Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Now at 11 00, the bay area getting the brunt of an ugly storm from the north bay to the south bay. Dangerous flooding and mud slides forcing people from their homes. Good evening, im ken bastida. Im elizabeth cook. We have Team Storm Coverage tonight. First, lets get to joe vasquez near the Russian River where the situation has gotten worse. Joe, people had to be rescued tonight. Reporter thats the case here liz. You know, it has been raining cats and dogs all day long here when it was supposed to be taking a break. It subsided in the last half hour. All the rain, all the runoff is setting very serious situation for tomorrow. Worse than originally projected. Take a look behind me. Thats the miniature golf course. It has been underwater the last few days with the first flood. Now, it is about to get even deeper. The new projection from an hour ago is that the Russian River would crest at 39. 8 feet. Nearly 40 feet. That means ther
Flood warning. Right . They couldnt. In their monterey offices they have their gauges for every, single river and creek in the bay area and once it goes over, bam goes the warning. This morning lets walk you through whats going on here in the bay area. We are not out of the woods. In fact, anne makovec will be reporting from the Russian River in guerneville because this is a very dire situation anywhere between 6 and 8 feet above flood stage and it will happen today. Were anticipating flooding at parkers resort, brookside resort and many of the low businesses. Meanwhile, we have the napa river in saint helena another big factor here is that we have the mudslide at the silverado trail. The only way to get home is through this particular area and there will be moderate flooding there and, of course, the napa river in napa we anticipate secondary road to flood today with the cresting of 26. 1 feet. Its already occurring now. Hidef doppler radar, hitand miss scattered showers, pounded yest
I keep going back to being a native californian, i have never heard in one day so many ebss, emergency broadcast systems, where your programming was interrupted or youre listening to the radio. That lovely tone. Yeah. Beep, beep. Its important. It is, it is. You kind of wish they would say Flash Flood Warning for the entire bay area but the National Weather service which is in monterey actually they have all these different rain gauges. I think we lost something on the desk. Something on our desk fell. [ laughter ] sorry, boss. I broke the desk. [ laughter ] but you know, what happens is they have these rain gauges and they monitor them and one would tip and overflow and that would spark a warning for that particular area so thats why you heard so many different ones going on. But lets take a look at what to expect outside now. Its our live weather camera looking out at sfo which yesterday had threehour and 38 minute delays. So far this morning, not seeing any kind of reports of any de
Lot of snow. Several feet has fallen over the past few days. Lets take you live to the south bay where there are flood rescue operations underway. The street looks more like a river. Our janine de la vega is in hollister. We will bring here in in just a moment. Lets go straight to Steve Paulson with the forecast. Were getting good news in the north bay. Theyre not getting the rain. Good. The Russian River will decrease and the napa river. It should go down. Good. Still rain towards the Santa Cruz Mountains that doesnt need more. Parts of the peninsula and east bay. It looks like the rain will be more towards the south bay and apartment cruise mountains tonight and tomorrow. A couple breaks in there. We will need a break. A serious side of a blizzard. Most of truckee and tahoe have been without power for 12 hours. Five to 7 feet reported. The blizzard warning continues until noon. The pictures coming out, echo summit, i saw caltrans district 3 shot. The snow is about this high. Well, yo
Bay mud managing water supply for 1. 4 Million People in the east bay. The amount of water we receive, precipitation that weve received is 196 of average. In january, for the month of january, 470 of average so far. Reporter with a snowpack in the sierra also well above average for this time of year, reservoirs like san pablo are brimming. But what about long term . Weve received all of this snow, this is great. Is it going to last . Reporter alex is a professor of earth and environmental sigh generals at st. Marys college. She says all of this is great for surface supplies but what happens beneath the ground is even more important. All of this precipitation is going to help replenish the surface water, the stuff at the surface, the reservoirs, the rivers. It does very little to replenish the ground water aquafirs. And while things look great in southern california, the drought is still very much in place. Laura anthony, abc7 news. The rain is not done yet. More showers fell today. You