And Sonoma County, so that includes all the way down through lucas valley and mill valley. So be careful out there. You can see the yellow indicating the heavier rain, but it is all over the north bay. You have seen anywhere from 7 to 9 inches in the hillier terrain, but down here from the south bay, the southern marin area into San Francisco, its been moderate and the south bay has been light. But it is beginning to pick up from the coast through palo alto. Still san jose is lagging behind as well as livermore, but we are looking for a series of wet weather systems to continue to bring the wet weather right on through tomorrow. So anywhere from nearly 2 inches in oakland to 0. 75 of an inch in San Francisco and fremont, also along the coast. Well talk about the timing of the rest of the day today through tomorrow, and good thing were going to get a break because we will need it. Lisa, thank you. Nick smith is joining us live from the north bay this morning. Nick, theres the infamous lucky drive. What are you seeing out there . Reporter you know, katie, a couple of things i want to point off right off the top. As weve been standing here, we cant help but notice the number of drivers that have gone past lucky drive without their lights on. The rule is if you have your windshield wipers on, you should turn on your headlights. Were even seeing people go through on their cell phone. You can see exactly what im talking about. This is some of the flash flooding that lisa had mentioned earlier. The rain started thursday and isnt expected to break any time soon. The heaviest totals predicted to fall here in the north bay where a flood advisory has been issued. There are issues in some areas, roadway flooding in lane one on highway 101 south of sir Francis Drake boulevard right here, and some ponding beneath area overpasses. Now, our dry weather has transitioned to a storm system with the potential to bring up to 7 inches of rain. The drought were experiencing now rivals the one we experienced back in 1975, but if current forecast holds, this pocket of heavy to moderate rain called an Atmospheric River will last through the weekend. The moisture stretches all the way to the hawaiian islands. The bullseye of heavy rainfall will be right here over the bay area. Right here in the north bay we could see as much as 3 to 7 inches of rainfall. Again, we cannot help but notice how lane one of highway 101 have that flooding and that ponding. If you take a look at the cars flying through, youll see how they are moving rather quickly and they need to slow down in these trouble spots. Well continue to stay here, go around the area and see if we see any flash flooding. Well have more weather updates on abc7news. Com and i should have a live report tonight at both 5 00 and 6 00 to let you know how the weather affected people here in the bay area. Katie, you know what, i love doing the morning show with you. So happy to have you. Sorry you have to be out in the rain like that. Good advice about slowing down. Wow, those cars look like theyre going fast, at least from this perspective. Thanks, nick. Wet weather being blamed for bringing down a large tree in Sonoma County last night. It fell across bohemian highway around 10 30. The tree took down some power lines so pg e cruise had ews ha out. The storm sent a very large tree branch crashing down yesterday afternoon. The branch fell on a parked pickup truck and blocked the sidewalk. It happened on hait near steiner street. The good news there, nobody hurt. The rain also caused a few problems in the east bay. In concord on highway 242, a propane truck slid off the road and hit a tree. The tree fell onto the truck but luckily there was no propane inside. A firefighter, though, broke a rib trying to cut the tree off of the truck. Other than that, drivers say the roads in the east and south bays were relatively safe. It wasnt too bad. You know, not too many accidents. I didnt really see any when i was driving around. I was driving more around the south bay area, so it was pretty good. You think everybody is driving a little more cautiously . I think so. I think the speeds were down more and it worked out pretty well. The chp is advising drivers who need to be on slick roads this weekend to drive slowly and keep your headlights on. Another reminder. You can track the rain using live doppler 7 hd on our weather app. Our weather app also makes it easy for you to share your weather photos. Download information is at abc7news. Com app. All lanes of 101 in san jose have reopened following a fatal crash overnight. It happened just after 11 00 north of brokaw road. Police say several cars were involved and one person was found on the roadway. That person died at the scene. Its unclear if the victim was ejected from a vehicle or if it was a pedestrian. All southbound lanes of 101 were closed while crews investigated. They reopened around 1 00 a. M. A cal Football Player has died after an Early Morning workout with the team yesterday. 21yearold ted agu collapsed after a routine conditioning run outside memorial stadium. Agu started having trouble breathing near the stadiums north entrance. Trainers picked him up in a cart. They say he was communicating at first but quickly deteriorated. Agu was unresponsive when the ambulance arrived. Our players loved him dearly. And he was a big part of our family. Now our family members will have to rely on each other in order to get through this period the best that we can. Agu was a Public Health major and a member of the omega si phi fraternity. You can share this badge which is on our website. Police in snl are searan jo searching for a man who sexually assaulted a woman after claiming to be a cop. Hes 54 to 56 with a muscular build. His car was captured on surveillance video. Police say he picked up a woman on monterey road in san jose and threatened to arrest her if she didnt cooperate with him. A former teacher has been arrested on child pornography charges in the east bay. Peter Andrew Polson was taken into custody in mar tetinezmart. He had previously worked as a teacher in the bay area but police are not saying where. Oakland police have identified a 77yearold woman who was found dead yesterday in an apparent home invasion. Police discovered susan fongs body while doing a welfare check yesterday. Officers found signs of forced entry at the home and say she was dead inside but had no signs of physical injury. There was also a man at the house but he was not hurt. Police are talking to him trying to figure out what exactly happened. They have not made any arrests. Oakland police are offering up to 10,000 for any information that leads to an arrest in the case. What started as a plan to celebrate the lone 49er fan spotted in seahawk territory after the super bowl victory has turned into something different. They wanted to treat the young man to a niners game but now the plan is to do so much more. Abc 7 News Reporter has the story. Reporter this lonely niners fan being booed during the victory parade caught peoples attention. Its like watching a streaker. You go what the, and you take a photo of it. Reporter the photo went viral and was seen by Katherine Tate of dublin. Shes the founder of ladies of the empire, a 49ers booster. Struck by the fans heart and bravery, she reached out to niners faithful to help track him down. His name is ronnie andrews. Tate wanted to give him one of her front row 50 yard line tickets at the new stadium. She set up a fund for the trip. The goal was to fly andrews and his family out here to catch a Niners Seahawks game here at levi stadium, but then something changed. Ive just come to learn this kid is foichonly 15 years old, s a ward of the state. Do you need a place to stay, cloekt, therapy, resources. Yes, i do. I need all of those things. Okay. Then well make it happen. Reporter but tate isnt quite sure how to connect the young fan with the people who want to help without making his personal information public. She hopes people who know more about how to make this work will step up and get involved. Maybe thats you. So if youd like to help the ladies of the empire help ronnie, go to our website, abc7news. Com. We have information there. All right, lets send it up to the roof where meteorologist lisa argen is tracking this storm. It is certainly windy and rainy here but were looking at an urban small stream flood advisory to 10 45. Heres a live look from mt. Tam where it is 48 degrees. The winds are gusting to nearly 40 miles an hour. Since thursday they have picked upwards of 10 inches of rain. Ill be back with our local rainfall totals and time out the rain for the rest of the weekend. Hundreds of people standing out in the rain just hoping for a taste, but what exactly are they waiting for . Well explain. And a bay area startup that lets you run your own its data center and you dont have to worry about the nsa looking in. Good is in a good that comes in 25 flavors. From whole natural to wasabi and soy sauce. And once good gets going, theres no stopping it. Get your good going. Blue diamond. Snack nut of the u. S. Ski team. Welcome back, everyone. 8 13 on your saturday morning. Looking now at live doppler 7 hd and tons of activity. Finally this is what the bay area has been waiting for, but of course it can do as much damage as it can do good, so do be careful out there on the roads. The north bay being hardest hit. In fact theres a small stream flood advisory in effect thats been extended until 10 45. Lisa argen with many more details coming up in her Weather Forecast in just a little bit. Meantime, it was an event so big people began standing in line thursday night and they stayed in line in the rain, so what was it that brought hundreds of people to santa rosa for just a taste . Wayne friedman has the story. Reporter they stood in a line that stretched around the block in the rain no less, a line that took hours to get through and in some cases longer to get to. I came up from reno. Reporter and for what . It just makes my heart really happy. Its simply you forecast. Reporter have you ever seen a line like this before . Yeah, not for beer. Reporter beer . Yeah, theyre waiting for beer. Reporter not just any beer. This is the one for which customers wait all year. A not so modest very big brew named after an ancient roman magistrate. Apparently he was a fan of beer and so was the brew master who never expected that what dpbega as an experiment would become a phenomenon. Well, it blows me away. Im still surprised when all these people show up every year. Very humbled. Reporter there are a lot of secrets that go into making it and vinny isnt going to tell us. Firstly he brews it twice as long. More ingredients, the hops. There are three times the normal amount of hops in this beer. And the alcohol content . 10. 25 . You cant drink younger all day. Reporter no . How long have you drink it . I can have two and thats good. Reporter and so will 1400 other people. Whats that . You said nobody answered their phones in santa rosa . Are you going to get much done this afternoon . No, im not. Is anybody . I dont think so. Reporter such is the power of a triple strong india pale ale. The best beer i have ever had hands down. Reporter why . Almost too strong to be able to be that drinkable. Reporter but clearly an attraction. Last years release brought 2. 3 Million Dollars into Sonoma County. This year . Well have a line almost every day for the next 14 days. Its an odd thing. Reporter hard to understand, until you taste it. In santa rosa, wayne friedman, abc seven news. When it comes to the olympics, stay with abc 7 news for all the results for team usa and all the teams youre following. Heres how well keep you informed. On air were going to announce a spoiler alert, so if you dont want to know, youll have plenty of time to turn away. On our social media platforms, we will post results but youll have to click a link to get to them. You can find us at facebook. Com abc7news and follow us on twitter abc 7 news bay area, and we are always online at abc7news. Com. More than ever using a computer is about things we store in the cloud. Our conversations on facebook. Documents on drop box. What we buy on ebay and amazon, but not everyone trusts Big Companies with their data. Jonathan bloom has found another option. This device is called texium and this is our logo. Reporter chrissa and sam have been tinkering together for a long time. Were brother and sister. Reporter now they have a little box that he hope will change computing in a big way. Pixium is a building block. It stacks like legos but you only need one to get started. Plugging in the power, plugging in the internet. Reporter it creates a personal cloud you access from a phone or web browser. You can store and share files like drop box, have discussions like facebook groups. Even sell things like on amazon. Theres an image you can see the comments on it as well. Reporter there are services that exist as long as youre willing to let them keep your files in data centers around the globe. This creates your own data center at home adding more hard drives and computer power as you go. We take the same software the data centers are using and make it very simple for all consumers to be able to use. Reporter it turns out pixium is entering the market at just the right time. With concerns about hacking and spying in the cloud, a lot of people are looking for alternatives. If everyones data is in one place, theyre subject to security breaches. Reporter but pixium users keep control of their own data so even if the nsa comes calling. We can turn overall of our data but in the end the consumers are encrypting ithemselves, so thats why they have the security and peace of mind. Reporter its already passed its funds raising goal on kick starter. They attribute the early success to teamwork. The best partner you can have is your own family, your own brother. Its not perfect. Sometimes we do get into disagreements. Yeah. But theres no one i trust more and thats what matters the most to me in the end. Reporter jonathan bloom, abc 7 news. New details, the civil suit filed by brian stow has a new calendar date. He suffered brain injuries that left him permanently disabled after he was beaten following the opener between the giants and dodgers in 2011. Hes suing the former dodgers owner, frank mccourt, and three Team Entities for negligence. Two dodger fans are awaiting trial in the beating. Happening today, oakland as fans can meet the players at the teams annual fanfest. The event begins at 10 00 at the oracle arena and o. Co coliseum. Unless you already have a ticket, youre out of luck. The fanfest website shows the event is sold out. Fans can get autographs from current as along with former players and they can visit the clubhouse and take part in question and answer sessions with players and front office staff. Next, its girl scout cookie time. But theres one kind of cookie you wont be able to get here in the bay area. Well tell you what that is. And taking a live look from our emeryville camera. It is a wet, soggy day, as you well know. Whether youve been outside or you can hear the raindrops on your roof, whatever youd see out there today, wed love to see your pictures. Stay with us. Welcome back, everyone. Its 8 22. A live look from our kgo hd roof cam. Theres water on the lens, water on the roads. The sky is very gray and San Francisco is not even the worst spot. The north bay just getting pounded. Nick smith will bring us a live report in a few minutes and of course lisa will have your forecast. Shes tracking all this rain and shell be along shortly as well. Well, the people who put on the bottle rock Music Festival in napa, they filed for bankruptcy. According to court documents, the festivals organizers admit they booked too many highpriced acts and most of them required payment up front. The festival was also overstaffed and a dispute with a food vendor left it unable to pay workers and other vendors. Despite 11 million in ticket sales, they still owe 4. 5 million and only have assets of 600,000. New producers have taken over and are planning a second festival at the end of may. Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood is being called a hero by a man he saved from choking. The 83yearold eastwood was attending a party for the at T Pebble Beach National proam and that is when he noticed 50yearold steve john choking on a piece of cheese. Eastwood quickly performed the heimlich maneuver. I was eating appetizers and drinking water. I threw a piece of cheese in that was not going to work down the same pipe as the water. And it i just choked. I was choking. Clint could see that i was choking. He just grabbed my arm, turned me around and performed the heimlich on me and saved my life. John is the tournaments director. He says it is actually the second time someone has had to perform the heimlich on him. He needs to be more careful. Sticking with food, if you love girl scout cookies, this weekend is your chance to get your hands on some. This morning bay area girl scout troops will pick up their cookie boxes and starting tomorrow theyll set up outside businesses and going door to door. Customers who buy five or more boxes can enter a drawing to win five cases of cookies. You might have heard that the girl scouts are offering glutenfree cookies in some parts of the country but those are not available in Northern California. Sales run through march 16. Coming up next, tracking the storm. Well show you the muchneeded snow thats falling in the sierra, much to the delight of skiers and snowboarders. Also Great America gets ready for the spring and holding its job fair. How to apply for one of the 2500 positions. Taking a live look outside from our emeryville camera. Lisa argen and live super doppler ladies if ive bladder, imagine not getting out of bed again and again. And imagine finally taking control of your symptoms with the oxytrol for women patch. Now fda approved as otc. Its safe and effective when used as directed. And it reduces frequency, urgency, and accidents. If you have questions, call 1888oxytrol for a one on one discussion with a knowledgeable woman to learn more. Take control with oxytrol for women. Welcome back, everyone. Were coming up on 8 30 and we want to get to the forecast for you. It is pouring in some places. Meteorologist lisa argen now with the forecast. Hi there, katie. Thats right. You know, our urban small stream flood advisory not only has been expanded bu