You couldnt ask for a more dramatic video as crews were wall scaling on telegraph hill. What you are seeing is removing loose vegetation. Reporter this is part of a much bigger project to stabilize this hill. In 2012, several days of rain caused a rock slide that not only damaged this car but threatened this apartment complex. After most of the debris is cleaned off, sometime in january, the larger project will begin. They are going to use rock anchors. Theres about 300 of them they are going to use to install into the hillside. Reporter two meshes will be then put in to contain any other falling rock. The mayor of San Francisco was there and was told the project should be completed by june 2015 at a cost of 3. 9 million. Maybe down the road this qualifies for some kind of federal aid but im not worried about that now. We do have the resources and i want to spend the kind of money it would take to make sure that this hillside is safe for people. Reporter back here in San Francisco, telegraph hill, now safety is also a priority in pacifica. Remember that cliff that also threatened a few years ago some apartments . Well, at 6 00 i will show you what they have done to protect that bluff. Its amazing. Lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. Storm prep work is under way today in an area of San Francisco thats prone to flooding. Just last thursday, rain swamped at least two businesses along fulsom street in the mission strict. You can see damage from the storms line the sidewalk. The city is providing funding for flood prevention efforts. Crews installed removable flood gates. Its rain water coming down from the hill. They have about 20 minute warnings. As soon as it hits a certain amount of rain in volume, they have about 20 minutes to put these things in place before the street starts flooding. Pg e was in the area preparing for the storm. The utility says it has a mapping device to help determine where Power Outages may happen based on where the storm is located. San francisco officials have activated the citys Emergency Operations center in anticipation of the Severe Weather thats coming. As part of that effort, crews are clearing catch basins across the city. The mayor also asking people to clear away leaves and other debris that might clog storm drains. Potential street flooding is a concern across the bay area. Abc 7 News ReporterAmy Hollyfield has a look at how they are bracing for the storm in the east bay. Reporter rain isnt falling yet but people are already thinking about the storm. Tom gibbons loaded up the bed of his pickup truck with sandbags. The big storm thats coming in in two days is bigger than the last big one we had. Our Drainage Pipe is broken so our driveway kind of fills up with water like a big swimming pool. Reporter the city of berkeley ordered 1800 sandbags for residents this week. One third of them are already gone. Many people are using Lessons Learned from last weeks storms to prepare for this one. When we had the big storm recently, the water came under the door. We didnt know that was going to happen. It just flooded the whole bottom of the door. We thought this time we would get sandbags. Reporter crews are working hard to trim trees or cut down ones that look like they are leaning or weak. The city of berkeley is in charge of 35,000 trees. Private companies are getting calls to check on the rest. Tree trimming Companies Say they are getting slammed right now with requests to deal with trees before the storm but even as people race to prepare, they are careful to not sound unappreciative. If it gets in if garage, it gets in the garage. But we need the rain. We expect storms. We need rain. Its kind of its good. Definitely need the rain. Im glad that its coming. Of course we dont want our house to flood. Reporter in berkeleys department of public works they have all their employees assigned to cleaning out storm drains right now, not just the leaves and mud at street level but putting a rod down into the drain to clear it out. They recommend that you start cleaning the gutters and drains at your home, too. Amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. It is a mostly cloudy day around the bay area today. This is a live look outside, it actually looks pretty nice. Spencer christian is here with the accuweather update. Looks pretty calm at the moment. Live doppler 7 hd, we have cloudy skies all over the area but a very powerful, potentially damaging storm is headed our way. There is rain up around Crescent City but this isnt the rain associated with the big storm. Our concern at the moment is also with a dense fog and reduced visibility. Dense fog advisory is in effect for this area beginning 1 00 a. M. Tomorrow, continuing to 10 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Visibility is down to two miles at concord, three miles at fairfield. Lets take a look at the big powerful storm building out to sea that will produce some of the stormiest weather we have seen in years. That begins tomorrow night and continues through the overnight period and all day thursday. These are the high risks, not moderate risk, high risks associated with this storm. Urban flooding, mud sliding, rock sliding, creek flooding, Power Outages, winds at times, strong gusty winds arrive ahead of the rainfall, they will gust 50 to 80 Miles Per Hour at times. We expect the storm to produce up to eight inches of rain. I will be back to show you the forecast animation, giving you the timeline and the watches and warnings we need to take seriously. Spencer, thank you. Track the weather where you live with our abc 7 news weather app. Its free on apples app store or google play. We have more information at abc7news. Com apps. Protesters in berkeley vow to take over and shut down tonights scheduled City Council Meeting. Thats not going to happen now because berkeley decided to cancel that meeting. Sky 7 hd shows about 1,000 protesters shut down both directions of interstate 80 last night. The Highway Patrol arrested 150 of them. Other marchers stood on Railroad Tracks forcing an amtrak train to stop. Some activists have called on berkeleys mayor to resign because of the way Police Responded to protests. A woman gave birth to a healthy baby girl after getting stuck on interstate 80 during the protests last night. Camila ortiz arrived just after 2 00 this morning. Her mother was supposed to deliver at San Francisco general hospital. Those plans had to change after the protesters blocked the freeway. Her sister called 911. Pe then paramedics rushed the mother to an east bay hospital. This picture was provided of the new baby and mother, all smiles right there. She also has a 2yearold son. Sky 7 hd shows students walking out of class this afternoon. Organizers say they marched in solidarity with protests in ferguson, missouri. The students then headed to Union City Police headquarters. Thats where they staged a diein. School officials tell us between 200 and 300 students left class. Its northern californias biggest high school. [ chanting ] reverend Jesse Jackson led High School Students in chants of hands up, dont shoot today in oakland. Protesters across america have rallied behind that slogan after grand juries declined to indict White Police Officers in the deaths of two unarmed black suspects in missouri and new york. Jackson believes other complaints are also getting aired. We must address in a meaningful way the disparities thats driving this quest for equality. Inequality leads to anarchy and crime. Justice leads to peace. Its not right that police are able to pull over any black man or any black child they see just because they fit a description. Rev recherend jackson will t part in a rally in cupertino on thursday to focus on the widening income gap in silicon valley. Abc news is devoting a full week of program to report on race injustice in america. Watch for coverage on good morning america, world news tonight and nightline. Tomorrow, George Stephanopoulos will moderate a Town Hall Session on the issue on facebook. Still ahead on abc 7 news at 4 00, the conclusions of a just released report about the cia interrogating terror suspects. The abuse that report reveals. And a quest for justice. Charges against an uber driver accused of hitting and killing a young girl in San Francisco. What her family says the driver was doing when that accident happened. New at 4 30, Prince William and his wife kate wrapping up their visit to new york. We will see the surprising show of affection from one nba superstar. 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Thats how California Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein described cia interrogation methods. Today the Senate Intelligence committee which she chairs released its report on the tactics used after september 11th. Abc News ReporterKaren Travers with more from washington, d. C. Reporter humiliating abuse. Physical assaults. Death threats. Its all detailed in a sweeping damning indictment of the enhanced interrogation techniques secretly used by cia officials after 9 11. America is big enough to admit when its wrong. Reporter the Senate Intelligence committees socalled torture report looks at 20 specific detainee cases. It concludes that the approved enhanced interrogation techniques were not effective. I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence. Reporter the abuse began with the cias first detainee, al qaeda operative abu zubayda, subject to waterboarding. The report says in one session that he became completely unresponsive with bubbles rising through his open full mouth. The report also says that at one point when he was being waterboarded, several cia officials were profoundly affected. Some to the point of tears and choking up. As for the claims that Osama Bin Laden was tracked down based on information gained from enhanced interrogation, the Senate Committee says thats false. Former cia officials, members of the Bush Administration and some Senate Republicans say the report doesnt tell the whole picture. And could do more harm than good. It will endanger cia personnel, sources and future intelligence operations. Reporter president obama banned many of the techniques detailed in this report. The white house says he wanted it released for transparency and to show the u. S. Can learn from mistakes. Karen travers, abc news, washington. Senator feinstein faced a lot of resistance from the Intelligence Community in compiling the report and wanting to make it public. She spoke for about an hour on the senate floor today. Heres more on how she described the conditions in one particular location. Cia detainees at one facility described as a dungeon were kept in complete darkness, constantly shackled in isolated cells with loud noise or music and only a bucket to use for human waste. The u. S. Bureau of prisons personnel went to that location in november 2002 and according to a contemporaneous internal cia email told cia officers they had quote, never been in a facility where individuals are so sensory deprived. She called the practices in the report a quote, strain on our values and on our history. An uber driver accused of hitting and killing a young girl in San Francisco has been charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. He was booked today but released on bail, set to be arraigned tomorrow. Prosecutors say he struck a 6yearold, her brother and her mother while walking on polk street last december. Sofia was killed. Her mother and brother were injured. Her mother said the driver was on his phone and blames the company for killing her daughter. The driver stopped on light, my daughter would still be here. Why he doesnt Pay Attention . He keeps looking at his phone and drive at the same time. Its really bad for public safety. The company have to be responsible. Its so painful for our family. The family has filed a civil lawsuit against uber. The drivers attorney denies his client was on the phone. Turning back to the weather, Spencer Christian rejoins us. Everybody is calling this the biggest storm we have seen in years. At least five years, perhaps longer. We are talking about intense possibly flooding rains, powerful damaging winds, downed trees and power lines are likely. This is not to be an alarmist, but on a cautionary note, these watches and warnings need to be taken seriously. A look at live doppler 7 hd, we have only cloudy skies at the moment. Weather conditions are quiet although we do have reduced visibility over in the delta and locations where the fog is pretty dense at the moment. Lets talk about the storm watch. We have strong winds coming our way. A high wind warning, not watch, but warning, meaning these conditions are imminent for 10 00 from 10 00 tomorrow night to 10 00 thursday night. Urban areas could see gusts as high as 50 Miles Per Hour, Higher Elevations could see gusts up to 80 Miles Per Hour, downed trees and power lines are certainly a possibility with winds that strong. Gale Warnings Issued over the coastal waters and bay waters. Now lets talk about flash flood watch, not warning, but watch, meaning conditions are such that the flash flooding could occur. This is in effect from wednesday evening, tomorrow evening, to thursday night. Flash flooding is possible, rapid rises, increase in streams, ponding in poor drainage areas. On to High Surf Advisory which will be in effect from 10 00 tonight to 10 00 friday morning. Wave heights are already increasing above 10 feet in most locations. Breakers could reach 20 feet or higher. Dangerous rip currents are a possibility, beach erosion also a possibility with these rough waters along the coast and a blizzard warning, not watch, but a warning, in effect for the sierra from 10 00 wednesday night to 1 00 friday afternoon. Also means that these conditions are imminent, not just possible. Extremely dangerous whiteout conditions are expected, 10 to 20 inches of snow, gusts 50 to 80 Miles Per Hour. The passes may close for several hours in conditions like that. Back to our forecast animation starting at 7 00 tomorrow evening, at that point rain will already have moved into parts of the north bay and during the late night and overnight hours, moving into 5 00 thursday morning, beginning around morning commute, we will see heavy rain and strong gusty winds already covering much of the north bay with moderate to heavy rain reaching southward and eastward to other parts of the bay area as well. By 7 00 thursday morning, the middle of the morning rush, we will see the stormiest conditions reaching through the entire bay area. Heavy downpours of rain, driven by strong gusty winds. Localized flooding will probably already have begun, ponding on roadways, that sort of thing. The front will start to slice through the north bay in the middle of the day. By late afternoon, the front with the most intense weather conditions will have passed to our south and east but there will still be heavy, steady rains behind that front. That will continue into friday morning and then we will start to break up early on friday but the damage, whatever damage may accompany this storm, will have been done. Wind gusts, we will see 40 to 50 mile per hour gusts by midnight tomorrow night already, then winds will intensify. In some places we will see gusts between 45, 55 Miles Per Hour. By 3 00 thursday morning, 45 mile per hour gusts in oakland. By 7 00 thursday morning, look for 50 milere hour gusts in San Francisco, oakland, half moon bay. You can imagine the potential damage with winds that strong. But they will start to diminish in intensity later thursday. Rainfall projections, five to eight inches possible in the north bay mountains, four to six inches in the santa cruz mountains. Lower elevations, two to four inches by 7 00 friday morning. These are the totals we can expect. Tomorrow, under increasing clouds before the rain arrives, look for highs mainly in the low to mid 60s. Heres the accuweather seven day forecast. Very stormy day on thursday. The action begins tomorrow night but it will be at its peak during the day on thursday, probably early in the day. Tapering off a bit on friday. A dry day on saturday and another storm comes in sunday night and mo