Donner summit. Caltrans closed the freeway at 2 00 this afternoon, they dont expect it to reopen before midnight. This video is from earlier in the day, as drivers were forced to turn around, and make alternate plans. Right now, eastbound traffic is being stopped at apple gate in placer county, westbound traffic is being stopped at the nevada state line. Thats about 70 miles of i80 that is completely shut down tonight. Here in the bay area, scattered showers had people pulling out their umbrellas again today. The heaviest rain now behind us, but only for a couple of days before it ramps up again this weekend. Bill martin has impressive rainfall numbers from this latest storm. First, we go to Debora Villalon tracking some of the spots out it there. Reporter heather, blame beautiful mount tan. Those passing rain storms get stick on its peak, and moran gets drenched. Likely again this weekend too. I dont think my girls have ever experienced a blackout. Reporter losing power . A new experi
County. The entire freeway was closed. On highway 50 chains were required but for four wheel drive with snow tires five miles east to meyers. Yes. I know he that area well. I know you do. And i think mark does as well. A lot of people are asking what itll be like tomorrow. They are thinking about going up for the snow. Tomorrow we are still in the break part. The weekend up in the sierra and in the bay area its going to be tough to be outside. We are talking about that major storm approaching. This is not just we call it a storm but its a continuous band of moisture that will be toward the bay area. Its like your garden hose being pointed at one spot. That will happen as we head into saturday. Especially into sunday morning. This will be the watching once genas we head into the bay area weekend. Lets take a closer look. You can see the rainfall last night into this morning. We had the clouds. We have the rain showers moving out of town. We get a break for today. Starting out with overc
Sugar bollocks squaw, they are all very happy. More is coming. More is coming walmart rehabilitative check in on the drive um there. Thank you for joining us. Thursday admonishing. January 5th. Im pam cook. Im dave clark. Very more rain and snow on the way. To the sierra. Take a look at how this looks so far for drivers. Its been slow going. From to and from the lake tahoe area you can see. Caltrans reopened both directs of interstate 80 though over donor summit just before 1 30 this morning. Still restriction on the big rigs there. It can be very windy up there as well. The road has been is shut down completely since 2 00 yesterday afternoon. The second closure of the day. We told you about the first one in the Early Morning hours right here on ktvu mornings on 2. Chains still required on 80 right now. But for four wheel drive. And now tires this is a map of the area. You can see about 70 miles of roadway to the nevada state line. Cal trans has shut down the entire freeway there. Look
By the weekend. First thing saturday morning. Right now we have some clouds in place and even a chance of a few sprinkles out there or drizzle right now. Little bit avenue i green showing up on the radar here. Especially in portions of marin. We are watching for that in the short term. More clouds and wet roadways as well. Current numbers we have fog issues up in santa rose a. Quarter mile visibility. Most recent. 47, walnut creek reporting 4 approximate 3. Here is the plan for today this morning. Mostly cloudy skies. 7 00 a. M. Temperatures will be in the 30s to the 40s and then by 12 00 approaching the 50degree mark. Wrapping up the afternoon. 50 to 55 with partly cloudy. Here is the forecast model. We will put this into motion. Once again you may encounter miss mist or drizzle this morning and then into friday we are looking okay. Hard to believe we have a major storm setting up off shore. Friday, 5 00 p. M. By friday night we are thicken many the clouded here we go with that rain b
Also talk about the crash and the backup. Over towards westbound 24 at highway 13. Three of four lanes still blocked. It happened almost an hour ago now. All of this backup out here in the tunnel area extending to highway 13. Closer towards the bay bridge, okay. We will show you the bay bridge itself. It shows the bulk of the packup more than fast track until two minutes to go. Tuesday showing a good volume traffic in the east bay. Highway 24. Over here, it looks like this happened in the last three minutes. This is king and 680. This is going to cause a problem. Flashing lights. Either a fenderbender. Well check out whats going on with chp. Better news for highway 17. Just into our newsroom this morning. As you mentioned, we have learned that highway 17 near scott valley is back open. All lanes. Crews just finished clearing a mudslide in the last few minutes. Workers were there 24 hours later trying to clear it out. We have kris sanchez there on the scene live. Who knew that brake lig