Bay overnight leaving more than 10,000 without power. Trees fell on roads and on to homes. Today of unusual weather is still developing judging by your umbrella. Reporter confirm what sandhya just reported. Rain and thunder on the horizon. Strong winds through this area earlier this morning surprised so many residents of the south bay and took toll on mature trees and power lines. When i looked outside, holy smokes, you know . Reporter retired firefighter russ furmen knew would be damage, top third of the amber tree sheered off. Landing on neighbors roof. Suv window in driveway. Dramatic proof. Could have done a lot more damage. This is a big limb. Some punctures in the roof here. Reporter santa clara fire receiving calls in the morning as winds kicked up, taking down power lines and knocking down tree limbs. 30 calls from campbell and los gatos areas. 50 foot modesto ash blocked two lanes of boulevard. Planted 60 years ago by ryan mcfarlands parents but fallen victim to wind storms. Y
The cell moving over south san jose has a history of producing lightning at this hour. A few around richmond. The wider view into the north bay we go weve seen lightning but it has not moved into napa county just yet. Watch this new cell that had just developed to the north of mount hamilton. Were going to track that one because it does have vivid looung. Folks could expect lightning by 6 00 p. M. Expect to hear rumble of thunder. The storm bring it on back. We rank our storms here at abc 7 from one to five. This is a light storm but it will impact your evening with gusty winds. Wellly get red of the heat in that full accuweather guys. Theres been up clean up repairs in the south bay. Lets go to david louie in san jose with the look at the damage there. David. Reporter what a Strange Weather day this has been especially in the south bay. Weve had rain, thunder, lightning in the past hour. In the Early Morning hours this morning, we had heavy winds that took down trees and power lines.
The lightning pushing through fremont. 6 26. And likely holding up in union city by 6 41. We have seen a few strikes near oakland also berkeley and richland. Its mainly moderate to light right now. But if you have to be careful if youre traveling over the bay bridge into San Francisco. A wider view of the activity, you always want to look to the direction where its come from. We have a new complex of storm developing near fresno and bakersfield. This could be on track by 11 00 this evening. Well detail it more throughout the hour. Okay thank you, jeff this has been an odd weather day. The lightning and rain this evening. And then this morning a wind storm whipping up trees and toppling trees. Marian favro is in the bay area with that part of the story. Marryian. About an hour and a half ago we saw sunday but then pummeled with rain and and then then lightning in san jose. All of that while the people are recovering from the first storm overnight. If you see behind me you see paul russe
Debris that is cluttering the sidewalks and the streets making it difficult to get around safely. We are helping our fellow americans in florida. Reporter our weekend to a Tropical Storm. Storm surge bringing flooding to the jacksonville area were people had to be pulled from flooded homes. Nearly the entire state of florida is now reeling with homes and property destroyed and many communities left swamped. Just because the storm has passed, we are not safe. We have debris all over the state. Reporter 20 20,000 people are in emergency shelters and more than 6. 5 million homes and businesses lost power. Officials are warning it could be weeks before electricity is restored. The florida keys were hit hard with 130 mileperhour winds. Officials are warning there is no fuel, running router water or power. We have a lot of damage and cleanup. Reporter we are back out here. Those are three trees in addition to the one that you saw. This is an australian pine tree. That sidewalk helped and pre
Tracking thunderstorms. New video just in shows lightning in san jose. This appeared just an hour ago. This came from a viewer in south center san jose. We slow down this footage of lightning appearing at mth fete. Im dan ashton. And im christine z. Melindaing onhere you live this lets get to meteorologist drew tudayman. Hes tracking whether conditioning right now. Much of the video were getting from the south bay, but a lot of us will see that in the next hour or to. Live doppler 7 tracking it all along the peninsula into the this is where weve seen numerous reports of all the action. Th is what youre seeing on doppler 7 rngs at least 11 00 in the past minutes or so. Just if the past ten minutes a lightng strike off the coast of south sanose. The cell moving over south san jose has a history of producing lightning at this hour. A few around richmond. The wider view into the north bay we go weveeen lightning but it has not moved into napa county just yet. Watch this new cell tt had jus