7 inches, morgan hill over 5 inches. Take a look at this. Our average monthly rain in january is 2. 5 to 10 inches. In two days we have seen nearly our entire january monthly rain. It is just astonishing, you guys. We have not seen more problems in the Santa Cruz Mountains with all of that water we had in a short amount of time. I dont want to jinx anything, but i have to say we are very lucky looking at all of that water we had in a short amount of time. Those are big numbers. Usually our storms in the bay area are north and south. This time its flipped on its head there. Thank you. The rain relentless there in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Communities from los gatos to bolder creek getting beat up these last 48 hours. Good news though. The mandatory evacuation orders in that czu fire burn downgrade. That means people can start coming home. Robert handa is in ben homan with the latest. What are you seeing . Reporter well, a couple of rough days of rain for our communities here in the Sant
Parents and students protesting tonight in pleasanton. The big question, when will middle schoolers and High Schoolers get to come back to school . Rent relief and eviction protections on its way tonight to those impacted by covid. The storms heading out. Ill let you on up. Ski shops like this one busy as the rush is on to get to tahoe. Ill show you why that might be easier said than done. Abc 7 news starts right now. Announcer building a better area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. I mean, if youre coming from the bay area and youre trying to head up to a ski resort tonight, you probably are not going to get through. That is the warning from caltrans tonight. If youre thinking of heading up to lake tahoe, just dont do it. Blizzard conditions are making the roads extremely treacherous. Right now 80 is closed because of several jackknife big riggs, multiple spinouts and heavy snow. There is no estimated time for its reopening. And 350 is open but with chain controls ove
Into work this morning that could definitely slow you down a bit and results in lower visibility of that splashes on your vehicle looking outsider mount tam camera here you can vaguely make out the city lights down below it looks like of the east bay in the distance in sausalito down right there at the bottom of the camera what we are going to be seeing today is eventually a calmer picture this morning. We still are in the midst of some isolated showers that are falling San Francisco in the peninsulas calm down but we are still looking at some areas of rainfall out there across the car keen is especially so from concord on up across the benicia bridge through benicia and eventually up 80 between the lay how in fairfield is where we are looking at some of our most intense rainfall right now some pretty good showers stretching south towards walnut creek in danville as well little bit calmer towards oakland you do have some light showers out that direction the east bay around fremont also
Francisco now stay at home ordes that is allowing more businesses to reopen in the city. Could even everyone im Frank Somerville and im julie julie haener. It was a Long Time Coming for many business owners. Ktvu is amber lee joins us now live shes in the citys Castro District tonight with more on what the re openings looked like amber, julie, i spoke with merchants here in castro and along valencia street. They tell me theyre thrilled to be able to offer more services, but that this is just the beginning. They need a whole lot more to survive. For the First Time Since the stay at home order in december, mx three fitness in the castro is able to offer indoor gym services such as personal training on lee. Three people are allowed inside at a time that gives us hope not enough to pay the red, but at least its going the white way nearby at catch outdoor dining, even on a cold january night is appealing to some somebody like making a delicious meal for me. Something different normalcy retu
Catching even a little bit of sunshine later today. So, big changes ahead after a soaker of a storm with an Atmospheric River the last few days. The Atmospheric River well out of the area. You can see on hidef doppler lingering showers for us. You can see light shower activity over gilroy, 101 and up across the north bay from st. Helena and napa, vallejo and fairfield picking up light rain. Through the day, we are looking at partly sunny skies. So, a little sunshine. Highs in the low to mid50s this afternoon. As we time it out for you, taking you hour by hour, stopping the clock at lunchtime hour at noon, you can see sunshine through the day. Catching a bit of clearing as we head through the afternoon. We will talk about the weekend as we are tracking another weather system. I will show you the locations that have a better chance of wet weather coming up. Lets check in with gianna. Until it dries out you may be dealing with slick surfaces. There is flooding in some areas. The bay bridg