. it's coming in bands pretty much the way that our weather team has been telling us. it would be. it started a little bit slow and it got a little heavy right now we're getting some sprinkles here on market street. and really, the city is just settling in for a week of this. the rain got off to a slow start in san francisco. first a few sprinkles and finally afternoon a steady stream of visitors say this isn't what they pictured for sunny california to be like sonny. yeah it wasn't lindo. mahoney says she'll take the blame for the rainy weather. we arrived yesterday. 120 of us came over from ireland because our girls are in the same patrick's day parade when he's come from the irish weather to hear we brought we brought we brought to read. in with us locals. rashawn tolliver say they checked the forecast. i did. i did. i did. i checked it. i checked it this morning when i woke up and seeing that it was gonna rain, so i definitely came prepared for works for urban alchemy and says days like this are hard on the homeless who wind up seeking shelter wherever they can. rain does kind of make it harder because some of the in house you know they tried to duck off in these in these cuts, and we try to keep on the hard drug use off of the streets. you know, because there's a lot of families and children down here. so, um you know, it's hard to tell them, you know not not to be right here because some of them are just trying to get out the rain. the city's department of public works without yesterday, working on potholes, clearing storm drains and checking trees. the repeated round of storms that we've had this year have shown the city's most common problems in the city was working hard to head them off before they became an issue. as we said the city bearing down for another week of whether just like this, we're live in san francisco, christien kafton ktvu, fox two news. thank you so much christian well from the city to the south bay, where there was also a risk of flooding there, as well as down trees and power lines, giving you a live look now at downtown san jose, where the rain is moving through that area as well and in santa cruz and monterey counties, well in evacuation warning has already now been issued, especially for those those low lying communities are jesse gary is monitoring the situation for us this afternoon in san jose, where officials are working to evacuate the homeless from low lying areas and jesse everyone really bracing for additional impacts from a region that's already been battered by so much rain and high wind. and heather. right now it is the high wind. it's blowing around 15 mph, but the guts are what's killing you. i mean, it makes it feel so much colder and strong enough nearly to knock you over . mayor matt mehan, the mayor of san jose, several police officers and some outreach officers have been walking the guadalupe river trail just behind me where there is a homeless encampment trying to encourage those on house residents. to come inside before the wind and the rain create a safety problem. we're going to take every necessary precaution . we'll get out there and make sure people are aware that we have another atmospheric river coming and that that poses some extra rest for those living near our waterways. the mayor says many unhappy residents heeded the call. the last time outreach teams warned of impending inclement weather. earlier in the day, the santa clara county officials issued a local state of emergency. it comes on the heels of governor gavin newsom doing the same for 21 counties, including santa clara county's office of emergency management is being activated right now. additionally representatives from the national weather service and california office of emergency services have come to san jose. they're working with local authorities. to manage their response, which has prompted a level two activation of the county's office of emergency services. a level two activation is a partial activation, and that means we are bringing in an operation section staffing. staffing it with our law branch are fire branch or mascara and shelter branches and as well as our roads and airport branches to make sure that we are fully capable to respond to any emergency or disaster that may occur. counties o es activation happens at eight o'clock tonight . additionally 13 county warming centers are now open to overnight center's activated in what's called south county. the mayor believes there are fewer on house residents living in these areas. because people heeded the warnings. the last time we'll have an update for you coming up in the next hour for now, we're alive along the guadalupe river here in san jose , jesse gary ktvu fox two news. we'll head back to you up in oakland. all right. we see the rainy, gusty conditions for jesse down there at the south bay meteorologist mark tamayo tracking this system as it moved onshore. where are we seeing the heaviest rainfall so far, well so far today the rain has been focused up in the north east. the heavy rain but what's interesting? these are tricky systems right there on the move. so that will shift eventually later on tonight into early tomorrow morning toward the south bay down toward the santa cruz mountains, so as you can see, here with the rainfall totals, nothing. nothing extreme just yet, but those numbers already adding up in marin county, santa rosa. 0.63 san francisco and redwood city over over 2/10 of an inch. but look at san jose, not much at all 0.4 , but that will be changing later on tonight into early tomorrow morning. here is our atmosphere, atmospheric river we've been talking about extending across the pacific over 2000 miles and the focus over here in the bay area's the storm headlines. rain intensity increases today could be heavy will be heavy as we head into it tonight and a strong southerly winds already increasing flood. watch in place right now for the entire bay area through sunday morning. so all these areas in green we had that flood watch. that's widespread and a wind advisories in place right now until four o'clock. tomorrow afternoon, gus could be going up about 40 miles an hour. in fact, our cameras jumping around a bit as well, picking up on all the cloud cover this afternoon and some rain showers as well. look at his active radar, essentially covering the bay area, so it's either light rain, moderate rain and it looks like we have some more development up in the north bedded cia heavy rain report up in santa rosa. these are some of the early storm reports this afternoon. as you can see, these are recent roadway flooding as you can see and greatness 3 34 this afternoon in richmond reports some roadways. flooding at 3 18 so that just within the past hour, every bill roadway flooding under an overpass and it looks like this out towards pacheco. you can see a roadway flooding marina vista onramp. two ft. of water covering part of that on ramp. so as we check out the radar imagery right now, you can't see that the focus is darker greens, the yellows up in the north bay, the central portion of the bay things not as not talking about real intense rainfall just yet. but in the south bank looks like the bulk of the action right now focused in the santa cruz mountains. you heard about the wind speeds and those winds definitely picking up. we had the wind advisory in place oakland airport gusting to over 30 miles an hour and half moon bay gusting to 41 miles an hour and the short term this is our concern. rainfall picking up this evening and this will last into early friday mornings of heavier downpours out there, and the focus eventually shifts down toward the santa cruz mountains. and the south bay. we'll talk more about this and maybe a break as we head into part of your friday with the rainfall have more on that with your full update in a little bit. we have a kind of mixed feelings because we've been praying for water to you know, but we weren't praying for all to come at one time. that's what one farmer in watson ville told us back in january as he described the effects of those powerful storms we had during the early part of this year. the intense rainfall left many fields across california flooded and crops ruined. business owners suffered financial losses and the damage from those storms also took a devastating toll on many low wage farmworkers. and now those in the agricultural industry here in california, are now bracing for another round of heavy rainfall and for more on this one. joined by darlene tennis with the farmworker caravan. that's a nonprofit that supports agricultural workers across northern and central california. darlene thank you so much for being here and the recent floods that hit many areas, many farm workers lost wages explain just how difficult this has been. well you know, when the farm workers they continue to work as much as they possibly can, um but it's difficult for them. you know, a lot of them have been gravely affected by the floods, and we're talking to floods since november, december, um and you know when we have, um something happened to us and natural disaster were like what's the city going to do for us? what's at stake going to do for us? what's the county going to do for us? they don't have that backup and they don't usually have insurance. so a lot of these people have lost everything. you see the pictures that are on t on the view right now and then, and you've seen some of the housing that was in half moon bay. very flimsy housing, not sustainable when they lose. everything they lose everything. and they're not going to get it back. and they have to continue to work every day and whatever conditions they might have how has your organization trying to try to step in there and fill fill that gap and provide support? whatever it looks like to farm workers who have been affected in one way or another by the storms. but we have a lot of partner organizations like all us catholic charity center for farmworker families, all us all. there's many partner organization were and there on the ground level, and right now they're just providing the basic essentials like diapers and rice and beans and baby formula and the basic needs just for survival because they're in emergency mode, and right now is everybody's getting cut off from um, different services and things. these lot of these agencies also serve other populations like the in house that you had a previous story and they're overwhelmed right now. all the food banks, we work with all of these service providers there simply overwhelmed right now, and they really need the public support. it really is sort of a catch 22 because, as we heard from that farm worker at the beginning of this this interview, everyone was praying for the rain, right. you gotta have you gotta have enough rain for a healthy crop. and so that the farm workers you know, are able to get out there and do their work. and on the other hand, we have just seen a tremendous amount of rain. i mean, do you remember ever having to deal with the situation quite like this? no not really. but i mean, if you think about it it just this summer we had we were in a huge drought and a lot of the farmers , particularly in central valley . they were selling their water rights because they made more money selling their water rights . then they did planting crops, and now we have a complete opposite situation. with tons of flooding and their fields are flooded, and so when their fields are flats, sometimes it's going to take months to damage to be on things, which means everybody's out of work because there's nothing to pick and flooded fields. so when the farm workers aren't working, you know they don't get unemployment. they don't they don't get any kind of services. when they don't work. they don't they don't eat basically, and so they're just scrambling, trying to do what they can. they're not getting, um you know other government services, like some other people are provided they have to work no matter what. that's how they survived. they're in survival mode. so obviously so many farm workers as you're pointing out here, they're struggling, not earning what they necessarily would because a lot of these these farms are are flooded out. what what do you believe is going to be the impact of this latest storm and we're talking about a storm that has a lot of moisture in it. that's going to bring a whole lot of rain to some of these regions that that were already hit so hard with the recent storms. what are you expecting? with this latest system? just more damage more longer period of time for them to recover. um you know, the other issues are right when they're recovering. um, if anybody has ever been flooded, you know there's mold issues and things like that. they can't just pick up and leave again. they don't have insurance. they're not going to pay for them to stay in a hotel while they're whether housing is being fixed and let it out there having to remain where they're at. in in destroyed housing and there's mold coming in. they're getting sick. there's a lot of issues. i think sometimes we don't stop to think how how privileged we are a lot of times with everything like this because we always have that backup. we have that help. they don't have that. yeah there really isn't there? yeah in the middle of all of this, all right, well, really appreciate your time this afternoon. thank you. so much for coming on to talk with us. thank you very much. pg and a working to prevent wide scale power outages . of course, that's a big concern is this next system moves through giving you a look now at the current outage map showing scattered outages affecting a few 1000 customers right now across the area, we have more details on the emergency operations systems now in place that's coming up in just a few minutes and this atmospheric rivers making for difficult conditions up in the mountains as well. the live look here. at what you can expect along the roadways in olympic valley. this is where the snow has started to fall and that snow is moving into south lake tahoe. we'll get an update from there coming up. plus we'll also go to washington, where there is an ongoing search for answers as the ceo of norfolk southern appears on capitol hill, his apology to ohio residents following that fiery train derailment in east palestine. subway keeps upping their game with the subway series. an all-star menu of delicious subs. there's the philly, the monster, the boss. if i hadn't seen it in person, i wouldn't have believed it. eating is believing steph. the subway series. try subway's tastiest menu upgrade yet. 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sam mateo county, probably the hardest. that's what we keep seeing and into the city as well. pgd is also telling customers to keep a battery operated flashlight within easy reach, and to charge cell phones and laptops. in case there is an outage well as the state is getting another dose of rain, water managers are closely watching for potential flooding , as rivers and reservoirs are filling up. in fact, in just the past half hour, the california department of water resources announced that it will now be opening up. oroville dam, the oroville dam's main spillway. this is for flood control earlier this after noon. in a briefing, state and federal officials said that some now northern california reservoirs are seeing improvement. lake shasta, for example, is now 61% full, and officials say the incoming storms should boost that. today. managers released some water from folsom lake, which provides flood control for the sacramento area to make room for more water. releases that are happening today will be a combination to our power pen stock and the new auxiliary spillway. um that might change into tomorrow and through the weekend. officials will also be monitoring dozens of rivers in the sacramento valley coastal regions and the san joaquin valley, which could reach flood stage in the coming days. and be sure to stay with us. we're going to take a closer look at the state's water resources and the question that i hear all the time from many of you viewers out there are we out of drought , that conversation is coming up . alright looking forward to that this huge storm that's moving into northern california is expected to cause a lot of problems up in the sierra in communities that are still trying trying to dig out from the heavy snowfall they've seen over the past few weeks. this is a live look right now. it conditions along highway 50 in south lake tahoe, and clearly you can see from this live picture. the snow is falling, and there is moisture on the lens of this camera. winter storm warning is in place for the tahoe area, with forecasters calling for several more feet of snow at higher elevations and heavy rain down lower than that. that potentially could lead to flooding and a lot of other issues in that area for more on the situation up in the high country. we're joined by amanda adams, president of the south lake tahoe chamber of commerce, and it's good to see you. thank you for taking the time today. you and everyone up in that area. area you're about to get a whole lot more snow rain. potentially whiteout conditions with this latest storm. what is it that worries you the most about this incoming system? right now. is the snow on the of the business inside tahoe. tahoe area. everyone's of the city south like warning for people to travel the snow. there's eight amazing. unfortunately you know , i don't know if it's because of the weather, but we are having a tough time connecting with you. and we're unable to hear you. obviously we can tell the conditions that you are in up in that area in tahoe. let's let's try to reconnect, get a better connection. if we can and come back to you. i really appreciate you taking the time with us here. hopefully we can reconnect reconnect with amanda adams in south lake tahoe. thanks amanda. and a reminder that we have a lot more storm coverage online as well as on our website, and you're able to help us provide a little more coverage with our ktvu app. please download that. you can upload your videos and photos there and you can also head ktvu .com. for more information again the link or the way that you can send us those photos and videos is also on our website is that ktvu photos? at fox .com and again we may post some of those on our website and show a few of them on the air as well. alright we always get such great photos. we want to turn now to some breaking news we're following in the south bay. this is where san jose police are investigating a stabbing that happened just outside of your balbuena high school today. that school is on lucrecia avenue near kelly park. police are telling us an adult man was stabbed at least once and taken to the hospital. he is expected to survive. police say they have not identified any suspects or a motive here, but again a stabbing that happened just offh school in san jose right now. we're working to get more details on the circumstances here, and we'll bring you more information as soon as we get it. come on the four today the ceo of the rail company at the center of an ohio train derailment apologizes to residents in ohio as he faces tough questioning on capitol hill this van just hit me out of nowhere. i thought i was dead. after the accident, i was in a lot of pain and i decided that i needed to get an attorney because i could not work. i called jacoby & meyers they had their own dream team for every need, every area. they took care of me like a queen. i would recommend you call jacoby & meyers they really went to 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instructed my team to look at steps we could take to improve safety immediately after february's ohio derailment, cruz released toxic chemicals into the air from several tanker cars. some lawmakers fear this could lead to long term health problems for ohio residents. e p. a officials testified. they continue to monitor soil and groundwater for contamination. monitors have not detected any volatile organic compounds above levels of health concerns. but some senators say not enough is being done to protect the ohio pennsylvania communities. acted by the crash . as we speak. there are piles of dirt accumulating in east palestine, piles of dirt filled with toxic chemicals that haven't been moved out of the state in a week. what happens if it rains? norfolk southern says it's ready to spend $20 million to help with cleanup efforts. but legal experts say the final price tag with lawsuits may go much higher. on capitol hill, mark meredith fox news president biden released his annual budget plan today outlining his policy priorities for the year ahead. the president's budget would cut the deficit by $3 trillion over the next decade. it also raises more revenue by increasing taxes on oil and gas companies. it hikes the corporate tax rate to 28% and increases the medicare payroll tax on people making more than $400,000 a year. the president's spending priorities include boosting military spending to more than $835 billion, increasing funding for early childhood education and childcare and expanding free community college. earlier today in pennsylvania, president biden spoke about the importance of his budget plan. it's going to save the government is going to reduce the deficit. $160 billion . these guys keep saying, how are you going to cut the deficit? well, guess what. if your tax dollars don't have to go up paying all that exorbitant price for medicare to drug companies, and it's rational. it's going to save 100 and $60 billion in tax dollars. republicans in washington opposed the president's plan. the gop controlled house of representatives is waiting to see it in full before they released their own budget proposal. next here on the four today we're taking a closer look at the atmospheric rivers that is unloading more rain on the bay area today. our meteorologist mark tamayo will join us for an in depth discussion about what these systems look like and what sets them apart from other storm systems and why we could see them more often. also all of this rain raising more questions about california's drought status. we're going to talk live with an expert next on where we are now. and if it's enough to last as you can see here in this live picture of the richmond san rafael bridge with raindrops right there on the camera. rain has arrived back in the bay area. we're seeing heavy rain and strong winds as this latest powerful storm moves in from the pacific. it's what's known as an atmospheric river term that we have come to be very familiar with here in the bay area over the last few months, it's loaded with moisture, and this system is much different than the colder winter storms. that we're used to this time of year. joining us now to talk more about all of this is meteorologist mark tamayo with more on what we can expect with this particular storm system. we keep sort of throwing around this term atmospheric river. what? what makes an atmospheric river unique and how is it different than the other storm systems? we usually get this time of year. we want to differentiate this because i think some people think we just you know, casually throughout the term atmospheric river just called to make a storm or interesting, right? but a storm . typically, we're talking about a cold front right moves in from the north produces rain moved to the south. we're talking about rainfall here and atmospheric river is different because it's like a long plume of moisture narrow so it could be about 2000 miles across and maybe just 250 miles wide and where that moisture is focus. of course, that's where you get the rainfall, so it's basically high moisture content being focused towards one area sort of equated it to a water hose, right and, obviously water hoses really long, but it depends on where you actually point that hose right and that's the concern right? because we might have a strong front that moves in. say, when you go to bed at night and you wake up in the morning is gone. the atmospheric river. it just it's like a garden hose, and it's been focused for a long period of time. so unfortunately, as we have experienced, we know it could cause some big time issues that happened in december and january . and it's happening once again certainly experienced that. so these atmospheric rivers they are ranked in terms of their intensity. so where does this one that is moving into our region right now? where does this one stand? seems like lots of scales like to go from 1 to 5, and that's what's happening right now. it's basic a research out of a script institution of oceanography and in san diego, and they have a scale from 1 to 5, and this one is currently ranked at three. so as you can see here with with some of the animations, i should mention that it's warm air in the pacific that gets evaporated and causes these clouds. so here you can see that animation that's a narrow band of moisture. that's just kind of a schematic of showing what's happening, so there's that warm air evaporating of the clouds forming the atmospheric river if we can switch to but the weather computer masking the directors to we're talking about the scale right now, so if we can switch over the weather computer, we're showing you an animation. actually that the scale you can see all these dots going along the west coast and as i point out, we are you can see the scale right here. it's kind of small white means no atmospheric river. this all goes to read our five and this is actually current. and this was depicting the current one we have right here in the bay area, and basically for a good portion of the cost is you can't see we are level. three so that's called a moderate atmospheric river. if we were extreme, that would be an a r five. and they're taking two elements into consideration . one is the amount of water vapor that's headed toward the area. that's one element and also as the duration. how long will this stick around? so those two added up leads to this scale , and we are in a r three and what's interesting in the challenges these form in the pacific? but they're so narrow and where the steering winds kind of set up the pattern. it could be up towards eureka maybe up toward portland, and we could be dry here. so that's where the details coming out of uncertainty about where it lands. curious though, because i was unaware of this ranking system until we were talking earlier today in the newsroom. how do what about those storms that we saw earlier in the year because those seemed a lot more that they were historic seemed more powerful were those stronger, atmospheric? stronger at least a r four probably border borderline a, r five. the one for sure was back in october, 2021 that was the a r five. you remember that we had widespread issues here in the bay area, setting up trying to capture each particular atmospheric river there, each unique and you're just trying to find out how strong it will be and where it's going to be focused. and for this one right now we've kind of been suggesting it's a central coast from santa cruz mountains south that will be the focus of the real intense rainfall mark before we let you go. let's talk about what this atmospheric river is going to do once it hits the mountains here. what we've been talking a lot about at the concerns there when you have this kind of warmer system, and the snow level is going to be really hot, right satellites . we've been showing you all week, especially over the past day. it's been a satellite showing you a big cloud mass from the bay area down toward the hawaiian islands. and if you think of hawaii, you think tropical. you think warm, you think humid, so we're kind of getting those characteristics and sell us all that heads towards the sierra that will raise the snow level. and that will produce rainfall, probably at lake level in a wet snow up above that, so that is the main concern. we we've been fearing that since we had that record snowpack just automatic, so no levels right now about yeah, there about 5000 ft. they will go up as that warm air linked up to the atmospheric river moves in, so we're talking about a lot of rain over a lot of snow, and that's going to cause some problems. alright great explanation. really appreciate it, mark. thank you. thank you, mark. alright i think we want to take you now to the south bay because all the snow on mount hambleton has forced the closure of the lick observatory telescopes right now there's more than five ft of snow up on the peaks east of san jose four. ft has fallen since the cold winter storm we had last month and all that snow has upended the work at the observatory and interrupted the research. they're normally doing there because of the snow and the ice. on top of the domes, astronomers have had to keep them shut in order to protect the telescope. and other equipment there. okay so with all of this rain, many people have been asking is california still in drought. recent satellite images show that our reservoirs are indeed filling up. want you to take a look at these photos from nasa of lake shasta, now on the left , is the state's largest reservoir back in november, when it was just 31% of capacity on the right fast forward a few months to january after our historic storms, then when the reservoir was up to 56% and as i reported just earlier in the show, the latest update today puts it now at 61% and joining us now with a look at the state's water resources is jay lund, vice director of the center for watershed sciences at uc davis. thank you so much for being here. no doubt about it. we've gotten drenched over the last few months. but the drought impacts as we all know, can take years to reverse. that's right. we're certainly in much better shape than we were in the past three years. but we're going to have some lingering effects even from what looks like it could be a well above average year for much of california. the groundwater levels in much of the southern central valley are still have a long way to recover from the drought. this drought and the drop before and the forest ecosystems and the aquatic ecosystem. some of the endangered fish are still going to be set back for quite some time. what i hear from people all of the time, especially since we've started getting all of the snow is okay. is the drought over? i mean, how will we know when the drought has ended? well for some from some circumstances. the drought is over for some parts of california for some purposes, so for false and reservoir. it's in flood operations. it's refilled essentially for this time of year. um. for trinity reservoir for the north. it's still substantially not up to average for this time of year over the long haul, so it might take another couple of wet years for that. reservoir and some of the other large reservoirs to completely resettled. these storms have also highlighted the need for you know things to be redesigned and systems built better to capture more water. what what are your thoughts on what the state needs to do? moving forward? what we do need to do that, i think capturing as much of the flood water is possible both the story and reservoirs and to put it in the groundwater basins is really essential. but i think we have to also understand that doing that completely is probably an economical the cost of investments to capture the largest storms and hide that water underground is going to be more expensive than it will be worth it will. it's important to do more than we're doing, that's for sure. you mentioned the status of the reservoirs. obviously the storms have also significantly buffed up the snow pack, the latest no survey conducted just last friday. show the statewide snowpack measuring 190% of normal that's just hovering below a record that was set in the winter of 1982 83. j with more snow falling today, and that's certainly a reason to be optimistic. oh yeah, i'm very happy about how this year is shaping up overall. um but when you are lucky enough to have this much water, you're also starting to worry about if you're going to get unlucky with floods. yeah that's what i was going to say. and then flood management concerns come into play, especially once all that snow starts to melt. right so we're going to see some some challenges on some of the tributaries the forecasts for the river systems show that some of the tributaries are likely to going to flood conditions. um. and then as the snowpack melts, hopefully a little bit later on , we'll start to see some challenges of trying to capture as much of that. snowpack as we can and nuts. make good use of it flooding as results from monitoring at all as we mentioned the main spillway at the oroville dam, they're announcing today that they're going to open that up due to what we're seeing today. j really appreciate your time today. thanks for coming on. you're welcome. barrage of more than 80 russian missile struck residential buildings across ukraine today 10 regions across the country were targeted, including the capital city of kiev. six people have been reported dead so far. energy infrastructure was also hit, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without heat or electricity. moscow says the attack comes in retaliation for alleged ukrainian strikes on russian territory. the mayor of kiev tells fox news. this is terrorism, not war. it's not the war. it's not a special operation is genocide, genocide to send the records to kill the destroyed critical infrastructure to kill civilians. the russian military on the ground has been taking heavy casualties as it presses ahead with an offensive to capture the eastern city of mahmoud. us intelligence officials believe vladimir putin's strategy is to grind ukraine down through a bloody war of attrition, combative house committee hearing today on capitol hill on the so called twitter files. journalist matt tabby and mark shellenberger were given access to internal twitter communications by elon mask following his takeover of the company. the reporters argued that their findings showed that in the past governmental bodies work together with twitter to censor conservative viewpoints, for example, they claimed the fbi paid twitter to suppress the hunter beina laptop story, something that the fbi has denied. but we found in the files was a sweeping effort to reverse that promise and use machine learning and other tools to turn the internet into an instrument of censorship and social control. unfortunately our own government appears to be playing a lead role the republicans have brought in two of elon musk public scribes. to release cherry picked out of context, emails and screenshots designed to promote his chosen narrative. the hearing also focused on the ongoing ftc investigation of data security at twitter. twitter employees have raised concerns about privacy following musk's release of the huge trove of internal communications. all right, coming up here on the four we continue tracking rainfall all throughout the bay area as another storm arrives. mark is up next with the full forecast, and we'll um it has arrived markets here. it's bringing a lot of moisture with it, too. yeah, that's right, alex. you know we'll be talking a lot about the forecast elements coming up in the next couple of minutes. but in general, we're talking about rain increasing tonight into tomorrow morning and then another atmospheric rivers storm that's gonna be moving into the region next week. another storm that will be linked up to an atmospheric river. so rainfall increasing today a heavy rain picking up for tonight and then a strong south wind. you already probably noticed that change wins increasing around 30 to 40 miles an hour rainfall project. is not changing too much from our initial thoughts. this is right on through sunday, but the bulk of the action falling today. and tomorrow in the focus still will be in the santa cruz mountains that are likely cause some problems. we could have rainfall amounts easily over 6 to 7 inches and possibly a few isolated areas could be approaching eight inches so significant rainfall for the entire bay area, but not as much of the inland valleys the most will be in the santa cruz mountains. here's our bouncy camera this afternoon, so the wind advisory is in place right now it's a good call with the gusts going up about 40 miles an hour and here is the radar imagery right now, as you can see the coverage increasing here in the bay area, some snow as well, but as as that warm air moves in snow levels will be increasing, so i'll be talking about some more rain reports as well. here is a look at some of the storm reports are gonna have quite a few of these probably developed for tonight into tomorrow morning. as you can see, these all represent some flooding already for this afternoon and into the evening hours. as you can't see out toward richmond. this is out towards emeryville and also right around pacheco. also up in the north bay showing you this some wind damage, actually. mudslide with trees attached. this is near great, and so it looks like we already have some more population on the maps with the storm reports. this afternoon. so here is the radar imagery right now in the focus of the rain has been up in the north bay, but that is spreading to the south this afternoon and into the evening hours you can see in the south bay san jose reporting mostly cloudy skies but some more development just to the north, so definitely some more rain picking up in intensity. as far as the wind speed, you can see oakland airport gusting to over 30 nearly 40 miles an hours there only watching out for some down trees. and some power outages as his winds continue to accelerate from the south overnight temperatures, not a big concern, but the rain will be especially for the southern half of the bay area, moderate to heavy rainfall and here's the pattern. we have an advertising or tracking over the past several days you can see hawaii and there's that moisture plume, so heavy rain picking up tonight flood watch for the bay area and the wind advisory in place now into friday afternoon, we should have somewhat of a break and we definitely need that break headed our way in this sierra a winter storm warning is in place right now and still levels around 5000 ft. they will definitely go up upwards of 7000 to 8000 ft. here is the forecast model this afternoon. you can see that rainfall for this evening. seven o'clock. what's interesting is late tonight into early tomorrow morning. we see some more enhancement and the focus will be the southern half of the bay area, especially down in santa cruz county, the south bay, and the concern is this continues. this is 10 o'clock tomorrow morning for your friday and then here is somewhat of a break. not completely dry, but the showers taper in your friday afternoon. it looks like we're tracking some more periods of rain into saturday highs for tomorrow will be in the fifties to the sixties. the bulk of the rainfall will be tomorrow morning somewhat of an improvement into the afternoon hours periods of right on saturday sunday actually might not be too bad, but this will be another concern into next week. another strong storm could be showing up in the forecast maps. especially by monday afternoon. alright, mark, thank you. and a reminder here that we have a lot more storm coverage both online as well as on the ktvu news app. you can check out our gallery with images from this storm at ktvu dot com and a reminder if you have photos or videos of the stormy weather where you live, we'd love to see them. you can send them to us, you email them. to us a ktvu photos at fox dot com. looking forward to getting those senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, hospitalized after a fall, we'll have an update on his condition, plus team coverage on this storm continues ahead at five o'clock tonight. brooks jarocz live in the east bay, where one neighborhood is concerned that this storm could devastate an already damaged retaining wall and flood the whole community. plus our own. tom baker checked in with the marines swift water rescue team today. how serious is this storm? all 14 of the state's swiftwater rescue teams are deployed. very serious. hey kentucky senator fell at an event at a hotel in d. c last night. the one year old is being treated for a concussion and is expected to be in the hospital for a few days. leaders from both parties are wishing mcconnell well. mcconnell was injured in a fall at his home back in 2019 and underwent surgery to repair a fractured shoulder. well, we're losing an hour of sleep this weekend as we spring forward for the start of daylight saving time early sunday morning, congressional leaders are now deciding whether to make daylight saving time. year round. arizona and hawaii are the only states that don't observe it. medical experts say that time change can cause health problems such as negative mood swings and increased risk of heart attacks. it takes about a week or so for most adults to adjust to the time change, and it's even harder for young children and teenagers. adolescents have a natural biological delay in their circadian rhythm. they naturally become night hours. their natural biology says you need should be staying up later. you should be sleeping in later. and so daylight saving time just pulls out in the exact opposite direction. health experts who want the country to be on daylight saving time all year round say having more light at the end of the day would also encourage more people to go outside to exercise, which could lead to lower blood pressure, lower weight and lower stress levels. the fda has issued some new mountain mammogram. excuse me mammogram guidelines in an effort to help detect breast cancer a little earlier. the mandate requires mammogram providers to notify women if they have dense breast tissue, which can make it more difficult to detect tumors. the cdc says that women with dense breasts have a higher chance of getting breast cancer and may need further testing. the agency says about half of women 40 and older have dense breasts, according to the fda. all mammography facilities will be required to implement these new rules. within 18 months. it's a high flying group, bringing home the win year after year. coming up on the floor today, the secret to success for the north bay cheerleading team that has won a national championship seven times. in order for small businesses to thrive, they need to be smart... efficient... agile... and that's never been more important than it is right now. so for a limited time, comcast business is introducing small business savings. call now to get powerful internet for just $39 a month, with no contract, and a money back guarantee. all on the largest, fastest, reliable network. from the company that powers more businesses than anyone else. call and start saving today. comcast business. powering possibilities. varsity coed team. san rafael high is a diverse group ktvu cristina rendon has more now on the team's road to success. if you ask members of san rafael high school varsity cheer squad . it's a lot of hard work, and it's just crazy. it's a train. the roller coaster will tell you how proud they are of their performance. two weeks ago, we fought really hard to perform that we didn't. the u. s nationals in anaheim in the non tumbling advanced division. it was the best feeling ever was. i didn't think i would be there when you get off the floor when you do the your whole routine and you hit your stunts and you do your smile and everyone's cheering for you. you hear your name? it's like the feeling you can't describe that with anything like anything else. it's the seventh national title one by one of the cheer squad since 2017, a memorable one for senior is a grijalva. we're really close as a team. we have really good friendships and bonds, and we just really get we really work well together. coach shauna hoque says the team is a reflection of the community, diverse and resilient. a lot of our students do come from the canal area. um and they don't all have the resources that many other schools in marine county have or the resources that most schools and warren county are perceived to have we have a lot of kids that are working through some mental health stuff that's really difficult. we have a lot of kids whose families have challenges facing evictions, deaths in the family really serious stuff. when these kids cheer, they leave everything at the door. we are struggling with something outside of cheer or outside of school. um there's like, no doubt that your teammates will help you or you're gonna your coaches will help you. urban calls it a second family chair wasn't my first option was soccer. what makes this team unique is the fact that none of these students had cheer experience prior to joining the team, and no student is turned away for the family's inability to pay those dollars so that everybody has access to our program, and i think when we help kids realize that their potential is limitless. they learn that they can achieve anything they put their mind to. this team has a lot of passion and heart and they're passing on that competitive spirit to the next generation of cheerleaders . it's like you really do have a family no matter what in san rafael cristina rendon ktvu, fox two news ktvu fox two news at five starts now. every time i hear the words atmospheric river i get very concerned at five. the next big winter storm is here, bringing rain and snow to areas still recovering and digging out across northern california tonight, the threat of flooding does exist for some spots across the bay area. good evening, everyone mike mibach julie julie haener. the storm has arrived and right now parts of the bay area are getting soaked from walnut creek to milpitas, san francisco to the oakland estuary. skies are gray in the rain is falling, and that storm is dumping heavy rain and bringing strong gusty winds. also, even a chance of thunderstorms in the bay area. excessive rainfall could trigger some flooding along creeks, streams, rivers, roadways and low lying areas. we do have live storm watch team coverage. jesse gary with evacuation efforts in the south bay tom vacar in the north bay with a swift water rescue team, but we begin with chief meteorologist bill martin. and what's happening right now, bill heavy rain coming down right now for the afternoon commute. we talked about it last night. the timing on this has been real good. today it started raining in the north bay and bay area around 11 a.m. and has continued through the afternoon. the intensity has picked up in the last couple of hours here and you look at a live camera shot. you can see the satellite loop because clearly see the atmospheric river coming from near the hawaiian islands, so that's a warm, subtropical flow that is created temperatures today that are in the fifties, not in the forties or low fo

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