We get on this back to workday. Yeah. Thank you for joining us. Its tuesday. January 3rd. Good morning. Im glad are you with us. Steve is here as well. He has your forecast. A lot to tell you. A lot of rain looks like coming in. Starting today. Thank you. Yesterday though we were talking about snow, some very low snow levels. Like county but plenty in the bay area hills and also very low snow levels in the searchy. That looks like itll go up. Is system off the pacific northwest. Oregon coast is funneling in a lot of moisture from the west southwest. All sorts of advisories, Winter Weather advisories, lake, winter storm warnings and a Flash Flood Watch is on for a lot of rain. Over the next couple days fingerprint you are going township tahoe there is a lot of snow. Ly measure it in feet. I can expect it to go up over the next couple days and then go way up over the weekend. Good line of rain for some. Around antioch. Back over to there is one. Bursts of moderate rain over highway 24. Y
Homes. Dont put the umbrella away yet. Did you hibernate all weekend . We stayed home mostly. I went out saturday. We got an inch of rain in the rain gauge and then four inches saturday overnight and sunday morning. Did get a lot of sleet because its quite windy there in the north way. We need the rain. People lost their lives and as you mentioned, more on the way so not done yet. Were in a break pattern right now. Our meteorologist is going to tell us now thank goodness for the breaks. After thursday morning a break into the weekend. There are signs out to the 22nd, very powerful systems to well take the breaks we can get. That doesnt mean that is going to happen but the message theres more on the way i would say even after this next system get ready and you can take the break while you can to maybe clean up. Its been a tremendous amount of rain already. Healdsburg has had a tremendous amount of rain since january 2nd. A little bit of rain picking up around berkeley and walnut creek.
Reporter businesses were boarded up and closed to be sure. Four Southern School districts closed. The second time this week. Several stir crazy students took to the streets to keep themselves busy. Even if they didnt stay dry. So near san anselmo about half the businesses in downtown i would say were closed in anticipation of a flood which didnt happen. One thing that didnt stay put was roadway. Take a look at this. Courtesy of the marin county fire department. They sent us these pictures of a highway which was shut down and due to the storms today. That road went down the hillside so closed in both directions. Live in san anselmo, emily turner, kpix 5. A worker was killed in a mudslide in Santa Cruz County on highway 17 near sugarloaf road north of scotts valley. Kpix 5s devin fehely has more from the scene. Reporter they dump truck and driver at the heart of this accident were cleaning up a mudslide that still has the northbound lanes on highway 17 blocked but the work there came gri
At this. We still have rain in the bay area. We have a cell thats washing over the napa, soda springs areas that already have a whole lot of water ponding on the roads. This right here some moderate rainfall from walnut creek through alamo heading towards the danville and san ramon area and look how it stretches across san leandro back in through the san mateo bridge and all the way into redwood city. That is some prett moderate to heavy rainfall at this time that will interfere with the morning commute. Flood warning in effect for the highlighted area encompasses Mark West Creek. Santa rosa, sebastopol, graton and cotati which means as you head out for your morning commute you can anticipate some water on the roads some ponding some flooding and also the Russian River, this is a dire concern this morning it already crested last tuesday. Its already past its flood stage at 33 feet. It will crest36 at 11 a. M. Which means we anticipate moderate flooding around johnson beach. Mostly clou
The downpour has been pretty much nonstop. Road crews continue to clear away rocks and mudslides on some of the most travelled roads. In the santa cruz mountains. That work turned tragic today on highway 17. Kron 4s rob fladeboe has been on the scene all day. He joins us live with late details on a worker who died on the job. Rob . aaapkgaaanats this was the chaotic scene just after noon here in the closed northbound lanes of highway 17 where crews have been working to clear a rock slide. Two men somehow run over by a dump truck. Sot officer Trista Drake Chpnats this motorist witnessed the accident and flagged down the chp. Sot woman who witnessed accident the witness too emotional to describe what shed seen. One of the the men was pronounced dead at the scene. Trapped beneath the trucks rear wheels for a time, the other man, his hand visible as was eventually pulled free, was consious and speaking says the chp. All of this happening in heavy rain as traffic passed bysot officer trisa