One of his rivals to step down. Good evening, everyone. Im heather holmes. And im ken wayne. A 48yearold woman died after the car she was in was overwhelmed by flood waters in yuba city. The Highway Patrol says that the male driver went around blockades and on to flooded road getting trapped in six feet of water. He got out of the vehicle but his female passenger was under water for about 15 minutes before crews were able to reach her. By then, it was too late there are also flooding concerns here in the bay area. Throughout the day and into the night. We have seen a number of trees toppled, some on to cars and others bringing down power line. Pacific road in dangerous conditions. Several crashes have been reported, including one possibly deadly. Meteorologist mark tamayo is covering the weather, but we start outside. 20,000 pg e customers are without power right now. As you can see behind me, this storm has taken down many large trees. We are here at noe and henry streets in the dubos
Zapped. Reporter it is small, and expensive. 1,000. Reporter it takes 22 weeks owe order. When it fails, the cars stop powering themselves. Theyre being dragged and pushed. The ones that failed yesterday failed quickly. Understandably, bart doesnt want to lose more cars so officials stopped service. A bus bridge was set up. How you feel depends on where youre going. I tried to make it today on time. You know . So im late. Bart says the cars will take months to fix. As for service, that remains a mystery. It depends on whether engineers can figure out what is causing the surge, then, fix it. In concord, abc7 news. Riders tweeted about delays, crowded trains and broken equipment and received a response. Laura anthony joins us live. Laura . Reporter well, as bart Service Issues deepen, so does the criticism. Bart is talking about it on social media responding in a way rarely seen by a government agency. Sugar coating things is neither an effective, nor honest way, to communicate. Reporter
Now the new normal. Tonight b. Ncha. R. T. Is telling passengers the delays could last indefinitely. A bus bridge between two east bay stations is expected to continue tomorrow and possibly beyond that. The Transit Agency is blaming an electrical problem between those two stations which damaged about 50 cars yesterday. B. A. R. T. Says it still hasnt been able to pinpoint the exact cause of the problem. As a result, there is now delays throughout the entire b. A. R. T. System because there are fewer cars to run because there were so many damaged yesterday. Live at the North Concord system where commuter tempers are bubbling. Reporter today was a rough one for commuters and many say theyre not sure how much more they can take. Bus shuttles continue to run nonstop between North Concord and pittsburg stations. B. A. R. T. Riders should get used to hearing that. Shuttles between North Concord stations and bay point could run indefinitely. This is not how i wanted to end my day. Reporter tr
Now the new normal. Tonight b. Ncha. R. T. Is telling passengers the delays could last indefinitely. A bus bridge between two east bay stations is expected to continue tomorrow and possibly beyond that. The Transit Agency is blaming an electrical problem between those two stations which damaged about 50 cars yesterday. B. A. R. T. Says it still hasnt been able to pinpoint the exact cause of the problem. As a result, there is now delays throughout the entire b. A. R. T. System because there are fewer cars to run because there were so many damaged yesterday. Live at the North Concord system where commuter tempers are bubbling. Reporter today was a rough one for commuters and many say theyre not sure how much more they can take. Bus shuttles continue to run nonstop between North Concord and pittsburg stations. B. A. R. T. Riders should get used to hearing that. Shuttles between North Concord stations and bay point could run indefinitely. This is not how i wanted to end my day. Reporter tr
San jose at 52. Peninsula temps 47 seems popular. Few high clouds and a weak system here. Coastal fog but still sunny and nice. For a cooler pattern still okay. Sal, what do you have at 5 01 . Could be another crowded day on bart. System delays started wednesday and could last through the weekend or longer. They are trying to figure out what caused a power surge. A bus has been set up and yesterday the lines were long. The problem has made the bart commuterss commute an hour longer. Im going all the way to brentwood when i work deep in San Francisco. Its a pain. Were doing everything we can but it could be weeks or months until we have every one of the train cars knocked out by the problem back in service. A similar problem happened three weeks ago. There was a power surge was affecting trains in oakland. The bus spreads between pittsburgh and North Concord stations and will be running until the problem is fixed. Christian has a live report coming up at 5 30. Bart is getting a lot of a