slippery morning, even a commute. here is our forecast animation taking us into the evening hours. you can see the rain is going to continue to be pretty steady moving eastward and southward into the middle of the evening. but later tonight, we expect the rain to taper off a bit, and i'll give you a look beyond later tonight a little later. kristen? >> looking forward to that, thank you. our other big story in the east bay today. oakland's new police chief hit the streets of chinatown after an uptick in the assaults and robberies in the area. >> thank you for you guys stepping up. >> the chief met with business owners who are grateful for the additional security measures and finally feel like they're being heard. dion lim was there and joins us live in the newsroom with more. dion? >> kristen and larry, have i covered countless attacks on the asian american community in recent weeks, some very violent and even caught on camera. so walking through chinatown with the new police chief and seeing other safety measures at work, that was a welcome sight for many. >> thank you, sir.

>> all right, thank you so much. >> a welcome sight in oakland's chinatown, where newly appointed police chief leronne armstrong walked the streets. >> i think the fear that we've seen over the last month or so is something that we as a department understand that we need to have a greater presence in chinatown. >> reporter: meeting one-on-one with that violence. he and his wife were seen on surveillance video getting robbed at their flower shop, one of more than 20 incidents of crime and violence documented by the chinatown chamber of commerce in recent weeks. >> thank you for you guys stepping up. and then for us, protecting us, and we feel much, much safer. >> reporter: during our time with armstrong, it was clear community members also felt heard. >> i really appreciate the effort. >> reporter: other efforts from the public include a grassroots patrol led by rapper china mack

to the delight of a security team who were funded by a gofundme campaign founded by community members after a 91-year-old man was seen pushed to the ground. none could have been made possible without victims many this community speaking out. >> our community needs to know who to contact when something happens. we want to reassure them that if an incident happens in chinatown, we want the know about it, and we want to quickly respond and apprehend the persons responsible. >> reporting is so important. now one business owner in chinatown says because the community feels a little bit safer, he is seeing an uptick in business that is the good news. however, as soon as i finished shooting our story with the chief, the owner of the shop shared this video with me. you can see a woman get into her car and be robbed in broad daylight. this is the location less than a mile away from chinatown. the owner has reported the incident to police. in the newsroom tonight, i'm dion lim, abc7 news. dion, thank you. today at 3:00 p.m. on abc7's

getting answers, jobina fortson and i spoke with actor daniel wu and w. kamau bell. we talked with them about the recent violence that's impacting the relationship between the bay area's black and asian communities. i began by asking daniel wu why he is using his money and visibility to call this out. >> well, it was basically an emotional response to all these things that we've been seeing all year long. and seeing the 91-year-old man pushed down the day prior we saw vishna died from being shoved to the ground. enough is enough. i can't just sit here and not do anything about it anymore. and so daniel dae kim texted me right away. we got on the phone. let's do something about this. let's put up a reward. and so we did that, hoping to get attention to the matter and nothing more than that. and that's what happened in the end as we brought a mass of attention to the matter. the truth of the matter is our community has been boiling in this for a long time now.

we're actually at a boiling point. and what we wanted to address the issue and try to speak out for them before things got worse. >> i think a part of it as well is just the rhetoric that came from the highest level of office in our country over the last year especially. i mean, that is a big one. kamau, i see you pumping your fist. i'll let you go. >> i mean, we cannot underestimate the last four years to invite the worst from people, and that even trump regularly targeted people. so when he starts to say things and his administration starts to say things, and i don't want to repeat him, but what daniel said earlier about where the virus came from and jokes about it, that allows people to play to their worst selves and their worst instincts. and if that can happen here in bay area where we know better, imagine what's going on around this country. that's whining this is a moment certainly for black-asian solidarity, because this is what the bay area was built on in large part was black-asian solidarity. >> i left the bay area for 20

years and came back and realized wait, this is a different bay area when i left. i left in '97 and came back. it didn't seem there much more racial tension than before. i remember growing up here it was a really diverse community where we all kind of got along really well. and suddenly once the pandemic started, there was this like serious hatred towards asians that i never experienced in the bay area before. and i was just shocked. what is causing this? especially seeing it come from the bay area. i mean, there are other places in the country where i expect that to come from. but the bay area didn't seem like it was that kind of place. we have a strong latinx population, strong black population, strong asian population and strong white population, and we all work together. and to see that happen here made me sad. it made me really, really sad. it made me wonder what it was really about. what kamau just said now, yeah, gentrification and money helped those divisions. >> what can white people do,

kamau? >> what can white people do? man, whoo. what can white people do? white people need to really get -- educate themselves on the history of this country and also trust the black and brown folks and the asian folks in their lives and the indigenous folks when they tell them that racism is happening. stop doubting that racism is not a force. it's an economic force. it's a force throughout this country that affects all levels of this country. and i think that means white people, you have to put yourself in an uncomfortable position and figure out where to get on the front lines, use your privilege to help that could be financial. again, it could be social media. it also means talking to that uncle that you avoid on facebook or in your house. that means you have to collect your people the way that black people collect our people, the way that asian people came to daniel this week to talk to him about some things. you to be willing to go after your people. see yourself as a white person, and then when white people do things that are wrong you, have to be embarrassed as a white

person the way the rest of us as a black person are embarrassed when our people do things that are out of pocket. have some pride, white people. >> daniel, final thoughts for you and the next steps for all of us. the videos will fade from memory soon. what can we all do to continue this fight? >> i mean, this is really simple. we need to just have empathy and compassion for each other as human beings. this is beyond race. i think this country in the past couple of years, we have shown our ugliest side. and we need to get back to our good side. we need to get back to the side that shows love and compassion and what america should be about. earlier this year my daughter was on distance learning, and she was singing "this land is your land." and i couldn't stand there and feel that this was slightly ironic. she goes to chinese immersion school about a bunch of asian american kids singing a song that wasn't really true. and i think what we need to do is make that true. do every effort we can to make

that true and be human and decent to everybody around us. >> a special conversation today with daniel wu and kamau bell on the 3:00 show "getting answers." as the bay area deals with issues of race and social justice, we are here to help. head to our website abc7news.com/takeaction for a list of local resource. >> wow, kristen, that was a fantastic conversation. great job there. moving on to the virus. students at uc berkeley are locked down. they're banned from even exercising by themselves outside after a sudden surge in covid-19 cases. university officials say they realize the past couple of weeks have been really challenging, but in an email to us at abc7 news, they said they're doing this to try to flatten the curve. abc7 news reporter anser hassan has reaction from students. >> reporter: caterina pantovic is on the uc berkeley volleyball team and was off to her morning workout. she is one of many berkeley students impacted by this mandate. >> about a week ago we got an

announcement that we have to all sequester because of the surge of covid-19 cases indoors. >> reporter: she says the volleyball team was moved to a hotel to avoid the covid-19 restrictions at dorms which would have impacted their ability to travel for games. during the sequester period, students can't leave their dorms except to get food, or medical reasons or in case of emergency. pantovic says the restrictions are tough but necessary. >> i think they do make sense in a circumstance like this where there is a large surge in cases. i think it's the only thing that can be done to slow them down. >> the week-long self sequester mandate was supposed to end on february 9th, but was expanded to at least monday, february 15th. according to students, the email outlining the detail says there will be stepped up enforcement. and around campus, there are already signs of where to report violations. >> i've also had hill, which is like the quarantine dorm is full. >> imogen ratcliff is a senior.

she lives off campus so isn't subject to the dormitory policy. she said it's hard to be stuck in a small dorm room, but believes the steps have to be taken to stop the spread. >> it's a lot better than having it spread or having more variants. >> students have been warned if they violate the rules, they face suspension or could be removed from the dorms. at uc berkeley, anser hassan, abc7 news. california is showing more progress in slowing the spread of covid-19. there were more than 8500 new cases today. the seven-day positivity rate is at 4.6% now. that's the lowest it's been since before thanksgiving. and nearly 5.3 million people have been vaccinated in california so far. americans of all ages and risk factors could have access to the vaccine as early as this april. dr. anthony fauci, director for the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases made that claim today on nbc. he says he believes the pace of vaccination will pick up in march going into april that would allow pharmacies,

community vaccine centers and mobile units to provide vaccines for everybody, not just high risk groups. marin county opening up vaccinations to people 65 and older. that starts on monday. the county says 60% of residents age 75 and up have been vaccinated, and they're ready to start vaccinating another tier, but there is still a supply issue. so some health care providers may not be able to start vaccinating people 65 to 74, at least not right away. now tomorrow we are answering your questions about covid-19 vaccines. members of our abc7 news. kate larsen, dr. alok patel will be here along with you tomorrow at 4:00 on abc7 news. coming up on abc7 news at 4:00 this afternoon, a record-breaking meth bust the investigators showed off from more than a dozen cases, mostly in the south bay. and a popular north bay restaurant shutting down amid a growing controversy. the owner of girl and the f

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cases, mainly in the south bay. one case included a 570-570- methamphetamine bus in sunnyvale called the largest meth bust ever in northern california. investigators say the drugs were supplied by the sinaloa cartel in mexico. >> simply put we will not allow dangerous and violent groups to use our neighborhoods as thoroughfares to traffic drugs or as a venue to conduct illegal activity. >> federal authorities said the amounts of drugs seized in operation burnt orange is enough to give 11 doses to every citizen in the bay area. in sonoma county today, the owner of a popular restaurant defended his mask policy. he also announced some changes. he has been facing backlash over what happened after a server wore a black lives matter mask at work. abc7 news reporter wayne freedman met with the waitress today. >> reporter: it is not always easy to talk and then walk that proverbial walk. for kim stout, it's a matter of

principle. >> i'm hearing from a lot of supporters as well as critics. >> reporter: kim is the waitress who quit her job at the girl and the fig restaurant in sonoma last september over not being allowed to wear a black lives matter mask. this instagram video shot shortly after she walked out has turned her into a spokesperson for the cause. >> businesses are still learning that it is no longer profitable or in your best interests to align yourself with racists. >> reporter: the restaurant's owner does not see himself or his business that way. today in a press conference over zoom, john tolsy says he does support black lives matter, that this was a change of uniform policy. >> the support of black lives matter was not and is not an issue. >> reporter: the backlash has been costly. today tosly described threats to the restaurant, staff and families. he has closed indefinitely, and just after the restaurant finally reopened. >> the anger is there. and it gets directed in ways that i think are -- i don't

understand. >> i think they valued a uniform policy over showing support for marginalized lives. >> tolsi has announced diversity training for his staff along with increased support of black-owned businesses. it has been a learning process, he said, a painful one. >> i learned this world is so big, i need to do a better job of participating in it in a broader spectrum. >> reporter: so now we have the girl in the fig restaurant and the waitress with a mask both walking that walk. signs of the times when everything feels magnified. in sonoma county, wayne freedman, abc7 news. cleanup continues today after a chevron oil spill in the east bay. investigators say a diesel-water mix leaked from a chevron refinery pipeline on tuesday. this was near the long wharf at the richmond refinery. california's department of fish and wildlife says an estimated

500 to 700 gallons of the mixture gushed into the water. some sheen reached the shore of keller beach, but there is no sign it impacted wildlife. officials overseeing the cleanup say progress is being made. all right. time to check out the rain today. just a taste of what we have to come for the weekend. let's hear from spencer. >> okay, kristen. we're getting quite a good taste right now. here is a look at live doppler 7. you can see that san francisco is just getting hammered with rainfall. all these bright colors, the oranges, the reds, the yellows indicate the steadiest, heaviest rain. from the marina district to north beach to chinatown down to the bayview and bayshore and to the sunset and lake merced areas, there is steady, steady rain. it's wet. wet on the embarcadero right now, as you can see from our rooftop camera. 53 degrees in san francisco right now. 50 in half moon bay and mid- to upper 50s at oakland, mountain view, san jose and morgan hill. and raining at the golden gate.

you see how wet the pavement. 50 degrees in santa rosa right now. 52 at napa. and mid 50s in novato, concord and livermore. and you see raindrops collecting on the exploratorium camera lens as we take a look at our forecast features. rain ends overnight. but it will still be gusting tomorrow, even after the rain ends. two more light storms will move through over the holiday weekend, and it will be dry and milder next tuesday and wednesday. but our current storm is a pretty good one, though it ranks only 1 on the abc7 storm impact scale. tonight more rain with brief downpours which we're experiencing in some places right now. gusty southerly winds and wet and slippery evening commute. here is the forecast animation starting at 6:00 p.m. notice between 6:00 and 9:00 looks like we'll get the bulk of the rainfall, even though parts of the south bay and the santa cruz mountains will continue the get some pretty good rain. and then after midnight, it breaks up into just the storm does, just some scattered isolated showers by 5:00 tomorrow morning, as the commute

gets under way, most of the rain should have ended by then. but again, as i said, it will still be breezy. rainfall totals by 5:00 a.m. will generally range from a quarter to a half inch, although some areas of the higher elevations could get more rain than that. look at our wind gust animation. during the early evening hours, gusts will range from 25 to 30 miles per hour, especially near the coast and the bay. those wind gusts and away from the coast will taper off a little bit in the wee hours of the morning. but by midmorning tomorrow to midday, we'll see the winds pick up again just across the board. everybody will see 20 to 25 miles per hour wind gusts during the midday hours. over in the sierra, it's snowing, and a winter weather advisory is in effect until 4:00 a.m. tomorrow. above 6,000 feet 6 to 12 inches of snow generally. and then on saturday morning, we have another light storm that will swing through. it should be gone by saturday evening, but even though we start the day on sunday, valentine's day with dry weather, it looks like another storm will develop another light

one sunday night into monday. for tonight, low temperatures mainly in the mid- to upper 40s. tomorrow's highs upper 50s generally on the coast and around the bay shoreline. low 60s inland. here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. once again, a light storm on saturday. mainly dry on sunday, valentine's day. another storm on monday. and then we get an extended period of sunny days, dry weather, and milder conditions. that's it, larry and kristen. >> that's good. we need the rain. need to dry out. perfect. thank you, spencer. this weekend is lunar new year and valentine's day. don't forget valentine's day. double whammy for some businesses. and owners tell us exactly

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you can call this upcoming weekend a holiday trifecta. you've got the lunar new year, valentine's day, presidents day, all landing within days of each other. >> so small businesses are hoping for a boost. abc7 news reporter chris nguyen has more on how some in the south bay are getting ready. >> reporter: on the eve of the lunar new year, businesses across the bay are preparing for what they hope will be a busy holiday weekend ahead. >> i think it's a challenge for me. it's something before. >> reporter: at chef chu's in los altos, the chef lawrence chu is planning a special takeout,

elaborate dishes with symbols of family, prosperity and success, all traits that many would use to characterize this iconic restaurant after being in business for more than 50 years. son larry jr. said the community support has been heartwarming. >> they're picking up a bag for their parents. they're picking up a bag for their in-laws, and they're picking up a bag for their own family. although they can't celebrate together, they're still doing -- they're still trying to share those traditions. >> reporter: down the road, valentine's day preparations are under way at the post, despite the less than ideal weather conditions expected for the weekend. >> keeping our fingers crossed that the rain does not affect business. >> owner vicky breslin is offering deals on champagne and has crafted a three-course menu that can easily be reheated at home if outdoor dining becomes problematic. >> i did not realize how sad and depressed i was until we got that green light to reopen. just to see everybody and the outpouring of support, it's been amazing. it's really lifted everybody's

spirits, including mine, my staff's, and our community. >> reporter: in san jose, frost cupcake factory is normally closed on sundays, but they'll be open both days this weekend, taking walk-up and call ahead orders for those hoping for a sweet component to the holiday. >> i'm looking for to getting some of the business back. and that holiday is usually what sets the tone for us this year. >> reporter: and while it may be the year of the objection on the calendar, small business owners are embracing what many are calling the year of the pivot, taking on the challenges that have. could before them. >> happy new year to all of you. i love you. >> reporter: chris nguyen, abc7 news. >> larry, chef chu is the greatest biggest heart for the community and yummiest food. >> agreed. agreed. in other news, the irs begins accepting tax returns tomorrow. we have tips on thou sort out

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the economy is part of building a better bay area. abc7 news reporter david louie tracked down the chief tax information officer at jackson hewitt tax service for important tips. >> reporter: a jab in the arm isn't the only pain caused by the pandemic. covid-19 during tax year 2020 may require you to go down a checklist so you don't forget about ppp loans if you applied for one to keep your business afloat. federal stimulus checks and unemployment benefits. you might have refinanced your home mortgage as interest rates dropped. covid-19 might have led to your retirement. four in ten taxpayers surveyed think stimulus checks are taxable income. be careful says the chief information officer at jackson hewitt. >> stimulus checks are not taxable. they should not be put on your tax return as taxable income. if you put it on your tax return, the irs will not likely peel that off and say here is a bigger refund for you. you put in incorrect, especially income, it will stay there.

>> reporter: if you receive unemployment benefits, you do need to declare the amount from form 1099-g. some 60 million americans received jobless benefits last year. >> many beneficiaries of unemployment benefits may get one, two or more 1099s this year. and some states in an effort to go green say you have to download your 1099. it will be very important to tally up their 1099s and make sure they've got them all. >> reporter: that's because the irs will have the records and will compare them to what you listed on your return. business owners who got ppp loans, yes, they'll be able to take deductions. as always, he suggests that taxpayers have all their records assembled in a proverbial shoe box to speed up tax preparation. the irs is encouraging electronic or efiling with direct deposit for faster refunds. about nine out of ten individual taxpayers do. if you're due a refund, you can check on its status by downloading the irs to go mobile

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all right. time for the four@4. a lockdown at berkeley has been extended at least through monday. we told you about this at the top of the newscast. in addition to students having to eat in their dorm rooms, the new order bans exercising outside, even if you are by yourself. some sports teams have been moved to hotels because the

quarantine could affect travel for their games. cal says it's too early to be sure that the school has contained a recent surge in cases. 156 people tested positive during the fist week of february. what is interesting is that the cal basketball team is playing at haas pavilion as we speak. so they're apparently exempt from being locked into their rooms indefinitely. you know, i don't understand that, but the one thing that i think -- i'm making a joke here about that, but young people in general, a lot of them think hey, i'm 19, i'm 20, i'm 21. we can hang out and do whatever. this virus is not going to be a problem for us. it's a problem when you go visit mom and dad and grandma and grandpa. >> absolutely. >> spencer? or dan? >> no, go ahead, spencer. >> okay. since i've started, i'll finish. it does seem awfully confining, these new regulations. but at the same time, the school

has to try to do whatever it can to contain this thing. you know, i guess if i were 19 again, i'd feel like this is too much. but i'm not 19 again. i want to stay healthy. >> yeah. none of us are 19. we can't go back, sadly. but to continue that sports metaphor, larry, or example, ten months, 11 months into this thing, don't trip at the finish line, right? it's so hard to maintain. all of us have had to remind ourselves continue to they the course and don't take shortcuts. i know it's hard on young people, particularly if the college setting, but we're almost there, almost there. >> i would just like to add that i am 19 in fact. >> nice. >> not true, not true. but i did go to uc berkeley. and i know how the dorms are. i know it seems harsh right now, but kids, it's just for a few more days. larry, as you said, 20 to 25-year-olds some of the biggest

spreaders. i think they're worried if you let them exercise outside, invariably on campus, they'll run into friends. that's how it works. and they'll start talking in close proximity. they have kind of an outbreak right now. >> you look 19, by the way, kristen. >> you're on my christmas list. a video of vice president kamala harris jogging is going viral. she was filmed over the weekend jogging up the steps of the lincoln memorial in washington, d.c. her husband is also there running as their secret service agents try to catch up. the video has been viewed more than four million times. as for president biden, see apparently a peloton guy. "the new york times" reported last year he is a fan. it's unclear if he was able to bring his bike to the white house -- we read this a few months ago, due to a possible cyber securiy risk from the peloton. but great to see the vice president is in great shape. >> absolutely it is. the peloton a security threat is because you can take online classes. so there is outside connection with the peloton.

it's a great example to set for the rest of us. i'm sure the secret service maybe with wish for more sedentary vice president. but that's the way it goes. >> it's a great example, actually. great example for everybody. yeah. it's slightly different than ten diet cokes a day. >> to whom are you referring, larry. >> anybody that likes diet coke, dan, anybody. >> president clinton used to like what, big macs? >> he loved mcdonald's. >> yes. good role model for the kids. >> all right. is this you, larry? taylor swift. >> no, it's you, it's you. >> oh, it's me. i get the taylor swift story. it's because i'm 19. of course! >> there you go. you're swifty. >> that's right. she is showing her fearless side once again and regaining control of her music. the pop star announced on "good morning america" today she is releasing a new version of her

2008 album fearless. swift is rerecording her first six albums because she doesn't own the master recordings of her music prior to 2019. you may remember swift was involved in a legal battle after her former record label sold her music. the new album is going to be called fearless taylor's version. it's released april 9th. it's going to be so interesting comparing the sounds, her doing the same songs again years later, a more mature voice probably. >> yeah. i think you're probably right about that. i hadn't thought about that, the more mature voice. and it's also a great marketing thing. this thing is going to sell a lot, don't you think? >> yeah, for sure. dan, i wanted to ask you about this, because you know the music industry better than most of us. i'm just wondering, what prevents every artist from taking their own stuff and then rerecording everything under their own label on their own now and distributing it? >> it's a great question.

i thought about that as i knew we were the going to discuss the topic today. i'm not sure what the answer, but you can certainly do it. these battles between artist and record companies have been going on since the music business started, especially for young artists who sign deals that just want to get signed an get their career off to a start. they don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth. they come to realize later by not controlling their masters and the publishing, they don't get much of the money. it's been a problem in the music industry forever. it's an interesting workaround for her. it will be interesting to see if it works and if others follow suit. one of my favorites right now. a suspected peeping tom found out the hard way after a texas woman tackled him to the ground. the takedown recorded sunday on a lake jackson police dash cam. phyllis pena says he is called police after spotting a man looking into her 15-year-old daughter's bedroom window. police arrived and found him nearby. and when he tried to run, phyllis said no, no, you're going down, and you must good

down hard. >> i figured at least i could do if i got him down, tripped him up, whatever, then they would have a chance to get caught up. >> it was a pretty good tackle. >> it was great tackle. the suspect was caught and booked on a number of charges thanks to their heroic efforts. phyllis says she just wanted to protect her kids. stay with the video. this is textbook. this is head up, eyes on the target, in balance grab and take down. kyle shanahan and the 49ers can show that clip to his entire team and go gentlemen, this is how we do it. and you notice not head to head, no helmet to helmet. well that. >> don't have helmets. but that is perfect form tackling. phyllis, you are tremendous. >> no concussion protocol there. >> no, look at this. >> amazing. she is fantastic. i understand kansas city chiefs are talking with her. she may be able to better protect mahomes next season.

>> wow. we should also mention kristen, this would be a good point to present the disclaimer. citizen arrests probably should not be encouraged, right? >> no, no. but the main moral of the message is don't mess with moms, you know? >> i like that. that's good. >> that's right. >> all right. that's it for the four@4. that's it for the four@4. ♪ ♪ be right back. with moderate to severe crohn's disease, i was there, just not always where i needed to be. is she alright? i hope so. so i talked to my doctor about humira. i learned humira is for people who still have symptoms of crohn's disease after trying other medications. the majority of people on humira saw significant symptom relief in as little as 4 weeks. and many achieved remission that can last. humira can lower your ability to fight infections. serious and sometimes fatal infections, including tuberculosis, and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened, as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. tell your doctor if you've been to areas

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we are really happy to report that young kaiya mack has reached her goal of raising

$10,000 for the ronald mcdonald house charities. kaiya is an 8-year-old from hawaii. she featured her story tuesday. she was born with a rare condition and needed six procedures. between the procedures she stayed at ronald mcdonald house both here in the bay area and hawaii. she was sweet enough to send us a video of the big moment. >> oh my goodness! thank you guys so much for helping us raise $10,000. and we even raised more than $10,000. i'm so excited to give to it the ronald mcdonald house. thank you so much. i'm going to look at this for like two hours. >> how cute is she? and we do have an update. since kaiya blew past the goal, she is raising the goal to $15,000 to help the oakland and san francisco ronald mcdonald house charities. all you have to do is go to kaiya mack.com to help her pay it forward for other kids in need. we have a link on our website,

abc7news.com. it's a great story. and i mean, i just can't tell you how delightful it was spending time with kaiya and her dad johnny. they are fantastic. spencer, she's got a whole website with all these songs and famous people. what were you doing when you were 8? >> advanced math. no, no. that's such a cute story. i love it. so sweet. oh, my gosh. well, the weather is not so sweet right now, though we need the rain. the east bay is getting a drenching right now. the heaviest rain right now is falling from vallejo to concord to antioch and southward down to san ramon and down into fremont and moving toward livermore right now. it's all pushing towards the east and southeast. the storm ranks 1 on the storm impact scale through tonight we expect more rain and brief downpours, gusty southerly winds. the rain will start to wind down during the overnight hours.

but look at the forecast animation. you can see between now and 9:00 p.m., continued pockets of steady heavy rain. then it starts to taper off a little bit. and then during the overnight hours, we'll see some partial clearing at least. so tomorrow starts off with some clear skies. high temperatures will range in the afternoon from mid-50s at the coast to low 60s in the mildest inland areas. and here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. morning showers will return on saturday, but partial clearing in the afternoon. mainly dry for valentine's day, which is sunday. another storm comes in on monday. and then tuesday and wednesday, and most of thursday sunny and dry conditions. and much milder weather by the middle of next week. larry and kristen? >> all right. a little rain as we start the lunar new year. thanks, spencer. >> thank you. ahead of lunar new year, we visit one of the bay area's most

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ahead of lunar new year we paid a visit to hong kong lounge in san francisco. the restaurant's manager shared with us their luckiest menu options along with family traditions to yield prosperity this lunar newunar newunar new

>> my dad has been part of the industry for about years now. growing up my dad would work about 14 to 16 hours depending on the time of the year. so around chinese new year it's a little bit more because we're busier, we're trying to make more items. so chinese new year is the one sort of time that my father actually, we wait for him to come home to eat. so it's like the one time we actually -- we're actually together as a family. we're known for a lot of dishes. the taro cake and the turnip cake, those we sellout all the time. it brings families together. that's sort of the big thing. it's also the one time of year

people tend to go all out. it's an opportunity for us to kind of treat we are making -- sort of a family style dish basically has a bit of everything inside. there's a lot of delicacies, and a lot of the titles in it has a special meaning. this is the dried it's steamed and on top. this is the mosk and underneath is the pigs feet. typically when you have it in there it means like fortune and prosperity in your hand. by the time you finish this you probably don't need any other dishes.

so your cake is sort of like a -- how would you describe it? it's like a sweet dough that's steamed. it's literally year cake. we add a bit of coconut to it which gives it that extra bit of flavor and we steam it. it's usually only typically made this time of year. we have a yellow cake. it's steamed with some sugar. it's like flour, eggs, sugar and you just mix it up and steam it. and it kind of flours up when you steam it so it's like like e prosperity cake. we like to place food as an

offering for them. and so during new years is typically when we place this particular cake on there to offer to them to kind of keep blessing us with prosperity and, you know, health and all that -- all the good stuff. it also means family for those can be ordered. you can call it in. you can come in directly. i want them to be happy i mean especially since the past year. i want them to feel the love that we put in and also the quality that we use and the ingredients that we put in there, that family love, you know, that warmth that comes from family as >> it's love expressed through food. and you can check out more on

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the bay area is getting a pretty good soaking right now. next at 5:00, abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel is here to talk us through the time line. plus the white house announces a big step forward on vaccines along with a hopeful tone about when everyone will get their turn. and a logistical nightmare for bay area mass vaccination sites. why keeping them open is so unpredictable. >> also tonight mixing and managing vaccines and why it could be critical to stopping the variants. oakland's police chief meet with china town business owners, so we decide to join him as he talks about the crime hitting the neighborhood. and a restaurant owner explains why he's shutting down amid a controversy over his face mask