Bridge right there. Thats rain. Thats okay. Well pretend. Thanks for playing along. Theres something, you know decreasing visibility. Youre all looking forward to the weekend. My raiders arent in the super bowl. Im not looking forward to the super bowl. No. Im not really either but my husband is like we have to watch. No, we dont im looking forward to the chicken wings. This is one of my greatest secrets. When my team isnt in the super bowl you go skiing and no one is there and you get a discount on lift tickets many times because everybody is watching the super bowl. And the powder is going to be amazing especially by sunday when the snow stops. Out the door, we have storm watch conditions. Look at the moderate to heavy rain pounding the bay area right now. North bay pockets of moderate precipitation right there between marinwood and glen cove. Hercules with light to moderate rainfall. Look at orinda. Alameda to broadway lifting into the embarcadero. Potential of thunderstorms at any time. Heavy rain in the santa cruz area where we have seen nearly inches of rain in the past 24 hours another couple of additional inches anticipated by saturday morning. Sfo moderate rain and gusty winds, san mateo sloppy morning commute. Chinatown moderate rain stretching into the Bayview District. Its raining at the Golden Gate Bridge. You can see the flag on the fly. Well talk about the forecast and look ahead to the week coming up in a matter of minutes. But right now lets bring in roqui. Thank you, roberta. Did you say sloppy morning commute . Sloppy. Because that is relevant here. We have a new chp issued Traffic Alert in westbound 16 near 16 giovannetti road. Theres a lot of green there. Not a heavily traveled area but its out there. If you are going there, take it easy and be safe or just avoid it. A lot of rain coming down over the bay bridge toll plaza no metering lights just yet because it is not 5 30. Its 5 03. So just wait. About 30 minutes or so they will turn on and slow you down. From the carquinez bridge along the eastshore freeway to the maze will take about 20 minutes and no delays through the tolls into downtown San Francisco but i suggest i take it easy and drive slowly expect high winds across the span, as well. Moving to lafayette, westbound 24 before acalanes road this is a twocar crash still blocking the two left lanes causing slowdowns. And down into san ramon southbound 680 before crow canyon road the fivevehicle crash blocking the two left lanes here as well causing some slowdowns. Now, down to the altamont pass, 28 Miles Per Hour at north flynn road so 20 minutes between north tracy boulevard to the altamont pass. If you want to take mass transit its looking good. Everything is on time. Strong winds and heavy rain are expected to hit pacifica today. Kpix 5s maria medina is live in pacifica with the latest on concerns over this round of storms. Reporter it is not expected. It is here already its been raining heavily since we get to pacifica about 20 minutes ago. All right. There goes my umbrella again for the live shot. But as you can see, really the story here is not just the rain but exactly how windy it is. My photographer is going to show you, um, an angle of the rain here as, um, the rain comes down here at an angle, the sheets of rain coming down. This is good news for our drought but it makes people in pacifica nervous because we have seen the heavy rain and the strong surf really pound the coastline. In fact, just a few days ago, city crews demolished an Apartment Building under a crumbling cliff. That is the third building in that area to be demolished in just the last year again because of the heavy rains that we have been experiencing and the surf. So right now, live here in pacifica, you can see my umbrella. Not a dramatic effect. This is exactly how windy it is out here. We actually felt our live truck swaying back and forth so if you are out on the roads, please be careful because the rain is here and it is pretty windy. Live in pacifica, maria medina, kpix 5. Thank you. For uptodate information on our storm watch, download our mobile weather app. You can see live radar and get alerts sent to your phone and its free in the app store. President Trumps Administration is taking a new stand in its dealings with israel. And in a surprise Statement Last night, the white house declared that israeli settlements construction in the west bank could be unhelpful in achieving peace in the middle east. This comes as israel Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu will visit the white house this month. A lot of Tech Companies are scrambling force solutions. Anne makovec joins us now explain how its affecting the industry. Reporter the president s Economic Advisory council is meeting today and that meeting will is expected to focus in large part on president trumps executive order on immigration at least from the Silicon Valley contingency who say their businesses are hurt by it and that meeting will be short one former member. This guy, ubers Ceo Travis Kalanick. He stepped down from mr. President trumps Economic Advisory counsel sell yesterday. The immigration order against refugees in 7 countries caused some problems for uber right after it was put into effect. The people were accusing the company of seeking to profit from giving rides to airport customers in new york during weekend protests and a taxi strike. His employees didnt want him even dealing with the president. They made that clear during a meeting yesterday. Now, teslas ceo is planning to attend todays meeting. Elon musk has also experienced a backlash over his involvement with the Trump Administration but he will keep his seat on the council. He promised to object to the administrationS Immigration order today. So theres a debate about having a seat at the table versus a symbolic sitting this one out. Anne, it seems to be that theres a split on the immigration order. A new cbs poll out today. Reporter its almost 50 50. Slightly more americans polled disapprove than approve of president trumps executive order. 51 approve of it. And that divide is very much as you would expect along party lines. Thank you. At the San Francisco airport a rotating group of immigration and civil rights lawyers an interpreters will remain to help those affected by the travel ban. They say there is still fallout from the president s executive order. Theres a lot of chaos and confusion an different airports have been interpreting the order differently. The attorneys and interpreters say they will likely be there at least through tomorrow. And were just learning president trumps pick for education secretary has cleared another hurdle after the senate met this morning for a procedural vote. This morning, senators voted 52 48 to cut off debate setting the stage for a final confirmation vote next week. The nomination of the woman has sparked protests nationwide for weeks and critics say devos support of School Choice and voucher programs will divert resources from Public Schools and now two republican senators will vote against the nomination. I will not, i cannot, vote to confirm her. If she faces opposition from all democrats plus the two republicans she will get a 50 50 vote in the senate and Vice President mike pence will break the tie. New this morning, an attack outside the louvre in paris. Authorities say a man who was carrying two machetes attacked a soldier and reportedly yelled, allahu akbar, god is great in arabic. The guards tried to stop him from entering a Shopping Mall because he was carrying two backpacks. When told this him no the suspect pulled out a machete. We are told the soldier shot the man five times. His condition is unknown. After a violent event like this weeks protest at uc berkeley, there are always questions about the police and whether they used enough or too much force. Wednesday nights event started as a standard protest against a scheduled speaking appearance by breitbart editor milo yiannopoulos. But about 100 people in the crowd rioted breaking windows, setting fires. Police held back but campus Officials Say it was a good strategy. The fact that we have had no reports of serious injuries we are satisfied with the Police Departments performance. The speech was canceled in the interests of safety. Damage on the ucberkeley campus alone is estimated at 100,000. President trump posted his disapproval of the riot online suggesting that maybe federal funding should be pulled from ucberkeley. Democratic Congress Member barbara lee of oakland responded in a statement saying, quote, President Donald Trump cannot bully our university into silence. Simply put, president trumps empty tweet to cut funding from ucberkeley is an abuse of power. Meanwhile, crews are still trying to clean up this morning. Authorities say at least a dozen businesses just off campus were vandalized. Fights broke out last night during a protest at new york university. The demonstration was ahead of a controversial speaking appearance by Gavin Mcinnis a conservative actor and comedian. Mcinnis himself was hit with pepper spray but went on with the speech. He cut it short when protestors went into the venue and shouted over him. 11 people were arrested. The first jobs report of Donald Trumps presidency will be released this morning economists predict employers adding 175,000 jobs in january. Unemployment would stay around 4. 7 . Experts say those numbers are in line with last years average monthly gain. Time now 5 11. Still ahead a moose rescue caught on camera. How some fishermen were able to get him out of an icy pond. And take a look at this x ray. Whats inside this ferret . [ laughter ] well explain what doctors did for the First Time Ever. I think i know. I want to guess. Okay . All right. Well hold it for later. Hi, everybody. From the kpix weather center, not only is it pouring rain but the winds are gusty. All this is going to impact your weekend. Well have the timing straight ahead. And heres a live look at that pouring rain over the bay bridge toll plaza. No metering lights yet. But you will want to take it slow throughout the bay area this morning. We have heavy rain and mudslide all to update you on coming up. ,,,,,,,,,, new video shows a moose good morning. 5 14. You made it to friday. Its wet. This is our live weather camera. Looking out at the very wet streets of San Francisco, looking out towards the embarcadero, we have more rain in the forecast for you. We are under storm watch. And the rain will affect your traffic. So we have traffic and weather all coming up at 5 18. New video showing a moose getting rescued in sweden. Some fishermen spotted it trying to get out of the water. They put on ice skates slid over and used and axe to cut the ice and make a path to land. The moose got out and walked away into the woods. For the First Time Ever a ferret is living with a heart pacemaker. Surgeons at cancer State University did the procedure and zeldas owner brought her to the vets when she thought something was wrong. The animal had a blockage that was slowing her heart rate. The surgeons at ksu decided to implant a pacemaker. Thats what you just saw. The owner says she is doing much better. It looked like a mouse. It does. Thats what i thought too. Its a pacemaker. Keeping that ferret alive. Technology, wow. Yes. 5 16. Lets check the roads with roqui. Thank you. Lets head to forestville. If you have never been there, it is theres a lot of trees and mud so theres a mudslide now so its a Traffic Alert issued by chp this morning and lets take a look at the details. Westbound 116 near giovannetti road. Its a mudslide and its shutting down the left lane. Theres no estimated time of opening. Avoid the area. Moving over now to westbound 4 before highway 242 in concord we have a new twocar crash blocking the left lane. Slow along the antioch pittsburg commute and if you are heading to westbound 24 at acalanes twocar accident delaying you there. Down to san ramon southbound 680 before crow canyon road fivevehicle crash blocking two left lanes causing some minor slowdowns. Roberta, ill send it to you for storm watch. Take a look at this. This is a beautiful picture coming out of pacifica at this hour. Its our live weather camera. We dont have any kind of beach hazard statement in effect but we have some very vigorous swells 8 to 10 feet rolling in. At this particular time, we do have a Small Craft Advisory in place. Water temperatures now 52. Air temperatures at 62 degrees in pacifica with gusty winds up to 39 miles an hour. You can see the rain in the camera. This is hidef doppler radar. Heavy precipitation along the coast. Right now we have light rainfall around rohnert park back through petaluma for your morning commute. East bay getting hammered. Walnut creek through orinda, berkeley and i have to keep an eye on some of these red cells. We could see a thunderstorm blossom at any point of the day. Take a look at this right there around alameda. Lincoln avenue, broadway, embarcadero. All the way through oakland, stilling on over to mandana boulevard, we have moderate to heavy rainfall. Santa cruz already seeing over 3 inches of rain, two more inches of rain expected over the next 24 hours. Heres the rainfall as it lifts from the north to the east. Linda reports. 12 of rain just since midnight. Thanks for that report, linda. You can see the rainfall on the pavement at the Golden Gate Bridge at this hour and the numbers are mild in the 50s. We just dropped from 60 in san jose. Its very windy this morning. Winds 19 in San Francisco, 18 Half Moon Bay. Again, south at 30 at sfo. A slighter wind to the south and to the north in the napa area. These winds will be out of the southeast 10 to 20 for the most part today. This is a frontal boundary slicing through the bay area right now. Heres the core of the center that will plow through the bay area later on tonight with a lot of instability. So while we have a lot of unsettled air mass in place, its not going to be a complete washout all the way through the weekend. Well just have periods of rain showers and it wont be amounting to a lot more than what we had last month. Heres the front moving through the bay area right now. Theres your lunch hour. Evening commute is going to be sloppy and wet with hitand miss showers. Saturday morning lingering showers and a break before that core of the center moves closer to the bay area with a cold front and that will occur right there. Look at sunday night as you settle in watching the tail at the end of the super bowl, we are going to have heavy rain into monday mornings commute. Back it up and talk about how much rain to expect about an inch more across most of the urban areas. Winter weather warning in effect for the high sierra. If you are heading there you need the chains. We have more snow on the fly at north star. Also at heavenly on the south shore. You will see a bit of a break in the activity by sunday with partly cloudy skies. Temperatures locally today with the waves of rain and the gusty winds 50s and 60s. Extended forecast in and out of the rainfall each day through tuesday. Chances wednesday and thursday. We are under storm watch. All right, roberta. Thank you. Time to see whats trending today. Michael bolton is back. He stopped by the late show last night to sing a groundhog love song. [ music ] groundhog day. To me a teacher in nor ina is going viral for putting the standard handshake, to shame barry w a teacher in North Carolina is going viral for putting the standard handshake to shame. Barry white, jr. , came one a personalized greeting for each fifth grade student. He says its key to develop a Good Relationship with them. A fellow teacher posted this on facebook and its been viewed nearly a million times. If you have ever taken care of a child its hard to find a little time for yourself so one babysit her to get creative when she wanted to make a snack. Take a look. She didnt want to let the baby out of her site so she put the baby in her pants. The mom thought it was funny and posted these pictures on her facebook page. It turns out a lot of other people thought it was creative and useful, as well. So they inspired her to create a product like the one in the picture and now theres a go fund me page to raise enough money to patent the product and its going to be called the j pants. Draymond green sits out for the warriors against their rival and Patrick Marleau cements himself as a shark legend almost 20 years after he joined the team. Sports is coming up. ,,,,,,,,, the shark tank doesnt have any retired numbers in the rafters but Patrick Marleau may be the first one. He was drafted in 1997 and last night in vancouver he scored his 500th career goal on a power play in the first period. Brent burns to pavelski to marleau. He is the 45th player to reach 500 goals and the tenth to do it with one team. The sharks beat the canucks, 4 1. To basketball. Draymond green not playing in l. A. Out against the clippers with a shoulder injury. Blake griffin is finally healthy. The warriors up 9 in the second. Steph curry only hit three from beyond the arc but he did some damage around the rim. He flips in two of his team high 29 points. And the warriors go up by 15. He is sent hard to the floor. Warriors win the ninth straight against l. A. 133120 the final. History in the bay area if the stanford women beat usc. Tara vandaveer will get her 1,000th career win. She isshe may be in the 1,000 club. Thats sports for today. The rain wind and surf. The latest on the storm conditions bef