next on abc 7 news getting wet weather ready a winter storm is heading our way people are gearing up for some significant rain. i'm spencer christian. it's going to be a raw and rainy start to the week. we might possibly even have isolated thunderstorms. i'll have the forecast and a twitter about face some employees who were terminated just days ago may still have their jobs after all abc 7 news at five starts right now. building a better bay area moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. i do hope it comes and i don't even mind if it floods. people prepare for a series of storms cold windy wet weather is blowing our way and let you know exactly what you can expect good evening and thank you for joining us. i'm dion lim. we are on storm watch tonight, and we do have live team

coverage for you as the bay area preps for several wet days ahead. let's begin with abc 7 news weather anchor spencer christian and spencer you say the wave of rain starts tonight. it's building right now down up in the north bay. it's going to be swinging southward and eastward doing the overnight hours to look at the exclusive abc 7 storm impact scale. so for the next two days, here's what we can expect rain tonight and into the early morning hours and maybe even some trailing showers during the day moving from north to south more rain developers late tomorrow that will continue into tuesday election day producing raw and rainy conditions. here's our forecast animation notice the arrival of that wave of rain, that will pass through probably just after midnight movie down into the south bay a little bit of a break then more showers and periods of rain tomorrow before a second wave. of stronger heavier steadier rain comes in tomorrow night into tuesday. there'll be enough instability in the atmosphere. we might even see an isolated thunderstorm or two tomorrow and tuesday and wallace raining here. it'll be snowing heavily in the sierra more on that later when i

present the accuweather seven-day forecast beyond. okay, sounds good spencer. thanks. well, it has been a while since we've had several days in a row of rain and people are taking no chances abc 7 news reporter cornell. bernard is live for us in mill valley tonight where for many people the rain is good news cornell. oh, yeah, a lot of people saying bring it on dion for sure started raining here off and on about an hour ago, and we love to see it and a lot of folks were preparing for the rain today and a lot of firefighters breathing a sigh of relief. winds were kicking up outside goodman building supply in mill valley where lynette liu was on a mission to keep her outdoor furniture dry. i do hope it comes and i don't even mind if it floods. because it's rain. yeah. yeah, so hopefully and we can just helps with watering the plants. the stores rain room is ready to serve with everything from boots and tarps to the stuff that stop

leaks marcus bartholomew expects to sell out as soon as the first raindrops fall on the plastic seating all the tarps. you know shop backs will go because it'd be like oops moment. you know, i got leak you got to clean it up good the water off the floor the national weather service tweeting widespread rain and the chance of thunderstorms are not the only things in the forecast for this upcoming week a high surf advisory will be in effect and the storm coming through we're looking at rain coming sunday night monday night and into tuesday marin county fire battalion. chief brett montague is hopeful the storm will close the books on a tinder dry fire season any additional rainfall that we get is just gonna help really put an end to fire season, hopefully for verizon northern california the department honored its volunteer. look at sunday people who watch for fire from remote stations on mount tam and other areas many are happy. this year did not see a major wildfire in the bay area the whole story of the mountain as you look at it is from very

green in the spring to very brown and dry up until it begins to rain significantly. lynette hopes, this season is wetter than the last i just hope it continues to rain and we don't get one blast of rain and then it's dry for the rest of the winter. yeah, that is the hope samback stations are open in many north bay communities tonight for those who need them in firefighters are urging drivers to take it slow on the roads, especially if you're heading up to the high country. live in mill valley tonight cornell bernard abc 7 news now always a good reminder. all right cornell. thanks, and you can check the forecast and see live doppler 7 anytime with the abc 7 bay area streaming tv app, you can find it in the weather on demand section. just download the app now for roku apple tv, amazon fire and google tv. moving on a search is on in the south bay for what police are calling a dinner time home burglary crew palo alto police

are investigating 11 cases since october 9th. burglaries happened during dinner time hours between 7 and 9 pm often on friday and saturday nights when the homeowners aren't there the suspects usually get in by smashing glass doors and backyards. is best friday the thieves got away with a locked gun safe with nine firearms inside officers have increased patrols including plain clothes officers in targeted neighborhoods. sideshows and gunfire rolled across the bay area overnight starting in vallejo activity went on for about 20 minutes in the area of columbus and ascot parkway before police broke it up officers also respond to this side show in hayward witnesses say shots were fired when the sideshow was dispersed by three officers. gunfire rang out during this side show in rodeo and in a fourth location in richmond police broke up another street

takeover, california lawmakers passed a bill last year to increase side show punishments that new law is set to go into effect in 2025 and includes traffic tickets impounding vehicles and taking away people's drivers licenses for up to six months. now to your voice your vote and new abc news washington post poll shows the economy and inflation are the two top issues for voters in tuesday's midterm election. abc news reporter mary, alice parks. has the very latest on a heated battle for control of congress. americans frustration over the economy and president biden's low approval rating have republicans feeling confident. they will gain back control of both the house and the senate democratic senator cory booker admits, his party faces a difficult election on tuesday, but still he says he sees a path for democrats to keep control of the senate and even though our economy is tough people think about it and say wait a minute. this is the party trying to protect unions. this is the party that made sure we did things to lower prescription drug costs and

lower health care costs, but virginia's republican governor glenn younkin believes voters will send a wake up call to the president and elect republicans to regain full control of both chambers of congress. i hope the president biden sees what americans are gonna are gonna say to him on tuesday, which is we're not happy. we need a different agenda pennsylvania is one of the battleground states that could decide which party controls the senate president biden and former president obama joining forces at a rally for democratic senate candidate john federman and gubernatorial candidate josh shapiro. and facts and logic and reason and basic decency on the ballot former president trump campaigning for the republican ticket in pennsylvania, doug mastriano running for governor and senate candidate dr. mehmet oz if you want to stop the destruction of our country and

save the american dream then this tuesday, you must vote republican americans are turning out and that has democrats feeling optimistic the number of early ballots cast has surpassed the number of early voters during the last midterm election in 2018, mary alice parks abc news, washington. on election night, we will be streaming live results as soon as the polls close for three hours straight from 8 to 11:00. you can watch that with our abc 7 bay area app on your smartphone or smart tv now on tv, you can also watch abc 7 news at 4:00 starting at five. we'll go live to abc network coverage on national elections with live local updates every 30 minutes. then abc 7 news at 11pm will have a a full recap of local results. strong words today from senator diane feinstein about the attack on nancy pelosi's husband what feinstein is saying in response to lies and disinformation about the attack?

and another day means another development at twitter where the situation is constantly changing since elon musk took over.

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francisco native and us senator diane feinstein released a statement today about the lucy attack saying all lawmakers should condemn it. senator says she is quote deeply disappointed by the disinformation by prominent people on the other side of the aisle about the brutal attack against paul pelosi. senator also saying leaders on the other side of the aisle have a responsibility to denounce these lies and put an end to them. all pelosi was released from the hospital last thursday and his wife house speaker nancy. pelosi says he is under doctors care the suspected attacker. david depapp has a hearing on december 14th. twitter is reportedly asking some workers to return to the company after friday's round of layoffs. apparently some of the workers being asked to return were laid off by mistake that is according to bloomberg the site also says some employees were let go before managers could assess if certain workers experience may be needed to carry out elon

musk's vision for twitter. all of this comes after the company announced it would be delaying the rollout of its 799 per month verification check mark subscription. a much more to come including the powerball jackpot now at its highest amount ever all of that after no one picked all six numbers last night, but one person in the bay area got close how much they won and where that lucky ticket was purchased. i'm spencer christian. our next storm is getting closer. i'll give you a look at what to expect from this storm in just a moment on abc 7 news at five continues.

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like a trip to great wolf lodge. power ball tickets? no ticket hit the jackpot, but three tickets worth more than a million dollars were sold in california monday night's powerball jackpot is worth 1.9 billion dollars the largest in lottery history now abc 7 news was outside the 76 station on washington avenue. this is in san leandro where a lucky winner hit five numbers similar tickets were sold in san diego county and susanville in northern california. each ticket is worth 1.1 million dollars now take a look here are saturday night's winning powerball numbers if you want to check 28:45 53 56 69 and that power ball is 20, you know, we were just talking about like if

you match one or two or three numbers not even worth getting up for seven dollars seven dollars for three more tickets, right? that's about it. well, we're not getting so lucky with the weather right? well, maybe we are because we need the rain. it depends on which side you're on right exactly what we just don't want the cold and the wind it was a look at what's going on. i'll show you the satellite radar composite image the looping image. you can see the storm dropping down from the gulf of alaska that's going to be our weather maker for the next two, maybe even three days. it has already pushed cold. air into the bay area colder air you can see on the 24-hour temperature change at 60 degrees cooler in san francisco right now than at this time yesterday in virtually every other location is several degrees cooler as well. checks out. it's raining a top mountain already. just a moment ago. you can see little raindrops hitting the camera lens. obviously, it's cloudy there and it's raw. i just currently only 54 degrees here in san francisco upper 50s in oakland and palo alto, san jose is our warm spot at 60 58

degrees of santa clara half moon bay 54 at the golden gate. we see clouds at various levels of the atmosphere and of the temperature readings right now 56 in santa rosa 58 at concord all these other locations napa novato concord in livermore fairfield inn livermore actually at 57 degrees and one more live view from the east bay hills camera. you can see those dark clouds getting lower and lower over the bay. these are our forecast headlines periods of rain are developing right now will continue tonight and tomorrow a stronger storm comes in tomorrow. i'll be moving in tomorrow night into tuesday and we can expect showers and light rain tapering off on wednesday the approaching storm ranks one on the exclusive abc 7 storm impact scale. so for the next two days, we expect periods of rain starting tonight overnight moving north to south more rain late tomorrow. it'll get more energetic tomorrow night and continue into election day. on which on which day it's going to be raw and windy. all right take a look at the forecast animation starting seven o'clock tonight. you'll see that first wave of

showers and rain swinging through right around midnight then a little bit of a break and then mid-morning tomorrow showers scattered showers, maybe even an isolated thunderstorm or two before the second stronger wave of rain comes in late tomorrow night and continues overnight into tuesday morning and through the day on tuesday. we'll see periods of rain and showers as well in the sierra mean while we snowing heavily at times. we have a winter winter storm warning and effect from 7:00 tonight to 4pm went before am wednesday. heavy snow up to four feet of accumulation winds gusting 55 miles per hour even higher in the higher passes overnight lows here upper 40s to about 50 and highest tomorrow in the bay area mid to upper 50s. that's about as mild. it's going to get here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. and as i mentioned we're going to have two stormy days to start the week even election day on tuesday lingering showers on wednesday, friday veterans day partly cloudy. we'll see a little bit of sunshine and then there's another slight chance of rain again on saturday. what a week of wintery weather,

although this is good weather to watch football whatever sports you want everything you want to watch. stay inside come up in sports snyder's the chance to take the leading the fc west they didn't have to leave their homes. i'll explain why that could have happened plus more pt for jka why jonathan coming in line for more playing playing time with the warriors sports? the warriors sports? this is what voting yes on prop 31 means. yes on 31 ends the sale of candy flavored tobacco products. yes, stops big tobacco from targeting our kids. yes, protects kids from nicotine addiction. vote yes on 31. hey guys, detect this: living with hiv, i learned that i can stay undetectable with fewer medicines. that's why i switched to dovato. dovato is for some adults who are starting hiv-1 treatment or replacing their current hiv-1 regimen. detect this: no other complete hiv pill uses fewer medicines to help keep you undetectable than dovato. detect this: most hiv pills contain 3 or 4 medicines. dovato is as effective with just 2.

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with chris alvarez after an owen 5 road trip in which klay thompson today called it a road trip from hell the warriors return to chase center tomorrow night against sacramento head coach steve kerr is going to shake things up with his rotation doves looking to snap a nasty five-game slide the main headline jonathan camiga that guy gonna be in the rotation the warrior's second year guard average just under 11 minutes and 2.7 points per game before getting his chance friday night and jk responded season high 18 points in 38 minutes first. 89 games of the year were really about you know, getting our feet underneath us and trying to see what we what we had. we've learned. we got to try something different and so jk will be part

of the new rotation. i'm excited for jonathan as long as his efforts there. he's gonna contribute. so what a great position to be to be 20 years old. on defending champs. it's pretty cool. so i'm a think the world of football now the 49ers could take first place without even leaving the couch today san francisco, of course on the buy now if arizona could beat first place seattle today, the niners would regain the top spot in the nfc west. so here we go, arizona fans. fired up young man is ready to go third quarter seattle 10-7 gino smith throwing a screen but arizona zaven collins reads it perfectly 30 yards the other way 1410 cardinals, but seattle storms back and in the fourth quarter, they're up. 24-21 hannah to rookie kenneth walker the third had 109 yards and two scored including this tough finish at the end zone ices. the game late seahawks win 31-21. they remain in first place in the nfc west the last two super bowl winning quarterbacks, matt stafford's rams, but in tom

brady and the bucks low scoring game stafford finding cooper cup somehow he's wide open between three guys 69 yards to the house seven three la tough day for brady but history here on this pass to leonard fournette becoming the first player to surpass 100,000 total passing yards regular season and playoffs. he's been doing it forever and doing it. well 13 seconds to go brady finding cade otten for the game winner that game was crazy at the end bucks win. 16 13 snapping a three-game slide la has lost four of their last five the niners next opponent the chargers next sunday night, but today the boats were in atlanta 46 seconds ago game tied 17 chargers and field goal range austin eckler fumbles. it falcons defensive lineman to quan graham scoops it up going the other way, but watch this he fumbles it himself in the chargers recover. they have new life and la kicker brand new guy cameron dicker. game winner is time expires. just three days after he was signed and the chargers win it 20 to 17.

so the falcons at the ball right in their head if over the way and the chargers took advantage, but how special on day three. i mean, i don't think i did anything significant my first week, you know. way to make a first impression. yeah, totally cool. all right, chris. thanks. well a veteran's day tradition dating back more than a hundred years returns to san francisco. we've got the highlights next.

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it the 100 second san francisco veterans day. parade was held at fisherman's wharf today it was the first held to honor troops returning from france after world war one people lined parts of the street to honor our servicemen and women veterans day is next friday, november 11th. nice to see that the weather at least held out for this. yes. it did. it's not holding up very much right now rain is falling already in the north bay, and it's coming our way. okay. well we watching it much more tonight at 6.

all right, that's all the time we have for this edition of abc 7 news at five stay with us. we'll be back in just about 30 minutes minutes for more news ahead. tonight, the final sprint to the midterm elections with control of both the house and senate at stake. plus, the new security concerns as america decides. >> with just two days left, the candidates are making their closing arguments. both sides are calling in the heavy hitters. three presidents campaign in the same state. early voting on pace to set a midterm record. what voters are telling us about the top issues. eva pilgrim standing by in the critical state of pennsylvania, and can democrats hold both the senate and house? our powerhouse political team breaks down the path to victory for each party. also tonight, election security is on high alert. the new report just in. why the fbi and bomb squad were called to the campaign headquarters of arizona's republican gubernatorial candidate. >> plus, how foreign actors may once again be spreading misinformation. what you need to know.