Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Good friday morning. At 5 01. I am kristen sze with leyla gulen and meteorologist mike nicco monitoring the storm. The flood watch will show you what exactly this is going to rain. Until 6 00 tomorrow morning all of the north bay is under the flash flood warnings and under wind advisory so expect the wind and rain to pick up in the morning and afternoon with southern winds at 20 to 35 Miles Per Hour so the bridges are going to be bumpy. Scattered light showers north of san jose and you can see san rafael is dry on 101. The day planner the next 12 hours, full of rain and wind and temperatures in the upper 50s to low 60s during the evening. Right now, leyla gulen has commute problems. C. H. P. Issued a high wind advisory which is what we are look at with a few big rigs. Keep both hands on the wheel. It is light and dry. The richmondsan rafael toll plaza is not showing water off the roads yet. Dry conditions so for. If you think you
Out of school. Still this is not the news that parents want to hear. To give an idea of the reaction here in marin county the Health Officials say they cannot talk to us or answer our questions because they are too overwhelmed this morning with phone calls. Look at the statistics, some supporters say it was a matter of time before it hit marin county. 6 percent of kind december guard neithers have personal belief exemptions and their parents decided not to vaccinate them because of moves three times the state average of 2. 5 percent. This is at the end of a weak when marin county already made National News on this topic. A man has been asking for sons school to ban children that are not vaccinated. His son, sixyearold rhett has leukemia and and not be vaccinated. His immune system cannot handle it. Parents who do not want to vaccinate say their beliefs should be respected but he says kids like his son should be protected. Rather than waiting foreign for an outbreak and reacting to a di
50 and it is everywhere, and 60 in some of our Higher Elevations and the gusts are up to 15 Miles Per Hour. The day lander is upper 50s to 60s at noon and the rain hits the north bay this afternoon into the evening. Drivers behaving . So far, so good but now the rain is rolling in we have not had much rain so a lot of oil is. Up on the roads so as you travel, redepose the speed. You risk the chance of hydroplaneing and slipping a sliding and at the eastern span of the bay bridge, rolling smooth in San Francisco. Thank you. We have a few more hours before the powerful rainstorm that mike was talking about. This is a strange mix of expectation because we do need the rain and anxiety over the damage the storm could cause. We have storm preparations. People are grateful the rain is coming and people would live if lowlying areas know they need to prepare like here in mill valley we are on miller avenue an area known to see flood. You will see sandbags just in case a spot below sea level so
Elevation winds 2. 5 miles in the atmosphere were looking at 35 to 40mileanhour wind gusts. Not all of this is reaching to the surface which makes for a warm afternoon. In developing News San Francisco Police have detained a person of interest who may be connected to a case involving a dismembered body found in a suitcase. This is video of that person of interest being led to a police car in San Franciscos tenderloin district. We get the latest from the hall of justice. Reporter a man wearing a sheet over his head was walked out of the Public Housing building. A resident tells us hes seen him there several times visiting another resident of the building. They call him the leprechaun because he was short and didnt speak much. Another man told us that he recognized the man as a person of interest released by police yesterday. Ive seen him on tv. And a few days ago i seen him and theyre bringing this person out. The man in the picture looks to be dragging a suitcase. Right now police tell
Is not a matter of if, but when. People are getting ready. We have been watching them work on the storm preparation all week. Yesterday we saw people paying a lot of tax attention to trees especially those that are weakened by the drought. A lot of Tree Trimmers and working trying to get the trees down before the winds take them down. They are expecting some trees to fall during the storm. The clippers will be busy the next couple of days. If you have a diseased tree that is recommended for removal maybe vacate the house until the winds die down. Sandbags are on peoples minds. People want to get the packs up and stacked up around their homes and businesses to keep the water out. We hear people in lowlying area moan for flooding are concerned because they hear of all the rain expected to come here to the north bay so sandbags, ready to go trees trimmed back and we are ready, just waiting for it to come down and we will be here throughout the morning to show you the conditions. In the so