. >>> the sonoma marin rail district asked for money to buy additional cars. that will allow them to run passenger trains at half hour intervals. >> sal is back. what is the latest on this cliff rescue? >>> we found out one person was seriously injured when the driver of an suv went over the side and we are trying to get that car out and we do have a tow truck with a long table trying to get this car off the cliff. chp is there, this is on 35 skyline on john daily boulevard and a good alternate would be to use a different way to get through. you can use lake merced and just stay away from this area even though they are letting some cars go through, they will temporarily close it when they get the suv off the side and we have one person at the hospital with major injuries. the metering lights are on and backed up with 15 to 20 minute delays. 280 and 85 are off to a good start in the santa clara valley. steve? >>> there is not a lot of rain coming in compared to what we had last week and the cold air will be here for a while. we have a front coming into the nort

. >> officials for the proposed sonoma marin smart train are looking to get federal funding to buy more smart train is committed to go to cloverdale and larkspur but more rail cars would be needed. they report that money force the cars would come out of the budget for pedestrian and bicycle paths. bicycle advocates say it will take away two-thirds of their funding setting the plan back five years. >> three women who dined at a stockton card room saying the bill they received was outrageous not because of the price. christina and two friends are mad about a remark typed on to that receipt. a server, says it reads, fat girl. though wanted people to know how much the comment hurt. the manager who was on duty ordinary them a 25% discount to make it up to them and 50% and now his boss is offering a public apology and making changes at the restaurant. >> i still can't believe that somebody would put that on a receipt. >> i just want to tell them we are seven serial sorry for that and it will never happen to anyone again. >> bar manager says the server has been suspended while it's being inves

. >>> officials for the proposed sonoma-marin rail transit project or smart train are looking to get $16.6 million in federal fund to go buy more train cars. today the press democrat reports money otherwise would be used for local pedestrian and bicycle paths. smart train is committed to go to cloversdale and larkspur, but beyond that more rail cars would be needed to carry the load. the request is not sitting well with bicyclist advocates because it would take away about two-thirds of their federal funding, setting back plans to build bike paths another five years. >> new this morning, three women who dined at a stockton car room said the bill they received was outrageous but not because of the price. christina and her two friends are mad about a remark that was typed on to their receipt by their server, named jeff. it read "fat girls." they know some people will chuckle when they see the story but they want people to know how much the comment hurt. the manager on duty offered them a 25% discount, but upped that to 50%. his boss is offering a public apology and making changes at the

officials for the proposed sonoma marin rail project are looking for additional $6.6 million funding. the money would otherwise be used for pedestrian and bicycle paths. more rail cars would be needed to carry the commuter load. >> hanukkah begins tonight at sundown. the first candle is lit to commemorate the triumph a small band of fighters over the syrian army. first candle of a 25 foot manora will be lighting. others occur at 5:30 and at masonic center at 8:00. >> check in about lisa argen with the look at the weather. >> you can see the low clouds around from mount tam. northeast wind gusting in the higher elevations bringing quarter mile visibility for our friends in concord and by the delta. it's chilly start to the day. upper 40s if you are in the city. 44 in clouds in and around san jose. milder weather pattern for the wand top of the workweek, as well. low 60s for oakland. this is a little above average. 62 in san jose and livermore. look ahead, you'll notice the numbers go up from day to day. tomorrow we're milder about 2-4 degrees. by monday, temperatures around 70 in warm

pg&e tells us the biggest outage is in the north bay, mostly sonoma and marin counties. crews plan to work all night to repair the damaged lines and get the power back on. the storm watch continues all weekend on abc7 news. live reports tomorrow morning at 5:00 a.m. with the abc7 saturday morning news. and you can track the rain anytime you like at home with live doppler 7hd at abc7news.com. >>> a spinout on wet roads in antioch damaged three cards and sent a child and an adult to the hospital. it happened on highway 4. the chp cannot confirm earlier reports that the child was ejected 2r the car. ejected from the car. the boy was airlifted to children's hospital oakland. the adult was taken to a hospital in brentwood. >>> police are releasing little information about the murder of a multimillionaire venture capitalist in his home. 66-year-old kumra was found early this morning. his wife called 9-1-1 and said she had been beaten by as many as four attackers. police declined to say if anything was taken or if the security gate was open. >>> still to come, an identity theft

pg&e tells us the biggest outage is in the north bay, mostly sonoma and marin counties. crews plan to work all night to repair the damaged lines and get the power back on. the storm watch continues all weekend on abc7 news. live reports tomorrow morning at 5:00 a.m. with the abc7 saturday morning news. and you can track the rain anytime you like at home with live doppler 7hd at abc7news.com. >>> a spinout on wet roads in antioch damaged three cards and sent a child and an adult to the hospital. it happened on highway 4. the chp cannot confirm earlier reports that the child was ejected 2r the car. ejected from the car. the boy was airlifted to children's hospital oakland. the adult was taken to a hospital in brentwood. >>> police are releasing little information about the murder of a multimillionaire venture capitalist in his home. 66-year-old kumra was found early this morning. his wife called 9-1-1 and said she had been beaten by as many as four attackers. police declined to say if anything was taken or if the security gate was open. >>> still to come, an identity theft

pg&e tells us the biggest outage is in the north bay, mostly sonoma and marin counties. crews plan to work all night to repair the damaged lines and get the power back on. the storm watch continues all weekend on abc7 news. live reports tomorrow morning at 5:00 a.m. with the abc7 saturday morning news. and you can track the rain anytime you like at live doppler 7hd at abc7news.com. >>> a spinout on wet roads in antioch damaged three cards and sent a child and an adult to the hospital. it happened on highway 4. the chp cannot confirm earlier reports that the child was ejected 2r the car. ejected from the car. the boy was airlifted to children's hospital oakland. the adult was taken to a hospital in brentwood. >>> police are releasing little information about the murder of a multimillionaire venture capitalist in his home. 66-year-old kumra was found early this morning. his wife called 9-1-1 and said she had been beaten by as many as four attackers. police declined to say if anything was taken or if the security gate was open. >>> still to come, an identity theft scare in

just approaching over the next few minutes, up in the north bay, scattered about parts of sonoma, marin and out toward the richmond san rafael bridge. this activity beginning to scoot out to the south and east of richmond. as far as current numbers its cool, mainly in the 40s to 50s. santa rosa 39, concord 44. this morning some cool showers, temperatures mainly in the 40s into the afternoon hours, sun cloud mix and a fairly good bet of shower activity, especially into the early portion of the afternoon. yesterday of course we had all the moderate to heavy rain. today we have this. we have the cold part of the storm, the speckled clouds, you can see off shore. that is the cool unstable air. that will be the source of more half activity for this morning and possibly in to the early portion of the afternoon. a winter storm warning in place for the sierra again until 11:00 this evening. snow fall today about four to eight inches and now levels above 3500 feet. great news for the skiers, improving conditions toward the sierra for tomorrow. here is the forecast model showing you this at 12:00

. >>> a decision may come on whether sonoma marin area rail transit will get a big chunk of federal transportationoney. officials asked for $6.6 million to buy more train cars at this year's prices. however, the sonoma county transportation authority says it only has $10 million in funding. >>> it's 7:38. want to check in with sal. see what's happening in the east bay. pretty busy there, sal. >> it's busy. one of the main reasons is the bay bridge is such a mess. it usually has a chain reaction on all of the freeways that get close to the bay bridge. let's go to the 24 freeway. westbound 24 is busy here in la fayette between walnut creek, you have a lot of slow traffic and right when you get out on the slow side, 580, it's jammed. another stall on the bridge. we've had four broken brown -- dash broken down cars. look at the carpool lane. that's slow. we're looking at delays between 40 minutes and an hour for some cars trying to get into san francisco. you might seriously want to consider using public transportation or delaying your trip if you can. >> let's go to the south bay. it's kind of normal

the sonoma marin area rail transit district asked for the money to buy additional cars and says that will allow it to run passenger trains. the money had been earmarked for a pedestrian and cyclist safety project. >>> there is a new study out on san jose drivers that's getting national attention. commuters are using social media to connect with other commuters. they exchange information to help them get to where they are going faster. the study also says it helps drivers feel better. not only because of the time but because they are helping others drivers -- other drivers save some time. >>> 8:20. a stern warning from the judge to the woman convicted of killing nursing student, michelle le. the reason he says giselle esteban may never be paroled. -what's up? i'm chris. -and i'm erik. both: we're the fruit guys! back in 1998, we had this idea to deliver fresh fruit to offices in downtown san francisco. we built these wooden crates, filled these with fruit in my one-bedroom apartment. the fruit guys has been with bank of america since they first started. we work with them to help them

even see an isolated thunderstorm as this rolls through. 6:00, notice most the activity from sonoma, napa, marin, but in the next, two, three hours, we are over the heart of the bay area. san francisco, half moon bay, down through the south bay will continue to see the heavier rain. livermore valley things pick up. 2:00 light to moderate rain across much of the south bay, and you will notice the rest of sunday not looking too bad. so in addition of one to two inches, even three inches possible in the north bay. mountains, 4 inches. santa cruz mountains. and inch to inch and a half around the east bay and peninsula and south bay. the winter storm warning continues until 4:00 tomorrow with two or three feet of snow above 7,000 feet. mid-and upper 50s but the gusty southeast winds today. last to clear out the central coast it will take towards about 2:00. otherwise we dry out tomorrow. a few showers especially in the north bay on christmas day and a light weak system on wednesday and the rest of the week is not looking very rainy, just slight shower chances. this is the last big one we are supposed

a couple of returns off the marin/sonoma coast. it will be a cloudy day.this is a significantly weeker -- weaker system than we had of the last three that came by. there will be decent rain to the north. and that's cape mendocino, chico, marysville, up to redding and red bluff. had a couple of reports of rain. ukiah has had a drum 1/100ths. you can see a little -- couple 1/100ths. you can see a little off the bodega bay, point reyes, drake's bay. the system is beginning to work its way closer to us. 50s on the temperatures. much, much warmer than we had yesterday, the low is kind of the key. that will provide the lift needed to get this rain going. cloudy to mostly cloudy. light rain -- light rain to the north. it will move south later tonight. 50s and 60s on the temperatures today. mid-60s to the south. main will make it late tonight into wednesday. then we'll have night and morning fog. we go dry but i think the wind will pick up out of the northwest. >>> flames engulfed a petaluma home hours ago. the very latest on this and the investigation into the ca

showers in marin county, sonoma county, lake county and mendocino county right now. be cloudy tonight and like mother nature throwing a blanket over top of us so it will be milder. concord 51. oakland 53. you will wake up tomorrow morning to 51 for san rafael, santa rosa 49. mountain view 52. so we have the clouds. we have some rain. but we don't have a storm. there are two reasons why. first, the atmosphere doesn't have as much water in so not as much potential for the rain to fall out of the sky. secondly, we have high pressure building in. it's going to play a role in our weather for the next seven days. right now all it's done and this is significant is move the storm track a little to the north so it's southern oregon and far northern california getting the direct hit from the next system. while get a glancing blow so it's the near miss. you will get rain and it will be wet out there tomorrow. the commute will stink as it normally does anytime it rains. not going to ham of the high pressure will happen for the next several days once the system is over. we'll get

marin, sonoma and starting to 'úrh of glen impressive radar return also+1dç jyx petalumagé6 where we in the north bay as this water is rushing to the north$ln" itrru1 has been brn heavy rain all morning that is coming down towards the bay. >>> rain means slick roads and dangerousmtmoé driving conditios yoe on the golden gate bridge a few cars now no roadwork but we have high winds, high wind advisory for the bay bridge now. i think extra caution and extra time is the key this morning. to one lane until 6:00, north 280 san jose avenue in san francisco roadwork until 5:00 this morning. r1d9 as usual the rain is moving r1d9 into the north bay first before it blankets the rest of the bay area. terry mcsweeney is live in sonoma county.t(a! >> reporter: my dad said if you go looking for trouble you will probably find it. if morning if you look for rain you will find it. heading north, no rain sonoma county and we met it as it was heading down south. we are at the south petaluma exit. v here dry, here north very wet minor flooding in windsor northstng of4#hw santa , the rain coming down

up in mendocino county but by 10:00 o'clock tomorrow morning we see rain sweeping down into sonoma coin, marineounty approaching napa county then later in the day by 2:00 p.m. or so we see heavier more organized rainfall not only across the north bay but pushing south ward on to the peninsula. eastward a little bit out towards livermore and by late afternoon 4:00 o'clock so tomorrow rainfall all parts of the bay area with some areas receiving moderate to heavy downpour then front sweeps on through overnight tomorrow night into wednesday. see showers trailing the front wednesday in the day tame but showers taper off later in the day and into the afternoon hours. into the evening hours i should say. by 7:00 o'clock wednesday evening rainfall total could be over an inch. north bay peninsula and east bay up to inch and a half and santa cruz mountains up to half inch or more in the south by and storm watch winter storm watch in effect for the sierra from tomorrow afternoon to wednesday evening we expect 4 to 8 inches of new snow above 4000 feet possibly 8 to 16 inches above 5000 feet. chain control

i'm talking sonoma and marin. if you have plans tonight you will be in the rain but the heaviest rain when you are sleeping. we will detail the flood watches and the timing of the rain coming up in a little bit. katie. >> thanks so much. as the next big storm moves in, the big concern is the north bay. take a look at this video from outside of the stump down brewery in this time-lapse webcam video. you can see how quickly the river has risen. allen long reports from sonoma county where the national weather service has issued a flood warning. >> certainly it will be up to here. the flood stage or the expectations at gurnville is 32 feet. >> his trailer sits on the banks of the river and he has watched the river rise 17 feet. he's packing up and heading for higher ground. >> it's not fortunate it. fortunately my little house has wheels on it. >> even the crete us are headed for higher ground. and several low lying back roads of flooded and it only took a foot of water to stall out this car. >> we were coming from wi

. >> next weathermaker sitting right off the sonoma and marin coastline.ldn't be surprised if you got light showers coming up tonight. the rest of us from the peninsula southward will stay mainly dry. there will be showers. no additional flooding on the 101 corridor. st. helena flirted with flooding over the weekend. here's a picture from the presidio trail where there's a sinkhole and we have a sign saying, please keep out. it's not safe. the trail is closed. despite that our photographer caught plenty of people using the trail despite it's bumpy after the rain. here's the setup in the atmosphere why i'm not worried about additional flooding this time. there's an area of high pressure building in just in time to take this next weathermaker and shove it just far enough to the north to keep the heavy rain way from us. the storm track is going farther north and this next weather system really isn't as strong, isn't as juicy as the last several so for all of that reason heavy rainfall will stay away from the bay area. we'll get some rain but not flooding rain

majority of outages were reported in the north bay, where 5,300 customers were without power in marin, sonoma and napa counties as of 1:30 p.m., pg&e spokeswoman jana morris said. in the east bay, around 1,375 customers were experiencing outages, morris said. in san francisco, 88 customers were in the dark, and just 28 peninsula customers were without service. in the south bay, 50 customers were without power, morris said. crews were assessing each outage individually, and restoration times were >> it's snowing off interstate 80 at donner summit. on i-80 through the sierra, officials say chains are required on all cars except four-wheel drives from the community of gold run in placer county to the nevada the 49ers playing the seahawks today in seattle. as they attempt to clinch the n-f-c west division title. kron 4's scott rates is slive in san francisco with scott? >> despite that nasty weather the 49ers still packed behind me but it is not going so well. at the sidebar, everywhere you look is all about the 49ers even a christmas tree is it decked out in 49 years. >> we're all of die-hard fa

light rain worked its way down into marin county but steadyy rain in sonoma county santa rosa pointsorthward and eastward closing a little bit more you can see from clover dale to santa rose west out to the coast through occidental and rohnert park we have steady rain developing right now and we are all going see some rain at some point tomorrow mainly morning hours. right new temperature readings generally in the upper 50's to right around 60, 61 in oakland right now. these are forecast feature rape spreads south ward overnight. rain turns to showers tomorrow giving way to actually partly sunny skies in the afternoon. we'll see dryer pattern beginning on thursday. satellite radar composite image showing the approaching system which is slow moving system and that's why it has not advanced very far south ward but has all the overnight hours to do that. forecast animation at 11:00 o'clock tonight. we'll see by 5:00 o'clock in the morning start of our rush hour more wide spread rainfall pushed into the south bay and pens lashtion santa cruz mountains a little bit in the east bay then by

cbs 5 hi-def doppler now tracking rain in extreme northern marin, northern sonoma toward clearlake healdsburg and almost to santa rosa. here comes the rain and the rain is not going to let up for 3 1/2 days. preceding the rain, cloud cover. it got cloudy and breezy today. wind gusts to 30 miles per hour. livermore currently 54. concord 54. san jose 55. santa rosa 53. good news won't be as cold tonight because of that blanket of cloud cover. good news also if you are a skier. it may be tough getting up to tahoe this weekend as snow levels rise to 7,000 feet. but check out the snow. 12 to 36 -- one to three feet of new snowfall especially in the ski resorts above 7,000 feet in elevation, a little windy, too. wind gusts 45 miles per hour on i-80 and highway 50. winter begins tomorrow. 3:12 a.m. but the winter weather is just about here and the first couple of days of winter will be very wet. look at this huge storm. it's center due west of vancouver british columbia. but we have a cold front the first of about 3 that are going to move through. the first one will get here tonight. that will incre

through pet lou ma and pen grove and we are looking at an additional inch of rain through sonoma county and marin county. they have a flood warning until 10:15. and also flood warning for santa clara valley and santa cruz county and the winds are quite gusty from the peninsula on southward through the east bay. they are gusting up to some 35 miles an hour in hayward. nearly 50 mile an hour wind gusts at sfo and more rain is pushing through the south bay. so you are not going to clear for the next several hours. it is more like at 11:00. but we are already beginning to see the winds calm down and the rain end in northern sonoma county. still some flooding happening right now. carolyn? >> thank you, lisa. there is a new development in the murder of a south bay man. next the sketch police want you to see that they hope will lead them to his killer. plus why san francisco firefighters decided not to go into an historic building as it went up in flames. and we are tracking this storm on live doppler 7hd. here is the heaviest parts it is showing right now. the yellow, novato, fairfield coming into san

so take a look at marin, sonoma and napa but down to the south bay we have the yellows and oranges.ght rain showers. but the heaviest rain here is past the milpitas area in the santa cruz mountains. enhanced rates down to salinas and breaks around campbell this morning. right here in santa cruz mountains, salinas, monterey, thunderstorms and wind gusts 30-40 miles an hour. this is back edge of the front continuing to clear the central coast. with it as it pushes through the winds are really dialing back out of southeast at five miles an hour in the north bay, but still breezy at sfo and delays to 45 minutes. we do get into a break the rest of the day today, isolated showers around. here we are at 9:00 and right through the midnight hour and through tomorrow, this evening, but into tomorrow, i'll tell you the next system that will bring heavy rain, 4:00 in the morning and front doesn't pass through the middle afternoon. another round of rain but that is not until tomorrow. >>> thank you. "abc 7 news" at 8:00 is next. >> katie: good morning, it is 8:00 a.m. i'm katie marzullo. we'll s

she is represented california sixth congressional district since 1993 including marin and sonoma countyto speak out against the we'll be right back and afghanistan and says that work is not done. >> constituents and others call or come up to me or write and thank me i say... but we're still there. i don't deserve thanks until all of the troops are home. >> he thanks supporters and says she will continue efforts after she leaves the house. >> we live in a nation so wealthy most of us consider owning a car almost a birth right, particularly near california imagine trying to .uq!out one. a few residents won't need to worry about that anymore. we knew this day, 12-12-12 would have significance but in antioch amanda and her young daughters will remember it as the day christmas came early. >> you're not into feeling sorry for yourself? >> no. >> there is a reason she named her youngest daughter adrian. that was the name of her fiancee who died in a car accident. >> we just found out we were pregnant with her when that accident happened so... it's been hard. >> her hardship let yes, one of 150

also north bay good morning you can see yellows taking over most of marin and sonoma even oranges starting to take over windsor just getting out ofzt?h)he heaviest rain still hanging around latest update we still have yellows around windsor pleasant>j hill road down to old redwood ride to the -- road south;o of santa rosa stone any point redwood drive petaluma hill that whole area getting heavy rain some of the heaviest where valley ford and walker road connect where we had the reds a few seconds ago. to the south heading towards novato watch out on novato boulevard as you come into novato from the west this is slowly sinking south right now anywhere south of9(f the north bay not raining but it is going to be in the heart of the bay in about an hour and probably south bay by 8:00 9:00. >>> good morning. flooding where mike was talking about in theÑco! windsor area north 101 windsor river road high winds on all bridges extra caution late traffic coming into san francisco still two lanes in the southbound direction they will reconfigure that as the commute getsomw)r underway light trafficxpi

lake county, sonoma county, mendicino county, marin county, you are about to get poured on once againit will be a good 30 to 40 minutes soiker. and san francisco, just about to get soaked. it's raining at the beach already and already raining at at&t park. we are looking forwards fremont, getting some heavy rainfall between now and 7:30. great news for skiers. two to seven inches of new snow. but the ski resorts about 5000 feet, anywhere from 8 to 16 inches of additional snowfall on top of the five feet of snow that you had since last thursday. so a lot of snow in the mountains. cloud cover acting like a blanket put over top of the bay area. that will keep us somewhat mild, especially considering today we evenly got up to about 50. we'll be in the mid-40s tonight. mountain view, 46. napa, 43 and livermore down to 42 degrees overnight tonight. take a look at what's going on. we have the storm track which is squarely aimed at northern california for about the past, gosh, four or five weeks. whenever a storm comes by, we'll grab a piece of it and we'll grab a piece of this once again. he

a democrat, who has represented marin and sonoma counties for 20 years will step down wednesday, thef consistent liberal voting records in the house she was elected in 1992 in the year of the woman upsetting a powerful republican opponent the first member of congress to call for the withdrawal of troops from iraq. >>> mike joining us with the forecast and so much more. >> are you that hungry? >> i wanted to show folks that mike brought in these-f-bíóutááz cookies. >> beautiful and delicious. >> what a way to end the year. >> the diet starts in 24 hours. >> give or take. >> we'll be fighting people to get on the months, ties day, wednesday. >> exactly >> enjoy, hope they are good. sorry i didn't bring any milk. nice to see when people -- look john is coming in, yes john there's plenty. you can take more than one if you would like. >> pepper minute. >> yeah and sugar cookie, interesting. -- >> taking one for the kids too. >>> good morning take in all the sunshine and dry weather into the afternoon maybe that will spread a little cheer your way. quiet out there the storm comes from the

if you have been in the north bay, marin county, all day long, even sonoma county, napa county, the low-leveloisture moving in and wet pavement on the golden gate bridge and also a lot of fog developing. so tricky travel this evening. we'll do the same thing tomorrow morning as well but you have to deal with moderate rain. live doppler 7hd picking up a little bit of this low-level moisture. not picking up a lot of it out there. you can see it's mainly centered in the north bay. santa rosa, petaluma, sonoma, some returns picking up there. heading over towards napa, and over towards american canyon, but elsewhere, if it's coming down, it's so light the radar beam is sweeping live but can't pick it up, which i typically the case and you can see a little returns here and there east of san jose. right now, 49 in santa rosa. 50s elsewhere across the bay area, and here's a look at the forecast. rain will increase overnight. we have another cold front due in here overnight. get ready for a wet morning commute. and then stormy outlook. looks like, towards the latter part of our work week. this has bee

marin county, and sonoma county and flooding is occurring in sonoma and napa county through the nextthank you, lisa. abc7 news will continue at 9:00. >>> good morning, america. this morning -- tragedy in the nfl. a kansas city chief star kills himself at arrowhead stadium minutes after shooting his girlfriend and mother of their 3-month-old child. new details this morning on what happened in the final moments before the shocking murder-suicide. >>> the mcafee manhunt.

. >>> we had some spinouts up in marin county and sonoma county. earlier accident where there was a spin out in east washington street and highway 101 at route 12 is closed due to flooding and be aware it is causing some delays there. sunole grade in the fremont area, southbound side is looking good and metering lights are not on yet but should be going on soon, here is mark. >>> it happened just hours ago, how an early morning car crash affected thousands in the east bay. >>> it will be a busy shopping day at the mall on this day after christmas. >>> we have some passing clouds, more on live storm tracker 2 is coming up during the 6:00 hour.

president obama wants to nearly double the size of two national marine sanctuaries off sonoma and mendocino counties. the new zone includes the town of bodega bay which currently sits just north of two national marine sanctuaries. this is actually once a nuclear power plant that would be put there. the push for preservation has grown since the bp oil spill in the gulf back in 2010. >> in area is a national treasure. it needs and it deserves permanent protection from oil and gas exploration. this is a matter of economic common sense. jobs and livelihoods hang in the balance. >> some local fishermen worry and expanded sanctuary could hurt their business but those backing the change say that it will benefit everybody. >>> 20 minutes after 5:00. more bad news for hockey fans. how many more games have been canceled by the league? >> how does a big league pitcher do with a bowling ball? some bay area teams found out last night. the story coming up next. >> some heavy rainfall now moving into the bay area. you're going to see some heavy snow across the mountains. here's your snow report for this w

marin county, sonoma county but the rainfall will press for the bay area. by 5:00 p.m., steady, light/moderate. this will not be as heavy as what we have seen in the recent past. however, showers are expected to continue for the christmas day evening by 7:00 a.m.. with three-quarters of 1 in. of rainfall for the bay area with 1 in.-2 in. at the higher elevations. because the ground is saturated it is not going to take that much for flooding problems. still have something to watch for, tomorrow. 30's in the north bay, 40's by the bay. the hawks in the afternoon will be in the 50s. for most locations with cloudy skies and rain fall on christmas wednesday, sunshine, clouds, showers and gusting winds possibly. the 30-40 m.p.h. try for thursday and another system or rives late friday and saturday. that coul bring some moisture -moisture and precipitation are arriving ... on late friday. >> it is expected that $1.7 billion worth of gift cards will not be used. that is crazy, it is wasted money. many of us are going to store them in our wallets. or we sometimes wi

i remember how proud i was of her background in local government and roles she played in sonoma and marin county. and she has spoken 440 times speaking for peace. going to be leaving this body known as the lady of peace and will be here in history forever and ever. and i remember bill clinton recognizing the backgrounds of people and lynn woolsey was the first woman elected to congress who as a single mom had to be on welfare and worked her way out of that and leading role to show that there are opportunities for you -- for all people in this great country. but the lady of peace is the most important of all. bob filner, background in local government. went back to local government after being involved in school districts and now the mayor of san diego and came here as a freedom fighter in the civil rights movement and led the veterans committee here. joe baca will be known as the captain of our baseball team and how he did so well in that, but had a proud background as the speaker said, in the air force and paratrooper and the list goes on and on. laura richardson is leaving us. and befor

live doppler 7 hd northern marin, sonoma and napa seeing scattered light rain now.tomorrow afternoon. >>> new accident golden gate bridge south of the south tower you can see the flashing lights not clear which direction slow northbound a few cars coming through in the southbound direction. >> join us for our midday news today announcer: it's "live with kelly and michael." today, academy award winning actress jane fonda. and olympic gold medalist gabrielle douglas. and the viewers share their favorite hot spots as we continue holidays in new york city week. plus, performing his big hit "the a team" ed sheeran. plus, performing his big hit "the a team" ed sheeran. all next on

marin county. no problems here. sonomaill be a slower ride coming through the tiny graves we are ready getting reports of heavier traffic there. >> 6:52 a.m. and we will be back in a couple of minutes. after the news don't forget to watch dr. phil at 10:00 this morning as well as for in the afternoon at kron4. [ male announcer ] steak combos. featured now at sizzler. tri tip sirloin with fried shrimp, malibu chicken, or grilled shrimp. starting at just $9.99. sizzler. aunt sally's singing again. it's a tradition, honey. [ singing christmas carols ] mmmm. [ female announcer ] make new traditions with pillsbury grands! cinnamon rolls. that's been wrapped in a flaky crust stuffed with a gooey center toasted up all golden brown then given a delicious design? a toaster strudel. pillsbury toaster strudel. so delicious...so fun. (car horn) paying with your smartphone instead of cash... (phone rings) that's a step forward. with chase quickpay, you can send money directly to anyone's checking account. i guess he's a kicker... again

i remember how proud i was of her background in local government and roles she played in sonoma and marin county. and she has spoken 440 times speaking for peace. going to be leaving this body known as the lady of peace and will be here in history forever and ever. and i remember bill clinton recognizing the backgrounds of people and lynn woolsey was the first woman elected to congress who as a single mom had to be on welfare and worked her way out of that and leading role to show that there are opportunities for you -- for all people in this great country. but the lady of peace is the most important of all. bob filner, background in local government. went back to local government after being involved in school districts and now the mayor of san diego and came here as a freedom fighter in the civil rights movement and led the veterans committee here. joe baca will be known as the captain of our baseball team and how he did so well in that, but had a proud background as the speaker said, in the air force and paratrooper and the list goes on and on. laura richardson is leaving us. and befor

marine sanction wares. decision permanently bans oil drilling along 50 miles of the calf coast line from sonoma county to mendocino you see that area on the map. today announcement marks the largest planned expansion of any national marine sanctuary in 20 years. along with ban on oil drilling. other new rules will go into effect including when cruise ship can rae lease sewage into the ocean. >> meteorite ex mroid employeded this spring over el dorado county was one of the fastest rarest meteorite to ever hit earth that's according to global team of scientist. including 9 from uc davis here picture of the sutter mill meteorite. it was the rarest type known to hit earth composed of cosmic dust and materials that helped literally form the planet 4 and half billion years ago. 50,000 years ago it broke off and began winding its way from near jupiter passing mercury and venus before heading toert and landing near suit are mill and it dropped 64,000 miles an hou hour. piece were his found in park, parking lots and drivewa driveways. about 2 pound recovered by scientist and private collectors. so it is a really fascinatin

back into napa county and stretching to parking lots of marin county and sonoma county. there is nothing too heavy here. starting to pick up a little bit down toward fremont, also over oakland. just again a light mist or light rain. it's rather steady and today will be a very mild day. we will focus our attention to the north on very cold air coming in for tuesday into wednesday morning. 50s on the temps. i mean mid 50s. that southeast wind in advance of that. instead of single digits in the mountains they have mild conditions there. snow level has gone way up. system that is going through now is hard to see much. most of it is to the north. we will go from mild to very windy and warm. and then temperatures will drop off the table. starting tuesday into wednesday. we'll get a little bit of a break rain wise. and everything cranks up thursday right into sunday and maybe monday. windy with morning rain. very mild. partly sunny and partly cloudy. breezy. 60s on the temps. our high temps may be set here very early in the morning. throughout the day some of the cooler air wil

the obama administration wants to double the size of two national marine sanctuaries off the sonoma and mendocino coasts. cbs 5 reporter john ramos explains why some who make their living in those waters are concerned. >> reporter: it's easy to see why alfred hitchcock picked bodega bay for the setting of his movie "th birds." they are everywhere. the federal government just announced a plan to extend the sanctuary all the way up to mendocino county. >> this area is a national treasure. it needs and it deserves permanent protection from oil and gas exploration. >> reporter: the fear is that any oil drilling in these waters could lead to an environmental disaster like what occurred when the oil rig blew up off the gulf coast. no one wants to see that here. and it's been reported the sanctuary designation will only apply to oil exploration. but not everybody buys that. >> if they would stop there, we would be all right, i mean, with it. but we know it won't be stopped there. >> reporter: this area's economy relies heavily on fishing and despite what might be said at a press conference, so

2000 people in the bay area. 92 homes are still without power in marin county and 653 homes and businesses are still in the dark in sonoma county and 556 in napa county. >>> trouble is on the roads and at the airports. allie rasmus is live where bad weather is causing tee lays across the nation. >>> so far so good at fso, there are no delays to report and things are better here than they were yesterday. you can see at this early hour, people are unloading to get to their flights and check into their flights. inside the terminal you can see people sleeping and napping but most of them were travelers headed out today. last night at fso, it was a different story. there were one to two hour delays, a total of 81 and going up and down west coast. especially that relentless storm. >> my travel took place a day earlier so i wouldn't miss my flight. >> because i knew once a year it would be chaos and no seats. >> think again, 1 20,000 people are expected to come through fso today and to put that into perspective, that was the busiest travel season and on that day 130,000 people were passing through the airport. coming up, we wil

sonoma count county. wayne abc 7 news. >>> in marin county a tree fairfax probably 100-year-old oak and about 100 feet tall fell on hickory road at 5 this morning. some of the branches fell on to this car. the pictures are from the marin independent journal. >> here's what it looks like at watsonville high school this morning. water flooding out the open space. students are stuck off to the left there as you can see underneath the overhang. driving certainly proved to be a challenge this morning especially for those on the bay bridge. lights there were knocked out for about an hour today right in the middle of the early morning commute. metering light at toll plaza not operated creating more chaotic traffic conditions than normal. the lights started coming on again from the west end and within a few minutes the entire span relit at about 6:30. the lights on the san rafael bridge went out for short time today as well. >> pg&e crew plan to work through the night restoring power outage in north bay with 700 homes and businesses still in the dark. 400 without power in santaruz county. 2 03 customers in the eas

sonoma county around napa. two to four inches from marin southward. one to two ins the east bay, south bay.he santa cruz mountains looking at probably four inches of rain. heavy rain and win, a flash flood watch, a wind advisory and the rain and wind diminish this afternoon. that's good news for you for the raiders it should be actually a thing of the past. this is at 1:00. it should be nice out there with numbers in the 60s. i can believe i'm saying all this in one day. and then down by the monterey day. you will be last to clear. lesser amounts here just because once this front accelerates it will whip on out of here. a little bit of light rain tuesday and wednesday in the north bay and actually high pressure builds in the rest of the work week. that will be nice. >> yes, definitely. all right. thank you, lisa. coming up next, even with all the wet weather, the rain did not keep bay area holiday spirits down >> despite the rain there were several holiday parades and tree lightings around the bay area last night. take a look at this one in pleasanton. hundreds of people lining main street

we could track rain along the coastal sections of sonoma and toward marin and then in to the early portione afternoon. rain source likely and most areas about a tenth of an inch or less. and the shower activity on the decrease. late this afternoon and into the evening hours, still a chance and into tomorrow not a lot of coverage but we will hold on to the chance of a few sprinkles and the highest chance in the forth bay. we have been tracking extreme tieds over the past few days, thursday peeks, 7.2 feet and today it'll continue to come down. 6.7 feet the high tide. >>> here we go. temperatures this afternoon. rainfall likely and the readings in the upper 40s to the lower other's. san jose around 54 and pay look ahead. the five-day. maybe a few sprinkles. highest chance in the north bay. maybe leftover chance into tuesday. >> some people are getting ready for the end of the world which they believe will happen in less than a week. nasa said they are wrong. the new video they hope will clear it up. >> and first here is a live look at the traffic on the bridge. you can see its moving along.

sonoma county does have a program to trim those overhanging brampbls. they can't get all of them or predict had is going fall next. live in marincounty wayne freedman abc 7 news. >> yeah. thanks wayne. traffic accident on the golden gate bridge closed several lanes for about an hour today, three cars were involved just after 8:00 in the morning. a car traveling south rammed into a vehicle going into the opposite direction. the second car careened into a third n all, three people went to the hospital. with just minor injuries. in east bay a slow morning commute for drivers near oakland. sky 7 flew overhead, you can see flooded interstate near 14th avenue and park boulevard below here, crews cleaned out drains and managed to clear flooding. >> one step forward and two steps back today in the santa cruz. one big problem is fix bud more rain, of course, brings more trouble spots. abc 7 news is live now from a a.long highway 17 in santa cruz mountains tonight with a story there. >> yes. it was heavy rain this morning. a wreak break this afternoon. it's raining again here in santa cruz mountains capping a day some problems solved and

marine sanctuaries. permanently bang oil drilling along 50 miles of state coastline from sonoma county north to mendocino's the largest expansion in the state in the last 20 years along with oil drilling ban, other district law goesing to go into affect including regulation of when cruise ships can release sewage into the ocean. >> a south bay charity doing it's part to make holidays brighter, handing out thousands of toys. d=z'ñ she expect to give away toys and gifts by tomorrow. >> you know, it's -- it makes me feel good and makes me feel like a mother should feel. >>iú: sacred heart says she ned 400 more toys and books. there are 500 more kids registered this year. >> still ahead at 4:00, facebook tests a service letting users pay for e mail delivery. >> if you pay for a parking ticket in the city of oakland you may be owd money here. >> this video is related to major snow storm moving across the mid west right now, causing problems for holiday traveler autos later%i(u legal problems for hewlett-packard. the lawsuit filed by one shareholder. >> taking a look at traffic for you now this, is the san fr

sonoma county getting more than 8 inches of rain. let's brit in nbc bay area's cheryl hurd who joins us from the marin headlands. cheryl? >> reporter: we're live here in the marin headlands the commute on the golden gate looks fine. the stormy weather caused a lot of problems for a lot of people here in the north bay. the effects from this storm started early this morning. the lights went out on the bay bridge around 5:30. that power outage caused the metering lights to go down for two hours. putting the bridge and commuters into darkness, making the commute messy, slow, and dangerous. the north bay got the brunt of this storm. heavy rain toppled trees on to roadways and turned roads into small rivers. this is what it looked like on highway 1 near rohnert park. cars had nowhere to go but into flooding water. people in marin county are used to heavy rain and wind when it comes. >> last night trees were banging up against the wall. i mean the outside of the house and light flashing. so, you know, we're just getting more batteries. >> reporter: steve sargent is making sure he had more battleries in case the lights go out t

marin beginning at sir francis drake towards the strawberry area to the golden gate bridge eastbound 4 closed until 5:30, roadwork. >>> good morning. here's a look at live doppler, northwest corner sonoma, sea ranch to fort ross on highway 1, a little wet weather around annapolis road, slowly moving east it is very light, the best chance of any real significant wet weather for the next hour or so is going to remain to our north. we will see a few sprinkles and a little scattered light rain in the north bay through the morning. better chance of rain moving through the north bay during the afternoon whether you are at the coast in the north or inland at the north you are going to have rain the rest of us mostly cloudy with low to mid 60s. >>> students will be back in class this morning at a marin county middle school closed because of storm damage. a culvert backed up flooding four classrooms, library and administrative offices. significant damage at white hill middle school, flooring annuals may have to be replaced. -- and walls may have to be replaced. >>> road crews and mountain residents are still dealing with a lot of damage from the weekend storms. lilian kim shows the effort to cl

central and southern marin no fog on the golden gate bridge they are down to four lanes southbound one accident off the road a truck tow trucks are on the way westbound 37 near sonomaceway very foggy, that truck is 15 feet off the road crews may be blocking a lane we'll let you know. >> new hobbit movie producing more than rave reviews, some viewers have complained of motion sickness and nausea. warner brothers explained it was probably because of the speed at which the movie was filmed. the director shot the hobbit using 48 frames technology, double the rate most are shot at it makes images sharper and motion appear faster in 3-d some found unsettling. maybe that's what kate middleton experienced, maybe she saw the movie. >> maybe she did. 5:27. they thought they could trust him. instead some car owners think they've been ripped off. the consume -- the consignment dealer disappears with their vehicles. >> reporter: 7.3 quick hits north eastern japan. the latest video of the shaking, including a tsunami ♪ [ female announcer ] at yoplait, we want you to feel even better about your favorite flavors. so when you call, tweet, and post, we listen. that's why yoplait lig