Trance gets that cleared. Injury accident westbound 580 before lake shore, two right lanes blocked. 5 01. With this latest storm crews are looking out for for waterlogged trees that could fall in larkspur many crews have been working nonstop since the weekend trying to protect homes. Friday massive oak fell on a womans home in ross splitting her roof in two, luckily she wasnt hurt but her home of 60 years suffered major damage. Terry mcsweeney will have a live report from cortamadera with more storm watch coverage in 30 minutes. Similar scene in san mateo, the rain soaked soil proved to be too unstable to keep this tree upright. The mess it created at central park on El Camino Real yesterday downtown san mateo, massi cleanup, it blocked traffic for several hours. One person reported a minor injury. More rain concern in marin for some residents digging out after a small creek overflowed, one resident in the Sleepy Hollow section snapped pictures. Six inches of mud covered his lawn and filled his pool four inches of water, ruined floors in two homes. Stay with abc7 news for continuing storm watch coverage. You can track the storm any time on abc7news. Com. When weather hits your area, we want to see it. Our photos. It it is raining hard in berkeley now making harder for Police Investigating who shot a bicyclist to death it happened near Long Fellow Middle School near sacramento and ward streets where Amy Hollyfield joins us live with new information. Reporter the rain is coming down here in berkeley, it is raining hard, the investigators are still here, they are still looking for clues out here in the rain, we are the award and sacramento. They dont have much to go to go on, theyve here since 11 30 last night trying to find something. When police got here go here they didnt though they were dealing with a murder they heard a bicyclist was down they thought it was a crash. Then they discovered the woman on the bike had been shot in the head. The lt. On the case tells me she did not have identification on her so they dont know who she is. He wouldnt speculate on her age. I asked for a range, teenager, elderly . He said somewhere in the middle. He didnt want to speculate any further. The coroner is now trying to figure out who she is. When police found her she was alone. They dont have suspects, they dont have witness. Theyve got quite a mystery trying to figure out who she is and who killed her and why . Amy hollyfield, abc7 news. Also a violent night in oakland, four people were injured in a shooting near lake merritt 10 30 last night at several locations around the 600 block of east 18th street. A witness heard shots around a liquor store in the area. One person was reported to be in critical condition. They say now all are in stable condition. Investigators say they are looking for three suspects former commander of a Contra Costa CountyNarcotics Task force is expected to plead guilty today to drug charges. The attorney for norman well of says his client will admit to federal charges of conspire city to sell marijuana and meth. Well welsh was caught in a sting operation february of last year he faces a minimum of 10 years. Berkeley police trying to determine what caused a car to crash into a liquor store last night. The car slammed through the front entrance of the ez market that was 9 30 last night a woman at store was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Developing economic news. It is positive for the struggling housing market. A report on californias economy shows a recovery that continues to plod along. Katie marzullo is live in the newsroom with analysis. Reporter for the last several years when home prices have have been in the news it has been bad, but not this morning. Home prices are up, surged more than 6 in one year the biggest jump in six years. Median price up 18,000 to 178,000, and california is one of the top 10 states where prices are rising the fastest. New this morning, anderson Economic Forecast from ucla is out, says housing improvements will help the state and california will continue to grow, but not as much as it used to. The forecast says the new tax revenues ungovernor browns prop 30, will slow under governor browns prop 30 will slow Economic Growth but not derail recovery. The jobless rate in california should average 10. 5 by the end of the year. It should improve to 9. 7 in 2013 and fall further to 8. 4 in 2014. One other note of good news, u. S. Banks seeing best profits in six years and are therefore leaning more freely. Katie marzullo, lending more freely. Katie marzullo, abc7 news. President obama speaks to Business Leaders this morning over how to avoid the fiscal cliff. Currently no plans for congressional leaders to meet with the president at the white house. If no deal is reaped by years end everyones taxes will go up and massive cuts will take place, affecting defense and social spending. When we came in this morning, just mist and drizzle. I hardly had to use my wipers. That is changing for a lot of folks. It is. Right now as you look at our roof cam, nice batch of light to moderate rain falling now over the embarcadero. Not so heavy we can see the Ferry Building and the bay bridge enough that it is causing ponding on the embarcadero this morning thats what most of us are going to run into especially east bay highway 4 connects to 680 south of vine hill coming into concord pleasanton down to walnut creek latest update light to moderate rain especially overconcord and Pleasant Hill highway 4 bay point, pittsburg, antioch highway 4 commute which is usually treacherous any way is going to be wet. Heavy rain starting towards san rafael, larkspur, mill valley, tiburon, sausalito and belvedere you will see your rain increase the next five to 10 minutes. Offshore more powerful radar returns and more moderate rain heading for the heart of the bay, wet for all of us through 7 00, rain will turn to showers by 4 00, light showers by 4 00 to 7 00, showers fade overnight and well have a stretch of dry weather thursday through saturday. Golden gate bridge it is raining and you are down to four lanes southbound shouldnt say down to, two in the northbound direction, wet, windshield wipers needed and fog over the waldo grade light commute san mateo bridge from hayward, clawiter, no rain. Serious problems oakland where raining hard northbound 880 at 7th pick up and big rick in accident blocking right lane big rig waze app showing 580 accident one of our traffic spotters sent an interesting picture of bumpertobumper traffic you can see tail lights stopped near the accident at lake shore once again slow in the area. To navigate rain and commute pick up this free app at abc7news. Com get information there or download it at the Apple App Store or google play 5 10. Next, the search for a grinch who stole more than christmas outside a Southern California art shop. The new mobile app that could make your search for parking easier. A story only on abc7 news. We are on storm watch. You are looking at live doppler showing you radar returns of moderate rain, some heavy in the bay area, north bay areas especially. Mike has the latest l n plan on using the wipers on this wet morning. If you look carefully you can see the droplets landing on the lens as we show you the embarcadero. More weather and traffic coming up. Police say an autistic girl was kidnapped and repeatedly rape. She wandered away a youth Center November 27th. The staff tells us by law they could not stop her they lost track of her at the Fruitvale Bart station the man grabbed her, took her to his home in San Francisco then raped her over several days. Place arrested 36yearold Gary Atkinson sunday. Prosecutors have charged him with performing lewd acts upon a child and rape of an incompetent person. This is by far, one of the most sickening cases ive seen in my career as a Police Officer that someone as mr. Atkinson, can take advantage of someone of this stature. The girl eventually escaped and she being praised for her bravery. Who would steal a Salvation Army kettle . Thats what police in san diego are trying to figure out. A thief walked way with a kettle filled with more than 300 in donations. Police say the kettle ringer turned away for a second to help someone when the kettle was stolen. The money was supposed to be used to help 2,000 children and their families. Finding a parking spot in downtown san mateo can be easier if you download a new app. The company spent years developing this sensor detects whether a space is empty. San francisco started installing them two years ago, now san mateo and san carlos have partnered with cisco to roll them out with a free mobile app, it acts like raider guiding you to the block with the most open spots. You can take parking time from 20 minutes to five minutes, you are going to dramatically reduce the number of cars on the streets itch it is much cheaper to efficiently manage your parking inventory than building new facilities. They have other big plans, soon they hope to build smart radar directly into cars and navigation systems. Youre familiar with parking yeah i would like them to work on where the best deals are next. Im sure would you. Weather is free and here it is more free rain even though it is too much of a good thing. This is our fourth system, berkeley this morning, sacramento and ward streets, you can see it is coming down at a moderate clip there make sure you have the wet weather gear there. Might be good to work from home hopefully you have classes later in the day. It will taper later. Live doppler 7 hd, what we are going to see is heaviest and best returns in Contra Costa County moving into the eastern sections of concord, treat boulevard, ignacio valley road, walnut creek, willow pass road starting to see heavy bailey road heading to bay point, pittsburg towards antioch be prepared, highway 4 corridor is going to be a tough go. San rafael, larkspur, tiburon, mill valley, heavy rain starting to move back into your neighborhoods. A lot of yellow even orange lurking offshore not only in San Francisco but marin county coast coming in for the morning commute thats the wave we talked about yesterday going to hookup with the front and intensify the rain during the morning commute, it is just about on schedule i am you know how often that happens weatherwise this is coming at us through the morning commute only going to get harder to get around the next couple of hours, mid 50s santa rosa, low 60s fremont, Mountain View, livermore and San Francisco. Mid 50s monterey bay and inland. Rain this morning, showers this afternoon foggy the income couple of nights, brighter and drier the next couple of days, the next 10 to 14 days. Heres the wave and front that is going to take the better part of the morning to move through. Light to moderate rain through the lunch hour and then scattered showers for the afternoon and evening hours, maybe a lingering shower or two until 2, 3 in the morning by tomorrows morning commute everything is starting to clear, fog will fade, partly sunny towards thursday afternoon clear during the evening hours which will lead to more fog. Up to an inch around the bay and inch and a half north bay. By tomorrow a lot of sunshine, 50s for the game. Temperatures below average dry friday through tuesday. Be careful this morning. Live shot of east shore freeway 80 westbound, some sort of accident activity before university, big gap of traffic looks like chp has stopped traffic before university with an accident possible injuries involved. Reports of eastbound at gilman the opposite direction, possibly two accidents in that area and it is heavy rain in the richmond area as you make your way towards berkeley. Once again 80 westbound wale follow this, big gap with an accident. Back to San Pablo Dam road reports of an accident farther east, rain causing havoc this morning for your commute. Oakland west 580 before lake shore injury accident. Back to our waze app showing you folks getting off of 580 taking fruitvale avenue to the the accident is not blocking all lanes on 580, just two lanes, folks getting off to head towards the 880 freeway on fruitvale. You can download in app free on google play or the app store and navigate your morning commute. Happening now in louisiana, small town under he following discovery of improperly stored explosives. Six Million Pounds located in buildings near shreveport, the buildings are connected [ unintelligible ] police found the corridors stuffed with explosives, including a [ unintelligible ] voluntary evacuation orders are in effect for a town of 800 people through friday. New numbers show women are making inroads in the legal and medical fields. In 2010, women had just over 33 of all legal jobs. Up from 29 in the year 2000 in the medical field, women had just over 32 of those jobs in 2010. Up from 26 in 2000. Researchers say the progress of women in these fields follow increase in college enrollment. Harvard law was closed to women until 1950. Today on katie miss america contestant opens about her decision to have a double mastectomy. Some suggested she is trying to get the sympathy vote, have people feel sorry for her so that will give her a legup in the Miss Universe pageant. First of all that must feel horrible. Secondly what do you think of those comments . Something you have to take with a grain of salt. Any time you put yourself out there, you put yourself in public light you are open for scrutiny. This isnt something that i put out. I didnt issue a press relace. Thats katie at 3 00 this afternoon, right here on abc 7. Next, saved by the bell do you recognize this man in the video . Yes, i do. Vintage performance by 49er coach jim harbaugh. You gave it away but theres more. The [ inaudible ] we are on storm watch, you are looking at live doppler showing another wave of rain the yellow is heavy moving in again from offshore towards the bay, San Francisco, north bay getting rain. The rest of us will get wet soon too. Welcome back. Antioch highway 4 corridor where we are seeing moderate to heavy rain. Richmond san rafael bridge light to moderate rain heading towards hercules and richmond uptick in your rain the income hour this is starting to train the front stall that means we are seeing echoes roll over the same area more than once two or three times this morning thats going to lead to ponding on the roads, especially when next batch moves in over the next half hour or so. Watch out in the north bay and along the peninsula, heavier rain on the way. Serious problem both directions of 80 through richmond and berkeley, lights eastbound before gilman traffic stopping there due to accident there and in the westbound direction here more flashing lights chp doing a traffic break. Some of the traffic is getting by westbound towards the macarthur maze. Two separate accidents on 80 both east and westbound and on westbound 80 San Pablo Dam red that accident blocking all lanes. Treacherous drive give yourself lots of time. 5 26. One of the giants most important players in the world series will remain in orange and black next year. Last night giants agreed on three year, 20 middle deal with marco execute row. He joined the giants in marco he was named the n [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] theres a fun clip of 49ers head coach hard bow making the rounds on the in hard bow making the rounds on [ unintelligible ] at the time of the show harbaugh was quarterback of the colts. 90s hair he looks much the same. Raiders day begins today with special pregame edition at 6 30. Tomorrow larry biel hosting a special pregame show at 4 p. M. , Lincoln Kennedy and rod woodson will join us for that. At 5 coverage of the game begins live. Once the game is over, larry, lincoln and rod will return with after the game. Then it is abc programming 5 28. Early, early tailgaters getting wet now. Doppler tracking latest storm another batch offshore starting to move into the bay area, conditions are going to get wetter. Your morning commute could be tough. We check in with mike and sue coming up. North bay storm weary neighbors. We are back with good morning. 5 31. Waking up to yet another storm in the bay area. It is wet out there right now in spots not just the north bay but especially there. Lets check in with mike. Good morning. Heres a look at live doppler, giving you the picture of the entire bay area front is stalling as it moves across the bay area because of this wave that is developing the wave we talked about yesterday that was going to bring us the best chance of steady rain during the morning commute. Richmond district to the financial district, in San Francisco, moderate rain now this is moving across the golden gate to sausalito, tiburon, moving across Richmond San Rafael bridge towards san pablo, richmond, richmond parkway up to hercules, still have heavier rain antioch heading towards oakley and berkeley. Couple of serious problems, due to the rain. The blurry shot because of the rain 80 west and eastbound. Eastbound gilman right lane blocked. Westbound 80 before university flashing lights here too, one lane blocked, headlights getting by, traffic getting by but slow both decks of 80. 80 westbound San Pablo Dam roadblocked. Westbound 24 approaching the caldecott at wild lanes of traffic blocked with an accident there. Busy morning and lots of wet roads. 5 32. Lets see what effect the rain is having on the commute, especially in the north bay. Terry mcsweeney is live in cortamadera along lucky drive where standing water is causing a problem. Reporter the water is up, trees are down and power is out, more than 900 pg e customers in san rafael without power this morning looking for the cause of that trying to get a grip. It has been raining here on and off since 6 00 last night in marin county on highway 101 northbound this is the just before the sir Francis Drake boulevard exit, the number 1 lane is okay, number 2 lane funky, number 3 lane, very bad. Look a