search accuweather in your app store to download and install it. crews are making progress on reducing flooding risk along coyote creek. workers are building a five-foot tall flood barrier and three-foot tall wall. thousands had to be evacuated from their homes in february when run-off from the reservoir overflowed. the aim is it finish this project by the end of december. happening now the potential for wet weather not stopping people from lining up outside of apple stores to get their hands on the new iphone x. >> we expect this had but it's even more than i thought. university avenue and palo alto more than 100 people in line. are those christmas lights? >> they're fairy lights, all-year round lights. >> oh, fairy lights. the first person has been there for two days. some apple fans tell us they do this before each iphone launch.

it starts at $999. >> i know you lost your phone yesterday. did you find it or are you getting an iphone x? >> i lost it so i'm good. i don't know if i'm happy about it or not. do you have $1,000 for me? >> christmas is almost here. i'm sure we can pitch in and help. the rain will be scattered this morning. you'll run into some and drive out of it. wetness on the streets because it's rained like here at the bay it's rained like here at the bay bridge toll plaza. rainy spots early this morning through the commute in your 12-hour day planner. scattered sprinkles at 4:00 and a more widespread steady rain starts to develop around 7:00. we'll be 59 to 62 at noon. 59 to 64, cooler at 4:00. upper 50s to near 60 at 7:00.

so we'll show you more of that rain up next. eastbound 80 between dixon and davis we have a semithat's fully engulfed. only the left lane is getting by. avoid this area. we have slick roads in the bay area this morning so we are talking very slippery conditions with the first significant rain of the season. slow your roll, as my kids would say. eastbound 80 near pedrick, maybe wait a while before you get through the area. slow your roll. i like it. thank you, sue. it is 4:32. a new poll just released in the last 30 minutes or so finds 60% of americans say president trump's tax plan favors the wealthy and that includes 6 out of 10 of the wealthy themselves. yesterday house republicans along with the president released the tax plan. it seeks to simplify the tax code and reduce corporate rates. it would reduce the number of

tax brackets from seven to four. it also would permanently reduce the country's corporate tax rate from 35% to 20%. a poll finds 50% of americans are opposing the plan. 33% support it. and 17% are undecided. isis is now claiming responsibility for tuesday's incident. last night a vigil was held to remember the victims. >> reporter: new yorkers determined to take back their city. >> new york is stronger than something like this. >> reporter: walk down the same route that two days earlier had been turned into a path of destruction. this video shows some of the victims of that attack just before terror struck a. group of friends from argentina smiling. around the same time across the river in new jersey prosecutors say 29-year-old sayfullo saipov was getting ready to rent a

truck from home depot. he's now confessed he used that truck to try to kill as many people as possible in the name of isis. saipov moved to the u.s. from uzbekistan in 2010 and was currently living in paterson, new jersey, with his wife and three children. one neighbor took this photo in front of saipov's building on october 22. in it you see a home depot rental truck. he used it to do a dry run. saipov has helped more than 23 other uzbeks come to the u.s. including two others linked to terror ties. >> whether there is any type of network or cell that's operating in this country and on a related note crews are installing barriers at almost 60 intersections that cross the manhattan bike path where tuesday's terror attack occurred. the concrete blocks are intended

to prevent vehicles from driving onto the path. police will also add smaller barricades at other points along the pathway. abc news will have much more on a special edition of "20/20." diane sawyer and "20/20" have spent more than a year investigating how isis targets and recruits young people. happening today president trump leaves on his first official visit to asia. the trip will take him to five countries including japan, south korea, and china. the president will be looking for support and pressuring north korea to curtail its nuclear program and attending an economic summit in vietnam. all new this morning president trump is finally responding after his twitter account was deactivated by a rogue employee. the president sent out this tweet just before 4:00 a.m. saying, quote, my twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. i guess the word must finally be getting out and having an impact. the real donald trump twitter account looked like this for 11 minutes yesterday afternoon.

it said his account didn't exist. the full page eventually returned, though. san francisco-based twitter says a customer support employee who was leaving the company disabled the account. twitter promises a full internal review. the san francisco police commission is expected to decide whether to arm officers with tasers. the issue has been brought up several times before. it's failed each time. activist groups said they're concerned the taz tasers would be used against minorities and the homeless. advocates say it will give officers a less lethal option. a warning from stanford after a woman says she was grabbed on campus. the university says a female student report that had a man grabbed her waist and wrist as she was walking just before 1:00 yesterday morning. she was able to pull away and call police. officers searched for the suspect but couldn't find him. berkeley police are asking for your help in finding three people they say were responsible for attacks at an anti-marxist

rally. suspects who punched, kick, and struck people with improvised weapons. police arrested more than a dozen people at that august 27th rally. we're getting our first account this morning of just how much hazardous waste was left behind by the north bay fires. the environmental protection agency says it's collected more than 8,300 containers so far of household hazardous waste from napa and sonoma counties including paint, batteries, propane tanks, pesticides, and even ammunition. the epa has hired runs of contract workers to go on to private property and collect the waste. tomorrow some seafood lovers may be able to eat local crab for dinner. saturday is opening day for recreational crabbing season off the california coast. it could prevent boats from sitting out in the ocean. officials say bay area dungeness crab are safe to eat. there were problems in previous

years. the commercial season begins november 15th. let's take a look at some temperatures. it's a mild one this morning. when you're dressing to stay dry, dress to stay warm at 55 degrees at daly city to about 59 in san bruno, belmont, and also foster city. we have about 60 in hayward and san jose. 54 in napa. so here's a look at some of the rain that is falling on the richmond side of the richmond/san rafael bridge. it is going to be a slick morning. not much rain but it's going to be just enough to cause slippery conditions so, please, slow down with these poor driving conditions this morning. it's always worse when the rain just begins. mass transit will be wet this morning to mainly cloudy this afternoon. you might want to take an umbrella with you. you'll need it more likely this morning and then later on this evening once the sun sets f. you're going to be on the water nothing extreme. just a little wet so you may want to stay inside f. you're

heading to the sierra winter storm warning now that we're closer. it starts at noon through 11:00 tomorrow evening. at 6:00 feet, 5 inches to 10 inches. up to 20 inches at higher elevations. gusts 45 miles per hour. the snow will be blowing sideways so make sure you have some good wipers, the lights will be on, check your tires and pack your chains and expect some delays as we head towards the evening hours. temperatures in the 40s at lake level. 30s at night with that snow falling. our storm now through saturday light to moderate rain. so we'll show that you coming up hour by hour next. here's sue. we're watching the zipper truck on the golden gate bridge reconfigure your lanes for your morning commute as you can see the roads are slick and wet out there. as mike has been advising, please slow down. the oils come up with the first significant rain and it really makes the roadway slick. four lanes in the southbound. two lanes in the northbound direction. and if you are traveling eastbound on 80 through dixon, be prepared for some major

delays eastbound near pedrick, a sig alert in effect. a semi and a vehicle involved in an accident and the car was fully engulfed in flames. one lane, the left lane, is the only lane getting by this hour. we'll check back in just a few minutes. >> thank you, sue. amazon is hiring hundreds of workers for the holidays. what makes getting a job with it different from typical holiday work. work. >> police nab suspects in a

it's 4:43 in the morning. thanks for waking up with us. you can see that sheen on the roadway on the embarcadero in san francisco. we do have scattered showers this morning and meteorologist mike nicco tracking that all for us. we'll get to him in a moment. a fire at a propane company in georgia erupted overnight causing tanks to explode with enough force to actually shake the ground. a nearby resident caught one of the explosions on her cell phone. that burst of light in the distance when a tank is blowing up. a brief evacuation of nearby homes and businesses. nobody got hurt despite flying shrapnel from the bursting tanks. this all happened in the city of douglasville which is about 25 miles outside of atlanta. firefighters believe the fire likely started in a delivery truck on site and then spread to the building because it was parked so close. authorities in los angeles and new york have opened new

investigations into harvey weinstein. the new york investigation involves allegations by an actress who accuses weinstein of raping her two times in 2010. she says the first one happened after he gave her a ride home from a party, and the second attack happened three months later. l.a. police are investigating allegations about weinstein that occurred in 2015. the department is investigating a report by an italian actress who says he raped her in 2013. we've been telling but thefts of laptops. police arrested three teenagers for a string of these at starbucks and other businesses in alameda. some of the suspects were caught on surveillance video. all three teens are just 17 years old. one is from alameda. the other two from oakland. police say they're still actively investigating the thefts and they expect to make more arrests. amazon's online business continues to grow and now looking to hire hundreds of holiday workers here in the nbc bay area. jonathan bloom attend add job fair in richmond packed with

some eager applicants. >> reporter: back when most holiday shopping was done at sears or kmart those were the places you went for a holiday job. >> because it's holiday extra money. >> extra money. gifts. >> reporter: with so many ordered online it only makes sense amazon is where these applicants are hoping to work for the holidays. >> i've heard it's much easier and your time goes much faster at work than working at stores, macy's and target and stuff like that. >> reporter: in all amazon is looking to employees here in the bay area to work in warehouses and sorting centers like the one in richmond. at job fairs like this you could get hired on the spot. >> we're not necessarily looking for people with specific background or training. amazon has a very robust training process. >> reporter: those who have done it before says working alongside robots that sort packages at light speed is a fun way to make holiday cash. >> you can do one thing one day and a different job another day. >> reporter: there's something else different about these

holiday jobs. many of them could turn permanent. >> many of those employees end up becoming long-term amazonians. >> reporter: some of the job fairs will have prizes like this amazon fire tv, but the real prize, good pay and benefits. in richmond, jonathan bloom, abc 7 news. if you want any details just look for the story on abc7news.com. although this weekend's storm is expected to be light in the bay area, other places are bracing for impact like in yosemite. rangers have closed a couple roads. yesterday the park was socked in by fog, and that disappointed tourists who came to see the big sights. the park is open this weekend. the decision to reopen roads or keep them closed through the winter season will be made monday. let's go over to meteorologist mike nicco now. where are we seeing scattered showers now, mike?

>> just about everywhere in the east bay. walnut creek is starting to get wet as we look south on 680. i'll show you the radar. let's set the table. gray today. scattered light rain. steadier rain and mild tonight. tracking another storm for next week. here's a look at our temperatures today. 59 at half moon bay. about 61 to 64 for the rest of us. and tonight's temperatures will be from the mid-40s in santa rosa, 46 there to about 55 in antioch. 53 in san jose, concord, and san francisco. here's a look at live doppler 7. you can see the sunol grade and antioch pass. 680 starting to get wet, the dublin grade, also. watch out. things will get slick right there. it starts to taper as you head up north. you can see around the richmond/san rafael bridge a little wet there. the east bay freeway, 4, and when it comes in contact with 680. up around the north bay just some light rain right now. no flooding concern right there. in fact, the extra humidity and

extra rain will help tamp things out if there's anything left. the heart of the storm is still well up to the north. we're waiting for that part to come in. right now we have a juicy southerly flow. that's why we're going to have rain this morning, becoming more scattered as we head towards noon just because the air is going to be so humid and every time it bumps into one of our mountains that could lift it enough to create a scattered shower and even some sprinkles. as we head to the evening commute, you can see the green tapers a little bit and then we'll turn our attention to the north because this is where the second storm comes in. some steadier rain developing by 10:00. you can see it in the heart of the bay when we wake up at 8:00 tomorrow morning. and then it exits the south bay at about 2:00. so if you live in oakland, your kid has a soccer game at about 1:00, the rain should be ending. the field, if it's turf, you'll be find. if it's grass, it may be a little wet. i think they'll probably still play. notice by sunday things are starting to dry out. that next system sunday night into monday just kind of falls apart. we'll take a look at wednesday's storm. it's going to be one light on the impact scale.

i'll show you the rain totals for today's event up next. sue? we go to the san mateo bridge where traffic is flowing nicely from hayward to the foster city side of things. not a problem here. about a 14-minute drive over to 101. we do have problems on the roadways. this is another accident, the second one this morning on the waldo grade. southbound 101 near alexander. this is not blocking the lane. however, it was a spinout and it is slick out there so just be careful, please. the sig alert for the dixon area with a car fire and an accident, only the left lane is getting by eastbound 80 near pedrick. we'll update that in a few minutes. san francisco now putting the aids quilt on display. where to find it this morning. bigger is not always better. what features will enable this fire truck to work well in san francisco city streets. first this morning's "tech bites." in today's "tech bites" the new iphone on sale. customers in australia were the first to get their new iphone x this morning.

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strangers conceived what would become the aids memorial quilt. >> at that time it was a radical statement. one of the city's most prominent churches has that on display. these are panels from the aids memorial quilt now hanging in grace cathedral. the church says it sends a profound message of compassion and support for the lbgtq community. >> that's the power of the quilt and to have that in our space feels like -- i don't know if we dignify it so much as it dignifies us. what an honor for us to host such a beautiful piece of art that is really more than art. it is a sacred statement about the value of human life. >> the memorial quilt display culminates with a special event at grace cathedral. it's quite something to see that. downtown san jose -- okay, we'll get to that in a second. over now to mike nicco. mike, i was walking along mission street last night and heard a woman say, no, it is

going to rain. i seen it on tv. >> well, very nice. hopefully she has our app, also, just in case she's away from the tv. you can see the moisture coming in. we're getting flanked from the north and the south, and they're both going to join up for steadier rain as we head to the evening and overnight hours. there's enough rain this morning. the rainfall potential by the time we get to the end of the commute just about all of us have some wetness on the streets. not much but enough to make it slick. by the beginning of the evening commute. scattered rains and sprinkles up to 0.05 of an inch. by 10:00 some scattered light rain and sprinkles. the steadier rain overnight which means we wake up to a tenth of an inch. up to a half inch in the north bay. sue? >> all right. we have, like you said, slick conditions out there this morning, mike. good morning, everyone. to the richmond/san rafael bridge. traffic is light. a couple of headlights heading through. on our camera the rain that's

happening there, slick roads as well. a couple of spinouts over the waldo grade. that's the second one this morning. this one is right near alexander just on your approach to the golden gate is not blocking a lane but did hit the guardrail and the side wall out of traffic. please use extra caution this morning because those roads are wet. we do have a sig alert here near pedrick in the dixon area. it was a semi and a car. the car was fully engulfed. only the left lane is getting by this hour. you can see by the red sensors a slight delay there. hopefully they'll get that out by the time the getaway starts if you're heading out of the area this morning. all right, sue, thank you. san francisco fire department welcoming the newest member of its fleet. abc 7 news is at station 13 on sansome street as they unveiled engine 13. the specially equipped vehicle has solar panels on the top, 360-degree camera, and is much better at turning radius for navigating our city streets.

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♪ friday, friday, friday november 3. jessica is enjoying the day off. alexis is on maternity leave. what is here other than us. >> the rain. >> you brought it, mike. >> trying to bring it. trying not to bring it during the morning commute, though. timing is not all that great. we'll take a look at some of the different areas that are getting wet. first with live doppler. the altamont pass. one of our earlier commutes and one of the most busy if you will, or busiest during the early morning. light to moderate rain falling. be careful. that stretches back into the dublin grade down into the sunol grade and up 680 through the san ramone valley. on the richmond side of the bridge you can see the drops there. low to mid-50s this morning. some sprinkles more than likely at 4:00 with 59 to 64. and you can see by 7:00 more widespread rain is starting to show up. temperatures 58 to 60. here is