the bay area. the cause that had dozens of protesters braving the wet weather to march through downtown san francisco. also what the mayor of san jose is demanding. to help reduce the number of homeless encampments

in the south bay. abc seven news starts now. >> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc. seven news. from protests in san francisco to the playoffs in the south bay, just about anything happening in the region this evening is being impacted by a winter storm that will not let up anytime soon. >> so get ready for an already soggy saturday to get even. soggier. good evening and thanks for joining us, everybody. i'm dionne lim. there is a lot more rain in store this weekend, and we've got team coverage starting with spencer christian, because you have been tracking this storm, which is now a level two. >> it is indeed a level two. diana. as a matter of fact, we have some even heavier rain coming in tonight than we had during the day. let's take a look at live doppler seven. you can see we've got pretty good coverage from the storm right now across the entire region. there is some rain falling, but the heaviest rain right now is moving onshore just right through the central part of the bay area, through the golden gate, through san francisco,

across the bay, over to oakland and that pattern is going to continue for a while as we pull back and show you the looping image on the satellite and radar composite, we'll have wave after wave of rain coming in tonight. and again, it's going to be steadier and heavier later tonight once again on the exclusive abc seven storm impact scale. this is a level two storm. so for tonight, widespread rain and occasional downpours. those downpours may not always be brief. they could be extended gusty in the hills. slight chance of some thunder as is a little instability in the atmosphere. here's the forecast animation from 530 until about 9 p.m. we'll see moderate to light to moderate rainfall, but it gets moderate to heavy later tonight and then quite heavy between midnight and about 4 a.m. so there's a lot of stormy weather left in this system before it starts to wind down early tomorrow morning. rainfall totals will range from about 2/10 of an inch in parts of the south bay to up to about an inch in some parts of the north bay, and these are some of the impacts to expect from this storm next few days. multiple storms coming through, heavy rain at times. gusty wind

possible downed trees and power outages and flooding on rivers, creeks and streams. i'll have more a little bit later. dionne. all right, sounds good. >> spencer. thanks our team coverage continues now from the north bay. firstrillionesponders are standing by ready for possible flooding and landslides. abc seven news reporter cornell bernard is live for us in san rafael, with more details. and already you look like you've been getting a soaking. >> hey, dion. yeah, here we go again. another storm. incoming it is wet. it is windy and firstrillionesponders are looking out for possible flooding and landslides. a new storm moved into the bay area saturday with a goal of getting everyone wet. the heavy rain giving marin county a super soaking. but for some drivers, it was time for a pit stop. >> i'm getting new windshield wipers. >> kristin artegiani wasn't the only driver looking for help at o'reilly auto parts in petaluma, where old wipers bite the dust and new ones are installed by

employee garrett birza. this is just my first set of up today, but i've already done like tens over the past, you know, just a couple of weeks. >> super awesome. i didn't know how to do it. so he offered to do it for me and i said thank you. >> so now what? now you're ready. >> now i'm ready to go drive around in the rain in santa cruz, the chp posting on x about this toppled 50 foot tree blocking aptos street at soquel drive. >> drivers are asked to find an alternative route. >> we'd ask people to slow down, stay home. if you have to. um, don't go out unless it's absolutely essential. >> sonoma county firefighters are watching the hills for possible landslides like. this one from last winter on river road in guerneville. they're also keeping a close eye on the russian river, which is well below flood stage. >> we've got a little ways to go, but if the rains continue or if they start to increase and get a little heavier, which we're expecting, then that's definitely going to be something that we're going to be keeping an eye on. we do have a swift water team ready to deploy at any moment. um, we have all of

our equipment here ready and staged in mill valley. >> umbrellas were up across town. we found activist artist white trying to raise awareness about teen bullying in schools. the rain not dampening her message a little bit more of a passion driven thing. >> so it's no problem to me. i do not mind standing out here for the kids. the message for everyone this weekend. >> just everybody, please stay safe and stay dry. >> yeah, that's good advice, captain jones. also reminding us that cars and water do not mix. if you approach a flooded street, turn around. we're live in san rafael, cornell, bernard, abc seven news. >> all right. cornell, thanks. the wet weather was not going to keep thousands of 40 niners fans from making the trip to levi's stadium for tonight's playoff matchup with the green bay packers. abc seven news reporter anser hassan has been talking to fans and joins us live. all smiles. despite the rain there on sir. >> deion you know once you get

to playoff football it is a completely different vibe. we're expecting a lot of rain but you know it could snow. these fans will still show up. this is a big game and the fans know it. some of these folks still trying to make their way in the parking lot was packed. family and fans tailgating as i said, the niners have been hot. they've had an incredible season and the fans are banking on big names to come up with some big plays. >> christian mccaffrey, brock purdy all day. he's going to have a big game. kittle, kittle is going to be the he's going to be the deciding factor. it's going to be big. mccaffrey is going to eat. at least he gets 20 touches. we out. we're winning this game. you sound overly confident. >> what makes you so confident about this game. >> because the players that we've got are the best. nick bosa uh let's see uh deebo samuel mccaffrey purdy. they're. >> now in the sea of red and gold we did find some green bay fans. >> of course the niners fans

think they will crush green bay. but the packer fans remain optimistic. nick. let's go. >> go, pack. go, baby. we're here. back. we're here. >> we're taking home the puppy. that's all that matters, baby. >> now to be fair, the packers have been hot. they had that surprise win over the cowboys. but the niner fans are excited. kickoff is coming up in a couple minutes. we will have highlights throughout the evening. reporting live at levi stadium. anser hassan abc seven news. >> and we cannot wait on so many thanks to you. now don't forget you can always track the rain anytime with the same live doppler seven that our meteorology team uses. just search abc seven bay area in your devices app store to download it. now the wet weather was not enough to stop people on both sides of the abortion issue from gathering on the streets of san francisco, anti-abortion activists descended on the city for the 20th annual walk for life. that march closed down market street for much of the

day, busses filled with participants came from hundreds of miles away. >> we wanted to come and show our support and show the world that, um, abortion is it's murder makes your heart feel good to stand up and show that you are proud to be pro-life. >> meanwhile, pro-abortion rights groups held a counter demonstration near the main library. protesters there called for reproductive justice in the wake of the overturning of roe v wade. >> i think that after roe was turned, like so many people don't have access to abortion and even though we might feel safe in this city, we might feel safe in this state. i think it's really important that we show up, especially when there's such a big force across the street. >> the supreme court has two upcoming cases on abortion this terme still ahead tonight, the latest on oakland's embattled mayor and the effort to push her out of office. the deadline this weekend for shengtao and a renewed effort to reduce the number of homeless encampments

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in san francisco. prop b is called b safer. the bill would fund full police staffing for 5 to 10 years, set a minimum officer staffing level and allow sfpd to request its own budget changes. prop b is backed by a coalition of city and community leaders who say it could improve public safety and financial transparency. >> prop b creates a recruitment fund. it creates the mandate and it creates the pathway to bring back the minimum number of officers we need to have in san francisco. >> prop b will be on the ballot on march 5th. the mayor of san jose is calling for a new city policy to prevent encampments from returning to downtown. public spaces. last fall, the city used $2 million to move unhoused residents from the guadalupe river trail into interim housing. since then, some camps have returned. mayor mehan wants to create no return zones and limit where those encampments can be. he says the move would protect public areas.

>> if you were here prior to that cleanup effort, you can see why people stopped using the trail. this is a public trail here along the river that should be accessible to everyone. >> some homeless advocates are pushing back on that proposal, calling it cruel. the city council's rules committee will take this all up on this coming wednesday. a long forgotten piece of san francisco history is back, but on a much, much smaller scale. doug vargus and his twin brother dan built a miniature version of the 1939 world's fair golden gate exposition on treasure island. the model went on display for today only at the treasure island museum. it highlights the fair's art deco architecture and some lifelike details of the nearly century old expo. >> i got inspired. i looked at what the real estate i had to work with, and then i had to plan an attack. how i'm going to build this thing in that space. so it was it was challenging.

uh- but inspiration helps, and that's what brought the joy of wanting to share with the public how incredible it's going to be. >> yeah, it's so intricate. the miniature version of the expo will now become part of a private collection in. well, still to come. looks like one of the best times ever to plan a vacation. and that would be right now. why airline prices have dipped to their lowest prices in more than a decade. i'm slosser christian. >> it is raining now across much of the bay area. the rain is going to expand and intensify later tonight. i'll have the accuweather forecast in just a moment when abc seven news at then we are looking for you. we are the peace corps. with volunteers in more than 60 countries. living together. working together. transforming lives. together. join us.

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harsh winter weather more than 145 million americans are under winter alerts for cold or snow this weekend. oregon is under a

statewide emergency following deadly ice storms. while in new york, dramatic video shows a car. oh boy, trying to pass a semi-truck before crashing into a snow plow. the good news here no one was injured and in michigan, a dog came to the rescue after his owner fell through the ice just so many images coming from all over the country. we should consider ourselves pretty lucky in the grand scheme of things. >> and in that case, that dog was truly that man's best friend. oh the loyalty there absolutely. yeah, but you're right. compared to the brutal weather happening in other locations, we're lucky here. we're just getting a little rain and some some gusts. here's a look at live doppler seven. now this little rain will become a lot more rain over the next couple of days. and there could be some localized flooding on creeks and streams. but right now we're looking at rain. a batch of rather steady downpours moving right into the central part of the bay area through san francisco and lower marin county and down onto the peninsula, now moving across the bay to oakland and emeryville. so it's going to

be a very wet evening and a late night across the bay area. as you see the pattern here, just wave after wave or band after band of rainfall, some of it rather heavy moving into the region right now we have gusty wind near the coastline, but away from the coast the wind is only breezy. not very strong at the moment. it may get stronger later though, and this is a relatively warm storm, which is why we're not expecting a huge amount of snow in the sierra. you can see right now temperature readings here in the bay area. current readings two to about four degrees higher than they were at this time yesterday. right now it's 57, in san francisco, 59 oakland hayward, 5056, in oakland, rather, hayward 5958. san jose, san mateo 5754 at half moon bay. sort of a dreary view looking from emeryville toward the bay bridge. 53 right now in santa rosa, mid 50s also at petaluma, napa. fairfield. concord, 57 degrees and looking across the embarcadero. these are our forecast headlines. rainy, breezy to gusty conditions will continue for the night. for tonight into early tomorrow

morning. stronger storms coming our way late tomorrow and into monday with more downpours and a chance of some thunder. and then the partial impact from all this wet weather is some localized flooding. trees may be blown down because of the saturated soil, the loosening of the roots and the gusty wind. the current storm ranks level two on the exclusive abc seven storm impact scale. storm of moderate intensity for tonight. more widespread rain. it'll be gusty in the hills. occasional downpours and again, a slight chance of thunder. here's a forecast animation starting at 530. notice between 530 and about 9:00. we'll see the rainfall become more widespread, but it will be generally light. generally light to moderate. up until that point. after 9 p.m, we'll see the rain becoming a bit heavier, but the really intense downpours are likely to occur between midnight and about 4 a.m. across the entire region, so no one will be spared from this storm before it starts to ease up. rainfall totals by late tomorrow afternoon, generally from about 2/10 of an inch in

parts of the south bay, closer to a half inch near the golden gate, and from san francisco across to oakland up in the north bay, over three quarters of an inch in many locations and a winter storm warning will be in effect or is in effect until 10 p.m. monday. for much of the western slopes of the sierra, heavy, wet snow 8 to 16in of snow in the 6000 foot range, 1 to 3ft of snow above 7000ft. overnight lows tonight mainly 50 to 52 degrees. highs tomorrow up to about 60 or 62. so not a very wide range of highs. and here is the accuweather seven day forecast. we have two more days of level two storms coming our way. heavy downpours developing tomorrow night. the early part of the day tomorrow won't bring us any heavy rain. most most likely just some light. excuse me light. scattered showers, but heavy downpours tomorrow night. more rain and a chance of thunder again on monday. so again, two days of level two storms. then the storms ease up a bit. level one on tuesday and wednesday, a mix of sun and

clouds next thursday and look at this partial clearing. next friday and saturday with milder weather with high temperatures in the mid 60 as we haven't seen that. >> wow, is that not good of me to look ahead to next weekend when it is the weekend now? well we can still look ahead. >> yeah. why not? okay. it's permitted. spencer. >> thanks. well, if you are planning a trip now, apparently is a great time to book a flight. experts at the travel website going say the price of flights in the us is at a 15 year low. the average airfare is nearly a quarter less than it was before the pandemic. they say the biggest factor is pricing competition, and warned potential airline mergers could cause ticket prices to spike. all right, chris alvarez will be right back now with a look at

that's an nfl record. they are currently underway. right now. we're not allowed to show highlights, but you will have your full highlights and reaction tonight at 11. one of the more fun storylines this week, the emergence and popularity of christian use custom jackets. christian, of course, the wife of 40 niners, fullback kyle use check and she designed taylor swift's custom chiefs jacket that featured boyfriend travis kelsey's jersey number. she wore that last week in kansas city. now, kristen sze fans took social media by storm over the past week, and she's gained 500,000 followers on instagram alone in this past week. and earlier this week, we talked to her ultimate hype man, her husband kyle, who couldn't be more proud. i'm so proud of

her and i think she's extremely talented and the things that she's putting out there is are one of a kind, and i just want to make sure she got that credit. >> um, you know, at first the announcers, you know, they're like, hey, taylor swift can get nike to do anything. and i was like, ah, come on. like, we gotta let these people know it was all. it was all christian. um, that was all her. so i was really happy to see her get her credit. taylor had said that she was going to wear it. you never know until you get to the stadium. so when we saw it at the same time, everyone else did when she, you know, came out of the golf cart with the jacket on and we were fired up, approached kyle about getting a custom jacket from his wife. >> um, no, i haven't, but my wife actually was talking about that. but i told her i don't have a number, so you better not wear that. that'll be so embarrassing for us. but no, that was cool. i, um, she's awesome, and she does. she does that stuff all the time. she's my daughter. my daughter likes to make clothes. since she was, like, seven years old. so she's always sending her some stuff to that. they try to make. so it's awesome. it's cool.

>> with stanford's win over oregon last night, women's basketball head coach tara vanderveer tied mike krzyzewski as the winningest coach in college basketball history with career win. 1202 to go. she has a chance to stand all alone when the eighth ranked cardinal hosts oregon state for a 2:00 tip off down on the farm, she just considers it part of the journey, but her players, they're excited for her. i guess i don't allow myself to go there right? >> you know, so i just i want to do a great job for our team and, you know, it's a number. i mean, it's if it was if it was i know it's um i know it's a big number because i'm old too, but, um, you know, it's not the point of what i'm doing at all. we're just, like, soaking it in, like how honored we are to be a part of her historic moment, even though she won't allow herself to. >> you know, celebrate it. too big. we'll celebrate for her. but i think this has just been an amazing experience being here, being coached under here, under her, um, and just the

opportunity to, um, make history on sunday is really exciting. >> that is your look at sports, deion. let's send it back to you, chris. >> thank you much. now while mu

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