Good morning and welcome to the kron 4 morning news. Im Robin Winston. Heres a live look at our kron 4 radar. As you can see we have rain and plenty of it already. For how much rain we are expecting to see today here is James Fletcher. Toss to weather or traffic heavy rain moves through the area during the Early Morning hours, primarily impacting commuters between 3am and 6am. After that, rain should become lighter and more scattered. This will be the first of several storm system to impact us over the next 7 days. The next round of rain starts friday morning with showers lingering into saturday. Then, a brief dry spell through sunday. Next front arrives sunday night into monday with rain lasting through wednesday. We can expect anywhere from 3 to 4 inches of rain between now and next wednesday. Highs today will reach the low 60s in most locations. Looking at the bay area traffic maps and updating drive times. Another big story we are following this morning. Heavy rain is expected toda
We are standing on northbound 101. This is in between the 680 and 280 interchange, and 880. You are not getting on to this highway, which is really going to be a struggle for people who are trying to evacuate just to find out that 101 cannot be part of their escape route. Both directions shut down. Southbound traffic is being diverted to 880. This alum rock onramp, the mckee onramp all shut down. This is because of the coyote creek. That is where the flooding is coming from. They made the decision to shut this down around 8 00 last night. They dont know when its going to reopen. No eta as of right now. So, do not count on this area for your morning commute, possibly your afternoon commute as well. Reporting live in san jose, Amy Hollyfield, abc7 news. Amy, thank you. And this of course is going to have a major impact for commuters this morning. Alexis has a look at the roads right now. Good morning, yeah, we can see this closure on one of our Traffic Cameras here. This is 101 at 880. H
Feels like that i wanted to snap but i cant snap. Well help you out. Team work. Well, we do still have very important issues this morning, primarily still surrounding the coyote creek where right now this morning it is at 11. 8. Flood stage is at 10 feet. Moderate flooding is at 12 feet, so your slightly below the moderate stage which we experienced yesterday. We are expecting this creek to begin to recede later on this evening and then well begin to see some improvement but until then, we have clear skies. Can you see the moon from mount vaca this morning . Its lovely because we have the clarity out there but its cold, 36 degrees in santa rosa, in the 40s throughout San Francisco, oakland and redwood city as well as in san jose. Clouds will drift over head today but we will have abundance of sunshine and temperatures, coolish for this time of the year. We should be in the 60s in our neighborhoods. It should be 61 in San Francisco but instead 55. 58 in concord. The winds will pick up o
Otherwise, drier and much cooler conditions are forecast through late week with chilly overnight morning temperatures. Unsettled weather conditions return by the weekend with the potential for widespread rain and gusty winds. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. San mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. Golden gat bridge drive time less than 30 min from 37 to the toll plaza. Richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 the coyote creek is causing problems in causing creek is the coyote the coyote creek is causing problems in san jose. Several neighborhoods remain underwater this morning. Hundreds of families are staying in evacuations centers. San jose mayor sam liccardo extended the mandatory Evacuation Order for nearly everyone living east of coyote creek. This is video from our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. The water is still on the rise in some parts. Kron fours jr stone reports from one of the hardest hit a
Bay area, the chp lost count of the number of accidents on the freeway. So if you are out there on the road, be careful. Kiet do, kpix 5. Were going to check in with roberta because people are prepared, which is very important, but were not going to get a lot. No. I think the most dangerous scenario for driving today is when you have just a little bit of rain. You have all that oil come close to the surface, right, liza . Thats right. You get those little spinouts. And youll find out your windshield wipers dont work. If we get up to. 10 in the bay area well be lucky. Right now we anticipate. 2 in the north bay. This is live hidef Doppler Radar. Everything is skirting the northern portion of the bay area and the central bay. So far only a trace of rain is reported in san jose at 60 degrees. Wow. Okay. What you need to know today. Wet start north of the golden gate bridge. It will be cloudy all day for the most part and we have a beach hazard statement in effect for rough suffer, riptide