temperatures. a little band of high clouds later in the afternoon and yesterday took the edge off the temperatures a little but that will not be the case today. high pressure kicking in. phoenix looks good today. tucson with maybe some cloud cover and scattered showers but no big deal. 30s and 40s on the temperatures. some temperatures continue to cool down. it will be sunny mostly statewide. 12 up in truckie. 16 tahoe and 36 blue canyon. then everyone enjoys sunshine and warmer temperatures. a little cold now. plenty of 30s and 40s to go around but 60s to near 70. almost there, more likely tomorrow but today we ll get close for a few. traffic starting to pick up. especially in the south bay. i want to go to the maps now if we can. show that you south bay commute. we are not off to a good start especially on 101, 680 area. crews are still working on that accident on story road involving what is being reported as a most motorcycle accident. but as you can see there are three
caltrans to a halt. it s not until you throw a height on the crowd you see how nasty the commute was. this brought train commuters out of the car and into the night. there s a typical a problem down the line, we ll get back to you, we ll get back to you, we ll get back to you. and finally here we are. where are we? you re in san mateo. thank you. reporter: no lights in the parking lot, no lights in most of the city of san mateo. making head lamps the fashion accessory of the evening. we and a good portion of san mateo lost our power so we are bored so we decided to take wilma for a walk tonight. reporter: with both commute and home miserable and dark everyone had one question. you guys know when the power is coming back on? reporter: now, pg&e says they can expect power to be fully restored until 4 a.m. that s right, 4 a.m. still about 200 customers here in san mateo without power. it could be a very long time before the power is back on and the trains are b
meteorologist jeff. we are tracking the storm system moving off to the south right now. as you can see in the doppler radar scan, the heaviest band that hit us from about 11:00 this morning to 3:00 this afternoon has now pushed off towards the south, but we re definitely not in the clear. you can see as we put a scan on the radar we re still tracking some heavy rainfall just to the south of gilroy, gut for most of the bay area, we re just having a few showers across silicon valley, but overall that is still pretty seeing plenty of traffic heading tonight as we put on our traffic layer. what you re going to notice is a lot of red in the south bay. again, that is an indication of some of that heavier traffic that will continue to deal throughout portions of san jose. rainfall totals impressive. mount tamapais. mill valley, 1.5. even getting in on a decent amount of rainfall here in san jose with.49. here is the remarkable thing. the biggest 24-hour total of 2013 happening in
we snapped this picture of a flooded lane northbound. and the chainsaws hard at work this morning in san francisco s nob hill neighborhood. that tree came down during a storm blocking the hyde street cable car line. the weather almost toppled the power pole in lafayette. the lines came down at a construction site on second street near mount diablo boulevard at around 1:30 this afternoon. the street was closed for about 90 minutes while crews cleared the road. and a free day for students at silver creek high school in san jose. the storms sparked a transformer fire knocking out power to the school. all classes were canceled. silver creek high will re-open tomorrow. new at 5:00 the weather could be to blame for a series of underground explosions in san francisco. at least two pg&e utility vaults blew their covers on montgomery street between sacramento and clay. kpix 5 s andria borba is there with more. reporter: you can take a look behind me right now, allen, and you c
redwood city and san jose nearly a half inch of rainfall. coming up in weather, we ll talk about when the next rain chance is as this heavy rainfall ends coming up in a few minutes. by midafternoon the storm had its sights set directly on san jose. our len ramirez picks up our coverage. reporter: for families commuting southbound on oil 87 through downtown, they may not be getting home until late because traffic is at a standstill. it s been this way all afternoon ever since this very strong storm hit early this afternoon. the intense downpour seemed to catch everyone by surprise including drivers along the southbound lanes of highway 87 fire that downtown san jose. debris led to snarled traffic all afternoon after lanes were blocked. storm drains clogged with leaves were a problem for palo alto. cars splashed through the water and people in the streets had to sidestep 3 puddles stepped right through. it was deep and wet. reporter: others ran for cover not expecting