Sky 7 hd took these pictures of large tree that toppled this evening open El Camino Real right in the middle of the evening commute in san mateo and this was the result. All lanes closed at 9th avenue for about an hour backing up traffic as you can see from sky 7 hd for miles. Good evening. As we 10 to clean up from the last storm, ghaes . Another one is at our door ste step. Lets get to spencer who is tracking it all for us on live doppler 7 hd. Okay. Heres the image right now. Large moisture across the north bay where it has been all evening long. Light rain pushing down into marin county. Some heavy rain up north Sonoma County around santa rosa and healdsburg see now its more wide spread and moving slowly to the south and to the east. Rainfall total 24 hours not so impressive anywhere yet really. No rain fall recorded in parts of the east bay south bay on the peninsula up in the north bay 16 hundredths at Mount Saint Helena quarter inch at warm springs dam. At 5 00 oclock wet for the morning commute. Fwhet all areas at that time but 7 00 oclock we will sea a lean of pretty heavy rainfall developing through the central part of the bay i cant remember sweeping east south later Morning Hours then into the midday hours. Finally in the afternoon we see the heavy rain beginning to push to the south and east breaking up light showers with remain dear of the bay area remain dear of the afternoon. Look ahead what is after that when to expect to see drying in a few minutes. Thanks. Gentleman Santa Cruz Mountains public work crew are racing to fix a major problem left over from the last series of storms before this next one hits that spencer is talking about. We are referring to vine hill road which collapsed over the weekend in all of that rain. Corrina with more tonight on the problem and the progress. Repairing the storm damage on vine hill road in Santa Cruz County is considered a top priority. Heavy rain that battered the area eroded a huge chunk of roadway. There are about 30 homes along this 2 mile stretch. I had about a 6 minute drive to get the kid to school. Going the back way its about 35 minutes. So everybody gets up earlier. We are taking less trips in and out. Road closure is not just a hack for residents. Vain hill is a pop already shortcut lvrpinging highway 17 and one direction and highway 1 in the other. We had a slide out down the road here about 6 years ago and it took them many months to get the road open. We had to make the circuit. Reporter public work crew wasting no time trying to get at least one lane operational. They laid down 120 feat of drain annual pipe today and have done a preliminary evaluation of the eroded soil to see how soon they can rebuild the rest of the road. Probably about four feet down below the muck that is down there theres some fairly solid sand stone so we are hoping that thats consistent across the whole area. We can probably lay in some crib in there and hopefully get this repaired in a month time ix storm damage creating a lot of work for repair crew, it is welcome news for the Santa Clara Valley water district. In just 4 days reservoir up from 36 percent of capacity to 46 percent. As for one lane traffic on vine hill road, that could be a reality as early as tomorrow afternoon. Im just thrilled the thing is being done quite frankly. Thats really what its all about. The fact they got on it. See what is going on behind me. Pretty intense. Its good. Great. Reporter before that one lane is reopened tomorrow crews will have to put a safety barrier called k railing in place but they do hope that work is completed by tomorrow afternoon. And one reason for the push to reopen both lanes is that vine hill road is considered an escape route if santa cruz ever faces an emergency evacuation. In Santa Cruz County, corrina abc 7 new news. Lets button up the weather kochbling for now. 7 news will have continuing storm watch coverage tonight at 11 00 oclock over on channel 7. We have the latest for your morning commute on 7 news starting at 4 30 am with live updates throughout the morning and of course always check our web site 7 news. Com any time you wish. Well rest caw workers in the sierra foothill continue the search for nevada cup whole disappeared during some stormy Northern California weather. The man and woman left Citrus Heights near sacramento on thursday. Headed to their home in gardener hill, nevada and they have not been seen since. Freryearold rod and his girlfriend paula lane were visiting family and friends in Northern California before driving home to nevada in the storm. Rescue teams and volunteers joining family members searching mountain highway in the snow for signs of the couple or even the car. Everyone out there trying to 15 my dad and paula. It has been awesome seeing even come together. And i really appreciate it. Reporter rescue crew volunteer will continue to search for the couple tomorrow off road and on foot. San francisco man has been charged with kidnapping and raping an autistic is 16yearold girl. 36yearold gary Steve Atkinson was arraigned today. Heard the formal charges against hip. Hes accused of abduct ago girl who wandered away from a youth center on november 27. She was found by a muni driver and helped police find atkinson. Hes expected in court tomorrow. In the east bay People Living in a number of communities are worried about their safety tonight. Fire station in creighton, lafayett lafayette, mav martinez walnut creek at risk of closing and as laura explains no one wants a fair stationary their home to close. Im very concerned. Reporter he lives about half mail from cocoa fire station 16. The only one that serves his neighborhood in the heavily wooded west side of lafayette. The lights have been off and syrup silent temporarily at station 16 due to a mold and rat problem. But now its one of 4 that could be permanently closed january 1st. When you start doing cut back and cut back on Something Like that, that has been here a long time, as long as i have been here and lake i said before they respond to a lot of things here. Not having them here is a little disconcerting. Reporter with the failure measure 2 last month Contra Costa County supervisor must now mav to close stations. The candidate include station 16 in lafayette no. 12 on shell avenue martinez. Number 4 on walnut correct and no. 11 on center avenue in clayton. This is going to leave clayton with absolutely no fire fire stations in our city. We will be the only city and county that does not have a fire station within our city limits. Its very difficult decision but we did say that we would listen to what the voters said and they either would want us to continue the Current Service level or they would not aparagraph it. Reporter closure will cut cost but alsoen crease Response Time county wide. Average Response Time now is just over 6 and a half minutes. There is going to impact Response Time to the area arun the station as well as we are going to have to wait listeninger for resourcesp they are coming from further away when we are on incidents the require multiple fire engines. Reporter again the supervisors here have delayed the final decision on these 4 stations until next week. County fire chief indicated it may not stop there if there are no new Revenue Sources found they may have to lack at closing 1 or 2 more stations next fiscal year. Martinez, laura anthony, abc 7 news. San Jose City Council voted unanimously to allow airport staff to shoot blank and live ammunition at birds that pose a hazard to planes. Now these vote changes this vote changes the City Ordinance allowing only police to discharge firearms at the airport. Since 2009 there have been 1 80 reported bird streak at san jose international. Bird striking obviously very dangerous. Sometimes they can cause real problems for planes of course most dramatic example of that happened in january of 2009 when pilot pl danville land add bird stricken u. S. Airway jet in the hudson river. Riffs department is being criticized for wanting to buy an unmanned drone. Sheriffs department calls it an unmanned aerial system. 7 News ReporterMark Matthews tonight with reaction from brave situation rates groups who are afraid the deputy will use this technology to spy on people. Reporter thinks the 31,000 dollar Unmanned Aerial Vehicle at the Alameda CountySheriffs Department wants to buy. Neat little shechbility even according to the critic. Just cutest little toy i can possibly imagine. Reporter told the supervisors shes opposed to the did he advice. Aclu attorney called it a threat to brave situation. Just because we walk out walk out doors sometimes doesnt mean that we surrender the right to make sure that the government doesnt collect and stock pile detailed personalize information about our whereabouts. Reporter inexpensive system with camera is different than a sheriff helicopter precisely because of the low cost. Aclu fears affordability will lead to abuse. But are we already there . For few hundred dollars you can buy your own camera equipped uav. As for low cost camera keeping track of us they are with everywhere. Building street lights stores and everyone on the street has one of these. Its undeniably True Technology has dramatically change the world we live in doesnt mean we have to surrender our brave situation rates going in and out public. Reporter aclu and others calling on the soups to put the issue up for discussion and debate. And today the supervisors agreed. Even the sheriff agreed even before the issue came on the agenda he asked to have the purchase put up for discussion at Public Protection committee hearing. Meeting set for the future and hopefully in the near future irngs sheriff says the uav would be used for search and rescue and apprehending fugitives. Even though the paperwork his department filled with the county says it could be used for information gathering sheriff says dont interpret that too broadly. Never intended to use this for any type of surveillance, any type of civilian use whatsoever. Thats mark reporting for us. Late today the because of the controversy supervisors now need specific authorization to use grant money to buy the drone. That means all of this has to good back to committee before returning to the full board of supervisors. That is likely to happen early next year. More to bring you here. Astonishing video from routine traffic stop. Coming up. Watch this shocking surprise for police as they surround a suspicious vehicle revealing young man kidnapped from this job and rescued in the nick of time. Also ahead. Modernizing california schools. How state lawmakers want to spend some of the money you approved on the november ballot. Plus only at deputyy. Lucky city where you can get married with a side of lsh browns. Do you know who these children are . Forensic artist comes up with the progeny of famous couple. Snake is found on a plane. Not the movie57 musics, ready share the harmony. Shell be here soon shell love this share a sweeter welcome. Hey, hola, como estas . Hello, hey everyone. Es un placer conocerte. Encantada. Share everything. This holiday get verizons share everything plan. Unlimited talk, text and shareable data. Across your familys devices, all in one plan. Get a droid razr m by motorola for 49. 99. Couple of mishap in the sky to tell you about. New boeing 787 dream liner flown by united air lanes was diverted mid flight to new orleans today because of a possible mechanical problem. Plane was headed to newark houston and landed safely then this. Where is sam jackson when you need him. Snake on plane forced emergency landing. Passenger aboard egyptair flight was bitten by the cobra he smuggled on board. Kind of looked like this one. Pilot diverted after hearing him scream from his seat. Hes okay. Rest of the passengers probably quite annoyed. Snake was captured after it slithered under seats. How creepy would that be. State lawmakers deciding how to dole out money to help schools become more energy efficient. If we have the latest on what is happening now that prop 39 is state law. We want to be first in line. Somehow. Some way. Reporter principal greg thomas pleading his case to law make investigators give his campus some of the state new Energy Retrofit money. 73 percent of California Public schools are more than 25 years old and in need of the funding badly to upgrade or replace windows, inefficient lighting and old air Conditioning Heating systems fichlt we can look at Energy Efficiency then you are having savings year over year over year and then you will have more money visible for those things. Reporter the costs are staggering. More than 10,000 Public Schools in california together spend 700 Million Dollars a year on energy. Thats how much they spend on all supplies. Thats to voteers who aprove proposition 39 disadvantage schools will now be able to pay for Energy Retrofit. Proposition 39 closes tax loop hole that mostly benefited out of state corporations. Its a billion dollar a contrary funding boost for the state. Half goes to the general fund. The other half to the energy needs of schools that could mean no more puty around the window sill. Theeled puty has been there forever. Reporter they make them sauna in the summer and freezer in the winter. Sooins teacher hunter says those conditions hinder learning. Kids go from classroom to classroom the experience is the same situation until after 3 or 4 hours of that its pretty hard for them to focus. Reporter lawmakers just introduced measures to get project money out the door by next summer. Retrofitting is expected to cut energy cost at least 30 percent. Do we want to give them great new Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy Technology then bring them up to the 21st century. Reporter when upgrading done the 4 billion dollars guess to the state general fun. This is abc 7 news. All right lets move backtalk about the weather forecast. Spencer is tracking the next storm that is coming in not nearly what we had this weekend but still will produce some rain. Will produce rain. Probably will be quite a wet commute tomorrow morning for much of the bay area. Get ready. Live view of dry conditions right now but clouds thickening. This is from the east bay hills camera at the peak. Quite a view across the bay tonight. We have clouds in the sky. Moisture around the bay area and a little bit of rain in the north bay now beginning to move slowly south wand and hes. Hes live doppler wide spread area of mainly light rain but pockets of heavy rain in the north bay. Light rain worked its way down into marin county but steadyy rain in Sonoma County santa rosa points northward and eastward closing a little bit more you can see from clover dale to santa rose west out to the coast through occidental and rohnert park we have steady rain developing right now and we are all going see some rain at some point tomorrow mainly Morning Hours. Right new temperature readings generally in the upper 50s to right around 60, 61 in oakland right now. These are forecast feature rape spreads south ward overnight. Rain turns to showers tomorrow giving way to actually partly sunny skies in the afternoon. Well see dryer pattern beginning on thursday. Satellite radar composite image showing the approaching system which is slow moving system and thats why it has not advanced very far south ward but has all the overnight hours to do that. Forecast animation at 11 00 oclock tonight. Well see by 5 00 oclock in the morning start of our rush hour more wide spread rainfall pushed into the south bay and pens lashtion Santa Cruz Mountains a little bit in the east bay then by 7 00 oclock in the morning we see a pvt of rather heavy rain developing right through the central parts of bay year. Some downpour there. Then 9 00 oclock in the morning we see the heavy rain shifting eastward and south ward then by 11 00 a. M. All parts of the bay area 7 at least some moderate rainfall. If if the drenching rain. Heavy steady rain showers in the afternoon hours and break up late tomorrow night overnight into thursday morning. 5 00 oclock thursday morning hooking at try commute but also will have had rainfall total up to about inch and a half and north bay mountains up to an inch in santa cruz and east bay maybe half inch in the rainier parts of the sufficient bay. Over tonight tonight as the showers and rainfall increase we see low temperature on the mailed side maybe mid 50s then tomorrow again steady more wide spread rainfall more scattered showers in the afternoon and little flake of sun High Pressure mainly in the low mid 60s tm and heres the accuweather 7 day forecast. So we start drying out over tonight tomorrow night into thursday. Raiders day thursday night football at the colonel see number oakland. Take on the broncos here on abc 7. Should be dry and pleasant conditions for football thursday evening then the rest of the forecast period we have sunny dry days ahead. No rain after tomorrow for at least a week and perhaps longer. Thats what the yellow thing is there. Sunshine. Unusual occurrence. We need to it dry out. Coming up. When cool becomes cold. If world record just set by this mu sichlingts you will get the sichlingts you will get the story as abc 1 dj 3, 2, 1. [applause]. Despite the looming fiscal cliff and bitter divide the holiday spirit showed newspaper washington this evening. Speaker of the house boehner did the honor for lighting of 65 foot spruce from colorado. Capitol c