intense winds that i have seen in my 25 years here in south lake. >> it also dumped three feet of snow at kirkwood resorts, crews spend the day at 10,000 feet to make sure they could get it ready for skiers. >> and we saw some snow here in the bay area as well. we caught this burst falling on mt. tam this morning. >> and hail in sausalito. >> and a viewer sent us this picture from westbound i-80 near the university avenue exit. >> with so much going on in the weather, let's get right to the weather. >> seeing a potpourri of weather conditions out there, check out live doppler 7 right now. i'm going to take you into where we're seeing some snow at low elevations in the hills of the north bay, right around our radar site as well. we're seeing some snow mixing in

with rain, light rain, bridgeway across mill valley area, and heading into the peninsula, mountain view to sunnyvale, so light rain. if you take a look at mt. hamilton, it's a rain-snow mix, and downpours have been going on in the east bay. it's starting to lighten up but still steady rain from walnut creek to mt. diablo. showers briefly heavy, thunder and hail, and snow in the hills between 1,500 to 2,000 feet. don't be surprised if you see snowflakes where you live. i'll be back with an hour by hour timeline taking you to part of your weekend that's going to be wet. there's developing news at the squaw valley resort where there's been an avalanche. the placer county sheriffs are on the scene to -- 20 skiers were reportedly involved and at

least one was buried. the avalanche happened near the k-22 ski lift, which is very well known. we're checking with the sheriff's office for updates and we'll bring them to you as soon as we learn of them. at one point traffic on south lake tahoe was completely stopped and i-80 at frisco grows had people sliding off the roads, despite the treacherous conditions, the snow is good for skiers. skiers have been waiting anxiously during a mostly dry winter. leslie blinkly trekked up into the mountains today to give us a firsthand look. >> reporter: it was a slow drive to tahoe, caltrans chain controls at only 3,800 feet. spinouts limiting the i-80 corridor everywhere. >> it quit snowing long enough for it to freeze over and then all the snow that was on the roadway became a sheet of ice, which makes it even harder to

remove. >> reporter: but once you're up in the mountains, it's breathtaking. quiet streets, big beautiful flakes falling and snow piled up on balconies and in driveways. sometime to shovel. >> it gives us something to do other than watching tv and drinking beer. >> reporter: it was too much for this coke truck that drifted off the delivery route and got stuck. according to sugar bowl resort, over 15 inches of the white stuff has fallen since wednesday. this is the kind of snow, the powdery snow that skiers and borders love, it's been coming fast and the winds's been picking up. >> the winds's picking up and making deep pockets. it's really good out there right now. >> reporter: sugar bowl expects big crowds out here by sunday, financial relief from the warm,

dry february that stifled business, and another significant storm is expected to roll through here later this week. >> thinking in the future we're going to have water, once this all melts, we're going to have water for the bay area, whatever. >> a march miracle, up in the sierra, i'm leslie brinkley, abc7 news. >> and here's another look at the live doppler 7, remember the abc7 app where you can institute push alerts. i.c.e. says there are hundreds of people violating the immigration law sent panic throughout the community. >> reporter: this rally just started here, you can see people came out, even though it's sprinkling in the rain with their signs, they're here at story and king and they're wanting it to be here because

i.c.e. was spotted here earlier this week and they want it to be known they want to take back their neighborhood. when people spotted numerous white vans with tirvnted window driving through through the parking lot, people got suspicious. it confirmed their fear that i.c.e. was in the area. >> we're concerned because that's the most latino populated area. >> reporter: this restaurant manager tells us the entire plaza looked like a ghost town. >> we saw 7 or 8 hours where the streets were empty, nobody was even walking around, business was down significantly. >> reporter: 400 calls about i.c.e. activity where people were arrested or detained. >> we wer able to provide them with attorney to represent

them. >> reporter: i.c. ee. says it me 232 arrests. siren and immigrant rights groups is monitoring i.c.e. activity every day. >> if they do have an encounter by i.c.e., or they're approached by an i.c.e. agent, be sure they exercise their right to be silent and ask for a warrant if they want to enter your home. >> they are arresting people who had been ordered to leave the u.s. or had been deport and returned to the u.s. oakland mayor libby schaaf is maintaining her position to protect people from i.c.e. yesterday the white house said libby schaaf's actions were

under review by the justice department. the mayor had said she was trying to give residents time to learn their rights and know their legal options. >> it's always been my intention to be law abiding, to act within the confines of the law, but also to do what i believe is right, right for my community. >> mayor schaaf says her office has been flooded with angry messages, but she doesn't believe there's a threat to her or to her family. she says she's also recieved a lot of support from people in oakland. police still have not released the names of the suspects or the officer involved in a shoot-out this morning in santa rosa. it happened outside the gardagaa armored car facility. neighbors worry this won't be the last. >> i got woke up by gunshots. >> reporter: the shots rang out from a building that has no signs on the outside, but piles of money on the inside.

>> i just heard gunshots and said get in the closet. >> reporter: it happened before dawn when two men showed up at this armored car facility and demanded money. >> the suspect raised the firearm towards the officer, the officer was forced to fire multiple rounds at the suspect. >> reporter: police say he was hit twice and fled into a nearby creek bed where he collapsed. the officer's on leave and the suspect is expected to live. though they caught the bad guys, it's not a victory for the neighborhood. >> one of my neighbors in the next building got her window shot out last night and got a bullet in her tv set. >> it was just scary for my kids and everything. >> reporter: scary because it's happened before, police confirm this facility was hit in 2011 and 2012 both times by the same

robber. linda lambert says the robber parked the getaway car right by her house. >> the first time he got away with a load of cash, the second time he got 32 years in prison. lambert says it's time for garda to go. >> they need to be in an industrial area that's not residenti residential. if this had happened during the daytime, who knows what would have happened. the european union appears ready to launch a trade war that would impact a bay area company if president trump follows through on his promise to raise steel and aluminum tariffs. jean-claude junckon steel and aluminum tariffs. jean-claude juncke ojuncker say going to put tariffs on levi jeans. they resides the -- levys issued a statement saying, quote, we support open markets and free

trade where everyone plays by the rules, these measures will not only hurt american brands and workers but will have reverberations across the economy. >> it's very in your face, it's not like an abstract. >> harvey wine seen makes an unusual appearance in hollywood. the oscars were a -- plus the oscar movie turning sacramento into a tourist attraction. and the big name

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but an activist installed this statue of harvey winestein on the casting couch. it's catching a lot of attention from bystanders. >> who wants to be directed to the couch? who wants their hand on his knee? who wants his arm around them? >> he came to hollywood with a dream and ambition, and harvey had this status in hollywood that was untouchable. >> winestein has been accused of sexual misconduct from 70 women in the last year, sparking the me too movement that's caught hollywood by storm. last year the wrong envelope was handed to the however. deon, i remember nobody, none of the reporters -- >> reporter: even though it's rainy, even though it's cold, the preparations for the big

show on sunday, they are in full swing. check it out, we have the risers to my right, this is where all the lucky ticket holders get to watch all the celebrities parade down the red carpet and this is where the national and international media is setting up for their live shots. you can be sure that preparations for the envelopes this year, announcing all the winners, lots and lots of precautions are being taken so that what happened last year doesn't happen again. >> for best picture. >> reporter: it went down in oscar's history, that unforgettable moment when louisial.a. l.a. land was announced for best picture. >> there's been a mistake. >> reporter: the wrong envelope was handed to the announcer. >> oscar host jimmy kimmel skill

can't get over it. he jokes about it in this commercial for the academy awards. but it's no laughing matter for pricewaterhousecoopers. for eight decades, the accounting firm has scar ballots and this year they're making sure it doesn't happen again. first, the team who counted last year, won't be returning, instead, two new people will be overseeing the envelopes, and a third person will be inside the control room. there's also a new formal procedure in place for when the envelopes are handed over. both the celebrity presenter and the stage manager will check they're given the correct envelo envelope. and something else we got to point out is this, all of the pricewaterhousecoopers employees who are working the big show on sunday, not allowed to use their cell phones or social media,

absolutely no distractions equals no mix-up. reporting live from the red carpet, dion lind, abc7 news. an oscar favorite this year is lady bird nominated for five academy awards. >> it's set in los angeles and has a lot of land marks. >>. >> reporter: a city known more for its political theater is now getting the hollywood treatment. >> i want to go where hollywood is like new york. >> lady bird is a coming of age story set in sacramento. sacramento native greta gerwig is up for best director at this week's oscars. the movie so popular here there is now a walking tour that gives visitors a chance to see the film locations up close, including the giant blue house known as the fab 40s. >> this is the highlight of the tour, i save it for the end,

just because it's really exciting for everybody to see. >> reporter: and the tour's attracting people from all over, including the bay area and the east coast. if all the walking gets you thirsty, how about stopping at club raven, where they concocted the lady bird drink after their bar sign was featured in the film. >> this is the lady bird, it's tahoe blue vodka, and a splash of soda and a blackberry >> i knew there was something special, i just loved her enthusiasm and really her ability with words at a very early age. >> reporter: her work leaving a big impression on these students. >> she's just a huge role model for me because i really want to be a writer. >> reporter: the school is holding an oscars watching party, but greta is already a winner in the eyes of these

girls and the rest of the city. >> and our complete oscar coverage begins sunday at 1:30 p.m. with often the red carpet, then at 3:30, we have the oscars opening ceremony preshow, then at 5:00 it's the 90th annual academy awards with dion. and oaklan native g.e.z. is riding barred, take a look at this picture that was posted on social media, he was going to a sold out show in oakland and somebody snapped the picture and there it is. hi there, everyone, i want to show you something exciting, we don't see have often, look at the view from our mt. tam camera, it is snow falling, yes, snowflakes coming down, i know we saw the snow earlier this morning, but it's exciting here. i want to show you what happened

minutes ago, snow started to develop right over the north bay, so some areas as low as 1,500 feet getting some snowflakes, as you will notice on street level radar, we're seeing a mix of rain and snow as low as the stinson beach area, across highway 101. this is pretty cold stuff obviously. and we are tracking some moderate pockets of rain on the peninsula from portola valley road heading us to palo alto. san jose, it is turning to quite a bit of snow in the sierra. chain controls on all roads leading up there. i would not recommend travel. they have already seen anywhere between 1 to 4 feet of snow. there is an avalanche warning for the central sierra, that portion of the tahoe area until

10:00 tomorrow, dangerous conditions. winter storm warning until 10:00 p.m. tomorrow. travel is definitely discouraged and even though this is gorgeous and some of you are just wanting to get up there to go boarding, keying, just wait, sunday will be a better day to head up there. temperatures anywhere from the p 30s to the 50s, and water seeing a mix of clouds and sun. wintry mix continuing tomorrow, freezing cold mornings this weekend, warmer monday through wednesday. on our storm impact scale, this is a level 1 system. a light system today through tomorrw. look out for those brief downpours, snow in the hills above 2,000 feet. we have already seen some thunderstorms, hail and wind. hour by hour, we take you into 11:00 p.m., mt. hamilton seeing

more snow showers like they have been seeing, and as we go into tomorrow morning, this wintry mix will take over. make sure you have your shades on saturday afternoon, evening, this system starts to wind down, tomorrow morning it will be cold, near freezing in our inland valley, and temperatures definitely in the 40s. pack on the layers for your early morning plans, temperatures low to mid 50s, it will be a chilly saturday, surf is coming up, 10 to 12-foot waves right now, high surf advisory for the coast tomorrow. scattered wintry mix, level 1 for saturday, drying out for oscar sunday, but it will be cold warming up monday through wednesday and wednesday night going through friday, we have a level one system coming in. it's a milder storm, brings us much rain, and it's needed. >> looking forward to the rain,

and you've seen the wind. >> the wind is not as bad today as it was yesterday with all that damage. >> oh, good. >> thank you, sandy. a hot spot of

our current storms may be great news for our water situation, but they're also accelerating a messy pollution problem in san francisco bay. rain waters are pushing mounds of trash through storm drains and into swollen creeks and estuaries and from there into the bay. to stop the problem at its source, environmental groups say the bay is asking state officials to take action against caltrans. >> so caltrans is four years out of compliance with requirements to reduce trash, they're violating the clean water act, they're poisoning the bay, and

they still haven't said when they're going to reduce the trash on the roads. >> save the bay is asking caltrans to install trash catchers on storm cradrains amo other steps, caltrans says it has budgeted $9 million to make improvements over the next few years. scientists have discovered a large number of penguins, the animals are crammed on to pelican island. these penguins, this type were in decline. satellites and nasa pick up evidence of the penguins, not the birds themselves, but large pockets of what they leave behind, the team then used a drone to help survey the island, the birds were thought to be threatened. it's finney's friday free

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new on abc7 "news at 6:00," an update to an investigation we have been tracking since last year's north bay wildfires to an assisted living facility accused of elder abuse. aly raisman takes action on her suit that was filed against

the gymnastic's dr. larry nassar. that's all coming up in half an hour on abc7 "news at 6:00." now it's time to get excited for finney's friday free stuff. >> michael is here now with some fun things. >> some bling. >> you got to glam it up for the oscars, right? rocks box, you're going to get a one-month subscription. what they do is they send you out three sets of jewelry a month. then you keep them as long as you want. you keep it as long as you want and then when you're done, you ship it back and they ship you something else. it's one of the subscription based services. this stuff is really fun. and if you like it, then you can take the monthly charge which is $21 and put it towards the cost of the jewelry. >> your stuff's disappearing. >> isn't that pretty cool?

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>> "world news tonight" with david muir is next. >> we'll s tonight, the deadly nor'easter slamming several states as we come on the air. what's called a bomb cyclone, from the carolinas up through d.c., philly, new york and boston. hurricane-force winds at points reaching more than 80 miles per hour. knocking down trees into homes and cars. the major storm surge at this hour, and the real concern in many places, the worst is yet to come tonight. also this evening, the travel nightmare. because of this, thousands of flights canceled. and amtrak in the northeast shut down at this hour. also tonight, we have new reporting on jared kushner, president trump's son-in-law, and those meetings inside the white house. and then hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to help his family's business. tonight, new reporting. what then happened after all of that. raising new questions tonight. the deadly shooting at a school, a student opening fire