it s just funneling in. from ma rino the east bay moderate to heavy rain. up in the sierra this will be measured in feet. it looks like snow level should go up a little bit. especially up toward shasta. now more rain than snow. there still could be some in higher elevations. 40s, 50s on the temperatures. we are warm than yesterday. santa rosa up by eight degrees. look at the moisture. that s the low tapping in to that. as it fun elm there will be heavy rain. 40s, 50s on your temperatures. a steady rain. i believe alex is now manning the post on traffic. i am. good morning to you. good morning. its going to be a busy morning because of all that rain. we also are tracking another possible problem for your morning drive. if your drive takes you across the golden gate bridge for a lot of people today the first day back to work after the holidays and traffic on the bridge could get backed up as we move throughout the morning. here is a live look. the movable median barrier i
sal is off. alex is in. speaking of a few extra days clearly. 15 wasn t enough. that s for you sal, if you re watching. i was at the gym and i couldn t get on a machine. it was packed. i ll confess, i haven t gotten there yet to the gym. but we will. i have to get to that resolution. the problem that i have found, during the holidays you re busy and it throws off your routine. the routine for the past month. it starts next week. also new session of congress. right. it started today. it will be a very interesting year. yep. in politics. we saw it this morning where the house republicans had a vote behind closed doors. then we saw president-elect donald trump questioning the move. my question is, what do you think the relationship is going to be like between trump and the house republicans? that dynamic is going to be one to keep an eye on, i think. yep. certainly throughout his presidency. obviously we know that a lot of republicans didn t have his
washington retiring in 2014. she previously served five years as chief of the spokane washington police department. oakland has been without a chief now since june when sean wenz resigned in the wide ranging sexual exploitation scandal involving a teenager. at that time mayor libby schaaf ruled out what she called a toxic culture under the department, reaching out to several officials for more information where one source is telling us the police command staff was notified earlier today to expect an announcement tomorrow, but they were not told the name of the new chief. now to the weather we ve seen heavy rain in the bay area all day long. that s triggering concerns about flooding. 1.63 inches in the past 24 hours. for there s been strong winds out there as well causing trees to fall and sparking the power outages. in the sierra there s a winter storm warning anyfect right now with up to five feet of new in effect right now with up to five feet of new snow. we ha
portions of sonoma county. this is for colgan creek, some reports of flooding near yano road. and then moving closer to scots valley and felton, a flood warning in place right now. we ll bring up the information here. until 6:45 this morning. so that red area, a rapped rise on the river happening right now. that s a flash flood watch for all of these areas covered in green. here up in the north pay, moderate downpours still up in portions of the north bay. moderate to heavy for san francisco and oakland, and the south bay not as much coverage. outside right now, here is our live camera, looking out toward oakland. the flags moving around quite a bit, as well, looking out toward jack london square. the peak winds have expired, but still a bit of a breeze out there. by later in the morning, by 8:00, and into the afternoon hours, we can t guarantee a dry forecast, but still some more breaks in the action. still some occasional rain showers, but the rainfall should back off in in
rain as well. things have cleared up dramatically in the 9:00 hour compared to where we were five hours ago. two different stories right there from the shots, gasia. yeah. the one in the sierra and one here. not too far away. 150 miles apart. cool to see that perspective. as we talk about the coming days, mark tamayo, you say this is a lot of rain but wait until saturday. yeah. we re focusing on this weekend. this is a big deal moving into the bay area. we already have the rainfall and the wind from this morning. this weekend, it will be really ramped up. take a look at the rainfall totals over the past 24 hours. san rafael, 3.61 inches. santa rosa, over two inches. thankfully the bulk of the action was before the morning commute. probably woke you up, the gusty winds. we had a wind advisory in place but that has expired. mount diablo, gusts up to 61 miles per hour. on the satellite and radar, you saw the sierra with the picture up to borel. come in closer to the ba