Crews are cleaning up two downed trees at highlands park. Trees are also a problem in San Francisco. Thats where abc 7 News Reporter lillian kim joins us live with details. Reporter its no longer raining where we are but from falling trees to clogged storm drains, city crews were busy. This is what a clogged catch basin looks like. Workers with the San Francisco Public Utilities commission have been clearing one after another in hopes of preventing the street from flooding. In most cases they find leaves and litter but this time it was just plain dirt. [ inaudible ] you do the best you can. Reporter at lombard street and buchanan, workers cut up a large ficus that crashed on top of a parked prius and blocked all southbound lanes. The roots were up in the air as it rocked over the car. But it just went right across all lanes of traffic. Reporter ficus trees have been problematic in San Francisco this rainy season. The weight of all the water on the already topheavy trees causes them to
To safety. Other drivers were still trying to get through deep water on the expressway this afternoon. Police have closed down the road from rancho verde Mobile Home Park to stony point road until the flooding subsides. Its not just the flooding but falling trees also posing difficulties. Two trees being removed after falling overnight. We have a live look for you from our camera in emeryville. As you can see, traffic is very heavy on interstate 80 heading toward berkeley. Rain is still coming down. Spencer christian happy to be inside with us. I am happy, youre right. Heres live doppler 7 hd. For much of the north bay which was drenched earlier today, the rain has ended for awhile but we still have pockets of rain which ama and larry referred to a little earlier moving in onshore across the Santa Cruz Mountains, across the peninsula over to san mateo and across the bay out towards san leandro and farther inland to antioch. We have pockets of rainfall and isolated downpours but the ste
Needles can pick through them or whatever so we learned as we went along and then the mayor got walgreens and also hilton then holiday inn to get involved so i didnt have to raise all of the money. Then we embarked on the clean Toilet Program where our members went and painted owl of the and remodeled all of the bathrooms in chinatown for all of the restaurants so we could offer the facilities to the tourists, so we came a long way. The only thing that i feel we still need to do is for the city to think of a way to deputize a lot of us so every time we see somebody littering the street we can write them a citation. If i see somebody spit on the sidewalk i issue them a citation, and let me tell you people throwing cigarette butts around we give them a citation. Honesty thats what we needed, and then i do have a book from the Police Department, but since ed became mayor i didnt want to use it and accuse him of giving me the citation book so instead i choose to carry this cane, and let me
Wiener from the board of supervisors and here to wish you a happy new year and thank you to everyone that made this happen and have a great one. Thank you. This is Julie Christensen the supervisor for the district. Congratulations. All of you picked the best place to be today. Its a Beautiful Day so happy new year. Happy valentines day. Have a good day in chinatown and thank you to the chamber and to ed and rose for putting on a party and inviting all of us to be here. Thank you norman. [speaking foreign language] any other supervisors . Thats it . Okay. Are we ready . [speaking foreign language] speaking chinese . I i am here to represent the recorder assessor carmen chu and happy new year and celebrate with your valentines too. Thank you very much. Real quick captain can you say Chinese New Year . [speaking foreign language] happy new year. Happy valentines day on behalf of every Police Officer that has the best job in the world patrolling chinatown and thank you very much. We have t
All right. Is this cyc . Make some noise. Cyc. [speaking foreign language] is cyc here . Yeah. Community love right here. [speaking foreign language] hey good job, good job. Smile, smile. Its not that heavy. You make cyc proud, the community. Oh yes. All right. I dont know if theyre going to fit on stage. You know i wish your captain were here. Oh there he is. Captain. One of my old favorites. Commander is here too. [speaking foreign language] okay. I think the mayor should go first so sisters and brothers san franciscans the mayor ed lee. [speaking foreign language] what a presentation from our Golden Dragon and all of our wonderful young people. I want to have a special welcome to our valley christian and our students from beijing. Yeah, they came all the way over here to celebrate this wonderful event and gosh this is all about family. Its all about extended family. I want to welcome everyone here to the year of the ram celebrations. This is a kickoff. Were kicking it off. Were clea