Brief heavy down pours in between the waves of lighttomoderate rain. Our biggest cells are to marin and sonoma an hour to two hours arrest, here is the day planner today from the east bay hills, sprinkles and lit and light rain and heavy showers and thunderstorms will roll in before lunch through the evening commute which is much tougher than the morning commute. Leyla gulen . We were talking to a tweet this morning and thank you, nelson, for checking with us. He usually takes the ferries and says a couple of sprinkles are falling. A wide picture shows the area of green are sprinkles that will affect the commute over San Francisco and the bay bridge and the east bay we have an area over the altamont pass. This sigalert westbound 580 at highway 32 a big rig carrying strawberries over turned. The sigalert is in effect until further notice. Takes it easy at 41 minutes tracy to dublin, and antioch to concord is 21 minutes. The bay bridge toll plaza lights now are on and traffic is stacking from the maze. More on the storm watch coverage. A tree came tumbling down on a fence and parked cars in morning could be a sign of what is ahead when the storm really hits. The tree fell before 3 00 a. M. But it missed the house on the corner lot near the freeway entrance. On the peninsula residents are ready for a pair of storms with sandbags available including this sand begin station in east palo alto. Residents are concerned about flooding with 50 percent of all storms sitting in the flood zone. This week last overflowed christmas of 2012. The challenge is the water coming to the creek into the city is coming from the Santa Cruz Mountains and it is hard to monitor. Improvements have been made on the levees but only temporary fix. The sandbags are up in mill valley at the club on miller avenue. The stretch of businesses was flooded not big storm that hit two weeks ago and when there is a high tide or heavy rain another creek rises and floods the area. Business owners blame faulty storm drain the city refuses to fix they say. In addition to the weather team we have another way to keep an eye on the rain follow live doppler 7 hd on twitter with the latest bay area weather conditions. Happening today in Santa Cruz Police unveil a memorial honoring two veteran murdered officers a year ago. Matt keller is at Police Headquarters with a preview. You can see the plaques are covered and will be unveiled at the dedication ceremony at the police department. This has been a tough year for the city dealing with the tragedy. Last year a Community Remember an was held at city hall that includes music and a vigil and moment of silence exactly a year ago when the Sergeant Butch baker and detective butler were shot and killed during a Sexual Assault investigation. The suspect was shot and killed by police later that day. Sergeant baker and detective butler are the first officers killed in the line of duty in the hit of the 9 police department. We still mourn butch and elizabeth and feel their absence you here because you, too, were touch by their passing and feel a kinship with our amazing Santa Cruz Police department. Two of the children attended last nights event but his daughter did not. She is threatening to sue over how a Memorial Fund is divided delay the distribution of 500,000 to the two families. The Memorial Garden dedication is scheduled to start at 10 30 this morning. The nations eyes are on arizonas governor controversial for the illegal immigration crackdown. The bill pits gay rights against religious freedom. Katie marzullo is in the newsroom with more. The governor needs to make the decision by saturday night and show has not said which way she is leaning but she tweeted i assure you as always i will do the right thing for the state of airs. It allows Business Owners who have religious beliefs to refuse service to gays. John mccain and romney tweeted their opposition. Some Technical Companies are opposed including apple want as veto with plans to open a 2,000 job hightech plant and the c. E. O. Of San Francisco yelp where a letter to the governor saying every consumer has a right to be shed by a bows without fear of discrimination. There are constituents on both sides. This is wrong. What message do we send . This is not about hate but the protection of religious rights. The super bowl is on the line set to be layed in phoenix with the nfl policies emphasizing tolerance and inclusiveness. There is widespread speculation the governor will veto the bill. A picnic table led a teen to fall and slip 250 down a cliff. This is in forest hill. The sheriff says that the 17yearold was trying to move the picnic table near the side of a cliff and he slipped and went over the edge. A firefighter was lowered down to lit the teen up. The 17yearold remains hospitalized with a head injury but is expected to recover. New details with a petaluma slaughterhouse accused of processing meat that were unhealthy after rawing 8 Million Pounds of beef. Sources say that the company is accuses of killing and selling meat from dairy cows with eye cancer and the company was buying sick cows chopping off the heads to avoid detection by inspectors and selling the haiti. It is illegal but experts say it is fought likely to make people sick and no illnesses have been reported. Mike nicco is on the roof in the almosts and that is why you are a meteorologist and we are warm and dry. I enjoy walking the sprinkles with the light rain in San Francisco. My umbrella is out. Grab yours. I will show you the best radar runs, oakley and all this area right now and moving through the east bay hills along highway 4 north lafayette to Pleasant Hill and benicia and concord and that area will get more in the way of organized rain, the yellows mean well get more. In the south bay, clouds with sprinkles. The winds are light the they starting to pick up. We will be gusting around 20 to 25 and when thunderstorms roll in toward the noon hour we will start to hit the 25 to 45milesperhour gusts and that will be with us through the evening and taper overnight when the heavy it of the showers do the same. We need the umbrellas now to slow down our speeds and we have a couple of crashes to get you going in the 6 00 hour, westbound 580 we have a lane blocked. I doesnt sound like there are injuries and we are slow. We had sprinkles falling in that area. Highway 4 that is where we have another accident blocking one lane and slowandgo approaching 242. 280 away from highway 17 a few extra cars northbound are the headlights headed into cupertino. Move over lebron james, the nba player now topping the miami heat star when it comes to jersey sales and he has not scored a point. First, pope ben dick has pressure to resign and he is responding. Of the besis that mia is that millions of people will qualify for Financial Assistance. Its important to remember that the lower your annual income, the greater Financial Assistance you will receive. Enroll today at coveredca. Com. Covering cupertino, wipe country and all bay area this is abc7 news. Drive carefully there is rain in the bay area. This is interstate 680 and walnut creek area with the taillights head southbound traffic is moving along. Missouri has execute add man who abducted, raped, and killed a kansas city teen nearly 25 years ago. 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Scores if you are looking for a job. Some companies asking for scores from the senior sales and management hiring saying this helps when comparing candidates with different backgrounds but the company that administers this say the exam is designed mostly to predict firstyear College Success and in studies have been done on how scores could predict job success. It come when more and more colleges are not requiring the s. A. T. s. Now, how are the rain totals . Mike . Very impressive. Can i borrow your fly filibustering gear, eric . I need some some hip waders. I am watching the storm coming to San Francisco with orange in it on live doppler 7 hd and with the wind blowing out we will have sideways, lighttomoderate rain. Live doppler 7 hd shows the first batch moving law and another batch of yellow developing along highway four north of san pablo to martinez and vallejo and this system is the one i am talking about that will head to San Francisco possibly clip pacifica and headed to san rafael and mill valley and sausalito and that whole area. Expect the next half hour or 20 minutes the light rain will become heavy but still tracking thunderstorms over the ocean. We are starting to see waves develop but notice the visibility is high so we are not dealing with anything in the way of heavy rain. The winds are coming from the south and pick up at ten Miles Per Hour but expect them to get faster headed through the morning. San jose is locking dry. Heavy rain and breezy conditions before lunch and through the afternoon. We will have another batch earlier on friday morning law the early afternoon and scattered showers are possible thursday and saturday. The cold front is trying to push in right now with the second part of the storm coming in with a cold pocket of air bringing more unstable air mass with the possibility of heavier rain and lightning and thunder and small hail in the afternoon and evening. With the brief heavy rain urban flooding is a possible. That doesnt mean we are not going to have rain for the day, but it will come down with the heavy sports are shortlived causing the hazardous driving conditions through the evening. Wake up tomorrow morning with left over light rain and watch the shows taper after lunch tomorrow afternoon when it will be dry. The sevenday forecast is 1 to 3 of rain around the bay to the valleys and 2 to 5 in the mountains. If you are headed out to bart we have 50 bat bart trains on time and muni is running on time with no delays for the bay ferries. You can see the green is indicating where the sprinkles are falling. We have a couple of problems in dublin at the interchange with the first as we open up the scope you can see we have an accident westbound 580 blocking one lane and it is causing a pinch in the commute. On the dublin interchange northbound 680 we have unknown debris blocking one lane and the san mateo bridge shows a stalls vehicle block one lane with signs showing upcoming stalled vehicle blocking one lane causing a slow down so you can see the traffic is building across the water. A Northern California business is taking personal display of affection to the next level. Hugs for hire. But, first, file of the leading ladies in hollywood are vying for gold all with something in common. [announcer] welcome to the allnew intuit quickbooks. Run your entire business with quickbooks. Get paid however you want with it. Get real work done wherever with it. Say buhbye to the old way with it. Run payroll with your finger with it. Scan receipts with it. 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Oscar sunday is this sunday right here. The morning news continues at 30 with the top stories. Including the communities now asked to double down on Water Conservation and water leaders say they have no choice. Rain coming. People are preparing. We will show you how. Live doppler 7 hd shows i am standing on the rooftop and it is about to get heavier in San Francisco. I am leyla gulen and at look at the bay bridge toll plaza where the cashpaying lanes are loading up. We are starting to see glistening roads causing a problem with a few accidents. Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Good morning on wednesday with a look at traffic headed westbound. This is eastern span of the bay bridge where lots of taillights possibly indicating slower commute because of the sprinkles of light rain arriving in the bay area. Autumn umbrella will help the top half but with the wind blowing you are not going to stay dry from the waist down. Dress accordingly. On live doppler 7 hd you can see we are more active with more yellow developing. And moving over to mill valley and sausalito and toward pacifica you are about to get wet and south San Francisco and daly city, about to see an uptick in the light rain and oakland has light rain across highway four and lighttomoderate radar returns to martinez and vallejo so get ready for light rain through the morning and the heavier showers will move in at noon and thunderstorms, heavy rain at times, through the evening hours, getting slick in some spots but no ponding as we will have this evening. Leyla gulen . Hopefully the windshield wipers are in good working order. Northbound 680 one lane is blocked. There are no delays but southbound there a slow down leaving highway 84. Westbound 580 at 132 in tracy, there is a big rig carrying strawberries overturned and we have crews. It will take some time. The sigalert is in effect until further notice. I5 to 205 reconnected you to 580 and you be on way to the amount pass but it will be slow. Tracy to dublin is an hour westbound direction. Highway four is slow at 33 minutes and 101 is 21 minutes from san rafael to San Francisco. Walnut creek is 11 minutes to highway 24. Our storm watch coverage continues in the north bay where we find Amy Hollyfield with the preparations. Rain is coming in. Amy . The rain started to fall in mill valley and joes tacos is ready with sandbags stockpiled and ready, along with the 2 a. M. Club. Look what happened to them three weeks ago during the last summer. All of miller avenue floods when it rains and the 2 a. M. Club had to close early on a saturday night and was closed all day sunday. Joes taco closed because of the watered that had to cleaned. The Business Owners are frustrateed because there is flooding with heavy rain. They are tireed of that. Mostly people are celebrateing the rain because it will help but it will not get us back to where we need to be but we will be celebrating and appreciating it. People are ready for the rain on the peninsula, sand balancings are available in several areas including this station in eas