Pockets offshore where well see some moderate to heavy rain. Maybe even some thunderstorms. Reporter and a scary wakeup call for a family here in san bruno as a huge tree branch crashes into their home early this morning while they are inside sleeping. Well show you the damage coming up i will remember you a somber anniversary in santa cruz. What the city is doing today to remember two officers killed in the line of duty one year ago. Mornings on 2 starts now. Good morning. This is palo alto where dozens of sandbags are waiting to be picked up. There are some flooding concerns as another storm moves into the bay area right now. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. Im dave clark. We have Stormwatch Team coverage. Janine de la vega is live with the preparations for potential flooding in the south bay. Lets start with steve paulson. When will it start to rain . Pretty Good Development taking place in montyry. Not bad. Things are beginning to pick up. All sorts of reports coming in. Thanks to the viewers if its raining where you are. Were starting to see the system swing onshore. Thats good. Pockets of that look at that. South of monterey things are lit up. Theres pockets where well get moderate to heavy rain. General area of rain is filling in. Things will start to pick up. Nothing too heavy yet. I know we had a couple of reports in San Francisco. That system moving over the bay bridge. You might pick up moderate to brief, heavy rain. Overall, its a light pattern up to the north. Nothing heavy yet. We expect that to come up to Mendocino County and lake county. 50s on the temperatures. Its really, really mild. Some. Rainfall projections will be impressive the next couple of days. Heres sal. Good morning. Right now we have do traffic thats being affected by the wet roads. I do want to mention the traffic is going to be busy as you come on the eastshore freeway. Its not completely wet but certainly wet enough to slow your to affect your stopping distances. At the toll plaza, its about a 25 to 30minute delay getting into San Francisco. We are taking into account that it will be slightly slower driving as some people slow down in the rain. Again, 580 is going to be slow. One of the things i want to mention, this morning is not the worst of it, according to steve. It will be slower later. Now, we do have a little bit of improving conditions on 580 from grant rhine to 68 grantline to 680. 46 minutes. 580 is good down the road. 7 03. Back to the desk. Tu thank you, sal. On stormwatch, there are scattered showers. That will soon become heavier. While we certainly need the rain, it does bring some problems with it. Ktvus janine de la vega is live in palo alto just one city in Santa Clara County bracing for potential flooding. Good morning, janine. Reporter good morning. There is light rain falling right now here in palo alto. There is concern about flooding in various parts of the peninsula. You can see here, im surrounded by sandbags. Im here at a pickup location on embarcadero. This is a great way to protect your property by lining it with these bags. Somebody just came by a little while ago and loaded bag in their car. It was sprinkling in East Palo Alto where the city has designated sandbag pickup locations, including this one on University Avenue. Now, city officials are concerned because of the major flooding that took place when a storm hit in december of 2012. The creek crested. The surrounding neighborhoods flooded causing damage to streets. With rain hitting over the next few weeks, they are preparing. Crews are on standby around the clock for the next few days to handle any situations that might arrive. There are 23 locations in the south bay where you can pick it up sandbags for free, prefilled ones can be found at this pickup station on embarcadero near the palo alto air terminal. They are available in al visa. And at the following locations reporter these sites are open 24 hours, seven days week. You are asked to take 20 per vehicle. Weve not had too many people coming here. If you do come here, its a good idea since the bags are quite heavy to make sure that you bring somebody to help you in case you think you need that. Steady rain falling. I wasnt wearing a hat earlier. But ladies, if you are watching, this definitely wont be a good hair day with the rain coming down like this. Reporting live from palo alto, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. Geed heads up for all. Us good heads up for all of us. Thank you. Stay with us for continuing stormwatch coverage and more hair care tips. [laughter] just go to ktvu. Com and mobile ktvu to get the latest stormwatch information and check out the live radar. New this morning, there were some frightening moments for a family in san bruno. A huge tree branch crashed down onto their house right in the middle of the night. Ktvus alex savidge is live at the house to tell us about it and also show us the damage. Good morning, alex. Reporter good morning, dave. Its incredible to see this up close. Now that the sun is coming up, you can get a better view. This family is lucky they were not hurt. Let me show you where the large branch fell off the tree. It fell this direction and fell on the familys house, thankfully, it fell on the carport, not near where everyone was sleeping. That branch damaged part of the home. It also damaged two cars parked in the driveway. This all happened before 3 00 at this house thats right at the intersection of 7th avenue and san bruno avenue. Three people were inside at the time. A young man, his mother, and his stepfather. All of them were sleeping when they were suddenly woken up by a loud crashing sound, and at first they all thought it was an earthquake. We heard a big shake. We thought that a car crashed into the house. No, when we came out here, we saw that the tree had come down. We saw that not only just hit the garage. But we saw that it hit the car as well. We were really freaked out. Really scared. Reporter and the family says this large tree behind their home has caused them problems in the past. They say it was just two months ago when a smaller branch broke away from the tree. It didnt do any damage at that time and then this morning, a much larger branch, as you just saw, came crashing down on top of their home and those two cars. As we bring you back out here live, theres still a lot of cleanup work to do. San bruno firefighters moved in this morning and they chopped up most of this giant branch that fell on top of the home. Obviously, everything still needs to be cleaned up for this family. Were live in san bruno, alex savidge, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. 7 08. The chp is searching for the driver who hit and killed a person on a daly city freeway. It happened around 6 30 last night on interstate 280 near john daly boulevard. Investigators dont known why the person was on the road. The victims identity has not been released. Part of the road was closed for 90 minutes. Today marks one year since two Santa Cruz Police officers were killed in the line of duty. This morning, the Police Department will hold a private dedication ceremony for a new memorial garden. That ceremony follows last nights public candlelight vigil at city hall to remember Sergeant Butch baker and elizabeth baker. Dozens of santa cruz First Responders were at last nights memorial. Its difficult especially when you embark on the oneyear anniversary. It starts to bring all of the emotions back. Seeing the Community Support always is helpful in reminding us what were there for. Now, a Sexual Assault suspect shot and killed those two officers when they went to the door of his santa cruz home to question him. That suspect was killed in a a short time later in a shootout with Santa Cruz Police. Police in san jose say they have arrested two people in connection with a deliberate hit and run. 24yearold andrew renoza is under arrest under suspicion of murder. 21yearold davina is facing an accessory charge after the fact. Investigators say this all started with a gangrelated confrontation at the capital flea market on february 16th. The fight later resumed at snell and the capitol expressway where one person was stabbed and two others were hit by a car. One of the hitandrun victims, eric vallejo, died at the scene. Police are still searching for the charcoal colored 2008 mercedesbenz. It has rearend damage. It also has 7 dmz 599 for the license plate. The San Mateo CountyHealth Department is reporting a rare case of measles. It is strongly urge everyone, especially churn, to get a shot to protect themselves from this highly infection viral disease. This care race involves a patient who had recently been on an international trip. The health d is trying to track down the Death Department is trying to track down Health Department is trying to track down anyone near him. Earlier this month, a uc berkeley tested positive and that student rode b. A. R. T. From the el cerrito station to the campus. That prompted a Health Warning for both riders and uc Berkeley Students. But so far there are no reports of anyone else getting sick. San jose is a step closer to having an official 4th of July Fireworks show again. Santa clara county supervisors are considering putting up half of the money for the show with the city paying the rest. The county would pay for an ad campaign about the dangers of the fireworks. Theyve asked the local government to help solve the problem. Last year, firefighters responded to eight incidents of people using illegal fireworks that cautioned injuries or fires. 7 11. A highend chocolate business is pulling out of San Francisco and heading east. Cho chocolate is moving their entire operation to the marchant boulevard on san pablo avenue in southwest berkeley. The company signed a 12year lease. They will move in they will be moving in april. Tcho said it needed more space as it continues to grow quickly. A lot of chocolate for everybody. The bay bridge going hollywood. A local palm tree may join those planted. Plus oefning day of baseball, you know its an exciting time for a lot of fans but find out who wants to turn that in a National Holiday and the very serious efforts taking place to make it happen. Good morning. Right now, we are looking at a commute that is a little bit wet and a little bit slower than normal. Well let you know what the drive times are looking like across the bay. Rain is moving in. Nothing too heavy yet but its been picking up in intensity. It will get stronger later today and maybe some thunderstorms. Well talk about that and a windy pattern for the next couple of days. [ male announcer ] pillsbury grands biscuits. Delicious, but say i press a few out flat, add some beef, sloppy joe sauce and cheese, fold it all up and boom delicious unsloppy joes perfect for a school night. Pillsbury grands biscuits. Make dinner pop. Worst morning ever. [ angelic music plays ] toaster strudel best morning ever [ hans ] warm, flaky, gooey. Toaster strudel welcome back. 7 15. New this morning, ukraine is disbanding a Notorious Police unit accused of instigating protesters. The acting interior signed a decree disbanding that unit. Meantime, president obama threatens to pull all american troops out of afghanistan by the end of the year if the Afghan Government refuses to agree on terms to keep them there. Its coming down to a battle of wills between president obama and a mid karzai. The two spoke yesterday on the phone for the a mid karzai. Hamid karzai. The two spoke yesterday on the phone. I think at the end of the day weve made it very clear that were willing to keep a presence in afghanistan and that we want to continue to help the Afghan Forces and work in counterterrorism but we cant do that without a bilateral security agreement. More than 33,000 american troops are right now in afghanistan. There had been plans to leave about 10,000 troops there for Counter Terrorism operations and also to help train Afghan Forces. This morning, the Senate Arms Services committee is holding a hearing on Sexual Assault in the military. Specifically senators of this mornings hearing want to investigate the relationship between military Sexual Assaults, posttraumatic stress disorder and suicide. I want to show you a live picture of the hearing. Its part of an ongoing effort by congress to deal with the issue of Sexual Assaults in the military. The department of defense estimates the 26,000 servicemen and women were sexually assaulted in 2012. In previous hearings, witnesses described a culture in the military that discourages victims of Sexual Assault from reporting it. A new army study is giving women a taste of combat. The chief of staff says this will put to rest any doubts about women serving in combat. The study is being down at fort stewart in south georgia. It replaces pushups with physical tasks performed on the job. That includes carrying a wounded solar to safety or lifting a 65pound missile. Scientists will measure heart rates and oxygen to determine who is fit enough for the front lines. While its a rainy day for us here in the bay area, its expected to be 78 degrees in scottsdale, arizona today. Thats where the giants and the as will open spring training exhibition games against each other. Yesterday, bruce bochy named madison bum gardner the starter. Bob melvin still has not named his starter. But the pitching schedule would put Jarrett Parker in line to pitch opening day march 31st at the coliseum in oakland against the indians. Baseball fans are urging president obama to declare opening day a National Holiday. Now, we did check online. We just checked the online petition. More than 77,000 people have signed it. The recent survey shows more than 22 million adults in the u. S. Will skip work or other functions just to be at an opening day game. That petition need 100,000 signatures in the next month to automatically get a response from the white house. Sal castanedo has gone to a few games. You get to go work for sometimes. I have. But theres nothing like not covering it. Sitting in the stands. With perhaps a man soda. They were thinking they might make the day after opening day a holiday. I degrees. Lets take a look at the commute on highway 4. As you can see, as we pan to the right, the traffic is moderately heavy. Its not superwet. But as steve and i have been telling you, and i heard bill martin say it last night, this afternoon, wednesdays commute, wont be a good one for driving. You may want to think about using Public Transportation. It will be slow. Bay bridge, 25minute drive time from the time you start counting at the toll plaza until you get into San Francisco. In the south bay, the busiest freeway is 85 followed by 101, 280 at 17. Theres a minor crash but the Santa Clara Valley traffic is busy 101 is the busiest getting into sunnyvale. 280 is not bad getting into cupertino. Heres steve. Rain is beginning to move through. Nothing too outrageous. Michelle in richmond said could you mention its raining here . Yes, be happy to. Angela in pinole valley. John in so cal, i need to hear from more of you folks in mill valley. Rain is beginning to pick up on the coast. There will be good activity later today because the development is really back here. But its enhancing and embedded with that could be thunderstorm activity. Its taking aim more toward the santa cruz kest line, also down to monterey, the peninsula as well. Beginning to pick up near menlo park, as you can see. Thats very light. Back towards richmond, you see the darker green, thats rain. La fayette, san ramon, alamo, back to hayward, things are picking up. Looks like a break out towards antioch and highway 4. There have been reports of light rain but nothing too crazy up towards napa county and Sonoma County and marin. But north in the Mendocino County lake county, its been quiet so far. 50s on the temperatures. 55 half moon bay. 56 sfo, 56 mountain view. Rainfall will be pretty good here. It will favor areas to the south as we head towards friday and saturday. Fridays system looks like a very strong wind producer. Well get rain out of it, too. Generally around 1 to 3, 4 inches. Possibility of isolated areas of 5, towards monterey. What i like is back here. Theres Strong Development here. I think that could lead to Severe Weather later today. This is a wind forecast. I know its very pretty. Very colorful. Carrie will like this. Shes into colors. What you need to know, once you see the orange osh red or red, that will be strong gusts. Watch what happens on friday. Thats pretty strong. There will be a surface low coming in. Thats really going to ramp up the breeze. Fridays system looks good but the core, the low will dive towards Southern California. By friday Night Saturday things will calm down here. Rain and wind. Light to moderate. Picking up in intensity. Mild temperatures, thats later on. Ran that altogether. 50s and 60s. 59 santa rosa. 64 morgan hill. Willie said no rain yet but it looks like its about to. Rain and wind will take us into tonight, maybe early thursday and then a break friday afternoon. It will clear out on saturday and and then sunday looks good. A lot of good information. Stay with steve and our meteorologists for the latest on the wet weather. Follow them all week on witter and facebooks for updates around the cl