Area. Its certainly soggy out there. Theres the radar. Look at all that green out there. Its coming down. You would not want to be in one of those trucks out there. Heres a live look from the north bay where there is already some flooding being reported. Our pete suratos is out there. Thanks for joining us. Im laura garciacannon. And im sam brock. We look for the micropockets of rain wering right now. Kari . Were left with the standing water as you head out for work or school this morning. We continue to see some lighter showers as we go through the day, looking at a few more breaks as we get a little bit of a chance to dry out here. But still rain moving through parts of the north bay as well as the peninsula and were seeing showers from Half Moon Bay over to 280. We have it parked down san bruno mountain. Were getting a little bit more clearing, but we do still have the concern of some flooding in spots like corrigan creek and the Santa Cruz Mountains. Temperaturewise were feeling much warmer air as that moisture moves in. Ill have a closer look at what we can expect as we go through the day. Lets see whats happening on the roadways. Weve seen several accidents this morning. Look at this map. Wherever you see the arrows or little triangles, thats where were seeing the heaviest of the traffic. Right now along 880, there were pro accidents that happened. A vehicle may be facing the wrong way the southbound side. Also along 680 at stone ridge backing up from dublin down to oak tree. Take extra time out on the road. And earlier we were talking about the southbound flooding at Caesar Chavez street. The bay bridge metering lights are on so we may start seeing some more backup along that area. Thank you very much. We have learned that within the last couple of hours, a Flash Flood Warning has gone into effect and is, extended. Reporter crews are just about done clearing a tree that fell around idlewise drive. We also have a Flash Flood Warning in effect through 6 45 this morning. That manse there could be a danger of rock slides and mud slides. That includes the area of the loma fire and and the fire to our south. So if you are driving in the Santa Cruz Mountains, do make sure to give yourself a safe following distance so that you have time to stop because even though this tree is big, it is very hard to see in the dark. The rocks on the roadway are hard to see as well. Kari hall says this area could get up to 8 inches of rain this weekend. You have to be careful out there. The roads are treacherous out there this morning. New video shot at about 4 00 this morning showing the dangerous highways, a lot of water pooling on the side of the roadways. There are several flooded areas mostly along 101 and 280. And a visual reminder to be extra careful as they drive through the messy weather. Rain and slick roads caused a fourcar crash on interstate 280. No injuries to report. That was the good news. But a small fuel spill one of the cars did force brief lane closures. Another condition were tracking this morning is the wind and that combined with the rain brought down a tree overnight. Thats right. Pete suratos went to show us some of the damage left behind there. Reporter im to show you guys this tree down here at the corner of sacramento and laguna in San Francisco. We have the tree that fell down around 9 30 p. M. On top of a car in the area and remarkably, guys, there was no damage to the car. As far as what caused this to happen, we dont know if this is weather related. We had the storms hitting pretty hard working overnight. Crews are going to have to move this thing out of the way. We can report there were no injuries as a result of this tree falling down. Pete in San Francisco, thank you. Lets go north where the rain is continuing. People are keeping a very close eye on the selma creek, which has a history of flooding and erosions. Crews spent the day installing flood gates and putting sandbags down. Rossvalley highs cameras are keeping an eye on it this morning. The sevenmonth wait is apparently over in oakland. Today the mayor is expected to introduce the citys next police chief. Shaft will make history by choosing shaft as the next police chief. She is supposed to be meeting this morning with council members. Our bob redell is covering the latest reports. Groped while sleeping and then burglarized. Thats what police said a man on the peninsula did to his victims before they tracked him down and a Police Arrested the suspect minutes after an alleged assault. Police consider vazquez a sexual predator and fear his victim list could be a lot longer. The warriors are a lot closer to having a new home in San Francisco. The Team Announced it will break ground on what will be known as the chase center in 2017. It is expected to be finished in time for the 2019 2020 season. The construction has been fought by those with concerns over traffic around the center. Heres some animation video that was released last summer showing what a rapid bus line on geary street would look like. Thats a 300 million project. San franciscos county Transportation Authority is meeting on thursday to vote on the final Environmental Impact report. Everything is so clean in that animation video. 6 08 right now. What a sight behind you now, the beautiful bay bring, kari hall. It is under a wind advisory so. We get a chance to dry out for tomorrow. But there could be more feet of snow in the sierra and heavy rain in the bay area that could raise our flood potential as we go into the next several days. As we look at the radar now, this storm kind of winding down. Some more light rain in the forecast today. Ill talk more about that coming up in about ten minutes. Hows the look on the roadways . Well, the metering lights are on and yuck. Pair that up with wet, slick roadways and were looking to a difficult commute. Lets take a look at the maps right now. Were seeing a lot of activity butch rig but right now the biggest backup seems to be along 880 at industry parkway. There wasnt just the one accident, there was actually two unrelated accidents from the southbound all the way down whipple road, another reported there as well. Back to you. Thank you very much. Up next, new developments in the deadly vallejo pawn shot shooting. The Person Police are looking for right now. Plus the Affordable Care act heats up on capitol hill. How the gop is fighting back. The stock market goes 1 for 1 so far in 2017. Can they make it 2 for 2 . Well take a look at your money when today in the bay continues. Zwlnch we are in a microclimate weather alert. It is now 6 13 and we have two and a half feet of new snow at squaw valley and its still coming down. Theres more snow in the forecast. Well talk about how much to expect and how much rain for the bay area in about five minutes. And there is a high wind advisory that remains in effect for Richmond Ridge and the bay bridge as well. Westbound 80 bay bridge about 15 minutes. And san mateo seeing high wind advisories with about 11 minutes. Back to you. Thank you very much. It is day two for the new congress and a new bill has already been introduced to get rid of the Affordable Care act. That didnt take too long. Today president obama and Vice President elect pence will be on capitol hill. It will be long, protracted and without a clear ending. Exactly. As clear as it is here on capitol hill today, which is not very clear, as can you tell behind me. You cant even see the capitol. Kind of foggy, too, in terms of what republicans want to do after they replace obama care. A Senate Debate begins on health care today behind closed doors this morning. President obama, the democrats, trying to save the Affordable Care act and Vice President elect mike pence will focus on repealing and replacing obama care. Reporter meeting with republicans determined to get rid it. We hear you. We will do right by you, and we will deliver. Reporter but with no replacement, the game plan may be repeal and delay. It is not acceptable to repeal the law, throw our Health Care System into chaos and then leave the hard work for another day. Reporter some republicans are under pressure from constituents back home who could lose their ability to see a doctor. Its not surprising to me that does leave republicans queasy. Reporter president elect trump said he wants to keep protections like covering preexisting conditions and allowing young adults to remain on their parents insurance. Hes committed to keeping those pieces his advisers say are working. Reporter at risk, government subsidies for lowincome americans who cannot afford rising premiums. Now, keep in mind if the premiums go away or if the subsidies to help pay for the premiums go away, thats millions of people who may not be able to afford this insurance and concern is that Insurance Companies could just walk out and not cover the rest. What the Insurance Companies do is the wild card in the scenario. Tracey potts, thank you for that report. And a followup right now on a deadly vallejo pawn shop shooting. The owner of the pawn shot, 49yearold timothy polt, was killed. Another employee was also injured and a dog was killed. Police say two men were involved in that robbery. Theyre looking for potential witnesses. Police say the person who did this was driving a light colored 2010 or newer jeep patriot. Pittsburgh fire station 87 is set to reopen today after a threeyear closure. The fire station is at 800 west leeland road. It closed back in 2014 leaving just two fire stations open in pittsburgh. Station 87 will be fully staffed starting today. A grand Opening Event will take place on saturday. Forget about everything that happened last year. The stock markets right now have been unbroken winning streak this year. You just have to ignore the fact there theres own been one day of trading so far this year. 1 for 1 is and last year was pretty good, too. The dow had its best day in more than three weeks. A little trivia, theyve renovated the bell podium there, put the bell front and center. Futures call for a higher opening this morning. Twitter shares are struggling to gain traction. Another executive, kathy chen, has left. She was a controversial hire. She used to work for the Chinese Military and the hire only lasted about eight months but she stepped down. Donald trump says he knows something about the election hack the u. S. Intelligence community does not know. He said he would tell all of us either tuesday or wednesday. Well, it is wednesday but now a delay. Mr. Trump now says hell wait for a briefing from the Intelligence Community first. He said that briefing was supposed to happen today but has been delayed until friday. To quote the president elect directly, the intelligence briefing on the socalled intelligence russian hacking was delayed until friday, perhaps more final to build a case. Do note the quotes around intelligence. The briefings really are coming from intelligence agencies. The intelligence agents say there was no briefing scheduled before friday and they dont know what hes talking about. They say they havent delayed a meeting and he says they have delayed a meeting. I dont know what to tell you. Which is what . That theyre saying two opposite things. Shell fish could be a hard thing to come by. More crab fissures have joined the strike against a 25 cent drop in price. At the start of the season the price was 3. Fishermen at Half Moon Bay says a quarter doesnt seem like much but it is a significant amount of money when thousands of pounds of crab are involved. First we thought being able to get the crabs out of the water was the problem. Now the price is an issue. Always a debate there. No debating the rain coming down in the bay today. Grab that umbrella. Yes. It will be off and on but were seeing some of the heavier rain now tapering off. We get a little chance to dry out before a bigger storm system moves in. Ou mobile Doppler Radar is scanning around and it gives us an h. D. View of what is coming out of those clouds and fine matter such as fog and mist and drizzle. We are the only ones who have it as we scan around the bay area, seeing much of this activity tapering off after heavy rain earlier this morning, lets go to north bay where we still see as you shed farther to the south. Give it another ten minutes. More of the subtropical moisture will be moving in for the weekend and thats when we could have some stronger rain and wind moving into the bay area. As we go hour by hour, were seeing much less activity here but still some rain moving across the north bay over toward napa and also for parts of the east bay and the south bay. So at any point today you could see some light showers coming through. Once again, you do want to keep that umbrella handy as we have some Cool Temperatures and breezy ones. Still rain tonight but by tomorrow, we start to see much of this moving out. Once again, another storm system moving in this weekend between saturday and sunday. The bulls its right over the Santa Cruz Mountains. The Flash Flood Warning has just expired but there may be another one issued as we continue to see more rain next week and the potential for several inches of rain in the forecast, looking at at least a couple of inches for of us, possibly for up to well talk more about this. Lets head over and get a view of whats happening on the roadways. If youre just now getting your coffee, take it to go because the bay bridge meteor g meteoring. And there was an additional accident where a crash made a car spin out. It could have been because of that water. Chp also reported heavy backups along 680 at stoneridge. We were seeing Mother Traffic thankfully no major accidents at this time. A quick reminder, we are seeing slowing around east palo alto. I think a lot of people are slowing do you understand down and trying to get rid of. Maybe a return to the work week here for a lot of folks. Got to pay for christmas. Coming up next, weve had a lot of rain and snow in northern california. We have to pay for this drought in recent weeks but is it enough to make a dent . Well look at the latest sierra snow pack numbers. Were hopeful about that. A man front 100 for a home repair job that is never accomplished. So whered the money go . Nbc bay area respond next. Welcome back, everyone. Were bringing you breaking news this morning coming out of brooklyn, new york. These are live pictures of Emergency Personnel on the scene of a trail derailment. The long island train derailed. That is the Atlantic Terminal of the l. I. R. In brooklyn. As laura mentioned, youre looking at fire folks and First Responders there as 37 people were injured. Were seeing pictures on twitter looking inside the train, it smashed glass and seats have been dislodged from that train but were not hearing any reports the injuries are life threatening. Thats right. It is a commuter train that happened reportedly on the underground station right now. Youre seeing the activity with the first responding there. Weve seen People Holding towels and what not to their heads but the good news is nonlife threatening injuries. Well continue to monitor whats going on out of brooklyn, new york right now. 6 26 right now. A local man shells out over 100 to fix his home. The only problem, it didnt get fixed. Good morning. Our power with birds is limited. Thats why we focused on the company. Glen signed a contract with modern method roofing and construction to fix the damage. Glen said it took them 12 weeks to schedule the work and then didnt show up. So glen pulled the plug and hired someone else. Five weeks and four phone calls later, he said he still has not received his 100 deposit. We made one phone call to modern method and within a week, glen got his refund back. They told me they were slammed. State law limits construction deposits. Contractors can require you to put down no more than 10 of the cost of the job or 1,000, which ever is less. Its the law. If you have a consumer complaint, can you call us. The number is 888996tips. Antisemitic graffiti popping up in the bay area. Where this was found. Plus the Oakland Police department is about to get a new commander in chief and the reason why the new commander in chief could make some history. Reporter the morning rain leading to some wet roadways around the bay area. What drivers need to know before heading out the door. Baby got back pain . With sleep number, theres an adjustment for that. Just a swipe to realign your spine. Does your bed do that . Come into a sleep number store where the c2 mattress is now 699. 99. Its a no brainer. We are in a microclimate weather alert this wednesday morning as we take a live look at our Doppler Radar and the storm ranger. You see that red beam going around your screen. Still plenty of green out there on the map. The rain is making for a very slick morning commute. A live look on all the wet roads on all four bay area bridges. Some wind advisories out there. Weve been bringing you Live Team Coverage since weve been on air at 4 00 this morning. Im laura garciacannon. And im sam brock. Well have an update on the mass transit delays. But first im wondering kari, are you dreaming in doppler . Its going to stick around for quite a while, even though were seeing the heaviest rain start toer off. Our storm ranger is still scanning around and picking up on some light rain. This is so detailed, it can also pick um on some mist and drizzle and fog. Thats what were seeing across the peninsula right now. Thats where it is parked once again. Up see that beam going around as it continue