in napa, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >>> now to the day americans honored dr. martin luther king jr. on the national highway celebrating his birth nearly 900 years ago. this takes place during tumultuous times to the celebration of kamala harris who is the first woman and the first woman of color remembered. alicia machado melendez spoke to them about these issues. >> reporter: that was a year ago. this is today. ♪ >> also because of the pandemic, the caravans were the new marches on martin luther king day, this one in oakland and another in el sorito. >> we've seen so many episodes of police brutality. it's important for us not to remain silent as these events occur. >> i don't want to go, but if i don't go, i won't be able to live with myself. >> they helped clean the park while maintaining social distance. >> dr. king would have been 92. despite all his >> i'm optimistic about the potential for the people. i'm optimistic about where the turn in the math is going to take. >> i just want to do god's will. >> reporter: in san francisco, leanne melendez, abc7 news. >>> still if your d

abc7 news reporter wayne freedman on the proposed change as the county today ramped up its vaccination effort. >> reporter: a two-minute wait in traffic. that appears to have been the only bottleneck as marin county administered some 800 covid-19 vaccinations to medical workers and first responders. >> it was great, easy, fast. >> five minutes max. very, very quick. >> reporter: it there is to be a template for mass vaccinations, what they are doing in marin might be it. >> can i see your driver's license please? >> we have disneyland-style strategies. so we have people queued inside to make sure that we can have people moving, maintain six feet distance so everyone is safe while they are waiting to get vaccinated. >> reporter: everyone had an appointment. some got out early, and now with the federal government encouraging expedited vaccinations for anyone 65 or older, themm 2,000 people a day. >> we have to grow bigger faster. >> reporter: marin county will be unique in terms of vaccinating seniors proportionately being the largest elder population had the state, roughly one in three

tonight in his continuing series of stories we call dear democracy, abc7 news reporter wayne freedmanpeople from both side. some colored it red, others blue. >> and will to the best of my ability. >> will to the best of my ability -- >> reporter: in the emptied streets of a virus questions tered nation, this was inauguration day. main street usa struggling. americans at home social distancing. and democrats like eric celebrating. >> i did not realize how light i would feel. >> reporter: light? >> light, just a weight lifted. >> reporter: but republicans like nancy felt quite the opposite. she spent this morning with a cross word puzzle, not a tv. >> i will accept the next four years because there's really nothing i can do about it. >> we must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue. >> reporter: as inauguration day speeches go, this one hit all the requisite notes of hope and inspiration. >> what we're going to hold him to his word. >> reporter: but our political world right now is only half starstruck. we do hear these speeches every four-year. >> i want to believe. but i don

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abc 1 news reporter wayne freedman explained how hospital staff turned what could have been a disaster into a day of success. >> reporter: into ukiah some 830 people breathed a little easier and worried less about covid-19 today. math teacher leslie banta happened to be up of them. her word for it. >> elated. that's not an understatement. >> reporter: because as this card proves leslie received her first vaccination yesterday. that is weeks, maybe even months ahead of schedule in a victory snatched from what might have been a disaster. >> it's astounding, and i think it's heroic. >> reporter: it was an emergency of a different kind. early monday morning a freezer inside this health center failed and the freezer contained vaccine. by the time staff learned about it, that vaccine had roughly two hours before it expired. can you imagine the consequences of such a loss? >> our main focus was on getting and making sure that no vaccine went to waste. >> reporter: they bypassed priority lists, began making calls and lined formed via word of mouth. >> i got a call shortly after is being. i got

in napa wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >>> now to the group of people on reddit who are making an impact on wall street big-time. those small investors use their collective power to push shares of gamestop to an astronomical level. gamestop finished up nearly 135%, closing today at just over $347 a share. it is currently losing those gains in after-hours trading. abc 7 news reporter david louie explains how it happened and the motive behind it. >> reporter: it's david taking on goliath and david is winning. in this case small investors have turned to the social platform reddit to boost the price of the retail chain gamestop by 1700%. in the process they're killing big wall street hedge funds that have been shorting the struggling store, betting against gamestop's future. posts on reddit complained that wall street looks down on small investors. more than 2 million are on this one discussion board. is it a form of manipulation? >> manipulation's a very edgy word, and i'm not sure i'd call it manipulation. i'd call it power in numbers of investing. >> reporter: assistant professor matthew

land, a pigeon on the lam, and wanted. >> i'm sorry so hear it. >> reporter: in san francisco, wayne freedman story. we love joe, ama. >> yeah, absolutely. i never thought i'd see wayne there holding a pigeon. >> i know, right? >>> all right. let's get to spencer christian for the latest on our weather. spencer? >> okay, ama and dan. let's start with our overnight conditions. we've got the forecast animation showing the movement of some high clouds over the bay area. but some low clouds and patches of fog will form overnight. 5:00 tomorrow morn when the commute gets under way, it could be reduced visibility in a few spots. but the clouds and fog will burn away quickly. we'll have high clouds during the daytime. so filtered sunshine is what we'll call it. but it will be a bright day. during the overnight hours, low temperatures will drop into the mid-40s in most locations. and then tomorrow's highs will range from mid-60s at the coast bay, to near 70 inland. and here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. this warming trend just continues through the weekend, and on monday, it will peak. monda

from the north bay, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> no, we cannot take it for granted.bviously get a lot of rain here and it helps, ama, but the big difference comes with the snowpack in the sierra. >> absolutely. so let's get to spencer christian for the latest on all that. spencer? . >> okay, ama and dan, we need more snowpack, we need more rain. but we need breaks in between storms, and we're about to get one right now, as you can see on live doppler 7. the current storm is winding down, though there are still some heavy downpours in parts of the south bay and other into the mt. hasmle on the area. storm still ranks 2 because of its impact obviously. and we expect some scattered showers tonight with just isolated showers in the early morning hours and isolated chance of thunder. the overnight temperatures will drop into the 30s in many of the inland valleys, but only down to the low 40s just about everywhere else. and then tomorrow, after the rain ends and the clouds are sucked apart, we'll get some sunshine with temperatures mainly in the mid-50s tomorrow. here is t

from sonoma county wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >> yeah.'s coming our way over the next seven days, dan. >> yeah, ama, it's going to be it sounds like from what spencer's telling us really intense, particularly the next couple of days. >> that is so true, dan and ama. in fact, there's a 12-hour period there when we're going to have very strong gusty wind and heavy downpours, as if we didn't have enough to be concerned about with the effects of the storm we have a freeze warning in effect, or will have a freeze warning in effect from 2:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. in these locations in the purple here. much of the north bay and the inland east bay, it's just going to be so cold overnight. temperatures in the upper 20s and low 30s in those areas. now, let's talk about the level 3 storm coming our way. the heaviest activity once again will be between 4:00 p.m. tomorrow and 4:00 a.m. wednesday. that 12-hour window we'll see moderate to heavy rainfall, lots of downpours, wind gusts of 50 to 70 miles per hour at times. a flash flood watch will be in effe

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live in san rafael, wayne freedman, abc 7. >> we'll see, wayne. thank you. >>> temporary barricades are up at 17th and fulsom streets. the city is watching that spot and other low-lying areas prone to flooding. >> we have inspectors there, keeping an eye on it, as well as extra sand bags being delivered to some of those known hot spots in the city. >> reporter: if you live in san francisco, you can get up to ten sand bags for your home. the city has closed its only mass vaccination site through thursday because of the weather. covid testing sites on the embarcadero are also closed. live doppler 7 on demand on your tv, apple tv, android tv, amazon fire tv and roku. just search abc7 bay area to download and start streaming. >>> vaccine plan. the state is changing its distribution plan. what you can expect to see next. >>> a powerful tool. how the covid vaccine makes it easier to fight new variants and we are tracking the storm as we ♪ ♪ it's the brand new chicken dance song uh ♪ ♪ get down heat it up like a sauna ♪ ♪ spin around one time if you wann

wayne freedman examined in detail during election week. we named the nine-minute segment "dear democracy kp." tonight a sequel. >> reporter: welcome back to the democratic republic that woke up this morning in a bit of a fog. still reeling and recovering from an electoral college vote that should have been are you teen that wasn't. >> chaos. >> shots fired and hostile takeover like that, i'm surprised. >> i'm embarrassed to be american. >> reporter: that was not the outcome we expected when we entered election week, then and today we asked viewer as simple question. if you could write a letter to democracy, what would you say? alarmed, hopeful, resilient said one, fragile, i'm balanced, unequal replied another. dear democracy, majority still believes added a third. >> we need to talk to each other and try to understand where we are actually coming from and turn down the volume. >> reporter: that from san francisco supervisor rafael. he was not the only person we sought out today. >> this was a small group of people that did something proba

wayne freedman explains how hospital staff turned what could have been a disaster actually into a real success story. >> reporter: in ukiah, some 830 people breathed easier and worried less about covid-19 today. math teacher leslie happened to be one of them. her word for it. >> elated. that's not an understatement. >> reporter: because as this card proves, leslie received her first vaccination yesterday. that is weeks, maybe months ahead of schedule and a victoy y snatched from what may have been a disaster. it was an emergency of a different kind. early monday morning a freezer inside failed. that freezer contained vaccine. by the time staff learned about it, that vaccine had roughly two hours before it expired. can you imagine the consequences of such a loss? >> our main focus was on getting, making sure nov vaccin went to waste. >> reporter: they bypassed priority lists, set up four clinics and began making calls and lines formed via word of mouth. >> i got a call shortly after 1:00. i got my vaccine at 1:30. and the vaccine expired at 2:00. >> reporter: could this have happened an

wayne freedman continues our live team coverage from the north bay tonight. wayne. >> reporter: good evening, dan. let's talk about the vagaries of a pandemic, how you close down a neighborhood for the good of everybody and then a few months later you open it up because you waited. you expect to do business, and what do you get instead? a tennesson of rain. we knew it would happen, in less than the time it took to shoot this story san rafael went from 40 degrees and sunny to gusty and overcast. call it a brief window of opportunity. >> it's coming in big. i heard that. >> you got to take an opportunity when it comes to you, right? >> reporter: we remember watching this neighborhood and these restaurants when they followed state orders and closed up on december 8th, so now the irony. after a month of mostly sunshine and drought, outside dining has returned with the biggest storm of the year baring down on us. >> in probaby about an hour it will start raining for a week, so perfect timing. >> reporter: vincent latour owns aroma cafe. alicia ortega works for him.

in santa rosa, wayne freedman, . >> all right. if you went anywhere today, you saw downed tree limbs, almostgu. did on my st mebi.etre some small, spencer. pretty ferocious winds, actually. >> really fe driving was difficults. asro ou. especially on bridges and overpasses. so, yeah, we're happy to see the winds diminishing. let me give you a look at what was a widespread wind advisory throughout the bay area. it's still in effect until 7:00 tonight for lake county and most of mendocino county. but the good news is that across the entire region, winds are tapering off a bit now. at the surface right now, most wind speeds are under 15 or under 20 miles per hour for sure. but we have gusts in three now. fairfield 23 miles per hour. livermore, 21. and half moon bay 23 miles per hour. let's move along, take a live view from the exploratorium camera, looking back at the cityscape of san francisco. 62 in the city. oakland 55. down to 58 in mountainview. 59 morgan hill. 61 at half moon bay. lovely view right now under emeryville looking b

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here is abc7 news reporter wayne freedman in marin. >> reporter: a two-minute wait in traffic.t appears to have been the only bottleneck as marin county administered some 800 covid-19 vaccinations to medical workers and first responders. >> they were great in there. it was easy. it was fast. >> five minutes max. it was very, very quick. >> reporter: if there is to be a template for mass vaccinations, what they're doing in marin might be it. >> can i see your driver's license and your id, please? >> we have disneyland-style strategy. so we have people queued up. we have the space inside to make sure that we can have people moving when we want to maintain six feet distance, so everyone stays safe while they're waiting to get vaccinated. >> the line starts right here. >> reporter: everyone who showed today had an appointment. some got out early. and now with the federal government encouraging expedited vaccinations for anyone 65 or older, the county believes it is ready to immunize 2,000 people a day. >> we just have to grow bigger, faster. >> reporter: marin county will but uniqu

abc7 news reporter wayne freedman looked into that today. >> it was the best of news for anyone overhe most significant things we can do is increase the number of people eligible to administer or receive to receive the vaccine. >> that was the promise from governor gavin newsom on wednesday. but as of now -- here's the reality. >> if you are calling about the covid vaccine, we are unable to schedule a covid vaccine appointment right now due to limited availability. >> that was the kaiser permanente line this morning after they stopped putting people on hold for vaccine appointments. >> two hours, a little over two hours. >> so i was cooking dinner, then we ate dinner. i played with my cat. i was on a 90-minute zoom call. i cleared out a cabinet that i had just some new drawers installed in. i'm on tiktok, i did my email. >> all this while waiting for an appointment with kaiser? >> yeah. well, i wasn't just going to sit there and listen to that recording for four and a half hours. >> reporter: they will gt vaccinated, but weeks from now. and don't blame the medical groups who have bee

abc7 news reporter wayne freedman was in the courtroom today. >> reporter: a most unusual setting fored, ian rogers appeared via monitor in a covid-secure napa courtroom while his attorney argued against $5 million in bail. >> i think he is just a mouthy drunk who has strong political beliefs. he wasn't intending to act on anything he was saying. >> reporter: but the d.a. insisted that evidence found in rogers' home and business tell a different story. deputies found pipe bombs, 15,000 rounds of ammunitions, 49 loaded weapons, a white privilege card and body armor. now the fbi has filed federal charges based on what they describe as threatening texts. >> there appears to be intent there in those text messages. >>reporter: we can attack twitter or the democrats you pick, says one. i think you can attack either easily. i want to blow up a democrat building bad. the democrats need to pay. i hope 45 goes to war. if he doesn't, i will, says another, in reference to the former president. >> our focus is on behavior, and our focus is on those individuals who are not just aspirational, but ha

president. >> reporter: in the north bay, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >>> so what is next for the republicanty? it's a topic we put to lonnie chen, political analyst live in our 3:00 p.m. newscast. >> certainly when a party loses the presidency, loses both houses of congress, it is cause to examine what happened and what went wrong. and there are divisions and disagreements in the party about the best way to proceed. i think part of this is what donald trump decides to do. trump has talked about forming his own party, forming his own movement, leaving the republican party that would obviously leave the republican party in a difficult place electorally. but in some ways makes the conversation a lot easier because trump will go and do his thing and republicans in some ways will try to the extent possible to be a party that looks to ideas as opposed to personalities. >> students across the bay area watched today's inauguration with anticipation and some hope, but many young people have a lot of questions for our new president. abc7 news reporter cornell bernard has reaction. >> did you two feel

as wayne freedman explains, police are releasing few detail. >> reporter: this is not how tina planned on spending the day, stuck behind a police line unable to return home to an apartment complex transformed into a crime scene. >> yeah, i'm scared. >> reporter: because? >> because this is the first time experience i been in that apartment forix years. and this is the first time i experienced this. >> reporter: all these police, all this equipment. the aftermath to a shooting that left one suspect dead and detectives from multiple cities looking for the how and the why. >> this person involved here was a person of interest in a homicide, a person of interest in multiple shootings in gilroy and morgan hill, as well as being wanted here in our city for weapons violations as well. >> reporter: this was san jose's first officer-involved shooting for this year. there were four of them last year. police say they had connected this suspect with a murder in gilroy. they approached with caution. there was a confrontation. more than one officer opened fire. >> ongoing threat to the public. commi

wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >>> and nearly $86 billion of the budget is for public schools, educationocused on here at abc 7 as we work to build a better bay area, some of the record investment would go toward addressing equity in reopening for in person learning. abc 7 news reporter kris reyes spoke to local superintendents who have fired off a letter asking for a meeting on the governor's proposal. >> there needs to be from the state actual state standards concerning what is safe. >> reporter: that concern prompted this letter from seven major urban school districts in california, including sf unified and oakland unified. in it they say a patchwork of standards across more than a thousand school districts would impact low income schools. last week governor newsom announced an optimistic plan to reopen schools as early as february. in the letter the superintendents say the plan fails to address the need of urban school districts that serve nearly a quarter of california students, almost all of whom live below the poverty level. the governor sounded pretty hopeful about opening up sch

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wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >>> $86 billion of the budget is for public schools, education, of course, is one of the things we are focused on here at abc 7 as we work to build a better bay area, some of the record investment would go toward addressing equity in reopening for in person learning. chris reyes spoke to local superintendents who have fired off a letter asking for a meeting on the dpgovernor's proposal. >> there needs to be from the state actual state standards concerning what is safe. >> reporter: that concern prompted this letter from seven major urban school districts this california, including sf unified and oakland unified. in it they say a patchwork of standards across more than a thousand school districts would impact low income schools. last week governor newsom announced an optimistic plan to reopen schools as early as february. in the letter the superintendents say the plan fails to address the need of urban school districts that serve nearly a quarter of california students, almost all of whom live before the poverty level. >> the governor sounded pretty hopeful

wayne freedman was there as first responders talked about the difficulty of facing these kinds of tragedies. >> it's like a magnet. the rugged, sheer power of water and rocks colliding on the coast. at blind beach, it is up close, hard to resist and as the ocean reminded us yesterday can be deadly in an instant. >> today's a recovery operation for two children. >> reporter: compounded by the loss of their father who appears to have died while trying to save them. the fire chief was one of the first to the scene. >> his wife was sitting on the rocks. >> what did she say? >> she couldn't say too much except she was crying. >> the family took a trail to the beach. what happened yesterday a typical sneaker wave. the family was along the cliff. they thought they were safe. a wave came in. they had nowhere to go. it washed them out to sea. >> despite a search, officials could not locate the four-year-old boy and his seven-year-old sister. only a trace as paramedics tried to find the father. >> all of a sudden a piece of clothing washed in and warned back out again and that made us realize there's

abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman spoke with the suspect's mother. >> reporter: it is the last kind of publicity this british automobile repair shop would ever want. same for the mother of the man who owns it. >> i think it's all about what's happening with the inauguration, it's all precautionary and they're using him as an example. >> reporter: her son is 44-year-old ian rogers, now in napa county jail with $5 million bail after sheriff's deputies say they found he had a stockpile of weapons and explosives. napa sheriff's deputies moved on rogers on friday after an anonymous tip from someone who said he thought rogers might be harmful to other people. inside the house and the business departmenties say they found 50 weapons including semi-automatics plus 15,000 rounds of ammunition plus gunpowder plus five pipe bombs. >> well, fireworks from >> reporter: is that what they got? >> fireworks. >> reporter: i've heard there were 15,000 rounds of ammunition. >> well, he did have that. but he's had that for years. >> reporter: ian rogers' mother never said why he had that ammunition but

. >> it happened at an apartment complex in the east foothills as abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman explains. police are not saying much. >> reporter: this is not how tina planned on spending today, stuck behind a police line, unable to return home to an apartment complex transformed into a crime scene. >> i'm scared. >> because? >> because this is the first time i experienced being in the apartment for 16 years, and this is the first time i experienced this. >> reporter: all these police, all this equipment, the aftermath to a shooting that left one suspect dead and detectives from multiple cities looking for the how and the why. >> this person involved here was a person of interest in a homicide, a person of interest in multiple shootings in gilroy and morgan hill, as well as being wanted here in our city for weapons violations as well. >> reporter: this was san jose's first officer-involved shooting for this year. there were four last year. police say they had connected this suspect with a murder in gilroy. they approached with caution. there was a confrontation. more than one of

abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman joins us live in the newsroom with a closer look. a lot to get to, wayne. >> good evening, dion. that's $227 billion. with it a surprise win fall from taxes allowing 12% more spending than last year in california. paying for the pandemic will be the center piece of that budget. >> our budget understandably represents and reflects the realities of this recession. >> reporter: that budget acknowledges the pain felt by californians who suffered the most low wage workers, small business owners and renters. in aid, the government wants to augment the $600 checks from the federal government with $600 more from california. >> we think there is urgency to get money into people's pockets. you recall that first slide. and that's why we're proposing a golden state stimulus to basically make those $600 checks that people are starting to receive from the federal government to be $1200. we want to get roughly 4 million checks out within three weeks of me signing this package. >> reporter: as for fighting the virus and getting vaccines into arms, th

wayne freedman has a closer look. >> a surprise from governor newsom today a one-time wind fall leading to 12% more spending than last year in california. the budget is $227 billion, the pandemic is the center piece. >> our budget understandably represents and reflects the realities of this recession. >> reporter: that budget acknowledges the pain felt by californians that suffer the most. the governor wants to augment the coming $600 checks with $600 more from california. >> we think there is urgency to get money into californians pockets and we're proposing a golden state stimulus to basically make those $600 checks people are starting to receive prom the federal government to get them to be $1200. we want to get roughly 4 million checks out within three weeks of me signing this. >> reporter: for fighting the virus and getting vaccines into arms, the governor wants to see 1 million people immunized total. he proposed spending $1.7 billion and $372 million for vaccines. as for the delays and people getting them, the state is relaxing some of the guidelines. >> it when the vaccines are

abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman has the latest in the investigation that's being locked into as aemism. >> reporter: these are the pipe bombs seized by napa county sheriff's deputies when they arrested ian rogers bingaman last week, 49 weapons, a white privilege card and more all found after raids of his business and home. the 44-year-old owner of this automobile repair business now faces both state and federal charges. they are serious enough that the fbi went public today. >> our focus is on behavior and our focus is on those individuals who are not aspirational but have an intent to use either firearms or explosive devices. >> the fbi bases those aspirations on alleged text messages from rogers, quote. we can attack twitter or the democrats you pick and i think we can attack easily. i want to blow up a democrat building bad. the democrats need to pavement i hope 45 goes to war. if he doesn't i will says another in reference to the former president. >> he was an enthusiastic follower of the president of the united states. i guess that used to make him a patriot and now it makes

in suisun city, wayne freedman. >>> growing concerns about the impact of coronavirus on children.hat doctors are seeing more of in those under the age of 20. >>> plus, how a nursing home is celebrating its residents getting the vaccine. >>> building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc7 news. >> good morning, everybody. we'll start this half hour with another look at the weather with meteorologist lisa argen. good to see some rain. >> we have some systems stacked up but tomorrow starting out dry and colder with 30s and even in livermore at 41. and 44 in san mateo as well as san jose and visibility just hit a quarter mile in napa, novato and half mile in livermore. by mid morning the fog lifts. 9:00 we're still in the 40s as we get towards 1:00, 2:00, we have sunshine, upper 50s around the bay area. a dry but cool afternoon temperatures dropping through the upper 40s. that sun setting at 5:23. and then we'll be looking at the clouds increasing overnight leading to that level one system tomorrow. a little break on monday, but cold air and wind arrive with the

abc7 wayne freedman in the courtroom today. >> a most unusual setting for an even more unusual case,llowed in, ian rogers appeared via camera in a secured courtroom while his attorney argued against $5 million in bail. >> i think he is just a mouthy drunk who has strong political beliefs. he wasn't intending to act on anything he is saying. >> reporter: but the d.a. insisted that the evidence found in rogers home told a different story. deputies found pipe bombs, 15,000 pounds of ammunition, a white privilege card and body armor. now the fbi has fired federal charges based on what they describe as threatening texts. >> there appears to be intent there in those text messages. >> we can attack twitter or the democrats you pick, says one. i think we can attack either easily. i want to blow up democrat building bad. the democrats need to pay. i hope 45 goes to war. if he doesn't, i will, in reference to the former president. >> our focus is on behavior, and our focus is on those individuals who are not just aspirational, but have an intent to use either firearms or explosive devices. >>

from sonoma county wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >>> so that's the reality. and more rain is on the way. and we have some threes actually ahead not our stornl impact scale that are coming. we have team coverage on that for you. we'll begin with abc 7 news weather achkor spencer cristian. spencer. >> okay, dan, we have some very intense weather coming our way as you pointed out. here's a look at live doppler 7. you couldn't tell from looking at this because you can only see patches of moisture out at sea. right now a mainly clear sky out of san francisco, temperature in the city 49 degrees and we have a low 50s at oakland, mountain view, san jose upper 40s at morgan hill and half moon bay. and here's a view looking toward the golden gate. you see a few clouds off in the distance. not many. temperatures in the low to mid 50s right now at santa rossa, knost e., vacaville, fairfield and livermore. lots of blue sky but our storm will be coming basically from the north and these are our forecast features. level 3 storm arrives late tomorrow. there will be periods o