Hobbling. Investigators say he had been undergoing meant it will Health Treatment for voices in his head pep claimed the cia was forcing him to join isis and told the fbi back in november. At the served a year in iraq and a member of the Alaska Army National guard until being discharged four months ago. Investigators expect the airport to reopen at midnight local time when security sweeps are finishes and the pangss trapped on the tarmac for hours are just now being escorted to airport buses that will take them to one of two staging areas. Passengers from Fort Lauderdale landed at San FranciscoInternational Airport this morning and they were just shocked by what happened while they were in the air. Abc7 News ReporterMelanie Woodrow live from sfo with what they had to say. Reporter passengers we spoke to told us they heard about the shooting while in the air watching tv. Take a look at the board here at sfo. There was a flight that was scheduled to leave for Fort Lauderdale at 10 267 tonight. It is one of several that has now been canceled. These Fort Lauderdale passengers bound for sfo were in the air when they saw the news. I saw through the seats, the person in front of me and it said Fort Lauderdale shooting and kind of slowly you looked around and everyone was tuning in to different programs. What in the world just happened. Reporter a shooting at the baggage claim. William says he passed through it earlier today. When youre that closely connected to a tragedy and to a shooting that hits home. Suzanne worried about her daughter. I would just throw myself on top of her literally. I was thinking that coming up here. What would i have done as were sitting waiting for bags. Reporter flights to and from fort laider were initially delayed here. Many later canceled. You can expect to see heightened vigilance by Law Enforcement but the way that a passenger gets to an airport, goes through an airport and gets on a flight remains the same. This is the moment of friends and family and parents. I hate for this to go away because of one incident. Reporter others say airports need different security measures. Back in the day you could go to the gate. You have this other side that hasnt been looked at. Youre looking at tarmacs. People get on there all the time. Reporter a deadly incident raising new questions about Airport Security at sfo. Melanie woodrow, abc7 news. Social media played a huge role as the tragedy unfolded. News anchor kristen sze with a sample of what people shared during the event. People are explessing condolences, outrage and political views in the wake of this mass shooting. Lets begin now the with reporter Steve Campion within ktrk in houston. His flight had just landed when account cabin crew made the scary announcement. Airport is under security at there time. What happened here right now, i dont know what just happened here right now. Were here being held on the plane after landing. I got to tell you a lot of anxious people on this plane right now. This is my hometown airport. Ive never seen people on the runway like this. Im pretty nervous. Anxious. Like to know whats going on on the inside. Reporter berkeley born tv writer steven faulk was trying to fly out when he had to evacuate on the tarmac and into a terminal where false alarms sent everyone back onto the plane. Lieutenant governor gavin newsom tweeting my heart breaks for all those affected. We must continue to work to end gun violence. Oakland raiders offensive lineman Jonathan Feliciano who is in houston right now is getting ready for the game tomorrow. He tweets, whats wrong with this world . His wife was headed to Fort Lauderdale. She is safe. Larry and ama . Thank you. You can show your support for the victims of the tragedy and their families by sharing this post on facebook on our page facebook. Com abc7 news. Turning now to our other major story locally. That is the weather. You can see a little bit of green starting to creep up on live doppler 7. Its whats coming behind that an that has so many people concerned tonight. We kick off our storm watch coverage tonight with the Spencer Christian. This storm is a 4 on our storm impact scale. Weve never seen that before. We never have. We have not yet had a four. One is on the way. Heres a look at our chances of rain over the next seven days. We rank each days storm intensity according to the storm impact. The storm will arrive tonight and tomorrow ranking only 2 on the impact scale but will intensify. By sunday achieve a ranking of 4, it the First Time Ever and the highest impacts felt between midnight tomorrow night and sunday. Look for heavy rain, powerful and potentially damaging wind gusts. We expect flooding and wind damage with the storm. The main concerns, there is high concern with the storm for stream and creek flooding, debris floods in the burn scar areas and hydroplaning on roadways. Moderate concern for Power Outages and river flooding. The approaching massive moisture begins arriving late tonight starting 11 00 tonight. The first wave of light to moderate rain arriving. Between midnight and 6 00 a. M. , widespread areas of moderate to heavy rain with drenching downpours, strong winds and only stronger on sunday. A closer look coming up later. The well see you in a few minutes. Santa clara county and the monterrey bay area are right in the crosshairs for the coming storms putting levees and creeks to the test. Also challenging residents to prepare for flooding. David louie is live atop an old levee in watsonville. Reporter we know, of course, rivers and creeks are very crucial to channel all that rainfall that were going to be having to get out to the sea. We also know time after time that those creeks and rivers can also overflow banks as a result of log jams and debris potentially putting an entire city such aswat sonville and santa cruz at risk of flooding. Levees are also really important. Campers at the thousand trails rv parking had to vacate by 5 00. Safety agencies are concerned a fast rising creek might cut off access to a bridge standing them. The creek is more like a river flowing at a fast rate before storm expected soon. Theres a couple of rv parks available in gilroy and were going to set up camp down there. Were good to go. Reporter they have the property next door but staying in place since they have goats, ducks, peacocks and cows. Weve sandbagged already. For now were at the higher ground. Most of our neighbors are above groundswell. Reporter a big concern in Santa Cruz County are the levees that protect watsonville built on a flood plain. They have failed repeatedly in major storms and plans to rebuild them have stalled. There are some levees in the south part of the county that are old old levees and wouldnt probably meet todays standards for levee materials. Reporter. The city of gilroy already closed a portion of miller avenue when the creek flooded the crossing near the garlic festival grounds. Fear of flooding created a run on sad bags to keep homes and businesses from damage. Why so many sand bags . Because i dont want the water to come into my cottage. When they built new homes, everything looks like the grading came towards my property. I dont want my cottage to flood again. Reporter emergency agencies are expected to be working 24 hours this weekend to respond to problems, of course. But theyre all counting on the rest of us, all of us individuals to be sure that were prepared for the worst. In watsonville, david louie, abc7 news. Thank you. This weekends storm is expected to be so bad, that a specialized search and rescue task force is on standby to come here from southern california. The Orange CountyFire Authority loaded up on tools and supplies this morning just in case. The fema sponsored team trains year round to handle flood rescues. Boats, we have inflatables. We have boats and all the equipment we need to for any kind of still water or dynamic water rescues. This is one of eight specialized rescue teams in the state of california and just 28 in the entire nation. All roads leading into Yosemite National park are now closed. Park officials closed the roads for safety reasons. This weekends rain could dump up to a foot of rain on the area. That could mean flooding and heavy runoff especially in the valley. Be warned if you plan to drive to see era. Caltrans and chp say drivers could face delays. The intense storm could flood roadways and knock over trees and power lines. Drivers should expect chain controls in most mountain areas. Up next, our storm watch continues this friday night. Im live in pacifica where the city will close its popular pier for the next couple days. Ill explain why. Sandbags, lots of them standing by in the north bay in a big way tonight. Well tell you why no one is taking any chances ahead of the storm coming up. And later, by some measures this is the Worlds Largest library with not a book in site. Tonight here florida San Francisco, the internet archive is t of reach for far too long s have Health Insurance. Thats been out how . They enrolled through covered california. Its the Health Insurance marketplace where youll find a range of plans from leading Health Insurance companies that offer you the best combination of quality, rates, and benefits. And, through covered california, you may get financial help to pay for coverage. To get covered, youve got to get going. Open enrollment ends january 31st. Visit covereca. Com today. A man accused of kidnapping and raping a woman who was waiting for b. A. R. T. Made his first appearance in court today. Police said meany foster attacked the woman near the bay fair b. A. R. T. Station. The woman was a stranger, somebody trying to get home. Abc7 news anchor eric thomas joining us live from that station. Eric . Reporter and foster is being held in jail tonight without bail on a probation violation. Police say in this case, the evidence they had have is strong starting with b. A. R. T. Surveillance video of the beginning of the attack and a dna match. San Leandro Police are taking this case personally. This is probably one of the worst crimes that anybody could ever be exposed to. You can only imagine how traumatic it can be. The suspect 27yearold meany foster, a San Francisco transient was arrested a couple of days after christmas and arraigned this had afternoon in hayward superior court. The charges include. Kidnapping with the intent to the commit Sexual Assault as well as several other Sexual Assault crimes. Reporter the ordeal began at the bay fair b. A. R. T. Station. A woman in her mid 20s got off b. A. R. T. Around midnight after having a few drinks at at after work party. Thats when foster pounced forcibly dragging the woman almost a quarter mile to Railroad Tracks behind a local kfc and raping her. At about 3 00 in the morning, covered in mud, she was able to go to a nearby residential neighborhood. She banged on a door and saw the help. Reporter investigators gathered dna from the victim and matched to foster. If convicted of all charges brought against him, by the Alameda CountyDistrict Attorney could face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Reporter fosters on probation from San Francisco where he was convicted of lewd behavior on a bus. He was ordered to register as a sex offender but doesnt appear on the state megans law website, a surprise to san Leandro Police. They say the victim was so traumatized they considered not releasing details publicly to spare her more pain. Eric thomas, abc7 news. Were learning new details about a Service Disruption last night to San Franciscos 911 system. The department of Emergency Management says an error by a technician doing Maintenance Work made the system lose power for ten minutes right around midnight. Dispatchers lost access to their computers and desktop radios. 911 calls were still able to get through though. The dispatchers had to switch to manuel mode. They write down the information on a form. A runner runs it over to a radio dispatcher who then controls police fire and medical services. The 911 dispatchers have handheld radios that run on batteries as backups. Desktop radios were back up and operating within a couple minutes but the Computer System took three hours to come back online. The chp is questioning a man who admitted to starting at least one of several fires along 101 in san jose. As News Reporter vic lee was first to report, several suspicious fires have broken out near story road over the past week. The latest was last night near the southbound 280 keker ramp. Officers arrested Javier Cabrera after he told them he started the fire while burning copper wire. He said he started fires in the past. The chp says its too early to tell if hes responsible for all the freeway fires. All this rain has officials in pacifica taking action tonight. Elissa harrington continues our storm watch live from the pacifica pier. At 10 00, the pier closes and it wont reopen until monday at the earliest. This is to keep the public safe during this big storm. Wild weather is expected to pum had pacifica causing high tides, large swells and gusty winds. City workers are also concerned about trees falling and flooding. The pier is extremely popular. Its always crowded with fishermen and families. People did not note about the weekend closure but arent surprised to hear the city is taking extreme measures during whats expected to be an extreme storm. I hope its not too crazy. Everything seems to be eroding between here and montara. I think its a good thing to keep people safe really. I mean, but then again, the water theyre looking at the tides and theyre pretty mellow so thats actually a good time to go crabbing. Reporter even with the pier closed, public works officials remind people to be aware of your surroundings and never turn your back on the ocean. There are also three sandbag locations around pacifica. So people can protect their property from any potential flooding. Reporting live in pacifica, elissa harrington, abc7 news. Now your accuweather forecast with Spencer Christian. Okay. Lets take a look at the approaching storm. You can see that huge mass of moisture building just offshore. Its closing in on the bay area. Well start to see rainfall later tonight. Heres a look whats going on. Heres our storm impact scale. First wave of the storm arrives tonight and tomorrow ranks 2 on the storm impact scale. Moderate intensity. Tomorrow night into sunday, the storm will infence tie to ranking a four on the storm impact scale. The first storm weve had to rank 4 in the two years weve been using the scale. Well see the highest impact of the storm between midnight tomorrow night and 10 00 a. M. Sunday. Heavy rainfall, powerful wind gusts, flooding is likely along with wind damage. Lets take a look at the forecast animation starting 7 00 this evening. Between 11 00 tonight and 8 00 tomorrow morning, a surge of sudden surge of strong Stormy Weather with lots of areas of moderate to heavy rainfall indicated by yellows and orange there. That will be the first wave that will start to break up a bit in the early evening hours tomorrow. After 8 00 or 9 00 tomorrow, the second surge and then between late tomorrow night and 2 00 a. M. Sunday, well see widespread areas of heavy rainfall. This storm ranks 4 on the impact scale. A major storm. This is not hype. This is going to be indeed a major storm that we need to prepare for because it could bring with it flooding, wind damage. The rainfall potential from the storm up to about 10 inches over the weekend in the santa cruz mountains. 2 to 3 inches around san jose. 3 to 3 1 2 into the east bay. 3 to 6 inches could fall up in the north bay. Flash flood watches in effect beginning tomorrow at 4 00 p. M. For most of the bay area except for San Francisco and inland east bay. On we go to look at our rivers up north. The napa river at st. Helena crests at 3 00 p. M. Sunday. Flood stage is 16 feet. Forecast to crest at 18. 6 feet. Nearby flooding is likely on the napa river in the area of st. Helena. The Russian River at guerneville expected to crest at 4 00 p. M. Monday. Flood stage is 32 feet. Forecasted to crest more than four feet above flood stage. Moderate flooding likely in the area along the Russian River, as well. Wind viry in effect from 4 00 a. M. To 1 00 p. M. Tomorrow for all the area in yellow. Gusts up to 45 Miles Per Hour and high wind warning goes into effect at 4 00 tomorrow morning for all the bay area hills and mountains, winds of the go to 60 miles an hour. Heres a look at the sevenday forecast. Rainy and breezy. Intensifying to 4 on the impact storm. Major storm on sunday. Expect heavier rain, gusty wind and potential for flooding and wind damage is high. Lingering showers on monday. Another storm on tuesday. Imagine another storm ranking three that soon after all this weekend rain. Theres Great Potential for flooding, all kinds of hazardous conditions, mudsliding and property damage. Were looking at rain for the next week. Seven days, there will be some rain each d