At Kaiser Permanente weve reduced serious heart attacks by 62 , which makes days with grandpa jack 100 more possible. Join us at kp. Org and thrive. Tonight. Calm before the next storm. Get ready because some areas could get more than half a foot of rain. And that is not all. Heavy snow expected in the say era. Live look at heavenly courtesy of lake tahoe tv. If headed to the mountains make sure you carry chains. Good evening. Sandhya is tracking the storm right now and shes here with live doppler 7hd. Yes. Live doppler 7hd show you jaws few little green spots thats real light stuff. We look at very light showers. Still developing around here and watching the fog. Now lets look at what is developing out in the pacific. It is a hefty storm. Big soaking for the weekend. Urban flooding. Moderate risk with storm risk slight risk of increased flooding river flooding not expected. Wind damage not expected. But look at the total. Up to 8 inches in the wet east spot one of the biggest reasons
Weve already seen plenty of drama tonight. The competition just started and unfortunately it did not go well for team usa in the new figure skating team event. In the mens short event, Jeremy Abbott crashed hard and slid right into the boards. Im so proud to be on this team and to be part of this inaugural event. I love every Single Person thats on my team. Theyre really like family. So i feel torn apart that i let them down. Team usas pairs team also struggled. They are basically eliminated from gold medal contention. And slope style, you just saw the men and womens snowboarders compete. And the Northern California athletes did really well. Jamie anderson finished second in the qualifiers. And carly shore finished fourth. That allows them to skip the semifinals and go directly to the finals on sunday. For the men, no u. S. Rider advanced directly, but chaz goldemonld was the closest. This is the event shaun white dropped out of. As for today, no competition, just gearing up for the op
Dry spell, but a lot of the rain coming down in three hours time brought the Guadalupe River up fast. You can see the grasses here pushed down as that water level rose about two to three feet higher than it is now. It got right about where this rock is here. Even though the rain has backed off, the water is still moving fast. As is typical when you get a storm that drops 1, 2 inches of rain, you get a lot of debris in the creeks. And it changes the flow of the streams and creeks. With that in mind with the forecast for potentially several inches of rain, all the problems we saw play out along the Guadalupe River could play out along a much larger area. We will be watching those rain totals closely. And well have a full look at the forecast coming up in a few minutes. We could see some flooding. Thank you. Lets turn things over to Jodi Hernandez whos been gauging how people feel about the soggy commute. Reporter it really has been a tough day. Fortunately the afternoon commute is moving
Storm risk slight risk of increased flooding river flooding not expected. Wind damage not expected. But look at the total. Up to 8 inches in the wet east spot one of the biggest reasons for this is what we call an Atmospheric River or Pineapple Express. The blue you see here is moisture source that is very deep. Narrow stream. Stening all the way past hawaii heading in our direction this means heavy rain fall for the bay area and it will fall on your weekend. Back with detailed look if the weekend is a washout. Thanks so much. See you in a few minutes. Storm bring ago lot of snow to the mountain and thats affecting travel for anyone headed to the sierra. Tonight chains required along interstate 80 from king veil to the donner lake exchange. Right now there are no restrictions for the moment at least on highway 50. Now the snow is great news obviously for ski resorts and bay area ski shops. Which have really suffered this winter. But tonight business was baming at California Ski Company
Afternoon, rain going to start to spread to the south and become more widespread, as well. Out the door we go. We have mostly cloudy skies a little patchy, dense fog too. The temperatures are in the 40s and the 50s. This afternoon, kind of muggy outside. Well see numbers mainly in the mid to upper 50s in the afternoon. Going to be a little bit of a wet commute on the way home but this just the beginning of some much heavier rainfall coming our way. And they are starting to get ready for the possibility of some flooding. For more on that lets go to cate caugiran in oakland. Hi, lawrence. Well, we are at fire station 8 here in oakland. Its only one of a handful of locations that will be handing out free sandbags today. As you heard lawrence mention, with inches of rain headed our way yesterday in redwood city, San Mateo County officials are also trying to make sure that neighbors will be prepared for the onslaught of wet weather. We have plenty of sandbags made up at all of our sites and