Rainfall is subsiding around 680 in san jose over the sunol grade. Right there fremont, around the centreville district, you have light rail. We go upstream a bit and then you have another batch of energy thats now pushing into the pittsburg area and antioch, youll hear a few raindrops, as well. Right now temperatures are in the 40s and 50s. Later today thats the back side of yesterdays frontal boundary that produced up to 2. 5 of rain. Now behind it, another storm thats poised in position to move into the bay area and it will aversely affect your evening commute. Meanwhile, highs today in the 50s and 60s, we have rain today, a lingering shower or two on wednesday. The completely dry day will be on thursday. Then we queue it up again for storm number 3 on friday. It looks like the wet weather is causing a major hot spot and a Traffic Alert now. All lanes closed on highway 17 a full highway closure both directions. We got this updated travel advisory saying all lanes are blocked southbound at the summit. Northbound not going anywhere past sugarloaf so drivers are just sitting there in their cars right now just waiting to be let through. We have been on and off the phone with chp kind of waiting to see if they have an estimated time when they are going to be able to reopen some lanes. But this is a large tree that fell on the roadway took down some power lines as well so it sounds like this could be a large cleanup. We have sent our own kiet do owe to the scene so well be getting a live report from him. Hopefully. He is probably stuck in traffic too. I hope he doesnt get stuck. Unless he is running on the shoulder. I know. I guess. So he is trying. Well see. The storm has also caused major damage in the south bay. Two electrical poles, cables and transformer came down at the villa teresa Mobile Home Park in san jose yesterday morning. A carport was crushed. Scared residents came running out of their homes with rain falling, water on the ground and live wires everywhere, a move pg e says was very dangerous. Cables are on the house so thats why he was over here because his house wasnt safe. They actually had about four houses redtagged so they couldnt go in until they had the problem fixed. And as he said, four houses were redtagged because of the damage. And remember, get your weather on the go with the cbs bay area weather app. Check conditions in your area, get realtime radar, just search kpix in the app store or google play. And download the cbs bay area weather app now available for both iphone and android. Police are investigating the discovery of human remains off highway 9 in Santa Clara County on sunday. Police say the bones have been there for about a year. No word yet on the persons age, gender or cause of death. Tonight activists will stage a rally right before a Berkeley City Council meet to complain about police practices. The council is allowing time for Public Comments on recent protests some of which led to clashes with officers but even before that, the berkeley naacp and other groups will make demands about how the police should conduct themselves. Richmonds police chief is speaking publicly about his participation in a recent protest march. This picture shows chief chris magnus carrying a sign he was asked to hold up saying black lives matter. He says he was not trying to make a political statement, which is prohibited for uniformed officers. Rather, he says, it was about the importance of Police Acting humanely. I looked at it for a minute and realized, you know, this is actually pretty innocuous, the idea that black lives matter is something that i would think we should all be able to agree upon. Of course, my feeling is all lives matter. I thought it was an important gesture of good will. Magnus is surprised the image has gone viral. Most of the reaction, he says, is positive. The San Francisco board of supervisors will vote later today on a 3 million settlement in the case of a woman found in a San FranciscoGeneral Hospital stairwell. Lynne spaldings family would receive the money from the city of San Francisco and the university of california to settle the claim. Spalding disappeared in september of last year. Her body was found 17 days later. Today south bay officials will consider a plan aimed at improving Emergency Response times. The issue goes before both the San Jose City council and the Santa Clara County board of supervisors today. The goal here is to get the San Jose Fire Department to meet ontime standards for at least 90 of the 911 calls. A proposal contract restores funding that the county had withheld because of slow response times. Good news for anyone who hasnt enrolled in a Healthcare Plan yet. The deadline to get coverage through covered california has been extended. Customers now have until midnight on sunday to enroll for coverage starting january 1. This applies to new and renewing customers. Teens are using ecigarettes more than the real thing. As regular smoking by teens has dropped to new lows, cdc researchers say nearly 10 of 8th graders use ecigarettes. The smoking increases with age. 16 of 10th graders say they used an ecigarette. 17 of High School Seniors did, too. The fda says ecigarettes are such new products that the research is inconclusive about the impact on teen health. 5 06. Up next the wife of bill cosby is speaking out. Who she is siding with after rape allegations surfaced against her comedian husband. Plus, a 16hour hostage standoff in sydney comes to a close. The chilling details were learning about the gunman including his bay area connections. And it is the second day of the workweek and we have with the second storm rolling into the bay area. Well track this storm together. And i want to show you a live look at wet roads people getting a head start on the morning commute. This is a live look at 101 near hospital curve approaching vermont street. Well have your latest travel hot spots coming up. But first, we want to know what drives you crazy during your commute. Ask a question or share a gripe by emailing crazy kpix. Com. Or tweet me at ewengerkpix and watch to see if your question gets answered on air. Well be right back. ,, female announcer sleep train thanks all those who helped make a difference last year for thousands of california foster kids. Thank you for helping foster kids. Thank you for the School Supplies thank you for the new shoes. Thank you, secret santa and thank you for donating money. Announcer your generosity proves that while not everyone can be a foster parent, anyone can help a foster child. Thank you thank you gracias por su ayuda [baby cooing] thank you. Good morning, welcome back to kpix 5 morning news. It is tuesday, december 16. And it is still raining. We have scattered light rain showers in the bay area. But it will become stormy this afternoon right after lunchtime. Steady heavy rain chance of thunderstorm and breezy conditions. And we continue to follow some breaking news this morning. The Pakistan Taliban is claiming responsibility for an attack on a military school. At least 126 people mostly children were killed. Police sources say at least 6 terrorists entered the school after scaling its walls. Army Officials Say most of the 500 students have been evacuated. The school is located in peshawar, which has been the target of frequent militant attacks in the past. Bill cosbys wife is finally breaking her silence. Camille cosby defended her husband calling him, quote, a kind and generous man. Mrs. Cosby also said the legendary comedian is not the same person who has been recently portrayed by the media. The statements come following claims by many women who say he drugged and sexually assaulted them in the past. Cosby has never been charged with a related crime. Australias largest city is in disbelief after a hostage standoff in a downtown cafe left three dead including a gunman. Susan mcginnis has learned more about a man known to the Australian Authorities and to the world. Reporter as a memorial to the victims of monday hostage crisis grows the people of sydney are outraged. Its terrible, horrifying. Its hard to comprehend. Its a travesty, a true and just state. Reporter australian Prime Minister tony abbott and his wife laid flowers near the Lindt Chocolate cafe where the siege began monday and ended tuesday where police stormed storm and killed Man Haron Monis after two hostages were died. 15 were freed, several escaped, four injured including a policeman. The 50yearold monis was well known to authorities as have a violent criminal history, mental instability and extremist views. He was freed on bail after being charged as an accessory to his exwifes murder. He wasnt on a terror watch list. Were all outraged he was out the streets. Reporter it was a lone gunman not part of a terrorist plot. Man haron monis has a connection to the bay area. He was charged as the accessory in the murder of his exwife with family in hayward. His godfather had a bad feeling about his from the first time they met. He was out on bail. And you know, if he would have still be in jail, this wouldnt have happened. The godfather says monis wrote letters to the families of australian war veterans killed in iraq and gloated about their deaths. The city of san bruno wants the California PublicUtilities Commission to release 65,000 emails between them and pg e. The emails are from 2010 to 2014 about the deadly pipeline explosion in san bruno. Eight people died, 66 injured. Earlier this year an email exchange surfaced between the Commission Officials and pg e executives about the pending cases and the selection of judges for the cases. Bart is going to replace three old escalators that keep breaking down. Two are at powell station, the other at civic center. Bart is holding open meetings over the next 6 months to give riders a chance to voice their opinions. First meeting is tonight at the powell station from 7 to 10 a. M. And 4 to 7 p. M. A crazy night up at the Santa Cruz Mountains. Heres liz with more. I know. Its a mess for drivers right now. You are really going to have to search for alternates. The ultimates are not great. There is a full closure of highway 17 both directions. Downed trees and power lines. All lanes blocked southbound at the summit. Northbound youre not going any further than sugarloaf. So again highway 9 is probably your best bet right now. We havent heard of any incidents there. You can use the long way around 152 to 101 which still looks relatively clear. But again, thats a major hot spot well get a live report coming up. The eastbound lanes of 580 in livermore approaching springtown we have an accident there a spinout and then a car hit another car so one lane is blocked. It is countercommute so its not causing a major delay. Westbound we are seeing the usual slow traffic out of tracy on 205. And then it clears out past north flynn so the drive times still look okay. This was bad yesterday during the rain. 17 minutes between the Altamont Pass and the dublin interchange. Heres a live look at the bay bridge. Looks okay so far into San Francisco. No weather advisories westbound. Ponding in the road was cleared on the skyway eastbound 80 approaching 7th. Now all directions look okay. Another reminder to take it slow. You may hit a pocket of water here and you just never know. Northbound 88015 minutes between 238 and the maze. Clear near the oakland airport. Thats your latest kcbs traffic. Roberta, its hard to count what storm we are on now. Yesterday was storm one of this brandnew workweek and today will be storm number 2. And aversely affected this time around with our eye on the storm. Some cells are heavy widespread at this particular time. More rain is going to fall today on top of the rain showers that fell yesterday. We saw nearly 1. 5 in San Francisco. Just nearly two and three quarters in san rafael so when you couplele that up with another 2 within 48 hours the soil will be saturated and it will be breezy. So we anticipate more downed trees and power lines h right now its in the 40s and 50s. The winds are breezy out of the southeast up to 15 Miles Per Hour. A few scattered showers this morning. This is all lingering showers from yesterdays storm number one. We will have steady rain and locally heavy at times for the evening commute as well as southeast winds up to 20 Miles Per Hour. This is yesterdays storm. This is storm number 2 right here thats gathering some strength and momentum taking a direct aim on the bay area. And behind me, way upstream, thats storm number 3 that will affect your friday. Until then, lets take you through your tuesday so you know when youll need that umbrella. The next front will slice through the bay area during the afternoon hours. Thats your evening commute. Santa cruz mountains will be hard hit. Everybody is in and out of the showers. The air mass sun stable, there is a chance of the air mass is unstable, there is a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Nearly 1. 5 of rain in redwood city. Over a half inch in san jose and santa rosa. Todays high is seasonal. 50s and low 60s. A southeast wind up to 20 Miles Per Hour at times might even blow the umbrella in inside out at times. We call for lingering showers on wednesday. On thursday, thats really the only full dry day right here in the bay area. Storm three on friday. Showers on saturday. At this particular time i think after we get rid of storm 3, we were saying yesterday theres a mention of rain on christmas day. Now it wants to move up into about Christmas Eve which also means snow in tahoe. White christmas. Perfect. If it pans out. Well see. All the skiers are clapping. Bring it on. If you want to travel through Yosemite National park officials have closed two roads for the snow season up there. Two feet of snow dumping on tioga and glacier roads last week. The Yosemite Valley still open for visitors. The car of a woman nine months pregnant missing more than a week has been located. Police found the body of a woman inside the car but have not confirmed her identity. Aubrey andrews prius was found in an elk grow parking lot no one has been able to reach her since she left home december 6. Her husband says she left with nothing but the clothes on her back and she left her 3year old son behind. She has had mommys gone. I wouldnt want my son to grow up without his mom. Just let us know youre safe somewhere. Andrews husband said she was upset when she left home and drove off. Today dutch scientists will reveal what they found about how a famous escape from alcatraz might have worked years back. They say three prisoners absolutely could have made the swim across the bay alive. In 1962, an attempt later depicked in a feature film, using tidal records, researchers discovered timing was everything. Its really sensitive to that timing at which time they entered the water. Paddling northward between 11 and midnight the prisoners would have had a good chance of reaching land but they couldnt have made it to angel island as depicted in the hollywood film. Instead, they could have ended up on the north shore of the Golden Gate Bridge near horse somehow bay. They didnt have wet suits on. But all the men were in their early 30s so they would be 82, 83, 84. Now that would be a movie. Where these guys ended up and then how their lives finished after that. And how they are taken back to prison. Right. After theyre found. Back to the rock. Right. Too funny. 5 19 now. Recent rains a welcome sight for california farmers but why one bay area grower hopes the rush of water stays away. And good morning, everybody. Of course, we are going to talk about the 49ers but you raider fans i got some news involving jon gruden. And what is cool about what is cool about your school . Email your nominations to coolschools kpix. Com. We may come and feature your school on the show. ,,,,,,,,,, welcome back. Breaking news out of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Highway 17 is closed both directions approaching glenwood drive due to downed trees and power lines. Chp has no indicated when they will open any lane in any direction. Traffic is tying up in the los gatos area. Use highway 9 instead. Well have kcbs traffic coming up. Good morning, everybody. Well hit you with jim harbaugh. Get used to hearing that name mentioned a lot. Now, this weekend when they face the chargers he will do something he hasnt done as head coach of the 49ers and that is coach a game with zero playoff implications. Sundays loss in seattle ended their playoff hopes which were slim before the seahawks won but even in defeat harbaugh was proud of his teams effort. Our team played with valiant effort and in a lot of ways i have never been prouder, um, in our team for the guys that showed up, for the guys that fought, um, in a lot of ways never been prouder. Raider nation, the jon gruden return to the raiders rumors are done. Gruden announced on monday night football last night he has signed a new contract with espn that will have him out of coaching through 2021. The former boss of the raiders was rumored to be tops on the wish list to be the they head coach. So when mark davis decision time comes, chucky wont be roaming the sidelines. See you later. Play of the day, we are going to hoop it up. We have bucks and suns. Chris middleton with the inbounds, turn around and there it goes. Thats a three ball. And thats your ballgame. With just a second or two to go, its a big milwaukee winner at the buzzer. Our play of the day. It is 5 25 right now. More outcry this morning over the recent twitter post by a San Jose Police officer. Why some say he should be fired for what he posted. Plus, the gunman in a 16 hour hostage standoff in sydney has a bay area connection. The chilling details we are learning about his roots right here. ,,,,,,,,,,, find options to fit your budget. Nah, nah, insurance, nah, nah, nah, discount. My names flo, you want to go out with me . No. Uhhuhhuh . Your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. Its being called a revenge attack. This morning, the Taliban Storms a school in pakistan and opens fire over 100 people dead and most of them students. And the rain not only getting bothersome, now its getting dangerous for one neighborhood in the south bay. Why residents were running for cover. And here we go again. Storm number 2, taking a direct aim on the bay area. It will affect your commute. Ill tell you which one. And it looks like the wet roads are already causing problems in the bay area including a crash blocking lanes in livermore. Well tell you about it coming up. Good morning, its tuesday, december 16. Im michelle griego. Hi, everyone. Im frank mallicoat. Nearly 5 30 right now. All lanes are blocked on highway 17 right now near los gatos. Thats where kpix 5s kiet do is close to that area right now. He joins us via phone with an update. What can you tell us. Reporter we live on southbound highway 17 where the chp has diverted traffic on to summit road. If you are going northbound 17 they are turning cars around at officer what was that turn around . Glenwood. Reporter so glenwood. They have 100 cars stacked up on the northbound side. As you are heading in this direction its a good idea to stay away because a tree went down somewhere in between laurel and glenwood. The tree is of unknown height and whats complicating matters is that power lines are also across the road as well so all lanes of highway 17 are blocked at this time. There is no estimated time of reopening. This happened at 4 30 this morning. Pg e crews are en route here but it is foggy. It is tree down power lines, um, this is a a very, um, interesting situation out here as drivers are really surprised to come up on these roadblocks and speeding up on the scene. So thats the latest now. We are waiting for word to get closer to the scene so we can bring you images. I understand that chopper 5 is en route and well have pictures overhead in just a couple of minutes but for now, we are stuck on highway 17, um, stay away if you can. Back to you. Kiet, are you moving at all . No. We are literally sitting on the highway right now at the roadblock waiting for the word to get closer. The crews are undergoing a shift change right now so theres they are dont have the manpower to escort it down there just yet so we are literally sitting right on the freeway in the left lane just at the summit. On 17. Thank you, kiet. Highway 17 is shut down because of power lines and tree blocking the way. The rain is helping reservoirs across the state but more is needed to make a dent in the threeyear drought. At folsom lake the water levels have risen 7 feet in the past week. But the department of Water Resources says its still at 37 of capacity up 20 from 11 mondays ago. Lake shasta is up to 31 over the last week. The rain helped provide over 94 billion gallons a oneyear supply for 540,000 families. Thats a drop in the bucket. We need 6 or 7 stores like last thursday to get out of the drought. It could happen. It could. It could happen but then you have the aftereffects, you know, the after all the damage. Mud slides. Aftereffects. Yes. And thats whats really so worrisome about the tree down in the Santa Cruz Mountains right now. There was no wind that brought that tree down. I checked the observations. Well have some wind later this afternoon as storm 2 makes tracks and moves into the bay area. Good morning, everybody. Its our hidef Doppler Radar. Things are actually kind of quieting down now. We have had a series of cells containing moderate to heavy downpours move through this morning alone. Winds under 5 Miles Per Hour out of the southeast at this particular time. We are on the back side of yesterdays front that brought 2. 75 of rain to san rafael. Over an inch in San Francisco. We are on the back side of it but this is the second storm system and right now well start to see the leading edge about 1 00 in the north bay. And all this comes in and it will be fierce during the afternoon hours with steady rains through the evening commute. And some very gusty winds out of the southeast and a lot of unstable air mass. Its really juiced up at this particular time. So as we realize our daytime highs in the 50s and low 60s you, you cant rule out the possibility of an isolated thunderstorm through the evening hours. So meanwhile, we will pick up another additional two inches of rain over the next 24 hours in the wettest locations. Lingering showers on wednesday. The only dry day will be thursday. Storm 3 queued up, coming in friday. You just heard kiet do stuck in the backup in the Santa Cruz Mountains on highway 17. Both directions of 17 are closed in the Santa Cruz Mountains near the glenwood drive cutoff. They are turning cars around southbound at the summit and then northbound they are turning cars around at glenwood and they told us a little earlier that they were up to 100 vehicles, cars and trucks, stuck, waiting to get turned around. To avoid the area, highway 9 or you can use 152 to 101. Better yet, stay home, delay your trip a little bit if you can and well let you know as soon as we hear about any possibility of lanes opening. But with a big tree and live power lines in the roadway you know it is going to take longer to clear. We also have another hot spot now westbound 580 Altamont Pass to the dublin interchange. Its already heavy, a large drive time for this time of the morning. 26 minutes but its actually eastbound where we have a multi vehicle crash eastbound 580 at springtown. It is causing a bit of a delay in the westbound lanes. Some lookyloo traffic, you can see it there from vasco all the way down past your springtown exit. Meanwhile bay bridge filling in in the cash lanes. Still no metering lights. It looks okay across the span. They cleared some earlier flooding that was a little issue overnight near the skyway in the eastbound lanes. Heres a live look in oakland. 880 nimitz freeway great no problems near the oakland coliseum. No major flooding along 101 near lucky drive looks okay so far across the golden gate. Back to you guys. All right. Thank you, elizabeth. We continue to follow some breaking news overseas this morning. The taliban claiming responsibility for an attack at a military school in pakistan. At least 126 people mostly children have been killed. Police sources say at least 6 terrorists entered the school after scaling the walls. Army Officials Say most of the 500 students have been evacuated. Protestors lined up again in oakland yesterday calling for an end to police brutality. Hundreds of people gathered at lake merritt where they lit candles and held a quiet vigil. That demonstration remained peaceful and no problems were reported. Earlier yesterday, in oakland, Police Arrested 25 protestors outside the police station. They linked themselves together with signs saying silence is violence. Others chained themselves to the building. Some south bay residents say a San Jose Police officer should be fired for twitter comments. Phillip white is on leave. He tweeted about using a gun for selfdefense when necessary and said, quote, if anyone fells they cant breathe or lives matter, ill be at the movies tonight off duty carrying a gun. Many are calling those comments inappropriate. This is a Police Officer that felt that there would not be any sort of accountability for these type of attitudes, behaviors and threats, and thats where hes wrong. The police union issued a statement calling officer whites comments on social media offensive and disrespectful. Mayor reed called them inappropriate and insensitive. Happening today, santa claras board of supervisors all set to approve a living Wage Ordinance draft. It would set pay at 19. 06 an hour. It would apply to workers for profit employers who contract with the counter. The living wage would kick in for contracts with employers initiated on or after july 1, 2015. Before you take a break for the holidays, spending a few hours reviewing your Financial Life may help boost your bottom line. If you have some time and also could put a dent in your Holiday Shopping bills, too, cbs News Business analyst Jill Schlesinger joins us live in new york on this tuesday. Jill, lets start with investments. Reporter here good news. If you are worried about losing money, sell your losses and have them offset any gains that you have previously taken in the year. If you have more losses than gains, you can deduct up to 3,000 against your ordinary income. And if youre unfortunately carrying more than 3,000 of losses you can carry over that amount to future years. Just remember, if you are going to sell something and you want to replace it within 30 days, that new asset cannot be what the irs calls substantially identical. Its known as the washsale rule. To avoid it, wait 31 days, repurchase what you sold or replace it with something thats close but not exactly the same, maybe something cheaper like an index fund. Its been a great year for stocks. What if you dont have losses . Reporter well, heres the deal. I think its important to remember that married tax filers who have taxable income up to 73,800, singles up to 3,690,000 have no tax rate. You think your income could be higher later, realize your gains at that lower rate. Singles up to 36,900. The taxable income includes the gain. Fact for that in with your decision. What about year end taxes . They are about coming up here come new years day. Reporter thats right. Well, just remember, if you are trying to qualify for write offs whether its a charitable contribution or a business expense, that payment must be postmarked by midnight december 31. The irs says just writing december 31 on your check doesnt actually qualify you for a deduction. Pledges are not deductible until paid. So consider making a last minute donation with a credit card. Those are deductible as of the date the account is charged. For more year end strategies, you can go to jillonmoney. Com. It is way more fun than battling the crowds in the mall. Oh, yeah. Why not. Especially if you have no losses this year. That sounds good. Jill schlesinger, live for us in new york, thank you, jim. Well, if you bought groceries online recently you might want to check your receipts. You may be getting a refund. The california federal judge says safeway has been overcharging its web customers marking up prices for home delivered groceries by nearly 10 . Safeways customer agreement states online prices should be the same as those in store. 5 40. The late Robin Williams is not forgotten by fans. Why google said his suicide seared into the worlds collective mindset. Plus, when it rains pours. At least thats been the case recently here in the bay area. But one local farmer says this weather isnt a good thing. ,,,,,,,, forecast in just a few minu wh back to breaking news in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Highway 17 remains shut down both sides of the highway because of a pretty large downed tree and a number of power lines in the roadway. So you can see its causing a huge traffic mess on both directions of highway 17. And were hearing now that crews are having a hard time getting there because the traffic jam is bad, up to 100 cars in the northbound lanes. So turning cars around southbound just south of the summit and then northbound they are actually turning cars around closer to glenwood. Avoid highway 9. Use 152 to 101 go to summit road and to the freeway. Its a mess. If you can wait it out thats your best bet. Westbound 580 road are wet. We had flooding reports, some spinouts earlier. This one just got the all clear. So all lanes are now back open eastbound 580 at springtown. There was a multivehicle crash. It was kind of a Chain Reaction after one car spun out. Westbound 580 though in the commute direction, you can see that particularly heavy right now through the livermore valley. Well check with roberta in just a minute to see how hard the rain is coming down. Bay bridge toll plaza, a lot of cars waiting with you now. They just switched on the metering lights so you are already stacked up just beyond the first overcrossing. Carquinez bridge 22 minutes. It looks okay on our sensors now from the incline to the tunnel. And theres been no accidents so except for the really two highway 17 is the big issue and the spinout in livermore. Overall we have seen okay traffic this morning as far as the number of incident. Beyond the peninsula, looks clear on 101 and 280, everything for the most part at the speed limit. But if you can give yourself some extra time, that sure would help you out with the morning commute. Make sure you dont cause a hot spot there on the roads. 13 minutes between 880 and 101. This is the san mateo bridge. Its just past the toll plaza. Taillights are fine over the highrise. Westbound 237, clear now in milpitas. No major problems around most of the san jose freeways. 280, 101, guadalupe parkway. And if you want to use mass transit, i know ace train was a huge headache yesterday. Everything is back on track today. No delays. And bart systemwide everything looks fine there. If anything changes when you hit the roads, remember kcbs, our radio partner, when you hit the roads at 106. 9 fm or 740 am. All right. That is the latest from here. Lets get a check of that hi def doppler and roberta. Hidef Doppler Radar right now a little bit of a lull in the activity after picking up heavy rain in the last couple of hours. Good morning. Lets take a look at it at this particular time. You can see the cells exiting to the east lifting to the north leaving in its wake wow check this out in the past 24 hours, usually i dont like to do a history report in the Morning Hours i like to forge ahead but these are very impressive rainfall totals over the past 24 hours. Nearly 7 10ths of an inch of rain in san jose. San francisco almost 1. 5 yesterday. Nearly two and a quarter in san rafael. Humidity in santa rosa 100 , calm winds, pockets of dense fog. Concord fog and 51. Livermore upper 40s. We have more rain moving into the bay area. It is storm number 2. And at this time, if our timing does serve us correctly, it will be moving in this afternoon. First this is the frontal boundary that dumped nearly two and threequarter inches of rain in san rafael yesterday. We are on the back side of it. Thats why we have had lingering showers. This is todays storm behind me here. And way upstream, that is storm number three for friday. So lets walk you through todays storm so you know when to expect those raindrops on the rooftops. Heres the frontal boundary in the afternoon going north to Sonoma County and slices through the bay area during the afternoon hours and aversely affects the evening commute. In addition, the air mass is really juicy and, um, a lot of unstable air mass as well so therefore, we have to keep that chance of a thunderstorm in the forecast. Couple that up with some breezy winds, down go the trees, down get power lines. We will continue to see lingering showers through 5 00 tomorrow morning, as well. So between now and then nearly 2 of rain in san rafael, over threequarters in San Francisco, over threequarters in santa cruz, as well. We have more rain tonight, as well. Okay. Here you go. By the time the sun sets tonight at at 4 51, seasonal temperatures. Extended forecast steady rain this afternoon, through tonight. Link, showers tomorrow. Really the only dry day this workweek is thursday. Lingering showers tomorrow. Friday showers. Saturda showers. Dry sunday and monday, rain and Christmas Even, looking to a possible unstable january. The guadalupe and san jose area reservoirs have increased five feet alone this week. We need the rain but not all at once. Right. It can be a problem. Don ford found out for some bay area growers who depend on the weather for irrigation, too much water can be almost as bad as not having enough. Reporter the rain continues coming down. Sometimes hard. Now one Award Winning ranch cant take it anymore. As of this afternoon, don, the pond is totally full. Completely. Mmhm. So all of our ponds now are completely full. Reporter mcavoy ranch provides some of the finest extra Virgin Olive Oil in the world, says consumer reports. Two weeks ago, the ranch was seriously running out of water for the trees. Last years crop was half of normal. Then this for us, it wound up being just a beautiful gift for this farm. Reporter so much water, its creating waterfalls not seen in years, keeping the trees from washing away is not easy. We came in at 6 a. M. , had some pretty, um, dramatic water flowing coming through our creek spillway systems. Reporter running from spot to spot, the men used bales of hay to keep the soil in place. It worked. Through the week they lost only 4 trees out of the 18,000 growing here. With trees saved and plenty of water, things are looking up. Potentially a fantastic upcoming harvest in 2015. Reporter in farming thats a jinx to say that. I probably shouldnt have said it. But im just so giddy right now. Reporter however, the rainy season is just starting to wind up. From having hardly any water to a lot, a lot changed in the last two weeks and the ranch says if it should start raining again soon, and it will, they say they are ready. In marin county, don ford, kpix 5. Mcavoy ranch had actually pruned back their trees just last winter to keep the water demand down. 5 50 now. Legendary actor Robin Williams suicide was the most searched thing on the internet this past year. The bay area comedians august suicide topped googles list. It was searched more than notable events like the world cup and the ebola Virus Outbreak which rounded out the top three. Im kiet do live in the Santa Cruz Mountains. A tree is down and traffic is a mess. Highway 17 shut down in both directions. ,,,,,, start a revolution a revolution in coffee quality with the finest nespresso coffee blends. A revolution in technology with unique centrifusion. A revolution in taste with a naturally formed crema on both coffee and espresso. Nespresso vertuoline. 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Reporter you know, this tree went down and its about an hour and a half ago so it is blocking all lanes here on highway 17. We are literally standing on highway 17 itself at a chp roadblock. What were seeing now this is southbound 17 and traffic is getting diverted at summit road. Folks are having to turn around and go back the other way. Northbound lanes are getting turned around at glenwood. At last report we heard they had about 100 cars standing up there. Those guys are turning around at this point, as well. The tree went down somewhere in between laurel and glenwood around 4 30 this morning. We dont know what type of tree or how big it is, but it is blocking the southbound lanes. The other complication is that the tree took down some power lines. Those power lines are now strewn across all lanes of highway 17. We dont have an estimated time of reopening. We have heard that pg e is on their way. But it is a mess out here and the Santa Cruz Mountains its dark and foggy a lot of drivers are quite honestly being surprised at this roadblock coming up out of nowhere so they are speeding through here. If you are heading into the area, if you have to go here, slow down. Avoid the area. Thank you. It is 5 55. Richmonds police chief raised eyebrows when he participated in a protest march. For the first time he explains his motivation. ,, i love this new sirachi burger. Its siracha. Sluracha . No. Sirahchah. Siriracha. No. Watch how i say it. Sirahcha. Thats not helping. Bam thats jacks new spicy Sriracha Burger comin in all hot and melty with jalapenos and bacon but the best part . Its not just sriracha sauce, its creamy srirah. Slurrah cha. Whatever its called, its awesome sauce. Then boom. What happened . Stress, fun, bad habits, kids, now what . Lets build a new, smarter bed using the dualair chambers to sense your movement, heartbeat, breathing. 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The tweet addressed the recent protests against police brutality. Activists say they were little more than threats aimed at demonstrators. From across the bay to around the world, the stories that matter on kpix 5 news this morning. Captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com good morning. We have rain again in the bay area. Roberta . We had some heavy downpours in the last couple of hours but according to our hidef Doppler Radar, were now seeing a little bit of a lull in the activity. Good morning, everyone. You notice the shades of yellow now dissipating. Thats the aftermath from yesterdays frontal boundary. Right now, 40s and 50s in its wake. Southeast winds under 10 Miles Per Hour. But wait this is exiting the region. This