Impact our to the morning commute it is approaching santa rosa 101 is definitely what this morning and this front will start to make its way for the south impact in the rest of the bay area you see where on to see most of the rain falling during the Morning Hours including the 7 00 in the north bay and santa rosa and onetime stars to approach a little farther south including San Francisco and brought the afternoon hours potentially out toward confident oakland slowmoving system and it looks like san jose will still be drive for the afternoon by lunchtime tomorrow well see maybe some of the line will run off to the east. Anny hong 04 is a little more 60 in san jose and sunnyvale 56 and is sitting this is now until sunday afternoon heavy rainfall could lead to flash flooding really need to watch the small creek that is already full afternoon high for today amid six is an oakland 68 in san jose 65 and the war not very cold 06 is in San Francisco. Robin winston no problems and may is no in
Thats where we begin tonight. With kron4s jeff bush. The ground is completely saturated and standing water can be seen all over the northern jeff part of petalumaa part of town that is a traditonal place for flooding. Its a mater of geography and the Fire Department says people need to be rescued from this part of town every time there is a major flooding event. Battalion chief Jeff Holden Petaluma Fire Department there is a large basin that feeds the river systemfeeds the petaluma river. So, we monitor rain fall and then we monitor the streams. Jeff the area near stony creek road and petaluma boulevard is where firefighters will be paying the most attention. You can see this area is where the flood waters can build up. This video from 2014 shows an example of the flooded conditions that usually accomany heavy percipitation like what is expected on thursday. Holden that is where the confluence of all the creeks come inall at the north end of town. So, if we get a bunch of rain to the w
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10 Miles Per Hour through the area, way under the 40mileperhour speed limit. On monday night a train heading to stockton hit a mud slide, sending one of the cars in to the alameda creek. Nine people were injured, four seriously. This morning ridership was down 38 on the first ace train to run since the derailment. It left stockton this morning headed toward san jose. Representatives from ace trains say many passengers may not have known that service had resumed and others may have been reluctant to take the train. We talked to some passengers today who told us theyre fairly confident of having a safe ride. Today, no, i figured today probably everybody is looking at the tracks, but come monday after the storm. Ridership picked up on the other morning trains but overall today ridership was down by about 20 . The badly damaged train that ended up in a creek will be headed back to stockton soon. Today it was towed to a rail yard in fremont where investigators got an upclose look at the dam
Warnings are posted until 8 00 tonight. Flooding is expected in Sonoma County, penngrove and petaluma. The petaluma river, even the napa river at saint helena, will briefly touch flood stage tomorrow. It shouldnt be high above flood stage. In the meantime, look at how much of this rain, more than 4 up at guerneville and thats one of the reasons that they have Flood Warnings posted on that river beginning to hit flood stage tomorrow night peaking saturday and easing off by saturday night. Between now and then a lot could happen. Especially in that part of bay area, stay tuned. As for what happens next, well have the complete forecast in just a few minutes. Breaking news related to the storm. We are getting word, ace commuter trains are proceeding very slowly and cautiously heading out of fremont to niles canyon. Inspectors checking the tracks because of the threat of flooding. Can you blame then . They have to be extra cautious. It was monday evening that a mud slide came crashing down