Temperatures. A little band of high clouds later in the afternoon and yesterday took the edge off the temperatures a little but that will not be the case today. High pressure kicking in. Phoenix looks good today. Tucson with maybe some cloud cover and scattered showers but no big deal. 30s and 40s on the temperatures. Some temperatures continue to cool down. It will be sunny mostly statewide. 12 up in truckie. 16 tahoe and 36 blue canyon. Then everyone enjoys sunshine and warmer temperatures. A little cold now. Plenty of 30s and 40s to go around but 60s to near 70. Almost there, more likely tomorrow but today well get close for a few. Traffic starting to pick up. Especially in the south bay. I want to go to the maps now if we can. Show that you south bay commute. We are not off to a good start especially on 101, 680 area. Crews are still working on that accident on story road involving what is being reported as a most motorcycle accident. But as you can see there are three accident ico
Caltrans to a halt. Its not until you throw a height on the crowd you see how nasty the commute was. This brought train commuters out of the car and into the night. Theres a typical a problem down the line, well get back to you, well get back to you, well get back to you. And finally here we are. Where are we . Youre in san mateo. Thank you. Reporter no lights in the parking lot, no lights in most of the city of san mateo. Making head lamps the fashion accessory of the evening. We and a good portion of san mateo lost our power so we are bored so we decided to take wilma for a walk tonight. Reporter with both commute and home miserable and dark everyone had one question. You guys know when the power is coming back on . Reporter now, pg e says they can expect power to be fully restored until 4 a. M. Thats right, 4 a. M. Still about 200 customers here in san mateo without power. It could be a very long time before the power is back on and the trains are back running. More problems earlier
Meteorologist jeff. We are tracking the storm system moving off to the south right now. As you can see in the Doppler Radar scan, the heaviest band that hit us from about 11 00 this morning to 3 00 this afternoon has now pushed off towards the south, but were definitely not in the clear. You can see as we put a scan on the radar were still tracking some heavy rainfall just to the south of gilroy, gut for most of the bay area, were just having a few showers across silicon valley, but overall that is still pretty seeing plenty of traffic heading tonight as we put on our traffic layer. What youre going to notice is a lot of red in the south bay. Again, that is an indication of some of that heavier traffic that will continue to deal throughout portions of san jose. Rainfall totals impressive. Mount tamapais. Mill valley, 1. 5. Even getting in on a decent amount of rainfall here in san jose with. 49. Here is the remarkable thing. The biggest 24hour total of 2013 happening in San Francisco,
We snapped this picture of a flooded lane northbound. And the chainsaws hard at work this morning in San Franciscos nob hill neighborhood. That tree came down during a storm blocking the hyde street cable car line. The weather almost toppled the power pole in lafayette. The lines came down at a construction site on Second Street near mount diablo boulevard at around 1 30 this afternoon. The street was closed for about 90 minutes while crews cleared the road. And a free day for students at Silver Creek High School in san jose. The storms sparked a transformer fire knocking out power to the school. All classes were canceled. Silver creek high will reopen tomorrow. New at 5 00 the weather could be to blame for a series of underground explosions in San Francisco. At least two pg e utility vaults blew their covers on montgomery street between sacramento and clay. Kpix 5s andria borba is there with more. Reporter you can take a look behind me right now, allen, and you can see pg e crews stil
Tops stories we are following on this thursday. Bart management is set to vote on the new contract with unions today. Well tell you if a rejection could lead to another strike. And San Francisco police describing this man as extremely dangerous we have new details in the search for the killer wanted for a weekend shooting plus. A string of armed robberies in vallejo is leaving residents on edge this morning. Well have the latest in a live report. Good morning and thanks for im james fletcher. We saw a lot of rain yesterday. And it slowed the morning commute down quite a bit. We are seeing dry Clear Conditions at the bay bridge. Drive times about 23 minutes from about reaching the walled old tunnel. James. James thankyou ericanew this morning. Three San Jose State University students are charged with misdemeanor hate crime and battery after allegedly confining their black roommate with a bike lock and subjecting him to racial and religious taunts. College freshmen colin warren, Joseph B