Coverage. Kiet do and ryan takeo have all the lastminute work that will hopefully keep the damage to a minimum but lets start with Roberta Gonzales tracking the storm. Computer models do suggest that this storm is not backing down. Good morning, everyone. This is our hidef Doppler Radar. At this particular time we have nothing on the screen, everything is upstream. That is it. Doesnt look like much right now, but it is. Thats a plume of moisture in which in the center of the core its intensifying as the morning progresses. We currently have some areas of dense fog and mostly cloudy skies. Temperatures in the 50s, very mild for this time of the morning. Meanwhile, his wind warning is in effect upgraded from a high wind watch to a warning which means we will over the next 24 hours have damaging winds up to 70 miles an hour in the high country. Flash flood watch in the entire bay area tonight overnight through thursday night. High surf advisory has now been extended just about the entire coastline of the state of california. Meanwhile, the impact today will just be the cloud cover. It is quiet. It is calm. Our temperatures unseasonably mild in the mid60s. The impact of this storm tomorrow high for flooding or wind. Elizabeth will talk about the traffic report coming up. City workers are expected to hit the streets of San Francisco again today to clean the 2,000plus storm drains in the city. Ryan takeo joins us live near russian hill. I guess ryan workers are scaling hillsides to stop rock slides. Reporter were here at Telegraph Hill. Look right here you can see were near the base of coit tower the hill leading to coit tower. You see the danger signs hard hat area keep out where crews were rapelling down. 150 feet yesterday. Theres a history of high profile rock slides. The latest issue is back in 2012. A rockslide crushed a car and caused and evacuation. Here are crews working on the rocky and jagged cliffs on Telegraph Hill yesterday. Their mission . Prevent rock slides ahead of the big storm. Three workers used crowbars to poke and prod and loosen rocks that could crash down during heavy rains or rain runoff. Work crews are also busy clearing storm drains. Cities are asking everyone to help out. They are asking if you see one covered with leaves, they want to you clean it up to keep the water flowing. Were asking and soliciting the help of citizens of San Francisco to help participate in trying to clean the catch basins because thats the number one cause of localized flooding. Yesterday i was at pg e livermore facility. Crews there practicing getting ready for the storm. They expect a lot of power lines will be down overnight. The utility has on staff meteorologists and they are checking the radar to see where crews should be dispatched and they are sending those crews out ahead of the storm. They are sending crews out today. Live in San Francisco, ryan takeo, kpix 5. Now to the south bay where people are also getting ready for the big downpour tomorrow. Kpix 5s kiet do is in san jose with what they are doing to be prepared. Reporter good morning. Were live here at san jose Central Service yard at the corner of center and salon avenues. They have free sandbags prefilled. Get them while they last because the word is out that if you can stay at home and stay off the roads on thursday morning, then do so. If you need proof, here you go. Last week over the Santa Cruz Mountains you can barely see where youre going at times. And this time, it is expected to be even worse. Now, sandbags in san jose are going quickly. And san jose is forecasted to get several inches of rain in a relatively short period of time. No one we met today is taking any chances. My garage doors leak when it storms hard and put the sandbags up there and it takes care of it. Reporter in mill valley, public works crews have handed out more than 1,000 sandbags. Hundreds of people have been lining up to go to three separate bagging stations across the city. The Fire Department says they are bringing in even more crews for the big storm of 2014. Its great news for the drought in santa cruz. They have eased mandatory water restrictions to make them voluntary now. Before the storm moves in, be sure to download the cbs bay area weather app. Check conditions in your area and get realtime radar. Just search kpix in itunes or google play. Time for traffic with issues on 101 in the south bay. Reporter we have a couple of accidents that could slow you down if you are commuting between san jose and sunnyvale. Its cleared to the shoulders but its causing delays to story. Northbound 101 approaching oakland road, you can see those Speed Sensors are all under 25 Miles Per Hour so gridlock there and then it clears out a bit through santa clara and then halting again in sunnyvale northbound 101 at mathilda. So two accidents popped up around the same time. Outside heres a live look at the bay bridge. Looks like they are going to the metering lights slowly this morning. It may be because theres extra traffic on the bridge. It got crowded for a while because of an accident on southbound 101 right around the cesar chave exited. Its slow on the other side of the span. You can see yellow sensors just past the Yerba Buena Island exhibit. So overall, they are clamping down on the metering lights to keep traffic to a minimum on the bridge. Looks good not backed up to the maze yet and mass transit is going to be a good option for tomorrow but its a great idea for today as well because everything is on time no delay for bart systemwide. That is kcbs traffic. Back to you. All right. Thank you, elizabeth. Fourth night of east bay protests over the killing of black men in new york and missouri at the hands of police. It was mostly peaceful but news this morning. This is new. Dozens of people smashed windows, looted a Grocery Store on san pablo avenue in emeryville and there are looting problems at three other businesses nearby including a 7 eleven where the employees were threatened. Emeryville police made no arrests. Traffic on highway 24 in oakland was brought to a stop. Protestors briefly blocked a freeway near the Macarthur Bart station. Chp apparently used tear gas after the protestors failed to disperse there. There were at least 13 arrests at that area berkeleys mayor addressing complaints about the way police handled earlier protests. We had to call in lots of other Police Departments. We had Police Departments from all over. So people have said theres been Police Violence and rubber bullets. None of our people have done any of that. Last nights Berkeley City Council meeting was canceled because of a possibility of disruption. In los angeles, lakers players joined in the protests. Their shirts say, i cant breathe. A message of solidarity after the death of eric garner in new york. The lakers also tweeted a photo of kobe bryant before the team played the kings. A new cbs news poll shows a growing number of people, 41 , think the use of force by police against garner before his death was not justified. On the issue of race relations, only 45 of people polled think things are good now down 10 from earlier this year. Down to the lowest level in cbs news polls since 1997. U. P. S. Embassies and military bases abroad are on high alert today. Thats after a new report following the senates release of the cia torture report. Susan mcginnis reports it happened after 9 11. Reporter the 500page summary says cia interrogators used brutal techniques that went beyond the limits of the law. In all, the report says at least 39 prisoners were subjected to harsh interrogation between 2002 and 2009 sometimes before conventional methods had been exhausted. It finds 9 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh mohammed had a series of Near Drownings which prompted him to share false intelligence he later recanted. President obama says there was no good time to release the report but it was important to do so. Part of what sets us apart is when we do something wrong, we acknowledge it. Reporter the president commented on the report during the interviews with two Spanish Language networks on monday. We did some things that violated who we are as a people. Reporter president obama banned the use of torture shortly after he took office. He says its use is wrong and counterproductive. The cia says the techniques led to the capture of terror leaders and saved thousands of american lives. Former cia acting director mike morrell who is also cbs news Senior Security contributor oversaw preparations of the cias rebuttal of the Senate Report. The democratic report is deeply flawed. In fact, there were some members of congress who didnt think we were going far enough. Reporter the Justice Department has already decided no cia officials will be prosecuted. Susan mcginnis, cbs news, washington. The u. N. Top special investigators is calling for senior u. S. Official who authorized the torture noun to be prosecuted. Time now 6 10. A legal setback this morning for oscar pistorius. A ruling that could have him spending a much longer time in prison than expected. Ands of San Francisco and l. A. Going to war with uber. How riders could benefit. Im tracking the storm and figuring out how much rain will fall in your neighborhood. And just a heads up. We have two earlymorning wrecks one in san jose and another in sunnyvale. Its slowing down the ride on 101. Tell you will every you all about it after this ill tell you all about it after this break. ,,,,,,,,,,,,, rain is pounding the north. Good morning. Roberta gonzales in the kpix 5 weather studio. Take a look at this. This is what the calm before the storm looks like. We have very quiet conditions today. Mostly cloudy skies. Temperatures in the mid60s. Rain develops heavy at times later on tonight. We are getting the rain and rain is pounding away in the northeast, as well. A noreaster a winter storm is dumping recordbreaking rainfall. This is around new york city here. Winds wreaking havoc, as well. Some spots are dealing with 50 mileperhour winds. 20Million People are under winter storm warnings in the northeast. Nearly 3,000 flights were delayed or canceled yesterday and the same may happen today. New this morning from south africa, prosecutors can appeal the conviction of oscar pistorius. He was found guilty of manslaughter, instead of murder, for killing his girlfriend last year. He said he thought she was an intruder. He got five years in jail but could be out in ten months and go under house arrest. Prosecutors say he killed his girlfriend after a fight and deserves a much harsher sentence. Top prosecutors from both San Francisco and l. A. Say uber is breaking the law. They filed a lawsuit against the company. The suit claims uber use misleading language when it does criminal background checks. The lawsuit also claims uber charges riders extra for airport runs but does not pay the airport its user fees. There are certain things that uber has been saying that they do that they have not been doing. The district attorneys want an injunction filed to force uber to stop violating California Law and to pay restitution for riders who have been unfairly charged bay area family struggling to put food on the table got a gift on the 6 00 news on kpix 5 last night. Google presented a checks for 1. 3 million to food for bay area families. We have been involved with the organization now for 13 years here at kpix 5. This is the largest donation we have ever received from one of our neighbors right down the way. You can donate anytime at your neighborhood Whole Foods Market and today San Francisco stores will donate 5 of the days sales to the San Francisco marin food bank. If you are going to whole foods, go today. Thats a big check. Its good to be google, isnt it . They have the money. Office supplies was here yesterday on our noon show and they have a program called give Something Back and they gave 210,000. We want to thank everybody at this time of the year. Thats very true. A lot of Generous Companies out there. Were doing okay except for two accidents you mentioned earlier in the south bay. They are still there causing a big backup. So yeah, if you are about to get to work or head to work and youre traveling on 101 northbound, youre going to hit two traffic jams between san jose and sunnyvale. First one is right there northbound 101 on your screen approaching oakland road. You know, its already cleared to the righthand shoulder but its still really backed up. Looks like its jammed up from tully, clears out through santa clara and then you get hit with another traffic jam in sunnyvale this one northbound 101 approaching ma tilt da. This is blocking a lane. You can see the delays just behind it. So yeah, thats no fun trying to commute to work and get hit with two separate accidents. Heres 101 in marin county. This 101 commute looks great out of sausalito into San Francisco. Not seeing too much fog. You can see the Golden Gate Bridge everything is quiet there. Bay bridge once again they are going through the metering lights relatively slowly. There was an earlier accident just past the skyway. Its cleared now but still backed up and you can see the 580 approach slow from 24. We put up a map of the macarthur maze. Eastshore freeway looks okay right now through berkeley and emeryville and 880 the 880 approach looks great near the Oakland Coliseum and continues that way into downtown oakland. That is your latest kcbs drive to work. Roberta is tracking the storm. It is traffic and weather together. That will be the main focus tomorrow with the major pacific storm heading this way. It is hidef Doppler Radar and what do you see . Absolutely nothing. This storm is still well upstream bringing some rain showers in the Northwest Quadrant of the state of california in advance of the storm. We have a high wind warning in effect now upgraded from a watch which means well see damaging winds in the bay area. At sea level wind gusts at 35 plus Miles Per Hour. Flash flood watch in effect for the bay area. Well see 9 of rain in ben lomond on top of the 10 last week. We have saturated soil. And we have the High Surf Advisory in effect for the coast of the state of california some swells up to 25 feet. Right now, it is cloudy. We have areas of dense fog. We have temperatures currently in the mid50s. The winds are light but will be increasing later this afternoon out of the southeast 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour. It will become breezy the rain showers develop tonight. Lets track it together. Futurecast the one thing we do not want to see is the main line stall. If that happens well see more copious amount of rain. This appears to be slowing down ever so slightly. Right now putting the bulk of the heaviest rain showers between 4 a. M. And 8 a. M. In the north bay. Purple is one inch of rain an hour. There you have the line across the central bay easily by the lunch hour, gradually sagging south into the Santa Clara Valley towards the evening commute. And behind it, lots of moderate rainfall still. So tallying it all up in the next 24 hours, these numbers have been changing with the advancement of the low, well see over 2 of rain in pleasanton, nearly 3 in san rafael, over 3 in pacifica, over it in san jose. These over 2 in san jose. These totals, thats a lot of water in 24 hours. Even if the storm doesnt pan out and we see half of that there will still be flooding. There you have the storm affecting the northwestern corner of the state of california. Winter storm warning in effect. We have three feet of heavy snow above 7,000 feet at lake level about a foot of snow. 60s today our daytime highs. Okay, it rains hard tomorrow. The winds blow hard tomorrow. Then it tapers off on friday leaving us with dry conditions on saturday and partial cloudiness on sunday more rain monday and tuesday. Thank you, roberta. An online backlash against a professor at ucberkeley all for her response to the protests that are now gripping the city. 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