What will move through this evening. For the next six hours theres no reason to think this rain will let up. Weve hit 3 inches of rain in kentfield, nearly 3 inches of rainfall in the santa cruz, coming up on 2 inches of rain in San Francisco, dublin 1 1 2 inches, hayward more than 1 inch and almost 1 inch of rain in san jose. Today in San Francisco, the second wettest day of the past five years eclipsing a big storm we got last february. Because of the rain and the fact that after a burn, after a fire, the soil in the mountains cannot absorb the water like it normally does. Thats why well be watching the burn zones in the north bay, all those wine country wildfires. Well watch it all winter long. Theyve already had 2 inches of rainfall. A Flash Flood Watch is in effect for those areas until tomorrow morning. Well talk about when the rain ends and what to expect after the storm is gone coming up in a few minutes. We appreciate that, paul. The Flash Flood Watch in santa rosa is causing concern for areas burned in october wildfires. All this rain could easily wash away hillsides. Kpix5s Juliette Goodrich is live in santa rosa in the Fountain Grove neighborhood. Reporter veronica, yes, we are in one of the burn zones tonight. Its been raining steadily all day coming down this evening in the santa rosa area and the concern as paul was mentioning is that unstable ground weve been Walking Around in all day today. You can see our fogged up lens from all the rain today, but that unstable ground could lead to mudslides. Of santa rosa has o alert residents and ta it was three months ago when fire swept through ward pages santa rosa home, a home of 17 years. Now this first big rainstorm and mother natures force delivers yet another dark cloud. Today he was covering valuables with tarps to preserve what he has. It was just burning constantly. Reporter this santa rosa couples home was spared in the fire, but now they have a new worry. Are you looking out your window going our home is spared, but now it could be round 2 . Yeah, definitely. Its a big condition for us because, you know concern for us because, you know, weve heard about sinkholes and everything and were getting quite a bet of rain and theres not a lot of safety out there to kind of prevent it. Reporter just a few doors down their neighbors home went up in flames in october. Today it is a massive pile of rain soaked ruins. The city of santa rosa has done what it can to alert residents and take preventive measures. Theyve put up 30 signs around town and mailed out 3,000 notices to homeowners about high risk areas. Im doing a lot of work to protect our storm drain systems, to provide stabilization of our hillsides using hydra mulch and seeding, straw waddles. Reporter back live in the san jose area you can see the steady downfall continuing into the evening. Residents are being warned to check on the areas that they live in specifically. If you live in a high risk area, there are preventive measures that you can take. The city has a web page of information and thats on our kpix5 web page. You can refer to that for the latest information. Thats the latest here from santa rosa. Im Juliette Goodrich, kpix5. Some breaking news, this picture just in of storm damage in San Francisco, a tree has come down narrowly missing that muni bus just a few minutes ago on sampson street near pacific. No word on any injuries, but, of course, it will take some time to clear away the tree. Kpix5s len ramirez is live in oakland where drivers are navigating some flooded streets, too. Len . Reporter thats right. A lot of flooded streets in the city of oakland. The rain is now coming down again in the city of oakland after a brief lull last hour, but that is not a good situation for a bit of flooding that we have on one of the frontage roads to highway 880. This is just one of the hazards many drivers have had to dodge today. Just getting on the freeway was dangerous on this ramp to eastbound highway 24, so much rain falling freeway storm drains backed up causing hydroplaning conditions. To show you. Check out this car fire about an there was also flooding on city streets in oakland. This section of hyde street flooded with about a foot of water leading to a backup across some train tracks. Oakland police kept the tracks clear as cars waded through the water and several low lying streets near the Oakland Coliseum were also partially covered with water making for hazardous driving conditions. And not even drivers with a roof overhead could escape all the rain. Puddles on the upper deck of the bay bridge leaked onto the lower deck below giving cars on eastbound 80 unexpected showers. For a time today there was a concern that this flooded frontage road would leak onto the 880. That didnt happen. With more rain coming down now, that concern is a possibility again, though it does seem that traffic on 880 in both directions at least in the Oakland Coliseum area does seem to be moving rather well. Reporting live in oakland, len ramirez, kpix5. We want you home safe, len. Look at this video of a car fire about an hour ago. This is the san mateo bridge in the eastbound lanes. Right now one lane is blocked still for cleanup. Some traffic is getting through, not clear if anybody was hurt there. A lot of standing water for drivers to worry about, though. A small lake at this off ramp in San Francisco. Also flood barriers are up at 17th and folsom in the city. In san jose nearly everyone we saw had an umbrella on their way to work this morning. The south bay not missing out on the rain this time around. Kpix5s mark sayre is live in south san jose where people in flood zones are doing what they can to protect their home. Mark . Reporter indeed, veronica. The rain has come down steadily all day, literally not a single break all day long including now and, of course, the recent flooding in san jose is very much on the minds of some residents. E kind of anxiety. nats of driving this was the view this morning from southbound 280a approaching highwa were out as peop felix contaros stopped by one of san joses free sandbag stations. His house has flooded twice before and now every time it rains he is on edge. Reek every but th i cant sleep sometimes, yeah, because of that, you know, some type of anxiety. Reporter this was the view this morning from southbound 280 approaching highway 87 and umbrellas were out as people tried to stay dry on the way to work in downtown san jose. Back at the sandbag station contaros says he has a specific plan for the sandbags. In my driveway, the lower spot. Reporter here along rock spring drive, one of the most heavily damaged areas in last februarys flood, residents say every time it rains they always keep an eye on coyote creek, but this year the reservoir that feeds this creek, anderson reservoir, is being kept at a lower level to avoid any potential repeat. Im worried, yeah. Reporter tell me why. Because im scared. Too much water. Reporter but others are trying to see the Positive Side hoping this storm brings needed rain but not too much rain. As long as we dont get the flooding we got last year. We need somewhere in the middle. I think the rain is great. Reporter otis james says its up to all of us to make necessary Lifestyle Changes rain or no rain. We need to learn to live and adjust our lives to whatever the situation, the circumstances are. And its for our health. Its for our wellbeing. Reporter and water supply, too. And for our water supply. Reporter now, of course, one of the usual trouble spots when it rains like this is highway 17 over the summit in the santa cruz mountains. There was a significant accident around the noon hour. We just checked on that. It is now clear, smooth sailing in the southbound commute direction on highway 17 at this hour. Live in south san jose, im mark sayre, kpix5. One more check of hidef doppler right now. Its not just Northern California getting hit this evening. Major storms to the south have forced thousands to evacuate. Well have much more storm coverage for you straight ahead. Six claimed San Francisco leaders are putting politics over Public Safety. The city pulled out of a federal Terror Task Force nearly a year ago. Now the Police Union Says its a dangerous move. Our phil matier is here with that story. Thats right. Theyre saying it very loudly and clearly and in various radio ads and listen to what it is theyre saying. Last month an isis sympathizer was charged in federal court with planning a Christmas Day terrorist attack on pier 39. San franciscos police union is calling on city hall to drop the politics and get on board the federal antiterror team that the city pulled out of following the election of donald trump. Fo cial agent and somehow they feel that cooperating with the federal agency is somehow endorsing the trump administration, which is ludacris. If you ask any fbi agent, they would say this is extremely dangerous. Reporter San Francisco supervisor Hillary Ronan was one of those who last february called on the cops to stop cooperating with the feds. Her reason . The general concerns were about the Muslim Community and the targeting of that community and especially by this administration in washington. Reporter former fbi special agent and kpix5 security analyst jeff harp, however, says thats not what the terror cops are all about. Who is targeted . Thats people who are suspected of being involved in international terrorism. It doesnt have a check box. Reporter in the middle of all this is police chief bill scott caught between a political rock and a Public Safety hard place. In order to reenter an m. O. U. That has to go through the board of supervisors and the police commission. Reporter indeed the past year the Police Mission man looking into getting back on the task force, but so far no results. What was said then still to this day is there were some things we had to look at in terms of our policies, particularly our First Amendment policies. Sfpd pulled out of the joint Terrorism Task force for reasons that were more political than anything else. It certainly wasnt related to Public Safety. The civil liberties, religious liberties and the freedom of people of all religions in San Francisco remains important. Its been a year and still not much movement. Why are the police doing this now . Well, theres a mayors race kicking off in San Francisco and likely theyre trying to make this part of the agenda or at least one of their issues. Phil matier, kpix5. Back to you. Thank you, phil. Fired from google and fighting back, these this engineers memo writer heading to court. It started with a spat and ended in a shove, now a bay area city councilwoman is paying up big. Olympic dreams coming true, a bay area skating sensation snags a spot on team usa, the homemade remedy that helped her beat the flu. You could generate your own energy, at home. Or to save energy, unplug unused appliances. Do your thing, with Energy Upgrade california. Efforts. Is now taking the company to court. Hes says google discriminated against white people, men. And conservatives. Kpix fives melissa caen is here a man fired by google after he blasted its Diversity Efforts is now taking the company to court. He said google discriminated against white people, men, conservatives. Kpix5s melissa caen joins us now with the story. We already know google is being sued for failing to pay women the same as men at the company, but today they got hit with a whole new lawsuit by a slew of employees saying theyve been harassed and discriminated against. Theres kind of a lord of the flies mentality there where a person can be singled out, then group shamed, bullied and fire as if theyre not a human being. Reporter this attorney said google was vicious against her client james damore in a diversity training. He wrote a memo saying differences in distribution between men and women may in part explain why we dont have 50 representation of women in tech and leadership. On average he said women may just prefer other jobs. There are multiple other explanations to googles specific disparity than simply bias. Reporter the memo was made public and set off a firestorm and damore was fired, but the lawsuit filed today in santa clara goes far beyond his experience. Its a class action lawsuit. Jobs are reserved in google for minority and women. Thats illegal under california employment law. In california your viewpoint is to protect a characteristic. I could no more refuse to hire an attorney at my firm because they voted for Bernie Sanders than google can refuse to promote somebody because they voted for donald trump. The lawsuit itself is nearly 200 pages long and it contains almost 100 pages of screen shots from internal google Message Boards and these screen shots are meant to show the kind of harassment and discrimination faced by white people, man and conservatives at the company and men and conservatives at the company and here are a few. A meme generator said if you want to increase diversity at google, fire all the bigoted white men. There are conservative black lists inside of google its alleged. A manager said, im considering creating a public inside google document of people who make diversity difficult, which she defined as people who repeatedly make public statements unsupportive of diversity. In a followup she wrote that managers could use that list to take action within their teams and she may use it to insure that committees are aware of their behavior and take that into account when deciding whether to promote them, so some very inflammatory things in this lawsuit contained in this attachment. I think there will be a lot of followup. Is there a response yet from google . We reached out to google who are notoriously tight lipped and they as usual said nothing but, we are looking forward to defending against this lawsuit. So more to come. Thank you, melissa. A jury awarded more than half a Million Dollars in punitive damages against an oakland city councilwoman. Desley brooks must pay 550,000 to former black panther leader elaine brown stemming from an argument between the two women over Affordable Housing issues at an oakland restaurant in 2015. Brooks allegedly shoved brown causing her to fall injuring her rotator cuff. Last month the same jury awarded brown more than 3 million in a civil suit. The city is on the hook for that one, but this new award will come from the councilwomans pocket. Storm watch now, slick roads could be a factor in this fatal crash in palo alto on page mill road. Police say the driver lost control and struck a tree. The man was pronounced dead on the scene. Trimming trees that could come lines. Pg e crews on the streets in san jose, crews were trimming trees that could come in contact with power lines. As of now, the storm is not a huge impact on power outages. Pg e reports only about 300 customers without power. In the meantime rain in the sierra is turning to snow in the Higher Elevations as much needed wet weather moves in, this shot from our sierra at tahoe camera showing new snow coating trees at 8,000 feet. Like to see that level come down a bit, right, paul . It would be wonderful if this was a 4,000 or 5,000 level snow foot event. Its coming from the tropics. Its still pouring in San Francisco. The rain began about 18 hours ago and has not let up and, if anything, over the past 90 minutes its gotten more intense. Same story in the north bay where its pouring highway 101 all wait from the golden gate to healdsburg, all the way from the golden gate to healdsburg, highway 29 through napa valley. Highway 12 is getting wet. San jose in the Santa Clara Valley is soggy again. Were starting to see heavier rain move inland. Walnut creek, antioch and livermore, your rain will pick up as well. Sick 1 the high in hayward today 61 the high in hayward today, fremont 58, the big story all the rainfall. The focus shifts from northern to Southern California as this low pressure area dives down close to the burn zones in Southern California which are more recent scars and theyre expecting 3 to 6 inches of rainfall. They actually have a higher likelihood of seeing some flash flooding in Southern California from the thomas fire burn zones and ventura and Santa Barbara county. For us the rain continues until about midnight and then it tapers off, breezy to windy conditions and overnight lows comparable to the average high for this time of year. 54 in san jose, napa and 55 in San Francisco. Showers continue tomorrow. I want you to hear this first. Even with the rain in our forecast, like 10 as intense as today, scattered showers, brief heavy downpours tomorrow, basically the steady rainfall down after midnight tonight tapering off to showers tomorrow. Highs around 60 degrees, fremont for you 59, concord 60, Mountain View 58 degrees. Then magically it goes away. Well have five or six straight dry days once this storm is gone. Were consolidating all the rain for half a month in one storm. Thats today and tomorrow morning. Showers likely till midafternoon tomorrow. Then we go dry wednesday through sunday, highs in the 60s with a lot of sunshine with some showers possible early next week. The next few hours if anybody is out driving, its going to be rough. The heavy rain will continue. Back to you. Well watch for that. Thanks, paul. From 13 reasons why to jail, an actor from the netflix show arrested for burglary, how police say he targeted the elderly. Nba coaches are fed up with lavar ball, what the father of the lakers guard said that ignited the latest firestorm. And the raiders defensive coordinator wasnt unemployed long, why he wont be packing his suitcase next. Heavy, labored breathing heavy, labored breathing coughing breathing through oxygen mask breathing through oxygen mask breathing through oxygen mask breathing through oxygen mask covered california. Its more than just health care. Its life care. Comments ripping the officials. Green leads the league with 11 technicals this season. Green will get his 12th technical tonight when the warriors host Draymond Green was fined 25,000 for his latest comments ripping the officials leading the league with 11 technicals this season. Hell get his 12th tonight when the warriors host the nuggets. Seth curry taking no time proving hes back to 100 . He scored at least 29 points in every game since returning from the injury including a season high 45 on saturday. The Carolina Panthers were eliminated from the playoffs yesterday. One new orleans paper had some fun with the panthers being up for sale calling the saints their new owners, but curry does remain very serious about being part of the carolinas new ownership group. Nfl, the 49ers have hired ken norton, jr. , to their staff of linebackers coach. At least he wont have to move very far. Norton spent the last three years as the raiders defensive coordinator but was fired mid season. When the lakers drafted lonzo ball, they knew his father was part of the package and as lavar balls criticism against the lakers gets louder, others are calling for reporters to stop putting the microphone in his face. Lavar ball continues to take shots at lakers head coach luke walton telling an espn reporter, luke doesnt have control of the team no more. They dont want to play for him. Mav vicks coach Rick Carlisle and warriors mavericks coach Rick Carlisle and warriors coach steve kerr weighed in. They should look at their sources and do a better job of determining whether they have any merit or any validity or are they just blow hard loud mouths . Theres nothing interesting about that story. You know how many parents of my players have probably been at home going why isnt he playing my kid . Lavar ball is laughing at all of us. People are eating out of his hands for no apparent reason other than, you know, hes become like the kardashian of the nba or something and that sells. Jab of his own last unfortunately it does. As for walden, the former warrior assistant took balls latest shot in stride, even got a little jab of his own last night when asked about lonzos playing time. Reporter you subbed lonzo out early in the 1st and 3rd quarter. Can you talk a little bit about the thought process on that . Yeah. His dad was talking [ bleep ], so i took him out early. Im just kidding. Im not sure he was kidding. Well, luke walton learned a lot from steve kerr. The lakers are 1227. Thats the worst record in that conference. You win some games. It all goes away. True. Dennis, thanks. Coming up in our next half hour oprah for president . Her powerful golden globe speech turned talk of a 2020 run. The white house weighs in on the potential mecca. Weve followed this bay area figure skater since she was 12 and now shes headed for the olympics, how she rallied back from the flu with help from her fans. It continues to pour. All the steady, soaking rainfall not letting up getting more intense. Well talk more about how long the rain stick around coming up. Sticks around coming up. Cbs eye on the community. Presented by target. Art and history spark connections across cultures, igniting curiosity, conversation, and inspiration. Thats why target supports the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. The asian museum is here to make asian arts and culture relevant. The reality is we all have a story to tell. Its what makes us who we are. Cbs eye on the community is sponsored by target. 6 30. The entire bay area getting hit with a new wave of moderate rain. With no sign of letting our top story at 6 30, the entire bay area hit with a new wave of moderate rain with no sign of letting up any time soon. Weve seen everything from flooded roadways to rockslides. In the meantime kpix5s mark sayre is live s san jose monitoring conditions there. Mark . Lights and reporter well, veronica, i can attest to the fact that the rain has not let up all day long. Its been raining just like this since we got on the clock earlier today. Lets look at video from around san jose, all sorts of activity. This was the view from southbound 280 approaching highway 87, plenty of headlights and windshield wipers, but otherwise traffic was moving along. Umbrellas were out as people tried to stay dry going to work in downtown san jose today. Some residents in the south bay we spoke to say while they are happy to see the rain, they are also concerned about too much rain falling too quickly. That, of course, is a recipe for potential flooding if drainage canals or storm drains are overwhelmed by the water flow. Lets go back out to a live picture at the intersection of santa teresa and blossom hill. The southbound commute is headed your way. Those are the headlights that youre seeing. Traffic is flowing fine. Theres light puddling on the roads, so a pretty smooth commute, but again everyone using their windshield wipers and plenty of rain here. One of the hotspots, of course, highway 17, there were several accidents on the summit around the noon hour. At last check 17 is just the usual slowdowns southbound direction. Im mark sayre, kpix5. Also we have learned tonight special Counsel Robert Mueller is likely to seek an interview with President Trump. The Washington Post says that mueller raised that issue during a meeting with the president s lawyers late last month. Sources tell the post that mr. Trump is comfortable with the idea as a way to put allegations of collusion with russia to rest, but his attorneys do not want an open ended encounter. They are seeking clear ground rules on the lines of questioning. Today the president was in tennessee talking to farmers about the new tax law. Under our huge tax cut we just passed americans will be paying less in taxes and keeping more of their own money. Mr. Trump also said he is putting an end to what he calls a regulatory assault on peoples way of life. Meanwhile Billionaire Tom Steyer said he doesnt plan to run for office this year. Hes the california mega donor behind those impeach President Trump ads. Instead steyer says hell focus on mobilizing young voters to come out and help election progressive candidates. Preside he plans to invest 30 million into a youth organizing program. President winfrey is a phrase circulating today after Oprah Winfrey accepted a Lifetime Achievement ward at the Golden Globes award at the Golden Globes last night. A new day is on the horizon may resemble a campaign slogan. I want all those to know right now a new day is on the horizon. Oprah winfrey accepted the cecil ho presented oprah with the award, tweeted Reese Witherspoon tweeted a now officially divide time like this everything that happened before oprah speech everything that will happen after. Sarah silverman tweeted Oprah Michelle 2020 meryl streep tells the Washington Post oprah has no choice but to run for president now. She believes oprah didnt have any intention of running, but says, now oprah do ce. T a g cecil b. Demille award. To all the little girls watching this, never doubt you are powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams. After the Golden Globes oprahs partner Stedman Graham seemed to confirm oprah was considering running in 2020 and told the l. A. Times. Its up to the people. She would absolutely do it. Three months ago in october oprah appeared on cbs this morning and said she would not run. People ask that all the time. Even i am starting to think the rules have changed about running for president. I said i would bet my first born you would never do it and kirby goes hey, hey, hey. You can be safe with that. There will be no running for office of any kind for me. After the globes Reese Witherspoon who presented oprah with the award tweeted, i will now officially divide time like this, everything that happened before oprahs speech, everything that happened after. Sarah silberman tweeted oprah, 2020. Meryl streep told the Washington Post oprah has no choice to run for president now. She believes oprah didnt have any intention of running but says now oprah doesnt have a choice. Suzanne marquez, kpix5. Earlier the White House Press secretary said on air force one today, we welcome the challenge whether it be Oprah Winfrey or anybody else. Tomorrow is the last day for candidates for mayor to sign up. About assemblyman mark leno signed the papers at city hall this morning. If elected, leno would be the first openly gay mayor of the city. The special election will take place in june to replace the late mayor ed lee. Leno said his Top Priorities would be housing affordable and homelessness. Affordability and homelessness. I intend to shake things up. We need a mayor to think big and reject cynicism and to demand results. The boar leno has already raised more than 400,000 for his campaign. 5th between now and june the board can vote to make leno or someone else the interim mayor to serve until the election june 5th. Heres a look at his competition so far. Former supervisor angela alioto, acting mayor london breed, City AttorneyDennis Herrera and supervisor jane kim. Expanded child care could soon be coming to San Francisco thanks to city officials. Supervisors jane kim and norman yee are introducing a new ballot measure to bring affordable child care to all San Francisco families. According to the Childrens CouncilSan Francisco, the average cost of child care for an infant ranges up to 23,000 a year. While this is something that will help many families, lets be real. This is something thats going to help women. Whether it is a woman who is in a situation that feels that she cannot leave an abusive situation or a woman that wants to continue in a meaningful career. The support of six supervisors with the support of six supervisors voters could take up the measure in the election this june. An actor on the popular show 13 reasons why is arrested, how hes accused of exploiting his role to steal from the elderly. Thieves smashing into cars and getting away with it, the new plan to fight the car burglary epidemic in San Francisco. There are two types of people in the world. Those who fear the future. And those who embrace it. The future is for the unafraid. All because of you following in the east bay. Contra costa county fire reporting a car into a creek at pine street. Some breaking news were following out of the east bay, Contra Costa County fire is reporting a car into a creek. This is at clayton road and pine street. Galindo creek runs through that part of concord. This video just in from downtown San Francisco, this was a close call. A tree came down just missing a muni bus about 45 minutes ago on sampson street near pacific. There is no word yet on injuries. The no. 12 bus is locked and it doesnt look like anyone was hurt. A vallejo actor from the popular netflix show 13 reasons why is accused of using his role to steal from the elderly. Police say brian box burglarized homes in marin county where he once worked as a caregiver. According to police, box paid friendly visits to former clients before returning to break in and steal jewelry or other valuables. At the same time he was appearing in 13 reasons as jamie, a member of the High School Basketball team. Police say he told his victims about his big break in show business as a pretext to case their homes for a burglary. You know, Human Behavior is a puzzle for us as well as anybody else and why somebody would do this when he was apparently on the verge of a successful career is beyond me. Ae, and novato box is charged with nine felony counts of burglaries in tiburon, mill valley, greenbrae and novato. He was freed on 250,000 bail and faces arraignment next week. San Francisco Police are rolling out a new initiative to fight car breakins and other burglaries. This week the department will start assigning new officers to each station to focus exclusively on crimes like car breakins and bike thefts. The chief says they will help coordinate investigations and improve followups after people report burglaries. Were starting off at the mission. Theyre kicking this off and within the next few months all 10 district stations will have at least one dedicated person, maybe more, but at least one to focus on this issue. In 2017 car breakins in San Francisco spiked to more than 30,000. Thats up 24 from the previous year. Arrest rates are at less than 2 . Years of hard work paying off for this bay area figure skater, karen chen going for the olympic gold, the homemade gifts that helped already bounce back from the flu. Going on 19 straight hours with steady rainfall in the bay area, somewhat rare for us and theres no sign anything is changing soon. Coming up when does the rain finally move out . How much rain has fallen . Ill have the answer next. At Stanford Health care, we can now repair complex aortic aneurysms without invasive surgery. If we can do that, imagine what we can do for varicose veins. And if we can precisely treat eye cancer with minimal damage to the rest of the eye, imagine what we can do for glaucoma, even cataracts. If we can use dna to diagnose the rarest of diseases, imagine what we can do for the conditions that affect us all. Imagine what we can do for you. Karen chen has snagged a spot on team usa. Even while battling the flu. The dreams are coming true for a young fremont figure skater. Karen chen has snagged a spot on team usa even while battling the flu. Kpix5s kiet do has her incredible story. Reporter when karen chen took the ice during nationals last week in san jose, she was sick and battling the flu. After taking in some bread, apple sauce and adrenaline from the hometown crowd she nailed it. After tears of relief from the defending champion all that was left to do was wait for a late night text from the olympic committee. All these doubts are flying through my head. Then it was 11 30 and thats when i heard the ding and i looked on my phone and there was a text saying congratulations, you made the team. Reporter and you screamed. And i screamed. I did. I was so, so happy and my mom was in the room. So she knew right away right when i screamed because i dont usually scream. So something was up. Game face on. Reporter shes now 18 years old. Karen remembered a moment four years ago when she was injured and sitting in the stands watching other competitors advance to the 2014 olympics. Ready, ready. Reporter she made a promise to herself that she would make the next team. You just told yourself im going to make it happen. Part of it is saying it and then you start believing it and you keep engraving that into your head and building that confidence and that mental strength. Reporter we first met karen back in 2012 when she was just 12 years old and had won gold as a novice. Even then she showed signs of greatness. She had not seen this clip in years. Oh, my god. I was a baby. Reporter where she aned a question about how a 12year old she answered a question about how a 12yearold handles the pressure. Just imagine im skating at my hometown where theres nobody there, just myself. Reporter you recognize the little girl in that video . I do. Ive grown so much, but at the same time i feel like im still that little girl in some ways. I dont want to disappoint anyone. I want to make everyone proud, so its important for me that i skate my best at the most important time of my life. Reporter in san jose, kiet do, kpix5. New danger for Southern California residents hard hit by recent wildfires, many are evacuating for a second time because of the latest werent storm. Those staying behind winter storm. Those staying behind in Santa Barbara county were at this make your own sandbag station. Many homes sit below a steep hillside left barren by the worst fire in california history. People are racing the clock to get those sandbags in place. If youre directly below the big heavy burns and the ground was crystalized, pretty much going to flow right towards your house. Im in that neighborhood. This is a very old neighborhood. Theres not a lot of modernization to the water flow. Sleepless nights in Southern California fire zones. They are expecting as much as 5 inches of rain. Paul joins us now to break that all down for us. The problem of any burn zone is the fact the ground normally acts like a sponge and absorbs the water. After a big fire it doesnt do that. So all this ash and organic material left behind liquefies and becomes mud. If its a steep hillside, its going to flow downstream. Heres what we have going around here, just wet, very slow commute on 680 from dublin, the trivalley, san ramon and north of concord and martinez, wow pouring still in marin, sonoma, napa county, in the burn zones around here where flooding is not imminent but a Flash Flood Watch is in effect until 6 00 tomorrow morning. Pretty active radar top to bottom raining from santa cruz north to santa rosa. Winter weather advisory, there is some snow in the sierra at 7,000 to 7,500 feet. The wind advisory, the Weather Service has been talking about dropping this because the strong winds have yet to materialize. It will be breezy to windy tonight. Plan on winds in the lowlands and urban core 10 to 20 miles per hour. In the hills they could reach 40 to 50 miles per hour. Its a minimal wind advisory event. The big story is the rainfall. 3 inches of rain for the santa cruz mountains, 3 inches in kentfield and marin county. 2 inches of rain now for San Francisco, 1 1 2 inch for dublin, nearly 1 inch for san jose, the wettest single day in the urban core in about a year to year and a half, have to go back a couple decembers. Fremont 54 degrees, vallejo and santa rosa 53 degrees. Why so much rain today when we couldnt buy a drop for six weeks . Do you see a blocking ridge of High Pressure here . We have the opposite now. The storm track has dipped to the tropics bringing up some rich tropical moisture and were talking about problems in Southern California. They will likely receive more rainfall than we will. Rain continues through the evening. Futurecast says its still pouring at 10 00. After midnight the rain really tapers off. By tomorrow morning for the commute roads will certainly be wet, but new rainfall, just a few drops. Scattered showers continue into early afternoon. By this time tomorrow not only will the rain be gone, likely well have clear skies throughout the bay area and five consecutive dry days wednesday through the weekend. So the wettest part of the next week will be the next five or six hours we have now. Steady rain continues this evening, rain decreasing overnight, scattered showers until early afternoon tomorrow, far less rainfall tomorrow compared to today. Then were dry a while. So were taking one storm and thats it, but its potent. San jose tomorrow still above average by 2 degrees, 60 with some morning rainfall, palo alto 60, pacifica 57, upper 50s for walnut creek and pleasant hill, scattered showers till about the lunch hour, livermore 59. Well have 57 for the high in San Francisco. The farther north you go the rain ends sooner for you, maybe only morning showers for san rafael and petaluma, so rain tomorrow morning, scattered showers into the early afternoon. Then were done. Wednesday through the weekend we are completely dry with highs inand a much weaker storm is possible one week from today. That is your forecast. Paul, thank you. Coming up at 10 00 on nightbeat a couple of apple investors, tonight why theyre urging to stop iphone addiction among kids tonight at 10 00 on our sister station, kbcw 44 cable 12. Californias agricultural heart is sinking. Thats very rapid. An inch a month is very, very rapid. Tonight at 11 00 why 1 million acres of farmland are at risk. 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