Approaching from the west already starting to see light showers around clover dale and just to the west of santa rosa. As we move into motion the past hour the storm motion is from south twos northeast. It will take some time for this rain to spread and cover. We go in the future, forecast shows you early tomorrow morning 3 00 oclock friday morning some light rain in San Francisco and 80s to the north and that rain does look too intensify by 8 00 oclock around santa rosa and dale we have very heavy showers. So it is for that fact that heavy rain in the forth bay Flash Flood Watch in effect tonight through late tomorrow tonight rapid rise of creek and stream. Rain falls the wind are going to increase entire bay area under wind advisory for winds as high as 50 Miles Per Hour throughout friday. We talk much more about the time talk much more abouthe timing of the rain show you how much to expect where you live with the full forecast in a few minutes. Okay thanks a lot. Shortly. Communities all over the bay area are making preparation for this rain and possible flooding that drew is talking about. Of carolyn has more from healdsburg and sonoma county. Which got hit pretty hard back in december. Run on sand bag at this city yard. Nobody wants repeat of the december when more than 8 inches of rain in just a matter of hours caused the correct in downtown healdsburg to over flight. Flooding at least 2 dozen businesses including a nearby restaurant. It was literally up to the wall last time in december but we were all sand bagged up. December was surreal with the flooded safeway parking lot turning into a river for raft turning into a river for rafter. 87yearold fay dunlop says the water got into her home. Today she and her daughter were filling up sand bag hoping they will be a barrier this time. Just better to be prepared ahead of time and see what happens. We were in girl scouts. Be prepared. Reporter also preparing at the vintage store on healdsburg avenue. They did not have sand bag in place before and had to be closed for three days. Because of the damage. We got pretty wallop. 18 inches of water that went all the way back. Came in like a tide. We are going to be prepared this time. No taking any chance notch taking any chance. If we have to lay in front of the door we will. Declared state of emergency from december storm hopin to qualify for state or federal aid that could help business. City manager says now as they brings for the next few days of rain his staves being pro active. We asked the Public Work Department to good out of the last couple days clearing l the storm drain. Clearing depwre out of the creek to make sure the water can flow. And hes scheduling staff to work through the weekend. Healed burg abc 7 news. In marin county sand bag now available in more than 2 dozen locations. We have unlisted on our web site if you need them. Sommer chant in mill valley already taken some. Emergency management officials have mapped out a communication plan mapped out a communication plan. Drains and gutter have been cleared and caltrans is ready to close low lying roadway if they do in fact flood. Last december storm proved to be a real headache for pg e. Storm knocked out power to more than 200,000 customers. 2 avoid a repeat this weekend today the utility was busy trimming tree that could knock down power lines if the wind really picks up. Pg e contracted workers to chop down 3, 70 foot monterey pine. See them here. Wrapped the branches around high voltage distribution line. They can deal witness as quickly as they can. Mir khnt and residents along San Francisco folsom stream making sure this storm wont cause the same damage as the big one in december. Business stoungd on sand bag this morning. This area of the Mission District l is prone to flooding. Many brings still making repair from what happened few week ago in december. Make sure they are safe they plan to stack sand bag higher than usual in order to keep the water out. I dont think we get much rain but better to be safe than sorry the flood on december 11 helped no water getting in whatsoever two. Block were clearing out dirt and grime that accumulated along this sewage main. December flood caused by clogged water waste water backing up into the storm drain. If you have not down loaded the 7 news weather app now is a very good time to do it before the storm gets hear. That way you can follow the storm on of our web site. App is free from the Apple App Store or google play. Fight weather shortly before we manufacture on. Sonoma county sheriffs helicopter rescued a kayaker this afternoon in may rip couldnt dillon beach. Man 300 yards offshore hanging on to the kayak. Not injured but two 2 exhausted to paddle back to shovrment helicopter crew dropped a lane to the man and pulled him up to safety. He is okay. We could have a Major EconomicCrisis Brewing fit because of a work slow down at west coast shipping port. Contract impasse between portmanger and the long shore worker union has crippled open rigs from seattle to oakland all the way down to long beach. Ships are afternoon ordinary offshore unable to load or unload the cargo. Coverage begins with 7 News Reporter david louie. Loading unloading containers loading unloading containers. Critical operation with billions of dollars of cargo inside. The long shore men who do this work without a contract since last july. No new deal even after 9 month of talk. Both sides long shore Manchester United and maritime association, Employer Group have been talking tough. Employer are threatening to shut down 29 west coast ports as early as next week. Yawn wont acknowledge it but dock workers have been engaged in aparent work slow down. Trucker who get paid for every container they hall to and from the port say they are losing money because fewer contain remembers moving. Please do something about it please do something about it. Customer are lasting the load. Drivers are lasting their wage and these people dont do anything about it. They earn from 250 to 1500 dollars for each container they call if he saiding on distance. If we are if the bringing anything out we are fought getting paid. So it cost us and stressful at the same time. Sky 7 hd provides additional evidence of a slow down over a dozen ships anchor in the bay are just outside the golden gate waiting for bert to unload cargo from asia. The yawn can do whatever they want without ann arbor traitor. That includes stage traitor. That includes staging devastating slow dup up and down the coast. Reporter that has the Management Group threatening to shut down the port. Last time there was a shut down was in 2002. Would really be foolish and irresponsible because right now the port are moving. Congested the port are moving. Congested. But they are moving t. Shut down would obviously be a disaster. Reporter contract talk continue in San Francisco. At the port of Oakland David louie abc 7 news. Tell local Small Businesses are caught right in the middle of this port dispute. Impact is significant. Laura found one company that is really feeling the pain. Typically we would unload obviously about 4 times as many containers as we are rate now. Theres nothing typical these day at dave weber warehouse because much incoming product is sitting out in the bay on cargo ship. Weber company the an excon sol days center supplies green coffee and tea to rose terse all over the bay area. Customers who now just have to wait. Impact the inbound product visible for the roaster so everybody is frustrated. Anxious to get product that is, anxious to get product that is should have already been here. Reporter weber told us hes already imposed rotatingly off on the employee. Normally i would have this whole section hear stacked. Reporter fairfield him if turns regular bike no electric vehicle l but thanks to the work slow down at the port of oakland he hasnt received new part shipment in three months. Fight for Small Business like mine while i plan for the did you know times there comes a point when it shuts you down thats where im at rate now. Reporter shipment in limbo would he doesnt have the backlog of customers wanting conversion kit for the book. At this point he has no idea when the stalemate will end. Last he heard the container his badly needed component is stuck in long beach. If he cant supply his customers he wont be able to feed his family. Im a little frustrated in knowing that the an Organization Uses my family as a negotiating tool. Reporter the he asked the shipping company if he could take the trail tore long beach and ping the component him z. The answer was no. Abc 7 news. More to bring you here on this thursday night. Coming up next. New development in the arrest of registered sex offender accused of molest ago young girl at 99 cent only store the. Also. 7 news meteorologist drew back with full forecast. He will pinpoint where the storm is right now with live doppler 7hd where its headed. Oscar of silicon vaechlt we give you peak on man arrested for molesting an 8yearold girl at 99 cent store near hayward is a registered sex offender who committed an identical crime 5 years ago. Car mile is his name. Vick explains how police found him so quickly. The suspect carlisle tone sheriffs Deputy Arrested 33yearold last nature at his job in union city. Hes registered sex offender who wears an ankle monitoring bracelet. Oakland Police Sergeant checked the state database and found he lives near the 99 cent store where the 8yearold girl was molested sunday afternoon. Investigators say man touched the girl inappropriately in the aisle of the toy section. Sergeant nelson says they were able to connect him to that sexual assault. We had an ankle bracelet put him in the 99 cent store at the exact time that the crime occurred. Image from a Security Camera show a man whom investigators say is him walking out of the store after the incident. He dug deeper found you went to prison with identical crime 5 years ago at the San Leandro Walmart store. He was in the toy aisle. He grabbed an 8yearold girl put his hand counsel her pants. She ran and told her mother and as he was running out of the store at walmart san leandro tackled by good samaritan. Shoppers at the snin cent store relieved at news of the arrest. Im glad about they caught him and i hope he would serve some time in jail. Do in the leave these babies in these isles by themselves in these isles by themselves in theen it was a combination of Good Police Work safe database that keeps track of sex offender that led to the arrest. If abc 7 news. And tonight on 7 news at 11 on channel z. You hear from the man who helped subdue the suspect during attack in 2010. Thats at 11 00 oclock. Police if San Francisco state are trying to find the man who groped a student on campus early this morning. She she is he grabbed her near this and pulled her in bushes threatened her with sharp object and broke her chld took off running. Student description of the man is vague. Had noticed him hanging out near the Student Center before the attack. If you information is out on last year delay reresponsibilities by berkeley paramedic to reach a man who later died. Incident happened during the chaotic protest on december 7th over the Police Involved killings in missouri and new york. According to documents collected by the news web site berkeley size it took paramedic 27 minutes to reach the man even though the station was just 2 minutes away. Response time delayed because protocol require pair medic to wait for Police Escort to ensure the safety during protest. Paramedic unable to revip the man during the 8 mile drive to the hospital. This incident took 52 minutes from beginning to end. Through tears some of the more than 120 people burned out of San Francisco homes share the story and made a plea to find new places to live. City supervisor led News Conference at city hall this morning to announce a fund to help the victims of 3 major fires. Many live in homes swallow up by flames in the Mission District last week. Youngest victim gave thanks but the parents boy they worry about the future. We really need a home as soon as possible because we need to be able to start start our new life and move on. Anyone who has property that can be made available to these family so that they can have permanent housing we need your help. Find place to live is especially tough with the city housing crisis. If landlord can help or donate to the victim please go to our web site. Folk like that good people you are looking at there need some help tonight. Lets go back to the weather forecast. Finally we waited more than 40 days for real rain and drew is almost here. The rain starts in the north bay dan. Spread south and by tomorrow this time everyone. Well all be right. Well be all having the river more than a movement great picture to see. If green on the screen more than a month and now we see the rain moving into the bay area. Light breezy drizzle over clover dale santa rosa. Still several hours away from many enabled but this time the rain will be wracking up in inches tomorrow. Temperature wise ahead of the front. Mild south wind kicking in exploratorium at 60 degrees. 57 in oakland. 60 in concord. 61 in mount view. And antioch mild at 53 degrees. Satellite radar will show you here comes storm no. 1 approaching from the west rate on our door step. In the wake of this storm a second storm will move and that one will arrive on sunday. Its a 12 punch. Look at the future forecast early tomorrow morning you see the heavy rain really move in to the north bay really move in to the north bay. Clover dale santa rosa and marin county north of San Francisco. Then the rain is going to spread south throughout the day by 1 00 oclock friday afternoon the heaviest of the rain through the central bay. Vallejo. Oak land exploratorium. Downpour then all the rain will slide south. By friday evening it will be a windy and wet friday evening rush. Rain will taper off Early Saturday Morning into scattered showers then pretty dry afternoon for saturday. We talk about rain total the first storm pretty impressive. Especially in the mountain. Sonoma county mountains 10 inches. Santa cruz up to 5 inches. North bay we expect 3 to 6 inches of rain. Thats why Flash Flood Watch in effect why Flash Flood Watch in effect. Central bay 1 to 3 inches and south bay pick up anywhere from 1 to 2 inches of rain. So heres time line for the heaviest written where you leif. North bay between 10 00 a. M. And 1 00 p. M. Tomorrow afternoon. Central bay from noon to 3 00 oclock in the afternoon south bay heaviest of the rain from 2 to 5 in the evening. The rainfall and wind will pick up tomorrow. We see the wind gust 31 Miles Per Hour in San Francisco then the afternoon the front moves through. Santa rosa 41 Miles Per Hour. Same in napa then wind will relax and calm down by saturday morning. Snow fall not very cold storm unfortunately with this system. Above 8000 feet we could see up to a foot of snow. Unfortunately little snow around like level 6200 feet that is. Overnight low in the bay area. We see mild overnight pattern. Mid 50s across the board and then tomorrow this is a rather warm storm despite the cloud cover and the rainfall that breeze out of the south up to 40 Miles Per Hour at times will keep us mild. 63 for San Francisco. 67 oakland. Up to 66 in san jose. Accuweather 7 day forecast. Heavy rain and wind. Clap of thunder also possible throughout the afternoon on friday. Saturday morning scattered showers. Break saturday afternoon and then the second storm will mav in suchbilityd its rainy on off throughout sunday but thats a quicker storm. So less in terms of rainfall amount. Morning showers on monday and then we dry out then tuesday wednesday and into thursday. And this will help because its significant amount of rain but we still need many more. Many more of these. This is a good start. As we mention use the weather app to track the storms with live doppler 7hd and new feature lets you share pictures of the weather where you live with friends. Able to access it by launching the app and tapping these the 3 little lines on the top left which taou to the index. Then tap share a weather post card and choose to either take a new photo or select a picture from your library. Really quite simple. We created this weather post card this afternoon. Whole process takes really 5 seconds. Its easy. Down load the abc 7 weather app through Apple App Store or google play. All right. Still to come here on 7 news at 9 00 from south america to oakland. How some smuggle snakes are turning into very relaxed reptile. And who could have thought any one wouldonsider a gecko goofie. Lizard known for the stickie feet moment in the spotlight for very different female announcer save up to 300 on beautyrest and posturepedic. Even get three years interestfree financing on tempurpedic. Keep more president s in your wallet. Sleep trains president s day sale is on now your ticket to a better nights sleep sz. 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