Earthquake rupture the dam. But draining a third of the water from the countys largest reservoir is no quick and easy task. It takes time. But as soon as we get that down to those restricted level we can breathe a sigh of relief. Reporter if anderson tops its banks, the district says lowlying areas of coyote creek could see flooding. Scott gill lives downstream and would never admit it to his wife but he is worried. If you had to pick flood or earthquake . Neither. [ laughter ] but when i know that a 7. 25 at this level of water that it could rupture the dam and break down, that makes it a double whammy, doesnt it . Reporter its been raging like this since the beginning of january. Even if they have no more storms, they need to relieve it to get it down to safe levels for four weeks. In the 67 years since this dam was built, its only spilled over 10 times. In were live in morgan hill. Kiet do, kpix 5. Slick conditions on highway 17 in the Santa Cruz Mountains earlier today. But the lig
Todays storm 4, tomorrow a break, friday storm number 5 through saturday morning. Saturday afternoon dries out. We have a break on sunday. Then monday this is a comparable to today, about a tenth inch expected here in the bay area. We dry out on tuesday. Wednesday is stronger, a potential for gusty winds and rain over an inch. We are going to track all these storms together coming up later in this broadcast. Checking the roads right now, Altamont Pass to 68014 minutes. No delays at the dublin interchange. Backups building westbound out of tracy from 205 and mountain house. That seems to be typical this time of the morning. Eastbound 80 after powell left lane blocked, chp clearing it. Westbound no delays through berkeley towards the bay bridge this morning but we have a tree down in lanes. Oneway Traffic Control is in effect in woodside eastbound 84 west of skyline. Use caution there. Along highway 4 so far, so good westbound through antioch into pittsburg. No delays towards 680. If you
Just dont go all nuts and do the Funky Chicken on the way to work. Word of the day. We are getting precipitation around the peninsula and all the way into the Santa Clara Valley streaming out of los gatos towards morgan hill. Thats some pretty moderate rainfall there. This is how it is shaping up today. We have storm number 4 racing through the bay area with that high surf warning still in effect until 2 00 today for the entire Northern California coastline. Right now the temperatures are in the 40s and later today with the spotty hitandmiss scattered showers anything we do see will be up to a quarter inch of precip. Up to 60 degrees which is balmy in many areas. Well talk more about your local forecast and storm number 5 queued up, poised, positioned to move into the bay area. Well tell you when you can expect it. But first lets check the roads with gianna. Right now we start off with an accident. Roberta, eastbound 80 after powell right lane blocked. No word of injuries. But you have
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