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KGO ABC7 News 400PM January 11, 2017

Lets begin with spencer christian. You said the rain is not done yet. Just take a look at live doppler 7. You can see pockets of moderate to heavy rain across the bay area and we have Flash Flood Warnings in effect right now. One here in San Mateo County until 6 30 p. M. Up in the north bay, several Flash Flood Warnings in effect. A large portion of napa county until 8 00 p. M. Southern sonoma until 6 15 and a portion of marin county until 8 30. Look at the outbreak of heavy downpours in the east bay out over highway 24 toward walnut creek, over 680 between walnut creek and san ramon. Farther north up around concord along portions of highway 4. Now, over the south bay and the peninsula its just one blob of steady rain. Its a mess there. Up in the north bay all kinds of flood concerns as pockets of heavy rain continue. This current storm still ranks 2 on the storm impact scale through 8 00 this evening. Well see downpours, gusty winds. The storm will weaken in the evening hours. Notice as the front sweeps through around 8 00 p. M. Or so well see lighter rain behind the front but there will still be pockets of heavy rain that will isolate it and downpours that will follow. For the evening rush were concerned about heavy downpours, ponding on roads and strong winds. Abc 7 news was at the floodflood ed park and ride lot near 101 and highway 1. It typically floods during king tides and heavy rain so its pretty much like a lake right now. Just one of many areas seeing flooding across the area. Melanie woodrow is live in marin county with a look at what theyre seeing there. Melanie. Reporter yeah, had we been standing here just a few hours ago, i would have been wading in water. Thats how bad the flooding was this morning. Neighbors here telling me they havent seen flooding this bad here since 1997. Sea wolf passage wasnt passable for much of the morning. I was thinking i could have had a truck to get here. Reporter several blocks in this neighborhood were flooded. I have learned over the years. Reporter this homeowner recalls highprofile vehicles plowing through at high speeds. They thought it was fun. Reporter pushing water up his driveway. You can see where the water mark is. Right here. Reporter and into his garage. I should have learned a little better but i was three sandbags short. Reporter his front door delivery is dry. But his backyard is saturated. With a temporary river separating it from his neighbors front yards. The San Anselmo Creek near Drake High School in marin county was fierce today. While typically busy, miller avenue in mill valley saw a bit of a slowdown due to flooding. Once it reopened, cars created quite the splash. Neighbors here telling me that flooding was also particularly bad on sunday night. Its not just the flooding, its also the winds. Just a couple of moments ago i even lost my hat. Melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. All eyes in the north bay are on the Russian River and the creeks around it. Abc 7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield was in guerneville where flooding is already taking a toll. Reporter the Russian River and the creeks around it are getting a lot of attention right now. Residents and firefighters, all of them monitoring the situation as the rain keeps coming. Checking the level right here because i checked it yesterday. And i wanted to see if it had dropped so it can take all the rain that came last night. And it looks good. It dropped a bunch. Reporter he said yesterday the water came up to this white mailbox, so it looks better, but the street is still covered with water and more rain is coming. We tried to get a sense of what the mood is in town as people go through the ups and downs of living next to this river. Everyone is pretty accustomed to this kind of storm. Its going to reach that point where it doesnt quite do a whole lot of damage. So im just taking the day off and driving around and checking things out. Reporter officials estimate that about 500 homes are dealing with some kind of water damage. It is mostly garages and basements. Living areas are built up high in this area. A huge mudslide on santa rosa avenue last night came dangerously close to homes. Authorities are worried trees could fall in this area and are advising people to stay away. The river is expected to crest again tomorrow. Im told that we are looking at a popular beach, johnson beach. You cant see it now. They are expecting the situation to get worse out here tomorrow before it gets better. In guerneville, Amy Hollyfield, abc 7 news. The napa river began flooding over the weekend. Take a look at videos you see from lodi lane. Leslie brinkley is live along the napa creek with more on the concerns there. Leslie . Reporter ama, im here in downtown napa. Its been raining steadily and heavily all day long. Right below me here, you can see the fastmoving waters of napa creek as they flow into the napa river. There are some safeguards in place to keep the downtown from flooding this goaround, but there are lots of problems all across napa county. You can see that theres a fracture between the two planes. Reporter this hillside is literally melting in the rain, so this major thoroughfare is closed between pope street and deer park road near st. Helena. We determined the roadway was not safe because of the mountain, which led to the closure that we currently have. Reporter youre worried about more of this mountain coming down . Yes, yes. The mountain failed this morning and the geologist told us its just a matter of time when the rest of it comes down. Reporter there are no evacuations necessary, but silverado trail will remain closed in both directions until at least the weekend. Other roads throughout napa have moderate flooding that pools up and doesnt drain. Later tonight the napa river is expected to inundate this bridge. Vineyards are flooding with runoff from the rain. Trees are down and debris is visible flowing downstream. But in downtown napa, no flooding is expected thanks to an 18 million bypass completed in 2015. For a storm of this magnitude, it was a great test and everything worked well. Reporter the napa river hit 26. 9 feet sunday night, well above flood stage, and no flooding. The bypass starts flowing as waters rise to 23 feet. I just spoke with Flood Control officials. They told me their latest projected forecast is that the napa river will crest at 26. 1 feet at 3 00 a. M. Thats just slightly below the level on sunday, so they are not expecting extensive flooding in downtown, just on outlying roads and roadways and neighborhoods to be on the lookout. Be careful as you drive and stay away from these rushing waters. Im leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. All right, thank you. In the south bay, theres a Flash Flood Warning for los gatos. Nancy bailey shared these pictures of flooding on the walking trail near los gatos creek. The waters from lexington reservoir which filled to capacity this afternoon and went over the spillway. A homeowner said it sounded like thunder when a tree fell onto his home in danville. It happened just after noon. Nobody was hurt, but the impact ripped open parts of the roof. Water is now leaking into the house. The tree also crushed a truck that was parked in the driveway along with two cars inside the garage. This has been a tough afternoon for drivers on 880 in oakland. This is a pg e crew getting a Police Escort to downed power lines that were blocking both directions of the nimitz. That after a big rig hit a power pole just off the freeway. So 880 was shut down well over an hour, frustrating drivers, but leaving the chp actually praising those workers for getting those dangerous lines off the freeway and back up much quicker than they expected. A 77yearold danville man died after plowing his truck into a vacant house in pleasant hill. The chp is trying to figure out if the man suffered a medical problem. The pickup hit two other cars before smashing through a fence just before 9 00 this morning. No one else was hurt. Sky 7 was over oakland after this big rig jackknifed. It blocked the northbound lanes on interstate 880 near 7th street this morning. The Highway Patrol officers tell us the truck was the only vehicle involved in the crash and thankfully nobody was hurt. Chp reopened all lanes once the truck was towed away at 10 30. The rain wasnt the only thing causing flooding in San Francisco. Abc 7 news was on the embarcadero as the king tide came in. Port workers had to close off one lane of the embarcadero as the water crept onto the road. King tides will return tomorrow and thursday. Highway 1 remains closed in sections along the big sur coastline. Thse are pictures from caltrans showing various slides along the highway in monterey county. You can track todays storm. Just download the abc 7 news app. Enable push alerts. Still to come, roads that are looking like rivers of water and mud. Our storm watch and Flood Coverage continues. Coming up well take you live to the south bay where creeks and rivers are rising. Up next, president obama gets ready for his final farewell. Well have a live report from chicago. You agree that the issue of samesex marriage is settled law . Will you be able to stand up and say no to the president of the United States . Tough questions for the president elects controversial attorney general nominee. As we take a live look at our traffic across the golden gate bridge, its moving in both directions. You can tell its still very dreary and windy out there looking at that flag off to the right of your screen wi all right. Lets check out live doppler 7. You can see the storm is heavy right now all the way from gilroy up to ukiah. We are keeping a close watch on this and will have a full forecast coming up in just a few minutes. We also have some breaking news from downtown oakland. Police are searching for suspects following a shooting that took place outside a chase bank. We have some cell phone video taken at the scene outside the chase branch at 14th street and broadway. Gunfire erupted there just before 3 30 this afternoon. I want to look live now toward the crime scene. Our camera is at 14th and webster streets, thats one block east of where that shooting took place. Oakland police tell us one person has gone to the hospital. They have not said what led to this afternoons shooting. In less than two hours, president obama will give his final address as president to the nation and you can see the whole speech right here on abc 7. David ono from our sister station in los angeles joins us live in chicago where big crowds are gathering to hear that farewell address. David . Reporter larry and ama, i probably have the best seat in the right now. Im about 40 feet in front of the podium. Its tough to see but its about 40 feet behind me. Thats where president obama will be standing in a couple of hours and hell be delivering that address. In the meantime i want to show you the crowd that has piled in over here. You see this is the vip section here and the masses right over there, they have been waiting in line for the better part of about well, hours. They have been here since 6 00 this morning to get in, so theyre very excited about this opportunity to see president obama and in fact the president just touched down about a half an hour ago at ohare airport. Heres video of him touching down. He brings with him the first lady, the Vice President joe biden, and the Vice President s wife, dr. Biden, to a great deal of fan fare. This is a community that truly embraces the president because he is a native son. He is from here, his background is here. He started out as a Community Activist and worked his way all the way up to the presidency. As we come back out live here to the floor of mccormick place, i want to show you one other thing. That is the video monitor right up here. You see thats been running all afternoon. They have been doing sound checks, et cetera, but one piece of video they ran just a few minutes ago doing a sound check on was quite surprising in my opinion. In that video you see a number of celebrities. You see steven spielberg, and you also see the president himself along with john boehner, and they basically are telling jokes the whole time. Its very lighthearted. So at least when this thing begins tonight in a couple of hours, its definitely going to have more of a happy, lighthearted tone. Reporting live in chicago, back to you two. All right, you talk about the tone, david. Anything more you can tell us about the speech and what to expect . Reporter well, obviously hes going to look back at his last eight years in office and some of his accomplishments, but more importantly they say he wants to look towards the future. He wants to talk about where this nation is headed and what we as americans must keep in mind. He also wants to motivate people. He wants to get people more involved in the political process. If there is an issue that you are close to, find the politicians that revolve around that issue, support them. And of course vote. Be a bigger part of the process and dont let other people make decisions for you. We believe all of that will be in his speech tonight. Reporting live from chicago, david ohno, abc 7 news. Abc news will air president obamas farewell address starting at 6 00 p. M. Abc 7 news will begin immediately after at 6 30. A warning today from california governor jerry brown on the states budget situation. Brown unveiled his 122 billion state spending plan and warned of a 1. 6 billion deficit. The dollar amount is the exact same as last year. It comes as the state faces some uncertainty about changes to come from president elect donald trump and the republicanled u. S. Congress. All right. We want to get paback to the weather and the rain that just continues. I heard you say we have blobs of green. A new technical weather term. It feels like the old Steve Mcqueen movie the blob. I feel like weve been blobbed the last three or four days. Theres an end in sight, though, im happy to say. Heres live doppler 7. You can see the blob of green and pockets of orange and yellow representing heavy downpours, which are numerous all across the bay area right now which of course contributes to the threat of flooding. Lets take a look at the napa river which is expected to crest at st. Helena around 8 00 p. M. Or so, cresting at 19 feet, three feet above flood stage. That will produce moderate flooding. Lets travel to the town of napa where the river is expected to crest during the overnight hours, just a foot above flood stage but will still produce minor flooding. The Russian River at guerneville expected to crest tomorrow evening six feet above flood stage. Moderate flooding at least there. The entire bay area is under a Flash Flood Watch with the exception of communities immediately along the bay shoreline. Rammed rises in creeks likely and rock slides and mudslides are possible. A wind advisory is in effect for all of the lowlying areas. Winds will gust up to 45 miles an hour in those areas. Higher up we have a high wind warning until midnight. Gusts may be as high as 65 Miles Per Hour and of course downed trees and power lines, Power Outages are possible with winds that strong. Our current storm ranks 2 on the storm impact scale and through 8 00 p. M. Well see brief, heavy downpours. Flooding is likely, gusty winds, downed trees, a challenging afternoon and evening commute. Notice how heavy the action will be up until 8 00 or so. Then the front sweeps through. Behind the front we get a little weakening. Just some isolated downpours and the storm will be downgraded to 1 on the storm impact scale going into tomorrow morning. So lets pick up the forecast animation. 5 00 tomorrow morning well see pockets of showers around the bay area tapering off and giving us fair lly quiet conditions unl the afternoon hours but then we get our next storm that comes in late tomorrow night into thursday. Expect it to produce showers, maybe a quarter to threequarters of an inch of rainfall total across the bay area with much lighter winds. Heres the animation starting 10 00 tomorrow night. Well see a few pockets of moderate to heavy rain and into the Early Morning hours on thursday, but then that system will weaken rapidly and start to taper off. The rain will early in the morning or at least midday thursday. Here the accuweather sevenday forecast. So after tonights storm ranking 2 on the impact scale, we have storms ranking 1 on the impact scale for tomorrow and thursday and finally we begin a dryingout period. That begins on friday. Well get mainly sunny skies over the weekend. Its a little milder going into monday, which is Martin Luther king day. Bright and mild for tuesday. We havent seen a pattern like this for a while. I think well welcome it given how turbulent the weather has been the last four or five days. Coming up, were learning more about the people arrested for robbing Kim Kardashian in paris. Was it an inside job . Lets check traffic this afternoon. This is the san mateo bridge. You can see the road is pretty slick there. The eastbound traffic heading back to the east bay is very slow at this hour and we just advise you if youre going out, drive slowly and safely because a lot of roadways are a mess. Back with more on abc 7 news at tadirectv now. Stream all your entertainment anywhere anytime can we lose the all. Theres no cbs and we dont have a ton of sports. Anywhere, any. Lets lose the anywhere, anytime too. You cant download onthego, theres no dvr, yada yada yada. Stream some stuff somewhere sometimes you totally nailed that buddy. Simple. Dont let directv now limit your entertainment. Only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. Theres going to be a delay in finalizing the new dog management rules at the golden gate recreational area. Members of congress have asked to extend the impact period. It will allow the park service to conduct a review of records being released in response to a freedom of information act request. The rules will identify places in the park where dogs are welcome both on and off leash as well as areas that are dogfree. A National Monument in marin county is closed because of the stormy weather. These pictures are from

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