Complete bay area News Coverage starts right now. This is the 10 00 news on ktvu channel 2. Rising waters are threatening property in the north bay as Flood Warnings go up and authorities caution residents to be prepared for the worst. Good evening, im ken wayne. Good evening, im maureen naylor, Heather Holmes is off tonight were on storm watch. We have team camera tonight. Meteorologist mark tamayo will detail when the next storm will hit and we begin with ktvus Lorraine Lorraine blanco live in napa. Reporter the Flood Warning runs through the night and so does the sandbag operation. City workers say residents have filled 40,000 tons of sand. Near the napa river many spent is their saturday blocking openings in case the river overflows its bank. As for downtown, city leaders tell us napas a years long project is twothirds complete and believe those measures will protect the area. Were looking at our modeling and our flood project improvements and were anticipating that what we have do
Good evening, im ken wayne. Good evening, im maureen naylor, Heather Holmes is off tonight were on storm watch. We have team camera tonight. Meteorologist mark tamayo will detail when the next storm will hit and we begin with ktvus Lorraine Lorraine blanco live in napa. Reporter the Flood Warning runs through the night and so does the sandbag operation. City workers say residents have filled 40,000 tons of sand. Near the napa river many spent is their saturday blocking openings in case the river overflows its bank. As for downtown, city leaders tell us napas a years long project is twothirds complete and believe those measures will protect the area. Were looking at our modeling and our flood project improvements and were anticipating that what we have done to protect the community from flooding will keep the river in its banks within the city based on the projections of rainfall amounts. Reporter city leaders and member of the flood district will meet torte. If it rains more than expec
Sleeping. We will detail the flood watches and the timing of the rain coming up in a little bit. Katie. Thanks so much. As the next big storm moves in, the big concern is the north bay. Take a look at this video from outside of the stump down brewery in this timelapse webcam video. You can see how quickly the river has risen. Allen long reports from Sonoma County where the National Weather service has issued a Flood Warning. Certainly it will be up to here. The flood stage or the expectations at gurnville is 32 feet. His trailer sits on the banks of the river and he has watched the river rise 17 feet. Hes packing up and heading for higher ground. Its not fortunate it. Fortunately my little house has wheels on it. Even the crete us are headed for higher ground. And several low lying back roads of flooded and it only took a foot of water to stall out this car. We were coming from windsor and going to the small. And we were taking the back roads by sack rosa. Samuel and his friends said t
On northbound 280 before the 101. There is an injury accident there. We understand the two left lanes are blocked. If you are driving you are advised to avoid that area. No estimated time right now as to when the roadways reopen. This is north 280 before 101 due to an injury accident in the roadway. We dont know for sure whether or not that is weatherrelated but its a decent guess. As lisa mentioned there is a Flood Warning in effect near the napa river and further south there is flood watches as water levels continued to rise. Live in petaluma with one body of water as an example. Reporter good morning. I just wanted to mention, here its been raining steadily for the last hour and a half here. Just behind us, this was emptied on thursday. Those heavy rains helped fill it. The light rains today are helping keep it full and its happening all over Sonoma County. Take a look at video we have from guerneville where a dramatic change in river levels happened yesterday just like everywhere a
Rivers are on the rise. Ive never seen it that high even during the spring. Reporter a storm drain near sacramento wasnt cleared fast enough to save the home of michael jimenez. In californias wine country, when the water gets this high along the Russian River, people get worried. Its happened so many timeses and it does come, like, clockwork. Reporter victoria daly and her family know how dangerous this water can be. The Russian River has seen severe flooding in the past. The worst in 1986, when the entire town was under several feet of water. Daly said her home is always one of the first to flood. Weve done it so many times, were prepared. You know, were ready for it. Reporter forecasters say the Russian River valley could see up to seven inches of rain over the weekend. And, rebec,a theres certain guerneville could be under water again by monday morning. For more on the intense series of storms we turn to our chief meteorologist at our San Francisco station kpix, good evening, paul.