Asleep. Our reporter is in oakland with how this ended. I assume this was a wet wakeup call . Reggie we cannot help laugh. That is okay because all ended well as the tide receded the couple simply drove off. Let me give you perspective. I am at a parking lot at the toll plaza behind me which is westbound 80. Cross the traffic and beyond the trees there is a beach with a gravel road. That is where the couple was parked. The best point is from sky 7 h. D. And you can see the roadway and the little red car stranded by the tide. A man and a woman gave c. H. P. A thumbs up they were okay and told officers they drove out to the beach last night, fell asleep and woke up surrounded by water. Embarrassed by what handed they drove off an hour after we arrived so it took 9 00 a. M. Until 10 00 a. M. And waited for the car to recede. We will let them drive out of here and there was no problem that we observed so the best thing to do is let them get open their way. They helped their lesson. They may have learn the lessons but others have continue the same. The officer williams said it is not the first time it has happened and you can be cited for illegal camping on sunny days, often, you will see the indicate surfers here. You havely not advisable in bad weather and high tide. The good news is the couple drove off unharmed. Does it not cause any traffic problems because you cannot see that bench from i80s as you travel westbound. However, it did tie up a few c. H. P. Officers on what is a busy morning and what commute. Thank you so much. Look at this driving a real challenge today with storms moving across the bay area. The sidebyside view of the san mateo bridge that is on the last and the Golden Gate Bridge on the right both wet and storm clouds to the north and rain to the south. And now, the uptotheminute update on the radar. Look at emeryville you can see the wet weather coming down, the rain, lighttomoderate right now and it was heavy this morning so we had so much ponding, at 12 hour rainfall threequarters inch in San Francisco to nearly 1 around danville, san jose, and richmond and redwood city the look at san rafael nearly 2. You wonder why we have so much flooding . Between oakland and san leandro headed to danville and allah blow and walnut creek you can see between the san mateo bridge and dumbarton bridge heading to hayward and union city and fremont and newark pulling away from palo alto. In the next five minutes you will see tapering. Notice, we have steady line right behind this and that is it. The next six years we will get a break headed to later part of the afternoon, so, 506 and on light to moderate showers through the afternoon and isolated thunder is possible, and minor ponding is also possible this afternoon and a stinger storm is coming in tomorrow with more on that if a minute. The storms make for the best commute in the northbound, southbound 101 in san shot by cover with a cell phone he has in his car. You can see the windshield wipers were working overtime as the drivers hit the brakes on the wet road. Coverage kick off in the north bay with Amy Hollyfield at the alameda parknride in mill valley. Yes, kristen, we have a rare break in the weather. It has been relentless rain. We are pretty soggy and saturated. You can see behind me, there is the parknride with high tide coming in as the rain came down. The rain has left behind a lost a lot of problems. Look what the cars went through on national Highway Administration 101 in marin county. The rain created flooding as luck lucky drive. Drivers in the middle did better than those on the outside where the water was deeper but in problems reports weapon people slowed down. There were a last cars but not too crazy. I wish everyone had their headlight ogees. It makes it easier to seethe. The manzanillo parknride flooded. Again. Commuters tried to navigate around it but some went through it. We went through and it went under the car. Here comes el nino. Nightmare. A nightmare. A nightmare. I dont know what they will do about it. An old oak true could not handle the rain and topple over and planned on power lines. Pg e say need were still alive and it was tooization to go near skit take pictures. Everyone is fine. There is no damage. The power lanes are down but there is no damage. Everyone is okay. At 10 00 a. M. Heavy rain was still coming down. The threeyearold was ready to embrace it looking as put wills to play in and her father is enjoying it. Love it. Makes the dog walks easier. Makes me feel alive. Pg e said that the tree knock out power for 200 customers and they are helping to get the power turned back on by noon. Outside of mill valley for abc7 news. Some folks are in the dark with the rain and wind causing Power Outages with 300 customers of peg, mostly in the north bay, now have no electricity. Still in the north bay with ambassadory a break but in the south bay, live doppler hd we watched a huge problem of orange and red sit over san jose. Tranceation . Raining. Hard. If the morning commute looked like a mess keep in mind this is the baby brother to what we expect tomorrow. Our reporter matt keller watched it unfold in san jose. Matt . The worst of the rain is over. At least for now. San jose did see more than threequarters inch of rain between the hours of 4 00 and 7 00 a. M. This morning. You thing you had a rough morning . Look at this guy, stuff in the pouring rain. His car stalled in the flood waters in san jose. The fires helped him. A Police Patrol car gave his vehicle a push to a parking lot the down the road mored inned roads during the heart of the storm right around 6 00 a. M. We have seen heavy downpours here in san jose offer the past couple of hours. The roadway is flood asked this is stevens correct boulevard and cross the street is valley fair account entrance to 17 is right here so a lost cars are in the area making it very dangerous for drivers. There will be accidents today as the weather is bad, it is bad. I want everyone to be careful today. Message crews were busy all morning along in the south bay responding to traffic accidents and other incidents. Pg e workers say the wet weather could have been a factor in the blown transformer that knocked out power to dozen of customers at 9 apartments on winchester. The Public Works Department was busy trying to clear the drains. Busy . Yes. Trying to clear the drains is the big issue . Yeah. Yeah. You hear advise for driving in the rain. If you come cross a flooded road, do not drive through it it can take only 6 of water to stall the car. Flooded roads, plenty of for rain video, and members of our community are helping us show you what is happening where they live. You can share your video or photos using abc7now. We can use them on air or online. Emotional president obama addressed the nation unveiling legislative proposals and executive orders he is issuing to tighten gun laws in the United States. Each time i think about those kids it gets me mad. All the president was inreduceed by a man whose daniel was one of 20 in first grade killed in 2012 at san difficult hook elementary school. The centerpiece of the plan is to change the definition of a gun dealer to make more gun sales subject to back ground checks. He blasted the gun lobby for Holding Congress hostage. Until we have a conditioning that is in line with the majority of americans, there are actions in my Legal Authority that we can take to help reduce gun violence and save more lives. 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Others tried to free those would were buried in the snow. Two people ended up having to go to the hospital. Those women will be okay. People were running to him them. That is. It could happen in lake tahoe. A couple of years ago my season was building a snowman and a sheet of snow fell close to him. Get away from the overhangs. Or trees. Temperature, if or bay area, there will be a lot of rain. A lot of snow in lake tahoe and a lot of rain here. Good morning, everyone, in san jose one of the areas affected greatly by this mornings rain when it came down heavy. Make sure your storm drains are clean. That could be one of the biggest culprits to the floods we have been seeing. Now, moving failure in the forecast, and what you are going do see is onandoff showers today, and isolated town december is possible so there could be minor bonding when a shower or thunderstorms rolls offer on to which you. It will not be figure like the widespread nature we had this morning. Rain and wind is stronger tomorrow. And light showers are possible on thursday and again on saturday. Here is a look at bay sure we just had a moderate rain shower roll law in brisbane and now one to lafayette and walnut creek and the rain will intensify in the next five or ten minutes and it will decrease the intensive the rain over union city but as we head to dublin and san ramon and pleasanton, make sure you have the umbrella handy the next half hour, and as we head down you can see the scattering of heavier showers are mainly concentrated down to our south over the next couple hours as the back edge of the wall of water moves through in about the next three hours. The good news is flight arrival delays are down at for from 30 mens to 90 earlier. Here we are at 5 00, this afternoon, you can see how widespread the showers are and there is no yellow there is no orange, no reds, and that will continue through the evening commute at 7 00, you can see that. We get a break until 2 00 in the morning. You can seat yellows, the orange, moving ashower and getting ready to the show from peninsula and the heart of the commute starts at 4 00 and we will have brief heavy downpours with upon on the road through 5 00, and you will thing okay, first, that wave will end and then another minor wave from 6 00 to 7 00 and you will see oranges and the a 9 00 we get a break and after that a lighter public and then it never stops much the waves of showers are more numerous and heavier than today. I am thinking another 1 yep or 2 of rain is possible and the winds are going to be faster tomorrow and that is why our storm impact scale where we take a lot of different variables whether it is flooding, winds even how high the surf is, and put it into a scale that lets you kow how to prepare. So a stronger storm tomorrow with gusts up to 40 Miles Per Hour with downed trees and power lines. We will have more issues with Power Outages and flooding tomorrow than today. Now, lake tahoe is going to snow each bay but friday and sunday and my sevenday forecast shows get ready for showers on thursday and again on saturday and we will squeeze in some dry weather on friday and sunday before another chance of rain on monday. Thanks for the warning. Miss columbia is telling us how she feels about the onair mishap that gave her the crown and took it back. The ultimate oops when steve harvey announced the wrong winner. Now in a new tv, she revealed she cried a ton that night and the 22 year build we said her dream come true and was destroyed in a matter of minutes. Harvey is speaking out denying rumors it was a publicity stunt. Why the hell would i do that . Do you really think i wanted to be famous like this . Okay, he is making that crystal clear. 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