To welcome customers back so soon. Good evening and thanks for joining us at everybody im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus not as bad as it was last night, but this Atmospheric River continues to pass through parts of the bay area tonight. Prompting several weather alerts in our region. The rain is falling in Santa Cruz County tonight streets there as you can see. Pretty slick and water is standing in some areas of Boulder Creek. Flood advisory has expired within just the past hour. But a Flash Flood Watch is in effect that curation orders and warnings remain in place near the burn zones in san mateo and santa cruz counties see her on the map the areas shaded in yellow are under evacuation warnings. The areas in red have evacuation orders in place. Is rain and snow knocked out power for more than half a million pg e customers in northern california. Nearly 75 of those customers have their power back on right now, but 16,000 customers in the bay area. Theyre still in the dark tonight a
Issues. We will wrap it up in about 15 minutes. Here it is, jeff was talking about it. We mentioned it also. That mudslide near salinas. Here is new video in our newsroom. Debris and mudflows causing significant damage to homes and roads. Mud pushed up against the homes spilling over onto the street. Firefighters say at least two people were hurt and nearly 50 horses were rescued. Look at that sludge and mud and mess right there. The mudflow is from the river fire zone from last august. While the bay area escaped flooding and mudslides for now, many areas instead got snow. Jodi hernandez went to one spot that just last week was the site of a brush fire. Reporter parts of the bay area look more like the sierra today after the storm delivered a good dose of snow. Its been crazy weather lately, right . Reporter ashley and Payton Wilcox spent the morning playing in the snow. As Mother Nature brought yet another surprise to parts of the bay area. Its been interesting definitely this year. R
Slow you down a little bit as youre getting out there and then the senate to certainly the case this morning roadways are definitely wet. So you want to give yourselves that extra time as you venture outside overall just be prepared for the rainfall that. Yeah were going to continue to see out there today were doing across the bay from sausalito at San Francisco, a misty look to it morning that you do want to be prepared for just to stay dry. So right now the core of this Atmospheric River event still sits mostly to the south across the bay, the trajectory of it has shifted a little bit. It was pretty much coming into the Central Coast from the west earlier now its hitting the coast of the state from the south and west and in the process we have actually seen a resurgence of moisture in areas like san jose as well as other areas further south in the bay, we zoom in on some of the spots this morning you can see those areas of yellow orange and even red thats the deeper and heavier rainf
Anticipate a very cool start by the afternoon we are back to some comfortable weather with highs into the 70s and 80s. Robin its good. Thank you lets check in on the morning commute. Its always nice. When we can start off hot spot free right. We dont have any problems on 80 into San Francisco taking a live look this is your approach to the toll plaza and so far so good sell 7 minutes, quick right on time off to fremont street, heres 92 we have the westbound traffic leaving hayward heading over to the peninsula a little crowded yes back no 12 minutes and growing off to one oh one and just scanning for some of our busiest freeways during the morning drive theyre all at the limit so far so we have sure westbound 15 minutes, 24 out of walnut creek wide open no problems for 5. 80 or the nimitz freeway connecting from to 38 to 9. 80 entering downtown oakland is off to a great start so far well check more coming up back to you, thanks a lot robin 5 oh one and our top story more bay area count
View because tomorrow its going to be a bit of a fog year perspective because marine layer is going to work its way back income your thursday morning. This morning, nice and calm out there and pretty chilly to get a look at some of our current temperatures with 40s and 50s in areas right along the bay livermore to cool 44 napa also at 44. But then theres Petaluma Santa Rosa and fairfield down into the 30s. Its one of the coolest mornings we felt in some time across the bay area. So definitely maybe put an extra layer on as you get out there. Robin. All right, thank you john were checking in on the commute which is not getting out not yet you still have a long line of the bay bridge toll plaza. So prepare yourself for a lot of stop and go traffic here at the pay gates starting back in the maze right at the bottom of the maze and its going to be just crawling through the tolls of the incline toward Treasure Island. The overall drive time looks really good at least is only 13 minutes into