We want to extends a special welcome to our Fox News viewers. Im meteorologist are arti from our studios here in new York City and weve been covering helene over the last several hours over the last several days. This has been an extremely well forecast storm, before it even formed down in the western caribbean. It looked like something like this was going to happen, so again, we still have technically a Hurricane Storm and Hurricane Center will probably see it downgraded slowly throughout the night, but one unique thing about helene, this particular storm is that it was very large, right . So large storms take a longer time to lose their strength as they move inland so you look up here to the north. Not only do we have a long Wind Damage to get, were going to see some hikely catastrophic rain, and i want to bring Ian Oliver. He started out in st. Petersburg beach and hes now made the trek over to tampa, so kind of on the other side of town, and ian, whether you started on the of other
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7 inches, morgan hill over 5 inches. Take a look at this. Our average monthly rain in january is 2. 5 to 10 inches. In two days we have seen nearly our entire january monthly rain. It is just astonishing, you guys. We have not seen more problems in the Santa Cruz Mountains with all of that water we had in a short amount of time. I dont want to jinx anything, but i have to say we are very lucky looking at all of that water we had in a short amount of time. Those are big numbers. Usually our storms in the bay area are north and south. This time its flipped on its head there. Thank you. The rain relentless there in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Communities from los gatos to bolder creek getting beat up these last 48 hours. Good news though. The mandatory evacuation orders in that czu fire burn downgrade. That means people can start coming home. Robert handa is in ben homan with the latest. What are you seeing . Reporter well, a couple of rough days of rain for our communities here in the Sant
Parents and students protesting tonight in pleasanton. The big question, when will middle schoolers and High Schoolers get to come back to school . Rent relief and eviction protections on its way tonight to those impacted by covid. The storms heading out. Ill let you on up. Ski shops like this one busy as the rush is on to get to tahoe. Ill show you why that might be easier said than done. Abc 7 news starts right now. Announcer building a better area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. I mean, if youre coming from the bay area and youre trying to head up to a ski resort tonight, you probably are not going to get through. That is the warning from caltrans tonight. If youre thinking of heading up to lake tahoe, just dont do it. Blizzard conditions are making the roads extremely treacherous. Right now 80 is closed because of several jackknife big riggs, multiple spinouts and heavy snow. There is no estimated time for its reopening. And 350 is open but with chain controls ove