from response, novato is seeing visibility less than a quarter of a mile. current temperatures are shrill little bit cooler than they have been, for reasons 50s. no. they come the low forties for santa rosa, napa, said it, mountain view 49 degrees, 50s and marseille 48 livermore. satellite or radar sharing your words going on clark air route there but by the end of the week we have a series of storms systems pushing through something quite a bit of moisture heavy rain in wind come this weekend. afternoon highs, we will tap out in the '50s. 57 san francisco, nev., napa and fairfield. temperatures reach 60 degrees in our view. 58 crown view and morgan hill. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. it does show as we head towards the end of the week bring in that kids of heavy rain on sunday, but this will looks like it could be the wettest and heaviest rain sunday, wet, windy weather continues and the beginning of next week for 02 a.m. here calcareous be good morning, no problems to report traffic is still light, westbound 80 the approach to the bay bridg

novato. east bay opera 50s, could reach 60 from monday. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. dry weather for today, this last from, rain on tuesday, wednesday showers. windy weather once again. thursday, cold. but it is in line lows 28 to trees. below freezing temperatures for some of the inland locations friday, rain. rain could bring in the new year. there could. >> no problems to report as you head of the door. westbound 80 the bridge toll plaza, no problems towards san francisco a couple more cars there was at 10 minutes ago still not pushing any delays. if your lights are off, your ride at the san mateo, westbound, east bound 92, just a couple of cars on the road. this taillights headed westbound equally good conditions on the left- hand side rhyolites headed toward to be spent in their words. golden gate, 101 problem for real on the span. no problems to roaring county traffic moving about 50 mi. per hour no promise was tyree 57. clear until you reach waldo says bay, no hot spots. a live look at the northbound, says bound run

renin through downtown novato, washington, even novato boulevard getting a lot of that wet weather.hey know, heavy cells, news cells just pushing on to point raised moving in towards the beach. sitting offshore you can see a heavy selling expected to question to the north bay, continue to see this rainfall rates picked up over the next hour. we have a lot of that wet weather still to us funneling in off the pacific. future cash rosa so we can expect, 10:00, we can already had more than three- quarters of an inch of rain. 3107 into san francisco. 5:00, up to an injured rain happen to the north bay. 10:00, over an inch in the north bay. you can see the pattern of how much rain or expected. then the peninsula, as we head into the sub bay and looks likely to get a couple tenths of an inch of rain. heading into the next couple of days expecting some showers, cooler temperatures into the afternoon, 54 santa rosa, 53 novato, napa, 54 richmond. says bay 57. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. we could get some lingering showers on thursday, a chance on friday, saturday and sunday d

storm tracker for all lit up but this time releasing much of the moisture content to the north novato, along 37, through vallejo, richmond san rafael bridge the bay bridge picking up a few raindrops a few isolated drops along the peninsula as well the north bay we see wet whether for good portion of the morning actually at this point it seems to be light. napa valley we see heavier downpours direction down along 80 through very vacaville of fairfield. san mateo bridge the dunbar in bridge down in to milpitas and milpitas as well. as we widen it out all of the wet weather channeling through the central valley seeing some snow along higher elevations in the sierra as well. temperatures are on the one side you might notice that as you step outside the door this morning. how warm temperatures actually our 50s across the board. 58 through mountain view and san jose into the afternoon temperatures just warming up a few degrees for more they are now. 59 santa rosa, san francisco could jump up and to 60s in fairfield in concord, 60 around the bay and these bay, down in to san jose 62, 63 morg

visibility, novato 0.2 and snapped up. as you hanapa.stor, show you the rain, sitting just to the north of santa rosa. to many of rain from the bay to inverness, petaluma in fact heavier downpours estelle pushing radon over 101, also in wine country is seen quite a bit of rain at the hillsboro, also sonoma seeing quite a bit of that wet weather. same for napa. wider view, showing it filling in reruns to the central valley, snowfall on 80. continuing with that moisture pumping in it will continue to be a wet day today. not as bad as we said yesterday, current temperatures 53 santa rosa, 57¢ is gone oakland. temperatures perhaps a much warmer than we have been seeing, 58 mountain view, hayward, fremont. temperatures as we head towards the afternoon, we could break into the low sixties in fairfield, concord, richmond. 59 san francisco, '60s around the bay, 63 in morgan hill. san jose's 62. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. shrine that today will parlay bring as the last chance of rain, tomorrow may be a few lector raindrops mainl

highway 37 for novato as you have and do vallejo. spotty showers, livermore, keeping some shares in the picture. >> as we take it through the day, shares continued your the morning, latter part of your morning and did your afternoon that family dry up. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. what weather for today, tomorrow, friday dry, fog in the picture for your thursday parley conditions sunny, wet weather, heavy rain moving to set a fast-moving storm bringing quite a bit of rain. rain continues into the weekend. george. >> keeping an eye at the bay bridge toll plaza because as those of you drive through on a regular basis in the rain no right in the center of the toll was up there's a huge depression where water tends to build up when the rain comes down you're like a kid in the rain puddles, some people drive through to see what kind of spray they can get, some concern is when you go into deep water you can sometimes come out your electrical system and make your breaks a little mushy. so if you do go through some standing w

northwest at about 15 miles per hour in novato and that could make for a tough commute. bay area bridges. san mateo and golden gate getting knocked around. we do have changes on the way. today's frosty start at 29 degrees in livermore. by this afternoon we warm into the 40s women wi. we will let you know how cold it will be. >> we have updates on developing stories are we following in the east bay. >> a fire killed three people. first marla tellez is live in oakland near the san leandro border where police shot and killed a woman a few hours ago. san leandro police opened fire, but the oakland police department will lead the investigation. >> reporter: good morning. that's right. this is a story involving both san leandro and oakland police. as you mentioned, the chase started in san leandro andened in oakland at bancroft and durant. we have been here since about 4:15 and when we arrived it was an active scene. it was taped off with police tape and oakland was on scene collecting evidence. the scene cleared, but this is what we know. it started with a chase with san lean

visibility numbers less and 1/4 of a mile in novato and concord. fairfield starting to improve a mile and a pass. san rosa not too bad same with the peninsula as well. we are same dense fog through san francisco. afternoon highs upper 50s for novato, san rosa, not fog, valley of the, no. 57. in the south bay getting up to about 60 degrees in mountain view, 59 is a, #there. showers to gain an early tomorrow really starts to pick up in intensity towards evening hours. 6:00 p.m. moderate to heavy downpours from the north bay stretching down through the peninsula this could last for several hours at a time. we are talking about getting hammered into 10:00 p.m. you can see very heavy downpours along the north bay coast line stretching through the golden gate bridge. downtown san francisco as well. overnight into tuesday and into early morning wednesday as well. first part of once it will be what one should wake up to some showers for you morning commute and starting to drive by the end of the day bringing showers back again by the end of the week as wel

and some stocks like novato, you can see some thought pretty dense.rrent temperatures: santa rosa 35 degrees, 41, napa, down along the coast. half moon bay. 46 degrees in san francisco. afternoon highs up into the 50s, mid '50s to santa rosa, san rafael. coming in around 54 degrees. he's become a temperatures ranging from mid-upper 50s create fremont, hayward. at to 57 degrees today, and timeline of and we expect the next chance of rain late friday night we might pick up a few sprinkles to the north, it's really the afternoon that brings the heavy stuff on christmas, all this orange shows some very heavy downpours this class for several hours, pretty fast moving storm expected to push on through. quite a bit of rain 20 a snowfall in the sierra pretty heavy snow expected visibility less than a quarter mile. the afternoon as the best driving time. snow is setting in again. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. today, tomorrow dry, maybe some showers late friday night in your saturday. saturday washo, continue to see showers all the sunday. george

novato petaluma sonoma moving into napa currently some scattered and light showers.look. this is a look at our seven-day forecast and we are expecting those showers to start to pick up in intensity around turn to outright rainfall. that's going to be later on tonight. best chance of that will be between 8 p.m. and midnight. heavy rainfall possible, gusty winds, temperatures as far as highs in the upper 50s today. more rainfall wednesday drying out thursday and friday with more rainfall christmas day, sunday and monday. that's your weather. for your traffic, here's elizabeth. >> thanks, tracy. we are following a couple of injury crashes right now including this one that sounds very serious. we are using the "jaws of life." we have a slightly updated location. it's actually on a connector ramp from southbound 19th towards southbound 280. so we have san francisco police and chp both assisting withk this. we have been getting several calls from the kcbs phone force, jerome, pedro called as well, and they are being saying that the two right lanes are blocked. so expect at

novato just about a quarter inch few hundreds of in its and other parts of the bay.cisco quarter of an inch. 10:00, east bay, two tenths of an inch, once again not see too much wet weather in this update. wet weather is going to stick around and are forecasts wednesday into thursday maybe even into friday our highs will be in the '60s, slowly creeping up until we had 70 as a high on sunday at that point dryout, warm up the rest of the weekend of coast and yellow spots low 50s. over to their credit check and your traffic, better news for your rights the bay bridge westbound we can finally see the end of the back up movement here and 800 over across a lot more shuffling coming from the maze. the back up stretches as low- cost these zero overcrowds, leading lights are still cycle on covering some small delays looking at about 15 minutes from the foot of the mes parts fremont and his group. slow and go conditions as you make your way up the incline and do the esker. san jose north, south, 7101 is clear. still bigger backups here as you make your way up towards trouble th

and some light activity through novato, san rafael and mill valley. more light ran in parts of the peninsula, redwood city, palo alto, union city, fremont, milpitas and also in san jose. showers, rainfall in the forecast for this morning. rainfall in the forecast for this afternoon. we are expecting your temperatures later on today to be cooler, as well. highs today in the upper 50s. how much rainfall are we talking about? some parts of the bay area more than an inch when it's all said and done. we'll look at how much rainfall is expected in just a few moments. right now for your traffic, here's elizabeth. >> thanks. as you just said, all that rain is really coming down in the north bay. word of an accident up in santa rosa. southbound 101 near highway 12. so chp head together scene of that. in the mean -- chp heading to the scene of that. in the meantime puddling in the middle lanes approaching the bay bridge toll plaza. but right now the biggest story is how dark it is. you may have noticed this traffic shot darker than normally. the street lights a

it was 20% in 2009 but novato% this year. this year and been to one and while one thing to remember is the key word in of this party is office. >> later here dublin of the way. by that i mean, have fun, talk about things you don't normally talk about but also don't go crazy, don't have to much to drink don't wary of what of it. >> not over drinking seems obvious but is something many forget. while experts say a hearty party will rarely loses a job credibility to take a hit. >> maybe they haven't been given an opportunity because they weren't acting appropriately at a function and they weren't seen as at maturity level that the organization was looking for. >> the age of social media can carry into the new year and beyond. >> months of this posted at there, it is out there. >> be sensitive about the federal and video you pass. yet to work with them long after the party is over. washington, kron4 news. >> we'll be back and just little bit, before we go if you're looking for the perfect cocktail or holiday party, the honor of th

northwest wind gusting to 20 up in novato. we will look for some sunshine today although an isolated shower along the coast. the frost returns tonight even more widespread. we'll see increasing clouds or a chance of showers new year's eve into new year's day. here's the forecast for today. a weak disturbance to our north will bring a few clouds but the rain is going to hold off sonoma county. maybe a rain/snow mix. could see shower activity through half moon bay and the santa cruz mountains. mount hamilton maybe a few more flakes of snow. temperatures aren't going to warm much but the winds will continue to dial back a little today as low pressure continues to move to the east. high pressure keeping this weather system at bay for now. a look ahead shows we'll see increasing clouds, chance of a shower, better chance for likely new year's eve and new year's day and looks like time to dry out. >> it is pretty quiet if you're getting ready to leave your house. road work and wind are the only things that may slow down your commute.

novato, two and a half mile visibility.or the afternoon hours the best chance of a scattered sprinkle will be in the north bay with mid to upper 50s. may hit 60 santa rosa, napa. the rest of us see increasing sunshine as you head to the south and low to mid-60s. a few mid-60s livermore and san jose. low 60s around the monterey bay and mid-60s inland with a partly sunny sky. everybody's warmer after the fog fades tomorrow. but fog will creep in from the central valley. the rest of us low to mid-60s. clouds bring a chance of rain starting tuesday, more likely wednesday and thursday. good morning, frances. >> still following this breaking news in oakland -- rather berkeley that started out as a police chase in oakland. it's on eastbound 80 near university. and this serious accident is blocking the frontage road off-ramp from eastbound 80. the suspect of the chase may be trapped in their vehicle. i just saw an emergency vehicle head in the westbound direction. i'll keep you posted on that. so far we see congestion near universi

fairfield and novato down to a fourth of a mile.e that valley fog here as well as in napa and santa rosa at three-fourths of a mile. elsewhere clear and that's why visibility not a problem and we will see some sunshine today after we deal with the foggy valleys and the cool mornings. lots of sunshine and it's going to be dry tomorrow as well. the next storm though is headed to move in christmas day. so, yes christmas day travel plans, you definitely want to do it before noon because we're getting up to an inch of rain around the bay area. highs today mainly in the mid to upper 50s for the most part. very uniform with the exception of clear lake at 50 and 56 livermore, 57 san jose. as you head a little farther south, look for mid to upper 50s for morgan hill, gilroy and hollister. not a big range of temperatures. here's what's happening upstairs. we have this ridge of high pressure. a bit dirty but enough to keep this storm just north of us. that's gonna keep us dry today and tomorrow; however, this next storm system, that's gonna mo

in places like novato also san rosa as well. we are born to continue to see in low visibility for the next couple of hours. you can see the orange area it indicates where we are having problems spots. pretty cool in places like santa rosa 35 degrees, 41 into fairfield so overall seeing temperatures well below where we world yesterday. by the afternoon into the 5655 san rosa, 54 in san francisco. in the south bay temperatures upper 50s 57 los gatos, fremont, mountain view as well. 7 day around the bay shows not just today will stay dry tomorrow as well. your weekend burns's wet weather catching a break monday rains at the next week. >> traffic has not said in yet it looks greater and the bay area no problems are hot spots for in my commute. the bay bridge toll plaza hardly any traffic from the west bound ride coming in from 80, macarthur maze or the nimitz freeway no problems. true for the ride in the san mateo bridge right side usually right about now you see a big bump in traffic in the westbound direction. that is not the case

half a mile visibility in novato. later on today we'll be warming up nicely. we'll see partly sunny conditions and then sunshine this afternoon with temperatures climbing up into the mid-50s, even upper 50s in san jose. get ready for the next storm system headed our way. christmas just in time for lunch and then it turns into showers on sunday. good morning, megan. at least roads have been fairly dry. >> they have been dry. we do have a couple new accidents though right now. the first one along the peninsula is northbound 101 at willow. the willow on-ramp is where a camper fell off. the central off-ramp is closed right now. that's for police activity. a new injury crash in solano county involving five cars. it's westbound 80 at dixon. the middle lane is blocked there. the good news is it's early enough all our sensors throughout the bay area still showing green so speeds are still moving at the limit through these areas. kristen. >> megan, thanks a lot. it's 5:08. wall street heads back to the future. the special christmas greeting dozens of unemployed workers

bridge across the board. 64 santa rosa, 62 novato. down in the south bay temperatures into the mid '60s. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. you can see once the rain sets and it doesn't look like it will let up, wednesday the heaviest rain showers showers on thursday, chance of rain on friday. weekend nice. speech no problems to report, traffic is moving at a limit. westbound 80 nice, easy conditions as your perch to pay gains. overnight construction picked a little earlier. all lanes open as you make your way in to san francisco, drive times and not affected the minutes from the foot of the macarthur maze in two sentences go. san mateo, a good alternative. no promise getting to the bridge. moving above the limit, once again on the span 92 looks good in both directions. crosstown freeways here in san francisco nice, light no problems to report just a couple of cars on the james lick an inbound central. kron free at the 10180 split making your way to san francisco airport 15 minutes. easton 80 from three public transportation

>> reporter: well, it's a steady rain here in novato. we knew the north bay was gonna get the brunt of this this -- brunt of this this morning. it's been a steady rain. we've seen reports, kind of throughout the marin area just some spinouts, some fall trees. little things that could affect your commute. certainly this is gonna affect everyone. if you are reasoning yourself, give yourself that extra time just in case there's problems on the road or as they get wet, you certainly want to take your t ime. live here in novato, claudine wong, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> there was a take-over robbery at a mcdonald's and kraig debro is there with more. >> reporter: we're not sure if the employee was hit by the assailant or robber. behind me, the crime scene van just arrived here. inside the restaurant, a s prink -- the store is closed. it was supposed to open at 6:00. and this happened at 5:30. we saw one of the of the -- we saw one of the employees inside. paramedics are looking at the scalp to see if you can get a close look at what happened to

same for oakland over into novato 13 mi.n hour winds. 50 napa, here is a look to the lighter now we are looking a lot is some spotty leftover showers. cells bay looks like we could see to the south of san jose's and showers along highway 17 to los gatos also up and to livermore. they light out there. highway 42 concord heading towards antioch, i we 37 at this turn our search in all the way for novato into american canyon to a few raindrops. current the dodgers, widespread 50s. 55 san rafael. the senate to this mid-50s a greater amount you. 52 degrees san jose. looks like we're actually going to continue to see the chance of rain through the morning hours. future cast out for 7:00, refuse body showers through as planned. best chance of rain toward 8-9:00 a.m. to the north bay. we will keep the best chances of an to the north bay of deloitte o'clock. you may see some moderate burst of rain to. it looks like we're dry out from the cells and along the peninsula. as we headed the afternoon we should start to dry out, expecting a

northwest wind keeping the air mixed at the airport and novato. breeze out there but calm winds log for that strong cooling. this trend will continue through the overnight. although we will see increasing clouds in the north bay, the peninsula. that's why the chance of an isolated shower later on in the afternoon, then we'll clear out, see the clear area again. then increasing clouds again tomorrow for rain just in time for new year's eve and new year's day. so the pressure gradient was tight yesterday with low pressure and high pressure fairly close in proximity but as they pull apart we'll get less wind today and less of a pressure difference. so that is going to aid in cooling again tonight. small ripple in the jet stream allows for increasing clouds and unstable atmosphere for a slight chance of showers mainly south bay and coast. later on through the evening hours more rain showers across the entire bay area. we're not looking at a heavy rain and not looking at a lot of wind either, just enough to dampen the roadways and make it slippery for

in fact we are getting their to half mile visibility for san rosa quarter mile or less for novato and save for napa elsewhere not too bad this morning some low clouds. current temperatures we are actually colder them where we have been in quite some time in fact fairfield we are down into the 30's. 39 for san rosa, upper 40's to mountain view and san jose 46 for livermore. come tomorrow they will be cooler than today. your afternoon highs bringing us into the 50s, 565 francisco, 57 richmond, of vallejo, 58 south bay, mountain view, fremont, and the same for hayward. lets take you through the timeline the ended the week early morning friday you'll wake up his recalls by lunch. still continuing light green it will be light but persistent. for good portion of the day and widespread not until the evening you will see the heavier rain setting in. this will continuing to your saturday of fax saturday will pack quite a punch bringing intensity up. strong wind and heavy rain expected to last through much of the day on your saturday even up until the evening hours as well. continuing to bring

already 40s on the map. 46 in novato. 48 in fairfield. 52 in san jose. we'll stay clear throughout the morning hoursn the south bay we're talking about rainfall and lots of it. we'll tell you when rain returns and how long it will last in my full forecast coming up. >>> most people want to look younger, right? now there may be a pill that could reverse the ageing process. >>> then, mcdonald's feels the wrath of mom. what led a california woman to slap the wofood giant with a lawsuit. >> why today is considered the most dangerous driving day of the year. >>> hitching a ride on amtrak, you might be surprised. what passengers nil wowle allowed to bring with them. we'll be right back. wh >>> the zet death toll from yesterday's sacramento shootout is now at two. kevin riggs has the latest developments. >> i broke it down military style. >> reporter: one day after the shootout, this customer was back at the barber shop as the owners cleaned up he described a horrifying gun battle that erupted without warning. >> not one word was spoken. all there was was just

to mountain view temperatures upper 40's, you're afternoon highs into the 50s. 57 for san rosa, 56 novato, 57 richmond, in the south bay with a warming up to 58 in through los gatos, san jose, mullen view as well, oakland as well. future cast 4 takes us through the time one of the rain friday morning a bit of a drizzle out there some light showers but we will be persistent throughout the day widespread as well. come saturday that's when the rain really picks up. heavier rain expected saturday and it will last a good portion of the day by the afternoon see all the orange showing us the heavy rain that could last several hours at a time. you will certainly not as the impact of the storm on saturday continuing chances of rain sunday as well but it looks like it will taper off a bit. 7 day around the bay couple days of dry weather and then rain sets and it doesn't look like it will let up through the beginning of next week. tuesday is the first official day of winter. >> if you drive 580 from livermore you're not want to like what i'm about to tell you a rough committee yesterday and we have

pushing through petaluma all the way down to novato into san rafael.we take it over to vacaville picking up raindrops and antioch as well and along the peninsula at this, and it looks like we are picking up showers through palo alto the dunbarton bridge, hayward, palo alto picking rain drops up. rain through redwood city budget started to taper off at this hour. over the livermore valley pockets of showers through dublin interchange we are getting rain as well. as we take it to the sierra heavier rain through the foothills snow fall around 80, 50 a winter storm warning in effect until 10:00 p.m. current temperature in the 50s across the board and its release this weekend we're keeping our eye on today getting us warmed up for wet weather ha ahead. by friday the rain said then it will last for a good portion of the day sent for saturday. that heavy rain sunday, monday wet weather and windy weather continues as well. we have quite a bit of rain ahead of us. >> with george and my cohort in the traffic center we wanted all you about this problem and a pote

right now we are picking up rain, petaluma as well as the novato area. this particular band of showers, there are more developing off the course. it is moving from the northwest to the southeast novato and san rafael, get ready for the showers to move into your area for the next 15 to 20 minutes. we will continue with the showers. also we are getting some cooler air moving in with these cells. a few isolated thunderstorms could develop overnight. we lil look for the same tomorrow. and then the next threat of some heavy rain will be tuesday night, overnight tuesday night and early wednesday morning. and then we get a little break. the satellite-radar composite, this afternoon, most of the moisture plume, you can see it here, pushed into southern california. that's why we had a break earlier this evening. now we are seeing a little bit of a low developing on the tail end of this. and this is what is starting to move toward the north. we have this tropical moisture coupled with cooler air moving in. and we will be sandwiched between these two air masses, an

light rainfall in sonoma, napa, moving towards novato headed through inverness and headed towards san mill valley, san francisco, and eventually concord as well as vallejo. forecast for the morning, showers are expected. they will be light in nature. cloudy and fog and even some delays at sfo because of the low ceiling, the weather. temperatures for the morning, essentially in the mid- to upper 50s. for the afternoon, still a chance of a scattered renegade shower, 20% chance. otherwise a mix of sun and clouds and temperatures ranging highs in the upper 50s to the mid-60s. here's what's happening. got plenty of clouds still being pushed through the bay area. those clouds still hold a little moisture, and that's why we're going to keep the chance of rainfall in the forecast through the afternoon. but eventually those clouds will be transplanted, they will be moved by a high pressure system that's going to move everything out the way, change our flow, drier weather builds in more sunshine builds in, temperatures warm up, amazing weekend. it's going to be pretty nice. sierra forecast, rai

the novato school board is giving what could be the gift of life to the city's two high schools. late last night the board voted unanimously to approve having defib laters placed in novato and san marin high schools. these devices will talk a volunteer through instructions to deliver a powerful jolt that can shock a heart back into beating at a normal rhythm. many parents couldn't think of a reason the schools should not have one, but some school district officials were worried about legal liability. >> make sure that they're doing it properly. that they have appropriate number of machines in schools, appropriate number of staff are trained. the machines are maintained on a regular basis. >> the novato fire foundation will donate the machines to the schools. the defibrillators should be in place by the middle of march. >>> there will be big time downsizing at a fire station in downtown walnut creek starting the first of the year. county supervisors have voted to cut the number of firefighters working out of the station in half. station one is on civic drive. the move is expected

. >> in novato you're looking at pg&e crews for restoring power to customers due to a tree that is blown down during tuesday night's storm. here's what happened at a bar on 4:20 a.m. the strong winds from the storm knocked down a tree that's at the end of this walk by. it landed on the truck and damaged another car and in the process that took out to power lines knocked out power to almost 3000 customers. power is restored to the customers with a few hours leaving some five customers without power for most of wednesday. pg&e expects to restore all the power in the neighborhood by early evening once did. here's a closer look at what happened. this is what's left of the tree that fell over. here's the truck fell on top of. as a tree was falling it kept on this power lie which was connected to this one for the artistry. a spokesperson said it was the high winds after the initial ransack cause the tree to fall. in novato dave kron 4 news. >> to adjourn 45 pg&e customers in fremont lost power during tuesday night's storm. as spokesperson from the utility company told me on underground power f

limited visibility and said rows up peddle might enter novato as well. as we take it through the day to day we will continue to stay dry chance of showers late late in the evening but better chance being on your christmas day. future cast 4 showing showers in the north bay and then check out the 10:00 hour this all the burning heavier downpours. moderate to heavy downpours rate three morning and your afternoon. the intensity could pick up in the afternoon as well in the north bay around the southern portions of the peninsula. by 6:00 p.m. we will continue to keep shores around maybe more scattered in natcher nature. this better off towards evening. it looks like a wet weekend. sunday showers as well. better chance for the morning hours slight chance of showers on monday but looks like the stormy weather comes next week. >> still good to go on the freeways i don't have any hot spots for you not even a slow spot to contend with around the bay if you're headed to the bay bridge to morning westbound 81 have to wait at the pay to concede traffic flowing freel

visibility down to a quarter mile in novato. visibility in concord and livermore dropping off a bit. between now and sunrise don't bow surprised to find some patchy fog waiting for you. for today the rain will be mendocino county noth. the rain line will stall out. areas north of santa rosa may see a few showers. late tomorrow and friday we could see a chance of rain dropping back into the rest of the bay area. today it's patchy fog, hazy sunshine. a few high clouds mainly off to the north. we'll see highs from about 60 and a little warmer southward, upper to mid-50s across the north bay. late tomorrow, increasing clouds and showers, into friday and early saturday. then partly cloudy and cool as we wrap up the weekend. back to you. >> thank you very much, rob. the time now is 6:11. >>> a new law could be coming that could prevent secret government documents from getting leaked in the future. we'll find out how that could work coming up. >>> the founder of wikileaks gets up on a most wanted list. plus find out who wants him assas

we had low visibility in places like novato, napa valley.ures into the thirties the most locations, even below that patch and morning fog, a major storm this weekend the first to bring this to tomorrow. today, last friday in some time. current temperatures look like this, santa rosa, freezing mark. the eye and the '20s, 33 livermore, napa. upper 30s your oakland, hayward. says bay temperatures in the upper 30s as well. by the afternoon highs will get into the 50s, 56 santa rosa, 55 napa, vallejo. about the same in san francisco, not much change in the temperatures today, expecting to see them about the same in most locations mid-50s the rain really starts to settle and by tomorrow. waking up with a few sprinkles, 5:00 it could marty get a quarter of an inch of rain in san francisco, double that by 7:00, morning to you quite a bit of rain. heavier rain damage to this as big, said the venture more up to the north bay. reno's heavier rain for tourism to the south bay. end of friday, three-quarters of an inch of rain. by the end of the saturday,

half moon bay coming in at 48 sas santa rosa, novato 47 in napa.g to turn windy as the storm system moves in our direction. rain beginning this afternoon will be heavy at times overnight tonight and will continue through early tomorrow. very heavy downpours expected, sort of like saturday where we had some intense rain and it moves out. breezy conditions behind the storm system with some cold weather. here's the frontal ban. this is the time frame. a bit of light rain verifying quiet well and a little more the east bay and the main band late this evening overnight tonight. we start to see breaks tomorrow and the cold air you can see from the white and the pink areas there. rainfall totals look to be in the 1 to 3 inch range for the north bay. 1 to 2 inches for the east bay and still heavy for the south bay. santa cruz mountains up to 3 inches of rain. the peninsula up to 2 inches of rain. all this moving into central and southern california. winter storm warnings are in effect. high temperatures today not a big factor, just chilly. 40s and low 50s.

your highs today getting into the 50s. 57 in novato, richmond, vallejo, concord. in the south bay 59 with the chance of 60 in mountain view. midafternoon you've mentioned that with this heavy rain moves in tomorrow. heavy downpours several hours at a time spot. by 10:00 p.m. intense rain through the north bay continuing to see heavy rain in the peninsula as well. it will pack a punch overnight tender tuesday into early morning wednesday. you could wake up wednesday morning and have a wet commute. in the afternoon we will dry out a chance of rain through the week and the end of the year as well. chance of rain continues for 2011. >> after two very slow years christmas 2010 could be the americas rediscovered how much they liked to shop. the retail federation expects spending will reach 451 and half billion dollars. it is up 3.3 percent over last year. in our area they have been looking for post christmas deals. dahlin joined the thousands of bargain hunters. >> all lot of people spend the day after christmas at a shopping center. many malls were very busy including

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it's only a 4th of a mile, novato a half mile and napa that's where fog is also developing, 6 mile visibilitybut everywhere else, east bay and south bay peninsula, skies are clear and pretty good visibility. today temperatures climb up into the mid-50s for the most part. fairly uniform around the bay area. 56 san francisco, fremont, palo alto. 57 san jose. the cool spot is up in clear lake at 50 degrees there. so we see mostly sunny skies later on this afternoon for everyone. morgan hill look for 56 as well. 57 santa cruz. here's a look at that accu-weather 7-day forecast, enjoy the dry day today and tomorrow because that storm comes in christmas day, stays with us into sunday where it turns into showers. then we have another dry day on monday. megan has a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. hi, megan. >> take a look at this. no problems at the toll plaza making your way through the tolls. heading into san francisco on the upper deck, that earlier road work has been cleared but we have a stalled car westbound 80 at treasure island blocking the right lane. road work in pleasanton, westbound 580

still kind of a breeze up in novato, the northwest at 14.nd we will be looking at this morning and tomorrow morning similar with temperatures as much as 12 to 20 degrees cooler than we were the day before. so that trend is going to stay with us and we will be looking at sunshine throughout the day today. perhaps to warm us up but more rain is on the way. not only for new year's eve but new year's day. your 7-day forecast outlook coming up. >> it's 4:34 now. the heavy rain on tuesday has caused another portion of the cliffside apartments in pacifica to fall away and now officials are once again concerned about the building on esplanade avenue. amy has the latest. >> when we first shot this video a year ago, you can see there was a grassy lawn behind the apartments at 330 esplanade. now you just see a rocky cliff. and, apparently, this isn't even the most dramatic vantage point. >> i didn't know the extent of it until i walked on the beach and looked up. >> kathy still lives in the apartment building next to the one sitting so dangerously clos

and on, some showers, even some moderate pockets of rainfall here on the highway 101 corridor for novato right into petaluma. so you can see it's completely covered if you're heading mayb over the golden gate bridge, into petaluma, sonoma or napa. back out here towards san francisco, we are following more rainfall offshore that will continue to move here off to the northeast. that will get the peninsula wet here over the next hour or so. we haven't seen too much activity back towards the east bay or in the south bay at this point, but we will be getting in on more rainfall here as we head throughout the next couple of hours. now, this is much-needed rainfall for the bay area. right now all areas below 100% of normal. we'll tell you about our weekend chances of rainfall coming up later on. >> all right, thanks a lot, jeff. >>> still ahead at 5:00, deleting your marriage. facebook's new function may very well be divorce. coming up, new research on how many marriages end through that social network. >>> also ahead, important information about weight loss. why many more americans may soon be

you can see there's a few cells up model iran in novato and petaluma.ight showers, darker green abundant that moderate chart territory. vallejo, martinez seeing showers of this are as well these hours will persist into the afternoon. by noon, a moderate cells, moderate cells in vallejo and san rafael lighter showers through the rest of the bay. so it's been i getting too much rain this afternoon it will after a break up will little bit. the early morning hours on thursday. afternoon highs, little bit cooler than yesterday 53 in nevada in san rafael. 55 getting concord. 53 for in neon, 56 for livermore. same story. 57 for san jose and morgan hill. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. rain thread the day to day as a result, a chance of showers tomorrow and then friday continued to see their showers saturday, drying out, warming up seeing some sunshine. the highs will only be in the high 50s, the '60s. those in our inland spots in the mid low 40's. george rask. check and traffic. >> thank you, assembly from some of the rain but not from the slow tr

about a quarter of a mile visibility in novato and santa rosa. about a mile and a half in other places in the east bay. keep that in mind this morning. 55 degrees. we will drop off in temperature for your christmas day. you will enjoy 60s for the most part. a mean winter storm is packing a punch for tomorrow. we will go into detail with the timing and how much rain we are expecting. i hope you are dreaming of a wet christmas. looks like that's what we will get. >> whether we like it or not. thanks. police in san jose and santa clara are looking for a man who walked into the valley fair mall with a rifle and tried to rob a customer. it happened at the club monaco clothing store yesterday and when the shopper fended off the crook, he tried to steal a car in the parking garage next to nordstrom. he failed and went outside the wells fargo and tried to steal a car there. again he failed. he didn't give up. he ran across the street and robbed the men's warehouse. behind that clothing store he apparently carjacked a nissan altima. shoppers were stunned

maureen start take a look at and a bit. 58 santa rosa. 57 novato and napa.igh for mountain view. 67 livermore, 59 san jose. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. rain today, dry out, cool down just a little bit for wednesday and thursday. another series hits us even more rain than we see today hitting as friday, saturday, sunday, into monday. george. >> the weather may be catching up because we have a lot of slow traffic a number of hot spots, the macarthur maze, the bay bridge, here at the toll plaza it does not look too bad but that's because there's tenable in the maze. in the opposite direction from the commute. take a look at this, actually led to add to the macarthur maze. here's what we're talking about, there is an accident that ashby because of that traffic is slow here coming off of 580, 24 not for traffic heading to the bay bridge but up the east shore for you way, that's why it's backed up here on 800. not because of the bay bridge but because of the traffic trying to get interstate 80. that crash has been tying things out for a while, the

fog fairfield one mile, novato half moon bay about two miles with hayward.atching out for rapidly changing conditions. numerous accidents. let's talk to frances. >> quite a few spinouts and now an overturn crash in san jose. north 680 initially reported, we're hearing might be the mckee on-ramp. that approaching 880 with the yellow sensors there. better news in redwood city. all lanes now open through first avenue in middlefield. there were some wires down but they've cleared that. and we'll check out the bay bridge toll plaza for you. traffic now backed up to the 880 overcrossing. eric? >> frances, thank you very much. our time now 6:32. in the news today, the bay area's biggest city could become the biggest city in california to ban disposable plastic bags. the city may also start charging for paper bags. terry mcsweeney is live in san jose with more on the vote today. terry? >> yes. san jose also knows that when you want to ban plastic bags, slap a fee son paper bags, there's going to be people opposed and they'll have attorneys but san jose feels it has

will other stretches of the way down from santa rosa to novato. you can see how 37 to novato over to vallejo bringing down heavy downpours. just starting to see the showers left into livermore still spotty. highway 17 as he had an ounce santa cruz still getting quite a bit of wet weather. here's rather getting head down into seven california check or the heavy heavy rain coming down, snow as well. several warnings in effect, flood warning in effect for san rocking. that means flooding is imminent. flash flood watch and loss santa less in) areas are the most runs. there's a bit worse down to seven california. 46 for santa rosa, 51 and to san francisco, low 50s to the east bay, redwood city. 47 livermore. future cast with the key to the day, just a light chance of showers through 10:00. affecting a good portion of the rest your day keeping a good chance of showers around. similar to this morning. hit or miss, tuesday on and off showers through the day. better chance to the latter part of your day, learn a clock downpour's into the north bay. wednesd

reid gunter novato, picking up some raindrops. rain now, in the forties, right up to san francisco, north bay. 57 redwood city and 50 this morning in mountain view and san jose. satellite and radar you can see that first and separate into seven california for us were seeing a second wave pushing up through, bringing some rain. some showers question to our area as well. bulk of the wet weather is to the north, also to the south and loss angeles. here is a look at future cast, to key to the day, hit or miss showers expected it is really the evening that brings us a better chance of rain and heavy rain and back. but to santa rosa. moderate showers. early morning, this wednesday if bringing in a good dose of what weather. september of your day on wednesday, a strip start to clear up with it. and forcing some nicer conditions. winter storm watch in effect in the sierra from tonight rid of your tomorrow. getting down to about 4,000 ft. pretty low. anywhere from 4-8 in. above the six dozen feet about a foot of snow. here is a look at you

novato, rainfall totals above an inch. 2 in. to novato, over 2 in. to santa rosa.et bay, more than an inch or two as we head into some portions in the setup bay. overall, expect this to be a lot of rain continuing in to tomorrow. and that went will stick around us up to 45 mi. per hour. drag out, chances and is by the weekend. church. >> watch in the committee's special at the bay bridge toll plaza, to see what's in store for us today, the last five, seven days of the commune we some much lighter than usual traffic around the bay. so far, we are going to have a pretty good right here as a move toward 6:00, not much in the way of traffic, no volume year at the toll plaza here at the san mateo bridge as we continue our bridge check, lighter than usual. on the right hand side of your screen westbound, heading towards foster city golden gate, still too early to tell. it is about the typical light traffic for 7101. says bay, 101, a little more traffic stated yesterday. just north of the guadalupe parkway up towards great america this is trembled the lectures. so far, up

also some heavier rainfall now starting to exit novato. continuing right up here into the napa valley at this point. as we zoom out, what you'll find is this moderate rainfall is continuing to push to the south. right across the peninsula, from san francisco to san bruno. we could see this once again transition massachusetts san jose tonight. that is just leftover activity from what we had this weekend. but as we've been mentioning, we have a much stronger storm system on the way. today temperatures were in the low 50s out there. it's a cold rain for those of you getting that rainfall right now with conditions in the upper 40s to near 50 from novato to sunnyvale. the next system is 423 miles away from the bay area at this point. the thing that's going to make this different from what we have this weekend is the storm's center looks to move directly over central california with this aggressive jet stream in place. so we will look at periods of heavy rainfall and also gusty winds that will most likely bring us holiday travel delays at the ai

an hour winds at sfo, 22 in novato, 25 over the east bay through oakland. gossaert stronger than that into the 30's. storm trucker for shows the strength out if we feel any rain it will be isolated pop-up showers. for the most part it has pushed to the south and happened to the high country. seeress' seen plenty of snowfall this morning we have a storm morning in effect until 4:00 p.m. today >. we could get 3 ft. of snow above 7,000 ft.. strong gusts could cause without conditions. it looks like snow showers are expected just slight chance of it. lookit have all those temperatures will get later up you could actually dip down below freezing. - 4 for a overnight temperature thursday night. a satellite shows us a cold front sliding down to the south bringing heavy rain and winds down in southern california. in the pacific you can see the dry weather. we will stay dry through tomorrow, the popcorn clouds shows cold air moving into our area. the next couple of nights will be chilly out there. tanager right now in the '40's and 50's as we head through the next c

in the driver ran onto highway 37, a little bit of a sell reruns to novato.ng out, weather dry out to the central valley. when an act of looking radar. snow up into the sierra as well. currently in the '50s. 53 santa rosa, south bay temperatures into the upper fifties. afternoon highs as to 60 degrees. fairfield, richmond gang concord. we will keep it in 60 rate around the bay, 62 for san jose. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. chang yet today, bring in a chance of isolated showers tomorrow, north bay, looking i said there. those clouds expected to part, lots of sunshine. reed chance of rain back into the area on tuesday and wednesday. george. >> thank you, , hot spots and san francisco those have cleared up. heavy just before 37, as to come through novato, very heavy as you head south past hamilton field. but lucas valley road on down to central san rafael, clearing up before lincoln. hoping to see things quite get just a little. the aids era approaches has eased a little bit. i don't think the fog is a much a factor. do the antitrust the span in

ktvu's now in novato this morning. what's going on there, tara?> reporter: you know temperatures have dipped near freezing up here. and as you can see by my breath it is extremely cold. and if you take a look at this windshield, there's a bunch of frost here. so it is definitely chilly. and as early as tonight we could see a bunch of rain as well as strong winds. and according to officials out on the coast here in marin county, they have issued a warning saying that this storm could potentially knock down trees as winds whip up to 60 miles an hour. now in flood prone communities crews have been sweeping culverts and leaves so they don't clog storm drains. people preparing for the worst. they are filling up sandbags at local yards to prevent flooding and stocking up on rain gear, flashlights and batteries. according to forecasters the rain could last until tuesday potentially causing problems in higher elevations including the santa cruz mountains which could see as much as ten inches of rain. now forecasters are predicting as many as five inches o