New at 11 00, stopped in the sierra in the middle of a blizzard. This is new video from Donner Summit, the situation growing more dire by hour, people trapped in cars for hours on the drop in temperature. Chp forced to shut down on i80. What driver says he was shutting back to california from reno with his dog. Stuck in the storm on one of these on ramps. I was going 15 miles an hour and lost track since i decided to pull over. Look at that you could barely see anything. You can see is sort of the road. Those warnings went out urging people to stay away from blizzard conditions. Lets or didnt he that warning got the brunt of this historically bad weather. It is going to go from bad to worse at this hour. That storm is intensifying, with no break in sight. Heavy rain and wind are stirring up trouble here is well. Jeff ranieri is tracking all of this. We will get the latest from him in a little bit. But first lets get you caught up on the nightmare scenario playing out of the mountains r
Uproar a bay area later after waymo gets the final approval to drive on San Francisco into the south bay. Governor plan to improve oaklands streets will go over the specifics there here with city leaders. Think about it. When fun time from the bay areas local news station. Youre watching kron. 4 news. Good evening, everybody. Thanks for joining us kron for news at 10. Im vicki liviakis. Im grant lotus. Powerful winds are bringing down trees across the bay area tonight at tonights storm is also forcing road closures and up in the sierra spinouts and whiteout conditions have actually shut down. I80. It is a mess in the high country. We have Team Coverage tonight crow for some and harry is live in the east bay where the rain isnt stopping people from having a friday night out. First, though, we go to chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow who is tracking the storm arts. Yeah. Guys rocking around the bay area right now. Things really get going as weve seen the showers and thunderstorms seeing
Right to lisa whos live in the Weather Center tracking the very latest on this level. One storm, one that woke us both up this morning, huh . Yeah. We still have a few lightning bolts out there. Some rumbles of thunder later on today were going to get in some sun and a little bit of rain to start, and then more downpours throughout the afternoon. Heres a look at live doppler seven. We can see the lightning bolts in north of ukiah and the blizzard still growing strong in the Sierra Nevada. Wind gusts up to 80 miles an hour. Over 100 miles an hour at our peaks. Look at the heavy rain from crockett to hercules down through richmond. 580 and 680 towards walnut creek. Snow mixed in with lighter rain from yountville. Highway 12 and eldridge, and then back towards the coast and mill valley. Mount tam some snow, more rain, the richmondsan rafael bridge there and then a cell right about to move into San Francisco. Some moderate rain and down around the Santa Cruz Mountains. Mount hamilton it is
New at 11 00, stopped in the sierra in the middle of a blizzard. This is new video from Donner Summit, the situation growing more dire by hour, people trapped in cars for hours on the drop in temperature. Chp forced to shut down on i80. What driver says he was shutting back to california from reno with his dog. Stuck in the storm on one of these on ramps. I was going 15 miles an hour and lost track since i decided to pull over. Look at that you could barely see anything. You can see is sort of the road. Those warnings went out urging people to stay away from blizzard conditions. Lets or didnt he that warning got the brunt of this historically bad weather. It is going to go from bad to worse at this hour. That storm is intensifying, with no break in sight. Heavy rain and wind are stirring up trouble here is well. Jeff ranieri is tracking all of this. We will get the latest from him in a little bit. But first lets get you caught up on the nightmare scenario playing out of the mountains r
News station. Youre watching kron. 4 news at now at 5, it is pouring outside. Slipped up roads. On this friday evening commute rain continuing to drench the bay area. We are taking a live look right now. At our walnut creek camera on highway 6. 80. As you can see, you can almost barely see the road heres a look at traffic across the bay area right now as well. That read and orange indicating heavy in moderate traffic spots. If you dont absolutely have to leave your house this evening. They want to hunker down. Thanks for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 5. Im noelle bellow bay and im grant lotus because of the rain and the winds. The golden gate ferry has canceled its services between San Francisco and timber on for the rest of the night. Thats been replaced with bus services and sales force park closed for the rest of the day conference. Chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here. Joining us now with a look at the weather center. Lawrence, youve been tracking this storm. You said i