This is kpix 5 news. We are looking live from our exclusive sales tower camera as the first big storm of the year moving in this morning. It is thursday, january 16. I am michelle. Heavy rain and strong winds are expected across the bay area. Down trees and power lines along with flooding and mudslides are also possible. Marylee and jonathan are giving us the latest conditions all morning long as you prepare for the morning commute but lets begin with mary in the weather center. We are looking at that rain and the wind that will kick up lets get to the doppler and in the north bay, zooming in for you, you can see heavy rain is stretching from windsor, santa rosa, down 101, and along the coast from data bay and dillon beach. It is a breezy to windy start. We will see the winds kick up throughout the morning. We are looking at 16 here. It is 15 in fremont and 18 in hayward. And right now, were going to continue to see the winds increase and the heaviest rain, the timing as it pushes thro
Southbound one as you work your way out of manner, there was a lot of activity on scene. There are some wind advisories in effect for the bay area bridges as well as the bay bridge and the rich rnd san rafael bridge. Lets get to the scene with more on this story. Reporter we are on the southbound side of highway 1 right now which is completely shut down because of a fatal accident at the corner. Just arrived and the scene is quite a mess. You can see some crumpled up vehicles. This was all caused by a wrong way driver who was travelling northbound on the southbound side of highway 1. Chp says at least one person is dead and right now they believe that is the driver of the car who was going the wrong way. As of now, they do not have an estimated time of when the lanes will reopen. This is a dark and winding road, especially in the overnight hours. Chp got the call this morning. They do know how long this will be closed. They are diverting at highway 35 right now. We will bring you updat
Lets show you high defdoppler and what you can expect now. The bulk of the action off shore with heavy rain across parts of the north bay this morning. Zooming in you can see from yauntville, saw noma, napa, getting a start to the day, about to move into the goelten gate and over the bay bridge. We are looking at light showers from Pacifica Tooele gran odda. We are getting wind gusts up to 28 miles per hour. The timing of the heaviest rain and the strongest winds will be 7 a. M. To 10 a. M. Watching that closely and we will time that out for you coming up. Thanks. Lets get to the situation as you work on highway 1 this morning. A deadly crash happened after 3 00 on 1 in pacifica, around manner drive. They have all lanes blocked until further notice. They are diverting traffic off at 35. All lanes blocked on the southbound side. Northbound traffic doesnt seem to be affected. One person did die in the crash. We will be live to bring you more information in a minute. If you plan to travel
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