brianne carter picking up our team coverage. she is in clarksburg with that part of the story. brian: it has been 48 hours of hard work for road crews across the region. focusing along 270. the preparation is underway. at the premium outlet salt slathered across parking spaces as the last-minute shoppers try to get out ahead of mother nature. the road crews have been busy. crews have been pretreating for two days to lay down a salt brine mixture on the already cold roads. salty streets noticeable on the beltway today. in virginia, more than 5,000 lane miles pretreated and 1,100 pieces of equipment will be out on the snow, we plow out of the way. something we are good at. the operators know how to do well. the ice gets tricky. brianne: the head of the d.c. department of public works says the cold temperatures in the last two days means anything that falls will likely stick so the city will deploy 200 trucks from midnight until noon tomorrow to wipe away the winter weather.
weather flooding that we re dealing with. the other concern is along the russian river here from bridge haven right over to mirra bell heights. should expect flooding possible into the next 48-hour forecast. if you approach standing water, you want to turn around and head the other direction if you re in your car. it take as couple of inches to carry your car away. don t mess with the water. tonight, here s the radar picture. we have rainfall wide spread coverage and unfortunately it looks like we could keep the rain into 7:00 a.m. on tuesday. i ll have another update at 6:10. we ve seen mudslides all across the bay area but none more impactful than the one in santa cruz. watcthe video. we slowed this down. this happened around highway 17. robert honda spent the day working with the crews to clear the mud. how is the camera man and how is the progress on the cleanup? reporter: we understand that the camera man is fine and we re here at the base of the mudslide where you c
we do have team coverage. they are stationed from guerneville to san francisco watching those dangerous spots. we ll get to them in a moment but first we need to check in with meteorologist kari hall. good morning we are seeing some of that rain continuing through the bay area. this is what it looks like as you head out. this is a live look outside of oakland, 880, and it is very slow going. so, some wet roads and pretty good coverage here on the radar as we have seen also some splotches of yellow. rain moving through the north bay, san francisco and over to the east bay. and where we see the heavy est rain, just to the south of napa over toward no vat o and san rafael, some heavier rain falling outside the window now. we talked about 880 in oakland, rain move tlg and just to the south there toward hayward and down the peninsula, a more steady downpour that s kind of wind blown, but we ve also seen a bit of a break for parts of san jose, but just in a few minutes that rai
without the boat, oakland is vulnerable to typical incidents of terrorism on the water. the outside consultants urge that the boat be restored as a vital tool to protect the port in the post 9/11 world. there s another risk for not having a fire station on the city s water front. it comes from trait trains. they can cost precious minute foss crews responding from downtown to the waterfront. there is a chance you will not be able to get here because of a train. so you re taking a chance, a risk. reporter: he says each date some 52 freight trains pass by on the way to the port. each creates a potential roadblock for first responders. parker says that s unacceptable. if that fire boat is not reinstated, and they don t put firefighters back in there, someone will pay the pride. zach unger says firefighters in port cities are astounded by the risk oakland is taking. when i go to other cities, seattle, long beach, i talk to the firefighters there, they are always amazed w
while the dangerous and painstaking recovery effort continues throughout the night. it will be a considerable amount of time before we can give them the information and closure that they deserve. the 10:00 news on ktvu fox 2 starts now. good evening everyone. i m frank somerville. we ve been working throughout the day to bring you the latest on the devastating fire in oakland s fruitvale district. earlier this evening we were live as heavy equipment was brought into the site in what is now a recovery operation. crews are trying to work their way inside the building looking for victims of this deadly fire. as you can imagine it is a grim and delicate operation. it will go on for hours in fact days. it took much of this day to shore up the building itself so first responders could get in safely. to the latest on what we know now the fire started last night at 11:30 during a late-night party. nine people are confirmed dead. we know their bodies have been removed from t