today. people definitely got drenched in oakland. look at that, heavy rain and hail, you can even hear it. also came down here. the umbrellas were out in walnut creek and tricky. >> abc7 news meteorologists are tracking what's happening on live doppler 7. sandy, a strange day? >> it's been an exciting day from a weather perspective. dan and kristen, let me show you what it looks like on live doppler 7. i want to take you to the south bay right now, street level radar where we're seeing pockets of light rain from chester avenue, to saratoga and chesterton park. we go over to mt. hamilton, also in the hills north of mt. hamilton. clover dale right now, light rain to moderate rain, and then

you see just above lake county there, we're seeing some snow falling, it is accumulating, hail is coming down, pelting parts of bay area, you may have seen it, there were thunderstorms as you know that moved across the region, and they are continuing to keep us in an unsettled pattern, as you look at the storm impact scale, this is a level 1 throughout the night. scattered showers and still a chance of hail and thunderstorms along with high elevation snow. i'll let you know if this will hang around through the weekend or if it will clear out. video from all over the bay area this afternoon, this one was in santa rosa about 10:00 this morning, and then a few minutes later, a rainbow. a marine crew from the placer county sheriff's office was on a training mission. they encountered 5 to 6-foot swells and wind gusts up to 85

miles an hour. and you can always track the latest storm with live doppler 7 which you can find on the abc7 news app and a push alert to get weather advisories on your phone or tablet. a recent fight at a school in the east bay, a high school. you see a teenaged girl being attacked while many of her classmates stand back and just watch. now the victim and her father are speaking out. abc7 news reporter laura anthony has the story and the video from pittsburgh. >> reporter: it's a fight, more like a beating that happened inside a pittsburgh high school classroom last month. two girls attacked another while as many as ten other students stood by, some of these physically blocking anyone trying to break it up. >> they were pulling my hair and they were hitting me. >> 13-year-old ida is the one being punched. she admits she did have an ongoing verbal dispute with her attackers in the days preceding

the fight, but she says she didn't deserve this. >> i was hoping somebody would get to me. i could hear somebody say stop, no, don't do that. >> reporter: the fight goes on for nearly a minute before a teacher pushes past the crowd to break the fight up. the father says he has seen the video but could only watch it once. >> it was terrible. there were like ten people around here and not letting the teacher to break up the fight. i feel bad. >> reporter: pittsburgh unified sent abc7 news a statement saying we cannot comment on specifics of this incident due to student privacy laws. in general, any student involved in a physical confrontation, for example, faces serious consequences. ida hasn't been back to class at pittsburgh high since the attack, she says the district did suspend the two girls that attacked her, but ida's family says that's not enough. >> i just feel like everybody

that was involved in this should not be at that school anymore because it's just not safe. a brentwood man is dead after his car drifted across the road and crashed into two cars. it happened in morning on deer valley road in antioch. the chp says the driver of the honda civic ran head on into two vehicles, those other drivers suffered only minor injuries. crews are on scene this morning taking apart a tree that fell on a house on castle rock drive. no word yet whether the weather was a factor. police say that 25-year-old ethan willoughby was arrested this morning after police say he grabbed a woman's wallet at the bank of america atm on sycamore avenue. two women saw it happened and followed the suspect and called police. responding officers took

willoughby into custody near the onramp to interstate 880. the visa applications were derailed for at least 25 noncitizens last year. it is now encouraging them to reapply. the alameda county public defender's office first caught the mistake. mel l >> reporter: the oakland state police says it wants residents to feel safe reporting crimes regardless of their citizenship status. >> and not be fearful of contacting the police to let us know what's going on in our community. >> reporter: but in 2017, the oakland police department says it improperly rejected at least 25 of 124 rejected certifications for u-visa applications. if a u-visa allows someone to remain in the united states for up to four years.

>> criminal histories, open investigations, the applicants that we considered and that was the basis for the denial. >> reporter: the oakland police departments says that was a misapplication for the u visa governing certifications, a mistake caught by the alameda county immigration unit in two cases. >> they were denying some sort of criminality, whether they were arrested for a crime, or possibly defending of a crimor convicted of a crime. and that's not their job, their job is only to certify whether someone has been helpful in the prosecution of a crime. >> reporter: the department is now reaching out to those applicants. ulysses perez diaz was initially rejected after he says he helped police as the victim of an attempted carjacking. >> translator: he felt badly because an opportunity was denied in this country that is his home.

>> worst-case scenario is that someone has been deported and shouldn't have been. smoke billowed out of a home in san jose today, before the fire department could tackle the problem. there was a fire at an abandoned home on south second street and market street. neighbors told abc7 news squatters were living there. firefighters quickly got the fire under control. one man is rebuilding his life in santa rosa's charred coffee park. it's an area surrounded by ruins. wayne freedman is live with that story. >> reporter: it's a very big deal about a little house. if you had been to coffee park, this is what you're used to at this point, just flat, nothing here, houses are all gone. except for one, this house right here, the only house, ever wonder how it got here so fast? we asked. three months and counting after the firestorm and this picture fits the mood in coffee park where many residents remain in a

fog. it is certainly a place of promises and pride, but mostly it's a flat, scraped mudscape with one exception. on this lot, a future going up rather than a past burned down. >> so coming in through the laundry area. >> reporter: coffee park resident dan bradford giving a tour of 1313 kerry lane of two bedrooms and two baths rising up before your very eyes, the only house to begin construction begins last fall's tragedy. what's the secret? >> being aggressive. >> reporter: the plans for instance, dan found those in a local draftsman shop. >> lucky. >> reporter: and he hired a contractor out of lake county, one with more than a little experience of rebuilding burned

homes. rob williams firsted a vi ed ea ignore fema's foundation. >> if he had gone fema, they would have tore it all out. >> reporter: and then? >> and then he would have been just like all these other lots. waiting. >> reporter: instead, this, construction began the first of january, by may, rob williams says it will all be finished and he'll be on to the next one did you ever get the feeling you were building a symbol? >> yeah, by the amount of traffic coming by every day. >> reporter: everyone amazed by this little house resolutely pushing up from the sodden soot. in coffee park, wayne freedman, abc7 news. president trump is promising a path to citizenship. but there is a caveat, what he wants in exchange for his immigration program.

plus alexa, siri, google assistant. and the bears who have a new home at the oakland zoo.

there could be a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of young people that were brought to this country as children and are now here illegal i. president trump sounding optimistic tick that a bipartisan immigration deal is possible. but he's also signaling a major shift in policy, a path to

citizenship for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented citizenship. president trump now says he's open to granting d.r.e.a.m.ers citizenship after ten years. the president also left open the possibility he would extend the march 5 daca deadline that he set if congress doesn't reach an agreement. there's been grumbling on capitol hill from both democrats and republicans that the president hasn't provided enough details of what aboexactly whats to see in bill. developed through conversations with lawmakers from both parties, officials here say it represents a compromise that both republicans and democrats can support. it includes the same four bullet points the white house has been citing for months. canceling the visa lottery program and a permanent solution on daca.

but the wall may still be the big sticking point, the thing that holds up negotiations, president trump insists that if there's no funding for his border wall, there's no deal on daca. >> not a lot of people felt them, but a pair of sizable earthquakes off the coast of hum bolt count sure had people talking. the first happened about five miles away from fern dale. the long-awaited west coast early earthquake warning system is one step closer to deployment. but mass communications via cell phone face delay. david lui explains why. >> earthquake, duck cover. >> designed to give people seconds of notice, time to take cover in a classroom or to shut down transit systems. city workers will begin a large

scale test later this year. >> the rest of the system has actually been in beta testing since 2012. we're improving it as we go, but we think it's reached a point of maturity to issue reliable alerts. >> a unique alert tone is still in the works, that will be followed by voice and text alerts, however the u.s. geological survey says mass communications via cell phones is seven years away, mobile phones are too slow when seconds count. there's 17 what sensor stations that monitor seismic activity has yet to be built. that leaves the u.s. behind china, japan and turkey that have better earthquake systems. >> those systems were implemented after there were high fatality events and that produced the political will to invest in this technology. >> when shake alert eventually

gets down to the local level will be to get people to respond to an alert, unlike when people hear a fire alarm go off, many people just stay in place assuming it's a false alarm. false alarms by shake alert are possible if the system senses movement. digital systems are becoming more common here these days, there's alexa, google and siri. >> it can be tricky making them work. michael finney is here with some tips. >> amazon echo or google home still in the box because you don't know what to do with it? now is the time to change that

>> alexa, start a grocery list. a voice assistant can help you out in ways you never imagined. the first you have to set it up. >> when you get a new voice assistant or smart speaker, you need to download the app that goes with it. and from there it will help you set the device up. >> reporter: once there, the importants are endless. that you might have to enable things called skill for the echo. it makes your system even smarter. >> you can have it tell you what the weather is, or have it read yur calendar for the day. you can also get the latest sports scores. >> the new england patriots lost 31-34. >> reporter: are you ready to let your new assistant really show its stuff in like light bulbs, door locks and plugs, you have an instant smart home. >> if you have a smart plug, you can turn on and off whatever you

have plugged into it. in my case a christmas tree. >> alexa, turn the christmas tree off. what it lets you do is get things done without having to open an app or in this case, crawl behind the couch and unplug the tree. >> reporter: practice patience as you get to know your new assistant and what it can do. >> remember that rome wasn't built in a day and you're going to find things to connect to it and add skills and apps and it's something that improves over time. >> these assistants don't have the best sound quality when it comes to playing music, but many say they are working to change that. >> that would be good. >> i think the new apple one is supposed to sound really good. bay area based trading and app popular with millennial's. robin hood announced today it will let customers buy bit coin,

ripple and 15 other crypto currencies. robin hood has 3 million users with a demographic considered to be the particularly most enthusiastic about digital money. a european rocket carrying nasa equipment to study the boundary between earth and space is on its way to its new home, it's arian 5 rocket took off from french gianna. the robecket is carrying defense -- to look at the upper atmosphere and space weather a little bit better. speaking of weather -- it's still unsettled out there, good evening to all of you, let's check out live doppler 7 right now, we're still seeing a mix of high elevation snow and showers down below. let's start with the lower elevations, what we are

arrange cambrian park. there is some moderate to heavy rain just southeast of tus can d -- scattered light spotty showers around broad more, san francisco. so you may need to turn on those wipers for your evening commute. you take a look around yo the santa rosa area, we do have some pockets of showers there. it is turning to snow at the higher elevations of lake county. this is a mix of rain and snow because some of this has been falling as snow. we do have a winter weather advisory for the southern portion of lake county until 6:00 tonight for the northern portion until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, so accumulating snow expected right on through tomorrow. in terms of your rainfall totals. here's what we received, mostly in the quarter to half-inch category. look at san jose, you typically don't get a whole lot.

but .42 there. when you have rain, you get rainbows, especially with sunshine. thank you for sending this beautiful picture of the rainbow from alameda. we encourage you to send your photos. here's a live look from tahoe, where they have seen anywhere from about 12 to 18 urges of snow and still counting. here's a lovely picture from north star where they received 11 to 13 inches of snow and they are enjoying that powder. right now chain control is on all roads leading up to tahoe, keep that in mind, it's still dumping in the sierra. elevations above 3,000 feet could see locally heavy rain there. temperatures now, you're feeling the chill already, the cold system that's passing through now we're getting the cold air, so we have 40s, 50s across the bay area, a live from your santa cruz camera. scattered showers tonight,

partial clearing tomorrow. it's going to be dry and mod are this evening. so on our storm impact scale, we'll keep this as a level 1 tonight with those scattered showers. hour by hour we go, 6:00 tonight, still seeing those showers, moderate pockets in yellow, snow at the higher elevations, this trend carries over into 8:00 p.m., and you will notice by 9:00 p.m., those showers are starting to shift out of here. most of it stays off the coast and it starts to wind down. so tomorrow morning, just some clouds, as we head into around 7:00 a.m., clouds will linger and then you'll start to see the sun. bundle up tomorrow morning, it's going to be down around freezing, low 30s to mid 30s. accuweather 7-day forecast, mid 60s to low 60s tomorrow. rising temps in time for your weekend. if you have outdoor activities,

really mild weather, we'll duplicate that monday and above average on tuesday, near 70 addition inland. temperatures will remain in the mid 50s to upper's coast side. mid 60s inland. february sunshine coming your way. and of course we all know we need the rain, but as of right now, the accuweather 7-day is dry. keep in mind, winter is all about changes and it can change very rapidly that's why you need to downllooad the accuweather a. lots of applause as this charter school. >> what made this graduation

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cubs settling in. here's a live look now from the bear's habitat, from the zoo's black bear cam. let's see, california trails not yet open to the public. wait a minute, i see a little guy, under the branches, on the rock, kind of in the middle left of your screen, he was trying to camoufla camouflage, but we caught it. very good, well some students who have learned some difficult lessons in life earned something today that will help them take the next step. abc7 news was at their graduation ceremonies today at the san francisco hall of justice. 18 inmates serving time for various offenses received their high school diplomas. it's part of a program call eed five keys for people behind bars. >> my mom already owns a hair

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that has a company in england, a stranger in china and . you have heard of marriages going down the toilet. but have you ever seen a wedding take place by one? >> this new jersey couple recently tied the knot inside the courthouse bathroom. the woman's mother had an asthma attack. a judge agreed to marry the couple just outside of the stalls. >> the newlyweds are happy their mom is okay. and she has a great story to tell her grandkids. >> and it's not the location, it's the people around you. "world news tonight" with david muir is coming up next. >> we see you again we hope in half an hour.

tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. just a short time ago, president trump offering a deal for the dreamers. a path to citizenship for 1.8 million. what the white house is demanding in return. also tonight, president trump in davos, reporters shouting questions, but back home, will he answer questions from robert mueller? he says he will under oath. you'll hear the audio tonight, his interaction with reporters here at home. but tonight, what his lawyer is now saying about that. the developing headline. what went wrong? the father, taken captive during a home invasion, then shot and killed as fbi agents were raiding the home. the deadly high school shooting, and now we learn about the daughter who was killed and the phone call she made during the chaos right before. the bank robbery. the