This is the first time this season weve had a storm ranking 3 on the impact scale. So far today the north bay has seen the worst. We have Live Team Coverage spread out across the bay area. First, christian spencer. That storm is strong right now. Live dpop pler 7 you can see the rain is covering much of the north bay. It is rather heavy. As we close in we can see the rain moving in there marine county over to napa county. The orange and red colors there, moving north of Sonoma County toward the napa area, east of fairfield. Its a strong storm and it will be with us tonight and tomorrow morning producing anywhere from 1 inch to 2. 5 inhes for most of the bay year area. 2 to 4 inches in the hills. Heaviest of the rain will be in the north bay until midnight. Moving into San Francisco and oakland later tonight in the Early Morning hours. Into the south bay between 2 00 and 8 00 a. M. A Flash Flood Watch is in effect until 3 00 tomorrow morning for all of the north bay, especially the barn scar areas. A look at how things are shaping up tonight and tomorrow in a few minutes. Dan. One month after the forth bay wildfires people are bracing for possible flooding. Some suers melted during the fires blocking storm drains. The city has hired crews to send remotes into its either completely burned away the pipe in its fieldsobrieentirety or it hasnt burned and collapsed on itself. A Flash Flood Watch is in for north bay tonight. Santa rosa is urging people to sign up for alert. Text your zip code to 888777 for immediate notification from authorities. Laura anthony live in one neighborhood hit hard by the fires. Napa civics community. Reporter it started raining here the last few minutes or so. Napa county nonetheless has activated their Emergency Operation center. They did that this afternoon. They say partially and only as a precaution in case theres issues here tonight here in the fire areas. The fire came within 23 inches of the back steps. Reporter though his home was spared, he now has a new worry. A steep hillside that backs up to his back doors. Its a hill that looks unstable in dry weather, much less with heavy rains moving in. This is a firsttime experience for us here. The entire driveway up there, it all could come down, we dont know whats going to happen. Reporter throughout the entire area in napa county, preparations are jurntd way for the emergency that could follow the fires and devastated much of the area. Cal trans has brought in crews like these to remove debris, burnt trees and brush from the sides of highway 121 and 128. And theres work being done in places like silverado to protect storm drains now covered with fabric and surrounded by gravelled bags to keep the ash and debris flowing from gutted homes away from local water ways. The most important the most important things is to look up and look to the sides. We want to be careful of falling trees. Reporter in the meantime, david has said given what he and his wife has already been through hee not too much worried about the ran yet. Im not going to worry about it tonight. If we had a winter like last winter thered be some long sleepless nights. Reporter now david has told us he has luned up some lined up some stabilizers behind his house. He doesnt have that lined up until next week. Oak laura, thanks very much. The San Francisco spot known for flooding but every areas getting help from the city water department. Jonathan bloom live to explain whats happening. Reporter well, it was quite a production earlier today rolling out truck loads of these red and white plastic barriers around tdistrict. These are surrounding everything, covering up doors and garages, and thats the point, to keep the water out. Its a little like playing with real big legos. One that weighs 400 pounds once their full. You might say these workers are fighting water with water. These are temporary plastic flood barriers that interlock to seal out storm water. Reporter lockeding to its the public utility commissioners response. Whats it like when it floods here . Its really dangerous. You got to be very careful. Reporter the folks at ocean slash wind and door remember this flood years ago. It flooded laundry rooms and forced to start looking for options. We were one over the first in the country to roll this out. Reporter but the discovery odor of this garage insist flood stop is not a stop. After 37 years here, hahn says the water pouring into his shop ruini ruining computers isnt all from the sky. As the pnc work to modernize the suer system theyre from the run off that flooded his kitchen a few years ago. Ive seen real danger here, im glad theyre doing this for the safety of our community. Reporter the barriers and grant money are part of rain ready sf. It also part of something called adopt a rain s n where neighbors are given a tool to clean out theyre storm drain before it floods. In San Francisco shlg abc 7 news. Because of the storm, the fiery that was supposed to leave south San Francisco in about an hour will be replaced by a bus. Two stops in oakland and alameda. Fieries in San Francisco and harvard bay have not affected by the weather. Join the morning team tomorrow at 4 00 for a look at how the storm develops over night and the timing on where you can expect to see the effects where you live. New at 6 00, Charles Manson might be back in the hospital tonight. A source says his healthy is deter rating. The 80yearold who was taken to the hospital three days ago, he was recently hospitalized in january for a lesion in his intestines. The capture of this man who escaped from a Mental Hospital in hawaii. Randall sato has been held here since 1981 when he was found not guilty because of insanity in a murder trial. There are no signs of Mental Illness in the escape plans. There was premeditated, intentional, planned. This was something that was not done by somebody who was suffering from a mental defect. Its been a long europeanfully. From hun lieu lue, play wee, san jose and stockton. Vic joins us with how his journey ended. Reporter randall sato is being booked in the jail and this is where hell stay until hes expedited back to hawaii. Randal saito escaped from a hospital. He used the ail yass bill. Saito had a backpack and a cell phone and vague if his answers. [inaudible] . [inaudible]. Reporter has cab fair was 90, he paid in cash. He flew commercially from san jose. Yesterday saito took a yellow cab on a shopping trip. The cab owner told us the he had suspicion from saito. I told the dispatch this morning, i said if he calls for me i dont want nothing to do with that because thats the guy. My boss called me and he said are you sure. I said im 100 sure. Reporter saito called yellow cab for a ride to reno. Hee not answering his radio or his phone so i assumed the worst. I called the sheriffs. Zbaif him information on my cab. Reporter ten minutes later sheriffs deputy followed the cab at mcdonalds. Police swarmed the cash as it stopped to fill up on gas. They went over, pulled him out of the car, handcuffed him and put him in the back of the police car. Reporter saitos reaction was classic. When the guy was caught he said they got me. V reporter vic lee, abc 7 news. We just got this booking photo in. It is on the page for the san waukee sheriffs county office. 43yearold kevin janson neil had a protective order filed against him after he allegedly stabbed a woman this year. Detectives believe neil constructed the rifles himself from purchased parts. Today authorities found the body of a fifth victim, neils wife who had been shot to death. Her body was concealed under the floorboards over the couples home. 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For Health Insurance starting january 1st, enroll by december 15th. Because you never know when life. Will change. Get covered today. Live doppler 7 is lit up today as a strong storm moving across the bay area. Well continue to track this here and you can access it any time through the abc 7 act yew weather app. With the storm east by the way crews out. Abc 7 fews aint color eric thomas anchor eric thomas continues coverage. Reporter dan, were getting some on and off drizzle, a little light rain but it comes and goes there afternoon. We had some this morning as well. Wen it was dry thats when public works and residence got out and did storm preparations. The city of walnut creek spent the last two weeks finishing most but not all of its storm prep work. Thats why this huge vacuum truck was out clearing debris. Crews have been out cleaning out debris wrecks in all the water ways. Weve been inspecting and cleaning all the inlets throughout the city. That involves pulling the breaks off making sure the pipes are clear. Reporter too bad greg fell son of walnut creek doesnt have a crew to deal with standing water. On problem like nights tonight its three or 4hes. Reporter its part of the reason hes filling sandbags provided by the city. The smarter things would be to put a better drainage in. Reporter the city has sent letters out to residence asking them to be on the lock out for clogged drainage. Wed like to give residence advanced notice to keep these areas clean. Reporter we checked in with some other cities across the county. Concord were filling rock holes today. They also say they were trying to get out ahead of this storm because therm how hard it was to catch up earlier this year. Eric thomas. Abc 7 news. When you see Stormy Weather where you live take a picture or video for us. Make sure youre in a safe place before you take the pictures. Congresswoman sad down with abc 7 news to discuss her legislation to prevent and respond to Sexual Harassment in congress. Under her bill a person charged with Sexual Misconduct will be named. If a member is a harassment it will be incumbent on the member to pay back the u. S. Treasure. Were requiring that. Last month, spears shared her own experience of an unwanteden counter when she was a young legislative aid. At t may be experiencing difficulty tonight. The problems are being reported across the country and at t says it did you know know when the problem will be resolved. We have just learned that redwood city opened their Emergency Operation city because of this outage and concerns that it will impact the ability of people to call 911, they reiterate at ts recommendation, a restarting phones seems to allow people to make emergency calls. Turning our attention to this significant storm. Category three. Moving south, spencer. Heres a look by way of doppler 7. Most of it covered by green and orange, there is moderate to heavy rainfall in many locations. The more clofrl areas here in orange and red indicate where the heaviest down pours are. Over in napa and Sonoma County. In napa along highway 121. Highway 12, down pours on cruise vil road. Pushes eastward out towards parkway and fairfield. It is stormy in the north bay and thats expanding east and southward. This is a view from emoryville, partly cloudy skies over San Francisco. Rainy and wind through tomorrow morning. Scattered showers tomorrow afternoon. Risk a flooding in the burn scar areas in the north bay. Low 50s in the north by the way low to mid60s every where else. This storm ranks three on the storm impact scale. Most locations will see from 1inch to 2. 5 inches of rain. Higher elevations well see 2 to 4 inches of rain. Winds will be gusting at 50 Miles Per Hour or higher. Starting 9 00 tonight, north bay will be getting a drenching but the rain will be pushing southward toward golden gate into San Francisco. By midnight tonight the heaviest rain will be into the central part. East by the way, peninsula, still raining in part of the north bay. By 3 00 a. M. Well see the storm swinging south ward. At that point the peninsula and le sant area will be getting a pounding. The intense activity will be far to the south. The morning commute will be a mess. 5 00 tomorrow morning still raining through the central part of the bay area. Most of the east by the way but now pushing down into the santa cruz area. The rain will continue following from 7 30 to 9 30. Well see the storm clearing out by midday tomorrow. There will be pocks of showers following the main body of that storm through the afternoon and evening hours. By 6 00 tomorrow evening look for rainfall totals at 1. 5 to 2. 5. San francisco and san ramon this is going to be a soaking storm and a windy storm. Wind advisory in effect until 3 00 tomorrow morning for the hills and mountains of the bay area. Look for gust over 50 Miles Per Hour. Possibility of down trees and power lines. Some of the storm high concern for flooding in the burn scar area. Debris flows, mud slides, moderate trees. Concern for creek areas and pour outages. Overnight lows in the mid50s. Tomorrows high in the low to mid60s but cooler in the north bay. In the sierra, the storm warning in effect till 5 00 tomorrow morning. Snow fall totals 2 to 5 feet. Drive g is not recommended in the sierra areas. Well have calm conditions on friday, saturday. Clouds increase on sunday. Another storm, a weaker one we hope will come in monday and tuesday. The wimpy storms. Yeah. Can you fix one of bay areas biggest problem . Who are these people . The Energy Conscious people among us say small actions can add up to something. Humongous. 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