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>> drenching rain in the north bay again tonight as you look live at live doppler 7. lighting up in green, yellow and red. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama daetz. how much rain can we expect. >> sandhya patel is tracking it for us. >> you will see that in the north bay is where our focus is as we're seeing strong cells right now. downpours reported from novato all the way to san rafael. street level radar taking you into black point, redwood boulevard. you will notice how heavy the rain is. when we look at the rainfall rates, about 1.5 inch per hour. we should not be seeing rainfall rates like that. moderate rain from petaluma out towards the marin county coast. it is now steady and light from oakland to emeryville, harbor bay parkway into san francisco. bay shore daley city, this is a

light level one system tonight through tomorrow. scattered showers brief downpours are still possible. there is a slight chance of thunder. your hour-by-hour forecast inincluding your morning commute and beyond for tomorrow coming up. >> thanks very much. now the first storm of the season caused big problems earlier today. a home goods store at the north gate mall was red tagged after a portion of the roof collapse. >> had he download the abc7 news app, tap the weather button and customize it. it gives you live doppler 7 and live webcams on your mobile device. >> a warning for parents after two teenagers in the east bay died in the last two days from suspected opioid overdoses. >> police want people to know in case there are bad drugs on the streets. katy is live in livermore where we talked to one of the victim's

stepfather who is a famous cartoonist. >> reporter: scott adams, creator of dilbert took to social media with the heart wrenching details of his step son's overdose that happened this past weekend. livermore police are not naming the two teens who died. adams believes his step son's death is one of the cases they're talking about and they're warning. >> my step son, a little boy that i raised from the age of 2 was dead. >> reporter: scott adams' ex-wife called him sunday with the terrible news. 18-year-old justin miles was found dead in his room. >> the coroner's found a fentanyl patch on his arm. if you don't know what a fentanyl patch is, i didn't either. >> reporter: he says the teen may have also been taking xanax. his overdose on sunday and the death of a second teenager on monday prompted livermore police to post a warning to facebook. >> it's going to take a couple weeks to be able to confirm what

caused their death. but in the meantime, we don't want to to wait and take the opportunity and educate the community. >> reporter: police are looking into possible connections between the deaths. a synthetic and highly addictive pain killer may be involved. >> we found drugs or attained or mixed with fentanyl. it can be a deadly combination. >> reporter: livermore has had four deaths so far this year. numbers for 2016 alone are startling. >> as many people died in one year as entire vietnam war. >> he's created an app for first responders to map the drug incidents. >> if there's a bad batch killing people, what's going on in realtime rather than waiting for the deaths to pile up? >> reporter: mike says the tracking tool is being used widely on the east coast. as the epidemic spread here to the west coast, they're trying

to get agencies to use it. last month the police started carrying narcan and say it saved several lives already. abc7 news. >> just so tragic. thanks very much. there is a state database for narcotics and controlled substances that officials hope will put a dent in this crisis we very in this country. doctors are now required by law to check it before prescribing opio opioids. that effort was started by bob pack of danville whose twos children were killed in 2003 by an impaired driver. he says the driver had received multiple prescriptions from six different doctors at the same hospital. >> the problem was that all of these doctors never spoke to each other or shared a medical file and didn't know what each other was doing. >> the system is designed to red flag doctor shopping addicts and prevent deadly combinations. we have more information op our website, abc7news.com with links to resources house to prevent

prescription abuse. >> developing news where nach and grab thieves hit four cell phone stores. three took place at the at&t and sprint stores on ig nashio valley road. the other in pleasant hills. details have not yet been released. two men entered stores, grabs phones and other devices before taking off in a gray infinity g35 with temporary plates. >> new developments in the cracked window at san francisco's sinking and leaning millennium tower. tonight an engineering report reveals the crack on the 36th floor was caused by an exterior impact. these photos offer a close-up view of the break that happened over labor day weekend. there o an wea by a massive bang. the report doesn't conclude what the impact was actually from. it's still not known when the salesforce transit center will reopen one week after workers

discovered cracks in two support beams. the joint powers authority expects to know the cause by the end of the month. till then, officials say the transit center and rooftop park will likely stay closed. fremont street which passes beneath the damage should reopen next week, october 12th. now, you'll find a timeline of what happened when plus all of our stories, pictures and videos on our abc7 news app. the app is how we send out alerts when the story changes and how we let you know when everything reopens. look at that when you can. >> tonight president trump mocked professor christine blasey ford while at a rally in mississippi. >> how did you get home? i don't remember. how did you get there? i don't remember. where is the place is? i don't remember. >> one of blasey ford's attorneys sbopded by saying in part a vicious, vial and

soulless attack on dr. christine blasey ford. is there any wonder she was terrified to come forward and other survivors are, as well. tonight, there are reports the fbi investigation into bret kavanaugh could wrap up as soon as tomorrow. lana zak has the latest. >> reporter: the fbi investigation into allegations against bret kavanaugh will be complete soon. >> it's like a rallying cry for the republicans. they're so in favor of judge kavanaugh synergy mitch mcconnell says he will have a vote this week. some key voters withholding their judgment. >> we all need to wait and see exactly what comes back. >> reporter: senator lisa murkowski himmed she won't be rushed into approving kavanaugh telling reporters mcconnell wanted a vote last week, too. jeff flake was concerned about his partisan remarks. >> we can't have this on the court. >> reporter: on the list of people interviewed by the fbi, mark judge, kavanaugh's high

school friend ford says was in the room during the alled attack. also interviewed deborah ramirez, the second named accuser. there's another person stepping forward with information, carrie ber tram. she alleges that kavanaugh analyst friends tried to conceal and discredit ramirez in a series of text messages. two of the principal actors have not been interviewed by the fbi. dr. christine blasey ford and judge bret kavanaugh has denied all allegations of misconduct. >> to get a sense of how hot emotions are running here in washington, one of judge kavanaugh's most vocal supporters lindsey graham says if his vote were to fail this week, he would ask president trump to renominate judge kavanaugh. lana zak, abc news washington. >> in the south bay, the diocese of san jose held the second of three listening sessions to hear

from parishioners and victims of cher jill sex abuse. it comes as the diocese plans to release names staunts of priests credibly accused of abuse. bishop patrick mcgrath says people who spoke at the session gave him some ideas on ways to now move forward. >> it was very informative for me, painful at times to hear the stories of the victims, their families, their friends. >> the next session is october 17th at santa teresa parrish in san jose. today a group for victims of victims of cher have i filed a lawsuit seeking names of offenders and disclosure of sensitive church records in california. >> a toddler found wandering in the streets of a north bay neighborhood. why the man who rescued her has been so vigilant lately. >> toys "r" us may be making a comeback. >> and showing strength and

style in the south bay. see the lucky models who got to walk the runway with some 49ers. >> all that is ahead. first here's a look what's coming up on "jimmy kimmel live." >> thanks, dan and mam. we have quite a show for you tonight. yeah. is this

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the beloved toys "r" us mascot jeffrey the giraffe could be making a comeback. lenders who bought the chain canceled a planned bankruptcy auction yesterday. instead they revealed reorganization plan that would allow the relaunch of toys "r" us and babies are us brands. this move comes several months after the retail giant liquidated all 740 u.s. stores. >> now to a close call in the north bay. a man leaving church had to slam on his brakes to avoid hitting a toddler wandering in the middle of the street. kate larsson who spoke to the driver who rescued the little girl. >> i'm always on top in terms of safety. >> reporter: on sunday, ricky lynn's safe driving saved a life. after leaving church, i was

driving down a busy street in fairfield when he saw something unusual in the distance. before he crossed the intersection, he saw something on the curb. >> we had cars parked here and here. i saw maybe some pink, something that was about this big. >> reporter: once the lie turned green and he started to cross the intersection, he realized that it was a little girl standing right here in the middle of the street. >> i had to slam on the brakes. then i had to hop out of my car and ran over to grab her. i didn't fellow if she would continue across the street. >> reporter: she was scared and crying. when she calmed down he took a selfie with her while they waited for police. it was 8:00 a.m. the girl's poren an family were asleep when the toddler wandered outside. >> the mom was still really upset. i went over to the mom and said listen, don't worry about what happened. just use all that extra energy you can to prevent it from happening again. >> reporter: that's what ricky did on sunday. his 7-year-old niese was hit and

killed while crossing a road in michigan over the summer. of a since he's been extra vigilant while driving. in fair field, kate larsson. >> and an alert is scheduled to go off on your cell phone tomorrow at 11:18 a.m., fema's first nationwide test of a wireless emergency alert system in case of national threats like say a nuclear attack or terrorist attacks in multiple cities. officials expect the alert to reach 75% of wireless enabled devices all across the country despite being called a presidential level alert, the messages are approved in advance by various government agencies. many people have wanted the system for a long time. we have the technology to do it. >> we want to get to the weather. that rain continues and more. >> right. after a rainy morning, what's ahead for tomorrow. sandhya has the forecast. >> yeah, it just became active. lightning just hit the north bay. street level radar, live doppler

7 tracking a cell. thunderstorm between petaluma and novato right now. you can see where it's heading the next few minutes. 11:37 in glen ellyn. i want to take you in tighter here. we're seeing downpours from pen grobe, old adobe bill road, getting reports on twitter from a follower telling me she saw lightning and also some hale. not out of the question. from san francisco down the peninsula into the east bay, green there. that's steady drizzle or light r no redwood city, menlo park, palo alto sees returns here. i know it's october. this looks like winter in the central siera. mixed precipitation. it is snowing at the highest elevations. tie oh ga pass. this is becoming interesting here by the hour. here's the main energy, the area of low pending up moisture.

we saw our first round come through earlier today. this is our second round in association with the low finally starting to advance. rainfall totals have been over an inch in santa rosa, san rafael picked up a third of an inch of additional rain in the past hour. san francisco .2. only trace amounts in san jose, mountain view, livermore, oakland 700, 600 in fairfield. south bay and east bay get more rain tomorrow. it thes right now in the 60s and an 70s. it's warnl out there. you add to that the humidity many areas like oakland, san carlos, heyward, santa rosa, napa, all in the 60s. that is a humid range. if it feels sticky out there, you're not imagining things. it's definitely sticky. slick on the roads right now. our roof camera, scattered showers through tomorrow. muggy into thursday. brighter and milder conditions for the end of the week for the blue angels performing.

level one storm for tonight. a light system on our storm impact scale. brief downpours are still possible and a slight chance of thunder. between 4:00 and 8:00 a.m. tomorrow, spotty showers. 11:30 same thing. watch what happens developing from the south. and moving northward 2:30 in the afternoon to 4:00 p.m., strong cells developing. some showers and isolated thunderstorm continuing through 5:00 p.m. it all winds down. tomorrow morning, forget about the extra layer. go with short sleeves. warm and humid. temperatures upper 50s to the low 60s. don't forget the umbrellas tomorrow afternoon. some of you will need them. temperatures in the low to upper 60s along the coast. even a few low 80s inland. download the of live weather app. level one light system, some showers for tomorrow. drizzle thursday morning. then a milder and brighter

pattern for the end of the workweek heading into the weekend with low to mid 60s coastside, low to mid '80s inland. mike is here 4:30 tracking the storm for you tomorrow tune in if you want to get the very latest. >> tomorrow on "good morning america," bradley cooper talks

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learn how to prevent your child's next asthma attack. because even one attack is one too many. the san francisco 49ers hosted a fashion show tonight featuring kids, teens and adults battling various types you have cancer. >> abc7 news was at levi's stadium for the nfl's crucial catch fund raising event to benefit the american cancer society. >> players like offensive lineman eric magnus son, rahim and quarterback c.j. beathard paired up with models fighting disease for a photo shoot and runway walk while sporting donated levi's clothing. > it's really sad but anytime succeed them have joy and see them smile is great. so -- >> the audience heard each cancer fighter's story of

strength and courage and survival as they strutd down the catwalk beaming and having a great time. what a special night. >> that certainly is. we very mindi with more sports. >> postseason is under way for major league baseball. nl wildcard game is exactly how you want a one-game playoff to be had high drum mao. the a's are set to make major league histo

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inning. there's no difference in the game. it's a do or die but to you everybody out there, it's the same strike zone, same guys in the box. just going to do it. >> liam's done a pretty good job with the role we've thrust upon him. how it's going to go after liam, we're still deciding who may be the last guy on the 11 pitchers. i'll probably withhold that at this point. >> rockies, cubs in tonight's nl wildcard game. lemahieu drives it into left center. it disappears into the ivy. the cubs get abrk. the rockies did get one across. then in the eighth, baez for the cubs hits one to the same spot. tied up. baez, you think he's pumped? this one went to extra innings. willson contreras grounds into a forceout. baez prevented or nat toe from

completing a possible double play. no interference was called. in the 13, tony walters, singled in trevor story and the rockies who have played three games in three different time zones over the last three days win and face the brewers in the nlds on thursday. 2-1 the final from wrigley field. a new look for joe thornton. his signature grizzled beard will not be on the ice with him tomorrow night when the sharks open against anaheim because it no longer exists. former beard brother brent burns showed this photo of him taking the clippers to thornton. today the sharks provided the first look at a nearly bare faced joe thornton who is still adjusting. > i regretted it as soon as it started hitting the floor. so hopefully, it will grow back quickly. we're having some fellowship over at burnsies and my wife's been wanting this done for a

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that's our report. we appreciate your time. >> for sandhya, mindi, all after us. thanks for joining us. stormy daniels. >> have a good night. we'll tv's number one daily viral

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