welcome to our 2023 women s history month celebration. my name is kimberly ellis and i am so thrilled and proud to be the director of the san francisco department on the status of women. every year. we come together to mark this occasion to acknowledge and celebrate our history, our present and our future on this collective journey towards freedom, justice and gender equality. here in san francisco. we re surrounded by modern day history makers of all ages, racist places and spaces. and today we honor three of san francisco s finest. today s honorees have committed their time, talent and treasure to lifting up supporting mentoring , nurturing and investing in other women and girls throughout their respective communities for decades. women who, regardless of the many obstacles and challenges, disappointments and setbacks. nevertheless, persistent. these women are profiles in courage and epitomize what it means to despite it all continue to rise. and speaking of rising i am inc
residents being asked to evacuate before rivers of mud and dirt comes streaming down right now, here s the main message to everyone. if you don t have to go out, don t stay off the roads, stay off the bridges and away from those beaches. there are several school districts also around the bay area that closed early and also changing plans for tomorrow. we do have some power outages as well. right now about 25,000 customers are in the dark as pg any crews scramble to get the power back up. we ve got live team coverage for you all night, chief meteorologist bill martin standing by and starts us off, bill. we got a good storm going out there. now. i know it was slow getting here unless you re in the north bay when you have warm front drops some significant showers over an inch of rain in parts of the north day, two inches and others. the really heavy rains coming down now, but you ve got to remember this storm. we talked about it last night. this thing s kind of about the wind, r
now. coming down hard for a lot of you. so we re going to be running into problems as we roll through the next couple hours. this is our live scan on storm ranger, our mobil doppler radar and other radars combined in. notice the yellow, orange, red, those are the heavier pockets. it s been slamming you in san francisco, the north bay and the peninsula. this is rapidly moving off towards the east. oak ward, hayward, pleasanton, antioch, brentwood for the next 40 minutes. you can see the intensity of that rain, san francisco, woodside really should not be out in this kind of rain. it s coming down so hard along with that wind. it s going to take that visibility down for you. hunker down here at least for the next couple hours, picking up in fremont by 5:35. over to dresser at 5:45. san jose we saw some rain this morning, but it s knocking on your door. look at the rain starting to move into the santa krus mountains. the timeline through tonight will start to see that rain conti