We have coverage of the storm. Maureen naylor is in the south bay where there is heavy rain coming through. We will begin with meteorologist bill martin tracking the conditions. Right now it is raining and it is messy and everybody getting back to work and the rain has been pretty relentless. This morning it was there and this afternoon relentless. You see the warm air coming. Look at the airmass. Warm moisture air in the state. The cooler air getting pushed to the snort and seeing snow in the lower elevations. The purple and pink areas represent freezing precipitation. We are in the foothills. Towards cheeko. 2,000 feet near paradise and above warfield and Feather Falls getting snow and theres an indication how cool the airmass is. Colfax snow and a foot in donner and we got rain. Heavy rain showing up in the fremont area. You can see it down in this area. The heaviest rain will continue to be moving through the south bay. In the next hour or so. And so this heavy rain especially near
Of problems. And well walk you through what went wrong. And whats being done to at least temporarily stabalize the situation. This is a daily mail map. The problem at Lake Oroville started last tuesday when a massive hole opened up here in the main spillway. Lets check out video of the hole from last week. It may be hard to tell here. But its 30 feet deep. 200 feet wide. That hole prompted water managers to stop using the main spillway. That meant water in the lake. Swollen from all this winters storms. Started coming over the emergency spillway. The emergency spillway. Built in 1968. Is just dirt and rocks. And yesterday water was coming over the top. And carving small craters in the land below. Which is not paved like the main spillway. The concern is that the dirt and rock at the top of the emergency spillway might collapse. And that would be catasprophic. A 30 foot wall of water would come charging down the hill. Like a tsunami. Some would quickly fill up the the Feather River belo
So now, they are looking at a 15 25 million shortfall for this fiscal year, and 25 35 million for the next. Already, the Transit Agency has stopped hiring new people, and requiring the departments to cut back. But still not enough. Now the board of directors has to consider increasing the base fare and reducing the discounts given to seniors and kids. They also have to look at opening their system later at 5 a. M. Instead of 4, and reduce service along the fremont and richmond line. I take bart every day, do a solid for mother earth. They dont make it easy. Frustration. On a scale of 1 to 10, id say 11. Reporter they blame high salary and budget benefits for the deficit and say when you have high labor costs and revenue projections dont pan out, you are in financial trouble. We have the highest workforce in america, they have given 30 raises in the last contracts to their managers. It is easy to use the employers but it is not fair to point fingers at something we are contextually obli
Snow away from his car. This is live look, torresdale avenue northeast philly. I dont know, we will get him on the horn and send him over there. Typically you have one lane, well, because of the plowed snow, they only got maybe half lane here on torresdale avenue. There is ice all over the place. So thats an example of the neighborhood. Look at this guy, you think hes got a rough morning ahead of him trying to get the snow off of there . Here is live look. Good thing about it though hes plowing the snow to another car. Exactly, pushing it in front of the other guy, so if you are watching, throw him couple of extra buck and hell move it down to the next guy. Example of route 73, may epp shade, moorestown new jersey on and offramps are slippery, and icy, and here is a shot, i took from yesterday. Check it out. Alex, thomas, look at this knucklehead. Blowing the snow on to the roadway. Violation. Violation. Right there. Okay . Now, i just hope that no accidents occur, i hope that the scho
Live coverage of the 28th in rural southern festival of books in downtown nashville, tennessee. We are alive today and tomorrow with several authors and their events. You can find a full schedule at book tv and you can follow us on social media. Booktv and facebook. Com to get behindhe the scenes of videos andeq pictures as well as schedule updates. Were gonna kick off the festival with author beth macy. They were two africanamerican brothers who were kidnapped and forced to perform in a circus in the 1899. As about their mother as will researched for them for over 28 years. This is live coverage of the southern book festival on book tv. Good morning. As a reviewer i read a lot of books and one of my favorites is true of mine. It took her 25 years to unearth the saga required painstaking research on multiple fronts as she writes to entangle a century of whispers from truths. The result is deeply moving and endlessly compelling and such an intricate tale that is worthy of not one but tw