Was not the case several hours ago. This woman took video of a white big rig that got lost at the dead end at 37th street. The big rid hit a power pole and the wires fell across both areas of 880 between high and fruit roll around 1220. He keeps trying to back out. People are telling him to make a u turn but he would not listen and tried to back out. When he backed out, he hit the pole. The truck driver left the scene. She showed the video to the chp and the Highway Patrol and Oakland Police had made contact with the driver. Both southbound and northbound driver came to a standstill where traffic is bad to begin with. Luckily this happened before the start of the rush hour and no motorists were hurt. Pg e crews removed the wires including from underneath this car on the southbound side. The c hp opened the free way at 1 40. As we come back out traffic flowing on 880 in both directions and at this point, police have contacted the driver of that big rig and unclear if charges are citatio
Off this way. The mountains wont get a break. Snow levels have dropped and a cooler system and the snow keeps piling up. 80 will be shut down up and down all night. They have had blasts and avalanches and problems keeping the road open. The showers outside in the bay area just in time for the afternoon commute will throw in the moraga area and st. Marys and heavy rains and showers in the south bay. Most of the activity is drying out. You see towards morgan hill and gilroy. This is a pretty impressive day of rainfall up to three and four inches of rain in some urban areas. That means more in the coastal hills. When i come back we will take a look at the flood watches and warnings, the wind advisory and a lot of snow to come in the mountains because this thing is not going to end today. It will keep going for the next 24 hours. Well along with the wet weather, we have king tides. This is what it looks like along the San Francisco water front. King tides occur when there is alignment. The
Fell right onto some bart tracks tonight making a mess of the evening commute. Enough is enough. Tonight the rain is finally starting to taper off. Good evening everyone im frank somerville. Im julie haener. We want to show you a live look outside. This is the approach to the bay bridge in oakland as you can see the rain has finally stopped here, but the pavement still looks wet after a day long downpour. We have Live Team Coverage tonight. Our chief meteorologist bill martin has been keeping track of all the watches and the warnings. Debora villalon is in kernville where hundreds of people have guerneville where hundreds of people have been advised to evacuate. A down tree has strand bart riders. Reporter were going to start in marin county where evacuation sirens sounded this evening in the communities of fairfax, roth, and san anselmo. San anselmos downtown area was evacuated after the creek peaked at 13½ feet. Ktvu Leigh Martinez is there tonight. Leigh, since that reading the cre
Shut off just about 15 minutes ago but you can see the hole in the ground here and from what we have been hearing the water was spraying into the air a good two stories from the air. We saw a picture from the Water Department spokesperson that says this was quite serious initially. You can see the water is turned off. It was turned off about 15 minutes ago there is now a hole in the street. Were on the 3400 block here in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood where i have been told i have just been talking with the Water Department and the water on this block has been turned off. Youre seeing video. A little bit of a Better Vantage Point of what is going on from above and the only real effect at this point is the water is turned off on this block. The Water Department is going to be back out here to assess the damage and figure out what happened here but everything is stra starting to wrap up. Now just a giant hole in the ground behind me. Now to an update on the story we have been follow
Facing almost a full week of rain starting tomorrow and some areas still havent recovered from last weeks rain. We have Live Team Coverage at the hardest hit areas, on how people are preparing for the next several days. Drew . Reporter dan, we are now seeing that storm start to end on shore, ending our period of dry weather and series of storms over the next several days. On top of the job tonight, you notice live doppler 7 right over the immediate bay area, we are dry at this moment. But just north of clover dale, north of ukiah, that is where the rain is located right now. Over the past three hours, showing you, this is just the initial line of moisture, heaviest impacts still about 12 to 18 hours away. On the storm impact scale, it is get you into wednesday. This is a moderate torm, starting off with ice and showers in the morning and really ramping up in the evening with heavy rain and very strong winds. Some concerns that we have tomorrow, Power Outages certainly a high concern wi