The rain already getting a pickup on the wind. Over areas over the bay a few sprinkles and south of point reyes but we are pretty much still dry. Lets check in on the winds, mount diablo reporting the wind gust of 27 in the northbay 23 as expected the winds were coming ahead of the rain and the wind advisory already in place. When guests of 20 when guests of 20 mph sustained over areas of san jose. Heres a snapshot of the advisories coming out with the system. Anywhere from 1 to 2 inches for the central bay and that has triggered a Flash Flood Watch that will be in a place for later today for the kincaid fire zone in areas downstream. A lot of area covered in the Flash Flood Watch. A wind advisory in place and expected to remain breezy for the entire day. And for the sierra winter storm warning this afternoon that will last all the way into sunday. Better details on the advisories and the timeline coming up. And the northbay people have been busy preparing for days. A Flash Flood Watch
Bam, everything went off and that was the end of the day. Reporter the city of santa rosa has its Emergency Operations center fully staffed. They estimate 50,000 to 60,000 people will be impacted within the city limits. Traffic lights at 24 intersections are expected to go dark. Our goal is to make sure that during the shutoff, that we do the most we can to protect our community. Reporter the owner of bettys fish andhips cooked up lunch for customers before the shutoff. They lost power for three days during the last outage. With a freezer full of just delivered fish, the potential losses are once again huge. I dont think theyre thinking about the families that are impacted, small businesses, retail, restaurants. There just has to be another way. Reporter now, we are inside village pet store. The good news here, just after the power turned off, they were able to start up a generator. You can see the freezers are now powered. Im going to walk you back here to the animal section. You can
Garcia. Couldnt you leave good enough alone . I am surprised they didnt text you because i knew you were glued to the television. And i was wondering if i would have to get my car out of the garage and get a portable generator. 250,000 people in the bay area could have their power shut off. Is because of the weather, not the heat that is causing them to take the move. Is the low humidity and the wind. Is expected to be much stronger and widespread. We talk about gus 265 Miles Per Hour. They will take down the power lines. Heres a look at the red flag wag thatwill move in not yes but it doesnt include just the bay area, it includes widespread over the sacramento value valley but it starts tomorrow morning at 5 am and goes until thursday afternoon. We are talking 36 hours. Over the north hills and east bay hills, Santa Cruz Mountains, it also includes far northbay valley locations. They do not expect to see the wind but they could reach 35 or 40. Heres a look at futurecast. Early tomorro
Knew where alan chow was. Whether he was lost or injured. A terrible week of worrying for friends and family in oakland. This neighbor said her heart went out to his mother. She mustve been going crazy not knowing where her son was. Reporter rescue crews searched Yosemite National park with ground teams dogs and helicopters. They focus on the area near the reservoir where he was last seen on saturday. Park rangers say some of the popular hiking trails in the area usually clearly marked were covered with snow. He got lost. His coworker was alarmed when he did not show up to work after mondays today. And reported him missing. Friday a park ranger spotted him and his tent just above will palma falls. If you are out in the backcountry and you fall or hurt yourself. You get lost stay put. Dont try to walk around and get more loss. Reporter the park ranger said he did everything right. To survive the freezing temperatures and snow for nearly one week. He did the right thing by setting up his
A professional athlete, leaping over fences and ground obstacles and giving police a good run. Officers were using a loud speaker to tell him to surrender, but he kept going, thinking that the construction site ahead of him might give him cover to elude officers. A construction foreman says his team of 70 workers were ordered to scramble as the suspect was believed to be armed and dangerous. We heard the helicopter over there. We didnt think we were in trouble or anything, and they came over here like 20 minutes ago. So they told us to evacuate everybody on site, police are on site with guns, ready to shoot. Get everybody out. This is a Perfect Place to hide. You can go under a sheet of plywood and they could have never caught him. Reporter but Police Officers nabbed him. Its not clear if he sustained injuries during the foot chase, but we did see him on the ground with the First Responders checking him out. What an end to the day after police spent two days looking for a man who robbe