Drivers to stay home. But, while in the storm, we recommend that nobody drives through the area. Reporter snowplows are working overtime. Lower mountain ski lifts are open and plenty of people are taking advantage of many of the runs. However, the storm is boosting the risk of avalanches. Caltrans crews did some avalanche control today. Caltrans helped traffic along u. S. 50 to keep everyone safe among the blasts. Check this out. So much snow. That chp joked they couldnt find their trekkie Truckee Office through the mess. Reporter i80 west, an absolute mess. We did get a chance to speak to chp. The backup is due to several spin outs. As of right now, no injuries were reported. Patience is key. Cleanup may take a little bit. I80 east is also seeing some this is due in part by the fact that chp tell us that people are driving too fast. You have got to take it slow for now if you are finding yourself in this traffic, just be patient. We will keep you updated along the wait. This is a look
7 inches, morgan hill over 5 inches. Take a look at this. Our average monthly rain in january is 2. 5 to 10 inches. In two days we have seen nearly our entire january monthly rain. It is just astonishing, you guys. We have not seen more problems in the Santa Cruz Mountains with all of that water we had in a short amount of time. I dont want to jinx anything, but i have to say we are very lucky looking at all of that water we had in a short amount of time. Those are big numbers. Usually our storms in the bay area are north and south. This time its flipped on its head there. Thank you. The rain relentless there in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Communities from los gatos to bolder creek getting beat up these last 48 hours. Good news though. The mandatory evacuation orders in that czu fire burn downgrade. That means people can start coming home. Robert handa is in ben homan with the latest. What are you seeing . Reporter well, a couple of rough days of rain for our communities here in the Sant
Parents and students protesting tonight in pleasanton. The big question, when will middle schoolers and High Schoolers get to come back to school . Rent relief and eviction protections on its way tonight to those impacted by covid. The storms heading out. Ill let you on up. Ski shops like this one busy as the rush is on to get to tahoe. Ill show you why that might be easier said than done. Abc 7 news starts right now. Announcer building a better area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. I mean, if youre coming from the bay area and youre trying to head up to a ski resort tonight, you probably are not going to get through. That is the warning from caltrans tonight. If youre thinking of heading up to lake tahoe, just dont do it. Blizzard conditions are making the roads extremely treacherous. Right now 80 is closed because of several jackknife big riggs, multiple spinouts and heavy snow. There is no estimated time for its reopening. And 350 is open but with chain controls ove
In both santa cruz and san mateo counties. The yellow on the map that is the only area where they have an Evacuation Order and that is near big basin state park officials in that area are concerned about debris flows in the czu fire burn scar area. Okay now check out these ways out of creek there just north of santa cruz. Your eyes arent fooling you the waves are black the water is discolored from carbon in charcoal its all the debris in the runoff from the czu complex fire. The time scattered showers passing through the bay area tonight as you can see just patches of them. And a live look here at the golden gate bridge, starting to dry out its been a passing over that bridge and many others at the high winds and the downpours at times the past couple nights, but it seems we have turned a corner you saw there on the radar and this live look confirms that. We have a car for team from the Santa Cruz Mountains tonight where efforts are underway to prevent mudslides there. All so to the la
Into work this morning that could definitely slow you down a bit and results in lower visibility of that splashes on your vehicle looking outsider mount tam camera here you can vaguely make out the city lights down below it looks like of the east bay in the distance in sausalito down right there at the bottom of the camera what we are going to be seeing today is eventually a calmer picture this morning. We still are in the midst of some isolated showers that are falling San Francisco in the peninsulas calm down but we are still looking at some areas of rainfall out there across the car keen is especially so from concord on up across the benicia bridge through benicia and eventually up 80 between the lay how in fairfield is where we are looking at some of our most intense rainfall right now some pretty good showers stretching south towards walnut creek in danville as well little bit calmer towards oakland you do have some light showers out that direction the east bay around fremont also