Flooding as this continues to pour very heavily at this point at a rate of about an inch per hour and weve seen this coming down for at an hour at this point. So, looking at those temperatures, it is very mild. We will see the highs today reaching into the mid to upper 50s. So, still, fairly warm even with this rain and we will catch a break, once again, this afternoon. But thats ahead of the next heavy round of rain. Ill detail that and what to expect as we go through the rest of the week. Thats coming up. Lets see whats happening on those roads now with mike. We have that live camera right there where the crash activity is on 101 northbound. It is alan rock. The reason im not showing you that live shot. Im worried something is going to happen right there as were watching it. So right now well show you the conditions that are out there. I showed you the maps and we did have a lot of that rain and puddling and ponding all along that peninsula. San mateo bridge indicating how soupy it is in many places around the bay. It will be slippery and spinouts reported and low visibility as well as gusty winds across the bridges. Well follow this and send it back to you. The winner of the short straw this morning is Stephanie Chuang. The down pour a lot of floods this morning. Flooding and ponding. Yeah, thats right, scott. Usual spot here is lucky drive and larks border where we keep seeing vehicles passing through here pretty fast and then youll see pretty shortly here just how much water flies up every time there you have it. Every time a vehicle goes through. The 911 calls to report where roadway started early this morning in marin. A stretch of a couple miles up to this exit and the warning is to be prepared for that and be prepared if protecting your property, as well. People started loading up on sandbags in places like san rafael during a rain break yesterday. In marin county you can fill up to ten sandbags for free, for instance. Alert marin. Org and that is a Warning Service that has updates on any issues that may arise. You can even get that info and text it straight to your cell phone. The main thing here, the warning from chp and city officials is just to be alert and pay attention, especially as weve had today and yesterday with the rain really as warnings. We may start to see problems build up with radrains getting clogged. People being asked to stay mindful as more storms continue to hit the bay area. Stephanie chuang, today in the bay. Lets go to bob redell live in the Santa Cruz Mountains with the impact there. Good morning, bob. Good morning to you, laura and scott. And i can tell you driving from the east bay to the summit here along highway 17 and Santa Cruz Mountains has been coming down pretty much on every roadway ive been on. Something to keep in mind as youre getting ready for your morning commute. Its going to be wet out there and going to be cold. I wish i actually had some gloves. But the good thing about the series of storms coming in today, tomorrow and the next day is that there is no forecast of major flooding in our rivers. However, flooding is going to be of concern and the days and months to come, especially here in the south bay. In places like the San Francisco creek that runs from palo alto and thats why during the dry months, the Santa Clara ValleyWater District spent those days and weeks to clear up those creeks and shore up the size of those waterways to be prepared for this el nino winter. But in spite of that work to be done, theres still were not totally ready. Weve done a lot with sandbags. We just approved over 1 million extra for sandbags. But the projects are taking longer and longer and more and more environmental challenges. Down there on the summit affected the live shot with bob redell. Well check back with him coming up. Well track the latest on the series of the storms and track conditions by downloading our free nbc bay area app. Click on the weather tab. From there you can find the live Doppler Radar and extended forecast. You can download the app from the amapp store or google play. Looking at some other news this morning and happening today. Two people accused of killing a palo alto man in las vegas will be in court today. Those suspects charged with killing a bay area man. This happened a week ago. These the suspects. Las vegas police say 42yearold neil gandler was shot to death in his car outside of a gym. It appears the suspects shot and killed gandler while trying to rob him. He is a Software Engineer and was in las vegas ahead of this weeks Consumer Electronics show. New clue in the murder of a popular San Francisco artist. Police now have a person of interest in the case. Authorities released this video showing a man investigators want to talk to in connection with last months beating death of 74yearold stewart jackson. Police say someone attacked jackson as he waited for a bus. The artist was a regular in north beach. Families put up his picture and one of his famous sketches hoping police can find out who did this to him. Very scary. But you know what, it could happen to anybody. The last time i saw him i told him his work was brilliant and it is. The cafe is now planning on holding a memorial for jackson. A date has not been set. A follow up for you. The fbi has joined the investigation into the fire bombing of a tracy mosque. As we reported the day after christmas someone threw a ma molotov cocktail at the entrance. This goes to anyone with information that leads to the arrest of the person responsible for that attack. It only did minor damage, ras you can see. But investigators are convinced the attacker tried to burn down the building. Police are asking for help tracking down a driver in a deadly hit and run. It happened last night in vallejo at springs road. A 50yearold woman tried crossing spring road in a crosswalk when a white truck hit her. The impact threw her into the path of another car and she died. Heres a picture of that truck. Another driver gave chase, but couldnt get the license plate number of that truck. Police think the truck is a Toyota Tundra long bed with a lumber rack and they say it probably now has front end damage. 5 07 this morning. Lets get a check of your commute and your weather. Good morning. Good morning. The heaviest rain now falling around San Francisco and farther to the south. The north bay hasnt seen as much rain, but this will be rolling to the north as we go through the rest of the morning. Now, we do see some of the bright yellows and reds moving closer to fremont at this point and with all of this moving off towards the north and east, we will see some of the heavier rain moving towards sunol in the next 20 minutes and pleasanton about 30 minutes and livermore also looking at some very heavy rain coming up around 5 45. And the rainfall will continue for the next few hours. At times quite heavy and this is 9 00. There still will be heavy downpours for the peninsula and parts of the south bay. And then that moves into the east bay by about 10 00. There will be some breaks in the clouds and maybe even a little bit of clearing in time for lunch. But still some spotty light rain will be coming down as we go through the day and much more of a break this evening before the next round of rain moves in and look at the rainfall totals were expecting just with the rain today over 1. 25 in some spots like union city. Well give you an update on what to expect as we go through inrest ithe rest of the week and also a look at the commute with mike. Why we place our cameras where we do because we have locations that are very busy like this. Eastbound 80 this is just north of that berkeley curve. Folks here coming away from the toll plaza itself and there is that car fire. Now, just seconds ago, this was fully on flame here. It was engulfed in flames and now the fire crews arrived on scene and now a lot of smoke and just starting to clear a little bit. Westbound your commute towards the berkeley curve really getti getting jammed up as you see that smoke. Coming past the mall and Movie Theater at emoryville. This just happened a few seconds ago. This change in the flow of traffic and, of course, just doused that fire. Were tracking that and any reports of injuries. Well let you know there. Meanwhile back to san jose where the other crash happened in front of our camera. Chp arrived and laid out the flares just north of the 680 interchange. A very busy place and now causing a bit of slowing and all that rain actively coming down in both of these shots. Less of an opportunity to react because you have to be more gentle with the controls. So, theres 101, as well. As you look at your map, a good dousing on the roadways. Blue where there is ponding and puddling and a number of spinouts reported throughout the south bay in the last few minutes and well track that and so far no freeway closures. Just a couple of lanes affected here and there. Back to you. Well be checking back with you a lot. Coming up, changing the nations gun laws. The president will lay out a plan on gun control, but is it constitutional . The strong opposition hes facing. That sound. Like nails on a chalkboard. But listen to this family talking thats a different kind of sound. The sound of the weekend. Unleash the power of dough. Give it a pop. Its always worth remembering. That icing the Cinnamon Rolls is a privilege not a right. Unleash the power of dough. Give it a pop. Plans to formally announce hes going to use his oval office happening today president obama plans to formally announce hell use his ooval Office Powers to change gun laws this despite the fact that there is fierce opposition republicans. Today in the bay kris sanchez has more on what were learning about the president s plans and this centers on background checks. Mainly on that loophole that allows people to buy guns at gun shows without getting a background check. Todays formal announcement comes the president gets coni r confirmation from the fbi director that the executive order is constitutional. A move to require all businesses that sell guns to obtain a federal license would also affect online gun sellers. It would also require that dealers have to notify police if a gun is lost or stolen in transit. Republicans say the president is gutting the Second Amendment right to bear arms. It is not going to prevent every mass shooting and keep every gun of the hands of a criminal. It will potentially save lives. We dont beat the bad guys by taking away our guns. We beat the bad guys by using our guns. The president has not even attempted to point to a single mass shooting. These actions he would propose because there isnt one. I always like to see these things in writing. Here they are for you. The president also proposing to modernize the background check process and streamline it and hire more fbi and alcohol, tobacco and firearm atf agents. The president also wants to research smarter Gun Technology to reduce the number of accidental shootings. And the president also wants to allocate 500 million towards improving Mental Health care. While the president can go at that background check opponent alone, he does need congressional approval for any part of that plan that does include funding. The president will make his announcement at 8 40 our time this morning. We will carry it live for you. Scott and laura. Thank you very much, kris nchsh also happening today, people suing over the actions of police and cal administrators during contentious protests four years ago. Well air their complaints on how the suit is being handled. Involves 21 who claim they were victims of Police Brutality during tense occupy protest at cal in november of 2011. The plaintiffs have been pushing for a jury trial. The plaintiffs plan to hold a News Conference prior to todays hearing. The state appears ready to get behind local efforts to deal with homelessness. Lawmakers in sacramento proposing a 2 billion bond measure. Cities and counties would then be able to apply for that money. It could be used to build more than 14,000 permanent Housing Units the idea is to try to find places for homeless californians with Mental Health problems. Members of the state Legislature Say the problem is too big to ignore. 4,500 people in Silicon Valley alone are believed to be homeless. After a brutal first day back to wall street more red arrows this morning. Lets check in withen dowdy live at cnbc world headquarters. Good morning. Hey, guys. Not too good of a start to start off 2016 for the markets and we could see more red arrows like you mentioned on wall street today and the futures are lower this morning. The dow falling as much as 470 points on monday before trimming those losses. This comes amid freshes that chinas economy, the worlds second largest may be slowing. Asian markets were lower and europe is lower and the dow ending 276 points to 17149. Its worse start to a year since 2008. Meanwhile, the big apple will soon become the Worlds Largest municipal wifi network. Google will start rolling out a network of 7,500 hot spots all over the city on the sites of old pay phones and the project is called link nyc and provide free connections with up to one giga byte per second. 20s faster than typical broadbound. A struggling Internet Company is shutting down its video portal. Launched two years ago with syndicated shows such as saturday night live and community. Yahoo took a big loss on the business and another setback for ceo marissa mayer. Back tayou. Thanks so much, landon. Want to check the forecast, rainy out there. Yeah. But its also causing a traffic mess. Were going to check in with mike in just a moment. Hot spots everywhere. We had a crash and a car fire, literally a hot spot. No kidding. You really have to be careful and just allow some extra time to get to where youre going today. Dont forget the umbrella before you head out. Also some rain boots and clothes you dont mind getting wet. As we take a live look from san jose airport. Hopefully there are no delays. You can see how soggy it is this morning. Umbrellas up and windshield wipers up on full on high, rather. And as we take a look at how widespread this rain is, snow in the sierra, its really getting going there. And here in the bay area, the heaviest rain is now moving in with the second round of storms for the week. Yesterday was pretty light, but this one is a little bit stronger with some heavier rain and we can see even by the intensity of the bright colors oon the radar where the heaviest rain is coming down now. Havent seen any lightning strikes, at least not cloud to ground. That is detected by our radar. Going to gilroy to morgan hill. You can see some heavy rain now there and anywhere from los gatos to Mountain View and san jose up to fremont we have do downpours coming down at this point, too, causing some water to start ponding on those streets and then heading from fremont up to oakland and you see the bright yellows and reds there and then gets a little bit more green indicating that the rain is not as heavy from oakland over towards concord and san ramon also seeing some green shades on the radar. Fairfield, as well as novato and seeing some light rain and then as you head farther to the north bay and farther north, well, there is not as much rain at this point. That will be moving into that area as we go through the rest of the morning. We can still see a lot of rain here as we take a look at the futurecast. This is 10 30 this morning. Midmorning we start to see some of the rain starting to back off and even the sun coming out in spots. We will have a little bit more sunshine this afternoon helping those temperatures to waurm up and then for tonight another round of heavy rain, which is set to arrive around this same time for tomorrow morning. Into the next several days, well have more rain with a few hours break in between on saturday. Again on sunday. And then again another round late monday night. Lets get an update for the east bay now with mike. Kari, i want you to look over here. This is a few minutes ago. Video of that smoke that poured out of the fire. Crews on the scene putting that fire out, a crash and then a fire in that car, which was containing some sort of cleaning fluids. Were told that by the person that was driving that car. Lets geet the present scene. Thats the good news because that person made it out of the car without any injury. Ill step into your shot. This is the live shot over here on the east shore freeway. Westbound towards the bay bridge, that is your commute direction but slows as youre eastbound which is down to one lane. There is the burnt out shell of the car that was in that crash. The fire is out. Were hearing no injuries as a result of all this activity but a lot of slowing getting away from the bay bridge right in front of that dennys and the ross in front of the mall and the Movie Theaters that youre passing by emoryville and not showing impact on the Speed Sensors and the commute towards the span. Again, watch the blue puddling and ponding and your usual suspects some flooding and couple lanes there. San jose more than a couple lanes and the rain actively falling and this crash north 101 and flares put out by the rain and still activity. Be careful out there, guys, if youre left just north of 680. Really illustrates how slick it is out there this morning. 5 21. Coming opstring of burglaries plaguing one east bay community. 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