Thursday is another strong storm. Weather alert issued. Our Team Coverage continues tonight in guerneville. A rising Russian River has aleady caused serious flooding. Now with another storm ahead people who live there are bracing for more problems. Kron 4s alecia reid is live. Alecia how worried is the community . Theyre pretty concerned. This is actually the Russian River behind me creeping into a parking lot. With tomorrows rain, its expected to get even higher. Pkgnatsot its Mother Naturelow lying areas are taking a beating. Sot everyones worried. But theres not much you can really do. Theres only so much sandbags can holdwater levels on flooded roadways continue to increase. People in this Small Community have weathered many storms. So they prepare themselves as best as they can. The worst downpour they can remember was back in 1986 when the entire downtown was under water. Sot it went all the way up and covered everything. There was no downtown or houses30 years later, flooding is
Francisco. For most of us upper 50s. But well see the temperature s spreading out from low 60s along the coastline to 81 in the trivalley. It stays nice and cool as we head into the weekend. Ill detail that coming up. Mike is still eyeing a crash in sausalito. We dont have any problems toward the Golden Gate Bridge but right now thats what were watching. The rest of the bay has slowing but this one blocks half your freeway southbound 101 at spencer avenue. Car went off the shoulder there. Reported as an overturned vehicle. I think it just went down the little embankment there. Still, lanes closed until 6 30. No update from chp. No slowing over the last few minutes. Right at the scene though you should see that. The bay bridge also has the backup. Metering lights are on there as well. Talk about oakland coming up. Back to you. After years of preparation and anticipation, the wait is almost over. A beautiful live look at rio de janiero this morning where in just a matter of hours thousan
Backup. Smooth flow of traffic. There is a that drizzle kari was talking about. This morning the wait is almost over. The road to rio culminates with an explosive celebration tonight during the olympic Opening Ceremony. Live pictures from rio this morning. For months nbc bay area has been preparing to take you inside all the action and all the local ties to the biggest competitions on the planet. Nbc bay area anchor Jessica Aguirre is live with us from rio de janiero with a sneak peek of ceremony that promises to be a party, jess. It is so great to have you this morning. All the build up, all the excitement, all the nerves, a lot of questions about whether rio is ready. Yes, that is the question. Bon dia, sam and laura. This is the olympic park is where im standing right now which is the rio de janiero. This is one of four clusters that will be holding the olympic games. And this is in the magic city. Now, tonight this city is getting ready to host one of the biggest spectacles on eart
Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Well, the rain we are getting right now is nothing compared to what is on the way. School is canceled for hundreds of thousands of bay area kids and we discovered sandbags are in such high demand, there is actually a black market for them. We have a team of reporters across the bay area. But first, lets get to meteorologist paul deanno in the Weather Center tonight. A lot of rainfall ahead of the actual storm that will get here well after midnight. It has been pouring in marin county, Sonoma County, Mendocino County and napa county. Already an inch of rain on the ground throughout much of the north bay. No rain near san jose, but showers are working their way south. A lot of rain has fallen already. The storm is not even here yet. An inchandahalf in fort bragg. Angwin. Three things i want you to remember. Flooding rainfall is coming. It is going to happen. Damages winds are on their way as well tomorrow morning. And that will lik
Get the word out as quickly as we could. Reporter you feel like that should have been a quicker response to the public . The nature of flaring event is we had to determine what was happening and make sure that we got Accurate Information out. One thing history has proven to us is that chevron cannot be trusted, that we need to have independent investigations, not investigations conducted by chevron to tell us what really happened, what was really emitted. Reporter now, the bay area air Quality Management group says they will be investigating. Veronica, one of the issues out here is that they have monitors to test how much pollutants got into the public. But not everyone in the community here believes those monitors are adequate enough. Lots of people nervous. Thank you. Memories still fresh of a Major Incident at the same chevron refinery in 2012. A major fire sent thick, black smoke into the air. 15,000 people went to the hospital with respiratory problems. Chevron was cited for sever