That area, how many folks need to be evacuated. If you do live in the area, steer clear of driving in those roads and obviously if emergency crews ask you to evacuate, you want to listen to them. Ill continue watching these images. You see some kids there, some folks in hoodies. Pretty cold out there, mike, so theyre dealing with that and so a lot happening in this area that we are working to get more information there for you. Mike, im going to check in with you because like you said, theres going to be more rain right there for them. Just some light rain, thankfully. Theyll be having heavier rain tonight. Light rain down there, temperatures about 51 degrees, nobody wants to be wet, let alone wet and cold but they look like theyre going to be safe. I saw a tweet from matt keller. We add a Flash Flood Warning. Some people had to be rescued. The Flash Flood Warning is over but you can see the rain moving towards the trivalley and also around san mateo, alameda, some light to moderate rain and thats going to be the case for the next couple of hours then just a stray showers as we head through the afternoon hours. Okay, taking a look at our traffic maps, i want to take you down to the Santa Cruz Mountains. Weve got several issues, exact same place we had them the last couple days, highway 17 at vine hill, a large tree blocking the entire northbound side overnight. They were able to establish oneway Traffic Control in the southbound lanes, exactly what we had yesterday, got that rolling around 4 00 this morning but taking its toll on the northbound side of the road. So keep that in mind this morning, you are going to have delays once again coming up from scotts valley. Southbound highway 17 past the cats restaurant, we have a land slide in lane number 2 so thats the far right lane. Theyre saying they need daylight to get that cleaned up. Thats pretty minor but still dangerous if you dont have daylight and northbound 17 just before state route 9, large pothole in the right lane. As many as five vehicles have flat tires. Well check some drive times coming up. In the east bay, the storm has caused a state of emergency to be issued in benicia. City Officials Say theres been extreme flooding, downed trees, residential and commercial damage, lots of treat closures there. The Industrial Area of park and channel roads was flooded because lake herman overflowed. Benicia police tell us no one was hurt or has called for help. One of the big issues in the north bay, the fast rising Russian River, its going to crest sooner than first expected. Amy hollyfield is on her way there right now. Lets check in with her along highway 116 in petaluma. Reporter hi, natasha. We are on our way to guerneville. We have been driving through rain a lot during this journey but getting a little break right now here in petaluma. But the situation is expected to be worse today in guerneville than its been all week and theyve already had a very rough week. Heres a look at the Fire Department riding through the neighborhood streets in rescue boat trying to get people out of their home, help them get out of their home if they were trapped. They said they did all they could, knocked on all the doors they could. They did pull a few people to dry ground. Those people feeling very worried about leaving their homes behind. Some people told us the mood yesterday really changed in guerneville as the rain kept coming. Everybody was calm and now its kind of a state of panic, all of a sudden, like, hey, its going to flood. Here we are. Reporter the river has already flooded. Neighborhoods today supposed to be worse. They think the rivers going to get 38 feet high or even more and they consider 40 feet a major flood. This is going to be more than 6 feet over flood stage. Officials say that theyre hoping that residents who havent evacuated will do so. But theyre hoping theyve gotten everyone out. Residents say its been very stressful but everyones been helping each other. We will have live reports from guerneville just as soon as we can get there. Live from petaluma, Amy Hollyfield, abc7 news. Amy, thank you. We do want to bring you a piece of information just into our news room. Montera middle school in oakland will be closed today because of a power outage. School officials tell us a tree took out the power yesterday. Its not back on yet. Again, Montera Middle School will be closed today. More flooding in San Francisco on alameda boulevard near 280. Water pouring down from the interstate helped to flood the road. Cars were still trying to go through it. Chp showed up overnight to help direct people to go around the water. As you can see a lot of people made it through that water. Marin county officials are keeping an eye on creeks after they rose above flood levels last night. Evacuations were briefly ordered in downtown san anselmo and parts of ross valley. They were over capacity last night. That and the threat of more rain caused officials to make the call to sound flood sirens and order evacuations. We have several cells still off the coast that were looking at and we believe that those cells are going to be pushing into the area. If they get stalled in the water shed, it could have another 2 feet of rise. Creek levels are receding now. Evacuation orders in downtown san anselmo were lifted. The Santa Cruz Sheriffs Office tweeted this video of heavy rain last night on circle drive in felton grove, around 11 00, they said water was 2 inches deep. This morning, water levels were slowly receding. Main street in downtown martinez is reopened this morning after that flooding, the rushing water. Video taken late last night shows water gushing down the streets. Cars couldnt get through but one brave man actually took his bike out and went that way instead. Alhambra creek came over its banks. Take a look at all that debris. Soccer balls and toys left out in yards washed up in a big pile there. Lets take you to danville now. A heritage oak measuring about 40 feet crashed into a home. This in the Alameda Diablo neighborhood. A truck parkd outside was crushed by the weight of the limbs there and water began leaking into the living area. The homeowner believed it was the weather making all the noise. I thought at first it was thunder. It sounded like thunder and then at that point we were in the kitchen and then you could see stuff coming through the ceiling. Hows the house . A mess. A mess, but fortunately, no one was hurt. The Building Department was called to the site and so was pg e, a crew was trying to turn off the gas there. Its believed a combination of the soaked grounds and the gusting winds caused that tree to come down. This morning, pg e crews still working to restore power to nearly 9,000 customers. The biggest cluster in the north bay with more than 2600 in the dark, 2300 without electricity in the east bay, about 2200 in the south bay and 1300 on the peninsula. And about 200 customers in San Francisco are waiting for the lights to come back on. 6 07 now. We want to remind you if you download the abc7 news app, you can find live doppler 7 under the weather section to track the green moving in where you live. Enable push alerts when you download to get weather alerts sent straight to your phone. A new toll system at the bay bridge, added Ferry Service to the city. After the break, the major redevelopment project already in motion. Were still tracking more showers in the bay area. 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He opposed us sanctions on russia. For war crimes forced to pay hundreds of millions for toxic pollution. Putting profits ahead of our kids health. Tell your senators to reject rex tillerson. And protect american interests not corporate interests. I have some good news. The Russian River forecast, the latest shows it cresting a little bit sooner and not quite as high. 9 00 this morning, 37. 6, below flood stage, about 24 hours from now but significant flooding is going to continue. Napa river at st. Helena is below flood stage and will drop lout the day. At 8 00 today, we will drop so some minor flooding. King tides today and tomorrow. Coastal and bay shore flooding is possible. If youre heading out today, well see a little sunshine from time to time. Taking a look at yet another closure, likely weather related here weve got some trees down and some power lines as well on highway 84 so that is closed at state route 35 the actual tree thats down is about 3 miles west of there but it looks like theyre forcing you off at 35 so im seeing some slight delays there approaching and we do have scattered showers this mark. Heres a look at a pretty soggy san mateo bridge, 17 minutes across right now if youre leaving hayward and heading to foster city. A former u. S. Senator booted off a jet blue flight. After the break, the reason he was escorted off the plane and his last minute plea to passengers. Passengers. Also, blizzard conditions in from the farming minds at ocean spray® a new epic flavor. Its cranberry. Its pineapple. And theres no. Sugar. Added. Cranberry pineapple 100 juice. The next big thing to hit the juice aisle. Of being there for my sons winning shot. That was it for me. Thats why im quitting with nicorette. 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Happening today, the families of the victims in the South Carolina Church Shooting massacre are going to speak directly to the man convicted in the shootings. A federal jury snansed dylann roof yesterday for the 2015 massacre. He is the first person to get the Death Penalty for federal hate crimes. It took jurors about three hours to decide between life and the Death Penalty. This is really cool video. Check out this drone shot of lower lake clemen tine dam in auburn. You can see all the water just gushing over the dam after sundays powerful storm. Abc7 news viewer jeff hall shot the video on monday and he couldnt fly too close because the mist was spraying up so high. In the sierra, more snow is expected to keep piling up until about 10 00 this morning, a heavy blizzard blanketed the haikt area yesterday with. The tribune reports the blizzard was declare add tier 4 storm, the highest level. Avalanche warning is expected to be lifted at 7 00 a. M. Wow. Yeah, blizzard warning through 10 00 but then a winter storm warning from 10 00 this morning until 10 00 tomorrow morning, just means its still going to snow, just not as heavy and blinding. But theyre going to get more. In terms of rain here today, were getting a break from that pounding rain. Still a little bit of wetness out there. Just some scattered showers as the day unfolds. Were seeing a lot out there, especially down across the Santa Cruz Mountains and thats the area its going to get hit again tonight heaviest so still some concerns with some mudslides, rock slides and possible Power Outages down there. Right now, ive got live doppler 7 dialed up on san ramon, diablo, danville, pleasanton, livermore, stone ridge boulevard, all a little wet. Some of our returns are heading towards union city. 880 and 237, standing water. Weve got a little bit of wet weather 880 in milpitas. And palo alto, were seeing some puddles develop there, also heres where some of the better radar returns more widespread over the Santa Cruz Mountains and theyre going to get heavier during the overnight hours. Look upstream. Notice theres not a whole lot of moisture in the air right now and thats why were going to have a relatively quiet today until tonight with pockets of moderate rain, potential for more flooding, good news, the winds will be light. Heres a look at the rain at 7 00. You can see its still out there. By 9 00, stray shower or two, same thing at about noon so were going to go from showers to sunlight, maybe a great day to capture a rainbow, hashtag it, abc7now. 5 00, pretty quite but by 9 00, 10 00, rain coming in, yellows and oranges on the peninsula and down into the Santa Cruz Mountains. Few spotty ones heading up 80 and then by 9 00, the rain starts to taper just as the commute ends. So stream and creek flooding, moderate. Tomorrow afternoon, the sun comes out and we just got more of it and warmer weather through the weekend. That is certainly welcome news. And taking a look at our traffic maps, i have some kind of half and half good news here. If youre going to be traveling many marin county, weve got some part of highway 37 back open. That was fully closed between 101 and lakeville road overnight due to sprit severe flooding. We had several vehicles get stuck in about 3 feet of water. About half an hour ago, chp let us know that they reopened the eastbound side to the road. The westbound side is closed there. Keeping an eye on that. Slight delay in both directions. Update on northbound highway 13 just past park boulevard. Just a slight delay there. Bay bridge metering lights are on this morning, sheen on the pavement this morning and a quick check of drive times today. 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The coverage of our showers, much less in the intensity not even close to where they were during the evening and overnight hours when some of us may have been woken up by claps of thunder and heavy rain. Where the dumbarton bridge runs into 880 and 238, you can see in union city, perry road, fremont boulevard, all of that getting puddles right now. Weve got some light rain moving through crocker heading over twoords benicia, vallejo, and moving away from American Canyon towards cordelia. The best radar returns from from the san mateo bridge south but we have a little bit of light rain on the Golden Gate Bridge, mainly dry during the day and into the evening hours before our next storm comes in tonight. I have an update, a pretty significant update for highway 37 in marin county. We did get word from marin county chp that they were able to open up the eastbound side of the road and they said thats actually incorrect. So we have a full closure still, eastbound and westbound 37 and that is between atherton and 101, theyll let us know when its back open but for now, you cant use that corridor. Growing backup on northbound 17, one way traffic in effect once again today. Due to a downed tree at vine hill, the same place weve had trouble the last couple days, sharing the southbound side of the road once again. That is one lane in each direction. Well take a look at some major closures for highway 84 coming up next. Back now to breaking news, were tracking this morning. People are being evacuated east of gilroy and jessica is tracking that at the live desk. This is what i mentioned earlier. People and their pets being evacuated and firefighters using everything they can, even their own trucks, theyre also using boats, all of this happening right now, south of highway 152 on lovers lane, which is about halfway between gilroy and hollister. All of it due to those fast rising flood waters overnight and right through all of those neighborhoods some people being able to drive out with their vehicles, those are the lucky few but some people are being rescued by boat at this hour. Matt keller will be out with a live report in just a few minutes. That is the latest here. Thats a scary thing to happen, especially before daylight. Thank you. Heavy rains saturated ground and high tides have led the city of benicia to declare a state of emergency. Lake herman has overflowed causing flooding in the Industrial Park area of channel and park roads. This despite efforts to lower the lake level. Downed trees and extreme flooding has led to street closures there. Residents are being advised to stay indoors and avoid flooded areas. Lets talk about the north bay. The fast rising Russian River. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield joins us live from forestville. Good morning, amy. Reporter hi, good morning. Were on our way to guerneville, wanted to stop off here in forestville to check out the situation here. Its cold but were getting a break from rain and wind. But we have had some rain on our way up here to the wine country but guerneville is where there are going to be some problems today. Take a look at firefighters yesterday, riding through neighborhood streets in a rescue boat, looking for people who need help evacuating from their homes. They did pull a few people to dry ground. Those people feeling very worried about leaving their homes behind. Firefighters say they did all they could to get everyone out, knocking on doors, before the river spills over its banks and crests again today. Ive lied here eight years and everybody else has lived here all their lives and they said, its not going to flood and i said, i think its going to flood. Reporter yeah, the river is already flooded neighborhoods. Today is expected to be worse. They think its going to hit 37. 6 feet by 9 00 this morning. They consider 40 feet or more a major flood. But this would be about 6 feet over the flood stage. Officials say they know that this is very stressful time for residents, but they really do hope that people will get their things and get out if they havent already. We will have live reports from guerneville later this morning to show you the situation there. Reporting live from forestville, Amy Hollyfield, abc7 news. Thank you, amy. Lets take you to Santa Clara County as alexis mentioned part of highway 9 still closed this morning. Mudslides are causing a big problem there, including this one on highway 9 at big basin way. It brought down trees and other debris and it trapped several vehicles for more than six hours. Caltrans workers cut up any trees and limbs in order to get all of that off the road. Those folks were able to get out of there around midnight. And always be careful when you are driving in this weather, especially when its dark outside. This is northbound 101 north of Bailey Avenue in san jose. Flooding closed all but one lane there and those flooded areas, tough to see at night. And gilroy, uvas creek continues to roar more like a river. Yesterday flooding from all the rain closed silvas crossing and several other roadways. Emergency crews responded to call after call. As you can see, theyre still speeding. We already encountered one guy stuck in the water up there, couple hydroplaners and no ones really slowing down at all. Weve gotten splashed a couple times already. Heavy rains caused countless trees to fall, many taking out power lines with them. Pg e crews are working to restore power to nearly 250 customers still in gilroy. Nearly 9,000 customers in the bay area without power. You see the numbers on your screen, a lot of it concentratesed in the north bay. They have the most, about 2600 in the dark. In the east bay, 2300 without electricity, and nearly 2200 in the south bay, on the peninsula, 1300 without power and in San Francisco, a little less than 200. In marin county, a landslide on sir Francis Drake boulevard in fairfax trapped two young kids and their grandparents inside. It came without warning. These trees came down in mudslide and smashed the carport and pushed all the mud out, and the carport is buried. You cant even see that it was there. And the trees are on top of it somewhere. Medics checked everyone out just in case. Everyone was fine. And at first they thought the girls grandparents would have to be carried out because of their ages but they said they were just fine and walked out on their own. We can see a repeat of this today along San Franciscos embarcadero, a combination of the king tides and all the rain, flooded part of pier 14 yesterday. Crews had to block off one lane of the embarcadero. Look at that. The water was just getting too high. Well see king tides again today and then again tomorrow. You can keep tabs on the latest storms with live doppler 7 just download the abc7 news app and be sure to enable push alerts to get weather advisories sent straight to your phone. Since we last talked, some flooding developing. You need to seek Higher Ground immediately if your live near the Los Gatos Creek as the rain gauges there or the stream gauges are showing that it is breaching flood levels and threatening los gatos and campbell areas in between and possibly a little bit downstream, remember, if it does get on some of the roads, turn around, dont drown. Thats going to continue until 9 30 so a new Flood Warning for that area. 13 inches st. Helena, 10 inches in lexington reservoir, 11 inches in the uvas, more than 3 1 2 in San Francisco, 3 1 3 in oakland. Saejs, about 2 inches. Look at danville, about 7 inches. So lets talk about the Russian River as amy just mentioned. Cresting at 9 00 this morning, below flood stage at 6 00 tomorrow morning. Good news, were below flood stage, napa river at st. Helena and just about below flood stage at napa. Well be there by about, say, 8 00 this morning. So, the minor flooding is going to take over. You can see a little bit of sunshine developing. The roads are wet this morning. Morning showers if youre on the water, out and about, it will be drier later. Weve got a lot of reports on flooding on onramps and some of those surface streets so thats where you want to be careful. Of course off ramps as well and we have a ton of wealth related closures this morning. Heavy pocket of rain over highway 84 fully closed from mission to scotts corner. That is that purple on our traffic flows. We also have a full closure on 84 right around the 35 interchange due to a slide. Weve got some downed trees and power lines down. So we just talked to chp about this one. Theyre saying that westbound traffic being forced off at 35. Youre not able to continue past 35. Actual slide is about 3 miles west of there and caltrans crews still on the scene cleaning that one up. Couple of many issues this morning. Ace 1 was canceled due to the mudslide and the niles canyon area but 3, 5, 7 got the all clear from Union Pacific to run today and bay bridge toll plaza, pretty typical commute for you. We do still have some lingering showers out there this morning so just slow down, drive for conditions. We have a lot of hazardous areas. Highway 17 is one of those. Ill talk more about that coming up next. Selfdriving shuttles on treasure island, that could be a reality by 2020. The San Francisco county Transportation Authority wants to test them for first and last mile transportation. The agency also wants to introduce a toll system from the bay bridge to the island as well as Ferry Service to and from the ferry building. Major redevelopment is underway on treasure island. 8,000 new homes are expected to be built there over the next 15 years. President elect donald trump is holding a press conference in just about an hour and 20 minutes. This comes as the fbi investigates unsubstantiated claims that mr. Trump was compromised by the russians. Those allegations surround a trip mr. Trump took to moscow in 2013. Democratic political operatives gave this information in a report to the fbi and later to news organizations, including abc news. Now this happened before and after the election. None of these claims has been verified by abc news. Theyve gained momentum among intelligence officials as mr. Trump continued to praise russian president Vladimir Putin. The president elect has fired off several tweets in response this morning, including the one you see on your veen. There, he quiz, intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to leak into the public. One last shot at me. Are we living in nazi germany . The kremlin says it has no compromising information and is calling the allegations pulp fiction. Abc news will have a special report at 8 00 this morning covering mr. Trumps News Conference. Santa clara county as approved measures to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation. Our Media Partners at the mercury news report the county will invest about 1. 5 million over two years in legal aid for anyone in danger. Since being elected, mr. Trump has said that he will focus on criminal undocumented immigrants. San jose city leaders approved a Communications Campaign that includes educating immigrants about their rights. Did you watch this on abc news last night . President barack obama returning to his adopted hometown of chicago to deliver his final public speech as president of the united states. As you can expect, he covered a lot. Among the most memorable moments when he was talking about his wife and first lady, michelle obama. You took on a role you didnt ask for. And you made it your own with grace and with grit and with style and good humor. Getting emotional there. He pledged again to support his successor during the speech. He also specifically identified Race Relations, income inequality and the state of plug discourse as threats to the public. Hazing at a north bay hoobl. Coming up, the Football Team at the center of this investigation and the way the district is responding. Plus will city college of San Francisco be free this fall . The faceoff that could put the plan in jeopardy. You can see its pretty slow you can see its pretty slow going this morning. Rex tillerson put exxons interests before americas. Im not here to represent the us governments interest. Instead, tillerson sided with putin. With billions in russian oil deals. He opposed us sanctions on russia. For war crimes forced to pay hundreds of millions for toxic pollution. Putting profits ahead of our kids health. 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Do not forget to bring your own shovel. We have a list of locations on our website, abc7news. Com. The California Emergency Management Agency is reminding people statewide to be ready for any type of natural disaster, prepare nor cals guidelines for stocking your emergency kit and developing an emergency plan for your family are on our website, abc7news. Com. Happening right now, the Senate Confirmation hearing underway for rex tillerson, whos the nominee for secretary of state. Heres a live look at that. You see the senator from maryland there asking a question there. I want to show you just moments ago, we saw tillerson arrive for those hearings and he is the former exxon mobile ceo. Hes considered a controversial pick. Trump praises him for being an International Deal maker but critics see it as a red flag because of his close connection to russia. He was just awarded the medal of friendship from russian president Vladimir Putin back in 2013. Well keep watching the hearings and have an update on later newscasts. We have new details on the investigation into assault allegations involving Napa High School football players. The napa valley registerers reports up to 11 students were involved in the hazing of jv players in 2015 and 2016. The Napa Valley Unified School district superintendent says theyre now determining disciplinary action after the districts own investigation found serious hazing. A complaint was filed in november with napa police and they are continuing to look into it. The outgoing superintendent of oakland unified schools is mking some bold recommendations on how to trim the budget before leaving his post. Antwon wilson will officially lay out those recommendations tonight and hes expected to suggest cutting 10 million in spending and also to place a freeze on nonteaching positions. School officials agree that spending cuts are necessary and they say cutting back may enable the district to pay for ongoing costs as well as for programs to improve student achievement. If youre banking on a free ride at the city college of San Francisco this fall, you may want to come up with a backup plan. According to the examiner, mayor ed lee and the board of supervisors are not seeing eye to eye on funding. The board voted 10 to 1 to allocate 9 million in taxpayer money for the project. Mayor lee wants to release the fund but not all at once and that is what is putting a wrench in the plans. All hope, not lost right now. Both sides have until march to reach a compromise before the idea of free tuition this fall goes up in smoke. I have a dramatic reenactment of my day yesterday sick at home looking out the window. This is just a 2 . Right. Thats the question. We had a 4 on sunday. Fair enough. We were all prepared for that 2 yesterday. Gosh it felt like more than a 2. Perception sometimes does not equal reality. But yeah, it did rain heavy at times yesterday but the rainfall amounts were within the parameters of a storm level 2 and the rainfall wasnt even close to what we had sunday, nor was the damage, but we did have a little more damage than the 2 would normally create because sunday set the stage with the ground being so saturated for a few more trees to come down but the flash flooding yesterday, not even close to what we saw on sunday. So, in that case, i can see what youre seeing, a lot of people were going, oh, he missed this one. Theres no way. And then last night when the thunderstorms rolled through, it was like this is not a 2, its thunderstorm. We talked about that yesterday, and it may feel a little bit stronger than a 2 but pretty much panned out. All right. Lets talk about reality some more. That was a great question, though, guys. What i want to show you is another positive. This was yesterday at 8 00. These electronic measurements come out at 8 00. 135 of average. You know theyve had a blizzard up in the sierra so thats going to go up and keep going up because they have a winter storm warning through 10 00 tomorrow morning. We have the issues as we talked about with the king tides. 10 40 at the Golden Gate Bridge tomorrow. Its about 20 to 40 minutes behind that if you go into the bay because it takes a while to spread into your neighborhood so look for some flooding in those low lying areas shaded in that kind of neon green there. Better radar returns right as you head into pleasanton or as youre heading into the sunol grade, no matter whether north or south or on 84 for livermore and that stretches all the way down to 680, 880 you know where you cut there right there to get across from one to the other, thats seeing some puddles develop there and 237, were about to have some puddles develop and also in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Storm impact scale for tonight, pockets of moderate rain, potential for more flooding. Light winds, though. So its a 1. 7 00 this morning, through 9 00, you can see we actually taper a little bit and then noon, some scattered showers. Isolated showers at 6 00 and then by 9 00, you can see the leaning edge of that next system which you saw some yellows, some moderate downpours are tomorrow. Some snow on hamilton, absolutely. By 9 00, the storm starts to wind down. My concerns . Moderate for stream and creek flooding, high for hydroplaning during tomorrows morning commute and still going to have a little bit of river flooding for tomorrow. Tomorrow afternoon, well see increasing sunshine and look at those 60s by sunday and monday. We are ready for that, mike. And taking a look at our traffic maps, i want to head back down to the Santa Cruz Mountains, it really has not been an easy week for you guys and the struggle continues here today. So northbound lanes at vine hill once again youre forced to share the southbound side of the road because we had a big tree down overnight. Got that oneway Traffic Control in effect about 4 00 this morning but you are crawling for about 4 1 2 or 5 miles, down to 5 Miles Per Hour or 4 Miles Per Hour when you get closer. Not a fun day there. Southbound 17 past the cats restaurant we had a smaller collide overnight. They said they needed daylight to clean that up. So right lane blocked. North of there, seeing some red as you approach state route 9, major pothole in the right lane, theyre running traffic breaks while caltrans crews fix that. Pretty soggy right now across the Golden Gate Bridge and a high wind advisory for just about every bridge in the bay area so both hands on the wheel. Overall, drive times not terrible. Want to get to live pictures now from sky 7. This is the first time we are seeing this. This is over downtown hollister. Weve been telling you throughout the morning, including from our live desk that there have been evacuations happening in downtown hollister and now were getting our first views from the air. You can see an Emergency Vehicle that is making its way through the flooded streets there. This is happening on lovers lane, south of highway 152, and we have watch as they have been taking people, some of them still in their pjs and with their pillows, out of their homes and into safe areas. So this has been going on for quite a while, been watching it this morning and there is quite a bit of flooding. Its a little hard to see, obviously, because its so dark outside. But pretty scarily situation given that a lot of these people, im assuming, had to be woken up in order to get out of their homes. You saw all of the areas in light gray on your screen. Thats water. So just a huge amount of streets and streets and streets flooded in that area. In that area. You can see why theyre t tadirectv now. 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And people are being rescued from those flood waters, taken out by bus, trucks, even boats, enable push alerts on your abc7 news app throughout the morning. Number two, we have flooding in the north bay as well and that has a full closure of highway 37. Chp for a short time said they had the eastbound side open but that is not the case. So both eastbound and westbound closed between 101 and atherton. You can use atherton as a detour. And number two, several areas flooding in the Santa Clara Valley as jessica mentioned around gilroy. Let me show you that. Flood warning will continue. Just to the west of watsonville until 11 15. This areas going to receive some scattered showers in the next two hours, heavier rain tonight. Number four, the storm has caused a state of emergency to be issued in benicia. City Officials Say there has been extreme flooding, downed trees, residential and commercial damage and a lot of street closures. They are being asked to stay indoors and keep away from flooded areas. Number five, the Russian River expected to crest at 6 feet above the flood stage later today and the river already flooding guerneville. Thats where residents are being given the option of leaving or staying. 800 homes in Sonoma County are being threatened by the river. Number six, president elect Donald Trump Holding a News Conference in about 1 hour. We are expecting him to address explosive but still unverified allegations that he was compromised by russian agents. Abc news will have that News Conference and a special report at 8 00 a. M. Number seven, a farewell to remember. Social media buzzing this morning following president obamas final public speech as commander in chief. He pledged support for his successor and identified Race Relations and income inequality as threats to the republic. That breaking news that jessica was just talking about, as we watch flooded streets evacuated in hollister. Really bad out there. Bol boats being used at this point, some folks taken out by fire trucks as well and their pets. Some in pajamas. Yeah, the middle of the night for a lot of them when theyre told they have to get out of there. Theres a live picture from sky 7 which shows you when it zooms out there, the extent of that flooding. That is incredible. Whoa youre not taking these. Hey, hey, hey youre not taking those. Whoa, whoa youre not taking that. Come with me. Youre not taking that. Youre not taking that. Youre not taking that. Mom, im taking the subaru. Dont be late. Even when were not there to keep them safe, our Subaru Outback will be. vo love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Good morning, america. Explosive allegations, news this morning that the fbi shared unsubstantiated reports that donald trump, he was personally compromised by the russians, claims he was filmed during a visit to moscow. Russia denies it this morning and the president elect lashes out calling it fake news, a political witchhunt. His senior adviser, kellyanne conway, joins us live as trump faces his First Press Conference since the election this morning. Flooding disaster. A major winter storm slamming the west, forcing highwater rescues and mandatory evacuations overnight as snow piles up. This avalanche spilling into a california home. And cars spinning out on icy roads in the midwest. Abc news exclusive. Charlie sheen like youve never seen him before
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