Redwood city and san jose nearly a half inch of rainfall. Coming up in weather, well talk about when the next rain chance is as this heavy rainfall ends coming up in a few minutes. By midafternoon the storm had its sights set directly on san jose. Our len ramirez picks up our coverage. Reporter for families commuting southbound on oil 87 through downtown, they may not be getting home until late because traffic is at a standstill. Its been this way all afternoon ever since this very strong storm hit early this afternoon. The intense downpour seemed to catch everyone by surprise including drivers along the southbound lanes of highway 87 fire that downtown san jose. Debris led to snarled traffic all afternoon after lanes were blocked. Storm drains clogged with leaves were a problem for palo alto. Cars splashed through the water and people in the streets had to sidestep 3 puddles stepped right through. It was deep and wet. Reporter others ran for cover not expecting so much water to fall i
Really multiprong approach. We have many areas of the fire that are still hot that dont have direct line on them. And our number one priority is to get direct line on the entire flanks of the fire. At the same time going through and making sure that all the homes that have hot spots around them are secured and those hot spots are put out so we have no further loss of structures from unneeded hot spots. It takes a lot of resources to do that. And thats why we have continuing requests for resources to come and aid with that. [ inaudible ] how unusual is it for 14 fires to start at the same time . Is there something common . Its unusual to have 14 resist fires at the same time. Not necessarily. When you have those type of winds. This is california. And we get a lot of wildland fires. I dont think the public understands how many fires we get during a fire season. We have a lot of our units up and down the state, the 21 units split up with the counties responding to filedland fires througho