>> alan: good evening, everyon there is minor flding in the east bay after a december downpour turns roadways into rivers. compounding the problems, traffic backed up on several bay area highways, including intetate 80 in emeryville. there's heavy traic on the bay bridge, a slow band of moving traffic. let's binning with leigh

glaser. >> leigh: we're arting to see this heavy rain moving across the bay area for the last several hours. starting to thin a little bit. obviously you can see on live doppler 7hd the yellow much out that has started to exit the bay area. we're seeing moderate rain, santa rosa, petaluma and novato. napa got a hit with heavy rain. the east bay, a little clring there. also seeing that heavy rain starting to move out of the milpitas area. san jose reporting rain as well, and we're seeing band of rain sitting near accept -- santa cruz some of the heaviest rains have moved through. we have another second area of heavy rain that will move in tonight. >> alan: all this wet weather has led to minor flooding and accidents, we're in oakland at third and washington tonight with more.

>> reporter: alan, we' getting a break right now. the rain has stopped for th time being, but it hat -- left behind some minor street flooding. that's a block or two off jack london squar the sewer is a little clogged and it's pilin up on the street. we want to alert y to a dangerous situation on 880 south. we shot this video less than an hour ago. there are several lanes flooded ar broadway. this is 880 south. cars come flying down 880 and are stunned to find two maybe three lanes, covered in way, seral inches team. -- inches deep. drivers getting on, getting nailed, not expecting the heavy rain, and going from 40-50-les-an-hour down to 10. so this is 880 southbound near

broadway. p working on 38 weather-related accidents. there was an accide on 880 the broadway offramp, an accident in oakland hills. a pickup truck rolled over on i-80 and apian way. in oakland, the rain has stopped. but as you heard leigh say, we'll be getting more. abc-7 news. >> alan: and gunshots ran out at the san leandro b.a.r.t. ation today where a juvenile was shot b.a.r.t. pole were first to respond, and authorities will only say the younvictim had been shot in the leg. san leandro please tracked down a few suspects and used a taser on o of them. the juvenile's wound is not expected to be life-threatening. >> the ninth circuit court of appeals is set to hear argumt whether proposition 8, which

outlawed same-sex marriage is constitutional. here's more now. >> repter: a major rally to protest prop was rained out boht small group ignored the weather. they have together for 23 years and are legally married. the free tom to marry is so important to live families. >> repter: proponents have to prove they have the right to appe a state judg ruling which found a 2008 law unconstutional. league analyst dean johnson says their right to appeal wi take up the first hour of the hearing. >> usuallye don't allow somedy that has that sort of abstract interest, as opposed to a personal interest, in a matter, to pursue a federal lawsuit. so they' going to have a difficult argument as to standing. >> reporter: judge vaughn walker allowed the group to present evidence at the triecialg but -- at the trial, but that may not

trslate to the appeals cou. one on prop 8's defenders believe they have strong legal standing. >> the united ates supreme courtecognizes where a state cot eye lous propoke meanted to intervene when the attorney genel refuse to upholdhe law. jerry brown decided not to dend prop 8 when it was ruled uncotitutional last awesome same-sex marriage advpcates worry the supreme court has alight of reversing many of the nine ciuits rulings. both dean johnson and jim campbell believe the case is headed twashington, dc. >> the decision whether or not to take any case they're asked to, and we can only speculate, but i do believe that if the court strikes down proposition 8, that the supreme court will take a serio look at this case. >> reporter:undreds of people for and against prop 8 were expected to show up here at federal court tomorrow mornin abc-7 news. >> alan: the federal court is

allowing crams to broadcast the propition 8 proceedings live. and eric thomas will host a webcast starting at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow right here at abc7newsom. >> governor schwarzenegger is calling an emergency special sessn of the legislature on moay to address the state's budget deficit. he says the state cannot wait until the next imor, -- governor, jerry browrntion brown. >> take office. >> i took an oath to serve until january 2011 so why stop working in december. >> alan: the state faces a possible $6 billion deficit. the gornor says the bottom line is, have to make more cuts. after yestery's stalemate in the u.s. senate the future of your tax rates is still in limbo. saturday's vote, which prevented

democrats from ending bush era tax cuts for the wealthiest americans, has set the political ste for the next round between own expoab the -- between obama and the republicans. >> the motion is not agreed to. >> the vote preventing democrats from ending bush era tax cuts -- >> now it's time for the games to stop and progress to be made. >> reporter: what thnegotiate you'res continue working on, the length of possibly extending all sh era tax cuts, and help for americans who have been out of work for a long time. >> the recipe wod include at least extension of unemployment benefits for those who are unemployed, anan extension of all of the tax rates. >> reporter: what's not on t table say replicans, the tax cult for the country's to income earners. >> this argument is over, david. >> we're not raising tacks --

taxes on anybody. >> democrats say that doesn't sound like my prey -- compromise. >> all he talk was bat te need to come to them. that's not how you compromise. >> reporter: chancesre some kind of deal will get done. >> they're pretty high, unless republicans decide that they really want to blame the democrats for having the tax cuts run out, and then pass it next year with a new republican congress. >> reporter: time is running out. taxes are set to good up for all income levels at the enof the year if a compromise is not reached. abc ne, washington >> alan: a woman who spent near lay week stranded in the santa cruz mountains is said to be in good spirits and will likely be released from the hospital today. debra kole link 38 years old, was rescued yesterday morning, alert,ut weak and tired. after going six days without foot. the sheriff's departnt said it

wa't feasible to launc a ful scale search, so a neighbor went looking for her and found her on an unmarked trail. e injured her ankle and tumbled into a ravine while jogging on her own. up next, plan that would reire some employersto hire san francisco resides. also, wikileaks founder, the man without a country. some u.s. lawmakers are calling him a terrorist. the foreclosure option where ten homes sold for a single dollar. you want some fiber one honey clusters?

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>> alan: supporters of wikileaks founder julian assange say he may apply for asigh numb -- asylum in switzerland, seval web companies have dropped wikileaks after the site

reased thousands of classified u.s. diplomatic cables. today assange told a spanish newspaper that he has also been receiving hundreds of death thats. mitch mcconnell joined a growing chorus of reblicans who are calling him a terrorist. >> i think the man is a high-tech terrorist. he has done enormous damage to our country and needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extend of the law, and if that becomes a problem, we need to change the law. >> alan: sporters of wikileaks sa they're creati mirrors of the web site, meaning copies stay on the internet. >> the city of milwaukee, wisconsin, has started a program to reduce the list of forked home. as a result, ten homes soldier -- sold for one dollar. there are 2,000 homes in

foreosure an6500 filings, some hos are going for less than $20,000. e realtor says after you fix it up, with taxes, the mortgage would be about $500 a month, or less. san francisco officialare pondering a proposed new lieu -- la that would require at least 50% of workers hired on city project would have to be san francisc residents. san francisco chronicle report the board of supervisors is set to vote on the local hire rules. the new rules would be phased in overtime. in the first year employers would be required to hire 25% of their work force from san francisco. if you're looking for work, check out our next job fair. it's next tuesday, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the winham hotel in san jose. >> a group attempted to adopt

out hundreds of rats. and leigh glasser will be here to tell us how much more rain is coming our way. >> mike: stanford is going bowling, i has a citrus flavor. and aaron rodgers putting on

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in church one day, with a torn acl, utches, just kind of wondering, what is my calling in life? what am i here to do? what is god's purpose for me? >> how drew brees changed that uncertainty into a purpose. >> alan: rodentsay not be your fate favorite things but they make great pets. nearly 1,000ere put up for adoption today. they were rescued from a hoardi situation. neighbors complained because the rats spilled into their yards. the show turned to north star rescue to find homes for the

rats. an andy's pet shop had space for them. >> actually very special with humans. they love to interact with peop. be your buddy and play wh you. >> alan: 13 filies have adopted two or three rats, which ans there's a lot left for you to adopt. other rescue groups are gointo take some of the rats later this week. leigh glas, do you like rats? >> leigh: well, they're okay. they're okay, yeah. i like them probably not running around in the house. >> alan: i'd like to see the sun. >> leigh: has it been pourin out there in the last two or three hours, half to inch and a half in some areas. a littlereak in san frcisco, the rooftop cam, the cloud deck, even some fog out there. the live doper 7hd right now showing you some of the heavy rain that sweeped in earlier

this afteron, and is now starting t push out. we'r seeing a few breaks here and there in the north bay, a little rain being reported. petaluma, east bay, you' in a nice break rig now. we'rstill seeing some rain near the peninsulaloss -- los altos, milpitas, and you can see more bands redeveloping off the coast, and th is all moving in our direction. so a little bit of a break now, but shors will continue to be in our forecast ovnight tonight. could be heavy at times. also, some gusty south wound are -- uth winds, and then another shot of rain for the bay area mid-week. this is pretty much the storm system. we talked about this las night. you can clear hill see, boom, the heavy rain is here. is is our little break. you can see the leading edge of the front is right here. all of this has to swing in here before we see clearing and

that's going to ta place overnight. by 8:00, that's when that secondy band of actual cold front will start to bring more band of heavy rain across the bay area, and it wi be with us off and on this evening, and behind it some strong souther winds. tomorrow, some moisture around the bay area, and then once we get on the back side of the front and the drier air moves in, we'll start to clear things up, and tomorrow afternoon well return to sunshine. the wind up. wind advisory up to 5:00 a.m. tomorrow, mainly at the coast, and the coastal hills. in fact, just in the last hour, point reyes reported gust of 47 miles-per-hr. so clearly the winds are up out of the south, expected from 20 to as much as 45 miles-per-hour. a winter weather advisy until 7:00 tomorrow morning for the sierra nevada. 6 to 12 inches of snow above the 7,000-foot area. lake tahoe, 41 degrees, so the

snow level ve high. lows tonight with more of a southey stretch of moisre over us, in the mid-up to ker 40s, so definitely a mild evening tonight, and tomorrow, remember, we'll start off with rain tomorrow morning, and then as the front passes, we'll see clearing skies tomorrow afternoon. generally mid-to-uppe 50s, few 60s. oakland, 60. al -- 58 for hospital -- monterey. looks like a dry forecast on tuesday, and then more rain on wednesday. ey want to keep it mainly north of the golden gate bridge. it's a system to watch. thursday, showe for us all, and then right now looks like high pressure will bring us a y weekend next weekend. watch out for the heavy rain. >> alan: the pade in san jose escaped the rain. colorful and lively holiday

parade in san jose today drew thousands of spectators. the san jose holid parade, a local favorite, complete with marching bands and floats. a nuer of civic organizaons have been investing aot of time customizingizing their flo, and an appearance from the cat and the hat and his friend thing 1 and thing 2. the theme of the parade is toys, disprurs traditions, and giants teammates torres and romo were in the parade today. >> mike: nothing like the giants' parade. >> ala baseball season over, football. >> mike: san diego has won eight straight at home against oakland, but the raiders lit up the bolts. chargers had also won 18 straight gamesn december. first quarter, cam -- campbell fools everyone and walks in. then campbell to ford in the

corner. 14-0. seconduarter, more from the raiders. it's eas bush powers in. bush had 95 of the team's 251-yards rushing. 21-3 oakland at the half. the chargers strike back you knew they would in the fourth, rivers t gates. san diego cuts the lead to eight. raiders tryi to hang on. third and one. watch the play fake from campbell. san ego thinks they stopped michael bush, but instead it's campbell long to murphy. gain of 37 yards. sets up darrin mcfadden. his 97 yards. raiders stay two back of the chiefs in the 28-13 win, improving to 6-6. sometime 49ers in green bay. wearing their throwback unis. packers, a free pl on the penalty. aaron rodgers to jenning 7-6

packers. later, smith, great catch and better move. davis, a career high 126 yards receiving. 14-13 packers at the half. third quarter, big play biting the niners. driver woke up with food pooning and this is a seminar how not to tackle could someone please bring this man dow 61-yard on the score. more from rodgers, perft strike to jennings, six cates, 122-yard third and goal, rodgers to jennings again, aaron threw for 298 yards and three scores. niners lose. >> as we predict last night. stanford is head to the orange bowl to face acc champion virgia tech. the cardinals won 11 games for the fir final in school history led by andrew luck. their only loss was against oregon who will be playing

auburn for the national title. jim harbaugh has turned this program around in his fourth season, and today he is excited for the opportunity. >> we are very sited to -- excited to be going to the orange bowl. traditional bowl. our players deserve all the credit and we couldn't be happier to be playing virgia tech in the orange bowl. one of the hottest teams in the country, won their last 11 games. great challeng and now we can start to prepare. >> mike: warriors in oak d.c. -- in oklahoma for an afternoon delight. the thunder open the game with thunder. 18-2 run in the second, steph curry trying to get his team back in it. transition the warriors were down at the half. oklahomaity too much inch the third, westbrook, the cket and the foul. right now the thunder lead.

highlights at 11:00. >> final roundf the chevron world challenge. tiger woods blew a four-stroke lead. never done that on sunday. woods looked like he was going to win for the first final in 2010. he will make that birdie putt. mcwell, 20 feet to force sudden death, and he drains it. head to the playoff. back on 18th. mcdowell, another 20-foot birdie. are you kiddg me? sinks it again. tiger would miss his 15-foot, and graeme mcdowell wins the chron world challenge. >> stanford women lose the ncaa sock soer tight toll north -- title to notre dame. and it could have been florida state at lost to virginia tech yesterday. that would have been fun. >> virginia tech a really good team. >> mike: a tough test fo stanford. >> alan: thank you very much. coming up, some are calling

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