Youre watching kpix 5 news at 5 30. Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, our live high def radar shows more showers moving into the bay area for the friday commute. Meteorologist darren peck tracking where the rain is right now. Down in the south bay, maria. The last 3 hours were some of the best rain. You can see it moved across in on organized line. But that was then, this is now. Im going to stop it right there. Lets get into the south bay because this is where were seeing the kind of rain thats going to slow down the drive. And its coming right through the heart of downtown san jose. Look at that, that line of like yellow beads going right up 87 to the intersection with 280 into 82, theres 880, theres the heart of downtown san jose. Thats where weve been watching some of the more noticeable rain. Its not going to last much so longer. It will slowly move to the southeast. Were not out of this until we get done with saturday, but saturday is not all that impressive. Il
Napa and south bay. Even down here. Over an inch for oakland. Over an inch for belmont. And inch and three tenths and two inches in santa cruz. We need this rain obviously. Were in the heart of a drought and every single drop counts. At this point, heavy activity but we are watching strong thunderstorms especially off the north bay. Were going to see this activity as the core of low pressure starts to make its way across the bay area. Go to the north bay mountains as well. And up and down the peninsula, we will be watching for that. You now, heres something that we havent seen in over a years time. Im talking about snow on top of mount hamilton. Well tell you how much snow is on its way to tahoe. Back to you, kris and scott. Thank you very much christina. Well, the heavy rains caused significant problems on the knew ways. And we saw one car get stuck in the floodwaters. Reporter we did, good morning, kris and scott. Yeah that happened. Usually the cars end up in a yard like this. Were
Virus. Another 56,000 cases yesterday pushed the total over 3. 1 million nationwide. According to dr. Anthony fauci, about half of all new cases are coming from just four states, florida, arizona, california and texas. But a new singleday high was also reported in several states including alabama, missouri and montana. All of this is overwhelming hospitals across the south and the west. For example, North Carolina reported more than 1,000 hospitalizations for the first time yesterday. In florida, more than 40 icus have hit capacity and five of the largest hospitals in the state of mississippi have run out of icu beds completely. We have reporters spread out across the country bringing us important stories that you will not see anywhere else. I want to start in ft. Worth, texas, a state that keeps setting records for new deaths and hospitalizations. My colleague Garrett Haake is there. Garrett, we talk a lot about the doctors and nurses. But we dont often discuss people like ems workers
Cnn will take you inside of damascus. Warm welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world with. Im zain asher. Glad to be with you the next hour. Im errol barnett. This is cnn newsroom. We begin with u. S. Politics in the 2016 candidate who keeps rising if popularity. No stopping him. Donald trump. Yet. The republican president ial candidate leads two polls in the key early voting states of iowa and New Hampshire after the debate last week on tuesday night. He spoke at his First Campaign since then on tuesday night and fired back when pressed for his policy plans. Listen. When you are coming up with a plan in business you have to be flexibility. There has to be flexibility. I bought something not so recently, but doral in miami. Everybody wanted it. If i said heres a 12point plan to get doral. I didnt do that. I went in and punched and punched and beat the hell out of people and ended up getting it. Everybody wanted it. Another question he faced that got attention is
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