Im michelle griego. As kpix 5s ryan takeo reports emergency planningers are getting ahead of the game gearing up for anything to happen tomorrow. Last week was sort of like a practice. Reporter emergency planner ursula hanks warns last weeks north bay flooding might have been a test run. Its impossible to predict. But we anticipate that it will be a lot worse this time around. Reporter this time around, the storm should be larger so marin countys Emergency Operations center will be open. Different agencies will fill this room to coordinate, quicker responses, hanks says she is most worried about thursday afternoon. At 2 00, we have a high tide. So if there is continuous rain the heavy rains that we are expecting thats going to be a critical point. Reporter there should be flooding and gusty winds, meaning lots of downed power lines. We are expecting winds up to 70 miles per hour. Reporter today pg e trucks loaded up at this fremont facility. The utilitys onstaff meteorologist will send
Doppler where california is bracing for one of the strot storms in years. And its here is a live look at hi def doppler where Northern California is bracing for one of the strongest storms in the year. Its thursday, december 11. Im michelle griego. Hi, everyone. Im frank mallicoat. It is 5 01. Thanks for joining us for this special edition of kpix 5 morning news. Parts of the bay area are already getting hit with heavy rain and strong winds. And we have you covered this morning. Anne makovec keeping an eye on the storm in the north bay, kiet do tracking Flight Cancellations at sfo. But we begin with Roberta Gonzales in the Weather Center. How are we looking right now, roberta . We are having very heavy rain and gusty winds across the northern portion of the bay area. Good morning, everybody. We have our eye on the storm and we have our hidef Doppler Radar, check this out right now. When you see the green thats light rainfall. Yellow is moderate. The pockets of orange is a heavy downpou
48 was the intraday height that it hit. The closing high was 5,042 back in march. The apple watch watch continues with orders reported at over 1 million on day one. They sold out in a couple of hours online. I think it was 1 million watches. You said dollars. Did i say dollars . Its a mistake we make freely. What will be the real big seller for the bottom line . This would be the new mac book. Yes. Very thin starting at 1,300. Some think that this could be a major driver for apples profits. Thats what theyre really watching right now. 90 minutes from now, spacex is scheduled to launch a rocket from Cape Canaveral. They will attempt to reland the booster portion of the rocket the portion that normally explodes, goes away. Theyre going to try to land it on a ship in the atlantic ocean, so they can reuse it again. Elan musk wants to be reuse this to save money and so forth. Other thing is they have an italian astronaut, a woman on the International Space station thats gone all this time w
Eight car train. This is a look at the train right now as it still sits on the tracks tonight in halifax county, North Carolina. Eyewitness News Reporter david spunt is live at 30th street station now waiting for those passengers to arrive. David . Reporter chris im told those passengers will be pulling up any moment here. I spoke to a woman who is visiting her mother scheduled to visit her mother. She says today has been a nightmare. The chaotic scene unfolded just afternoon in halifax county, North Carolina. Not far from the virginia border border. Authorities say a big rig stalled on the tracks. Causing the crash. Several cars derailed. One of the passengers on the train Lenora Travis who was on her way right now to philadelphia to see her mother. We spoke with her on the phone. I didnt feel it immediately. I felt it after i sat down a little bit. Travis called the scene a knit mayor. She watched as emergency crews quickly rushed dozens to the hospital. Everybody was just, you know
One of the passengers on the train Lenora Travis who was on her way right now to philadelphia to see her mother. We spoke with her on the phone. I didnt feel it immediately. I felt it after i sat down a little bit. Travis called the scene a knit mayor. She watched as emergency crews quickly rushed dozens to the hospital. Everybody was just, you know just shocked. Reporter other passengers helped emergency workers get on each train. They swept through the cars. You know, sort of like a triage situation i guess and got to the more serious people and work out very well. Reporter back at the 30th street station in philadelphia we spoke to passenger whos left for florida in the morning. But had to turn around in d. C. Tonight because of the derailment in North Carolina. Except for the mercy of god it could have been me. I could have been on that train. Were doing everything we can as far as Service Recovery trying to get them refunded. Authorities expect to to work through the night and hav