We will start in where we have the flooding in and around napa and sonoma. Saint helena. The napa river is expected to go above flood stage by nine this morning. Expected to reach almost 19 feet. Flood stage is 16. You can expect flooding. Going through today. Its expected to go down tonight. For the napa area its expected to reach just above flood stage about noontime today. Minor flooding expected in the napa river in the lower areas. Be careful. A widespread Flash Flood Watch until four this afternoon for ponding on the water. Mudslides and we are seeing it. Rapid rises on the streams, creeks and rivers. Here is where we are experiencing flooding for today. Sonoma. Our creeks are flooded. Here is a look at where we are seeing more along the creeks. Sonoma and shellville. We are seeing some flooding again with areas along river and the napa creek. North bay being hit hard by this system. Also a flood advisory in the east bay. Be prepared for the flooded roadways. We know how it goes. We need to take it easy. Here is a look at radar. Its widespread. We will go back to the north bay. Middleton, middle town through areas of saint helena. Itll be heavy during the morning. Ly continue to track this. We will time this system out. We have another to follow. We have plenty of rain coming and we will check in on the winds in just a little bit. First lets get on to the highways. Itll be busy. I want to let the control room know my maps came back so thats good. As rosemary said we have a busy drive although we dont have a lot of stop and go traffic right now on the pass for the tracy super drive. Doesnt look bad as you drive through the area. Every drive will be tested this morning because of the wet weather. This is a look at 880 in oakland. You can see traffic looks good. Its windy. Lets talk about the bay bridge toll plaza. Lets go back to the the desk. Incredible overnight video into the newsroom. Look at this. This is from sop man county. Three vehicles trapped in standing water near shellville on highway 121 near highway 12. Six people had to be rescued out there. Paul Chamber Social security heading up north. He will be there and have a live report at 4 30. Places like leesburg, windsor, santa rosa. Last month they had more than 14 inches of rain. Deborah reports it wont take much more for Serious Problems to happen. Reporter surf is up. Sort of. The bay areas known low spots barely getting a chance to drain and rain is making a strong return. Creek ands streams are expected to rise genas february settles in as drippy as january. I love it. I cant get enough oft. I hear people complaining aboutt. Im like after how many years of a drought . Reporter it reminds some of growing up here. I remember in high school when they shut the school down because of the rain. You dont hear that anymore. Up until this year. Reporter the weathers come back will mean more calls and crashes. This one two cars on 101. Fortunately no injuries. Probably about four or five in the last few hours. Most them are weather related. People going to fast. Reporter rainfall tops what this area would get for a full year. The sandbag station has put back these pallets a half dozen times. Hopefully households have them by now. Its wet but great. What we needed. I think its a good thing. Reporter you arent sick of it. We havent had it for years. Lets enjoy it while we have it. Little annoying but get used it after a while. You just bundle up and go out. Reporter that seems to he be the prevailing attitude. Dont wait for the rain to stop to do what you need to do. Its not leaving. If its raining, if its dumping like it was a couple weeks ago i wont run in that. This is nothing. Guys i work with demand it because im a grumpy jerk if i dont run so i have to run. In the Santa Cruz Mountains sections highway 9 and 152 are closed this morning because of more mudslides. Repair crews have worked nearly nonstop for the past two months. They say every time one slide is cleared another hits. They have a contract to repair the damage. We keep coming back to fix everything all over again. Its painstaking. The problems affect a six mile stretch of highway 9. Neighbors businesses like savannah have been forced to close because there was no access or no power. About 7 00 we will find out if the lake tahoe area will be under an avalanche warning for a second straight day. The Sierra Avalanche Center said there is a high avalanche danger because of the wind, rain and the snow. Avalanches that are created naturally or triggered by people are possible. Chains are required on both interstate 80 and highway 50. About two feet of snow fell over donner summit. Dont forget you can get your Weather Information any time by down loading the free ktvu weather app. Its available for your smart phone or tablet. Other news the court of appeals in San Francisco will hear oral arguments today in that legal fight over the president s controversial travel ban. Reporter traveler who had been bar from entering the United States are now making past customs at United States airports since a ruling on friday from a judge in Washington State halted the ban on immigrants seven majority muslim countries. Traveler such as one who lived here for seven years but went home to attend her fathers funeral in libya. She was initially prevent from returning home to the United States. It was very tough experience. Im proud that i am from libya but i consider this home and since the rest of the family were there i was just going to do anything to be here again. We are happy now. My wife in the United States now. Reporter others are still in limbo. Some with valid visas as confusion remains. The court ofa appeals in San Francisco is expected to clear up that confusion. A panel of three judges set to rule. Judge Richard Clifton and man shell freeland. They havent made a ruling but on sunday it refused the white houses request to immediately restore the ban. The case before the circuit is on a challenge to the Trump Administration from the states of washington and minnesota which argued that the babb was not constitutional and would hurt their economy. [inaudible] to challenge the ban filing friend of the court briefs including a group of law professors, 100 tech companies, the aclu and a group of former National Security officials who said there was no National Security purpose for such a ban. In its response the Justice Department reasserted the authority of the president saying the state asks the court to take the extraordinary step of second guessing a formal National Security judgement made by the president himself. Monty francis ktvu fox 2news. All right. Oral arguments start at 3 00 p. M. Today. Itll happen over the phone. Each side will get 30 minutes to argue their case. The experts say a ruling could come anywhere from between a day to about a week. There is another showdown going on right new in the floor of the senate ahead of a vote at 9 00 this morning for wet trumps nominee for education secretary. Democrats are more than 19 hours in to a 24 hour talk athon sounding off against her. Two republicans have already said they will join democrats in voting no. Democrats are trying to convince one more republican to crossover. Otherwise the final vote will be a 50 50 tie to be broken by the vice president. Camela harris is taking part. I say that right now the senate must do our job. We must do our homework and we must refuse to confirm her as the next secretary of education. Supporters include the National Alliance for public charter schools. Critics say they appeared uninformed about key issues during the hearing. Today critics of the president s policies are staging a protest in San Francisco. Its part of a nationwide movement called resist trump tuesdays. Its due to start from noon to 1 00 p. M. Outside the chase bank at 595 market street. The group is demanding that Jp Morgan Chase ceo resign from the president s Business Advisory council. They are also protesting his order that rolled back bank regulations. Testimony will resume today in the sierra lamar murder case. At 4 30 the big revelation about the teens private life by some of her friends. And family members and friends gather to remember a young man killed by another driver a year ago. The new reward offered new hope also lead to more arrests. Itll be a wet drive and that means you should try to leave the house early if you can. Right now traffic on the east shore freeway is already getting busy. Going to be a hectic one with steady, heavy rain over the bay area. Wind to talk about can and flooding for some. I will have a look at the Current Conditions and how long the system is expected to last coming up. There are words to describe every step we take. Words for the joy. And the sorrow. But through all of lifes journey. There is no language adequate to describe the ultimate heights you can attain. Your full potential. Welcome back. Dozens gathered last night to remember a man killed in a road rage incident one year ago. People lit candles in honor of the 18yearold. He was killed by another driver following some type of dispute on the road. Friends and family members say that he was a straight a student who never had anything to do with gangs. Thank you everybody for helping and supporting isabel, her family and friends. And remembering eric. Eric we love and you lue never be forgotten. One suspect is in custody but two others still havent been found. Eric reyes family is offering a 30,000dollar reward for information that leads to more arrests. Some tense moments last night for bart riders in haywood. The bart station was shut down for about three hours because of a suspicious package. The bomb squad and the emergency crews responded. Ac transit provided a bus bridge to get passenger around the station but that closure caused system wide delays on bart. So far there is no information about that suspicious package and we are waiting to hear more from investigators. Its 4 16. We want to check in with sal for a look at traffic so far this morning. Very windy on the bridges and a lot of water on the roads. I got your information from a tweet. I didnt see you physically until right now. Thats right. You said it was a White Knuckle drive. It was. Thats the kind of drive we will have today unfortunately in the morning drive. Rosemary has said it. So leave early if you are driving and perhaps if you have discretion you may want to take transit or if you are one of the people who can work from home. Today may be the day. Gilroy to san jose. This drive looks okay as you drive through the area. There have been no major problems through morgan hill. Looking at chp. Not a lot going on. Nothing major on the bay area roads. Lets talk about the 880 drive. Oakland traffic continues to move along well. Taillights windy and the traffic is going to be okay if you are driving on 880 right now. When you get to the the bay bridge toll plaza you will see the traffic here is light. Again we do have traffic thats going to be busy. I want to mention that just getting word of an accident southbound 101 in mar in. North of the waldo tunnel this is southbound 101 north of the i guess they call it is Robin Williams tunnel now. Paramedics on the way to an injury crash. We will investigate that and get back to you soon. Now lets go to rosemary. We have plenty of rain on the roadways. We have wind out there as well as sal just said. Lets get to it. We will look at whats going on. Storm tracker 2 pointing out where we are seeing some moderate rain at this point. North bay area and take a look at most of the bay area. Still continuing to see the rain. A little bit of a break. A lot of moisture. Even if we dont see the rain chances are we have the drizzle out there. Areas over lake where you can see middle town. Clear lake. We have good rain over the hills there. North bay. Rain shifting in to the central bay. Looks like its through areas like 180 through danville. Dublin. Ran ramon. Highway 24 is wet. Lafayette. Wall net creek you will find it there. Then you get farther south it looks like fremont. San jose. Perhaps little bit of drizzle out there. Generally light at the moment. Along the peninsula, down through redwood city. Along the coast. Ocean beach through half moon bay. We are not done. We have a lot of time that we will see before this starts to taper off. I will show you the future cast model. Also dealing that wind advisory. The winds have been gusting the entire night and now in to the morning hours. Here is a look at napa where the gusts reported at 30. Oakland a gust to 26 and nevado reporting 33. Out at the Sonoma County airport the gusts to 35 milessa many hour. This is at the lower level. Up in the hills Even Stronger than that. Definitely Strong Enough to take down trees and power lines. This wind advisory for the next couple hours. Here is a look at the future cast model. We talked about that heavier rain over portions of the noter bay. As we slip into about five or six notice how it starts to is shift in to the central and south bay. During the six and seven hour when more are on the freeway we have good rain coming down over the central and south bay. Itll hang around the south bay. Nine, ten, still pockets of heavy rain. By noontime begins to break up just a bit. Not going away and its not going away for the day. Here is your afternoon drive. Five or six with scattered is showers in the forecast for the second part of tuesday. Scattered showers in the forecast for wednesday. The next system on thursday. As far as the sierra. Winter storm warning will stay in place through about ten tonight. Snow level also climb. 6,000 feet yesterday. Going to about 7,000 feet by this afternoon. This is a warmer storm. As far as rainfall amounts i talked about another storm on thursday. This takes us into friday. Anywhere from two and a half to three and a half inches by the end of the business week. Afternoon highs for today under rainy conditions, low 60s in the forecast. Here is a look at your extended forecast. You will just have to gear up, be patient. Take it easy as we have been talking about this morning. Dangerous on the roadways. Flooding happening. Its just going to go on and on until we get through at least probably friday and then we begin to see a breakin time for the Chinese New Year parade. Time for weekend events we will we be dry. Today is real. I mean that wind. Yeah. All that rain. He were bugging steve yesterday because we are all out there for the parade on saturday. A lot of people really count on being able to enjoy it. So much better when its dry. Thank you. A plea deal in a high profile murder case. Up next the sentences three defendants are facing in the killing of a marin county hiker and backpack near San Francisco. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Two drifters pleaded guilty in the high profile murder case of a backpacker. The two each plead guilty yesterday to two counts of first degree murder in marin. They are ceused in the shooting of Audrey Carrey in San Francisco and steve carter in marin. Both killings happened just days apart in october 2015. The District Attorney talked to the families of victims about the plea deal. We want to do make sure that they felt comfortable with it. If they didnt we were prepared to go forward as was anticipated to happen, we were approaching from the standpoint of trying to put some finality into it. A third suspect plead guilty last year to Second Degree murder. The gunman faces a hundred years to life when is he sentenced in april. The others facing 50 years to life in prison. The third is facing 15 years to life. That plea deal does allow for the possibility of parole. Piedmonts new police chief is starting his first day on the job today. The chief was sworn into office yesterday. He has worked in the Piedmont Police Department Since 2014. After 18 years with the san jose Police Department he has won praise from many. We have amazing pictures of meteor streak across the midwestern United States. Look at that. People from new york to canada reported seeing that fire ball in the sky early yesterday. It was mainly visible in the northern central United States and states including illinois, wisconsin and michigan. Its aingment of an asteroid. It enters the earths atmosphere. Some describe seeing a giant green colored orb. It was not big enough to cause damage but local police and television stations and National Weather service were hit with calls from people who spotted that light show. Im sure there were calls about a ufo and. Just see that is enough damage. I know. That would be an aalarming. Especially if you are driving. Yeah. In front of you. In case you didnt hear the 49ers officially have a new head coach. Kyle shanahan. How they made the big announcement. And a big turn out at stanford for Ruth Ginsberg described what makes life meaningful. Her hopes for the future. Good morning. We are looking at a drive where traffic is doing okay so far on the san mateo bridge. And the north bay hammered this morning and flood warnings to talk about. When i come back we will check in on the Current Conditions for your neighborhood. What you can expect for today and the advisories in place. Good morning. Welcome back. Live pictures. Cars going up to the bay bridgew. He have a lot of rain this morning. The roads are wet. You can see that. The winds are gusting. If you are driving be careful. Thats the best thing i can tell you. We are looking live at the bay bridge. They are moving interpret they good. Hopefully they are keeping their eyes on the road. Sal is watching all of our roads and drive and rosemary will talk about the weather in just a moment. Good morning. Welcome back. Tuesday, february 7th. Im dave clark. Good morning. Im pam cook. The first round of back to back storms has arrived. We have flood watches to let you know. High wind advisories in place as well. Rosemary is in for steve today to help us get to where we need to go. Itll be more challenging today. Yeah. I was just look agent the 24 hour rainfall total. Two and a half inches reported in the last 24 hourst. Started rain many on sunday night right abouter bowl. Its not really going to stop until about thursday night into friday. As pam and dave said this is considered
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