Bit breezy out there so far. But as far as rain goes, most of us have just seen light showers, really heavy mist at this point. Coastal areas in north bay. You are seeing wet conditions on the roads. So take it a little slower in these areas. You can clearly see the where the rainfall is. A already is up along the north coast and you see all that speckled cloud cover offshore. These are called cellular clouds right here. And oftentimes for when its cold and unsettled, this is a sure sign of some Thunderstorm Development thats likely to work its way on into the bay area later today and on into tomorrow, too. You can actually see some of those thunderstorms developing later on today. And future cast those deeper areas of green and notice that blue becomes a lot more widespread leading into tomorrow and saturday. Thats because cold air rushes in to the bay area and in particular, the sierra resulting in very heavy snowfall. Blizzard warnings in effect the next several days. Roadways going to be impossible for travel as we will see several feet of snowfall. Im looking at Donner Summit with 9 to 12 feet possible. That is going to be a tough job for plows the next several days. So if you are up in the sierra, have plenty of food with you. Youre not going to be doing a lot of moving. And if you have plans on heading to the sierra, its really time to cancel them. Now. Do not be heading up there these next several days. Temperatures are in the 40s to 50s right now in the bay, oakland and hayward. 53 dublin at 49 fremont. Also at 49 degrees, novato and San Francisco sitting at 52. So it is a mild start. Theyre some of those showers. Misty conditions at sfo right now. Temperatures in the upper 50s for most of us later today. Im talking everything you need now for the several days of wet and snowy weather. Still ahead right now, all eyes on for that. Okay. Lets look at your morning commute. Remember, things are a little slick and went out there. Take your time. 20s, even iran traveling into the city right now in the bay bridge, san mateo bridge just short of 17 minutes. Ours has center joey, see it coming down. There are 14 right . And the Golden Gate Bridge. 37 to the tolls. 26 minutes. Well, we are continuing our Team Coverage now of the rain. I know in the north bay earlier we had a few drops start to fall. Should find out how its going now. Yeah, lets check in with will trend has been keeping us updated up in santa rosa. Will cain. Last time we checked in hood was on now holds off. So is it coming down . Are ready and just need you to come to the part. Back to know, we know you only has been or shoes on and that i know came just let careful what you wish for william h s s. Thanks prepare. All right. 704. Is the time also happening tonight in the east bay, the public will get its chance to meet the candidates for oaklands police chief. But tonights candidate comes with a little controversy. They are saying tell says she wont be easy or kerman has the latest. Cincinnati Police DepartmentLieutenant Colonel lisa davis, new york assistant deputy mayor for public safety. Louis molina, former San Leandro Police chief Abdul Pridgen and retired lubbock, texas police chief Floyd Mitchell are all candidates for Oakland Police chief and now the Oakland Police commission has selected them to answer questions a Community Forum thursday. But mayor sheng thao says this public forum is making top candidates withdraw their names from consideration. And this letter to the Police Commission tell says oakland city charter does not require a public form to select the Oakland Police chief hosting a public forum is detrimental to attracting the best candidates. I will not participate in the forum for these reasons. Chief election help. That we had the right. Im from we dont have a public. There was a public forum. Civil rights attorney, john burris is closely watching the process. Position on this, although theres some legitimacy to i just dont know that overrides the Public Interest to know where these people are before they selected. I think thats the overriding consideration. Former San Francisco police chief tony rivera says the current list lacks any internal candidates. He says oakland could benefit from someone who knows the department and the Community Problems are always going to come up with your teeth. Look at a problem in in a specific community and its nice to to know a couple of leaders in that community, but you can call up on a personal basis and saying, hey, i have a problem here. What do you think . And it really gives you some firsthand knowledge of that. I think its very advantageous. Former Oakland Police chief Anne Kirkpatrick says shes also disappointed theres no internal candidate and she says whoever is chosen, they must be someone who can make peace among all the factions fractures between the commission. And the Mayors Office of pressure between the mayor and the city council fracture between the community. And all the politics that place fractured. And yet you have a great Police Department that just really hungry for the right person who could be a peacemaker. I think between all of these different factions. How this all plays out remains to be seen. But civil rights attorney jim chanin says the mayor and the Police Commission need to stop the infighting. They have to get themselves together. Whether we have a public hearing or not, it is not to be by not what people want, but but bucks best for the people of oakland. And thats clearly not happening. That Candidate Forum will take place thursday evening at 6. 30, at city hall and online. Dan kerman kron. 4 news. Well, san jose also need a police chief and city leaders are planning virtual and inperson meetings next month. Residents can voice to the new to should be current chief anthony mata is retiring next month after spending nearly 30 years with the department. Hes accepted a new position as the Investigations Bureau chief for the Santa Clara County district attorneys office. Happening today, the man charged in connection to the Half Moon Bay mass shootings. Well be back in a San Mateo County courtroom. Charlies. Was supposed to enter pleas to grand jury indictments last month, but it didnt happen after the defense asked for more time to review the charges. Last years out pleaded not guilty to all the charges and remain in custody ever since. Prosecutors say they hope the trial will happen this year. But they admit it could be delayed until 2025. Today is a key deadline for the Company Behind a proposed ecofriendly city up in solano county. Today is the deadline for this long. The county counsels office to give California Forever the ballot title that the company is going to need to start collecting signatures for ballot initiative. The companys trying to get the proposal on the november ballot. California forever has had to revise its initiative twice and the delays have shortened the amount of time they have to collect 13,000 signatures. But a spokesperson for the company says they are confident their initiative will make it on the ballot. In the north bay police now are asking for your help identifying the person who they say started this fire and in a target saturday afternoon, youre probably seeing that video by now. Well, officers say the man on your screen is the one who set paper towel rolls on. Fire in one of the aisles. The fire forced evacuations and a store closure thats still in place or was until saturday. The damage now is estimated to cost around 3 Million Dollars. Video game company. Electronic arts is laying off more than 650 employees. Thats about 5 of its workforce. Eas cuts are the latest layoffs now to rock the video Game Industry since last year. Other companies that have laid off employees include microsoft, riot games and unity. Fact, just yesterday sony announced it was going to be laying off 900 people from playstation division. Muti, theyre now posting their highest ridership of 4 years. San Francisco CityOfficials Say the ridership rose 25 over the last year. The Transit System has been making busy improvements, focusing on cleanliness safety, reliability might not be enough city director of transportation says muni still facing toughest financial situation in its history at some stations. Ridership is only a 3rd of what it was before we even saw during the pandemic. Were also still suffering from the fact that theres no city in the world that has been more impacted by covid era work from home policies. Pthen San Francisco. We have succeeded in retooling unity for todays current travel patterns and the results. Have been far more successful than we had thought possible. Well, the future of immunity may become clearer later on this year as the mayor and the board of supervisors finalizes that 2024. 25 budget plan. Still ahead, a morning news. People living berkeley want changes made to a problematic intersection. After backtoback accidents. And Oakland Councilmember takes a rock with police to open streets here. The needs of local businesses. What theyre asking for. And after the break, with less than a week until the primary election, a new exclusive poll shows who is in the lead for the open u. S. Senate seat in california. And you can see our next storm system really bearing down on Northern California having yet to make its way to the bay area just yet, although we are seeing some areas of mist drizzle and some heavy mist at im talking the next several days of rain for the bay heavy and were back 7. 13, is the time with a live look behind us here at the Golden Gate Bridge getting darker and more grand outline ominous continue crouching just a little bit. Yeah, inching closer and closer by the minute i like it all. The comparisons and same for the sierra. This view is not going to look anywhere like this. Just 24 hours from now. Im very, very much so im looking forward to what this is going to look like in just a couple of days. You can see theres not a lot of people just casually enjoying the diamond peak tech this morning as at lake level at the lake tahoe, 4 to 8 feet of snowfall are expected here with just the next 36 hours. Radar is showing you for us in the bay. We do have those spots of heavy drizzle. Misty conditions so far, rainfall holding off for now. At least the heaviest stuff. Its up in Northern California. Look at that massive system anchored off the gulf of alaska. This is that cold front that is sweeping through today. Behind it, cold air stashed up and all that moisture headed are right for us. This is going to be the most significant snow maker of the season so far could be for the whole year. We are looking out there at the sierra seeing several feet of snow Donner Summit anywhere between 5 to 12 feet of snowfall. Now i dont care how lifted your traffic is. How many change do have this is not a situation that even the most experienced of us want venture into that 5 to 12 feet of snowfall. Thats going make roadways impossible to be traveling on. So if youre out there, expect several days of being snowed in, have plenty of food with you. He wanted to head up. I hope that you can get those cancellations in asap. 3 to 6 inches of snow on some of our north bay mountains. The snow really falls to increasingly lower elevations this year is not just dealing with feet upon feet of snowfall, but also strong winds. Thats a blizzard warning going into effect at 10 this morning through 10 00am on sunday. Winds up there gusting as high as 80 Miles Per Hour. Peak wind gusts on some of the very crest mountains of the sierra. As much as 100 Miles Per Hour. This is going to make for low visibility, drifting snow just further making travel conditions and possible. All this starts today but really picks up into friday and saturday. Thats our heaviest of it. We are going to see many closures, including along i80 and highway 50 for the bay. We can handle the rain that were going to be seeing. It is going to be a good dose of it, though. Heavy rain moving through this afternoon. Pockets of heavy rain and even thunderstorms expected through the afternoon into evening hours tonight and into tomorrow as well. Little bit of good news here. So we had a bit of a break that is allowed water levels to fall on some of our smaller streams in our rivers. Any rainfall that were going to see either going to get absorbed by the ground. Were going to flow into the streams. We should not see much flooding concern for the bay area out of this one. A quarter of an inch to a half an inch of rain today for the bay. We will several inches this weekend and even more into next week. Any concerns of flooding would be on small streams right around the russian river. As for a high surf advisories that the coast, those go into Effect Tomorrow as part of the storm, we will have some high breaking waves, high swell. So keep it away from the coast. Winds picking up later today as the cold front rushes through 30, 40 Miles Per Hour. Gusts in the day pair that with upper 50s to low 60s and showers. Absolutely. Get the rain jackets ready to go for the later today. Temperatures further fall into the weekend by friday, saturday and sunday. Were barely making 50 degrees for your daytime highs. Mountain snowfall friday night into saturday morning right here in the bay and relentless snowfall in the sierra over the next few days. Great. All right, john, thank you for that, ok . So were tracking your morning traffic. Remember, things are a little slick out there. 33 minute ride into the city this morning. Mateo bridge around 17, 80 to 101, things are a little busy picking up. Certainly wet on the riches center fell bridge 14 minutes there and the Golden Gate Bridge. 37 to the toast. 31 minutes. 7. 17, the time for your money. This morning, the average working parent relies on 6 different people to support. Raising their child and tmobile says it stopped billions of spam calls. 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Senate, its not just about whos in first, but that all important runnerup. Democrat adam schiff, thank you, everybody. Republican steve garvey. And democrat katie porter. Youre looking at the 3 leading candidates in the race for californias open u. S. Senate seat. That is according to this new inside california politics. Emerson college poll showing ship in the lead with 28 and garvey in second with 20 in 3rd place. But within the margin of error in reach of second places. Porter with 17 democrat barbara lee rounds out the top 4 at 8 . While all other candidates pulled at 2 or lower. I think the main takeaway here is that shift is likely to take that number one spot. But that second place that is up for grabs. Matt taglia helped to organize and conduct the poll. He says its important to remember this race is part of the states top 2 primary system, meaning the top 2 vote getters will advance to compete in the november general election all the more. So i taglia note much of the attention is now on porter and garvey as they do it out for runnerup. We see a real tightening per second place. So