From ktvu. Reporter weve seen some of the waves breaking over the pier, even over the barriers they have been so high. And thats happened even at low tide. Authorities want to warn people that this High Surf Advisory could be continuing through tomorrow morning and bring dangerous conditions. Reporter the first day of 2020 brought people to the edge of the Pacific Ocean to relax and reflect. But high surf brought powerful waves barrelling toward the shore, packing a punch at pacifica pier. We just happened to be coming through town and saw the waves and thought wed come out here and get a little closer look. Is this the first time ive ever seen them this high. We were hoping for a nice walk on the pier. Reporter a High Surf Advisory for new years day warned wavewatchers down the coast to half moon bay. Conditions like, this it can pull you out, theres rip currents. Its best to stay away, even if youre standing next to the water. Youve been hearing about all these sneaker waves. Those c
25,000 people. Everybody was evacuating, and they already had their power shut off. You lose everything in your fridge and freezer. Reporter those giving up their time, no well that the help is needed, following the destruction from the wildfire that ravaged this area. Meaningful to us. Reporter while volunteers work, donation barrels return full. A good sign. We look for canned goods, canned stews. Canned meats like chicken or tuna. Reporter the other important ingredients, generosity of others. Being able to do this at a time, the holidays, is also very meaningful. Reporter every year the food bank 40 of meals. In a county that continues to see destruckive wildfires, that number could grow higher. New at 6 00, Sonoma County Authorities Say a carjacking suspect died today after deputies tried to subdue him. Deputies tried to stop the man, just before 6 00 this morning. They pursued him to the community of bloomfield, where they were able to box him in. Officials say the driver fought
Over the bay and over mt. Hamilton with snow and livermore light rain or showers. This storm still ranks one on the storm impact scale so still a chance of scattered showers possibly even isolated hail and thunder. Ill give you a look at complete forecast for thanksgiving day in a few minutes. Thank you. People driving through the sierra have been met with delays. Traffic is slow at donor summit. If you plan to drive on 80 or highway 50 chains are required unless you have a fourwheel drive vehicle with snow tires. And a live look at the bay area. Look at the lights. Ow tower camera in emeryville and it is slowgoing. The oncoming lights, onmi afficha eastbound toward sacramento and it is very slow now. Aaa predicted the worst time to drive today would be from 2 00 to 4 00 p. M. Because of the than thanksgiving day travelers and snow and heavy rainfall up and down the state is making it more difficult. David louie joins us live along 101 in morgan hill and hes been talking to drivers. Da
I want you to pick out with me. Thats tonight at 9 00. Theres a t lot of red and orange here. This red line is the Atmospheric River, the fire hose pointed right in the middle of the bay. Now, it might be tough to pick it out, but that will be a near constant feature with us. There we are at 2 00 a. M. We have at least a branch of it up here, but there is a theme going into tomorrow which is very important. Look at sunday morning. Still pretty stationary for the bay area. The majority of the rain that will come in at a steady, pounding rate will be toward monterrey and santa cruz. Doesnt mean we wont get rain up here sunday. There is still good rain here. But if you want to focus on the most relentless, you follow the line an it will be a little to the south sunday. That is somewhat good news for the bay area getting more manageable rain amounts. I dont want to down play this. This will be a good rainmaker for us. It can lead to some minor localized street flooding. Maybe some of the w
Weve got rain moving through santa rosa, petaluma, san rafael. So your trek along 101 or 80 to the north bay is a mess and pushing this in further through the interior, tracy is okay right now. Taking a little bit of a break. Fremont a little bit of rain passing through. San jose falling in a bit of that rain shadow and if i push this further down south in terms of our storm ranger, well be able to see that that storm has been centered now a little bit more to the south, and by that, i mean the santa cruz, monterey area weve got the greenfield area, look at the cells pushing through monterey. Santa cruz is expected to get the biggest impact as we head into this evening. A quick check right now at how far we are in terms of 24hour storm totals. Nearly three inches of rain so far in the past 24 hours. This is the latest as of this morning, three peaks near big sur, over two inches. Oak ridge over an inch. Ill go over the top wind gusts and timing of how long the rain will last coming up