forecast with spencer christian. >> right now we're experiencing a period of relatively quiet weather. in fact we even have partial to mostly clear skies, over much of the bay area, we'll have more showers coming in later today. but we do have gusty winds. gusty winds at half moon bay, 30-mile-per-hour gusts in many inland locations. let's move on to the sierra, an outbreak of widespread thunderstorms moving into the sierra foothills resulting in a flash flood warning being issued. for portions of mariposa area of the dam break there. let's move over to the sierra right now, where a winter storm warning is in effect above 6,500 feet after 11:00 tonight. up to 25 inches possible,

obviously travel will be difficult in that area. and an avalanche warning is in effect for 7:00 tomorrow morning, for much of the lake tahoe area. heavy snow creating these avalanche conditions. >> spencer, thank you. the north bay saw sustained rain from last night well past rush hour and that led to some problems out on the roadways. >> nbc news reporter wayne friedman joins us live from novato novato. in the north bay, one might describe damage in the storm as unpredictable. >> where it strikes, always a

surprise. angeli angelina never imagined the damage this oak tree would cause in her front yard. >> we saw it swaying, but he didn't know this big thing could fall. >> but it did, threading a large needle between the house and the street, with this car at ground zero. >> a big bang. >> reporter: trees fell elsewhere in at the junction of highway 12 in shellville, there's a history of flash floods. right on queue, the driver of that toyota escaped wet but uninjured. and we found the same thing at rohnert expressway. the overall theme of brief

inconvenience follow ed by sunshine and a break. >> they had been in urban and small street flooding. at one point today, novato creek reached 5.5 feet. now it's roughly 3.5 feet and going down. >> okay, wayne, thanks very much. in the south bay the rain has made for hazardous driving conditions. but some experienced the clouds breaks during the day. >> chris is here with more on this story. >> reporter: dan and kristen, from the valley up to the summit, the rain has been falling throughout the day, but as you can see, we are currently in a break right now, and that's good news for drivers who will soon hit the roads for the evening commute. >> we all know the rain itself isn't always fun, but workers with the santa clara water district say it's a good problem to have. >> we don't know if next year's another dry year, or this could

be the beginning of another multiyear drought. >> highway 17 from the santa cruz mountains was a mess throughout the day. drivers caught up in accidents or spinouts causing major delays for the cars behind them. this couple from santa cruz stopped bring the boardwalk this afternoon and they came prepared. >> umbrellas, rain gear, i've got my rain boots as well and nothing was going to stop us from doing what we wanted to do today. >> reporter: this comes as the boardwalk prepares for a busy spring season ahead. >> we needed the rain, next week it's supposed to clear out and it will be another wonderful season, the beginning of the season here at the beach. >> back down in the valley, all five of the water district's sandbag locations have been fully stocked for residents. maintenance workers are also set to respond for any large debris

flows. >> if there's any blockages they can remove those. >> reporter: there should be enough space to capture any runoff from this week's storm. >> reporter: and for those of you who are looking for sandbags, we posted a link to the locations on twitter, just follow us on abc7newsbay there are flight delays up to two hours for some alouisvillearrivals. that's low visibility. short haul flights to and from the west coast are most impacted by this. and now looking at san jose international airport. flights are on time as we speak. >> you can get doppler 7 on our

abc7 news app. there is developing now from fairfield where the police are investigating a car fire, that fire happened at 7:00 yesterday. they say that car made unauthorized entry past the main gate. it crashed and caught fire, the driver was killed, today the authorities reached few details and why the base's bomb squad was called out afterwards. along with the fbi, the airport's office of special investigation is looking into this incident. there are new details in yesterday's shooting in the crockert left a police officer wounded. the police officer died from his wounds at sf general. video obtained by nbc news showed people scattering when the guns began firing. police say it started when they responded to the area near

mission street and geneva avenue yesterday afternoon for a report of a man with a gun. six people were shot including an officer. >> you're not thinking about too much, other than getting to safety, when you hear gunshots, you just don't want to be hit. that's the only thing you're thinking. >> the barbershop is riddled with bullets. the wounded officer was shot in the leg and is expected to recover. at this hour, protests have erupted at san jose city hall to protest the shooting of an unarmed black man in his backyard. the proprotests were sparked by the release of police body camera video showing the constituting of steven clark. the incident happened sunday night. officers were called to investigate a report of broken windows when they opened fire on clark, 20 shots were fired in ten seconds and we want to warn

you the video may be very graphic. [ gunshots ] >> shots fired, suspect is down. >> officers did not find a gun, only a cell phone. clark's family has hired the same attorney who represent eed trayvon martin. community leaders asked for protests to remain peaceful. threatening gun violence was found scrawled on bathroom walls, this comes just days after el diablo high school said the school was safe. >> reporter: this parking lot at dvc normally jam packed, but not today. that said, we just learned from campus administrators that classes will resume here tomorrow. there was some 20,000 students

the campus at diablo valley college is normally bustling with activity. but not today after all classes were cancelled, buildings locked up tight after threateni ining graffiti was found in two campus bathrooms. >> we took that seriously and decided to close this particular campus. if it did happen and kids were in class, then obviously people could have died. but if it didn't happen, then, you know, better to be safe than sorry. >> i saw something, i said something, i yelled, i reported, i filed paper work and nothing happened. >> student halle brofy says she's been filing complaints for some time. a student under arrest for bringing a knife to a protest has been making threatening statements to her and others for months. >> he made direct threats against a multicultural group on

campus. he made anti-semitic comments, and was just a really threatening figure. >> reporter: with little response from campus administrators, her mother put a lengthy post on facebook. the social media post was full of, quote, misinformation and insisting the campus was safe. >> so you're standing here saying the school is safe. >> yeah, over graffiti. >> and the parking lot may be empty today here at dvc, but just within the last few minutes, we have learned from officials here that classes will resume here on campus, at the main campus tomorrow morning. as for those threats that burfey reported, campus officials are saying there is no evidence that the two are related. but they are still investigating both incidents.

in pleasant hill, laura anthony, abc7 news. increasing trade tensions between the u.s. and china caused a major drop on wall street today. the dnasdaq dropped more than 70 points. this following announcements about trade sanctions against china. another shake-up at the white house today. mcmaster is out and bolton is in. president trump is replacing national security advisor h.r. mcmaster, with john bolton, a former u.s. ambassador to the united nations. trump has repeatedly clashed where mcmaster, a respected three-star general, and talk that mcmaster would soon leave the administration has followed up in recent weeks. this follows the dramatic announce of the resignation of rex tillerson last week.

officials meet with companies behind self-driving cars. the changes they're making for gun buyers. plus -- >> i've had a good, what, two weeks of rehab. >> steph curry back on the practice court,

just one day after the release of startling video from the deadly crash of a self-driving uber car, officials met from all corners of the autonomous car industry. >> we want to know how you feel

about the self-driving technology. are you worried? cast your vote by going to ab 7 abc7news.c abc7news.com/vote. >> we would love to hear from you. now to abc7 news reporter jonathan bloom. >> in my point of view, there is the future of our city and the future of our roads. >> he also addressed the elephant in the room. >> obviously what happened in arizona is very unfortunate. we certainly don't want to see that replicated anywhere around our country. >> it comes a day after this video shows a self-driving uberr striking a woman as she was crossing the street. >> that's exactly why we are collaborating, because we do not want those things happening on the streets of california. >> training our officers to

interact with the vehicles, how do we deal with the vehicles in regards to any collisions, so on. >> reporter: san francisco's a bit of a special case when it comes to driving, it's the second district in the country, that's why one company testing on the streets says the testing on -- >> for now zooks is testing with people in the car, along with forging ahead to use remote drivers. mark rosekind was the federal government's top dog on traffic safety. he's drawing no conclusions from the crash yet. >> the more and more facts come up, the more complicated and important for all of us to learn about. >> jonathan bloom, abc7 news. >> how do you feel about self-driving technology? some are saying can't wait, but some are saying they don't trust

it. >> we'll leave the voting open throughout the 6:00 p.m. hour and again you don't have to sign up or register, just let us know what you think. >> special counsel robert mueller is looking into connections between donald trump's campaign and cambridge analytica. >> the trump campaign has distanced itself from that firm. >> but mueller's investigators have asked former campaign officials about data operations, especially how the campaign collected and utilized voter data in battleground states. the house energy and commerce committee is calling on facebook ceo mark zuckerberg to testify. >> the mountain view based company says facebook's current default permissions leave billions of users vulnerable. it says it would consider returning if the social network

strengthens its settings. steph curry returned to practice with the warriors today and says he'll probably play tonight. curry practices is jump shot there, curry has missed six games with this latest injury. curry sat out 11 games in december after hurting the same ankle. the team's mvp says he's ready to go. >> being the player i want to be, doing the moves i want to do, making the cuts and everything like that, i can do all that stuff right now. >> golden state head coach steph kerr says draymond durant siz >> rain abated a little today, which was nice. >> it did. it will remain abated for a while. there's more coming in tomorrow and the day after and the day

after. so tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow creeps in that steady pace of rain. but live doppler 7 is remaining clear conditions in the bay area. all that activity has moved over to the sierra, where it's snowing in the higher elevations and thunderstorms are rumbling through the sierra foothills, blue sky over the bay looking out from our rooftop camera. we have mid 50s in oakland, san jose, gilroy and half moon bay. check out our east bay hills camera. 58 at santa rosa, 57 at napa, and this is a few from mt. tam looking down under the bay under mostly sunny skies, but they won't remain that way that long. we'll see partial clearing with the chilly conditions tonight. scattered showers will pop-up during the overnight hours, so we'll have those scattered showers friday saturday and

sunday, before we get a pattern of clearer and warmer weather next week. the storm coming in tonight ranks 1 on the storm impact scale. we'll see snow levels down to 3,000 feet here in the bay area, so maybe some flakes will fall over our higher peaks. here's our forecast animation shows 5:00 this afternoon. notice how clear and dry it will be during the late night and overnight. and later in the day, we'll see scattered showers or spotty showers swinging through the bay area throughout the day, into the around and evening hours, ahead of this, which will be our next wave of steadier rain coming in overnight tomorrow night and saturday morning. and saturday is going to be a chilly day with the scattered showers showers here with maybe some snow in the higher elevations and our peaks.

low 40s on the coast and then tomorrow's highs will range from lowe and mid 50s on the coast, with breezy conditions there, with high 50s everywhere. a winter storm warning remains until 11:00 receive an additional 9 to 13 inches above 6,500 feet. and an avalanche warning remains in effect for 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. and here we go with the accuweather 7-day forecast. tomorrow, saturday and sunday, storm s of light intensity, int, friday, saturday and into sunday. then next week starts with sunnier and dryer conditions and we'll see high temperatures in the low to mid 70s.

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with a man known for becoming the first nationally syndicated bozo the clown has died. frank was 89 years old. he was a long time boston television personality and appeared as bozo from 1959 to 1970. funeral services are scheduled for tomorrow. an organization founded by a man who was formerly homeless launched a crowd funding campaign to find housing for those without a place to stay.

taking it to the streets helps young people between 18 and 27 who are often out of the scope of other charitable groups. currently the group houses 63 young people. it wants to raise $50,000 on hand up to help more homeless youth. >> we give you a muni pass every month, a food card every month, you hook you up with a driver's license if you need them. >> for additional information go to abc7news.com. teenagers are going on a journey halfway around the world. today they were preparing to the trip to ghana on the coast of the west africa. it's being sponsored by the operation genesis program which aims to reconnect the students with their african heritage

>> it's going to be really special for me especially to have this great opportunity to go to africa and explore my culture and also help the kids in africa. >> i hope she comes back with a little more humility, i hope she comes back with more great moments. >> tocestorcestorcestorcest came from and to experience the food and other stuff. >> the trip students helped in fundraising and planning for this truly trip of a lifetime and they will come back different from when they left. it should be a really transformational experience. a huge drop on wall street after president trump announces tariffs on china. >> it's going to make us a much stronger, much richer nation. >> why the president says this is just the beginning. plus a war of words taken to the next step, a big talk from

president

here are the stories making headlines at 4:30. breaking news, the moccasin dam is in imminent danger of failure. any water relays here should be

contained by the dam. the public yutilities commissio says there's no threat from water at this time. here's a tweet about the bullet holes inside the amazon barbershop. a police officer is recovering from a gunshot wound in the leg. it was eerily quiet at the diablo valley college campus. there was graffiti warning of a shooting. classes will resume tomorrow. authorities are giving more insight about the final encounter with the now deceased suspect, 23-year-old mark condit. >> reporter: and kristen, authorities spent the day searching inside of mark condit's home which is now boarded up. and inside they tell us they found a locked room that he used

to make those bombs. after 19 days of terror in austin, the suspected bomber mark condit ended what he s.t.a.r.t.ed. >> the number of devices he had already sent off, so we had planned for it, but obviously it was a big surprise when it went off. >> reporter: authorities discussing those moments before they closed in on condit and he used a seventh and final bomb to kill himself. >> i knew we were close, but i just wanted to finalize the deal. >> reporter: condit according to authorities was responsible for the bombing that killed three and injured five. police say he left behind a 25-minute cell phone video describing in detail the seven explosive devices. >> he was admitting to what he had done. >> investigators say it was these images of condititititit

with a wig. >> we had no idea the darkness that mark must have been in. >> and they're still coming to term with what has happened. >> they have lost their son and, you know what he did was just awful. >> and authori >> reporter: and authorities said they have interviewed people connected with this case, including condit's two roommates but so far no arrests have been made. reporting live from pflugerville, texas, back to you. >> i know you have learned new details about the suspect's recording. it seems to give more of a picture of how disturbed and troubled he was. what can you tell us? >> reporter: it definitely does, according to the local abc affiliate here in austin, he says i wish i was sorry, but i am not.

aso that he's been a psychopath since he was a child and he said he regretted the decision to ship the bomb through fedex. marjorie stoneman douglas high school students returning from spring break next week will be required to wear id badges and only carry see through backpacks. the scene of a valentine's day shooting massacre. the school officials told parents metal detectors and upgraded security camera will be installed. citigroup unveiled a new policy today, aiming at keeping guns from landing in the wrong hands. the city's new guidelines will require it's retail sector clients to not sell guns to people who haven't passed back kbrou ground checks and to buyers under the age of 21.

customers can still use city branded credit cards in cities that sell guns. president trump's announcement that he's moving to impose tariffs of up to $60 billion worth of chinese imports is rattling financial markets. >> the dow jones closed down more than 700 points today. abc news reporter tara has the latest. >> reporter: president trump is ramping up tariffs against the world's second largest economy. >> it's going to make a much stronger, much richer nation. >> reporter: suggesting this sprik against china's tech practices is just the beginning of a global trade overhaul. >> this is number one, but this is the first of many. >> reporter: the president's trade team reportedly presented him with tariffs on $30 billion worth of chinese imports, but he

wanted more, upping the value to nearly6$60 the payments are reciprocal. speaking with china's president xi, asking him to reduce our tariffs by $20 billion. the stock market started low in anticipate of the announcement. senate finance chairman says he supports the measure that president trump is supporting bad actors. >> is that charge should be specifically at the person traitors specifically of china's actions. >> reporter: president trump exempted major steel producers including mexico, canada, the european union, argentina and australia. according to the department of congress, the u.s. trade deficit with china reached $35 billion last year. that's up nearly $5 billion from

last year. john dowd's departure comes as the two have shown disagreements pubically on whether to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller's probe. the president has increased his public attacks of mueller against legal advice. according to cnn's dowd's departure was a mutual decision. joe bide's remark had the two been in high school, he would beat him. here's the president's tweet to joe biden. crazy joe biden is trying to act like a tough guy, actually he is weak, both mentally and physically and yet he threatens me for the second time with physical assault. he doesn't know me but he would go down fast and hard crying all the way. >> a guy who ended up becoming or national leader said i request grab a woman anywhere

and then said i made a mistake, they asked me if i would like to debate this gentleman, i said no, i said, if we were in high school, i would take him behind the gym. a last ditch effort to save toys "r" us. plus the high cost of alzheimer's, and it's not just money we're talking about. a report on living with alzheimer's disease. san francisco shows a few clouds left o

a new report out this week reveals an increase in both costs and prevalence of alzheimer's disease. you hear a lot about that these days. joining me today are ruth gay, chief policy officer with the altzheimer association, and chris hanoven who is living with alzheimer's. a big finding in the report is about the cost of living with alzheimer's and in the second year in a row is expected to pass a quarter of a million dollars. ruth, why so much money? >> alzheimer's is the most expensive disease in america today. that quarter trillion -- >> the most expensive disease in

america? more than cancer, more than heart disease? >> this is a disease that lasts many years, people start in the very early stages and live for a very long time with the disease. and the costs translated, so much of the costs are medicare/medicaid urgent care costs that add up over the course of the disease and certainly affect all of our economic status. this is something that could bankrupt medicare and medicaid in the coming years. and we know that many people don't get diagnosed. chris went quite a long time to get a diagnosis. they did a lot of other things before they did that and it wastes a lot of time, right? >> chris, it's really important that you come on and talk about this and put a face to this disease and so many people are obviously affected by this and their families. when did you start to notice something wasn't quite right?

>> about five years ago. and since that time, it took me about two or three years to go into the process of finding out if i had a diagnosis. and at that time, i did find out that i had a diagnosis of early on set. >> did you just notice your memory wasn't as good? >> oh, yeah, one of the things that i remember is when i was trying to type something and i couldn't find the letter y, and that's when it really felt to me like this is serious, because i had never had that problem before. >> what did you do as your career? >> i worked for oracle and other tech companies. >> obviously it's upsetting, even upsetting when you find out. what is the prognosis, what are you expecting to happen to you in the years ahead? what are you worried about? >> i'm not worried about anything really. the experience for me has caused

me to look at myself and the world and look at what i have, rather than what might come to me. >> i have to be honest, just talking to you, you wouldn't know there's anything wrong with your mind. i'm sure you feel that way on many occasions, hey, i'm fine, some days are better than others? >> yes, yeah. >> it's so important, ruth, isn't it important to hear from people like chris because we can really tap into that and recognize maybe something we see in a relative or ourselves when we hear chris's story. >> absolutely, i think one of the things that really notable is we are moving more and more towards kocost savings could be translated just in early diagnosis, like what chris got. chris is involved in peer support, he's involved in groups, he's doing advocacy, he's involved in a number of things that allow him -- he's living his life with a chronic condition. and if we could get better at helping people understand what they're dealing with and manage

the disease over the course of the disease, we could save costs. >> very quickly, does early detection really make a difference in outcome? you're just aware of it sooner? >> you become aware of your condition better, and you're not so crisis driven on. if you go 10 years into a condition you don't know you're dealing with, you do lots of things wrong. >> this is a topic that affects, sadly, more of and more of us every day. the cheerful greeting at the 101 airborne flies into the bay area, the celebration 50 years in the making. "7 on your side's" michael finney, the most important meal

after what it calls unforeseen circumstances, toys "r" us delayed it's plan to begin liquidation sales at hundreds of stores today. >> michael finney is here with a little bit more about what that means. >> the company says they'll start closeout sales tomorrow.

you need to compare prices to make sure you're actually scoring a deal. this comes as toys "r" us is also dealing with the death of its founder, 94-year-old charles lazarus died today. he founded the company over 50 years ago. while toys "r" us launches into busine end of business sale, one of the company's spokesman says not so fast. he says he has investors pledging financing. he wants to buy 400 of the toys are us stores. the plan faces a lot of hurdles. the plan is way late in the process after getting from a bankruptcy judge. a company is recalling nearly half a million smoke alarms. that yellow cap may have been

left on during manufacturing which could cover one of the smoke sensors. you can check for one through the opening on the side of the alarm like you just saw there, the company will replace your device for free. we have more details on our website, just go to abc7news.com. the most important meal of the day could soon cost you just a little bit more. general mills says food and shipping costs are rising, that's forcing price hikes on some of the companies products. general mills makes everything from cheerios cell to yogurt. i want i want to hear from you, my "7 on your side" hot line is monday through friday 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. now your accuweather forecast with spencer christian.

>> we'll start with a look at where we stand across the area, with average rainfall for this time in the season. most locations are only about 60% to 65% of average for this point in the season. here's live doppler 7, today's rain has just about ended, but we have more rain coming overnight and tomorrow. it's a storm that ranks 1 on the storm impact scale. which will produce mainly just scattered showers, most locations will see less than .10 inch of rain from this storm. mid 40s right around the bay and tomorrow's highs will be in the upper 50s. here's the accuweather 7-day forecast. for friday, saturday and sunday, we'll have scattered showers, the systems ranking only 1 on the storm impact scale each of those days, so we're talking about mainly light showers, we'll have sunny skies monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday with high temperatures getting up into the 70s by the end of

the week, can't wait for that. hey, how about a stress free weekend? wouldn't we all like one of those? >> we have some ideas from our partners at hoodline. >> spend a couple of board games and cuddling will rescue kittens in san francisco. it's an adults only game night at the cat lounge called kitty, it's filled with playful, human, loving rescue kitties, you're encouraged to bring your own adult beverages. they'll bring the cats and some are looking for ever homes. >> it's nice to see those people coming together, not only with the cats, but with each other. >> also there is a cat hamster wheel. did you know that even exists? it's sitting on the golden gate bridge stand because -- i don't know, i'm just trying to get

over the fact that cats can do this. and if you're a hash tag roach person, your ticket includes brunch from 30 vendors, an open mimosa bar and on open bloody mary bar. and for all ages, if you have always wanted to play lesson lessons, you can do that this afternoon. abc7news.com has the links to all these events from hood line. tomorrow is national puppy day. and we're hoping to hel hel hel

homes for the puppies. you can also post a #with puppies on 7 and you may see your boast friend on air or on line. the screaming eagles fly into the bay area. >> the city of san mateo's 50-year relationship with the 101st airborne unit. and at 5:00, preventing wildfires before they break out. running into action, a woman goes after a lap top thief and wins. and the danger over

coming up tonight -- all right, well this weekend is the 50th anniversary of san mateo's adoption of the 10 1st airborne division. >> their partnership began during the vietnam war and has continued ever since. >> 50 members of the unit arrived to fanfare for special homecoming weekend. >> reporter: it wasn't exact picture perfect weather as the flight pulled in, but the gate greeting they got made up for it as members of the 101st airborne

from kentucky were the city of san mateo adopted the 101st at the urging of linda patterson. he was serving in vietnam. and two weeks later her brother was killed in action. linda went to vietnam and the army appreciated her outreach. >> they pulled pictures out of their pockets that people were writing to them. >> reporter: the 101st alpha company 357th infantry is still san mateo's adopted unit. specialist bradley gerard from redwood citi was touched by care packages sent to them overseas. >> we got a lot of packages from

people in san mateo, from schools, and families and individual people. >> the toldiers didn't pack light, they brought fatigues, dress uniforms and casual clothes for planned events, including a recognition dinner and a parade. >> i can't march. >> but you're going to learn quickly. >> i've been trying. >> reporter: at sfo, david louie, abc7 news. >> and a parade will be held in downtown san mateo on saturday morning. >> our own david louie will be the parade announcer. you can get the latest news any time with the upgraded abc7 news app, it has more live customization and push alerts to get more of the news you want delivered in real time. >> thanks for being here, we

appreciate your time. abc7 news at 5:00 starts right now. >> breaking news about travis air force base, as we come on air, new video and no details on a possible attempted attack. >> the shooter was sitting over there. a san francisco barbershop was riddled with bullets after a shoot-out with police. the bay area cleans up from the latest storm. the risk of fire and power lines. pg&e reveal a plan. there were thoug the only thoughts in my head were getting back my lap top. >> that breaking news is about travis air force base, the fbi is now investigating this deadly car fire last night. the agency is also looking at these videos posted to air force forms facebook page. according to the air force, a car gained unauthorized entry

to the base by speeding past guards. >> the bomb squad was called out to the scene after the fire was extinguished. the driver's identity has not been released by police. and authorities are not jet saying whether terrorism was involved. good evening. >> now to our other breaking story, a dam in the foothills of california is holding firm at this hour, but there's still concern that it could fail. >> you're watching new video from the mariposa fire department. the dam is moccasin dam. water has flooded the california fisher and trout hatchery there. 900 employees have been evacuated sa