Go into this afternoon with some light rain. Then it gets more intense as we go into the day tomorrow. Outside, ocean beach. And dealing with quite a bit of rain. Now heres a look at how much rain weve had so far this month. Keeping in mind its only the ninth day in. And in santa rosa, we had 7. 75 quarters of rain. In napa, close to 4. 5 inches of rain, just below 5 inches. San francisco, over 3 inches there. Concord and livermore, 3 inches of rain. Significant amounts for oakland toward san jose and hayward. And measuring over an inch of rain there. As we get ready for more heavy downpours, the ground is already soaked. And the good news is that were getting a chance to dry out with some spotty, light showers. At least for now. Then as we go into the rest of the forecast, we will start to see that rain moving back into the north bay later on today. Another strong storm in the forecast tomorrow bringing in high winds and some heavy rain. That also may cause coastal flooding as king tides move in along with that storm and some heavy rain. Ill let you know what to expect. Well take a closer look at the timeline coming up a little bit later. Thank you. People living near rivers certainly keeping their eye on the water. The Russian River is expected to crest in the next hour. Nbc bay area has more from guerneville. Whats the latest . Reporter yeah, good morning to you, scott. Were here in off neely road. Weve been showing all morning, look, this road is looking more like a lake as they deal with the flooding concerns here. According to the Russian River fire officials saying they expect it to crest at 36 feet. We could see more of the typical flooding you see in the area. As you see here, theyre not taking it lightly. Steve gurst came back to look at his old r. V. Park. Part of the flooded scene in guerneville. A street that looked more like a lake but didnt come as a shock. Relatively this is a little flood. Back in 95, it was up on top of the electrical house over there. Reporter local officials arent taking any chances. As Russian River firefighters will be on standby around guerneville monitoring the river conditions throughout the day. This is kind of a routine to hunker down and get past today because of the void in the rain. Well be fine. Reporter while fire officials are saying the Russian River may not do as much damage as expected, theyre staying cautious. It will be bad for some folks. Theyre going to be stuck. And were here to help them get out if they want or need to. Reporter as you guys can see, all hands on deck here in guerneville. Now the Fire Department will serve as an Incident Command Center for all of this. And from fire officials, if you see roads like this, weve seen this the past half hour, you want to avoid driving through it. Live in guerneville, nbc bay area news. Yet some people will try. In pacifica and beyond, the backup this morning went for miles of mudslides that blocked pacifica creating trouble for morning drivers. We have more live from sharon at the site. Has the highway fully reopened . Sometimes these things take so long. Reporter no, not yet. And you see behind me were here at reyna del mar avenue. Traffic is still backed up all the way around the bend on highway 1. Were told by drivers it takes an hour to get here. Once you get here, drivers are being told to head northbound up the southbound lanes. Its still making for a really bad commute this morning. Caltrans workers tackled the mudslide all morning trying to push back the wall of mud that reached 15 feet high. Drivers trying to get to San Francisco prepared for the long detour ahead. Highway 92 in half moon bay. I wasnt going to fill up with gas. I could make it now. Reporter drivers heard for hours that the highway might reopen, so some chose to hang tight. I talked to someone from work, and theyre on 92 now. Its a parking lot. Its probably going to be three hours for him. I think ill wait it out. Reporter daylight didnt change the traffic situation much. If you look closely, you see rocks still falling on to the highway. Even after workers cleared the mudslide from the lanes. Families worried about getting to school late. Its terrible, and were trying to get through on the high school phone line, and its down also. We cant say, oh, were going to be tardy. Im sure they know. Reporter those waiting to catch the northbound bus didnt know when it would come. A long wait in any language. How long have you been waiting . How long . An hour. Reporter too long . Uhhuh. Reporter do you see the bus . Yes. Reporter with patience and a helping hand by police, commuters made their way to San Francisco heading north in the southbound lanes out of harms way. And right now youre looking at cars coming from the neighborhood streets. Theyre taking, theyre telling me, about 20 minutes just to get to this point to highway 1. So a lot of congestion out here, and theres still no telling, no confirmation on when pacific highway 1 will reopen later today. Reporting live in Pacifica Sharon taka katsuda. A lot of folks were late to school and work. Flooding across the bay area shutting down several busy highways as sharon mentioned. Were also talking about 101 in gilroy, 17 in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Of course that 1 in pacifica. Mikes been busy tracking roads all morning long. Mike, i like all the green there. Much better now. I was working hard, but you were on highway 101 in the weather, kris. Thank you for being out there and for being here now. Over here is what sharon was talking about. Highway 1 in pacifica. Dont know when theyll fully open the roadway because the mud, the dirt and rocks keep slipping down the hillside, a mudslide. So theres still Traffic Control there. You saw it in the shot. This is the slower drive north out of pacifica toward 280 around reyna del mar. Folks trying to avoid the area, youve got a lot more driving to do. South toward half moon bay, 92 to 280, not so bad as far as traffic flow but more than we usually see this time of day and a lot more mileage. 17 has traffic restrictions at vine hill. Folks getting around one side to get around a mudslide. That is still in effect. Has been since this morning. Highway 101 reopened, as kris said earlier, and highway 84. A mudslide closing at calaveras, south of 680. Not used by many. If you use calaveras, you cannot pass at south of 680. Thats an issue. We had the mudslide here on highway 84. I didnt see good pictures, but i think you might have some. Thank you very much. New video of crews hard at work in fremont in niles canyon off mission boulevard, what mike were talking about. Officials say this part of fremont is susceptible to landslides during heavy rain like weve seen. The road was closed early this morning between fremont and sunol because of that slide. There could be more of this with the next storm rolling in. Well talk about the timing in a few minutes. So 101 in gilroy is back open. That was closed both directions overnight and into the morning commute. Lanes reopened about 6 15 this morning. At one point, around 9 00, the highway had three feet of water in some places. It left traffic at a standstill for miles. Not far from the mess, 101 and highway 25, firefighters had to use a boat to rescue two people from the second story of that gilroy home. The first floor was completely under water nearly. Firefighters rescued the two people who were not hurt. They also saved a dog from the yard, too, but it was not easy. The storm drain thats creating a large whirlpool, those are things were concerned with with our person getting stuck or victims getting stuck in there. We have to assess what were looking at and make sure that we enter the water safely and recover all our personnel safely. The battalion chief says that people may not have known how bad the flooding was until it was too late to get out because it is hard to see the rising waters in the dark. Our nbc bay area app is best way to stay informed and ahead of the weather. Download it to get alerts well Severe Weather and rain headed your way. It is free for iphones and android devices. It wasnt just the water that slowed the commute. An overnight Police Shooting in the south bay left commuters finding alternate routes this morning. We brought you this live breaking coverage earlier this morning. This happened on northbound highway 101 on ramp to 880. Damian trujillo has the latest from the scene. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Well, the crime scene technicians were here until about a half hour. They opened the on ramp once again here about a half hour ago. 11 hours after the shooting here, a shooting that involved officers that were responding to report of an accident here on the on ramp. The response erupted into gunfire. Which will not say what led whi chp will not say what led officers to fire. Neither officer was injured. The suspect suffered nonlifethreatening injuries. He was taken to a local hospital. This was a chp shooting, but the San Jose Police department is investigating the incident. Officers here tell me that is routine since the shooting happened within city limits. The Attorneys Office is also investigating. This is the routine also in all officerinvolved shootings. Now for 11 hours, the ramp remained closed. This while investigators searched the suspects car including the trunk of the car. We should mention we couldnt tell from the Vantage Point here, the car was behind us here at this location. But once a tow truck towed it away, we could see the car was riddled with bullets. Again, the on ramp is once again open. Live in san jose, nbc bay area news. Thank you. Were learning new details about the first and second homicides of san jose this year. Just a few hours ago, San Jose Police identified the two victims as 31yearold hugo chavez from sunnyvale and 21yearold Daniel Maldonado of san jose. The shooting happened thursday just before 8 00 inside the taqueria. The victims were pronounced dead at the scene. Police are still looking for suspects and a motive. Up next at 11 00, well go back to the microclimate weather alert going around the mountains. Going to be tough. The problem thats delaying drivers, and its not the snow. Plus, a famous tree just could not withstand this latest storm. A look at the damage after the Pioneer Cabin tree toppled after standing tall for hundreds of years. Nbc bay area responds. Weve recovered over 400,000 for our viewers. If you want help, call us or visit nbcbayarea. Com responds. Heres a water hazard. Severe flooding at the Silverado Country Club in napa. All right. Here is a water hazard for you. This is severe flooding at the Silverado Country Club in napa. The pga held the safeway open there this year back in october. Or last year. Nobody is playing golf there now. Wow that is just a waterfall. Kari, i mean, my girls were asking me what is a flash flood. Its too much water in too short of time, right . Thats right. When you see it covering the road, we advise you not to drive through it. You dont know how deep it is. Quickly, rising water will be the concern once again going into tomorrow afternoon. But right now here is our chance to dry out. Live look outside at san jose. Some of the streets may still be wet. Standing water in spots. Much improved weather condition compared to yesterday. With this break in the rain, this is our chance to clean up, move away the leaves from the storm drains and get ready for the next round of rain that will move into the north bay later on this afternoon and into tonight. Another strong storm moving in tomorrow may cause more downed tree ands power lines. Be compared for the potential of Power Outages with high wind and heavy rain. Coastal flooding will return as king tides move back into the bay area for San Francisco as well as the interbay. Right now we are seeing much more quiet weather conditions. Only spotty light rain at this point. Going into the day tomorrow, once again were expecting high winds. To a high wind watch has been issued. As our winds rush in from the south we could have sustained winds at 20 to 30 miles an hour and gusts up to 65 miles an hour for all of these areas shaded here in orange. Into the day tomorrow as well as wednesday and thursday, well have some high tides moving up as we go into the high tide time frame late morning as well as into the evening. And during that we may have some coastal flooding for the coast and the inner bay. A few things well be watching in advance of the next storm system moving in. Here is the way it looks on the hour by hour outlook. Showers filling in for the north bay during this evenings commute. Later tonight heavy rain starting to become more widespread. Pockets of heavy downpours briefly moving through with a much more steady rain throughout tonight and into the day tomorrow. By 9 30, 10 00, we still see pockets of heavy rain, and then the brunt of the storm moving through during tomorrow evenings commute with a lot more red here on the map. And also the potential of some thunder and lightning. A slight chance of that. But definitely some heavy rain and strong wind for tomorrow evening. And still some lingering light showers on wednesday and possibly into early thursday morning. So with all of this rain moving in, we have the possibility of at least another inch of rain. And there could be an additional 2 inches of rain in spots like the Santa Cruz Mountains. You have already had over 5 inches of rain in some of those spots. There could be more on top of that causing the creeks and rivers to rise once again. Our winds have calmed down right now, but there will still be high winds in the forecast especially starting in late morning, into the afternoon. Well have the sustained winds once again, 20 to 30 miles an hour, and some higher gusts. And then starting to see the winds relax on wednesday. Here is a look at heavenly right now. A lot of snow on the ground and the potential for several more inches of snow. Possibly several feet as we could see up to 56 inches of snow at tahoe city and even higher at king vail. Well look at the forecast and what to expect the rest of the week and when well get sunshine coming up later. Highway 17 shut down in the Santa Cruz Mountains this morning. We brought it to you live on today in the bay. Big traffic trouble still in the Santa Cruz Mountains right now. A mud slide continues to cover the north side of the freeway. Chp is routing drivers through the southbound side of 17 but only one lane in each direction. As you can imagine, it is slow going. Lanes were shut down just over the summit at Granite Creek because of mud slides that brought down rock, trees and power poles. A look at the damage in boulder creek. Half of bear creek road was washed away near highway 9. It is almost entirely gone. Residents say this has been a trouble spot for years, and police are telling people to stay away, though some of them are not. No word on how long these repairs may take. Crews still have lots to do in San Francisco where the storm toppled trees and flooded some areas. Here is a tree on golden gate avenue. People heard this one come down. Blocked both directions. Nobody hurt. Elsewhere, an underpass near 101 and alameda closed. Wind took down scaffolding near 7th and market. In san bruno a storm downed power lines. Looks pretty bad. So, man, thats something else. This weather is bad out here. Continuing our tour. On the peninsula, 280. Minor injuries. The caltrans camera on 80 near donner summit. A mud slide blocked both directions. Eastbound lanes are open. You still need chains. The photo here from chp shows the slide on 80 near donner lake. The chp says it could be hours before the westbound side is cleared. Downed power lines shut down the eastbound lanes for a while. Those, again, are back open. This is call near king vail. Chains are required. One of californias giant, famous sequoia trees fell victim to stormy weather. The Pioneer Cabin tree toppled in heavy rains over the weekend in big tree state park. The Calaveras Big Tree Association posted these photos to facebook. It was hallowed out so that cars could drive through the enormous trunk. This is what it looked like before it fell. Sequoias can live 3,000 years and measure more than 250 feet in height. Giant sequoias are the largest trees and largest living thing by volume. Looking at the markets this morning. The dow industrials losing 50 points or. 33 . The nasdaq hit another alltime high on the strength of apple stock. Uber is offering a helping hand when it comes to beating traffic in the form of a website, the Company Announcing today a new website called movement. It will use data from uber cars to calculate average travel times for specific routes. The site will be open to the public but uber says its mainly for city officials and their Public Transit systems. Its also a chance, some say, for the company to gain good will with cities that have fought against uber. It will go live next month. Crews today will finally switch the power to on again at a major south bay government building. Back on thursday a power outage shut things down at the Santa Clara CountyGovernment Center sending hundreds of workers home. It was thought it would reopen friday, but that didnt happen. Normal services, though, should resume today. Coming up, a battle on capitol hill over the appointments. The uphill fight Donald Trumps nominations may have to deal with before they can get the job. But first, happening now, we are in the middle of a microclimate weather alert as weve been mentioning, briefly, right . Download our nbc bay area app to get weather alerts to your smartphone wherever you are. If you have flooding in your neighborhood, we want to see it. Send your photos and video to us. Anxious homeowners in