Facing almost a full week of rain starting tomorrow and some areas still havent recovered from last weeks rain. We have Live Team Coverage at the hardest hit areas, on how people are preparing for the next several days. Drew . Reporter dan, we are now seeing that storm start to end on shore, ending our period of dry weather and series of storms over the next several days. On top of the job tonight, you notice live doppler 7 right over the immediate bay area, we are dry at this moment. But just north of clover dale, north of ukiah, that is where the rain is located right now. Over the past three hours, showing you, this is just the initial line of moisture, heaviest impacts still about 12 to 18 hours away. On the storm impact scale, it is get you into wednesday. This is a moderate torm, starting off with ice and showers in the morning and really ramping up in the evening with heavy rain and very strong winds. Some concerns that we have tomorrow, Power Outages certainly a high concern with those winds whipping especially in the evening. Tomorrow evenings rush is a slowgo. Heavy rain means ponding on roadwayes. Good news, preflooding looks moderate. Debris flows look low with the storm system. We will go hour by hour and timeout this wet weather for you and that full accuweather forecast. Thank you, drew. People living along a picturesque town along the beach have more to fear than most of us with the upcoming storms. One portion of highway 1 is close end there could be more trouble coming. New at 6 00, Wayne Friedman joins us live with that story. Wayne . Reporter well, we know about the closure on highway 1 south, that highway is closed there. Now cal tran acknowledges there may be another problem developing north of town between the beach and Stinson Beach which makes only one way out of town that road has been reduced to one lane for a couple of years it has been a content, a matter of contention for quite a while. This winter the concern isnt so much about paradise lost as paradise becoming land locked. But the road to paradise is paved with obstacles. They are marked with hieroglyphics readable only to the crew. This road is closed until further notice while caltrans works a solution. Residents have seen this before. When that road up there closed, what went through your mind . Fear. Because dr. Edward and his neighbors and even caltrans noted new slippage of highway 1 on the other side of town between mur beach and Stinson Beach. A closure there would leave only one lane of frank valley road in or out and this particular spot has been an unsolved source of contention for years. I think its negligent because were in big trouble if something happens. Frank valley road may be the most overpopulated twolaner in california because it leads to the Muir Woods National monument. The county received 6 million in federal money to improve it and fix the break but so far it paid for a lot of talk between the National Park service and county engineers. Making sure it is safe as far as the actual environment it selves. Like the land, trees, wildlife, creek bed. They cant just build a temporary bridge until they figure that out . I mean, unfortunately, its not that easy. In the meantime, all this leaves muir beach at the mooers of well potentially slipping time bombs. In ma rrin county, wayne freedm, abc 7 news. This video shows what water was left on the stretch of highway 37 near 101 over the weekend. Caltrans crews pumped that water out of the area but warned the same stretch could flood again. Today abc 7 went back to minor road to check out the cavein we told you about last week. But we will move on for the moment. The next series of storms could trigger more flooding and slides in the mountains. Rocks and boulders crushing one of our abc 7 news vans as you can see here. Our photographer inside was hurt but we are very relieved to tell you he is now recovery. David louie is live wherens too other drivers. David . Reporter the fence caltrans installed here along highway 17 will probably look normal to you, but they insure us it is designed to help make drivers and their vehicles safe if the rain triggers another slide but for now they believe the hillside here that did slide last week is stable for now. The hope is that this fence will keep vehicles safe if the next series of storms loosens rocks or boulders over a stretch of highway 17. This fence could hold back basically beach ball sized rocks and boulders. Small amount of dirt. Small rocks. But if we have a major landslides like occurred last monday, theres very few systems that could protect against that anyway. Last weeks landslide struck in the dark just after 3 00 in the morning, crushing an abc 7 news van. The photographer was on his way to work. He was injured but later released from the hospital. Caltrans spent several days clearing up debris from the roadway and removed additional rocks and trees. All the trees within 15 to 20 feet within the top of the slope, the trees themselves were removed and so there would be no weight or loss of soil from the trees blowing in the wind but the root system is still there to stabilize the slope. The crews are racing against the clock with the next storm h these k rails were installed to keep the mud back and they are designed to hold poles for the fence project they are working on. Caltrans engineer spent the majority of his time the past year addressing slides and doing improvements to the median barrier and drainage. Other engineers are tasked with evaluating slide potential and stability of hills. Further assessment of this slide will be done along with plans for a permanent solution. Near scotts valley, david louie, abc 7 news. Now you can track the incoming storms with the abc 7 news app, we have live doppler 7 on the app and you can enable push alerts to get weather advisory owns your phone or tablet any time. We have new video from santa clara county, two people died this afternoon when their vehicles slided headon near morgan hill. It happened about 3 00 this afternoon. The Highway Patrol tells us a man drove a volkswagen across the double yellow line hitting a woman driving an suv in the oncoming direction. Investigators are still on the scene. It is not clear when the road will be open. As you see, a terrible accident. A woman is accused of trying to kill a person over a park spot at a 7 eleven on east third avenue and san mateo yesterday. Greenbomb was found and arrested. Breaking down on a new billion dollar arena, city and team leaderser is moanusly shovelled dirt. It was an incredible show showing acrobats with excavators and even showing fireworks. The chase center will be a destination for more than basketball fans. The place you sit now will be transformed into the warriors practice court. 200 feet behind me is center court. Closer than that is where b beyonce will take stage. The arena already has officials at ucsf on edge. The hospital put up these no event parking signs during todays ground breaking. The new arena is across the street from ucsfs new childrens hospital. Mission bay Alliance Fears the arena will cause traffic congestion. In statement they say they are continuing dealing with other fronts. Stranded passengers at stations like this one in west oakland, passengers today exit their b. A. R. T. Train and wait for another one. Katrina wong made it to work but her boss didnt. My manager who actually was coming from east bay, they all had to get off at one stop and then she ended up having to work from home because of the delays. B. A. R. T. Had major system wide delays twice in the last two weeks between San Francisco and oakland. And then theres this. Esalator break downs on b. A. R. T. Are nothing new if you ask many commuters, you probably notice this too. There is an explanation for why they break down so often. Kristin is here to explain. Kristin . I want you to show you the list of nonworking escalators. 14 out of service. So this picture is all too common, right . B. A. R. T. Escalators not moving and commuters feet, moving. You know how important escalators are to our patrons and we really work hard to shut them down outside of commute rushes. In fact, b. A. R. T. Is now seeking bids to replace and repair escalators which prompt one commuter to tweet an idea to supervisor dufty. Suggesting painting on escalator steps, stand right, walk left. B. A. R. T. s response, we cant do this because it would cause more break downs. Uneven wear if one on one side but stand on other. In other word, the extra weight passengers put on the right side causees a tilt and it wears out the right side more quickly. One abc 7 news viewer has another suggestion. Larry medinah, even and odd days for standing on right or left. That will simplify things. B. A. R. T. Tells abc 7 news it is not going to ask passengers to do anything differently. But we always appreciate your viewers creative ideas. Dan and alma . Thank you so much, kristin. Weaikileaks says obama may have saved Chelsea Mannings life after granting her clemency. She was released 30 years early after sefbirving six years. There has been a long time standing trying to get manning released. She was trying to let the American Public see things that were war crimes. We are surprised and delighted. It is the right thing. Wikileaks founder tweeted thanks to manning supporters but didnt mention his earlier pledge agreeing to u. S. Extradition if u. S. Obama granted manning clemency. A spokespersonassange will stand by his statements. Mccuffy pleaded guilty to tax evasion in 1995 after he failed to report income earned while signing autographses at sports mix bealea shows. He was sentenced to two years probation and received a 5,000 fine. Bay area resident are getting ready to head to washington for Donald Trumps inauguration but arent going to celebrate. Nekstxt, the plan to protest d. C. And here in the bay area. And at 6 30 determined to destroy me and any other black contractor that dared to be successful. Hear from the man behind a lawsuit against a big Construction Company that he says drove him out of business through extortion and fraud. Plus, the future for what left of the old eastern span of the bay bridge. That story and more coming up on abc 7 news at 6 00. Its beautiful. Was it a hard place to get to . laughs it wasnt too bad. With the chase mobile app, jimmy chin can master depositing his hard earned checks in a snap. Easy to use Chase Technology for whatever youre trying to master. In just three days president obama will leave office and donald trump will be sworn in as our nations next president. It is historic lay moment to celebrate. Many californians are planning to use the inauguration as a reason to protest. We have the bay areas response beginning with Laura Anthony with a focus on the Womens Marchs happening in several cities. Laura . Hi. When there is an event on saturday, saster event here in walnut creek and itll start here at civic park. It and others like it are designed to send a clear message to the new president. I think the most political thing i do is vote. Reporter karen is a long time republican and never before participated in a political demonstration. But that will change this saturday when she joins 2,000 others in a sister womens march in walnut creek. Because i think womens rights need to be protected. I think women have the right to choose and take care of their own health. Walnut creek is not known as a community for activism. Im feeling anxious about the inauguration but really excited to see so many people mobilize and whats often times considered a sleepy town, walnut creek. Valley gilbert will take it a step further. She is flying to washington, d. C. With a group from berkeley to participate in saturdays event on the capitol mall. She hopes to send a message to the new president , donald trump. I think most of the energy and most of the Critical Mass will be in washington. It feels like historic opportunity and it feels like the place to really have the numbers tell a story. Reporter besides walnut creek, sister marchs in oakland, san jose, San Francisco and napa. Abc 7 news. Oakland is bracing for inaugural protests. Late this afternoon the city sent rest and businesses an advisory on protest plan for friday and saturday. It says quote the intent of some event organizers is to disrupt traffic, commerce and business as usual, particularly on friday. The advisory says the Oakland Police department is preparing to address vandalism and other criminal behavior. Meantime, hundreds of High School Student in oakland and berkeley are joining a march to cal where cal student may join them as well. Planning for fridays student protest kicked off in full today. Malia is live from cal where speakout wrapped up not long ago, leah. Right. Again the Mayors Office in oakland put out a press release letting people know about all these demonstrations that are going to occur on friday and saturday. Now preparations for at least one of those demonstrations began here at uc berkeley today. Is it. A lastminute speakout was organized at uc berkeley by a group called, by any means necessary. It was poorly attended. One of the organizers had spent the day editing and printing flyers encouraging student at cal to walk out on friday in protest of trumps inauguration. Donald cruz says he stands by those targeted by president elect donald trump. The immigrant communities, women who would lose abortion rights, people who would Lose Health Care are under direct attack. Their lives are. But its hard to gauge how student here will react on friday. Daniel ginsburg said he may march even though he believes the country must move on. I do support the end result. Trump did win fair and square as per the electoral college. The group is asking cities in the bay area to close. Some High School Student have committed to walking out. We want people to know how we feel. We want to express our feelings like other people are in other parts of america. The young people, we are the future, and we have to be the change. Berkeley High School Student walked out in november right after the election. They vow to do the same on friday and march to uc berkeley. Oakland students are expected to march to downtown oakland. Both districts are encouraging student to stay in school. The districts may lose thousands in state fund if student dont show up to school. Berkeley unified said while they support their student interests in political issues, the district is not Closing School on friday. Well be in washington, d. C. And well be live on thursday and friday with full reports on president elect trumps inauguration. Now your accuweather forecast withdrew tuma. Hello, there, dan. We are talking about our first of a trio of storm systems moving in overnight tonight. Live top lar 7 showing you, it is on the job. A lot of this moisture around ukiah still not reaching the ground yet. It is moistening up our atmosphere. Getting ready for the storm system that will affect us tomorrow afternoon and evening. Out there right now, coming off of a cool day. A lot of spots struggle to get out of the 40s. Thats where we still sit in a lot of spots. 46 in san ramon. 50, mild spot in san jose. 47 santa rosa. Hayward at 51 degrees. Overnight, we have that cloud cover overhead. It acts like a blanket, insulates us. On the mild side so to speak for the winter season. Holding in 40s across the board. Then we track our first storm on the storm impact storm. A moderate storm coming tomorrow. Tomorrow morning isolated showers ahead of the main storm that will pick up in intensity in the afternoon and evening with heavy rain strong winds as well and the biggest threat with this next storm will be tree limbs coming down and Power Outages. Future weather, lets get you overnight into the first thing wednesday morning. Watch the time stamp up here. Most spots you can see are just dealing with a lot of cloud cover but take the rain gear as you step out the door for work and school. This system really gets its act together in early afternoon by 2 00 we see rain become widespread heavy in nature. With pops of orange and red north of santa rosa. As we get into the evening by 6 00, yes, the evening rush. A messy one. Slowgo as we track downpours moving through tomorrow evening along with gusty winds. By 9 00, looks like the focus is inland and in the south bay. Here is the tail end of those showers that will taper just widely isolated sprinkles by thursday morning. Future tracker rain fall highest totals we are expecting, about an inch and half to 2 1 2 inches there through the heart of the inches there. By half inch to an inch and a half of moisture and around san jose, livermore and mountain view, a quarter to half inch of rain. This system will be the wind. Wind gust by 5 00 tomorrow evening. Look at wind just whipping right along the coast nearing 50 miles per hour. Even around the bay we do expect a lot of gust to reach 40 miles per hour. It is until that storm system moves through and we approach the midnight hours on wednesday that winds will relax. For that fact we have a wind advisory that will go into effect early wednesday for the entire bay area. See it shaded in yellow. Southerly wind cranking 40 to 50 miles per hour. Even higher winds than that in our hill. Be prepared, Power Outages will be a big threat tomorrow evening p. Accuweather forecast showing you our storm really intensifies in the evening. Wet and windy. Prepare for the evening rush to be very slow. By thursday, scattered shower. Friday more rain and wind in the morning and doing it all again on sunday morning. Noermg storm with heavy rain and more whipping wind. Okay. So what would it take to end traffic in the bay area and everywhere around the world . Apparently only three words social media app vibe ne is gone. Twitter is replacing vine with vine camera. That means you can only share videos with twitter app. You can still update but the vine app will eventually stop working. Cofounders of the Cherry Company lift says the end of traffic problems is easy. Smart lanes everywhere. They laid out a plan in detail in an article published today on the website median. They describe smart lanes like car pool lanes