Move. She didnt know where it was coming from, rumbling noise and then it slammed against the house and she fell and then the front door just buckled. Reporter she had to escape through a bathroom window. Heres another big mudslide that stalled in the middle of a hill on via la cumbre. Work crews removed debris and covered it with a giant tarp. They are hoping it will remain stable through the next storm because there are homes just below it so a tenuous situation as we wait for the next round of rain. Live in santa rosa, anne makevoc, kpix 5. Next round of rain and next round of damage. Yesterday we were talking about when we were doing our planning for todays show we were saying, okay, well, if people get out really super early they will be okay. But after 7 00 is when everything is going downhill quickly. And then i started seeing some of these renegade bands move in, i thought hm. But its virga. You have a cold front clashing with the warm air. Its there. And well continue to see virga and light rain developing. If you call on our live hidef Doppler Radar. Its all lit up. Again santa rosa you see the very light, light green. Thats the virga mist and even drizzle thats occurring in that area but where you see that yellow thats the bona fide moderate to heavy rainfall. When you see shades of orange thats something i have to watch very carefully for the potential of thunderstorms due to the warm air and cold storm moving in. Dylan beach moderate to heavy rainfall along highway 1 right now. Monte rio same. Meanwhile, we are seeing heavy rain around bolinas. Light, light rain in mill valley, san rafael and marinwood. All this is streaming in in a northeast direction as a cold front descends, actually from the north. So north bay is going to receive up to 5 inches of rain. We are watching the Russian River in guerneville because its already exceeded its banks at 34 feet. The flood stage is 32. Red area is the coastal Flood Warning in effect for our entire coastline. As we see all this rain move in and hit during high tide at 9 43 at nearly 7 feet. Yellow is a watch. Flood watch in effect north bay, Santa Cruz Mountains, also the coastline. Well see more mudslides. Well see more rockslides, as well. The blue means we have a high wind advisory in place because with this cold front, the winds will whip up out of the south up to 30 Miles Per Hour. Some gusts at 40. But in the highest elevations, mount diablo, for example, easily will clock a 60milean hour wind. We have already seen the drizzle around the Golden Gate Bridge with the advancement of this front of the mostly cloudy skies. Temperatures currently 50s and 60s. Still balmy with that Atmospheric River condition in place. Winds are now increasing San Francisco at 19. 21 Half Moon Bay. Around the rim of the bay, pretty consistent up to about 20 Miles Per Hour. Berkeley now at 17. Winds in the north bay at 13 in the santa rosa area. Satelliteradar again, Atmospheric River here. Core of the cold front there. They are going to clash. And when at the do so im going to tell you how much rain to when they do so, im going to tell you how much rain to expect. Thats coming up. Right now, hows it looking on the roads . Here roqui. Thank you, roberta. Its 6 04. Lets head to the Traffic Alert in the south bay. Scotts valley to be exact we are now seeing slowdowns out there on highway 17. You have about a threemile backup and cars moving at just about 30 Miles Per Hour. So slow conditions here and thats due to the massive mudslide blocking the northbound side so we only have one lane. Thats the southbound side. Twoway traffic on the southbound side. Moving in both directions but moving slowly. Be prepared to drive very carefully. A look at the Altamont Pass traffic if you are stuck in this yesterday, roberta was telling me a few stories she heard yesterday about people stuck in this traffic, due to those two major potholes that blocked the two right lanes, throws now repaired. You are moving slowly but smoothly across the Altamont Pass. So now north tracy boulevard to the Altamont Pass will take you about 25 minutes. Imagine being stuck in a 17 mile backup . Have to use the bathroom . Yeah, it was bad. Heres a live look at the dublin interchange. Altamont pass to 680 will take about 17 minutes. Moving to the bay bridge toll plaza, you have metering lights heading into downtown San Francisco. So expect about a 20minute drive from the maze to downtown. And then a look in the marin county area. Westbound 37 is still closed between atherton avenue and highway 101 due to major flooding in that area. The eastbound direction is open but down to one lane so on the westbound side chp is diverting traffic off at atherton avenue and still giving you a direct route on to 101. If you are traveling on mass transit, this morning i think this is a great idea because who wants to drive in the rain . It will get worse. Art, ace train, muni and caltrain are all on time. Ill send it to you. All right, roqui. Thank you. Overturned cars and massive mudslides are just some of the trouble sparked by heavy rain in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Kpix 5s maria medina is live in Scotts Valley with conditions. Reporter good morning. You can see the bright lights behind me. Those are the crews. Thats the crew thats working on that massive mudslide here on highway 17 thats shut down the northbound lanes on vine hill road. This is day 3 now for them for those crews out there. But thats not all they are dealing with as you mentioned here in the Santa Cruz Mountains. They are also dealing with downed trees and downed power lines. This is what our crews stumbled on just yesterday on bear creek road off highway 17. And in just a few seconds youre going to see some video of a pretty damaged home. Now, brian tells us that his pregnant wife grabbed their baby, they ran for their lives when the mountain let loose above them. Thankfully she just grabbed jumped out of bed, grabbed my daughter and ran outside barefoot and everything. Reporter they are also dealing with a lot of mudslides here as i mentioned before. In fact, county crews brought in contractors to help them out because they are stretched so thin to help them clean up this mess including the massive mudslide here off highway 17. So again, the northbound lanes remain closed. The southbound lanes are open as you take a look at our live picture here. Cars are driving pretty smoothly. It is starting to back up just a little bit. It will take days for them to clean it up because of todays rain. Maria medina, kpix 5. A number of schools have canceled classes today. More than a dozen School Districts in marin and sonoma counties will be closed. The Loma Prieta School district in los gatos and the san lorenzo valley School District in Santa Cruz County are also closed. And be sure to stay with kpix 5 for continuing storm watch coverage. You can get the latest updates and track live hidef Doppler Radar on cbssf. Com. Today President Trump will be on hand as Jeff Sessions is sworn in as u. S. Attorney general. Sessions confirmation last nightcapped off a contentious 24 hours of debate. On tuesday republicans enforced a rule to silence massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. She was reading a letter from Coretta Scott king owe positions sessions nomination for a federal judgeship in 1986. Yesterday democrat continued to read from the letter this time without interruption. President trump is getting criticism from his own Supreme Court pick. It comes after the president blasted the judge who suspended his executive order on immigration. And the judges considering whether to reinstate the travel ban. Judge gorsuch told a u. S. Senator that trumps attacks on the Judicial Branch are quote demoralizing and disheartening. A ruling on whether the travel ban should be reinstated is expected this week. More protests are expected outside of ubers headquarters in San Francisco today. This time, demonstrators want the companys ceo to ask the king of saudi arabia to lift the ban on women drivers. Protestors plan to hand over a petition with thousands of signatures. It says, saudi women should have the basic right to drive. A few weeks ago, dozens of people picketed outside the headquarters when they found out ubers ceo was part of trumps council. 6 09. A bay area landlord will probably go to jail after terrorizing tenants who drive them out. And well introduce you to the bay area teacher using music to teach his students lessons that will last a lifetime. 6 09 from the kpix weather center, good morning, everybody. We are on storm watch. Heavy rain, gusty winds, heading this way. Well time it out together. And storm watch means were watching traffic, too. Heres a live look at the nimitz freeway. Looking good now. But we have problems in the north bay, the east bay and the south bay. Well give you details coming up. Closed captioning for this newscast is sponsored by living spaces. ,,,,,,,,,,,, see them out shoveling in times square. F a fast moving youre looking live at a snowy new york city this morning. You can see them out shoveling in times square. Those people are still out. Its the result of a fast moving winter storm bringing heavy winds, flooding and up to a foot or more of snow to the northeast. New yorks central park was covered by a layer of fresh powder this morning. One day after people enjoyed unseasonably springlike temperatures. Public schools in new york, boston and philadelphia are closed. And thousands of flights canceled. An East Palo Alto landlord could face a year in jail for trying to get his tenants out of rent controlled apartment, 74yearold [indiscernible name] pleaded guilty of terrorizing his tenants. Four tenants say cars were keyed or had broken windows. The landlord will have to pay for the damage to the car. We just learned that construction is under way on the final stretch of the Dakota Access pipeline. But tonight, an Oakland City Council member is holding a forum to eliminate some of its funding. As part of the meeting, Council MemberRebecca Kaplan plans to call for californias Biggest Pension Fund calpers to divest. Locals who attend are encouraged to sign a petition at the forum. In a different push to stop the project, dozens of people blocked. Entrance to the Federal Building in San Francisco yesterday. Police removed them. It followed the army corps of engineers approval on the construction of the north dakota project. One teacher in the bay area is making a difference one guitar a time. Its a unique program that allows students to build their custom made you go terrence and earn something greater in the end. Half Moon Bay High School is this weeks cool school. [ music ] reporter some days, school can be a grind. But for these students its a blast. This is just something i was very passionate about and i wanted to do it. I feel like the kids get a lot out of it. As you put it all together you feel like, wow, im making this and its going to, like, play music its, like, this cool feeling to think, like, i did this for from, like, scrap. Reporter it takes roughly 50 hours to sand and piece together these intricate instruments. The sides of the guitar are made of avanka wood a very dense wood and top of the guitar is made of spruce which is typical for acoustic guitars. But the program would not exist had it not been for an odd twist. Anthony lost his job in san diego during recession cutbacks even lived in a trailer for three months but refused to give up on teaching thanks to his wife christie. The whole time im struggling trying to find a job trying to teach, you know, and doing what i want, trying to pursue what i wanted to do, and she supported me the whole way. She didnt ever say, hey, you got to start looking at something else. She never said that. She let me keep pursuing it. Reporter eventually landed at Half Moon Bay five years ago and convinced taylor guitars to donate 40 kits worth around 4,000 each year. [ music ] its out of tune. Reporter thats still music to the ears of any school budget, taxpayer and students. He is always doing lots of things for everybody. He is always in, like, 10 different places at once. Hes just always been there to show me the steps i need to do to make our projects and my project outside of class he always helped me with. I want them to to learn a little bit about problem solving because when youre building a guitar for the first time, you do make mistakes. And you have to overcome those mistakes. He is just one of those really dedicated teachers. He says theres only a handful of these programs in california. This one is the only one in northern california. And he is building 6 additional guitars for a fundraiser that he is helping in march. So you can contact that school if you would like to help out. He is amazing because he is helping them build these guitars but doesnt play. He is not the best guitarist but he is trying to inspire his students to problem solve and you know, hopefully some. Students will learn how to play. Do you guys play any us . Not at all. [ laughter ] the drums . I dropped out of piano class at 8. I was, um, rambunctious. Now youre doing traffic. I made it [ laughter ] lets check the Traffic Alert in the south bay at Scotts Valley between vine hill and sugar loaf one lane open in each direction. We just started seeing some slowdowns out there. Youre driving at about 30 miles an hour so if you are going there, drive safely and give yourself some extra time. West of gilroy, highway 152 closed between watsonville road and carlton road due to a slide. This is closed for a few days now. So a lot of mud coming down. So make sure youre preparing to drive safely if you are heading out in those muddy areas. Heres a look at the Altamont Pass traffic fully recovered from yesterdays 17mile backup due to the two major potholes that have been repaired. But the rain is about to start coming down so hopefully, is it stays repaired. 30 Miles Per Hour on north flynn road. Otherwise looking good. Heres a look at the slow traffic heading into the peninsula from hayward to foster city. And then you have metering lights on into downtown San Francisco. Roberta, ill send it to you. The rain is coming down according to our live hidef Doppler Radar. The computer models have been spot on with it beginning in the north bay. We have been saying for the past 24 to 36 hours if you can get out early for your morning commute it would be advisable. Now we are starting to pick up moderate rain heading towards the santa rosa area. Monte rio been getting lots of reports from you, boeing bodega and dylan beach heavy rainfall in that particular area. Also seeing some heavy rain around san rafael along highway 101. This is a cold front. Its different that what we have been experiencing for the past several weeks. We do have a coastal Flood Warning in effect for the huge red highlighted area which is our entire coastline. Whats happening is the bulk of this rain will coincide with high tide at 9 43 of roughly nearly 7 feet. There will be flooding embarcadero as well near howard and Mission Street. Where you see the yellow thats where we have a flood watch in effect. That encompasses the north bay, Santa Cruz Mountains, the coastline, as well. We are going to see a whole lot of rain in a short amount of time. Keeping on you eyes on the Russian River which continues to rise at 34 feet right now, flood stage is at 32 so obviously theres already some minor flooding occurring with the second cresting happening tomorrow. Blue reflects a wind advisory. With this cold front, the winds out of the south 30 Miles Per Hour gusts at 45 some up to 60 in the highest elevations. Remember about two days ago when we had those really gusty winds . Same again today. Just as powerful. Right now winds are increasing up to 19, San Francisco, 21 Half Moon Bay around the rim of the bay up to about 20 Miles Per Hour. 15 san rafael. Live looking out towards sfo. Three hours threeminute delays on some arriving flights due to our weather. Many cancellations back east because of blizzard conditions. Temperatures in the 50s and 60s. This is Atmospheric River what we have been experiencing. But that right there is the core of a cold front its going to could light with the Atmospheric River. I cannot rule out the possibility of thunderstorm activity today. Heres the front over santa rosa at 9 a. M. Sliding over the central bay by lunch hour. Look, everybody with a moderate to heavy rainfall. It moves past san jose in time for the evening commute but the damage is done a