Expecting drenching down pours, well take a look at the sevenday forecast later. Thank you very much. Crews spent the day cleaning up mudslides around the bay area. From small county roads to major freeway off ramps this is as concern grows over more problems now that the ground is so sat rated and more rain wayne . This saturation is a key word. This is like the rain gauge of the bay area. What youre looking at here is as it turns out, the ground is saturated. Maybe you knew that. It surprised us with how early. 28th of november, two weeks before it usually become thats way. Two more weeks for the possibility. Signs of saturated ground aroundervn on interstate 80 and highway 29, a small surprise landslide turned an after ramp into an empty strip. Thank goodness for caltrans doing the clean up. In a sleepy section, no such help. Two days after the small creek n overflowed banks residents are still digging outs. Came over this side, that side. Got to my neighbor as well. Got across the road. Rory has been workinge. O since, six inches of mud covered his lawn and filled his pool. Four inches of water ruined two noors. It may have to join this stuff in route to the dump because of ground saturated early this year, too early leaving time for this disaster to possibly man yi test. Its not winter. Youre dealing with this . Right. Sun is out. Water in that creek does feed into the creek which youre looking at here. Which leads to the next question. If the ground has become saturated, how early. It was norm. According to one expert, just barely. Wayne freedman abc 7 news. Thank you very much. Crews are racing to fix a problem from the last series of storms. Heavy rain eroding a huge chunk of roadway. The road not just ahead for x3tz residents. There is a popular short cut in high one in the other. We had a slide out. A little down the road here about six years ago. It took many months to get the road open. Were we had to make the circuit. Crews laid down 120 feet of pipe today, theyve carried out a preliminary evaluation of the soil to see how soon they can rebuild the road. Cruise hoping to have a lane of traffic early as tomorrow afternoon. Traffic moving again. Sky 7 overhead, caltrans trues crews did work today. They want to prevent slides following these storms. One way Traffic Control was in effect until 3 00 into the afternoon. bmy this slowed folks down. Stay with us for continuing storm watch coverage. You can trach systems coming in any time you wish. At abc 7 news. Com. Workers continue their search for a nevada couple who went missing during stormy weather. The they were headed towards their home in nevada and havent been heard from, since. 44yearold rod cliffton and his girlfriend paula lane visiting family and friends in Northern California before driving home to nevada in the storm. Rescue teams and volunteers joining family members searching highways in the snow for any sign of the couple or their car. Its been awesome to see everyone coming together. I appreciate it. That is a terrifying time for the family. Crews are going to continue to search for the couple tomorrow off road and on foot. A San Francisco man has been charged with kidnapping and raping an autistic 16yearold girl. This man was arraigned today. Charges range from child molestation to rape of an incompetent person. Atkinson is accused ofcd abducting the girl. The girl walked away november 27thment the staff lost track of the girl at the fruit veil bart station. Police say the man grabbed the girl took her back to his home in San Francisco, and repeatedly raped her over the course of several days. This is by far one of the most sickening cases ive seen in my career as a police officer. Someone as mr. Atkinson can take advantage of someone of this statture. The girl escaped. She was found by a muni driver and helped police find the man they arrested. Well, in the east bay, People Living in a number of communities are worried about their safety tonight. With the measure last month, supervisors have to close as many as four fire stations. The candidates include stations in walnut creek and clayton. You never know what time of day or night. It could mean difference between five minutes and 10 minutes. For a fire, its a larger fire. For life saving measures it could mean life or death. It could increase Response Time as you heard. County wide average time now is just over six and a half minutes. Starting next year nudists in San Francisco will have to keep clothe whonz out in public. Supervisors took the second vote this afternoon. Carolyn . The nudists are now pinning their hopes on a Court Hearing they hope will lead to overturning this ban. There is no discussion from the supervisors when they pass public nudity ordinance into law. Deputies tried to move quickly to cover the protestors. There is a rule requiring clothes at city hall. When taking their off, three men, four women were tossed out. I am nudist butuqcdn i prepae to have the freedom of being in the sexual revolution. The law will take affect in february unless a judge sides with the nudist whos say the ban violates their civil rights. There willo z be permitted devents. But that doesnt satisfy the protestors. It teaches children that they should be ashamed of their bodies and adults they should ab shamed of their body autos supervisor scott weiner says his constituents were tired of seeing a group of naked guys every day. Sow sponsors this citywide ordinance. I stand by this legislation. Im happy to see it passed and to move on to other thing autos but that is not likely to happen right away. There is now a criminal charge against local blogger michael petrillis posting this picture of scott weiner in a bathroom preparing to brush his teeth. What he had tried to take was a picture of the supervisor again talls. The District Attorney says that is an invasion of pry vassy. The privacy. This is inappropriate. We want to make sure we send a message this is not accepted. Its just trespasses any social boundaries and the First Court Appearance is tomorrow and the District Attorney about a letter he and the City Government showing their naked protests two weeks ago. They accuse the board president of violating the b and of sensorship for calling a recess when commotion broke out that. Led cameras ras to stop rolling. The da says protestors need to contact the Ethics Commission for a review. Thank you. Just ahead another big decision in San Francisco today that will affect thousands of kids. Find out what the muni plans to go ahead. A north bay mans plan to keep his oyster farm over. Efforts low income children in San Francisco will be soon able to ride muni for free. The decision after more than a year of debate. Abc 7 News Reporter was at the Transportation Agency board of directors meeting and joins us now to explain the Pilot Program. And the program will make muni free to children of low income San Francisco families. And only working for next year but its been a long, two year battle to get to this point. Families have been fighting for two years for this moment. The board of directors this afternoon voted to aloe indicate 1. 6 million so children of low income San Francisco families can ride muni free. Bypassing a 75 cent fare many cant afford. A lot of folks in our community go every day to school with fear because they dont have enough money to pay for the bus. The route in the city is something i use every day to get to school and volunteer its no longer something parents could afford. The money comes out of a grant from the regional transportation commission. The forth 5. 1 million going to maintenance but critics say the grant should have gone to upgrading muni citing the system wide outage. It could be used to maintain and fix broken vehicles to purchase new vehicles and to make muni more reliable. You know . A free muni bus isnt worth much if it breaks down you dont have to choose between helping youth and making this i do believe that that is a false choice. I think we can walk ask chew gum at the same time. The Pilot Program set to months from march of next year to july, 2014. This is something our board;y is agency has been in supportsive of. Making Public Transit more accessible to youth throughout the city. In order to qualify, families must live within the city limits of San Francisco. And they also must live 200 below poverty line. P keira, thank you. The honer of drakes bay os Sister Company is fighting a decision to shut down his business. The interior secretary decided the lease with the National Park service would not be renewed and the site returned to its natural state. But drakes bay owner says the government is misrepresenting the law. And he filed a lawsuit against the government. Were not going to walk away. And instead. We have Incredible Community support. Were fighting for the community, employees, and our family against the federal bureaucracy. Drakes bay accounts for 40 of the state oyster production. The department issued a Statement Today saying the secretary made his decision after careful consideration of law and policy. The department will carefully review the complaint and any related materials that may be filed. So it goes on. All right. Weve got to keep an eye on the next system of storms. Arrival of rain now. Moisture in the north bay now, spots are getting rainfall now hitting the ground. Here is a live view from our eeflt bay sutro camera. Weve got live cameras ash around the bay area. We have moisture and there is moisture moving way up north or off shore about to push on shore. And to give you a view of the north bay now. You can see an area of hooks like impressivexba rainfall. Moving towards novato and north. We have spots of moisture there. This is the looping image you can see that area of heavy rain inward right now. If it continues in this path, we can see readings into upper 50s and 60 degrees now. 61 will be the warm spot now. Scattered showers overnight tonight rain in the morning giving way to showers. And becoming partly sunny skies into afternoon as well. Approaching frontal system moving slowly. This is what will bring us rainfall. Its beginning to push in right now. Continuing to do so overnight. Start agent 7 00 this evening. Well see more wide spread rainfall. Later into evening hours well take a look at wide spread rain. Quite a few wet spots around the bay area. Locally heavy down pours are possible. By 7 00 well see the rain continuing south ward and eastward. By 9 00, sort of a narrower path throughout the central part of the bay area expanding south ward and eastward by late morning by 11 00 a. M. Or so. Then breaking up and redeveloping with pockets of showers light rain. Then, overnight tomorrow night into thursday morning rain will end. By 5 00 thursday morning well look at rainfall totals up to about an inch and a half. In the wettest parts of the north bay. Up to maybe half an inch. And east bay, maybe an inch and a tenth of an inch in the south bay. At laiblg tahoe this, is going to be a rain event tonight and tomorrow snow levels way up high. Tomorrow, rainy becoming partly cloudy to mainly sunny thursday and friday. Back to the bay area tonight, lows into mid50s across the bay area. Showers will be more wide spread. Tomorrow, once getting into afternoon, well see showers breaking up i little bit. Sun burning through. High temperatures into low or low to mid60s. Similar range. Highs near monterey bay. Perhaps higher there. Mid60s. Here is the accuweather forecast. Well dry out, and sunny up a bit thursday. Raiders day as they take on broncos thursday night football seen here on abc 7. Dry conditions throughout the weekend. And into next week. So just have a couple days to after that, its over. Just stay that way. Yes. Thank you. This is a very cool thing that i got to do. Helping judge videos created by teenagers with some powerful antibullying messages. San francisco District Attorney sponsored a contest announcing winners today, the contest created to bring awareness to the problem helping children come up with responses to bullying. You can see winners right there. 58 videos received from San Francisco students in middle and high school. First place video created by students that say they were so glad to have the opportunity. Weve been through a lot over the years. Were happy we participated. They receive aid plaque, ipad mini asks a baseball signed by barry zito. Every child had a great message in there. It was terrific to see what they can do. Kids taking the lead, i love that. Just ahead a perp of interest in a murder mystery. Now, a founder final john mcafee surface 6. Silicon valley millionaire john mcafee is now in guatemala where he plans to ask for asylum. His lawyer revealed hes crossed into guatemala from belize where hes waned for questioning in the murder of his neighbor. He continues to be in contact with the media by phone and through e mail and blog posts. The fish and Game Department is carrying out a necropsy on two Mountain Lion cubs over the weekend. The shaefrs office responded to a report of a lion in the 800 block of the area on friday. Fish and game tried to move the cub buzz they were back on the streets the next day. At that point the wardens felt they had to shoot them out of concern for public safety. San Jose City Council voted today to allow airports staff to shoot blank and live ammunition at birds that pose a hazard to planes. The vote changes an ordinance allowing only police too discharge firearms there have been 118 reported bird strikes at San Jose International airport alone. Birds can cause damage when they hit planes particularly if they get into the engine. We know the example pal happened in january, 2009 when local pilot suly sullen berger landed a jet in the hudson river after hitting a flock of birds. We have more still to come at 6 00. The debate over a proposal to use drone aircraft. How modernizing schools and how state lawmakers want to spend money you [ male announcer ] introducing. A new way to save on your prescriptions. Its the aarp medicarerx saver plus plan from unitedhealthcare. With this plan, you can get copays as low as a dollar through a preferred Network Pharmacy like walgreens where youll find 8,000 convenient locations. Best of all, this plan has the lowest part d premium in the United States only 15 a month. Open enrollment ends december 7th. So call today or visit your local walgreens. Groups and the American Civil Liberties union objecting to government use of unmanned Surveillance Aircraft within the United States. This debate has now come to alameda county. Why the Sheriffs Department wants one of the things, and why some object. Opponents call them drones. The sheriff zbt doesnt like that term because of the military connotation perhaps, but for this story 3lsre going to call them unmanned military vaeks. This is the 31,000 unmanned aerial vehicle. Neat machine according to critics. Just the cutest toy i can imagine. Susan told the supervisors shes opposed to the device, aclu attorney called it a threat to privacy. Just because we walk out, walk outdoors sometimes doesnt mean we sur ren yernd the right to make sure the government doesnt collect and stockpile personalized information about our whereabouts. Saying an inexpensive system is different than a Sheriffs Department. Helicopter because of the low cost. Aclu fears afford yablt will lead to abuse. And as for low cost cameras . Theyre on buildings, street lights and stores and the fact that almost everyone on the street is like these. It doesnt mean we have to surrender our privacy rights by going out in public. Aclu and public calling on supervisors to putoqo7 the issue up for debate. Today, supervisor as agreed. The sheriff asked to have the purchase up for discussion at a Public Protection committee hearing. That is a meeting set for the future. And hopefully nrkt near future. The paper work his Department Filed with the count geez it could be used for information gathering the sheriff says dont interpret that too broadly. Never intended to use this for a type of surveillance, any type of civilian use, whatsoever. No date yet, but you can count on a couple things one, will be a lively discussion. Two, well be there. We will, thank you very much. Were now four weeks from that so called fiscal cliff and talks between democrats and republicans in washington have stalled. January 1 bush era tax cuts cuts affecting defense and social spending. House republicans offered a plan including 800 billion in revenue. The president says its not good enough. Were going to have to see the rates on the top 2 go up z were not going to be able to get a deal without it. Its not hlj partisan. The plan is also not popular with some republicans. opular with some republicans. Conceding that the federal government needs more money negotiating with ourselves and treating the proposal like its serious. There is one area that may have found common ground. Raising the age when seniors can receive some medicare. An eight day strike by shippingl2 . Sq ks. Both sides agreed to mediation. Lines being7kun honored by 10,0 long shore men. The strike against 14 shipping lines is costing the u. S. Economy 1 bi es; a day in lost trade. The union jobs claims jobs being shipped overseas. The port says its offering clerks lifetime job security. Lets go to job security. State lawmakers deciding how to dole out money to help schools become more energy eff