what do we have here? the storm impact scale. it s back. our last real rain was 129 days ago. and on this the first day of october, the rain returns. 19 days earlier than last year. good afternoon. thanks for joining us. i m larry beil. and i m ama daetz. let s take a live look right now, where you can see there are some clouds already, but no rain in the bay area just yet. not yet. let us head to spencer christian back from vacation and bringing the rain wit began talking, the rain began to push up against the north bay coastline. so here s a look. we ve got a large area of moisture just offshore. and some of it is touching the coastline right now. we ve got some light showers around ft. ross right now. the rain is pushing into the north bay right now. here s a satellite radar image of our storm offshore, building a little steam. a light shock breaking only one on the storm impact scale. highest rainfall total will be in the north bay. it won t produce wet pavement ove
what we know so far here. the former president told to appear in federal court in miami next tuesday to face the charges. tonight, our team talking with sources at bedminster, new jersey, where the former president is huddled with his advisors. he had recently been told by the special console that he was the target of a criminal investigation into his handling of classified documents. that was a signal that this could be coming in tonight it is now playing out. a former president indicted by the special counsel. pierre thomas, dan abrams and our investigative team and what they ve learned of this hour and what america will now witness play out next week. also tonight, 120 million americans now under alerts and warnings over hazardous smoke now stretching down through the northeast all the way down to washington, d.c., alabama. hundreds of wildfires in canada, more than half still out of control. the new york city skyline blanketed. in the nation s capital, the washington monu
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it was a great day. so i would come back on the ferry. i would do it. it s very comfortable and scenic and gets you there about as fast as driving. transit authorities have added ferry service on both the larkspur and sausalito routes all weekend. you can download the abc7 news app to deal with the detours. it s available for your smartphone or tablet. you can unable push alerts to get an update as soon as doyle drive reopens. the app is free from your app store. if you would like more details you can get them from abc7 news.com/apps. protesters in the east bay are fighting back against crude oil shipments coming in on trains. yesterday people marched through the streets. they say kendall morgan is putting their lives in danger by sending trains filled with crude oil to the bay area. two years ago a crude oil train derailed in canada and killed people. we allowed them to drive our trains and endanger our communities and also to have power over other decision tha
next heat wave ends. lonny rivera has been out in the heat all day, but first, let s check in with drew tuma to see if any records were set. today, no records were set. they were safe, but that didn t stop temperatures from soring into the triple digits inland. it was hot. highs today, 108 in fairfield. 103 in gilroy. 106 in choef loverdale. the only place it wasn t hot, the coastline in the 60s. changes are coming. the fog, going t expansive tomorrow morning to help cool us off. by midday tomorrow, only in the 70s and 80s. but our next heat wave is not far behind. that s coming up in the forecast. ama? thank you, drew. lonny rivera continues our live team coverage from walnut creek. reporter: ama, you can really feel the heat out here and you can see it when you look at all the dry brush here. it s one of the reasons officials say during this time of day, avoid any strenuo activity. here you go. reporter: a steady flow of cars and trucks cruised through this ca