Also, toyota talking about under the hood, keeping its top spot in auto sales rankings so far this year topping rivals gm and volkswagen. Japanese car sales topping 7. 4 million vehicles. Thats up. 1 from a year ago. Strong sales in the u. S. Offset slowdowns in thailand and china. Joe, whats going on in washington . In washington this week the redskins are probably dealing with what was a disappointing because they were ahead. They were ahead by two touchdowns right at the beginning of the second half and things went south quickly. So you only saw five minutes of the jets game. No, i know what happened. Congratulations. Thank you. Im not looking for congratulations really. Its been a long time. People are talking about 25 years since the joe montana beat when the bengals got and i asked my kids to watch. They were watching when Carson Palmers knee got blown out on the first play. They were watching last year when houston killed this really they really looked good yesterday. Typical of
You look at interstate 880 the traffic does look good. The drive time between downtown oakland and the hazenburger exit is not that much. Also looking at the commute at the toll plaza to less than ten minutes your drive into San Francisco from the toll plaza. Interstate 580 coming into the Altamont Pass the traffic looks good. I want to show you something, 580 the drive time between grant line road and 680 is about 20 minutes. Its never this light. Well i guess it is over night. So we will see that drive time go up on a normal day. If it rains it might quadruple or go higher than that. 4 31 lets go back to the desk. A strong storm is now moving into the bay area. The rain and wind is expected to really pick up later today. Ktvu Tara Moriarty is on storm watch this morning in sonoma county. Tara, good morning to you. Reporter good morning. When you wake up this morning you should notice cloudy skies, light rain. Nothing too bad as steve mentioned. We are here in the north bay that shoul
Roads venture out on the wet. The first of the rain begins to arrive. People have begun to pick up sandbags, clear out gutters and trim trees ahead of the rain expected over the next few days. We have ktvu Team Coverage with reporters covering all over the bay area, from the south bay to the east bay and the slick Road Conditions in between. We start with mark tamayo tracking the rain. The first waves of rain, the first round of rain pushing across parts of the bay area. Picking up, as you can see on live stormtracker2, weve been watching this. Right now the steadiest activity is up in the north bay. You can see the greens and the yellows showing up there. Theres the live doppler sweeps detectth the rainfall patterns. More of the steady rain can be heaviest for petaluma, out towards glen ellen as well, sonoma county. Were watching this area to indicate at least a reflection in the rainfall rates. It could be about. 25 an hour. Thats an estimate with this radar return. Moving the maps c
Heavy rain has led up around most of the bay area and there is quite a bit of damage left behind and we will show you the damaged areas and how people are prepared for the next round of rain. Still some morning rain and things are winding down and another system is coming in and that one may be even stronger. We have some sad stories as families are forced out of their homes and we have the search for clues on how it may have started. Its all ahead on the ktvu channel 2 morning news. Good morning, thank you for joining us, a live picture something you should know if you are driving in the morgan hill area, all lanes are closed because of a bigrig crash, a league out there this morning dark leak out there and what you are looking at is people taking a detour object highway detour on highway 101 and also there are Health Concerns so we will check in with her in just a minute. Lets talk about weather and traffic, steve, you have everything to tell us. We still have some rain last night wh
Longer. Well update the drive time straight ahead. Powerhouse front and a big time lowpressure system. You can see it there. It will play into our weather not only this morning but the rest of the day. But how much rain will fall . Good morning, welcome to mornings on 2. We are on stormwatch and this live Traffic Camera tells it all. A very let lens as the latest round of rain pounds the bay area. Traffic crawling along. There are wind advisories in effect right now. Its 7 01. Good morning. Im tori campbell. You felt it. I did. Good morning. Im dave clark. We have Team Coverage of the stormwatch. Lets first go to meteorologist, steve paulson. All right, tori, dave, thank you. This is about as good as it gets for us in a long time. An impressive area of low pressure. Barometers were troping. Now theyve dropping. Now they are rising a little bit. This system will play into our weather all of the rest of the day and probably saturday. It will be a bigtime system for maybe thunderstorm act