Slick streets and problems on the road this christmas the latest winter storm to soak the bay area moves through tonight. And good evening im jana katsuyama. And im ken wayne. Frank and gasia are off tonight. Were on storm watch as another storm moves through the area. Bill martin is tracking the rain and where its falling right now but we begin with cara liu where some drivers are coping with wet and slick roadways out there. Reporter the water has begun to dry since the rain did stop. But still heavy traffic especially considering its 10 00 tonight. A lot of folks returning to dinner after a rainy day today. Rainwater covered multiple lanes. The rain fell steady most of the afternoon and evening weather and speed are being blamed for a single car crash. Neither the driver or his family were injured when the suv rolled on to it side it was one of a number of crashes that officers responded to during the storm. With anything involved with these collisions where theres water on the road
Up next on a second look, the rugged and highly trained mountain battle force that helped turn the tide of world war ii. The battle against avalanches in the sierra and how triggering small ones can prevent big ones. A woman who lived five days buried in the snow after a disastrous avalanche hit a sierra ski resort. And the story behind the california ski resort that was home to the Winter Olympics all straight ahead tonight on a second look. Good evening and welcome to a second look. Im julie haener. Tonight the joys and dangers of skiing. For one group of american soldiers in world war ii skiing was not a sport it was a means for waging war. In 2001, ktvus Bob Mackenzie brought us the story of the legendary tenth Mountain Division. Reporter in their time they were legendary soldiers. The men of the tenth Mountain Division could ski, climb mountains, use stealth and hit hard and fast. I think it was the best fighting force, it was the only fighting force that i experienced and i cant
This is ktvu channel 2 morning news. Good morning everybody, it is wednesday december 26th, i am brian flores. And i am claudine wong, dave and pam have the morning off, mark, it sounds like a little bit of everything is out there. Yes, rainfall coverage has been increasing parts of the bay area and we have some downpours and you will notice them in at least the next hour or so. You can see some of the heavier cells in parts of the Santa Cruz Mountains and there is probably a thunderstorm so we are talking about the probability of hail in vallejo. We have an update now on the wet roadways with tara, good morning, tara. Traffic is flowing nicely into berkeley at the mcarthur maze on the righthand side. Definitely give yourself some extra time, 6 00 on the nose, lets head back to the desk. Workers heading back to work could face a tricky commute. Lorraine blanco is live at the bay bridge toll plaza with more on that. Reporter the rain has been spotty throughout the morning and we are her
World of live and painokillers handed out like candy. Athlete prop up on drug then sent out to play through broken bones and agonizing pain. Jim avila has more on these startling new allegations. Violent hits like this one. Broke superbowl winning quarterback jim mcman neck an injury he says nfl doctors never told him about. Leaving him to play hurt for years. So today he and 500 other nfl players are suing charging the league hit injuries from Players Behind a mask of pain pills creating a culture of drug misuse substituting Players Health for profit. What you have is warriors out there on any given sunday that are just pumd pumped up with combination of narcotics and antiinflammatorys to try to get them out on the field. Mcmahon now suffers from dementia has complained in the past. Saying the nfl hid the effects of cop concussion from players, too. Nfl denies this but still settled for 7 65 Million Dollars. They knew bit. And they didnt tell us. Its just like flat outlying to you. Re
The neighborhood. During that foot pursuit, a second robbery at the 7 11. So the officer was able to have a visual on them, but lost track of them. Reporter now, take a look, a close look at this. This is another piece of Surveillance Video we found from a home here on mount you can see that the video captures what looks like a shadow, hiding in a garage here. You can see him moving around there and then a San Jose Police car cruises by. Were going to go back to the other Surveillance Video as well to show you that these men were in the store less than a minute. May be taking a cell phone video. But both of these suspects, both considered to be armed and dangerous in that store for less than a minute. Were not sure exactly how much they got away with, but an undisclosed amount of lottery tickets and cash. Going through that video frame by frame and hoping to get some more information from the clerk and the customer to come up with some sort of suspect description here. Thats the very l