Alexis . Not doing too bad. So for this morning we had an earlier crash through vallejo westbound 80 before the cartinez bridge. It is picking up the last couple of minutes. In fairfield westbound 80 beyond highway 12 interchange we have wood in the roadway that people are swerving to avoid blocking the left lane. The richmond side of the richmondsan rafael bridge, wet in several areas. Drive for the conditions. Major area of concern this morning for flooding and mudslides, the Santa Cruz Mountains. Up to 6 of rain expected today in the burn area. Matt is there. Matt . Yes, is with i was told by someone i look like a wet noodle. It is drizzle all morning, and i have my photograph others an expert on the Santa Cruz Mountains and an expert on driving highway 17. What are the conditions looking like to you . Bad. People are drive close together, you have fog, you have wet conditions, poor visibility. It is tough. You have to drive slow and cautiously. What happens on days like this . Get
You and see the breezes are picking up. They are gusting to around 20 to 25 Miles Per Hour. This is a 3 a strong storm on our stormimpact scale where we rank storms from 1 light to 5 severe. Gusts town 50 Miles Per Hour. That causes wind damage and power outages. 2 to 5 of rain in hills so that means flooding and rock slides. You can see around san rafael from sir Francis Drake boulevard to mill valley, moderatetoheavy rain and moving up to napa and sonoma right new. Here is the big picture, ahead of the heavier line we have waves of lighttomoderate rain and in the heaviest rain is not in your neighborhood i will show you what to expect. How is the traffic, alexis . Not the best day to be on the roads, a look right new at the Golden Gate Bridge we are okay at the moment. Not seeing anything too slow but we have road spray kick off and it is looking socky you will have to have the wipers on. I have live doppler hd on top of the traffic map and everyone is getting sprinkles, the heavier
Security. Outside a pizza place here at third and massachusetts. Wise guy pizza there are embracing for the good and the bad of all of this. They are expecting 1,500 customers each day on friday, and saturday. That is twice their normal lunch and dinner. Besides the fact they have the business situation, they have employees trying to get to work because of all the road closures. They also have food deliveries. They have to have the food delivered in the areas around this neighborhood by wednesday. They dont have thousands of workers downtown because many offices are closed but they will have thousands of people at the festivities for the inaugural and the protest the next day. We have street closures and were trapped. We cant drive in the parking lot. Deliveries asked to get deliveries on wednesday. Richard so with all of those headaches how are the businesses going to cope . We will help answer that coming up at 6 00. Reporting live at richard reeve, abc7 news. Alison thank you. The p
We begin with our weather. No major problems this morning despite a mix of rain and snow. Lets show you images from frederick, maryland, we saw steady snowfall early this morning. That has since stopped. The issue now is the huge drop in temperatures and that cold wind. Storm team 4 meteorologist Sheena Parveen begins our coverage this morning with what to expect the rest of the day. And its on the back side of what we had this morning where the winds coming from. Snow is moving north and east quickly. Snow showers north and west of the district. For the rest of the day today, dont be surprised if you see a quick moving snow squall or flurries. Lookty feels like, gaithersburg, 19 degrees and district feels like 23 and it feels colder now than it did this morning. This is going to be the trend throughout the day today. Temperatures dropping into the 20s. These are actual temperatures as we go through this evening and overnight but feel colder, even like the teens tomorrow morning. Well
Hinojosa and i told you that i was going to do this, because as one journalist to another journalist, its hard to kind of sum up, because you have interviewed every major rock and roll and pop musician and country musician that exists, i would day. Okay. Well, youre overstating it, but ill take it. Hinojosa overstating a little bit. If you had to choose your like, top mostmemorable interviews from this huge history, what would it be . What would it be . You know, maria, i have forgotten them all, actually. Hinojosa laughing every, single one even elton john. Mick . Mick who . Hinojosa laughing well, you know; sum it up. Yeah, its a tough choice, but i would say that quite often, it was the behindthescenes stuff that goes on that builds to a story that makes it memorable for me. For example, one of my favorites is ray charles, because at the time that i suggested the story, he was not really on the charts and getting the kind of acclaim he shouldve been. Hinojosa what year was this, ben