Is a foot which is major change of pace from yesterday where neighbors say waters rose to three or 4 feet high, threatening, some cases damaging vehicles, property, homes, today, it is about clean up, trying to get back to normal not just here in jacksonville but throughout the entire state. Long line of evacuees inched south on u. S. One for first look at irmas destruction in the florida keys. Official as loud upper keys residents back today but they are keeping people out of the lower keys while they make emergency inspection and repairs. Unaudible. Reporter marathon residents who stayed behind are checking on neighbors a lot of them levittown, and, i have one here that was a boat. Reporter view shows island chain took a devastating hit from the category four storm, most of the area has no power, water, sewage or fuel. More than 400 miles away, jacksonville is trying to dry out, irma swamped the city with record flooding, more than 350 people had to be rescued. First responders just
Feels like that i wanted to snap but i cant snap. Well help you out. Team work. Well, we do still have very important issues this morning, primarily still surrounding the coyote creek where right now this morning it is at 11. 8. Flood stage is at 10 feet. Moderate flooding is at 12 feet, so your slightly below the moderate stage which we experienced yesterday. We are expecting this creek to begin to recede later on this evening and then well begin to see some improvement but until then, we have clear skies. Can you see the moon from mount vaca this morning . Its lovely because we have the clarity out there but its cold, 36 degrees in santa rosa, in the 40s throughout San Francisco, oakland and redwood city as well as in san jose. Clouds will drift over head today but we will have abundance of sunshine and temperatures, coolish for this time of the year. We should be in the 60s in our neighborhoods. It should be 61 in San Francisco but instead 55. 58 in concord. The winds will pick up o
To crash down onto a suv and muni bus this morning in San Francisco. Thankfully nobody was hurt there. And the Tree Trimmers out in oakland. Abc7 news was near Mills College where trees were already damaged by a beatle infestation, and this has not helped at all. A live look now from our emeryville camera. Skies are clearing in that area. Drew tuma is tracking what we can expect tonight and into this weekend. Drew . Were hungry for rain and we got some. Live doppler 7 hd gets you right done on the street level. This pocket of yellow you see, thats a downpour that has developed. We have wet roadways across the east bay, so a slower than normal commute is under way. These light greens you see, light showers around santa clara at this hour, and more rain on the way. Some spots saw a soaking like scott creek, over an inch of rain. Napa just shy of half an inch. And San Francisco close to 0. 4 of an inch of rain. This storm is a one on the storm impact scale. A light storm with scattered do
January, its truly a demrobal story today. Caroline it certainly is. Dollar weak thns week, what european surging, what yen surging, what a pain for the rest of the central bankers in the world. As everyone in the u. S. Is going to be raising rates. Tom i said this last week, caroline, you should have been from, we had a soiree of bloomberg talent, and i said the yen is the single story. Right now you need more than a single story. Lets get to bloomberg first ord. The panel ruled that assange has been arbitrarily detained bins 2010 and should be freed. Assange has been holed up in weak door since 2010. He would be extradited to sweden and could end up in the u. S. Being questioned about leaked classified documents. A brisht government Spokesman Says the u. N. Ruling changes nothing. It was the first president ial candidate this season with only two candidates on stage, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. They squared off last night in New Hampshire in a debate on msnbc. Sanders said he
G e says its brought in extra crews to make the repairs quicker. Earlier chopper 5 showed crews using dozers to clear the mess on highway 9 and santa cruz county. Heavy rains from yesterdays storm sent tons of mud, a tree, and even power lines down across both lanes. You can see just how much debris had to be cleared using the earth movers. The highway wasnt expected to reopen until sometime tomorrow. Cal trans checked the hillside which appears to be stable and the work got done ahead of schedule. The Weekend Storms gave bay area reservoirs a much needed boost. The callahos is 47 of capacity. The lexington is up 8 feet now at 42 capacity. And the reservoirs across marin are nearly full. They were just over half full at this time last year. Paul deanno is here with more on the big picture when it comes to this drought. The big picture with a big number. 65. 5 billion gallons. Thats how much more water all is right now in shasta lake compared to five days ago. It rained a foot. Were get