Los gatos was a steady pouring down rain, but it wasnt very heavy. We had the wind khial wipers on the whole time. Very slick conditions on the road. But now were here in los gatos the rain is much lighter than it was. Its moving toward the Central Coast. Highway 17 is slick. We passed one of those electronic traffic signs and it said reduce speed. Handful of cars but they are not reducing their speed but hopefully people will be careful out there. We have video from san mateo where it was deluge this morning pouring rain a, who are piston dal rain that horizontal rain that was making rain standing water. There was a lot of standing water. As the sun starts to rise. The light of day appears, it seems the vein disappearing. Again youll need those windshield wipers and need to keep headlights be on and be aware there will be slick conditions. Nothing like the downpour we saw as early an hour ago. Pulling up my abc 7 news app and live doppler does show a yellow band, some rain will be han
You can see how pacifica is. National Weather Service warning people to stay away from water but some people dangerous waves crashing ot it was time to surf. One guy made it farther out, but never caught a wave. Waves mairgz today. Were trying to imagineuj what it would be like surfing today. Youre probably killing yourself. n brutal on land, too. People make their living off the sea are not taking risks. Crabbers will not head out until two more day autos seas go back up, it makes it hard to go in a straight line. Just makes it too dangerous to work out there. You cant stop here in weather like this. The wind knocked boats loose, the Harbor Patrol had to go out, tie them back up. At two locations, piles of sand ready and waiting for residents rifing in low areas. Hardly anyone showed up but worker Works Department suspects more people tomorrow after heavier rain blows through. In the st. Trancis woods section, pg e took care of an emergency situation, branches on power lines that r
The reopening of that roadway. The wet weather has been causing problems all over the bay area. Some of those problems may linger for the next few days. Alan wang reports from santa rosa. Jill stopped at the waters edge west of santa rosa and decided to roll the dice. Came through a couple of hours ago but i thought i could make it through this time. Unlike these trucks and suvs that made it across, their toyota got swamped in a foot half of water just like the car before him. Made a dumb mistake but it was a little bigger. Michelle and her husband narrowly escaped serious injury when in this douglas fir crashed through their home. I was probably two feet. I was underneath all this rubble. Also in marin county, floodwaters shut down highway 1 and pacifica tempted surfers but the crabbers are playing it safe in half moon bay. They wont head back out for at least two more days. Back here in sonoma county, public works crews was still cleaning out culverts from the last storm that swept t
Reporter held the victims as gunpoint. This happened on the first floor of this building here on 40th avenue. The victims say they often leave their front door unlocked because theres a gate. If we pan down, we can show you the gate in front of the building. Thats usually locked but the residents say they admit this gate sometimes sticks and they think thats maybe how they got in. This happened before 3 00 a. M. The victims tell us there were eight people inside the building. The five men broke in and went from room to room, waking people up and bringing them into the living room. Ive never had a gun in my face before. That was pretty intense. Reporter did they all have guns . One of them had a knife. One of them grabbed a knife from our kitchen and i saw two guns. Reporter were they covering their faces . No. They all had really bagby clothes on and hoods on. But you could see their faces. Reporter victims say they ransacked the place, they believe, looking for drugs. They broke at le
Soaking happened last night when the rain started. Lock at this video last night from civilian and daly city area. Good rain came down. It has been a while. So, some people had their umbrellas and paid attention and knew it was coming and others were caught off guard. It ised in it is understandable. We have not had a good rain since december. January is the third most dry january on record. The rain is finally here. Expect it to be spotty through the morning so keep that in mind headed to work or wherever you are headed. Dont put the umbrella away yet. It is here. You will need it. After today it is locking like you will be able to store the umbrella because it will be dry after this so put up with it now because it wont be here for long. Our storm is relatively minor compared to the northeast where they are preparing for huge blizzard forecasted to hit the same areas slammed by super storm sandy last year. Now a look at flurries falling in new york city right now. That will make traf