Closure of the winter. Spencer christian is tracking the storm and joins us with a look at the forecast. Spencer . Ama. Its wet. Its going to get wetter. You can see what she pointed out. Moderate to heavy rain moving across the area. Over to the concord area. This current storm, storm ranks one on the impact scale. Producing scattered showers, maybe a downpour or two between 9 00 and 11 00. It will be breezy at times. The next storm, early tomorrow morning that has our attention. It ranks 3 on the storm impact scale. A strong storm that will have the highest impacts. Producing heavy rainfall, strong gusty wind. Flooding is possible with Power Outages which are likely. These are main storm concerns. The north bay, santa cruz mountains. Streaming, creek flooding. High concern for Power Outages. The remainder of the bay area, high concern for hydroplaeng. Moderate concern for other areas. A wet week is ahead. All the details coming up shortly. A. M. A, thank you, spencer. Counties that h
Every day this month. While it might not look so bad in mount suit row, one of the strongest storms is hours away. Good evening, thanks for joining us. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. Theyre not expecting sunny days until the weekend. Well get to the forecast. But first breaking news. This is from the east bay where police are investigating a suspicious package that led to the closure of the hayward station. This is bay fair station in san leandro where hundreds of riders headed towards hayward are forced off the train on to shuttle buses. Theyre lining up. Heres the station diagram. Trains are not running between south hayward stations. At this time of day, thats a big problem. B. A. R. T. Is working on a bus bridge but there is quite a wait. A lot of folks lined up. There are far more people than buses. The Alameda County bus a b. A. R. T. Spokesperson says you can expect delays because of this Significant Service disruption. Now back to storm watch. Todays rain closed the oakland zoo,
Bay and south bay. Let me show you our storm impact scale. Its 3. Its a strong storm. Through the evening hours, moderate to heavy rainfall especially in the peninsula, east bay and south bay. Flooding is still likely in all areas as the heavy rain continues. Notice during the next couple of hours, through 6 00 p. M. To 7 00 p. M. , we wont see Much Movement until after about 8 00 p. M. When we see it moving out of the bay area and that will give way to scattered showers across the entire region. We still have flash flood warnings in parts of Sonoma County until 6 30 along highway 12. Until 5 30 p. M. In the area of 116 from penngrove. And 9 17 a. M. With a floodville in guerneville. Ill give you a closer look at accuweather sevenday forecast in a few minutes. Dan . Spencer, thank you. In the santa cruz mountains, a dumptruck hit two construction workers. The chp said that it accidently backed into them. One was killed and one seriously hurt. The workers who were hit work for granitero
Did we notice this before . Reporter the last days before opening a High School Play are always about putting pieces together, but at Santa Rosa High School this week those pieces were literal and broken. Pieces of theater all over the theater. We found our columns had been knocked over. We found broken swords. We found broken lances. Reporter drama teacher victoria carpenter on the vandals who trashed this auditorium on halloween night. They almost turned their greek tragedy trojan women into a real one. This matters to us and its important to us and the hard work we put into this is real and it just absolutely broke my heart thinking that someone could just look over that. A song for troy. Reporter the play tells with trojan women banding together after losing their husbands in war. After the vandals smashed their set and parts of the auditorium, this cast banded together to make things right, backed by overwhelming support from the community and across the country. I dont think that
Locked out the window and saw the smoke, and i thought it was the safeway or, you know, thought it was like much closer because the smoke was so large. Theres still a major backup from the earlier shutdown on northbound highway 101 so heres look a gridlock from our traffic computer and a look at how many miles that red is. That is the stop and go stretch. Just a lot of slow traffic. Yeah. Pretty bad. Well stay on top of this story and bring you updates on the abc 7 news app. Good evening, im dan ashley. And im kristein sze. Thanks for joining us. Traffic is also a major problem right now further south in marin county. Thats right. The eastbound lanes of the richmond safe rafael bridge are closed right now after several hours. A big rig caught fire and has really delayed things. Drivers have spent the day stranded order finding alternate routes. Abc 7 News Reporter Wayne Freedman is on the scene with the latest. Oum cigarettes must a person smoke before crossing the Richmond Bridge toda