And radios and fresh batteries. Watch out for the downed power lanes. Treat all downed power lines as if they are energized. It could take pg e hours to reach some areas. Have your cell phone charge when you wake up this morning. Who knows if you will lose power during the day. The north bay headachely to likely to see heavy rain and some areas could see flooding. First responders are ready. There could be wind damage. We will experience power lines down. Trees down. Be prepared. We need to clear trees from the roads or homes. All the San Rafael Fire Department is giving away sandbags at several locations. People have been ling up to protect their homes. In San Francisco public works has been preparing for the storm since last week clearing leaves from the drains to prevent flooding. Officials are urging everyone to pitch in. Pitch in. You can use a broom or waste if you see the problem where you live or work we welcome help. All the city is happening out free sandbags, giving out 10,000 in the past in. People are warned to stay alert at the coast. Waves hit a jaw dropping 30. Powerful rip currents can pull you out to sea in just seconds. If the storm has you dreaming of trash powder at lake tahoe give yourself plenty of time to get there. It only take adds few inches to trigger big delays on the freeway get into lake tahoe and this is expected to bring more than that. Another storm is expected to hit on sunday. C. H. P. Recommended you bring warm clothing and food to wait out the delays. Chains. And a charger. Preparations are underway in the south bay but in los gatos vegetation was cleared away from the dam yesterday. The Water District is offering free sandbags. When you see Stormy Weather today, take a foe tore tore a photo or video and share it with us. Saved from a fire, new video shows paramedics giving a dog oxygen after being recused from a burning home last night. Crews actuallied the gear to treat both dogs and cats for smoke inhalation. The dog went to a vet. No one was home when the fire broke out. This morning, San Francisco police chief suhr is pushing again for equip officers with tasers. Protesters packed city hall last night at a Police Commission meeting calls for the resignation over the fail Police Shooting of 26yearold suspect mario woods. Officers tried to arrest woods in a stabbing investigation and he refused to drop a knife. The chief suhr wants officers to have tools other than guns. San francisco is one of only two large cities in the United States what does not allow officers to use tasers. New details emerge in the San Bernardino shooting with records showing the suspect gunman, syed farook and his friend, Enrique Marquez became related by marriage last year. Enrique marquez bought the assault rave fells riched in the attack. He admitted they were plotting another attack in 2012 but called it of off. Mar questions has not been charged. Lawmakers are vetting a are investigating a string of racist emails in a department run by epa between mid2013 million this year with comments of people with ethnic names and accents. Consumer watch dog uncovered the emails and made them public yesterday. The organization is demanding a full investigation and punishment for are the employees. This cell phone video is at the center of a hate crime investigation. Muslim men say the woman featured in this video threw coffee at them because of their religion. Here are details. [ inaudible ] your mind is taken over and brain washed. The con prop station started after this woman approached a group of muslim men who were praying in the park on sunday. The lady was yelling and all lies, satan, you guys ray for satan. Allah is eagle. The koran is teaching you how to kill. This video was shot while a ranger tried to des can hate the situation. My friend came out. [ inaudible ] we believe in jesus, even in my rehim on if you do not believe in jesus you do not serve as a muslim. And he said she struck him with the umbrella and splash coffee in his face. Show was talking about mid if saying. The alameda d. A. Is looking into the possibility of charging slater with a hate crime. She believes she was the victim in this case because she was video taped against her will the d corrections is conducting an internal investigation if a statement they said discrimination of any kind will not be tolerated. Happening today, the San Francisco planning commission. Vote on a final Environmental Impact report for a massive Housing Project in portrero hill. If approved, 620 low income units will be demolished and replaced with 1,700 new units part of the 3. 5 acre rebuild project that includes new parks and Retail Stores the victimmer hope to Start Construction next year. This could come as a surprise but a report shows that rent prices in San Francisco are leveling off while oakland prices increaseing. The positively price for a onebedroom apartment in the city went down 170 from october 20 november. In that time, oakland became the nations 4th most expensive rental market with the cost of one bedroom going up 19 percent to 2,200 a movement a rain the here. Meteorologist mike nicco . Everyone will be touched by rain. Must of our streets are already wet. They will get wetter. That means standing ponding is possible. You can see petaluma through the heart of petaluma and some of our moderate rain, but it is showing the entire peninsula, lighttomoderate rain toward fremont, you can see dumbarton sickle and newark and fremont boulevard heading to dixieland ing and milpitas. Here is a look at walnut creek where you can see the rain is making it hook hazy look south on 680. What is going to happen we get the bulk our steady rain this morning and we get scattered light showers throughout the later part the morning and the early afternoon. Temperatures are going to drop this afternoon. We are starting off mild and muggy this morning with temperatures in the lowtomid 60. We are in the midtoupper 50s this afternoon. You can see the north bay to afternoon most likely area to get steady rain and a look at our san rafael camera look not open 101. You can see moderate rain falling this. Tomorrow, we get a break after the morning hours. Saturday afternoon, into sunday, our next storm comes in can more rain. More on that coming up in an hourbyhour look at the wet weather. Windy, too. On the golden gate bridge. I got blown around. You can see the slick roads. Traffic is light. Prepare yourself for a slick and slippery commute. We have a couple of problems to make you aware of, a car fire, westbound 4 at railroad slowing things back to pittsburg. We have road work eastbound direction of 580 in the westbound direction, the commute direction, we are looking good. A few yellow sensors with moderate slowing up and offer the altamont pass. Other than that, at the limit. In guerneville, highway 116 a street downed blocking the road. They have issued a sigalert. It will be a up cough hours to get it out of this. It is 4 39. Before you head out the door, consider giving your credit card bills a look. There has been another large data breach, fine out who has been hit this time. A surprise performance, a surprise performance, madonnas moving jill and kate use same detergent. Sher. But only jill ends up with wet, spotty glasses. Kate adds finish jetdry with five power actions that dry dishes and prevent spots and film, so all thats left is the shine. For better results, use finish jetdry. Coughing disrupts everyones life. Thats why theres delsym. Delsyms advanced time release formula helps silence coughs for a full 12 hours. All night. 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Thisisbananas. Lightning cracking in australia, she vary storms rocked the city leaving behind hail and flash flooding, you can see Mother Nature can put on a fantastic light show but you have to be prepared. Because it can be dangerous. Absolutely. We will see if the light show will pale in comparison to what we have in the bay area. We will see lightning but fought like that. That was impressive. That lightning is around Crescent City and eureka. Good morning, everyone. Our winter storm wanting just began in the sierra at 4 00 this morning and you can see the snow is already falling on heavenly. We are going to get 12 of snow at the pass level and it will start accumulateing in earnest at 10 00 this morning. If you are daring you can head up there now. It will take a longterm to get there. And to get home sunday. I whenned it show you the richmondsan rafael and bay bridge and give you an idea that light to moderate rain is falling on those areas and all the areas right around it. Our best radar return is heading to the beach sliding to sauce least and San Francisco in the next 15 minutes to half an hour. The key today is we will have the study written during the commute. We get in the cold air. You can see the thunderstorms are developing. You get caught under one of these you will hit brief heavy rain and lightning is possible and thunder and small hail. The likelihood of that happening is marginal but out there. It looks like the best chance is stay to our north. We will run through the forecast, the cold front, you can see in the next 1520 minutes moderate rain developing from santa rosa to San Francisco, oakland and up 80 by 6 00. From 6 00 to 7 00 it hoof through the heart of the bay and across the san mateo bridge, the last couple of days is how it sounds, the bigger storms where you can zero in on them and they do not fluctuate. 7 00 to 8 00 moving through the south bay and by 9, out of here. You can see by 3 00 to around 5 00, our second and third waves are rolling through you can see the reds in there headed through the evening. 7 00, 9 00 in the in the bay and south by, 11 00 another wave rolling through. It will continue overnight then it shifts toward the ocean as we head to tomorrow. But there is still a slight chance of a scattering of showers in the north bay in the afternoon. We are going to get half an inch to 1 of rain. The mountains get from 12 in the Santa Cruz Mountains to 13 in the north bay, and winds across the north bay until 10 00 this morning. Very solid 2, and the gust are around 25 to 35. What you will notice this morning the early rain dropped a history looks so make sure the drains and gutters are cleaned of with you leave. As we head to friday afternoon through most of saturday, it will be dry and another number two storm comes in on sunday into monday and it gets frigidly cold in the morning on tuesday and wednesday. The bay bridge toll plaza shows traffic is light. Just a few headlights in the city. You can see speckles of rain on the camera. The roads are slick. You can tell bit headlights. A sleep on the roads. A slower speed if you do not want did have a spend out i anticipate we will see that. The green on the screen is where rain is affecting the commute. Westbound four we have two or three vehicle accident. Still blocking two lands of traffic. It is backing up, new, to smearsville, westbound highway 4 at railroad which is a bad commute and tree down in guerneville and a couple of hours until it can be removed. Serious news story dominated facebook this week. A big year on facebook. The world has been talking about in 2015, topping the list is the United States president ial election. Second, paris terror attacks and the syrian refugee crisis, what third. Best buy is slashing the price of the apple watch. They have announced all of apple watches in the inventory are now 100 off. 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According to a new study today, being happy has no affect on how long you might live as previous studies suggested. Being sick can make you unhappy but being grouchy is not enough to make you sick or shorten your live. We can expect grumpy cat to be with us for a long, long time. That is exactly what i was thinking. I like that. Right on top of that. If you going to the coast be careful. I went you to get out there it will be a fun ryan where swells at 2022 and possibly into the upper tenths with the large breakers. This is from 4 00 this afternoon to 4 00 tomorrow afternoon. Right now we are around 9 00 to 11 00. 46 in lake tahoe. 63 in sacramento much the temperature is dropping in lake tahoe if you head to los angeles. Some showers are possible tonight. 69 this afternoon. Check it out the winter storm warning until 4 00 tomorrow morning and done donner is 20 and kirkwood is 25. Getting home on sunday is going to be a bear. The snow will almost be as heavy as it has been. No chain requirements new. Ryville is a solid extreme of headlights from golden gate to university to powell street to the maze. It is at the limit. So far, so good. We will look outside and we have this accident at bay point area, several cars involved near bailey and track is stacking, from the back of line to the scene of the accident, a good 45 minute drive. Weeks. Kristen and eric . Look at this map, a man in mississippi was captured on Surveillance Video stealing a brand new refrigerator. From a home under construction. Authorities are trying to identify the man seen prying open a window at house yesterday morning. He then went in and took the refrigerator out of the front door into a pickup. A pizza delivery woman got a tip that surpasses what she earns in to weeks. A church in Washington State wanted it surprise someone. The pastor prayed for the right person and decided to call a local pizza shop. That phone call led him to nicole, a College Student and single mom who is,ing to jobs. The pastor heard her story and ordered a Pepperoni Pizza for delivery. [ inaudible ] we have a tip of 1,300 she said she thought her heartfelt out of the her surprise and the Church Elders chipped in even more money giving her the biggest tip of her life, nearly 1,900 slam outrage and anger at San Francisco city hall and what protesters are demanding after a deadly pose shooting caught on camera. A major controversy for had Supreme Court justice after some comments about College Students. Stay tuned. Grow old with me let us share what we see just you and i grow old with me let us share what we see and oh the best it could be just you and i live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news were we are tracking what is expected to be a powerful storm already hit the either by. We have coverage of what you need to know before you head out the door this morning. Thanks for joining us. You can see in the picture of the bay bridge, the deck is wet. I am eric thomas. Meteorologist mike nicco is following live doppler hd and tell us where the rain is. You we zoomed in around mill valley and toward san rafael the can you see a better radar return away from dillon beach to 101. Also, heading