Im am a daetz. Incoming chief Ann Kirkpatrick was introduced. Mayor lib bee schaaf said she wanted someone that would hold them accountable. Kirkpatrick wants to lead a Department Transformation changing the culture. Right now american policing is a very hard time to be a Police Officer, but we have a bright future, and what we need is leadership. Kirkpatrick says she looks forward to the job and to living in oakland. Here is a little background on Ann Kirkpatrick. Shes 57 years old a memphis native and a lawyer. Kirkpatrick spent some 34 years in Law Enforcement serving in six departments, three of them as chief of Police Including spokane, washington. Chicagos Police Superintendent picked her to head the burro of professional standards to lead reforms within the department. The iteam has been digging into her background and joins us with the latest. Ama and dan, she will have to deal with several scandals that hit the oakland p. D. And appears she is suited for the job with a background as a Police Reformer, but she has her critics. The Chicago Police bored chose 57yearold Ann Kirkpatrick for one of the top cop positions last year. When she didnt get it, the mayor picked her to head Police Reform efforts after the shooting of a 17yearold boy, a case that sparked national outrage. Im confident that shell be very successful in oakland. Reporter the Chicago Police boards president was impressed by kirkpatrick calling her a natural leader. Oakland has a lot of same challenges as a Police Department and with violence that chicago has so shes got a lot of experience that shell bring in the job that lies ahead. Reporter for the job in chicago kirkpatrick said she should have the mind set of guardians first and warriors when they need be. I have the courage to stand by you and i will. Reporter kirkpatrick started as a Police Officer in memphis 34 years ago. Rose through the ranks of small departments in washington state, served as chief deputy for the king county sheriff and taught leadership to Law Enforcement executives at the fbi academy. She took over a Spokane Police chief in 2006 months after officers beat and hog tagged a janitor that tied after the altercation. After her five years as chief, a report sponsored by the Justice Department found there is an opinion within the community the department has done little to change the internal culture that led to the officers use of deadly force and improper investigation of the force. While upper management supported her, officers issued a vote of no confidence. I cannot and will not be bullied by a vote or lawsuits or whatsoever. Im going to do my part. Reporter kirkpatrick did have the support of the community according to the Chicago Police board president. Her Retirement Party was thrown by the members of the largest African American church in spokane. That to us really spoke volumes about the kind of quality person that she was. About a month before she left spokane, a jury ruled kirkpatrick wrongly fired a detective accused of threatening his wife and awarded him 700,000 in damages. Im posting more on the chief at abc 7 news at come including her essay answers. Important insight into who she is, ama . Dan, thank you for that report. New to the weather. The storm clouds have parted a bit, but another stronger system is approaching. We saw light spotty showers today. Abc 7 news was in concord where there were sprinkles this afternoon. Taking a live look outside now a few sprinkles are out there on the bay bridge. You can see the wetness out there. Lets find out when well see the heavier rain from abc 7 news spencer christian. Well start with what is left of this current storm. As you can see, live doppler 7, greens means the moderate rainfall pushed out and light shower activity. What remains of the storm ranks one on the impact scale, light intensity and produce light showers and we may see up to a quarter of an inch of rain. We get a twodaybreak and dry weather tomorrow and a strong storm on saturday. It will bring periods of heavy rain, strong gusty wind and ranks two on the scale and that storm will intensify on sunday, and will be upgraded to three on the storm impact scale. Sunday morning that storm will produce heavy rainfall, strong gusty wind and concerns about flooding and wind damage from this storm from this intensified storm. Urban areas may see an inch and a half to three inches on sunday the alone from this storm and the Santa Cruz Mountains could see three to eight inches of rain. Ill give you a closer look at the developing storm and track it for you in just a few minutes. Dan . Spenls cer, thanks a lot. Communities in the Santa Cruz Mountains havent had a chance to dry out and they are getting ready for more powerful rainmakers. Eric thomas has a look at what todays rain left behind. Reporter the San Lorenzo River unleashes roar after steady rain in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The upside of the storm. I love the water. Love the water. Reporter jason says his rain gauge at home logged 11 inches of rain. A Welcome Change of years of grout and a downside. The run off from a creek not only filled this culvert but depost knitte deposited a load. Glen and donna smith own it and two acres of cabins and woods. Its the second slide in a few months and cleaning up is a chore. It took us three days with three and four people working because you have to do it by hand because you cant get a man in here. Reporter that was last time. This time the estimate is four days or more. It is frustrating, totally completely frustrating. Reporter the smiths had to postpone an out of town trip to clean this up and havent figured out how to prepare for the next rain this weekend but say its part of the living in the Santa Cruz Mountains. This woman says its easier when its your home. Roof is clean. Gutters are clean. Wood is covered outside. I have a fire pit in the backyard. Reporter getting ready for a storm is a way of life in the mountains and may be a nuisance but the people that live here will take a few days work after several days of drought any time. In the Santa Cruz Mountains, eric thomas. In addition to flooding, the storm strtriggered mudslides li this one that blocked part of highway 9. News crews discovered water falls on that same road. All the recent rain pushed the reservoir in santa cruz to capacity. Scity officials said the reservoir began spilling this morning. The city of santa cruz drinking reservoir holding a years worth of drinking water. The citys board of director says its a promising start to the year when it comes to the water supply. Marin county got a serious soaking during the last storm with spots getting more than three inches of rain in the last 24 hours. Wayne freedman was in the north bay. Reporter another rainy day, another shift filled with predictable uncertainty for steve who has more than a decades experience driving a tow truck in sonoma county. Anything can happen. Reporter they did when trouble spots like todd road looked more like water world. Thats money on the way to a tow Truck Drivers bank. By the time we caught up with steve today, it had already been a busy one. This is highway one past dawn. The driver of a mercedes made an all too typical mistake. General rule, if you cannot see the yellow line, turn around. It was dark and she couldnt judge the depth and probably went a little too fast and pushes the water back up under the engine. Its electronics and youre pretty much done. Reporter she was trapped, carried from the car by a milk truck delivery man. Cars do not perform well as boats and elsewhere, we found boats that did not perform well as craft. The wind was really howling through year yesterday and the sea always winds. Reporter this is in a past tour. Its called ship wreck central. They tend to blow in. Boat after boat floundering if not falling apart on the shore. Happiest day of a boat owner is the day they buy it and the day they sell it. Reporter where would this fit in . Not so happy day. Reporter lessons learned. Be cautious when driving through water and throw out an extra anchor if youre living on top of it. From the north bay, wayne fredman, nbc 7 news. Slick roads likely led to this fourcar accident in San Francisco. Check it out. The driver of a mini van hydroplaned and hit three parked cars around 3 30 this morning. Nobody was hurt. The wet weather means a boom for businesses like roofing companies, for example, as you can imagine. People in the bay area are looking for a roofer now and if you are, youll have to wait. David louie is live in san jose where david, homeowners are being told you got to be patient. Were busy. Reporter dan, lets face it. Few homeowners have inclination or skill to climb up on the roof to inspect them. So the league is often the first indication something is really wrong, but were finding that to get somebody to come out to do any repair work is going to take about two weeks. There is no such thing as an idle roofer today. Thats not good if you have a leak. Some people need like it right away and unfortunate, we are very, very busy. Reporter those tiny spots on the ceiling were dripping water early this morning during a downpour landing on the face of her sleeping son, you must be concerned about the big storm this weekend . I am now. I wasnt before but i am now. Reporter a crew covered the leak with a tarp until they can return to put in a new roof when the weather clears, however, contractors say the roof isnt always the culprit. It depends where you live. When you have a lot of wind, that can create a lot of different types of leaks, not all necessary related to the roof. It could be window leaks, could be siding and stucco leaks, chimney leaks, things of that nature. Reporter so when the phone rings, they try to diagnose the cause to avoid an Unnecessary Service appointment. One thing Alex Bergeron emphasizes is not delay when you see the first sign of a leak, especially with a heavy rainfall expected from this weekends storms. Its just going to get worse. You need to call somebody immediately if you see the smallest of leaks because if were leaking now, any we havent had that much rain, were going to get a lot more leaking going on. In san jose, david louie, abc 7 news. All right. If you were thinking about heading up to the sierra tonight, you may want to rethink that. Look at this camera on i80 at colfax. Traffic heading eastbound is not getting through. In fact, you can see the chp is turning drivers around. Here is why. If you look at the camera just a little farther up the freeway at king vail, heavy snow covering the lanes. It really changes. The chp is concerned too many drivers would get stuck. Showing backup and snowy conditions. Highway 50 is the only way to get in and out of the sierra. Keep in mind you can track the rain and snow with the abc 7 news app. We have live doppler 7 there any Time Available to you and enable push alerts to get weather advisories on your phone or tablet. Cat the days are numbered fn empty building. One casualty of erosion and could be a thing of the past. I really dont think anything is going to help. No positive reaction tonight from taxi drivers after San Francisco issues rules to help them better compete with ride share services. A familiar name in politics to help democrats in legal challenges against the trump admini a tech bus hit and killed a woman while it was raining last night. It happened about 5 15 on the campus of west valley college. The bus is operated by a Charter Company under contact with google. The 51yearold victim does not appear to have any connection to west valley college. San francisco wants to level the Playing Field between taxis and uber and lift. They approved changes. The changes make it easier for drivers to return to the industry and no longer require Cab Companies be locate in San Francisco. Taxi Companies Say these changes will have little impact. They have to be based in San Francisco to have a dispatch office. We have to pay rent, pay insurance, workers comp, big money. Taxi Companies Want fair controls on uber and lift and more regulations like limiting the number of cars picking up passengers. Companies are regulated statewide by the Public Utilities commission. A special meeting to approve a deal to demolish this building. The vacant apartment complex sits on a bluff. The ground supporting the building is eroding as you can see. If approved, demolition could begin as soon as next week. Well, california did something very politically unusual today before the start of the trump presidency. It hired a former u. S. Attorney general to defend the state against anticipated Trump Administration policies. Abc 7 kristin is here with details. The California Legislature hired eric holder to serve as outside counsel. Hell advice the state when there is a legal conflict between california and the federal government. Potential issues include climate change, the environment, civil rights, immigration and voting rights. They disagree over whether well see the conflicts that holders hiring would suggest. Were devoted to being able to work with the federal government and the congress in particular, the speaker ryan and the leader kevin mccarthy. The rhetoric from administration from the future administration is as far as im concerned and as far as many californians are concerned is so extreme. Holder is part of a team from covington a d. C. Based law firm where he worked before and after serving as the top Law Enforcement official. His fee is yet to be set but the state will make it public when it is. Dan and ama. Thank you, kristin. Well start with live doppler 7 showing our current storm is weakening now and winding down a bit but there are still areas wide spread of light rain and drizzle. So still pretty wet out there. Lots of wet pavement if youre driving be aware of that. Could be ponding and if youre walking outside, you may need an umbrella. Things will change and well have a little clearing overnight. This is the view, live view at sfo where it is waiting a bit and there are flight delays. There is the forecast futu. Cold air and mainly sunny and dry but heavy rain and wind will come. It will last into early next week. Were looking at temperature readings at a narrow range from mid to upper 40s in most locations but a couple spots checking in at 51 in los gados. It will be cool but not cold in most spots. Lows will drop into the mid to upper 40s. Chilly in the north bay with lows at 39 and 37 santa rosa and tomorrow will be the sunniest day in awhile but cool with highs only in the low 50s. Now lets look ahead to the approaching stormy weekend. Storm arrives on saturday morning ranking two on the storm impact scale. Storm of moderate intensity and morning showers and afternoon and evening downpours, winds will be gusty about 30 to 50 miles an hour. We expect north bay, santa cruz to receive one to three inches of rain from the storm and elsewhere a quarter of an inch to an inch and a quarter. Forecast animation at 5 00 friday afternoon clouds thickening. That storm surges in with moderate rainfall. Just drenching the bay area through the day saturday and into saturday night. Then the storm intensifies and will be upgraded to three on the storm impact scale for sunday. Sunday morning look for heavy rainfall, strong gusty wind, flooding concerns, wind damage a concern with the storm. Urban areas could see an inch and a half to three inches. Santa cruz mountains may get three to eight inches. Notice this large area of yellow and orange as the storm surges stretch sunday morning right away hit with heavy rainfall accompanied by strong gusty wind and continuing into monday morning. Lets look at the winds. Winds will be gusting by saturday afternoon between 20 and 25 Miles Per Hour for the most part. They will intensify a bit overnight and then on sunday afternoon, winds gusting from 30 to 35 Miles Per Hour. Its going to be quite a stormy weekend. These are the concerns with the wind and the rain. Were concerned about creek, stream and river flooding, debris flows and downed trees and power lines. So here is a look at the accuweather sevenday forecast. Couple of dry days tomorrow and friday. Calm but a little on the cool side and beget the storm coming in early saturday ranking two on the storm impact scale and grows in intensity becoming a three on the impact scale for sunday with heavy downpours and windy conditions and stormy monday and whats left over monday ranks two on the impact scale and tapers off and weakens tuesday or wednesday well get showers and light rain. What a stormy weekend it will be. No kidding. Thanks, spencer. Up next, maximum capacity. A local Animal Shelter is dealing with an overnight influx of pets looking for a home. That story is next. A reminder, raider nation, you can watch your team kick off wild card weekend here on abc 7. The raiders take on the texans. Live coverage starts at noon saturday with kick off at 1 20 on abc 7. Abc 7 Wayne Freedman will have reports from houston and highlights and postgame interview s on after the game. Its beautiful. Was it a hard plac