Tonight. Rain is coming down. Roads are wet and accidents are causing problems all over the bay area. Good evening. The weather is rough out there tonight. Lets get right to 7 news weather anchor Spencer Christian who is tracking the storm on radar for us tonight. Heres live doppler 7 hd and rainfall quite steady up in the north bay throughout the day into the evening hours now shifting south to east through the central part of the bay area and there are wet spots out there which is giving you reason for caution. You can see a line of showers and rainfall. Some light to moderate. Maybe local heavy downpour through novato and sonoma out to vallejo and moving into San Francisco. Lets close in in marin county south to tiburon and down to the marina area of San Francisco. We have got an area of pretty steady rain fall right now and we expect to it expand over the next couple hours and reach other parts of the bay area. This has been the pattern as we loop the radar over the last 3 hours. Moving east and south than it had been doing early in the day. All of us will have wet areas by Early Morning. Rainfall total past 24 hours over 4 inches in novato. Inch in santa rosa. See most of it has been in the north bay. About to get a nice little soaking in other parts of the bay area as well. Accuweather 7 day forecast a little later. Okay spencer thank you. See you shortly. Storm has the affect on travelers all over the bay area. Number of wreck out there today. Slick roads mean we need more defensive driving and chp has some good advice for all of us. Take your time. Be patient. Want you to leave early to wherever you are going to be going to and also check the Road Conditions on where you are going. You may going half hour away from home or may traveling 4 or 5 hours. So check the Road Conditions before you leave. At sfo low clouds created low visibility with delayed flights and frayed nerves for holiday travelers. Sfo expect more than 3 percent additional travelers this year over last year. Bit of travel trouble if headed to Los Angeles International airport. Workers there are scheduled to demonstrate tomorrow afternoon prompting warnings for passengers to give themselves a 3 hour concussion on at lax. And extra 90 minutes to get there, too. In the mean time Flight Attendant at u. S. Airway authorized a strike though it is not expected to impact thanksgiving travel because cooling off period is expected to be imposed. Attendant upset over contract terms under the merger of u. S. Airway and america west airlines. As millions of americans head to the airport and face long security lines, news tonight about the threat that make those checks so critical. 4 men from Southern California are under arrest charged with plot to go join al qaeda and kill americans. As Pierre Thomas explains the men are following a dead terrorist still so powerful hes inspiring a new wave of jiha jihadist from the grave. Reporter an war was the world most wanted man. Public enemy no. 1. Encouraging radical to attack america in the on line preaching. U. S. Killed him in the drone strike in september 2011 but today we learn hes still helping to recruit terrorists from the grave. Overnight the fbi announced charges against 4 california men accused of plotting to good to afghanistan to bomb and kill u. S. Soldier soldiers. They were disciple of an war. Extensive amount of their admiration for him and quite frankly idealizing him. Reporter alleged ring leader of the group was a former member of the u. S. Air force. Fbi claims the alleged terror cell had conducted training including going to shooting range and even bought tickets to travel to afghanistan through mexico. This was a valid violent extremist network. We took this very, very seriously. Reporter according to the fbi charges one of the alleged terror cell members had posted violent extremist media including audio file of an war. We discovered 30 cases brought against socalled homegrown radical where he was a primary inspiration. They include recent plot to blow up the u. S. Capitol building. Federal reserve in new york and another to detonate car bomb at chicago bar. All the cases came after an war was dead. Some officials fear we may see the influence for years to come. He lives on on line. Abc news, washington. Men whale secretary of state Hillary Clinton is now in the middle east hoping to end the week of fighting between israel and hamas militant. Clinton met with israeli Prime Minister this evening about a cease fire to which the Prime Minister says his country would be a willing partner. About rocket continue to be fired for a seventh straight day and israel concedes it targeted and killed 3 palestinian journalist saying they had ties to militants. Back here a one day strike at the port of oakland ended earlier than planned. The strike was by custodial Maintenance Worker who oppose cut to retirement benefit. Some independent truckers who could not get that the port say they were losing about 400 dollars in wages per truck. Yawn workers tonight agree to resume contract negotiations. The port reopened by 7 tonight. 2 hours earlier than actually expected and scheduled. Last ditch effort to save hostess has failed. Company says mediation talk with the baker and confection union broke down late today without an agreemen agreement. The company says it will head to Bankruptcy Court after all tomorrow with the intention to sell off its assets including the twivrpingie brand. More than 18,000 workers around the country including hundreds ins oakland will last their jobs. Florida company will pay 2 and half Million Dollar fines for trying to manipulate the state power market. Federal regulators say that river gained the system to 7 higher praises on energy import from out of state last week regulators suspended j p morgan from Trading Energy in california for 6 months for very similar reasons. Questions about credit card expenditures are prompting calls tonight for the president of the board of supervisors in Santa Clara County to resign. Story tonight from corina the. Reporter Santa Clara County supervisor george is under fire and being audited for the way he uses his county issued credit card or p. Card. Expense report show first class upgrades for air travel. Extensive dining out. And even golf excursions at taxpayer expense. It does really look bad when you first see that or first hear about it. Reporter today editorial in the San Jose Mercury news calls for him to resign. Board president refused to answer any reporter questions today but did make a statement during todays meeting. I dont want you to be distracted by political lync lynching that you have read today and continue to read about in the print media. Reporter the county legal arm is auditing the expenses which his office says totals over 36,000 during a 4 year period. County executive says some of the policies surrounding county issued credit cards are con fasting and changes are already being made. We have if looked significantly at our monitoring procedures. We are very concerned that we maintain the integrity of the p card system. Reporter fellow supervisor say an audit of his reimbursement needs to be done and presented to the board as quickly as possible. He says he is cooperating with the process and will have more to say in the future. Certainly when the review and inquire are completed you will hear a little bit more from me. Reporter he made his comments today because the board is looking at more wide spread policy changes with regard to county issued credit card use in the wake of this scandal and the hot topic will be back before the board on december 20th. In san jose, scene aabc 7 news. The jeff era at berkeley is over. Cal has fired the most successful football coach in the school history. Mike has the story. I informed him he welcome back seeking to hire a new head football coach. It was difficult decision for barbara. Jeff the head coach here at cal for the last 11 years. Jeff is a good man who has brought Great Success and celebration to this university and who deserves to occupy a place of honor in the cal family. However the current state of our program is not what our student athletes, fans and Campus Community deserve. Reporter cal players found out this morning at 10 00 a. M. In an emotional meeting with coach ted ford. Everybody gave him a hug after and standing ovation as he deserves. Everybody is going to miss hill. Hes really put a lot of blood sweat tears in the program. Cal Graduation Rate for the Football Team was at 48 percent which was the lowest in the pack 12. That played into the final decision. Hes always pressed the or of academic and we need to finish strong at school whether he was here or not. Reporter barber hired app executive search firm to help find the new head coach. She has certain qualities shes looking for. Team builder. Staff builde builder. Character builder. Someone who is innovative. Someone who understands the importance of academic. Reporter 5 coaches were retained to help in recruiting and already interest in this job. We will did this as quickly as we possibly can but not sacrificing getting the right person to lead cal football. Reporter details of the buyout worked out and mitigated if he takes another job. Hes a good man good coach and he will land on his feet somewhere as he had a great run here at cal. Reporting in berkeley, abc 7 news. All right there is much more to get to tonight on 7 news at 9 00 as we continue a Bay Area Police agency is offering a service to help you keep tab on your property during holiday. We explain how that works. Saved my life. I love her. The School Program that is being creditd with helping a girl save her mothers life. The only problem is that program could use its own life line tonight. Update on San Francisco toddler suffering from a rare form of leukemia. News the family just got about a foreign donor. Stay with us for that. Of course spencer back with the full look at the forecast this storm system moving in tonight. How long will it last and what about thanksgiving . Look at you guys with your fancyschmancy uverse high Speed Internet. You know, in my day you couldnt just start streaming six ways to sunday. Youd get knocked off. And sometimes, it took a minute to download a song. Thats sixty seconds, for crying out loud. 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Reporter you can find out more about the service at the Department Web site fremont police. Org. They can organize a Security Check for you this week if you sign up tomorrow. So thats key. The pilot of small plane walked away with minor injuries after he crashed near the san rafael airport. Fire officials tell the us the pilot had trouble medley after taking off this morning and tried to turn back to the airport. He couldnt make it. Managed to land in march shall about a mile away but again he escaped without injury. Well, this next report might make you want to learn cpr for any kind of emergency. Teenager was able to save her mothers life thanks to pie nearing program at Fremont High School in sunnyvale. Tonight vick lee has the story behind the story of what doctors say its a mirror alaska husband recovery. Out of everyone i never thought it would be my own mother. Reporter 17yearold lindsay never thought she would save a life. Certainly not her own mothers. But she did. Last sunday. By using cpr. Which she learned at fremont high 3 years ago. Her family had been watching the 49ers at home. When lori suffered a cardiac arrest. Lindsay medley began mouth to mouth resuscitation and chest compressions. She was helped by a neighbor joe gonzalez who also performed his first cpr. Doctors credit lindsay for not only saving her moms life but her function national by feeding oxygen to her brain as they waited for paramedic to arrive. Her mother calls lindsay her angel. I still cant believe what she did. Thank god she was home. Reporter Fremont High School started the cpr class ins 2008 as required learning for all freshmen. It was funded with a 2 year grant from a local foundation. Each student received a kit with a practice manikin and 20 minute dvd. Deputy chief steve drew conceived the project. We taught 1,000 kids in 2008 and 700 kids approximately 200 2009. Reporter lindsay took the class in 2009 as a freshman. What you did to me. Reporter lindsay mom never knew her daughter could do cpr. Today with her mom now resting at home, lindsay showed her for the first time the cpr kit she kept in her room for the past three years. When i reported on the story in 2008 then lieutenant told me this. You are diagnose something here today that maybe not tomorrow but some time in your life will provide you an opportunity to save someones life. Reporter prediction came true. For lindsay her grade on the cpr class was not pass or fail. It was life or death. The test of of a true hero. Vick lee, 7 news. All right. Great story. Fantastic. Fabulous effort. Lets get back to the weather forecast. Storm is in tonight. Sounds like a stormy tonight. It could be for much of the bay area. North bay and sweeping through other parts of the bay area. Live view from the high definite figures sutro camera looking out over San Francisco on this cloudy misty nature so far in San Francisco the heavy rain has really hit the city of San Francisco yet but we have had pockets of light rain but there is rain spread widely across the bay area right now as we look at live doppler 7 hd throu some offshore beginning to push on land. Some over San Francisco and reaching up into the delta area up into the northeast out towards sacramento heres the line of showers closer look from novato in marin county. Over to richmond on the east bay. Down 0to San Francisco and a little bit closer. You see there is light moderate even maybe some pockets of heavy rainfall in this Little Pocket of rainfall right here in the area of rain. So we have wet weather now pushing through the central part of the bay area as we loop the radar. See over the last 3 Hours Movement of the system is sweeping eastward. South ward so all get some rain before the night is over. Right now temperature readings generally in the low 60s around the bay area and these are our forecast features we see rain spreading south ward and eastward overnight. Showers will difficult manipulate issue tomorrow. Dry pattern thursda thursday. Thanks giving day through monday. On we go to the low for tonight under shower rainy conditions low mainly in the low to mid 50s. Relatively mild actually and we look at the satellite radar composite image cold front moving slowly but its bringing us the current bout of written fall and rain overnight. Forecast animation 11 00 oclock tonight at which point we could have areas wide spread areas of moderate to heavy rainfall right through the central part of the viewing area during the overnight hours up to about 2 00 a. M. We see it moving slowly south ward eastward spreading to parts of the east bay and south bay and Santa Cruz Mountains by 5 00 oclock tomorrow morning beginning official beginning of the rush hour the front moving through parts of the east bay and south bay down through the Santa Cruz Mountains with showers trailing behind the front. The trailing showers will continue during the day in the afternoon hours then taper off giving way to partly sunny skies. Evening tomorrow by 7 00 oclock tomorrow evening we see rainfall total possibly up to inch and a half in the north bay mountains. Maybe up to half inch in Santa Cruz Mountains and other parts of the bay area. North bay will be the wettest region of the bay year. In the sierra we have Winter Weather advisory in effect until 4 00 oclock tomorrow afternoon. 3 to 8 inches of new snow above 7000 feet. Snow levels high. Raining down at lake level lake tahoe. Gusty winds gust over the peak and ridges back in the bay area tomorrow by afternoon partly sunny. Relatively mild with high lane mainly low to mid 60s and heres the accuweather 7 day forecast even milder on friday and saturday. Thursday by the way thanks giving looks sunny dry high in the mid 60s upper 60s on friday saturday mid 60s on sunday. And then we cool down slightly monday tuesday with a slight chance of rain on tuesday but after tonight rainfall looks like mainly dry mild forecast for remainder of the 7 day period. Nice look