Cheryl, larry . Sandhya, see you in a few minutes. Several days of heavy rain caused problems on the roads in San Francisco. A sinkhole at sixth avenue and lake street and this thing is huge. Yeah, about ten feet across and 40 feet deep. Abc 7 News Reporter Carolyn Tyler is at the scene with the details. Reporter that sinkhole has now been stabilized so it should not swallow up any more of the street. People who lost their water service, most of them have that back and now the sewer pipes are being repaired. One neighbor says hes been worried for months about a small hole on lake street thats now this big sinkhole. Its bubbled up because it was a patchwork piece of asphalt that was done a long time ago. Reporter police say this morning a drivers tire fell through the asphalt. She wasnt injured but the accident set off a chain of events involving a 110yearold water pipe and an aging sewer system. When a sewer pipe collapses, that has a lot of storm water in it, not sewage, it has storm
Well see you then. Lets begin our Live Team Coverage now from our abc7 News Reporters in the field. Flooding is bad people are told to just stay home. You can imagine, people found that message unusual and alarming. Police tell me they want peopled to stay home to lighten traffic so crews might get there on time. Mill valley resident spent the morning walking rather than driving. Doing her best to stay off the roads. I called to see if i can reschedule but he had just driven two hours to meet me. It should be a 10 minute drive. The Mill Valley Police department sent out this tweet, due to heavy Traffic Congestion and flooding everyone is advised to remain home. Unless you must leave. I was surprised by it. We have storms idea was to get people to work and crews where they needed to be as fast as possible. For Public Safety theyre trying to get these open. Its just less traffic, more we can mitigate everything. This was gridlock for miles storm mixed with high tides and in tiburon, pabl
And this day did not arrive without a warning. The homeless knew for a while that this day was actually coming. I heard from a merchant nearby here around the encampment, she told me the homeless are now hanging around her bar here on story road and key street in san jose. She says theyve told her theyre waiting for the cops to leave the area and then theyll come back and maybe reinhabit the homeless encampment. I dont see any more Police Officers so chances are those homeless might be back. Cleaning up after the flood. Thats the story across the bay area tonight. One Shopping Center in the upscale city of tiburon was among the areas hardest hit. We have Live Team Coverage tonight. Jeff ranieri is tracking this new storm. We begin with Mark Matthews who is at the cove Shopping Center in tiburon with more on the damage done there. Reporter we were here yesterday and we showed you the u. P. S. Store flooded down at that end of the Shopping Center. We didnt know at the time, other than th
Accountability. With more demonstrations expected in nearby oakland, police are preparing again. We certainly are here to facilitate free speech, protests, First Amendment rights. And we want to create a safe environment for them. Aku but also at the same time, it reporter last nights demonstrations largely peaceful. But last week some protests ended with vandalism and arrest. With just over 700 officers, police say some are working their 12th day. It drives the overtime up as well as it really stresses and maximizes the officer. Now, we just came from days off council. Were going qp . Back to days of council because were anticipate mortgage protests is. Reporter other agencies like the chp have been coming in to assist. The officers do come from other areas as well, not just m oakland chp office. We do have minimum Staffing Levels at all of our offices which we do maintain, no ma4 reporter now back here live, oakland police[w say theyre feeling very lucky to have other Law Enforcement
Why police say the suspect picked the wrong person to rob. Another wet start to the morning after thunderstorms overnight. While the rain is much needed, its still creating quite a mess throughout the bay area. Right now, crews are working to repair a massive sinkhole in San Francisco as well as cleaning up major flooding in the north bay and chp says for the second day in a row, the agency received hundreds of calls for service this morning. Good afternoon. Im tori campbell. We are on stormwatch with team coverage. We begin with Steve Paulson out in the elements with a look at the totals so far. Good afternoon, steve. Reporter good afternoon. I gotta tell you. Last night, it started about midnight, 2 00 in the morning when the lightning and the thunderstorms hit. Really erupted around daly city to San Francisco, then into marin county which just got absolutely slammed this morning. Then all the way up to the Russian River. Getting reports around cazadero, bohemian highway, really rapi