sunny weather and check this time lapse of the last glimpse of the sun this evening sunset in san francisco was officially at 5:16 pm with all the storms these past few weeks sunsets have been a rare sight because of the storm's president biden is scheduled to visit our state on thursday to see the damage along the central coast. an ace strain was held up for hours after a mudslide on the tracks this morning in niles canyon. no one was hurt the eastbound side of highway 92 is open. the westbound side is still closed because of a sinkhole on the way to half moon bay highway 13 in oakland totally reopened today after a landslide brought down a tree near moraga road the night before last and that is just a sample of the damage done by those non-stop storms. yes so much damage abc 7 news weather anchor spencer christian has been tracking it all for spencer. what's keeping you busy tonight? oh, well, we're busy tonight dan looking back first at those last 24 days. you talked about we've had 20 rainy days in the last 24 days

if you don't count christmas day, which is when the count started it's 20 out of the last 23 days, but of course it was dry today. so we're going into a drying off period that will certainly be helpful as we recover from all the damage from the storms. however, there is a rainy interruption on the way on the exclusive abc 7 storm impact scale the approaching storm coming. tomorrow late tomorrow ranks level one. so it's a storm of light intensity. it'll be a fast moving storm producing some light rain and some periods of downpours as well, but they won't last very long most areas will get less than half an inch of rain from this system, but we need to look at the timeline here. so for tonight partly cloudy skies, then tomorrow morning mid morning. we see the clouds thicken become more widespread this frontal system that's bringing the next rain will start sweeping through the north bay in the late afternoon hours and then into the evening hours other parts of the bay area by tomorrow night. it'll be out of here, which is good news. that'll lead us into a string of sunny days and nice sunsets. i'll give you a look at that. just a little bit later. i'm all right, we'll check back

with you. thank you spencer. despite the sunshine today more problems in the east bay hills, including mudslides and road closures abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley talked to state insurance officials about mudslide insurance and leslie. it's usually a loss for the homeowner. it of other problems erupting up here in the east bay hills today in addition to the mudslide from yesterday. we had the road behind me grizzly peak closed for most of the day of various issues there. it's been kind of a mess up here because the soil is still super saturated. grizzly peak a major road that cuts along the tops of the oakland berkeley hills closed for much of the day between the steam trains and fish ranch road and early morning accident on slick roads ended up taking out a power pole and downing major transmission lines as crews work to repair the damage chp also

closed down the ramp from highway 24 at fish ranch road for several hours as mud and debris oozed onto the roadway. the travel difficulties came after a treacher's mudslide slammed into this berkeley hills home monday morning, the homeowners escaped and four other homes downhill of the slide. we're all so red tagged. there are still worries about the slide advancing with more potential rain on the way. you know, you just finished. modeling the house so it' to see it all go and we'll have to start again, but that's why makes it hard for homeowners who deal with mudslides homeowners policies generally exclude some kinds of earth movement and specialty brokers offering mudslide coverage are sometimes difficult to find if you live in an area like the berkeley hills an area that could have landslides it may not be covered

by your flood insurance or your homeowners insurance. we encourage people to look at private flood insurance, which may have some coverage for a landslide. so bottom slams into your home as you just saw you likely do not have coverage. there are some exceptions dan and alma. i was told today to check in with your individual homeowners policyholder. leslie what happens though when homeowners want to use insurance to cover mudslide damage because it's not always straightforward. that's exactly right. that's what i did today. i talked to as you saw there the california department of insurance. there are a lot of technicalities and a lot of it has to do with the composition of a debris flow and whether it's originating from flood waters or whether a fire might have triggered a mudslide or ase drenched mudslide likely is not

coverable. i was told by a local broker that there are some folks out there if you dig deeply to try to find coverage, but it's difficult to get if you can find someone to offer it and i was also told that you should check with fema because if you add flood insurance to your policy, there is a chance the federal government will cover a mud slide. they did that five years ago with montecito there were mudslides there and they made an exception and they did provide some coverage but it's unknown if they would. right now or going forward so a lot to check on reporting live in the east bay hills. i'm leslie brinkley abc 7 news. all right, leslie. thank you. well on this subject a massive mudslide stopped in ace train in its tracks today stranding more than 200 people for hours. it happened just after eight this morning near niles canyon road in sunol after about four hours another train arrived to rescue the stranded passengers from the ace five train.

well union pacific cruise cleaned up the mess and checked the tracks for safety george mcelroy. one of the riders was clearly frustrated. i'm just disgusting because i just wasted a whole day, you know sitting on that train and potentially, you know, we could have been in jeopardy. miles canyon has been affected by the rain and mudslides in the past few weeks. we are glad to say no injuries from today's incident a nonprofit center in san mateo county still cleaning up mud from the storm that hit new year's eve more than two weeks ago abc 7 news anchor deon lem traveled to the venture retreat center near pescadero to see just how much mud they're dealing with. imagine a title wave of mud so fast and fierce you can see how high the levels were up to the side of this lodge now ever since new year's eve volunteers have been working tirelessly to the bone digging themselves out trying to salvage what they can and they still need so much help

from the community tonight. i've never experienced. anything like the force and how quickly you know, things could be normal and all of a sudden complete tragedy said among the majestic redwoods of pescadero venture retreat center is a nonprofit for those in search of a slice of peace in an otherwise chaotic world. it's been here since 1965. there's been so many wonderful healing groups here, but never did janelle bartlett who volunteers her time running the center imagine the chaos that unfolded new year's eve. it looks like somebody open to dam coming out of it. what coming out of the house in what felt like an instant the storm's wrath mixed with mud penetrated their main lodge and surrounding grounds displacing a visiting group overwhelming so much. so much work to be done and shovel by shovel step by step armed with whatever tools they can find volunteers have been

painstakingly digging out salvaging whatever is left which isn't much and like the nearly two weeks of relentless rain the task at hand feels never-ending. we need lots of hands lots of bodies and finances, you know, we we i don't think we'll survive without without help from somewhere. janelle is doubtful insurance will cover much if anything and with the impending rain in the forecast can't wait, please help us the retreat center has since started to go fund me to help with the cleanup they make this plea to the public watching tonight. in pescadero dion limb abc 7 news during the series of storms thousands of trees came down around the bay area abc 7 news reporter dustin dorsey spoke to an arborist. who shared what it took or what to look for rather to know if a tree is at risk of falling. during our recent storms one type of damage seemed constant across the bay area fallen trees for our clients. it's terrifying, you know falling on their houses. wondering if it's going to fall

so that's kept us very busy. was this storm one of your busiest times ever. it was robert a paulinar has been working around the clock recently as a certified arborist for san jose tree services, but his work is not done. the sunshine has returned, but the risk hasn't gone away, right? that's right. that's because the ground is still soaked from nearly three straight weeks of rain. a pollinar says owners knowing what to look out for can lower the risk of damage. the first red flag is structural issues within your tree. so if there's trees that we're not growing correctly that had some decay in the in the trunk or had root damage. those are the first to go you can spot this by looking out for branches that split off or going different directions. they could snap where they attach very common with eucalypt. trees based on their their weight of the branches mostly is their branches are so heavy and if there's any weakness in the attachment it will fail but that doesn't mean you have to live

without them. don't take every tree out just because you're scared. they don't need to be and they don't need to be topped either to eliminate weight because that's another misconception. they need to be pruned and cared for properly, but even then full trees can still fall due to saturated soil exposing the other key concern root issues looking out for signs of diseases like mushrooms or knowing if roots have been cut from construction or other factors is a must but if you're still worried ask a professional now, we're discussing with clients who weren't emergency situations how to um make them safe how to make these trees safe now and in case more storms return, what do we do to prevent that from happening in a few weeks or months? that way this doesn't happen to you in san jose dust and abc 7 news. we have seen a lot of flooding this week because of the storms and that issue could get even worse in the future. you're going to hear from scientists studying the issue to see what they can do to try to

prevent it also ahead more than mulch here about a way to get rid of fallen trees. so the wood doesn't go to waste plus 7 on your side's michael finney helps out with a kitchen emergency. stay with us what the buck? need money? file your taxes today at jackson hewitt. you could get up to 3,500 bucks the same day with a no fee refund advance loan. buck yeah. file your taxes today at jackson hewitt. ♪ entresto is the #1 heart failure brand prescribed

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or high blood potassium. sonoma county has put the brakes on a proposed partnership with controversial real estate investors to build a community plaza abc 7 news item reporter melanie. woodrow has the update to a story we first brought you last month. wake up sonoma steering committee. members are celebrating. yes. they say they feel they've won after protesting a proposed partnership between sonoma county and real estate

investors. timothy lefevre and ken matson to build a plaza in boise springs. this community is very very mobilized veronica annapolis started wake up sonoma to be a watchdog of lefevre matson owned and managed projects and properties in sonoma valley the partnerships lefevre and mattson have purchased dozens of properties annapolis and other residence question the volume of purchases and are concerned. they're not being developed quickly enough all along. we've been saying to separate the plaza slash community gathering place from the idea of collaborating with fluffy for madison's who are developers who don't develop following community meetings highlighting those concerns supervisor susan goren tells abc 7 news. she spoke with matt's in last week and terminated any agreement on scoping and community outreach regarding a potential plaza location in parking lot next to the post. this in a statement warren said it is increasingly apparent. there is not a base of support for this potential collaboration. i think she called it right?

it's a start. it's a start well wake up sonoma considers the terminated agreement a victory members say there's more work to be done. there's a lot that we need to educate. this community about and this land grab that's going on, but we've at least stopped this one. they want greater transparency from lefevre and mattson about their plans for the other properties purchased around sonoma if you want to be part of this community you have to work with it in an email statement to abc 7 news a spokesperson for la fever mats, and and it's related entities rights quote the goal of the springs plaza development team was always to explore this project in partnership with the initial advocates of the plaza a county and the community. we understand that the dream of the plaza is still alive and it is disappointing that the public may be denied this community gathering space and that supervisor goren may be robbed of her legacy of seeing this project to completion. what we are hoping is that susan goren will come to the table and speak to not only wake up sonoma

but the community about looking for another place to have a community gathering place. it doesn't have to be at that location in her statement supervisor. warren said any funding previously allocated by the board of supervisors will remain in that fund until it can be used for a plaza or reallocated melanie woodrow abc 7 news. all right. let's get back to the weather. what a change. what a great. welcome change much needed to dry out of course and spencer christian is tracking what we have seen and the results of it. absolutely. well, you know, the results have been damaging to a great extent, but there's been some advantage of this weather as well. take a look at this calendar. you've probably have heard now that 20 of the last 24 days. we have seen rainfall and on the calendar you can see that starting from christmas day december 25th up to now all that green represents the 20 wet days that we've had but now we're going to show you what i call the tale of two satellite images four months ago. this is how california look from satellite brown and dry and

grout drought stricken now today, it looks like this snowpack green and lush and we've been elevated out of the worst categories of drought and that's the good news of the rainfall. here's a lot of view from sutro tower looking out over san francisco where right now 52 degrees and we have temperature readings in the low fifties at oakland, palo alto san jose at bay santa clara 48 degrees and a nice clear view from the east bay hills camera looking westward across the bay 50 degrees right now at both fairfield and santa rosa 52, novato and concord 49 and napa 47 at livermore and the view from our rooftop camera. looking toward the bay bridge we present the forecast headlines partly cloudy and chilly overnight, especially in the inland valleys level one light storm is coming our way tomorrow evening. it'll move through quickly and we can expect dry sunday pattern beginning on thursday the approaching storm on the exclus. of abc 7 storm impact scale is a level one a storm of light intensity. it'll be a fast moving storm sweeping through tomorrow evening producing light rain brief downpours less than a half inch of rain in most locations.

so we'll start the forecast animation 11 am tomorrow at which point we'll see the skies becoming cloudier and then in the late afternoon, this cold front will start to sweep through the north bay just as theng com iunrway and it'll swey southward and eastward. so it'll hit all parts of the bay area, but it should be over and pretty much out of the area by about 11 o'clock tomorrow night and that will start a string of dry days and sunny days on thursday, but let's talk about the storm and what it'll leave behind right around the the bay here, san francisco oakland hayward san mateo those locations will get right around a quarter of an inch of rainfall farther inland san ramon about 4/10 of an inch up in napa nearly half an inch and not so much down in the south bay just over a tenth of an inch and places like mountain view and san jose on we go to the sierra sierra where winter weather advisory will be in effect from pm tomorrow to 4 am thursday, we expect another half foot to about a foot of snow there a wind gusts only up to about 35 miles per hour. so not the whiteout conditions that we've seen with previous

storms in the sierra overnight under partly cloudy skies low temperatures will drop into the mid-30s in most inland valleys low 40s right around the bay shoreline and on the coast and then tomorrow's highs under increasingly cloudy. skies will be mainly in the mid-50s very narrow range about 53 53 to 55 degrees in most location. here's the accuweather seven day forecast and thursday will be the start of another dry pattern and that's going to continue into next week sunny days all the way through the weekend and into early next week with gradual warming not a significant warm-up. we'll have highs in the low 50s in inland areas on thursday and friday into the mid-50s over the weekend. not much warmer than that, but i guess we won't complain about that right? we've got the sunshine coming out. so let's enjoy let's dry out and recover. thank you. well our recent wave of storms unleashed flood water in communities all over the bay area and now a new report suggests the threat could expand in the future and the problem

isn't isn't just from above but below powerful storms offer clear evidence of how vulnerable parts of the bay area really are to flooding. but now a new study is raising concerned about a kind of double threat right underneath our feet. it's being driven by sea level rise. that's literally pushing saltwater inland and raising the water table and its potentially threatening to undermine the system of levees and sea walls that protect our shoreline. they're definitely vulnerable. the is running under them. so even though you have a levy you're still gonna get flooded from below as the groundwater rises chris may with a pathways climate institutes and ellen playing with the san francisco estuary institute analyzed groundwater data for low-lying areas in four counties, san francisco, marin, alameda and san mateo, they're mapping suggests. that key infrastructure will be increasingly vulnerable to being flooded from below especially during big storms.

most of our infrastructure is within six feet of the ground surface. and so we're talking about, you know, very sewer lines both wastewater and stormwater sewers in some places buried electrical lines all sorts of different things that are under the ground in the case of water systems. they say water entering broken or degraded pipes could overwhelm capacity increasing flood risk during storms the report also raises concerns about former military or industrial sites in areas like hunters point richmond and alameda where rising groundwater could push toxic materials to surface because as that groundwater rises it can cause that cont. amination with the level rise expected to accelerate as glaciers melt the report suggests an urgent need for resilient solutions, including expanded tidal marsh and horizontal levies in place of shoreline development that vegetation and it drinks the groundwater and so really

creating more green space between communities and the bay is just so needed perhaps even more urgently than we suspected. and the report also found that many of the low-lying areas vulnerable to sea level rise are located in low-income communities and communities of color. coming up next the warriors at the white house. today's visit wasn't just about basketba

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out the red carpet for the warriors today a celebration for the team's 2022 nba championship, but there was also business to take care of there was coach steve kerr took the unusual step of appearing at the white house press room to talk about a round table that he sat in on with a biden ministration. learned a lot about what this administration is doing to to help. create a safer environment in our country something. that's very close to my heart and it's wonderful for me to to learn a lot more than than i know. that's steph. of course alongside coach kerr. the team was a big draw especially among bay area politicians, including mayors london breed and shen tao along with representatives nancy pelosi, eric swalwell and rocana just to name a few and vice president kamala harris, of course a lifelong warriors fan. players their coaches and this

entire organization? consistently stand for principles of equity equality and justice. green. they're saying hello to paul pelosi. that's him in the hat. it's been about three months since paul is attacked in the pelosi's san francisco home president biden gave both paul and nancy pelosi a big shout out as well. really great day at the white house and a full look at the warriors visit to washington is coming up in sports. coming up next here how traffic controllers narrowly avoided a catastrophe at jfk airport and kept two planes from colliding on the runway also ahead. this is not something where everybody just gets to walk in and they get you know, a free expungement. a clean slate but not for everyone see what's involved in using a new california law to clear a crimin

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fresh start act. it went into effect on january 1st abc 7 news reporter lose. pania spoke to the senator behind this bill who says many will get a clean slate in life. new year fresh start and that's exactly what thousands with criminal records throughout california could get when you look statewide. it's by many thousands of people who maybe for for years or decades have been trapped in poverty because they have a criminal record that they can't get cleared senator scott wieners behind the fresh start act which allows for the complete removal of any sign of a criminal conviction for many people's records something that in many cases was dependent on pain restitution. this says if you've done your time and you are eligible for having your record clear for expungement that the fact that you owe restitution is not going to be a barrier to that. we're not getting rid of the restitution debt, but we want to help people get their records clear so that they can get a job in san francisco the public

defender's office track down 1300 people who might be eligible for a clean slate, but you won't be easy. this is not something everybody just gets to walk in and they get you know, a free expungement. there are checks on that. there's checks from the district attorney's office and from the court to make sure that this person really has been rehabilitated at first the district attorney's office was not on board now in a statement they said in part moving forward. we will be in full compliance with the fresh start act and not consider outstanding restitution as a review petitions. yet of this law, is that a judge still needs to review each case and ultimately decide if a person's criminal record should be cleared some of the more common felony cases that will be eligible for relief. maybe especially drug possession. there may be some burglary cases, even though each case will need to be reviewed

individually. some crimes won't be erased registration as a sex offender. those are still not going to be eligible most likely inside francisco loose loose pena abc 7 news. president biden is facing increasing scrutiny over his handling of classified documents following his two terms as vice president under president obama last week five more pages of classified materials were found in the president's delaware home. this comes after 10 classified documents were found at his private office in washington dc as republicans demand more answers. the public is questioning the transparency of the white house from a security perspective. there's nothing to be gained by disclosing details of the investigation from a political perspective transparency is key. house republicans have requested visitor logs from biden's home. however, the white house says they likely don't exist since the us secret service doesn't keep visitor logs at private residences.

today tech stocks are off to a strong start in the new year, but the dow was down after goldman sachs reported disappointing earnings the dow jones fell 391 points the nasdaq and snp were essentially flat today. all right if your need of office furniture twitter is holding an online auction. you can bid on a small cafe table for anywhere from 80 to 650 dollars or own a neon light in the shape of the iconic bluebird for 19,000 chairs storage cabinets electronics and more all up for grants the auction ends tomorrow morning at 10:00 in october twitter laid off half of its workforce following elon musk's takeover of the company, so they have the extra furniture. federal investigators are looking into a near catastrophe at new york's jfk airport two planes almost collided on the runway abc news reporter rena roy shows you just how close they came. what could have been the worst

aviation disaster in us history averted with seconds to spare at one of the nation's busiest airports? delta 194 clearance the 1943 cancel takeoff switch. rejecting all right. oh the dogs are 1943 air traffic control urgently telling delta pilots to abort when their 737 was taking off at over a hundred miles per hour at new york's jfk airport over the weekend and american airlines triple 7 crossing the wrong runway right in front of it. i thought the adrenaline running. i knew this wasn't right. i didn't know how this was gonna end the delta plane coming to a sudden stop just a thousand feet from the other aircraft the planes were so close experts say if the delta plane was a bigger and faster plane. this could have turned out much differently can only imagine what was going on in that cockpit. obviously, there were mistakes made human error was involved. so the real key here now is to

find out by whom what were the circumstances brian healey was one of the 151 passengers and crew on board the delta flight. i'm just very grateful that the judgment calls that air traffic control made and that our pilot made for the right ones and investigation. now underway into what went wrong. this is very uncommon in the term in the world of aviation safety to occur. and that's why the faa and the ntsb the airlines and the pilot unions the represent those pilots of delta american will take this very seriously, and thoroughly investigate it american airlines says, they're conducting a full internal review both airlines calling the safety of their customers and crew. priority delta saying they will work with and assist aviation authorities reena roy abc news, new york within the last hour kell osha tells abc 7 news. it is considering an inspection of the bear pharmaceuticals campus in berkeley. that's after two contractors. there were injured in a fire just before noon bot toheospitaky w or

the ber t berkeley firefighters and building sprinklers eventually put out the flames the cause is still under investigation and fire crews got a lot more than they bargained for at house fire in martinez. across more than 70 dogs and cats inside the home on barber lane. some of them had gotten out and were running around the neighborhood. none of the animals was hurt the fire started in the garage and spread to the second floor now one of the three residents was treated for smoke inhalation the dogs mostly pomeranians were taken to a breeder who will house them for now. a kitchen emergency calls out for help from 7 on your side. i'm michael phinney with a happy story coming up.

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our next story is a kitchen emergency that only michael finney and 7 on your side could solve. yeah, michael joins us now with the details michael. okay, so here's the setup a bay. woman survives cancer so as a celebratory splurge she and her husband decided to remodel their kitchen, but there's a holdup and that's for seven on your side comes in. michael finney is the man.

i'm glad it worked. it did it worked out. thank you so much. so, how did i end up the man it all started in san pablo with keita. bullock's kitchen remodel worked there had ground to a halt as the contractors was working on the cabinets. there was some pieces missing so they couldn't really finish so missing cabinet doors were made in la and shipped by a fedex to the bay area, but they did not arrive kyita and her husband both contacted fedex, you know, where is our package? we have to be there to sign it. so we like stuff hostage at home waiting for the package to get here because we had to sign up for it. so finally, my husband said well won't you call? oh michael phinney i said yeah, that's why i'm a comma called michael finley seven on your side exactly what i'm gonna do so he didn't think i was gonna do it and i did it that sunday what i email here's her email and the line that really caught my attention michael finney. you helped me get my kitchen

finished you and your family can have a superb home-cooked meal. well that got us going and we checked in with fedex the company track down the problem and made things right in record time. so the panel doors came home like, all right, and then later on not even an hour or so the one of the executives had called my husband isaac on his cell phone and she asked and we've seen the package yet. he said here we see it and she called me myself. so all is well, but it was well. that there is a lit unfinished business. thank you. i appreciate that. you know, we were happy to help that's what we're here for. i'm glad it all worked out. yeah, where's my dinner? well when i get that kitchen done, i'm going to shoot an email to you. i'm so serious because p myno 'x

of folks. there were wonderful now. let me show you how the kitchen turned out. here's a before and after pictures. wow, stunning great job, huh? that's incredible for her and speeding cancer great to go. oh and i will take her up on that day you good job. thank you, michael. all right. there's only one more day of rain this week and then we'll enjoy more dry and sunny days like we had today spend turn has a seven day forecast. that's a welcome relief after all the st

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entrust you heart to entresto. ask your doctor about entresto for heart failure. few days make checkout alameda beach today that's on the right of your screen and compare it to last week. that's on the left. no more storm. no more wind just a a light breeze and beautiful. all right. we want to take a moment to recognize the generosity of our abc 7 news viewers last week. we told you about the homeless warming sent. use me, we told you about the homeless warming shelter at christ episcopal church in alameda that staying open 24/7 to give people a place to get out of the storms and east bay y

and wrote the church to 25,000 check. yeah, the church pastor says they've also received many electronic donations adding up to another 20,000 just this month with your help. the shelter will stay open 24/7 for the rest of january. isn't that incredible and you can still help if you'd like to contribute you'll find a link on our website abc7 news.com. just click on the button labeled extreme weather emergency and that's building a better very fantastic. that's a lot of money, right the recent storms have cost thousands of trees to come down and one company is asking homeowners to think twice before hauling away those trees to the dump. here's abc 7 news anchor liz kroitz with the story on how to make sure that wood go to waste. chippers can be heard all around the bay area right now as neighborhoods clean up all the fallen trees uprooted during the storms.

and san leandro this massive 100 year old bay tree collapsed in christina walker's backyard on new year's eve crashing into the family's shed and playground. you're very lucky. yeah. oh, yeah so much if it had fun like any other direction, but this one it would have killed someone their story is one of so many like this around the bay area following the deluge of storms. and now the question what do you do with all these fallen trees throughout this entire tree? i see opportunity. nick harvey says he has an answer where you have this big large segment before the main branch coming off right there. these are giant conference tables. this is harvey owns bay area redwood a company that repurposes trees and then uses the wood to make unique pieces of art and furniture like this. he's working with the walker family to find creative uses for their beloved bay tree. you can't lose it 100 plus year old tree and just chip it and throw it in a, you know pile it can cause thousands of dollars to remove a tree like this and most of the time they end up in

a dump. it's really sad. what are we going to do in the best case scenario is it we can turn a tree like this into wood would the walker family envisions becoming a dining table and benches. imagine taking those pieces. it might have a lot strain in them and we in these big heavy timber and unexpected way to keep their memories of this tree alive, you know, it's just it's really unfortunately lose a piece like this because there's so much history. imagine a small, you know, kind of stump play garden this tree is going to live forever on this property in san leandro liz kroitz abc 7 news. now bay area redwood isn't a licensed arborist, which means it can't cut down trees. it will only work with you on fallen trees good to know, right? and rain is coming a little bit more and then a little bit more sunspots. that's right a lot more sun. here's a we'll start with the overnight conditions. let's do that. we'll have mainly clear skies to start becoming partly cloudy overnight low temperatures dropping into the mid 30s inland

that tomorrow. we'll have mainly cloudy or skies with high temperatures right in the mid 50s and most locations just before the storm moves in now the approaching storm on the exclusive abc 7 storm impact scale is a level one a light storm tomorrow evening fast-moving storm bringing light rain and brief downpours. here's the timeline starting 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. we'll see the clouds becoming thicker and lower and then late afternoon to early evening that cold front will sweep through the north bay moving southward in eastwood and it'll be out of the bay area by 11 o'clock tomorrow night leaving behind generally less than half an inch of rainfall for most locations. here's the accuweather seven day forecast and as you can see after tomorrow's tomorrow evening's rainfall, i should say a thursday begins another string of sunny days that will continue through the weekend into next week. not a lot of change the temperature range, but a lot of change in our sky conditions and we'll we'll hold on to it for a while. we sure will. thanks spencer. okay. all right. what a day at the white house. yeah, that was really neat to see. this never gets old right? that's for sure mr. curry goes

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championship see mr. biden taking the day there were so many people are trying to squeeze into this photo dubs have won four crowns in eight years, but they did not visit during president trump's tenure president biden saying today the golden state warriors are always welcome in this white house a clear jab. there it is. assessor and mr. biden received a warriors jersey with number 46 on it since he is the 46th president the dubs they play in front of packed houses millions of fans, but you could see the look. and respect as players and coaches soaked up this rare opportunity which even included a chance to join the white house press briefing. they made the most of this day in 1946 when our first championship. so we 46 has a nice ring within. with you as a 46th president. i thought speech was incredible. and stuff i think stuff could one day run for president of the united states. it's more to take away from today than just us, you know, bringing the trophy and bringing some jerseys that you know, we get to to keep leveling up, you

know we're basketball meets. being a good human being it was amazing to be in the oval office and to visit with the president and to see the history the only dream of seeing the white house. let alone have an opportunity to attend or be celebrated and so for us to have this opportunity is absolutely incredible. but an amazing experience in one that never gets old. summed it up perfectly right there. all right, it is one of the great rivalries in nfl history and we get another chapter on sunday when the 49ers host the cowboys in the division round of the playoffs. that is a 330 kickoff at levi's stadium last year. remember the niners they knocked dallas out of the postseason. they met in texas debo samuel as he often is for opposing defense. this was a nightmare for the cowboys in that game which came down to the final frantic seconds. dak prescott went scrambling and dallas was out of timeouts and time did run out on because they couldn't get lined up and spike the ball. it was a 2317 niners win. that is a moment the dac

remembers very well as he looks for payback on sunday excited for it. it's a good team. they took us out last year. we know we know we've got ahead of us just gonna be another great week of preparation and look forward to italy can humble you but it also can put you in position. to have opportunities to you know to resolve some things if they say for us clearly is that we got a quick week. you know, we had a chance to watch them play. they're playing extremely well. so yeah, we're excited about being in a division around and having a chance to get to the championship game. a little baseball news the asian producing pitcher shintaro fuji nami today. he signed a one-year deal to join the athletics after racking up a 3.17 career era in 10 seasons in japan. he's six feet six inches tall was a star in the japanese league. he told the fence call him fuji and actually delivered his opening statement in english and very excited to play oak ground a and pitch the best thing in the world.

go oakland a's. thank you. i already love this guy. i mean think about the pressure like we went to japan and had to do the opening statement and i don't think it would go that well, but welcome fuji and we would do well in english. yeah. yeah people noticed. we sometimes struggle with that language draymond was funny. he was asked, you know, could you see yourself as president? and he said i don't really think the country wants that but steph steph looks rather regal and presidential curry. yeah. that was who says no. thanks, very good stuff coming up tonight on abc 7. i ate catch the rookie followed at nine by the rookie feds at 10. it's will trent then stay with us for abc 7 news at 11. that will do it for this edition of abc 7 news. thanks for joining us. i'm a date and i'm dan ashley for spencer christian larryville. all of us. we appreciate your time. have a great evening. we'll see you again for abc 7 news at 11.

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