Transcripts For KRON KRON 4 Morning News 20141210

Good morning. Thanks for joining us on this wednesday morning. Waiting for the storm. Lets get more on the timing. The anticipation, as the storm of the century approaches. We love it. Finally something really cool to talk about. It not only makes my job more interesting thelps with the drought. True. Im staying high brow with this system, where inside im saying, this is going to be awesome. The storm is off the northern coastline right now. Lets talk about what we can expect. Today, mostly cloudy, by late evening, though, the rain arrives. It will be with us right through thursday, heavy rain, strong winds, flooding likely. The showers taper off friday. We get a brief break saturday and sunday but then comes back in monday. Time frame for this one, wednesday night about 9 p. M. All the way through noon on friday. So the entire day on thursday is going to be wet. The heaviest rain is going to call in the north bay hills, 3 to 8 inches there. 3 to 6 inches in the santa cruz valleys. With the ground already saturated, we are looking for flooding, should be widespread in urban areas, and winds will also be gusting pretty bad. Sustained at 40 Miles Per Hour but gusting to 60, 70, maybe even 80 Miles Per Hour depending on the topography of your neighborhood. That would likely bring down tree branches if not entire trees. Pg e is on alert so, keep it tuned to kron 4, well update you thursday into friday. In advance of it today, this is the last dry day you have until you get ready for it, clean out the storm drains and bring in the holiday decorations on the lawns. It will all get blown away, trust me, these winds are going to be strong. Temperatures in the mid50s. Well warm it up to the mid60s later on today but tonights storm, thats the big headline, were watching it. Keep it tuned to kron 4. Now for a quick check of the commute. Hey, robin. Lots of heavy traffic on the san mateo bridge, on 92, crews finally cleared a stall but it only added to the back up. This traffic stretches over to the nimitz freeway. Its backed up through heyward and goes just beyond 238 of the good news is the stall is out of the way but its the sea of the brake lights across the peninsula, 20 minutes to cross the bay. Im watching a new problem in east bay, new injury crash blocking the far left lane so, you are solid coming out of concord, already backed up on to highway 242. Once you get into alamo, danville and san ramone, its smooth all the way into dublin. The bay area prepping for the storms is our big story him its either biggest storm weve ian in years. Pg e is getting ready for damage damage. Reporter im at the Distribution Center in fremont. This is one of the biggest places in Northern California. You can see all the equipment behind me. Thousands of transformers, its even busier today than your typical days because they are scrambling to get into place. This is the last dry day, they know for the next couple of days, immediate couple of days, they will be slammed by the storm as well. They tell me theyre trying to be more proactive than reactive. You can see forklifts coming and going. What theyre doing is, get this, theyre sending their equipment to base camps so other closer Distribution Centers like santa cruz, lots of trees in that area, they expect power lines to go out there as well, which is why theyre getting all of their equipment in place, not just for the bay area. Theyre also sending things to other parts of Northern California as well as Central California bracing for the Power Outages. We know its going to happen because of the winds. There will be a lot of trees coming down, taking ute power lines. They taking out power lines. They say they have extra crews on stand by ready to go, perhaps even some of the people on vacation being told to put off your vacation until the storm is over. But obviously power will go out. It will take some time. They say while they brace for the storm, you need to brace for the storm. Let me walk over here and see if we can talk to the Public Information officer. Monica . What are you doing to make sure to make sure the power is turned on as quickly as possible . We know its going to happen. We know its going to happen and outages are expected. Pg e has a plan to quickly and safely restore power to our customers. One of our primary equipment facilities, equipment will leave and go to all our yards to provide all our crews with the tools they need to be able to restore service. Reporter could you give a ballpark . I know when your lights are out, a minute seems like an hour ahour seems like a day sthere a goal you have in mind . We definitely want to ensure the safety of our employees and customers haas were out there working. This storm is expected to hit pretty hard, but we are prepared. We have equipment here and our crews are ready. They received training year around. We go through Emergency Preparedness exercises to prepare for incidents like this. We do remind you as youre out there, also have a plan in place. Have batteries at home, have that batteryoperated flashlight and radio. And if you see a downed power line, do not touch it, assume its live and contact pg e as soon as possible. Reporter are you guys proactive, you know its out or will people have to call you . We definitely have technology in place that were able to pinpoint where an outage is, the location of it, you can sign up on our website and get the outage information and you can call our 800 number as well. Reporter this place feels like sfo with all the vehicles coming and going. They, too, know they only have a few hours left, thats why theyre sending all their crews to get into those places, santa cruz, and they made me wear the safety glasses. I thought you got the glasses but no hard hat. Good mention on sfo, too, because thats going to be a guaranteed mess. Pg e is really good these days, you dial that number, they know all about the outage. Great information from pg e this morning. Well be back with more in just a couple of minutes. Make sure you have that mobile app ahead of the storm, too, but it will give you all the weather, traffic and news information you need. Look here, daddy, im never coming back. Discover the new spirit of cadillac and the best offers of the season. Lease this 2015 standard collection ats for around 329 a month. Use chase freedom at amazon. Com and get 5 cash back this quarter. So you can find the perfect gift for everyone. Including you. Activate your 5 cash back at chase. Com freedom chase. So you can. On brand name mattress sets. Years interestfree financing plus, get free delivery, and sleep trains 100day low price guarantee. Sleep trains interest free for 3 event is ending soon. 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Take a look at some of the incredible video we got everynight. Police say about 300 people marched from oakland down san pablo avenue and broke windows. Authorities say they looted a nearby cvs, a few people smashed windows at a nearby 7 eleven and threatened the employees. Emeryville police tell us they did have officers here on the scene late last night but being a small Police Department, they were overmatched and unable to make arrests. There are 300 versus 13. Its not feasible to take anybody into custody. Reporter whats the next step . Were taking all the Surveillance Video we can find and anybody that comes forward, were going to actively try to prosecute anybody that was responsible for the burglaries, the robberies and assault with Deadly Weapon on officers because the officers got pelted with concrete and bottles last night. Reporter here are pictures showing the damage and graffiti inside this pack and save. Employees say the looters grabbed cash from the registers as well as bottles of please. At one point, the group headed eastbound on 47th street into a residential neighborhood and smashed the windows on several parked cars and you heard that officer there, hes very unhappy this morning but adamant they willfy andfy those two and identify those who took part. Well be right back with more on the storm as kron 4 news continues. Were all good the big storm thats about to hit. Thats our big story today and continuing our Team Coverage of the preparations, kron 4s Charles Clippard has the areas that are likely to see the most trouble in this storm. Reporter in San Francisco, big storms almost always seem to knock down trees and flood streets. In north beach, heavy rain can sometimes loosen up rocks on Telegraph Hill, they then fall on buildings and vehicles below. In south bay, theres frequent flooding along some of the low lying areas and in the bay, big storms can trigger mud slides. Water tends to pool on some of the lower roadways and underpasses and this is video from martinez back in 2011 when heavy rain filled up alhambra creek. But the north bay always seems to get hardest. Flooding is also common here along highway 101 and here near marin city. Thats going to be a doozy. Were going to see pictures like that all over the bay area. Lets talk about the forecast and what we can expect with this system. Our satellite perspect showing rain that has been impacting the pacific northwest. Its all part of the same system but we finally have the front sagging low enough its going to affect the bay area already. Were seeing the rain already in the far Northern California. Lets talk about the timing. Switching to futurecast, we have the clock set for 9 00. In advance of that cold front, were going to see the winds pick up first, so youll notice the wind really beginning to blow, and thats when the storm is getting close. By 9 p. M. Tonight, the rain again impacting up in the area of santa rosa. By five in the morning, north bay being hit pretty hard, so our Early Morning risers will deal with that. By 9 in the morning, right at the peak of the commute as a lot of folks are arriving at work hopefully, well have the hardest rain falling across the north bay and getting ready to enter africa. San francisco. By noon time, its sitting over the heart of the bay. By noon, were going to keep with that forecast through three in the afternoon just as kids are getting out of school. And as a lot of folks are heading home for the evening commute, widespread rain all around the bay, so look for the damaging effect of that. Namely, were looking at flooding. Look at how much rain is going to come down. Anywhere from 2 to possibly 4 inches for our bay side communities and our east bay and south bay valleys. This is going be a decent rain maker and all that rain will turn into deep water for a lot of people. If you saw flooding during last week during the storms, expect it once again this week. Gusty winds, sustained at 40, gusting to 60, 70, maybe even 80 Miles Per Hour at the peaks of some our bay area hilltops. Downed trees almost a guarantee and that will bring down power lines, so as you saw in will trans live report, where hes live at the pg e station where they have all the transformers standing by getting ready to replace the ones that blow, theyre going to be very busy for the next 4 to 48. Right now next 24 to 48 hours. Right now, threemile visibility in votto and napa. Were in the mid50s, nice and mild. Well warm up to just the mid 60s by this afternoon and the extended forecast, youll notice there is a break on saturday and a little bit of sunday but the rain returns again next monday. Unsettled weather for the fear foreseeable future. Stay on top of it with our app and a traffic tool to follow the commute. Remember, when that storm rolls, in make sure you double your drive time. If you have to driver in the rain, its going to be slow. Right now, your commute into San Francisco, its packed. We have another crash on the bay bridge. This is the second crash within the past hour. This is westbound 80 before treasure island. Bridge crews are on scene to get it out of the way but its justz adding to the slowdown. Youre only moving well if youre car pooling. Cash, fast track, backed up on to 880. Its spilled over to 580. We had a stall on the san mateo bridge westbound west of the toll plaza. Thats out of the way but its a tough ride from the nimitz freeway starting back in san leandro, up to 92 in heyward. We are tracking a new problem, this is the rich mond san of a fell rafael bridge. Still stop and go for the ride into the north bay heading out towards highway 101 and also a trouble spot for the east bay. Crews are wrapping up a crash in walnut creek, so if you have to use 242 or 680, traffic is slow. It will loosen up by the time you work your way into alamo. An update on an officer involved shooting in san leandro. Police say the woman shot by officers has died. Officers opened up fire on the 27yearold woman friday night during a stolen car chase. Police say the woman initially pulled over and then shot off. An officer suffered minor injuries and was treated and released. Coming up, in 2010, i showed you a ctransit bus drivers ignoring stop signs. So has anything changed . Ill investigate in the next edition of people behaving badly. Watch this ac transit bus driver as he drives his 24ton bus to a stop sign. In 2010, i staked out an intersection in san leandro to see how many ac transit bus drivers were ignoring stop signs next to the bay fair bart station. To my surprise, not many were stopping. So i published my findings, which became a training video for ac transit drivers. They learned that someone may be watching. So now i checked into the exact same intersection to see if the training video paid off. To my surprise, i was watching bus drivers coming to a complete stop. Then something dawned on me. Maybe the drivers were on to me and knew i was there. So i came up with a brilliant idea. I changed to see if i get the same results and bingo, the drivers started rolling through the stop sign. A change of Parking Spaces gave me different results. Busses were now running the stop sign and in some cases, it was a slow crawl, but still not stopping. Something else i noticed. This unmarked shuttle kept rolling through and kept right at the stop signs. See this Alameda County shuttle . It was doing it as well. What i keep hearing from bus drivers is they are not permitted to get lunch if they arrive too late at the end of their route, so to them, every second counts. If this is true, bugs Companies Need to rethink the need for speed to a need for safety n san leandro, stanley roberts, kron 4 news. Every day is a new opportunity to help make life better right here in San Francisco. Whether its helping local businesses like the fruitguys grow and prosper, supporting nonprofits like juma ventures as they fulfill their mission or helping neighborhoods like the tenderloin become vibrant communities. If theres a way to help the people of San Francisco thrive and succeed, well find it. Thats the power of local connections. Thats bank of america. We will look for one to fourisms and 4 inches and it is gusting. And bring down trees and power lines and the ground are going to be saturated and roofs will have a tough time keeping hold and flooding will be likely for a lot of the small creeks and streams and the levels will spike up. We will see urban flooding. Intersections will be half submerged like they were last week when we had the last storm roll through. In fact, more of the same. This is a bit stronger than the last time around. You head out the door. It is hazy and the fog is here and there. And where it is, it is dense. Fairfield, half a mile visibility. Thousands mid50s. Should warm up to the mid0s and mid60s and picking up lightning strikes offshore as it pops up on the maps. The rain is coming. Get ready for it. Continue the Team Coverage and remind everybody, to download the mobile app. No matter where you are as it passes overhead. We will go live there now where people are preparing once again. Reporter absolutely, mark. The rain hasnt started falling but the streets are lined with sandbags as people prepare for the upcoming storm. I am in downtown and you see the businesses here. And the creek runs behind it. And wave seen some of worse flooding here over the last decade or so in the entire bay area. What it looked like back on new years day back in 2006 when the entire downtown was inundated with flood waters. Amazing. And estimated lots of businesses and residents around this area. Now, since they have done that or they had the flood, there is work on the creek. Back in 2,005, they were prepared and they are doing it again. So, when i walked outside, the mud was like chocolate milk. And working its way up the street and coming around the creek in the back and coming around there. Getting it from both end. And we started picking up furniture and rolling up carpet and getting ready for it to flood. It came from a quarter of an inch of coming in the house. What do you do now to prepare. Sandbags today. If i listen to the weather and it happens. Getting already for the flood again. We are talking about the san elmo creek. And here is one. From a drop cam of the valley fire department. This is the creek. And they have the cameras around and monitor what the situation is. They are available all over the areaen a the north bay and if you are worried about the flood waters coming up. Get out and get the sandbags now. And get out here now, mark. A lot of the residents and Business Owners arent waiting for water to come up. They are getting prepared right now. We will get over to robin. You are recovering from two crashes. One before the tunnel and after the tunnel. Look at the back up. It is a good day to carpool. They are moving on the far left and everyone is stuck in the back up here and through the maze. And backed up onto the Childrens Hospital and still out of panol and will take you over an hour. 66 minutes to downtown San Francisco. Both crashes out of the way and heavy traffic still left over there. Switch it over to the traffic map. This is the san rafael bridge and out towards richmond parkway. It is less than 10 minutes to cross the by and heading out to 101. Now, watching a new problem. 101 north at middle field and it is not a hot spot but doesnt take much to add to a clearing there. And the rest of the south by freeways they are packed as well. 101 to cupertino and solid to highway 87 all the way to the highway. Back to you. Thanks, robin. We will continue the Team Coverage in advance of the storm. People grabbing sandbags to defend against the rain. End in a low already lying area. They have started putting it out around the school and every door. I am worried that we have the bay and we want to be safe and cover it up. Last thing i want is water in the building. He said biblical. That wasnt me. But i am not going to argue him. All of them are saying it is going to be a biggie and monitor the water levels in the san fransisto creek. Which is prone to flooding. Another night of protests for the fourth straight night. Early in the evening, they marched to the Berkeley Police Department Steps and faced off with police there. They moved over to the Berkeley City Hall and addressed the crowd and said they will ask for an investigation into the response for the protests. It was postponed after they announced plans to disrupt the meeting. They moved to oakland city hall. Here are pictures of the crowds there. Officers said the demonstrations last night were mainly peaceful. We have more on this. Including looting of a Safeway Store there in emoryville and more on the demonstrations that have taken place on the facebook page. Take a look at the new video out of he is condeed doe near escondido near san diego. This is a bmw that ran off the road much how did it get in the roof like that. The homeowner and the suv, they were inside and the people were damaged but i guess they are okay. The driver took off. At first, they said they thought it was an earthquake. What did he launch off to get that high. Look at it nearby. Wow. How do you get out of that. He did. He fled the scene. Pretty good. We will be back here. 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They are watching the neighborhood. And check to see that the storm drains are clear of debris. They are asking residents not to park vehicles especially overnight in lowlying areas. They are warning them about possible flooding on 87th. Eightyeighth and 89th street as well as worth avenue and washington and skyline street. And West Lake Park area. So, off avoid the lowlying areas. Residents can get the sandbags at the Waste Water Treatment Plant on lake merced boulevard or on citrus avenue. Sandbags are limited to 10 per household kron four news. We are tracking the rain over the next 24 hours. When we expect it to arrive in the bay area. We will be back in just a moment. Female announcer sleep trains interest free for 3 event is ending soon get three years interestfree financing on beautyrest black, stearns foster, serta icomfort, even tempurpedic. Plus, get free delivery, free setup, and free removal of your old mattress, and sleep trains 100day low price guarantee. But hurry sleep trains interest free for 3 event is ending soon. Guaranteed sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep. We are back and we will look for the system. This is the wider view. Just how long the moisture trail is. And it is headed our way much we will talk about the timing. Fast forward to 9 00 tonight. They call for the heavier rain to begin to fall around santa rosa. It isnt until 5 00 a. M. That we get widespread rain throughout the north bay. Some of the commuters waking up at five and then 9 00. A lot of folks will be on the road and we have the band of heavy rainfalling across the north bay and making the croons into shovel and oakland. And scoots over the heart of the bay. Everybody getting it at that point. At all though the main cold front will push off to the south. We are dealing with light to moderate rein. 3 00 when the kids are getting out of school. Look at six when the folks are heading home from work. Light to moderate rain. We have to push the clock all the way to midnight before we see it break up. We will keep the showers in the mix for the first half of friday. Be ready for it. Here is what we are seeing right now. Fog in spots and temperatures in the mid50s right now. Should warm up to the 60s. Later on this afternoon. Mid60s at best. We will keep the clouds out there. And heavier and heavier and the wind will pick up too. This is the gusty event. From 50 to 75 miles an hour. Depending on where you are. Thursday into friday. We have the system that will give us flooding. The whole nine. Be ready for it. And then it looks like rain kicks in again into next week. All of this rain will turn into snow in the sierra. This is a quick look at the forecast. We have rain and snow falling at 3300 feet. That is the rain snow line. We will get decent accumulation. There a blizzard warning in affect. If you are headed here to the area in purple, western slopes from the sierra, from tonight until one in the afternoon on friday. We could see 10 to 20inches above a thousand feet with two or 3 feet of snow. Dangerous whiteout conditions. It will be blowing the snow sideways on you. And be careful if you are headed into the hills on thursday or friday. When you get up there, you might enjoy nice skiing. This is the snow bomb ski report. Squaw valley and no new snow. We are seeing that same number in kirkwood. Sugar bowl 18 inches and snow is falling for this system. Now to traffic. Rob bib . Thank you very much. I like the music by the way. We made the bay bridge commute a hot spot. It is that slow with the plaza. You are recovering from two crashes. Nothing major. And it is all from the maze and you are only moving if you have carpools. Today is a good day to take bart and everyone else is stuck in the back up. 580. Childrens hospital. Backed up into heck lees drive time. Then it is solid all the way to treasure island. It is not thinned out or improved yet. Crowded crossing the bay as usual. Someone is in left hand lane. Car moved off to the shoulder. Not blocking. Your drive time is 17 minutes from the toll plaza to across the way and out to foster city. This is normal. We had a crash on the Richmond San Rafael bridge and you are still backed up here to richmond parkway. Drive time is less than 10 minutes. It is slow in the poll plaza. And not bad in san rafael. Look at all the traffic on 101. South san jose. And into mountain view. It is into old middleton and adding to the jam up. Even 280, that is backed into cupertino for the guadalupe parkway as well and as you approach the caldecott tunnel and back into the maze. Back to you. Good morning. Good morning, darya. I am going to go in a different direction. Couple of hours later, he is going. You can keep the 150 million. I heard the giants were willing to go to 168 over seven years. Maybe, it is for the best. It doesnt work on them. You have mow on that. When i went to bed, i hadnt heard that. Barry zito and what is shaping up with cain, they shouldnt do this. When i went to bed last night, i was unaware. There was a rumbling one team would go for seven years. It is the giants. Good for him. He gets 100, what is it 55. I guess that tells you, that you know, the giants are flexed at the new ballpark. I keep saying new ballpark. And built in 2000 and it is a jewel. People love to go. And they produce that type of money. On 155, the one i heard made me laugh last night. They said there is millions. He can make extra millions. Because the state of illinois taxed as opposed to california deals. When you do the math, it does make a big difference. Those of us who live here. We are spoiled. We think this is the blast lace on earth and you start putting dollars and cents in there. That is a good story that the giants or were willing to go in the seventh year. Thats what they say. 49ers. New numbers on them. 10 points under dog now. Going into seattle. Doubledigits for the first time of our tenure here. It is nine and a half earlier and now, 10. Yes, i am even a little bit surprised. Thats what the gamblers are thinking. Now that they have given up. They are pro athletes. But they are out of speed. I heard from this one. Mgms manager in vegas. He said it is unusual this early in the week with two marquis teams. He said they are not marquis because they lost to the raiders. That will do it. And all of the stuff about harbaugh and where is he going to be and kaepernick is getting worked over tore his play and personality. I dont care what anybody says. It takes a toll on the whole group. Does kaepernick to be yelled at or hug. Does he need love or a kick in the pants. Who is going to fire him up better. What is going to work for him. Especially when you are younger. Pouting stuff, oh, boy, i am going to make your job as a media guy hard. I wont talk to you or give you you know, intelligent answers. That only comes back to shoot you in the foot. I will blame it as always. 27 yearsold. And he is learning a tough lesson. Hopefully he grows from there. He grows from there. You know who has got it tough. Cam newton. Supposed to get out of the the hospital today. The vertebrae thing, you dont need them. Spikes that stick off the vertebrae and very painful. Look at this. Right after the accident. Most beautiful shot of an accident ever. Exactly. Even my wife will say. He knows how, the camera loves him. Look at him. You dont need a vertebrae no, the little spike can i things that stick off the vertebrae. Like romo, this happened to him on the field. Missed one game and he is not going to play this weekend. If i lost the vertebrae, i can still talk. It is not the vertebrae, but the traverse. Honest to gosh, dont worry about the vertebrae. I have to inwith the fabulous videos sharks put out. It is the holiday video. Wont you wrap my present. Check this out. Cutest thing ever, the words are great. I am going to post it on facebook. Isnt that funny. Two that come to mind, eminem and vanilla ice. I would lean towards the latter. We will see you, gar. All right. Young lady. Whats possible today . Wifi access in more places then ever before. All your favorites in the cloud and on every device. A home you control with the touch of a finger. News and entertainment that informs and delights in ways you never thought possible. Comcast nbcuniversal bringing media and Technology Together for you. I am will tran. They prepare for the biggest storm had years. We will have more with the pdand e spokes woman. We will have more on the timing. Another night of protests and looting in the east bay. Good morning, i am darya folsom, i am mark danon. We have a whole lot more on the way. Take a look at all the clouds that are trailing into the pacific, there is the cold front that is pushing into the area. And all the moisture has us in its target. We will start broadly. So the weather going forward, we will see mostly cloudy day today. Remain dry and then it will fall in the north bay. Heavy through thursday and windy conditions as well. Expect Power Outages. We look ahead. Showers will taper off on friday and then sunday night into monday, we have rain returning. It looks like a wet start. That is an overview. And we will talk about the storm system. Wednesday evening through friday evening. And when the rain will fall. Quite a bit in the hills and the north bay. Expect three to 8inches with the north bay and for the Santa Cruz Mountains. And the valleys can see one to 4inches. And aftermath of the storm system, look for that and for Power Outages with the wind gusts that are blowing debris around taking downpour lines. It is taking down pewer lines power lines. Right now in the 60s in the afternoon. Here is a look on the storm system for tonight. It is off the north california coastline. We are tracking it. Watching it and we will have more details on the timing of tonights rain. Full check at 8 15. We will find out about your commute. Robin . Not so pleasant. We have two minor crashes. Doesnt take much to back up your ride. Bay bridge, the approaches are a mess. Awful, it is moving well on the bridge and getting there, it is a challenge. Backing up through the maze and climbing outs of san leandro and 54 is backed up to broadway. As soon as you come out of the caldecotta on to downtown San Francisco. 58 minutes from Childrens Hospital. That is on 24. It is just very, very slow. You can carpool. Save yourself some time. Hold off if you can. No problems on the bridge. I will have a complete traffic check coming up for you in just a bit. Darya . This is the biggest in years and what pg e is doing in advance. Ready for the Power Outages. Will has more. Hi, will. Reporter last couple of days, they have been scrambling, because they know the hot spots from the storm. I am at the pg e Distribution Center in free month. You can see all the equipment behind me is busy. So many flat bed trucks leave the place with equipment. They are sending it to santa cruz, because all the wind. Wooded area, power lines, they should go and it is better that they have the equipment closer to those people. Their crews when it goes out and get out there quickly to restore power. Joining me now. The pg e spokeswoman. What are you doing in terms of crews to make sure. Ones the power is out. You know an hour feels like a day. Yes, so we definitely have a plan to restore outages at safetyway and quickly as possible for all the customers. And it is expected to happen with the storm. You can see we are in the massive construction yard where we have equipment that goes to all the local yards and Southern California and our crews will be on the ground doing work with all the equipment they need to make sure we are restoring power to our customers. Will you be able to restore power while the storm is happening. I know, others are scarier. Or will we have to weight out the storm. Our employees and customers are safe, we need to ensure that. If we can go in safely to restore power, we will. And if we need to wait, we will do that to ensure the safety of everyone. I am sure you are flooded with phone calls. Will that be necessary. Or something in the technology that says we got this. We want our customers to have a storm in place. And above all to remain safe. Customers can go on line and look at the outage map. They can call the outage line. They can call and we are on social media. And you can get customer safety tips. Updated on your facebook. Pg e, they are scrambling, they have a few hours left before the storm arrives. They said they have had a lot of practice there throughout the years. The latest was the napa earthquake. They give you the glasses and no hat . Yes, what is the deal. How come i dont have a deal. You are not wearing glasses. Darya, i will never be as close to transformers and they are more than meets the eye. It is nice to see they have them ready to roll for any that blow. Check out the mobile app. It is a great thing to have on the go. Get radar. Forecast. Great stuff and for your weather and breaking news. Download that for free. Developing story that we continue to follow. Another night of protests. Protestors taking to the streets. Demonstrating against racial injustice. This is the macarthur, and there was as die in staged. Now, are to the second night, the protests will go toe emoryville. And we will have more on what happened. Mike . Reporter well, mark, they say the group was 300 strong. Some used chunks of concrete to break windows. The pack and save behind me is open for business. That group hit o several bringses and they hit several businesses and they threatened employees with bottles and rocks at 711 and caused chaos in this pack and save. Employees here said lotters used chunks of concrete to break windows and loot the store. This is another night ending can some businesses vandalized and some residents wondering when it will end. It is hard. Makes you feel uncomfortable. And like i said. I dont have a problem with people protesting, we have the right. When it goes to violence and taking things. It is too much, too far. Pictures inside give you an idea of graffiti. And employees say they took cash from the register and took bottles of booze. No one was injured. Emory police were on the scene and they were overwhelmed by the large group of people. They didnt have enough to make all the arrests and some of their officers were hit with chunks of concrete. And bottles. They will try to identify for those who took party last night. This is the website and we will have more on facebook and twitter feeds. We will be right back. My baby drove up in a brand new cadillac. My baby drove up in a brand new cadillac. Look here, daddy, im never coming back. Discover the new spirit of cadillac and the best offers of the season. Lease this 2015 standard collection ats for around 329 a month. Welcome back. The back up is awful. We have had a crab on the brim. And they were cleared quickly. Lights are on and you are backed on to west i80. And 24 from 13 out of the caldecot t caldecott tunnel. And they are cycling slowly. It is moving well across the upper deck. Hour and 22 minutes. Average drive time. Hold off on bay bridge commute. Hop on over to the san mateo bridge. We have bart. And we will have full coverage in a bit. Malala use self sigh. And she is Malala Yusafzai was shot in the head. Also honored, he gave his career up as an electrical engineer to come pain against c coming up on the kron four morning news, we have a big storm headed our way. We will come back with full details on when it will arrive and how long it will last. You have to go to work and there is no way to get around it. It is not like you are going to miss it. It is pretty widespread and first, the wind is going to start picking up in the afternoon. You know it is coming. You told me to, i wanted to get that done. Patio furniture. I have a basketball, the big thing. Lay it down. Otherwise it will get toss dollars across the lawn. You will have enough to deal with with all the branches and trees in the streets tomorrow. We are talking up Near Eureka Co and Crescent City. That is the same cell. We saw lightning begin to strike this morning. Thats what we will expect later on tonight. We switch here and look at the view of the wide angle, you see how big the storm is. All the moisture and clouds out there. They are steadily working to the bay area. And impacting us. We break down the timing. Future cast for 9 00 p. M. North of santa rosa, heavy rain begins to fall. It will linger. And not move over very fast. Watch the clock. Nine, continue, 11, one. Before finally it swings down low enough and it is engulfed in the wet weather. By 9 00 or so, the morning commute is beginning to wind down. People will be stuck in traffic at nine. It is snarled breathty good and getting into San Francisco. Then by noontime. It is sitting squarely over the heart of the bay and getting everybody wet. By three in the afternoon. And why three . Can you describe are getting out of school. Make sure they go to school and dressed for rain. They will get it and standing around to get picked up. It is widespread everywhere around the bay area. We will fast forward to the evening commute. Again, widespread rain. Everyone is in it and under it. This is part of the mix on friday morning. It will be a wet one as well. We will focus on what we will get out of the storm system. Two to 8 inches in the north bay. Particularly along the coastal mountains. Santa cruz mountains. Two to three for the bayside communities. And one to three. For the east bay and south bay. And this is going to cause flash flooding in the northway where they get the most out of the system. They it ready and be prepared to wade through some deep water through the day on thursday. You heard darya talking about bringing her holiday decorations inside. The last thing you want to see is the inflatable santa is flying down the street and you have to pick it up out of your neighbors record. It will bring down trees. Pg e are ready for it. We have the back up transformer standing by to replace the one that will blow up. Take a look outside right now. A lot of clouds and fog. Out at sfo, it is pretty bad. Better than three hour delays at sfo and the rain hasnt started to you will fall. Thats the fog doing its thunk. Weigh could see them looking at delays and cancellations as well. Warm up to the 60s later on this afternoon. Once we get through this. We have a brief break before saturday and sunday. Before another one impacts the bay. It is going to be an unsettled weather pattern for the unforeseeiable patent. We will walk down the storm. It is a great way to stay updated. And with live radar in the palm of your hand. Robin, good morning. Good morning. It is a mess heading to San Francisco. Running very high from the east bay not because we had major problems but nothing active on the bridge right now. It is from two earlier crashes and never improved. If you are coming from 580 or 80. You are still backed up. 24 there Childrens Hospital. Westbound k and backed up into san leandro. And that is clearing out. Out of west oakland. Crash lanes. It is just slow with the drive time of an hour. 32 minutes. It is to get out of San Francisco. Switching over to the san mateo bridge d it is slow. It is an option for you. Drive time is not as bad. 15 minutes to do that. And it is crowded on the right hand side of the screen. Slow traffic on south 101. Out to redwood city. And not as bad as the commute. Piece of cake. Heavier volume on the span. Left side. Southbound traffic heading and we are crash free. Drive times are holding down to novato and back to one more check. You get a better hue there. It consist before highway 37 and all the way up to san rafael. Back to you. Now to other news. At 8 21. For the first time. One of the survives hoo her in the states is speaking out. He was treating patients in sierra leone. His body was so ravaged, he didnt think he would live in want la at that for 40 days. Now, he pulled through. Speaking at ucff and the director said he plans to return. To tip to fight ebola. Back here in the area. 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A note handwritten by the duchess. And expressed sorrow for those who died and odd miles an hour ration for those who rebuilt the area. They then developed a youth program. And musical dance and performances. The couple moved by prescotts story, he gave him his phone number to bring the show to the stage. Then to a reception. Tore the britts who made it in new york. To patrick stewart. Then a bit of sightseeing and timely break in the rain. And meant they could take in the views from the empire state building. His pregnant wife had taken time out to rest. The couple talk home a flurry of memories from the whistle stop u. S. Tour. All caught on camera kron four news. Daly city officials get ready and warn them about places where not to leave the cars. We will tell you about that, coming up. The rain hasnt even started to fall. But sandbags are out all across account north bay. I am Jackie Sissel and i will tell you what they are doing to prepare for the big storm coming up in a live report. If youre like me, theres nothing you enjoy more than hopping up on a couch, destroying a few pillows and chewing on a good shoe. So this new nest dropcam. Is a serious buzzkill. Its always watching so people can keep an eye on me when theyre away. And even chime in with their inane reprimands. Henry, off bad boy whos to say whos a bad boy and whos not. Seems so subjective if you ask me. Nest dropcam. Welcome to a more thoughtful home. We will track the speeds and the main rain will arrive when . In the north bay, before that, you will feel the wind. The clouds will thicken up and you will notice in the air. There is something about to happen. It is this system right here. This is what it looks like had the view. With heavy rain as well coming into far Northern California. And more on the way. Whole train of clouds is coming our way. It is just laden with moisture and fall in the form of rain on timing on this. 9 00 p. M. Tonight. Through thursday and in the first half of friday. Thats how long we expect the storm to stick around. Rainfall totals. We are looking for the hill it is and mountains to get three to 8inches. Valley one to four. Very strong winds with the system. And gusting at times up to 60, 70 and some warnings that we could see a 80 miles an hour gusts. Now for the higher peeks along the east bay hill lines. Flooding likely. And Power Outages likely and bringing downpour lines. It is a mess. We will be cleaning up after this. And more than likely. Another round of wet weather and we will talk more about that later on. For right now, this is what we are seeing outside. Good look at conditions. It is cloudy. Hazy, the fog is definitely there this morning. Temperatures in the mid50s and we will look for things to warm up to mid60s by this afternoon. It will be cloudy all day and picking up later in the afternoon. Here is another look at it. Showers to the north. Eureka, Crescent City and we will keep track of it. On the mobile news. We will be with the mobile app and everything else. We have you covered no matter where where. Where you are. It bringback memories. Preparations are underway. Jackie . Reporter absolutely, mark. They dont forget the storm back in 2,005, 2006. It spilled over the borders and inundated the downtown. They are already preparing for the rain that is expected to come. This is all because of the state elmo creek. And there is no danger of it spilling its banks at this point. They monitor the creek since the 2005 storm. They monitor the creek. And they have centers sensors up and down the creek. They are watching it . Why . Because this is what it looked like back in 2,005 on new years day when it filled the banks inundating the downtown area. Ruining lots of businesses and residents around the downtown area. For many of them, you know, when they hear about the rain. They start preparing immediately. They get the sandbags and people have flood gates now. I talked to one of the business eveners. She talked about what happened back in 2005 and how she prepares this year. Just wait. Until it comes. I have flood gates this time. Thats the difference. Hopefully nothing will happen. What was it like in 2,005 . Awful. It came from the back. A lot of people experienced the same thing. They are out here with the sandbags. And if you are in the area and you need to get sandbags, you can check out the places that are available to pick up the sandbags and 14 hours away from the rain. Get the sandbags if you need it. Now is the time to do it. We have a list of where to pick them up on the website. Mark, take a look at the traffic map it is here. Heavy traffic from the east bay leading up to the bay bridge toll plaza. West bounds 80 out of four. 24, that is now solid from the cadecott and heading west out of san leandro. Owl all of this leading up to all of this leading up to the gates. Double your drive time from the east pay heading into San Francisco because of the heavy traffic. Leaving San Francisco no major problems but it is slow. It starts on the peninsula. And it is out of san bruno out to the central freeway split. It will take you 30 minutes to get to downtown San Francisco. Back to you. For a lot of people, band are the way to go sandbags are the way to go. They have placed sandbags around the school and every door. According to everything i heard, we are having a biblical storm coming. I am worried that we have the bay which is level with us on a midday high tide and we want to be safe. Last thing i want is water in my building. They plan to monitor water levels in the San Francisquito creek. We will tell you how this person survived from hawaii, coming up. 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Energy stocks lower and down off 151. They are going to apply to all League Personnel including owners. New rule said a player will would on paid leave following an independent investigation. This is the ray rice controversy and the lead and Roger Goodell were criticized for thousand they did it. Boater had been missing for 12 days is live and recovering. He was found alive and uninjured in the 25foot book w. 65 miles south of honolulu. And ingram was heard. When he plays two may day calls. They searched 12,000 square miles and called off the search on december 1st k. Yesterday, the coast guard received a short may day call. We were able to trace it to where he was. The uss Paul Hamilton was 14 miles away and they found ingram on his boat. He is weak, hungry and dehydrated. We are watching bay area weather. Look at the forecast for tomorrow. Trying to map out when the heaviest rain will fall. South florida is under the gun during the Early Morning hours. 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The app fund you with gps. There are no surprises. And always know how much you will pay including tax and pins before it is tax and tips. Go to the website. It is the tech report. I am rich dimuro. 8 45 is the time. We want to check in with you and see if the timing changed at all. Few minor tweaks. As the storm gets closer and closer. Better idea of the timing. It might stall a little bit as it heads into the north bay. Not good news for you. Okay. So, you are thinking these heavy downpours and we are going to be for early people. Three, 4rbgs 56 in the morning. Looks like 7 00. Santa rosa will get hammered. Thats when folks will head out and you are trying to get. This is Storm Tracker four. And pretty active rain and heavy rain coming down right now. Track lightning strikes not too long ago. It shows how long of a train of clouds this is that is coming our way. The core of the low pressure system is up here. This is one of the cold fronts that is coming off of it. And tapping into subtropical moisture. That is just flowing in our direction. We will see it start to impact us. We will walk through the timing. We are looking for things to start to light up on the north bay with showers here and there. Still north of santa rosa. And the storm looks like it is stalling quite a bit and push all the way to seven now in the morning. See the line of heavy showers right through santa rosa. Thats when the storm will be at its worst. Then the front passes over. San rafael. Sonoma. A and the wine country. Heavy rain coming down. Thats the 9 00 hour. Nine to noon, we will get it hard in the north bay. Then from noon to four. And entire bay area to be inundated with light area. And that is cutting right through the center part of the bay. At 4 00. It will move over and san jose starts to deal with it. It is right during the heart of the commute. They are dealing with that. And everybody else is dealing with light to mood moderate rain. And widespread. How many other adjustives can we come up with. It is all and well into the overnight hours. Midnight. Still looking at widespread rain even though it breaks up here and there. Friday morning. It could be a wet commute as well. And three to seven in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Two to four elsewhere. And it will be an issue as you are driving around tomorrow. You know this. We went through this last week. Expect more of the same for flash flooding for the streets. And intersections in cities. And small creeks and rivers and streams, you will see the levels come up pretty quick. Busting up to 50, 60 and if you go way up high in the hills. 87 miles an hour gusts. And trees will come down. And power will go out. Pg e is prepared they will pop around the bay. Be ready for that. And coach it handy. Might be getting ready in the dark. It is cloudy. Foggy. Dealing with three hour delay consist right now. Temperatures in the mid50s at the moment and warm up to the 60 later in the afternoon. And around the bay forecast calls for showers again to taper off friday. Get a break over the weekend. Monday, we are looking for conditions to fire back up again with more rain on the way. And rain means snow up in the sahara. And tahoe forecast, it is pretty good snow making days. For thursday and then it will drop down to 4500. All the cold air coming in. Look at that. 20 inches. And two to 3 feet at the summits with dangerous white out conditions. All roots heading up to tahoe and in the sierra, coming anywhere you are traveling thursday and friday. You will be looking at whiteout conditions. Sleet, snow. Going sideways and throwing off the depth perception and thats what you are dealing with. Once you are there though. We should be looking at this. Here is the ski report. That time of year. 18 inches at squaw valley. 18 and no new he snow in the last 24 hours. That is about to change. Download the mobile app. Great way to stay updated on the storm as we roll through. Can we call it a slow roll. That is what is happening. Heavy traffic all morning. And still cite jammed. Look at this. Starting toulouseen up on the crossing. Coming from 580, it is solid. Backed up to all approaches and jam asked all the way through the pay gates and eastern fan and moving well on the suspension. It is packed on the open side. And drive time of 30 minutes to get to downtown San Francisco. San mateo bridge. Drive time is 15 minutes from the toll plaza out to 101 and out to 101 and san mateo. It is slow in both directions over to the golden gate bridge. Night light traffic here in 101. And next. We will get over to the Richmond San Rafael bridge. We had heavy traffic from richmond parkway and through the tolls. Thats about it. And less than 10 minutes from the toll plaza out to the 101 split. Checking on drive times. Coming from the north bay out of novato. It is still a bit high. 41 minutes to get to the toll plaza. And for those of you traveling through the south bay. Here is the ride on south bay 101 and to montague expressway. Back to you. Daly city preparing for the powerful storm that will come. Rain, thunder and lightning and wind. And asking residents for help. Here are pictures of flooding. It is 88th street in daly city and in the garage consist. Now, they are asking to make sure the neighborhood is clear of leaves and debris from the storm drains and not to park vehicles overnight. Especially lowlying areas prone to flooding. Eightyseventh and 89th streets and edgewood avenue and washington street. West more avenue and west park lake West Lake Park area. They can get sandbags at the waste water plant. That is at merced boulevard. And sandbags are limited to 10 per household. We will be right back. Female announcer get three years interestfree financing on brand name mattress sets. Plus, get free delivery, and sleep trains 100day low price guarantee. 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They managed to break in and steal different items. Police respond. Officials were overwhelmed. They are a small Police Department with 30 centers total. 30 officers total. We have officers down now and have to do this and it is totally unnecessary to have them come in the city. We are not responsible for and break things in our city and loot our town. Reporter pictures inside the pack and save show the graffiti and they say the looters stole and took cash and liquor. Some of the officers were hit with bottles and concrete. They got overwhelmed and not able to make any arrests tonight. Especially moreryville police have hopes of arresting those who did this last night. Thanks, a lot, mike. Remember, we will cover the latest developments. As it develops on the website at kron four. Com and on facebook and twitter. We will be right back. 4four. You are doing just fine if you are carpooling this morning. The back up does extends into the maze on 520. 84, and the drive times 10 to decrease. You are up to 34 minutes right now to San Francisco. That is a human improvement. About an hour ago. It was an hour and 32 minutes. Looking much, much better. This is the right into San Francisco. James . We are watching the weather here. We can see it on the radar. Hitting the northern portions of Northern California awfully hard. That is all headed our way. We will talk about the timing in just a minute. Traffic is terrible. Crossing the bay bridge, san mateo bridge. There is good news. We had a crash on san mateo bridge or toll plaza. We had injuries reported and added to the back up. It is still slow coming out of hayward and it has improved from the nimitz freeway and through the pay gates and contracts the span. Drive time is still under 15 minutes. We will head to the bay bridge. Traffic is thinning out. It is Getting Better. If you are paying crash or fast track. You are waiting. Carpool lane, you are doing fine. From the 880 crossing, it is not too bad. It is from the maze and at 24. Starting with two crashes on the bridge. One after the tunnel and one before the tunnel. Both cleared quickly and traffic took a long time to recover. Not completely thinned out here and one more quick check of the commute. This is for the east bay. It is still stop and go from the 586 split. And in stretching towards fremont. And no major crashes there. The nimitz freeway and into fremont and stop and go traffic into the south bay and out to highway 237. Traffic is still slow. See how the weather is shaping up for today and the days ahead. James . Thank you, rob bib. We will start with the satellite radar shot. See how big the storm system is. It is impacting washington, oregon. And pacific northwest. They have been hammered by the storm. It is creeping low enough that the top northwest corner of the state getting hit with heavy rain. This is the cold front. Look at how long it goes. All of the moisture is targeting the bay area. And we will talk about the timing. We have got 9 00 p. M. The rain already coming into view in the north bay. It will stall a little bit. Thats the thinking any way. And it covers the north bay. Following morning on thursday. Cold front over santa rosa and moderate rain and nine in the morning. Nine, 10 00 hour. Over san rafael. Napa, sonoma. And working its way over San Francisco. By noontime, we will see it over the heart of the bay with heavy rain at times. By about 4 00 it is impacting the south bay and it is the evening commute. Prepare to be wet. It doesnt matter what direction you are headed. We have light moderate rain. You can see green encompassing the entire frame. Same story. Midnight friday morning. Start to see it break up a little bit. Then hold on to the showers into friday as well. How much will we get. North bay and particularly along the coast tall mountains. This is the community by the bay and for the Santa Cruz Mountain it is and one to three and 4 inches of rain for the east bay valleys and south bay. That means the flood danger is very real. Flash flooding is likely. Intersections half submerged. Small creeks and they are getting close to cresting. Wind will be strong. Gusting up to 60, 70 miles an hour. The higher you go in the hills and bring down trees and bring downpour lines. It bring doyne power lines. And bring downpour lines. And bring down power lines and mid50s and look for mid60s this afternoon and the temperatures will cool off friday, saturday. And the cold air comes in after it pushes on through. We have break over the weekend. Lots more to talk about over the next seven days and lots to track. You can do it yourself. Mobile app is free for apple and android twices. Download it today. Big drop in the markets in early trading. This time it is oil. Explain to us how low oil prices are sending fear to investors. Opec is a cartel that helps set the price of oil. They say the we cans demand is pushing crude oil counsel to 62 a barrel. Where the floor is, we dont know. And could go down to 40. Which is where we were 15 years ago. This is tough. I know you are saying, poor saudi arabia. And 10 or 12 countries in opec, they are funded by oil. 10 countries will be suffering. That is a big piece of data. With that said, it is good for americans and good for the economy and stock market. Not good if you make oil like chevron and texaco does. All the fracking going on. We reach a point where it is not profitable to do the fracking and take the oil out of the ground and once we start getting below 50 a barrel. That means dropping gas prices for americans. And 2 3 of the economy is consumer spending. Everyone has more money. Oil is a loser. Gasoline prices will be a winner. The Energy Department said gasoline prices should average two the 60. National average is 2. 66. We dont have that much further to go according to the Energy Department unless Oil Continues to tank 23 below year after year. That is nice to see. Lowest gasoline prices since 2009 and leave over 100 billiondollars in the economy. That is a stimulus for the economy and should help barack obama in the last year of his presidency. Could we go lower . Not terribly much lower. But good to see. We had a good report from costco. It is in the news today. Get gas today. There might be a flood tomorrow. Costco, they are a cool retailer and Business Model is unique. You get the membership and get gasoline there. They sell a lot of gasoline. They are not hurt by the rapid decline and when you go get gas, you have extra money and then you go in and spend it. It has a lot of warehouses. They different from walmart and target. Because they are spartan in what they stock. You could get a great vacation. And i know, people who love costco from the samples they gave. That is the best retailer we have in america at this point in time. They pay a much better wage than walmart or target. Yes. Half of americans dont want their kids to play football. It is a bad year. Whether they are boating their wives or chirp. Whether there is a Football Team with a name that is considered derogatory. They wont print the name they fine is so offensive. It is a rough year in print k multi billion dollar business. New survey comes out saying over 50 parents dont want their kids to play the sport. Now, this is brought up to me in the sense of lets think about this. It is a product. More player consist you have at a younger age, the more likely you will friend unique individuals. And this isnt going to kill the nfl. What could hurt it is the baseball contract that was recently signed. More money playing baseball. A lot more jobs in baseball than football. Parents will take note of that and put it in their kids head. Instead of the helmet on their head. They are profiting billions and billions of dollars. The popularity is on the wane already. He will answer the question here on kron 4. We will be right back. [instrumental music]. We continue and we have a look at the areas that are likely to see the most trouble. In San Francisco big storms almost always seem to knock down trees and flood streets. Along ocean beach and storm surges blow sand across the great highway and closing it down for days. Heavy rain can loosen up rocks on Telegraph Hill and fall on the vehicles and buildings below this was smashed by a boulder. In the south bay. Freak flooding along the low lying areas and it is trying gearing mudslides. And tend to pool and this is video from martinez back in 2011 when they fill the up alhambra creek. And it gets hit the hardest in the north bay. It is common here at 101. And in marin city. Kron 4 news. Another problem is i san anselmo. What they are preparing for coming up. Taking a look at what they are preparing for. There is the storm heading up the coast. We will be right back. Continuing to look for the storm. It is coming for you. This is going to be a pretty good soaker for us and if you havent heard already by now. Let me remine you again, prepare today. It is the last dry day. What ever you need to do. Bring in the lawn decorations. And it is all going to get tossed around tomorrow. Here is the storm system. It is impacting half of the coast of the u. S. Just us and california is left. Here is a lot more of it. Deep into the pacific. It is targeting the bay area. And it is late tonight, 9 00 or so we will expect to see the showers pop up then area wide over the course of the day. Then lasting into friday morning. What can we expect with the system. Particularly in the hills and mountains. And three to 8 inches possible. We are looking at five to sixisms possible in the north bay valleys. To the east. And south. One to 4 inches. And thats what we are picks he canting with the system. The ground is already saturated and we will get more rain like we did last week. They will get it once more. Wove winds that will be gusting upwards of 50, 60, 70 miles an hour. It is Strong Enough to toss around lawsuit weight lawn furniture. Pg e is on alert. They have a bunch of transformmilesanhours. And they will be relacing those as they blow k and flawing. If the water get deep in the number of intersections. Anal other group of bay area cities as well. We have some fog out there. Temperatures are in the 50s. We will see it warm up to the low 60s t and i will bring it back to you in the image of rain to the north. Thats what we are expecting beginning tonight. Brace yourself. Our crews. Mobilized and ready. Ahead of the big storm. Jackie sussel is in downtown san anselmo now. Hi, jackie. Reporter hi, darya. We are 12 hours away from seeing significant rain. That is not stopping the folks out here. And they have this in place. And it is for the San Anselmo Creek which is 100 yards behind the buildings that you see right here. I shot some video of what it looks like. Here is the video. Obviously right now as we speak. It is the low flood stage. They have done a lot of work to prepare themselves for the heavy rain. They careered it out and they have a Monitoring System they up date and you request go to the website. We have a link set up there. The rozsivally fire department. And monitors this constantly. It is notorious for flooding. One of the bay areas. Worse floods is this. One of the worse videos you will see in 2006. Entire downtown was inundated as the crack poured over the banks. And dozens and dozens of residents were flooded out. They are preparing. And not only do they have sandbags but they installed flood gates. I had a chance to talk to a salon owner who was here in 2,005. She is worried and she thinks she is ready. Just wait. Until everything comes. I will have flood gates this time. Thats the difference. Hopefully nothing is going to happen. What was it like in 2,005. It is awful. It came from the back. As i said. Many of those people back in 2,005 are back again this year. Ready to go. And sandbags are out. And here in maren, you can get sandbags. And how is it. I went out yesterday and bought new rain boots in preparation for it. You had those sorrells which covered your foot. Did you get higher ones. No, i told you before. Lets get this straight. Anything over the ankles. I am not walking through. That is what i have the zoom for on the camera. He wont get in the thick of it. Jackie is out there. Here is a joke. And it is true. He said i am going under the shower. It is just going to be pouring. That is dedication. Daly city is preparing. And we have more with that. Reporter on this wednesday, i am here in daly city on the corner of 88th and sullivan avenue. This particular spot was problem mat tech. And take a look for yourself. You can see the pictures that kron four news obtained. All of the cars that were flooded. And now, the kaly city Police Department is pleading. To take measures with the powerful storm that will storm the area. It lasted for quite some time. It accumulated. And plus the water was collected in garages. It is a mess and caused damage for residents. They can get sandbags nearby in m. Going out for residents in merced. In daly city. The driving is what i am worried about. Annually be covering that here on the kron four morning news. We will get to the traffic right now. Thank you, darya. It is slow west bounds four. And heading into antioch. And it does clear up in pittsburgh and bay point. That is not bad at all. 680 looks great and walnut creek. Slow pocket out at alamo and to the 685. And you are also open and clear for 580 west. Now, it is delay free. 20 minutes from the altamont. Heading out. Thanks a lot. Before the break. We will get a live look here at a fire in illinois. This is Downtown Chicago d they are battling the fire. Big building that houses a restaurant. At least we know there is a restaurant in there. Look at the heavy flames and smoke that is pouring from the building as they night the fire in chicago. We will be back with more in a couple of minutes. 9 39 right now. One of the survivors is speaking out. He contracted ebola while treating patients in sierra leone and his body was so ravaged by the virus but he was treat the at especially morery opt in atlanta and eventuallily pulled through. Now he is in the bay area talking about his experience. Very, very grateful to be alive. The kind of critical car i have got is not done in the setting of ebola before. So, there is a lot to learn from my case. The doctor said he plans to return to sierra leone to fight the virus. People on the front lines are fighting the ebola epidemic. They were voted, and time said they chose the honor for all the ebola people who are fighting this disease to answer the call to help the disease in western africa and working on a cure as well. Saying they deserve recognition. Traffic is Getting Better heading into San Francisco. It shows traffic approaching the toll plaza and the drive times are decreasing. We will have more on the morning commute after the break. 9 43 is the time right now. We have rain falling off the coastline near ear reek candlestick. This is a hint of what is headed our way of the it will work its way down the coastline. Looking for the red. Tomorrow, we will see red. And it is actually raining cats and dogs. It is going to dump pretty good. And dump all the way. Everything is still full speed ahead to get decent rain and lasting all day tomorrow. This is the lightning view. And we have the moisture out there that has not arrived yet the and we will be seeing it impact us by 9 00 tonight. We will start to see the first inklings of something organized and pushing the clock forward in time. Thursday morning. Be ready for heavy rain to be falling. That whole bit of 101 from about novato on up to santa rosa, it is in the light to moderate and heavy rain and passes over san rafael and the Sonoma Valley by nine in the morning. It is nine to continue. And centered up over the bay. The entire peninsula. And with the rain coming down pretty decently. It is san jose. And south bay will be under the gun with the heaviest rain and that will last until 7 00. The entire commute will be down to the south bay. And it is down in the area. In terms of what will get out of it. Most of it is really hitting the north bay hard. And it is two to 3 inches for the bay side and 4 inches of rain for the east bay and the south bay valleys. Flooding is a big concern. Cant stress it enough. And you saw flooding last week. Prepare for more of it this time around. It is more widespread and be on the look out for flash flooding. We got all the hills there are saturated and rain will run off and collect in the napa river. We will see a pretty good spike in terms of the rivers level. Gusty winds. We will see them up from 50, 60. 75 miles an hour in the hills. And we are going to lose power. And pg e. Ready for that. Make sure you have the flash lights ready for that. It is hazy and we are seeing delays at sfo and 113 minute delayfor arriving flights. I will bet you. San jose will get in on the delays and cancellations are the nasty weather rolling through. Mid50s. Into the upper 50s. Slowly warming and into the mid60s. By this an afternoon. We are focusing on the temperatures and more on the rain and it arrives tonight. We will be leer all day thursday and lasting into the first half of friday. We will get a this for the weekend and prepare for the next rounds of wet weather which should arrive on monday. It is a great tool for you. Live doppler radar. Use it all the time and helps to track the storms. No matter where you are. Android, can apple, it works on both of the platforms. We will get on to traffic. Little bit better out there. Great time to carpool into San Francisco and the carpool lanes are okay approaching the toll plaza. If you are paying cash, you will be sitting in traffic. This is an improvement. And the lights were activated at 5 43. They are still on metering the traffic. Backed up on to 580 and that is an improvement. At one point it is back into san leandro and coming out of san pablo area. A moment ago it was from hercules and you may want to hop over to the san mateo bridge. That is pretty much out there. It is crowded and only 11 minutes from the toll plaza the heading out. Not bad at all. You get to 101 and it looks great. Into San Francisco but southbound. Crews are wrapping up a crash k a lot of stop and go traffic. Through the 92 slit and into redwood city and clear up for the southbound ride once you get into menlo park approaching the marsh exit. Improving but slow around the area. Darya. We will go back to chicago where there is a restaurant on fire. Thats what the building is burning right now. Flames shooting out of the roof here. And there are a number of firefighters. We counted almost 20. That are on the roof and from a distance. It as adjacent building that they are spraying the smoke and flames on the roof of this restaurant building in Downtown Chicago and we understand there is roofing work being done. You can see that and they are thinking that is what caused the fire. Our Team Coverage is a big story which is the weather and storm headed our way. People have been preparing. And it is with wet weather and turn it is roads into rivers. Here is what they are experiencing. And they still have school. And streets that were flooded out and made for a tough commute. They had significant flooding. And this noreaster got worse as the day went on. It will flood for sure. We are always ready in this neighborhood. It is having a lot of homeowners think twice about leaving up the Christmas Decorations you just put up and since 1938. Christmas tree lane. Lies up alameda. And look at that stuff. They will put the damper on the holiday spirit. We need to batten down the hatch it is and make sure they are secure. And definitely want to bring stuff like this inside. It is for the day even tomorrow. The lights here are set to shine. And we will see if that is the case. And we have our annual special amazing holiday lights and James Fletcher and they show you the biggest and best lights display. And that is december 19th. This unmarked shuttle kept rolling lieu and see the Alameda County shouldle, it was doing it as well. What i heard from bus drivers, they cant get lunch if they arrive too late. So to them. Every second counts. 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Catch up on what everyones talking about with the x1 entertainment operating system. Preloaded with the latest episodes of the top 100 shows. Only from xfinity. Quick look and we have a storm heading our way and it will be i am packing the bay area all through tomorrow. Look at the forecast thursday into friday. Awfully wet around the bay and then more rain next week. Darya . We have got the storm coverage all fired up, james. Dont forget you could be a part of it, too. Sharing your pictures and video and we have a live crew out from four in the morning when we see the heavy stuff until 10 00 a. M. And maybe beyond. If the situation warrants. And they cover the it wall to wall. It is a bear tomorrow. And we will have flood damage and everything you they had to watch out for. Pge and any Power Outages. Stay tuned. And we have the latest for you on facebook and twitter pages. Mobile app. If it is something you dont have, get it. It is free. Download it and take it on the road with you. 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