I am hoping the rain comes slower and more measured rather than these big downpours. Julie with the morin county of public works says crews are prepped for a rainy week and storm drains are clean and employees on stand by for problems or flooding. We are ready. We prepare all year for this and the rainy season happens every year so we have been here before and while we cant predict what the rain will do we can prepare accordingly and plan for the worse and handle the situation. Pg e crews are cutting branches and all of this rain is good for the Water District. Being in the Water District this is our business. This is the spill way and we went to one of the rain gauges. 1. 63inches. In the past 24 hours. Reporter the agencys current reservoir storage at 93 percent capacity. Well above average for this date. We get 75 of our water from our own water shed land at 25 of our water comes from sonoma county. Having these rain isis key to supply our customers with water. Reporter if the rain
Some very gusty winds. The wind advisory has expired. Here is the radar. A Flash Flood Watch posted for the Santa Rosa Mountains until 7 00 this morning. Want to come in closer, though, this is a little bit more extreme. Here is them radar here. Look us like between concord and an tee i dont care. Right now,. 61 inches an hour. Not as much coverage in the south bay, but still a steady flow out here, and be then some changes setting up into the afternoon hours. Were we go for this morning, into the afternoon hours. We should have some more breaks. It wont be completely dry, but no that persistent heavy rainfall like we experienced overnight. Alex has an update on the roadways. Mark, good morning to you, and all of that heavy rain youve just been talk about has led to some roadway flooding in certain areas. A lot of that standing water, and its created some hazardous driving conditions. I wanted to put the map up here and show you once such area that is really causing some problems for d
Alex is in for sal. Lets go to mark first in for steve. Youre tracking our storm. Yeah, it was pretty intense the activity has been trending down a little bit over the last couple of hours. This is a Flash Flood Watch posted for the Santa Cruz Mountains until 7 00 this morning. But on close her inspection, this is actually a Flash Flood Warning closer to felton. The river has been rising rapidly. So this is in place until 6 45. And its hard to ignore that the rainfall total, ben lomand over 6 inches of rain over the past 24 hours, so significant rainfall there, and up to the north bay area, this Flash Flood Warning in place until 7 45 this morning. The creek there has been running high, and as a rut, they have that Flash Flood Warning. Thankfully, the rainfall rates have been tapering off a little bit. Here is the coverage out there. And those yellows and some greens, at least backing off a little bit. There you can see some of the coverage up in the north bay. Well push the maps close
Oralb crossaction is clinically proven to. Remove more plaque than sonicare diamondclean. My mouth feels so clean. Ill only use an oralb the 1 brand used by dentists worldwide. Oralb. Brush like a pro. And out to a look at our top stories, the city of oakland introducing its new police chief. And kirkpatrick washington. She will be taking on an embattled department. She is oaklands first email chief of police and her first day will be february 27. Police are investigating their first homicide of the year. People say they heard five or six shots, no word on the victims name. The city of oakland searching for ways to protect tenants and create affordable housing, especially in the wake of the ghost ship warehouse fire. A town hall meeting is underway. The organizers tell us she is getting a lot of calls and emails from people in oakland saying they are concerned that some landlords may be using the tragedy to evict tenants. You are watching ktvu news at 6 30 pm. Republican say dismantlin
By the weekend. First thing saturday morning. Right now we have some clouds in place and even a chance of a few sprinkles out there or drizzle right now. Little bit avenue i green showing up on the radar here. Especially in portions of marin. We are watching for that in the short term. More clouds and wet roadways as well. Current numbers we have fog issues up in santa rose a. Quarter mile visibility. Most recent. 47, walnut creek reporting 4 approximate 3. Here is the plan for today this morning. Mostly cloudy skies. 7 00 a. M. Temperatures will be in the 30s to the 40s and then by 12 00 approaching the 50degree mark. Wrapping up the afternoon. 50 to 55 with partly cloudy. Here is the forecast model. We will put this into motion. Once again you may encounter miss mist or drizzle this morning and then into friday we are looking okay. Hard to believe we have a major storm setting up off shore. Friday, 5 00 p. M. By friday night we are thicken many the clouded here we go with that rain b