Good evening. Im dan ashley. Its ironic were talking about the disastrous flooding in the middle of the drought. Experts are telling us el nino is an unusually strong one, but not a drought buster. First, Wayne Freedman is live in novato to show you how people are preparing for both drought and a wet winter. Wayne . Reporter good evening, dan. This is almost a matter of pick your predicament. If generating big rains, were going to have mudslides and pain and suffering if that. If we dont get the rain, the drought will be worse. Here is a community, petaluma area, that is dealing with both possibilities. This is a neighborhood with pride of ownership, a sense of community, and a wet history. The problem is that its a creek overflowing. There is no place for the water to go. Reporter terry betterson is the manager of the leisure lake] park. In 1982 the place flooded and water has been problematic ever since, even in a drought. Were worried about getting stranded in here. Were below sea l
From hayward to foster city crass the water only nine minutes. Interest concord we have this accident involving a car that flipped. Eastbound highway 4 at port chicago highway is blocking a lane and now we are seeing delays pulling away from 242. The driver get out of the vehicle and is walk around so maybe we do not have severe injuries. It looks like traffic is slowing and we have crews headed to the seen and it will cause more slowing and spectator slowing westbound. You will remember Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin but today Half Moon Bay hopes to have the greatest pumpkin of all as far as size. The Great Pumpkin weigh off attracts the biggest gorge from all over the country and gourd expert has a preview. Thank you, the stars of the show have just started to arrive and you can see a monster pumpkin behind me the contenders have two very big goals they want to smash the record and they hope to beat the world record. Last years winner was over 1,900 pounds. That is more than a s
Up in the sevenday forecast. We have a big rig overturned in san ramon. But the bay bridge toll plaza shows it is packed like sardines and over to the san mateo bridge that drive is loading up but it is moving along. Holiday is over. It is. And abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield has been talking to fire crews and has an update on the clean up. It is slow. They have to manually carry off 45,000 pounds of turkeys. You can see the upright tractor trailer where necessity will but the turkeys. That is good. Each person has to grab a turkey and throw it on other truck. That will take a while. Necessity will lose all the food and turkeys, happening when the driver took the exit too fast and flipped. This is the offramp southbound 680 in san rafael. The offramp is closed and blocked by the truck. There were two people inside when it crashed. They were rescued. They have minor injuries. They will be okay. Lucky to be able to walk away from an accident like this because of the we magnitude of the
Reporter vick lee has the latest on the investigation. 19yearold brock turner appeared at the palo alto courthouse this morning with his lawyer and father who had flown in from the family home in ohio. Like to enter plea of not guilty today. Turner stood before the judge as attorney Michael Armstrong pleaded not guilty on his behalf. Not guilty to 5 felony Sexual Assault charges. Establish ford freshman a member of the Swimming Team is accused of sexually assaulting a woman after they met at Fraternity Party last month. Prosecutor told reporters this case is unique. There were 2 hero who came forward and what i want to say about them is if they are listening, thank you. Thank you for doing the right thing. Reporter the hero 2 graduate students riding bicycle who said they saw the woman lying open the ground with turner on top of her. One of the students told police it appeared like the female was not moving. And something seemed odd. The 2 said they chased turner as he ran. They tackle
And i missed the first hour of the show. I think you didnt show up until 5 30 actually on that day. Okay. Yeah. Right i got another 30 minutes. Lovely to see you guys, i feel like i was gist here, as weve got foggy start to the day. Theres a dense fog advisory posted in the Central Valley and we should have them here but the National Weather is in monterey and they have no idea we have fog over the Golden Gate Bridge really reducing visibilities, on our own. Livermore 59 and concord 59 degrees. Out the door this morning, then look for that fog along the shoreline and around the bay and inland today we get increasing sunshine today and high and dry as far as the eye can see. For afternoon highs, well get all the way up into the mid 60s about six to eight degrees above average for this time of year and it looks like Christmas Day will be beautiful as well. The spire forecast for you a few minutes from now and first the latest from the one whos always on time. Liza batallones. I am. Thank