People to stay home and off the roads. Flooding stranded these drivers in San Francisco. This happened along cesar chavez street where the highway dips below 101. This area has flooded during storms in the past. It was a soggy mess in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Part of a roof collapsed at the cvs store in felton. Firefighters believe standing water caused it to give way. Building inspectors will need to check the store out before it can reopen. And you might have been reaching for your umbrella today like this person in alameda. Despite the traffic headaches and all the damage the rain is a welcome sight and we are nowhere near making up for the rainfall deficits we have endured the past few years. A live look from the camera in emeryville. This looks like a painting. You have the dark clouds and the sun trying to peek through. Spencer christian live outside with more on the rain totals and a look at live doppler 7 hd. We have certainly had heavy downpours overnight and for the early pa
Throughout the day today into tomorrow. More coming up. Boy, what a drive in. I cant remember a scare ye commute coming in at this time of the morning. We do have a number of problems already on the road. Ill tell you about two of the biggest right now. Southbound 101 closed approaching lakeville highway so you need to get off there, transfer to highway 37 and then you can get back on to 101 from there in petaluma. Then we are getting word of a landslide coming into San Francisco. Two lanes are blocked on northbound 101 at vermont street, a car on a tree. Were expecting many problems. If you come in from orinda through the tunnel into berkeley its crazy. On the bay bridge just a short time ago it was blinding rain. High wind advisory, as well. Lets check the storms around the bay area. In san rafael a 40foot oak tree fell in front of the front door of a home. A family couldnt get out of the home and crews eventually removed the tree. In the haight in San Francisco, a tree crashed down
Commute. That leaves us with heavy rain, gusty winds, a threat of a thunderstorm and also showers continuing through friday. Michelle will continue to track the storm together as the news continues. City workers are expected to hit the streets of San Francisco again today to clean storm drains and thats where ryan takeo is. Workers are even scaling hillsides to stop rock slides. Reporter were here at Telegraph Hill. You can see this road is closed right here because crews were rapelling up 150 feet. Well show you why. Theres a history of high profile rock slides here. The latest issue is back in 2012 a rockslide crushed a car and caused a partial evacuation. Here are crews working on the rocky and jagged cliffs here at Telegraph Hill. Their mission to prevent rock slides ahead of the big storm. Three workers use crowbars to poke and product and loosen rocks that could crash down during heavy rains or runoff. Work crews are also busy cleaning storm drains. Cities are asking everyone to
Impacted. Elizabeth will be all over that. We will. Use mass transit if you can. Well be promoting that a lot. In the meantime as roberta said the skies are clear, roads are dry. There was a backup halfhour ago on the bay bridge. They were running the traffic breaks overnight three right lanes blocked between Treasure Island and the fremont street exit. All lanes are back open. We are not seeing a big delay at the toll plaza. So yeah, all is clear so far coming into San Francisco. We are seeing a lot of overnight roadwork still out there though. Well break it down coming up. Tomorrow youre going to be busy. We all are. Everyone will be busy. Thank you. Traffic on highway 24 in oakland was brought to a stop in the fourth straight night of protests. Protestors briefly blocked the freeway near the Macarthur Bart station. The chp apparently used tear gas after the protestors failed to disperse. There were at least 13 arrests and berkeleys mayor addressed complaints about the way police han
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