Issues. We will wrap it up in about 15 minutes. Here it is, jeff was talking about it. We mentioned it also. That mudslide near salinas. Here is new video in our newsroom. Debris and mudflows causing significant damage to homes and roads. Mud pushed up against the homes spilling over onto the street. Firefighters say at least two people were hurt and nearly 50 horses were rescued. Look at that sludge and mud and mess right there. The mudflow is from the river fire zone from last august. While the bay area escaped flooding and mudslides for now, many areas instead got snow. Jodi hernandez went to one spot that just last week was the site of a brush fire. Reporter parts of the bay area look more like the sierra today after the storm delivered a good dose of snow. Its been crazy weather lately, right . Reporter ashley and Payton Wilcox spent the morning playing in the snow. As Mother Nature brought yet another surprise to parts of the bay area. Its been interesting definitely this year. R
State. We have Team Coverage across the bay area. Fires are flaring and evacuations are underway as we speak. One of the most destructionive fireses is in sonoma county. 50 structures there have been damaged so far. Abc7 News Reporter Laura Anthony live in vacaville with more on the situation. Laura . Reporter well, hi. I can tell you from what weve seen, that number will go much higher. This house behind me in the English Hills area, a very recent casualty. This home started burning right about 2 00. A beautiful twostory home on top of a hill. We can see it go up. The roof was on fire. And within less than two hours, really, this is all thats left of it. This is a harrowing night for the folks who live in this neighborhood. Were in northwest vacaville. Im told by the neighbors around 3 30 in the morning, they started to get the calls via loud speaker. The warning that there was an imminent threat to their lives. We had a go list dug up last night, fortunately. We grabbed everything an
Im sam brock. We are going to get to that story. Whats rel vanlt. There is more rain on the way. Lets get caught up with the weather the rain starts out light, off and on throughout the day. Very scattered and light showers. Some of the heaviest rain will be across parts of the north bay where we still see some of the moisture streaming in. There will be more as we go into the afternoon. A look at all the micro climates. Our temperatures are now in the mid to upper 50s with fog and light rain, specially in the north bay in San Francisco, wet roads as you head out and scattered showers throughout the day. Well talk about that and what to expect as we go into the weekend. Lets check in now with mike. Were looking over towards the golden gate brim. This is what kari was talking about. It might not seem like that dramatic of a change as far as the dry roads but the slippery conditions will be an issue. So far, light traffic all around the bay. We dont register a lot of moisture on our road
Thats about where we will stay with a high of 62 in the south bay. Lets check in with mike. Lets take a look at 580. You do see a nicely flowing but well populated view. I want to show you the maps. A little farther east, it does renlster with wet roadways. Thats where it came through part of the system. As kari has been talking about, rain throughout many parts of the bay. Your roadways will be slick in most of your commute spots. We dont see any slowing. Well take you across the bay brinl bridge to show you the low clouds that may be a factor. All new. A rough night for one walnut creek homeowner. He woke up to what he thought was an earthquake. Was it actually . A massive oak tree that fell down from a nearby park and directly hit his house all over the yard there as well. This happened early this morning on lancaster right near interstate 680 not too far away from newell. Everyone inside the home escaped injury. Police did not give an estimate on the damage to the home. Damages as
Im sam brock. The rap is back. Mother nature trying to keep the bay area saturated. Lets get a look at your micro climate forecast with kari hall. Some of the heavier rain will stay over the north bay while the rest will see off and on showers throughout the day. We have yet to see the rain make it into the south bay. We will see that as we go into this afternoon. Temperatures starting out very mild. Well hold steady in the upper 50s to lower 60s into the afternoon. Well talk about this weekend with another round of scattered showers moving in. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Lets see how the traffic is moving now with mike. Kari, im glad you are holding off. Im glad we are holding off on the rain in the south bay for now. We have that crash. That would add to the slowing. This is north 101. Unexpectedly slow for a friday at 680. It is starting just before you get there. Right around tully road. Northbound 101 at oakland, the rest of the south bay showing friday light as you would ex