Into work this morning that could definitely slow you down a bit and results in lower visibility of that splashes on your vehicle looking outsider mount tam camera here you can vaguely make out the city lights down below it looks like of the east bay in the distance in sausalito down right there at the bottom of the camera what we are going to be seeing today is eventually a calmer picture this morning. We still are in the midst of some isolated showers that are falling San Francisco in the peninsulas calm down but we are still looking at some areas of rainfall out there across the car keen is especially so from concord on up across the benicia bridge through benicia and eventually up 80 between the lay how in fairfield is where we are looking at some of our most intense rainfall right now some pretty good showers stretching south towards walnut creek in danville as well little bit calmer towards oakland you do have some light showers out that direction the east bay around fremont also looking at some light sprinkles and a sprinkle or 2 out into the tri valley as for the south bay. Were continuing to look at spots of rainfall in moderate rain at times in areas like the vicinity of our burn scars in both the Santa Cruz Mountains as well as and on over into the diablo range you can both of those burn scars outlined in that red morgan hill you are also looking at some showers between morgan hill in gilroy some of our heaviest stuff and then right around sunnyvale little bit further right fremont even the dumbarton bridge is where youre also seeing some lingering moderate showers hanging on our future cast of rainfall totals is really showing us some pretty totals for the rest of the day today, what this means for us is that the showers are moving out of the picture but we still do have some lingering showers this morning and this roadways are still certainly wet for those of you venturing out onto them. 40s for your current temperatures, its a little cooler than we were at the same point yesterday santa rosa or loan spot in the 30s right now at 37 degrees. Youre also looking at some of our clear skin dry skies further there up in northern Sonoma County by the time we work our way into the afternoon look at this a cool and calm forecast ahead, lots of sunshine. Good day to be getting back out there may be enjoying some Outdoor Dining today and tomorrow ill be giving the latest on what to expect in our next weather maker thats into next week. Still to come in your forecast john thank you so much for a look at that forecast but lets get a look at our commute. If youre heading from the east bay into the city right now thankfully on our drive in. There were no accidents i still see any accidents reported along the freeway your commute is going to be under 11 minutes. And lets get a look at the san mateo bridge as commute across the peninsula. There yesterday. You could barely see anything as youre driving across the san mateo bridge trying to get across the peninsula there look at that traffic is nice and light the bridge though very wet on the roadways. Under 11 minutes for your drive time there lets head over to the Golden Gate Bridge and get a look at that roadways very wet and slick this morning take your time she commute into the city under 20 minutes. That theres not going to be any weather that could come through create a debris flow, but that doesnt mean that something could happen. Well the worst of the winter storm may be behind us, but the danger is not gone. Crews are beginning the cleanup process as they try to mitigate the threat of potentially deadly mudslides we saw a lot more rain across the bay area yesterday compared to earlier this week. This led to traffic accidents and more concerns of possible flooding and mudslides are always were slick along 2. 80 near palo alto a highway patrolman swerving back and forth on your screen thats a Traffic Control maneuver that was utilized because of a nearby car accident in cupertino will Stevens Canyon road was also closed after runoff from the hills made its way onto the road. Over in the east bay public work crews in Contra Costa County work. Busy tending to a downed tree on tice valley boulevard in walnut creek it toppled over from its base. Mix of strong winds and heavily saturated soil from the rain bringing it down. Some Evacuation Orders have been downgraded to evacuation warnings in san mateo and santa cruz counties. You can see on this map the warnings are shaded in yellow. The only Evacuation Order is near big basin state park. That is where officials are concerned about debris flows in the czu fire burn areas. Heres a video of the rain and water runoff in boulder creek. That area was spared from any disaster people are allowed to return to their homes. But emergency Officials Say its not an all clear for the season. It does say that this could become somewhat of our new normal of these. Accelerated events where evacuating folks in in head of a storm. All of the areas deemed safe for now residents are urged to have a go bag ready in a plan for to escape routes in case of an emergency. Take a look at this nearly 2 feet of snow fell at squaw valley alpine medals bringing the total to 4 feet. A fresh snow to the sierra since monday. Theyre also blizzard and avalanche warnings in that area. An officer with chp truckee tells us. This makes for very faint dangerous driving conditions there. Finding down slow down little down you know that because thinking of is the from number people are going that bell was coming out into the community to it. Heres what those whiteout conditions look like you can barely see more than 2 feet of snow came down. Donner summit caltrans warnings of long delays for anyone planning on leaving any time soon. The agency is also working to keep possible avalanches at bay. Now be sure to download the kron 4 news app to get the latest on the conditions up in the sierra as well as up to date information on any reports of flooding. Road closures Power Outages right here in the bay area. Now to the latest on the coronavirus pandemic the new variant that was first identified in south africa last year has now been found in the united states. Well doctors identified 2 cases in south carolina. Neither patient had traveled recently the south africa variant is not more deadly. And its 50 more contagious. Health experts say its only a matter of time before us detected in other states as well. And the south african variant as well as the brazil and the uk variance were the subject of an online discussion sponsored by ucsf well Health Experts say its still too early to tell how these variants will affect the vaccine. Kron fours dan kerman has that story. Vaccines and variance took center stage during ucsf us weekly online roundtable grand rounds. Medical experts confirmed that current vaccines may be less effective against the south african variant though they said it would still provide protection against the most serious cases given that so you know reason for concern it would be wise to develop updated vaccines that could have better recognize these particular variance that that they are sort of different than whats been seen in the past and indeed already. And pfizer have seen the past few days that they that they are going to do that medical experts also said the vaccines in their current form are effective against the uk variant. Which is critical considering it appears to be 30 to 70 more transmissible and possibly more deadly we see that people who tested positive for the very end. Look as i am i have a slight decrease mortality is not a very big but we think it may be looking about from different angles as couple increased transmissibility and possibly an increase in mortality, but experts say its what the variance have in common thats most helpful. The important thing is as that theres nothing different about these variants are still droplets. And so that masking and social distancing remains a primary means of protection. Ucsf stopped or George Rutherford was also asked whether the states decision to lift the regional stay at home order which will allow Outdoor Dining to resume is a good one there not randomized controlled trials, its a Outdoor Dining sums up thumbs down were working with the city to put together a series of case control studies. Could really examine those questions in greater detail referred indicates that everything is a tradeoff but with most counties moving to the most restrictive purple tier just letting up of the break is only a slight move at ucsf Dan Kerman Kron 4 news. Well the company novavax says its covid19 vaccine appears to be 89 effective. Thats based on early findings from a british study, however, the same Study Suggests the shot is less than 50 effective against the south african variant of the virus. Still the findings may help novaks or novavax get authorization for its vaccine in britain. But it will make more time here in the u. S. To get that together. The federal government is funding a larger study and officials are still recruiting volunteers. On the east Bay Public Health officials in Alameda County are hopeful in the next few weeks covid19 vaccinations will pick up Public Health officers doctor nicholas ma says they are still working in the top tier to Vaccinate Health Care Workers out on the front lines. Many are eager to get the vaccine which he adds is a good thing, but alameda similar to other counties dont have the supplies to meet that demand. A very Large Population of Health Care Workers were a large county and vaccine supply has been limited so. Much of the effort so far to date has been to make sure that we get through that phase one a top Priority Health care worker population. We are expecting to into phase one b very soon. Currently the county is trying to get more communication out to the public about the vaccination distribution and one more clinics could open up. Coming up on the kron 4 morning news as San Francisco begins reopening more of its businesses. Theres concerns on how this could impact the hardest hit communities. An indepth look on the impact on the Latin X Community ahead. Plus well break down the outcry over the robin hood apps decision to stop users from buying gamestop stock. What the company ceo was saying to investors. Happening later today, the march for life will take place in washington d c but it will very different from previous years because of the pandemic our washington correspondent basil john is live in washington with a preview to the march against abortion rights basal. Good morning yes, usually prolife activists from across the country come to the National Mall to make their voice heard but for this year because of the pandemic theyll go with a more virtual approach. In previous years, the National March for life brings people from across the country to fight for the lives of the unborn however because of covid19 the march will look different in a statement on the march for life website. It says quote the annual rally will take place virtually and we are asking all participants to stay home and to join the march of virtually we will invite a small group of pro life leaders from across the country to march in washington dc this year. The small group is expected to gather at the National Mall and walk to the supreme court. Florida senator marco rubio says he stands with their message. Not because its an easy choice because to me is to clear one. Because the right to live is the one right upon which all the other rights we claim. Rubio says he wants to work with the president to fortify laws around child care. But it starts from conception i believe that whats at stake is nothing less than identity as a nation on do the damage trump is done. However on thursday President Joe Biden signed an executive order reversing former president trumps Abortion Access restrictions protecting Womens Health at home and abroad. This and does things like the mexico city policy which bars us foreign aid from going to any organization that provides abortions or abortion counseling. Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell says the new Administration Needs to hear the marchers. Executive orders can alter the basic science of human life. Now the march will start at noon any virtual pro life gala will take place at 07 00pm reporting live in washington, im basil john arena. Thanks faisal. All right now back here at home it was raining so as i was driving into the city from the east bay. It was that like a car drove past me a bunch of water splashed up i couldnt see for a hot second is it going to be like this all day. Yeah, i know thats the risk driving into work this morning even though we have seen rainfall intensity decreasing were still looking at the leftovers from all the rain that weve been seeing which is what standing on our roads thats because ground saturated as it had a chance to soak in yet so watch out for that ponding water on roadways. The good news is we are on the tail end of this so its actually not sticking around all day. We do have lingering showers and in fact some pretty heavy rainfall right around the car. Keen is this morning. But the sides that much quieter picture out there, heres another view from your mount tam cam you can see out there the bay bridge looking pretty fine in the distance we did see a lot of snowfall these past few days in addition to the heavy rainfall that we saw here in the bay area, sierra tahoe squab valley in north star summit received well over 5 feet of snowfall now verging more so on 6 to 7 feet of snowfall after additional totals on top of all this last night homewood in tahoe donner also seeing some impressive snowfall which is really slow things down in the sierra but got to hand it to those crews theyve kept roadways clear as possible. And roadways have remained open, especially atf seen a lot of people to reverse an up theyre slowly with the chains i mention that we are Still Holding on to some showers this morning. The peninsula. Marine and sonoma counties of really dried out and just southern sonoma barely holding on to some light showers. I also mention that heaviest of rainfall that were seeing from concord over the benicia bridge to benicia an op on up between the laiho vacaville and fairfield so as you are driving on 80 this morning highway 4 as well 6. 80 do watch for some slick spots out there in both the north and the east bay showers do stretch down to walnut creek down to san ramon and down into the south bay to where we do have some lingering showers around morgan hill as well as up in the Santa Cruz Mountains saratoga and 85, definitely in the midst of some light to moderate shower activity right now, couple of pockets right around fremont just to the west of you and as i mentioned a bit quieter on the peninsula, currently lets zoom out across the region, we are still in that residual moisture but the Atmospheric River event is really starting to fade away now our next rainmaker sits well to the north and west and really will impact us for a few days so the rest of the day today just looks drier and calmer all in all as we work our way through the day. You did you do get a nice return of sunshine come this afternoon. A good chance to get out there and enjoy tomorrows chances of showers really just be skirting the north bay mostly northern portions of Sonoma County at times a few sprinkles are in but really the vast majority of the bay area is just going to be too far south to be tapping into this moisture right here sunday night is when rainfall finally decides its time work its way back into the bay area and thats when well start to tap back into that energy still under winter storm warnings and blizzard we are just looking at a few of them lingering right there in the western front of the sierra nevada. Most snowfall really tapering off now as you can see areas like trucking not really expecting anything the rest of the day. Some lingering snow fall in areas like pine crest as well as kirkwood on down towards Yosemite Lakes now todays daytime highs will be similar to where we were yesterday despite the fact that sunshine is returning. We will be looking at highs Still Holding on to the 50s bilbray at 54 degrees foster city and san carlos 56 south bay temperatures mostly in the mid 50s as well with san Jose Campbell santa clear all at 56. The state temperatures pretty similar with oakland right at 55 today, richmond and berkeley at 54, north bay temps also in the mid 50s for your daytime highs with a few low 50s out towards the coastline. Daytime highs, the next 7 days wont vary too much. Well have a slightly warmer day on sunday into monday as i mentioned we do see. Sunday night showers pushing back in with monday and tuesday being the rainiest days of the forecast before we drive back out into wednesday and thursday reyna john thank you so now lets get a look at your commute if youre traveling along the bay bridge. This morning like i mentioned theres a lot of water on the bridges, i was traveling into the city this morning it was a little scary, so please take your time this morning. We had a lot of spinouts on across the bridge throughout the bay area all yesterday. Take your time your commute though is still under 11 minutes. So thats a good thing. All right. Lets also get a look at our san mateo bridge right now lets head over there is people are crossing to the peninsula see how wet. It is you can physically see puddles on the bridge there just give yourself a little more time your commute this morning under 15 minutes. Well a bay area stock trading and investing app robinhood is facing outrage after user say theyre being treated unfairly the app restricted people from buying shares in Video Game Store gamestop and other companies after the stocks went viral online mccraw forced and thor breaks it all down. Users of the investing app robinhood a revolting after the Company Stops them from buying certain stocks. A small group of protesters gathered outside the companys menlo Park Headquarters thursday as thousands of others went after them online partners. The Trading Platform was only allowing users to sell stocks in gamestop and a handful of other companies but not to buy them robin hoods ceo addressing the decision to restrict the trading thursday or really unprecedented times in order to protect the and protect our we have limit in these in these talks but users are not seeing it that way the company is accused of shutting out its customers and siding with big billion dollar investment firms one Class Action Lawsuit alleges market manipulation to protect the wall street elite who were short selling businesses like gamestop amc movie theaters and former smartphone giant blackberry what had happened was that wall street was betting so hard. That gamestop was going to fall and so bad that these people online realized there was a way to exploit this pet robin hoods finances have also come into question but the company says it does not take commissions on trades the action to stop users from trading will likely soon lead to regulatory and legal battles washington lawmakers are also weighing in congress is now starting to look into this out sanjay Ocasio Cortez and ted cruz, 2 people on very different sides of the aisle agree that something needs to be done and when you of those people you are in trouble. Reporting in San Francisco. Dan thorn kron 4 news. Coming up next on the kron 00 00am morning news, the irs kickoff tax season in just a couple of days. What you need to know about filing your return during this pandemic especially if youve been working from home. Taxpayers will have to pay extra special attention this year because filing your 2020 taxes, look very different due to the pandemic first tax Filing Season starts later this year. The irs push the date back to february 12th. Another major change that with so many people now working from home. Some taxpayers may try to write off their work from home expenses but experts say the Home Office Tax deduction may not be available to everyone who works from home. If youre an employee and you get a w 2 do you you know passed a few years ago the as next few years up to 2025 employees are not eligible to what are called unreimbursed employee business expenses which includes Home Office Expenses so if youre an employee youre not able to duck those on your federal return you may be able conduct more in your state return. Well if you are self employed or Small Business owner you may be eligible talk to those at home expenses. Well experts recommend you speak with a Tax Professional or use a do it yourself tax program that allows you to reach out to a professional. If you have any questions. All right welcome back to the kron 00 00am morning news, you know john it was actually coming down a really hard as i was driving into work people were sliding all across the roadways. This morning. Police tell me this weather is going to stick thats not good to that we ought to slow it down out there as youre on the roads because the last thing we want to be doing. This city one of those pond in spots on the roadway and lose control of your vehicle we do still have a lot of water left on our roads because ground so saturated that water just sitting there until to really good dry stretch ahead of us this weekend. A lot of that ground will start to soak into the water will start to soak into the ground. You look outside at our Camera Network view from the north bay down at the Golden Gate Bridge. So some pretty clear skies up in moran and the coastline. So we do have spots have cleared out really nicely. There are some areas though where rain is still coming down and that does include portions of the east bay you do see our heaviest of rainfall sitting right c