Crews were busy trimming trees in the bay area, that could knock down power lines during the storm. Workers hired by pg e chopped down three 70 foot monterrey pines that wrapped their branches around distribution lines. More than 200,000 customers were affected by blackouts during last months storm. Everybodys getting ready, what do we expect to see tonight . Spencer christian is live with an accuweather update. Its on its way hours away heres live doppler 7 hd. You can see we have lots of clouds increasing in the area. The rain is yet to arrive, its on its way, and will likely arrive tonight in the north bay and spread to the rest of the bay tomorrow. Heres the abrooching storm, a different view bringing with it a high risk of urban flooding, meaning flooding of low lying areas and poor drainage areas. Rock slides, wind damage. Only a slight risk of river flooding, we expect up to 10 inches of rain from the storm. A Flash Flood Watch is issued for the north bay. 10 00 tonight to 6 00 saturday morning. Potential for rock slides, mudslides as i mentioned earlier, a wind advisory is in effect for the entire bay area. From 4 00 a. M. To 4 00 a. M. Saturday. Theres the potential for downed trees and power lines. Heres our animation or at least a bit of it well see rain developing in the north bay, and spread ago cross the entire north bay overnight. Not much of it will reach south of the golden gate, the storm may not have a significant effect on the morning commute for most of the bay area. Except in the north bay the rest of the day will certainly be impacted by the storm. Ill give you a look at that in a few minutes. We have a look at the north bay, no rain yet, but a lot of cloud cover well keep an eye on it throughout the afternoon. Residents, Business Owners and Emergency Operations agencies were busy preparing for possible flooding in the north bay. Amy has the story. All we can really do is sandbag it. Reporter candace is doing what she can for the upcoming storm. Customers want to make sure its protected. I am getting older. This year, one of my customers went and got me the sandbags which is so nice. Theres an art to sandbagging. Mill valley firefighters have it down to a science. Fill it up halfway and walk on them to flatten them. When you place your second layer, you want to make sure when you place the sandbag, you place it over the seam of the first layer and walk on it again. Its going to give you a much more effective barrier against water. This morning, firefighters and a representative from the Emergency Management team met to map out their plan for the storm. One concern is being able to communicate with residents. We have a telephone Emergency Notification system. They arent expecting major flooding but do think shale see it in the typical areas. Crews spent the day in marin county clearing out culverts and storm drains. They will have extra employees on hand to respond to calls for help. December storms served as a wakeup call for businesses throughout the region. Some were caught offguard by the heavy rain and it affected their businesses. Reporter the store behind me has been closed ever since that storm. You can see its boarded up. The rain caused a partial roof collapse. Can you bet that many other businesses across the area have been checking for their own cracks not wanting a repeat of what happened here. I was amazed at the water that came in. Employees at this pet shop in san jose were taken aback by last decembers storm. It was running straight out of the roof into these big buckets and garbage cans. And it splattered, there were wet towels everywhere. This cell phone video shows some of the rain seeping through the roof. Employees scrambled to move their pets. We want to keep them warm and dry, we dont want the product to get wet and lose money that way as well. This Safeway Store didnt fair so well. The damage parts of the roof caved in this store has been shut down ever since the storm, no word on the future. And nearby businesses are now feeling the pinch. This brings in walking crowd. Managers say their roof is completely safe, they hope to see more customers in the coming weeks. After the folks at andys downtown, a crowd surfing campaign raised 3,000 to patch up parts of their roof. Its a very old roof, its been patched many many times, so its definitely at the end of its useful life. A wait and see approach as they look ahead to the upcoming storm. Its not the rain but fungus that will doom this huge you can lip tuesday tree in berkeley. It stands watch over the pool entrance to Martin Luther king jr. Middle school. Its created a fourfoot cavity fearing the tree could come crashing down. The city has not yet set a date for its removal. You can track the rain on live doppler 7 hd any time. Its free on apples app store or google play. We have more information at abc 7 news. Com app. Jeremy is facing embezzlement charges. Cardera is accused of taking 20,000 from the president anton Little League and spending it on a Family Vacation to southern california. He was once the president of that Little League. The investigation found him try to repay the embezzled money after coaches in the league found out. The check he wrote bounced. A San Francisco public defender briefly arrested by Police Last Month filed a formal complaint today after charges against her were dropped. Police arrested and cuffed jamie when she tried to stop the detective who wanted to interview her clients. And a codefendant outside a San Francisco courtroom. Both men were facing misdemeanor theft charges. The deputy public defender says the officer who tried to question her clients has a history of violating rights of africanamerican men. Eric holder is in the bay area today he took part in a roundtable discussion in oakland on how to build trust between authorities and people of color. This is part of the obama administrations effort to address concerns following the high profile deaths of eric garner and michael brown. Once again, attorney general will push for Police Departments to equip their officers with body cameras. From sky 7 hd, you were looking at the sequences of a major work slowdown thats been happening at californias port many. A crowded line of ships waiting to be unloaded. Small businesses are caught in the middle of the issue. One company thats feeling the pain as a result of this. Im actually in san leann tremendous well show you fairfield in a minute. This parking lot normally bustling with container trucks coming and going. Today there were a few trucks its been that way for several weeks, in fact, activity here thanks to whats going on at the port has been cut by 75 . Take your old wheel off, and you get a new wheel. Thanks to the work slowdown at the port of oak land this man hasnt received a newports shipment in three months. For a small businesslike mine, there comes a point when it shuts you down and thats where were at right now. The last he heard, the container was stuck at long beach, and he cant supply his customers, he wont be able to feed his family. Im frustrated in knowing that an Organization Uses my family as a negotiating tool. We would unload four times as many containers right now as we are. Dave weber is in much the same boat. Sitting out in the bay on a container ship. Webers company the an exconsolidation center supplies green coffees and teas to roasters all over the bay area customers who now just have to wait. Its impacting the inbound product, making it available for the roasters everybodys frustrated if you will anxious to get product that should have already been here. Weber told us, hes already had to impose rotating layoffs on his employees. He realizes a labor dispute at the port has resolved soon, it could take weeks or months for his shipment to return to normal. In san leandro, laura anthony, abc 7 news. Coming up on abc 7 news at 5 00, the negotiations that are underway between port worker unions and why container trucks are so fired up right now. A plea is going out to help people burned out of their homes find a place to live. More than 120 victims of three major fires over the last week are still homeless right now. That includes a large fire that killed a man in the Mission District. The city announced it has set up a fund and Property Owners who can give these families a place to live can go to abc 7 news. Com and look for this story. Still ahead at 4 00, the billion dollar plan to fix californias roads and why every driver will end up footing the bill. New at 4 30. 80 Million People exposed. The hack targeting the nations second largest insurer. And why experts think this is a big sign that hackers are changing their tactics. Coming up on 4 12 this thursday afternoon. You were talking about a lot of rain thats coming all dry right now, heading back to the east bay and moving decently in both directions. Bulldog whats this . Mattress discounters president s day sale ending . But mattress discounters has the Largest Selection of memory Foam Mattresses under one roof comforpedic. Icomfort. Posturepedic hybrid. And wow get up to four years interestfree financing on the entire tempurpedic cloud collection and, get a queen size serta mattress and box spring set for just 397. The president s day sale is ending soon mattress discounters police are releasing more information today about the arrest of a man accused of molesting an 8yearold girl at a 99 cent only store near heyward. This is a surveillance image of that suspect. Vic lee is live in heyward today with the latest. Vic . That briefing by the Alameda County sheriffs spokesman j. D. Nelson just ended moments ago and im going to refer to my notes as i tell you what he said. The arrest was made yesterday, last night to be exact. His name is carlisle villizon. He is a repeat sex offender, wearing a tracking device one of those ankle bracelets when he was arrested. This is how it went down. Officer nelson said that an Oakland Police sergeant helped with the investigation. He went through the state database, which keeps track of sex offenders, and he found this mans name and he had a repeat incident in 2010 and he put 22 together basically, very Good Police Work. He figured out who the suspect might be and basically, they tracked him down and made an arrest at his place of employment. Heres what j. D. Nelson told us about this repeat offender. Hes a registered sex offender, on megans law, his case in 2010 is nearly identical to this case, with the exception of, he wasnt tackled by a Good Samaritan going out of the store. Everything else is the same. Just to recap what happened sunday afternoon the 8yearold girl was in the toy aisle when this man came up to her and touched her inappropriately, her mother was at another aisle and she did not see the incident obviously, the man then casually walked out of the store, stills that the Sheriffs Department released to the media showed the man walking out of the store, and so basically in 2010 this man was at another store, and he did exactly the same thing, he fondled another young girl, and then he walked out of the store. He was caught tackled as you heard, j. D. Nelson say, he was tackled outside the store by a good smarten thats why he went to prison thats why he had the ankle bracelet Good Police Work by the Oakland PoliceDepartment Sergeant who found him on the state database, and that tracking device incidentally put him at the 99 cent store on sunday afternoon around the same time. Thats how the arrest was made. Back to you, vic lee abc 7 news. Lawmakers are considering a plan to patch up californias roads at taxpayer expense. A new proposal would charge drivers 52 a year likely through insurance policies with the dmv. Assembly speaker said that would raise 2 billion annually, to repair roads, bridges and highways. The state is facing a 59 billion backlog in infrastructure repairs. I feel like we pay enough in taxes, if they would use the money more wisely i think they could maintain the roads. We should pay more. Have the test the gas is more reasonable. Gas tax revenues have fallen in recent years with more fuel efficient cars hitting the roads, and the roads continue to age and deteriorate, hybrid and electric car drivers would not escape this fee, because they wont be charged at the pump. California drivers licenses may soon go digital. A state law passed in 2012 lets drivers show proof of insurance on their phones. Now a state lawmaker wants to do the same thing with licenses. If approved the dmv would create a mobile app that would allow californians to access a digital form of their license or identification card. The organization will use a grant to jump start their plan for the next 20 years. A Million Dollars provides us an opportunity to set up our first ever endowment even though were part of uc berkeley, we really raise our own funds to do this work. To have a Million Dollars to help lay the foundation for the future is a big thing for us. Cal is one of nine nonprofit groups around the world to win the endowment. After a dry month, the Atmospheric River is upon us. And were so excited. Spencer christian is here with the timing of it all. Its about to end, its going to begin ending tonight. Heres live doppler 7 hd. Clouds over the bay area right now, rain the first rain which will allow the north bay, just hours away, heres a live view from our emeriville camera giving you a look the cloudy western skies. These are our forecast features. Well see heavy rain and gusty winds in all areas tomorrow, and on the weekend well see periods of rain and showers. The wet weather wont really end until early next week. We have temperature readings in the low 60s in most locations. Freemont and livermore. Only 59 in los gatos and petaluma. The storms will start to push in the north bay tomorrow night followed by storm number two on sunday. There will be a little bit of an easing up in the action between the two storms not exactly a dry break, just a little bit of a lowering of intensity on saturday. 7 00 this evening, well see light rain developing in the north bay, during the later hours of the evening, well see spotty light showers pushing down perhaps below the golden gate, most of the activity noticed in the nighttime hours and Early Morning will remain in the north bay. The north bay is going to get a soaking before the rain begins to move in a significant way. Southward and eastward. Later in the day tomorrow well see strong gusty winds and heavy rain pushing across the entire bay area. Tomorrows evening commute is likely to be a slow and complicated one, bear that in mind the rain goes on tomorrow night into early saturday. Then it starts to taper off we get that little bit of a break or at least easing up of the temps today. By 11 00 saturday morning expect rainfall totals to be 10 inches. 3 to 6 across the north bay. 1 to 2 inches in the south bay and up to five inches in the santa cruz mountains. The wind gusts will start to intensify overnight as well. The time line, by 7 00 tomorrow morning, gusts on the coast from 41 to 55 Miles Per Hour. 41 Miles Per Hour gust also at oakland tomorrow morning through the day, strong powerful gusts all day tomorrow into saturday evening actually see the winds tapering off a little on saturday. It will be a windy day. Snowfall in the sierra, maybe snowfall above 8,000 feet. Overnight, the low temperatures in the mid50s mainly tomorrows highs in the low to mid60s mainly, in the accuweather 7day forecast shows this wet pattern wednesday into next week to get some drying out. And im sure well welcome this pattern of stormy weather. Thank you sir. 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