Now its our buddy, its our pal, its our friend. It is steering every storm toward us, not only the one moving through right now, but the one that will give us a bigger drenching coming up over the weekend. The first storm, the latest computer model information says we will get more rain. Some may get an inch or more of rain fall from this and this is the smaller of the two storms. So wait until you see how much rain we have in the forecast and how much of a dent this will put in our drought. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Looks good, paul. Now to andrea, she is live in pleasantton with the latest. Andrea. Reporter ken, can you see . There is rain falling right now. Good news for this town because it is under an extreme drought right now. So much so in fact that the pleasantton city Council Voted to institute a call to ask its residents for a 20 cut in their water usage. Now, as you look at video of downtown pleasantton, you can see theres a sheen of water on the roads. There is wate
On our screen on the hidef Doppler Radar this morning. You have some yellows and oranges and even some reds out there and some muchneeded rain falling outside. In fact, almost an inch of rain now in some parts of the north bay. Almost half inch into San Francisco. And look at this. We have some significant rainfall now pouring in parts of the bay area and more to come. Most of the heavy rainfall will come through early this morning but you can see that into San Francisco now. Intense rainfall. That line of showers stronger towards san jose. The portola valley, along the coastline into Half Moon Bay, we are also seeing some heavy rain. But really its everywhere. This is muchneeded rain for the bay area. It looks like more to come on the way. Out the door right now, we have some rain into San Francisco. Some drops on the lens. Temperatures are starting out cool. Be careful on the roads this morning. Its slick. Temperatures running into the 40s. By the afternoon, i think most of the rain
And south bay. Expecting that heavy rainfall to taper off as we head into the latter part of the morning. There is plenty of rain now in towards san jose. Some heavy downpours showing up there. Also in along the peninsula, half moon bay, san mateo, redwood city, as you make your way toward the east bay we are also seeing some strong storms developing there. With that in mind, be very, very careful outside this morning as we have some heavy downpours early on. Temperatures out the door mainly in the 40s this morning. I think as we head toward the afternoon, most of the rain will have ended just maybe some scattered light showers. The temperatures are going to stay mainly in the 50s but a bigger storm is on the horizon. For more on that well have that coming up in just a few minutes. Lets check traffic with elizabeth. Thank you, lawrence. Avoid the eastshore freeway. This big rig crash is causing major delays in both directions of interstate 80. So we do have an updated location. It is a