Event as this storm takes aim on southern california. Well talk about how much more rain were expecting out of the storm and a much drier forecast heading through the weekend in about 13 minutes. Rob is a great resource for keeping you in the know about the weather. Follow him on twitter, rob mayeda. Tragedy in muir woods. A tree falls,hiker, injuring another. The tree landed right on another hiker. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The muir woods are still open but that trail closed until at least after the weekend. The Statement Reads in part, thatsa ve that is a very rare and isolated event that may have occurred due to recent storms and wet roots around the try. The plight of some mothers will be going before a judge. We are looking at their attorneys very interesting strategy. Sergio, you talked with one of the mothers involved. Reporter yeah, we taufked with her as she was picking up presents that home in oakland bringing them to a nearby hotel. Theyre all going to be staying
Mike, youre looking at the buildup out of oakland. Yes, folks, look at this. Thats a lot more cars than we saw last time we took a look. The bay bridge toll plaza is just fine. We expect a light commute so do our partners at waze predicting smooth speeds at the limit for much of the morning. Its eastbound 80 at highway 4 an earlier crash reports of a car that hit the center divide, spun out and someone got out of the car and walked away so were worried about someone on the center divide, in the center divide. Ill track that, again up toward the carquinez bridge, your commute direction just fine you saw how light it was out of oakland and around the rest of the bay. Well talk about the crash. Ill let you know about any updates of skyline. Back to you. Live to capitol hill where lawmakers are on holiday break this Christmas Eve but not taking any breaks from the impending impeachment trial. Democrats are demanding documents from the white house and for witnesses to testify. Republicans a
Christmas eve. It is Christmas Eve. How is it looking out there . Not waiting for you. Here it comes. Its starting out cloudy, cold this morning and as we go into tonight, rain will be arriving into the bay area, so as we take a look now at our current temperatures, ooh, we are below freezing in the north bay. Napa, santa rosa, down to 30 degrees, and were at 36 in livermore, where we are also tracking patchy, dense fog in the north bay, were concerned about some icy roads. As we go into the rest of the day were going to see a mix of sun and clouds. Mountain view reaching into the low 50s. Well talk about the rain coming up. Mike, youre tracking a crash on the peninsula. Thats right its 6 01. Why am i starting with highway 35 at kings mountain, a crash that cleared so minor slowing, because thats the biggest deal we have out there on the roadways right now. Its a smooth flow of traffic there and should recover nicely. 101 280 no problems. South bay, trivalley, out of the Altamont Pass
He was charged with battery on officer and reach out to the oakland police. But they did not return our calls. His wifes however, believes that the officers overreacted. Some people are allowed to raise her voice and some people are not. Black men in particular are seeing a scary. As soon as they get angry, they are seen as threatening and all of that. Is it is part of an officers duty to deescalate in situations. No effort at all to deescalate the situation. Reporter he says that he is a Court Appearance scheduled for november 15. He said that he has plans to ask for that charge to be did smith dismiss. Kpix 5. He is out of custody on a 20,000 bond. Taking a look at the downtown san jose. Changes are ahead. Some of us will be back in the 80s this week. But the same system that will bring a lot of sunshine, roll bring fire concerts. Visibility, will go up as the fire dangers go up. In San Francisco the numbers were in the mid 60s today. I High Pressure system is going to be building in
Temperatures right now are in the north bay with the fog. They are not terribly cold. Youre doing okay in santa rosa. Forty fort in novato and heading over to the eastway, 51 and oakland. 41 and walnut creek. 43 in dublin. And heading further south, 46 in sunnyvale. Today will be another mile today after we kick the fog. Mostly sunny skies. 68 the coast. 73 in the bay and 82 inland. Very similar to yesterday. Lets head over to sell and see how we are doing at the road. We are off to a good start if you are driving on the commute on 580 through the altamont pass. We are starting with the super commute and unity traffic moving along okay. 205 has a little slowing approaching 580 and then you go to livermore and dublin it looks good, with no major problems traffic and oakland is fine. Eastbound 580 harvard there is Police Activity because of an earlier fatal accident. It is a hit and run eastbound 580 heading away from the Richmond Bridge and towards berkeley on 580. Right now aed traffic