where the rain is right now. >> expect a slick commute this morning. we are already seeing damp conditions in many places including the richmond bridge, bay bridge toll plaza as well. good morning, welcome. friday, november 3. jessica off today. alexis on maternity leave. >> i knew it was going to rain but still, oh, there it is. >> oh, snap. it happened. >> it still is a weird sight. >> especially when we've gone so many months without it, absolutely. that's why we're having such an issue on the roads. you have a traffic alert. let's start with the rain, yeah, there's a look at where it's steadiest right now. highway 4 on martinez out to discovery bay. broaden the picture and you can see a lot of this is heading off to the east. it's leaving behind wet streets. you need to be careful like in walnut creek. the most has been in oakland about .05. your 12-hour day planner, milder this morning. 59 to 62.

we'll tape they are down to scattered at noon. we'll taper it even more to scattered sprinkles at 4:00. 59 to 64. and more widespread rain develops at 7:00. 57 to 60. so make sure you have patience this morning and an umbrella during the evening hours. here's sue with that traffic alert. >> we do have a traffic alert. it looks like traffic in walnut creek is slow and go. first the good news, this earlier accident westbound 580 to eastbound 80 in the maze as you can see traffic is moving nicely. this is a sig alert southbound spencer. a couple of cars got into it. one of them overturned. no estimated time of opening. this is the third accident on the waldo grade this morning. the other two have cleared but it is slick out there. i don't think we can emphasize enough. a look at our 3d shot with the slow and go.

this is a virtual look at the exact road conditions and volume on the roadways. heads up there. we'll check back in a few minutes. >> thank you, sue. this morning the change in the weather is bringing back scary memories for north bay fire victims. abc 7 news caught up with one family in sonoma county. well, this is what their house used to look like, a two-story beautiful home and this is what it looks like now. they and 19 other fire victims are staying at koa campground for now and things are not easy. >> the wind blew today and it scared me because the wind was blowing so fast that night. >> 70-mile-an-hour winds blew the fire from napa to santa rosa that october night. emotions can run high when the weather changes. the family is spending the night in their camper. today they say they're going to be moving to a hotel. an update on the cleanup from the north bay fires. the epa says it has finished

with cleanup at one-third of destroyed homes. >> there is a whole lot to clean up. paint, pesticides, bleach, propane tanks, and even ammunition. the epa says that contract workers have picked up more than 8,300 containers from over 7,000 properties. after the hazardous waste collection is complete contractors will use heavy equipment to clear debris and foundations from burned home sites. menlo park fire district is grieving the loss of three teens killed in a car crash. >> the fire district identified the victims. they died on halloween night. ricardo torres, andrew gonzales, both only 19 years old, also killed 18-year-old matthew cruz. torres and gonzales were both part of the fire explorer program. cruz's dad works for the district. they say the three friends shared an extremely deep bond and there are the photos of them. they were out for a ride tuesday night when their car careened down an embankment in san mateo county. sky 7 over that remote stretch of road. authorities didn't get a call about the crash until the next morning. cruz's family says they knew

something was wrong when the boys didn't return after going out to look at a car gonzales was interested in buying. developing news now in the kate steinle murder trial. the prosecution has rested its case. yesterday san francisco's medical examiner said the bullet that killed steinle at pier 14 hit her in the back damaging her spine and abdominal aorta. jose garcia zarate is on trial for second-degree murder in her death. prosecutors are trying to prove that he fired the gun on purpose whether or not he deliberately targeted steinle. the mayor of oakland says creating more affordable housing is the goal for 2018. abc 7 news was at the islamic cultural center where mayor libby schaaf gave her state of the city address. she began with a performance by lion dancers. oakland is a great place to live but many have been priced out of the market. >> more funding sources for protected, affordable housing. that is what oakland needs.

>> the mayor says the creation of a citizens police commission will bring more accountability to the opd. outside the cultural center city workers held a one-day strike. the union wants a new contract from the city. it says they hope the mayor was listening. >> major artery into golden gate park could soon see traffic cut in half. considering a plan now to create a so-called neighbor way at the 8th avenue entrance. cars will be diverted onto nearby streets. this is a rendering of what the intersection would look like. the plan will make the intersection safer. so far neighbors are mixed about this. some are worried about the increased traffic on side streets. if you have about $1,000, a lot of time, and don't mind potentially getting wet you're probably if line for the iphone x this morning. >> this is the first day the new iphone goes on sale. some people have been there for days. matt keller is live for us. >> how is everybody doing out there, matt?

>> reporter: good morning, natasha and reggie. people aren't getting wet. it hasn't rained for about two hours here in palo alto, so that's the good news. the apple store is about ready to open in less than two hours. they have the iphone x inside there. the line is growing. it goes all the way around the block. people getting back to their chairs. not everyone is in line to get the phone. for some it's a job. so what are you doing in line? >> i'm waiting to get the iphone x. >> reporter: for who? >> for a friend of mine. >> reporter: a friend of yours that's paying you, right? >> yes. >> reporter: you're a professional line sitter today? >> exactly. >> reporter: how much is he paying you? >> $120. >> reporter: that's a pretty good deal. so what makes the iphone x so attractive? apple says it's the biggest leap forward since the original iphone, has a super retina display that has the highest pixel density yet in iphones. the iphone x has facial recognition skills and is water and dust resistant. you know what else it has, the highest price tag, sells for

about $1,000. reporting live in palo alto, matt keller, abc 7 news. >> obviously there's a market for it. thank you. i will show you some of the lines we're watching from around the world waiting for that iphone x. this is new video showing people lining up at apple's flagship store in sydney, australia. 400 people in line there this morning when the phone went on sale. and this is what it looked like in southern california. lines there growing overnight. you can see the line going around the corner at this apple store in pasadena. all eyes on president trump this morning. his high-stakes trip to asia. here at home reaction to a sweeping new tax plan, how this will impact you. plus, a cat burned in the north bay fires. his survival might not be the most incredible part of that story. a live look at the bay bridge, it is 6:07. yeah, there are slick roadways out there. sue hall already tracking some spinouts so please drive safely this morning. we're keeping a live look at

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58 degrees. mid to upper 50s just about everywhere until you get to san ramone at 52. a little consistent with drizzle down in the southern parts of the santa clara valley. this is moving across the diablo range up to the altamont pass and highway 4. activity planner for today, waves of scattered light rain if you're going to be on the bay dodging some drops if you'll be out ecker sizing. out exercising. a look at a dry san mateo bridge. temperatures in the low to mid-60s today. look at this, mid-50s to barely 60 tomorrow and sunday. more on the chances of rain today coming up next. here's sue. all right, a dry san mateo bridge. slow traffic out of tracy, fairly typical up and over the altamont. on the waldo grade a sig alert, the third accident on the grade this morning. the other two have cleared. this is southbound near spencer. two right lanes, one car is

overturned. they have called in a tow truck there. take a look at our maps and show you the volume of traffic. also the santa cruz mountains, an accident reported northbound 17 at big moody curve. the slow lane is blocked there. traffic is now stacking up int san jose. updates on this and more when we come back in a few. a genetic test claiming to reveal the test of your cells. recovering after the north recovering after the north bay fires.

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today's storm is level one. that means light rain, so keep an umbrella handy and drive safely. track today's storm on the abc 7 news app. download it now. a live look outside at 6:15. you can see the wet roads a lot of you will be encountering. we'll talk to mike nicco and sue hall. president trump is heading for asia and the trip is just a day after he unveiled a new tax plan with republicans. janai norman is live with the reasons some are pushing back on his proposal. >> reporter: we're finally learning the details of that new tax plan and president trump is

hoping republicans can make a lot of headway while he's away on his trip for 11 days. he's promising to sign the plan into law by christmas. president trump's first official trip to be asia, tension surrounding north korea's missile and nuclear weapons program. president trump hopes republicans back home make strides on tax reform. the number of tax brackets cut from seven to four, doubles the standard deduction for married couples and offers big potential breaks for the rich like repealing the estate tax and a win for business by slashing corporate taxes from 35% to 20%. american families could do more with changes to popular tax breaks like getting rid of the student loan interest deduction, cutting the mortgage interest deduction in half. >> they're doing tax giveaways

to the wealthy and the powerful. >> reporter: and despite republicans promising to cut the deficit this is estimated to cost $1.5 trillion over the next decade and it's a price tag even some republicans aren't sold on. reporting live from washington, janai norman, abc 7 news. thank you. it is 6:17. a live look now watching the president as he is about to board air force one, first make a trip to hawaii, and that is on the way to this asia trip. he will make quite a number of stops including japan, south korea and china and will attend regional summits going on in vietnam and the philippines. this and the first lady's first official visit to asia since taking office. there he is waving good-bye and about to board the plane to go to hawaii. there's a growing trend of using at-home genetics tests. telo years claims to be a dna

test that tracks your cellular age based on your current telomere lengths. they are the caps on the tips of your chromosomes. they shorten as we get older. is it really worth the price of a kit? >> right now i don't see how this is useful for patients to know what to do with their health. >> the encouragement to actually engage in a healthier lifestyle, maybe slow down the clock on the aging process. >> bottom line, it gives you common sense advice your doctor has probably already told you. a cat named pilot survived the tubbs fire in santa rosa. the story gets a lot more interesting from there. >> pilot has been missing after running away ten years ago after his owner moved to colorado, she thought she would never see him again. tuesday a good samaritan found him severely burned, dehydrated, and starving. vets tracked down his owner because he was still micro

chpped. she's planning to fly out here next week and once pilot recovers she's going to bring him back home with her to colorado. >> that's going to be an interesting reunion. where am i? where have you been? >> colorado, you left me, girl. >> who am i and why am i here? >> she is a survivor. >> that's great. with the rain being scattered later on today download our app. that would be the best to track it with a live doppler 7. it's not a steady rain. that's more tonight. use the app if we're not on tv at the time and you'll be set to go. a look at vallejo, benicia, crockett, hercules all getting a little wet right now. 780, 680, highway 4 one of our better returns. right there along 4 and antioch. broaden it out out to discovery bay and the altamont pass into

livermore. a drying trend in the north bay along the peninsula and into the santa cruz mountains as this first slug of moisture moves off to the east. and that's going to be the steadiest moisture through the daylight hours. no delays right now at sfo. about 0.03 when it came through there. scattered sprinkles to a pocket of light rain. steadier rain, mild temperatures tonight and sunday's storm fizzles. it's going to be wet again wednesday. a look at today's storm and you can see by 7:00 we're still tracking some green out there. it becomes scattered light rain by noon and notice the green becomes less numerous by 4:00. that's why i'm thinking we'll turn over more to sprinkles. it's going to pick up between the 9:00 and 10:00 hours along the peninsula, the coast and the north bay and then this fills in along the cold front and sits on along the cold front and sits on top of us. a little bit of sunshine starts to develop from north to south

as we head towards the latest sunset this year as we set our clocks back saturday night and gain that extra hour of sleep. by 4:00 this afternoon you can see measurable rain everywhere but napa and possibly the peninsula and then during the overnight hours is when everybody starts to get the rain. a third of an inch around the bay. up to half an inch in the north bay. relatively dry and then that next storm light on the storm impact scale wednesday. >> slick roads. we have slow traffic up and over the altamont pass which is fairly typical. about 55 minutes from tracy into dublin and pleasanton. an overturn with a sig alert over the waldo grade. several lanes of the right lanes are blocked here near spencer. we'll zoom in and show you the traffic volume on our 3d map slow and go from sausalito up and over to the robin williams tunnel and the santa cruz

mountains we have an accident. this one is northbound 17 at big moody curve with an overturn and the slow lane blocked there so your ride from santa cruz up and over to san jose is slow and go this morning. lots of problems on the roadways and lots of news the holidays begin here at the disneyland resort.

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welcome back. 6:25 on a friday and look at that shield of wet weather from vacaville right down the east bay and into the diablo range all moving off to the east but it's just the beginning of a wet pattern that will take over the next 24 hours. mike, thank you. it's time to ask finney and priscilla has a question about unemployment benefits for people impacted by the north bay wildfires. >> she spoke to us at our 7 on your side pop-up. >> for those of us that are not full-time salaried teachers, because i'm a special education/education specialist teacher on special assignment, i've been told that we are not going to be given salary for two weeks. so how are we going to make up that loss? >> hey, priscilla, once a disaster is declared you can apply for payments without the seven-day period. you get your payment from the

day the fire broke out, now it's not a perfect solution but it's better than nothin at all. priscilla, good luck to you and thanks for your question. >> definitely best of luck to priscilla and her adorable dog. if you have a question for michael finney record it on your smartphone or tablet. share it on social media with the #askfinney. new at 6:00, a hippopotamus broke out of a safari park in israel. this is the most bizarre story. it wasn't gone for long. what you are watching there is the hippo casually strolling out of an open gate wednesday evening. and then a few minutes later as you can see it just decided, you know what, freedom's overrated. i'm going to go back inside where there's food. the safari park says it is now investigating how that gate was left open. i can't get over that hippo. >> nothing to see. >> low key escaping the safari park. new at 6:30, there are new accusations of sexual harassment on capitol hill. the california lawmaker is now talking about their experiences.

>> crab season is set to open this weekend. what could keep boats from setting out to get that seasonal treat. and our first storm of the season is sprinkling us with a little and advertise they are morning. let's check out live doppler 7. widen the picture and put it into motion so you can see the steadiest of the wet weather is in the east bay a

now at 6:30 rain has

returned to the bay area. this is our east bay hills showing you the cloudy skies outside right now. >> to street level. you can see the bay bridge toll plaza is wet right now. as you head out grab an umbrella and do plan for a slower commute. >> somehow i still forgot my umbrella. how is that possible? >> mike has only been telling you every single day. >> i know. i couldn't get it through my thick skull. it is friday, november 3. 6:30 a.m. good morning. mike, how long are we going to be dealing with this? >> i have failed you, reggie. >> you have not failed me. >> he failed himself. >> i knew it was happening. thank you, sue. i failed myself. >> i feel like when luke skywalker lets his fighter go into the swamp. anyway, moving on. a disney plug. i felt i should do that for the company. a look at discovery bay, some of our better radar returns there. the altamont pass and the sunol grade, some light rain there. the east bay hills camera because we've had 0.05 of an inch of rain.

probably wet on both sides of 24 there. your 12-hour day planner milder this morning. 53 to 57. the rains will tapetory scattered light rain. 60 to 62 and some scattered sprinkles by 4:00. 59 to 64. and then a steadier, more widespread rain will start developing this evening. that's when you'll want to have the umbrella. also temperature 57 to 60. sue, how about those accidents? >> yeah, there's plenty of them out there. the roads are slick. solo spinouts. about an hour drive now from tracy up and over the altamont pass. that's just slow traffic out there. a sig alert still in effect for the waldo grade, southbound near spencer. two right lanes blocked. an overturn there. you can see the backup now all the way into marin city, very slow and go from about highway 1 exit to the richmond bridge or the bay bridge -- not the bay bridge, the richardson bay bridge. to the santa cruz mountains, northbound 17. big moody curve, an overturn here as well.

slow and go this morning back past summit road up and over your drive to san jose. we'll check on this and more when we come back in a few. >> thank you, sue. speaking of the wet roads, making it harder to get around because this is the first significant rain we're seeing this season. >> abc 7 news reporter amy hollyfield live for us in the north bay from kentfield. how is it looking there, amy? >> reporter: hi, natasha. it looks like this one snuck in while everybody was asleep. when we got here we saw evidence of rain. you can see it is wet here. we got here about 4:30 and we haven't seen rain since. so i'm wondering if maybe the north bay is done for this morning. we did experience some while we were driving here. look at what we shot in berkeley at about 3:45 on highway 24. it was coming down pretty good. we rolled video on it. wow, here it is. here is the rain mike has been telling us about all week. just as quickly as we stumbled into it we were out of it. by the time we got to emeryville, no more rain.

little pockets here and there is what we'll experience. that was our experience this morning. maybe we are done until the evening. all quiet here in the north bay. reporting live in kentwood, amy hollyfield -- kentfield, excuse me, abc 7 news. as the rain moves in get a minute-by-minute forecast inside the new abc 7 news accuweather app. search accuweather in your app store and download it. crews are making progress on trying to reduce flooding risk in san jose. abc 7 news was on rock springs drive where workers are building a five foot tall flood barrier and three foot tall wall. you'll probably remember thousands of people were evacuated from their homes in february when run-off from anderson reservoir caused the creek to overflow its banks. the aim is to finish this work by the end of december. more female members of congress are coming forward this morning with new allegations of sexual harassment on capitol

hill. in a brand-new story released by the associated press this morning former california senator barbara boxer, former palm springs congresswoman mary bono and current congresswoman linda sanchez say they have endured suggestive and lewd comments. all refused to identify the men but did say some of those men are still serving in congress. last weekend a twitter and youtube post jackie forward. isis is claiming responsibility for tuesday's terror attack in new york city. details are emerging about the suspect, 29-year-old sayfullo saipov. one neighbor took this photo in front of saipov's building on october 22nd. you can see a home depot rental truck. prosecutors say saipov use it had to do a dry run. eight people were killed when they were mowed down by a truck on a bike path. questions of greater threat.

saipov has helped other uzbeks come to the u.s. including two men accused of terror ties. >> one of the things investigators will look at after this incident is whether there is any type of network or cell that's operating in this country from uzbekistan. >> police have started putting up dozens of barricades to prevent a repeat of tuesday's terror attack. and crews are installing barriers at almost 60 intersections that cross the manhattan bike path where tuesday's terror attack happened. the concrete blocks are supposed to prevent vehicles from driving onto the path. police will add smaller barricades at other points along the pathway. abc news will have much more on the new york city terror attack tonight in 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. that's at 10:00 p.m. called isis in america. new this morning president trump is finally responding after a twitter employee deactivated his account. the president sent out this tweet saying, quote, my twitter

account was taken down by 11 minutes by a rogue employee. i guess the word must finally be getting out and having an impact. people trying to follow the real donald trump account saw this. the page said his account did not exist. san francisco-based twitter says a customer support employee who was leaving the company did this on their final day. twitter is promising a full internal review. on to developing news now gilroy police need your help to find a teenager who has been missing for nearly a week. please take a look at your screen. this is 16-year-old jade garza. she went missing last saturday night. the gilroy high school student has not been seen since. if you have any information on where she may be, please call either gilroy or hollister police. happening today the san francisco police commission expected to decide whether to arm officers with tasers. that issue has been brought up several times before. each time it's failed. activist groups say they are concerned the tasers would be used disproportionately against minorities and people who are homeless.

advocates say tasers would reduce the number of police shootings by giving officers a less lethal option. there is a meeting at 5:00 p.m. berkeley police are asking for your help in finding three people they say were responsible for attacks at an anti-marxist rally. they've released photos of suspects who punched, kicked, and struck people with improvised weapons. they arrested more than a dozen people at the rally. tomorrow seafood lovers may be able to eat dungeness crap. the weather and sea conditions could prevent sports boats from setting out in the ocean. bay area crab is safe to eat. high levels of domoic acid been found between ft. bragg and crescent city. even if you're not getting wet right now, the fact that it's more humid outside and the

clouds out there mean it's warmer, up to 13 degrees warmer in some neighborhoods. take a look at what's going on around san francisco where we're 53 right now in the financial district and that is the cool spot. 57 in lake merced, bayview, ocean beach, and the ferry building at 58. mission, castro and glenn park at 56 degrees. we're in the mid to upper 50s everywhere this morning. definitely milder out there. here is a look at some of the rain in livermore and pleasanton down through the sunol grade keeping things slick there. the same thing alamo, lafayette, walnut creek, pleasant hill to concord, out highway 4 still wet and this is all heading to the north. if you take 12 to fairfield you have more rain coming your way. here's a look at 101 and 880 in san jose. not much going on down here. you'll get your rain but it will take until probably tomorrow morning to get some significant rain. slick spots on the road. mass transit, use caution. wet, mainly cloudy this afternoon and nothing too extreme.

now the sierra at noon is when the winter storm warning begins and it goes through saturday at 11:00 in the evening so down to 6,000 feet up to a foot of snow, up to two feet in the higher elevations and gusty winds at 45 miles an hour so take the chains and expect delays. hi, sue. we have some good news/bad news on the roads this morning. the bad news it's slick out there. slow and go up and over the altamont pass, fairly typical. your nimitz freeway. we have better news in sausalito. that accident that was a sig alert for an hour or so with two lanes blocked there has been cleared but the damage is done, traffic is now slowing back to marin city. you can see by our 3d map it's to the richardson bay bridge there, slow and go. it should be recovering. and we go to the santa cruz mountains with an earlier accident clear. this was near big moody curve that one's gone but we now in the backup have another one. this one is near summit drive. it is also northbound and apparently both lanes are

blocked here northbound after summit. so bad drive for you. might want to take 92 up and over or a different route from santa cruz up to san jose this morning. it's a rough one. we'll be back in a few to check your mass transit options in a bit. >> sue, appreciate it. halloween is done and now some of us are thinking about holiday shopping, deals are already showing up but should you buy now or wait for black friday? the countdown is on for the iphone x. fans have just about an hour to go before they can get their hands on theirs. we'll go live to palo alto where some have been in line for days. >> dedication. today at 9:00 on "live with kelly and ryan"

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today's storm is level one. that means light rain. keep an umbrella handy and drive safely. track today's storm anytime on the abc 7 news app. download it now. let me add some details on to that storm impact scale. one, light, as you heard from now through saturday with some light to moderate rain. it's kind of steady this morning but moving off to the east. it will become scattered as we head through the day and then steadier again tonight. a tenth of an inch is possible in the south bay to half an inch in the north bay. an hour by hour look at that in my forecast. although this weekend's storm is expected to be light in

the bay area other places like yosemite bracing fore impact. rangers have closed two roads and they won't open until monday at the earliest yesterday the park was socked in by fog disappointing tourist who is came to see the sights. to be clear the park is open this weekend. the decision to reopen roads or keep them closed through the winter season will be made monday. >> all right, this is the day that apple fans have been waiting for the. the iphone x is here. >> and apple stock is going gangbusters. a look right now. you can see it's actually above $900 billion. so obviously this is good timing for them and the launch of the iphone x. matt keller is live to explain how excited people are. >> reporter: people are really excited. the line is getting longer. it's about 75 yards to the apple store here in palo alto, about

125 people in line here and then when you turn here around the corner this is bryant street and goes about halfway down bryant street another 75 or so people in this line here. obviously a lot of people are excited. thankfully it's been dry the last couple of hours. the man at the front of the line has been here since tuesday night. he's had some offers to give up his seat. how much did they offer? >> one of them was like $5,000, and i was like, i don't know if they were joking or not. it was tempting but i'm not going to do that. >> reporter: seemed like a good offer for david but everyone here is trying to upgrade their iphone. a lot of people told me they tried to order it online but this trouble finishing their order on the website, so they showed up here. the store here in palo alto is opening up early at 8:00 a.m. if you come out here live you can see that some apple workers are handing out some treats here. it looks like they have some mini croissants they're handing out to the people waiting.

and then we have some coffee and water at the front of the store. the store is opening up at 8:00. and the ceo tim cook has come by for these iphone openings, so that should be an exciting morning for apple fans if he does decide to come out. he's been here in years past. >> you talked to a man in the last half hour it was paid $120 to sit there for someone else. how long had he been sitting there? do you know? >> reporter: he was here at 12:30 in the morning, so this morning. i mean, if he's going to be here until 9:00, 10:00, so you're talking ten hours, $12 an hour, it's for a friend. i don't know. is that a good deal or not? >> for a friend. >> maybe get a free croissant. >> i think that's a good deal. i think his friend is taking advantage of him but at least he gets some food. it would be really nice to know if you're going to get a phone, if they said, look, we have 200 of these, so, 210, you're not going to get one today. but i guess croissants. apparently a small group of

thieves decided they could not wait to get their hands on the new iphone x. >> three huskey men robbed a u.p.s. truck at the apple store yesterday. you can see where the store is on this map. officials say the thieves made off with 313 phones, that's worth more than $370,000. each was cataloged with a description and catalog number. there's so much documentation that a sergeant assigned to the case says it was the fastest -- fattest police report he's ever seen. the good news is people who planned to pick up their preordered phones will still get their devices. the thieves, though, are still on the loose. now here's your morning money report. 53 days until christmas, and it looks like some holiday shopping deals are arriving early this year. >> something i've noticed, they're pushing it hard already, so the big question, should you buy now or wait for better deals later? abc's rebecca jarvis has tips for us. she says amazon is leading the charge with 23 deals before

black friday and they include these beats wireless headphones. they're $40 off. a hoover vacuum is $85 off. if you want deal news -- sorry, if you wait deal news predicts that you will see even bigger price cuts like flat screen tvs as low as $70 come black friday. >> some of the deals out there are awesome right now but we believe they're going to get even better. so if you feel like you have to have that item and you've never seen it that cheap, buy it. hold on to the receipt, and then go back later and say, hey, please adjust the price. >> it's not bad advice. ebay getting in on the early discounts. it is introducing new daily deals every five minutes through november 9th. sears is closing more locations. the company says 18 sears stores and 45 kmart stores will shut down in january. clearance sales are set to begin next week. no stores here in california are closing. it has been a brutal year for the company. they've already closed hundreds of stores in the past 12 months.

company officials say it's an effort to right size and become profitable. a popular blog and sister sites have been shut down. >> this is sad news. sfist.com posted news for san francisco. the announcement came from the company's ceo. it comes a week after the website's new york staff voted to unionize. in a letter it says reaching a decision was not easy but the company has not made enough progress to support the efforts and expense to keep the company running. happening today the queen of music will get her star on the hollywood walk of fame. selena will be honored during a special ceremony. her sister is going to be accepting the star on the grammy winner's behalf. and that honor comes more than 20 years after selena's former employee shot her to death in 1995 in texas. the mayor of los angeles will proclaim today, november 3, selena day. it is 6:49. there is some wet weather out

there and mike nicco tracking that for us. >> and delays where it's not wet. it was wet earlier at sfo, about 0.03 of an inch. delays up to 1 hour and 30 minutes because of left over clouds. oakland nearly a tenth of an inch. no delays there. so gray today with some scattered light rain. tonight a steadier rain and mild temperatures again and tracking the storm for next week. here is a look at a few isolated drips up around santa rosa right on the burn fire scar. it's not going to cause any flooding, but it will help tamper down anything that's still around. things are clearing out around benicia, crockett, martinez as storms the last four hours. they started out over the ocean, rolled across west to east. now it's stalling just a little bit in the inland east bay neighborhoods and stretching down into the diablo range. that's our best chance of steady rain until we get to the evening hours. you can see it becoming scattered by noon and then isolated by 4:00.

and then as we head into the evening hours, 9:00 to 10:00 it starts becoming steady once again. light to moderate rain possible during the overnight hours. 8:00 tomorrow morning, cold front sitting right on top of us. then it gets some momentum and is out of here by 2:00. we'll see some clearing from north to south from 2:00 until the sun sets at about 6:10 tomorrow. and then we'll see a lot of sunshine for sunday as that storm fizzles. rainfall amounts, a tenth of an inch in the south bay. about a quarter of an inch to a third around the bay. and about a half inch to three-quarters of an inch in the north bay. my accuweather seven-day forecast. don't forget to set your clocks back, gain that hour of sleep. dry saturday afternoon, sunday, monday and tuesday and then another light storm on our storm impact scale arrives wednesday and thursday. hi, sue. good morning. we have brake lights big time across the san mateo bridge. take a look here. it's about a 30-minute drive from 880 to 101. no stalls or accidents on the span, just a lot of folks up

early at 6:50. recovering up in marin county with an earlier accident southbound near spencer. had an overturn. that's cleared out of lanes, and it looks like traffic is much improved from even just a few minutes ago. we go to the santa cruz mountains now, and this is both lanes blocked. northbound 17 near the summit we had an earlier accident at big moody curve. that's gone. in the backup now both lanes again blocked north 17 after summit. you may want to take highway 92 to get over from the santa cruz, the coast and inland. we'll check this and your drive times. we're back in 90 seconds with the seven things you need to know. >> our instagram photo of the day. please follow us at abc 7 news bay area. the golden hills of california. share with #abc7now. >> those golden hills look more like this right now. like this right now. a live look from our like this right now. a live look from our ♪

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it's 6:54. here are seven things you need to know. the first one we start with weather because it's wet out there. you can see live doppler 7 as the rain is moving from east -- neighborhoods. slick streets throughout the morning. it'll become scattered this afternoon only to become steady again tonight. and number two, slick roads are the key this morning. this is now the fourth accident on the waldo grade. this one-two cars in the robin

williams tunnel. both those cars are stuck together. >> oh, sorry to hear that. number three, our first look at the three friends killed in a crash halloween night. andrew gonzales, matthew cruz, and ricardo torres were out for a ride tuesday night when their car careened down an embankment off skyline boulevard in san mateo county. number four, the san francisco police commission is ked uld to vote on whether to arm officers with tasers today. police say tasers would reduce officer involved shootings. community groups are concerned that they will be used disproportionately on minorities and people who are homeless. number five, we watched this live, president trump on his way to asia. he left joint base andrews in the last hour to visit japan, china, and south korea. number six, twitter is promising a full internal review after this happened. a customer service employee working their last day at the company deactivated president trump's twitter account. the full page did return after 11 minutes yesterday. number seven, it is launch day for the iphone x, and this is a live look at the apple

store in palo alto. you can see people are lined up outside hoping to buy the latest iphone. the doors open in just a little more than an hour. they are passing out some coffee and croissants. people look like they're getting hyped. >> that first man in line since tuesday. >> yeah. i hope he really enjoys that phone. >> i think he will. >> do you think he's going to like it? >> he'll have a story to tell. >> happy early birthday, sue. happy birthday to you. >> sunday. i'll keep celebrating. >> all weekend long. mike nicco was born to do weather. >> he's the best at helping everyone get it. >> not your typical morning weather guy. think master of meteorology meets funny man. >> loves fast cars and '80s rock. >> his facebook page -- >> weather and oreos. >> that's his cat. >> he loves animals. >> he's helped hundreds find new homes. >> mike is a family man. they are his everything. >> mike wants to help you out and he does it

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good morning, america. all eyes on president trump this morning and his high-stakes trip to asia facing the north korean crisis head on, but back here at home, the president kisses his new tax plan. >> we are giving them a big, beautiful christmas present in the form of a tremendous tax cut. >> plus, president trump unplugged overnight. a twitter employee shuts down the president's account. terror takedown. new video of the new york attacker as isis now claims responsibility, and major new questions about the phone call he made just before his deadly rampage. plus, what isis recruitment looks like here in the u.s. diane sawyer's exclusive investigation. the shock for a retired marine father whose own son was