For the entire bay area. Basically the street Flooding Risk which is already out there. That will not expire until 11 45 tonight and Flash Flood Watch for the burn zone in the Santa Cruz Mountains. And its windy outside. There was a wind advisory in effect for the next six to eight hours. We could see isolated wind gusts to 45 Miles Per Hour. It is wet. And it is windy. The big story at the coast tonight is that wind. Sharon chen is live at the pier where it has been wet and windy all evening, right. Reporter yes, it sure has paul. That wind advisory is no joke. You can see that i am hanging on to the railing as we look over the ocean here at pacifica. Because if i dont and one of those wind gusts come our way it would blow me away. Along the pacifica pier, fishermen who thought they could get away with wearing a poncho had something to deal with, the whipping wind. Its rainy and windy. Reporter winds between 20 Miles Per Hour and gusts of up to 45 Miles Per Hour. Gusts so strong they almost knocked me over in the middle of our interview. You see its so windy. Reporter in other parts of pacifica, public course crews set up a system to pump water into the ocean so it doesnt flood the homes. Other crews are monitoring a sink hole. The hole appears to be getting bigger after it was filled last month. Next door high winds and waves continue to pound the eroding cliff under esplanade avenue. Crews will meet tomorrow to tear down the building before the cliff gives way. Ed house came to the chitchat catch cafe to watch the weather spectacular. This is a pay per view almost. Police and public works crews have come out periodically patrolling making sure everything is okay. Most people are not out in this area. Although a minute ago we did see a man and his dog both of them dressed in raincoats. Live in pacifica, sharon chin. Give her a sandbag. The storm brought loads of fresh powder. Surveyors trekked through knee deep snow to find a death of 34 inch es. While thats good news, survey only 48 of normal. The storm is also creating a potential danger in the sierra. Emily turner tells us an avalanche warning has skiers and snow boarders keeping an eye on the conditions. Reporter while the snow is great for those who want to hit the slopes and enjoy it and also for californias drought. When theres this much snow in such a short amount of time it comes with safety concerns. 20inches of powder overnight and a day full of more. This winters storm has made the sierra a skiers paradise. Its been a really good tahoe day. Its so much fun. The snow is so deep and so light it just feels like youre floating. But unfortunately all that light snow makes for avalanche conditions. While skiers and snow boarders are out enjoying the slopes, staff are keeping a close eye on the conditions. We have a snow patrol who go out to test the area before we open making sure its safe for our skiers and boarders. Reporter local authorities want you to be careful getting there and enjoying it. Any closures that we do have theyre closed for a reason. We ask guests to never dip below lines. One of those things when you have to respect the trail safe tiff crew and stay where the trails are open. Reporter for those of you who are looking to get up here to the sierra. You have to have chains or foul wheel drive and snow tires. And just to give you an idea, the very early hours of today it took us almost four hours to get to sierra at tahoe from San Francisco. In sierra and tahoe, emily turner, kpix5. More storm coverage ahead coming up in 10 minutes. How this weeks storms will be a major boost to north bay reservoirs. A major milestone for the warriors. Today the team finally announced the construction date for its new arena in San Francisco. The warriors are set to break ground on the project on january 17th two weeks from today. Kpix5 tells us not everyone is celebrating this announcement though. Thats right. Its been almost five years since they first said they were moving back to San Francisco. They tried it at the base of the bay bridge. The neighborhood said no wrong place. So they moved it. Environmentalist said no we have problems with the traffic. Its time to get moving. Heres the story. Reporter with all the court fights behind us were looking forward to breaking ground. Now its time to actually turn some dirt and start hiring up those construction jobs. And start building. Reporter that january 17th Ground Breaking includes an 18,000 seat arena plus officers and restaurants all perched next to the San Francisco waterfront. This is going to be a Union Project with thousands of good paying jobbing, local jobs, local hires. Its going to be great for the area. Reporter one place the arena is not good news is oakland. Which has been home to the arena since the 1970s. Its very unfortunate were moving across the bay. Reporter San Francisco does have a worldwide reputation. Much bigger than that of oakland. They want to control their own destiny. Reporter the warriors are paying for it all. This will be the first privately financed sports arena or stadium on private property in the modern era of sports. Reporter and that could mean some pretty hefty ticket prices for warrior fans. So what is it going to cost to build this thing . As i said, were going to go step by step on this. Reporter what about the teams current home in oakland . The best business decision is to continue to use this as an arena or use the land for a commercial project. The renovation of that arena which gives you an idea of how much these facilities cost and how often we taxpayers are involved in paying for it. But in this case, its the warriors and like we said, its going to cost the fans. So get ready. Seat licenses, ticket prices, veronica. Through the roof. All right. Make sure they keep winning. Theyre going to need to. Right now, part of San Franciscos hall of justice is evacuated because of a sewage leak. This is video from the second floor District Attorneys Office and what you see there thats raw sewage dripping all over peoples desks and case files. The problem, the old pipes which have been causing trouble for more than six years now. New at 6 00, dropped calls, slowed data and Spotty Service right in the heart of the tech capital of the world silicon valley. Suzy simel shows us whats behind that disconnect. Reporter as far as reliability goes for bay area cell phone users, complaints are contingent upon who you ask. Its nothing bad, so i have no complaints. I always have my calls dropped where i cant use my cell phone. Reporter but statistically speaking, San Francisco is eighth with the best and worse Network Performance rates. The Study Suggests its partially our own fault. Its never really been proven safe. Reporter cell phone towers are just fine but dont build one in my backyard. His Environmental Company fought the company when they tried to build a cell tower next to a little league. Like if you were trying to do harm that would be a great place to put it right. So theyre just unintentionally putting them in these locations. Reporter he admits having a cell phone is a necessary these days but hes worried the average person doesnt know how unsafe cell phone radiation can be. Awareness of this idea is something hes working with a berkeley professor to promote. I dont want to see these businesses go bad. Im concerned theyre going to get slammed with litigation if they dont address this right now. Reporter its a basic problem, can we live with this Technology Without having it slow us down. Charles manson taken out of prison and rushed to the hospital. A strike spreads to the bay area forces fishermen to make a tough decision. Developing news on the legal battle between the 49ers and city of santa clara. A live report on the last ditch effort for diplomacy. ,,,,,, over 1,000,000 californians have gotten something thats been out of reach for far too long Health Insurance. How . They enrolled through covered california. Its the Health Insurance marketplace where youll find a range of plans from leading Health Insurance companies that offer you the best combination of quality, rates, and benefits. And, through covered california, you may get financial help to pay for coverage. To get covered, youve got to get going. Open enrollment ends january 31st. Visit covereca. Com today. It is a mess right here in portions of Solano County and napa valley. East of vacaville and fairfield and down to vallejo. It is just pouring and will continue to for at least the next 30 minutes. Well talk more about your forecast. Cult leader Charles Manson is out of the hospital. Sources say hes been treated for an undisclosed ailment. Manson is serving nine consecutive life sentences for the infamous manson family murders. They are on strike to support their north coast skippers who are told that they would now get 2. 75 instead of the 3 per pound from the processors. Right about 3 we could basically make a little. At 2. 75 its crazy. Reporter the bodgea Fishermans Association met here behind closed doors to ensure that no one is going to break ranks. To make sure everyone was not fishing until the original price is restored. Keeping all the ports in the same page sounds like thats quite complicated. It is, and ive been fishing since 1969. I have never seen all ports tied up like this. Reporter the crabbers are on strike from moral bay in the south all the way up the coast to west port. Hundreds of miles currently not being fished. For now the strike continues. Boats still loaded with gear sit waiting for the strike to end. Just how long the strike will last is difficult to say. Skippers tell me that decisions are being made day by day. Don tells us even if the dispute is resolved crabbers wont be going out this week because of the weather. Other bay area headlines a man is behind bars after police say he used this sword to destroy a donut shop in richmond. Witnesses called police after a man started knocking things over. The mans name has not been released. He was booked on suspicion of vandalism and threatening people with a deadly weapon. Things are back to normal tonight on the Golden Gate Bridge. Today crews fixed a movable barrier on the span. The barrier was installed two years ago to separate northbound and southbound traffic. Take a live check of the commute on the Golden Gate Bridge right now. See traffic there moving but the roads look pretty slick. On mount hamilton, heavy rainfalling on the observatory. Thats all a slushy mess today. Drivers warn to be extra cautious coming down the slick roads. All this rain filling out north bay reservoirs. John ramos headed to marin where some lakes could soon be spilling over thanks to this weeks storms. Those who live in the marin county town are used to rain. And the Water District here takes full advantage of it. The marin municipal Water District relies on the frequent rain that falls on lake tam that uses connected lakes rather than one large reservoir. The last four or five years weve been one of the few water agencies probably in the entire state who have managed to get its reservoirs full everyone though the rainfall has still been below normal. Reporter at Lake Lagunitas the to date water measurements is just below normal. Todays storm should seal the deal. Meaning all the Water District lakes will be completely full. And the rain may just be getting started. Does this feel like the beginning of a big storm . Yes, it does. Ive been through enough of these bigger storms. It looks like were going into a really rainy period for the next few days. Reporter lake tam attracts narrow bands of vapor and rain. And they can be very powerful. Lake tam suddenly got 22inches of rain in one weekend. If we hadn t got that water we would have been under mandatory rationing in 2014. So that one Atmospheric River avoided that. It saved our bacon. Reporter right now theyre living high on the hog but just as smaller lakes fill faster they also empty faster. So folks up here are hoping Mother Nature will be a frequent visitor. John ramos. Kpix5. Means the waterfalls are falling too. Thats the best part about that. This is great news. Its nice that we have such a great reservoir system because our rain comes in bunches. We get nothing for two weeks then a lot of rain. Thats great for catching it. Marin county your reservoirs are almost full. A look at where its raining the heaviest. You see a big smathering of yellow and oranges. All the way south to antioch, martinez and pittsburg. We will be watching for the flooding potentials. Theres a flood watch. Ben lomond has already exceeded 2. 5inches of rainfall. Sharon shin was reports live for us. And this is another way of saying pineapple express. Futurecast tonight, going to be a soggy night. We have light to moderate rain through the bay area. You will notice a decrease in showers by tomorrow afternoon. And the rain is entirely gone thursday and friday will be mainly dry setting the stage for the next storm to move in. The wettest weather were going to see is what we have outside. Itll be mild as well with lows only dropping to the mid50s. We have the 20s and 30s just a few days ago, no 50 degrees redwood city. Oakland 51. Temperatures will stay in the 50s throughout the day. Were looking at a high of 55 in oakland. Santa rosa 51. We get the break on thursday and friday. Much more rainfall coming up this weekend with the potential of some significant flooding in the sierra where they may get more than one foot to a foot and a half of rainfall just from that one storm this weekend. Snow levels are going up as well. Look at the highs over the weekend approaching 60 degrees. Itll be wet around here both saturday and sunday. So if you havent taken down the Christmas Lights yet. This weekends weekend is not a good time to do it, they will stay up until next week. Unless you want to be soaking wet while you do it. Ive been telling my son to take them down. This forecast is hooking up your son. An epic embarrassment. How a tweet has republicans caving on the first day of the new congress. ,,,, is there an elk in your bed . With sleep number, theres an adjustment for that. Tilt your tormentor and put those snores to sleep. Does your bed do that . Come into a sleep number store and save 600 on our best selling mattress. Its a no brainer. 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She was just a strong woman that helped me become much more stronger. Reporter now maisha is not only a manicurist but a part owner of the business. Delaney says steps to success is helping women. Four women have already signed up stkpwrz this this is for women who need the encouragement and that you know the road traveled. She was recognized for her program that delivers nail care to seniors. And a live report on if last ditch push to avoid a costly legal battle and the deadly oakland fire was a wake up call. The artists who are now receiving help. Windy night across the bay area. Steady rain has been falling for our top stories at 6 30. It is a wet and windy night across the bay area. Steady rain has been falling for the evening commute. And theres an avalanche warning in the sierra. Where the storm has dumped several feet of snow. Meteorologist paul tracking the storms. Reporter highway 4 always busy this time of day and rather sloppy today as well. Concord getting some rainfall. East of antioch and pittsburgh. Discovery bay through walnut creek, alamo and san ramon steady rainfall. Oakland and hayward also with steady rain. Some updated wind gusts wood acre and marin county at 1,000 feet in elevation. 60mileperhour wind gusts. Spring valley, san mateo county. 60mile an hour wind gusts. Mount diablo a 58mile an hour wind gust that were talking. Lots of wind and rain continuing this evening. A last ditch effort to avoid a costly legal battle between the 49ers and the city of santa clara. The Stadium Authority held a closed door meeting for hours today. Kpix5s devin fehley live in santa clara. I guess the meeting ended with no agreement. Reporter the increasingly nasty feud between the city of santa clara and the 49ers has not at least for now turned into a legal battle. The Stadium Authority as you mentioned met behind closed doors for several hours this afternoon. They were trying to decide whether to sue the city. The mayor says they still dont have those documents but apparently couldnt decide what to do about it. That suggests there may be some reluctant everyone on the part of the mayor and her allies on the council to launch a costly and time consuming battle with the team. The mayor was tight lippe