Strong winds whipping in the sierra as a powerful blizzard pummels the region. Tonight, communities bracing for dangerous conditions ahead also, one step forward in the long search for a new Oakland Police chief. Tonight, the four candidates speaking directly to the community as residents hold out hope for new leadership. As long as that position has not been filled, the crime keeps going up. The city of oakland now, without a police chief for more than a year. Good evening everyone. Im mike mibach and im cristina rendon. Members of the Oakland Police Commission Held a Community Forum tonight introducing the public to the four police chief candidates, topping their list new at ten ktvu Jana Katsuyama joins us live with highlights from this meeting and what comes next. Well over the past year, it has been a battle trying to fill this position between the Police Commission and the mayor, who fired the last chief, lauren armstrong. The mayor refused to come to the meeting tonight, but man
Where you are. North bay has gotten significant rain accumulations. The rest of us, its anywhere from it seems like a lot because it just keeps coming. Its just constant kind of heavy drizzle, heavy mist. Its equating to, for most of us, a 10th of an inch or just a little more. But in the north bay you see that kentfield number, which is not the kentfield north bay. They do get the rain like a rain magnet up there, so theyre up over a half inch of rain. But you see the rain totals and the definite the disparity in different places around the bay. The wind advisory is in effect. Thats going to stay in effect for a while into the east of us. A blizzard warning. Lets take a look at the rain where it is now. Of course, its the afternoon commute. Here we are, and its raining and its coming down the heaviest rain. I think of the evening has already moved through oakland and san mateo. You see this sort of line of showers, the yellows, the darker greens, so that is basically on the way out. B
And on. No its going to be snowing going straight through. Yeah. All this moisture is getting getting stuck. Its just like a dam and the moisture gets hits, hits the side of the Sierra Nevada. And it just stacking up there. Even this system thats just moving through the bay area now and theyre going to its going to stay until it gets all the moisture ringed out of it by the orographic component of the lift. And, and so its just going to ive talked to folks up there in the last ten minutes and its, its starting to snow. And theyve already had inches of snow measured. But as this system which went through here this afternoon, you probably youre looking at the rain totals now. But the system that kind of moved through here is going to get stuck up on that. West slope. Its going to create winds that are up over 80 miles an hour. Easy and blizzard conditions for sure here in the next few hours up there. So yeah, its a its a strong storm with the wind. And i think in the bay area when all is
Soon. Ski resorts, Emergency Responders and locals are bracing for whats expected to be the biggest snowstorm of the year so far in the sierra ktvu erasmus here in studio to explain the warnings and advice from emergency officials, and we can see these these conditions changing minute by minute. Yeah. And you just showed that live picture of highway 50. Were going to show you how different it is over on interstate 80. You know, those are the two main ways to get up to the sierra from the bay area and interstate 80 at Donner Summit is closed. This is showing the eastbound direction. The closures on the westbound direction, and they are turning traffic around at kingsville. And thats because of a big rig that flipped over. That happened in 9 00 this morning. The chp does not expect to open this part of interstate 80 until 1 00 or later. This afternoon. Its the kind of thing the chp is worried about with this major storm now underway in the sierra , the wind coming in with this storm is a