Toward big sur where they are just getting pummeled you see all that rain coming in there right now the core low still spinning off the coastline and that means were going to see wave after wave of Energy Rolling off coastline and pump into california right in the bay area that is going to keep things going very wet on and off throughout the night tonight. And well into tomorrow as well you see the rain though a fairly light scattered showers around much of the bay area but head further south its a different story in fact that rain really has been coming down to the moderate base limits gilroy and into the Santa Cruz Mountains, when morgan hill youre just getting pummeled right now with some very heavy rainfall. Some of the rain rates over the mountain tops there were looking at over 3 inches per hour that is a flooding type of rain that youre going to get in there you go over 3 almost 4 inches of rain per hour with that cell thats moving through there that has been a slow mover indeed so not only there but continue further north now into san jose you more or yellow and orange begin to show up in and around that area and certainly theyre getting some heavier amounts of rain developing in that area as we take in for a street level you see some of the rain moving on through continuing it through alum rock right there as you make your way into the north there continue with those cells sliding on by also you get your free month just up in the foothills there youre starting to see some heavier amounts of rain stretching all the way across in the snow in fact you get main street in snow youre seeing some pretty significant rainfall in your neighborhood, some of that just to the north as well all that rain coming down around the bay area in a short amount of time causing some Major Concerns right now were looking out for for some flash flooding around a good part of the bay area and looking at flash flood warnings up that means a flash flood is already happening now in the Santa Cruz Mountains the Big Basin Redwoods State Park in around the burn area, youre looking to flash flooding taking place now or certainly imminent. They have seen over 4 inches of rain in the Santa Cruz Mountains and it continues to fall heavily there tonight, guys all right are saying very much and as just mentioned at least 4 inches fell overnight. In the Santa Cruz Mountains and perhaps more it. Higher elevations there there are now threats of debris flows and mudslides kron fours rob fladeboe reports from Boulder Creek that the evacuation orders there have been extended. And after a brief war all the rain heavy at times resume wednesday here in Boulder Creek and across the Santa Cruz Mountains as of midafternoon, no serious debris flows are mudslides were reported in burn scar areas ravaged by last summers wildfires. Officials announced evacuation orders for those areas are to remain in effect. But still defying those orders and unimpressed by the storm so far as riverdale road resident William Masterson not bad at all, i mean. No it was pretty normal a normal rain up here, you know what you normally get up here and hard for a while and stop. For so long highways 9 into 36 along with alba and other mountain roads are dodging Falling Rocks and limbs falling from firedamaged trees swollen creek says steve drainages send water shooting downhill suggest heavier rain at Higher Elevations where debris flows in those wildfire areas remain a threat, however unpredictable says san jose state Civil Engineering professor thunder or selling green we we can guess which areas that the flows may happen. But pinpointing exactly which locations within that area. With we just dont have that kind of the ability to predict. So the safest thing for people to do is heed evacuation orders. Get out for a few days intel. But the rain passes busy clearing clog storm drains road crews and other heavy equipment along with First Responders have been pre staged in areas where the rain has been heaviest. Some early weather models predicted as much as a half inch per hour. But that has not occurred as yet. William masterson whose home is near one of those burn scars captured what to him isnt an impressive 4 inches of rain overnight you live here you get used to it youre living in a forest through trees fall. The road gets blocked. Power goes out. I mean i thought legos has always been that word. In other words so far so good and here in nearby scholten a sign offering some encouragement to those weary of all the fire and rain in the Santa Cruz Mountains rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Medication orders and warnings have been issued near the burn zones in san mateo and santa cruz counties you can see it here on this map. The areas shaded in yellow are under an evacuation warning the areas shaded in red are kind of a brownish color. Those are where evacuation orders are actually in place 11 the east bay, regional parks are now closed because of the high wind danger, the closures are in effect through 8 oclock in the morning on friday, some sites were already shut down because of covid restrictions we have the list of all of the closed parks on our website kron 4 dot com. The heavy winds and rain from this storm system knocked out power to 10s of thousands of bay area customers and it also knocked down a lot of trees kron fours Maureen Kelly shows us some of the damage in San Francisco and in the north bay. In this video pg e crews, their trucks and heavy machinery take over an entire lane of traffic on sir Francis Drake boulevard in Point Reyes Station workers out there replacing a power pole and down line that were taken out by a falling tree about 09 30pm tuesday night. It left roughly a 140 customers in the area without power during the repairs which stretched into this afternoon pg e crews have been busy helping restore power all around the bay area at the peak nearly 42,000 customers have their electricity knocked out by the storm which brought heavy downpours and high winds. The utility brought out all of their available crews to deal with the cleanup and activated their Emergency OperationsCenter Tuesday and say theyll keep it open until all customers have their power restored. There were still some heavy bursts of rain that could be seen wednesday coming down in west marin which gave windshield wipers a workout. The overnight combination of wind and rain also did a lot of damage to trees in the city of San Francisco. The department of public works spokesperson says they responded to roughly 3 dozen downed trees and limbs these images show a tree that was snapped in the storm, its downed limbs engulfing and dent in a car on the street in the sunny side. But as it came crashing down in the overnight hours. There were no injuries. Maureen kelly kron 4 news and our coverage of the Atmospheric River continues now on kron 4 dot com there you can find the inner active evacuation map get the latest weather alerts and a list of road closures and preparedness tips. Another big story were following right now in the biden administrations first Coronavirus Briefing the new head of the cdc. Give a grade forecast for the coming weeks Rochelle Walensky says the agencys latest projection predicts United States will have between 479 and 514,000 deaths by february 20th. United states leads the world was 25. 4 million cases and right now more than 425,000 deaths Oakland International is the first airport in the nation to sell covid test kids out of vending machines forcefully to go explains the additional testing option for travelers. The centers for Disease Control and prevention says if you plan to travel internationally. You will need to get tested for covid19 no more than 3 days before flying into the u. S. And provide proof of a negative result for recovery from an infection. For those traveling out of Oakland International airport. You can now buy a test from kiosks set up in both terminals really fast convenient to the vending machines are contactfree the athome test kits require travelers to send a saliva sample back through the mail. And get results through an app its been a tough year this pandemic has been everyone and we just want. To help travelers navigate through this pandemic and able to have testing options. The state of hawaii strongly suggests pre travel testing travelers arriving there without a confirmed negative test within 72 hours of departure. Are subject to a mandatory 10 day quarantine if the demand is high were looking at possibly expanding these throughout the airport not just in the terminal areas for ticketed passengers but also. In near taking areas where its pretty security the test kits range between 130 to 150 each. This in addition to the curbside rapid covid19 testing. Already available at the airport phillipe djegal all kron 4 news. Millions of people may have to repay some or all of the jobless got during the pandemic thats because california is an Employment Agency stopped enforcing eligibility rules to try to process claims quicker that allowed about 2. 4 Million People to get benefits said they werent actually eligible for. And another 1. 7 Million People who qualified may have been overpaid but given the monumental amount of take to correct all those mistakes, its unclear exactly how the edd will move forward to try to fix this complicated issue still ahead as 6 downed trees flooded areas all across the region, another check on our 4 zone forecast after the break. Plus Homeland Security issues, a National Terrorism alert were going break down the heightened threat across the u. S. And a live report from washington dc senators work on passing a bipartisan covid relief bill. And the east bay last storm knocked down power to hundreds of pg and e customers in Contra Costa County crews continue to try and clean up the debris from toppled trees knocked over by the storm thankfully. The damage was not as bad as initially estimated, but nevertheless some roads were still closed down and power still out we talked to one homeowner about the damage. The middle of night. Offense banging. When outflows in didnt see this but we lost power early evening and then you know this. Its not the whole night we didnt have any power. Logan this morning is out a stray. These yene says this single tree cut off power to about 50 people and so far the utility has not given an estimate on when power will be restored no more when the road will be reopened so this sounds like a great time to check in on our Weather Forecast specially talking about the winds chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow lawrence i was just looking at up those wind speeds youre giving theyre getting close to hurricane strength yeah that amazing that was down not just the mound to frazier usually see those incredible winds were seeing these in many places where we all live in fact. In richmond last night. Then a gust of 61 miles an hour berkeley in a gust of 56 Miles Per Hour half moon bay, 54 about oakland 49 Miles Per Hour, lets get lets get this 63 miles an hour. And san jose right there downtown 47 Miles Per Hour. So. Yeah, it was blustery around the bay area continues to do so maybe not as windy was yesterday. But youre going to see some periods of very gusty winds and some heavy rain and we have whole lot of rain around the bay area the past 24 hours to over 2 and half inches him or in tehran over an inch and a half map almost 2 inches of rain San Francisco, almost an inch san bruno over an inch and a half and in the Santa Cruz Mountains that is the bulls eye right now over 4 inches of rain in county. And it has been dumping there you can see the track now as the main front moved all the way down toward big serve announced begin to lift back into the parts of the bay area as that low begins to drop the south thats helping lift the system thats going to bring with it more rain and heavy rainfall overnight in spots so the heaviest now is mainly to the south you can see that right there towards linas moderate you roy morgan hill boy its been really coming down in those rain rates over 3 inches per hour a little further north you go you can see the rainfall continuing to san jose heavier amounts of rain just a little bit further to the east now and so yeah were watching some of these spots get down to street level here youre on san wrote you get some pretty good rains near toward evergreen also more that rain falling in the pleasant in that continues to dump boy borough avenue youre seeing some heavier amounts of rain there as well so thats what well see on an offer to see periods a very heavy rainfall throughout the night tonight is going to be a little more spotty not quite as steady as last night but certainly some very strong storms ahead and probably some more Power Outages around the bay area to sell. Yeah, i know was a messy night last night and now were putting on top of that more rain and more gusty winds just given more of chance for some the trees to come down power lines look at this map is laying low enough so much color out there. Yeah all right lawrence, thank you. In National News now and ominous warning from Homeland Security today in the wake of the season the u. S. Capitol back on january 6 it issued a rare National Terrorism warning Catherine Heenan is here to explain whats going on catherine yeah, boy if anybody had expected threats of Domestic Violence to fade away after the inauguration. That certainly has not happened. The last time a warning at this level was issued it was a year ago it focused on for terrorism. Today the department of Homeland Security says this january 6 siege on the capitol this has motivated extremists to continue to mobilize with plans to commit more violence doesnt help that rioters made the breach look disturbingly easy that day there is information that there are ongoing plans to again target elected officials and government facilities Homeland Security these are among the trigger issues motivating extremists coronavirus restrictions, the 2020 election results. Police use of force strong opposition to immigration. Some lawmakers meantime are now renewing calls for a crackdown on domestic terrorism. We need to take the risk very seriously january 6 cape clear evidence to the entire nation to risk we face of domestic terrorism as much not more danger to the security of americans. As any for to us today. And remember Homeland Security under President Trump did not issue any kind of similar warning before the january 6 rally that turned into this ride at the capitol federal authorities now taking the threat very seriously. In fact theres growing concern now over the safety of lawmakers when they are traveling outside washington dc, including back to their home districts. Amman can. Thank you catherine thats pretty remarkable napa county man has been charged after federal investigators discovered pipe bombs and guns at his home and his business 44 yearold in Benjamin Rogers was found in possession of 5 pipe bombs 49 firearms and 2 dozen ammunition boxes with thousands of bullets. The fbi says it also found materials that could be used to make bombs. Investigators say they recovered Text Messages from rogers phone that reflect his believe the former President Trump won the 2020 election and that he had intended to attack democrats in order to ensure trump remained in office. Rogers was arrested earlier this month. He is being held on 5 Million Dollars bail. He faces 10 years in prison and 10,000 is a fine. One of 6 men charged in a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has pleaded guilty 25 yearold ty garbin admitted that the group discussed a scheme to kidnap whitmer from her Vacation Home and destroy a bridge to try to slow down police. Back in october, the fbi said it broke up the plot to kidnap the democratic governor by antigovernment extremists who are upset over covid restrictions in michigan in the plea agreement garb and admitted to more than 6 pages of allegations, including saying he and others trained with weapons last summer the trial for the other defendants has been set for march. Now to another big story. Were following tonight work on the next Coronavirus Relief package is under way on capitol hill, our washington dc correspondent kellie meyer joins us now live. She has the very latest kelli. Good evening, pam and ken well the senate is taking the next steps to reaching a bipartisan agreement here but the key word is bipartisan and that could be a challenge in the coming days. On wednesday Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer called for bold action from the senate to respond to the pandemic crisis, the danger. Of under shooting our response to covid19 is far greater. An overshooting well see what senator schumer intends to do with that alaska republican Lisa Murkowski hope senators can come up with a bipartisan agreement. And called on the new administration to step in to work to try to get bipartisan a proposal that can be moved through our Team Continues to build support for the American Rescue plan White House Press secretary jen psaki says theyre already in talks with members of congress, the president Vice President or engage directly. With members and have had a number of productive conversations President Joe Biden wants to work with both sides to get the package across the finish line is can require congress to pass the American Rescue plan provide funding to administer the vaccines to ramp up testing. And senator schumer said today he wants the next covid relief package to be bipartisan. But he says if lawmakers cant reach an agreement he wont hold back on moving forward, he wont hesitate. And republicans he might not have their support. So kelly right now one of the lawmakers thinking about putting in this next covid relief package. So theyre looking at things like stimulus checks are looking at state and local for government funding, theyre looking at Vaccine Distribution but this all comes right now with a nearly 2 trillion dollar price tag which is something that some republicans and some democrats. Cant go for but senator schumer says that hed rather go to big ben to small when it comes to Something Like pandemic relief. Kelli meyer live for us in washington dc on capitol hill kelly, thank you very much. Coming up the San Francisco school board votes to rename several schools, why the mayor says shes unhappy about some of these changes. An update on a story weve been following the location of that stolen laptop from House SpeakerNancy Pelosis office during the capitol riot has yet to be revealed the attorney for the suspected thief, this woman, 22 yearold Wiley Williams from pennsylvania says searches of her home and her car have failed to find it and he says he doubts she never actually had it. Williams also denies allegations that she tried to sell that laptop to russia and aid for Speaker Pelosi said the laptop was taken from a Conference Room and was used for presentations coming up next wall street suffers some steep losses posting its worst day since october. 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Now 6. 30 were continuing to track the rain and the wind across the bay area and beyond tonight, this is live radar showing the conditions around the bay area right now our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow very busy gonna bring us now the latest on what we can expect the rest of the night, yeah its going to be a very busy night here well see wave after wave of rain moving in across the bay area someplace getting hit hard temporarily and then all the sudden its going to go away so out there now were seeingp that. Were seeing some windy conditions out over the bay bridge you can see the tattered flag out there as well looks to see those winds kind of whipping around the bay area throughout the night tonight and tomorrow too so you have got a long way to go with the storm system is far from done and this the last 24 hours all that rain came pouring through the bay area yesterday afternoon and then really intensified as the main front begin to come through and then a second all the way to the south and we thought well maybe were done with that know weve got low pressure diving on the backside and watch happens we watch all that moisture begin to start to lift into the afternoon today moving back into the Santa Cruz Mountains again before long the scene that moves show up across a good part of the south bay as well, so thats where we sit right now that rain moving in more light rain popping up in around the bay area but certainly pockets of some downpours right now as we look toward freeman youre seeing some of those cells continue to slide on through there in fremont boulevard you see that rain picking up just a little bit the more that on the way throughout the evening in fact just to the east now were seeing some of those cells sliding on through can see right here as we look at your street level rate sound in spot right there. Was good road seen that coming down very heavily admission boulevard its coming down very heavily there as well and its just come scattered about the bay area right now youre seeing pockets of storms kind of blowing on through right now so you can see these pockets of heavy rainfall though dissipate and move on out, but certainly in the spot youre getting a lot of that rain in a short amount of time so were going to watch out throughout the night tonight and even the possibility some thunderstorms developing outside you see really just rip to the south there gilroys leave us and the monterey bay thats kind of been the reese we spot right now as far as the rain is concerned some of the rain rates over 3 inches per hour by the time out storm for you throughout the night tonight. Another way of moisture going to come on shore about 8. 30 that one could have some thunderstorms embedded in that they see more of that sweeping up across parts of the south bay to the Boulder CreekMountain View fremont as we head toward midnight things settling down a little bit after midnight but more rain continuing kind of on and off then you get these waves of energy coming through the middle of the morning tomorrow and then looks