at this point, just so much of it is underwater. >> locals say they know it's a bad flood when water reaches the safeway as you see here in guerneville. on the left just before noon most of the park lot was flooded. on the right about five hours later the water has creeped even closer to the front of that store. sky map 7 can show you what this town usually looks like without flood waters. you can see the google earth view. all the streets are clearly visible, which are now underwater. this is downtown guerneville along river road, one of the hardest-hit areas. >> just incredible video we can show you. we have team coverage and a team of reporters on the flooding and the evacuations. >> let's begin with abc 7 news reporter wayne friedman who spent the day in the town of monte rio which is mostly underwater right now, wayne. >> reporter: it's rapidly diminishing in terms of the dry land size of monte rio. this water, we've been watching it all day, it's been coming in slowly. this morning we could drive across that bridge. this afternoon no way.

this corvair over here, the silver car, an hour ago the water was still beneath the door. now the water's halfway up the door. that's what happens when a river rises slowly. high water has a way of knocking us all down to size. jeremy knows all about that. hard to tell here, but he's 6'8". >> right there is about waist-high. about five feet. >> reporter: was it moving fast? >> moving really quick. >> reporter: what surprised you about it? >> nothing. i knew it was coming. >> reporter: which is more than beverly schafer and christine tipton could say. >> we were sleeping in our house he fir guys o t me u >> reporter: they were on this truckload of people rescued from guerneville by the army national guard. as this region braces for some of the highest water ever. and monte rio fire chief steve backsman has seen a lot of it.

>> the historic flood is 49 feet. they tell us we're up to 44 feet. we're going to go at least another two. it's going to be up there with some of the top floods. >> reporter: in these floods the russian river does not stop rising after rain stops falling. the crest usually arrives 18 to 24 hours later. the farther downstream the bigger the worry. >> this place is not built for high water as you can see. the river is way beyond. this has come up. >> reporter: robert gray at the ryan's beach mobile home park. most of these units do not move. their owners expect by tonight they may be underwater. >> we usually put stuff up above on the higher floor so hopefully we'll make it through this one. >> reporter: this may be his future. river boulevard in monte rio, navigable only by boat. >> water's probably -- how deep is it? it's deep. it's about eight or nine feet.

>> that is enough to overrun cars, immerse buildings and render signage irrelevant if not unreadable. there is no getting into or out of guerneville tonight, and at this hour the highest water is still to come. and as we come back live, you see that canoe right there. you see the guy with the canoe. that is the same 6'8" guy, jeremy mogul, who has been around town all day taking people around in his boat. he crossed that river initially because he had to get something to help his girlfriend get out of her house. but that man aside from the fire department he is the busiest person in monte rio. and he wouldn't even wait to talk to us here. he just went back down the road again to help more people. it's been that kind of day here. live in monte rio, wayne friedman, abc 7 news. >> he's on a mission. so wayne, can you tell us more about what the national guard is doing there and their role in

this? >> reporter: the national guard is mostly aiding the fire department around here. how else are you going to get around here if you don't have the boat? you've got a big truck. we saw what that big truck did. it rescued all those people at the library. 12 of them. those trucks didn't go through three to four feet of water. they're massive. i think they came out of combat zones. the one we rode around in today had one of those racks inside that looked like a weapon had been there at that time. that truck has seen some miles and now we can say it has also seen some water. >> that's amazing. okay, wayne, thanks very much. just remarkable. two evacuation shelters are up and running for people who followed the evacuation order and got out while they still could yesterday. one is at the sonoma county fairgrounds. the other is at the sebastopol center for the arts. and that's where abc 7 news repo report eer jobina fortson is li to continue our team coverage. >> reporter: they're trying to put evacuees at ease and one of the ways they're cog that is taking in their pets. we're inside the sonoma county

mobile services van and this is mary you're looking at. she just got here from a water rescue down below here. and down below is russell. he's wanting to get in on the camera action here. but they have been through a lot in the last 24 hours here. and even if you don't have an animal there are plenty of resources here. >> reporter: guerneville is used to flooding but these images have stunned the locals. water has popped up outside of town too in 20 areas still under mandatory evacuation. >> this is always flooded in the winter but nothing like this. i mean, look at that mailbox. >> reporter: we found tracy warner on high road in sbeft pohl trying to get to her horse on this road halfway underwater. >> i had no idea it would be up to the barn. >> reporter: cindy vickery had no idea it would be up to her home. >> i'd been homeless until a week ago. we just moved into this trailer. then we got evacuated out of. >> reporter: vickery, like malcolm andrews, lives near the

laguna wetlands preserve. now they're beth both staying in an evacuation shelter in sebastopol. sonoma county is running another shelter at the fairgrounds. >> instantly get out, you know, walk out. waist-deep water. it's kind of horrific. >> reporter: andrews has nothing left. >> it's 2 1/2 feet. it's history. i'm out of there. got to figure out what i can do. sometimes doors close, doors open. >> reporter: volunteers are trying to channel that same positivity. >> you know, it's not like staying in a luxury hotel or anything. but we try to take really good care of people. >> reporter: and their pets. we got to check out the sonoma county animal services temporary spot. >> there's two dogs down there. this family woke up and there was a foot of water in their house. so they don't know what they're going to do. >> reporter: the volunteers are here to help until they do. >> the evacuation shelters have not told us when they wll close up shop mainly because they don't know yet.

they're operating on an as-needed basis. and it's clear these animals like manny in here still need them. for now reporting in sebastopol, jobina fortson. >> jobbina, thank you. a state of emergency to help people affected by the storms. no matter where you live or work the people who oversee disaster response in california are sharing this advice. >> first and foremost listen to your local officials, local authorities. they have evacuation routes in place. so evacuate when told to do so. also have an emergency kit ready. have a plan in place. speak to your family members and be ready to go if asked. >> california's office of emergency services is monitoring the flooding and sending assistance to the north bay. flood control efforts in some parts of the north bay are working but that doesn't mean everything zaz dstays dry. abc 7 news anchor eric thomas continues our coverage. he's live with the overflowing napa river. eric. >> reporter: up to two years ago when the napa river reached

flood stage that meant trouble for downtown napa businesses. they would flood. but this bypass behind me is working at keeping the water out of downtown. in fact a lady just walked by and praised it. but there were problems on the outskirts of napa. the biggest impact was on the roads. the more fortunate drivers only had to power through a couple of inches of water, but check out this accident. on silverado trail chp pushing this damaged suv onto the shoulder after it rear-ended a bmw that was apparently braking for flood water and knocked it into a nearby ditch. a nearby yountville cross road drivers had a decision to make. brave flood waters of indeterminate depth or find an alternative. lawrence coga decided to turn his pickup truck around. >> i'm not going to take a chance. otherwise i'll have a floating ford. i forgot my oars and outboard motors. >> reporter: the first vehicle

we saw fake a chance wasn't a pickup truck with high clearance, it was this jaguar doing what we were all told not to do, drive through water we don't know the depth of. as you can see, the water came up pretty high and it was touch and go for a moment but the fancy import made it through. that didn't change lawrence's mind. >> the guy was saying two streets up, two cross-roads up is a much better chance. so i'm going to give it a whirl. >> reporter: sky 7 shows flood waters zrousurrounding two home near silverado trail and oak knoll avenue. the same small lake covering nearby vineyards and creeping onto adjacent roorads. water on the napa river gets too high, it is diverted into the oxbow flood contro bypass. it's a $400 million project that was two decades in the making. >> the bypass makes a straight cut through. so when it reaches a certain elevation it dumps into this

channel and it keeps from backing up and flooding from lincoln avenue all the way down to first street. >> believe it or not, that bypass channel there when it is not raining, when there is not flood activity around here, doubles as a city park where they have concerts and things in the spring and summer. in napa eric thomas, abc 7 news. >> all right, eric, thank you. we built a custom google map to keep track of the flooding concerns in the north bay. you will find this on our website, abc7news.com. well, today's storm is significantly lighter than yesterday's, which ranked 3 as you may remember on the abc 7 news storm impact scale. today's storm ranks 1. we have a team of in-house experts tracking the weather for you tonight. >> we do. let's begin with abc 7 news atpencer christian. spencer. >> rainfall is tapering off. it's essentially in the entire north bay but as you can see the entire impact is still being felt. on the russian river still rising. we still have major flooding which began earlier today and we expect to have major flooding

continuing overnight and through most of the morning tomorrow and the river will crest at about 9:00 p.m. tonight. at about 45.6 feet, which is nearly 14 feet above flood stage. you can see why the flooding is so severe. by tomorrow 4:00 p.m. or so you'll see flooding at md rat level and minor by tomorrow night. and the flood warning for the russian river remains in effect until saturday at 3:06 p.m. and i'll give you a quick look at doppler here. you can see there's just a little bit of light rainfall left in the east bay and down on the peninsula as the storm winds down. still, though, it ranks 1 on the storm impact scale. there may be more scattered showers later tonight. let's go over it meteorologist drew tuma who has a look at these incredible rainfall totals. drew? >> spencer, when you look at the rainfall in the north bay, you can see exactly why we have so many problems there right now. santa rosa received more than half a foot of rainfall over the past two days but it was in the hills of sonoma county, vanato received nearly two feet of rainfall in such a short period

of time. and all that rainfall flows into our streams and creeks and eventually our rivers and that's why we're seeing a huge issue on the russian river right now. a rainbow of rainfall across the board on that map. still have a flood warning in effect for many areas in sonoma county for urban and small creek flooding as well. and we continue to keep an eye on the napa river as well. the good news there, the water is receding at the moment. and should go below flood stage over the next couple of hours. but when we come back, spencer christian will show you more storms on the way in the accuweather seven-day forecast. dan and ama? >> okay, drew, thanks very much. pg&e is back in bankruptcy court and the abc 7 news i-team was there also. d noyesoi us with the latest developments from court and a report that hints the deadly camp fire could have been prevented. all ierz this morning were on michael cohen's testimony on capitol hill including some local college students who used

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some of what we third party contractor accidentally damaged a gas line. the new report includes a photo of the gas main. you can see obviously a gaping hole there. the report explains how pg&e turned off the gas but makes no assessment if this was done fast enough. they say that will come in the next steps of the investigation. a stunning headline coming out of pg&e's filings with state and federal regulators. >> the utility delayed safety work on a transmission line for

years and that line is now the prime suspect in starting november's deadly camp fire. >> the i-team reporter dan noyes is here with more. dan. >> consumer advoeblths and lawyers for wildfire victims say pg&e was more interested in their bottom line than making safety improvements. in this july 2013 letter pg&e tells the public utilities commission it intends to replace six consecutive lattice steel towers with new towers on the caribou palermo 115 kilovolt power line that were damaged by a winter storm. the "wall street journal" reports those improvements were delayed year after year and never done. that is the same transmission line being investigated as the cause of november's camp fire in butte county that killed 86 people and destroyed 14,000 home. mark toney is a consumer advocate with the utility reform network. >> they promised to fix it in 2013. they promised to fix it in 2014.

in 2015, in 2016. it is not fixed today. and that is the line that failed before the fire. >> reporter: on november 8th last year a pg&e worker reported seeing a fire started under the caribou palermo line near paradise. cal fire told me today the cause of the camp fire is still under investigation. but if a violation of state law is ermt dd the investigation report will go directly to the d.a. wildfire victims attorneyed say it's a pattern that pg&e raises money for such repairs and then delays the maintenance to make their bottom line look better. >> this is the way that pg&e does business and this is the way they've done business since at least the mid '90s. da looking at the ublic root cause of the incident including historic maintenance and expenditures and that pg&e is subject to fines of up to $100,000 per violation per day if it's found to have violated state law. >> they were more concerned

about financial performance than they were about safety and fixing things that they admitted themselves needed to be fixed. >> reporter: as part of the wildfire mitigation plan filed three weeks ago the utility says they've launched a wildfire safety inspection plan for transmission towers looking for what they call failure mechanisms using ground inspections drones, and helicopters. >> they expect those inspections to be done by may. in just the past half hour pg&e sent a statement saying in part it is important for customers to report we're taking action on important safety measures identified through our enhanced safety inspections. i'm poefth the full statement at abc7news.com and in court today, bankruptcy court, pg&e confirmed they will not be paying that $130 million in bonuses that they came up with just a short while ago. the public outrage was too much. >> there ways huge backlash about it. >> thanks, dan. the ongoing teachers strike in oakland forced the cancellation of this afternoon's school board meeting.

the board was scheduled to vote on budget reductions that they say are needed to prioritize investing in a raise for teachers. the union posted this video on facebook writing, "we did it. we shut down the school board meeting. they thought they could vote on cuts for vital student services and classified staff during our strike but we stood together and said no. abc 7 news reporter laura anthony has more on day 5 of the strike. ♪ stand by me ♪ darling, darling stand by me >> oakland school students and their parents along with several teachers brought their message to the california state building downtown, a lesson of sorts for their strike school. ♪ stand by me >> is it a teachable moment for these kids? >> very much so. the choice of songs is obvious on our part. >> reporter: despite a marathon bargaining session tuesday the oakland teachers strike is now in its fifth day. the district's offer remains an

8.5% raise over four years. the teachers want 12% over three years. >> we're still hoping that we can come to an agreement. this has gone on certainly longer than most people had hoped it would. a lot of our families and students want to get back to the class. >> reporter: the talks may be dragging on but the teachers' energy appears high. a large contingent took over the pedestrian bridge onn'tar state 580 in the laurel district. >> i can say that we are still really excited for the cause but some of us are feeling a little weary. but we're ready to go as long as it takes. >> reporter: and at la escalita elementary picketers set up at every entrance. one set to include discussion about $22 million in budget cuts. >> this effort is to prevent that school board meeting from happening was going on at the same time that the two sides

were negotiating downtown. at this point, though, no report of any breakthroughs. in oakland laura anthony abc 7 news. the atmospheric river is ending but there's more rain in the seven-day forecast. >> that's right. spencer explains when you'll need an umbrella again. that's next.

i am so happy to see this storm winding down. i'm sure we all are. here's a look at live doppler 7. at the moment it is not raining in the north bay except perhaps for a few isolated sprinkles. where it is raining is down here on the peninsula over to the east bay and the south bay. we have some slight scattered showers. here's a live view from the emeryville camera. it's 52 degrees in san francisco right now, 54 in oakland. mountain view 56. 58 san jose. 56 in morgan hill and 51 at half moon bay. this is the view at golden gate. we're looking northward where of course the greatest impact of the storm was felt up in the north bay but right now conditions are calm at the golden gate bridge. 51 degrees in santa rosa, napa concord and livermore. here's the view from our rooftop camera, abc 7 looking out over the embarcadero. these are our forecast features. we'll continue to see some

infrequent scattered showers overnight. brief break begins midday tomorrow, continues into late friday but then rain returns friday night. ranks is on the storm impact scale. as i pointed out we'll see some scattered showers overnight, late tonight into the early morning hours. there will be light to moderate and we expect less than .2 of an inch of additional rainfall. forecast intermission taking us into the late night, pockets of scattered showers mainly in the south bay the ensla and east bay but not much is expected to happen in the north bay with the remainder of this storm. overnight lows will be generally in the mid to upper 40s and then tomorrow as we pick up the forecast animation going into the morning hours we'll see dryer air and brighter skies moving into the bay area during the morning commute as the storm moves over into the sierra. we'll see at least a little bit of sunshine tomorrow but clouds will linger. highs in the afternoon generally in the upper 50s to mid 60s. meanwhile in the sierra winter storm warning in effect until noon tomorrow at the 5,000-foot level. five to ten inches of snow,

maybe one to two feet of snow above 6,000 feet. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. rain arrives again friday night, continues into saturday. that storm will rank 1 on the storm impact scale. it will be a bit breezy with the rain on saturday. and scattered showers will linger into sound. the system will rank 1 on the storm impact scale. monday we expect mostly cloudy but dry conditions. and then a moderate storm ranking 2 on the storm impact scal comes in on tuesday. that could complicate things because even though we won't get a lot of rain the next three, four days the ground is still going to be saturated. so if we get another moderate storm that could produce some flooding. >> thanks, spencer. that will keep us up to date as always. out in public. today president trump's former personal lawyer testified before congress. >> coming up the allegations and accusations that michael cohen made under oath. and next we'll go back live to the north bay for

all right. we are just hours away now from when we expect the russian river to crest in sonoma county. several communities are already underwater. places like guerneville and

monte rio have been dealing with flooding for more than 24 hours. >> and the river flooding won't crest until about 9:00 tonight. it will get worse. people are ordered to oevth and if they on't they're now stuck. >> let's go back to abc 7 news reporter wynne friedman. he's live in monte rio. when we last talked with you about half an hour or so the water where you were is rising quickly. is that still the case? >> reporter: it's been rising at about the psalm pace all day which is creeping i would say. you ee that car over there, that corvair, we pointed that thing out about half an hour ago. it was about halfway out the door. now it's another two inches up the door. what's interesting about floods here is they come slowly and they recede slowly. there are no big surprises unless you're not paying attention to the warnings. let's show you what it looked like earlier today. this is monte rio as we haven't seen for years. a day of unusual sights of people in boats moving from house to house measuring the depth with paddles.

>> water's probably -- how deep is it? about eight or nine feet. >> it is a flood so big the equipment has to match it. this is one of several large trucks brought in to assist with the army national guard today. we rode with them as they helped the monte rio fire department check out fallen trees and downed power lines. this afternoon one of the same trucks rescued a public library fimd with evacuees in guerneville. beverly schafer and christine tipton say the rising russian river caught them by surprise. >> we were sleeping in our house and the water came up in. and it almost engulfed us but we made it out. >> they pulled us out the window, actually, the fire guys. yeah. >> reporter: they very grateful for all of that help. there are still people in these regions that haven't left their houses. that gentleman over there in a boat was just helping to rescue someone a few minutes ago. and about an -- i think it was 5:00 we showed you an exrication that was about to happen. fire department people went with

a canoe into this area well back in there, about a half mile, to pull a woman out who wanted to be extricated. and then she changed her mind. she didn't want to come out. so she's staying in there surrounded by water in her house coming up underneath. and some people just choose to stay. we're still waiting for the high water at 10:00 tonight. should be the another foot beyond. if i were to walk backwards maybe another three or four feet i'd be underwater here. at least my shoes would be. but i think we're seeing close to the worst of it. which isn't to say it's been good. it's been bad. and it's going to be an issue when all this water recedes. live in monte rio, wayne friedman, abc 7 news. >> just remarkable wayne. we stayed on the air for over an hour today with live sky 7 coverage of the flooding in the north bay. even when we weren't on

television you could still watch the live stream from our helicopter on the abc 7 news app. the app is always how we send out push alerts when breaking news like this happens. >> a lot of you spent this morning watching the testimony of president trump's former personal lawyer michael cohen. it was one of the most popular stories op our website. cohen called trump a racist, con man and cheat. abc 7's stephen rie ramos has more on the contentious hearing. >> reporter: president trump's long-time fixer and personal attorney michael cohen says he protected the president for a decade but it was time to start telling the truth. >> what was the breaking point at which you decided to start telling the truth? >> helsinki. charlottesville. watching the daily destruction of our civility to one another. >> reporter: cohen facing three years in prison after pleading guilty to breaking campaign finance laws and other crimes. he says at the direction of president trump. >> because i know what mr. trump

is. he is a racist. he is a con man. and he is a cheat. >> reporter: today democrats are locked in on cohen's campaign finance violations. president trump's role and the timing of the hush money payments he arranged for two women who say they had an affair with trump. affairs trump has denied. >> can anyone corroborate what you have shared? >> keith davidson, alan weisselberg, president trump. >> reporter: republicans, however, more focused on reminding the public that cohen is a convicted felon and liar. >> when you failed to report 4 million in income to the internal revenue service, did you do that to protect donald trump? >> no, i did not. >> reporter: cohen also alleging as a candidate trump was aware that roger stone was talking with julian assange about wikileaks revealing hacked e-mails from the dnc. >> mr. trump knew from roger stone in advance about the wikileaks drop of e-mails.

>> reporter: stone denies that conversation. cohen even suggesting he's aware of an illegal act regarding president trump that federal prosecutors in new york are investigating. stephanie ramos, abc news, capitol hill. bay area billionaire and liberal activist tom citier took to social media today to defend himself against republican attacks during the cohen hearing and shut down rumors of financial ties to the president's former fixer. citier tweeted "i'm not paying more have a pied maid mr. cohen legal bills." he also released a recorded statement. >> this morning we are now officially in a constitutional crisis. the american public is finally able to hear firsthand the kind of criminal behavior that has characterized the trump administration and mr. trump himself. >> during his opening statement ranking republican member jim jordan of ohio called cohen a patsy being used by democrats to

try to remove president trump from office because "tom stier told them to." >> for much of the hearing it felt as if michael cohen was on trial for himself. and for one audience here in the bay area watching that give and take was a valuable learning experience. the michael cohen hearing was must-see tv at golden gate university law school in san francisco where courtroom-style debate is a given. >> let's not forget the man's a criminal. >> reporter: but for these students the unfolding drama is a lot more than just entertainment. law school dean anthony nedwiki says it offers valuable lessons that could pay off for these future lawyers in the courtroom. >> these are perfect examples of real-life situations of dealing with clients and clients of credibility. >> reporter: he says bringing in documents like the president's canceled check is a classic tactic to bolster a witness's credibility while having an interrogator hammering away at cohen's past lies like a district attorney was designed to accomplish the opposite. >> and so you know, you develop this rhythm in order to kind of,

again, attack the credibility. >> reporter: so who landed the most effective blows in the battle to cast cohen as either a reformed hero or untrustworthy villain? >> the republican congressmen did everything they could to call cohen's credibility into question, and i personally believe they succeeded. maybe another law student would disagree. >> from my point of view it seemed like he was actually credible, which was surprising. >> the last portion i saw they were bringing up his family and his kids a lot about what they're going through. >> they said that he lied to benefit himself and his earnings, his personal earnings. and that just makes him seem like a selfish person. >> they should have just discussed evidence if they could verify it or not. >> reporter: but in this case instead of 12 jurors there were millions glued to television sets around the country, and it will take some time to gauge the verdict in the convert public opinion. >> we carried this morning's

testimony live both online and on tv. you can catch parts you may have missed by going to the abc7news.com website. >> during all the excitement on capitol hill president trump is actually thousands of miles away. >> he's in vietnam to meet again with north korean leader kim jong un. next, a look at how things stand before their negotiations begin. the best of the best in food all across the country includes dozens of names right here in remember the way we used to do things? hey man...

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it's already thursday morning in vietnam and that's where president trump and north korean dictator kim jong un have resumed their summit. >> president trump and chairman kim began their second day of talks during the last hour. the president kicked off the summit by saying north korea's economy will surge if the economist nation gives up its nuclear weapons program. >> i think that your country has tremendous economic potential. unbelievable. unlimited. and i look forward to watching it happen and helping it to happen. and we will help it. >> chairman kim says the u.s. and north korea have overcome many obstacles since the last summit 261 days ago. but some u.s. intelligence officials think north korea will not give up its nuclear weapons.

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than two dozen nominations today for the james beard restaurant and chef awards. >> pretty impressive. abc 7 news reporter melanie woodrow stopped by a few of the nominees to sample what they're serving. >> reporter: michelle is hoping her third james beard nomination could equal her first win. >> i felt pretty good. that was nice news to get it morning. >> reporter: she's nominated for outstanding pastry chef at 20th century cav quai fe in hayes va where customers gush over her strudel. >> it's the perfect amount of sweetness. >> reporter: more than two dozen bay area establishments got the nomination. the news so fresh most don't know they're on the list. >> you broke the news. >> reporter: swan oyster depot in knob hull has been around since 1912. it's family v owned and operated. >> my dad, my uncle vince, my uncle jim, my uncle tom. my cousin eric's there. i have a brother-in-law brian who works here. his brother marina works here.

>> his grandfather, my dad, used to say when someone walks in the store pretend like they're walking in your home. that's how we treat people here. >> reporter: they're nominated for outstanding service and they've won a james beard award before. at lunchtime there's always a line outside swan oifter depot. we're here in the late afternoon so there's no line but we just found out if you're here at lunchtime and you take your food to go you get to skip the line. >> very friendly guys. they'll take care of you. >> reporter: several guys at neighbor beak house in dog patch. >> james beard nominated us for outstanding baker. >> reporter: greg mendel has been at it for seven years. four in this location. >> i'm a bakery nerd and this is definitely one of the best bakeries in the city. >> reporter: perhaps even award-winning. in san francisco melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. >> is it just me or are you starving? >> i know. food. >> there are 30 local james beard nominees. >> is there one where you live? we built a map that shows all of the nominated restaurants as well as the chefs. >> we're linking it to melanie's

story on abc7news.com to make it easy to find. check that out when you have a moment. ? that rhubarb strudel. >> that did look good. >> time to check on the weather. >> epispencer's back with the forecast. >> we're going to start with conditions on the russian river which is already experiencing major flooding and the river is still rising. expected to crest at 9:00 tonight at about 14 feet above flood stage. major flooding will continue overnight and through much of the day tomorrow before the waters begin to recede a bit and flooding will be at a moderate level by late afternoon tomorrow. here's a look at live doppler 7. you can see we have no significant rainfall in the north bay at the moment but we have light scattered showers oh the peninsula. parts 69 south bay. some in the east bay as well. the storm still ranks 1 on the storm impact scale, a storm with light intensity expected to continue producing scattered showers, light to moderate showers during the late night and overnight hours. most locations that receive any rain at all will receive less than .2 of an inch. on the lows will be in the upper

30s to low 40s. in the north bay valley. other wares will see lows in the mid to upper 40s. tomorrow look for breaks of sunshine here and there with lingering clouds. highs mainly in the upper 50s, perhaps near 60 in some south bay locations and hereby is the accuweather seven-day forecast. we get a little bit of a break tomorrow into early friday but friday night rain returns. that storm will rank 1 on the storm impact scale. it will become a wet and breeze yes storm for us saturday and it will taper off into scattered showers on sunday. then we get another little break on monday but a moderate storm comes in on tuesday and that one could produce substantial rainfall with the ground already saturated. we will be on the lookout for the possibility of more flooding. let's hope that doesn't occur. this storm could present that possibility. >> thanks, spencer. >> let's move on to sports. talk about the warriors tonight. >> yeah, larry. >> everybody loves a trip to south beach. the beach, the nightlife. not the warriors this evening. taking on the heat and wilting

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>> announcer: now abc 7 sports with larry beil. warriors in miami tonight. orlando tomorrow night. and because that back-to-back boogie cousins is resting this evening, kevon looney back in the starting line-up. the warriors hosted parkland high students before the game, even tossing up an alley-oop to one of them. the dubs down big from the jump in this gam, thoue, though.

justice winslow the steal. he can three alley-oops too. over the top of k.d. 64-40. have no fear, klay thompson here. klay, 21 in the first half. hits the three there. it's 29. jordan bell continues to provide some excellent energy off the bench for the steal. looking for help. it's thompson layup. 15-point deficit at the half. steph three plus the foul. four-point play. he's got 22. a 10-2 run. then andre iguodala. catch and shoot three. warriors tied it up from a 24-point deficit and now trail 111-109, about five minutes left in the fourth quarter. sure seems like some team is going to give bryce harper the ten-year $300 million deal that he wants. and just might be the giants. the giants reportedly had their second visit with harper yesterday in las vegas with team president larry bayer, director of baseball ops making their pitch. we thought the giants were only

interested in a shorter-term deal, something in the five-year range but that is apparently not the case or maybe they're trying to draw out the price for the dodgers. ten years, though. dodgers in the mix along with the phillies and giants. the harperless giants at least at this moment taking on the royals in spring training. jeff samardzija coming back from shoulder issues last year. nice outing strikes out brett phillips. shark tosses two scoreless frames. giants bats on fire. a phrase we did not use much last year. evan longoria first homer of the spring, two-run blast. giants up 4-0. here's a look at their top prospect, joey bart. joey bart's got some pop. that's a solo bomb. giants hit five homers in this game. guy couldn't make the catch. they both go tumbling down. giants five homers and they club k.c. 15-2. a's and dodgers in mets mesa. shawn lanaya spending some time with the kids before the game. matt chapman his spring debut. struck out in his first at-bat.

0 for 2 with a walk. 2-0 dodgers in the fourth. chad pender troubles to center scoring mark cana as the a's cut that lead in half. this actually was an impressive outing for a's top prichg prospect jesus lizardo. strikes out cameron perkins right there. also got christian santana. two scoreless, three k's for lizardo. the dodgers win by 5-3. the nfl combine workouts begin friday. the raiders have the the fourth overall pick and they have like 4,000 needs. they need guys at every position. if we are to believe new gm mike mayock taking a quarterback high is probably not what the silver and black will be doing. >> derek carr is a franchise quarterback. i truly believe that. now, do i also believe that it's a general manager and head coach's job to keep your eyes open to improve any position on a football team? sure. but i think it's very difficult to try to improve over a franchise quarterback like the one we have in our building right now. >> like the niners they need a

pass rusher. the niners contingent also arrived at the combine in indy. they came bearing some good news. jimmy garoppolo ahead of schedule after tearing his acl early last season. 49ers head coach kyle shanahan says he expects garoppolo to be ready for seven on seven work during their otas, the organized team activities. he injured that knee five months ago in a week 3 loss to the chiefs. shanahan also said he's not talked with antonio brown about possibly joining the niners. he wants out at pittsburgh. the niners are going to be rooting for kyler murray at the combine to look good. if his draft stock keeps rising the arizona cardinals may be tempted to take him number one overall leaving the niners with the best pass rusher of the bunch with that second pick, probably nick bosa. earlier today we caught up with espn's louis riddick who says the heisman winner's height, about 5'10", should not hurt his chances of being the top pick. >> what does prototype mean anymore? is property type necessarily 6'3", 6'4", 226 pounds, pocket passer that has limited mobility? that's not the way it works in the nfl anymore. we've seen the game has become

much proper spread out, much more horizontal. i think this whole height thing has to do with ideology's and beliefs based on how the nfl used to be, not how the nfl is looking going forward. >> kyler murray would break the mold if we're talking about the prototypes of nfl quarterbacks. usually 6'3", 6'4", 225 pounds. he's maybe 5'10". but a rocket for an arm and he's the fastest guy on the field. >> thanks, larry. >> join us tonight at 9:00 on kofy tv 20 cable channel 713 and right anywhere for abc 7 news at 11:00. the russian river is expected to crest in just a couple of hours. we're live in sonoma county where the water is about to rise 13 feet over flood stage. and on abc 7 news at 11:00, children jumping into danger at popular play spices tonight. the warning from doctors about trampoline parks. >> and tonight on abc 7 news starting at 8:00 catch "the goldbergs," "schooled," "modern family" and "single parents" followed at 10:00 by "whiskey cavalier" the new show.

then stay with us for abc 7 news at 11:00. >> at 11:35 it's "jimmy kimmel live." tonight's guests include oscar winner lady gaga. yay. and the band mana, who will be performing in san jose actually in september. >> very cool. that is this edition of abc 7 news. lookfor breaking news whenever you wish on the abc 7 news app. we appreciate your time. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama daetz. for spencer christian, larry beil, the entire abc 7 news team, have a great evening.

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