sonoma county, napa county. the first reports for 160 more next that was reported , the suspicion of black eyes now confirmed by chp and the highway department. they say 116 west of the accident is even worse than where the accident occurred. reports here through sonoma county and napa, oak hill crossroad, an accident reported and is suspected ice may have been a factor there. confirmed reports of black eyes and solano county here on columbus parkway at late herman road. jet the sizzle is at that location gathering video now. we saw of shot from him showing us pleased with thepolice with their light we're confirming whether the high wind advisories are still in effect for the bay area bridges. there ride at the san mateo bridge we are showing you this because something is missing here. besides the traffic. the overnight head lights have been out for the last couple of hours, this is not affecting the administration octave building, or the toll booths. the overhead lights have been out but it has been problem fre

i just got off the phone with a napa city spokesman who says so far things are looking good. take a look over here. this is napa creek, and this is the area where they're going to be watching because it goes straight through downtown. it has flooded before. with tonight's flood advisory many people spent the day preparing. >>> as light rain fell over napa people were shoveling up the dirt. filling sandbags to protect against rain and flooding. this man from massachusetts was visiting friends many in nap a when they recruited him to help. >> there is 18 i feels of snow in boston. if i was at home i would be shoveling something. >> many local businesses raced to load up their trucks before the storm moved in. >> we're getting mega water when it comes in. we had about 3.5 feet inside the shop last time. >> six stores and 200 bags to do. >> how many? >> 200. >> and how far have you gone? >>> we got 112. >> with concerns over flooding throughout the north bay, napa police and fire crews went door- to-door in neighborhoods handing out flyers and alerting people about possible evacu

current conditions are in the cooler side, 40 degrees and napa, and 40--in napa, and here is what we're seeing tomorrow. 48-judge panel with mean ran in the north bay, and many drive. the possibility of isolated showers i told it is going to be unlikely. showers will pick up a little bit with the rainfall through the evening. what time it out on futurecast in just a little bit. >> we will continue our team coverage see ichristine connolly is it s f o. >> 1-2 hour delay, system- wide because of these clouds in the serious. bad weather come elsewhere like chicago, boston, newark, minneapolis, jfk causing delays and cancellations. let me show you what it looks like american airlines not that many people in line. and as we can see here at security. not that bad of a long. to not let this fool you. because of the southwest is just chaos! people are winning three awards, four hours, for ticketing. with security much longer at the southwest area. we spoke to passengers and this is what they had to stay. >> ridiculous! i've been here 1.5 hours early. and i've always heard one award for domestic

up bin to petaluma and the napa valley and into napa. we are seeing in in antioch and concord as well. visibility less of a quarter of a mile for napa, and we are having problems with visibility in concord as well. it's actually not too bad through sfo. our afternoon highs will be into 57 for the north bay, interesting francisco 56, 57 concord, in the south bay upper 50s may be a 60 degree raising reading in mountain view. your rain forecast looks like this tomorrow morning i picked up some sprinkles in the morning hours for the north bay better chance for sprinkles into the afternoon. early evening light afternoon the intensity picks up. notice all the more engine red indicating very heavy downpours this could last for several hours even by 10:00 p.m. notice the intensity picking up more. heavy showers overnight into the early morning hours of wednesday. wednesday morning commute could be a wet one we're talking about heavy downpours and windy weather as well. it will last a good portion of it when states bearing up by the afternoon. yo

napa half mile. elsewhere, not too bad, see that fog building to san francisco as well. 57 santa rosa, napa, novato, vallejo. 56 san francisco. 59 fairfield, hayward, fremont, morgan hill. few sprinkles to the north bay, by the afternoon better chance of the heavier stuff late afternoon, early evening. 6:00, moderate- heavy downpours expected for a good portion of the day especially to the north bay. expected to get hammered as we head towards four-five hours into the evening, 10:00 you can see just about as heavy rain is seeking debt. thunderstorms, strong winds, expected to last overnight tuesday, wednesday. heavy downpours expected to this update, or early wednesday morning. your commute could certainly be a wet one. showers moving on out as we head towards the afternoon, moving back again on thursday. unstable week ahead of us, a couple of things rain, windy weather for your wednesday. thursday, check out this overnight lows down into the '20s. wrapping up the workweek, at 2010 with showers. >> w

napa, 48. antioch, 50. the fog is going to be a monster tonight. 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, just sitting here in the coast and the bay, and then that central valley fog, a little bit of an east wind, and that fog in the central valley, going to push it towards the bay and the coast. livermore right now, an easterly wind at 3 miles-per-hour. may not seem like much but with all this fog gathering to the east of us, just a little bit of wind and that's really going to migrate back towards the west. and it's all because of the high pressure set up off the coast that is pushing the jet stream and storm track to the north of us and bringing us those offshore winds and that's picking up the fog and movinged towards the coast. it will be in place one more day. by monday night and tuesday, strong cold front will move in and though scour out the frog and mean the return of rain. here's the look at highs for sunday. we'll be optimistic, 67 for san jose, 65, palo alto, north bay, pockets of dense fog. 62 for san rafael. 64 for

take a look to napa, 29 degrees, below freezing in napa. certainly we keep up to some frost on your car. 34 santa rosa, 45 fairfield. livermore, temperatures down to 33. pretty close to the freezing mark. satellite, radar. dry, showers to the northwest, could slide down into our area slight chance of an isolated pocket sharp today maybe a few clouds mixed with that son try and take a look at the significant drop. that is sharing all of that cold air were rushing down into our area, to the gulf of alaska at making itself known today, tomorrow. slight chance of showers, pop-up charge here and there. it's really tomorrow bringing us a better chance. >> your new year's eve could be wet. 6:00, isolated spot showers continue to say light into a letter clock hour, the intensity level picks up a bit. 9:00 a bit heavier specially to the north and east bay. as we head into the new year, 2011 we will see a few raindrops, light showers bring those umbrellas. if your dreams of the outdoors. light showers to read the day on your saturday. breaks are tryi

hospital management would not speak with us on camera, but released this statement, quote: napa state hospital immediately added additional measures for escorting patients about the ground. the incident will continue to be investigate by hospital police. employees who want to remain anonymous, tell me management's statement is misleading. starting today, the ratio to transport a patient is two to one, but that means taking staffers from other departments, leaving their units unmanned. >> how do you feel.your safety here? >> scared. i'm scared. >> lisa: recently staffers were given these personal alarms alao wear. the victims were wearing them at the time of the attacks, but it's not clear if they went off in napa, lisa amin gulezian, abc-7 news. >> alan: san francisco is facing a sudden deadline in its bid to host the america's cup yacht race. the golden gate yacht club sent a letter to city officials saying san francisco will lose thing reto host the nest america's cup unless an agreement between the city and the yacht club is signed by friday. the club gets to choose the nest host f

and another one between napa. these are stretching to the west near sonoma and fairfield and dixon and up towards winters. these are all sliding off to the east-northeast. you can see more starting to develop but not as intense around bodega bay. those are the waves of showers we're talking about we'll continue to deal with today. as far as temperatures, still in the upper 40s to low 50s in most neighborhoods. 54 half moon bay. around this time yesterday we were a little bit warmer. so it will be cooler this morning but that's pretty mild when you think about 40s and 50s. this afternoon, don't see much of an uptick in temperatures. that puts us in the mid to upper 50s. the forecast, a little lull tonight through tomorrow. tomorrow evening into wednesday morning, that second round of heavy rain, even thunder and gusty winds that could cause more problems. that moves in, get a break thursday and friday and more rain for saturday and sunday. good morning, megan. >> good morning. we have a bart delay. a 15 minute dela

napa valley and the delta as well this morning. your numbers look like a quarter of a mile from nevada, oakland, and up into napa and fairfield. that fog really starting to build in as we head towards next hour seam story continuing with dense fog through the document along the peninsula as well. by 9:00 p.m. we will see improvement in the fog it may stay in the north bay. and adults as well but by the 10:00 p.m. march that's when the dense fog lifts and that's when the fog is expected to move a lot of the area. we have a chance of rain moving into the picture bride tomorrow future cast 4 shows the showers in the morning and the north bay better chance for urban league through the afternoon fact lookit your evening hours. as we head through evening tuesday, wednesday heavy downpours expected to last several hours until wednesday morning. when state could be a wet morning commute. trying it out heading for the afternoon. rain chances continue through the later part of your week. not just their rains but also the wind and cold mornin

upper 40s, a cool day in napa. black ice on the roads. megan has the details. >> that is a threat to anyone commuting through the north bay. we've seen problems associated to the ice in napa, santa rosa and petaluma. we have an injury crash in petaluma that's closed down adobe road at stage gulch road due to the ice on the road. we have caltran heading out trying to take care of the site but really drive with caution because it can cause dangerous driving conditions. still an injury crash northbound 880 at coleman avenue. one right lane is blocked, the right lane blocked for emergency crews on the scene trying to clean up this crash. mass transit may be a great alternate. all systems operating on their normal weekday schedule and no delays. heading out of town towards the sierra, we have chain requirements for highway 50. 88 is closed and if you are taking 80 you don't need chains on your car but you need to have them in your possession. no delays eastbound on interstate 80. 20 minute drive time over to the bridge. >> eric? >> it's 6:41.

in napa, lisa amin gulezian, abc 7 news. >> the u.s. coast guard has called off its search for a man who reportedly fell off a boat friday night. the coast guard began searching richardson bay after a woman aboard the boat told them a man had fallen overboard and was not wearing a life jacket. the chances of finding the man alive in the chilly waters are slim. vallejo police say they have shot and killed a man who was armed with a gun. the shooting took place in an ally off florida street. about 3:00 witnesses reported seeing a man carrying a gun in that area. police confronted him in the alley where they wound up shooting him. he was pronounced dead at the scene. the 46-year-old son of bernie madoff was found dead in new york city in an apparent suicide. he was found hanged in the living room of his manhattan apartment. >> two years to the day of his father's arrest, mark madoff hanged himself by a dog collar inside his manhattan apartment. >> mr. madoff apparently left some e-mail notes. seems to have communicated with members of fami

we had black ice reported in petaluma, also calistoga and napa. so be careful as you head out the door and if you are headed to the snow, don't forget your chains on highway 50. a nice look at the snow there on highway 50 at ski run, also parts of highway 4. 80 they are screening trucks so just heads up. back to you. >> thank you. >>> thank you, gianna and tracy. a remind their stanford will try to end u-conn's streak tonight. the women's basketball team at stanford is hosting uconn at 6:00. the cardinal have won 51 games in a row at home while the huskies have a 90-game winning streak. the last team to beat them was stanford back in the 20in

most of that was going on in napa. basically a lot of what we are focusing on here is this pipe in making sure that nothing happens to it. there construction crews that are trying to polish it up and make sure it holds throughout the night. >> thank you, simon perez. >> reporter: thank you. >>> from heavy rainfall in marin county, let's head south to the coast where mike sugerman is standing by. looks wet. >> reporter: heavy rain down here, too, robert. [ laughter ] >> reporter: we got the rain coming from the north to the south. we have the wind coming from the south to the north to the south. we are right like stuck in the middle here. the winds probably about 25 miles an hour. it's going to get worse. jennifer, let's look at the light. that's our light over there. it doesn't weigh as much as i do. but there are sandbags on it. look at the way it's swaying and you can see the wind and the rain there. here at pacifica, you know, this is really kind of nothing for them. they have been used to this for years and years a

the delta and napa valley in oakland. if you're headed over the bay bridge as mine make sure to keep that in mind. visibility for you down to eight the mile in 3 san rosa napa quarter mile for fairfield and oakland as well. we are improving in a bottle of miles through concord this morning. storm tracker for lit up a lot of activity seeing showers and a net bay much of the morning and sells for martinez. it brings rainfall rates half an inch per hour heavier downpours erelong the peninsula very light showers almost missed the out there. really not seeing much in the amount of rain every year rain little bit of salt 3 to 80 towards red with city and over the san mateo bridge as well. storm tracker for bringing all that wet weather right on through the central valley up and the sierra seeing snowfall the sierra current temperatures are in the warm side were in the 50's most locations 53 antioch 55 through ever more 57 in mountain view hayward and san jose 553 san francisco. in the afternoon not expected to warm up much migh

. >>> more problems at napa state hospital. a worker was badly beaten today, and it's the second attack in four days by the same patient. lisa amin gulezian is live in napa tonight. >> reporter: the hospital is still on lockdown, but that's only because of a staffer who was murdered back in october. there has been a slightly elevated police presence here at the front gate all day long, but employees say none of that is enough two attacks in 2004 -- in to four days have staffers on edge. on wednesday, a custodian was commit knocked unconscious by a resident. this morning, another attack, this time on a rehabilitation therapist, or rt. >> the same person that committed the crim against the custodian was without with the r. t., the r. t. was boat up -- beat up. >> the maintenance in the jail, charged with assault. the attacks come less than two months after the murder of describing psychiatric technician, donna gros. >> all of i know is they're doing their bess to remove themselves from any situation that could be dangerous. >> re

afternoon highs bringing temperatures into the '60s today so we should get up to 64 napa, fairfield upper 50s richmond and san francisco. right around the spate temperatures low 60s 61 and expected for san rosa. by late tonight early tomorrow that's when we expect to see raindrops making an appearance of that by tomorrow early morning we could see a chance of showers and the peninsula and northward. by 10:00 everybody stands a chance of rain. very light rain by lunchtime a chance of rain in to the pitcher heavier rains up into the north bay by year evening commute again probably left over raindrops moving up to the evening. it looks like we see tomorrow is light stuff. not the case by the end of the week. a series of storms bring a period of rain through thursday, friday and saturday as well. snow in this era when the conditions a certainly a storm will keep our eye on. >> the bay bridge toll plaza the west bound commuter pretty light one so far this morning have not seen any problems delays or incidents no hot spots at this early morning hours. early easy ride for the short freeway even

aid to the mile in 2 napa. elsewhere you're ok a special on the peninsula better visual of what's going on, it is serious in orange risibilities less than a mile. petaluma all the winter san rafael we are seeing a better father.a bit of9 degrees and your mountain view, hayward. 50 degrees this morning. san jose. school this afternoon, 57 santa rosa and vallejo. 59 fairfield, said bay up to 58 and places like san jose, los gatos and mountain view. but sure you the rain. friday we're just talking light, fairly persistent so we should see a few sprinkles morning commute, by the afternoon still seen the rain hanging around widespread. fairly light until friday night that's what we see the heavier downpours it looks like saturday is really just going to hammer us. adm preens some moderate downpours into the picture, take a look at how long it sticks around, morning into the afternoon, into the evening, heavy rain really strong winds, freer saturday, wet weather into sunday but it looks like it should taper off of th

problems with visibility down to petaluma now out, fairfield right on through the delta and napa valley as well. some of the numbers are half a mile in terms of visibility for san rosa also now one-quarter mile visibility through nevada this morning. the rain is starting to get a few drops in san francisco for the most part we are sought in through the north bay. from the moderate group of the lake help we are getting some raindrops heading through the richmond san rafael bridge. and along the golden gate bridge as well we are starting to see a few raindrops redound town san francisco if we see anything along the peninsula right now it is very light. a few raindrops through these days well up into san rosa, petaluma however light showers through much of the morning. isolated scattered showers it is continued through the half of valley as well. and through fairfield and that the bill. as we widen don't you can see the moisture socked in through the bay the central valley seeing a bit of snow along 80. though snow levels are pretty high because its system is so warm it's making for warm t

napa 32, livemore, 32, los gatos one of the coldest. 34 degrees. we are tracking a new system that is about 1,000 miles out that wants to bring a quarter inch of rainfall. we'll have the timeline on when this rain will begin coming up in minutes. >>> the former supervisor of the san francisco police crime lab will only face drug possession charges for allegedly skimming cocaine from the evidence room. state prosecutors will not seek additional charges against deborah madden. the retired defendant is the center of a crime lab investigation triggered by other lab techcians. the california attorney general's office is releasing a statement tonight "deborah madden is currently being prosecuted for possession of cocaine. after exhaustive evaluation we have determined no additional charges will be filed." >>> a family is saddened, neighbors are stunned and tonight we are learning new details about a police shooting. hayward police say one of the key elements is something investigators will have to take another look at. we are live in hayward with what we

and in other areas, san francisco, calmer and napa is also less. california, has scattered showers, statewide. however, los angeles is getting pounded with that moisture. and over the weekend. another round of had a heavy clouds, and that is going to the tail end of that store and you'll see that your tomorrow. >> and the worst team coverage goes to dave guingona in redwood-our team coverage--- >> this is with the harbor village retirement home looked like and sunday. and on monday, this looked back to normal wear in public works were able to dream the spec. the combination of the heavy rainfall, a high tide, and the low drainage system. and they're currently at or below sea lovell and they were actually stranded inside their homes. >> below sea-level. >> ipad television, internet, plenty of food i did not have to go anywhere. i had-- >> and where did the water come in? >> it came in and break here. >> it came up over this. came in and out here. >> this entire building was run by a 1 ft. of water or more. a roundhous >> and in redwood city, the gui

also in the low 30s in napa and santa rosa. freezing temperatures there. 35 redwood city with 35 mountain view. numbers will be dropping. sunrise not until 7:25. 8:30 we see numbers begin to recover. winds won't be as much of a factor later on today. northwest wind at the airport with gusts of to mph in novato. some of the bridges are breezy and we will look for numbers to stay cool tomorrow morning when the skies are clear again. everyone as much as 6 to 20 degrees below yesterday's norms and we will look for the slight chance of an isolated shower and sneak in along the coast today. otherwise partly cloudy and we clear out tonight. increasing clouds again tomorrow for new year's eve. for a better chance of rain coming in new year's eve close to midnight. a small ripple in the jet stream. in the north bay, the sonoma coast, best chance of a shower, maybe a mix around cobb mountain and slides down the coast, the peninsula or maybe half moon bay, south bay showers, santa cruz showers. see that snow mix. but in the livermore vall

in wine country history;getting down and dirty with a wine country chef;the best "little" house in napa valley...and, how to make sure you never break a cork again.that's all next time in wine country. in california's carmel valley we discovered a cute little cottage that recently got a facelift.on our open house tour, blending wine country indoor-outdoor living with a little bit of monkey business. villa scimmia means monkey house and i've always been fascinated with monkeys if it looks like there's a lot of monkey business going on in this house, you're right.my father gave me the word for monkey which is scimmia so it's become "villa scimmia"the name is italian, which mirrors the tuscan villa feeling of the home... during our open house tour, owner judith profeta taught me how to play a little italian bocce ball on her backyard court. i'm going to try and knock you out of the way does it bother you if someone talks when you're doing it (just as judie rolls) not at all, oooh,. whoa! one point for me alright, so you won that round.uh huh. well done it may be all fun and games now, but

problems with visibility through the napa valley and delta. current temperatures are called in san rosa in the '30's, cooler than yesterday's san rafael and napa, 46 napsan francisco. your afternoon highs in to the '50s today so we should be in the mid-50s 55 san rosa, 54 san francisco, south bay we might get warmer upper 50s but for the most part stayed around 574 fremont, hayward, los gatos. better chance of heavier stuff being in the afternoon christmas day all the orange shows heavy downpours saturday which will last several hours during the afternoon. it's a fast-moving system but expected to dump one- 2 in. around the rain. in the sierra we will get heavy snowfall as well. you're 7 day around the bay it shows today's a row of dry weather by your weekend is going to be a wet one. this is the cam, before the next door. george. >> dry pavement light traffic we have problems towards vacaville from sacramento there was an accident at dixon and is dying up the traffic. if your head from the bay area no problems. headed into san francisco from

temperatures as low as 35 degrees in napa. the cooling will be halted. mostly cloudy tomorrow morning. a chance of rain pushing into the north bay. we will look at that in just a bit. >>> it has been two years since a teen escaped from abductors. this is video from a gym, from the night that he escaped in 2008 asking for help. kyle ramirez, you see him there, he was covered with blood. he is now 18 and linning with his aunt trying to recover. kron 4's kate thompson sat down with kyle ramirez's aunt. it was her first interview. >> reporter: kyle ramirez was running for his life. bleeding and scared. just having escaped. he now lives with his aunt who says the beginning was tough but he has made incredible prog. >> he suffered anxiety and fear. he was scared. hard and difficult for him at night time. he was very scared. and he blossomed. he turned into a wonderful young man. he let us know just a week ago that he finally felt safe in our home at night and that was huge. >> reporter: in this picture, you can see he has grown lox. 62' -- grown a lot. 6'2". >

that heavier rainfall to the north of napa and just outside of vacaville. back behind that you can see a line of light rainfall moving into santa rosa pushing in toward the petaluma area and more showers off the coastline. let's take a look at how much rainfall we have picked up so far. this has been since thursday. more than 2" in napa, more than 2" in concord, inch and a half in livermore, close to an inch in san jose. oakland close to 3." san francisco not too bad. more than 2" of rainfall. and close to three inches in san rafael. more rainfall again expected today and also for tomorrow. we'll take a look at this afternoon's forecast the chance of thunderstorms, and also take a look at your christmas forecast in just a few moments. in the meantime, back to you. >> thank you. time now 5:32. >>> if you plan to travel contact your airline beforehand to find out if any flights will be delayed. the weather caused delays yesterday at all three of the bay area's major airports. the worst delays as usual were at san francisco, up to two hours at one point. keep

looking out fors mount diablo and the southern end of napa and sonoma county. around san jose, highway 87 south of downtown. a good downpour from the south across the east bay hills. it's pretty quiet where the noise is happening with the thunder right there around napa. that cell continues to head out towards vacaville and fairfield. you can see the trend and the showers we have. hit and miss areas of rain and the cool air aloft swings through the bay area and a chance of isolated thunder in the mix as well. rain especially across the santa cruz mountains and hit and miss areas of rain until the next main event arrives late tuesday into wednesday. probably another two to three inches of rain. towards wednesday morning and afternoon, this hints at a brief drying trend that shows up thursday into friday. a look at the totals between now and the middle of the week. we will add two to three inches and probably an inch or less around most of the bay areas. mainly the first half of the week. highs in the mid 50s and isolated thunder especially for areas around napa

>>> we're here in california's napa valley to find out how one hot air balloon keeps its flying. that's next on "your business." >>> it's not just any business, it's "your business," that's why american express open is proud to present "your business" on msnbc. >>> hi there, everyone. i'm j.j. ramberg, and welcome to "your business" where we give you tips and advice to help your business grow. this marks our 200th episode. and as we always talk about on this program, it can be difficult to make your product or service stand out from the rest. no matter how unique it is. that's why a hot air balloon company in california's napa valley had to decide how they were going to rise above the competition. look up in the sky on any clear morning in california's napa valley, and this is what you see. hot air balloons flying high above. to anyone on the ground, these balloons and the rides taken in them seem indistinguishable. but the pilots and the owners know exactly who is who. >> those are some of the balloons -- one we call bat b. >> nielsen rogers and his wife founded the company in 1

how we 1 0 1, near the bottom, the vallejo, napa, heavier activity. and novado--and the wind has shifted into southern california getting hit hard. foit yet any travel plans for that area? do not be surprised. in another rainfall coming in late tomorrow night and early wednesday morning. the futurecast come with showers house this evening, 8:00 p.m., pushing to the north bay. mean the north of the golden gate. overnight hours, start to taper off. with a chance of isolated sprinkles but really not that much. we will stay dry until the evening word rainfall comes right back in is the heavy stuff coming in the north bay. . san rafael, san francisco. and by 9:00 p.m., through the north bay, widespread/moderate and even heavy. south of the golden gate, the orange on your screen. it is possible that there are embedded thunderstorms. the lightning, thunder, and even hail! towards concord, fairfield, and out of the rabsome lingering showers in the south bay calmer by 8:00 p.m. with several inches of rain fall oakland, livermore, the records yesterday. over in

visibility, half mile to santa rosa, napa, novato less than a quarter mile. heading down 101 make sure to prepare to hit a low bid of that slot as you head into downtown san to discuss. a look at storm tracker 4, where the rain is this morning) show you a cell pushing to vallejo, looks like rainfall rates are coming down to tens of an inch per hour showers from novato, highway 37 in two vallejo, also to the richmond san rafael bridge to sausalito, starting to pick up just a few raindrops really light along downtown sits francisco. golden gate park in even stretching into daly city. santa rosa, petaluma, dealing with scattered showers, rate along 101 into the napa valley, as we why did out you can see all of this screen filling in to the north bay, central valley, seeing a little bit of snow into the sierra, snow levels very high. we are action starting off with some warm temperatures because of that. 57 san francisco, 52 san rafael, some of the upper 50s, as a ticket into the afternoon looks like we will warm up to 60 degrees. richmond, fairfield, concord. so

we're looking at lower 50s in napa where this morning you have pretty good dose of fog. since then, we're just looking at lots of clouds around here and sunny skies later on this afternoon. temperatures will be in the 60s but spare the air day, wintertime where no burning due to the air quality that is not going to be great in the south bay. moderate around the south bay, visibility is pretty good along the coast with ten miles around half moon bay. cloudy skies and by this afternoon, early afternoon, i think we'll scour out more sunshine, especially in the south bay. central valley fog that continues to drift into the carquinez straits and delta and that is due to light and variable winds. and high pressure ridge is beginning to drift off and we are looking at fog slipping in and settle into some of the valleys. here is water vapor imagery and storm track is well to the north. there is an area of low pressure in the gulf of alaska that will allow more rain to come our way. not a big system but it should be here around tuesday. >> with high pressure in control gradual su

live in napa, jim vargas, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a san leandro man in custody tonight on suspicion of sexually assaulting an 8-year- old girl who was shopping with her family. police say the girl wandered away from her parents inside a wal-mart store on davis street friday night. when she returned, she told them a man had touched her inappropriately. her parents yelled for help and a bystander tackled the 29-year- old who is now facing sexual assault charges. the incident comes a little more than a week after a 2-year- old girl was sexually assaulted at a dollar tree store in union city. >>> a toddler who wandered away from his mother and fell into a fountain at a san francisco hotel has died in the hospital. the 18-month-old boy was with his mother, nanny and twin sister last wednesday when they stopped at the hyatt regency along the embarcadero to get out of the rain and take some holiday photos. the boy wandered away and was found several minutes later submerged in the water of the lobby fountain. police say the toddler's death was aan accident -- was an accident. the hotel has

nearly an inch in napa. san francisco closing in an inch. more of that tonight. probably another inch or two by the middle of the afternoon tomorrow. 55 in redwood city. temperatures have gotten warmer over night. yesterday it was chilly rain but we are 12 degrees warmer this morning in concord. 8 degrees warmer in redwood city. ten degrees warmer in san rafael. that is why the snow levels will be fluctuate inning the next 24-36 hours. scattered showers throughout the day. a slight chance of a thunderstorm. more rain developing about 3:00, sonoma, santa cruz county, south bay and then more steady rain late this evening, overnight tonight in to tomorrow. the bulk has shifted to the south into central california. bulk of the activity will pick up again later on today. here is. here is a look at the bridge, look what happens at 3:00, handgun, sonoma county, santa cruz is getting wet. by say 10:00 or 11:00, more widespread rain becomes steady. we're looking at the heavier rain by 6:00 or 7:00 tomorrow and then it continues through the midday hour. then we get a bit o

namely napa, so keep that in mind. here's a look at what are we dealing with. big low pressure system still up there and it is just spinning and churning and pushing several different storm systems into the bay area. that will be the drill again for today and tomorrow. and also as we move into wednesday. not out of the woods just yet. today how much rainfall is expected? up to a half inch in the north bay, the east basis, the south bay and the peninsula and east bay, up to an inch in the santa cruz mountains. got plans? look at that. showers expected tomorrow. more widespread rainfall likely wednesday as another storm system comes in. thursday and friday we are drying out just in time fo christmas eve. rain saturday and sunday. here's gianna with your traffic. >> thank you. it's lighter than usual monday morning. so far, so good. live look at the golden gate bridge not bad, easy 8 minutes from highway 37 southbound to 580 on 101. elsewhere as you take a ride on the san mateo bridge this morning, 13 minutes to go from 880 to 101. no troubles to report through th

so i put them in the forecast for places like napa, fairfield, the delta. those are areas that could see the clearing overnight. into the noon hour tomorrow, partly cloudy conditions. temperatures mainly only in the 50s. partly cloudy skies, so dry conditions. but temperatures again only in the 50s out there tomorrow. 56 in napa. 57 down in san jose. we do have major changes coming to the forecast into the weekend. a very strong storm set to hit us into friday and saturday. take a look here. 6:00 in the morning on saturday we start to see the heavier rain pick up. and most of california. this storm is going to be tapping into some subtropical moisture. it's looking to be a great source of water for this storm. we're going to be seeing quite a bit of rain. intensifying over the mountains and over the bay area. you can see the deep shade of orange here on your screen indicating very heavy rainfall which will continue into early sunday morning. but a bit of a break on sunday afternoon and night before another wave of this heavy rain shot at the bay area at 5:0

we're getting some really heavy rain just coming down to the napa valley, the napa valley has just gone public today along i 80. heavier rain as was, airport road, sonoma road also to cordelia's. morgan hill picking up some raindrops, snowfall up and to mount hamilton. satellite, radar shows that's what's going on. we are continuing to see this moisture pushing into our area the heavy. your stuff is sitting to the south bay, so, we're looking at warnings through san martino, flash flood through los angeles, so, they're really getting the brunt of it, we will keep a chance to bid to the next hour as well. periods of dry weather as well. showers, by tuesday evening a chance increases of seeing some thunderstorms into wednesday morning as well. by the end of wednesday it should lead a bid thursday, friday being as the first round of dry weather. however it doesn't last long, get everything you need to do done outdoors. before the rain said it again on christmas day. george. >> still looking at light traffic all around the bay, no hot spots this morning. still don't have any back up but the

. >>> the search continues for a missing napa man in the wine country. the family of 83-year-old james haynes says he didn't make it home after driving a family friend home on remote mountain roads. >> rural mountains at times are steep grade, tree lined. it's a difficult area in which to look. if you're not right on the main road. >> family members say he drove from napa to poke valley in the hills of east of calistoga. his car is a 1999 toyota corolla. >>> a petaluma man is scheduled to be in court this morning to face charges related to his fifth dui arrest. 31-year-old antonio chavez was pulled over after he was caught speeding 80 miles an hour on highway 101. he failed a sobriety test he was booked in jail and held without bail. >> there is a certain percentage out there that are not getting the message. we are here to make sure they do. >> the chp says repeat dui offenders are not unusual. petaluma police are using federal grant money to track them. >>> there is new information about the man killed in the officer involved shooting in vallejo over t

that followed his two earlier dui arrests in napa. police say in all three cases young's blood alcohol level was way over the legal limit. >>> san francisco pushing for legislation to limit wild electronic music parties known as raves. she introduced a bill this week that would ban the parties at the cal palace. two people suffered fatal drug overdoses after a rave party at the venue. more recently in october more than a dozen people attending a similar party fell ill because of suspected drug and alcohol use. >>> he may remain mayor of san francisco a few days longer than initially planned. he intends to delay his wearing in as lieutenant governor until he's confident that san francisco has a strong successor to replace him as mayor. that could push back his wearing in date from january 3rd to january 8. san francisco supervisors with four new members will meet january 4th. they will choose a mayor to fill the final year of the term. >>> well f you tend to wait until the last minute to do your holiday shopping this year, you're in lu

temperatures in the '40's and '50's. 46 a center rosa, 44 napa 40 los gatos. chances of rain through the evening as well tuesday hit or miss showers the better chance of heavier rain and thunderstorms tuesday night. and then by will late wednesday we should see rains tapered off in fact we could catch a break by the end of the workweek. thursday, friday brings this sunny conditions. by christmas morning wet weather returns so the sierra could get a white christmas. >> we are catching a break in the traffic department this morning the bay bridge as we starter bridge check with their ride to the toll plaza westbound as we are now moving past 630 and they still have not activated the meter lights. that is a very good sign of good start for the bay bridge. light traffic through in a state in the and the nimitz freeway. that is good news. san mateo bridge as we pick up that camera the volume continues to build, but it's not as heavy as usual now back up on the approach where delays at the toll plaza. a 80 looks good through hayward. golden gate bridge ride problem

to return again. 43 in napa for you tonight. now, we had so much rain, in fact even to date we're almost at 150% of normal in santa rosa, 130% of normal in san francisco and actually a little below normal in san jose. here's a look at your accu-weather 7-day forecast. enjoy the dry day today. stuff to do or you want to travel before christmas, it's good to do it today and tomorrow. the storm moves in just before lunch saturday, turns into showers sunday, dry on monday, chance of rain on tuesday. >> frances, thanks. the curtain will rise again tonight on the broadway music spiderman turn off the dark. the show has been closed since the stuntman plunged 30 feet into a stage pit despite wearing a safety harness. it was the fourth accident for this production. producers have agreed to new safety procautions to prevent another accident. it's still in previews. the actual opening of the show has been pushed back a month while they work out all the glitches. seven chimps got to celebrate christmas. they wrapped toys and stuffed animals

conditions are warmer than yesterday temperatures running in the mid to upper 50s in several spots. 56 napa, 57 santa rosa, 57 dennis san jose a loss got those 53 oakland, 55 in concord captures up for the most part a least a couple of days. five degrees warmer in santa rosa, four napa, same novato, 5 degrees warmer happen day and a couple degrees cooler in san francisco and six degrees warmer livermore. storm tracker 4 radar wincing a steady stream of clouds and the northern california and the bay area's been catching some of us. we did see a bright blue cloud cover over night which led to some chilly morning temperatures in certain spots. we will see the clouds streaming and rain continued in northern california were watching to see when this will stay down to the south that will mean rain for the bay area. here's a look at tonight into tomorrow cloudy and warm conditions this evening. temperatures in the upper '40's and even the low 50s at 7:00. it will stay warm and dry and mild temperatures in the '40's back to where were used to having the morning temperatures. in the afternoon rain c

no. >> mary has been a nurse at napa state for four years. she and others spoke to administrators on the request to take their last names off badges. workers say it puts them at risk. >> there have been some staff have been contacted by past patients because they had enough information about the exemployees and were able to contact them. >> hospital officials declined a request for interview but wrote in an e mail there is focus being given to all areas of security. this hospital is patrolling and many object to the plan. >> we don't have the means, we're not police officers. we're here to give treatment and be therapeutic. >> there is good news for workers here. this assembly woman introduced a bill putting more teeth into the violence prevention plans of state mental hospitals like napa. >> and still ahead tonight major staff shortages at oakland police department y the city pd can't always cover routine patrol shifts. >> and later tonight a look at jobs about to open up in the bay area, where you can go to land one. >> and there numbers th

we had low visibility in places like novato, napa valley. the big stories the cold temperatures into the thirties the most locations, even below that patch and morning fog, a major storm this weekend the first to bring this to tomorrow. today, last friday in some time. current temperatures look like this, santa rosa, freezing mark. the eye and the '20s, 33 livermore, napa. upper 30s your oakland, hayward. says bay temperatures in the upper 30s as well. by the afternoon highs will get into the 50s, 56 santa rosa, 55 napa, vallejo. about the same in san francisco, not much change in the temperatures today, expecting to see them about the same in most locations mid-50s the rain really starts to settle and by tomorrow. waking up with a few sprinkles, 5:00 it could marty get a quarter of an inch of rain in san francisco, double that by 7:00, morning to you quite a bit of rain. heavier rain damage to this as big, said the venture more up to the north bay. reno's heavier rain for tourism to the south bay. end of friday, three-quarters of an inch of

. >> after mother attack on an employee there are security measures in napa state hospital tonight. and there is a worker beaten there this weekend. at tack follows a recent murder by a patient. abc 7's vic lee reports. >> there is new security procedures today following a weekend beating of a 60-year-old hospital therapist by a patient. at tack occurred while bouchet was being escorted on the grounds of a forensics facility. the section that houses the criminally insane and violent patients. latest assault less than two months after the psych tech was murdered on the same grounds. another patient is charged in that murder. now a mem joz the hospital is ending a lock down in place since gross's murder. wednesday, patients will be allowed again to roam the grounds without an escort but only avarice being assess manies which includes at least 90 days of safe and responsible behavior autos one of the big problems is that people should be in prison are there at napa state hospital. >> the psychiatrist left napa state last year, angry and fed up with what he saw. >> there is people witho

thunderstorm activity popped up near sonoma and napa. there is a line forming across nevada and san pablo bay and towards fairfield. any sun we get today will juice up the atmosphere. you can see the clouds more southwest as they get pushed southward a. . a lot of rain in southern california. i have seen projections from now and the end of the week within ten inches. 24-hour totals for some. oakland, palo alto, san francisco, santa rosa weekend hill totals almost three inches. boulder creek seven and a quarter to eight inches of rain. colder. 46 santa rosa and napa. low 50s everywhere else. rain turned to snow. rain snow mix off and on during the weekend. southern california a lot of rainfall in bakersfield not only for the day but the month. all-time ever for december. here comes the next system dive diving in to take the place of the one moving out for portland. sierra another 10 to 20 inches of snow possible above 7,000 feet. mostly cloudy, cooler and breezy. today is windy at times with the thunderstorms. upper 40s low 50s for many i

how about 34 in the livermore valley as well as napa and santa rosa. we'll keep the 40s in the forecast for oakland and san francisco and we've got a little rain to talk about for your holiday plans. sarah? >> lisa, thanks vef. the third police shooting in 24 hours. police-involved shooting is being investigated right now. the latest one involves san leandro police. one involved a chase and a stolen car. it happened near the oakland san leandro board erred early this morning. jenelle with the detai. >> cheryl, san leandro police are not saying anything but what we know is it ended in this intersection with one won dead shot by san leandro police. >> i heard a gunshot. i ran to the living room, put my son on the floor. >> the shooting unfolded right in front of maria martinez home in oakland. it was around 10:30 last night when san leandro police officers began chasing this 1989 jaguar. just after crossing into oakland city limits, the jaguar lost control and crashed into two parked vehicles. witnesses say they could hear officers screaming at the drive

we are learning more tonight about a violent attack at napa state hospital. it comes less than two months after a psychiatric worker of the same facility was strangled allegedly by a patient. ktvu's jim vargas spoke with a nurse who has been working at that hospital for years and who says violence there is out of control. jim. >> reporter: frank, this apparently is -- the latest in a long line of violent attacks here at the hospital and i'm not just referring to the donna gross killing

. >> here in napa tonight, friends and family remember a man shot and killed by police. his relatives want answers. >>> a surprise in >>> highway patrol officers arrested a suspected -- about 5:30 tonight and ended on intertait 880, two southbound lanes were shut down for about half an hour during the arrest and it caused quite a back up. there were no reports of any injuries. >>> if in napa, they think authorities overreacted and tonight they're calling for an independent investigation. this is the first time we have hear from family members since the man was killed outside of his home last weekend. we will go live this to napa. >> reporter: friends set up this memorial on meek avenue to remember a man they describe as a loving husband and father. tonight family members spoke out publicly about the fatal police shooting of richard. >> my dad was a very good person, he was a very good man and a lot of people knew him and cared about him. >> reporter: in san francisco tonight, 26-year-old gabrielle -- toll media that they have many unanswered questions about her father's