Caused the floodwaters to rise more quickly than expected. The new prediction is eight feet crest of the Russian River no, were talking about it would crest at 37. 6 feet, thats almost 8 feet above flood stage. Niely road is closed right now. Our team caught this driver of the pickup truck trying to make it down the road despite that water, she says her friends wanted to go back to check on their cats but water came over the top of the hood and our joe vazquez caught up with her once the rescuers were able to get her out of that flooded roadway. What happened to you there . You drove through . We drove through, water came up over the front of the hood, blocked air intake and it stalled. Im assuming you thought you could get through the water as it was getting higher . Yeah. Well, it rose as we got stuck. You have any regrets about that . [ laughter ] obviously. A stuck truck. Reporter firefighters say please heed the warnings. Six inches of moving water can knock you down two feet can sweep your car away and they also want everybody to Pay Attention to the evacuation orders almost 2,000 people will evacuated. And they are being sent to an Evacuation Center, the santa rosa Veterans Memorial building and a lot of these folks are used to it. They know they live in the area where runoff from the Russian River could end up in their homes. But everybody waiting for this river to crest later today. Live in guerneville, anne makevoc, kpix 5. Meanwhile, the city of napa heavy rains have turned entire intersections into reservoirs. The flooding has made many roads in the area just too difficult for cars to cross. Even though some cars and this truck here still trying to make it through, its best to just turn around. Not safe at all, right . Kenny, whats the slogan . Turn around; dont drown the last time i saw this flooding in the napa area was the 1998 el nino and it was new years eve and i was spending my new years eve on a boat monitoring the napa river. Its not that extensive because they have done this great thing, they installed this big giant floodgate and they closed those gates for the first time on sunday. And its been working really well except were still anticipating a little light to moderate flooding around the napa area. This is what we are forecasting for the napa river in napa. Flood stage is 25 feet. Today cresting at 26. 1 which means there will be moderate flooding on the secondary roads which we have already seen, the silverado trail with a good mudslide. 37. 6 which means well see flooding around parkers resort, also brookside resort and perhaps even some of the local businesses. And napa river in saint helena, some of the folks in deer park and angwin tell me this is their major commute into the napa area. Silverado trail is the alternate. Thats closed. So they may not be able to get to work if this floods. And there will be flooding. Live hidef Doppler Radar picking up light precipitation in the north bay. Angwin are rain showers. Urban flood advisory in effect for today, Flash Flood Watch in addition to the Flash Flood Warning for parts of Alameda County until 6 00. Is it 6 00 now . Yes, it is. So that should be expiring. Coastal flood advisory in effect due to the astronomical high tide with that high tide of just over 7 feet at 10 a. M. Temperatures 48 degrees in santa rosa for the cool spots. 53 apiece oakland and in San Francisco. Later today, a lingering shower from yesterdays major storm. Mostly cloudy skies. Temperatures in the 50s. We are tracking another storm heading this way. We remain on storm watch. Those details 18 minutes after the hour. Downtown trees have been a big problem as the ground gets more saturated. This is the inside of a house in lafayette. The owners say a 150foottall tree fell on the home yesterday. A third of the house is now debris and branches and two people were inside watching tv when the tree came down but no injuries. We have some breaking news in the south bay right now. A water rescue near hollister. Kevin oneill from the san benito office of Emergency Services is on the phone with us. Kevin, what can you tell us about whats going on there now . Good morning. So, currently were conducting swiftwater rescues of several residences on lovers lane at Pacheco Creek. At 2 a. M. The creek crested and started flooding several residences on lovers lane. We have currently evacuated 29 people. 22 are at a red cross shelter and 7 more are on the way. Um we got, um, lovers lane closed between niles canyon closed between palomares road and fremont. And that means southbound 680 is moving slowly. Ill send it to you. Meanwhile, Santa Cruz County has been so hard hit by mudslides and fallen trees that officials have declared a state of emergency. They are hoping money from the state will cover costs. Workers have been tied up for hours on end clearing trees and power lines from roadways. Today president elect donald trump is expected to get some questions about alleged russian interference. It comes amid reports that russia gathered potentially compromising personal and Financial Information on mr. Trump. Some Officials Say the information originally came from a former British Intelligence officer before it was eventually turned over to u. S. Intelligence. Its unconfirmed. The details were part of a classified report ordered by president obama into alleged russian hacking. I felt it was important now that the election was over for everybody to understand exactly what happened in order to prevent it from happening again. Most importantly, it says that the fbi is trying to confirm it. So nothing is confirmed. Mr. Trumps nominee for secretary of state is in confirmation hearings today. The hearing for Rex Tillerson is under way in washington today. He received an order of friendship from Vladimir Putin in 2012 after a deal with a russian oil company. The confirmation hearing for alabama senator Jeff Sessions continues today. Yesterday he denied allegations of racism during his career and will maintain freedom and equality for everyone when he is confirmed. Time now, 6 10. Driving could get a bit pricier in california this year if Governor Brown gets his way. And well check in to see how they are doing in the mountains as a nonstop storm buries the sierra in snow. Blizzard warnings there. Storm watch here. Because we have yet one more storm. Were tracking it. Well tell you how much rain to expect. Okay. Heres a live look at the san mateo bridge. A slow commute into the peninsula. We have a Traffic Alert in the peninsula. Well tell you where it is. 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Scattered showers today. A new storm queued up ready to roll in. Well track that together. Its traffic and weather coming up. Heres video from heavenly resort in South Lake Tahoe. The city of South Lake Tahoe is encouraging people to stay off the roads through tomorrow because of hazardous conditions. U. S. Highway 50 toward south shore is now closed between Pollock Pines and meyers. Toward the north shore and truckee interstate 80 remains closed between colfax and the nevada state line. Locally heres more incredible Rushing Water footage. This is in walnut creek under a bridge at walnut creek intermediate school. A suspect is in custody and a child is safely reunited with his mother after a brief car theft in san leandro. Investigators say the 4year old was in a car yesterday morning when his mother briefly went inside their cherrywood avenue home with another child. San Leandro Police say thats when 44yearold jason sill ba stole the vehicle. The car was found a short time later in oakland with the child inside and silva was later arrested. Governor brown is outlining the next budget plan. He hopes to raise 43 billion over the next 10 years from new taxes and fees. Yesterday he proposed a new 65 fee on all vehicles that would be on top of the 10 fee that starts in april. Well, overall, Governor Brown says that 2017 will be the tightest year since 2012. He is warning of budget cuts as the state has seen a decline in revenue. The governor is asking for a 122. 5 billion budget for the state. And muni officials in San Francisco say the signs predicting arrival times should be accurate for most trains. The agencys next muni system started showing Incorrect Information last tuesday. And thats when muni Service Providers upgraded from 2g to 3 g before muni could make that change on all of its vehicles sending data. Fixing arrival times for the citys buses is expected to take a few more weeks. So at least the trains are showing progress but not the buses yet. Its making a lot of lives miserable because you dont know when the bus is coming. Exactly. Its its especially right now during a storm, you want mass transit to be on point. So when you have mass transit problems its going to cause some trouble. Downed trees dont help. The rain is letting up and we have lingering showers. But the bottom line is the soil is beyond saturated and well still have another storm to come. Roqui, get some sleep tonight okay, friday, though . Friday is when the rain should settle down . Friday should be sunny and well dry out and head to the beach. Okay [ laughter ] whats going on today . We havent seen the bay bridge in a while because we have been focusing on those Traffic Alerts. So heres a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. Maze to downtown a slow commute. The roads are wet of the about 20 minutes. Rom hayward to foster city, 880 to 101, traffic is moving slowly and also into the peninsula we have a new Traffic Alert to tell you about. La honda road in woodside between grandview drive and skywood way is closed due to a mudslide out there. Scotts valley highway 17 between vine hill and glenwood cutoff down to one lane each direction and as you can see the northbound side of 17 very, very slow at just 5 Miles Per Hour. So if you can, give yourself a lot of extra time to get through the area. Los gatos a mudslide as well from overnight mudslides so be careful out there as you head out the door. Ill send it to you. All right, roqui. Thank you. All thoughts are on the north bay neighbors this morning. Good morning, because since saturday we have had over a foot of rain in the mountains in the north bay. It continues to rain today and we anticipate flooding in guerneville at the Russian River when it crests at 37. 6. We have already seen some minor toed mo rat flooding and now moderate to significant flooding anticipated today. Napa river in napa floodgates working really well. We still have moderate flooding on secondary roads due to 26. 1 cresting later this afternoon. And also the napa river in saint helena cresting very close to flood stage. Well keep a watchful eye on that as well live hidef Doppler Radar, its still raining outside this morning. In some areas, the pockets are pretty moderate. This cell just moved out vigorously. It was in marinwood just moved across the bay towards the eastern portion of our bay area. We have had hitandmiss scattered showers around rock city at mount diablo, tassajara through blackhawk into alamo. Around the peninsula this morning, east palo alto, menlo park, look at this cell right here over North Fair Oaks in redwood city. All this is trying to lift north. Scotts valley more rain slated for today. Peninsula again i had a little cell over the san mateo area, its drifting over the san mateo bridge east towards hayward. San francisco, youre dry right now but more light rain in the forecast. Lingering showers throughout the day today on the passage of that potent storm yesterday that dumped anywhere between 2 and 4 and 6 inches of rain. Urban flood advisory in effect for the bay area. Thats the blue highlighted area. Coastal flood advisory due to astronomical high tide. The tide is really a king tide of over 7 feet at 10 a. M. Little or no break. A lingering shower but yet we still have another storm. Thats queued up ready to move into the bay area. Lets track it together. Futurecast, heres your early afternoon hours of scattered showers around the santa clara valley. This is the leading edge of yet another area low pressure. It has different characteristics. Not a lot of wind associated with it, more showers and focused to the peninsula to the south. More rain coming up to 2 in some areas, pacifica approaching an inch. Its snowing hard, its a blizzard warning in effect for the high sierra until 10 a. M. 7 25 is your sunup. Temperatures into the 50s this afternoon. West winds 10 to 15. Lingering showers into your thursday. Full sunshine friday. Partly cloudy saturday through monday. Thats the forecast. We are on storm watch. Get yourself an extra cup of coffee and come right on back. We have more news and sports. , good morning, everybody. For the first time this season steve kerr gave one of the big four the night off. Klay thompson has been playing through illness. He was out of the lineup last night against miami. Warriors fans not exempts from the storms hitting the bay area. Miami bringing the heat early. James johnson over steph curry. That ended the 1st quarter with miami in front. Local kid from st. Francis is tyler johnson, went off for 18 points last night. He was undrafted out of fresno state. He has a 50 million contract. Patrick mccaw had only 3 points last night. They were big. Gave golden state a 7 point lead. 4th quarter warriors up 11. Curry with the loose ball to iguodala who slammed it home. Curry had 24. Warriors win 10795. The heat have just 11 wins this season. Wow. Brent burns named one of three sharks all stars but this night last night was not about burns. It was about that man boedker was just 139 into the game. The second shot of the game and its a goal. Boedker had only three shots all game. But they all went in no, really. He scored a hat trick in just 29 minutes doubling his goal output from the first 39 games. His fourth career hat trick. The sharks win 53 to remain in a first place tie. The raiders have let go offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave despite finishing 6th in total offense in the nfl. The raiders are expected to promote quarterback coach todd downing to take musgraves place. Ted norton, jr. , remains the raider defensive coordinator. Well have the latest on the 49ers coaching search tonight at 6 00. Have a great day, everybody. Us senator will testify against another in cabinet confirmation hearings. Rter ad libs its 6 26. For the first time in history today, one sitting u. S. Senator will testify against another in cabinet confirmation hearings. And a Flood Warning in effect for areas near the Russian River. Coming up, well take a look at some of the floodwaters where they are spilling and when were expecting this river to crest. ,,,,,,,, stream all your entertainment anywhere anytime can we lose the all. Theres no cbs and we dont have a ton of sports. Anywhere, any. Lets lose the anywhere, anytime too. You cant download onthego, theres no dvr, yada yada yada. Stream some stuff somewhere sometimes you totally nailed that buddy. Simple. Dont let directv now limit your entertainment. Only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. Time is 6 ve got rain stil good morning. It is wednesday, january 11. Im kenny choi. Im michelle griego. Time now 6 30. [ inaudible ] the rain is still here in the bay area but the heavy stuff seems to have passed. A live look outside right now it the sparkling bay bridge there. It is a different scene though in the north bay. Evacuations are in place because of all the flooding from the Russian River. Kpix 5s anne makovec is live in guerneville to show us the conditions there. Anne . Reporter we are under a Flood Warning here. Several downtown businesses at least partially under water and heres one of em right now, this pee wee golf course. Its off river and niely roads. Some of the plastic animals sitting in a dirty bath of river runoff. Most lowlying areas in Sonoma County are under some water today. It is going to get worse before it gets better. The Flood Warning remains in effect and the latest estimate is that the Russian River will crest at 37. 6 feet later today. That is almost 8 feet above flood stage. 1700 people under evacuation orders right now. A lot of them waiting it out in vehicles but there is an Evacuation Center open at santa rosa Veterans Memorial building. Most residents are used to the flooding but the levels were seeing this week just too high for sandbags. Emergency officials are expecting to have to do more swiftwater rescues today. Turn around; dont drown we have to get that word out. This could have been avoided. Our team caught the driver of this pickup truck trying to push through the road closed warnings on niely road yesterday. The truck stalled, firefighters got the passengers on to rescue rafts and then brought them to shore. The rain is letting up here for now. Buy it will take a long time but it will take a long time for the floodwaters to recede and then there will be a mess to clean up with the mud, nastiness and dirt left behind. Live in guerneville, anne makevoc, kpix 5. Also in the north bay, heavy rain sent mud rushing for a fairfax home trapping a family inside. Trees and big parts of a hillside went rolling with that mud all slamming into this home on sir Francis Drake and olema. The mudslide destroyed the front steps forcing crews to work their way around plants, mud and live wires to rescue everyone inside the house. The mudslide also caused a gas leak which pg e crews have been working to repair. We have been seeing these mudslides everywhere even our floor manager got stuck in the traffic because of a mudslide on his way to work so couldnt make it to work this morning. The la honda road. I love the peninsula. Thats so woodsy. There was a downed tree and mudslide and said ohoh cant get to work today. Thank you so much. [ laughter ] lets check the rivers because this is the major concern today. Lets start off with guerneville. The Russian River. It has already caused some modest flooding. Now were talking about cresting at 37. 6. Thats going to happen this afternoon. There will be some flooding at parkers resort, brookside resort, and perhaps some of the local businesses. Then there is the napa river near napa. It should exceed flood stage by 1 foot. We already saw the secondary roads by the soberanes train with a mudslide and the napa river in saint helena with problems. All eyes to the north where 7 inches fell in 24 hours in venado. But santa rosa, you have seen 10 inches of rain in the month of january. Its still raining. Live hidef doppler shows the cell, moderate rainfall pushing out of vallejo making tracks towards 680 for your commute this morning. Hitandmiss scattered showers around the trivalley, dublin 580 680 corridor always very messy when wet. We have rain showers over union city. South bay cupertino clearing out after just seeing some rain showers. We have lots of rain around saratoga, los gatos, lifting up into the Santa Cruz Mountains. Boulder creek more rain there on top of 4. 5 of rain that accumulated yesterday. Peninsula you, too have some rain showers drifting into palo alto towards the san mateo bridge. So far no reports of any delays at sfo. Well kind posted. Urban flood advisory still in effect for much of the bay area by that blue highlighted area. In addition to a Coastal Flood Advisory for astronomical high tide. We have the king tide just over 7 feet at 10 00 this morning. Rapid rise in the streams, rock and mudslides possible, downed trees still possible today even though well just see a lingering shower. The soil is beyond saturated. 48 to 53 degrees out the door this morning. The winds are up to 13 in some spots. Well blow 10 to 15 out of the west today. Numberwise into the 50s just shy of 60 degrees. And yes, you heard it correctly lingering shower or two today. The bulkful your day will be dry but we are the bulk of your day will be dry but we are tracking a new storm and well do that at 48 after the hour. Kenny, michelle . Thank you. Mudslides are causing problems in fremont. Niles canyon road is closed again as crews work to clear the mud and debris. And take a look at this video from the fremont fire department. They posted this overnight from niles canyon. As you can see, the Alameda Creek is flowing very fast. And right now, chopper 5 is live over the scene in that area of the niles canyon mudslide. You can see some of the equipment there some of the trucks there. Caltrans crews have been working to clear the road. The mudslide is affecting at monday corridor express trains as well this morning. And we have seen that this situation this area has had problems in the past earlier this week as well on monday. Yeah. Its causing a lot of problems on the roads. Thank you. Because of that story kenny just told you, southbound 680 is definitely going to be slow so give yourself some extra time if thats a part of your morning commute. Headed to highway 17, we have been reporting on this all week long and we just cannot catch a break. Lets start with the first problem because there are three im gonna tell you about. First, highway 17 between vine hill road and the glenwood cutoff thats one lane in both directions right now and on the northbound side youre moving at just 5 Miles Per Hour in the area so very, very slow into san jose give yourself some extra time. And then the second problem, northbound 17 after the catch. Caltrain is out there to fill a large pothole in the left lane thats causing cars to break down all morning long so chp is running traffic breaks in the area. So well keep an eye on that and see if thats causing slowdowns in the area, as well. And in the southbound side of 17, after the catch, mudslide in the right lane not causing any delays but like i keep saying well definitely keep an eye on it. It highway 84 la honda road between grandview drive and skywood way thats now open. It was just closed due to a mudslide. And moving over to the peninsula commute, if you are heading into the peninsula from hayward across the span of the san mateo bridge, a lot of slowdowns in the area. 880 to 101, now takes 25 minutes. Ill send it to you. All right, roqui. Thank you. Bart trains are now up and running after a fallen tree sparked a systemwide delay. A bart car hit the tracks near the balboa bart station. This is around 5 30 last night. Train service was completely shut down between 24th street in San Francisco and daly city. And you can see commuters packed the platform on 24th street while waiting for a ride home. A systemwide delay lasted for more than 4 hours. President elect Donald Trumps nominee for secretary of state returns for day 2 of his confirmation hearings this morning. In washington, dc. Yesterday, alabama senator Jeff Sessions denied decades old allegations of racism. His supporters and opponents will take turns offering their testimony. He is nominated for attorney general. Cory booker is expected to testify against his fellow senator. That will be the first time in history thats happened. Mr. Trumps nominee for secretary of state expected to come under scrutiny today again for his close ties to russia. Youre looking live at the hearing for former exxonmobil ceo Rex Tillerson. He received a russian order of friendship from president Vladimir Putin in 2012 after a deal with a russian oil company. And in just under two hours, the president elect will hold his first News Conference since july amid new allegations about the Intelligence Report into russias alleged interferes in the 2016 election. Multiple government and intelligence officials telling cbs news that high ranking government officials were briefed on additional unverified claims not included in the report. They allege that russia may have compromising information about trump. You can watch the News Conference right here on kpix 5 at 8 a. M. And president obama is back in washington after delivering his speech. His last speech as commanderin chief last night. And he had what appeared to be some advice for his successor. If we dont create opportunities for all people, the disaffection and division that has stalled our progress under my administration will only sharp en. The president delivered the address to a crowd in chicago where his political career was started. The president focused on themes of social justice, fairness and diversity as a strength. Meanwhile, president obamas younger daughter sasha was noticeably absence from the speech. The white house says she stayed in dc to study for an exam. Time now 6 39. The nonstop storms have created a huge mess in the sierra. Well have more on closures in the high country. , good morning. Time check 6 43 on this 1 1th day of the month of january. This is it. Its our hidef Doppler Radar. Rain showers in the Santa Cruz Mountains where over 4. 5 of rain fell in the past 24 hours in boulder creek. Its still raining. Peninsula hitandmiss scattered showers in palo alto lifting up into the san mateo bridge area. We have that urban flood advisory in effect in addition to the Coastal Flood Advisory. Flash Flood Warning in parts of santa clara county. We have your full traffic and weather storm watch report coming up at 6 47. This just in to the kpix 5 newsroom. The Oakland Unified School district has Just Announced that montara middle school in oakland will be closed because of a power outage. Stay away until further notice. So montara middle school in oakland is closed today. Gayle king joins us from cbs this morning. You have a lot going on there as well as us. Im writing this down. Montera middle school is closed because of a power problem. You know, i went to school in the bay area menloatherton high so i know that area very well. Thank you, michelle good to see you. Youre right, we have a lot going on today. Ahead, donald trump last reports that russia has damaging financial and personal information about him. Top adviser Kellyanne Conway will join us in studio 57 to discuss it. Plus well talk to a cia insider mike morell about the claims and John Dickerson also joining us at the table today to preview the president elects News Conference thats coming up in about an hour from now. Well see you at 7 00 straight up. Back to you. Thank you. The bay area says hi San Franciscobased Wells Fargo Bank has yet another plan to deal with its unauthorized account scandal. That story and more from kcbs radios financial reporter jason brooks. Good morning,. Reporter good morning, michelle. Good morning, kenny. Wells fargo trying to recover from that scandal that erupted in september. Its announced a new way to compensate its branch bankers. The focus will now be on Customer Service goals rather than sales goals. It will be longer term in approach and will also include more oversight of sales practices. Wells fargo has felt the pain of that scandal. On average, each month since then in september its new Checking Account openings and credit card applications have fallen by 38 each month on average. The next iphone could really look a lot different. The iphone 8 which is expected in september will have glass panels on the front and back and will be connected by a stainless steel frame. Thats a big departure as prior iphones have had an aluminum frame except for the iphone 4 which did have the steel flame. It does a couple of things. Its sturdier than aluminum and the process is also cheaper to make for apple. Stock market fairly quiet ahead of president elect Donald Trumps press conference in about an hour from now. The market will be focused on a number of themes ranging from tax plans, fiscal stimulus, deregulation and trade policies. The dow is up over 30 points. Nasdaq is down 4. S p up 1. Nasdaq has been closing at record levels for the past several sessions. Back to you. Thank you, jason brooks from kcbs radio. The bad news continues for anyone planning to drive between the bay area and the tahoe truckee region. Interstate 80 remains closed between colfax and the nevada state line because of snow and wind making it impossible to see very far. The National Weather service has a blizzard warning in effect for the area until 10 a. M. Meanwhile, towards South Lake Tahoe, we just got word that u. S. Highway 50 has reopened. But tire chains are required between sand flat and meyers. Lets get over to roqui with more on road closures. Its getting crazy in the traffic center. Thats the story all week. So you guys are expecting delays throughout the bay area. Dont say we didnt tell. Highway 1502 is close between carlton and watsonville road and also highway 152 is closed between highway 156 and ferguson road in gilroy. Both do you to flooding. In the ferguson road area we have thats also where that lovers lane area is where chp and other rescuers are rescuing people in small boats. Drive safely. Moving to the Scotts ValleySanta Cruz Mountains area highway 17 so much trouble here all week long starting here with the first problem we have been talking about all morning. Highway 17 between vine hill road and the glenwood cutoff this is still down to one lane in both directions and traffic is moving on the northbound side at just 7 Miles Per Hour. Then heading up northern 17 after the catch, caltrans is filling a pothole causing some accidents. Then we have a mudslide in the right lane in the area. Into the peninsula heres a live look at the san mateo bridge. A lot of brake lights it will take a while. Ill send it to you. All right, roqui. Thank you. Forecasters were calling this a storm of every 10 years proportion giving it a chance of every 10 , um, every year a chance of it raining this hard and now when it happened, the last time it rained this hard in the bay area was back in 2005. So we do have some flooding here in the bay area. We havent seen this kind of flooding in 10, 11 years. The Russian River in guerneville expected to crest 37. 6 feet today this afternoon. We have already had moderate flooding there and it will continue. Meanwhile the napa river near napa expected to flood by over one food. We have already seen flooding and mudslides on the silverado trail. Live hidef doppler picking up some rain showers pushing out of the north bay. Its moving out rapidly. We have light rain around mount diablo into the tassajara area also some light rain showers now into throughout the peninsula just out of the palo alto area into east palo alto. Looking at alta mesa back through stanford. You do need that umbrella heading out the door this morning. No rain at sfo right now and no airport delays San Francisco, that little cell just moved out of the Mission District in towards the bay bridge so you need that umbrella today a lingering scattered showers on the heels of the passage of that potent storm yesterday. Then were queuing up and watching another storm heading this way. Urban flood advisory in effect for this blue area. It means we also have the Coastal Flood Advisory in effect due to astronomical high tide. Well see that king tide kick in 7. 1 just after 10 a. M. Futurecast during the early afternoon hours just a hitand miss scattered shower on the passage of yesterdays storm. Here comes the brandnew storm. By about 11 00 to 1 00 in the morning, everybody is wet again with the raindrops on the rooftops, the heaviest rain this time from morgan hill into the santa cruz area. Well see lingering showers into our thursday. By thursday evening, we begin to dry out. Until then up to 1. 5 of rain expected over the next 24 to 36 hours. Blizzard warning in effect for the high sierra, 5 feet of snow has already fallen at tahoe donner. What does that mean for your snow report . Well, Alpine Meadows and heavenly valley both blizzard conditions. Call ahead to the resorts to see if they are open. We have seen wind gusts up to 100 miles an hour in the highest elevations and they close the lifts. Temperatures in fact 50s today. Your extended forecast, rain tonight, rain on thursday, dry sunny friday, partly cloudy saturday, through monday. Well remain on storm watch right here at kpix 5. Well be right back. ,,, as ceo of exxonmobile. 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The company has been using it ever since in restaurants across the country earning the company about 2 billion and so she wants 2 billion. Ive things to know at the 55. Today president elect Donald Trump Holds his first News Conference since july. It comes as we learn more about a classified report ordered by president obama into russian interference in the election including unverified claims that russia may have compromising information about donald trump. Two of trumps key staff picks face confirmation hearings today. Trumps secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson will be grilled on his close ties to russia. Meanwhile, senator Jeff Sessions will face lawmakers for a second day. The alabama senator is nominated for u. S. Attorney general. Today San Franciscos fire marshal is expected to release a report on warehouse inspections in the city. It was prompted by last months deadly ghost ship fire in oakland. Firefighters in San Francisco began inspections shortly thereafter. 29 people had to be evacuated from homes near hollister. This is just a short time ago near 152 and lovers lane about 10 homes have upwards of three feet of water inside after the Pacheco Creek overflowed its banks. In napa county the sulfur creek ran over because of the rain. Some people in the area were forced to evacuate. Reporter im anne makovec live in guerneville which is under a Flood Warning today. You can see some of the runoff here from the Russian River here behind me. This is at the pee wee golf course. And its going to get worse before it gets better. The latest estimate is that the Russian River will crest at 37. 6 feet, later this morning. That is almost 6 feet above flood stage. 1700 people are evacuated. Those ro live in the lowlying areas of Sonoma County. Many of them waiting it out in their vehicles. There is an Evacuation Center set up at the santa rosa Veterans Memorial building. The levels of flooding that were seeing this week really too high for most sandbags and were seeing a lot of flooded and closed roads, as well. Our team caught the driver of this pickup truck trying to push through the road closed warnings on niely road yesterday. You might imagine, the truck stalled, firefighters had to come out and get the passengers on to rescue rafts and then bring them to shore. A big concern this morning is whether or not highway 116 will flood. It looks like that is not going to happen are. That is a main artery in Sonoma County wine country. So that could have been disastrous. It looks like we are just going to miss that roadway flooding which is one minor bright spot in what is certainly a cloudy week. Live in guerneville, anne makevoc, kpix 5. Thank you for braving the storm out there, anne. It is 6 57. Lets take a look at our roadways, you guys. Highway 17 if this is part of your morning commute give yourself a lot of extra time. First of all, between vine hill road and the glenwood cutoff, one lane is still one lane in both directions here and youre driving at just 8 Miles Per Hour in that area and as you head up northbound 17, we have another issue, caltrans is out there filling a large pothole in the left lane, thats caused some incidents there and then on the southbound side of 17 after the catch theres a mudslide in the right rain. Heading into the san jose area we have a crash the first crash of the morning to report. Southbound 680 at king road that offramp is closed and its due to a twocar crash. Thats your traffic. Roberta, ill send it to you. I think thats the first pothole you reported on all week this is going to be pothole season this weekend we have lingering showers in the forecast for the morning commute. Dont leave home without the umbrella. Look at the east bay 580 680 corridor you have the rain showers back through sunol. We have the rain in the Santa Cruz Mountains. We have the rain also around the peninsula. And its just scattered lingering but we have an urban flood advisory in effect in addition to the Coastal Flood Advisory for astronomical high tide around 10 a. M. At 7 feet. We are in the 50s. Look at that sky. We have clearing out there most of the day will be dry. Well see some scattered showers. Well see temperatures in the 50s. Well have lingering showers through your thursday then sunny skies friday through monday. Did you say sunny . Wow in Alpine Meadows, a couple used to winter storms encounters a big avalanche. It burst through their front door and the photo has gone viral. Steve and margaret say three feet of falling snow in just one night caused it to burst right through their house. It covered the house completely. But they werent hurt. I would be very tempted to get a snow blower. Not in the living room. Captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com 2017. Welcome to cbs this morning. President elect trump blasts reports that russian intelligence has damaging financial and personal information about him, his Senior AdviserKellyanne Conway is in studio 57. President obama warns about threats to our democracy during an emotional farewell address. He offers a challenge to republicans trying to dismantle his fraerk. A flooding Emergency Forces thousands from their home in california. Blizzard conditions shut down a major interstate. Mudslides an avalanching leave a trail of destruction. We be again with todayey