Would. Heres a live look outside, westbound 92, lot of folks hitting the brakes there and a high wind advisory for san mateo bridge along with the bay bridge this morning so it is wet and windy here today. Westbound 80, highway 4 to the maze up to about 25 minutes, 16 across the bay bridge, and southbound 101, San Francisco to sfo, youre still in the green at just about ten minutes. Couple different issues on southbound 6890, one out of the trivalley, one a little closer to fremont. Ill show you those coming up next. On to breaking news now. A vallejo familys been forced from their home overnight after it was hit by a big tree. Lets get right to abc7 News Reporter amy hollyfield. Reporter the family is okay. A huge oak, though, scared them when it fell on to the home just a few hours ago. A family was asleep inside. They are all fine, though. The house the tree did not break through the home, but officials have red tagd it until they can get the tree removed and they can inspect it. The family actually tried to get rid of the tree years ago. We hired a company to come out and cut the tree down. They came out and they looked and they said, you know, your trees over 100 years old and its an oak tree, you need a permit from the city so we started that process. It was a bunch of red tape, and a lot of hoops to jump through and money, so we just decided to leave it alone at the time. And here we are 11 years later and its finally falling. Reporter she says they heard the tree crack. She says it shook the house, it sounded and felt like an earthquake. The family is now trying to figure out where to go. They dont have family or relatives in the area. And they say the hotels that theyve been calling wont take them because they have dogs. The red cross is here to help. Reporting live in vallejo, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. That is a shame, amy. Thank you. Developing news. Union city Police Need Help identifying the woman that you see right here in this video. Shes accused of assault outside a walmart. Now heres a closer look at her. She intentionally rammed her car into several people on sunday. You see that surveillance camera capturing part of this incident. The video shows the car backing up and it narrowly misses a 3yearold and her mom. Oh oh oh my gosh. Oh my goodness. Oh my gosh, she almost hit them peoples kids. She intentionally backed up twice to get out of that parking lot so were calling it an assault with a deadly weapon. What the heck happened here . Well, police say the woman was upset because she was unable to return batteries at the store. She looks very young, but police are telling us she is in her possibly early 20s, maybe late teens. The parking lot is covered in cameras but right now, police dont have a clear shot of the license plate. Former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort denying a connection to dnc hacking now. Manaforts name came up several times during fbi director james comeys hearing for his odd connection to russia, quote. He served as Campaign Chairman for three months last year and in august, officials in ukraine said manaforts name was included on a list of black accounts made by a former ukrainian president who is a support of russian president vladimir putin. Manafort released a statement, which reads in part, i had no role or involvement in the cyber attack on the dnc. The suggestion that i ever worked in concert with anyone to release hacked emails or sought to undermine the interests of the u. S. Is false. Reaction coming in after fbi director james comey says he has no information supporting the president s claims. Sean spicer says President Trump is not going to apologize to mr. Obama for the accusations against him. Spicer also says questions remain about surveillance that may or may not have taken place during the campaign. Former secretary of defense, leon panetta says this controversy is hurting President Trump. It really does affect the credibility of the president of the United States to insist that something that is totally untrue is somehow true in his own mind. More than a dozen top lawmakers and intelligence officials have now said theres no evidence to support the president s tweet alleging illegal wiretapping. Happening today, a new effort to stop companies who want to help build President Trumps border wall from doing business with San Francisco. Supervisor Hillary Ronen is set to introduce the first city law in the country to ban border Wall Contractors from bidding on any public projects in San Francisco. A Noon Press Conference is being held outside ty lynn international, the lead Design Engineering firm on the bay bridge east span project. The company added itself to the department of homeland securitys list of vendors interested in bidding on the design and construction of the border wall. And we have some new details from the wild side show on the bay bridge on sunday night and were hearing from a witness. Dozens of people on atvs and bird bikes popped wheelies. This woman tells abc7 news shes never seen anything like it. They kept coming and at first i didnt think anything of it because just a bunch of kids, i guess. And then when they started doing the wheelies and no helmets and going on the shoulders, they were causing danger. I mean, somebody can get hurt. Officers followed the group by air instead of starting a pursuit and Oakland Police posted a photo showing where they stopped a small group at 103rd and royal end street in oakland. One of the people detained tried to take off by didnt get very. Darisha moran is accused of evading police. Several others could also face charges. And this just into our live desk. Apple making a bold move with its next iphone. Look at this. Apple has just issued a press reelyce moments ago with the special edition red version of the iphone 7 and iphone 7 plus. Ill scroll through the photos for you. The cupertinobased company says this phone is ten years in the making. Theyve had a partnership with red and the global fund to fight aids. That fund also fights tuberculosis and malaria and you can order this new phone starting this friday. Apple says its a new way for customers to donate to red but no word how much of the sales will actually be donated to that nonprofit. Back to you. Thats all i want. It looks really cool and a great cause. If you see this in your inbox, do not chick it. The scam targeting bank of america customers. If you visited lake tahoe and thought it was hard to find parking, youre right. What officials plan to do. Taking a live look outside right now with abc7 news now. Look at sfo, you can see the tarmac is wet this morning. Tarmac is wet this morning. Were going to keep weather so now im not being perky, telling you that drivers that switch to progressive save an average of 548 whoo i mean, whoo. While painting your toes. On demand laughs during long bubble baths. Tv everywhere is awesome. The allnew Xfinity Stream app. Xfinity. The future of awesome. Get used to this for the next couple of hours, a moist, southwesterly flow bringing us showers, even moderate showers from time to time through the morning commute. Look how mild it is, though. 56 to 59 on the peninsula. Even a 62 in oakland, concord, 60, napa 61, it is mild this morning. About 64 to 67 bay and inland this afternoon. Some sunshines going to break out. 62 at the coast. Well have another round of showers and possible thunderstorms tonight, 48 to about 54 degrees. And around the state, everybody but san diego and palm springs getting wet. I want to move over to our traffic maps now. You can see live doppler 7. Weve got a lot of wet pavement today and a few issues as well. The first one, southbound 680 before sunol boulevard sounds like we have a disabled vehicle sitting in the right lane so that is starting to stack up towards 580 and past that, twocar crash off on the shoulder, one of those has quite a bit of damage just before washington boulevard just a slight delay as you approach that one in the fremont area. And one new problem on southbound 880 before a street. Three to four vehicles involved in a crash there. Some pretty heavy rain in that area too. Thats the orange and yellow on our radar. If you thought parking in lake tahoe was bad, Officials Say its actually a bigger problem than you even think. Some areas of tahoe have more than 6,000 visitors per parking spot. The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is going to review a plan to expand Parking Spaces through the year 2035. That plan includes Public Transportation around the lake and Ferry Service to link the north and south shores. The agencys going to meet tomorrow to discuss this issue. We do have good news for your bank account. The cost of groceries is going down. And separate story, theyre and separate story, theyre creepy, theyre crawly hey allergy muddlers are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool . Try zyrtec® zyrtec® starts working hard at hour one and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. Stick with zyrtec®. Muddle no more®. Try rhinocort® allergy spray for powerful nasal allergy relief. Todays storm is level 1. That means light rain. Track todays storm any time on the abc7 news app. Download it now. And heres what that 1 on our storm impact scale looks like on the Golden Gate Bridge this morning as people are coming into the city. Were going check in with alexis and mike in just a couple minutes. Well, rare sight in the sierra, take a look. This is a rotary plow being used to clear the Railroad Tracks at donner summit. Union pacific brought out the machine last month. Officials say they only bring out the rotary about once every ten years when the snow gets really bad. This year, crews have been dealing with so much powder, theyve had a hard time keeping the route clear. Take a look at this woman in these photos. She looks like a nice lady of a certain age, right . Well, the San Mateo CountySheriffs Office says dont be fooled, that she is known for stealing wallets from women who resemble her while theyre shopping and then quickly uses the cards that she steals to buy thousands of dollars in merchandise and to withdraw cash. Authorities say she is committing similar crimes in multiple states and now she has been spotted in the bay area, so watch out for her. Officials are saying exactly where shes been seen, but theyre just warning you to be on the lookout. There are some health news this morning that spider venom could help prevent brain damage caused by a stroke. Researchers in australia found a certain time of protein found in the venom can protect the brain from oxygen deprivation. It works up to eight hours after a stroke is detected. 6 Million People die from strokes every year and 5 million others left permanently disabled. Researchers hope this treatment could one day drastically improve recovery rates. If noyouve noticed youre getting a lot more bang for the buck at the grocery store, its because razor sharp competition is driving those prices down and its creating bargains for shoppers across the country. The reason this is happening now, robin, is that theres more competition from those Companies Like the amazons and the walmarts of the world that have gotten into the grocery game and youre seeing these deals all over the place. We found eggs at costco, a year ago, 18 eggs at costco would have run you 3. 61. Now, that same container of eggs is 1. 79. I must be at the wrong grocery store. Im not noticing this at all. Neither am i. These lower prices may be good for our prokts but they are killing the grocery chains and now those chains are having to become more aggressive in trying to get you to buy more so they can make some money. Have you noticed this at all . No, in fact, our prices went up at our local grocery store. Bucking the National Trend as usual. It often seems like we are the exception to the rule. You guys . Neither, huh . Yeah. Okay, thats three for three. How about you guys at home . Well, you answer us on maybe social media, im going to take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza where some light to moderate rain is coming down just a little bit sideways. I think alexis you said the wind advisories were just canceled so thats good news there. Didnt mean to steal your thunder if yourp going to say that. Heres a look at walnut creek. Nearly 2 3 inch of rain. Showers, lightsening and hail is all possible today and tomorrow. A brief break arrives thursday and then our strongest storm friday into saturday and a lingering storm sunday into monday. Strongest storm moving through san lorenzo. You can see in hayward there, right along hayward boulevard, some puddles developing. This is going to go right up through castro valley, probably up crow canyon and into san ramon, dublin, possibly across the dublin braid, maybe dub line grade, excuse me, so watch out for puddling on 680 and 580. Storm today is a 1 today and tomorrow. Even though theres a chance of thunder, not going to have any flooding or wind damage. Here are 7 00, theres a possibility of some showers and thunderstorms developing. Notice by noon, we get a little bit of a break. Well need is sunglasses at times this afternoon and you can see during the evening hours the best chance of showers will be in the north bay. There could be rogue showers elsewhere and then another wave moves in with some of our heavier rain falling. By 5 00, still inland east bay and then the south bay, and then notice by 9 00, it slides to the south and you can see things quickly starting to taper tomorrow afternoon. Winter weather advisory up in the sierra until 6 00 tomorrow evening. Take the chains. Youll need them. My kwiefaccuweather 7 day forec after a break thursday, weve got a 2 moderate on the storm impact scale friday, and then a light saturday, sunday, and monday. No worries, mike, im sure i steal plenty of your content as well. But no longer have the high wind advisories for the bay bridge or san mateo bridge. No wind advisories for the Golden Gate Bridge but its definitely soggy. You can see road spray kicking up. Definitely want to increase that following distance. Also looking for voeg here on the r richmondsan rafael bridge. I have not sad had any major incidents. Westbound 580, tracy to dublin, still just in the yellow, 39 minutes, southbound 680, dublin to mission boulevard, a couple issues along to stretch but in the green at 20 minutes and northbound 85 between 101 and cupertino still in the green at just 18 minutes. Saving to pay your property tax bill can be pretty daunting. Next, why Michael Finney is worning against a popular account for that. If youve been tried to get a seat at the french laundry, it might be easier this morning. Live look at walnut creek this morning as we try to get you through traffic and also the weather were experiencing today. Today. Silicon valley may be the key to walmarts future. According to fortune, the retailer plans to open a facility here in the bay area to develop tech that will modernize its stores for the next five to ten years. Innovators there will work with other startups and venture capitalists to develop robotics, Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence technology for the store. 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Prepaid reservations start at 310 a person and that if youre wondering does not include the wine. I mean, french laundry, ill just take someone doing my laundry. Oh, you make me laugh. Would you be willing to pay even more . San francisco is asking residentsed to todd that today. Emergency ban, people coming into america from several companies no longer allowed to have Electronic Devices bigger than their cell phone in the can. The new intelligence coming in overnight. And waking up to wet weather this morning and more is on the way. By tomorrow afternoon, when this storm finally tapers, another 1 4 to 1 2 inch is possible and we may even squeeze in some lightning, thunder, and hail. All right.