This era. In the bay area , all of the green and another round of rain. We have the updated timeline and what it means for your weekend plans. Also, i discovery during an arrest sparked a lockdown at a school in gilroy. It was not the first incident at the school this week. The parents say they were left in the dark we will be joined live outside the school our climate is changing. We talked about this and it is influencing storms in tahoe will speak to National Climate reporter chase kane and what the storm indicates for the future of this era. Plastic a live look outside across the bay area. Depending where you are, you may have experienced the rain on and off. A little bit of sunshine. This is what it looked like a long interstate 80 and tahoe area. You see all of the snow. It is coming down. This exit is almost completely covered. Chain controls are in effect along interstate 80. Advising people to avoid traveling to the mountains this weekend. Lets get to Jody Hernandez at the snow line. You got a peek of the conditions before it got pretty bad. I see the snow behind you and it looks cold. How is it going . Reporter it is snowing and it is cold i can barely feel my fingertips right now. Will pan over and show you the snow. We are at 5200 foot level. I will tell you, it has been coming down all day. The driving is treacherous. Earlier today, we were on interstate 80 and we try to make our way over the donner pass. It was extremely treacherous. Some of the exits and off ramps are so snowy you cannot take the exit. You cannot use them. For a bit, we thought we might get stuck. Fortunately, we were able to turn around and make our way back here to nyack. This is where chains are required. This is where folks are being forced to pull over and either have fourwheel drive or put on chains. You can see the big rig here. They just put chains on and are getting ready to go. Chains are required right now from nyack to the state line. Chp telling everyone not to travel up here. If your plans to come up here this weekend, change your plans. You dont want to get caught in this. It is cold and dangerous. We appreciate you being out there in the elements for us. The trouble of having to exit and find another way to get where you are. We appreciate your. I know you got to speak to a family that expected to ski and soda springs this weekend. Reporter believe it or not, this is a family from campbell. They promised their two children they would take them skiing this weekend and they didnt want to break their promise. We caught up with them at nyack. They were putting on chains and were planning to head to soda springs for the weekend. She told me soda springs would not let them cancel the reservations. They decided to get up there to. The exit was completely snowed over. I do not think they made it to soda springs. We know soda springs is a ski resort that has decided to close for the weekend. I am not sure what the family will do. Another interesting story. This tour bus is from North Hollywood carrying 56 people. The driver tells me she had no idea it was going to snow. Are 56 people stuck on the bus. Some of them in the gas station try to figure out what to do. Earlier today, the bus blew a tire. That to change the tire and now they do not have change. It will cost 1000 to put on chains. They are heading to reno to circus circus. I spoke to the driver and she said she is waiting to hear from management she does not know what she is going to do. She did not know if there would be a storm. 56 people from North Hollywood. A couple from concorde are in a van going to circus circus. Were putting chains on a plan to head up the rock. Not something you want to do. Things can turn treacherous. They conditions change so quickly. Why out conditions and not a good idea. Thank you for the heads up and showing us everything going on. We appreciate it. That is why you have to watch the news cast. You have to stay on top of it. At least visit our website before you head over. Always there going to circus circus. At least an app of some sort. Always. The weather conditions before making her way to the road. This is the reason why. The blue that you see audrey is the sierra snow. Lets get to the forecast. We have advisories locally when it comes to impacts. A lot different compared to what they are seeing in the sierra for us locally. We are seeing lightning strikes. A lot of instability out there. A chance for thunderstorms if that does happen we will absolutely let you know. Lets zoom in on the sierra. Look at south lake tahoe. Really coming down. It is not just snow. It is dusty wind at 60 Miles Per Hour in some areas. A look at the bay area and mostly light rain falling. We are expecting to see the main rain band push their. Out Mariposa County through fresno. If you plans to travel through the grapevine, another area with instability. The red is showing stronger cells moving through Mariposa County. I saw severe storm warnings in effect a few minutes ago. The cold air will continue to surge in. Also into saturday. It will cool us off enough to where we could see low elevation snow locally. That is going to keep temperatures and daytime highs only in upper 40s and low 50s. As far as the hour by hour forecast, the red and yellow you see on the map right here, this is where you could see the main rain band in cold front move through. The rain pick up. We are not in the clear tonight. It will move through started on this moderate to heavy pockets picking up into the evening hours. In addition to that, we will continue to see this carry over into early saturday. Will notice gusty winds. On saturday around 11 00 am we do see it pick up. Remember, a wind advisory in effect through tomorrow morning. Also, High Surf Advisory through tomorrow afternoon. These be careful around the coastline. Join us at 5 00 and shes meteorologist jeff ranieri will have potential totals. As the storm moves through download the free bay area app. Qr code on the screen will take you straight to go the radar. You just have to get the qr code for the weather. You may see more waymo rowboat taxes along the peninsula. Today, california regular said they could expand service there, as well as in los angeles. Starting to more today, waymo can have rubber taxes on local roads and freeways. Speeds capped at 55 Miles Per Hour. There is no cap on the fleet size. The decision comes not long after regulators suspended the request. It has drawn pushback from political leaders in san mateo county. Stretch in a bizarre case in the cell they. And discovery during a dui arrest in gilroy triggered a School Lockdown this week. This afternoon, parents at the school say they are concerned about how it played out and how little they were told. And coal does live from gilroy to explain. En, what are parents saying . Reporter all of this started on monday. A lot of parents say it has been stressful and emotional week for them. That is because gilroy hopefully say on monday that 46 yearold marcus back was found loitering at an Elementary School next to his house. Stuff follow procedure in asking him to leave multiple times. When he did not, they called police. Two days later around 4 00 am wednesday, he was arrested for dui walks from his house. After a crash. Investigators searched his car and found a loaded handgun along with ar15 style rifle in the trunk. With the two incidents elected to him, please god in order to search his home. When they did, they found a strong smell of natural gas because a stove had been left on for quite a while. The smell was wrong Strong Enough they were concerned the house might explode. Pg e was called to turn on the gas. Nearby, the schools put on lockdown i spoke with a man who lives next door. Being a parent and having my daughter living here and knowing him. I did speak to him a lot. I am disappointed he would bring that around this area. It sounds like some parents were left in the dark. They were trying to get more information. Reporter that is the feeling right now. Two is a meeting going on as we speak with the district and police department. Some parents are slowly trickling out. The feeling all day has been they wish they had learned more a lot sooner. Several of them say they did not find out about the incident and how they were connected until wednesday or even thursday night. A part of the School District to have a meeting here that started at 2 45 and continues on. A private meeting. We were not allowed in. We talk to parents about their fears. Thank you for the update and we appreciate it. We know the meeting is going on and you want to go back to. Looking forward to the full story later on this evening. A shift in covid isolation guidelines. The cdc says it is now treating covid more like the flu. People who test positive for the virus no longer have to isolate for five days. They should treat covid like the flu and stay home with sick. You could return to school or work we feel better and have not had a fever in 24 hours. Change reflects a decrease in covid deaths since the start of a pandemic. And the recognition that many people are not testing themselves for covid anyway. The government is calling it an environmental milestone for california. 100,000 public and shared private electric vehicle charging stations have now been installed across the state. This milestone comes weeks after the California EnergyCommission Approved nearly 2 billion in funding to build the most extensive electric charging network in the nation. 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Chain controls are in effect on both highways heading into tahoe, as Jodi Hernandez showed us earlier. Even the people making their living chaining tires are advising against traveling. Is is how we make our living. But, it is no fun today for anybody. You cannot sleigh ride. You cannot ski. You are wasting your time. The roads are pretty bad. Caltrans, their priority is safety first. The safest thing to do is to stay home where it is warm. We spoke to several families in bay area have canceled their plans. They will be staying inside off dangerous roads. The snow will be there for the upcoming weekend. Palisade ski resort and you can barely see anything. The snow is building up. There seem to be white out conditions. The resort did not open because of the storm. These conditions are expected throughout the weekend. Lets bring in National Climate reporter chase king to talk about this from the perspective of our changing climate. Chase, how is Climate Change influencing storms like this. The biggest thing audrey, is allowing the storms to hold more moisture. If you are at the lower elevation, that means more rain. At the higher elevation, it means more snow. We are seeing some of the evidence of that. A specific piece of research from ucla where they found a mystic river storms like this may be able to dump as much as 25 more moisture now, as compared to before we started burning coal, oil and gas. It is a good thing we are building up a snowpack in this era. Building up the water supply. But, youve been reporting on how difficult it is when you get so much all at one time. 10 to 12 feet of snowfall. What is the Bigger Picture here chase for the snowpack and future storms . Are we getting more of this and what does it mean for all of us . There is some uncertainty. One of the things that climate scientists are concerned about is what happens when you get into a street where you do not get the storms. The drug can be more intense and last longer. On the other side, more moisture precipitation and snow when it does happen. In terms of this era snowpack this year, the central sierra is about 81 before the storm rolled in. If we get the full forecast and 10 feet of snow in the higher elevations, it is hard to imagine audrey, we will not be in good shape. Potentially over 100 of where we should be this time of year in the central sierra. This is really good news. Also, californias water reservoirs are doing well from the rain and snow last year. More good news for us, at least in the short term. Chase, always appreciate it. Trees for joining us today. It is an egg hatching that will be seen all around the world. The Bald Eagle Nest in San Bernardino mountains. Tens of thousands of people have been tuning in every day on livestream. The eagle is sitting on three eggs that were laid weeks ago. Could start hatching at any moment. 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The snow is coming down hard. Heres a look at earlier today. Lots of powdery snow in the trees and slow going on interstate 80. Chain controls obviously in effect along the highway. Conditions are so bad that everyone is urged to stay away this again. Lets take you outside and give you an live look at bay area. Is super cloudy and rain coming down. One of our cameras is getting wet. You may have gotten outside and got in a soaking. A live look at San Francisco, san jose and walnut creek. Now, a live look at storm ranger parked in the mountains. It is precisely tracking bay area rain like all the account. Chief meteorologist jeff ranieri kicks off our team coverage. It is going to be an eventful weekend. The snow continuing across the sera. We have seen on again and offagain rainfall as the area of upper level pressure spins to the north. Bringing in a cold last of her and the low snow. Across the bay area , we are starting to see the next round of rain beginning to move in with a few areas of lightening now developing through the San Francisco peninsula. I want to track it moving off to the north and east. It will keep the rainfall in berkeley and orinda through 5 30 did off to the south and rain over the Santa Cruz Mountains moving into palo alto at 5 15. No big changes in the forecast as we look ahead toward the upcoming weekend. We will undergo onagain and offagain periods of rainfall in the forecast through sunday. Spotty thunderstorms. Chance of small hail. Isolated wind gusts up