Approach santa clara street as the rains continue to intensify. You pinpointed it a moment ago, heavy rain coming into san jose. Its dumping now. As the rains continue the feed in to the Santa Cruz Mountains and the creeks spill the water out to the guadeloupe well see these levels rise as we go through tonight into tomorrow morning, watching that rain fall heavy at times in the south bay. The other thing were going to track is the snowfall up across the sierra. Winter storm warning in place, we amped up the expected snow overall we could see from 2 to 4 feet at 7,000 feet in the sierra, and probably start to encounter snow at 3500 feet. Widespread coverage here, winter conditions on 80 and also 50. Ill show you video from the snow. A lot of people headed that way. Fresh powder on your right, a live look at i80 through emeryville. You see how slow traffic is moving as the journey begins to lake tahoe. It could take five to six hours. This is what it looked like late this afternoon at d
Hayward and union city and this goes back towards portions of the east bay including dublin. Its kicking up on the cars and make the visibility reduced a bit. In the south bay its spotty throughout san jose, also lose gados but more rain fall this weekend. Well take down to the future cast tonight and that will continue, of course, right into tomorrow morning. With that said, we are looking at a heightened flood concern for this weekend. Were joined by rob. They went up, down, what are you seeing now . Reporter jeff, funny you mention it. They are going up from 5 00 were seeing water move quickly and across the rocks there as the flow of the Guadalupe River moves from south to north. As we look up tom with the view, what youll see is the coverage there of the water moving from south and north or from the bottom to the top of your screen and during the day yesterday, those water levels rose enough to reach bank full in locations near san fernando and santa clara street along the running
Unusually small rivers and streams are running high. The south bay finally getting a taste of the rain. This is a live look at downtown san jose. We have live team coverage. Nbc bay areas Monty Francis is in sonoma county. And we have two meteorologists tracking the storm. Jeff ranieri is looking at rainfall totals, but first we want to begin with rob mayeda. Finally the rain has arrived in the south bay. It took about 36 hours for it to drop out of the north bay. The Santa Cruz Mountains picking up about another inch of rain. You can see the rain still stretching into the north bay. And its a the north bay counties tonight that will still see the Flash Flood Watch in effect through about 9 00. That means localized flooding is still possible. Which is precisely what we saw out in mill valley. And monty, we had some damage to storefronts in mill valley today. Reporter thats right. Were outside of a bar called the 2 a. M. Club. This bar along with a taco shop, both flooded. Theyve put ou
Wet. Several feature built in to push water off the side. But deep inside underneath the deck and that the calf eastern infrastructure its supposed to be dry. And thats where caltrans has found water where there shouldnt be. When i see happening is water is coming in at the bolt location at the top on the deck and then dripping down through the threads. Caltrans chief Deputy Director rick land pointed out the latest problem on the new eastern span of the bay bridge leaking bolt. We expected to have issues come up on this structure and this is not an atypical issue we would find on a structure that is newly put into service with such unique feature. Reporter bolt are about 1 inch in diameter attached to steal plate every 3 feet underneath the platform of the bridge. Leak have been found on along onethird mile stretch that is the suspension portion of the bridge. In someplaces we did find pooling and rust color sign of corrosion. We expected water to get in somehow. Reporter water could
Good evening. Every state with the exception of hawaii is forecast to experience freezing temperatures over the next 24 hours. Schools in atlanta, georgia, have been cancelled for tomorrow because of the cold. A Major Airline is going to shut down operations at some big u. S. Airports to give its system and its employees a chance to keep up with the cold. And that is just the start of the impact of what the weather folks are calling a polar vortex. A large sprawling counterclockwise weather system spreading record cold and reaching far to the south. Up north it is possible to live your whole life in minnesota and never see temperatures this cold. And a lot of folks in nashville thought they would never see 11 degrees. Oddly, it is colder in atlanta than it is in parts of maine tonight. We have it all covered, and we begin with nbcs Kevin Tibbles in minneapolis. Temperatures 15 below, windchill, minus 39. Kevin, good evening. Reporter brian, this is the coldest weather many parts of thi