clairemont avenue, which is up in the hills emergency crews were on the scene and so was pg&e and here's a quick look at current power outages for pg&e customers that yellow icon is where 50 customers are without power because of the tree that fell pg&e says it'll have the power back on tonight other outages in the bay area are small and scattered. this is probably what your commute look like today. we shot this video in san mateo county wet roads, maybe some puddles and definitely you needed windshield wip have a similar view for the next few days, too, but there. is friday abc 7? news urologist sandia patel is here with those details san diego. yeah, that's right. we do have one dry day and that is going to be 2023 as we ring in the new year, dan and alma. let's get right to live doppler 7. it's beneficial rain right now widespread across the region as we get you into street level radar here point scene, san pedro road, san rafael heading into santo venetia. we are seeing some rain. it is it is moderate in pockets from san francisco to the south

city areas we had towards the east bay you will notice from san leandro to san lorenzo castro valley it is wet and some moderate rain around the south bay from the peninsula into the south bay from tasman road sunnyvale area. it's a light level one on our exclusive storm impact scale through tomorrow light to moderate rain low visibility slippery roads as we go hour by hour, you will notice that the rainfall will remain widespread tonight switching over to showers as we had towards tomorrow and really continues into the afternoon then an atmospheric river aimed right at as comes our way saturday morning bringing multiple storm concerns very high likelihood of flooding on the roadways small stream flooding high likelihood of down trees shallow mudslides and power outages as a moderate likelihood when you take a look at the storm impact scale every single day except for sunday. we have a storm impact scale on there the strongest on saturday. i'll be back with a closer. look at that storm coming right up. all right.

thank you, sandia. we'll check back with you in the north bay. the rain is making roadways slick and hazardous for drivers homeowners are getting ready for the next round of storms, which could bring flooding abc 7 news reporter cornell. bernard is live with the story in san rafael. cornell's coming down. yeah, alma. it is definitely coming down. it's a wet thursday night here in marin. the rain has been well, it's been raining for most of the day homeowners getting ready for more storms and possible flooding and out here on the roads. well, let's just say it's been a challenging day. we arrived to the scene and found the bus on its side firefighters say rain and slick roadways may have caused this marine transit bus to overturn thursday morning on anderson drive in san rafael. no passengers just a solo driver the driver had to be extricated from the bus and suffered minor injuries. hours later a tow truck was able to flip the bus back onto its wheels.

a rainy week brought flooding to parts of sonoma county highway 121 at highway 12 was under water tuesday a new flood threat returns friday into saturday as storms intensify every storm. we have quite a bit of flooding time. broxley dixon loaded up on sandbags to take back to her home in san rafael. she's hoping it will help protect her backyard from the downpour every rain we have flooding. so i heard there's gonna be about three to six inches. so just our garage will flood every time and not ready for it this year marin county severe weather shelter was opening for the third time this month due to heavy rain for those experiencing homelessness. the shelter is located on kerner boulevard, and we'll be open through new year's eve day. in senate somo sandbags for standing by outside downtown businesses just in case we found doris nelson who's visiting from vermont. it's not snow. and it's not sleep. so that's good.

so you'll take the rain. yeah, but the reason that i'm a little disturbed is my apologist broke. definitely needs a new umbrella. you're gonna need an umbrella for most of the week and we just heard from transit officials. we want you to know that that driver was treated and released from a hospital today, and we're live in san rafael tonight cornell bernard abc 7 news. cornell and keep track of the storm wet weather with e7 news app stream now to developing news and improvement in the travel debacle at southwest airlines today has the fewest flight cancellations so far this week about 2300 in the bay area manetta, san jose international airport is the most affected. here's a live. look at that airport all but one of today's cancellations. there are because of southwest abc 7 news reporter. zach fuentes is live at that airport tonight zack. you're seeing signs of progress.

we absolutely are we're seeing a lot of luggage being carted out of the airport right now to be shipped to travelers who have been waiting for it, but there's still a lot of frustrations today, even though we know that tomorrow operations are expected to resume back to normal. there's still a lot of travelers who don't know whether luggage is landed. the southwest travel nightmare continues thursday with the airline confirming in a statement that it's still operating 1/3 of its travel schedule. but in that same release they said operations will be back to normal friday those san jose international airport continues to have cancellations. some of the chaos has died down. this is what the lines look like in the rental car center wednesday people waiting hours trying to get one way rentals as a last resort a day later. it is virtually empty and here assign that perhaps he's travel wars are starting to ease up but for many travelers they are still in a state of limbo a state. they're desperately waiting to get out of charles and chris payton blue southwest airlines out of orange county into san jose to spend new years even carmel since it was a short

flight. they thought things would go as planned. we left orange county and everything was fine, and i said good job to my husband, but then the trauma happened as you can see charles got his luggage. chris was not so lucky. we spent an hour over in the baggage department of southwest airlines. they gave us a report to call us when they find it which doesn't help us because we'll be down in carmel whether troubles have only just started the travel headaches for local teacher terry hodges started christmas day when she was trying to fly into st. louis to see her parents. she was to go from san jose to san diego to connect fly the rest of the way but flight delays ruined her right tinerary. i miss my connection in san diego and they told me my bags were offloaded in san diego. i looked around the airport. hours and they were never to be found. i just drove herself back to san jose, but days later. she still doesn't have her bags just was told they were shipped to st. louis, which was my destination.

so fingers crossed. they will be shipped back to san jose in the next couple days. just don't know when made all of the troubles thousands of passengers had there have been some happy reunions. some are cameras caught early thursday on abc 7 mornings. i found it since december 24th a reunion others are hopeful they'll have too. i just want my bags back and i'll call it a day. so i just want to give you a good visual of the progress that we were talking about this area. you're seeing that's roped off. it was completely filled with luggage it needed to be reunited with travelers who were impacted by all of these delays and cancellations right now. you see the area is emptying out and there's luggage being put on carts right now. we saw fedex truck just outside being loaded up with these pieces of luggage for the travelers who've been waiting in some cases days. so at least here at san jose international a dent has been made in terms of the luggage that it's been just sitting here for such a long time right now live in san jose exact fuentes abc 7 news. yes hack that was such an

unbelievable seeing the last few days thousands of bags. just sitting there walk us through the options passengers have to reclaim their baggage. right. that's an option that many people have been wondering about so southwest has established a travel disruption page on their website there. you can figure out how to claim your luggage. you don't have to go to a separate airport to pick up your luggage. they will ship it to you for free and also on that page to it gives you the options for other reimbursements that you may be entitled to if you have been impacted by this mess. okay. good enough zack. thanks so much. well, let's take a live look at the abc 7 oakland airport cameron. now southwest is the source of virtually all of the cancellations there today 117 of the 118 flights canceled today at oakland r southwest flights. and here's a site that's become familiar to airports nationwide. what a mess the backlog southwest baggage claim as you can see, they're hundreds of not thousands of unclean bags there waiting to be picked up by people who's travel plans were upended by this mess abc 7 news

would it was an sfo today where things are a little less hectic but yet again, there are rows of luggage still unclaimed waiting to be reunited with their rightful owners. here's a live look at sfo today 43 flights here were canceled 35 of them were southwest some southwest customers were big fans of the company. gone new six abc 7 anchor karina nova joins us live from the newsroom with a branding experts take on southwest's ability to recover carina. the big question is can southwest airlines recover from the damage done. this week customers were left stranded at airports. some people didn't get to see their families for the holidays at all in many others are still trying to find their luggage. not just that southwest employees are also frustrated it all adds up to a public relations nightmare for the company southwest officials put out a video apology pledging to repair their relationship with customers. they've offered resources for

booking flights and getting refunds for travelers expenses, but is that enough to wing back angry customers and save their brand while russell quinen is a bay area brand expert who says many other companies have recovered from much worse and so can southwest i believe in my experience that we have short memories, and i don't necessarily think it's a one-for-one. well, let us refund your your airfare. that doesn't seem like a fair -- for tat in this particular case. so i'd like to see them really step up and show that they're an organization that cares and if they are customer-centric it's time to actually put their wallets up and do something for these people who've had to suffer. and says that people are willing to forgive and forget if they're able to save money on flights in southwest has been known to offer great airfare deals. so we'll see if they do that and he says the timetable for the brand recovery is hard to tell this afternoon southwest airlines executives held a call

with reporters where they address the need for major, it upgrades passenger reimbursements and timelines for company changes. so more to come in the newsroom karina nova abc 7 news. yep, karina. thank you. well southwest stock went up today for the first time in days gaining nearly four percent it trades under the symbol love l u v a nod to the airlines headquarters at dallas love field. new at six the california highway patrol released results from the christmas holiday maximum enforcement period when they were out in such for chp officers made $639 arrests for impaired driving 34 people were killed in car crashes all across california the maximum enforcement period ran from friday, december 23rd through monday, december 26th. coming up next from the i-team a look at the disproportionate number of unhoused patients at san francisco emergency rooms and what impact that might have on getting all patients the care they need

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released today about coronavirus shows some reasons to be optimistic hospitalizations in california are at a plateau cases appear to be declining and in the bay area all county saw decreasing covid-19 community levels according to the cdc san francisco, san mateo and santa cruz now rank in the low category the rest of the bay area ranks medium rank in the high stage three san francisco hospital emergency rooms have the highest percentage of unhoused patients across the state. the question is will that affect staffing and long-term care abc 7 news 19 reporters, stephanie sierra digging into that force

and she is with us in the studio steph. yes, dent of unhoused. county some medical directors are concerned about the long-term impacts unhoused patients make up less than 5% of emergency department admissions across, california, but in some sanford cisco hospitals, that figure is up to 32 percent. i think it's pretty impressive and i had no idea. i really thought that the rest of the state say in the urban areas with similar to us, so it's a bit shocking to me dr. joanne's son is the medical director for both saint francis memorial hospital and saint mary's medical center in san francisco. both hospitals are among the top three emergency departments in the state with the highest percentage of unhoused patients along with sf general. it's mainly due to our location. we're very close to the

tenderloin dr. son says providers are seeing the same unhoused patients repeatedly often under the influence requiring additional nursing resources and even security there's been many workplace violence instances in our emergency department and i hear this across the city even among my my other colleagues. it just seemed that there's just more violence in general that domino effects into our staff being feeling unfit and unable to come into work. so then we're short staffed hospitals offering care for unhoused patients typically eat more of the cost. for example, 65% of the unhoused er patients at saint francis memorial and saint mary's medical center have medical and rates. haven't been raised since 2012 another 20% are self-pay. so the hospital often isn't reimbursed dr. son says it's impacting both hospitals financially with potential to limit staffing and bed

availability. do you think this long term could lead to a staffing crisis? oh, i absolutely believe that in terms of recruiting and retention dr. luke john day the chief medical officer at sf. general says the disproportionately high percentage of unhoused patients in the er isn't isn't straining staffing at the overall inf. of patients has required more space. we've opened additional units within our hospital to care for more patients who require hospitalization is that we're just seeing a higher volume across the board for all of our patients. hospitals are expected to move patients through the er as fast as possible and we found those three san francisco hospitals with the highest percent of unhoused er patients also had longer patient turnaround times than other hospital systems across the state for the i-team stephanie sierra abc 7 news, very interesting. all right, stephanie. thank you very much if you have a story for the abc 7 news item call this number on your screen 1888-40i team or go to abc 7

news com slash item. all right. well live doppler 7 has been mighty green today. oh, yeah, the weather department operating full speed because there's a lot to talk about sandy. yes, and it's winter and we need these storms. so let's take them while we get them dan and alma. let me show you live doppler 7 really widespread rain right now on our radar. we're gonna get you into where we are seeing some steady rain from walnut creek across 680 martinez cummings parkway in case you're traveling keep this in mind on the peninsula from palo alto to redwood city heading into mountain view fremont avenue. yeah. it's wet and across parts of the south bay. we are seeing some steady rain from willow glen to west heading street in san jose as we go towards the north bay napa, old sonoma road, dry creek road slippery roadways as we check out those temperatures right now 40s and 50s now be careful if you're stepping out tonight for evening plans as you will notice from our kgo roof camera rhodes

are slippery. so widespread rain tonight showers tomorrow. atmospheric river arrives saturday morning, and it is dry for new year's eve and for the first day of 2023 on our exclusive storm impact scale. this is a light level one through tomorrow light to moderate rain low visibility slippery roads will be the biggest concerns breezy at times so at 7 o'clock tonight. we have pretty much light to moderate rain moving through it's still widespread at 10 o'clock notice what happens as we had towards tomorrow morning, it becomes very scattered in nature. not everyone's going to be seeing the rain so to come and waves those showers continue into the afternoon hours before the next storm gets ready to hit late tomorrow night going into saturday. now, your morning temperature is will actually be on the mild side with all the cloud cover 40s 50s scattered showers for the region tomorrow afternoon, you're looking at temperatures that range from the mid 50s around lakeport to the low 60s around san rafael, san jose keep those umbrellas handy because this isn't the only storm we

have a level two a moderate string storm coming in saturday morning with that atmospheric river moderate to heavy rain gus 35 to 50 or higher flooding is expected on small streams roadways. there's a possibility of flooding on rivers and possibility of shallow mud slides. so this storm is going to bring concerns and a flash flood a flood watch. excuse me. it's already been posted for the entire area that starts tomorrow afternoon runs until saturday evening. the concern is the ground is already saturated. we haven't had of a chance to dry out and you add heavy rain on top of that you get the runoff and you get the potential for flooding across the region. so let's time this out for you tomorrow afternoon. it's just off and on showers saturday morning is when that atmospheric river aims right at us could be some thunderstorms six o'clock saturday morning. you will notice some heavy rain coming right through the bay area heaviest rain continues at 9 am and then as we had towards the afternoon hours the rain

eases up in the bay still going in the east bay in the south bay, although not quite as intense. it's all gone by the time your new year's eve plans begin. she's going to be a combination of fog and clouds now rainfall projections through tomorrow afternoon. you're looking about a 1,500 of an inch to just over an inch of rain when you add to the rainfall the saturday storm. we're talking about one to three inches or more certainly the wetter spots could pick up three to four inches of rain. and so that's the biggest concern is we're gonna see some problems on here in the bay area on saturday the accuweather seven day forecast. it's periods of showers with our level one system for tomorrow. it's a level two saturday morning with a stormy start to the day you ring in the new year heading into sunday for the first day of 2023 it is going to be dry and then we have a series of storms continuing through next week. so monday, tuesday, wednesday thursday right now all level ones that could change mid-week might have to be bumped up.

level two as we are expecting another atmospheric river coming our way. so dan andama stay tuned but certainly is a very active pattern and we welcome it. yeah, this is great. yeah. thank you very much, india. well, you could say the new avatar movie is making it rain at the box office the new milestone reached faster than any other film this year. any other film this year. it's hard to explain what depression feels like. but i can tell you what it feels like when someone offers help. every plan through covered california is comprehensive, with mental health coverage, and financial help for people who need it. enroll by december 31st.

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recovery from yesterday's drop the dow increased by 345 points the nasdaq gained more than 260 the s&p also signed an increase adding 66 points despite the gains 2022 has been terrible for stocks. the dow is down eight and a half percent for the year. the nasdaq gave up a third of its entire value the s&p has lost more than 19 percent some lucky person could start the new year as a multi-millionaire. the mega millions jackpot is up to an estimated 640 million dollars. no one won on tuesday night. the next drawing is tomorrow at 8 pm. it is the last drawing of the year. the newly released sequel the way of water has officially surpassed one billion at the global box office faster than any other film released this year the original avatar released back in 2009 brought in

almost three billion dollars. it was the highest grossing release ever disney is apparent company of both 20th century studios and abc 7. wildfire victims being reimbursed by pg&e for their losses have to pay federal taxes on the money the i-team looks at what it will take and how long to make those payments totally tax-free also ahead. it's up to us to make sure that we have the checks and balances in place. to ensure that the vote count is accurate. and checks and balances caught a mistake and last month's election tonight a look at the questions now raised about results for one race in oakland. stay with us on saturday night. bring in the new year with abc 7 -- clark's prime time new year's rockin eve with ryan seacrest starts at 8pm. there will be a special edition of abc 7 news from 10 to 10:30 and then we'll go back to ryan seacrest for the countdown to midnight.

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configured properly for the november election, but only one race resulted was affected by this error. that's the oakland school director district 4. so who really won? maybe runs her husband looked into that today. as ballots were being counted in last month's election in alameda county. something was wrong the algorithms and the election officials almost always get it, right. in this instance, it was simply a button that was left checked in the menu option for the algorithm. that was not unchecked sean dugar is with the california ranked choice voting coalition. one of the two groups that caught the error in the ranked choice voting program votes can be handled in two ways in the first way if a voter skips their first choice that vote is skip but in alameda county the correct setting should have advanced the second choice to become the first choice that matters in ranked choice voting where candidates or eliminated

in every round if you do it in the correct order where no candidate is eliminated and then you count these ballots. then it made the the statements abc7 news tim dupuis the alameda county registrar voters explains. there are jurisdictions outside of california that required ranked choice voting to be handled the first way. that's why the configuration exists in the system, but that difference means that mike hutchinson who finished third is now the likely winner over nick resnick. the gear says the error was caught after their partner organization ran the cast vote record, which is essentially a recount a common practice. he says that is done after every election since it's public record. it's up to us to make sure that we have the checks and balances in place. ensure that the vote count is accurate and in this instance, we have the checks and balances the cash vote record was released. the oakland branch of the naacp

missed the deadline to demand an initial recount, but given the error in the school board race. they're demanding a manual recount in all of oakland city elections. even the oakland has been using ranked choice voting for over a decade. we think that the integrity if there is any integrity in this election that a manual recount might bring about some credibility the issue for the county now is how to recertify the election in an election outcome that is unprecedented in oakland abc 7 news. starting january 1st, san jose residents who own a gun will be required to have insurance, san jose is the first city in the nation to make this a requirement proof of insurance must be kept with the weapon the policy must cover losses or damages from the unintentional use of the firearm mayor sam. licardo says the insurance provides security for gun owners and it is an indicator that gun owners are being safe.

this is not about taking away anyone's guns. this is not about invading anyone's homes or private spaces or cars. they'll be none of that. this is simply about ensuring that gun ownership is safer. anyone who fails to comply will face a minimum fine of $200. there's about to be a changing of the guard so to speak when it comes to the bay area's three biggest cities the current mayors are london breed in san francisco, sam mccardo and san jose and libby schaffen oakland two of the three are leaving office. next month. london breed is the only one who will remain that. mayhan is going to be the new mayor of san jose. and sheng tao will be the new mayor of oakland. they'll be sworn in next month. efforts to make wildfire victims pg&e settlement payments exempt from federal taxes have failed legislators. hope that they'd get it done by the end of the year and now they say they're going to take the issue up again at the start of the new year. abc 7 news 19 reporter melanie. woodrow is on the story. this was our house.

it was a two-story lisa frazee has been rebuilding her santa rosa home for five years since the 2017 tubs fire frustrating. it's taken over my life for the past five years her frustration boiling over with the news that efforts to make fire victims pg&e bankruptcy settlement payments federally tax-free before the end of the year have failed. we were hopeful as we're going in because again as a bipartisan legislation congressman, doug lamalfa says, the legislation was part of a larger omnibus bill which packaged together several matters. we were hoping that we could kind of ride into tails of that. well the whole tax standard tax modification package didn't make it into omnibus bill so ours kind of went down with the ship on that for for now, it's never been taxed in the first place because this isn't income. this is reimbursement. richard lane is also a tubs fire survivor. we did not know when we first agree to the bankruptcy agreement forward by pg&e that going to be tapped on our recovery money on september 29th

governor gavin newsom signed a bill, which would make pg&e wildfire victims settlement payments state tax-free the following month lamalfa said this the state can get enough moline was able to rebuild. he says taxes on the settlement payments have prevented other wildfire survivors from doing the same. i feel very frustrated by i also feel on behalf dole fire victim forgotten. the malthus says he understands there's people that are for no fault of their own. are having to deal with this we will take it up as soon as we get sworn in and go again. i asked elaine if that's enough. well, it's gonna have to be enough because there is no other option at this point for the it melanie woodrow abc 7 news. coming up next a light in the darkness meet the bay area man helping light up ukraine in the midst of war as 2022 comes to an end abc 7 is looking back at all of the stories. we brought you this year. we've compiled our favorites into a new one hour streaming special building a better bay

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designer vivian westwood died in our london home today at age 81 sources say westwood died peacefully surrounded by family the iconic english. designer brought modern punk attire into the mainstream fashion world. she was known as the mother of punk and gained public recognition after starting huberty her boutique in the 1970s. as war rages in the ukraine russian missile attacks continues striking critical power plants in ukraine leaving millions of people in the dark and his abc 7 news reporter tara campbell explains one bay area man, and his brother are helping bring some light in time for the holidays. with a click of a button solar lantern is poised to bring some much-needed light to ukraine for shipping thousands of these little light units two families there that they can use in their houses. they can use an underground shelters. paul. andrews is co-chair of sunlight ukraine a non-profit. he founded with his brother and

their ukrainian american friend in ukraine right now due to the relentless bombing of the power plants millions of people don't have power and a massive airstrike thursday leaving thousands more without power russia launching more than 100 missiles. so the three of us said gee, you know with the bombing going on these these little guys could be very useful and so they started making calls to friends assembling a team. so we have freight forwarders and los angeles we have web designers here in san francisco. we have a ukrainian shipping company in new jersey the manufacturer making it possible by donating the lights. produce 50 hours of light on a single charge open that up. and that is a usb port paul pointing out for some the lantern will serve as a lifeline if you have no electricity. you can't charge your cell phone. you're alone in the dark. so these these will make a very big big difference to ukrainian families and helping to get

these lanterns to the families a group of students. they're being distributed by a student-run volunteer service of ukrainian catholic university in laviv, and they're taking them all across the country. paul says he couldn't be more proud. what do these catholic students decide to do? they took a big? group of the first batch and they gave them they gave them out to three jewish communities to celebrate hanukkah as a sign of interface solidarity a gesture received with great gratitude, may the light of these lanterns help us all. the power of light will always overcome the power of darkness tara campbell abc 7 news. and if you want to help people in ukraine, we've put together a full list of verified groups and nonprofits making a difference. it's on our website abc7news.com/take action. coming up next a closer look at the series of storms that'll bring rain to the bay area nearly every day for two weeks. sandia has your new year's eve

forecast next and a reminder. you can watch the rose parade right here in abc 7. it will air monday monday january 2nd beginning at 8:00 january 2nd beginning at 8:00 am. it's hard to explain what depression feels like. but i can tell you what it feels like when someone offers help. every plan through covered california is comprehensive, with mental health coverage, and financial help for people who need it. enroll by december 31st.

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days this week including today and tomorrow now tonight's glofari event is canceled. tomorrow's is questionable people who bought gets will get refunded. while plenty of rain in the forecast, but no difference to our drought the newest map from the us drought monitor was released today. that's exactly the same as last week the entire bay area is still in the orange category for severe drought 45% of the state is in that category the first no survey of the season is less than a week away. it will take place on tuesday, january 3rd at phillips station the snow surveys helped the state's department of water resources know how much water will be available for reservoirs over the summer. there's a mix of snow and rain in the sierra check out this view of 80th. donner summit the best part check out how clear the road service is for drivers. currently. there are no chain controls in effect for 80 or highway 50, of course you that can change with new storms moving in. so if you are traveling make sure to double check conditions before you leave snowy weather

here pales to in comparison to what many other states are dealing with around the country abc news reporter justin finch shows you how they're just starting now to recover in, new york. the deep freeze across western new york breaking as temperatures rise. in buffalo the driving band has lifted freeing drivers to dig out and try restarting their cars once buried beneath more than four feet of snow. i really can't use words to explain how bad it was. the power is back online for many the national guard is making door-to-door wellness checks after widespread outages because we are fearful that there are individuals who may have perished the erie county executive going on to call buffalo's response to the monumental storm embarrassing storm after storm after storm after storm. the city unfortunately is the last one to be opened buffalo's mayor responding people have been working around the clocks since the beginning of this

storm nationwide the storm now blamed for at least 60 deaths with more than 30 count from the buffalo area, and now buffalo is prepping or another potential weather event flooding due to rising temperatures melting snow and rain forecast. the governor says thousands of sandbags and hundreds of pumps and generators are ready if needed justin finch abc news, washington. yeah, a lot of people have been dealing with some really nasty weather really deadly dangerous terrible across the country here. we've got active weather as well. that's right. the rain is here. sandia has the latest. absolutely dan anomal. let's take a look at live doppler 7 because it is wet outside as we look widespread rain. it's not super heavy. it's just pretty much steady. so as we get you into street level radar south santa rosa windsor, santa rosa guerneville road getting wet. we have slippery roads in the east bay around discovery bay byron, brentwood antioch as we go in closer you will notice right around main street oakley

area. it is slippery if you're heading down the peninsula watch out from pacifica all the way towards san mateo. we do have the wet weather and in the south bay around branham lane willow glen, san jose getting the wet weather as we widen out this picture. this is a light level one storm. the next one is going to be stronger tomorrow. you can expect temperatures in the 50s and the 60s so pretty much mild, but keep that umbrell. candy a level 2 on our exclusive abc 7 news storm impact scale moderate strings storm saturday morning is going to bring his moderate to heavy rain gus 35 to 50 or higher and that means flooding potential possibility of shallow mudslides. we do have a flood watch tomorrow afternoon through saturday evening small streams and creeks could flood we're talking about roadway flooding certainly the potential is there for river flooding. so that's something to keep in mind as we go hour by hour scattered showers through tomorrow, and then the intensity of the rain picks up as an atmospheric river moves in saturday between six and nine. that's when the heaviest rain will come through it turns over

to light to moderate showers for the afternoon and by the time the new year's eve fireworks get underway. well, let's just say you'll be ringing in the new year with weather much needed rain though coming our way through saturday night. we're talking about one to three inches for many areas. some of the wetter spots could pick up up to three to four certainly a mix of rain and snow in the sierra where a winter storm warning will be going up 10 o'clock tonight for the tahoe area until 4 am sunday west slope is a winter weather advisory this weekend expecting up to five feet above 8,000 feet with gusty winds travel will be difficult to impossible by the time we get to sunday night 47 inches of snow at kirkwood accuweather seven day forecast from a one tomorrow to a two level two storm saturday morning and then a one every single day as we start off our first week of 2023, but the key here is much needed rain and that break for new year's eve and new year's day online. sorry. thanks.

all right, we're talking food or sport before i get to that. i just want to say because the end of the year is coming i've got this in a few months ago. i asked sandia because they predicted a la niña winter and she said not much right. i've got a feeling we're gonna get a lot more rain than so. she did she was right. yeah. there's my expect the next one. yeah, you could start fresh next year lucky i came in today. do you remember your first peanut butter and jelly sandwich, like you're probably five or something warriors. patrick balloon, jr. remember? it vividly because pbj just had his first pb&j recently. sports yeah sports is next. - hi, i'm steve. - i'm lea. and we live in north pole, alaska. - i'm a retired school counselor. [lea] i'm a retired art teacher. [steve] we met online about 10 years ago. as i got older, my hearing was not so good so i got hearing aids. my vision was not as good as it used to be,

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kinda like us. and beyond to take care of me. i feel a lot better now. i'm taking medication for what i should have been taking years ago. (vo) call the number on your screen to learn more about medicare plans in your neighborhood that include caremore. larry beale good evening. he was a player a superstar then an ambassador and if soccer actually had a god it was pele the brazilian legend who brought the sport to america died today bill. i vaulted onto the world stage as a teenager emerging from the slums of brazil pele led his country to a record three world cup titles came to the us in the 1970s joined the new york cosmos sold out stadiums followed all over the country and soon kids everywhere all over the us. they were playing soccer pele died after a long bout with colon cancer. he was 82 years old and the entire world mourns his passing. to our football now debo samuel

back at practice for the 49ers continuing his comeback from that bad. ankle injury a few weeks back. there's no reason to play him sunday against the raiders the niners they want debo healthy for the playoffs while the raiders are looking at life after dc. yes derek carr. he's played his last game for the silver and black they are rebuilding again after this season. so the new year's day matchup is going to be young brock purdy against jarrett stidham pretty making his fourth start continues to impress much more than you would ever expect from a rookie who was actually the last pick in the draft purdy's developed some nice chemistry with playmakers like george kittle and teammates are impressed. i love rock furnace wherever you got it, man. yeah, the poison play with man the confidence and everything. they plays with man. that's all the swagger. he needs man. you can see it on game day. every time make a touchdown. he give you a little like and like he knows what he's doing man. i love to see it. oh sudden. he's just balling on sundays and stuff. so i mean mean, it's good to see friendly reminder the last monday night football game of

the season is on abc and it's on january 2nd the countdown as you see there is live three two. well, anyway, it's bills and bengals a game that will have a lot of seeding implications college ball bad boy mowers pinstripe bowl yankee stadium syracuse, minnesota. this is a perfect pass here 10 or morgan daniel jackson 20 yards great catch two touchdown 14. nothing golden gophers early on now the cues came back in this game. they're driving in the quarter and that's where things went terribly wrong the back breaker coleman bryson picks off garrett schrader down the sideline. he goes 70 yards for the score syracuse added a late touchdown to make a close, but the golden gophers are wearing the gatorade tonight 28-20. what a day to remember for patrick baldwin jr. the warriors rookie. he practiced with the dubs g-league team in santa cruz cruz yesterday afternoon, and then came the call. we need you in san francisco. like right now pbj got in a car for the 90 minute drive arriving at chase center an hour before game time. then he went out and scored 11

points in 12 minutes and the warriors beat the jazz. no surprise to hear that pbj snacked on a peanut butter and jelly scent which on the drive to the city. what was surprising was hearing that it was one of pbj's first pp&j sandwiches have his entire life. so i just had my first one the other day your first one the other day first one the other day ever ever. yeah ever. what is your mom make you for lunch in school turkey sandwiches cream cheese bagels anything except the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. i don't know. i definitely missed out. got to make up for lost time you remember your first, you know butter and jelly sandwich. you're probably like what five years old or something like that thing like that. yeah peanut butter jelly peanut butter and honey was a good one, too. yeah. okay better banana. yeah. you better just should i do the peanut butter jelly time peanut butter now, it's in your head for the rest, right? thank you apologize. thanks, larry. all right coming up tonight on abc 7. i ate catch celebrity jeopardy

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