Challenging drive during the morning commute. Umbrellas were a common site in San Francisco as people dodged the rain getting to and from work and more is still ahead. Spencer christian has a look at the forecast. The rain is tapering off but theres a lot of wet pavement. The conditions are relatively quiet in terms of rainfall. As we pull back and take a larger view, im clicking the thing here and lets see if it will move. There it is. Weve got a steadier pattern of rain to our south, south of monterey, and rain up north around eureka. In some spots, over an inch. Santa rosa, an inch. San jose and, well, there is still a bit more left in the system which ranks one on the storm impact scale. It will be with us through tonight and midday tomorrow bringing pockets of light rain. So heres the forecast. Starting at 5 00, well continue to see this pattern through the evening and into the overnight hours of scattered showers. Wet pavement for tomorrows commute. Steady rain is not expected until saturday morning. Ill have that forecast later. Ama . Spencer, thank you so much. Wet weather may be to blame for a fatal accident in campbell that killed a 16yearold boy this morning. An 18yearold driver apparently lost control of his bmw, spun out and slammed into a guardrail. The driver had just picked up the 16yearold after seeing him skateboarding out in the rain. The two were friends. The driver suffered a head injury but will survive. Firefighters spent 20 minutes rescuing the driver of a toyota scion that got wedge between a median and a big rail on 880 in vallejo along the eastbound lanes just after 8 00 this morning. Fire crews rescued the woman in the car. A true hero who conquered space and politics passed away today. Americans are remember former astronaut john glenn. He was a true trailblazer on earth and in space. Today, upon his passing at the age of 95 in columbus, ohio, nasa tweeted, godspeed, john glenn. He became the First American to orbit the earth. The soviets had done it a year earlier and glenns success earned him al lccolades. But he was not done. He represented his home state of ohio as a respected democratic retiring in 1999. Still, glenn was not done. In 1998, he returned to space at the age of 77 to help test the effects of space on aging. In 2012, glenn received the approximate initial medal of freedom. His health started to decline two years ago after a stroke. Today, Hillary Clinton paid tribute to her former senate colleague. Im sure the congressional record will be filled with pages of appreciation and recognition of this extraordinary americans life. Reporter other reactions today, retired astronaut scott kelly tweets, saddened by my colleague john glenn. Was very honored to have known him. President elect trump tweets, today we lost a great pioneer of air and space in john glenn. Glenn is survived by his wife of 73 years, annie, their two children, and a grateful nation. Larry and ama . Kristen, thank you so much. Turning now to the warehouse tragedy in oakland, the city has notified all families of the 36 victims who died in the warehouse fire last friday. Atf investigators are working through the rain to try to pinpoint the exact cause of that ghost ship fire and just in the past hour, the city of oakland officially declared a state of emergency and that make it is eligible for state and federal relief funds. Laura anthony is live at city hall with more on the latest developments. Laura . Reporter hi, ama, weve heard much in the last few days about which agencies may have been inside the ghost ship warehouse before the fire, that is, fire department, police and City Building department. But today we learned another agency from the county may have been in there as recently as last week. He hired me to do security. Reporter this man did not want his identity revealed for fear of retribution but told us he worked at the ghost ship warehouse as recently as last thursday doing security and odd jobs. He says a social worker from Alameda CountyChild Protective Services was there to check on the founder derick almena. Were they upstairs, down stares . They were everywhere. Reporter cps would not confirm or deny such a visit. The man also told us there was a fire inside the building last week involving a refrigerator. A fire he helped put out. Almena was concerned about a fire in 2014. One an arsonist set outside the ghost ship. All of a sudden we saw flames at 6 00 in the morning, lapping at the windows. Your heart just drops. Reporter as for fire inspections, abc 7 news has earn willed that required inspections were not done for at least a decade. I dont have an answer to that. We have to look at what was missed and what information we did not receive that caused this not to happen and we dont have that. Reporter now, the mayor and the lead investigative agencies have not scheduled any press conferences for today. What were waiting for are records, especially from the fire department, to see what inspections, if any, they have done inside that building. Live in oakland city hall, Laura Anthony, abc 7 news. Laura, thank you. Officials have released two new names of victims. 35yearold jennifer mediola was a psychology ph. D. Student. Her family said she died without suffering from smoke inhalation. Joey matlock, known to his friends as joey casio, is described as a philosopher of electronic music. Broken hearts and deep grief at the cal campus today. Leslie brinkley was there remembering five victims of the warehouse fire. Leslie . Reporter very much raw emotion today. At one point, the dad of one of the fire victims said his son didnt like using the yolo. His son preferred he said to use the yolf. So he came up with his own acronym, which is striking at this moment. And that was, you only live forever. Theres a part of our hearts that is missing today. They were five members of the Cal Community who parisherished the ghost ship fire. Four worked at a radio station. Her room nate, Jennifer Morris from foster city, 33yearold Chelsea Dolan and griffin madden, beloved as a volunteer coordinator for calib cal performances. He worked with the program. Reporter david cline also died in the fire. If anyone had a Bright Future ahead of him, it was david cline. Reporter tearful families took the stage at this vigil and personalized the heartache. Vanessa is my twin sister. She is my best friend. She is my light. She is my sun. Reporter family and friends hoped their legacy would inspire future artists and musicians here at uc berkeley. Im leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. For more information, go to abc7news. Com and look through the Photo Gallery weve put together honoring those victims. Barbara lee made a motion. We will continue to support our residents during this very difficult time with any recovery efforts. And now i ask the house to observe a moment of silence. All present, rise for a moment of silence. Bay area flankly, called the victims young and being resilient and compassionate. Two more fundraisers will be held in oakland tonight. Musicians will perform at karibbeean city on webster street and at golden bulbar. Several life bands and deejays are performing there starting at 8 00 p. M. Two major earthquakes, one in the bay and one across the pacific. Theres growing concerns about sexual assaults in the south bay after three incidents on one college campus. Its really been a dream come. An emotional day for the parents of conjoined twins. The Successful Surgery in the south bay to separate these two young girls. And lets take a look at our traffic on this rainy thursday. Okay. It stopped right now but you can see a lot of cars out there on the roadway and i can tell you that they are moving faster. Not a lot. No, because of all of the rain. This is 101 through san rafael. I see flashing lights there off to the righthand side. Your southbound traffic is on the righthand side. Stay with afoot and lighthearted i take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. The east and the west are mine. The north and the south are mine. All seems beautiful to me. All right. Happening now, traffic is just a mess. On northbound 101 in san mateo after a big rig spilled its load. What was on the big rig . Chicken parts. And they went flying on flying was bad. But they went out onto the roadway. As you can see from sky 7, a cal trans sweeper is sweeping up the mess now just south of the kehoe avenue entrance. The freeway has been totally shut down while this cleanup continues. Look at that backup, man. Im sure those people really appreciate your pun right there. I didnt write that. Thats why im not good. Well keep an eye on that. A key step in the effort to keep the raiders in oakland is coming next week. Its been announced on tuesday the city council will hand over control to the open coliseum property to a group headed by hall of famer ronnie lott. The board of supervisors will vote on that the same day. The exact terms have yet to be released. Its widely believed that the lot group would lease the property owned by the city and county. Its believed that approval of this deal could possibly, maybe be enough to prevent nfl owners from granting the raiders permission to move to las vegas. San jose state police are looking for a man accused of Sexual Battery on campus. Since august, there have been five incidents involving six victims. Honey rivera has more. Lonnie . Reporter one suspect is tied to these attacks and this is where the latest one occurred. San jose state students head to class after learning of several Sexual Battery attacks on campus. Three of them in the past week. A campus official tells us, two of the cases have the same suspect. It goes beyond just disrespect toward women and their bodies, which is far too common. I was sexually assaulted recently. Reporter morgan survived an offcampus attack but she can relate as a victim. Truly accepting that its not your fault. Truly accepting that its not your fault is hard and its painful and its also trying to figure out how to trust your environment. Reporter the latest attack happened wednesday about 1 00 in the afternoon. Police say a male suspect sexually battered a female in the stairwell at duncan hall and then ran up the stairs. Ill be more alert when i go up the stairs and i also carry around pepper spray. Reporter the suspect is described as a mail in his 20s with black, spikey hair, grayhooded sweatshirt, dark pants and navy backpack. Do you feel like the school is doing enough . Sometimes. I feel safe when i see the staff. Reporter this is a suspect in another attack monday afternoon. He followed the female into the union, sexually battered her, the female confronted him and he walked away. Many of the students we talked to learned of the recent attacks by text alerts or emails on their smartphones. We dont receive until like three and i feel like thats a safety issue but its also difficult for the police to get all that out at that time. Reporter there was another attack at sweeny hall last wednesday. A male subject female battered a victim and he was wearing dark clothing and a backpack. In san jose, abc 7 news. Immigrant Rights Groups are rallying in support of a state bill that would make mass deportations harder to carry out in california. Abc 7 news was in oaklands state building as supporters of senate bill 54 called on the legislature to pass the bill. It was introduced yesterday and would limit police and hospital workers from identifying, reporting or detaining undocumented immigrants. This is really urgent. I mean, the new administration has outspokenly said that they are going to continue to deport 2 to 3 Million Immigrants in our community and that represents our families and friends. The california value act as it is known would prevent california from taking place in a registry to profile muslims if enacted under a trump presidency. A 6. 5 earthquake struck off the coast of humboldt county followed by a powerful aftershock. It happened roughly 100 miles out in the ocean west of ferndale. Jessica castro talked to people closest to the epicenter. Well, i was cooking for a customer and we got a big jolt and he goes, earthquake, and i said, yes, a good one. And i was next to the sink and had it full of dishes and you could hear the dishes clink together. And the floor was rolling. Reporter meanwhile, doug was delivering pies across the 100yearold bridge and said this. Im constantly on that bridge behind big vehicles and i never heard it shake like that before. Reporter as chance would have it, its a small city with just over 100 residents and the police chief happened to be having breakfast at the ferndale pie company. I looked over my shoulder and no one was there. The roll of the earthquake, we were all kind of looking around. Reporter ferndale is no stranger to earthquakes. In 1982, the earthquake six years ago was a 6. 5 like todays quake. But there was widespread damage. The National Weather service did not issue a tsunami warning. Jessica castro, abc 7 news. There have been at least a dozen aftershocks followed a 7. 8 earthquake that struck near the solomon islands. This mornings quake briefly triggered a tsunami warning for the nearby islands but it was sent sently recently canceled. Back to spencer for the weather. Heres a live look at doppler 7. We have cloudy, dreary conditions around the bay area. Just a few little spotty showers. So its not very wet at the moment, as you can see from this live view from our rooftop camera looking out over the embarcadero. 59 degrees in San Francisco. Low 60s at oakland, san jose and its wetter than it is down in the lower elevations. Low to mid50s and 48 in fairfield. 53 in concord and 61 in livermore. Heres the view at sfo where delays are being experienced right now. Well see a showery pattern overnight. The actual storm arrives late tomorrow into early saturday and unsettled pattern again early next week. Heres a look at our morning lows as we see a few passing showers in the overnight hours. Low temperatures will drop mainly into the low to mid50s overnight. It wont be terribly cold. Tomorrow, well see highs right around or just above 60 degrees from the coast to inland. Again, with a few passing showers. If go out tomorrow evening, youll probably encounter a mainly dry evening. There could be spotty showers in the evening hours. 5 00 p. M. To 11 00 p. M. , its cloudy. Notice the next wave of rain north around ukiah. That approaching storm for saturday morning ranks 1 on the storm impact scale. There could be Early Morning downpours on saturday with this storm but then after that we get mainly showers. So 5 00, saturday morning, as most of us, i presume, will be sleeping, the heaviest downpours will be occurring and then they will start to taper off and break up. For the remainder of the day into the evening hours, pockets of light rain and showers and go into the overnight hours into sunday, mainly dry conditions. Sunshine on sunday before we get a more active pattern next week. Expected rainfall from saturdays storm will be at the greatest up in the north bay. Half an inch to an inch and a half and the least wet region is the south bay where some locations may measure no rain at all. Up to. 02. The current storm for tonight, with showers in the next storm on saturday morning, both ranked 1 on the impact scale. Turning schooler on sunday under mainly dry conditions. Increasing clouds on monday and then on tuesday, wednesday and thursday, we get a 1, 1, and a 1. Dancing in the raindrops. Perfect. Thanks, spencer. All right. Coming up, disappointment for dog owners. The final plan for the golden gate Recreational Area and when these changes are expected to take place. And the amazing sight lets enjoy this sight. Dolphins put on this on a whale watching trip. Look at them go. Scientists are still unsure why these pods merge into what they call superpods but they are super. A leading theory is that it happens when several pods all speed toward an abundant food source. Cool. Well, a Conservation Group says the worlds tallest animals are in the process of a silent extinction. The International Union for conservation of nature says the wild giraffe population has plunged 40 in the last 30 years. Of nine species, five are affected. Deforestation and illegal hunting is blamed for the decline. Dog owners are expressing disappointment with todays release of the Golden Gate NationalRecreation Area rules on how to manage dogs in its parks. The final rules will slash 90 of the areas where dog owners are allowed to walk their pets off leash. The plan include as new off leash area and a new onleash dog walking loop in marin county in addition to four other offleash areas. But the ggnra said something has to be done. We have about 300 Law Enforcement actions every year related to dogs and one of our key objectives is to improve safety for our visitors and employees. And these rules take effect in 30 days. Coming up at 4 00 the epa could do immense damage, the air our children breathe and the water they drink. Weighing in on the newest names for Donald Trumps cabinet. Plus, the latest on the 14yearold shot by police on a reno school campus. He is expected to survive. And a path of destruction. The blast of Winter Weather that caused a 30car pileup. Of reach for far too long s have Health Insurance. Thats been out how . They enrolled through covered california. Its the Health Insurance marketplace where youll find a range of plans from leading Health Insurance companies that offer you the best combination of quality, rates, and benefits. And, through covered california, you may get financial help to pay for coverage. To have Health Insurance starting january 1st, you need to enroll by december 15th. Visit covereca. Com today. And heres whats making headlines today at 4 30. Americans are honoring a national hero. John glenn died this afternoon in columbus, ohio. In 1962, glenn was the First Am