part this afternoon, with a flash flood watch kicking in tonight, wednesday into thursday mog.ghwind warnin starting tonight through wednesday. that is also into thursday morning. we are talking about a lot of rain. i will show you how much in a moment. we are talking about strong wind, gusting up to 60 miles an hour. the satellite and radar view showing this storm system we are tracking. this will tap into the tropical moisture and likely an asthma spherical river event. we will see so much rain with snow levels rising up to 6000 up to 8000 feet. here's 4 pm with most of us drive. at the far end of the north bay beginning to see light rain this evening at 6 pm. you can see the light rain beginning to move in. watch as we head through the overnight into tomorrow morning, and here is 6 am on the future cast with yellow and orange indicating heavy rain. that continues all day long on wednesday. here is 3 pm and you can see widespread rain on wednesday. this is even for thursday morning. still not done with the rain. the rainfall amounts anywhere from the north bay mountains, up to six inches,

less than minutes of warnin- local -- nuclear war could to replicate. buy parts of europe the and look at what would be limited to europe -- was ending. the positive about the treaty. was that it was a confidence building measure. which income in. addition to the end of the cold war. contributed largely to denuclearization of european security. out with. going down from thousands of weapons on both sides of the tool lest. than two hundred of today existing in nato countries. but on the other hand the risk now is that it would take place the reno clarification of the european security debate. and also the european so when i come back to that in just a minute but staying with the contrast between. the nineteen eighty seven and today the world has of course changed a lot since then so to have the parties to this treaty russia and the us and the united states says that. a newly revisionist aggressive russia is not abiding by the treaty serving as the boat russia vehemently denies that. who's right. it's difficult for me to tell -- but most experts in the we

that's going to be upgraded to a warnin 1 to 3 feet of heavy wet sierra event. at 7,000 feet them drops to 4,000 feet. it will become a little more powder tomorrthursday, friday, man, is it going to get hard new this mornin a hot sauce bottle found in chicago could be eviden of "empire" actor jussie smollett's attack. they a bottle that smelled like bleach near the spot where smolle said he was attacked last month. it has been sent to a lab for testin he sai two men poured bleach on him and put a noose around him after and homoph slurs. it was a full ho commun center for drag queen story hour. >> despite the protest of some who said it was inappropriate for kids. an event sponsored last night by contra libraries. meanwh outside some people had a boycott of the event. we that's really kind of tearing apart the family and the commun >> i think kids should know there is different people out there and that we should all be respec to them. >> i don't think there should be any controversy about it. i thin if someone doesn't agree wit, don't take your kids. thi appear

squaw valley has received 5 feet of new snow, kirkwood 58 inches, a base of 136 inches and, of stm warnin effect fotae report, which is wintery. livermore 43 degrees currently, santa rosa 42, dropping to the upper 30s overnight tonight, no freeze because of the cloud cover. vallejo 41, fremont 41, san jose 42, chilly, a couple showers but not a washout for fan fest at oracle park tomorrow. go meet some of your favorite giants players. they'll be at the stadium tomorrow as they're heading to arizona next week. it's not that warm in arizona either, like highs in the mid- 60s. we have a storm passing to our south. we got the front earlier today. it poured two or three hours. now behind the front the trailing area of low pressure will continue to give us scattered showers. 9 a.m. some clouds without rain, some areas with sunshine, some areas of rainfall, scattered throughout the day. we'll see the uptick in activity saturday evening and saturday night with widespread light rain. then on sunday it's kind of trending drier, just some scattered showers in the morning and everything wraps up befo

large cracks in the dam were either ignored or treated as routine maintenance rather than warnin warnings. the state didn't maintain records about the dam. in the nearly 45 years of operation, significant safety issues on the dam were never addressed. there are several lawsuits pending against the state department of water resources for allowing that spillway to fail back in 2017. >>> after so many years of drought conditions, the sight of this rain and snow prompts questions of is it enough? the answer is yes. the snow pack is vital to the state's water needs. the snow pack is at 83% and will likely pass 100% within two more storms. california's 154 reservoirs are in good shape and 100% of average and more rain is on the way. jeff ranieri joins us now. >> it looks like we'll get heavy pockets here as we head into friday. not only that, but that additional snow. we're going to take you through it here. as we start off tonight, we'll look at storm range. we do have some green showing up, some light areas of ral rainfall. things are starting to change out ahead of our storm system. this act

smoke alarms can pifvide an early warninou follow these 3 steps. repalce your smoke alarms every 10 years. if they're old an discolored it's time to replace them. check your batteries regularly. a great time to change them is every spring and fall when you change your clocks. a and lastly, check yorms weekly. replace.hange. test. because early warnings help to save lives. hunker down just yet. we have until tomorrow. > me getting up with the kid tomorrow you don't need the coat. taking the dog for a walk, you don't need the coat. wendy sleeps in, you don't need the coat there either. tomorrow wakin up about 6 degrees. it's going to be a nice start to the day but it's not going to end that nice. right now we have cloud cover, but with the temperatures in the 50s it'sic a afternoon. 54 degrees the curreat tempe winds out of the east at 6 miles per hour. ev 5yone is in thes with the exception of the areas around the te look, 51 in culpepper. look atnt s virginia, 61. there's warmer air down to the south trying to move our way. no rain right now. we've

we do have a winter storm watch that w become a winter storm warnin this is sierra cement we get with an atmospheric river. look at the snow level, starts at 7,000 feet, eventually droppi down to 4,000 feet. so much of this 1 to 3 feet even up to 5 feet, peaks of snow. that heavy, wet stuff that become ice. that's what you have to worry about. travel breezy, slippery, rains mixed with snow. all snow and ice for thursday and friday. if you're traveling there throug weekend, it is going to be -- well, our camera went away, about that. let me show you snowing on saturd with light snow sunday. of a marin county school distri critic school district in san rafael say the name is in refere to slavery. others say it's a tribal family name. the board has previously declin to change the name. tonigh meeting at 5:30 at miller creek in san rafael. >>> new this morning, a hot sauce bottle in chicago could be eviden of "empire" actor jussiesmollett's attack. they found a bottle that smelled like beach near the spot where smolle said he was attacked last month. it has been sent to a lab for testin s

it turns into winter storm warnin over tahoe. 1 to 3 feet of sierra cement. 7,000 dropping down to 4,000e head from today at 10:00 to 4:00 afternoon. if you're driving, it's going to be breezy today, slippery with wintry mix. tomorr it's all snow and heavy for thursday and friday. it will turn icy also. the snow continues all the way up until it turns to showers sunday all right. let's turn back over to alexis. she's tracking a fire in the east bay. let's look from our emeryv camera. can yo see all the black smoke this is reportedly due to a homele encampment fire around west grand and 880 on that on ramp there in that same area. so a lot of calls into chp. they a saying it looks like maybe a cplle, rvs someth of that type is burnin in that area. we know that fire crews are on th does look like flashing lights and flames if you look closel in the middle of the screen we are launching sky7 so we should have more information shortl i'll have another update in a few minutes. >> thank you, alexis. >>> abc 7 news is committed to buildi better bay area. part of that effort includes making publ

. >> we have winter weather advisors, warnin advisories wind chills we have almost 20 much people andl impacts for today. roads, i-80, omaha. i-64, kansas bullet more and i-65, chicago to memphis. for tomorrow it moves to the east, chicago, detroit, cleveland, boston, philadelphia, all major impacts. the roads, i-75 chicago to new york and i-80 chicago to new york and i-90 chicago to boston and i-95 richmond. hopefully things get back to normal. >> there is no end to the political gulf engulfing virginia and the news on ralph northam and lieutenant-governor fairfax. >> reporter: virginia northam say his black face scandal serves a higher purpose, saying he learned from it and wants to spend the rest of his time on issues of racial equity. at the same time, he's saying his number two, lieutenant fairfax should step down if the sexual assaults against him turn out to be true. over the weekend, fairfax issued another statement where he flatly denied the allegations calling for an independent investigation. his two accusers released a statement of their own saying they would testify publi

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