>> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. >> and this is abills team -kumasi: a health crisis in the middle of monday, a buffalo bills player collapsing in the field. what we know about his condition and the outpouring of support from fans and athletes. reggie: a sinkhole swallows an suv. we are live with the work happening to fix the problem. kumasi:we are looking at the gon gate bridge but we have the storm to a five on our exclusive scale. we are tracking the timeline for the damage conditions that you

can expect across the bay area. reggie: good morning. kumasi: today is the day to get prepared. drew: a lot of people want to get sandbags ready and keep an eye on the trees around the house. the wind will also be an issue with our next powerful storm. a live look at the exploratorium camera, it is cloudy. you will stay cloud -- it will stay cloudy through the day. pockets of drizzle but for the most part it is a quiet day with temperatures in the 50's. tomorrow we are highlighting the level five severe storm, the first we have forecast since the inception of the scale seven years ago. so we are tracking heavy rain, damaging wind and the flood threat is high. a lot of rain over the weekend and we have not had a chance to subside and we will have more heavy rain moving in seeing more flooding on the roads and creeks and even more mud and rock

slides. because of the damaging wind, trees will come down. a flood watch and high wind watch is in effect. reggie: with the risk of more flooding and damage high power -- damage high, crews are preparing for the storm using an industrial sized vacuum to clean out catch basins used to collect and drain water. >> we have 25,000 of these and we are literally vacuuming and sucking up leaves, trash, and debris so that they can do their job. reggie: workers on folsom street were busy trying to get the building cleaned up after floodwaters poured in. they hope to get sandbags in place before tomorrow, although that has become a struggle. public works had put their sandbag site on hold due to high demand. kumasi: in contra costa county

residents are filling up sandbags. there are several sandbag pickup locations across the county including in walnut creek, concord, and richmond. you do need to bring a shovel but the sand and bags are free. a portion of marsh creek road was closed after a mudslide. crews are working to clear the area. people are advised to use alternate routes. residents are allowed to pass through but it is unclear when the road will be opened. reggie: new video of overnight damage in the santa cruz mountains. fountain empire road was closed after a rockside blocked lanes and there was also a mudslide on summit road. kumasi: the sacramento area is preparing for more flooding after disastrous flooding. they have been plucking stranded drivers from their cars. this video shows the end of a dramatic situation. crews made it to a woman stuck

in a partially submerged vehicle. by the time she made it to dry land she had a clear message for her rescuers and other drivers. >> thank you very much. if it was not for you guys it would have been a lot of trouble, do not do nothing stupid like i did. kumasi: if you come across a flooded road do not drive into the water. reggie: you can track the next storm with the streaming app to find the latest forecasts and live doppler anytime and we will have live coverage as the story moves through. if you are not already streaming with us the app is available for roku, apple, fire, and google tv. the investigation is underway for what caused a car to veer off a road and plummet down a cliff. two kids and adults were inside the car. first responders are calling this a miracle. this map shows where the crash happened around 10:30 yesterday along highway one at devils side

-- devils slide. the distance down to the water is 250 feet. more than 30 first responders were involved in the rescue. can see how steep it is. three helicopters hovered above as crews armed with ropes and special equipment scrambled to get a nine-year-old boy, or-year-old girl and two adults. >> we came out here, unfortunately all too often for things like this. and this was nothing short of a miracle that they survived. reggie: the san mateo county sheriff's office says the adults were injured but expected to be ok. the children were not hurt. kumasi: happening today, the of water resources will take its first snow start -- snow survey at the phillips station. every month they measure the water content at over 260 snow places.

they give an idea of what the water supply what -- might look like in hotter months. so far officials say the sierra is receiving its snowiest start to the season but they also warned that the trend is not guaranteed. a water main break has caused damage in daly city. at least one car got swallowed up. lena howland is live in daly city where repairs are happening. lena: luckily no one when this happened because most of this neighborhood was sleeping. that was around 2:00 when this suv was swallowed by a sinkhole. this was caused by a water main break and can still see where the car is partially submerged in water including the hood and front tires. look at the wild video of the moment the car fell in around 2:00. this happened about an hour

after a water main break in the area near abbott and castle street. public works have been working to shut off the water main and yet this area cleaned up. they shut down roads nearby for about a block because of ongoing repairs and road hazards. i spoke with daly city police who confirmed that no one was in the car and they talk to the driver who says he is ok. unfortunately he is annoyed because he does not have a car and he is watching from the sidelines as they work to pull this out. we noticed a second tow truck has arrived as they figure out how to get the car out of the sinkhole. live in daly city, lena howland. kumasi: developing news involving the mark -- damar hamlin. he is in radical condition after having a cardiac arrest during a game against the cincinnati bengals. jobina is tracking the latest. jobina: we are hearing from a

family spokesperson who says that he is sedated after the frightening on-field collapse during monday night football. we have made the decision not to show the play. hamlin tackled a bengals player, stood up, and fell on his back. the first assumption was a concussion but then looking at the reaction it became clear that almost immediately that this was more serious. he received cpr on the field. the bills released a statement saying that he suffered cardiac arrest and that his heartbeat was restored on the field. there are questions as to what led to the collapse. dr. jen ashton is talking about it on good morning america. dr. ashton: we are seeing and hearing a tremendous amount of speculation on what could cause a sudden cardiac arresan a p hit it a neurologic event, a

blow to the head which caused a cardiac arrest? the bottom line is that no one knows. we do karrest and cpr was perfo. jobina: his mother was watching from the stands on her sudden collapse. the family spokesperson gave an update this morning. >> i will say that he is fighting, he is a fighter. i felt like in the moment there needed to be some clarity that he was awake at that time and now he is sedated. so the family is in good spirits. we are taking it minute by minute and hour-by-hour. jobina: he has 24 years old and in his second year in the nfl and no word on when the game will be rescheduled. some of his teammates have been seen arriving at the hospital and if you are watching live like myself and millions of others it became clear that the game is not a factor and when it will happen next. the primary concern is about his

health. so we are hoping for the best. reggie: thank you. after the game was called off fans of the bills and bengals showed their support and some gathered outside university hospital where he is receiving care, hoping and praying for his recovery. the most recent post on his instagram account is him hosting his than toy drive. he posted this video on christmas. obviously people want to do something to show their support. they found a toy drive that he started back in 2020 and way back then his goal was $2500. and since the collapse you can see just how much people want to reach out and do something. so there is way more than $3 million at this point which is really incredible. kumasi: still to come, southwest's slowdown, the airline still recovering from the cascade of cancellations. how it is dealing with getting

missing bags back to customers. reggie: ces is back debate -- is back in vegas. drew: today is a good day to prepare as we anticipate another significant storm moving in. it is a level five severe storm on the exclusive abc 7 storm impact scale. the flood threat is very high on the roads, creeks, and streets. the wind will be an issue. power outages and trees are a very high th 6:13 and we are onm

watch because of another significant storm. today is mostly cloudy. throughout the day there could be a pocket of drizzle along the coast or north bay.

for most of us it is overcast with temperatures maxing out in the 50's. just slightly below average for this time of year. let us focus on wednesday, this level five storm coming and we are talking about two parts. the first we get a warm front which will saturate us with heavy rain. and along with some gusty wind. it is not until the afternoon and we are watching a time from -- timeframe between 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. we are looking at this heavy rain that is slowly crossing over. as it does it will drop heavy wet -- heavy rain and strong wind over the coastline. win 60 miles an hour likely bringing some trees down. we will talk about the flood and wind threat in about nine minutes. let us see how we are doing with traffic. jobina: good morning. the biggest issue has been in fremont due to roadway flooding and a landslide on westbound and

eastbound 84. all lanes are blocked and wewe o not have an estimad time as to when things will reopen. westbound 4 at antioch we have three car crash and it appears that slick conditions might have led to that. be aware that there are a lot of wet spots although the rain is not actively falling. san rafael, things moving at the limit. the drive times antioch to concord, 25 minutes. and we wrap up with a live look at the bay toll plaza. there is a wind advisory issued for the bay bridge. kumasi: still ahead, in the market for new artwork. jane fonda has you covered. reggie: is that the kind of cheese you are contemplating at brunch. some new health benefits. some new health benefits. kumasi: a live look outside. moderate-to-severe eczema. it doesn't care if you have a date, a day off,

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reggie: shocking video of a stolen car that crashed, flipped over an embankment and then write into this house -- right into this house in new jersey. the driver lost control after hitting two other people getting away from the police. the police department said somehow no one was hurt. two suspects were taken into custody. kumasi: southwest airlines is slowly returning to normal operations but many customers are dealing with missing bags. southwest has apologized and promised to refund flights. over the weekend they recruited volunteers to sort through and process missing bags. the airline is using ups and fedex to transport theluggage.

some say it has been over a week and they have not gotten their bags. hibits will show off new products putting everything from transportation, digital health, and more. >> self-driving will be a huge story and we have an entire hall dedicated to all things transportation and basically we are trying to see how we can get of -- get out to the next level of that system where cars are doing most of the work for us. it is a big test case and for companies to gather to do business to see how they can do that technology into the cars that you and i are driving on the road. kumasi: this saturday there will be an autonomous race between self-driving car's. sessions will be streamed on the ces website. if you are looking for artwork

to fill your home, how about a pso of by jane fonda? reggie: she acquired artwork over the last 20 years. this artist rose to fame of drug -- after dramatic sculptures of found objects. 14 pieces will be sold. they expect it to fetch $100,000. anyone have some money for me? drew: the couple million? . reggie:ou alwayha a couple bill, just some enmasi: whateve. we are on storm watch and today is the day to prepare. we have a quiet day, another atmosphere for -- atmospheric river will slam us tomorrow. go about your preparations today. if you had flooding during the

last storm, repaired to see more flooding with temperatures in the 50's. tonight we keep the cloud cover and the rain does not arrive until 4:00 a.m. much of the overnight hours is dry. on the exclusive storm impact scale this is a level five scale -- this is the level five and this is the first one we have had since inception seven years ago. we are tracking heavy rain and damaging wind and the flood threat is high. we are tracking another round of heavy rain on top of the soil. so flooding will be easier to come by. mud, land, and rock slides are a possibility. a flood watch in effect. but we also have a high wind watch. we did not have this that the th wl beg gti

50 to 60 miles a s t m y saw a lot more rain over the weekend than was forecasted tomorrow. that is true. we are adding on top of e areasg high so flooding is easy on wednesday. look at the wind forecast. we will watch wednesday evening for the strongest wind. we are talking gusting over 60 miles an hour with wind gusting 40 to 50 miles an hour. that will certainly take down trees and cause power outages. it is mostly cloudy today and there is a level five storm that we have tomorrow and we are still tracking days of rain. on-and-off showers to the weekend and saturday remains

unsettled. kumasi: ginger zee has a look at what is ahead. ginger: coming up that breaking news with mr hamlin who collapsed during a football game after suffering cardiac arrest. but we know about his condition. the latest on the idaho student murders. the suspect due in court and the father is only on gma this morning with his reaction to latest developments. you will

kumasi: welcome back. alameda county's new sheriff will be sworn into office and she is making history. she will become the first woman and latina in the 109 -- 169 year history. she has worked for the sheriff's office for 24 years. she beat the current sheriff says he is retiring after 17 years as sheriff.

planning a trick to the great outdoors, the national park service says it will have five entrance free days and the first one is coming up. it includes martin luther king jr. day, the best day, my birthday. and also the first day of national park week in april followed by the anniversary of the great american outdoors act in august. the national public lands day in september and then veterans day november are also free days. the goal of entrance free entrance fee free days is to encourage people to discover the beauty and inspiration that awaits them in more than 400 national parks in america. and, let us talk about this. a new report says that she's might have some health but it -- cheese might have some health benefits. a professor says that it might help control the weight because

it reduces your appetite. she is also apparently saying it lowers her risk of cardiovascular disease and hypertension. the question is how much of the should you be eating. moderation is key. and you should not have any more than 1.5 ounces a day which i do not really know, but that does not sound like much. next, we are tracking the heading to the bay area. there is a lot of rain on the way so we will also see the danger through the dexter the bay area. the damage left after flooding and the reaction from residents who have been forced from their homes. let us take a live out -- a live look outside where it is calm but tomorrow is much different. today is when you need to start preparing.

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reggie: attention another strong storm is coming and many parts of the bay area is dealing with several inches of standing water. a look at how communities are trying to clean up. kumasi: waking up to a water main break on the peninsula. a sinkhole swallowing up a car in daly city. reggie: a buffalo bills player coapnditio we are getting good s tuesday, january 3. reggie: first things first, our forecast, and this is a warning we cannot emphasize enough. drew: the flood threat is the highest. we will seymour flooding tomorrow. this time tomorrow we will see our next atmospheric river. today is a good day to prepare.

this is san jose, mostly cloudy skies and today is a mostly cloudy day. today mainly in the 50's and tomorrow on the scope -- storm impact scale it is a level five. the first level five since we have had since the inception of the scale seven years ago. this is a serious storm with heavy rain and damaging wind. the reason why it is so serious is that we are coming off a soaker of a storm. everything is saturated so flooding will be easy to come by. mud and rock slides are possible. it is for that fact that the national weather service placed the bay area under a flood watch for the threat of flooding tomorrow. we will show you in the worst rain and wind will hit coming up in about nine minutes. kumasi: drew has been telling us that this is the day we need to prepare for what is in store tomorrow, and that is exactly what residents in san mateo

county are doing. gloria rodriguez joining us with more on that. gloria: the director of the east palo alto public works department says they have all of their maintenance crews and they have been preparing for the record-breaking storm. while crewso eaupes acrensulaint have been debris and east paloe the new storm roles and. there is some standing water that will not go away on streets and east palo alto near the ravenswood open space. the fire marshal recommends that resident take precautions like being stocked up and prepared at home in case there are any power outages from trees falling. fire marshal johnson says stay off the roads tomorrow. >> people are driving in

standing water in areas not aware of how deep it could be and then getting stuck, which prompted rescues where most of our weather injuries or collisions are occurring inside of standing water. we are encouraging people to stay home and play board games with the family and keep an eye on the news but stay prepared at home so that we are able to respond to the proper emergencies and not responding to you as an emergency. lena: during -- gloria: during the storm several people got stranded to get through a portion of the freeway. the city of east palo alto will begin -- will be giving away sandbags to residents. there are three stations, one working on a tennis court and palo alto airport terminal. if you are in need, you must go to pick them up. reggie: in oakland some people

are waking up in a hotel. 20 cars were damaged when the underground garage at the coliseum's connections apartments flooded. that is near the coliseum bart station. residents have been put up in a hotel and they are demanding answers from building management. >> i am angry. i have two cars that are gone. i have no transportation. i am displaced and out of my house. i work from home. in a letter ty explained a called storm drain caused the flooding. e.g. any cut power to the building and it will take a restoration company days to pump water out of the garage. kumasi: the central sierra snow lab is predicting two or four more feet of snow to hit the bay area. video shows neighborhoods covered in fresh blankets of snow. forecasters said that the storms like the new year's one need to keep happening to help drought

conditions that they will not know the full effect until spring. >> if we get to that point, that it is time to talk about long-term resolution and may be coming out of it a little bit. until then we are excited that we are getting big storms. kumasi: snow lab scientists said 34 inches of snow fell in 12 hours. reggie: snow is also falling in lower elevations and here is how things look at highway 29. some vehicles had to be towed after getting stuck and it took them multiple plows to save other cars from sliding into trouble. as you prepare for the storm make sure that you have the news app and we will be sending out alerts like this one with critical information that you need to know about. make sure to enable the push alerts to get updates. crews are in daly city after a water main break left a lot of

damage including a sinkhole that swallowed the car. it happened just before 1:00 this morning on abbott avenue and castle street and that road is closed as crew work to shut off the water main. lena howland is live in daly city. lena: hello. a lot has happened in the past 15 minutes since you last checked in with me. right next to me you can see they finally had the suv pulled out of the sinkhole, and they had to use a crane to physically pull it up before they could attach it to the tow truck. this is about 30 minutes before that. this was the suv partially submerged including the hood and top two fires. let us go to some wild video of the moment that the car fell into the sinkhole. this happened an hour after the water main break in the area and public works was on the scene

trying to shut off the water main. they shut down roads nearby because of ongoing repairs and road hazards. and daly city please say that no one was in the car and it was parked at the time. they talked to the owner of the car and he is ok, a little bit annoyed that his car was stuckio face some serious repairs because of this. now the water has subsided and the only standing water that we are seeing is what is left in the sinkhole, and it is a little bit of a muddy mess as crews work to clean it up. they were able to get the suv safely out of the sinkhole. live in daly city, lena howland. kumasi: developing news on the condition of mr hamlin. the 24-year-old collapsed on the field during the monday night football game. the football star isn the hospital sedated in critical condition.

the team released a statement saying tst. we decided not to show the play but he suddenly collapsed after a tackle on a bengals player. hamlin stood up immediately after and then fell on his back seconds later. players were distraught and some of them were crying. the chief medical was talking about that. >> why would he be -- why would he be intubated? >> it is pretty standard when somebody suffers and out of cardiac -- a cardiac arrest. oftentimes there is intubation to make sure that they are being ventilated and option donated. and anytime they are have -- anytime they are put on a ventilator they have to be sedated. kumasi: there are questions to what led to the collapse.

the game might be disk -- rescheduled the top -- but the main topic is his health. reggie: the sports world reacted with prayers. deebo samuel's expressing their confirm -- that concern. lebron james doing the same and ryan who had a spinal injury that ended his career posted messages as did the bills quarterback tweeting "please pray for our brother." the new congress starts today that there is already a showdown on capitol hill. kevin mccarthy without the votes to become the house speaker. what the battle could mean. kumasi: you are looking live at the board at the new york stock exchange. we are up by 145 points. reggie: new details about the accident involving jeremy renner and who stepped in to help before medics got to his home. kumasi: stay with us on the streaming app at 7:00 or abc 7 at seven. we are back from 7:00 until 8:00

a.m.. you can download the app wherever you stream. drew: 6:39, another significant storm is set to arrive. today is a good day to prepare for heavy rain and strong wind. . today is a cloudy day with a pocket of drizzle along the coast or north bay. for the most part it is a quiet day with temperatures in the mid and upper 50's, closed average for this time of year. reocusing our attention on wednesday, this is a level five severe storm on the storm impact scale. another atmosphere bringing us pockets of heavy rain around 7:00 a.m.. and then the time of highest tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening. look at all the heavy rain.

the bright colors, the yellows and oranges and this atmosphere where it slowly crawls through the bay area. it is on top of the soaking that we got over the weekend. that storm has primed the soils flood very easily with this next atmospheric river. everything is so saturated including streams and creeks and with his heavy rain moving through it will not be very hard to come across flooding which is why we have the flood watch tomorrow. heavy rain on 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. and it is close to 10:00 that the storm system gets out of here. storm concerns are verycomes to. flooding on roadways will be a high threat and streams and creeks will overthrow. we will see mud, rock, and landslides and power outages as well. something we did not have, strong and gusty wind. that brings a high wind watch in effect.

winds gusting 50 to 60 miles an hour as the atmosphere moves through. that means trees can easily come down and power outages are likely. we will look at how much rainfall you can expect in more hat to to. hong check in with jona: we are going back to fremont because this is the biggest issue. roadway flooding and a landslide on eastbound and westbound 84. all lanes are blocked and we do not have an estimated time of opening. castro valley, speeds have dropped to around nine miles an hour before castro valley boulevard. let us bring in our life camera and you can see that it slows down for people traveling westbound towards the peninsula. we do note anissues that we wile on it. light even though metering lights came on so you are in good shape. i want to bring in the drive times because antioch to concord

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kumasi: the new congress begins in washington, d.c., but one major thing is up in the air, the next speaker of the house. kevin mccarthy does not have enough votes to take the role. jobina: kevin mccarthy moved into the speaker's office, and is still -- and still needs a votes to secure their position. republicans who say that they will not vote for him, they want concessions oow that the speaker holds and several others say they aren nce. if he doesot win a m

the first ve,t will be the men 100 yrshahas happened. thiss a significant becaus bills can be passed new speaker.sw until there re new details regarding the suspect to create -- who attacked three new year's three nypd officers. he was already on a terror watch list. in mid-december fbi agents interviewed trevor bickford after they grew concerned about his plans to travel to afghanistan to join the taliban. he was placed on a terror watch list weeks before carrying out the attack. he is arrested for attempted murder and assault the police officers. all three officers were hospitalized and have since been released. kumasi: the man accused of being the stockton serial killer will be arraigned facing a total of seven murder charges.

prosecutors say that two of the most recent murders happened in alameda county where there were also attempted murder charges. the suspect was arrested in october for three murders new details in t accident involving jeremy renner and a snowplow. his publicist said that he suffered land chest trauma and orthopedic injuries. tmz quoted witnesses saying that his leg got caught under a snowplow when he was trying to clear the path in front of his home. a doctor ran to help and put a tourniquet on him to stop the bleeding until medics arrived. he is out of surgery and in critical but stable conditions. a statement says his family would like to express their gratitude for the incredible doctors and nurses looking after him adding that they are overwhelmed and appreciative from -- of the love and support. reggie: if you have an older

apple product and need a new battery it will cost you more. out of warranty battery service for out of service iphones is increasing. it is more if you have an ipad or macbook. it begins march 1. croatia has taken the final steps to join the european union. it replaced its currency with the euro. according to the european commission the banknotes are in circulation, distributed at 70% of the atm's. it includes being added to a group of 26 countries that have done away with border checks within europe. croatia's prime minister describes the move as a historic day. looking at the new york stock exchange you can see that we are up slightly, about 18 points. kumasi: sam bankman-fried expected to plead not guilty to criminal charges of fraud and conspiracy. prosecutors allege that he illegally stole millions of

dollars in customer and investor money into his privately controlled hedge fund. he has been free shortly after his arrest living on his parents -- at his parents home. before his is rest he insisted in several interviews including one with abc news that he did not know about any improper use of funds. reggie: an embarrassing mistake in the world of golf. kumasi: players invitations for the masters tournament has been going out for the last few weeks but not everyone receiving one has been a pro. he got an invitation to play in the masters by mistake. this is his post on twitter. he says he got a package in the mail holding the most bridge see jess -- prestigious letter in golf. but this got stalin's is a realtor. >> why are we at the ups store? >> because i am having to send my invitation to play at the masters back to the other scott stallings. >> oh.

>> i tried. itkumasi: the realtor posted the video of him returning the invite so the real pro golfer can get it. and actually both of them have a wife named jennifer. and both of them would've been at the masters because i would have kept the invitation and showed up. drew: they might have treated you right. kumasi: or just try it. this man returning it is so kind but it is not me. drew: you would be on google flights looking for tickets. reggie: i do not know why, but i've been invited to the masters. kumasi: if i go, we all go. drew: let us talk about tomorrow. we want to take the storm seriously. it is coming off the heels of the storm over the weekend on saturday that has prepared us for any heavy rain to cause flooding very easily tomorrow. today is a good day to prepare

for heavy rain and strong wind. we are in the 40's and today is a cloudy day with temperatures in the mid and upper 50's even overnight tonight. it is pretty quiet with rain not returning to the forecast until after 4:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. so much of the overnight hours is quiet. on the exclusive scale this is a level five, the first that we have forecast the inception of the scale. so this is a storm that will pack a punch of heavy rain and damaging wind. the flood threat is very high and everything is saturated. you will see mud and rock slides entries will come down. this is tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. this is a warm front with temper but -- with temperatures elevated. we have pops of yellow and the atmosphere at river portion of the storm, a cold front will arrive in the afternoon between 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. a band of heavy rain slowly

crawling across us and it will bring gusty wind with it as well. looking at rainfall totals you will look at the map and immediately think i saw way more rain on saturday and tomorrow. that is true. but now we are adding on top of that flooding rain on new year's eve and one to three inches on top of that causing a lot of issues. the soil cannot take any rain so we will see immediate runoff and that means flooding will occur. the wind will also be an issue. this is 5:00 p.m. on wednesday. 60 miles an hour, 40 to 50 along the shoreline which will take trees down. a quick mention of the winter storm warning, snow levels down to 5000 feet. here is the seven-day forecast. all eyes are on wednesday. it is a good idea to download the news app and get the latest update as to what is happening.

you can track live doppler 7 and watch the rain. it is a wet weekend with saturday and sunday, more rain. reggie: it is almost unbelievable. we have been getting told about the threat of flooding and cities are preparing. in danville, crews are cleaning the streets and dorm dreams. over the weekend storm drains were overwhelmed by small creeks leading to massive flooding. firefighters had to use kayaks to evacuate residents.poonman wt photos when his garage -- when his garage flooded but it could've been worse. >> in a way we were lucky because of floodwaters -- if the floodwaters had come in intro to hire the whole house would've been flooded and the people down the street, that is what happened to them. reggie: the fire protection district says you can get ahead of the storm by doing things like cleaning out gutters, clearing lines to the street, checking storm drains and

getting sandbags to protect against flooding. kumasi: san francisco is expecting to get more sandbags to give to residents to prevent flooding. cars have been lining up to get the sandbags. they handed out 8500 since saturday and had to close its site last night when it ran out of supplies. this is a look at some of the damage. the owner of hildebrand furniture says he had sandbags that they were not stacked up high enough. andrea: they were holding back the sand back -- >> it helped another foot of water up over the top and slid the sandbags back. kumasi: he showed pictures of his badly flooded studio. while he was able to save his paintings he said he is focused on surviving the next major storm. in addition to a small sand -- to a small shipment of sandbags they expect to get a larger one tomorrow. reggie: we are hearing from the new mayor of san jose with what 2023 has in store.

he started his term as the 66th mayor sworn in december 30. he spent his first day in office meeting with local first responders. some things he plans to focus on is a response to blight, crime, and homelessness. >> we have over 5000 people living in our streets and i called a crisis during the campaign and i want to continue to treated as a crisis meaning much more cost-effective -- cross -- cost-efficient shelter and getting people inside. reggie: a budget set to come out in march will be the first taken the ground when it comes to his plans for the city. kumasi: up next the seven things you need to know. you need to know. reggie: a live look outside i'm feeling better. body pain? headache? nope. all in one and done. cuh-congestion? better. cough? fever? better. mucinex all in one relieves 9 symptoms in 1 dose. it's not cold and flu season. it's always comeback season.

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when you find your reason to go on. let it pull you. past the doubt. past the pain. and past your limits.. no matter what, we go on. biofreeze. kumasi: 6:57 and here are the seven things to know. drew: it is a good day to prepare for a significant storm moving in tomorrow. it is cloudy with temperatures in the 50's. on the exclusive storm impact scale it is a level five severe

storm coming our way with heavy rain and damaging wind flood threat. tomorrow afternoon between 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., that is when we find the highest impact with heavy rain and strong wind. kumasi: several sandbag sites are open in contra costa county including richmond, walnut creek and dave point. residents have to bring the shovel. reggie: fans are candlelight vigil outside of a cincinnati hospital for damar hamlin. the football star remains in critical condition after suffering a cardiac arrest and collapsing on the field during the monday night football game. kumasi: crews pulled an suv from a sinkhole in daly city. a water main break is being blamed for the issue and butter has been turned off. jobina: we are following flooding and a landslide in fremont blocking all lanes on eastbound and westbound 84 and

mission boulevard. we do not have an estimated time of what it will reopen. reggie: kevin mccarthy is still short the votes needed to become the next speaker. if he has not elected on the first vote voting will continue until someone gets a majority. kumasi: the first mega millions drawing of 2023 is tonight and it is a big one. $785 million for grabs. this is the -- this is only the third time that the jackpot has passed $700 million. drew: i should play. somebody won $1 million last time, so you've got to play. i will take $1 million. reggie: you were just -- you need to remind me to stop saying you will never win. kumasi: that was 2022. 2023 we are rich and abundant. reggie: what time is it starting tomorrow? drew: after 4:00 a.m. but the highest wind is coming at 2:00

p.m. kumasi: prepare now. we will be with you tomorrow. good morning, america. for our viewers in the west, the shocking monday night football moment that brought the entire stadium to a standstill. breaking overnight, on-field collapse. the nfl player in critical condition right now. buffalo bills safety damar hamlin suffering cardiac arrest after a hit during monday night football. teammates and opponents surrounding him, many in tears. >> this is the last thing you want to see. >> medics racing to the field performing cpr. hamlin rushed to the hospital. this morning, what we know about his condition as his family spokesperson joins us live and the outpouring of concern nationwide. severe weather on the move.

18 million americans at risk