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the rain made for a slick drive in san francisco and muddy work, quite frankly, for crews cleaning up from this weekend's storm. golden gate park managers say at least 74 trees have come down in the park since saturday, and in scotts valley, there's still plenty of cleanup from this weekend's tornado. that ef one tornado has leaders there rethinking their storm preparations. coming up later in the show, we'll talk with a climate scientist about the factors driving that unusual storm and whether climate change could fuel more tornadoes in our future. but first, let's get to abc seven news weather anchor spencer christian, who's tracking the rain and when we'll finally get a chance to dry out. spencer. >> kristen. well, some dry will begin during the overnight hours now going into the evening. it's still wet out there. that's mainly because of the rain that has already fallen. not because we're expecting a lot more. so look for wet, slippery roadways out there and lighter showers developing as we go into the evening hours. here's a look at the exclusive abc seven storm impact scale. this is a level

one storm and going into the evening through much of it. we'll see more periods of light rain and showers, but mainly in the north bay. rainfall totals will be up to about a quarter of an inch. and again, slippery roadways. so here's the forecast animation starting at 4 p.m. notice the main body of showers that we see falling in parts of the east bay and the south bay right now, and even here in san francisco, we'll have moved out of the bay area. that doesn't mean we won't see any more rain, but what we will see probably is a trickle or so here and there, and maybe a few widely scattered or isolated showers going through mainly the north bay in the late evening hours before it starts to the clouds start to part. we start to dry out a little bit during the overnight hours. excuse me. looking at current winds. gusts up to 24mph at sfo, but the winds are generally light just about everywhere else. so let's take a look at current temperature readings as we look at the view at mount tam, where it looks pretty dreary. 51 degrees in san francisco right now. mid 50s at oakland, hayward, san jose, redwood city, 54 at half moon bay. here's a view at the golden gate, and you can see a few

raindrops still hitting the camera lens. but and of course the highway there, the pavement is wet, but the rain is tapering off 5050 degrees right now in santa rosa. 48 47, 48 at petaluma, fairfield, concord and napa, and 51 at livermore. and looking across the embarcadero from our rooftop camera. these are the forecast headlines through this evening. still a chance of some more showers, mainly in the north bay. tuesday through friday. it will be dry and milder, but the weekend will bring more rain chances coming our way. so here's the estimate for rainfall totals as of 11:00 tonight. additional rainfall totals just maybe a couple of hundredths of an inch. that's about it. over in the sierra, there is a winter storm advisory in effect until 4 a.m. tomorrow. we're talking about wet snow accumulating up to two, maybe five inches at locations above 5000ft. wind gusts up to 40mph. back here in the bay area. we'll see overnight lows under partly cloudy skies in the wee hours of

the morning, mainly in the mid to upper 40s. richmond will bottom out at about 52 degrees and highs tomorrow, generally right around 60 to 62 degrees. so not a very wide range of highs tomorrow and not a very wide range from coast to inland. we're talking about uniform temperature readings across the entire bay area. now looking ahead at the accuweather seven day forecast. mostly sunny on wednesday. getting milder as we go into thursday. sunny and mild. then on friday increasing clouds saturday. winter arrives along with some rainfall and we'll see level one rainfall activity on saturday, sunday and monday. so it's going to be pretty wet. and we'll keep looking at how this system is developing at the end of the week, because there may be changes in the ranking on the scale, but at the moment we're talking about level ones. kristen. all right. >> spencer. thank you. >> thank you. spencer. the damage from the weekend storm is still causing headaches in the north bay today, shutting down smart train service and giving p-g-and-e's crews a lot of work to do. the p-g-and-e's outage

map shows plenty across the bay area and the rest of the bay area and the north bay, according to the map, many of the larger outages in yellow may not be fixed until later tonight. abc seven news reporter lena howland talked to people in novato still cleaning up downed trees and hoping the lights will come back soon as more rain continues to dump on the north bay. >> saturday's storm left behind damage in one novato neighborhood. >> it was just total chaos until midnight. >> pam flanagan had a front row seat. >> we heard a crash and that was the tree that hit our, you know, went down on our neighbors. and when i was looking at that on the phone with 911, the other tree just toppled over. >> so she says trees started coming down around noon on saturday amid heavy rain and gusty winds. one tree fell within inches of her neighbor's front door along fairway drive. another fell on the marin country club's golf course. each brought down power lines,

knocking out power across the neighborhood. >> well, it's scary because there's two more trees over there and the wind was so bad and they were going like this. and i'm thinking, oh my god, i think maybe another tree might could they could go. i mean, there they just uprooted and debris blocking roads forced some people to shelter in place. we were supposed to go to cloverdale overnight and they told us, get back in your house. so we couldn't leave. they had caution tape across our driveway. >> two days later, about 300 customers are still without power. >> in some cases, the damage is so extensive that it does take some time, and in other cases, there are also accessibility issues where we are unable to access the work that we need to do right away because of downed trees. >> p-g-and-e's says it's been an all hands on deck weekend, dispatching crews to work day and night, even through the storms. >> we understand it is very frustrating when you're out of power, especially for extended

periods of time. we're out there and we're working to get you turned back on, p-g-and-e's says they have a total of four power poles that are down in that neighborhood. >> also, the rocky terrain they've been running into when setting some of these power poles is what's been slowing down. some of these restoration efforts. according to the p-g-and-e's outage map, power is expected to be restored here by seven tonight. in novato. lena howland abc seven news. >> and you can track the rain any time with the abc seven bay area app. it gives you access to the same live doppler seven that our weather team uses. will also send alerts with important updates. now to developing news out of wisconsin. the scene of our nation's latest school shooting. police in madison, wisconsin, say a female student showed up to school and killed a teacher and a classmate. six other students are in the hospital with injuries from this morning's shooting. it happened at a private christian school in wisconsin's capital city. abc news reporter melissa don has

details from investigators trying to piece together the motive. >> police and other emergency responders rushing to a school in madison, wisconsin, where police say a shooter opened fire. >> today truly is a sad day for madison and for our country. >> it happened just before 11 a.m. local time at abundant life christian school. john diaz de leon lives right across the street. >> i never saw so many police cars in my life. just blue and red lights lining the school lining. >> the street calls came in to 9-1-1 of an active shooter. >> you could see students being led out of the school. some of the older students were running across the parking lot to the church sanctuary, and then later on, very slowly, in a more orderly fashion. the younger students holding hands were led out. >> the police chief says officers found multiple people with gunshot wounds and worked

to secure the scene. madison police say they found the suspected shooter, a juvenile, dead inside the school. >> we know that the suspect shooter was a teenage student who attended the school. two other people have died. that died were a teacher and a teenage student. >> parents running into a reunification site to get a hold of their children. i bring my daughter to school knowing well that this happens in the world, that people are struggling, and i pray for my daughter's safety. >> i pray for the entire school safety. >> i think we can all agree that enough is enough, and we have to come together to do everything we can to support our students. >> police are just beginning their investigation to pinpoint a motive for the shooting and how it happened. according to the gun violence archive, this is the 112th school shooting in this country so far this year.

melissa don, abc news, los angeles. >> we're learning more today about a tragic crash in the south bay killing a six year old boy. the chp says the boy was running on 280 when he was hit by a car. it happened friday night just before 11 p.m. there's now a memorial growing at the spot south of leland avenue in santa clara county. the child's name was king hogan. his father tells us the six year old was autistic and non-verbal, with a history of running out of the house, he says. friday night, king got out and ran down the freeway ramp right outside their apartment. investigators say he was standing on the shoulder and ran into a lane where a driver hit him. san mateo county district attorney says a deputy who spoke out against the embattled sheriff should have never been arrested. carlos tapia is the president of the deputy sheriffs union and a vocal critic of the sheriff, christina corpus. tapia was arrested last month, accused of time card fraud. d.a. stephen wagstaffe says his investigation

shows there was no basis for the arrest. two san mateo county supervisors have claimed tapia's arrest was an arrest, an attempt by the sheriff to distract from a scathing report laying out misconduct allegations against her. corpus has denied those allegations and refused to resign. tapia joined county leaders at a news conference in the last hour, thanking the da for the decision not to press charges. >> i'm grateful to the district attorney's office for recognizing these charges for what they were. yet another attempt at retaliation from sheriff corpus, at our expressed loss of confidence in her administration. >> ahead on abc seven news at four. abc seven's dan noy is with the i-team is breaking down what this development means for the sheriff. animals waiting for a forever home forced out. the rush to save pets when a fire sparked at an animal shelter. plus, the future is now on san francisco roads. why the city is coming out on top when it comes

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will stay in place after the supreme court declined to hear a challenge. conservative states sued over california's tighter rules around car pollution, which effectively set the standard for the whole nation. the high court will hear a very narrow slice of the case about whether fuel companies can sue, but will leave in place a lower court ruling that sided with california. a south bay animal shelter had to evacuate all of its animals today after a fire inside the shelter. the humane society of silicon valley is shut down for the rest of the day because of the fire in its laundry room. the shelter says no people or animals were hurt,

but the fire damaged several rooms. they moved all the animals to temporary homes while they cleaned up. they're still assessing the damage and hope to reopen soon. a rare sight in the bay area, but could this become more common? the factors that fueled this weekend's tornado, and what we can all do to be sa

santa cruz county has local leaders looking to change their storm preparations. the mayor of scotts valley says it's a miracle no one was killed in saturday's storm. the ef one tornado touched down saturday afternoon, flipping cars and ripping out trees. >> people were injured, cars were turned over, and so we didn't see any flying, you know, cows going through. but at the same time, this was a significant event. and we're going to it's caught our attention. >> power in scotts valley is restored and roads are back

open. although it's taking a while for city crews to get all the traffic lights working again. so we're kind of used to earthquakes, floods and wildfires. but tornadoes, how rare are they and could they become more frequent in the future? joining us live now is doctor daniel swain, climate scientist with uc agriculture and natural resources and ucla. doctor swain, thanks for your time. >> thanks for having me. >> look, this is what everybody is talking about because we're not tornado alley like in the midwest, where they may get hundreds of tornadoes a year and are quite used to it. but give us a sense of just how many do we average here in california in the bay area? >> well, it's certainly true that california doesn't see as many tornadoes as other, more tornado prone parts of the world, or even the country. as you mentioned, tornado alley, which is on the great plains of the central portion of the u.s. and canada, does see dozens to hundreds of tornadoes every single year. but there are a couple of regions within

california that are known even locally as california's smaller scale tornado alleys themselves. so this portions of the central valley, the sacramento and san joaquin valleys, as well as a swath of coastal los angeles county. although the tornadoes there are usually not common, they have occurred with some frequency historically, and in fact in a typical year. california does usually see at least a few tornadoes somewhere in the state. >> okay, so it's not like it never happens. we just don't get that many. the places that you mentioned, the central valley, for example, i tend to associate that with flat geography. is that one of the causes or one of the factors that contributes to tornadoes, and why do we get them? i guess this time in scotts valley. >> well, fundamentally, to get a tornado, you need really there are two key ingredients. one is you need what's known as an unstable atmosphere. so you need to have an atmosphere that's favorable for the rapid upward motion or updrafts within

thunderstorm clouds. and then you also need to have a differential amount of wind near the surface of the earth and a little bit higher up, known as wind shear. so when you have that combination of those two ingredients, instability and wind shear, you can get thunderstorms that can potentially produce tornadoes. now that does tend to occur a little more often in lower elevation and flatter places, which is why often that's where the greatest tornado frequencies can be. but there's no physical reason why we can't also see them in relatively mountainous places. and we did see that with the scotts valley tornado this weekend, which occurred essentially in a valley within the santa cruz mountains. >> okay. so i want to ask you, in terms of the warnings, right. because the first one ever for san francisco was issued saturday morning at 552. and 15 minutes later they ended it. how do they make these determinations? when to call it and send out that alert and when to cancel it? >> well, both of these events

had a very strong signature on weather radar. so if you had looked at the doppler radar, that radar tells you not only how intense precipitation can be, which is the kind of images we're used to seeing on the evening news. but doppler radar imagery can also tell you how strong the winds are and in which direction they're going. and so what meteorologists are looking for in these settings are regions where there's very rapid shift in winds over a small distance uh- essentially an indication of very strong rotation, like you see inside or near a tornado. and that is exactly what the weather service saw in the radar imagery west of san francisco just in the pre-dawn hours, and then eventually also potentially with this storm that ended up moving through santa cruz. now, ironically, in this case, the storm that produced the tornado warning didn't ultimately produce a tornado. and the one that did not have a tornado warning did. but both of these events were warned, either as a tornado warning or a severe

thunderstorm warning by the weather service. because this is the kind of weather that can produce those sorts of relatively extreme spin ups. >> i was just going to ask you about that. there was no warning when the santa cruz tornado ultimately materialized and hit. so does that mean we should take cover or start to do certain things, precautionary things, when we get that severe thunderstorm thinking that, you know, a tornado could be possible? >> well, i think it's important to note that there was, in fact, a warning in place for the scotts valley tornado, although, as you mentioned, it was a severe thunderstorm warning rather than a tornado warning in that case, in california, the advice what you should do in a tornado warning versus a severe thunderstorm warning is generally similar, which is essentially protect yourself from flying debris, get away from windows, and get away from things that can fall that you wouldn't want to be near, like trees or power lines, and get away from glass that can shatter in places like tornado alley, where you can get much stronger tornadoes than we do in

california. the usual advice is to get underground in a basement, and you can always do that, of course, for added safety in california. but the reality is, most people don't have basements in california. and the good news is, california's tornadoes usually are not as extremely powerful as the ones in the midwest. so usually getting away from windows, not being your trees or power lines is usually good protective advice for any kind of major wind event, whether it's from a severe thunderstorm or a tornado, or even just a good old winter storm. >> right. so minus those basements. can you give us some additional tips? i've heard something about getting to the center of the house. would that help? >> i think that can help. i mean, the general advice about getting to the center of the house is sort of related to what i mentioned about being away from exterior windows. so of course, if you're in the center of the house, presumably you're the farthest from most of those windows that might be facing the outside, which would be the ones most likely to break. so i think that's reasonable advice. sometimes it's advice to get into rooms that have lots of

plumbing fixtures that give your your, your walls extra strength. so get into a bathroom or even into a bathtub if you've got one. you know, sometimes there isn't a whole lot of warning with these weaker, briefer spin ups we see in california. so as was the case in scotts valley, i think virtually everybody was taken by surprise by this one, including some people who were driving along the street and had their cars overturned. so that's kind of a scary situation. but in general, think about what you would do to protect yourself as best you can from flying debris like flying glass, tree branches, and ideally not being under a power line that could fall because that has its own hazards. >> all right, doctor daniel swain, thank you so much for your time. really appreciate it. >> thanks again for having me. >> a drone mystery in the skies. the new steps the fbi is taking to track the sightings and the rules. pil

seven news after abc seven news at four. monday night countdown starts at 430, with the bears and vikings game at five. after the game will be next, followed by world news tonight, jeopardy! and wheel of fortune are on at 930 and ten. president elect donald trump is echoing calls for answers about the series of drone sightings across the northeast. a law enforcement source tells abc news the fbi is deploying drone detection tools to make sure the mysterious drones don't pose a threat. reporter carlos granda with our sister station in los angeles, looks at the rules for the skies and what homeowners need to know. >> alexis mcclelland sent us this video of an object over her home. is it a drone? is it balloons with something attached? you can't really tell.

>> it was started way over there. like right there. and then it went all the way across level and it kept going. then when it got to about right here, it stopped. >> there have been several sightings of drones on the east coast, and communities are on edge. lawmakers are pushing federal officials for more information. >> in september of 2023, the federal aviation administration, the faa, changed the rules so that drones could fly at night. and that may be one of the reasons why now people are seeing more drones than they did before. >> secretary of homeland security alejandro mayorkas says more than 800,000 drones are registered in the united states, and about 8000 are flown every day somewhere. porras is worried about privacy and safety. >> sometimes we'll see small drones flying around for no reason. we're like, okay, why are these people flying these drones? >> it is the faa that regulates the use of drones. its website has a section which shows you have to register it, and there

are restrictions about flying them in certain areas, such as airports, but not over your house. >> and generally speaking, you don't have a right of privacy and you don't have control over the airspace that is directly above your house. >> but there is a law in california that does protect you. >> california does have laws that say that drone operators cannot film people without their permission. and so that that's helpful in some respects. >> if you see a drone over your house, however, don't try to knock it down. >> you do not have a right to interfere with the flight of aircraft and throwing a rock, or shooting down a drone, or doing something that interferes with it is against the law. and you could be prosecuted for that. >> carlos granda, abc seven news. >> san francisco is number one in the world for adapting to the future of transit. the new rankings from uc berkeley and a think tank put the city on top for the second time. they point to the growing presence of robo taxis and the push to electrify

muni's bus fleet. the report does cite challenges like a lack of dedicated cycling infrastructure, and san francisco's public transit system has obstacles on the horizon, with sfmta's growing budget deficit. thank you for joining us. world news tonight with david muir starts right now. and i'll see you back here at 4:00 for abc seven news. bye bye.