Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us. Im Carolyn Tyler. It is sunday, february 9th. Lets start with a quick first look at the weather with our meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning, carolyn. Up on the roof. A little bit of light rain but heaviest rain continues to fall in the north bay. More moisture offshore. This shows the before. Moisture headed toward marin county. But the heaviest rain has been a little further north. We are looking at the downpours of that been continuing all night from highway 12 through sonoma, napa, yachtville, back toward point reyes. As a result the National WeatherService Still has the area under a Flash Flood Watch until 3 00 this afternoon. Lighter rains on half moon bay. Upward of three inches in the past 24 hours half moon bay. Into the east bay, fremont. Livermore a little bit of drizzle. For the rest of the day the focus is this the north bay. The rest of the bay area can look for more rain today. Then it spreads south and we look for showers ending in the south bay this evening. We are still looking at another additional few inches of rain up in the north bay. Lesser amounts elsewhere. Ill have all the details on how much and when when we do weather in a few minutes. Thank you, lisa. Well, this wet weather is causing some problems around the bay area. The biggest issues are in the north bay. Take a look at this rockslide. Large boulders came crashing down on highway 101 near sir Francis Drake boulevard yesterday. And a Flash Flood Warning is issued and 101 and schellville is expected to be reopened this morning due to flooding. Abc7 News Reporter has more from the north bay. Reporter the floodedout intersection didnt stop a few drivers from trying to get through. This person finally realized it was a bad idea and turned around. Chp officers said it is one of the biggest dangers when it rains. Theres a lot of standing water so what we want to do is have people avoid the standing water. Standing water is very dangerous. You cannot tell the depth of it, you dont know what is inside of it, and you dont know how your vehicle is going to react. This happened during the afternoon Flash Flood Warning. A Flash Flood Watch throughout the north bay remains in effect. The deluge of rain caused a series of problems throughout the north bay. In santa rosa, parts of Tanglewood Park were under water because a nearby creek overran its banks. Standing water here caused a stretch to be shut down just in case. And we talked with one resident as he shored up his home with sandbags. Happy to see the rain. F a little bit of work to do, but all in all its going to benefit our stuff in the house because its not going to get wet and ruined. Down the way, marin county, the creeks looked full but didnt seem that they would overflow. Abc7 news. Take a look at the damage the rain left behind on this stretch in Sonoma County yesterday. That is fort ross road. Half the street is gone. Road crews arrived to see the twolane highway reduced to one. Down below there was one vehicle this was inundated by the rockslide from fort ross road. You can make out the roof of a truck that got swept away in the slide and remains buried in thick, heavy mudand rock. More severe storm damage, this time in San Franciscos russian hill area. A large tree was uprooted just after 9 00 last night on francisco and columbus streets. That car next to it was crushed. In mill valley a massive tree at the Mill Valley Golf Course split in three and one of the pieces came down over glen drive. It snarled up the only street into and out of the neighborhood. Crews worked quickly to try to clean up that mess. People were preparing for the storm all over the bay area yesterday. Lots of sand bags were handed out from the north by to the south bay. In oakland the Public Works Agency is making sandbags available to residents and businesses to help prevent flooding. And umbrellas were popping up everywhere on San Franciscos embarcadero. The wet weather did not keep the shoppers and tourists away from the ferry building. Know to the south bay where the last time the Santa Cruz Mountains saw rain was back in october and then only a quarter inch. That was certainly not the case yesterday. Abc7 News Reporter john alston has more from the Santa Cruz Mountains. Reporter a noticeable amount of water is finally cascading into the San Lorenzo River in felton but its still not enough to mick a difference. They are used to a lot worse. Normally it gets trashed. Limbs down, trees down, all kinds of crazy stuff. But as crazy as its gotten for him is 3 1 2 inches. Enough do damage. Sky light a leaking, ruined some electronic equipment but im happy to see it. But im happy to see it. We need it. So happy to be here in santa cruz county. Its muchneeded but this is nothing. This is just the tip of the iceberg. I just dont want people to get fooled that weve got a little bit of rain so people start using water a lot more. We are still in a drought. Heavier rain is expected for sunday. In the Santa Cruz Mountains, john alston, abc7 news. Viewers are sending us their pictures of the storm. This is glen m. Hes trying to keep the drains clear on Hidden Valley road in guerveville. You know crews trying to clear debris on roadways covered with water. All of the water created problems for crews in hillsboro last night after a water main broke. The break tremendously closed the road just after 7 00 and it reopened late last night. Pg e has been struggling with power outages. Mere are the latest numbers. 350 customers on the peninsula are currently without power. In the north bay more than 2200 customers are in the dark, as as well as 567 customers in the east bay. The south bay is not report any outages. In the sierra its snow slowing down travel along some of the roadways there. This is a live caltrans come raw at truck tee on interstate 80. Drivers are required to carry chains on interstate 80. Chains are also required on highway 50 from twin bridges to meyers in eldorado county. The snow is great news for tahoe area ski resorts. This is video sent to us yesterday by northstar. Elevations over 8,000 feet got close to three feet of snow yesterday and lower elevations got around six to ten inches. You can track the rain in the bay area using live doppler 7hd on our abc7 news weather app. It also makes it easy to share photos of how you are welcoming in the rain. Download information is available at abc7news. Com apps. Police are looking for a security van that was stolen from the Oakland Hills last night. Authoritiescy someone stole a license plate on burr dock drive. Authorities say the license plate matches a 1999 White Ford Van with the words maximum security on the side of the vehicle. Police say they are concerned criminals may use the van to do what criminals do, illegal activity. Another problem has been discovered on the new eastern span of the bay bridge. The San Francisco chronicle reports caltrans recently found rainwater dripping into the steel bridge structure below the bridge deck. That structure was designed to be watertight and outside experts believe it could pose a risk of corrosion on the bridge. Lisa argen is up with a check of the accuweather forecast. Rain still on the way. Thats right. Carolyn, they havent been out of it in the north bay. In fact, we are looking at still some flooding going on in parts of yachtville, santa rosa got a break right now. More rain offshore. Everyone will see it this afternoon with the last wave pushing through. Could even see one to two inches in some shots spots. 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This is better than what we had. We will have the latest from hesa coming up. Actor and director woody allen is defending himself against renewed accusations of sexual abuse. Allen as issued a rare statement responding to a recent letter by his adopted daughter that was publish in the New York Times. Heres juju chang. Of course i did not molest dillon. That flatout denial in the sunday New York Times from the famously reclusive director. Lashing out from allegations from his adopted daughter. Dillon farrow. I loved her. Allen argues legal details and addresses personal matters from his marriages. But foremost he accused mia farrow of coaching their adopted daughter, then and now. One must and, did dillon even wright the letter or was it at least guide bid her mother . Dillon, now 28, spoke out after the director was honored at this years golden globes. She described in details alleged sexual abuse in the attic of her home at age 7. In his letter allen denies it saying the attic was never a place i would go because its a tiny, cramped and closed spot and im a major claw phone. For years he accused them of manipulating their daughter out of spite. A charge dillon denies. My mother never coached me. She was hoping against hope i made it up abc news, new york. A Petaluma Company is recalling more than 8 Million Pounds of meat products. The department of agriculture said the Rancho Feeding Corporation processed diseased meat without inspection. Each box has a case code number esp527 inside the usda mark. Each box has a case code number ending in 3 or 4. The products were made from january, 2013 to january, 2014. They were shipped to california, illinois, texas and florida. This morning equal rights advocates are hailing a historic announcement on samesex marriage. Speaking to the human rights campaigns new york gala last night. U. S. Attorney eric holder announced he will extend the federal governments recognition of same sex marriages to the justice department. Holder said he would issue a policy memo tomorrow instructing his employees to give lawful samesex marriages full and equal recognition. All of these steps forward are worth celebrating. I also want to make one thing very clear. For my colleagues, for me, and i know for all of you, it is really only the beginning. The change means same sex spouses cannot be compelled to testify against each other in federal court and will be able to file jointly for bankruptcy. The Winter Olympics are in full swing and russia security remains tight. This following an attempt by a ukrainian to hijack a plane to sochi on friday. Coming up on this week they will discuss the latest security threats in sochi, you can catch this week right here an abc7 at 8 00. Stay with abc7 news nor all the latest olympic results for team usa and all the teams you are following. Here is how we are going to handle keeping you informed. On air we will announce a spoiler alert. If you dont want to know, july you will have plenty of time to turn away and save the surprise. And on our social media platforms we will be posting results, but you will have to click a link to see them so you will not accidentally find out the results. You can find us at facebook. Com abc7news and follow us on twitter and we are always online abc7news. Com. For many kids these dis, robots are already familiar figures thanks to games and movies. Now bay area startup wants to use robots to help teach kids a skill that could change their lives. Abc7 news anchor Carolyn Johnson has the details. Reporter this is bo, a robot with a mind of a child. Maybe some day kids are sponges. You expos them to things and they pick up things much faster than you would ever imagine. He is cofounder of playi, a starter that wants to teach children more than how to play with robots, it wants to teach them to program them as well. Kids at a very young age, as young as preschool, can grasp programming concepts. Hes placing it down in the robot. After first designing the robots, the team came up with behavers that a child would be able to both program and enjoy. The key, they say, was coming up with a simplified version of computer code that younger children could learn and then build upon. The Software Interface can be run from smartphones and tablets. In this case colorcoded dots are sequenced to program the robot to play the xylophone. I will go down, go to yellow and hit it again and its a sequence, thats a program and told the robot what to do. He said in test groups the system worked with children as young as five years old. As kids progressed they can move on to more sophisticated coding, including popular programming languages like java. The goal is to teach a new generation of programmers to compete in an increasingly technical world. Computer science in the u. S. Has fullen for behind the rest of the world. There are less than one in ten schools that offer computer science. And that led me to think how can we make it fun, exciting and accessible for every child. Its a process him and his team believe they can jump start with the help of a freewheeling, xylophoneplaying, programmable robot. Carolyn johnson, abc7 news. Kind of a sloppy morning out there if you havent been out yet to test the elements. Abc7 meteorologist lisa argen is on the roof to bring us the very latest and not too bad for you, lisa, in San Francisco. Exactly. Weve had just a little bit of mist and drizzle here but there is a flood watch for the north bay, the hills, the valleys and the coast until 3 00 this afternoon. The storm risk continues for the north bay throughout the afternoon. But we will see heavier rain all across the bay area after about 12 00, 1 00. So there is a possibility of maybe some rockslides where all that water has been coming down the past couple of days. Here is where it has not let up. From yachtville, highway 29, out toward fir field and vacaville. Then toward northern marin and southern marin valley. Mill beach getting ready for more heavy rain. A fast flood watch until 3 00 for parts of napa, marin and sonoma. The rest of the area look for pesky, light showers. Also fremont between 680 and 880 looking at a shower. Concord, antioch, out toward Discovery Bay in the san ramon valley, as well as oakland, you are dry. In the Sierra Nevada its 38 degrees at the tahoe Valley Airport. Higher elevation snow and we will look at the winter storm warning until monday, thats tomorrow, with an additional 8 inches of snow at lake level. The snow level will lower tonight but this afternoon golf 7,000 feet. If you know folks up there, they may have a tough time getting back today. Temperatures in the midand upper 50s. The droppal allowing for mild readings. Throughout the rest of the day temperatures fairly up a form with numbers ranking from 56 santa rosa, as well as concord. Livermore coming in at 57. Heres a look at a soggy emeryville. We have the heaviest rain this morning in the north bay and periods of heavy rain for everyone throughout the day today. It will be dry tomorrow, into tuesday. Wednesday at this point not looking particularly wet. About an inch of rain in concord the past 24 hours. Only. 02 here a look at livermore. Not so much. And redwood city closing in on a halfinch and nearly 3 inches on the coast. San francisco an inch and a half. Look at mt. Tam, nearly 13 inches of rain and santa rosa over 3 and mount st. Helena, 7. 75. The wide ranging amounts will continue today as the focus guns again is in the north bay. But the whole band will sink south and that will allow for more generous rain throughout the afternoon. Heres a look at the timeline. By 1 00, 2 00, it begins to push through the east bay, the south bay. Then its out of the north bay by 7 00, 8 00. And the lingering showers throughout the overnight hours, particularly from the south bay, the Central Coast and then its over. Rainfall amounts 1 to 3 inches. High are elevation necessary the north bay a tenth to three quarters inch. Lower elevations, the isnt cruise mound takes, 1 to 2 inches. 59 livermore. The accuweather sevenday forecast, heavy rain today throughout the afternoon, then we will look for just pick skies into tomorrow afternoon and tuesday maybe a cans of showers north bay on thursday. So we are still going to see some more rain. Good way to track the weather is to follow live doppler 7hd on twitter for latest bay area weather conditions rain or shine. You are right, im enjoying a little bit of a break out here but more is needed. Not for everyone. More is going to come. The week ahead looks interesting. You will have to check back with us. We could be getting more rain into next weekend. Okay. We also need to remind people just because we got some rain is it not mean we are out of the drought situation. We still need to conserve. Yeah. We only have put a tiny dent in it. We need probably three more storms to take us where we should be for midfebruary. Thank you, lisa. Up next, the irs is demanding the Michael Jackson estate pay hundreds of millions of dollars. Why the estate says the irs numbers of way off. And heres a live look from our roof cam. You just heard lisa say heavier rain around noon or 1