[instrumental music] you. Entire bay area drenched tonight as our biggest storm in years brings wide spread flooding down tree and collapsed roofs. That flooding is so bad in some spots the drivers had to be rescued from the submerged cars and it isnt over yet. Good evening. Heres a life look from the bay bridge toll plaza and you can see just how wet it is still tonight. We have team coverage. Lets begin with sandhya who is tracking the storm with top done this storm has been stalled out for hours but its finally on the move. Let me show you live doppler 7hd and show you where the rain is coming down rate now. Still very heavy rape from the monterey bay to gilroy san jose down in the south bay. You notice some very heavy returns. Showing up right around san Jose Milpitas as i take you down to street level. 87 story road north fears street now you start to notice that the rain is easing up from San Francisco to Half Moon Bay and take you to the east bay where livermore still reporting
Offramp is shut down. In san jose, this is 87 where we had a big pool of water in the southbound connection where the tail lights are and it was causing major hydroplaning and maybe an accident or two but things have calm down. At 101 through san jose this is at 880 it is looking clear and 880 where it meets 17 we have a new problem. It took me two hours to go from San Francisco to san bruno. Terrible. And there are still problems remaining. Flooding is a problem for the compute. A major trouble spot is 101 in menlo park closed because of a lot of standing water. We are there with what is being continue to get the lanes reopened. The c. H. P. Hoped to reopen the lanes by 5 00 a. M. But you can see they are still dark but for a crew making sure that everything is okay. I got east phone with c. H. P. And they say though are in the process of removing cones, removing bayers and things like that to get traffic going. You can see where southbound traffic is exiting at marsh road and where t
Roads, we are in the aftermath of all of the rain so that means we still have construction being,ed would on and you may have to use alternate routes. That is san rafael 101 the Golden Gate Bridge 101 coming in and out of San Francisco but it is further to the south we will have a map and we have good news in point low park northbound and southbound highway 101 all lanes have reopened because of the major overnight construction that shut everything down but traffic is bunching things up. Crewing have been working to reopen 101 at menlo park and they have succeeded. Good morning, lanes are finally back open and traffic is moving after lanes were closed for eight hours. This started last night in the menlo park area because of understanding. At one point, three feet of sand standing water was reported at the 506 ramp and that is highway bad it wasp the foreign hane reopened 15 minutes ago. He is video of the first cars driving through, southbound lanes are opened just after 5 00. The c.
Close to two inches in san jose. Just over that in San Francisco to livermore. Almost an inch. We still have moderate to heavy rain moving through tonight. As we head towards the wee hours of the morning, 1 00 a. M. , shifting finally begins. Still an isolated richk of thunderstorms. Sandy, thanks very much. The heavy rain has flooded part of sonoma county. Lets get jonathan with the latest from there. Reporter well, dan, the floodwaters receded in some places. In some spots like down by the river it could get worse before better. The most common casualty, parked cars. Some of them half underwater. In a few places you would have better luck in a kayak. Its a brand new lake. Well, actually a parking lot. I dont know car that is. They need to get it out. As long as youre careful. Are you going to . No. Why not . If it tips over, i dont know how to swim. Not the best swimmer can handle this. Thats why police shut down this park for the first time a decade. Air mattress. How is it working
Of letting up right now especially in the south basement you can see on live doppler 7hd wide spread rainfall steady rainfall across the entire bay area. Steadiest heaviest is now south of San Francisco down the peninsula and Santa Cruz Mountains into the south bay and around san jose and just getting, just soaking that area but of course the entire bay area soaked right now from the rain that began last night and continue heavily this morning. We have flood advisory in parts of the north bay in effect until 12 45 am. And flood advisory remainder of the bay area virtually the remain dear of the bay area until 9 15 tonight and flooding at the Russian River at guerneville. Look closer we have a Flood Warning there. And heres storm watch tipping flood stage at guerneville on the Russian River is 32 feet. Its expected to crest the river tomorrow morning about 11 00 oclock. 34. Seven feet. Thats nearly 3 feet above flood stage which could produce minor flooding and possibly even some modera