Okay. Heres live doppler 7hd clouds over the bay area right now and as you can see the rain getting really close. Has it started raining in a measurable way here in the bay area yet. But waves of rain surge up from our south west and we will start to see rain falling here in the bay area during the over tonight hours. Start our forecast animation at 10 00 oclock tonight and shortly there after we see a couple of also surges of light rain showers may not quite make it. This is moving into massive dry air but 5 00 oclock tomorrow morning beginning of our morning commute. We see the first little waves of rain beginning to push inland up in the north bay. And after that well, i want you to stay what the other storm bring us. So ill be back in just a few minutes with a look at the entire series of storms coming our way. All right look forward to the full report thank you spencer. Serious accident involving 3 cars plus one person dead brought the evening commute to halt. Happened on south bound 6 80 near martinez at 5 15. You can see from sky 7 hd that an suv overturned. The driver 66yearold woman died. Chp says she and driver of second car both tried to merge into the same lane at the same time when the woman attempted to get back into her lane she hit 2 cars before rolling over. The lanes were closed for more than 2 hours backing up traffic as you saw there for miles. The man accused of killing 14yearold ivan cruz in a hitandrun went before a judge today. Sunny anderson convicted felon with long wrap sheet. Now faces most serious charges of his life. Murder. Laura has latest now from hay word. With his head bowed and face tucked into his chest 3 34yearold Sunny Anderson entered a hayward cramp. Charged with hitandrun murder of friendyearold ivan cruz. Anderson stood against a wall and did not speak except to tell the judge would he like a public defender. P the convicted felon in court many times before. Wrap sheet that goes back to 1999 when anderson was charged with slashing and killing animal at kennedy park petting zoo. He was the caretaker there and well aware of the charges against anderson now. First thing was the name sounded so familiar and called people in management and found out it was the same person at kennedy and after that it was just snow balling hearing memory of everything and just just like it happened yesterday. In 2009 anderson convicted for several felony related to the burglary and beating of a 74yearold woman hes angry and violent an acts out. Hes amorale it seems to me because we know you attack animal to the magnitude and he did and commit that type of animal cruelty. Thats shocking to m me. He was on felony prosecute big when he hit and killed ivan while the boy rode his scooter in the crosswalk. The District Attorney office will work tirelessly to ensure that justice is done. For this 14yearold boy l who lost his life and for his family. The judge ordered anderson held without basement hes expected back in Court Wednesday morning. L in hayward, Laura Anthony abc 7 news. Nipt Circuit Court of appeals ruled in if i ever of sex offenders. Justice say a voter approved measure requiring convicted sex offenders to turn over a list of their email addresses and screen names violates their rights to 43 speech. Court also says the law is vague and burden some. 80 percent voters passed proposition 35 in 2012. Attorney General Office may appeal. City council racking for police force shivrnging ranks in san jose. Falling to the lowest level in 3 decades the Department Report estimates the force will have fewer than 1,000 members by july. Thats the lowest level since 1985. Biggest problem are retaining and recruiting cops. City Officials Say it has reached an urgent point. I think everyone is on the table. I think we recognize that we have very low staffing level at this point and so we need to look at all the options that are necessary to ensure that the community are safe and of versus safe open the streets. City council noted that there are only 20 members in the Current Police academy with recent academy having nutrition rate of 20 percent. Despite the shrinking force city leaders say National Data shows san jose has the lowest rate of Violent Crimes of any big city. Hundreds of students rally today against the proposed university of california tuition hike. This was the scene at cal campus. University board of regent vote tomorrow on whether to approve a sea hike that would raise tuition by 5 percent each year for the next 5 year. Rally forced the University Administration building to be put on lock down. Similar protest hps on the Uc Davis Campus where this also happens to be the third anniversary of a pepper spraying incident. Gabriel has more. Crowded campus holding saens and voicing outrage over uc president proposal to raise tuition 5 percent every year for the next 5 years. May rea says it cost already high enough. No student should have to work 3 jobs takeout loans applies for scholarship and fight much of the message targeted at the regence who consider the proposal. Good to the regions instant meeting tell the time is up and make sure you know that you represent yourself and they do a bleep horrible job of representing you. Should not have visible presence at the event and advice chancellor supports the students right to protest. She says concerns about the proposed tuition hike are valid and like nopolitano the state could do more to stop them. Currently our governor is not supporting Higher Education at the level that needs to be supported. Students like matthew palm say the salary of administrators like she are also part of the problem. They encourage students to continue to speck out in an effort to influence the uc regent. I dont know how about our voices will be heard and whether account is on them. Tell them if you wont represent us well get rid of you. Represent us well get rid of you. Raise tuition and we will raise situation. This is video over van necessary avenue. It make the trip faster for muni bus and create concern over the potential back up and lost Parking Spaces. The changes will happen pretty much along the whole avenue from Mission Street to lombard for the bus Rapid Transit lanes. Carolyn has more on that. Its the first project of its kind in San Francisco. And it will transform virtually all of van ness avenue. The bus Rapid Transit or brt will give the 47 and 49 muni lines plus golden gate transit buses welcome back dedicated lane in both directions right down the plts of the street. That means instead of the current 3 lanes for cars there will be 2 and more than 100 Parking Spaces will be lost. Some businesses along vanness think this will be a disaster. More cars registered in San Francisco than Parking Spaces already and i think its just going to be more of a hassle than a convenience for anybody. Reporter but brt designed to improve reliability and speed up service for the 16,000 riders who take muni every day. These are changes that will allow to us operate transit is very much like the metro syste system. Owner kelly is pro brt. Im excited to see that San Francisco is stepping up the game with regard to transportation. I think its needed situation. Once dedicated bus lanes in no more left turn on vanness that means cars making a right will run in the next street polk that will add to congestion there. Owner of johnson leatherers says that and the loss of parking on vanness wont be good. We are Small Business we need parking for customers and they are already frustrated with the look of parking. This afternoon the San FranciscoMunicipal Transportation Agency gave final approval. Construction should begin late next year. And the bus is rolling by 2018. In San FranciscoCarolyn Tyler the abc 7 news. About walnut creek now has its first diagonal intersection better known as scramble crossing. Both on olympic boulevard one at south main the other at locus street where one cycle of the signal dedicated to pedestrians only. This graphic from city of walnut creek help explain the and traffic in all 4 correction is stopped. Cross the street and even cross diagonally if you want to. Kahn imagine. Interesting. Mr. Ahead this tuesday tonight for you. Another bay area city with alarming indmres bicycle theft. Old School Solution that might just help. Plunging gas praise with cheapest gas in the bay area. Spencer is here tracking some rain tonight. Thats right. We have a series of rain maker coming our way in a moment. I show you how much rain we can expect and when to expect it in my accuweather forecast. Look who showed up on bart. Sports director on why the warriors hopped on public transit. Warriors hopped on public transit. Bike theft on the rise in walnut creek. Police say theres been a 63 percent increase in stolen bike since last year. The spike contributed to the rise in bicycle part. More people biking and getting around that way. I know that its been this is just on personal opinion. Bike theft has been a bigger problem be in San Francisco and berkeley. I think its just i think its spreading more to the suburban area. To help police get a grip on bike theft they encourage resident to register the bicycle. Right now it cost about 35 dollars. Over 25,000 are reported stolen. 15 percent of all the bike reported stolen in the country. Free mont gas station owner is offering a 5,000 dollar reward for information about the theft of more than 750 gallons of diesel fuel. Happened early friday between 12 30 and 3 00 a. M. At the gas station on maur avenue. This video from the service station shows what happened the suspect siphon off the detainees freely ground tank over 2 and a half hours without being stopped. They used minihave been to pull up to opening of the tank with the pickup truck behind it. Its worth 2900 dollars. Mean time gas prices in the bay area and around the United States continue to drop. In San Francisco triple a says the average prison for regular was 3. 31. Lowest price in the bay area was at 2 arco station in mill virginia el where it says for 2. 85. Havent seen that in a listening time. All time high for gallon of gas in San Francisco was 5. 24 a gallon. In july of 2008. How things have change. Reason for the lower prison saudi arabia decision to lower the price per barrel of crude oil sold to the u. S. Woman who might become Charles Manson motheren law is concerned about her daughters engage many. She says she believes the mass murderer is truly in love with her daughte daughter. Me lace says she has been good to him. Charles 26yearoldt to tie the knot daughter who calls herself star t. The couple have yet to announce wedding date but have until february when the license expires. Burton wont attend the wedding here in california. Millions of americans are feeling the punch of unrelenting snow and freezing temperatures tonight with winter still a month away officially someplace have already seen more than 60 inches of snow and guess what, theres more on the way. They could see a year worth of snow in just three days. If we are in buffalo. Good evening to you. Snow continues the wind continues and check it out. It is totally blocked off. The roads into South Buffalo because that is no man land at this point. 3 to 5 inches of snow falling every hour here. The governor has declared this a state of emergency. The National Guard is just moving in now to help with this situation. Most concerning is what happens when all of this snow melts and fix couple of days we could potentially see some very, very serious flooding here when more storms come in and keep piling on all of the snow. Abc news buffalo, new york. Women been team here has been stuck on a new york through way for 24 hours on their bus. They look unhappy dont they . They have been posting selfie like this one on twitter. The team was coming back late monday night after loss at pittsburgh when stranded. The team they are in good spirits but they are running low on snacks and water. The bus has enough gas and power to last a few more days. Hopefully wont be stuck on there a few more days. What a drag. That is miserable. Well nothing that dramatic around here but the weather is certainly feeling a little more like winter. Yes we do like that spencer. The rain. Yes. We have a series of written storms coming our way. Maybe the wettest week come up that we have seen in a long long time. Go to live doppler 7hd and wet weather getting pretty close. Large mass of moisture just offshore. In fact some of the cloud are containing the moisture moving over parts of the north by right now. We dont have reports yet of rainfall hitting the ground but that should begin to happen overnight. Right now we lock at temperature readings of 59 here in San Francisco. 55 across the bay in oakland. 60 at hayward. We have 49 over at fairfield which is one of the cooler locations at the moment. Heres view from the emeryville camera looking west ward out over the bay. Forecast feature showers arriving during the morning commute tomorrow. May see some brief heavy rain on thursday but system will manufacture through quickly and looking wet for saturday as well. So heres look at satellite radar composite image first tomorrow morning rain is bearing down on us right now and rain gets closer we look farther out to sea you see the fast mover coming in on thursday. More energetic system may bring us heavy rain but it will not last very long. Storm will sweep through quickly and saturday could be the wettest could bring us wettest of the 3 systems so lets start our forecast animation 5 00 oclock tomorrow morning. Official start of our morning commute some spotty light showers at that time and late necessity the Morning Hours by 9 00 oclock or so. We see wide spread areas of light rain and showers and that will continue that pattern through the day winding down by 7 00 oclock tomorrow evening. Giving way to mainly cloudy skies in advance of the next frontal system that will come through on thursday. That will sweep through central part of the bay area by midday on thursday then start to push out of here by Late Afternoon but we see pockets of showers hyped that front and that will start to wind down by 7 00 oclock thursday night so lets look ahead to the rape fall total the projecting up to about 1 inch of rape in the north bay by tomorrow afternoon at 4 00 oclock and perhaps one threetenths inch in lower elevation but as we project a little bit farther natural forecast feature looking at thursday evening we see perhaps by then up to 2 inches of rain in our mountain and 2 10s to 6 tenths in the lower elevation. Overnight look for cloudy skies that will spotty showers developing low temperature will be sort of mild side mainly low mid 50s overnight then tomorrow under showering conditions with cloudy sky maybe a break or 2 of sun here and there we see High Pressure pretty narrow range. Cool day high in the low mid 60s all across the bay area. This include inland area. Heres accuweather 7 day forecast. So another system manufacturing through. Thursday maybe isolated thunderstorm or 2. Sweeps through friday mostly cloudy. More written on saturday. Saturday could bring steady longer lasting rain than the 2 systems coming our way through thursday. So this is a Nice Development for us. Thatsen can you rememberin remembering. Steady long lasting thats good. Thanks very much. Thanksgiving have had drive continue through the month of november. If spencer presented the fad bank of cocoa and solana with a 15,000 dollar donation from abc 7 and Parent Company disney. Part of the 75,000 dollar donation to local feeding america fad bank this particular fad bank will turn the 15,000 dollars into 30,000 meals to help feed the 188,000 people it serves each month. Volunteers from the Concord Chamber of commerce. High school. 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