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Christmas. We are going to see some of rain of the satellite and radar of the ukiah is showing of the light rain or moderate five this afternoon the futurecast showing when, where. With cloudy conditions but look at the yellow. The green is indicating petaluma, 5 11 a. M. And by noon, it has basically showing a moderate towards the peninsula, and also some occasional gusts even the thunderstorms roared i am concerned about even the of downed trees because of the feminists light of the light traffic there are still a couple despite the light there is a vehicle overturned on the 5800, nimitz freeway. They thought that they had been cleared by now but it is still, overturns. There have been two cars that have over collided collided with the overturned vehicle for also, there is a collision that was the head on collision, northbound, with a cellphone vehicle at this landfill. Merry christmas. Breakfast is served at the whiligh had to colat glide. H, dolly. Good morning, darya. Darya . Yes,
male announcer live from the bay area here is your kron 4 news we are following the travel day, a lot of people are heading home today. There is Severe Weather in other states but it could slowdown your travel here. This morning everything was good traffic wise what we are getting wet. We are getting wet. We will start in the north bay and we can see we have light rain and nevado in san rafael and whitaker. There is a brief heavy showers may be of to a quarter inch of soil per hour. Otherwise it will we moving through fairly quickly. Were not too concerned about the flooding from the showers were seeing this morning. If you have a little further south in berkeley you are looking at an area of light rain. San leandro crossing 580 also moderate rain showers. Foster City Crossing to 80 as well in the south bay. Heading further in the south bay you are also looking at areas of light rain to moderate as well. San jose has scattered showers this morning and heading into San Francisco we have
The storm may be over but the problems remain and tonight the repairs are just beginning in the areas hardest hit by a powerful weekend weather system. Good evening im ken pritchett. And im jana katsuyama. Frank and julyly have the night off. Beyond the area people have been cleaning up from the weekends storms. And theres more rain headed our way. Chief meteorologist bill martin has rain totals and a look at whats to come but we begin with ktvus jade hernandez in East Palo Alto where crews try to shore up a levee that gave way, jade. Reporter the work continues tonight. This temporary levee hopes to hold the rain until the reconstruction project. But people are unsure with rain expected tomorrow. Curtis and his wife left when they saw water bringing tires into yard washing away what was already there. We will go through this tomorrow again, you know. Reporter with the flood came flood insurance. If it does well just have to take off and leave again. We cant stay, we have to use common
Fiscal cliff. Reporter lawmakers are talking about how to retroactively avoid going off the fiscal cliff on a new congress. The fiscal cliff debate is impacting people here in the bay area whos lives could dramatically change as soon as tomorrow. Tom vacar is live at a highway work site in oakland and has the story of one woman and her looming fear. Tom reporter the people who work here are well paid and theyre onvacaon. But for other people, the fiscal cliff might as well be a financial guillotine. Though ilea thomas searches, shes been out of work for two years picking up any odd jobs as much as she can. Its been discouraging. I come in here three times a week and maybe ill go to a friends house and use their internet to look for work. Reporter long term Unemployment Benefits have been a life send. I can breathe a little while im looking for work. Even though its not the same amount that i was getting when i was working. But thomas is one of 400, 400,000 californians who will not be