Good afternoon, everybody. Im larry biel. We do have Team Coverage on this series of el ninoenhanced storms. Okay, alma and larry. Stormy weather has passed through the bay area. We have a couple of lines of showers right now. Weve got lots of openings and blue skies showing upright now. Still wet in many locations. Actually into the higher terrain area, some locally heavy downpours. Up in pope valley, down through san helena, this is a little in napa county, as well. Light to moderate showers. Heres the view of the golden gate. These are some 24 hour rainfall totals. Very impressive. Nearly 4 inches, 3. 2 inches at mt. Tem. Nearly an inch and a quarter here in San Francisco. Our storm impact scale, weve devised a numerical value to give you an indication of the level of intensity. And to help you prepare for the potential impact of each storm, our next storm which will arrive tomorrow morning ranks three on the storm impact scale, which is a strong storm which brings with it the possi
Small creek flooding and also have a Coastal Flood Advisory from 4 00 a. M. To 10 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Because of the already salt rated ground and ocean swell and runoff, flooding of lowlying areas near the shore is a possibility. We have a High Surf Advisory until 6 00 tomorrow evening. Wave heights have been growing, westerly ocean swell, 15 to 18 feet, large breakers and unpredibl act wave action, all of those are possible. The focus is on the incoming storm. More on that later. Spencer, thank you. Crews used a chain saw to chop up a giant tree limb that came down on two cars in belvedere. Arborists say because of the drought the trees suck up as much water as they can but the branches get too heavy for the trunk to support. Lets go live to petaloma to see what else is risk. Reporter were reaching an interesting balance point. Everyone wants the drought to end. Water runs off the soil into the reservoirs but theres a risk. If it gets too saturated and we get too much rain, we get flo
Prevent things from happening so you dont have to. They put the fencing up. Do you remember the test, how many miles . It was 39 miles of fencing. 39 miles. Around the city to protect the pope. And so if you can screen people and make sure that nobody is bringing anything in that could in any way possibly harm the pope, then your job is easier once youre here with this pope flanked by these trucks and cars and all of the security personnel. Theyre taking absolutely no chances, no chances. How careful they are. Were on the other side of the security barrier. Were right across from st. Patricks cathedral and we were not allowed to bring anything noo here that could be used as a projectile. We couldnt bring any round fruit, oranges or apples to eat while were waiting on the pope. Anything thats projectile. But they did let us bring our iphones in. You know, i want to bring david ushery, he was in d. C. For the popes arrival there. And his procession. And with the pope mobile. David tell u
It was pretty much the same situation we saw here on Central Park West yesterday and 5th avenue yesterday. About ten minutes ago or so, there were five huge trailers that went into the park here. They were sitting here. We just missed them. Sitting here for about 15 minutes. Horse trailers. There were Arabian Horses inside those trailers. Theyre here for an Arabian Horse show. They had to wait quite a while to get cleared. That show will go on. Well see what other activities might get canceled. Back to you. All right. Thank you. Speaking of cancellations on friday, all schools in the new york archdiocese will be closed. Several other School Closings to report. Thats because of concerns about traffic during the popes visit. Ethical culture fieldston will also close on friday. Remember, our coverage of the popes trip continues on nbcnewyork. Com pope. See a look at what makes francis different from his predecessors. Well bring you live coverage of the popes evet s in washington, d. C. A
That was an interesting question. You asked about whether there was any differences between the written theology as opposed to a more verbal one. Yeah, the main face that we looked at obviously did have a written. What we didnt look at, and weve actually referred to this in the paper, was the enormous richness of traditional faiths and certainly i can speak mainly in africa, but im sure the truth is in asia where the faiths have been there for years and sometimes in a sink syncrotistic way. More modern faiths such as christianity and islam, we didnt look at those because the diversity of those would have needed a lot more work. All we could see was a very interesting thing, was that there was a considerable enthusiasm among all of the faith leaders for seeing how they could be more involved and actually there was a great opportunity expressed in the work that we did for making faith leaders more aware so that their sacred teachings, the preachings about traditional values could actuall