Ive seen just about enough of this rain. We all wanted rain at the beginning of the winter, but this is too much. Reporter and were back live here. You can see the force of the slide basically knocked the door of the rear of this house off of its hinges. Check this out. Here, this is about a foot of mud up to the back door here of the dining room. The folks who live here are not staying here tonight. As you can see, its not terribly safe at this point. The concern is that the hillside above is still moving. So, it could be a long time before folks can get back into this house, at least to stay overnight. Live in oakland, laura anthony, abc 7 news. All right, laura, thank you. There is more rain on the wave unfortunately for those poor people that live there. The nasty weather also caused a barge to sink south of the bay bridge. Sky 7 shows us the area where that vessel went down and the oil sheen left behind caused by leaking diesel fuel. The barge was performing Maintenance Work on b.
Impacting any shipping channel or any commercial operations. Reporter the barge belong to vortex Marine Company of antioch. They were hired to do maintenance on the tube. Vortex was not talking today, b. A. R. T. Was. The barge has a crane and some extra cabling and its just what the divers use as their base and then they dive down to the replace these metal pieces that a track it so the tube doesnt get corroded. Reporter the barge sank at midnight after being overrun by wind and waves. If has leaked a small amount of diesel fuel, hence the yellow containment bowies and the president of the department of fish and wildlife. Could the leak be a problem . Its possible. At this point right now the amount of action going on out there, the birds are staying away, and right now there is a sheen and thats not a huge cause for concern. Reporter huge, no, but at 112 feet long and 50 feet of water, not small either. The vortex Marine Construction has hired a salvage company, but the coast guard s
Syrian president assads political adviser accused the u. S. Of giving a helping hand to terrorists. The assad regime says the u. S. Attack is making it harder for the syrian army in their fight against isis. Just ahead on nightly news, a look at the Decision Making process involved in this attack on syria. Lester holt joins us at 5 30. New at 5 00, more trouble for the 49ers. Tremaine brock accused of domestic violence. After he posted bail, he walked out of jail and then the 49ers cut him. This is something the team has failed to do in previous years following player arrests. Robert honda broke the story this morning and joins us this soo evening from santa clara. Reporter the 49ers did act swiftly in cutting brock, the team and the nfl have been fighting an image problem, and the 49ers wanted this situation gone fast. 28yearold Tremaine Deshawn Brock was still a member of the 49ers when he left jail this afternoon. He had no comment. It wasnt that long ago we had seen happier images
Off to the east we have got thunderstorms and heavy snow in the sierra. Second storm arriving within a 24 hour window. Not as strong but still we could do get whipped gusts up to 45 Miles Per Hour between 8 00 tonight and 12 midnight. A big drop in the daytime temperatures will surprise you with that weekend forecast. Coming up well let you know how long the winds and raindrops will last as part of the weekend forecast coming up in 20 minutes. Backyard furniture buried in mud. Thats what happened after a hillside gave way after rains pounded the Oakland Hills. Public work crews spent the day inspecting the homes and ended up red tagging one of them. Nbc bay areas cheryl hurd went into inside of them. Reporter three homes in the Oakland Hills red tagged. This is one of them. Public works spent the day trying to find out what homes were structurally sound. Barbara stone was told mud was coming into her neighbors backyard. She found out she was next. It broke through the fence and started
Had that cold front sweep in and really dropped down the temperatures which made for snow in the sierra. Please make sure to dress accordingly because its definitely chilly. South bay 49, 50 in peninsula. Trivalley 46. Look at the north bay, 38 degrees. Definitely feeling very cold. And if we take a live look at that Doppler Radar, we can see theres still plenty of moisture siing off shore which is why we did keep that micro climate alert just in case you plan on being out on the roads. We have the chance of possibly seeing thunderstorms through the midmorning. You can actually see those forming off shore. If they do manage to hit in tonight well keep you updated on that. But ill have a closer look at the timeline and when we can see relief from the rain coming up at 7 18. Youll definitely want to tune in. We have big changes ahead through the upcoming work week. We could have an additional system coming in. Will we still have the same blustery winds. Thursday night pounding all over w