Three left lanes blocked with roadwork until 11 00. Westbound moving nicely. Today uc berkeley will announce a dream come true for hundreds of undocuments students, hundreds will get help paying tuition. Terry mcsweeney was live at cal with a preview. Reporter uc berkeley pushing the envelope again setting up not just a Scholarship Fund but the largest Scholarship Fund for undocumented students in the united states. Look at pictures of students about 200 estimated are going to be helped by what is called the Dreamers Fund which will begin with a Million Dollar gift from a Foundation Students from 20 countries will benefit not eligible for federal grants, loans or work study positions. The chancellor pushed to have this program in place. I thought this isnt fair. Furthermore, these are extraordinarily talented people. In the current era with an of the challenges we have in california, we cannot afford to waste this kind of talent. Reporter the scholarships kick in next fall. Another gif
Mean. One step, crash. I was two feet underneath the rubble. The wrong end of a douglas fir that crashed uj6n through tr car port and nearly them. They were inside. Did you see it . No. Did you hear it . No. Came down from this direction. The story was the worst from wet days it brought inconvenience and freeways and roads, maybe you had a chance to check out white caps. Or a torrent on the creek. Would you not have had to park in the rain, or walk in it or wax poetic bit. Its okay. Better than snow. Im from massachusetts. Could with worse. You want to talk about mayan end of the sfwhorld. Today, it almost was. There is fire wood new. I do. Id rather get an easier way. Especially when part of the house could qualify. Tonight, theyre blaming a shallow root system for being a reason the tree fell. Theyre lookingn because there are more trees on that hill. One is leading in the wrong direction. Wayne freedman abc 7 news. Wayne, thank you. On the coast tonight, heavy flooding closed highwa
Los gatos was a steady pouring down rain, but it wasnt very heavy. We had the wind khial wipers on the whole time. Very slick conditions on the road. But now were here in los gatos the rain is much lighter than it was. Its moving toward the Central Coast. Highway 17 is slick. We passed one of those electronic traffic signs and it said reduce speed. Handful of cars but they are not reducing their speed but hopefully people will be careful out there. We have video from san mateo where it was deluge this morning pouring rain a, who are piston dal rain that horizontal rain that was making rain standing water. There was a lot of standing water. As the sun starts to rise. The light of day appears, it seems the vein disappearing. Again youll need those windshield wipers and need to keep headlights be on and be aware there will be slick conditions. Nothing like the downpour we saw as early an hour ago. Pulling up my abc 7 news app and live doppler does show a yellow band, some rain will be han
And heavier cell right here pushing out of richmond. Watch out 580, you are looking at heavy rain right there. Take a look at south bay, blossom hill road, san jose, almaden expressway, it is really coming down, down around watsonville a break. Within the next hour to an hour and a half, this system continues to sink to the south and east. Then well get into a break. Details and foggy sunday is coming up. Katie continuing our storm coverage, we want to take you live to in as many. That is where he take you live to san mateo. Good morning. Reporter the rain is not as heavy as it was when i last saw you. Its moderate rain right now, but it is steady and like before it is windy and wind is pushing it in gusts. Horizontally, were here in a fairly empty parking lot. I think people are arriving to work to set up shop but we are pretty alone and cold. The wind gusts that are pushing the rain horizontally are creating standing water across san mateo, parts of san mateo. I would imagine most pe
The reopening of that roadway. The wet weather has been causing problems all over the bay area. Some of those problems may linger for the next few days. Alan wang reports from santa rosa. Jill stopped at the waters edge west of santa rosa and decided to roll the dice. Came through a couple of hours ago but i thought i could make it through this time. Unlike these trucks and suvs that made it across, their toyota got swamped in a foot half of water just like the car before him. Made a dumb mistake but it was a little bigger. Michelle and her husband narrowly escaped serious injury when in this douglas fir crashed through their home. I was probably two feet. I was underneath all this rubble. Also in marin county, floodwaters shut down highway 1 and pacifica tempted surfers but the crabbers are playing it safe in half moon bay. They wont head back out for at least two more days. Back here in sonoma county, public works crews was still cleaning out culverts from the last storm that swept t