Level two storm will make for a stormy morning ride. Ill let you know exactly when it will get here, how long it will stay, coming up. South bay, sacred site tribe wants left alone, developmenters have other ideas. Asking not to give green light to cannabis dispensary. Hoax that law warning about. Strongest storm of the new year so far is about to sweep into bay area. Rain, winds, snow in the sierras. Meteorologist sandhya patel is tracking the system. Major storm, live doppler 7 seeing sprinkles ahead of the system which is intensifying in the pacific. As it swings through, going to hammer the bay area with heavy rain. Hour by hour forecast. Morning commute, around 5 00 a. M. In the north bay, slicing central bay 8 00 to 9 00 a. M. , 0 10 00, pushing southward. Thunder is a possible. Winds already gusting on mt. St. Helena. Downed trees and power lines, moderate likelihood. Watch out for morning commute. Allow extra time. Youll need it. Right now no chain controls on 50 or 80 but that
Tonight who says that they will be enforcing the eviction order asman dated by the court. But they really want everything to remain peaceful so theyve also reached out to the group to help and to try and come up with a nonconfrontational resolution. But so far the moms have declined their offer. Now, i have seen people in the house. Weve knocked on the door. I saw one woman walk up to the front door. They clearly do not want to speak to us tonight, but we have spoken to their neighbors and their neighbors are sympathetic to their situation. That theyre moms trying to provide housing for their children, but they are also concerned about whats going to happen this week with the eviction, with all of the attention, and, of course, most importantly, the safety of the children in the house. After this were going to speak to the representative for the property owner, hear what he has to say about all of that and we will have everything right here on abc7 at 11 00. For now that is the latest
North. When it marches south, it will bring us light to moderate rain. Thunderstorms and hail are possible during the afternoon hours. Thats when well have our best chance of snow down to 3,500 feet. San rafael, you can see only of that light rain falling now. Breezy now through noon with increasing intensity of the rain through 7 00. The rest of us get it from then through noon. Then we turn into scattered showers at 4 00. That chance will start to taper at 7 00. More on this heavy rain event coming up. Here is pran sis with tfrancis commute. We have a Traffic Alert in pacifica. This is highway 1 at manor drive. This is a fatal accident. A Dodge Charger driving the wrong way on southbound 1, it hit a mercedes it around 3 00 this morning. Right now southbound 1 is closed. You can see how this crash turned out. Look at these cars. Just a complete mess right now. Southbound 1 will be closed in pacifica for a while. Traffic is being detoured right now on to skyline boulevard. So you cant
Look at the West Richmond side of the richmondsan rafael bridge. The breezes are the big issue until the heaviest of the rain rolls in. The it will stay in the north bay until 7 00. From 7 00 to noon well get intense downpours and flooding on the roadways. Then tomorrows with dangerous lightning and hail during the afternoon hours. That will taper in the evening hours. Well look at that storm coming up. First here is frances. This is southbound highway 1 at manor drive. A Dodge Charger was driving northbound in the southbound lanes and crashed into a mercedes and right now were hearing that southbound 1 will be closed for a while. This will be the hot spot to avoid this morning. Detours are in place at this point. If you are traveling through pacifi pacifica, you will be taken off at skyline boulevard. Traffic is slow there as you approach sharp park road, that will get you back on. This is the spot to avoid. It will be out there for a while. Coroner headed to the scene. Amy hollyfield
Lot of sweat and brainpower into figuring out what do our riders need to keep them coming back. One factor contributing to the decline, competition with Ride Share Companies like uber and lyft. But the survey of riders found the number one reason people gave is many of them werent going out as much on weekends. Number two, they didnt like the long wait between trains on the weekends. But number three was dirty trains. Number four worries about crime. Number five, concerns about the homeless. Police chief ed alvarez said crime was down 18 in january of 2019 versus january of 2018. Cell phone thefts were also down 40 over the same period. Were not declaring victory just yet, but were continuing to work on it, and were going to keep building op it. Bart is also exploring ways to get the riders back. One proposal is to offer discounted fares to certain riders like students and seniors, or even going a step further. One of the things weve been doing is handing out free passes for the weeken