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doppler seven radar showing us the current location of a powerful storm. taking aim at the west coast. and that is our top story this afternoon. i'm kristen sze. thanks for joining us. we want to help you get ready for an atmospheric river that is expected to drench parts of the bay area. the approaching storm is expected to hit the north bay first, particularly hard in guerneville. now, the process is underway to lower a rubber dam into the russian river. the main reason isn't due to a threat of flooding, so this will protect the dam. >> and also remember we this river goes all the way out to jenner. so we have some migrating salmon. so we're also making sure that the fish migrating back up the russian river have a clear path as well. >> officials do not expect major rivers to approach flood stage, but say creek flooding is possible. so let's get the timing now on this storm from abc seven news weather anchor spencer christian. hey, spencer. >> okay, kristen, we are still putting it all together. we've got several days of stormy weather coming our way starting

tomorrow, so let's take a look first at the satellite radar composite image. you can see the storm is already pounding the northernmost part of the california coastline is moving down in our direction, and the north bay will start to get some rain early tomorrow. but right now, i want to show you how calm our current conditions are. wind speeds are generally under ten miles per hour. that won't last for long. here's a nice view from mount tam. looking southward, you see clouds increasing right now, so we've got a cloudy sky right now with temperatures in the mid to upper 50s at san francisco, oakland and redwood city, 60 at hayward, 64 at san jose, 52 at half moon bay. looking northward, the direction from which the storms will come, you see cloudy skies as well. nothing happening at the golden gate right now. so it's a 56 degrees in santa rosa mid 50s, also at petaluma, napa, fairfield, livermore, concord at 59 degrees. and as we look out over the city from sutro tower, these are our forecast headlines tomorrow this atmospheric river begins to flow into the bay area. the strongest impact tomorrow will be in the north bay. that's where the heaviest

concentration of rain will be tomorrow. but we will all get some rain from this storm tomorrow. and of course, in the days to follow, we'll get some pretty wet weather as well. through the weekend. we have a series of rainy days coming our way, so let's start with the storm impact scale. the storm activity tomorrow will ranks a level two on the exclusive abc seven storm impact scale. that's a storm of moderate intensity, producing mainly flood risk in the north bay, light to moderate rainfall for other areas and gusty wind with a wind advisory. we'll start with the forecast animation starting at midnight tonight, and you can see by about 7 a.m. tomorrow, rain will be moving through most of the north bay at various times during the day. the rain will travel south of the golden gate down into the peninsula a little bit in the east bay, but this will be mainly a north bay event tomorrow and on thursday, in fact, we'll see that storm lift back up into the north bay before it expands later in the week to produce significant rain for the remainder of the bay area. the there's a flood alert, in effect, a flood advisory, i should say, in effect for the

north bay flood watch from 4 a.m. wednesday to 4 a.m. saturday. that's for all of the north bay counties marin, napa, sonoma, uh-, you, mendocino and lake counties. and the flooding is possible on creeks and streams and roads. so take this seriously because with all these consecutive days of rain coming our way, that flooding could be significant in some areas. we also have a wind advisory in effect for the north bay, for the bay shoreline, and for the coast. that's in effect from 10:00 tonight to five. 6 a.m. thursday. winds will be generally gusting up to about 45mph. there's a possibility of downed trees and maybe some power outages. and as we look ahead, you can see that the rainfall estimates through thursday morning uh- call for over five inches of rain in parts of the north bay and an inch or less for much of the remainder of the bay area. that's just through thursday, though we will certainly have rainfall totals higher than that. once we get through the weekend. i'll have more details

in the full accuweather seven day forecast on abc seven news at four. kristen. >> all right, spencer, thank you. you'll want to stay with abc seven and abc seven news.com for the latest on the upcoming storm. you can track the rain with the same doppler our weather team uses, and you can see the forecast anytime on our abc seven streaming channels. bart's police chief says officers shot a woman who allegedly tried to assault them. the shooting happened last night after the suspect was stopped for reckless driving in the union city station parking lot. the 32 year old woman was shot in the upper body. she is recovering at a local hospital and faces felony criminal charges. once she is discharged. >> these incidents are infrequent on bart, and they're investigated to our full capabilities and we are very successful in holding people accountable for crime and disorder on bart. >> chief franklin says the two officers involved had their body cameras activated. the footage is now part of the

investigation. we are following the story of the san mateo county sheriff's bid to keep her job, despite calls for her to resign earlier today. county supervisors voted to move forward with a plan to get voters involved. the ordinance would create a ballot measure and ask voters to decide on a charter amendment. it would temporarily give supervisors the power to fire sheriff christina corpus after a searing audit of her leadership. the board agreed to officially introduce the measure, then vote on it in two weeks. >> we are responsible for the safety net of this county, the safety net services, and for protecting our most vulnerable. and right now. what's happening at our sheriff's office is impacting and negatively impacting public safety. >> an independent audit says the sheriff had an inappropriate relationship with an employee and created a culture of intimidation and retaliation. sheriff corpus did not attend today's meeting, and she has denied all allegations.

president elect donald trump has spent the past two weeks filling cabinet positions. abc news reporter christiane cordero tells us his pick for attorney general faces an uphill battle for senate confirmation. >> today, president elect trump joining elon musk for the scheduled spacex starship launch and trump not backing down with growing pressure on his attorney general nominee, matt gaetz. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are now pushing for the release of a house ethics committee report on gates. that house panel was investigating allegations of sexual misconduct involving a minor and illicit drug use. it automatically ended last week when gates resigned from congress as soon as he was nominated to be ag, an attorney for two women who testified before the committee says gates paid his clients for sex. >> they essentially put the venmo payments on the screen and asked about them and my clients repeatedly testified, what was this payment for? well, that that was for sex. yes. >> gates denies all wrongdoing and notes the doj closed its

investigation of the allegations without bringing any charges. house minority leader hakeem jeffries today asked the report be made public. senate democrats agree, saying an investigation into gates for his confirmation hearing would be redundant. >> so the hypocrisy of forcing the senate to do the exact same investigation they just did in the house, that literally cost hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> some republican senators also agree. some believe the report's findings will come to light, whether it's released or not. >> i don't think this would be a matter of we don't have enough information. i think this will be a matter of is gates going to get a chance to respond or not? confirmation process is his chance to do that. >> the house ethics committee will meet tomorrow to decide whether to release the report. christiane cordero, abc news, washington. >> and just in the last hour, trump has also named doctor mehmet oz, the tv doctor to lead the centers for medicare and medicaid services. all right, looking for gift inspiration this holiday season? maybe i

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during the season of audi sales event. news contributing correspondent becky worley has a gma exclusive about an online shopping assistant. you see a gift that could be perfect, but is it? so how would this actually work? google's lilian rincon shows me the company's just announced in-store shopping features that start with a visual search. >> you can find the little camera icon, which is google lens. >> she snaps a picture from the google app of this smart toaster

oven, and up come reviews and online price comparisons. here we see the price in store is the same as it is online at other retailers. what's so interesting about this is it blends the in-store brick and mortar experience with the online experience. it really does feel like a hybrid. exactly. >> yeah. doing the best of both online and in store to both help you have the confidence and the information that you need to know that this is a good purchase right now. >> brand new in the google tool. real time pricing and inventory info. plus the app knows where we are and suggests other similar products in stock at this store that are worth considering. the tool also shows historical pricing data. this plato set normally priced up to $20, but now costs just 12, and it's below the normal price range. >> so we can see that this is actually lower than it typically is. so it's a good time to get this product from its data. >> google says 70% of shoppers are using their phones in store to research products, but 50% of them leave the store unsure and

empty handed. >> the number one thing that people care about during the holidays is price, and so this really helps give confidence that this is a good time to buy the product. >> and google's not alone. amazon launched in february its ai tool, named rufus that's designed to help customers save time by answering questions on everything from product details to making tailored deal recommendations. walmart also providing an ai chatbot that helps create a personalized shopping experience, and macy's recognizing the power of ai tools like this virtual try on feature. >> i think ai is just another tool that's going to make shopping easier for our customer. it's great for the customer to be able to quickly understand, you know, how our products are measuring up and what the value really is. >> and abc news reporter becky worley joined us today, actually on abc seven midday to tell us how we can use the ai shopping tool. >> we tried all those tools out at macy's union square, and it

was so useful to have that real time info. and if you want to use the new google search tools, you just fire up the google mobile app or go to google.com in any browser. you look for the camera icon and then you can search by image and it's really an amazing tool. and pro tip this works for clothing too. >> becky says the big trend this year is hybrid shopping, which combines online and real life shopping to help better customize your experience on the peninsula. chicken lovers are excited for today's grand opening of raising cane's in colma. it's the first restaurant of its kind on the peninsula. customers are very dedicated. many even camped out overnight to get the first taste. look at that line. because the first 20 customers in line got entered into a drawing to win free chicken for one year. this location on coleman boulevard is the fifth raising cane's in the bay area. a child in the east bay has tested positive for bird flu without any known contact

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alameda county. they say the child tested positive for the virus despite having no known contact with an infected animal. the case is still yet to be confirmed by the cdc, but this latest case in the u.s. is raising the concern of doctors here in the bay area. joining us live now is stanford infectious diseases researcher doctor abraar karan. doctor karan, thanks for your time today. >> thanks so much for having me. >> okay, so we've got this case in alameda county. this child. but real quickly, how many cases? so far in california and the u.s. in this latest outbreak? >> yeah. so 27 cases in california previously, all of those cases had known exposure to dairy cattle, 30% of the herds in the state are known to

be infected. as you know, california is the largest producer of dairy in the in the country. so it was only a matter of time before this came here. in terms of the entire country, it's 53 total cases and only one of those cases, previously, the one in missouri, there was no known exposures. we weren't able to figure out how that person got infected. this is now the second case where we don't know how the child got infected. >> before we get into the implications of that, just real quickly, do you know how the this child is doing and generally how these infected patients have done? >> yes. so the child from what we've been told in reports is doing well, is recovering, received antiviral medications and most of the cases have done very well in terms of this outbreak, in terms of this specific clade, which is the grouping of this type of virus. there is one case that you may have seen in canada, in british columbia, of a teenager recently

who got infected and is not doing well and was in critical condition, but that teenager had a different genotype of the virus compared to what is being seen here in the united states. what's spreading here? >> i see. okay, so now i want to get into i guess this is the scary question, right? uh- no known contact with an infected animal. what is the implication of that? >> yes. so when you don't know how someone got infected with a virus like this, the implication is that there is more spread happening in a community setting and potentially from roots that we aren't fully aware of or are not fully understanding. so the ways that this virus has been spilling over in dairy cattle into humans primarily is because the cattle, the milk that the cattle have is, has very high levels of virus. and it is, we think has been basically splashing into the eyes of workers. the eyes have certain receptors that are similar to receptors in birds. and so that's why we've been seeing conjunctivitis a lot with these cases in this case, though, this

was a child who was not on a dairy farm, was not near infected cows. you know, we do know that domestic animals sometimes, like cats, can get infected if they get exposed out. if you have an outdoor cat to a bird or something like that. but in this case, again, we don't know yet what the route was. and other people that were tested were negative and usually i know with diseases we get really scared when it becomes, you know, at first it's animal to human and then it somehow it becomes human to human. >> or if it cross contaminates or gene swaps with some other virus and becomes kind of a super virus. are you watching those possibilities? >> absolutely. i mean, you really hit the nail on the head here. those are two of the biggest concerns that we have. so one is human to human transmission with h5n1, we have not seen historically over decades that there has ever been efficient human to human transmission. there have been some outbreaks where antibody studies suggested there could have been some transmission to other people, but generally we have not seen that. but what we know is that there are certain mutations that if the virus gets

those mutations, it can better infect human cells and it can stabilize itself where we could see transmission between people. so we are watching that. i will point out that the case of the teenager in british columbia, there were mutations detected that suggested that virus had adapted to infect humans better. so that's one issue. yeah. >> so then what do we do? what do we do? what do doctors do? what do you do if you're the cd? >> yeah, there's a lot of things that we need to do. so the first thing you need to do is where is the spillover happening? it's happening from infected cattle into humans primarily. right? we don't know about this case of the child. so we need better. and ppe, personal protective equipment, eyewear, n95 masks. and we need oversight of that. recently, there was an outbreak in colorado where people, workers that were culling poultry, they couldn't keep the ppe on. it was too hot. they took it off. they got infected. so that is one of the key things. the other thing though, is also testing. so any flu a

positive sample should be subtyped for h5 so that we can figure it out. just like this case was. you first get the flu a positive test, then you subtype it to see if it's h5. >> okay, this may be a silly question and i do apologize if it is, but the milk is safe to drink, right? >> yes. so pasteurized milk is safe. it does kill the virus. we've done. there have been studies done that looked into this and that's the case. raw milk can contain virus. we have not seen transmission documented through consumption of raw milk. but i would not recommend consuming raw milk. there's very high levels of virus in infected cattle. >> okay. and before we let you go we have about 30s. does this have pandemic potential? >> absolutely. it has pandemic potential. you know, as i mentioned, if it obtains the right series of mutations or if it gene swaps where someone gets infected with human flu plus bird flu at the same time it could. we saw that happen with swine flu in 2009, 2010. >> all right. we'll have to keep watching this. doctor karen,

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it sounds too good to be true, but our media partner, the san francisco examiner, found one. there's just a bit of a catch. and this new article. finally, a san francisco home in my price range details the sale of a house that's seen better days. joining us live right now, the reporter behind the article, the

standard's garrett leahy, who i guess has been on the market. hi, garrett. >> hi. thanks for having me. >> okay. yeah. no, this is really interesting. okay, let's just play this game for a second. if you were to write the real estate brochure for this home, how would you headline it? >> well, i guess i wouldn't lead with the house itself so much as the land it sits on. the house is obviously seen better days. one of the first things the realtor mentioned was that it's got pretty extensive fire damage and, well, the pictures and the article kind of tell the whole story here. so i think the main value here is, is the land that it's on, but even that can make it a little tricky with with redeveloping it into something else. >> okay. so this is a home. where is it located in san francisco. >> yeah. so it's located in a neighborhood called the crocker-amazon. it's kind of near the outer mission. this particular house is actually right near mission street. and, you know, it's kind of almost

like a stone's throw away from daly city. that's how far south it is. >> okay, so it's seen better days. we can tell from these pictures, but give us the recent history. >> yeah. so what happened was there was a fire back in january that actually got some news coverage showing that this house had gotten really badly damaged in a fire where the next door neighbor had actually told me that six months before. then there were two squatters living inside the house, but they didn't know much more beyond that. the, you know, the house, because it was so badly damaged in this fire. apparently it was unoccupied since that happened. and now it's finally on the market for this, you know, fire sale price. and part of that is because, well, the owner has to deal with the house. it's not exactly move in. ready. and the final day for an offer is today. so it'll be interesting to see who ends up making the purchase. so what's the exact listing price? so the exact listing price was actually $299,000. but

the owner of the listing agent mentioned she thinks that she'll probably get something more in the neighborhood of between 300 and 400,000. i'm not even going to ask you how many bedrooms, how many baths and square footage, because it looks like a knockdown to me. >> right. but there are challenges in trying to do that, right? >> yeah. we'd have to get a demolition permit from the city, and that can be time consuming and therefore expensive. the listing agent had mentioned that if someone were to, you know, refurbish the house, it would be faster. but having walked around being kind of a layperson, i'm not really sure how you could do that. whoever ends up walking away with the property will have to figure that out. >> i suppose. you know, like mr. fix it yourself and just kind of. yeah, i see it. the dining room. right here. okay. how big is the lot? >> so the lot itself is about almost 2600ft■!s. it's pretty narrow, but it goes back a ways.

so you know, as it is, the house has a very large backyard. but if you were to knock down the house, you could build something within that whole parcel and could have a sizable single family home or potentially a multi-unit building, according to the listing agent. >> okay, so you've explained all this to us. i mean, are you seeking competitors? are you making an offer here? >> i think i'm going to steer clear of this one myself. i it's, you know, it's not like you can just buy it and then move in. there's a lot more money to pay than just the initial price. you know, even if you go in on the let's say you pay 350,000 for it, you're going to have to get the demolition permits. you're going to have to pay to get new plans approved. and then actually construct whatever you want to build there, whether it be a single family home or, you know, condos or an apartment building. it's going to be a lot more than 300,000 or 350,000, and it's going to be a lot more time than just buying and then moving in. >> no, it's probably $1 million by the time you're all done. and

it's a very san francisco story because of it. all right, gary garrett, thank you so much. i guess for now, keep renting and let us know how the search goes from here. appreciate it. >> thanks. >> all right. well, you can check out garrett's article and more of the san francisco standard's other original reporting on their website. as of standard dot com and abc seven will, of course, continue to bring you more segments featuring the standard's city focused journalism every tuesday right here on abc seven news at 3 p.m. and that's going to do it for now. thanks for joining us. world news tonight with david muir starts right now. and i'll see you back here at four with the latest weather forecast. looking at that atmospheric river coming our way very soon in hours. take care. tonight, breaking news. moments ago, president-elect trump with elon musk for the spacex launch. the starship taking off. what was scrapped in the air,