Live where you live, thisst abc 7 news. Now at 11 00, we start with an ak you weather alert. Live doppler 7 is tracking the new starm that will soak the morning commute. And Russian River rising. Roads are turning into rivers in Sonoma County and more wet weather on the way. Plus a severe water shortage. The storm busts a pipeline in bay area city and water customers are told to cut back. Im kristen sze. Im dan ashley. You know the bay area is not getting a break from heavy downpours, gusty winds. We have live team coverage. Abc 7 News Reporter in Santa Cruz County and Sonoma County, two of the areas hardest hit by the latest storm. Lets begin with abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel. Next in a series of storms is approaching the bay area. Take a look, a lot of green on the screen. As we take you into the north bay around santa rosa street level radar, you will notice steady light rain to the north of our santa rosa area near our radar site. You see a lot of hot colors here, this is
Live where you live, thisst abc 7 news. Now at 11 00, we start with an ak you weather alert. Live doppler 7 is tracking the new starm that will soak the morning commute. And Russian River rising. Roads are turning into rivers in Sonoma County and more wet weather on the way. Plus a severe water shortage. The storm busts a pipeline in bay area city and water customers are told to cut back. Im kristen sze. Im dan ashley. You know the bay area is not getting a break from heavy downpours, gusty winds. We have live team coverage. Abc 7 News Reporter in Santa Cruz County and Sonoma County, two of the areas hardest hit by the latest storm. Lets begin with abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel. Next in a series of storms is approaching the bay area. Take a look, a lot of green on the screen. As we take you into the north bay around santa rosa street level radar, you will notice steady light rain to the north of our santa rosa area near our radar site. You see a lot of hot colors here, this is
Happen. Also because of the delay that they get there, even when the rain stops, they still deal with the runoff from the mountains, so the river keeps rising, and of course were expecting more rain today. Live in marin county on the way to guerneville, amy hollyfield, abc 78 news a major rock slide has closed busy napa county. The county recommends taking highway 29 as an alternate want to get back now to highway 17 as alex was mentioning, crews are cleaning up the mud slide that trapped one of our own morning photographers early yesterday. He was hit by the mud slide on his way to work. You can see the chp video, his van just terribly destroyed there. Many of you have asked how he is doing. He was treated and released from the hospital. Hes recovering at home now. He told us the mud slide hit without any notice and chp says he is very lucky to be alive public works crews are still working to clear this on richmond drive. The slide happened yesterday afternoon. Its unclear when the ro
Out your clothes for you. Heres a look at live doppler 7. Lets show you where some of the heavier rain is, antioch, buchanan road there, hill crest avenue, going to cross the delta and head up towards rio vista right there and you can see theres another batch of some yellows and oranges about to head into the victSanta Cruz Mountains and we have Jessica Castro on the way down there in case theres in more rock and mudslides and i think there will be. The rain picks up in intensity at noon. Throw some thunderstorms in there, why not. That means more intense localized rain and winds for 7 00. More on our watches and warnings next. Heres alex. That means another tough day on the roads and yesterday, just awful on highway 17. So, taking you back down to the Santa Cruz Mountains, right around vine hill road, thats where we had that significant land slide yesterday. That is still fully blocking the northbound side of the road, theyve split the southbound side. Basically you get one lane aech
Get to. Im going to take you down to the Santa Cruz Mountains where we still have that major sig alert from yesterday. Highway 17 at vine hill, thats where we had that big landslide so im getting word that were really close in not possibly have the northbound side of the road cleared. Were going to talk to Jessica Castro momentarily who is on the scene and in any was, were seeing a lengthy backup but theyre making progress with that cleanup. We also have reports of a new slide, southbound 17 past the cats restaurant and we talked to chp, they said theyre so busy right now, they do not have time to check that out but they have notified cal tran so im not sure how big of an issue that is. On top of that, big sig alert on highway 24 24 and a rollover crash around san ramon. And as alexis mentioned, crews are still careening up the highway 17 mudslide that trapped one of our abc7 news photographers in his van yesterday morning. As you look at that wreckage, its just so good to know that he