Water gushing out of the south bay reservoir, not to reduce flooding but to prevent a different kind of disaster. Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. We are finally getting a break from ten Straight Days of rain. To say the bay area is waterlogged an under statement. A snapshot of the reservoirs now. Lake shasta is at 92 . Anderson is at 91 full. That Water District is releasing water, which is hard to understand when the state is officially in a drought. Eric thomas explains why this water has to go. He wants to jump in. We cant let him. Reporter theres no way he could paddle through the turbulent water flooding into coyote creek. People have come down to take a look. Its spectacular. A lot of water they have to release out of the dam. Its pretty wild. Reporter the wis releasing protect the 230 foot tall dam built in 1950. Its not seismically safe. The reservoir is limited to 68 capacity. Its currently at 91 . At the rate of inflow and the storms in the forecast, we exp
Are cleaning up, pumping out and drying out tonight after a week of rain. We could really use some clear weather. Sandy has been tracking when we might see some more rain. Sandy, it sounds like me might be getting a nice break. Yes, indeed, ama and dan. Say so long to the rain. Live doppler 7 is quiet tonight. When you take a look at the sevenday rainfall totals, topping 12 inches. Over a foot of rain. Mount saint helena and kent field, we got about a half a foot in danville. Ben lomond almost 11 inches of rain. Lower elevations 1 1 2 inches to three nuinches in after. It has pushed our season to date well above average. Santa rosa 203 of normal. 183 in livermore. 152 oakland. Were doing good in the rainfall department. Flood warning continues for the russian river. Minor flooding has been reported. Thats going to continue through tomorrow morning. Rivers take a while before they begin to recede. Central Sonoma County also under a Flood Warning until 8 30 tomorrow morning. Primarily Ma
Now from abc 7, live breaking news. Breaking news, a massive evacuation effort is under way right now as more than 100,000 people are trying to get out of the way of a potentially catastrophic failure at the Lake Oroville dam. If that is not addressed and we dont take care of that and mitigate it properly, essentially what were looking at is approximately a 30foot wall of water good evening. Im eric thomas. Were waiting for the start of a News Conference on the latest of the situation at Lake Oroville dam. The dam is near chico 160 highs northeast of San Francisco. The problem is with an emergency spillway designed to relieve pressure on the dam when its holding too much water. Abc 7 News Reporter Alisa Harrington is live with more on the previous News Conference they just held a short time ago. Very chaotic and scary day for people who live below the dam. Right now the goal is to prevent water from coming over the top of this emergency spillway. To do this, helicopters are doing drops
Let the work begin thank you, good evening and welcome to the the San Francisco board of appeals. The presiding officer is commissioner honda and we are joined by by our Vice President commissioner fung and commissioner wilson and commissioner swig commissioner lazarus that be a little bit to my left the deputy City Attorney to provide the board with legal advice at the controls so gary the legal assistant director. Were joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before this board. Sitting at the table in the front is so Scott Sanchez Planning Department. And her representing the Planning Department and Planning Commission and next is inspector, next line item. Phones and other Electronic Devices are prohibited. Please carry on conversations out in the hallway. Permit holders and others have up to 7 minutes to present their case and 3 minutes for rebuttal. People affiliated with these parties must conclude their comments within 7 minutes, participants not affil
Ford, all of these basically weaker than expected although slightly better than expected for fiat and chrysler. The real concern is when you look at car sales. Were not talking about suvs and pickups. Were talking about car sales. The numbers, thats not a mistake there. That is accurate. Fiat chrysler cars down 39 . Gm down 25 . Same with ford. Toyota, down 15. 9 . What is happening here . A couple things. Moderate gas prices are having an impact. People are saying if i have gas at, what, 2. 32 a gallon on average in this country, hey, its still relatively cleep to where it was a few years ago. As a result, you see people rotating to crossovers, suvs. So when you take a look at the japanese automakers sh the reason were showing you the stocks is because these guys have more exposure to the car market in north america relative to gm, ford, fiat chrysler. Keep in mind, those guys have much greater exposure to trucks and suvs relative to the japanese automakers. Any way you slice it, they