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
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
Hopefully this is going to help increase our revenue so we can have more employees and pay all the bills. Restaurants reopen and starting this weekend as today in the bay starts right now. Good friday morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us. Well check in with mike in just a moment but what rough weather for the restaurants to reopen. Kari hall. It will be clearing out later today but we have lingering showers for the morning commute. As you get ready to head out we are seeing showers over the south bay, east bay, as well as the north bay up around napa. So were still looking at the possibility of this rain adding up on all of those heavy rainfall totals that we had and seeing a wintry mix as we look at upper elevations. As we head over toward the south county those rainfall totals have been pretty impressive. Well take a look back at those in a few minutes but snow on Mount Hamilton right now as well as some spotty, light rain in parts of the east bay. So im watching all of this
Tracking that and the weekend forecast. Weve been dying to get out for a little walk, kari. Its been rough. Yeah. We can do that now that the sun has come back out. And we can see from our live camera from san jose, its be a beautiful morning now. Few lingering showers outside the sacramento valley, widening out the view to see what else is out there, the next storm is right there off our coast and will be moving in, starting in the north bay by tomorrow. So, as we look at how much rain we measured, this was huge. A lot of us got more rain with this one storm than we did all season long up to this point. And getting over 10 inches of rain at the santa cruz summit. Morgan hill from this one storm reaching six inches of rain. Fremont, redwood city, reacing over two inches of rain. Were seeing two inc san jose. Oakley reaching over 2 inches of rain. So now that we are getting a chance to let all of that soak in, temperatures are still pretty cool. And were going to only see it reach into
Health director doctor grant colfax says that San Francisco will run out of icu beds in the coming weeks. Right now icu bed capacity here in the bay area is around 24 . A number of Health Leaders across the bay area say they dont want to take any chances. So stay at home orders will also go into effect tonight for people who live in the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California because those regions have already fallen below the 15 icu bed capacity in less than an hour the stay at home order will go into effect for 3 bay area counties. Those are San Francisco contra costa and santa clara. Today, restaurants and hair salons and east bay took advantage of a last minute rush of customers before they are forced to shut down. Kron fours dan thorn talked with some of those businesses and some of the customers he is joining us live now from walnut creek good evening. Dan. Well johnson and justine has you mentioned this is the unfortunate reality that these businesses are going to have to dea