In the south bay. Scattered showers around san jose, sunnyvale and cupertino. So widely scattered showers this morning. But its later this afternoon that we really do get whacked with low pressure thats pushing all of this through the bay area. The winds pick up, the rains come down. And you can see on the futurecast that now were going to stop this at midday so 1 00 in the afternoon, the major band is still up in the north bay. That is whats going to be moving south kicking up the winds giving us good rain and gusts to about 30, 40 Miles Per Hour before it all moves out overnight tonight so it will be blustery today. High wind advisories are posted for gusts up to 60 miles an hour in the higher elevations. Thats this afternoon. Numbers on the chill side, as well. And were not done with it yet. After rain today, lingering showers tomorrow. Friday another storm comes in early. Partly cloudy skies on saturday before the final on the 123 punch comes in on sunday. Well have more details deadhead. First traffic with roqui. In marin county we have closures. We are not done getting prepared from the last storm, let alone the rain starting again today. So highway 1 between panoramic highway and muir woods road is closed from last weeks storm because of storm damage of course. So take panoramic highway past the closure to get back on to highway 1. If you are taking the Golden Gate Bridge heres a live look at the wet road coming from marin county into the golden gate toll plaza. That will take you about 14 minutes. And the same story across the span of the bay bridge. We have rain and cars coming into downtown San Francisco. So from the carquinez bridge along the eastshore freeway to the maze will take you about 19 minutes and expect no delays through the toll plaza. Those metering lights should turn on in 30 minutes. From hayward to foster city its 15 minutes. But you can see the rain coming down hard. Utility work on highway 84 from last weeks storm is under one way Traffic Control so give yourself some extra time if thats a part of your morning commute. Ill send it to you. All right, roqui. Thank you. The bay area is doing all it can to brace for this next round of rough weather. Public works up in the Santa Cruz Mountain is working overtime to prepare for the storm. That includes chopping down problem trees before the wind gets to them. Caltrans is doing their part to prepare but that you should also be ready for whatever comes your way and that means avoid flooded areas. The city of orinda is now under a state of emergency. A huge sinkhole opened during last weeks storm. Now officials are worried it will only get worse with the next rounded. Kpix 5s Sandra Osborne joins us live from the corner of miner road and camino [ indiscernible ] where its causing issues. Reporter good morning. Miner road currently closed to all through traffic and that could last for weeks. [ sound of heavy rain ] reporter let me show you whats going on. A big fence is up now. The problem is that this is the main path to several neighborhoods including Sleepy Hollow on the other side of the fence right there. But go ahead and take a look at some of the video. Last night the city council declared a state of emergency and said it will take at least four weeks to fix and its not cheap. It will cost up to 1. 3 million to safely fix the structural problems here. We were actually hoping to be able to get in start working in the sinkhole to remove debris and assess the damage. Reporter the challenge they are now facing is this next round of this rainy weather. They are saying that this sinkhole could be inundated with storm water and, of course, they are going to try and put up one of the storm drainage systems but there are so many nearby creeks they will see how the overflow from that impacts any potential work here. The city is getting bids and hopes to start work as soon as possible. Sandra osborne, kpix 5. In two days president elect donald trump is set to become President Trump and much prep work is under way in washington for his swearingin. Some politicians have no plans to watch trump take office. Kpix 5s anne makovec is here to explain. Reporter a growing number of democratic lawmakers say they are planning to sit this ceremony out and the largest number of politicians joining this inauguration boycott is from california. Its not about conservatives or liberals from my perspective. Its how he treats people. Its how he treats, um, issues. Reporter east bay congressman mac desaulnier one of at least 54 democrats who are planning to skip the inauguration. Thats about 10 of lawmakers in congress. For many, it is a vote of no confidence in president elect donald trump. Im just not celebrating an administration that campaigns and continues to, um, be divisive, um, one that denigrated women and wants to deport dreamers. Reporter many lawmakers will be Holding Events in their districts. Jared huffman of san rafael hosting three days of service in his on thursday speaking at a naturalization ceremony friday helping out habitat for humanity and cleaning up the Russian River and on saturday, speaking at a womens march in santa rosa. And speaking of the womens march, theres a big one you might have heard planned for washington, dc on saturday and sister marches all over the country including several here in the bay area. Well be talking more about that coming up in the next half hour. Yeah. I talked to representative barbara lee last week and i asked her, where are you going to watch, where are you going to be then during the inauguration. She hasnt decided. Reporter love it or hate it, that inauguration is going to be mustsee tv for everyone. Its so true. So some of the lawmakers skipping the inauguration say its more than just about trump. Reporter for a lot of people its in support of, um, the civil rights icon and georgia congressman john lewis recently announced that he would be skipping the ceremony saying he doesnt believ mr. Trump is a legitimate president. One of many problems. Well be watching. Thank you. President obama holds his final News Conference today one day after shortening the prison sentence of former army soldier bradley manning. The transgender soldier has served over six years of a 35 years sentence for downloading hundreds of thousands of secret documents and passing them to the website wikileaks. Manning has been compared to former nsa contractor edward snowden, who leaked classified information on u. S. Spy programs. But the white house claims theres a difference between the two. Chelsea manning is somebody who went through the military criminal justice process, mr. Snowden fled into the arms of an adversary. She is set to go free in may. New this morning, police in antioch are trying to piece together a deadly shooting they say that a driver who was shot ended up crashing into a house. It happened late last night near 13th and simmons street. When officers approached the car they found the victim in the drivers seat. Theres no word on any suspects. Fans are raising money for the members of the tower of power band who were hit by a train. They held a benefit concert last night in oakland. [ music ] it was held at yoshis where the band was supposed to play last thursday. The show was canceled when two members of the band were hit by a train on their way to the show. Marc Van Wageningen and Dave Garibaldi are still in the hospital. Tragedy has struck our family and you support your own. . Organ music ] people come together when artists need support. Friends say they are in stable condition but have very serious injuries. The money raised will help go towards their medical bills. The widow of a man who went on a shooting rampage in orlando, florida has appeared before a judge in the case. She made a brief appearance yesterday at federal court in oakland a day after the fbi arrested her at her familys home in rodeo. Prosecutors say that she knew about the nightclub attack before her husband omar mateen carried it out. 49 people were killed. Some relatives say she knew nothing. [ indiscernible ] he responds, he said dont you see the news . She said no. He said i love you, babe. Hang up. Thats all she knows. He pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State before he was killed in a shootout. She faces charges of aiding and abetting. Another hearing is scheduled today to formally appoint a lawyer for her and determine how to transfer the case to florida. A ucberkeley student suspected in a deadly crime spree is now charged with murder. Pablo gomez, jr. , was arrested this month in burbank in southern california. Police say gomez stabbed two women in South Berkeley january 6 and robbed a third woman. A 27yearold woman died from her wounds. No motive has been identified. He will be in court february 1. Time now 5 10. An update on the meningitis cases in one local community. Why Health Officials say that they think the scare is officially over. And if you cant beat the weather, well, this is always an option. Where these chickens are having a great time. I hope youre not we have more rain on the way today, friday and sunday. Well have the forecast coming up. And heres a live look at what would be the Richmond San Rafael bridge but those raindrops are playing with our traffic cameras. We have a crash to tell you about. Well be right back. ,,,,,, you marin county Health Officials are confident no more cases of meningitis will surface in the county. One marin county man died this monday from is bacterial meningitis but no evidence of transmission or infection in the county and no link between that case and the woman found dead on a muni bus. A statement said the county of marin is working closely with the city and county of San Francisco and college and neighboring jurisdictions to closely monitor for meningitis in the bay area. The Golden State Warriors are now another step closer to leaving oakland for San Francisco. A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the new arena. It included ak crow bats and choreographed construction cranes. It will be part of 11 acres including restaurants and offices. We are going to build one of the worlds greatest gathering places, a place San Francisco has never had before. The arena is scheduled to open for the 20192020 season. If you want to try out some of San Franciscos best restaurants without breaking the bank, this is the week to do it. Today the start of the restaurant week. 130 of San Francisco restaurants are off meals. We know whats on the menu for Donald Trumps inauguration. Its good news for california wineries. After taking off this friday, trump and mike pence will dine on lobster from maine, beef from virginia, and shrimp from the gulf of mexico along with three different california wines. Jailor, black stallion from nap valley and core develop. Sounds good. Nice dinner. Time now 5 15. Lets check the roads with roqui. Thank you so much. Led head to danville. We have a new crash to tell you about thats blocking lanes so if you are heading outlet me tell you about southbound 680 before el pintado road. Not main delays but its blocking a right and left lane out there so traffic is only moving through the middle lane and it is a threecar crash so just keep it in mind if you are heading out the door in the area right now. Moving over now to the Altamont Pass traffic is getting worse here while the rain is coming down. So coming out of tracy youre moving at about 30 Miles Per Hour. And then you go down to 26 once you hit north flynn road. So north tracy boulevard to the Altamont Pass will now take you up to 30 minutes. It frees up through livermore and then youre back to slow moving traffic along the dublin interchange. Take a look at the peninsula commute from hayward to foster city across the span of the san mateo bridge, traffic is moving but traffic is also cars are also moving slowly because the rain is coming down out there. The roads are very wet. So please take it slow out there right now. The nimitz freeway looking good in both directions on 880 northbound from 238 in san leandro to the maze that will take you about 16 minutes so thats a normal commute. But if you are driving along the bay bridge toll plaza you will want to take it extremely slowly. A lot of rain coming down on the bridge now so from the carquinez bridge along the eastshore freeway to the maze will take you 20 minutes and then expect those metering lights to turn on and to slow you down probably around 5 30 or so. Moving to the 80 freeway here, eastbound 80 after highway 4 theres a solo spinout. We have an initial band of rain thats moving through and eases up in the next couple of hours but in the meantime the kpix 5 hidef doppler is lit up this wednesday morning. Well show you some of the hot spots or wet spots actually. You can see out in the east bay fastmoving, too. This was over marin about 45 minutes ago and now this band of showers is all the way out towards 680 and 4 toward antioch and fairfield. Even as we begin to ease in the north. Livermore and 580 light to moderate rainfall coming down. And in the south bay, not much just light rain being reported officially in san jose and a few widely scattered showers all being ushered along by low pressure abeam the coast and rain and wind will spread south today. Main band later this afternoon. This is just the initial warm front rain thats coming through easing up and then the big front will be coming in later in the day. The entire bay area will see gusts from the south from 30 to 45 miles an hour up in the east bay hills and in the mountains of marin up to 60mileanhour wind gusts so there could be Power Outages. Heavy wind and rain. Its a fast mover. Rainfall amounts half to two inches up top and you see the little Lightning Strikes there in our fancy animation . Thats for real. There could be some thunderstorms this afternoon, as well. So a Lightning Strike or two would not be a surprise. After this initial push we get two more storms one on friday, one on sunday. Right now, the numbers are mostly in the 40s for the bay area. Snow level down to 4500 feet. Rain will develop. Highs in the mid40s. If you are going to the inauguration, fog early, sunny later in the day. New york with cloudy skies. Tonight in the bay area, rain in the bay area, temperatures in the upper 40s. Daytime highs out of the bay area mostly in the 50s that will do it for us, as well. Theres snow in the mountains. Temperatures in the low 50s so we get a onetwo punch rain later today after the initial burst this morning, a few showers tomorrow, morning rain friday, more rain sunday, then we get a break on monday and tuesday. Trending today lady gaga promises she is not going to disappoint at the super bowl halftime show. Pepsi released a behindthe scenes video of the singer and crew practicing. The thing is its such a big world stage in terms of how many people see it and its been done so many times. I think that the challenge is to look at it and say, you know, what can i do differently . Gaga reportedly wants to perform on the roof of the stadium but no one knows if thats possible. So engineers and lawyers are working on it. We might have to wait until super bowl sunday to find out. Set for february 5 in houston. If you are having trouble sticking to your new years fitness goals, this could give you some inspiration. A 94yearold woman in australia says she works out 10 times a week. [ heavy accent [ indiscernible ] this is edna shepherd. She will turn 95 later this month. She signs up for 10 fitness classes each week to keep her in shape. Her advice for the Younger Generation is to eat properly and keep off the grog. Had to look that up. That means alcohol. Finally some viral video out of oregon. It shows some chicken sledding. Take a look. Yay oh [ laughter ] a woman in portland captured this video. The areas gotten so much snow, some schools have been canceled for nine days. So this mom had to be creative to entertain her children. They are calling it the snow days chicken pool. You havent seen a portland snow day until you see the kid pulling his chickens in a sled. Okay. And im dennis odonnell. Coming up, the 49ers have found their next head coach one problem. They cant quite announce had yet. But we can. Coming up. [voiceover] you are San Francisco. Weve been with you from the beginning. Weve seen each other through good times and bad. Sickness and health. Were with you San Francisco, and you bring out the best in us. Care. Good morning. Seahawks offensive line coach and former raider head coach tom cable removed himself from consideration for the 49ers head coaching job left and that left one man standing. Will you accept this . The 49ers final rose in the head coaching search will go to falcons offensive coordinator kyle shanahan. One report said he will accept once the season is over. They host the packers in the nfc championship game on sunday. Yesterdays groundbreaking for the warriors new arena in San Francisco was a formal event except for the head coach who went with much more casual attire. Im a southern californian by nature. You may have been able to tell by my attire. [ laughter ] somebody asked me why i didnt get dressed up. I said, i actually did. [ laughter ] um [ laughter ] there are there are pants and then there are dress pants. So i wore my dress pants. Yeah. You can bet kerr will be on the sidelines when that baby opens in 2019 at chase center down the road. Im dennis odonnell. See you tonight. Coast to coast protests are happening this saturday. One day after donald trump is sworn into office. Coming up, the inspiration behind the women who say the stakes are incredibly high ,,,,,,, this is the food system. But what if it didnt have to be . At blue apron, were building a better food system. Where we value quality and flavor over quantity and shelflife. Where chefs and farmers Work T