scale upgraded to a 2 late last night. good morning to you on this friday, february 17. i m reggie aqui. grab all of your rain gear, you re going to need it today. let s go ahead and check in with mike nicco this morning. i ve got a few tweets from some folks who went and bought new boots. good for you. congratulations, styling while staying dry. emeryville all the way up to berkeley to kinzington and richmond, we re seeing some of the moderate downpours in the east bay freeway there and from san francisco up to mill valley. this is marching northward. this is the leading edge of what s going to be periods of the moderate to heavy rain. as you can see on the richmond side of the richmond-san rafael bridge, it wil be moderate by noon, scattered by 4:00, still a chance at 7:00 but just like yesterday, this is going to be a morning-centered storm that will bring us more rain and more wind than yesterday. that s why as reggie mentioned, it s a 2. here s alexis with the commut
earthquake rupture the dam. but draining a third of the water from the county s largest reservoir is no quick and easy task. it takes time. but as soon as we get that down to those restricted level we can breathe a sigh of relief. reporter: if anderson tops its banks, the district says low-lying areas of coyote creek could see flooding. scott gill lives downstream and would never admit it to his wife but he is worried. if you had to pick flood or earthquake? neither. [ laughter ] but when i know that a 7.25 at this level of water that it could rupture the dam and break down, that makes it a double whammy, doesn t it? reporter: it s been raging like this since the beginning of january. even if they have no more storms, they need to relieve it to get it down to safe levels for four weeks. in the 67 years since this dam was built, it s only spilled over 10 times. in we re live in morgan hill. kiet do, kpix 5. slick conditions on highway 17 in the santa cruz mountains
out of an open window firing a long rifle. first at his neighbors homes and cars, and then at police. even at the helicopters hovering overhead. it was reported that shots were fired at residents and at some of the cars that were parked on the street. we had multiple officers arrive on scene. officers reported that this individual was shooting at them. rounds were striking the ground near where the officers were. reporter: from sky 7 you can see an oakland police suv with bullet holes in the windshield, so no officer was hit. at one point the suspect, identified as 32-year-old jesse enjand was spraying painting a woman s home. i heard like several rounds together, about five. and so that told me okay, it s definitely some sort of gun so i ran back in the home. then i looked out my upper window from the second level of my home to get a better view. as i pulled the shade back, i heard more rounds and so i thought, well, maybe someone is shooting at me. reporter: finall
heavy rain and already saturated soil has taken a toll on thetrees along the coast. this huge monterey pine crushed the front of a duplex here off 49thavenue. barry temple says the tree might just as easily have fallen on his house.sot barry temple/neighbor ..my wife was out for a walk and she heard a loud crack and saw a tree fall across the street and then there was another crash and this tree came down across from out house. no one was hurt because the residents of the front unit had just left for work when the tree fell. monika wallis lives in the rear unit and had been worried about that tree amid all therecent rain.sot monika wallis/lives next door ..there have been limbs hanging down and i told the home owners association about it but they weren t impressed by what seemed to be a disater waiting to happen.. the power was knocked out and a utility pole looks like it might fall at any time, promptingthe police to close several streets in the area. p.g.e. rolled seveal
and damage is still ahead of us. whether you are sleeping in a little today or heading to work, thanks for being there on this monday, february 20th. good luck with all this rain. maybe the rain woke them up like it did me. it was coming down heavily. right. it will do that again. let s look at live doppler 7. hi, everybody. we re seeing the heaviest of the rain move across highway 4 and into the central valley. i ll broaden the scope. this atmospheric river is still loading up with moisture offshore. while the yellows and oranges are going away temporarily, they are coming back. you can see all the ponding left, especially as you approach the richmond side of the richmond san rafael bridge. breezy, breezy and windy and windy from 7:00 through the afternoon hours. the rain is going to pick up in intensity. the most likely time for flooding will be this afternoon through this evening. the most likely time for wind damage will be this afternoon to evening, as well. we r