California needs the rain. Todays storm helped boost our water supply. Were dealing with the cold, wet, and windy weather. Its something else. Today a quickmoving storm soaked the bay area, dumping rain that overwhelmed drains and caused problems on the roads. Reporter parts of the bay area saw hail. A viewer sent us this video from outside his home in the castro district. And the highest peaks picked up some snow. 3,400 in the santa cruz mountains. The sierra got smacked with a lot of snow. More than a foot at higher elevations. This is video of the treacherous drive along interstate 80. Amber lee is here now with more on how the weather affected everyones day. Its been a while since we have had heavy rain. A day of treacherous driving and dealing with problems caused by the rain. Reporter thursdays winter storm made a big splash all over the bay area. In San Francisco, we found standing water. Neighbors say its a recurring problem. I live here. Thats my garage. Water gets too high. I
Quite cool. Stay cool for today and tomorrow and moderate on what looks town a dry sunday. 50s on the highs. Sal is here now at 7 01 and hell tell us the east bay commute is getting busier. This is a look at interstate 880. In oakland its not stop and go. Ill show it to you now, but it is doing okay. It looks like the picture may be frozen. Lets move to the san mateo bridge. Its very close because of an earlier crash. You can use the dum barton. 7 01, lets go back to the desk. Were just two days away from the nfc championship game between the 49ers and the packers. The 49ers will get back on the practice field getting ready for the packers. Jimmy garoppolo met with the media and they asked when the 49ers went from being a playoff contender to a super bowl contender. I think you always have that feeling before the season. I wouldnt say there was a real exact point during the season that it clicked, but just the tightness of this group, the offense, defense, special teams all interact wi
Bay on this first alert weather day. The wet and windy conditions prompting a shutdown in the sunset district and nearby stern grove remains closed going back to a previous storm. The big weather headline is a monster snowstorm bearing down on the sierra and you been keeping an eye on this all week and the storm is finally here. Absolutely. On highway 50 as you drive up, you can see how much this will impact conditions, just getting on the roads, 5 to 7 feet in places like strawberry over to myers. As we look at this system, there is a lot to unpack. Strong wind, heavy rain at times, very heavy snow and blizzard conditions from the sierra. To add to that, Cool Temperatures from the gulf of alaska. As we look at the system, rain and snow is falling in the foothills stretching into the Higher Elevations from 5000 feet and above, they can see up to 5 to 12 feet of snow. That is one of the strongest systems of the season. Back in the bay we have dry conditions near San Francisco. On and of
Theyd to transfer and eliminates the stoppage of work in the fall. So i look at this and say we must prevent the practice of fire borrowing and prioritize funding for treatment activities to reduce future wildlife suppression costs about thans i didnt cosponsored s508 of 2015. I think we also have to streamline the way Forest Management activities are approved, make meaningful policy reforms. It also includes innovative ideas like arbitration. We need to solve the challenges facing us. Is the tore Forest Service willing to find ways to find solutions . Were of course very interested in working with the committee. As weve discussed in the past, this concept of arbitration, its something that im interested in trying. Id like to see us take on a pilot approach on to that. And part of that is that i need to see that its a better solution. It sounds good in concept, but i really think we need to move into that, do some pilot approaches. And just to see where that can take us. But i think it
Mediator around 10 30. Negotiations are continuing. The parties are totally engage engageed. Some progress has been made. He also announced there would not be a strike today so the trains will keep rolling. He did not set a new strike dead line. He did not say how long the bargaining session would last but it now is at the 19 the hour so it is the longest session we have seen. Thanks, amy. Right now we will check with leyla gulen and talking about bart trains. Are they on time . They are all on time and we have 38 trains rolling. Folks are grabbing the trains and headed to work. As we look behind me, lots of green but that does mean we are at top speeds most everywhere with no crashes. We have construction northbound 280 from 380 so watch out for that as you make the commute out of san bruno and toward daly city and San Francisco all moving along fine at top speeds. Trace to dublin is under half an hour to head over the Altamont Pass and into dublin and along highway 4, still clear, fr