north by. amy? >> good morning, it is not raining here, we are in novato, the north bay here, getting a little bit of a break. a break that the north bay did not see yesterday. look at what they were dealing with yesterday, the rain was relentless it would not step. everyone keeping a close eye on the creek. look for how they are moving with the creek to show you, and we have the creek in mill valley, firefighters, businesses and residents, all watching the creeks rise. they are watching them closely. >> we have three storms over the weekend, the first hitting right now. we have a heightened level of awareness. >> the fire department in mill valley said that they will put out a reverse 9-1-1 call if the flood does spill over the banks. be looking out for that.

be aware that could come. crews all over the bay area, especially here in marin county and the north by, begging people to not drive through any standing water if you come across it even a few inches, you could be stuck. go around and not go anywhere through it. be aware with more rain coming we could see flooding. in novato, for abc7 news. thank you is the reality. flood waters closed down rohnert park expressway with police across the north bay begging drivers to obey road closures like this. >> we see each year someone decides to drive through a flooded area and is stuck. >> in petaluma car dealerships had to deal with the rain, during the storm on thursday, they had to move the cars to higher ground. >> in rohnert park the storm caused a palm tree to come down on to power lines nearly 2,000 people lost power. >> suddenly there was a flash of

blue light in the house and we live if a small studio. i ford the fire department and asked what we should do and they said evacuate immediately. >> she and her kids were allowed to return while pg&e crews worked to get the lights back on. >> we checked with pg&e a few minute ago and the power is on for everyone in the north bay and there are only a few hundred outages in total across the bay area. >> the marin county department of public works set up an emergency operations center in mill valley. the center is equipped with remark and radar and a creek gauge on the big screen. crews and law enforcement and firefighters coordinate their operations in the area. rain and flooding forcing four schools to close in sonoma, guerneville school, harmony elementary and sal mop creek charter and the storm could delay ace train service again. inspenters held the trains become to check for slides when

the rain picked up. it was on monday when a train derailed after a mudslide pumped debris on the tracks in niles canyon. >> we have a lot of information to help you get through the weekend storms including seven things about el nino and the latest weather forecast from the weather team. visit abc7news.com. you can learn more. >> developing news in rich monday the person who gunned down a young man is on the streets this morning. it happened last night at 6:00. police found the victim with multiple gun wounds to the chest. right now police are saying only he was a young black man on foot. >> a map is in custody after taking the these-year-old daughter hostage in san jose yesterday morning as a domestic dispute. it turned into a six-hour standoff. sky 7 is in women low glen neighborhood as authorities negotiated for the release. the father, 34-year-old,

surrendered at 4:00. the huge law enforcement response happened at the same time that san jose police were describing to the media a desperate staffing space situ there is a cop shortage. janet? >> certainly it tied up a lost resources starting this sunday, officers will work on their day off. the mayor and police chief garcia unveiled the plan to dress critical staffing short am by requiring mandatory overtime. right now this are 200 vacancies and only 839 patrol officers in a city of a million. the announcement was made yesterday and the city had a hostage crisis with a map hold his these-year-old daughter captive. here is the scene, which is a good exam of how the department is stretched thin.

>> during the hostage situation we were wiped out of resources and a second major incident would likely have caused to us call for outside help. >> police commanders and union hers claim that other armies offer better pay and benefits and that makes it hard for san jose to recruit and keep officers. >> the 21-year-old man is scheduled to enter a plea to hate crime charges after he was accused of spray painting racial slurs at a san leandro unified school district office. the resident admitted he painted the word "white power," on a door along with comments about black people. three said he painted the words because he hates christianity and after cap americans and believes the white race is superior. >> form first lady nancy reagan will be laid to rest open southern california hilltop. a thousand people filed

casket, with first lady, and hillary clinton, and laura bush and rosslyn cater attending. nancy reagan's two children will speak along with tom brokaw. the service is private. we have coverage of the funeral starting this morning at 11 a.m. right here. and our reporter is in simi valley for the funeral with the report throw the day. >> happening today, immigrations and cuss temperatures enforcement is underfire, this time in oakland. the assembly member is joining immigrants and groups to unveil a bill to address the deportation tactics overric and want them held account am for splitting families. detail of the proposal are discussed at 9 pock at the harris state building in deck. you take muni this is a change on one line with construction on the third rail line with the

loop in mission bay. the loop will allow the trains to switch become the way they came, quicker. supporters say this will help ease the crowd on the line and deliver much more service and twice as much service as they do a new environmental impact report still needs to be done with construction taking 7-8 months to complete. >> we will start with the flood watch until 6:00, it includes everyone but the santa cruz mountains, the santa clear valley and with periods heavy rain. the heaviest will fall cross the north by. and around the bay shore and the peninsula coast. we could have flash flooding. as far as river flooding we will look at what is going on in the russian river, it looks like we will have more run off and tomorrow morning it will crest at 2' above understood stage, with flooding happening there. the napa river at st. helena

will crest this afternoon at 17 senate foot so expect flooding. a winter weather advisory was just issued for 6:00 for the peninsula chest, the santa clara valley and the santa cruz mountains, the east bay hills and the diabolo range go until 2:00 we expect to sustain at 20 help 30 miles per hour with gusts up to 45-50 miles per hour out of that suspect as it rolls in. right new we are seeing darker friend move in to san francisco, daly city, colma, san bruno to san mateo and here is the stronger part of the system, over the next our, it will take over the peninsula. we have rain on the way today and tomorrow and sunday. an hour-by-hour look at the storm coming up next. >> c.h.p. is updatingness on the accident on the san mateo bridge. it is in the eastbound direction. that is better news the non-commute direction. we have extra slow traffic westbound because of those

watching. this is the flat section eastbound last lane blocked. we will check on that later. green is an indication of rain and where it could affect the commute but green on the roads is you are at director limit. we have flooding at highway 12 and highway 121 in napa, use extra caution drive if that area and mudslides blocking the northbound lane north of highway 116. we will be pack with a look 59 mass transit in a few. >> ever heated electrical panel sparks a house fire in the east bay and what was discovered when firefighters rushed inside. >> i cannot believe how civil it has been up here. >> no name-calling but plenty of sharp attacks and the issue that fired up the republican fired up the republican pr

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the house on or taking drive caught fire the crews were able to knock it down with little damage to the inside of the house. they found what they say is a substantial amount of marijuana plans in the garage. no one was hurt. >> a republican presidential candidates avoided mention of body parts last night in the debate choosing instead to talk about issues rather than attacking each other. this is the last chance for the canidates to reach a national audience before an important shape of primaries next week. stehpanie has the story from washington, dc. >> no sleights of small hand. >> don't worry about it little marco. >> and no name-calling at the g.o.p. debate. >> do not talk over each other. all the republican presidential candidates in miami on the cusp of crucial primaries in florida and ohio, focusing more on policy issues like social security. to entitlement reform and immigration. and how to handle the violence in the middle east. >> we fed to do whatever is

necessary to defeat isis. >> all of candidate on their best presidential behavior even donald trump. >> so far i cannot movie how civil it has been up here. [ applause ] >> he was asked about statements saying islam hates us. >> did you mean all 1.6 billion muslims? >> i mean a lot of them. a lot of them. >> the problem is presidents cannot say whatever they want. it has consequences here and end at the world. >> donald trump praising for a condition tested convention. >> we have gets the most delegates should win. >> donald trump is expected to announce an endorsement from ben carson today. >> as we ready for more rain, volunteers are preparing meals and bodies to offer the homeless a warm and dry place to stay in san francisco. emergency weather shelter is new open at the recreation center on 6th and working with the city to help 125 people and their poets. the pop-up shelter opened last night and it will.

open through monday morning. other local agencies are expanding shelter capacity this weekend. thank you is the reality with all of the stormed stacked up back-to-back-to-back with the heaviest rain today. >> when that is 15 -- that is saturated, the water will have to squeeze out and we have issues with the flooding. the great highway, look at that, sunset district is where the moderate rain is new starting to come ashore and we will widen the picture and head down, you can see it is just new knocking on half moon bay and pescadero and the farms along one headed down the peninsula coast getting wet and putting it in motion you can see the yellows and oranges moving down on the peninsula from palo alto north that will see a definite increase especially on 280 over the next 15-20 minutes and that will head up to the northeast, cross over the bay bridge and start to head up 80 through richmond, hercules

to vallejo over the next hour. here is how it looks from the east bay hills it is darker as you look beyond the bay bridge so here is what will happen, rain. periods of heavy rain. and breezy conditions. to more storms this weekend. not kuwait so strong as today. dry and sunny and warmer spring comes back next week. storm-impact scale has not changed since yesterday. we we are going to be "3" with flooding and debris flows and power out amendments possible. at 5:00, heavy rain is starting to move in to the south by. and the santa cruz mountains. another batch heavy rain headed to 9:00 in the north by and that is after the heavy batch moves through the heart of the pay the next hour. you can see we transition to showers and scattered thunderstorm. as we head into the afternoon. the rain total is half an inch in the south by. nearly 1" in north by. my seven-day forecast shows saturday and sunday, both of the

storms are "1", light but affect the outdoor plans. i will have the st. patrick's day forecast coming up. >> bart has 26 train on time if you do not fell like driving in the rain, bart is a good option. muni is not reporting any delays. ace train one headed interest tracy on time. we will follow the rest of your commute this morning as far as mass transit and the green on the roads is good. everyone is at the him. it is wet. we did have another solo spinout in san jose before lane 17, lane three is blocked. we had the early solo spinout in the north bay area and at east 13th an early accident so the rain will affect the drive in antioch area happening right new. we will look at the bay bridge commute in a few. >> caltrain wants more bicycle riders to hop on board with a

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building near downtown. more than 100 firefighters battled the place. part of the structure come listened. crews are still at the scene. >> the serial stowaway, marilyn hartman, is in jail this morning. she walked away from a mental health treatment center. a judge sent her to the center after she was arrested in chicago at o'hare, the judge wanted her if she walked out the mention stop would be james. she managed to board and fly without a ticket from several airports including san jose international airport. she has been caught at sfo. >> a third bicycle car will be added to the caltrain fleet trains making longer stops pus of the riding number of riders, if they are full, the bicyclist are prevented from entering. there will be a longer perioding time. >> a minnesota sheriff deputy is

back on the job after this heart-pounding traffic stop. he barely managed to dodge a car sliding on ice. the deputy's camera caught it stand next to a car open side of the road and he noticed another car coming to him he slam slipped. he is out of the way just in sometime. the s.u.v. supplies beyond him. at the same time, the driver closed his door so all of the things happening in a minority of seconds and both them just missing what can have been a herrible crash. >> meteorologist mike nicco? >> we will have a close call tomorrow with st. patrick's day parade from 11:00 to action and rain at 3:00, and until 5:00 if you are out there with michael finney take an umbrella 16235th. that is impressive. the storm is big, it will reach all of our neighborhoods lou california as we head through day with rain and thunderstorms. through the coast.

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broadcast center this is abc7 news. first the rain and then flooding and mudslides, the wild morning is just getting started with the worst still ahead. >> we have coverage of the storm seasoning the bay area this morning. well start with meteorologist mike nicco. he is tracking the hardest hit areas. it is just going. >> just new coming on shore. good morning, everyone, across the golden gate bridge we have the moderate rain falling and around pacifica to half moon bay. this is heading up to daly city and south san francisco and san bruno and brisbane the next 20 minutes. look what is offshore headed to the peninsula, the red is developing. at pier 15 it is heavy this morning. scattered thunderstorm are possible. through the difficult. embedded in the heavy rain that will taper. if you are worried about the napa or