Weekend in tahoe. Good evening everyone. Im mike mibach and im claudine wong. New tonight ktvu amber lee spoke to the teen and his coaches, who say blake is an exceptional young man who will get through this devastating time. I caught an edge and i was trying to avoid this tree. And then i caught another edge and went boom, right into the tree. I just stopped. I could not feel my legs. Blake mendenhall of napa spoke with me while recovering in a reno hospital. He crashed into a tree while snowboard at a tahoe ski resort sunday afternoon. Now, his parents are by his side along with his favorite nurse. Family members say he severed his spinal cord and cannot walk despite his life changing injuries. The 15 year old is upbeat even if somethings going wrong. Are you getting hurt . What ive realized from how much pain and suffering ive been through, is to just never, ever give up, never back down. The family, says blake, has undergone multiple hours of neurosurgery and has rods holding his s
Soon. Ski resorts, Emergency Responders and locals are bracing for whats expected to be the biggest snowstorm of the year so far in the sierra ktvu erasmus here in studio to explain the warnings and advice from emergency officials, and we can see these these conditions changing minute by minute. Yeah. And you just showed that live picture of highway 50. Were going to show you how different it is over on interstate 80. You know, those are the two main ways to get up to the sierra from the bay area and interstate 80 at Donner Summit is closed. This is showing the eastbound direction. The closures on the westbound direction, and they are turning traffic around at kingsville. And thats because of a big rig that flipped over. That happened in 9 00 this morning. The chp does not expect to open this part of interstate 80 until 1 00 or later. This afternoon. Its the kind of thing the chp is worried about with this major storm now underway in the sierra , the wind coming in with this storm is a
High seas and maybe intense very dangerous. Like a northeaster. Its Something Like a tropical system. Rapid in intensifications. We might see it tuesday, wednesday. That is a week away. We have to deal with two systems before then and our system is inching in. Theres bans associated with it and they are beginning to move a little bit inland. You can see that activity southwest of monterey. A possibility of some convective activity and the lower levels the atmosphere are drier. The system did have lightning strikes and its lifting south than north. What that tells you is this may be a coastal and bay event thane lent because it wont have the energy. Its too far away from the Energy Source as it moves toward the Sacramento Valley and sierra. Cloudy with rain moving in. We talked about it around the noon hour. It will start to pick up for later as we head into the afternoon and evening hours. Rainfall from this first system will not be much through today. Less than a tenth of an inch. Lat
Washington retiring in 2014. She previously served five years as chief of the spokane Washington Police department. Oakland has been without a chief now since june when sean wenz resigned in the wide ranging Sexual Exploitation scandal involving a teenager. At that time mayor libby schaaf ruled out what she called a toxic culture under the department, reaching out to several officials for more information where one source is telling us the Police Command staff was notified earlier today to expect an announcement tomorrow, but they were not told the name of the new chief. Now to the weather weve seen heavy rain in the bay area all day long. Thats triggering concerns about flooding. 1. 63 inches in the past 24 hours. For theres been strong winds out there as well causing trees to fall and sparking the Power Outages. In the sierra theres a winter storm warning anyfect right now with up to five feet of new in effect right now with up to five feet of new snow. We have reporters out in the e
Is already having a big impact. And the wind. Yeah, thankfully the wind advisory has be expired, but, yeah, gusty winds overnight, and a lot of standing water on the roadways, so keep that in mind. You can see our live camera looking out toward san jose. Not a lot of action in the south bay right now. The bulk of the action focused up in the northern half of the bay area. Look at these rainfall totals over the last 24 hours, kentfield over three inches of rain. Redwood city, nearly an inch and a half. Still, were not just talking about a few sprinkles here in the region. Storm tracker 2, there is the radar loop. We have a lot of warnings to talk about. A winter storm warning in place for the sierra, up above 7,000 feet, potentially over 2 feet of snow with the storm totals. These areas shaded in red are a bit more of a concern here. This is a Flash Flood Warning in place for portions of Sonoma County until 7 45 this morning. Were really looking out toward cogan creek and yano road. So