Dealing back. But this is a very vigorous area of low pressure thats subtropical moisture so we have those big fat heavy raindrops. We still because of that have that Flash Flood Warning in effect for let me get out of the way here, that red highlighted area and thats the soberanes and chimney fire burn scar areas. Santa cruz mountains we have a watch and for the entire bay area, we are now allowing the advisory to expire. However, you can anticipate some ponding on the sidewalks and hydroplaning on the roads. This is sfo we are seeing a little fog settle in mild temperatures between 51 and 57 degrees. The winds have been dialing back. They will be sustained today west 10 to 15 Miles Per Hour. Maybe a gust to 20 but thats about it. Meanwhile, todays high temperatures into the 50s. We are looking ahead thursday, friday muchneeded drying out days because we have the potential of a half a foot of rain over the weekend in San Francisco alone. We are going to track that incoming system thats coming up a little later in the broadcast michelle. All right, roberta. Some parts of the bay area are seeing thick sheets of rain as the commute starts. Maria medina is live in the Santa Cruz Mountains where wet conditions are forcing drivers to be extra cautious. Maria . Reporter good morning, michelle. A little light drizzle right now as we speak. But yeah, there are some Road Conditions here. We are going to zoom into the light so you can see exactly what were talking about as far as the rain. Now, there is also a Flash Flood Warning here in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Yesterday, the rain pummeled the Santa Cruz Mountains pretty harold snarling rush hour traffic causing several accidents and some small rock and mudslides, as well. We saw crews putting down some sandbags in some areas here to limit the damage. Fortunately no major incidents. Now, we did check the list of weatherrelated incidents for the county here and it is small this morning. Just a few road closures and a washout. Now, people who live here say they are actually used to this weather. Were used to it. We all have backup power, fireplaces, we get by, gas. So were good. Reporter all right. So going back to that Flash Flood Warning here this morning in the Santa Cruz Mountains, there is a concern of the San Lorenzo River. It did overflow its bakes overnight so crews keeping a close eye on that. Be careful in fact area if you are coming here. Just a few inches of debris flow and thats enough to get your car moving. Live in the Santa Cruz Mountains, maria medina, kpix 5. All the snow in the sierra has prompted an avalanche warning. More than 2 feet of fresh powder has fallen in some spots and the mountains could get another two to four feet of snow when this is all over. The staff at sierra at tahoe is urging skiers and boarders to keep an eye out due to trail closures due to the conditions. Any closures that we do have, they are closed for a reason so we ask guests to never skip lines or go past closure signs. So definitely one of those things where you really need to respect the trail safety crew and stay where the trails are open. The Sierra Snowpack will certainly get a boost from all these storms. Yesterdays survey found a depth of 34 inches, only 53 of normal but the rest of this week will certainly help that. We have high winds and wet roads for your bay area morning commute. So lets take a look first at the Richmond San Rafael bridge. Not that many cars driving on the toll plaza right now but you see the wet roads so cars are driving pretty slowly through the bridge. Heres a look at the Golden Gate Bridge from marin county into San Francisco. Thats going to take but 14 minutes from 580 in san rafael to the golden gate toll plaza. A lot of fog out there, too, roberta will let you know about that. Heres a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. High wind advisory across the span here. Also, a high wind advisory on the dumbarton and benicia bridges as well, just fyi. The maze to downtown will take you 20 minutes and expect about a 25minute drive from the carquinez bridge along the eastshore freeway to the maze. Lets take a look at the peninsula commute. Traffic slowing down on the san mateo bridge from hayward to foster city thats 880 to 101. That will take you about 15 to 20 minutes now. And also in hayward, we have this crash from earlier southbound 880 before industrial parkway. The crash is cleared but a lot of residual backup here all the way to 238 in san leandro and traffic is moving at just 20 Miles Per Hour on the way to highway 92. Thats the san mateo bridge. So i definitely suggest you consider mass transit this morning and for the rest of the week, there are wet roads out there causing dangerous conditions so bart, ace train, muni and caltrain are all on time. Ill send it to you. All right, roqui. Thank you. Later today, the mayor of oakland is expected to officially announce the citys new police chief. She would be the departments first female chief. Anne makovec has been looking into her background and joins us with more. Reporter this is significant because this would be a woman in charge of a department that the mayor referred to as having a frat house culture in oakland. Her name is Anne Kirkpatrick. According to an internal memo mayor libby schaaf plans to make the announcement this morning and she will do it after a series of meetings with city council members. Anne kirkpatrick was the chief of the bureau of Organizational Development for the Chicago Police department beginning of june of last year. Before that she was chief deputy at the King County Sheriffs Department in seattle and before that, she was the police chief in spokane from 2006 to 2012. Her most recent post in chicago she was selected to oversee reforms after a white officer shot a black teen 16 times and she is going to have plenty of challenges here in oakland. Right now, the city has no police chief after a series of scandals including a teen who claimed to have had sex with dozens of bay area officers. The mayor then ended up replacing two interim chiefs over nine days t the city administrator has been in charge of the pd ever since. We are expecting the big announcement on the new chief later on this morning. Sounds like right out of the gate she is going to have a lot on her plate but it also sounds like she has a lot of experience with controversy. Reporter she seems to be put in charge of a lot of reforms. In fact, just after when she was in spokane, she helped clean up the mess after several controversial shootings. In spokane she was focused on holding her officers accountable. In fact two officers sued her because they believe that she unjustly fired them. So she is expected to drop the hammer. Yeah. Thats what mayor libby schaaf wants. Exactly. Thank you. Turning our attention now to washington, president obama and Vice President elect mike pence will visit lawmakers on capitol hill today as the newly sworn in Congress Makes repealing obamacare their top priority. Had trying to do the job [ indiscernible ] [ inaudible ] now, one lawmaker who will be fight the republican attempt to dismantle the don ford, star in a Kamala Harris, the democrat was sworn senator Kamala Harris the democrat sworn in as californias first black senator. Six people including the president of the naacp were arrested during protests over Donald Trumps pick for u. S. Attorney general. Members of the Civil Rights Group staged a sitin yesterday at the Alabama Office of u. S. Senator jeff sessions. They are upset over sessionss record as a lawmaker and prosecutor along with comments he made in the past. Protestors say that should disqualify him from leading the justice department. The fact of the matter is he is not for Voting Rights not smoking out against voter suppression. His record in the senate is bad when it comes to civil rights and his record with respect to criminal Justice Reform spotty at best and horrific when it comes to immigration rights. Sessions confirmations hearings start next week. Time now 6 09. A huge sigh of relief for thousands of California National guardsmen facing repayment demands from the pentagon. And tickets go on sale today for a starstudded bay area music festival. Well have details on the line up. Kpix weather center, we are tracking one storm exiting the bay area, and a potent weather pattern for your weekend. Well talk about that coming up. Heres a live look at the nimitz. Looking good in both directions but how long will that last . Well tell you coming up. ,,,,,, with the xfinity tv app, anything with a screen is a tv. Stream 130 live channels. Plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. You can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. Only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. Download the xfinity tv app today. Kind of like this look. Im calling it the name your price tool phase. Whatever. Th 0 good morning. Welcome to wednesday. Time check 6 13. Taking a beautiful view of the skyline of San Francisco as seen from Treasure Island and we can see it so visibility not a issue today. What is, is still some lingering showers. Be sure to have your umbrella. Less wind in the forecast but now we got to take a big breath and get ready for major rainfall for the weekend. Details coming up. There is an additional 10,000 reward in connection with the murder at sonoma state university. The family of the victim raised the money. She is went missing in october. The landscaper later found his body near a Campus Parking lot. He was stabbed. He was last seen wearing a backpack and riding a bicycle. There is no suspect description. Campus police at the university of nevada reno say they arent filing criminal charges after an 18yearold fell down a frat house stairway. The pledge died in october. Unr did suspend the fraternity for violating campus alcohol and conduct codes but after investigating the deadly fall Campus Police say the series of events that led up to it dont warrant charges. New developments in the terror attack in turkey. Authorities now say that they have identified the gunman but he is still at large. 39 people died when the suspect opened fire in a busy nightclub on new years eve. Friends and family are paying tribute and remembering the victims. Its a great loss and everybody is trying to cope with it. She was a great person. Always happy and smiling. She will forever be loved and remembers. Isis takes responsibilities for the attack. Turkeys foreign minister says they are upping patrols in istanbul. The pentagon says that nearly 15,000 soldiers and vets wont have to pay back overpayments with nearly 1,000 other Service Members will have to repay their bonuses. Officials say that the National Guard offered several bonuses for soldiers to reenlist in the iraq and afghanistan wars. But some of them were errors. Big names in the music business will take the stage at bottlerock and starting today, passes for the napa musical festival are yours to buy. Tom petty is one of the headliners. The others include the foo fighters and maroon 5. The line up is a great mix of big stars and newer artists. Part of whats cool about bottlerock 2 is that they have these massive names. Maroon 5 and others. Then they also have the cool up and comers like andre day is going to be there, nash is going to be there bishop briggs. Its the perfect all over line up. Bottlerock goes from may 26 through the 28th. Early bird tickets go on sale today at 10 00. Its exciting. I did a couple of live shots for them last year. It was fun. The energy was great. Stevie wonder was good. Yeah. How can you feet . Couple of years ago i saw michael and the spearheads who are a local group, right . Andist looking out and i thought, thats not fog. What is that plume of smoke out there . [ laughter ] well, you know. Bottlerock. Well, you know. I was thinking weather, you know. But oh, michael is fantastic yeah. And michelle and are the only ones who havent gone to bottlerock. Coachella tickets go on sale today. Road trip im looking forward it. Lets talk about the roads because thats a road trip, too. First with mass transit then we do have a new delay to tell you about with bart. Its for trains heading to sfo, millbrae and the east bay due to an equipment problem. Otherwise ace, muni and caltrain are all good. Now moving over to our roads, we have a Traffic Alert in sonoma, highway 12 between watmaugh and highway 121 closed. Also 121 between 116 and 8th street east closed both due to major flooding in the areas. Now, moving over to the bay bridge toll plaza, high wind advisory across the span also a high wind advisory on the Richmond San Rafael bridge. The benicia bridge and the dumbarton bridge, as well. So the maze to downtown across the bay bridge will take about 20 minutes. Traffic is stacked up to the maze already. Now, take a look at this very slowmoving traffic across the san mateo bridge into the peninsula. This is due to some debris left on the roads so 880 to 101, will take you about 23 minutes now and debris all over the bay area because of high winds right now due to the rain and the weather. Lets take a look at the Altamont Pass coming off 205 in tracy. 53 Miles Per Hour then speeds down to 23 Miles Per Hour at north flynn road so north tracy boulevard to the Altamont Pass will take up to 40 minutes. Lots of heavy traffic around the bay area. What about the weather, roberta . I have a little bit of good news and a whole lot of bad news. This is our live hidef doppler radar. Starting with the good news, the main energy of the front is now over the stockton area across the sacramento valley. Rain in the Santa Clara Valley looking to the eastern foothills of alum rock and the east bay. We have a little bit of light precipitation around highway 50 and, in fact, right here, this is 580, what did i say, 50 . I meant 580 to macarthur boulevard. Other than that things are settling down. Well have a lingering shower. The soberanes and chimney burn scar areas, flood watch. Yellow area flood watch for hours. Sfo will continue to check in for the possibility of potential of airport delays due to a low ceiling, a little bit of light fog, as well. Temperatures very mild 50 to 57 degrees. Not going to see a lot of movement in the temperatures or the wind. The wind has been dialing back after seeing peak winds at 58 Miles Per Hour at calaveras road in the east bay of pleasanton. 62 in the mount diablo area. The winds are now relatively under 10 except for sfo at 12. 7 in the fairfield area. Winds will be west 10 to 15. A lingering shower here or there today. Less wind but then tomorrow and friday i invite you to get on out to clear out the gutters. We have flooding rains moving into the bay area in addition to some gusty winds. Serious conditions here in the bay area from saturday all the way through monday. And the reason is, okay, last year, this area of High Pressure was a blocking ridge of High Pressure so we didnt have any rain coming into the bay area. But now we have that High Pressure to the north. A series of storms is allowed to track into the bay area plus were tapping into Atmospheric River weather pattern conditions which means we are just tapping into rain all the way back to the tropics. This is your futurecast. For today again youll need that umbrella from time to time. More likely youll see a break in the activity by tonight. Well start to see maybe the few stars ill call it partly cloudy on your friday but then this is where it gets serious between friday overnight through sunday, we are expecting a half foot of rain in the city of San Francisco and around the peninsula. Up to five inches to the east. 7 inches to the north. A couple of feet more of snow in the high sierra and thats why we have that Winter Weather warning still in effect. Official sunup at 7 25 not going to see it temperatures today into the 50s. Less wind today a break thursday, friday. Saturday, all the way through tuesday, you should expect rain. 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