Meteorologist rob mayeda is standing by to explain the wind and rain were seeing right now, but first, lets join Marianne Favro in pacifica, where the city manager declared a local emergency. Marianne. Reporter thats right, terry, pacifica has certainly taken a beating, especially in the last week. And as we see now, there are extremely high winds out here, and its not getting any break. The Apartment Building you see behind me as been redtagged. That means it is no longer safe for residents to live there, and many people have already moved out. The problem is the erosion on the ocean side of these apartments making them more susceptible to fall into the ocean. The city manager has just declared a local emergency, and shes hoping that that declaration will help bring the city more state and federal emergency funding. Now, mike, who asked us not to use his last name, moved into this apartment about three months ago. Now the city is asking him to leave because the whole building is at risk of falling into the ocean. He says most of his neighbors have already left. Everything i own is here, and i just moved here. I dont really have the Financial Resources necessary to relocate, and i know im not the only one in this building thats like that. Reporter we talked to pacificas city manager, laurie tinfoe, just a few minutes ago. She told us she declared an emergency after seeing several problem areas throughout pacifica, including this Apartment Building on esplinade avenue. A sinkhole caused by last weeks storms is getting bigger. She says repairs will cost the city millions of dollars and that it doesnt have those funds. So, the local Emergency Declaration will enable the city to ask for state and federal emergency funds. The City Council Must confirm that declaration, and that is expected to happen on monday. You may remember that this is not the first time that there have been problems in pacifica. Back in 2009, in 2010 i was out here again covering these homes, which were again redtagged. Now, two of the Apartment Buildings here have been redtagged since 2010, and the city manager says they need to be demolished. Reporting live in pacifica, Marianne Favro, nbc bay area news. All right, marianne, thanks a lot. Well, the king tides and rain are responsible for some flooding in the north bay. Cars taking a chance, driving through street flooding on shoreline highway near the Manzanita Park and ride in mill valley earlier today. There are cones set up, but you can see right there, drive between the cones or it could be trouble. This walking and bike path near coyote creek got a whole lot narrower. The water rose so much, some paths could only accommodate one at a time. Well, the rain is starting to clear out. Thats very good news for some people, as weve seen. This latest string of storms moving out just a few hours from right now. Take a look at some rain in san jose earlier today. Weve seen pockets of showers on and off in the south bay all day long. Meteorologist rob mayeda has the latest on when its moving out. Well, were still tracking some of the showers around the south bay, west of downtown san jose right now, light rain that continues to head off towards the south and east of santa clara. And you can see the pattern here. As weve gone through the afternoon, we have sunshine which has made for dramatic rainbow views throughout the area. Most of the action across the south bay and still snow in the sierra and thunderstorms there off to the north of sacramento, but the trend, at least over the next 12 hours, is turning more calm for the bay area. 50s outside right now. You can see the clearing skies. And after the rain and things begin to dry out, were going to see patchy fog heading towards tomorrow morning. So, in terms of wind and rain, things calming down, except on the coast. Youve still got a High Surf Advisory through 10 00 p. M. You can see the wave heights, 14 to 16, 17, 18 feet there right to the west of half moon bay, and the forecast moving forward looks less rainy but still some dangerous surf as powerful storms out here in the pacific sent waves again, maybe 20foot breakers heading back to our shoreline by early next week, but thats also the catch, big waves but less rain in the forecast. Big change ahead in the sevenday forecast. Well show you that coming up in a few minutes. All right, rob. Thanks a lot. You can keep track of the weather right on your smartphone. Vicky nguyen shows us how you can use our app to get conditions for your neighborhood any time. Its easy to get connected to the weather outside by going inside the nbc bay area app on your smartphone. Just touch the radar on the weather page. There you can zero in on your own neighborhood to see if its raining. That gives you just what you need to know right when you need to know it. Im vicky nguyen and thats how to stay informed with the nbc bay area app. Coming up in just ten minutes, a winter storm unloading on the northeast. Heres a new picture of the storm from nasa. A state of emergency in the new york city area. More than 19 inches have fallen in central park. Subways have closed. More on that in about ten minutes. Caltrans says it is nearly done fixing leaks on the new bay bridge. Take a live look at the span, which saw quite a bit of rain today and over the last few weeks. In fact, in recent weeks, the bay bridge has seen the most water its eve seen since its completion back in 2013, and that is bringing back previous concerns over rust in the steel support structures. But now, caltrans says that caulk is the solution. Yes, the stuff you use around your bathtub, thats the solution. Crews have been sealing leaks and hundreds of holes with caulk, and the work is nearly done. The chronicle reports the caulk costs about 40 a tube. Caltrans says engineers will be working with a Bridge Company to complete other weather improvements by the middle of this year. Happening now, a super bowl city shut down. Today is the first day roads are closing to get ready for that big event. Take a look at the map. All the red you see here near the embarcadero is about to become the center for super bowl activities leading up to the big game on tuesday. Roads will also shut down around the moscone center. Nbc bay areas Christie Smith live in San Francisco, where traffic is starting to back up. And christie, how are the roads today . Reporter well, terry, were standing on washington street, which is one side of the closure for super bowl city, and you can see for those who chose to drive, at least on this side, it is slow going this afternoon. Certainly sfmta has been pushing for people to walk, take Public Transportation or ride a bike, as the free to the public fan village for super bowl 50 takes shape along the embarcadero and Justin Herman plaza with art, technology, food and more. Plus, there will be the nfl experience going on, and thats a ticketed event. Tens of thousands of people are expected to pour into the city each day. Super bowl city opens january 30th. Now, getting around the city can be tough any day, so the next three weeks certainly a challenge, but the Host Committee points out at least for the first few days, it will be a good time for locals to come down and enjoy the event. The big super bowl crowds likely wont get into town, they say, until the thursday before the big game, and there are a few unique features. Number one, were opening this fan village nine days before the game. And this first weekend will be deemed hometown weekend for the locals of the bay area to come down, get a taste of super bowl. Even if they dont have a ticket to the game, they can enjoy all the free to the public fan experiences. Reporter now, southbound embarcadero is closed now by the Ferry Building, also market from beale to stewart and howard over near the nfl experience. The detours are up today. And while traffic is backed up in some areas, many streets appear to be empty. It looks like some people did get the message, are just avoiding the area altogether and not driving, at least right now. Weve seen a lot of people on foot or on bikes. Now, this will be up through february 12th. The detour is to give time to dismantle everything that was put up. Reporting live in San Francisco, Christie Smith, nbc bay area news. All right, christie, thanks a lot. Interesting little glitches there at the end. Heres another look at the map of road closures. Super bowl city is squeezed between the Ferry Building and the streets near the embarcadero. The Mascone Center will also be transformed into the nfl experience. I saw it last year in phoenix. It is a blast. Ive got no interest in this. Just want to let you know that. That starts on tuesday. About 20 blocks of streets are going to be closed as more than a dozen workers are setting up the popup super bowl city for football fans. That includes a stretch from the Ferry Building toward the Hyatt Regency and from east of battery to south of market street. Best way to get around, walk or take Public Transportation, as christie was talking about. San Francisco Police say they are prepared to handle the large crowds. Weeks before the super bowl, tens of thousands filled downtown San Francisco, but not for the big game. Abortion opponents came to San Francisco to make their message heard. Take a look at video from market street. Todays walk for life rally shut down parts of the street for hours today. Many came from across the state. Some even coming from other parts of the country to show their support. The best choice is life and to show them the beauty of that. We believe showing the world that theres still this vast number of people here who support this cause. The antiabortion march met a counterprotest at market and powell street. There are no reports of any trouble there. Similar rallies have been held over the last decade. Yesterday marked the 43rd anniversary of roe versus wade, which found the woman had the constitutional right to abortion. The bay area is experiencing a severe shortage of blood. Stanford says blood supplies have been depleted recently because of an influx of patients, also fewer people are donating. The need is so bad right now, theyre calling the shortage critical. Heres what the Stanford Blood Center especially needs onegative, ab negative and b negative. Anybody healthy and willing to donate is asked to please come in. Investigating a jailbreak. Coming up, the search is on for three california inmates on the loose. What were learning about their escape. Plus, a whiteout on the east coast. Airports shut down, people stranded on the roads and more. Were showing you just how big of a mess the big blizzard is causing and the trickle effect its having right here. And earlier we had a winter storm warning in the sierra. Now the snows starting to ease off as the storm has dropped as much as 3 inches of rain now moving to the east. And ahead, something we havent seen in our forecast probably for at least three weeks, big changes ahead in your sevenday forecast and big surf on the way. Details when we come right back. A monster winter storm is now. Ing the east coast right washington dc, pennsylvania, and new york are all in the a monster winter storm hitting the east coast right now. Washington, d. C. , pennsylvania and new york all in the blizzards path. And tonight, major roads are shut down, trains are suspended, flights are grounded, several cities are experiencing major power outages. You get an idea of how bad it is right here. Ten states and our Nations Capital in a state of emergency. Nbcs Jennifer Johnson has a deeper look at the snowstorm and its impact. Reporter lifethreatening blizzard conditions are slamming the east coast. Wind gusts over 50 Miles Per Hour have made travel virtually impossible. Air, bus and rail service halted. Motorists cant move. Thousands were stranded on i75 in kentucky. Ive been running my engine on a cycle of ten minutes, for ten minutes long, every 40 minutes. So, it seems to be long enough to keep the engine warm and the path warm. Reporter a similar story in pennsylvania, where the Duquesne UniversityMens Basketball Team was among those stuck. While the white stuff entertained these snowboarders is it legal what were doing . Is it legal today . Pretty sure its not legal. Pretty sure its not legal. Reporter and delighted the panda at the national zoo. It also offered a rare opportunity to sled down the u. S. Capitol lawn. Were having a good time. Reporter but unless youre on skis, officials are urging everyone to stay off the roads. I dont care how superb a driver, how big a fourwheeldrive vehicle you have, the roads are barely passable. Reporter thousands of flights have been canceled, hundreds of thousands are without power, and severe coastal flooding is threatening several midatlantic states. The blizzard has shut down the Nations Capital, one of its biggest storms in history. The weather is supposed to get considerably better sunday, then the digout begins, but its going to be several days before many businesses and schools reopen. Jennifer johnson, nbc news, washington. And some pretty cool timelapse video to show you right now, another look at the impact of the snowstorm. Youre looking at timelapse video shot from the Nations Capital. Were talking about the white house, lawn going from green to white like that. The lincoln memorial, also its piling up there. Tourists were rather scarce there today, where theyre usually plentiful, because of the cold and wet weather. Take a look at this. The normally business washington dulles airport. Wow. Theyve got time to clean up, time to shovel snow. No passengers. No cars dropping people off, no one in the terminals. American, united and delta have suspended all service in and out of that airport until monday, and thats having a Ripple Effect on flights across the country. About 70 flights have been canceled so far at sfo. Some people are telling us they wont be able to reach their destinations until monday at the earliest. And coming up, Inmates Escape from a california jail. What police are doing to track them down. Plus, the serious crimes theyre accused of committing. 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Investigators believe they know how the three men escaped, but theyre not releasing any details about that. This is the first escape from the facility in at least the past 20 years, and it could be the first ever breakout from the jail. Lets check in with meteorologist rob mayeda with your microclimate forecast. I guess the rains have got to move out soon. Yes. Well see a few more hours of showers around here after two days of 2 to 3 inches of rain. On the Santa Cruz Mountains side of the radar, more than 3 inches. The valley towards morgan hill, 1 1 2 inches so far. During the day today, from sunol, passing showers from time to time, sun mixed with rain drops and kind of seeing the same outside right now. 54 degrees in San Francisco, partly cloudy skies. Rain has moved on. You can see the wet roadways along 580 out by dublin and livermore. 53. And san jose, still a little light rain. You can see that falling around downtown at the moment. 55 degrees. And its really just the south bay now seeing some of these scattered showers. As you head over to pleasanton and castro valley, a little light rain heading to the south and east. San francisco and the north bay already starting to clear out and still some snow showers in the sierra, but everything is going to be trending drier, as we can see. Sunday off to the west, clearing skies and that may set the stage for patchy, thick fog tomorrow morning. It will be a little chilly tomorrow morning, low to mid40s. Best chances for finding the patchy fog will be in the north bay and east bay valleys and maybe around the south bay for tomorrow morning if the winds are light. In terms of the patchy fog, well be watching the Central Valley as winds turn offshore this week. That could transport in some of the fog towards modesto and to the west. You could see the chances of patchy fog as early as tomorrow morning for the south bay. Temperatures tomorrow, midtoupper 50s around the south bay. You can see about the same pattern for San Francisco into the north bay, though the spots stuck in the fog may take time to warm up. So, around santa rosa and livermore tomorrow, you may see some of that. And theres a better chance of finding fog as we go through the early stages of next week. Notice what we havent seen in a while, a temperature warmup, and three or four consecutive days of dry weather. South bay temperatures, upper 60s. And this takes us through about wednesday with a slight chance of showers there in the north bay on monday. So, the change thats taking place is that weve got these storms stacking up in the pacific. Theyre going to send some big ways our way, but High Pressure will block the rain. But still, underneath that high, look at these big waves coming. This is heading towards tuesday. Waves of 15 to 20 feet again hitting the coast, but without the rain. Notice the jet stream pattern. A dip in the jet stream allowing the rain to come through. As the high begins to build to the east, light rain showers maybe in the north bay by monday, but after that, there you go, about five to six days of dry weather. In fact, the longrange forecast, we have not seen this in a while, through january 30th shows belowaverage rainfall, but everything changes, just in case you wanted to know, just in time for next weekend. So, if youve got plans for next saturday, the rain makes a return. Well see that heading into sunday, and that should set the stage, as the sevenday forecast shows a mostly dry week, but the extended forecast still looking rainy. First few days of february. Of course, weve got a little game called the super bowl coming up on the 7th. Still looking for aboveaverage rainfall. So, dry for a stretch, but the rain returns next weekend. Back to you. All right, thanks a lot. Well, not to get too philosophical here, but after the rain comes the rainbow. We captured this one in petaluma earlier today. Of course, theyre all beautiful, that one as well. We caught a double rainbow from our Traffic Camera on 280, this one in san jose. Look closely, you can see the second rainbow to the right of the first. Give you three more seconds. I hope you saw it. Tired of trying to find parking . Coming up next, the changes one lawmaker is pushing for and how it could create a few more spots on congested streets. Four out of five people may not agree on carne asada or carnitas. But four out of five who got their Health Insurance through covered california got help paying for it. Find out if you could be one of them at coveredca. Com enroll by january 31st to avoid the irs tax penalty. Now and then we all appreciate a little help. Through covered california, Health Insurance could cost less than you think. And most uninsured californians could get help paying for it. To find free, local, inperson help visit coveredca. Com getting gouged while parking, theres a new parking bill ofr hoping to keep drivers from getting gouged while parking. Theres a new parking bill of rights being proposed. California assemblyman mike gattos says the legislation would substantially change how cities and local governments enforce parking laws. One of the biggest reforms would prohibit parking tickets at broken meters. Sounds only fair. It does allow, however, new hightech parking meters to charge different rates depending on the time of day, but the legislation would ban cities from hiring private companies to work as parking bounty hunters. Pinpointing where its likely to flood. Those along the peninsula tonight now know. This comes thanks to brandnew maps that come from the federal Emergency Management agency. Fema rolled the maps out in redwood city today. A lot of people interested in this stuff. The latest satellite imagery shows in detail where problem areas are. They want the latest hightech mapping available to everyone who needs it and needs it now. Fema says this is one of the strongest el ninos on record. Although these maps wont be finalized until 2017, rain is falling today. And so, using the bestavailable scientific data, were able to really see and understand the flood risk. Those new maps specifically address an area south of bayshore boulevard, east and west of red wood creek. Fema identifies about 1,100 parcels in area. Property owners can now better see what they need to do to protect themselves. Its a use for a hoverboard that you probably have not thought of before. Its amazing and its coming up next. You probably remember how hoverboards have been getting a really bad rap lately. Well, take a look. One man in new jersey found a way to use his creatively. He let the hoverboard do most of the work in order to shovel the snow off of his deck. Dressed as a banana. Dressed as a good point, rob. He said it only took him a couple of minutes and it kept his arms from getting tired. And rob was kind of kidding earlier. If it does blow up and catch fire, its surrounded by snow. Think snow, but big snow on the east coast. Many delays trying to head east for that storm during the day tomorrow. Rob, thank a lot. Nbc nightly news is next. More local news at 6 00, so if you can join us then. Take care. On this saturday night, states of emergency as a massive blizzard roars through the eastern part of the country. At least 16 people are dead. Thousands stranded. Travelers paralyzed in more than three feet of snow in some areas as the nations largest city all but shut down. We have it all covered tonight up and down the east coast. Ready to run . In this highly unpredictable race for president , a new potential factor word another billionaire is thinking about jumping in. Listeria outbreak. The bacteria found in packaged salads linked to a dozen cases in six states, including one death. 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