Several wineries and farms in the area. They were forced to shut down for hours as caltrans and Hazardous Materials team worked. Its only one lane open now because crews if theres damage to the road because so much gasoline can actually cause the asphalt to degrade. The Highway Patrol as well as caltrans and cleanup crews will be here until 5 30 a. M. Monday morgan unt in the morning until we can assess whether theres structural issues with the roadway. Reporter highway 37 was shut down near the de anza winery to allow vehicles to turn around. The winery had to close for the afternoon because of the traffic situation. Now, this is a very busy thorou thoroughfare, especially on a e backups coming through here going to be to me to just one lane of traffic until monday morning. Sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. You can download our nbc bay area app to get the latest news and weather alerts sent straight to your phone. Best part it is free. Dramatic scene in San Francisco this morning. S
Asth we go hour by hour, we tak it into this morning, into the afternoon. Notice up around ukiah as well as clearlake and some of our upper elevations in the north bay we could see this initially coming in as snow, because the temperatures will stay very chilly today. Rain elsewhere as it approaches San Francisco and the early afternoon, and then some bouts of heavy rain starting to work its way into the peninsula by 4 00, and then into the south bay by 5 00 to 6 00 this evening. So we are going to have some heavy rain associated about this front, our first significant storm that weve had since may 18th, so its on the way today and mike, youre already tracking a crash in Pleasant Hill. I am, but we have dry roads with the the crash onramp Pleasant Hill westbound 24, well get more detail when chp arrives. No slowing on our freeway sensors there. All of Contra Costa County just fine, so is the rest of the bay on the freeways, in the south bay, were zooming in to Police Activity on city s
Lets check that forecast right now, sounds like a big storm is coming our way. It is going to be a big storm and comes along with gusty winds and also very cold temperatures, theyre already feeling that right now. Were seeing some of the mostly cloudy skies reaching out ahead of that, but so far not a lot of rain, but weve already powered up our bay area storm ranger, its parked on San Bruno Mountain, the red scan that youre seeing there just south of San Francisco, and so thats going to give us the best view of this storm, as it moves in. Going hour by hour well start to see some of the rain and some high elevation snow in the north bay, starting at noon today, and approaching San Francisco and oakland, as it moves into the bay area, could also produce some thunderstorms along with some hail and some very strong winds. Well be tracking that as well as sierra snow and more details in a few minutes. Mike, youre keeping an eye on menlo park. Folks are fine until you get to willow. A few
Secret service for comment. We will bring you that live during today in the bay as well as online. In the meantime here in the bay area a big storm is approaching. Were think being this on the busiest travel day of the year and a big storm not only approaching the by area. The radar and satellite we can see a lot of clouds here on the satellite imagery, rain approaching the very far northern coast of california and then as we look at storm ranger thats our mobile Doppler Radar, the red scan youre seeing there south of San Francisco, at that storm approaches we can use our mobile Doppler Radar to give us the best view of the rain. Its starting to move in and well approach the north bay going into late morning and spreading ac ross the bay area for this afternoon. Well go hour by hour and talk about how much rain were going to see but mike, youre already tracking a crash that may faeblgt your drive acroaffect your drive across the bay bridge. The metering lights are on not only here at t
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