Boulevard. You can see the traffic is just backed up here. Looks like it is moving a little faster now, but we were actually stuck in this traffic just a couple of minutes ago. That is the very latest. Reporting live in redwood city, lonniery ver ya. There are a lot of problems this morning. We started with a major problem in oakland. Right now, the thing i want to stress is we have a lot of folks off for the president s day holiday. Well take that. We have light volumes through the bay bridge toll plaza. 6 00, still dont have the metering lights, the little bit of good news. On top of the problem northbound 101 in the peninsula, we had a five car crash on westbound 580. All lanes down for 20 munninute. We have the left lanes back open. With lighter volumes, it is not too bad of a backup. 880 is looking better, as well. Lets check in with meteorologist mike nicco. Not an easy day on the roads all around. We have steady rain thanks to the Atmospheric River and it will be moderate to hea
Hidef Doppler Radar giving you information where its running at the exact moment and this is fueled off of the ocean, tapping into tropical moisture and its balmy outside and blustery. Winter, 19; San Francisco, 13; oakland, 13; sfo and the wins will increase during the afternoon and this is why the National Weather service issued a high wind warning for the huge highlighted red area that encompasses most of the pay area and into san jose. This means youre going to see wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour. Couple that in with saturated soil and you will have downed trees and Power Outages. We will have mud slides today, the potential of land slides. The temperatures in the 50s. Three things i want to you remember. Aim sometimes be heavy through the evening. Powerful winds throughout the day. The threat is of flooding will continue with this here. The rain continuing into the bay area on tuesday. The heaviest rain just past it. More heavy rain this afternoon. As the area of low pressure co
In the east bay. The heavy rain has already triggered a mudslide that has shutdown a road many use a shortcut. And there is concern right now the Alameda Creek will rise above flood stages in niles canyon. Kron 4s dan kerman is near the creek tonight with more. Dan . There was no one driving along palomares road monday this rural shortcut between Silicon Valley and the east bay has been inundated with mud and boulders about mile north from niles canyon road. Sot john medlock Alameda County public works 1115its going to be closed for a whileAlameda County public works says they first noticed the problem last week when mud and rocks started falling from about 500 feet up the hill. They shutdown the road thursday between niles canyon and palo verde but monday morning what came down the hill got much worse. Sotthere are significant boulders one is the size of a small car about 5 to 6 tonscleaning the road is straightforward safeguarding the hillside is another matter sotwe will pull down t
There are areas where it is letting up a little bit. 50s on your temperatures. The wind advisory is now. A flash flood watches al. This is a powerhouse system. It will continue to work its way in most of the day. It might not let up until late tonight. There is going to be allowing this to left and stall out. The question is where that stalled out to play a huge factor. Not a big deal for southern california. There will be rain heavy most of the day. The only thing that steve since we dont have a lot of crowds people will be driving faster. Thats not good in this weather. Were looking at roadway flooding in a couple of spots. We start off with a traditional commute on the altimont pass. The people bush who do have to go it is like. We have had a lot of flooding out there and it is still coming in. You can see traffic continues to look good on 880 north and southbound. Standing water all over the place. At the bay bridge toll plaza is not bad. San francisco at silver roadway flooding. I
This one is bad enough. Maybe some of you are lucky to have the day off. Flooding is likely for numerous reasons. There could be heavy rainfall rates per hour. A half inch to maybe an inch. Additional mudslides. The wind advisory more downed trees and power lines. The heaviest rain morning and afternoon. Around 10 am through 4 pm his prime time. The to be heavyduty rainfall during that time. Kernville river i know clear lake is way above. I appreciate the information. Im trying to stay on top of that one. Russian river, coyote river, anderson reservoir. San lorenzo. Don pedro comanche. These are all going to be front and center. The question is where does this set up. It is impossible looks to be Santa Cruz Mountains. I would not be surprised if it goes to marin county and Russian River. Everybody is in for moderate pockets of heavy rain. Some areas in clearlake getting heavy rain. Some areas are general rain. Others are heavier especially in the yellow. Marin county the initial surge