Now at 11 00, a power. Storm slams the bay area. And when another run of wet weather is expected to hit. A storm drenches parts of San Francisco damaging several homes. Extremely scary. How loud, how much vibrations. Strong winds knock down this giant tree into a home. And tonight, a close call for an oakland family. We begin with the storm watch, im juliette goodrich. Im brian hackney. We have a k in the rain now. Lilook outside San Franciscos embarcadero. Things have calmed down. Earlier today, when it rained it poured. Cloudy skies, a few showers around as the low pressure continues out of mendocino. It will send waves of rain tonight. The tendency will be toward things easing up. The kpix5 highdef doppler after getting hit with as much as six inches of rain in sonoma county, now we have scattered showers from saint helena to petaluma. Nothing like what happened in the south bay when it just poured at 6 00 tonight. It added up in san jose to about four tenths of an inch of rain. A t
Pretty clear theres not a lot of mystery here. Our buildings are a big part of the story. And where those emissions are coming from, cyndy will talk a little bit about that. But more and more, they are coming from natural gas. And while we will be developing a Climate Action strategy that you will hear a lot more about for 2020, we dont wait for that to be finished before we adopt policies along the way. And theres a particular moment in time now that is very important because the Building Code gets updated on a threeyear cycle. And we are and that starts now in 2019, the new cycle. So we wanted to weigh in to be in alignment with that statewide cycle. And im going to let cyndy take it from here. Good evening, commissioners. My name is cyndy comerford. Im the Climate Program manager. And im going to give a brief summary of the presentation that i gave to the policy committee several weeks ago. And so what we are here for today is to ask for your support on two ordinances that anthony m
A factor in this. Gusts are still 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour in parts of the east bay. Even as it begins to is up in the north bay, rain will continue overnight, but the general tendency is toward things easing up. Not as much rain, the winds begin to relax, in fact, will dry out in the week ahead. We will have complete details in the forecast and more numbers. We want to show you something just into the newsroom of water cascading down the steps at the venice muni station. That flooding has now been cleared. Look at that. There is no Subway Service. Is he doing a dance . There is no Subway Service between west portal and church right now. The heavy rain also flooded low lying intersections in San Francisco. A viewer sent is this video from 15th avenue. You can see water there is kneedeep. Betty yu is there now. Betty . Reporter much of the water right now has receded, but the community is still in cleanup mode here in west portal. Those torrential downpours caused some serious damage to
Showers are. Not nearly as wade spread as they were yesterday. Zooming into some of n mon,680 corridere fromighway 4, youre getting a little biof rain at the moment. Were seeing significant precipitation making its way onshore through the mountains. Ill show you those rain totals later in the show. The last first weak of december, they are significant in the mountains. Relatively clear, but the cloudcover keeping things mild for our temperatures. Pretty much the mid50s no matter where you are. Warmer in San Francisco and oakland. Caller in the north bay. 52degrees in santa rosa. Your breakfast forecast is going to start with showers and clouds. Now, this will eventually begin to clear, but this is what youll be waking up to this morning. These temperatures will also start to climb but not by much because ware going to be caller thanway were yesterday. In fact taking a look at or 24 hour temperature change, from 2 to 7 degrees cooler than yesterday. Were getting back to a seasonable ave
So as commissioner sullivan can attest to, we had a really interesting policy Committee Meeting on these issues. And we wanted to ask cyndy our Climate Program manager to give you a brief outline of what was discussed not nearly in the same level of detail. But as lowell said, when you look at our where weve got emissions coming out, its pretty clear theres not a lot of mystery here. Our buildings are a big part of the story. And where those emissions are coming from, cyndy will talk a little bit about that. But more and more, they are coming from natural gas. And while we will be developing a Climate Action strategy that you will hear a lot more about for 2020, we dont wait for that to be finished before we adopt policies along the way. And theres a particular moment in time now that is very important because the Building Code gets updated on a threeyear cycle. And we are and that starts now in 2019, the new cycle. So we wanted to weigh in to be in alignment with that statewide cycle.