The reopening of that roadway. The wet weather has been causing problems all over the bay area. Some of those problems may linger for the next few days. Alan wang reports from santa rosa. Jill stopped at the waters edge west of santa rosa and decided to roll the dice. Came through a couple of hours ago but i thought i could make it through this time. Unlike these trucks and suvs that made it across, their toyota got swamped in a foot half of water just like the car before him. Made a dumb mistake but it was a little bigger. Michelle and her husband narrowly escaped serious injury when in this douglas fir crashed through their home. I was probably two feet. I was underneath all this rubble. Also in marin county, floodwaters shut down highway 1 and pacifica tempted surfers but the crabbers are playing it safe in half moon bay. They wont head back out for at least two more days. Back here in sonoma county, public works crews was still cleaning out culverts from the last storm that swept through. They expect a lot of work in the coming days. Crews are working to remarry a huge sinkhole as a truck was driving by yesterday morning. Semi truck was torn apart when the gaping hole gave way. The driver was not hurt. Caltrans is working to have the road at least passable some time today. You might remember the big sinkhole in lafayette earlier this month, it has been repaired. The mayor congratulated crews to get it done yesterday which was four days ahead of schedule. Friends and family paid tribute to the an East Bay High School football star that was shot and killed in San Francisco. Sergio quintana reports from last nights memorial service. Inside concord highs gym, his closest friends pays tribute. He loves garbonzo beans, i dont know why he did. They honored him with a video produced just for this event. On this friday evening, a couple hundred people packed into the gym to pay tribute to a fellow friend and talented athlete. They passed out candles and moved the crowd on to football field. He was a student since the beginning of the school year but he left a lasting impression. He would say hi and he would smile. You cant help but smile back. Blakely was gunned down when he was visiting the family. Police are still looking for suspects. He pleaded for an end to gun violence. It is taking lives and we have to stop taking our gifts away. He was a blakely overpowers it letterman with a 3. 8 gpa. 56yearold woman was died from her injuries after a hitandrun on twin peaks. They lifted three people off the hillside after they were hit by a car. A fourth pedestrian was also hurt diving out of the way. Police did find and arrest the 23yearold driver. The California Law banning therapy turning gay minors straight has been blocked by a federal court of appeals. The first of its kind law was passioned in the state legislature and signed by governor jerry brown. The court blocked the law until it came here on whether the law is constitutional. The last weekend before Christmas Shopping frenzy is under way, retailers are trying something new, were talking about 24hour sales. Tomas ramon found an example at macys. All the last minute, i got a few to go but im close. He is last minute shopper who came to the mall. They all have enticement to procrastinateders like humphrey. There is some things that are 5075 before one is offering shopping and sales is macys. They are staying open for a full 48 hours from 7 00 a. M. Friday to 7 00 a. M. Sunday. The idea so to make sure they can find a store open. It worries frank. I am concerned about who they are going to have come in at 3 00 in the morning and shop. That is kind of crazy. 57 macys stores will stay open until christmas eve. Bridge Point Shopping Center, toys are us will stay open 24 hours until 10 00 p. M. Christmas eve. That may seem excessive to some but he says it works for him. Its nice to be open 24 hours. I can get my gifts for my family. They say its too late to shop on line because those gifts wont be delivered by Christmas Day so a 24hour store is a good idea. Daly city police are increasing patrols because its going to be the only store open all night long. Katie coming up. Iteam takes on a south bay intersection. Dan noyes looks into the problem and we are continuing to track the storm as more rainfalls into the area. This is live doppler and you can see the rain falling just about everywhere making its way from north to south. Well have your forecast coming up. Katie good morning to all of you, you are looking live at emeryville this morning, i dont need to tell you, it is raining on the lens and also 56 degrees. Meteorologist lisa argen is tracking the storm to let you know where and when the rain is falling today. A san jose parent is worried that children walking to school in her neighborhood will get hurt dodging cars in a busy intersection. The problem is in the seven trees neighborhood in south san jose where there are five schools near the intersection. Iteam dan noyes has the story. Neighborhood children try to navigate and anxious line of commuters near center road and easy street where there is no crosswalk. The cars arent even stopping to let us cross the street. If they do, i feel like i have to run because they are not stopping. Reporter there isnt much here the separate cars and kids. We saw how aggressive drivers used the entire stretch of this road as a shortcut to get the capital expressway before the freeway. How students are forced to walk near the busy expressway. Some take their chances. Car after car after car blocking the way so kids cant get through. Some avoid the intersection all totaling. Its an issue to everyone that is in this community. There has been no pedestrian accidents in the last decade there was were 17 car crashes and many near misses. Sophia says she has been close to hit more than once. This is a huge problem. Im just like fed up with it. I have been taking to my son to school since kindergarten. Since then, ive had to deal with it. Some parents have given up. I know someone that lives down the street and she drives her child to school. [ laughter ] when she could just cross the street. Reporter after we heard from her, we went to city hall. Weve known that for a while. Assistant manager and Department Transportation manager say they are familiar with the problems in the area. They have installed Safety Measures here in the past, crossing guard on busy center road. Speed monitors on occasion and stop signs on other parts of easy street but nothing at center and easy. Things are quiet, we know all is well. When we start to get color, its time to relook. After our call, more changes are coming to the street. It pointed out an issue. We are in response to what has come up, going to be installing a crosswalk there. We are going to be looking to see if it warrants a crossing guard and looking to do spot enforcement along the street. That means traffic tickets for speeder. We need people accountable for their action and taking pride in the community so doing the right thing is the primary message we want to get out. After the iteam called, he and city engineers walked the area themselves to see what was happening and he is making lopez an offer. If they would like to do a walk along with us, we would be happy to go out and walk to school with them and see those issues from their perspective. Always open to learning that way. Well make sure sophia gets the message and the time line on the crosswalk, four to six weeks. The city will organize more Safety Education to teach kids how to deal with the traffic and cut down on risky moves you saw. Katie bay area charity has but the put out a holiday wish list and dire need of christmas hams. They need to collect 500 hams before tuesday for their christmas dinner. They made a similar appeal for turkeys before thanksgiving. St. Anthonys serves thousands of meals a day. Donations can be dropped off the dining room on golden gate avenue. You still have a few hours to make sure that bay area kids get a toy for christmas. East Palo Alto Police department are asking for last minute donations to help with the 14th annual toy drive. Department provides more than 1500 toys to families every year but organizers have come up short. You can bring donations to East Palo Alto city hall until 9 00 this morning and the families are being handed out at 10 00 a. M. For more information for the drive go to abc7news. Com. Katie we are on storm watch this morning. Its messy out there. Oh, my, wind gusts at sfo, 54 miles an hour. We have thunderstorms, lightning and very heavy rain. Here is a look outside from the roof camera. You see the rain, south, north and east, big time rain for the next couple of hours. Ill detail your forecast next. Katie thank you. Also next, warriors get back to o track with david lee putting up an allstar number. Larry beil has t good morning wow. Want to start the day with something heart healthy and delicious . Youre a talking bee. Honey nut cheerios has whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol. And it tastes good . Sure does right. Wow. Delicious, right . Yeah. Its the honey, it makes it taste so. Well, would you look at the time. Whats the rush . Be happy. Be healthy. Katie good morning, were coming up at 5 19. You are looking live at the golden gate bridge. Rain not coming down too hard but it is in the 50s. There will be more rain and the gusty winds you have to be careful about. Further south to san mateo, that is where things are even stormier at this hour. The storm is on the move. Lisa argen going to have lots more details for you. Were looking at the heavy rain all around the bay. You noticed the gusty winds. Thunderstorms moving on to the peninsula. If you head outside, lake tahoe, winter storm warning in effect until 4 00 tomorrow. Truckee is 44 degrees. One to two feet in the tahoe basin and if you plan on going up here you will have to delay your travel. Is very rough out there. Live doppler 7hd, you see the rain in emeryville and all over the bay. We have heavier cells indicated to the north where the yellows are from santa rosa. We have thunderstorms in the Santa Cruz Mountains and gusty winds, up to 52 miles an hour at the airport. 31 wind gusts in oakland. Lighter south winds but back to the radar well take you on a tour here with the heaviest rain from rohnert park, to santa rosa but the back edge of it will be clear in the north bay within the next hour. Late rain from the peninsula down through san mateo, redwood city, over to union city. Thunderstorms here from davenport, boulder creek, lighter rain as you get into the rain shadow from campbell and san jose. More moderate rain from the san ramon valley, 580, walnut creek, everybody looking at heavy rain. Look at i80, a heavier cell, watch out benicia and concord, american canyon, as well. Temperatures in the upper 40s to the mid 50s right now. South winds keeping us mild. Heavy rain this morning, scattered thunderstorms, gusty winds and then well do it all over again tomorrow morning. A little break comes this afternoon and tonight. High surf advisory this afternoon with northwest swells up to 19 feet. The system right now pushing through the bay area but we have unstable air associated with it. That is going to allow for possibility of some thunderstorms, you see that up in the north bay. This one is going to bring a rainy morning but dry throughout the afternoon. Heaviest rain pushing into the east bay and weve got showers behind the system. By 11 00, really not bad, but low snow levels, lake county, here is the break through the day today and evening hours, 4 00 tomorrow morning, more rain and heavier heavy rain through midday tomorrow. Then and push out by sunday evening. Weekend is a washout. Partly cloudy on monday and then more showers return after christmas eve. Looks like into Christmas Day well be wet in the north bay. Inch and a half through three inches in the north bay. Up to in our inches in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Winter storm warning, this will be going right on through the weekend. Numbers in the mid to upper 50s today. It will be rainy out there. If you can put off your shopping people usually like to get out in the morning to avoid the crowds but it is going to be a mess all week long but we are dry christmas eve, Christmas Day more rain. Winter started yesterday but it fees like we have been in it for months. Katie in sports, tonight the warriors face kobe bryant and lakers. Last night golden state place the bobcats. Larry beil has the highlights. After losing to sacramento warriors were back home, Charlotte Bobcats came riding a 13 game losing streak. Warriors, david lee, look at him that is nice. David lee deserves to be in the allstar game. Jeff curry penetrating, with authority curry had eight 3s. He finished with 27. Up 13 after three. 23 points and finding him for the long 2. He got the triple double. Warriors and charlotte, 115104. They play the lakers tonight. Wildcats, here is three of his 12. He tied it up at 67. Stanford at an 18point lead. That vanished. He counters with three and 11 second left. Down to last chance for northwestern, no, they couldnt get it to go. Stanford hang on to 7068 and 84 on the season. Justin smith did rehab on the injured elbow. 49ers are nebulous as to whether hell play sunday night in season. They say smith is questionable. Smiths streak of 185 consecutive starts very much in jeopardy. If smith cant go, rick ri ki will get the start. Tampa bay, Everybody Knows they are one of the best but didnt want to have a guy play or start but that is the best thing about it. Which will come first . As move to san jose or the real end of the world . Either one is within sight. They sent a letter to mayor jean quan requesting a fiveyear extension to remain in oakland. To be clear, wolf still wants to move the as ultimately to san jose but the team needs to play in the meantime. Have a great weekend everybody. Im larry beil. Katie coming up next, the storm is bringing more snow to the sierra. Well tell you how much. Before the snow comes the rain, take a live look at hd roof cam at the embarcadero. The streets are awfully wet out there and more rain and wind is coming your way. Lisa argen has your forecast katie order morning. Lets take a quick look at the weather. Here is lisa argen. Lisa good morning. Storm rolling through the bay area this morning providing very gusty winds, heavy rain and thunderstorms. Here is a look at east bay. You can see the rain coming down right now. Wind gusts up to 54 miles an hour with the thunderstorms and live doppler 7hd shows the heaviest rain up in the north bay from petaluma out by the delta and wind gusts in the east bay, 23 miles an hour. 28 mileanhour wind gusts in the east bay. This line will slide along the peninsula into the south bay. Were going to start to the north where weve got heavy rain from vallejo, highway 121, american canyon, back to novato, 101, pouring rain, up to benicia the rain line ends around jenner and rain beginning to scatter on out. Gusty winds, up to 30 and 40 miles an hour with the thunderstorms and light to moderate rain through the peninsula into the east bay, union city, south bay, youve had thunderstorms rolling through san mateo. Also mountain view. You can see heavier cell from davenport, pescadero, lighter rain around the blossom hill road but east bay, 580, san ramon. Moraga, heavier cell. Put off the Christmas Shopping that would be the best bet. By the afternoon more scattered showers, unfortunately were going to do this all over again tomorrow for very heavy rain. More details coming up. Katie the winter storm is expected to drop about five feet of snow on sierra ski resorts. This morning, chains are required to get up the mountain. On u. S. 50 to South Lake Tahoe chain controls at twin bridges over echo summit. On interstate 80 they begin at kingvale. Eastbound on. I 08 starting their weekend they didnt encounter a lot of snow until they got here with traffic to a halt. Many drivers decided to chain up even before they were required to do so. This is my first time putting chains on. This is actually some of the faster traffic. As you can see its not moving that fast. I dont have a fourwheel drive vehicle so i have to chain up. They may find the chaininging process fascinating. Im tired of it. My wife is looking for a motel. They want to get the hard part out of way to clear the path for a fun weekend ahead. Katie the storm is still causing problems for travelers. Yesterday at San Francisco international airport, flights were cancelled and delayed leaving passengers quite frustrated. For up to the date information on Flight Cancellations and delays go to flight tracker on the front page of our website at abc7news. Com. Flight tracker is at its peak today, every dot represents an airplane. President obama and his family have stepped off air force one for a holiday in hawaii. First family just arrived a few hours ago. They recorded their holiday address from the white house. The theme joy to all including the joy of giving, the joy of service and joy of homecoming. Here that is true for military families. You see the war in iraq is over. Transition in afghanistan is under way and our heroes are coming home. All across america, their families are reunited. This week lets give thanks to our veterans and their families. Lets say a prayer for all our troops especially those in afghanistan. Our military families sacrifice so much on our half and we believe we should serve them as well as they serve our country. Republican holiday winner given by john boehner said both parties can come together for an deficit cutting agreement. St. Anthonys foundation in San Francisco is holding a drive. Curbside drive will start at 9 00 at st. Anthonys which is locked at golden gate avenue and jones street. Then at 10 00 meals were be served to 3,000 people. At 11 00, donation delivery of scarves takes place. Glide Memorial Church hosts a toy giveaway for families in need starting at 9 30 this morning. Volunteers have been collecting unwrapped toys preparing for this day. Lucille will be on hand, giants mascot. Its located at ellis and taylor streets in San Franciscos tenderloin. The Salvation Army of Silicon Valley is hanged out toys, gifts and food to 1700 preregistered families. They will hand them out at santa clara fairgro