Showers taper tonight into tomorrow and ill have your seven day forecast in my longer report. All right francis may seem Francis Dinglasan and im doing traffic. Stay with abc7 news for continuing coverage. Storm hitting the the bay area today. You can track that storm with live doppler. Delays eastbound 580 foothill there was an accident there blocking one or more lanes traffic was being diverted on to high street. Mass transit on Holiday Schedule, it is Christmas Day, except ace, no Service Today. Drive times on the major freeways this morning, very few people out there, 680 at altamont 14 minutes on highway 4, hillcrest 242, 18 minute on 80. Look out for high winds on the carquinez bridge. Breaking news from the south bay right now firefighters are battling a three alarm warehouse fire in campbell. Firefighters are responding to the scene it is burning on dell avenue near winchester boulevard. Stay with the abc7 morning news we have a crew on the way. Well bring you an update as soon
Schedule and on time. n5bx commuters in sonoma couy could use a break from the rain right now flood waters are still impassable on highways 12 and 121. Terry mcsweeney is live at the intersection. Reporter the best ive got right now is sometime today. What happens is when theres a heavy down tour as there was yesterday and a high tide, this this road closes not unusual they wish it was an unusual occurrence as you can see road closed, flooded. Pictures of what it looked like last night. Theyve been trying to fix the problem here for quite sometime, obviously, no success. Yesterday, it want hard to find rainrelated problems, American Canyon water piled up on highway 12 red top road all this going on, on Christmas Day the traffic was light yesterday, richmond on mcdonald avenue they had backup there also in berkeley a lot of places down pours and one person we talked to says hes about ready to have it wrap up. Im from the bay area so im couldnt of used to it. But it is a little rci[ when
Bridge this morning and light traffic conditions. Down three lanes in the southbound direction, two north light week this week traffic wise between christmas sonoma flooding 121, 12 closed at 8th in shellville area due to road being closed and flooded. Terry mcsweeney will have an update in a bit. South 101 washington petaluma clearing stages of that accident could be cleared by now. North 680 at mckey, accident in san jose, first reports east al 0 at eden canyon of an accident. You just said it, at 121 and 12 still impassable. Terry mcsweeney is there with more on when the intersection might reopen. Reporter the best i can give you is sometime today. Folks here did not get what they wanted for christmas, a new road. Every time they have heavy downpours and high tide this is what happens here at 12 and 121. Pictures from last night give you a better idea of what it looks like cars couldnt get through, too much water, combination of the down poeur and high tide sometimes downpour and hi
Good morning im kristen sze im katie marzullo. Im eric thomas. Cheryl jennings and kristen sze are off today. Terry mcsweeney is live on east bay shore road with an update. Reporter take a look at the creek now you wouldnt know it was flooding last night it was the biggest since el nino hit in 98. Tomorrow when you are enjoying your christmas keep in mind the folks here will be half soggy christmas. Paris sims looks at her home and hopes when santa comes tonight he brings lots of new carpeting. Neighbor comes knocking the water is coming over we begin to open all the gates and the water was just flooded within seconds you had water this high in the front yard. Reporter kicking back in a christmas mood last night. Policeman telling me we got to get evacuated. We started panicking because i have a little baby. Reporter this morning the waters receded concerns have not. Spokesman for the menlo park Fire Protection district says the levees along San Francisquito creek have been damaged. He
And welfare programs. The dreaded fiscal cliff can potentially affect a wide range of health programs. Cbs news Wyatt Andrews explains. Reporter professor mallen like hundreds of medical researchers has already fallen off the fiscal cliff. Her budget which relies on federal grants is being cut by 10 now. As the nih, the National Institutes of health, prepares for the possibility of budget cuts later. Its as much bigger than just my lab. Its affecting allacademic labs across the country. Reporter mallen understands the nih decision but calls it a setback. My lab will have to shut down Research Projects that we know would could have profound impacts on curing human disease. We may have to get rid of some staff members. Reporter the nih tells us because of uncertainty in the budget awards at 90 of what was perhapsed to researchers promised to researchers will be the standard at least for now and the threat of the cut raised alarms. Some of the cuts reporter at Johns Hopkins the doctor is