Rain storm, many people from the north bay to the south bay are getting ready. What you need to know as mornings on 2 starts now. Good morning. We are live in berkeley, once again, where trains are moving this morning, but it was a much different scene last night. Protesters successfully shut down Amtrak Service by blocking the tracks last night and commuters were not the only ones impacted. Protesters also, once again, took over a freeway. This time it was interstate 80 in emeryville and this morning, ktvus katie utehs is talking with people who see what they think about the protests. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. Its tuesday, december 9th. Im pam cook in for tori campbell. Im dave clark. We want to talk about your blfer weather and traffic. How does it look now . This is the quiet before the storm. We still have two days to go. A beautiful sunrise. Reds. Sky. Evelyn from campbell tweeted me out that. I do understand. But again, were two days away. Heavy rainfall started. This will start Late Wednesday more likely early, early thursday. There could be very intense rainfall. Wind advisories are already out, flooding, downed trees power lines, christmas decoration, it all looks like its taking shape. Some of the rainfall could top some 8inch totals as we head between now and into friday. Today is just very light. Might be a little more, might be less. There will be rain up on the north coast. Theres been some drizzle even from San Francisco to marin county and sonoma county. Misty, drizzly, very light rain. Foggy as well, especially on treat boulevard out by concord, buchanan. Mostly cloudy, mild, mild temperatures. Were in the low 60s. Look for a cloudy to mostly cloudy day. 60 at sfo. 59 San Francisco, half moon bay. Our system will give us a lot of cloud cover today. Mild temps. Our system developing does have some cold air with it. Thats different from all of the other systems. Theyve been very mild. But look at the projections on rainfall. They are just going through the roof here. That will be thursday into friday. There will be some isolated areas, i think, between 8 to 10 inches. Santa cruz mountains, Russian River as well. Cloudy and mild. Patchy fog. 60s and also 70s. A lot of reports. East bay has very foggy conditions. It was foggy in concord and walnut creek and also pittsburg and baypoint, antioch. We had problems there which may have been associated with that. But first lets go to the eastshore freeway and talk about 80 westbound. Its pretty heavy from the car keen niz bridge carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze. The fog is not an issue here. One of the slowest commutes, livermore valley. People who drive this say what else is new . Its backed up out of tracy, as you drive into fremont. We talked about highway 4, we had an earlier crash. That traffic is gone. But the traffic is still slow. For the third night in a row, a big crowd of protesters surged through berkeley. People protested last night. Around 8 30, they marched onto 880 near ashby avenue and stopped traffic for at least 90 minutes. More than 150 people were arrested in all of this. Amtrak service was also stopped as protesters laid down on the tracks and climbed on top of the trains. Katie utehs is at the amtrak train on University Avenue. Train Service Resumed this morning. But katie, some people are questioning the track tick tactics of the protest in spreading their message. Reporter the issue at hand, emotional, contentious and should be discussed. Some are saying the tactics are more distracts from the message than anything else. In all three nights weve seen people take to the freeways to shut it down. This morning amtrak is running as protesters laid down on the train tracks. Let me show you some video from the freeway last night. A view from newschopper2 as protesters took over interstate 80. At the peak, 1,000 strong. Were hearing from people who are impressed by the dramatic protests. Others are irritated by the inconvenience and some question the effectiveness. I dont think they are harming anything. But i dont know if they are helping anything. Reporter some people are trying to avoid the protests altogether. We spoke with a man who commutes from his job at Lawrence Livermore labs from his home in sacramento. They received a heads up ahead of the protests. Im gonna probably leave early, you know, before sunset to avoid this. Reporter the protesters shut town Amtrak Service by blocking trains from moving. This is video of a woman with her face covered. She climbed onto the front of a train. Service was suspended at University Avenue station around 11 00 last night. Reopened a little before 4 00 this morning. People are certainly talking about these protests, both online in the National Media and at our local coffee shops. But again, the question is are people focusing more on the tactics being disruptive or the message that the protesters are trying to convey. Dave . Katie utehs, thank you. On our ktvu Facebook Page, we are asking what you think about the protests. Do you sympathize or are you tired of it . I want to show you some of the responses weve received this morning, one says we have the right to freedom of speech. Though i dry the line at looting, breaking story windows and stopping traffic on freeways. Stopping trains. With all of this happening, nothing is getting resolved. Jessica writes, they are causing more harm than good. Innocent people are being caught in the middle who did nothing to deserve it. They are destroying neighborhoods, how is that proving any point . And Sheila Wright says, mlk did it the right way. These protesters all need a History Lesson in the civil rights movement. You can join our conversation by going to our ktvu Facebook Page and tell us what you think about the demonstrations. Let us know if you are one of the people stuck in traffic during last nights freeway shutdown or on the train. We would like to hear from you. All right, pam. 7 07. All lanes of interstate 680 in san jose. They are back open again this morning after being shut down for almost 11 hours. Look at the pictures. The chp shut down all lanes in both directions. This was start started at 2 00 yesterday afternoon. A woman threatened to jump from the alum rock avenue overpass. The Highway Patrol had all of the lanes back open just before 1 00 this morning but its still not clear how this situation with the suicidal woman was resolved. As steve has been telling us all, a storm headed our way in the next couple of days will be a big one which is why many Emergency Responders are telling everyone to get ready now. Ktvus brian flores, you are in san rafael. They are preparing out there at this moment, brian. Reporter i am, dave. So are several other people in marin county. As you know. Marin county certainly gets pounded during any major rain storm. Thats gonna be the case in the next couple of days. As steve said, it will be a widespread storm. Were live in one of several locations throughout marin where people can come by, get sandbags to help stop flooding. This one off union and flood next to the whole foods. As you can see, with the amount of sand left which is not much. It looks like people have heeded the advisory and are getting ready for the upcoming storm. Forecasters say the amount of rain that is expected to tall will be quite a bit. Steve mentioned up to 3 inches possibly in urban areas up to 8 inches in the mountain areas which is why the National Weather service has issued a storm advisory. We have seen city work crews to downtown clearing out drains. We did speak 0 to some in oakland who are getting ready. You want to always be prepared. Emergency preparedness, you always want to be ready because of earthquakes, water, et cetera. No one is gonna do it for you except for yourself. You have heavy rains probably three years ago. It did damage some stuff in my garage. This time i like to be prepared. Reporter while some may joke about how this is just rain, Emergency Responders say this is not a laughing matter. They are telling people to be prepared for possible floods, possible mudslides and likely power outages. Some Hardware Stores from last week when we went up there say they are selling quickly, many of the essential supplies like tarp, rain boots, flashlights and battery. This is one of several locations here in marin where you can pick up sandbags. Were not just talking about the rain. Were talking about the wind as steve mentioned. This is going to be a heavy wind event as well. So people certainly need to get ready. Here in marin county. Other concern is traffic from talking to people up here. They say during the last rain storm last week, there was a lot of flooding on the freeways. A lot of that traffic went on the side streets. Theres definitely concern about that during this upcoming rain storm which is expected to hit Late Wednesday and into thursday. Back to you. Hopefully people will take advantage of it and listen to the advice. Some parents are angry about a decision to hire a private investigator to follow a student home. A woman said the controversy started started when her family, including her livein nanny her daughter was living in the home. She said they were followed home by a private investigator and she was never asked about vivian. Her bicycle is in the garage. Shes so much part of our family, that my toddler cries when she leaves. She says the investigator also followed 7yearold vivian when she visited her grandmother in baypoint on weekends. The district has already said it was wrong in saying vivian didnt live in orinda and that and shes being allowed to attend school there. 7 11. The deadline just passed for people in a homeless camp to clear out. Coming up at 7 30, the suspicious fires overnight, its complicating the vction evection. Overseas embassies have tightened security as the senate prepares to release a report today that some say will destroy the cia. We are looking at a commute getting busier. Before belook too far ahead, we we look too far ahead to thursday, we have issues. Thats fog. A lot of it. From San Francisco northward but another beautiful sunrise. There you go. At kaiser permanente, everything you need is under one roof. Another way care and coverage together makes life easier. Okay, a little easier. Become a member of kaiser permanente. Because together, we thrive. Investigators are looking for a meetish of a stabbing inside a new york city synagogue that ended in a fatal shooting. Step away. Whoa, whoa, whoa. This is new video from a cell phone camera that captured this mornings terrifying scene in brooklyn. Police say a man with a knife stabbed an israeli student in the head before being fatally shot by police after he refused to drop his knife. The 22yearold stabbing victim is expected to survive. Well, u. S. Embassies around the world. They are tightening security before todays release of a report on the cias very tough interrogation techniques after the september 11th attacks. The report details how the cia used techniques like sleep deprivation, confinement in small spaces, humiliation and waterboarding. Dianne feinstein has been pushing for the report to be released. But there are fears about a backlash. This is a terrible idea. Our foreign partners are telling us this will cause violence and deaths. I think theres a little bit of overstating of the issue, a little bit of fearmongerring which i would interpret as a way to try to suppress the information. Now, the 480page report is the first Public Accounting of the cias alleged use of torture on suspected al qaeda detainees held in secret places in europe and asia in the years after september 11th. U. S. Defense secretary chuck hagel is in baghdad. Hes meeting with Iraqi Government officials and u. S. Commanders. Take a look at the video. Heres hagel arriving in baghdad. During a visit to kuwait yesterday, he said he believes iraqs Security Forces have gained new momentum thanks in part to u. S. Airstrikes against Islamic State militants. Hagel is on what is expected to be his final overseas trip as secretary of defense. 7 16. And sal, brian touch oned on the touched on the problems with flooding on the freeway. I i know several people who turned around around went home. That particular day when it happened, i got a response from people because it was way worse than normal. If that happens again on thursday and friday well let you know. Steve will talk about the tide. I think it was more of a high tide. You will definitely know about it. It wont make it better but at least knowing about it sure. Lets take a look at and by the way, in case you are wondering about marin, since we spoke of it, its a normal backup. People can handle the normal stuff. This is also kind of a normal commute. Northbound 101 as you approach the 880 interchange. The traffic is doing well. As i bring steve in in a political bit. We are going to talk about thursday and friday which look to be bad commute days coming up. Not today. This is a look at highway 4. Its bad on highway 4 because of an earlier crash which is gone. The traffic is still very, very slow. At the bay bridge toll plaza, its backed up for about 25, 30 minutes. Steve, as we bring you in, thursday and friday, people knowing about it can make plans not to drive, perhaps. If you dont have to on thursday, i wouldnt. Were still two days away. And a lot can happen. But everything is pointing towards thursday being very wet and windy. There is a high tide at 3 30 in the morning. About 3 27. The low tide will be at 8 30 a. M. That may help because the front looks like it will be going through right about then. Well see. It may hang up. It may slow down, stall. There is a lot of ifs. Thursday does look like it will be a wild day. Wind and also with the rain. We do get areas of fog, very, very thick. I know on treat boulevard, concord, ygnacio valley, Pleasant Hill, sorked in likes soup. Drizzle San Francisco, marin county and there are some breaks on the clouds. Heavy rain looks like thursday. There will be some very hefty totalles here over the totals here over the next three, five days. All of this starts not today, not even tomorrow morning but late, Late Wednesday into thursday. Some of the areas, i think santa cruz mountains, Russian Rivers could easily top the 5 to 8inch amounts between wednesday night and friday. 30 to 50mileanhour winds. High surf advisory. That starts tonight. That goes through friday. Combined seas 15 to 20 feet there could be some higher than 20 feet. The winter stormwatch for the sierra is thursday. A few days away. Snow will be measured in feet. Snow level will start off very high but it will drop by late thursday into friday. This system will have cold air. Today its a lot of cold air, drizzle. Rain on the north coast. Cloudy this morning to mostly cloudy. Fog, drizzle, mostly cloudy. But very mild kind of muggy on these temperatures. Could be a almost bit of drizzle. There are some breaks in the clouds. Mostly cloudy, maybe even drizzle towards the santa cruz mountains. Along the coast also up into the north bay. Other system is still taking shape. 50s on the temps to 60. 60 at sfo. The water temp, 62 bodega bay. Probably a record in the nonel nino event or year. Amazingly warm that has to be feeding into these systems. 30s up in the mountains. 62 eureka, probably a record low minimum. I would think. Thats just amazingly warm as well. Our system will start to move in but not until late. It will stall out. Slow down the heaviest totals will be to the north bay but all the way down to monterey, you are seeing inches to maybe 6 plus in some locations. Cazadero with drizzle and light rain had twothirds. Can only imagine what can happen when they get to the heavier rain. 60s on the temps to 70. Everything will be fine tuned tomorrow as we head into Late Wednesday. Thursday, again, rain and wind. Not trying to scare anybody. No, of course. Prepare. Just be prepared. This looks like the best system weve had in a long time. Colder with possible thunderstorms on friday. I think people will be more upset if we dont warn them. If you get caught offguard, you need to plan to leave the house early. And the dogs outside and the christmas ornaments. Thank you, steve. 7 21. Amazon may move the drone tests to another country. Amazon asked for permission to test drones outside the offices in a remote area of Washington State but has not received approval from the faa. Amazon said the faa is blocking by not hey louing the test allowing tests. The faa does allow seven Hollywood Production Companies to use drones for filming but thats the only private use of drones approved so far. There is another story people are talking about. A controversial arrest. It happened during the pac 12 championship game at levi stadium. Coming up in 15 minutes, why Santa Clara Police say their officers had to take aggressive action. A flight delayed because the disagreement over snacks. Up next, how a seemingly petty argument escalated into the resignation of an airline executive. Welcome back. 7 24. A Korean Airline executive has resigned over claims that she delayed a flight from new york to south korea because of the way she was served her onboard snack. Now, Vice President and daughter of korean air chairman heather cho demanded the plane return to the gate and that the chief Flight Attendant be removed from the plane over in Flight Service standards that. Was after a junior Flight Attendant served cho mack dameian nuts mack dameian nuts in a bag instead of a plate. Well, if you have ever thought there should be a law about something, now may be the chance to make that happen. State