Around noon. You see the map here, smoke billowed from the top level of the home. And flames filled the home. Firefighters were told to evacuate the house and go into a defensive mode. Approaching the fire from the outside. Fire danger a sensitive topic in the berkley and oakland hills. It did not spread and theres no reports of of any injuries. A live look outside right now, this is beautiful, its San Francisco, just a gorgeous day, but changes are just around the corner. Jeff ranieri will tell us when we can expect more showers. Nor and december, major rain then in 2013, less than an inch of rain here for most of the east bay and also the south bay. Its dry right now, but as we zoom out on the satellite radar picture, you can clearly see the dee fined cold front sitting off shore at 800 miles. The center of the storm is way off to the north. That means we are going to be spared to heaviest rain. We will get in on rain drops here, as early as tomorrow moshing. We will have cloud cover
Theyre running to us with a bandaid. Its tourniquet time and they just dont seem to understand that. Reporter now if the issue does go to arbitration, the city does have some level of protection because voters passed a measure which forces the arbitrator to consider the abilitys ability to pay without compromising other city services. This will be in the works for a while. Kris sanchez, nx bay area news. The dry spell is nearly over. Rain will return tomorrow. Heres a live look outside at Silicon Valley. Its clear now but thats all about to change. Lets bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri from the nbc bay area Weather Center with more. Jeff . 13 days since our last major rain across the bay area, and for that matter, we havent seen much of anything in 2013. Satellite radar picture tonight look like a storm is coming. You can see very Clear Conditions across the greater bay area but we zoom out and the area im focusing in on is 334 miles away. That is the zone with the cold front
To deal with snow and the first in the bay area for 11 days even longer than that. An anonymous viewer in hayward during a downpour there. Ureport page, send pictures there. Spencer christian with a look and tornado sighting . That is correct. Here is a live doppler. Most of the bay area is drying out now. Most of the moisture has left us but where its active is quite active. That is down in the Santa Cruz Mountains where we have a wide path of heavy rainfall and snow in the Higher Elevations near doulder creek and rain continues down towards scotts valley. Farther east along gilroy, area of east of that rain up in the Mount Hamilton area. Snow is still falling. Farther north, take a look where the tornadoes touched down. Two tornadoes produced. First one touched down 1 30 in the afternoon and hour later a second tornado report. Fortunately no reports of damage yet but video to show you of the first funnel cloud as it was touching down. This is one that occurred at 1 30 in the afternoo
What is that . wonderland. My brain freeze kicked in. Here it s white gold and snow that has drawn people up here to risk cold and conditions for . Sm cases First Experiences in the snow. Road was closed alt the station below the snow line and summit. Rangers worried about Road Conditions and not enough room to park cars but kids and parents would not let a thing like a hype have a good night get in the way. I think ill be carrying them. A mile and a half. I can do it. G. 7 you walk ahead . The 5yearold came dressed to the nibs for her very first time in the snow. That looks like a smile. Woah. A snow plow cleared the road below the summit. The view was clear all the way to San Francisco. But the kids could care less about the view. Brian hernandez had big plans for the first time in snow and for kids, maybe there can be too much of a good thing. I like the snow. Its fun and my hands are cold i need to get themeaeh warmed u so there is not a lot of it. We dont know how long goitsing
People who are there, but the next step, which is going to be complicated logistically, is how do we give safe passage for people down from the mountain and where can we ultimately relocate them so that they are safe. Nbcs Jim Miklaszewski is at the pentagon for us. And Kristen Welker is at the white house. Is the president saying anything about a time line in iraq . I think that was one of the headlines out of president obamas remarks. He essentially laid the groundwork for what could be an openended military engagement, albeit a limited engagement in iraq. He said this could be a longterm project. Take a listen at a little bit most a more of what he had to say. I dont think we can solve this problem in weeks, if thats what you mean. The Iraqi Security forces, in order to mount an offensive and be able to operate effectively with the supportive populations in sunni areas are going to have to revamp, get resupplied, have a clear strategy. But this is going to be a longterm project. The