And we do say good morning to you, everyone, on this friday. Im kendis gibson. And im Adrienne Bankert in for diane macedo. We want to begin with the developing story at this hour. The monster storm bearing down on the west coast packing more heavy rain on already swamped areas. The radar there giving you an idea of just how enormous this system is. Forecasters say it is packing another round of intense rainfall thats expected to last throughout the weekend. Emergency officials are concerned. Ground stability is an issue saying they expect more landslides like this one that shut down two lanes of interstate 5 in Washington State last night. Northern california officials now say they believe that the damaged oroville dam is stable enough to withstand the approaching storms after they drained the lake behind the dam to a much safer level, but those draining efforts have a downside. Some of the water released from the dam ended up flooding an Historic Cemetery in the city of marysville. N
Also be prepositioned ahead of the storm in places where outages are expected. You can track the weather with the abc7 news app. We have live doppler 7 on the app and you can enable push alerts to get any weather updates on your phone or tablet. Developing news this morning in solano county. Public Health Officials with trying to calm fears at a tuberculosis case at a high school. More than 200 students and staff may have been exposed. This letter went out to parents yesterday after the person tested positive last week. Now, the school is not saying if the person affected is a student or a staff member, only that he or she is affiliated with the high school. Officials say they may have been at the school for a few days. So they plan to notify everyone that came into contact with this person. A Public Meeting for concerned parents is scheduled on tuesday. An unexpected aboutface for oakland city leaders who issued a new policy only to then retract that new policy a few hours later. Here
Roads this morning, alexis. Especially if youre trying to head westbound across the richmondsan rafael bridge. I want to take you up on our traffic maps. We started off with a rollover crash near the mid span about an hour ago. That was cleared and then we have another crash near the san quentin off ramp and possibly a third crash east of the toll plaza so investigating all of those but obviously were heavy around the mid span down to 4 miles an hour. I wanted to show you the richmond side there approaching the toll plaza. Very heavy. Amy hollyfield and her photographer on the move there, getting very close to this so hopefully they can clear some of this up for us. Next traffic update coming up. As she just mentioned, the rain is making the morning commute a pretty challenging one. Amy hollyfield is indeed live on interstate 580 for us. Amy, how does it look . Reporter hi, jessica. The rain is coming down very steady and heavily right now. We are dealing with very wet roads out here a
Going to have the area around 9 8th avenue, las vegas, that area will be closed down for quite sometime. Again, we continue our investigation. [ inaudible ]. Laura, i can tell you, we were out here, we were on the perimeter trying to keep some of our citizens from driving through the area, and we heard multiple, multiple rounds, multiple gunshot rounds fired from the suspect. That was what was making it so challenging for us to communicate, not only to media to our community. Again, thats why i want to thank the chp for assisting us. We were able to via telephone communicate with chp to push the message out, not only to media to help us get that messaging out, but also i would like to thank the Radio Station who put it out over the over the airwaves for anyone who is traveling in the immediate area, 580, 98th avenue, golf links, to please use alternate routes. We had our hands full. This was a very dangerous situation, not only for our residents who live on that street but also for our