The committee will come to order. Good morning. Recently hurricanes harvey and irma left a path of destruction along the gulf coast of texas, across florida, and throughout the caribbean. Homes, businesses, and entire communities were destroyed and lives were lost. Days after irma, we learned the tragic news that eight seniors, ranging in age from 71 to 99, died in a florida nursing home that lacked air conditioning because the power had been knocked out. One press account described the facility as a death trap because the elderly are particularly susceptible to heat related illnesses. Last month, this photo of residents of an assisted living facility in texas, who were trapped in waist deep water went viral. As these recent disasters made clear, Older Americans are particularly vulnerable, before, during, and even after a storm. In fact, when Hurricane Katrina slammed into the gulf coast 12 years ago, more than half of those who died were seniors. As the thenchair of the Senate Homela
Live. And away we go on this cool thursday morning. Cloudy skies there over the Golden Gate Bridge and much of the bay area. Even good old mosconi center, the 35yearold venue hosting the nfl experience. Maybe even some day the rolling stones. Maybe not. I wish. I approve of your music choice. I do. One of my top five. Absolutely. The 49ers used to use that song on kickoff. All 9er fans know important things like that. First time i saw the stones was at the coliseum on halloween night. Steel wheels . I dont know where it was. I was there, too. It was fun. The coliseum for some girls. This could go on. We are going to start off yes it could. Story. No, no, this morning we have been seeing a few problems on bart. We had a couple of power issues. Bart is back on track, they say, or it says bart is they say its back on track. Some of the have been delayed getting into San Francisco. A lot of people are taking bart into the city because its been tough driving. Yesterday i was with ktvu crew
Storm . You have not heard the raindrops on your rooftops as of yet but lets do it, lets fire up our hidef doppler radar. Green is the light precipitation. Yellow indicates moderate precipitation. And the orange and purples, thats not good news. Lets zero in on the north bay where the action is this morning. We have a combination of the light to moderate to heavy rainfall. Check out 101 morning commute already. We zero in on berkeley now because were now beginning to see this precipitation move east into the eastern portion of our bay area. Look at this. 101 between novato and marinwood, this isnt good news. This is where we had saturated soil last week up to 5 rain accumulated in novato over two days. We are expecting big totals there again today. Now, heres the deal. We have a high wind warning in effect right now all the by through 10 p. M. Tonight. Winds 35 Miles Per Hour. Gusts in excess of 50 Miles Per Hour. Thats for the entire bay area. But once you get higher in elevation, mou
Doppler where california is bracing for one of the strot storms in years. And its here is a live look at hi def doppler where Northern California is bracing for one of the strongest storms in the year. Its thursday, december 11. Im michelle griego. Hi, everyone. Im frank mallicoat. It is 5 01. Thanks for joining us for this special edition of kpix 5 morning news. Parts of the bay area are already getting hit with heavy rain and strong winds. And we have you covered this morning. Anne makovec keeping an eye on the storm in the north bay, kiet do tracking Flight Cancellations at sfo. But we begin with Roberta Gonzales in the Weather Center. How are we looking right now, roberta . We are having very heavy rain and gusty winds across the northern portion of the bay area. Good morning, everybody. We have our eye on the storm and we have our hidef Doppler Radar, check this out right now. When you see the green thats light rainfall. Yellow is moderate. The pockets of orange is a heavy downpou
Chris, it is developing as we speak. As we look at storm scan three you can see, the rotation, a along Del Marva Peninsula and our storm is gathering strength and intensifying late tonight. You can see some band of snow moving in through long island into new york as storm continues to intensify and purchase move to the north and east ape will throw back moisture in the philadelphia area overnight tonight when heavier snow will fall. We will look closer and you can see the ban forming along long island, and expressway heading in to new york and all this will be filling in toward philadelphia late tonight. All this precipitation down through the shore and also through delaware where we are seeing rain will be changing over to snow as cold air gets pull down as well. We have a Winter Weather advisory to the west where we expect lights accumulation farther from the storm. There will be a sharp cut off from light accumulation to heavier a accumulation. Winter storm warnings there philadelph