Head to noon scattered sprinkles. 60 to 63 but thats also when the steadier rain moves into the north bay and where itll be during the evening commute. Heres sue. A couple problem spots. 680 near treat looking at a live picture in bumper to bumper traffic. An accident and slow and go to highway 24. Hayward, southbound 880 we had all lanes blocked for a time. Two cars are stuck together. Traffic is stacked up now. The nimitz living up to its nasty name. Mission is your alternate. To the north bay wildfire coverage now, today marking exactly one month since the devastating fires. Entire neighborhoods, as you know, swallowed by the flames. This was the Tuscany Development in santa rosa before the fire, and this was the same neighborhood when drone view 7 flew over after the flames swept through. Block after block leveled. Fountaingrove was one of santa rosas hardest hit areas. The city lost 5 of its Housing Stock in the north bay fires. And fear of fire and wind has turned to fear of wate
We are getting some of that moisture coming through and a lot of it evaporates before its able to make its way to the ground. We are seeing a lot of green here on the radar, but dont expect to get very wet, at least not in the next couple of hours. This will help prime the atmosphere for some more activity moving in later on this afternoon. Were looking at most of sonoma and napa counties right now seeing some green here on the radar. You may also see it on the nbc bay area app. Once again, any of the rain were seeing so far has been really light. As we go through the day, well see the first push of moisture coming through. Mostly cloudy skies for most of the afternoon. Some heavier rain. This is the stuff that will be making it to the ground and measuring that rain as we head into this evening, starting in the north bay at 7 00. We will get a closer look at the timing and the the winds that will be picking up. Thats coming up in the microclimate forecast. Before you head out, download
Within the past hour. I will step out of the way to show you the dramatic cloud cover looking out towards San Francisco over San Francisco bay. The main front, the brunt of the system moved out early this morning but still, some leftover showers producing some off and on showers over the past few hours. That was a factor this morning. The biggest rainfall totals on the coastal hills and the Santa Cruz Mountains in Sonoma County as well over 3 inches of rain over the past 24 hours. Santa rosa picking up over an inch in san rafael and San Francisco to tenth of an inch so a big range and rainfall totals as we expected but the bulk of the rainfall is really up in the north a. Quite a few reports over an inch for grimble, sebastian, atlas peak. We are watching rainfall rates with fire burn zones but i dont see any flash flood warnings from the National Weather service. Here is the rainfall loop. You can see the action heading out to the east. Its pretty warm out there so results from snow r
The house. They have the best seats in the house that honors them and gives them a little bit of a reprieve and night away. Its so exciting. I didnt realize i was going to come here until a couple of days ago. My friend invited me. We got the ticket for free. Im grateful to be here now. Just really cool that all these artists get together and raised all this money for people in need. Were here on a thursday night. We all have to get up at 6 00 for work tomorrow. But we are here for home in county reporter again, 100 of the proceeds from tonights band together bay area concert going directly to help low income communities hit hardest by the fire. I dont know if you can hear behind us, but it sounds like rafael sadiq just took the stage. The music hasnt started yet. But if you cant come down, you can live stream it on youtube and twitter. Test, the you can donate online or on twitter. Thank you. On ktvu. Com we have posted a link where you can watch tonights concert live. Just click on t
Gear cleaning lots of debris. Its such a big job, we noticed many lots are now being covered with plastic tarps and straw barriers to keep toxic ash from washes out of lots into drains during the months of winter storms ahead. Rebuilding is another matter. Its going to be three to five years for most of the rebuild. Reporter full recovery predicts keith woods of the north Coast Builders exchange will perhaps take a decade. Every contractor i know in the area was busy before these devastating fires hit us. And this is going to put a real strain on capacity of local contractors. Reporter making matters more complicated, theres a serious shortage of labor to work for those contractors. We do not have anywhere near the capacity, the number of contractors to even come close to rebuilding the homes that weve lost up here in the tragedy. Reporter licensed contractors from other parts of the state can work here as well as from a few neighboring states where we have reciprocal agreements. But i