This morning at 36. 7 feet at 4. 5 feet above flood stage. The Russian River rose to about that level earlier this week on tuesday. So this is a double whammy. Homes and businesses near the Russian River banks were once again flooded and as soon as the waters receded here we are again. People who live around here though are taking it all in stride. Everybody is doing well in the neighborhood. This is pretty normal. But the storm we had a couple of weeks ago was by far worse. Theres no water in our well, theres a little bit of water in our basement but nothing like a few weeks ago. Reporter and then theres trouble at the Mark West Creek in west Sonoma County which joins with the Russian River. Trees and branches down around its banks. Its normally less than a half foot deep but today, it is approaching 10 feet in some stretches. And then theres a possibility of mudslides in the hills here in wine country. Our crews checked on some of the homes above guerneville in danger of tumbling aro
The panel of three judges on the 9th Circuit Court of appeals came to a unanimous conclusion. In their ruling they rejected the administrations claim that President Trump has authority to act on National Security matters without review by judges. The judges said neither the Supreme Court nor our court has ever held that the courts cannot use executive orders in order to uphold the constitution. We have said from day one that those laws apply to everyone in our country and that includes the president of the united states. Reporter President Trump is about a showdown. I will see them in court and i look forward to doing it. We have a situation where the security of our country is at stake. It is a very, very serious situation. So i look forward to, like i said, seeing them in court. Reporter the executive order bands immigrants from seven countries and suspends the refugee plan. This has little planned and little oversight and created chaos throughout our country. Reporter the Top Trump
Knocking downpour lines. Several pf ande customers lost power, but crews worked all night to get it back. In snow ma county, several thousands customers lost power, but service has been restored in many areas now, only scattered power outages. All right. At least, like you said, we do definitely knead the break. Sounds like, steve, we ore beginning get a few days headache orrville has a big problem. The spillway is a huge problem. I saw that. I couldnt believe the amount of water. 190,000 is coming in. Only 50,000 is going out. And that spillway has problems. Thats going to be a major issue here. The good news is the rain is tapering off. My good friend heavy drizzle is still out. There. Its still going to be cloudy with light rain. Then it will taper off. Whats the good news . The good news is were going to get about 5 days of a break. Rain will come back. Well take the break, but theres still a lot of cloud cover that has to come through. It is a little cooler. This will be the theme
A storm is heading our way next week as well so enjoy the break. Its friday, february 10th. I am pam cook. I am dave clark. Steve has all of the weather details. We have a five or six day break. There is a lot of cleanup to be done, we feed the break. There is a lot of other concerns especially lake oroville. Looking forward to a dry weekend. Right now heres the line of showers, antioch, brentwood, Discovery Bay and the Altamont Pass and dublin, thats the line of rain showers, there is a bit of heavy rain fl the lines. It may impact the travel here. Heavy rain in the lines. It may impact the travel here. We have cooler air coming in. Snow is up in the mountains. A winter storm warning, slower clearing with lingering rain. After today. We have a dry weekend, but the lows will be chilly. Sal, what do you have for traffic . I want to talk about the east shore freeway, we had an earlier accident at ashby. It seems that the crews have removed it and that helped out the traffic to the bay br
Learned the state gave workers the green light to clean the mudslides on highway 17 after a worker died up there but as you mentioned that slide is now on the move again so they have shut down highway 17 and it has caused quite a head ache here. It began just before 10 this morning. Highway 17 shut down at summit road southbound and Granite Creek road northbound. Traffic once again backed up on the major route between san jose and santa cruz. Its inconvenient. Since tuesday the mudslides caused a mess in the area. Northbound line remains closed. Tragedy struck. Yesterday a contractor ran over two others killing bobby gill and wounding steven whitmire. The state suspended the clean up to investigate what went wrong. We havent had rain like this for quite a while. While the rain appears to have stopped the roads have not. There are mudslides county wide near Gordon Georges him. Hes lived here all his life. His advice for anyone driving through the mountains right now. Dont. Really it can