Tonight, winter storm is bearing down on the bay area and the sierra. Storm ranger is tracking the system as it moves across the region. Look at that, the storm prompting a blizzard warning in this year, heavy snow, strong winds are creating near whiteout conditions, forcing chp to issue a stern warning to drivers. If you do not have to travel, do not. It is not that important. Here in the bay area it means more rain and chilly temperatures. You can see right now the roads are slick out there tonight. And this is all just the first round. That is right, the rain, wind, and snow will be sticking around into the weekend. Lets get ahead and get right over the chief meteorologist jeff ranieri who is tracking all of this for us. The storm system is hitting the sierra with the strongest impact because it is dropping down from the north so it is pulling all that polar air, wrapping it around the storm system and moving it into california. Some it is taking our Doppler Radar tonight. We did un
Continues to work on getting the fentanyl crisis under control . And later, the bay areas oldest burmese restaurant given a prestigious honor. Well take you to mandalay in San Francisco. This is nbc bay area news tonight. We start tonight with our storm. The rain is here. The first of a series of storms rolled in earlier today. What youre looking at here is a time lapse, one from our San Francisco cameras earlier this afternoon. Also tonight, if you are not already in the sierra, the area is under a blizzard warning. Were talking up to 10 feet of snow possible by the time its all over. Dangerous and potentially deadly conditions developing on the roads. Kevin cooper is up in tahoe and hes going to be join us in just a little bit. Jeff, what are you seeing . Weve started to see bands of rain at times through the day. What makes this storm system different is this is moving down from alaska. So weve got some polar air wrapped in it. Thats why its going to bring so much more of a harder h
They stuck up here. Yeah, were tracking the snowstorm up in the sierra talking with drivers hoping not to get stuck in the snow. Another challenger to mayor london breed. Why the new highprofile candidate says San Franciscos mayors race need someone else . When fun time from the bay areas local news station. Youre watching kron. 4 news. Good evening, everybody. Thanks for being with us tonight on kron. 4 news at 10, im grant lotus and im vicki liviakis. Tonight the Oakland Community got a chance to hear from 4 candidates for police chief. A public form took place at city hall more than a year after the previous chief Leronne Armstrong was let go. Its been a while and these 4 candidates answered questions submitted by City Residents about why they should be the next person to lead the police department. Kron fours. Dan thorn reports from oakland. Virtual appearance thursday night by the 4 candidates vying to be oaklands next. Top cop. The Oakland Police commissions police chief Search A
Throughout the day today. Were live with the latest as we check that forecast. Thats right. Even eye on things. We had a little bit easier start today, but that doesnt mean were out of the woods. Lots of rain on the way. Ill have all of the details for you. Stay with us, everybody. Kron for news at noon starts right now. From the bay station, youre watching kron. And news. Thank you for joining us this friday here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im justine waltman. Were going to start now with our continued coverage of the rain with the north facing some of the heaviest downpours already today, kron 4 s Charles Clifford joins now live from nevado. So, charles, how does it look out where you are now . No, put up no umbrella. How you doing . Well, that kind of been back and forth because weve had rain that sort of passing through little storms. Little cloud burst off and on and just rain for about the last 10 minutes or so. It is just lit up again. Neighbors here in marin county, the north bay
good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. i m a.m. a.m. a.m. ra walker. all eyes on the sky as this chinese sky balloon just continueses drifting. where it s expected to go and why the white house has not yet ruled out shooting it down. and a brutals blast of dangerously cold air is sweeping across the northeast right now. in some places it will feel like 50 to 60 degrees below 0. where we re seeing the cold air and tell you when it s going to start to warm up. plus police in new jersey searching for the person who murdered a local councilwoman outside of her home. what local officials are saying about that case. plus the usda rolling out new changes for school lunches. the proposes they are changing, just ahead on cnn this morning. welcome to the weekend. saturday, february 4th, we reesht you joining us for a lot of you out there, it is freezing cold outside, yobd beyond treezing cold. we re going to get to that in a moment. we start with this balloo