want to look at the gusts, the red is where we have the 45 to 5 a miles per hour starting at 5:45 so sooner in the north bay and hanging around until 8:00 and 9:00 or 10:00 in the east bay and south bay and it will take longer to roll through the neighbor, and if you going to the sierra do it now or early, and if you do it tomorrow,

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