Crews were busy trimming trees in the bay area, that could knock down power lines during the storm. Workers hired by pg e chopped down three 70 foot monterrey pines that wrapped their branches around distribution lines. More than 200,000 customers were affected by blackouts during last months storm. Everybodys getting ready, what do we expect to see tonight . Spencer christian is live with an accuweather update. Its on its way hours away heres live doppler 7 hd. You can see we have lots of clouds increasing in the area. The rain is yet to arrive, its on its way, and will likely arrive tonight in the north bay and spread to the rest of the bay tomorrow. Heres the abrooching storm, a different view bringing with it a high risk of urban flooding, meaning flooding of low lying areas and poor drainage areas. Rock slides, wind damage. Only a slight risk of river flooding, we expect up to 10 inches of rain from the storm. A Flash Flood Watch is issued for the north bay. 10 00 tonight to 6 00
Traffic to a stand still. And this is the highway going into south lake tahoe. The highways are open without chain restrictions. Lets begin with Spencer Christian and live doppler hd. Todays rainfall system, we have precipitation tapering off right thousand. Theres hardly anything left except a few spots of white, widely scattered moisture, just basically drizzle in some spots. And its not very widespread. We await the arrival of the next one tomorrow. And in the sierra, there as almost nothing happening. There was light snow in the Higher Elevations earlier. Rain down low, and thats winding down. We take a look at the rainfall total, and they vary widely from a hin a an inch and a half to just trace amounts in redwood city. 09. The system coming in tomorrow will be a stronger, more vigorous one, and ill show you what we expect that to where i in a few minutes. You can see whats showing up on live doppler hd. Its free on apples i store or googed play. As welcome as the rain is, we need
Muslims are in mourning shocked by the murders of three Young College students. Newlywed s newlyweds were shot to death in North Carolina. Its a tragedy thats reverberated across the country including here in the bay area. This is indeed a sad day. Jamaal najani is the host of arab talks. A radio show broadcast in San Francisco. The murders come after a rise in racism and islam phobia. Initial Police Reports say the fatal shootings stem from an argument over a parking space. The fbi is now joining in the investigation. As many muslims insist, it was a hate crime. If a muslim were to kill three white americans would that have been reported . Was it a terrorist attack or Something Else . We do not believe and i mean, by the Muslim Community that this was anything left but a hate crime. Reporter they have bay area connections including suzanne, a doctor at sf general. Even those who dont know the families are organizing vigils. Including zana who says she feels an obligation to honor thre
Frazier smith is set to move out of the hospital and into a house in a high end neighborhood. Laura anthony is live where a Community Meeting is going to be held on this tonight. Unlike what we saw in walnut creek a couple weeks ago, the residents are getting a heads up that a high risk sex offender may be moving into their neighborhood. Theres a pleating here at the local fire station, and many of this mans potential neighbors plan to speak up loudly. How do i get one of those . I dont have a pool. Doug lives a few doors down from this house. Its a four bedroom, three and a half bath 2800 square feet with a pool in the back. The rent is 3200 per month. Barring a last minute court decision, this vacant house could be the new home of a high risk sexually violent predator, frazier smith. Initially i was stunned and in disbelief that that would even be a possibility. At this point im i mean were all very angry about it. The 51yearold smith is soon to be released from the state hospital. H
Do that way and one of the things i wrote down that wasnt in my campaign, but as i took office, my major job was to spend money. Not to save money. But to spend money, but to spend it in the right way. And then as i analyzed and had when i was on the counsel, the very negative funding for us is property tax. If you raise property tax they want to hang you by the nearest tree. If theres not a tree, theyll just run over you with their pick up truck either way. But you dont mess with property tax, so i got our city out of the property tax business. We fund our city basically by two sources. Sales tax and eweutility franchise and when you do that, people dont care where you spend money. As long as you dont raise their taxes, they are fine and we raise the taxes by good, Economic Growth that ill talk about in a minute and so, that is where we have come from and that is a that has allowed me to do that in that way. Philosophically for my goals my overarching goal or principle is if it doesnt