Scale upgraded to a 2 late last night. Good morning to you on this friday, february 17. Im reggie aqui. Grab all of your rain gear, youre going to need it today. Lets go ahead and check in with mike nicco this morning. Ive got a few tweets from some folks who went and bought new boots. Good for you. Congratulations, styling while staying dry. Emeryville all the way up to berkeley to kinzington and richmond, were seeing some of the moderate downpours in the east bay freeway there and from San Francisco up to mill valley. This is marching northward. This is the leading edge of whats going to be periods of the moderate to heavy rain. As you can see on the richmond side of the richmondsan rafael bridge, it wil be moderate by noon, scattered by 4 00, still a chance at 7 00 but just like yesterday, this is going to be a morningcentered storm that will bring us more rain and more wind than yesterday. Thats why as reggie mentioned, its a 2. Heres alexis with the commute. Weve got about 20 issues already on the board. The southern half of the bay may be getting a little bit of a break right now but weve got yellow and oranges indicating heavier pockets of rain and it is causing tough driving conditions. So westbound 580 just past the toll plaza on the richmondsan rafael bridge, were getting reports of a vehicle on its roof. Ill have an update on that, and a couple other trouble spots. We do want to take you outside now for a live look at Anderson Reservoir in morgan hill. Look at all that water. We did just check the reservoir level for you a short moment ago and get this, right now, it is at 99 full. Crews have been releasing this water to keep that level down. They are hoping to keep coyote creek from flooding and impacting homes along its banks because the reservoir is only supposed to be at 68 capacity because of any seismic concerns. Lets take a look at this new video from menlo park near marsh road and scott drive. When you can see rain so clearly on our images here, you know it is coming down hard. The roads are slick, so please be careful out there. Lets take a live look at our camera near the boardwalk in santa cruz, the rain coming down there too and you can see the waves starting to roll in. The weather where you live, send us your pictures, your video, use abc7now and we could use it here on the air online at abc7 nouz. Com. It is going to be a tense day at a bay area high school. Right now, hundreds of students and faculty need to be tested for tuberculosis. Someone tested positive for the disease. Abc7 News ReporterAmy Hollyfield is t at Armijo High School in fairfield with what parents need to know. Reporter well, the tough part for students here is they dont know if theyve been exposed to this person who has tuberculosis. Now, officials here at Armijo High School sent a letter out to parents notifying them about the case but they arent saying who has tuberculosis, wont even say if it is a student or a faculty member. Health officials will kokt those who may have been exposed next week. They estimate they will test more than 200 people. Its not something that you get in passing through the hallways. Its a matter of, you know, spending prolonged periods of time in an enclosed space with the individual. Reporter the person who has tb tested positive last week and may have been at school for a few days two a week. The patient is now recovering at home. There will be a meeting next tuesday here at the school, so parents can learn more and get their questions answered. Reporting live in fairfield, Amy Hollyfield, abc7 news. Thanks for the information. Water Officials Say there is no immediate threat to the oroville dam even as we are getting all this new rain. Crews continue to work on repairs and have also dropped the lakes level 37 feet since first using the emergency spillway and that is expected to continue going down. One issue now being discussed by local officials, widening state highways leading away from oroville. Many roads and highways leaving that part of butte county are only one or two lanes and as we saw, that led to massive traffic backups on sunday as 188,000 people below the dam were told to evacuate as soon as possible. This morning, details involving the reported kidnapping of a 13yearold girl in the south bay. The mercury news reports the teen lied about the whole thing. The girl is the daughter of milpitas councilman garry barbadillo. Police say the girl told officers two men kidnapped her from her home. The supposed ordeal came to an end when the girl escaped and called home. Police say an extensive investigation concluded the councilmans daughter was never taken. She was cited for filing a false police report. Police in pacifica want your help finding an armed gunman. They released this image of the suspect. They say he went into the safe room at the store on linda mar boulevard on wednesday wearing a mask and glasses that made him look older. He then showed a gun, stole cash and ran off toward highway 1. Theres still a lot of uneasiness in San Franciscos soma district this morning where a construction mishap prompted evacuations on wednesday. Yesterday, the city slapped the builder with a violation notice requiring the construction to stop until repairs are made. It gives the Construction Company and developer until tomorrow to let the city now a status report on the safety fixes. The buildings texas developer, heinz, tells abc7 news the situation is safe. In addition, thm street is still closed between 1st and 2nd. New details about a Legal Aid Fund to help immigrants. The examiner reports increasing funding is on hold. The legislation would prioritize funding for public defenders office. But last night the board of supervisors budget and finance committee debated the idea for three hours and in the end, the committee voted to postpone a decision for at least two weeks. Among the topics covered in President Trumps much talked about news conference, a new executive order on travel. The south bay Muslim Community says the current executive order is contributing to islamaphobia. Now theyve come together to try to address the problem. Katie marzullo has more in san jose. I am actually thankful to mr. Trump because of his hatred for everybody. Hes pushing us to really get closer. Reporter a unique perspective from one of the panelists at a forum called banding against islamaphobia. It seems a lot of americans dont know any muslims so its important for them to get to know us and see us as human beings. Whatever we can do to promote love and peace, respect and understanding, im here. Reporter this woman is from alabama. She came looking for advice on how to better communicate with some of her friends back home. Take them to meet someone, strike up friendships with other people and through that way, we can it might be not as fast as i want it to be but hopefully were moving toward changing peoples minds instead of both sides just being defensive. Reporter as for the latest on President Trumps travel ban, he says hell we had a court thats been overturned a lot of the time. Reporter the ninth Circuit Court of appeals which decided not to reinstate the travel ban announced it will not issue any further decisions until it sees the new executive order. In san jose, katie marzullo, abc7 news. The Trump Administration is looking for ways to work cooperatively with moscow. To make that happen, u. S. Secretary of state rex toils told russian officials yesterday they must abide by the minsk agreement. That aimed to end a deadly war that started after russia annexed the crimea 2014. Skirmishes still continue to this day. That breaking news, were tracking here at the live desk, firefighters dealing with a fire emergency this morning near australias capital. The fire burning out of control and details are still coming in but were hearing more than a dozen homes have been lost already. Along with numerous livestock and firefighters were gaining some ground on this fire, but it exploded on them last night and people are now being evacuated as crews and equipment are being called in from hundreds of miles away. All right the leading edge of the moderate rain, the downpours right now, walnut creek, ross more, lafayette, orinda, moraga, heading over towards berkeley, right across the richmondsan rafael bridge into san rafael and mill valley and out towards highway 4, pittsburg and antioch and that is heading to the north. Its going to be a little bit cooler when you step outside, 6 degrees cooler so were in the low to mid 50s here in San Francisco from west portal to a lot of our neighborhoods, 53 degrees. Weve got 57 right now in san leandro. Santa clara, union city, 54. Walnut creek 51 a little bit cooler up north, petaluma at 49 degrees. This is the way it looks in the south bay, the first to get rain this time. Yeah, its coming in from the south, a little upside down from what were used to. Public transit, rains going to be heaviest this morning. Wet and windy for the a. M. Commute. A little more shower activities possible for the p. M. Commute, not going to be as dry as it was yesterday and if youre out and about, have the umbrella handy because you will need it in the afternoon from time to time unlike yesterday afternoon. Let me go through the temperatures. Upper 50s to low 0s, mid to upper 50s mainly tomorrow and into sunday even a little bit cooler. If youre heading up to tahoe for the holiday weekend, weve got heavy snow falling today, snow showers for saturday into sunday and heavy, wet sierra cement for monday. Lets find out about our commute here. Where the hot spots, alexis . I want to take you to the richmondsan rafael bridge, a crash reported on the westbound side of the road. This happened about 15 minutes ago. It sounds like a vehicle is on its roof and it was involved in a crash with a tanker truck. We have not been able to confirm any lanes that are blocked there but seeing stop and go traffic in the mid span and you can see live doppler 7 as well. Weve got some pretty moderate to heavy rain in that area too so that is only further complicating things. Eastbound 80, currently blocked, that is due to a tractortrailer that got stuck so chp running traffic breaks to free that. You can see a delay on the lower deck and heres a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. No metering lights yet but we have a high wind advisory from chp this morning. Next traffic update coming up. Sky divers of course need quick reflexes in case something goes wrong in the air but this one uses reflexes to save a child on the ground. And this morning, new concerns about the Trump Administration and possible administration and possible interference so now im not being perky, telling you that drivers that switch to progressive save an average of 548 whoo i mean, whoo. Did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats 10 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 150 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. Todays storm is level 2. That means moderate rain so gear up before you go out and drive safely. Track todays storm any time on the abc7 news app. Download it now. And heres what a level 2 storm looks like this morning, at least from the richmondsan rafael bridge, a live look there at all the rain on the roads as you head to work. Okay. Take a moment and stop, look at your screens and check out these catlike reflexes. An employee at a houston indoor sky diving facility, did you see that . He reacts so quickly. The kid is on top of the counterthere, and the employee was just able to catch the guy. Yep. Reggies laughing because he flexes his muscles. Were going to watch it one more time. The kids there. And oh, there it goes and the employee catches that child. The avid sky diver instructor is known for his acrobatics in the wind tunnel. He actually broke a world record in the sky and he said all that training with quick reflexes helped him save that kid. Give that man a raise. Authorities in florida have arrested a man accused of plotting to bomb target Stores Across the country. Officials say 48yearold mark barnett paid a man 10,000 to put the bombs on shelves in stores from new york to florida. The bombs were disguised in Food Packaging like breakfast snacks and pasta boxes. Police say barnett wanted to make target stocks drop so he could buy cheap shares and make money when values rose again. Whoa. The man surrendered the explosives to authorities. We have an update on a road rage shooting that left a father dead in san leandro. Police are now looking for this van. They say it may be connected to the incident sunday night. A while his wife and children were in the car also. Police say it has a custom roof and black rims. If you have any information, call police. Under a new proposed bill, doctors in california would no longer be able to prescribe oxycontin to patients younger than 21. A nationwide student finds that by the time students have reached their senior year of high school, nearly 11 of student athletes will have experimented with prescription painkillers. Doctors often do not notify patients that the medication is a form of heroin and potentially addictive. Oxycontin is currently being approved for children as young as 11. The Trump Administration may pose complications to californias new law that legalizes recreational pot. Governor jerry brown is proposing merging regulations from medical and recreational sales. But state legislative analysts are asking officials to be careful about allocating large amounts of money to that new system because there is concern the administration would start enforcing federal laws, overruling state regulations. And new u. S. Attorney general Jeff Sessions is a longtime opponent of legalized marijuana. In todays gma first look, a big change coming to your food labels, making it easier to understand those expiration dates. Reporter in this mornings gma first look, could new product date labels be arriving at a Grocery Store near you. To see if its still good, look at the label but thats where it gets really confusing. Best by september of 2016. Best by . But has it gone bad . Can i still eat it . There are ten separate phrases for date labeling and sometimes just the date itself. Its very confusing for the consumer, because a package may have multiple dates that are conflicting. Reporter so now the new guidelines. Two major food trade associations are encouraging retailers and manufacturers to make the switch to only two product date labels by summer of 2018. They are best if used by and use by. And coming up at 7 00 a. M. , well have more on the recommended date label guidelines. Best if used by is still confusing. That one really confuses me because how long, then, do i have later . What year is it that its taken this long to figure this out . Hi, mike. Hi, guys. I hope they that up at 7 00. Heres a look at the golden state. San francisco from the exploratorium camera and san jose 101 and 880. Weve got you covered all across the bay as this storm rolls from south to north. Lets take a look at whats going on with my storm impact scale. Its a 2. Its moderate. If you werent with sandy last night at 10 00, she upped it because of the winds, they were trending a lot heavier. Weve got that wind advisory that starts at 6 00 so from 6 00 to 6 00 this evening, damage is possible. Downed trees and possibly a lot of ponding on the roadways. Heres a look at the san mateo bridge where the light rain just moderate rain just let up and its light but you can definitely see how theres standing water on the bridge there and here we are over the golden state. You can see the rain kicked up in the tires there as we had a heavy shower roll across here also so moderate to heavy rain this morning, then showers this afternoon. Little more numerous than yesterday. Scattered lighter showers this weekend and holiday rain for monday trending to be the heaviest. You can see the richmondsan rafael bridge moving north into san pablo, seeing some of the better radar returns, moderate rain, hercules, you can see pinole valley road, highway 4 as it heads through that beautiful hilly area there all the way up to around benicia and then as we head down into the south bay, pretty quiet right now but the Santa Cruz Mountains, thats what im really worried about as we head throughout the day. Thats where the most rains going to fall. Moderate rain there while the rest of us are dealing with scattered moderate showers and they continue up until noon there while the rest of us are dealing with waves of it from time to time. At 5 00, rest of us, scattered showers, still the heavier rain down in the Santa Cruz Mountains. As you head towards the evening hours, make sure you have an umbrella. My accuweather 7 day forecast, saturday and sunday are going to be a 1. Monday mornings going to be a bear but it is a holiday so hopefully not too many people on the roads then, alexis. There are definitely people on the roads this morning and its already getting rough here today. I want to take you to the bay bridge. Weve swung our camera around here. Weve got a new crash on the westbound side on the incline there as you get towards Treasure Island tunnel and it sounds like a vehicle spun out, lost control, hit the left wall and that is now facing the wrong way in the far left lane so i just say them do a traffic break. Not sure if that vehicle is drivable but we are seeing some delays building there as you leave the toll plaza and we can zoom in quickly and i can show you that backup. The eastbound side looking better. We had a tractortrailer that was stuck on the off ramp. That cleared in the last few minutes and that backup has changed to yellow and we have a sig alert on the richmondsan rafael bridge, the westbound side, westbound 580 past the toll plaza near san quentin, a vehicle on its roof. Sounds like that is blocking the left lane. Next, the seven things you need to know as you start your day. And a woman sinks a halfcourt shot during a basketball game. Thats great and everything but its what happens afterwards that really shocked everybody. We are learning new details about what led up to the crisis