live from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. that is the sound of the biggest storm to sweep through the bay area in more than a year. good evening. i m eric thomas. the storm has caused widespread damage. trees have come down in every part of the bay area. power lines are also down. thousands of pg&e customers are in the dark right now. slippery roads made for treacherous conditions. chp responded to more than double their usual calls. the heavy rain started this afternoon, but just in the past couple of hours, the brunt of the rain really hit. team coverage tonight of this major storm starting with abc 7 meteorologist drew tuma. we knew this storm would be wet and windy. the storm moved onshore in the early afternoon. heavy rain, strong winds. the good news, live doppler 7 d hd. the winds have calmed down. the heaviest of the rain has pushed off to the east. we re dealing with residual effects of this rain. this one 50 is starting in sonoma county north
three hours. who s next? eventually san ramon to hayward. all of that s going to shift to the south. and hit san jose. it s been very slow to get down there to downtown but we think that s going to happen the next 20, 30 minutes or so. rainfall totals, unreal. our weather underground network showing since midnight anywhere from 2 to 5 inches across the north bay. sonoma 3.30. vallejo 2.98. pacific heights over two and a half inches, fremont over 3 inches, san jose over 2 inches as well. with that said we have a flash flood watch in effect. that s going to continue as we head throughout this evening. we ll talk more about this storm system when it finally clears out coming up throughout the show. hopefully you weren t caught up in the rain and outside but if you were, you weren t alone. plenty of people trying to get around surface streets. this was a common scene across the region, rising water. this was broadway and douglas in redwood city just a few blocks from hoover sch
in the north bay where cornell bernard is. we start with leigh glaser. leigh? what a difference about six, eight hours makes. live doppler 7hd, very active earlier this morning beginning at 7:00 a.m. as the cold front moved through. now you could barely even tell we had any rain at all. we are looking live now, folks, and you can see the receive rain has pushed on to the south and east of the bay area. still getting a few little sprinkles here and there between morgan hill and hollister. mainly at the higher elevations, but most of the rain, or actually all of the rain has moved out of the area. we did have quite a bit of rainfall. we still have a couple of river watches. these are river watches in affect until tomorrow morning. the river right now is at 27 feet. it looks like it will crest tomorrow morning below flood stage at 30 feet. the napa river in napa 23 feet right now. you can see the flood stage is 25 feet. it crested earlier today at 26 feet. it is just a foot ab
in the south bay, 200 homes and businesses are without power this morning. highway 12 remains closed west of sonoma due to downed power lines. flood waters that inundated highway 12 and 121 are receding. 12 remains shutdown until pg&e crews can repair the downed wires. we ll keep you updated throughout the morning on the status of highway 12. this morning traffic moving again on stony point road in cotati after crews worked to fill a growing sinkhole, rains over well overwhelmed a drainage culvert the water washed away ground under the pavement, crews installed metal plates. the santa cruz town of felton cleaning up. the san lorenzo river reached four feet over flood stage. 40 families in the community of felton grove had to leave their homes. dan and liz say they did get advanced warning that the river was rising fast. first it was an advisory only. then it became mandatory as it was clear the river was going to come up. streets in felton were from six inches to fo
right now. you can see the flood stage is 25 feet. it crested earlier today at 26 feet. it is just a foot above flood stage. it is now receding. i think the flood watch for that part of the napa river will be lifted in the next couple hours. how much rainfall? we take a look at that coming up. thank you. hundreds of people living on the peninsula abandoned their homes after the creek started flooding the area. the new concern tonight is whether the levies will hold. lilian kim is live in palo alto with the latest. lilian? reporter: ama, the waters have receiptedded a bit, but it is still flowing and the levies have started to weaken. they detected three boils in levies close to homes. the creek first over ran its banks near woodland and university avenues, right in front of the 4 seasons hotel in palo alto. many took a risk and drove through the intersection before police shut it down. water from the rising creek hit 101 next. this is what it looked like on the northbou
holding. terry mcsweeney is live in palo alto with the latest. reporter: good news about the creek. it is going didn t even in the past half hour it is going down even in the past half hour since our last report dropping, good news for the people here, the result of the rise last night because of the rainwater resulted in a number of evacuations. last night flooding began at the four seasons hotel in palo alto, 101 at university avenue exit, at one point the chp was escorting cars past there evacuates, hunts in the garden subdivision in east palo alto had to be hundreds in the garden subdivision in east palo alto had to be escorted out, no rain overnight, no rain now, this creek is going down. there s a long term plan to stop this from happening as often. we have a lot of work to do at this creek. [ inaudible ] we have a three phase project to increase water flow under the bridges that go out to the bay. we are working on it, but it is a three-phase project and we nee
picture water droplets on the camera all morning, not raining per se out there and there are so few cars on the road as long as everyone takes their time and moves along, [ inaudible ] this morning, good news and worrisome news along the creek that divides palo alto and east palo alto. good news is the water level has dropped significantly from yesterday s peak this is a live look at the creek from the palo alto side. last night, that creek was much higher as it drained storm runoff from the san mateo county highlands to the san francisco bay. the worrisome news is the swift water may have caused damage to the left vies along to the levees along its banks. last night the creek topped over its banks and flowed on to highway 101, water made its way into east. after s garden subdivision flooding some garages. evacuations were order, hundreds of residents headed for higher ground to be safe. evacuations were lifted overnight. napa river has crested below flood stage and r
Officials are preparing for a Flood Watch that is set to begin on Sunday morning and go into Wednesday for low-lying areas like Felton Grove. For those up in areas like Boulder Creek, downed trees and power outages are of utmost concern.
As of Wednesday, several thousand PG&E customers were still without power in the Santa Cruz mountains, but PG&E expected to have the power back on by 10 p.m. Thursday.