Toward here and Discovery Bay looking at some wet weather, as well as 580 toward livermore, fairfield a few areas of some mist and drizzle, some light showers and back through berkeley and el~cerrito. It is dry in san rafael and San Francisco. A shower passed through about 3 00 this morning. 7 00, notice the showers still hung up in the south bay, but through the 8 00 hour, barely anything left and more sunshine through the afternoon. Mostly try through the weekend but a bigger storm system on the way next week. We need the rain, but all the rain at once has caused some problem. Check out the weather and how it brought down a large tree over powerlines overnight in marin county. The wet weather is being blamed for flooding, dangerous driving and flight delays. We have more for the airport. Weather caused a fewing flight delays at san jose international, but at sfo the weather racked up 110 cancelled flights for the bay. The combination of low clouds, wind, and spotty rain meant flights
Part two is still coming and it brings with it moderate risk of urban flooding, thunderstorms, mudslides and rockslides. I will be back with a detailed look at how much more rain you can expect and how long you are going to need the umbrellas, coming up. Its pretty wet out there. Thank you. Appreciate that. A tree fell on to wires blocking highway 116 in Sonoma County this morning. The westbound lane was closed for nearly half an hour about 6 30. Cal trans was able to reroute traffic while crews cut down the tree and cleared the road. The highway was back to normal a couple hours later. The overnight rain helped bring down an oak tree in san rafael. The homeowners said it felt like an earthquake. They were lucky. The tree missed their house. Crews at local Tree Service Companies warn we will see more of this ahead as winter wears on. Reporter did you expect this to happen today . Yeah, we were geared up ready for some mayhem. Reporter is it over . No. Big ones coming tomorrow. Overall,
Rafael and live doppler hd showing the last three hours and right now San Francisco to the north, and highway run, and the Golden Gate Bridge and richmondsan rafael bridge and the reds are an indication of heavy rain toward lafayette, concord, and oakland, and moderate rain through milpitas and union city and 680 and 580 into the south bay and it and slighter but this is still through santa clara and sunnyvale and this is will heavy on the peninsula which the south bay is looking at the heavy rain coming up from the ocean. You can see the subtropical moisture will not get should off until tomorrow. Waves of heavy rain continue and we will time out when the heaviest comes and how much you can expect in the next couple of minutes. I can attest to the fact it rains in southern california. Here is a look at the bay bridge toll plaza with the same here, you can see drenched conditions as you make it from the east bay to San Francisco and we have had solo spinouts and hydroplaning all across
Dangers as we head into tomorrow night. Now to the death of maya maya angelou. I was seven teen. My mother said i think youre the greatest woman i ever met i thought about her and thought suppose shes right . So suppose i am going to be someone. She was somebody. Poet activist, and story teller. Maya angelou was many things she died today at age 86. She had strong ties to the bay area. Abc7 News Reporter Carolyn Tyler joins with us the story. Reporter tributes are pouring in tonight. She was one of the mosteloquent voices in america, and many in San Francisco felt the presence. Maya angelou spent her form tiff years here she was only 16 when she became the citys first black female conductor. She told oprah finwin free how she did it i went to my mother and said they wont allow me to asupply. She asked y do you know why . I said yes. Because im a negro. She said do you want the job . Go get it. In her 20s she was singing the blues in purple onion to support her young son. Her writing ha
They have the legal authority. Basically he formed a commission promising you can even look at me. Then when he looked at him he said, lookin at me . Thats it for special report fair, balanced. Streaming into the United States, children. Streaming out of washington, the president. Senate leader harry reid and Speaker John Boehner and hundreds more politicians, the entire house and senate are all streaming out. Nothing is going to get in the way of their vacation, even the crisis they helped create. Theyre illegal. Theyre breaking our laws. Hearing complaints about some the conditions in some Border Patrol states. Theres nothing being done at the border. Whats going on is absolutely insane for this country. President obama is jetting off to Marthas Vineyard for two weeks and the house and senate go into recess for five weeks. This crisis, as some call it crisis, we have to view as an
opportunity. Stay in washington and insist that it be resolved. We can stop this crisis in one week. Har